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iXsystems Unleashes FreeNAS 9.3-BETA Unto the World
Simplified and revamped Web UI, automated updates, new set-up wizard, ZFS boot environments, and a commitment that all users will be able to upgrade through to 9.3-RELEASE.
iXsystems today announced the BETA release of FreeNAS version 9.3. This FreeNAS update is a significant evolutionary step from previous FreeNAS releases, featuring a simplified and reorganized Web User Interface, support for Windows 2012 clustering, better integration with VMware, a new and more secure update system with roll-back functionality, and hundreds of other technology enhancements. To encourage use of this BETA, iXsystems has committed to making sure that every FreeNAS 9.3-BETA install will be able to upgrade to FreeNAS 9.3-RELEASE seamlessly.
Jordan Hubbard, CTO of iXsystems and Director of the FreeNAS Project, says, "This latest release demonstrates our ongoing commitment to making FreeNAS as secure, reliable, and easy to use as possible. From the reorganization and cleanup of the UI, to the improvements in the update system, and the use of ZFS cloned snapshots for the boot device, the 9.3 version offers many features and enhancements of importance to both the hobbyist and the more technical FreeNAS user. We don't often make much ado about our BETA launches, but this one is a big step forward for this software. We're really encouraging the world at large to try this one out and give their feedback so that we can make sure the 9.3-RELEASE is our best ever."
Updating and applying patches (updates) to the system is now significantly simpler. A secure update server supplies a regular stream of package updates, which are available both as "deltas" from previous release versions and as full packages, rather than the "one large release" model in place for previous FreeNAS versions. The update server can be checked manually, or automatically at intervals, and any available updates downloaded in the background. The user will receive an alert when new updates are available and be given the opportunity to apply them whenever they wish. Users will also be able to choose what kinds of updates to receive, depending on whether they want to use the most recent versions, test future versions, or stay on a single stable branch.
Furthermore, a configuration wizard has been added. On a fresh install, this wizard will run at the first login, making it easy to quickly create a volume, its associated share(s), and set various options. Users who still prefer to manually create their volumes and shares can exit the wizard and create these in the usual way. The new set-up wizard can handle the most common types of configuration at installation time, or, as desired, later in the set-up process.
In addition, FreeNAS 9.3 introduces NFSv4 support, including the use of NFS with Kerberos, and allows setting various NFSv4 and Kerberos options from the UI.
Most significantly, FreeNAS now formats the boot device as a ZFS pool rather than a more limited UFS filesystem, allowing a number of new features to be supported. For example, the boot process now uses the GRUB boot loader and provides support for multiple boot environments, allowing easy recovery from a failed upgrade or configuration change.
FreeNAS 9.3 also changes the default iSCSI target from the userland-based istgt to the in-kernel Cam Target Layer (CTL). This adds a number of features, including compatibility with Windows 2012 clustering, support for additional VAAI primitives, and increased performance in most use cases. The snapshot UI has also been enhanced to coordinate snapshots with VMware so that VMs using associated datastore(s) can be restored to a stable state if needed.
Steven Sedory of Vertical Computers says, "We've been using FreeNAS for about three years, and in that time all our production boxes have continued to function as designed. If that weren't enough, iXsystems' amazing and dedicated team of developers have been very responsive to the feedback of the FreeNAS community. As a result, we now use and recommend FreeNAS for provisioning Cluster Shared Volumes in Microsoft's Failover Cluster Environment, as well as for large storage arrays that we build for surveillance and other specific applications."
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In a packed pub in midtown Manhattan, Ryan Flagherty is surrounded on three sides by people clamoring for his attention.
He spins one way and pours a shot of vodka into a glass, then turns around and wedges a lime into a bottle of Corona, pushing it across the counter. Ignoring the annoyed gaze of a bulky man on his right, he turns again to a touch-screen register to ring up the sales.
It's just a minute out of the grueling, physically demanding eight-hour shift that will last long into the night. But Flagherty, 28, isn't complaining.
With the generous tips of New Yorkers and his pick of shifts, he pulls in around $80,000 a year as a bartender. It's more than he was offered for various office jobs he considered when he arrived in the city, even though he's highly educated.
"I have a master's in economics and I'm bartending in New York," he said with a shrug. "It's a good way to make money."
A college degree once all but guaranteed a well-paying job and higher earnings than high school graduates. But fewer of these good jobs are now available because of both long-term economic changes and the lingering effects of the Great Recession.
People such as Flagherty with college and advanced degrees are working jobs that don't require them, whether by choice or necessity. That in turn pushes people without college degrees out of those jobs.
In 1970, only 2% of firefighters had college degrees; now 18% do, according to Richard Vedder, an economist at Ohio University. Fewer than 1% of taxi drivers had a college degree in 1970; now 15% do. About 25% of retail sales clerks have college degrees, Vedder said.
"The main reason is a pretty simple one," he said. "The number of college graduates has grown vastly faster than the number of jobs that require high-level education skills."
In the 1980s and 1990s, the demand for college graduates started booming, especially in the lead-up to the tech boom, said Paul Beaudry, an economist at the University of British Columbia who has studied this trend. Wages grew and a college education paid off.
But when the tech bubble burst, the economy was left with an oversupply of college graduates. Some went into industries related to housing or finance, and then the recession wiped out those jobs. No industry has emerged to employ all the people who got college degrees in that time, he said.
As more college graduates have flooded the market, employers are able to offer lower wages. The earnings of college grads have fallen about 13% in the last decade, according to Drexel University economist Paul Harrington.
Saim Montakim has a bachelor's degree in accounting but drives a New York City taxicab. It's strenuous work, but he can make $200 on a good day. On a bad day, he barely can pay the rent for the taxi and the cost of gas.
He's getting a master's degree in human resource management and hoping that his dual degrees will help him find a better job. The accounting jobs he was offered upon graduation were all entry-level, paying $10 an hour. He prefers driving a taxi to being stuck in an office from 9 to 5 at that wage, he says.
Montakim, who is from Bangladesh, came to the U.S. to get an education. He figured that with a college degree, he'd be able to find a good job and build a life for himself in America. Now he acknowledges that his idea that a job comes with a college education might have been unrealistic.
"I've always had a dream of being in America, for an American education in the United States," said Montakim, 38. "But now I think my expectations were too high. I was far, far beyond reality."
Aside from his daily expenses, Montakim has student loans to repay.
Because college is so expensive, many students are facing a dilemma: If they go to college, they still might not get a job that requires a college degree, and they'll be on the hook for big student loan payments. But if they don't go to college, they might be pushed out of entry-level jobs by overqualified college graduates who can't find other work.
"It puts college grads in a condition that's unique out of the last 30 to 40 years," Harrington said. "The yield from investing in college, students' ability to pay off debt, has diminished."
That's why Mariah Arcuri paid off all her debts before starting her job in a lab, which required a college degree.
She worked as a bartender in New York, earning about $90,000 a year. She paid for her college education, her graduate school and her wedding with savings from tending bar.
But because she wanted to spend time with her husband, Arcuri eventually stopped bartending and got back her nights and weekends. She now works in a lab and makes only about two-thirds of what she did as a bartender, despite her master's degree in biochemistry.
"I went to grad school to make more money, and then I realized that you don't make more money," Arcuri said. "Now I feel like I'm poor."

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How Verizon Stole Christmas
Verizon does something evil? Surely not our sweet, beatific megacorp! Yet that is the claim levied by the wicked town of Lonaconing, Maryland, whose annual Christmas lights were banned—for safety's sake—by Verizon. Each year Lonaconing's Christmas Light Decoration Committee would string their vine-like lights across the same poles used by Allegheny Power and Verizon to provide light and warmth to hundreds of poor children in the coal town.
"If a wire is hanging at 15 feet, a truck could snag it. It could snap a pole, and someone could get seriously injured," Verizon spokeswoman Sandra Arnette said. "We never said the town should not hang the lights. But safety is the first thing."
The first thing is safety, Lonaconing, not your vile, pagan celebration! We would wish you coal in every stocking if we did not already imagine it would give your dwarvish children great joy to fondle each sooty treasure betwixt their stumpy mole fingers. And to put an inflatable Grinch balloon next to the Verizon office? Take your idolatry elsewhere, Lonaconing. We'll have none of your craven imagery in this, the season of plastic, light-up Jesus.
All is not bright in old Md. coal town [WaPo / Boston Globe via Media Orchard]
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The day after the University of Colorado's student leaders offered initial support for a campus-wide smoking ban, some students expressed concerns about the administration's plans -- and the lack of advance notice given to Thursday night's vote.
CU sophomore Louis Antweiler on Friday said he doesn't think the university should be able to take away his right to smoke on the Boulder campus.
"Even if they do ban smoking, I'll probably just end up smoking on campus anyway and getting in trouble or going off campus between classes and being late to class," Antweiler said.
CU junior Meagan McKnight said that while she has never smoked, she's also against a campus ban.
"If it's legal they should have the right to do it on campus," McKnight said.
The CU Student Government's Legislative Council voted Thursday night to support making the Boulder campus completely tobacco-free; a second vote on the matter is scheduled for next week. University administrators say they're considering implementing a ban via a "soft transition" over a two- to three-year period.
Chris Schaefbauer, the CU Student Government's health and safety director and author of the resolution approved Thursday night, said protecting the health of nonsmokers on campus was the biggest reason for backing the administration's push for a smoking ban.
"People that don't smoke, they have a right to not have illnesses inflicted upon them by secondhand smoke, whereas smoking is not a right, it's a choice," Schaefbauer said. "We're protecting the health of nonsmokers and also helping smokers recognize the health concerns the come with cigarettes."
Boulder campus spokesman Bronson Hilliard said the administration continues to discuss options for a possible smoking ban, but has not yet enacted one.
"I wouldn't want to tie the administration down to a proposed timeline at this point," Hilliard said. "What we do know is that a policy change like this takes time to phase in on a campus this size."
Schaefbauer said the student government's resolution supports a phase-in over several years for a policy that could start going into effect this July, with educational enforcement next year.
If enacted, CU-Boulder would be the second of CU's four campuses to implement a tobacco ban, behind the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora.
Some students complained Friday that neither CU administrators nor student leaders gave advance notice that the smoking ban would be discussed by the Legislative Council on Thursday night.
Schaefbauer said student leaders didn't release a draft of the resolution prior to Thursday night's meeting because CU administrators asked them to hold off so they could prepare a response to questions about and criticisms of proposed tobacco ban.
"We had it ready to go into the CU Boulder Today newsletter on Tuesday before the meeting, but (the) administration asked us to hold it until they were able to come up with a response," Schaefbauer said.
Deb Coffin, CU's vice chancellor of student affairs, said she asked the students to hold off on sending their resolution out to the student body in order to make sure student leaders and the administration were on the same page.
"We didn't want to shut students out," Coffin said. "We were just trying to be organized."
Schaefbauer said the administration did not conduct any surveys or polls asking students whether they support a smoking ban. He said the resolution was authored after data from a CU Community Health survey in 2011 showed that only 6.5 percent of students said they smoke regularly.
"Based on the data... you can assume a heavy majority of students don't want to deal with second hand smoke," Schaefbauer said.
Students will have another chance to weigh in on the proposed smoking ban when the CU Student Government's Legislative Council meets next Thursday night.


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I have been with my boyfriend for about 7 years I'm 29 he's just turned 42 I've known him since I was 17 and he was 29 as we worked together.
Just two years ago the police came knocking on our door to confiscate his laptop & mobile phone I thought it was all a dream as I know he's not that type of person, anyway, to cut a long story short, he pleaded guilty a year ago to 20 indecent images on his laptop (lowest category C) has to sign the SOR for 7 years and see a probation officer every other week now until June and has to inform the police if he is to stay overnight somewhere where there are under 18's (he's only been on the SOR for a year so far) My concern is if we plan for a baby, what will happen? We always wanted children together and now I feel like I'm in a dark hole. He's naive and didn't think about the full consequences. I believe that he went on a site or clicked on something he shouldn't have done but not intentionally!?. I don't want to bring a baby into the world knowing childservices will be able to take them away or I have to choose between my baby or partner? I've read that sometimes I would have to go on a course to see the signs which I would be happy to do is there anyone who have had similar circumstances where there partner and baby have been able to stay as a family without any difficulties?
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I would suggest you have a look at the topic "are social services worried about your child". There are some similar posts
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Boston officials OK AvalonBay tower near Garden
The Boston Redevelopment Authority has approved construction of 38-story residential tower behind the TD Garden that will include more than 500 apartments, restaurants and stores.
AvalonBay Communities Inc. will build the tower on Nashua Street, filling in empty space between the Garden and the Charles River. The $200 million project, approved by the BRA board Thursday night, also includes construction of a two-story retail arcade that will connect the new tower to Causeway Street and North Station.
Executives with AvalonBay have said they hope to start construction this fall.
"We believe the West End neighborhood and, in particular, North Station has tremendous potential to become a true nexus within the city for residents, commuters, and others,'' said Scott Dale, AvalonBay's senior vice president of development.
The project is one of several large developments expected to transform the area around the Garden in coming years with more than 1,800 new residences, hotels, office buildings, stores and restaurants.
Converse Inc. recently committed to move its corporate offices into a large new development at nearby Lovejoy Wharf, and Stop & Shop and Target are considering new stores in a pair of towers being planned in front of the Garden by Boston Properties and Delaware North Cos.
The AvalonBay project, called the Nashua Street Residences, will include a mix of studios, one-bedrooms, two-bedrooms, and 32 three-bedroom units. The development also includes 219 parking spaces and a terrace on the 35th floor with views of Boston Harbor and the downtown skyline.
In other business Thursday night, the BRA also approved plans for a 177-room hotel in East Boston and construction of a 10-story academic building in Government Center by Suffolk University.
The hotel, to be constructed at the corner of William F. McClellan Highway and Boardman Street, will rise to five stories with an adjacent 346-space parking lot. The project also includes construction two restaurant buildings on the 6-acre property.
The Suffolk University academic building at 20 Somerset Street will shift the university's campus off the residential portion of Beacon Hill, where daily student traffic has created conflicts with neighbors.
The $62 million building will replace the former headquarters of the Metropolitan District Commission and create a new public park on the property. The new building will contain 1,100 classroom seats as well as a new cafeteria and performance space.
"This is a project that not only allows us to provide state-of-the-art classroom for our students, but represents a milestone in our relationship with the Beacon Hill neighborhood,'' said John Nucci, the university's vice president of external affairs.
Demolition of the former MDC building will be completed this summer, with construction of the academic building to start soon after. The project is planned to be completed by fall 2015.


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Charity and greed are opposites. Given today's global economic picture, it is easy to recognize in these opposites the widening gap between rich and poor that causes much of the world's preventable suffering. Commuting to and from work in New York City, I see homeless men and women asleep in doorways and on subway platforms just steps from the homes of some of the richest people in the nation.
For me, the word charity assumes meaning not only in what I daily observe but also in Scripture and in the lives of the saints—unofficial and official. At the very least, charity assumes a sharing of resources. One powerful scriptural example of such sharing occurs in Luke's description of an early Christian community: "The company of those who believed were of one heart and mind, and no one said that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they had everything in common.... There was not a needy person among them" (Acts 4:32-34). How wonderful to think of the human family without a needy person among us! But the gulf between charity and greed extends beyond the distribution of human resources, because the seeds of both charity and greed reside in the human heart. It is the difference between a "this is mine" viewpoint and a "whatever is mine is to be shared" approach to life. The first letter of John provides an illustration: "The one who has the goods of the world and sees a brother [or sister] in need and closes his heart, how does the love of God abide in him?" (1 Jn 3:17).
Our transformation into a people guided by true charity is arduous. Even Dorothy Day, co-founder with Peter Maurin of the Catholic Worker, felt the burden of attitudes that held her back from true charity. In her diary, published under the title The Duty of Delight, she speaks of her own struggle with ongoing resentments "that muddy the heart." "I'll need a long time in purgatory," she adds. Even in the matter of welcoming the poor to the Catholic Worker, Day saw herself as falling short. "To see Jesus in the poor, and to welcome, to be hospitable, to love. This is my need. I fail every day." She also writes there of "Peter Maurin's saying: 'to give and not to take—that is what makes man human.'" Through her adherence to Gospel nonviolence, Day saw clearly how the gap between rich and poor is related to the vast sums spent worldwide on armaments.
Another saint of charity dedicated to Gospel nonviolence was Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador. Shot dead at the altar as he celebrated Mass, Romero defended the poor of his country and in doing so showed the deepest form of charity, not least because he put his life at risk before a military establishment and an oligarchy bent on silencing him. He distinguished between the goal of amassing personal wealth and the goal of providing for the common good. In a homily, Romero said, "the absolute desire of having more encourages the selfishness that destroys a communal bond among the children of God."
Initially a shy person who felt at ease only with upper-middle class and wealthy people on first becoming a bishop, Romero exemplifies the remarkable transformation that can take place in those who witness closeup the suffering of poor and defenseless populations. For him, the transformation began when as a new archbishop he visited rural communities besieged by an increasingly violent military and the oligarchy that would rejoice in his death.
Recognizing ourselves not just as individuals but as instruments in God's hands could help us to grow in charity in its widest sense. This image of being an instrument of God appears in St. Ignatius' Constitutions of the Society of Jesus (No. 813). Both Dorothy Day and Oscar Romero let themselves be shaped by God's loving hands into instruments that showed the way toward a new world ruled by sharing and peace, instead of a world ruled by greed and violence.


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Chemistry and Environment - the 5th International CongressActivity by Shankar Gargh | added on Nov 14, 2010 | Malaysia
Sponsor(s): Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment
Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment is organizing the 5th International Congress of Chemistry and Environment 2011 to celebrate International Year of Chemistry 2011 at Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia from 27-29 May 2011. 1000 delegates will present research papers related to chemistry and environment.
Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment is a peer reviewed international journal indexed in SCIE,SCOPUS and Chemical Abstracts. It is having impact factor 0.323. Journal is organizing 5th international congress of chemistry and environment. 5th International Congress of Chemistry and Environment will be held in Kuching, Sarawak, MALAYSIA from 27th May to 29th May 2011 to celebrate International Year of Chemistry 2011. We hope that 1000 delegates from India, Malaysia and other countries will participate in this grand conference to discuss various research issues related to chemical sciences, environmental sciences and agro sciences.
We do organize International congress from year 2001 to promote research in Chemistry . We have organized 1st ICCE 2001, 2nd ICCE 2005 at India; 3rd ICCE 2007 at Kuwait and 4th ICCE 2009 at Thailand. 5th ICCE 2011 will be organized at Malaysia from May 27th to 29th, 2011. Our email is firstname.lastname@example.com More details are available at www.chemenviron.net
Our congress provides platform for academicians, chemists and scientists to promote research in chemical sciences and environmental sciences. We expect more than 1000 delegates to participate in this event from all over the world and it will be great to celebrate IYC. We are from India and we are organizing congress at Malaysia.
Papers approved by experts for conference will be published in regular issue June 2011 of journal "Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment".
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GPF necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 179 diseños de 48 diseñadores freelance.
Krank or Crank (see below)
GPF is a product sourcing endevour. We've found some great new softboards with a superior approach to construction techniques and need a logo to help market them.
We take a full throttle but have fun approach and the logo will need to reflect this.
The product will be aimed at new surfers from around 10 years old all the way through to reitrees looking for a new interest. A important part of the market will be those that currently surf and are looking for equipment to introduce their kids to surfing. This demographic wil be familiar with all the current big name brands and logos.
We'd like to see some imagination used for this. The actual spelling of the brand may well come down to which design we select. So not only is this chance to cut loose for you as a designer, you may well finish up deciding the spelling of the brand as well!! Krank or Crank, let's see what you come up with. Things like reversing the front 'k' or using the 'C' as a stylised wave are all in scope. Please note they are not compulsory or anything like that, just examples. Get out of the box on this, surfing is a very free form sport so the options are limited only by your imagination.
Colors are up to you, the decks of the boards it will be will generally be red, blue or yellow. It must be easily read and incorporate either 'krank' or 'crank'. The use of a symbol is an option, refer to the brand Tonik.
The customer base will be familiar with all the big surf brand names and their logos/symbols, these might provide some inspiration but we wouldn't want something that people look at and go 'hey that reminds me of the (insert big surf compnay name here) logo'
The logo needs to convey power, surf, commitment, strength
The logo must be supplied in formats for use online (gif, jpeg) and the background must be transparent, as well as a format that can be resized without loss for printing onto the boards (vector?).
Thanx for looking, can't wait to see where your imagination takes us.
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For those interested not only in catching fish, but how the masters have gone about it, the Montauk Chamber of Commerce is holding its ninth annual Old Timers Round Table at the Montauk Yacht Club this evening starting at 6.
The event comes the day before the Harbor Dinner, also at the yacht club, which this year will honor Paul Forsberg and the Forsberg family. The Round Table will be hosted by Carl Darenberg of the Montauk Marine Basin.
Fishermen sharing their fish stories will include Bernie Ray, Bill Urvalak, Charlie Harned, Hank Lackner, Joseph DiLiberto, and Steven Forsberg, veterans of the Viking Fleet of party boats. Also on hand will be James Behan, John Rade, Fred E. Bird, John Gosman, and Kenny Boise.
The Yacht Club will be offering special drink prices for the event, not that anyone would be interested.
Meanwhile just about every fish we have come to expect this time of year has arrived. Two local tournaments brought forth some nice striped bass and bluefish.
Mike Miller comes to Montauk twice each year from Pennsylvania. This year he brought his son along and entered the striped bass and bluefish tournament held from Paulie's Tackle shop. He won the event with the first fish he had ever caught while in Montauk, a 24.96-pound bass. He was awarded a brand-new Van Staal 250 reel, and $250 in cash.
He also bested the rest in the bluefish division with a 13.82-pound chopper. There were no second or third-place finishers so the cash prizes were raffled. To make it a hat trick, Miller's son drew the winning ticket and the $200 prize. The Millers will surely return.
It was time for the striped bass to duck during the one-day Ducks Unlimited shootout held from the Star Island Yacht Club on Saturday. Nick Hemby of Water Mill caught the winning 38.9-pound striper aboard the Legal Limit out of North Sea. Eric Sachtlelsen reeled in the second-place fish, a 33.4-pound bass, and Frank Lenihan's 30.3-pounder placed third.
Speaking of Star Island, the yacht club's annual shark tournament for makos, threshers, and blue sharks will be held on Friday, June 17, and June 18. The captains meeting is scheduled for next Thursday evening at the Star Island Yacht Club. This coming weekend will be the first that local charter boats will venture forth after sharks.
Shark-wise, it's nice to see that the annual head-to-tail train of huge, but toothless, basking sharks has been spotted off the south shore of the East End. As usual, the spottings have brought forth rumors of "Jaws."
On the bay side, Harvey Bennett of the Tackle Shop in Amagansett reported bluefish galore at Cedar Point, and "a few" weakfish being caught in Northwest Harbor. Sammy's Beach on the west side of Three Mile Harbor has been a hot spot for bass up to 20 pounds after dark. White or silver swimming lures are doing the trick, according to Bennett.
Porgies have moved into Gardiner's Bay. The limit is 10 per day measuring at least 10.5 inches.
With near perfect weather and calm seas over the weekend, the fluke fleet was out in force off the south-facing shore of Montauk. But it's been tough. No doormats yet, according to Chris Miller at the West Lake Marina who added that until next week frustrated sea bass fishermen will have to return their catch to the sea.
Miller did relay some promising news, however. Tuna, mostly small yellowfins, have arrived in the offshore canyons. Ron Catina caught six small ones over the weekend. There are rumors of a few bluefin as well. Just before Memorial Day weekend, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced that listing bluefin as an endangered species was not warranted, as some environmental groups contend.
However, the agency said it will reconsider the issue after studying the effects of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a major bluefin spawning area, as well as an upcoming stock assessment of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, or ICCAT.
Closer to shore, Ken Rafferty, a fishing guide who works out of Three Mile Harbor, said because of coolish water temps, he and his light-tackle and fly casters spent most of their time in the warmer Peconics where they found "plenty of blues and stripers early."
To put the lie to the belief that all locally caught striped bass migrate here from other waters, Rafferty reported one of his fly dudes accidentally snagging (not fatally) an eight-inch-long striper near the mouth of Three Mile Harbor.
"They're aggressive, going after a fly a third of their size. For years, I've been seeing five or six-inch bass in early spring, thousands of them. They're here all year."


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DOVER, N.H. – A man charged with killing a University of New Hampshire student in October initially told investigators that someone else strangled her and then said he accidentally killed her during a consensual sex act, according to documents unsealed Monday.
Seth Mazzaglia is charged with killing 19-year-old Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott, of Westborough, Mass., during an attempted sexual assault on Oct. 9. Prosecutors say it was not consensual.
Mazzaglia, 30, described several scenarios when questioned about the death, including that he had gone home and found her dead, with his girlfriend and another couple in his apartment, according to a police affidavit.
Mazzaglia later said he used a rope to strangle Marriott while they had sex, the police affidavit said.
The police affidavit also includes Mazzaglia's account of dumping Marriott's body in the Piscataqua River, Foster's Daily Democrat reported. Marriott's body has not been recovered.
Indictments allege an extensive cover-up by Mazzaglia, of Dover, and his then-girlfriend, Kathryn McDonough of Portsmouth.
Mazzaglia also faces a murder charge alleging he showed "extreme indifference to human life."
A public defender representing Mazzaglia has declined to comment on the indictments.
Last week, Mazzaglia waived his arraignment on murder charges. He had been scheduled to appear in court Thursday after being indicted by a Strafford County grand jury.
McDonough, who was accused of lying to police about her whereabouts and interaction with Marriott, was indicted last month on charges of hindering the prosecution, conspiracy and witness tampering.
McDonough's attorney, Ryan Russman, who sat alongside her in court in December, said then she was "obviously concerned." Her parents had declined to comment.
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These aren't strictly the first five books I read this year but I thought it made more sense to group them all together. These are the first five books in the How to Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell (who is, interestingly enough, married to a Simon Cowell, but not THE Simon Cowell). I decided to read these because I saw the movie – I think that about 97% of my new book reading is based on either seeing the movie or seeing the author on TV.
The Books are very different from the movie, but they're both good in different ways. The book does things in ways that aren't cinematic enough because it is focused on language and reading – hard to portray entertainingly in films, especially for the kiddies. Here's the rundown of the first five – there are several more that I haven't gotten copies of. I read these all on my new Kindle. It was awesome.
1. How to Train Your Dragon – Cressida Cowell
Hiccup is a Viking but sucks at it because he's skinny, nerdy and kind-hearted. That'd be difficult enough but he's also the heir to the Chief. Being loud and violent doesn't really suit him or his best friend, the aptly named Fishlegs. In their universe, the coming-of-age ritual is stealing a sleeping dragon to raise as your hunting partner. Thanks to some mishaps, Hiccup ends up with a boring, tiny, common dragon who doesn't have any teeth. Toothless is also a smart ass. Hiccup is the only Viking that speaks Dragonese, which makes him an outcast but ends up ultimately saving the day from some giant sea dragons, with Toothless' help. Basically the lesson of these books is that intelligence and kindness beat brute force and ignorance every time. A
2. How to be a Pirate – Cressida Cowell
This book introduces the arch-nemesis Alvin the Treacherous, who I don't really find interesting. Hiccup's grandpa was a crazy awesome Viking with a hidden treasure that only his heir could find. So Alvin kidnaps Hiccup, finds the treasure and nearly kills Hiccup. Hiccup discovers that he's secretly been left-handed his whole life and is a sword-fighting prodigy, in a scene reminiscent of The Princess Bride, and defeats Alvin, leading to his apparent but not actual demise. B-
3. How to Speak Dragonese – Cressida Cowell
This book introduces Camicazi, the heir of rival Viking tribe of Big Boobied Bertha (I know, right?). She's a tiny, tenacious escape artist. The Romans, under the command of Alvin, who survived the previous demise but lost all of his hair, kidnaps Camicazi, Fishlegs and Hiccup who have to escape and keep their tribes from killing each other. B
4. How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse – Cressida Cowell
This is my favorite of the series. Hiccup thinks Fishlegs has been poisoned by a dragon, and the cure is the potato, a mysterious vegetable thought to be only a myth. A nearby, particularly violent Viking tribe is rumored to have one of these under close guard and so Hiccup, Camicazi and Toothless cleverly steal the frozen vegetable. It has an arrow stuck in it and it is rumored that whoever removes the arrow will save the tribe from the big sea dragon that stays in their bay. Well, when it thaws in Hiccups hands, he easily pulls the arrow out, only to have the giant dragon steal the potato, leaving him without a cure for his friend, but a hero to the tribe. When he returns to his village, it turns out that Fishlegs is fine, it is in fact Hiccup who is dying. Fortunately, the arrow has enough potato to save him. In the epilogue, it turns out the Sea Dragon had been dying from the same poison and he becomes Hiccups guardian angel. A
5. How to Twist a Dragon's Tale – Cressida Cowell
I thought this was intended to be the last of the series and it has that sort of finality to it's ending, but it turns out I was wrong and there are at least three more so far. So, I'll have to seek them out. This book is about a super epic stopping of a volcano from erupting, with histories and dastardly past lives revealed. It seems bigger in scope than the earlier ones, but is just as fun. I didn't find it quite as engaging as the one immediately previous. B


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World Cup kicks off | Team USA better than 2010? | Cuban not displeased Chandler Parsons cut from Team USA | Deron Williams on the mend
No. 1: So much to watch as World Cup is finally here — The best basketball outside the NBA gets under way Saturday with the start of the World Cup in Spain. The host country and the United States, despite LeBron James, Kevin Durant and other All-Stars sitting this one, are the favorites for gold. NBA.com's own John Schuhmann is on the scene:
The U.S. won its four exhibition games by an average of 29 points, but could still use improvement, especially on offense. Pool play, beginning with Saturday's game against Finland (3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN) will allow them to work some things out, but it's doubtful that anything can prepare them for a potential gold-medal game against Spain in Madrid.
Before we can think about that, there is a ton of high-quality basketball to be played and plenty of reasons to watch.
There are key players on NBA contenders — Derrick Rose and Anderson Varejao — looking to get back into basketball shape after injury-riddled seasons.
There is the last stand of Argentina's golden generation and their beautiful brand of basketball, represented by Andres Nocioni, Pablo Prigioni and Luis Scola.
There's the continued growth of Greece's Giannis Antetokounmpo, Senegal's Gorgui Dieng, and Lithuania's Jonas Valanciunas.
There are six incoming rookies, including Australia's Dante Exum (Jazz), Greece's Kostas Papanikolaou (Rockets) and the Croatian pair of Bojan Bogdanovic (Nets) and Damjan Rudez (Pacers), to watch and figure out how they might contribute to their new teams.
There are 2014 draftees like Croatia's Dario Saric (Sixers) and Serbia's Bogdan Bogdanovic (Suns), who might eventually be NBA contributors. And there are a few potential prospects, like the Ukraine's Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk (who will play at Kansas next season), to keep an eye out for.
There's the curiosity of how veteran Euroleague floor generals like Marcelo Huertas (Brazil) and Milos Teodosic (Serbia) would fit in the NBA.
There's the Dragic brothers racing up the floor at every opportunity for Slovenia. There's Andray Blatche playing point-center for the Philippines. And there's the flair of real point guards like Carlos Arroyo and Ricky Rubio.
Seventy-six games over 17 days. If you can't wait for the upcoming NBA season, with Kevin Love joining LeBron in Cleveland, the Spurs trying for their first repeat, and Rose back in a Bulls uniform, the FIBA World Cup should hold you off for a while.
No. 2: Colangelo: Team USA "by far" better than 2010 — Team USA is the youngest group of players to represent the country since NBA players started playing in international competition in 1992. Despite their youth and some of the U.S.'s top players sitting this one out, Team USA brass is convinced this squad is even better than the 2010 version that won gold. ESPN.com's Marc Stein has the story:
The 12 players representing the United States at the FIBA World Cup that starts this weekend comprise the youngest team fielded by USA Basketball since NBA players were ushered into the international game in 1992.
When it opens Group C play here Saturday night against Finland at the Bizkaia Arena, Team USA will sport an average age of just above 24 years old.
But Team USA coach Mike Krzyzewski and USAB chairman Jerry Colangelo are nonetheless convinced that the 2014 squad begins the tournament in better shape than the 2010 group that ultimately won that FIBA World Championship in Turkey without a single member from the gold-medal-winning 2008 Olympic team.
"By far," Colangelo told ESPN.com. "Because we have a couple of Olympic gold medalists on this roster in Anthony Davis and James Harden. We have three players from that team in 2010 in Steph Curry, Derrick Rose and Rudy Gay. And they're not 21 this time. They're 23 or 24. A little bit older and more mature.
"We like our team. We really do."
Yet Colangelo has acknowledged on multiple occasions this summer that he would ultimately regard a fourth successive championship in a major tournament for the United States to be the "sweetest" success enjoyed by the program since he and Krzyzewski teamed up to resuscitate USA Basketball in the wake of a humbling bronze-medal finish at the Athens Olympics in 2004.
That's because of the rash of prominent players' withdrawals that USAB has weathered this summer. Kevin Love, Blake Griffin, LaMarcus Aldridge and Russell Westbrook all removed themselves from the roster before the squad convened for its first training camp in Las Vegas in late July. Kevin Durant then followed suit earlier this month after the horrific compound leg fracture suffered by Paul George in an intrasquad scrimmage Aug. 1.
But this team, as Colangelo mentioned, brings a modicum of international experience to the competition even after all those losses. In 2010, Team USA was forced to field a new squad that eventually defeated host Turkey in the final after a team led by LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Chris Paul and Carmelo Anthony narrowly defeated Spain in the 2008 gold-medal game in Beijing.
No. 3: Cuban not displeased Chandler Parsons won't play in Spain — Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is a loud critic of international play. He abhors the risk to teams in the case a player gets injured, among other issues. So he wasn't disappointed when newly acquired small forward Chandler Parsons, who Cuban will pay $46 million over the next three years, was cut from Team USA. NBA.com's own Jeff Caplan spoke to Cuban:
Last week, Team USA pulled the plug on Parsons, cutting him from the squad that will compete starting Saturday at the World Cup in Spain. It might have been the only thing this summer as pleasing to Cuban as actually getting Parsons.
Cuban is a longtime critic of NBA players being used in international competition for reasons the Indiana Pacers are now dealing with, among others.
"He knows how I felt," Cuban said. "I told him, 'Look, whatever you want I'm going to support you 100 percent — because I have to.' But he knew where I stood and he wanted to make the team. He also understood that while, for him especially, for younger guys, you don't get to work on your game there. Unless you're starting, you're not getting a lot of minutes, you're not getting a chance to work on your game. Its not like you've got guys that we can just bring and work out with you. So being on Team USA, in my opinion, would have hurt his game development."
No. 4: Video surfaces of an encouraging D-Will workout — For the last two seasons Nets point guard and former All-Star Deron Williams has been dogged by ankle problems and critics piling on about his demise. Williams had surgery on both ankles this offseason, and new coach Lionel Hollins says he's the key to success. Mike Mazzeo of ESPN New York talked to Hollins about it:
Williams underwent surgery on both of his ankles in the offseason. Now it's about getting healthy and getting his confidence back. But how?
"There's a lot of different things you can do [as a coach]," Lionel Hollins said Friday. "I can't say right here that I'm going to walk in there and tell Deron Williams this or that, because I don't even know where he is from that perspective [a confidence perspective] at this moment.
"But I think first of all he has to be healthy and he has to be in great shape and we're going to try to put him in a situation where he can flourish, which will give him confidence and go from there. I mean confidence comes and goes with all players no matter how good they are. I don't think there's ever been a player that's played and didn't have a confidence issue at some point maybe in a game, maybe in a season."
Hollins has said similar things before. Putting Williams in a position where he can flourish is the key. In that respect, it really comes down to health, doesn't it?
"If you're injured, you can't be who you are," Hollins said. "You can't make the same moves or be as explosive as you are, and it's difficult to go out there and go 100 percent. You're always worried about what's going to happen if you push off, stop, change direction, all of those things."
Asked about where Williams is from health standpoint, Hollins responded, "As far as I know, good."
Williams looked good dribbling in an Instagram video posted by his close friend, Matt Mitnick, on Friday night.
SOME RANDOM HEADLINES: James Harden expects 20-year-old Kobe Bryant to return … Ian Mahinmi out two to three months with shoulder injury … Spurs interested in Gustavo Ayon … Monty Williams sees big improvement in Anthony Davis … Expect the Clippers to make a run at Ray Allen … Spurs also barging in on Allen sweepstakes.


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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) is moving his district office from Pasadena -- where it's been for 16 years -- to new digs in Burbank, a move that puts the hub more squarely in a redrawn district.
The new office — located at 245 E. Olive Ave., Suite 200 — is centrally located in the redrawn district, which now goes from the western part of Pasadena to West Hollywood.
"It's pretty much smack-dab in the middle of the district," Schiff said.
His old office was only about three blocks from his new district boundary, but the location wouldn't have been as easily accessible to all of his constituents, he added.
The new office has several amenities, including plenty of nearby restaurants and retail stores and free parking.
Still, Schiff said he will miss Pasadena, where he's had an office since being elected to the state Senate in 1996.
"I have mixed emotions," he said. "I've always had my office there. It's a wonderful town."
He said he looks forward to returning to represent areas that had at one point been in his district, including the foothills region and Silver Lake, which were cut out during a previous round of redistricting.
Schiff will hold an open house at his new office on Feb. 21.
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As a (lazy) ARM coder I have developed what I believe is a good 'generated code sprites' generator.
I would like to know which solutions you chose on the ST and later machine with faster CPUs, and the Falcon (with its chunky modes).
My technique and ideas for the Archies are described here :
http://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewto ... s+plotting and the links provided in the thread.
Please note the Archimedes uses chunky modes, linear, so what happens is that the memory controler on the Archimedes reads sequentially, under DMA, the memory space defined as memory screen, sends this data to the VIDC (video controler) which outputs them.
My routines use mode 13, it is the 320 x 256, 8 bits per pixel screen mode on the Acorn Archimedes.
Thanks for your comments, it will be highly appreciated.
I think I have re invented the wheel and it has all been done already on the ST ; but if, who knows, that wasn't the case, I would be more than happy to give even more details to some programmers out there to port the technique to the ST.
Please note : this thread isn't intended to start a 'My machine is much better than yours'.
Contrary to the other well known other 68000 machine at the time, I do praise the ST for being the 1st available, ultracheap, and gifted with many games and great apps, and easy to use.
You might need to know the following on the Archie :
- There are no memory to memory transfer instructions in the ARM2 (early generation of Archies) instructions set : it is always memory to register or register to memory
- The ARM2 can only deal with :
+ 32 bit words or series of consecutive 32 bit words (1 register (1 time 4 bytes) ; n registers (n times 4 bytes) )
with the LDR / STR and LDM / STM (load / store register and load / store multiple registers)
+ one byte
with LDRB / STRB (load / store one byte).
As I said earlier maybe my technique can be of interest, most probably for the Falcon becuse it uses chunky modes.
Before giving you more infos I'd like to know if there is some interest, and as I do not see the interest of reposting everything here, I give you some links to listen to, or read, to know more.
https://youtu.be/2gr2YhaXYsk Steve Harrison presenting his raster manager and then me trying to explain my sprites routines
Then you have the link I gave at the beginning to the stardot forum ... sorry for the not so good English.
http://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewto ... s+plotting
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By midmorning, Facebook shares FB, +1.75% were up nearly 2% to $26.41 after BMO Capital Markets upgraded the stock to outperform from underperform. Stifel Nicolaus also upped its price target on the shares.
The moves were the latest in a trend of improving investor sentiment toward the social network, which spent the last half of the year under the cloud of a disappointing and controversial IPO in mid-May, which priced the stock at $38 only to see the share price collapse more than 50% over the next few months.
The stock has been on a rebound of late — especially since more than 800 million of the company's shares emerged from a post-IPO lockup on Nov. 14. Many analysts worried the lockup expiration would have the reverse effect, with a huge number of shares flooding the market at a time when the outlook of the company's business in a rapidly shifting market was still uncertain. Facebook's shares have jumped nearly 33% since the last lockup expired.
"We believe the trading pattern will shift from fear of massive selling to excitement over forced buying of shares by index funds when Facebook is added to the S&P 500," wrote Jordan Rohan of Stifel Nicolaus in a note to clients Monday.
Rohan bumped up his price target on Facebook's shares to $31 from $26, maintaining his buy rating.
More notably, BMO Capital analyst Daniel Salmon upgraded the stock to an outperform rating from underperform — effectively removing the last sell rating on the sock among the covering brokers. His new price target on the shares is $32.
In his report, Salmon said Facebook is experiencing "a re-acceleration of ad spending from large brands that are returning for mobile 'reach and frequency' and more video ads." He added that Facebook has improved its relationship with top advertisers and provided them "with a proper set of ad-buying tools," which he believes will help the company improve its ad sales.
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- We're fewer than two weeks away from regional and sectional competition for the Winter sports. Many high school athletes are stepping up their game when it counts. Here are the latest nominees for Newswatch 12 Player of the Week.Nominee 1 - In girls hockey, Marshfield's Paige Johnson had a great game last Thursday against Tomahawk. Johnson had 2 goals and three assists in the Tigers 9-2 victory over the Hatchets. She also leads the conference in points with 21. Nominee 2 -Antigo senior Maura Boodry had a strong showing at the Red Robin Gymnastics Invite on Saturday. Maura placed 2nd in bars and 4th in vault, which led to a second place finish in the All Around. Boodry's performance helped Antigo take 1st place in the 9 team competition.Nominee 3 - On the mat, Wausau West's Joe Umlauf captured the 132 pound title at the Pulaski Invite. Joe is top ranked in division one at 138 pounds and his dominating win helped West take the team title out of 16 schools competing. Nominee 4 - And in boys basketball, Clayton Grose scored 17 points for Elcho last Friday. The 6'5'' senior helped lead the Hornets to a 52-39 victory over Northern Lakes conference foe Goodman-Pembine.To vote on any of the nominees, go to the sports poll at wjfw.com. Voting ends at 3pm on Friday. The winner receives a plaque courtesy of R and D Trophies of Tomahawk.
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"It would be good to have audio, designs and b.g.'s BEFORE we start a board."The Animation Guild in Los Angeles recently had a meeting about the conditions facing storyboard artists and published several comments on its blog. As there was discussion in Canada recently about studios asking storyboard artists to cut animatics (for no additional pay), I thought it was interesting that even in a union situation, board artists are being squeezed for time, handed scripts that are unquestionably too long and being asked to work overtime for free.
"Somebody who's never done the work has created the schedule. [Storyboard] artists never have input on the time that's realistic. Writers should use a stop watch when writing their scripts. They write (overlong) 16 page scripts for 11 minute segments."
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- Khylov said...
Though, it seems the no-design aspect is more a cumulative thing that happens further down the road, later in the season/s. No fault on the designers themselves, it usually only takes one hiccup in either scheduling or design requests from higher up and the whole thing snowballs into everything being perpetually behind from there on out.
Adding to the critique above on scripts being too long, would add that they've generally become more ambitious over time - which isn't necessarily a bad thing - but it usually means more of anything and everything thrown into an episode and thus, more work for the design dept.
Arrows don't seem to cut it anymore when it comes to animatic expectations. More acting, more beats. More drawings. Which can be cool strictly in the creative sense if you favor longer, drawn out scenes in animation. Though it's probably hell for whoever has to animate and keep track of it all.
The no audio thing's a new one to me.
- February 25, 2014 11:15 PM
- Khylov said...
...Reading through the rest of the list on the Guild blog: I saw these things go down from time to time, but it's another thing to realize how endemic it all apparently is to animation. The "plus background designer and layout artist on reduced schedule"... That gets the dad expression when his kid asks him if they can go to the moon today.
- February 25, 2014 11:42 PM


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If a tree falls in a forest and there is nobody there to hear it, does it make a sound?
What about when a tree falls onto a tent filled with blissfully unaware campers?
This is the question being addressed by the Forest Service as summer-time approaches, camping gear around the state gets dusted off and foresters begin to evaluate which recreational areas in Colorado have been the most affected by the beetle epidemic that is ravaging the forests.
As snow begins to melt, campsites are being scrutinized as foresters determine which sites are safe and which sites will need to be closed. Red Feather Lakes in Boulder County became the first area affected with the closure of the Dowdy Lake campground. The Colorado front range can get VERY windy and understandably the Forest Service is concerned beetle-kill trees (that are more prone to wind damage) will start tumbling down, with potentially fatal consequences.
But not everybody agrees that closing camping areas is the best response to these potential threats.
Both Colorado and Wyoming's governors have urged caution in closing forests and feel that this is a drastic reaction by the forest service. Presumably, their concern lies with the affect that campsite closures would create for the local tourism industries. They are not alone in their concerns either- the Greater Yellowstone Coalition is concerned that closures will distance the public from outdoor recreation opportunities, that will ultimately result in apathy regarding wilderness areas and a decrease in awareness and funding in the future. However, mountain communities do not see the closures as a big threat to their tourist season, since previously closed areas will be re-opened this season.
The Forest Service, however, is primarily concerned with the safety of both campers and their own employees, citing several recent "near misses" as evidence of the danger. Their approach has been to close the most used areas that are affected by the beetle epidemic and ensure they have been safely thinned before re-opening them for public use.
This is in contrast to the National Parks Service, which is also affected by the beetle epidemic, but has said that popular areas (such as Rocky Mountain National Park) will not be affected by any closures this upcoming season.
However, along with the danger of falling trees, the areas affected by beetle-kill are also more prone to fire danger,which is a much greater danger throughout the season. A wildfire started by a spark from a carelessly attended fire seems much more likely than a tree crushing a camper, and to be honest, has the potential for much more damage and fatalities.
So what do you think? Are falling trees just another high country hazard that comes with the territory when recreating in Colorado? Or is the Forest Service responsible for creating a safe public environment, even when that means closing public areas?


text: TV / VideoSick Nick a Drag on Viacom Ad SalesKids net ratings declines remain a concernBy Anthony Crupi|May 3, 2012ShareBy Anthony Crupi|May 3, 2012Share Nickelodeon's ongoing ratings woes were the talk of Viacom's fiscal second-quarter earnings call, as executives faced a litany of pointed questions about the network's under-deliveries. Speaking to analysts in a Q&A session Thursday, Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman acknowledged Nickelodeon's difficulties, reiterating his earlier assertion that at least some of the declines can be chalked up to "ratings measurement issues." (Nielsen emphatically denies any inconsistencies in its methodology.) Nickelodeon in the first three months of 2012 saw a 24 percent decline in total-day deliveries, averaging 1.86 million viewers, down from 2.44 million in the year-ago period. The target demos took a proportionate hit, as kids 2-11 dropped 25 percent to 1.01 million, while kids 6-11 fell 27 percent to 529,000. Nick's reversal of fortune is nothing new; in fact, the kids net hasn't posted a ratings increase since April 2011. If anything, things seem to be getting worse—in April, Nick plummeted 30 percent among total viewers and the demos. While Dauman allowed that Nickelodeon faces a full-frontal assault from the likes of Disney Channel, he was quick to add that Viacom will fight kiddie churn with an infusion of programming dollars. "There certainly has been some compelling programming that exists on some of our competitors which we can clearly address," Dauman said. "Nickelodeon is really stepping up to the plate in a major way with the creative community, with its own programming teams. More importantly, our marketing partners are very pleased what they're seeing." Indeed, despite all the agita over Nick's vanishing audience, the network remains the proverbial 800-pound gorilla of the kids' market, commanding 75 percent of the GRPs in its competitive spread. And it still boasts unparalleled reach—this marks its 68th consecutive quarter as the most-watched cable outlet on the dial. "Nickelodeon is the place to be if you want to reach kids," Dauman said. "There aren't too many advertising outlets to go after kids. One of our major competitors [Disney Channel], is not ad-supported. … So discussions [with clients] have been good. We have—the majority of conversations have been promising." Earlier in the call, Dauman talked up Nick's most recent programming initiatives, a slate that includes a new gloss on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise (fall 2012), the animated series The Legend of Korra and the live-action strip How to Rock. The Viacom chief characterized the 2012-13 lineup "Nickelodeon's largest slate of original content, ever." That fresh content could go a long way toward shaking things up at Nick, which of late has leaned heavily on the fortunes of a 13-year-old cartoon. Nick last week aired Spongebob SquarePants a whopping 59 times, a load that represents 31 percent of the network's entire seven-day programming schedule. And while the eight weekend morning installments of SpongeBob averaged 2.91 million viewers, on the whole the show is down nearly 30 percent in the demo versus Q2 2011. While Nickelodeon accounts for as much as 17 percent of Viacom's domestic revenue, MTV, Comedy Central, Spike TV and VH1 do a lot of heavy lifting as well. MTV remained at the top of the heap in the 12-24 demo, and VH1 turned things around with the 18-49 crowd, improving 36 percent in prime. Comedy Central fell 13 percent in the demo, while Spike inched up 2 percent. Domestic ad sales were up 1 percent in Viacom's Q2, reflecting what the company characterized as "modest increases in commercial units sold and pricing." Worldwide ad revenues were flat at $1.07 billion. Dauman said he remains encouraged by the strength of the ad market, but he did not furnish any hard data on scatter pricing, remarking simply that the market is "good." (Sources say that cable scatter is generally in the mid-single digits above upfront rates, on a percentile basis.) Dauman added that the MTV Networks have been experiencing "some volume issues," but did not elaborate on that remark. On the affiliate front, Viacom cautioned that carriage fee revenue would fall in the current quarter from a year ago, as a result of timing issues, but said it would return to double-digit growth in the September quarter. Global affiliate revenue grew 17 percent in Q2 to $992 million, while domestic carriage fees were up 15 percent. Dauman said affiliate fees would continue to grow as demand for the MTVN brands increases. "We can confidently plan on having affiliate revenue growth to continue over a number of years at the high single digits rate of growth," he said. Sharehttp://adweek.it/2k9ZFdR copy Adweek Adweek


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The Stigma of Sandy: Sound Familiar?
November 5, 2012
"People who didn't evacuate are stupid ... careless ... a danger to others ..."
Ringing any bells?
They were in denial ... selfish ... thought they were invulnerable.
Here we go again.
Prevention justicians, you know it goes deeper than that.
We've learned that blaming or shaming people for individual behavior that can lead to HIV infection won't get us out of this epidemic.
Have you ever lived in a shelter? If not, perhaps you wouldn't be eager to go off to one, sight unseen, cut off from friends and family. And if you have, you may be even LESS eager to go, especially if you are HIV positive, queer, gender non-conforming, sick or in pain, or elderly. People are resourceful in order to survive in shelters, but it's not easy -- check out this report from Queers for Economic Justice to learn more.
Did you ever try to get an elderly parent or grandparent to try to do something they don't want to do, let alone go to an unfamiliar shelter to sleep on a cot? Um, it can be pretty hard. But now how do you feel about political leaders calling your elders stupid and selfish?
It just doesn't sit right -- and it shouldn't.
But it's instructive -- policies taken on by elite city mayors and at other levels of government have put the housing and resources needed by elderly and people with chronic illnesses and disabilities in the path of big-profit developers and money-making schemes for decades -- leaving us ill-equipped (no pun intended) when natural disaster gets layered on the struggles to make it by day-to-day.
It's not our Grandma's fault, but blaming other Grandmas who don't look like us is awful easy when times get tough.
This situation isn't going away any time soon. Up to 40,000 New Yorkers may be in need of housing -- layered on top of an already strained system for housing support decimated by misguided policies and cuts -- and this city is just one of the areas in need. So get ready for another surge of blame as clean-up begins. As noted in the New York Times:
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And as such, the guidance in their report-back from yesterday points an important way forward, even as digging out is in progress:
It's imperative to listen to the voices of those who are living with the aftermath of Sandy, just as it is essential to have those living with HIV and those living in hard-hit communities leading our HIV/AIDS efforts. Prioritizing their ideas and resourcefulness in setting policies to deal not just with this crisis but in designing a city and country that is made safer by policies that bring equity is absolutely necessary -- and can't happen if we focus on shaming and blaming.
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