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We can only hope that they're one Administration too late to pull it off.
Well, historically Democrats are in bed with the Hollywood types so it's not a certain thing that media owners might not see some love too.
But besides that I blame this on google. Yes google and their don't be evil motto. Seems like there's this fixed amount of evil and if one company tries not to use evil then it just accumulates somewhere else.
...if one company tries not to use evil then it just accumulates somewhere else.
A systemic problem requires a systemic solution.
A systemic problem requires a systemic solution.
A good solution is 5% molarity sodium hypochlorite.
Business != Conservative
Just because people are in business does not mean they're conservative. In fact, one would expect liberal-dominated industries to attract business-minded liberals. A quick look at opensecrets.org shows that donations from the "TV/Music/Movies" [opensecrets.org] category go overwhelmingly to the Democrats. This category represents employees of entertainment companies (rather than the artists who contract with them) so it would cover all those supposedly 'conservative' executives. In 2008, donations went 78% to Democrats and 22% to Republican. In 2004, at the height of the Republican tide, it was still 69% Dem - 30% Rep
If you break it down to the sub-categories, it gets even more lopsided. The 2008 percentages (Democrat - Republican):
The only subcategory that shows anything near parity is Commercial TV and Radio stations [opensecrets.org] with 53 - 47. Presumably this includes all those local TV stations in 'flyover country'.
So no, Hollywood is not divided politically, even among the non-artists it's overwhelmingly Democrat.
Or they could pass the savings on to the consumer, by maybe not jacking up their rates yet again.
No wait, that would never happen. It's not like people are locked in to a single provider...
what are you talking about? a very small percentage of people have the ability to choose between two, or even three providers! the system is obviously NOT flawed.
i agree with your sentiment, they'll never actually LOWER prices. my experience with comcast is that they will raise prices by at least a dime every month, just to condition you to it.
With WiMax and 4G/LTE Networks deploying all over the place, we are starting to see real competition. Real unlimited data, just capped speeds (and very reasonable at that-- CLEAR has plans starting at $20/mo. and unlimited data @ 768/128).
Free market solving in a way we never expected it to, please leave alone for now.
So I guess if you could live on less money, you would ask for less pay? Oh no, that would never happen, so why should a company, whose profits are much more important to its health, do the same?
This would likely not cross into anti-trust territory.
When the film industry was finally taken to court over their vertical integration in US v. Paramount [wikipedia.org] in 1948 the large holding companies that owned the production arms and theaters were forced to divest. Note though, the FTC had begun investigating the flim business for their abuse of their integrated delivery system in 1938, and it took 10 years of court cases and broken consent degrees with the Justice department before the deed was finally done.
Also note, the fact that Lowes owned MGM and Lowes Theaters, or that Paramount owned Paramount Studios and Publix Theaters was not sufficiently illegal for the court/FTC/Jusitce to take action. The real issue was that the holding companies used collusive formula deals and clearance and run arrangements to keep independent film producers from having a venue to show their own movies. The original complaints to the FTC were made by independent production companies that didn't own their own distro arm -- the first people to file suit were original United Artists partners and Sam Goldwyn, who sortof reminds of Mark Cuban minus the swearing.
In the end, there will be one huge provider that has control over both ends, as well as content. And it will be 'regulated' by the government as a 'required monopoly'.
We the people will lose out, as always. But it was fun while it lasted! Anyone else miss the early BBS days when freedom was a given?
Large cable companies are running out of small mom & pop providers to buy, and have amassed huge cash reserves, which they would like to find something to do with,
Oh, like upgrade their effing infrastructure? Months ago they were complaining about how much money they were losing from "high-bandwidth users," peer-to-peer applications, and streaming video sites. But now they have huge cash reserves?
Kinda like how the RIAA companies always claim to be struggling after losing billions of dollars a year to piracy but turn around to their shareholders and say they're making more sales revenue than they ever have before.
We can only hope that they're one Administration too late to pull it off.
If you're counting on one man to save the world, you've been watching too much TV.
Lemme guess
Bill Hicks is a comedian. He might say things that sound clever and interesting, but don't for one second confuse his act with reality. You may as well get your political commentary from the teletubbies.
Why in the world should the feds get involved in this? They buy Disney and... shudder... you can't see the newest Disney movie unless you buy Comcast cable?
Really, our government needs to worry about things that actually matter.
Only provider of what? Cable TV? That's my point... who cares? Blockbuster, Netflix, the internet, video games, books, newspapers, magazines, over-the-air, satellite, "cellular" cable... the options for your idle time are nearly limitless.
We see this in many areas. Soon you will have to select brand of TV depending on cable operator too.
Like it is today with some telecom operators - you may only select the phones THEY are offering, not the phone you want.
Nope. The FCC is ahead of you on this one. All of the major cable companies offer CableCARD devices that handle the decryption, and that's a standard that allows you to purchase any compliant TV or settop box. TiVo's main product is now based on this technology.
The FCC has no interest in protecting individual rights or promoting a competitive market. They are there to sell off public assets to private corporations, and enforce rules and fines to ensure societal conformity to the morals of politically important voting blocs.
If Comcast is prevented from acquiring someone due to federal interference, they will probably sue because they will claim that the free market is being tampered with. Just like any corporation, their definition of free market has nothing to do with the liberty of individuals to have access to a competitive market system. It has to do with the corporate right to be unbound by any rules and have the freedom to stifle competition and destroy the market for their own profit.
To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers. To widen the market may frequently be agreeable enough to the interest of the publick; but to narrow the competition must always be against it, and can serve only to enable the dealers, by raising their profits above what they naturally would be, to levy, for their own benefit, an absurd tax upon the rest of their fellow-citizens... It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it. --Adam Smith
If Comcast is prevented from acquiring someone due to federal interference, they will probably sue because they will claim that the free market is being tampered with.
As the summary states, Comcast has an enormous stash of (not-so-hard-earned) cash. They're acting like squirrels: if they see food they don't need right away, they just shove it into a hole somewhere until they find a use for it. That probably should not be allowed: it's one thing to put something away for a rainy day, but when corporations end up so flush with cash that they can influence entire markets and ruthlessly suppress competition something is wrong. It also means they're probably significantly overcharging for their goods and services (as an ex-Comcast-down-to-the-depths-of-Hell subscriber I can attest to that.)
Comcast's management also has other things in common with squirrels.
Comcast's management also has other things in common with squirrels.
They always have nuts in their mouths?
Comcast's management also has other things in common with squirrels.
They always have nuts in their mouths?
No, their customer's and, like squirrels, sometimes they get hungry.
Shouldn't there be FCC regulations against this potential nightmare scenario? If not, why not?
No there shouldn't be any FCC regulations preventing this. Actually the FCC should not exist, it was created for mass media businesses, there is no Constitutional authority granted to the government to create the FCC.
The FCC was created to enforce communications law, with the most important goal of restricting the RF spectrum because if it was a free-for-all environment, too many people would be transmitting on the same part of the spectrum at the same time and nothing would work.
That's why TV stations are allowed to make money under the condition that they serve the public good (and agree to censorship limits) on the public resource. If you want to do content that doesn't fit the rules of broadcast TV, go to cable.
The FCC was created to enforce communications law, with the most important goal of restricting the RF spectrum because if it was a free-for-all environment, too many people would be transmitting on the same part of the spectrum at the same time and nothing would work.
This is BS! Before the FCC was even created courts [mises.org] were already ruling that the first person broadcasting on a certain frequency had the right to that frequency. It's called homesteading [againstmonopoly.org] the airwaves.
The alternative to the FCC was complete control of the airwaves by the military.
The alternative to the FCC was complete control of the airwaves by the military.
No, before the FRC, the predecessor to the FCC was created courts were already ruling for homesteaders. The first person who broadcast on a specific frequency in a specific area was allowed to use that frequency there. If someone else in the same area started broadcasting on the same freq they could be forced to stop broadcasting on it.
Yep, there is. Cable networks that need to be distributed via satellite feed must be offered to all pay TV providers under reasonable terms, and broadcast TV stations have to either require they must be carried by all pay TV carriers in the area, or can collect reasonable retransmission rates. They can't exist on only the provider that owns them... there's only limited local sports and news channels that can afford to distribute via landline to stay cable-only.
The only place where we're seeing national prov
I didn't realize that Cable TV was such a lucrative market that they could afford to buy a media conglomerate.
If there's so much profit in the market, maybe there isn't enough competition.
There are also four mainstream Cell Phone providers, and they already Collude on things like SMS picing.
Comcast is a dumb pipe, just like ATT/Verizon, etc. Municipalities need to get there hands out of the lobbyist cookie jar and realize it would be better off for their citizens to just lay the fiber themselves then to contract it out to one (in some places two) companies who will screw the consumer given any chance to do so.
If they don't want to lay the fiber, then lay down 1-2 meter concrete conduits in a
I don't think you realize just how small the "media conglomerates" are. The pundits don't seem to consider Disney a likely target despite the Slashdot summary and the other two are much smaller than Comcast. Disney is slightly smaller and Comcast made a bid for it once before. While the "media" industry is very loud, it isn't all that large.
Its times like these where the landowners and cities that own ground where Comcast's wires are going through should have...
This isn't a problem for any self-respecting mad scientist with a penchant for high energy experiments on shielded wiring.
when it was called AOL.
Which is why it'll be ironic if they end up buying Time Warner.
1) TW just recently split off TW-Cable from the TW-content empire. So, it would be weird if TW-Cable's competitor comcast, would buy TW-Cable's previous owners, the TC-content group. Genealogically I guess it would be like
2) Last time around, the pipe-company AOL bought the combined TW empire, mostly for the content.
Using one market to leverage another? I'm not lawyer and I've been mistaken about this sort of thing before, but this really looks like a bad thing and that the justice department should weigh in on this sort of thing. I think sooner rather than later the ISPs need to be designated as common carriers and not allowed to play in certain arenas.
This seems like a fast way to force Net Neutrality laws, as the resulting carnage of takeovers and mergers create segregated islands of content. Even congressmen and senators should find it difficult to swallow needing all of a Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon connections to obtain their Disney, FOX, and HGTV channels.
Although I also think the telecoms are underestimating the power of the "independent" content providers, like Google or Yahoo. Clout-wise, companies like that might actually be able to extract p
I think it's clear that our strength is technology and our weakness is the legal system. The legal system will always be in favor of those with deep pockets and have (at best) a tenuous grip on the ethical and moral considerations of the larger society. It's become so ineffective, insepid and innane as to become harmful to society -- Forget them. Laws do not govern moral conduct and never have. Integrity has no need of rules! But that's just a stop-gap. We need new technology -- and I think we need to go back to the basics to get there.
We need to bring the internet back as a peer-to-peer exchange, but to do that we're going to need to create protocols that are specifically designed to resist attack and interference from intermediaries. The original concept of the internet was based on a flawed model that the network could be trusted to deliver packets from point A to point B using the same logic throughout; It was assumed that the network would be managed by a central authority. This hasn't been the case for awhile, and now we are seeing an increasing desire to bend and break the original standards to serve commercial interests. The protocols must be redesigned to only present the minimal amount of information necessary -- the source and destination, and the actual payload encrypted and made tamper-evident.
To hell with demands that we have protocols with data exposed for "law enforcement", "national security" or "protecting the children" or any other specious argument. The ultimate expression of democracy is the free flow of information between citizens, and that's an ideal that comes ahead of all other considerations: We need to make a conscious and deliberate choice to accept the risks that come in embracing those early ideals, and not let the edge cases (terrorism, sexual predators, and elvis) sway us from the immense benefits of doing this. If the signal is to travel at all, it must travel freely.
If this doesn't come to pass then our future as a democratic society is at an end. Democracy is more important to me (and I hope you as well) than my personal safety or material comforts. A free and open communication medium between all members of society must be a universal, because it's the only way to maximize our individual and collective potentials. This is another step in a slow descent into a life we do not want, and we won't notice until it's too late how much we've lost.
The original concept of the internet was based on a flawed model that the network could be trusted to deliver packets from point A to point B using the same logic throughout; It was assumed that the network would be managed by a central authority.
As a WAN admin with 20+ years of experience in NOCs, I beg to disagree. The Internet design is based on the assumption that network pipes and routers (and whole Autonomous Systems (AS)) will fail, and that traffic will route automatically around disruptions. As s
Oh, like Freenet? Its a nice idea to take it back, except they will just throttle any alternatives out of existence.
The pipes being the last mile cable line to your house. This is why they can get away with much of what they do.
The FCC would do well to force the cable companies to give up ownership of last mile infrastructure to allow cities and neighborhoods to open those lines up for multiple, competing ISPs.
Nah, we've got a better solution in the pipeline. Phone companies are actively re-wiring their service areas with new networks capable of delivering phone, TV, and 'net. It'll take some time for them to fully deploy, but everywhere they have hit, Comcast has been forced to update their network to compete.
Regulation is nothing compared to a solid competitor.
Doesn't anyone remember the AOL/Time Warner merger? it was approximately 10 years ago now that it was announced. it was a dismal failure as technology changed in 2 years to make the whole thing worthless. The only media deal that can make sense is to buy the NFL, MLB, NASCAR or NBA because people will pay up for sports even in a recession. If the Disney channel suddenly becomes a premium channel I won't be getting it. even though i have a child.
and with Verizon laying fiber along with AT&T were a few years away from another networking technology explosion that will make this deal obsolete.
If the Disney channel suddenly becomes a premium channel I won't be getting it. even though i have a child.
You forgot your history. Disney Channel launched as a pay-for-like-HBO scrambled premium channel. So did most of the sports networks that show local games.
What these content baskets realized was that it was more profitable to take a few cents for every subscriber (even the ones that don't care about you) instead of getting a few bucks from everybody willing to pay just for you. That's why everybody's c
They've already tried to purchase Disney once before, as I recall. I think there's no question of anti-trust on this; we're talking a straightforward attempt at vertical integration within an industry. Comcast can even argue that Time Warner and Viacom have already set precedents for the acceptability of such a merger and that, in fact, Comcast needs to do such a deal to remain competitive.
Comcast can even argue that Time Warner and Viacom have already set precedents for the acceptability of such a merger and that, in fact, Comcast needs to do such a deal to remain competitive.
Correct, Time Warner had a cable unit. [wikipedia.org] So this kind of deal is not anything new. However, I think the scariest scenario is Comcast owning Disney.
...Disney, Viacom, or Time Warner sounds like a real public service to me. Seems improbable, though. More likely they would make some of the pay services of whatever outfit they bought free to their subscribers. That might squeak y the antitrust "regulators", as well as actually being commercially feasible.
disney is already doing this to all ISP's with compulsory wholesale licensing a-la cable TV.
If you have any major ISP (ATT, Comcast, etc) you are unknowingly paying disney for ESPN360 even if you dont use it.
ISP's resisted this for quite some time, but disney/espn started offering it free to university students, and presenting them with a message when they went home in the summer saying "complain to your ISP because they're not paying us".
It doesn't matter at this point of comcast buys disney/viacom/whateve
Comcast has roughly $1B in cash, and $30B in debt. Disney has a market cap of ~$45B, and Viacom $15B, Time Warner is at ~$30B. Comcast's total market cap is $45B.
While they would love to own a "must have" content provider, so would I. I think we are both roughly in the same position for being able to pull it off. I have a $5 bill handy...
Disney is not considered a candidate, despite the Slashdot summary. They could easily borrow enough to finance a combination cash-stock deal for either of the other two (i.e., each Viacom shareholder would get some cash and some Comcast stock. The loan would be secured with Viacom's assets).
I don't think it will happen, though. Wall Street seems to be pretty down on the idea.
If it's good for the shareholders, it's good for you!
Time Warner did it with AOL, and look how well that
> If it's good for the shareholders, it's good for you!
If you aren't a shareholder it doesn't involve you, but the shareholders don't seem to think it's good for them: the stock is down on the rumor.
> Time Warner did it with AOL, and look how well that
Lots of commemtators are pointing to that example.
Shut out Comcast completely. Who needs "traditional media" anyway nowadays.
You can even do it all alone by yourself.
Potentially, it could limit access to content it owns to subscribers to its own services, thus shutting out competing services (where they still exist at all).
Isn't that pretty much the old "AOL" plan of attack... stuff you could only get from us (as long as you don't look around very hard).
Potentially, it could limit access to content it owns to subscribers to its own services...
That's step 1. What's step 2?
Limit subscribers' access to just the content it owns.
They better not have more cable only channels I want CLTV on direct tv, wow cable, rcn cable, dish network and U-verse.
Comcast Chicago land is big rip off we pay same as the city of Chicago but get less HD, Syfy is in preferred / classic and speed is in sports pack other comcast areas have both in lower cost analog (ending 2010), starter and clear qam. There also have high box rent costs $16-$20 per HD DVR and $7-$10 per HD box. $5-$7 per SD box (needed to get many channels) The free DTA will not get all th
Isn't this the trend in general? Not that i approve, but why are we sitting here acting surprised? This is what tiered service is all about.
Has the poster never heard of Time Warner Cable? You know.. the nations second largest cable network and one of the largest ISPs in the US?
Pretty sure Time Warner already owns pipes AND content... seeing how they still own AOL and about a dozen high-traffic websites, not to mention a ton of TV channels and network programs (each of which has substantial web content of course)
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As a film title, it may lack marquee appeal but it's the perfect word to describe the kind of moral creative accounting that Robert Miller (Gere) uses to get through the bluff-and-call business meeting that is his life.
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When Miller turns for help to a young black man, Jimmy Grant (Parker), the son of a former chauffeur, whom he's taken under his wing, the way in which charity can corrode the currency of human relations suddenly comes sharply into focus.
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Being the heir to the throne you lived a life of splendor and never worked one day of physical labor – until one day, the winds of fate turned.
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Caravan combines strategy with RPG elements resulting in a trading and exploration game packed with suspense and challenges. In a pre-medieval Oriental setting players will send their caravan from town to town. On their way, they will experience dangerous, mystical adventures, embark on rewarding quests in towns, and fight against dangerous bandits, beasts, ghoulish creatures and djinns.
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RIOT - Civil Unrest
As civil crisis deepens and inequality tears the very fabric of society the discontentment of the masses manifests itself in violent public disturbances and civil disorder. Play as the police or the angry horde as RIOT – Civil Unrest places you in some of the world's most fractious disputes.
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Deer Hunter's Extended Season
Another Deer Hunter expansion, adding three new stages and a new gun, as well as including the previous expansion (Deer Hunter Companion).
Lula: The Sexy Empire
Lula: The Sexy Empire (also known as Wet: The Sexy Empire) is a business simulation game for Windows[3] and AmigaOS.[4] The game revolves around building a multi-million dollar pornography and erotica industry. Character designs were done by German comic artist Carsten Wieland.
After holding a bank and shooting guards, your two criminal buddies abandon you out in the middle of the desert, taking all the loot with them.
This is where you start the game: In a quiet desert town, almost broke, and with the FBI on your heels. You meet up with Lula, an aspiring 'actress', and together decide to make your ways to the top.
In the first part of the game you're in the small town, making enough money in a few days to buy a new identity, and evade the advancing FBI net, by taking photos and films of Lula in the nearby hotel. Once you get enough money, you decide to go into proper business for yourselves.
The second part consists of you setting up a movie-making business, hiring and firing staff, generating film 'plots', setting up cutting and editing facilities, and haggling for the best distribution deals until you are able to be a distributor yourself. Build up money here and we advance to the final section of the game.
Having made it in the movie-business, you now set up sex stores across the country, dealing more in resource-management and advertising until you're able to generate enough money to launch the Lula television satellite into orbit - the final aim of the game.
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No Pineapple Left Behind
In No Pineapple Left Behind, an evil wizard shows up to a school and turns all of the children into pineapples. Pineapples are very simple. All they do is take tests and get grades. If they get good grades, the school makes more money. But, if left unattended, pineapples can turn back into children. (Oh no!) Children are far more complex and expensive than pineapples. You are the principal. Your job is to run the school.
50 / 10002.5
Cooking Simulator
Experience the world of restaurant cooking in a highly polished, realistic kitchen. Use ovens, gas stands, pots, pans, bowls and plates, everything you need. Prepare dozens of lifelike ingredients - from vegetables through fish to steaks and poultry - to cook over thirty real dishes, or anything you like.
Deer Hunter Challenge
Another mobile Deer Hunter.


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Emerging from Hawaiian seclusion. That's the New York Times, friends, talking about emerging from Hawaii seclusion and trying to quell the gathering criticism....
That's the first paragraph. Then this:
"We will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable," Mr. Obama told reporters during a break in his 10-day holiday vacation. "This was a serious reminder of the dangers that we face and the nature of those who threaten our homeland."You will not rest? But you are in Hawaii. And you didn't even put on a tie.... You are resting. And you were resting when this happened.
Is he losing the NYT?!


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It would be hard to debate that perhaps the greatest invention in sports over the last 50 years has been the "regional sports network".
Some folks would refer it to more has "highway robbery". They'd have a valid point.
The concept is so elementary, a caveman could figure it out: Start your own TV network, show a "demand" for it, run the network through your local cable operator and then, in the best scam of the last 200 years, have your monthly "fee" be paid by the consumers — even those who don't ever use your product.
And if you start the network and the government doesn't agree with your stipulation that demand warrants the inclusion of the fee in monthly cable bill, you just sue the government. They won't want to fight you and within 12-18 months, you'll be milking your very own cash cow.
The list of teams that have pulled this stunt is growing by the year. The Yankees and Red Sox were the first to perfect it. The various Los Angeles teams in basketball and hockey have been raking in TV money as far back as a thing called "Prime Ticket" out west, but only now are they starting to see the benefits of owning the network yourself. The Texas Rangers will be pulling in upwards of $100 million via their RSN in the next couple of years. So will the Angels.
And, then, of course, we have our beloved Birds.
The Orioles' owner, Peter Angelos, started the Middle Atlantic Sports Network back in 2006, with the promise of his own RSN establishing enough of a consistent revenue base to do battle with those rat finks in New York and Boston.
This, what I'm writing today, isn't about the years of money that Peter collected and then didn't spend on the team. We've all seen that movie and reviewed it a dozen or two times. We know the club's roster has been shortchanged over the years as it relates to quality players. No need to travel there today.
No — what I'm puzzled by is yet another botched marketing and PR opportunity from both MASN and the Orioles. OK, let's just admit they're one and the same and I'll keep calling them "the Orioles" for purposes of this piece. Anyway, the Orioles have thirty three "official" spring training games in February and March. Guess how many the team will air on its own TV network? Six. That's it. Six. Oh, by the way, three of the six are taped delayed, not live.
Six of thirty-three games will be on TV and they own the network that airs the games.
At least air all of the home games, right? I can at least almost understand not airing a game from Ft. Myers or Dunedin. But you have 16 home games in Ed Smith Stadium. Put all of them on MASN. And, for sure, you can do some split-feed stuff with the Yankees and Pirates and Phillies when you face them in Tampa or Bradenton or Clearwater througout March.
Last year's magical season and dramatic 5-game series loss to the Yankees actually left the community as a whole longing for March 2013 and spring training baseball.
For years – about fourteen to be exact – only 149 people in Baltimore even cared about spring training when it rolled around every February. Grapefruit League games were met with yawns and the fans had little interest in who was doing well, who wasn't, who was making the team and who needed to go 2-for-3 today to have a chance of sticking around.
Spring training baesball, though, has an allure to it that reaches far past sports. It's called spring training for a reason. It marks the beginning of s-p-r-i-n-g. People love spring. It dawns a new year, essentially. Warm weather is on the way. Sunshine. Summer days beckon. When baseballs are thrown, the days seem brighter and longer.
And after a whopper of a season in 2012, you would think the Orioles would go completely out of their way to capitalize on that energy by airing spring training baseball in March of 2013.
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Submission + - JavaScript Servers Compared (infoworld.com)
snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner test-drives five leading JavaScript servers and finds the results compelling though still a work-in-progress. 'I enjoyed the challenge and stimulation of rethinking everything I know about the server, but I still found myself hesitant to push these new ideas too far or too fast. The speed of experimentation and development is heady and exciting to the open source crowd, but it will probably seem scary to corporate developers who like the long, stable lives of tools from Microsoft or Oracle. Some of these platforms will probably morph three or four times over the next few years, something that won't happen to the good, old JSP standard in the Java world,' Wayner writes in review of Node.js, Jaxer, EJScript, RingoJS, and AppengineJS."


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Oh Spot, this morning I felt I had kiss the screen. I fully can understand that your mom could not let you go. We hope you are now becoming a handsome, playful and mischievous young man, what with all that TLC and adoration you are getting.
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Like, I would want my d-pad to be WASD than the Arrow Keys.
Like, I would want my d-pad to be WASD than the Arrow Keys.
This is supposedly coming in the next update, so just be patient.
I like arrow keys.
I prefer arrow keys than wads keys
Well if you change the arrow keys to WASD what are we who like using the NEWS keys suppose to do. Placing all the keys in one place is really sort not feasible isn't it. We have gooten used to the way things are admins. Sorry OP but what's the problem?
I think we should be able to set our own button configuration. Why on Sega is X=B C=C and B=A ? They aren't even in order. Very confusing when playing a game.
I don't mine it either way but i have already adapted to the arrow keys so thier chould be differnt of option or we chould cutsomize it ourselves.
The [competitor url removed] sites let you set your own configuration. It has a pic of the controller and lets you click on the button then press whatever key you want it to be on your keyboard. I really can't play alot of these games because i am programmed to use WASD as my movement. Its more like the controller using your left hand to move. Please i'm begging you to add an update to let us set our own config. Thanks for the great site but it would be perfect if you can make this update. Thanks again
This is in the works, will be added REALLY soon.


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NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard was searching Friday for two workers missing after a fire erupted on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, sending an ominous black plume of smoke into the air reminiscent of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion that transformed the oil industry and life along the coast.
The fire, begun while workers were using a torch to cut an oil line, critically injured at least four workers who had burns over much of their bodies.
The images were eerily similar to the massive oil spill that killed 11 workers and took months to bring under control. It came a day after BP agreed to plead guilty to a raft of charges in the 2010 spill and pay a record $4.5 billion in penalties.
But there are a few important differences with the Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 workers and began one of the nation's biggest environmental disasters: Friday's fire was put out within hours, rather than burning for more than a day and causing the rig to collapse and sink.
Also, the rig that caught fire Friday is a production platform in shallow water, rather than an exploratory drilling rig looking for new oil on the seafloor almost a mile deep.
Still, the accident was a vivid reminder of the dangerous business of offshore drilling and the risk it poses to the Gulf of Mexico's ecosystem and shoreline.
A sheen of oil about a half-mile long and 200 yards wide was reported on the gulf surface, but officials believe it came from residual oil on the platform.
''It's not going to be an uncontrolled discharge from everything we're getting right now,'' said Coast Guard Captain Ed Cubanski.
Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Bobby Nash said late Friday that monitoring continues to show that no oil is coming from the well.
Eleven people were taken by helicopter to area hospitals or for treatment on shore by emergency medical workers.
The production platform owned by Houston-based Black Elk Energy is about 25 miles southeast of Grand Isle, on the western side of the Mississippi River delta.
The Coast Guard said 24 people were aboard the platform at the time of the fire.
Cubanski said the platform appeared to be structurally sound. He said only about 28 gallons of oil were in the broken line on the platform.
After the April 2010 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon, that rig burned for about 36 hours before collapsing and sinking to the gulf floor. The depth of the well blowout — a mile below the gulf surface — proved to be a major challenge in bringing the disaster under control.
The Black Elk platform is in 56 feet of water — a depth much easier for engineers to manage if a spill had happened. A federal official in Washington said a team of environmental enforcement inspectors was flying to the scene.
David Smith, a spokesman for the Interior Department's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, said the team was dispatched from a Gulf Coast base by helicopter soon after the Coast Guard was notified of the emergency. Smith said the team would scan for any evidence of oil spilling and investigate the cause of the explosion.
''This is yet another reminder that our work on oil drilling safety is not complete,'' said US Representative Ed Markey of Massachusetts, the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee.
Black Elk is an independent oil and gas company headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company's website says it holds interests in properties in Texas and Louisiana waters, including 854 wells on 155 platforms.
The company said on its website that ''our thoughts and prayers are with those who are impacted.'' The company said it was still collecting information and would issue a statement later.
The spill from BP's Macondo well, about 50 miles southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River on the east side of the river delta, dumped millions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf. It fouled beaches, marshes and rich seafood grounds.


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The floor was open for audience questions as representatives from Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask.com addressed issues on the importance and value of inbound links.
One question seemed to resonate throughout the entire session. How can a search engine identify whether a link is paid or organic in nature? Shashi Thakur of Google replied that through both manual and algorithmic methods, the search engine is able to determine the nature of a link.
But why are paid links so bad? Thakur suggests that generally, purchased links are intended only to deceive search engines while adding little to no value to the user.
However, Peter Linsley of Ask.com and Sean Suchter of Yahoo agree that purchased links are not necessarily evil so long as they provide some sort of value and relevance to the user.


text: CHIEFS 2011!!!One of the reasons that the Chiefs were the AFC's surprise team last year was that their secondary really stepped up. Carr was the forgotten man as everyone started talking about Brandon Flowers(notes) and Eric Berry(notes), but per those numbers (and only sometimes covering the other team's #1 receiver, it must be said), Carr was the most effective man in that defensive backfield.


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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon was nearly brought to tears Thursday when he was honored as winner of the prestigious Myers Brothers Award for outstanding contributions to NASCAR.
The recipient of the award given annually since 1958 is not typically given advance notice. It is awarded by the National Motorsports Press Association in honor of former NASCAR competitors Billy and Bobby Myers.
"Wow. Oh, boy. This is a surprise,'' said Gordon, who had to stop during his acceptance speech several times to compose himself. "Couldn't somebody have warned me a little bit? Oh my goodness. This is an incredible honor. I've been coming to the banquet for the last 20 years, maybe 19, I guess. I've seen this award go to legends of our sport, those who make a mark and are recognized for their contribution.
"I'm deeply honored, proud of the work I do on and off the track and this is fantastic.''
Gordon has 87 career wins and four titles, but his off-track contributions include the Jeff Gordon Foundation that has been helping children battling cancer since 1999. The foundation supports the Jeff Gordon's Children's Hospital in Concord, N.C., and has committed to help children fight cancer in Africa.
He's also teamed with sponsor AARP's Drive to End Hunger program, which brings awareness to hunger among Americans 50 and older.
Gordon was still taken aback almost an hour after accepting the award.
"I was extremely surprised,'' he said. "I've been coming to this event for a long time and seen the legends and pioneers of this sport get that award and I don't look at myself that way. Plus it was a surprise, and being recognized by your peers for your contributions gets me emotional. It hasn't even sunk in yet, it's huge and I'm still in shock.''


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On January 15, 1990, three thousand people came out to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by planting 400 trees along the entire length of MLK Boulevard in South Los Angeles–seven miles in a single day. At this event, organized by TreePeople, each tree was named in memory of someone, and then adopted by a neighboring resident committed to its ongoing care. The result is the largest living monument to Dr. King in existence.
The idea for this monument came from a TreePeople Citizen Forester named Eudora Russell, who for years had dreamed of turning the barren stretch of King Boulevard into a fitting memorial to its namesake.… Read more >>


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Issue Type: Bug Created: 2010-01-05T01:40:04.000+0000 Last Updated: 2012-09-06T14:18:22.000+0000 Status: Resolved Fix version(s): - 1.12.0 (27/Aug/12)
Reporter: Jon Gilbert (email@example.com) Assignee: Frank Brückner (frosch) Tags: - Zend_View
Related issues: Attachments: - FormRadio.php.patch
Current default output doesn't work in IE6: My button
Correct output: My button
Suggested fix: Change default label placement from 'append' to 'prepend' (in /library/Zend/View/Helper/FormRadio.php)
Posted by Marco Kaiser (bate) on 2010-01-05T01:47:53.000+0000
What document type do you use?
Btw. IE6 sucks and should not be supported in any way.
Posted by Jon Gilbert (firstname.lastname@example.com) on 2010-01-05T03:01:19.000+0000
I agree that IE6 sucks, but that's another story ;-) Document type is XHTML 1.0 Transitional but that should also be irrelevant. In the current output the label includes the element it is labelling which seems to me to be semantically wrong. There's a simple example on http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_label.asp - it is irrelevant where the label is in relation to the radio button, but they should be two distinct elements, not nested.
Posted by Marco Kaiser (bate) on 2010-01-05T03:10:45.000+0000
The Label helper produces different html for different doctypes. Do you use in your layout/view the $this->doctype() helper? If not try with. I think this isnt a bug. :)
Posted by Jon Gilbert (firstname.lastname@example.com) on 2010-01-05T07:17:26.000+0000
Doctype is hardcoded in the layout template, but I disagree that this is relevant. doctype affects the closing tag:
$endTag = ' />';
if (($this->view instanceof Zend_View_Abstract) && !$this->view->doctype()->isXhtml()) {
$endTag= '>';
but building the button and label does not depend on it: // Wrap the radios in labels $radio = '_htmlAttribs($label_attribs) . ' for="' . $optId . '">' . (('prepend' == $labelPlacement) ? $opt_label : '') . '_htmlAttribs($attribs) . $endTag . (('append' == $labelPlacement) ? $opt_label : '') . '';
However, I agree that $labelPlacement is actually irrelevant - not sure what I was thinking about there ;-) The code that actually needs fixing is the above definition of $radio. Here's my solution:
// create radio button and label and put them together in the required order
$label = '_htmlAttribs($label_attribs) . ' for="' . $optId . '">'
. $opt_label
. '';
$radio = '<input type="' . $this->_inputType . '"'
. ' name="' . $name . '"'
. ' id="' . $optId . '"'
. ' value="' . $this->view->escape($opt_value) . '"'
. $checked
. $disabled
. $this->_htmlAttribs($attribs)
. $endTag;
if ('prepend' == $labelPlacement) {
$radio = $label . $radio;
} else {
$radio .= $label;
Posted by James Boykin (jfm) on 2010-07-24T15:59:35.000+0000
Yes this bug makes it difficult to use many jquery plugins. Would love to see this fixed! Manual patching for now...
Posted by Kim Hwan (ihwan) on 2010-08-20T03:30:49.000+0000
This bug makes it difficult to use many jquery plugins. For example, jquery ui radio buttons has this problem. http://jqueryui.com/demos/button/radio.html
Posted by Daniel Zahariev (daniel.zahariev) on 2011-03-08T02:50:24.000+0000
Hi all, i had the same issue with this in terms of jQuery usage and used the following code for reordering: $('input[type="radio"]', 'some scope').each(function(){ var radio = $(this), label = elem.parent(); radio.detach(); label.before(radio); }); Hope this helps someone.
Posted by Kai Uwe (kaiuwe) on 2011-03-08T04:10:54.000+0000
Please read the HTML specification carefully! This is valid HTML and XHTML! These are "implicit labels": www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.9.1" rel="nofollow">HTML 4: 17 Forms - 17.9.1 The LABEL element
Posted by Jon Gilbert (email@example.com) on 2011-03-08T23:54:07.000+0000
No, those aren't implicit labels. Implicit labels don't have a "for" attribute - that makes them explicit
Posted by Kai Uwe (kaiuwe) on 2011-03-09T02:33:27.000+0000
{quote}No, those aren't implicit labels. Implicit labels don't have a "for" attribute - that makes them explicit{quote} Right! The "for" attribute is not needed and makes here also no sense.

// Wrap the radios in labels
$radio = '_htmlAttribs($label_attribs) . ' for="' . $optId . '">' // "for" can be removed!
. (('prepend' == $labelPlacement) ? $opt_label : '')
. '_htmlAttribs($attribs)
. $endTag
. (('append' == $labelPlacement) ? $opt_label : '')
. '';
www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#adef-for" rel="nofollow">HTML 4: 17 Forms - 17.9.1 The LABEL element - for
Posted by Frank Brückner (frosch) on 2012-05-09T16:37:08.000+0000
Patch and unit test added.
Posted by Adam Lundrigan (adamlundrigan) on 2012-05-31T14:15:17.000+0000
Fixed in trunk (1.12.0): r24840
Posted by Bernd Matzner (bmatzner) on 2012-09-06T14:18:22.000+0000
While reasonable, this fix does break existing javascript applications that rely on the for attribute to be available.
I would at least expect a migration note that the view helper output has changed.
Finding out the hard way that some generated HTML code has changed is unpleasant.
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text: How to Resolve Sovereign Debt Crises in the Twenty-First Century A piece of the international financial architecture is missing, one that would facilitate more effective, fair and timely sovereign debt workouts than the ad hoc, inconsistent and sometimes highly political processes that are applied today. While a newly created mechanism should be available to any sovereign government, including in Europe, special concerns have been voiced, as in the convoking of this conference, for improving debt workouts in low and middle-income countries, where crisis-related declines in living standards that are part and parcel of sovereign debt crises are hardest to bear. This paper argues that launching an initiative at this time would be opportune. The ensuing discussion first suggests that while the developing country debt situation is no longer making headlines, it is a good time to consider creating a mechanism for use when the situation becomes less benign. It then reviews the existing mechanisms for sovereign debt workouts and the limited contributions made (and feasible) from voluntary codes of good conduct, and thus why it is appropriate to think about creation of a new mechanism. It goes on to describe the characteristics that an appropriate sovereign debt workout mechanism should have. It should be a single mechanism, available to all countries, albeit with different configurations of creditors engaging in workouts for lowest-income than for other countries. The paper concludes by arguing that there are not only economic systemic and fairness reasons, but also political ones, for launching a new debt policy initiative now. AC:P:14968 Academic Commons Herman, Barry Author Columbia University. Initiative for Policy Dialogue Originator Reports English Economics Finance Initiative for Policy Dialogue Working Paper Series text Initiative for Policy Dialogue 2011 New York eng 2012-10-16T20:39:51Z 2018-02-17T00:28:45Z 10.7916/D8D50W5G


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Jerry Jackson loved '66 Chevelles. This was his favorite car, and he had a number of them over the years, but they were usually a little rough around the edges. Then came the car you see here. According to his son, Joel, the current owner, this was a rust-free example when they found it—a matching numbers one at that. That would be a great find for anyone, but this car still had its original California smog equipment intact.
"These systems were usually the first thing to get trashed," noted Joel. The other really unique thing is the color combination."
Ah, yes, the Chateau Slate-over-red combo. True enough, in this day and age you rarely see cars offered with red interiors, and when you do they are usually washed out—not the bright red you see here. Time was they were quite common and in the plastics, vinyl, and leathers of the '60s and '70s, they could be absolutely stunning without being gaudy. Honestly, the color combo was what first attracted your author/photographer to this particular A-body. Silver and red is just a classic pairing, and you just don't see it every day anymore.
What you also don't see all the time is a Chevelle restored to this standard. Jerry started the restoration with Joel and his other son, Jerid, in December of 2008—after Christmas dinner, no less. The 396 was using more than a little bit of oil. The trio decided to yank the engine right then and there, and get it ready for a rebuild. Next thing you know, the engine and Powerglide are out and within a few hours, the body is off the frame. Ho, ho, ho!
The body was shipped off to A&R Restorations in Emory, Texas, to smooth it out and shoot the paint. The frame, chassis components, inner fenders, core support, brackets and pulleys all went to be powdercoated. Trim pieces went to Classic Molding Restoration in Greenfield, Indiana. The father and sons worked on it together until Jerry's sudden passing in September 2009. It was Jerry who disassembled the SS396 (he taught his boys everything they know about cars, according to Joel). The family struggled with the loss and even the desire to finish the project, but they knew Jerry would want them to complete what they started.
"My dad, my brother and I worked together on every detail until his death," says Joel. "Completing the car and showing it is a tribute to Dad."
The Chevelle was restored using only NOS and restored GM parts. Every assembly mark, part number tag, color and detail was recreated. The car debuted at the Ennis (Texas) Super Chevy Show in 2010, and was so good it was invited to enter the Gold Class, a prestigious honor very few receive. It won Best Engine at that event.
The 396 is all original except for some internal replacement parts and was machined and assembled by Tinker's Machine Shop in Yantis, Texas. A Powerglide takes the 325 hp to a 12-bolt with 3.08 gears that Joel assembled. The suspension is all stock, save for reproduction springs and polygraphite bushings from PST. The interior was revamped with OE-type materials by Ricky Ratliff and Shane Murphy. Two uncommon options are the knee-knocker tach and tilt steering column.
"The car has won other prestigious awards since [the 2010 Super Chevy Show in Ennis], but the Super Chevy win means so much to the Jacksons, as we have very fond memories of attending Super Chevy events for years as a family, as we've done almost everything since Jerry and Regina started it all with not much more to their name than that first '66 Chevelle," Joel explained.


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I thought I was through with all the holiday parties by the first week of December (they seem to be getting earlier every year) but I was pleasantly surprised to get a call from Jojo for a sudden Japanese wine dinner at Yurakuen in Manila Diamond Hotel.
I've enjoyed dining at Yurakuen several times but the last time was over a year ago for an Ordre Mondial dinner. I've always been happy with the food there and I find the restaurant quite stunning, with a large artificial silver tree dominating the round space looking out onto a Japanese garden.
Apparently, this dinner was the idea of Cecile Ang who runs the hotel. So about 14 of us winos were treated to an exquisite kaiseki dinner, the price of admission being an interesting bottle of wine. Jojo immediately took charge of wine "service" as soon as he arrived; handing out paper bags to cover the bottles and announcing that it would be blind tasting for most of the wines. This, of course, ruled out any idea of matching wine with the food so we pretty much drank whatever was available in front of us regardless of the course being served. As mine was the only Champagne, it was the only bottle not served blind.
No ceremony was involved and so while waiting for the food to be served we plunged into the guessing game. First wine was from Richard. Being Swiss, he drew a Swiss flag on his paper bag. There were a few grumbles about him having brought a Swiss wine but a taste soon dispelled that notion. A rich and slightly honeyed white. I guessed Burgundy but it turned out to be a California Esprit de Beaucastel 2006 made with Rhone varieties of marsanne, rousanne and viognier. Of course, in hindsight it's quite obvious I should have at least guessed Rhone.
Jojo's red was next. Young. Old World. Bordeaux. A '96? At least I got the region right, as did most of us, but we were way off on the year. Chateau Sociando-Mallet 1982. Remarkable wine. Still rich and tannic but very dry showing leather and tobacco notes.
David volunteered the next wine. Soft and sweet. Lightish. Most said Italy Brunello. I felt it was too light and soft for that so I went for California. Those who guessed Italy were right but it was the Super Tuscan Sassicaia 1999.
Gani's red followed. Soft and spicy. Bordeaux. Seems Right Bank because of the softness. I got Bordeaux right but it was the Left Bank Calon Segur 1996 from St. Estephe.
Now it was Sandra's turn. Huge, sweet, dark, oaky wine. Definitely Australia. Some said Napa. I took a chance and named the wine. I called out Mollydooker and said either Velvet Glove or Carnival of Love. I finally nailed one! It was the Mollydooker Carnival of Love 2009.
We went back to a white with Mark's wine. Pale. Riesling from Alsace or, because of a faint hint of lychee possibly Gewurztraminer. Mark gave us a hint saying the wine was made specifically for Japanese food. The hint was enough for me to name the wine again. Domaine Mittnacht Gyotaku from Alsace. I forgot to take note of the vintage. So two in a row for me.
Reds again starting with Greg's bottle. Acidic and leafy. Bordeaux. For some reason I didn't take note of what I or others guessed on this.
Laraine's contribution was next up. Dark, rich, jammy. New World? Wrong. I don't think anyone even came close on this one. This was Psi 2009 from Ribera del Duero, 100% tempranillo and the 3rd wine the cult Spanish winery Pingus.
Jack's turn came next. Very dark. Minty. Napa? Possibly Dunn? Some discussion with Jojo confirmed that it was certainly possible. Wrong. It was a Reschke Coonawarra Cabernet 2004 from Australia.
Unfortunately, after Jack's wine, my handwriting deteriorated to the point that I can no longer make out my notes so my apologies to Cecile and Aldo. I do remember guessing Aldo's wine to be from Alsace (Leon Beyer Gewurztraminer judging by the pictures) and Cecile's wine to be a California Chardonnay (Brewer-Clifton?) but that's as far as I can recall. Bad form, I know, especially since Cecile was our host, but the rather rowdy guessing made it difficult to get everything down on paper, especially after a couple of glasses. Good thing we were in a private room and not the main dining room.
Martin's was the last wine and somehow I managed to scribble some coherent notes on this. New World. Blueberry jam. Torbreck Woodcutter 2009.
Laraine also pulled out another bottle. Soft and syrupy. A Portuguese wine, Chryseia 2006 from the Symighton Group of Port fame. Some were hankering for more wine even after all of that so I obliged with a Sherry Pastrana Manzanilla Pasada by Bodegas Hidalgo.
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A word on the food. The whole dinner was quite traditional showing the various techniques of Japanese cooking and served sequentially in many small portions.
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The aperitif was sweet plum wine with sweet-salty soy beans.
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The appetizer was very interesting although the description might not be too appetizing to some. Salted and fermented entrails of sea cucumber, squid cone pine with scallop and egg yolk in one dish and marinated octopus in wasabi with yam and salmon egg topped with dried seaweed in another dish. The flavors of these dishes were quite strong and salty and the texture can be challenging but as an appetizer portion, it works quite well.
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The sashimi course was young yellow tail tuna, salmon and tuna. Good but perhaps not the best sashimi around.
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Nimono or a stewed dish was next. A shrimp and asparagus roll, kelp with yam, pumpkin and carrot flower. This was very good. Nimono doesn't get a lot of press but the earthy, sweet and salty flavors here made for a sophisticated dish.
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Next was a grilled dish of premium Japanese beef to be grilled by the diner on an iron cylinder. This was accompanied by gindara teriyaki. We didn't ask if the beef was wagyu or what grade etc. but I can say it was beautiful beef. Very tender and flavorful. Three dipping sauces were also supplied for the beef. I was lucky enough that our table got an extra helping of this dish!
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Grilling the beef on the iron "lump."
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A steamed dish was next. Chawanmushi with uni (sea urchin).
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A fried dish was presented next. Fried grouper and stingray fin. I've never had stingray Japanese style before so this was a first. This was probably the least interesting dish. I thought maybe a tempura would have better shown the expertise of the chef with this technique.
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Sunomono or a dish in vinegar came next. Japanese oyster with marinated sweet shrimp, pickled radish and orchids. The shrimp here was extremely fresh and sweet, like it had been just pulled out of the sea moments before serving.
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For the Japanese, a meal isn't a meal unless it has rice and so we have the obligatory rice dish. Instead of the usual bowl of rice with pickles, we were served congee with pickles. Excellent flavor in the congee. Not bland at all.
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Lastly, dessert. As Diamond Hotel runs an excellent pastry shop with branches at Rockwell and Bonifacio High Street (Cake Club), this was definitely something to look forward to.
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Many thanks to Cecile for putting this together and to Jojo for the blind tasting. I believe the group has agreed to do another one in January also at Yurakuen. Looking forward to it!


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No ST cartoon.
And nothing of value was lost.
No ST cartoon.
True, but you can already watch that here [startrek.com]. Brief ads, but no Netflix subscription needed.
And even in the USA, I just checked. In spite of what the article says, the original is NOT available, at least not yet on my account. It's still DVD only.
The only version of Trek available for Instant Watch on my USA account is the 2009 movie.
Another case of an incomplete summary. TOS, TNG, Voyager, and Enterprise will be added to Watch Instantly sometime in June. DS9 will be added sometime in October. They'll be available for at least two years, with the option to extend it at the end.
I share her sentiment. I'm especially looking forward to Deep Space Nine being available - we already own TOS, so having it on Netflix is of less importance to us.
It's a good day for nerd-dom.
I share her sentiment. I'm especially looking forward to Deep Space Nine being available - we already own TOS, so having it on Netflix is of less importance to us.
It's a good day for nerd-dom.
If you haven't seen DS9 yet, don't. It's by far the worst Star Trek series. And trust me, I've seen them all.
Wasnt Star Trek Enterprise the worst?
Also, as someone who started watching from TNG, would it be a good idea to watch TOS?
I saw TNG before seeing TOS.
Sure the graphics are rubbish - and it looks very low budget (especially in the beginning), but the storylines are much nicer, and Kirk punches tons of people in the face.
TOS is great, as good as TNG.
Enterprise is better than DS9, by far.
Enterprise is shit though, DS9 went from good to worse than shit.
TOS is a series that was originally meant to be more like the Twilight Zone, different characters each episode. It still keeps the characters from having a ongoing story. There is no story arc spanning episodes although the book versions do tie the episodes together. The stories themselves are close to Sci-Fi in that they explore the now by just slightly changing the now to make us re-examine the facts. Simple example: Rather then examine black vs white race issues, the race issue is shown by two people who
Wonder what ever happened to him.
Oddly enough, you'll occasionally find Wil Wheaton posting on Slashdot. Or at least he used to (Slashdot username: CleverNickName). I think he still does some acting gigs here and there though I haven't seen him in anything in a while now.
Oh, and don't forget The Big Bang Theory. Classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pQvyo3o5kc [youtube.com] for an example.
wil is also on fark.com (from what I understand).
his latest rant about the TSA was worth reading. yes, even old movie/film stars will get hassled by the grope squad.
Voyager went back into space but dumped all sense of ethics at the spaceport. Kirk would never have stood for it. Janeway did anything to get home, including mass genocide. Star Trek, how far can you fall.
Examples please? my knowledge of Voyager isn't encyclopedic, but I've seen most of the episodes and seem to remember that Janeway _always_ rejects quick ways of getting home if it means breaking ethical codes. Hell, that's the main tension of the entire series: how to deal with the problem of being so far
Wasnt Star Trek Enterprise the worst?
Also, as someone who started watching from TNG, would it be a good idea to watch TOS?
No, it was actually pretty good. As with any ST, it had really good episodes and really poor ones. I do think it had a lot of potential that was waited - the whole "we're the first explorers from Earth" could have been played up more rather than the time war; especially had they explored our first contact and relationship with other species prevalent in "later" series.
If you haven't seen DS9 yet, don't. It's by far the worst Star Trek series. And trust me, I've seen them all.
Meh I wouldn't say that. DS9 isn't THAT bad. Takes a bit of getting used to, and sometimes you feel like wanting to stop hearing Bashir's annoying accent, but otherwise its not that bad. Its just.. different.
I share her sentiment. I'm especially looking forward to Deep Space Nine being available - we already own TOS, so having it on Netflix is of less importance to us.
It's a good day for nerd-dom.
If you haven't seen DS9 yet, don't. It's by far the worst Star Trek series. And trust me, I've seen them all.
How can we trust you? Your taste in Trek is abysmal.
That's a highly subjective opinion.
My personal ranking is:
I'd put Voyager at the bottom, personally. It had cheese factor ten. For its time it is by far the cheesiest. TNG at the top; most successful implementation of the original formula, and the best talent by far. (Nimoy is still my favorite Trek actor, but taken as a whole...) I thought Enterprise was better than most people thought it was. I guess Nazi aliens don't bother me so much when we STILL have plenty of real Nazis running around on this mudball. Shit, the Bush family fortune came from funding the Nazi
DS9 FTW, mainly because it didn't rely on made-up-on-the-spot fake science or holodeck claptrap to drive/resolve the storylines.
All of Star Trek relies on fake, made-up science. Warp drive, travelling through worm holes populated by gods?
The important aspect of good Trek is that it explores/confronts human/societal problems/issues. If that's done as a murder-mystery in a holodeck setting or a non-space set in a hut on a planet, that's not really a failing. Sci-Fi tricks its readers/viewers into dealing w
I share her sentiment. I'm especially looking forward to Deep Space Nine being available - we already own TOS, so having it on Netflix is of less importance to us.
DS9 can come in handy. Last night, for instance . . . I had a terrible time getting to sleep.
Despite the CBS moronic policy on Star Trek, Roddenberry's legacy will prevail!
The suits there think we still live in 20th. Century! (no Fox intended)
All Star Trek TV already on the Pirate Bay.
But not available for instant streaming tailored to your connection's bitrate.
I'd rather stream it via netflix legally (which I already pay for), rather than hoard it illegally on a drive I then have to buy and maintain.
Unfortunately, as a Linux user, I am not allowed to stream Netflix because of their (or the studios) rampant paranoia. So I am not a Netflix customer. I guess having less customers is better than someone maybe copying the stream.
If I have enough lead time, I rather download a movie or even rent it from Redbox. Netflix streaming is OK as long as you don't need to back things up or don't put the Wiimote down so the "B" button is accidentally pressed or it isn't the 1 time in 10 that the internet is running slow and your viewing experience is constantly interrupted by buffering.
I support what Netflix is doing but they need a better player. Of course, there's only so much they can do with the Wii that I use (though I would cerainly be
All Star Trek TV already on the Pirate Bay.
Streaming is superior.
amount of content doesn't mean crap if you can't filter through it.
Netflix lets you watch any of 100 4/5 star rated comedies or 1000 3/5 star rated comedies when you feel like a comedy.
Want action? Plenty of that.
Romance for those lonely friday nights? Check.
It's a pain to find new good stuff to watch. Rather just have it shoveled to be based on my previous ratings of films.
And lets face it, who is going to pre-download a season of Hercules? How would I have found that if not to watch an episode on demand r
I wasted all my time downloaded every episode.
Wasted your time? All you have to do is click on the download link at a torrent site. You can do that during the span of a single commercial break. After that your computer does all the work. Look at it this way: The parent poster spent $100/season for DVDs. That's $700. You saved $700 in two minutes. That's $2,100/hr or $4.2M/year. Not a bad take home pay.
Not that I needed much of an excuse to re-watch TNG and DS9, but it's nice to have one.
Starting in July, every episode from every Star Trek series will be available for Instant Watch over Netflix [...] the original Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise
*Ahem*, what happened to The Animated Series [wikipedia.org]? It's almost entirely awful and is more or less non-canon, but it's still a Star Trek series.
(The article does go on to say "all five live-action Star Trek series", but the bit I quoted and the title are not technically accurate. Of course I have to point out such an inaccuracy, given the topic.)
If you don't already have all the box sets, figurines and toy communicators then you're not worthy to be on slashdot.
There was one episode of ST:TNG from season 1 that I never, ever got to see the beginning of. No matter how many times it popped up in syndication and reruns, I always tuned in just after the title sequence.
I'm not sure how, but I believe this is related to the phenomenon where, when there's a popular syndicated show you almost never watch, on the rare occasions that you do tune in you always see the same episode.
I've worn out watching DVR'd reruns of ST:TNG and I've been annoyed that DS9 hasn't been on streaming or syndicated re-air or anything other than a DVD somewhere. I'm looking forward to seeing that series again.
I got busy during ST:DS9, right at the height of the war with the Dominion.
I keep meaning to catch up via BitTorrent, but I've ah, procrastinated a bit.
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For the first time ever, fans will be able to play as...STAN...(wait for it)...LEE himself in The Amazing Spider-Man video game. Players take on the role of Stan "The Man" Lee in his own special mission across Manhattan, borrowing abilities from his old pal Spider-Man as they collect pages of his latest script in a spectacular race around Manhattan. Stan's mission is punctuated with his witty banter that fans have come to know and love, and a special surprise waits for them at the end of the mission - after all, this year is Spider-Man's 50th anniversary! Downloadable on Xbox LIVE Marketplace for Xbox 360, from the PlayStation Store for PlayStation 3 system and on Steam.
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Tonight on Doctors on Call tackles eye problems ranging from cataracts and glaucoma to macular degeneration. Dr. Ruth Westra from the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth hosts this program which encourages viewer questions. Our medical panelists include Dr. Charles Ahrens, an ophthalmologist with Relf EyeCare Specialists in Hermantown; Dr. Angela McAllister, an ophthalmologist with Essentia Health-Duluth Clinic and Dr. Kevin Treacy, an ophthalmologist with St Luke's Ophthalmology Associates in Duluth.
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Parental leave - the UK is in the process of a new system which allows parents to divide up leave but no matter how much I read about it I do not understand it. I know maternity at my last place allowed you to have a over year off (because your five weeks of leave plus all bank holidays were added to your maternity leave) but if you left within three months of coming back you had to pay back some of the money you received from the company (above statutory) when you left.
A couple of things to add from a UK perspective:Leave - you don't always need to have accrued leave to take it. For example, I started my job in February, technically I "accrue" my leave at a rate of 0.5 days per week, I could have taken a week's leave at the beginning of April without any issue. The only issue would have been if I'd left my final pay cheque would have had however many days pay deducted (similarly when I left my last job I had about ten days leave "owed" to me which was paid out in my final pay cheque).School's are the exception to the rule when it comes to leave - my mum worked term time only for years which meant she couldn't take leave during term time but she got all the school holidays off. Other posters may be able to correct me but I've got a feeling the six week summer holiday is often "unpaid" for people who work term time only.
I get no paid sick leave and no paid vacation, as I am paid by production. Also, since I work at home, I've worked when I was a lot sicker or contagious than most people because I don't have a choice. However, there are pluses to this job. For one thing, I start at noon so I don't have to wake up early. There's a lot more flexibility in my job than in most; for instance, if I have to go to the bank or the drug store, I can just tell the people I work with that I'll be gone for awhile and go take care of business.
QuoteIf you're out for an extended period you'll generally be fully paid for several months before you get bumped down to Statutory Sick Pay, Just to comment this varies A LOT from one company to another and one industry to another! Its certainly true that some people have very generous sick leave provisions (this tends to be true for people in public sector jobs, in particular ) In private companies there is a huge range - . . .I was horrified when I first spoke to American friends about their jobs and learned how few rights employees in there US seem to have, compared to here
If you're out for an extended period you'll generally be fully paid for several months before you get bumped down to Statutory Sick Pay,
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While reading your article [September 15 HotSeat: Paige's pages: Cav is Playboy's Miss October], I was appalled to see a picture of Amanda Paige signing her topless magazine photo.
The problem: Her naked breasts were openly displayed for all to see. I'm shocked that you did not block out the two nude pictures.
This "mistake" is inexcusable. Nice work, guys. You make Janet Jackson look like a cherub.
The story itself was an unnecessary tribute to acts that corrupt and disgrace our community and society. Why must you praise such degradation?
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Yale Faces Dartmouth, Boston University, Clemson
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's crew will face a pair of old rivals and a relative unknown on Saturday in Boston. The Bulldogs face Dartmouth and Boston University for the Class of 1985 Cup, but the race will have a twist this year as Clemson will compete as well. The action gets under way just after 9 a.m. on the Charles River.
With the NCAA expanding the championship field to 22 teams, which includes more automatic qualifiers, it is important for the Bulldogs to face out-of-region competition.
"This is a big race for us," said Yale head coach Will Porter. "It has a little of everything – an Ivy League rival, a Colonial Conference team and an ACC team. With the new NCAA format of AQs, this gives us a chance to overlap with other conferences."
Yale is coming off a strong performance last weekend at Cornell. The Bulldogs won four of the five races, including the varsity eight to reclaim the Cayuga Cup.
"We are still working to find our best lineups," Porter said. "We are not there yet. We have to see how we come out and race."
The battle for the Class of 1985 Cup was memorable but heartbreaking for the Bulldogs last year. Both Yale and Dartmouth were clocked at 6:22.8 in the varsity eight, but the Big Green was declared the winner after a video review. Boston University finished third in 6:28.0.
Clemson isn't a completely unfamiliar foe for the Bulldogs, who have seen the Tigers at NCAA Championships over the years. Clemson was ranked 15th in the Apr. 3 CRCA/USRowing national poll, the Tigers highest ranking since early in 2012.
Race Schedule
9:06 a.m. – Varsity Eight
9:30 a.m. – Second Varsity Eight
9:54 a.m. – Varsity Four
10:18 a.m. - Second Varsity Four
10:42 a.m. – Third Varsity Eight
Yale Probable Boatings
Varsity Eight: 1. Eliza Hastings, 2. Maddie Lips, 3. Colleen Maher, 4. Kim Szokol, 5. Nina Demmerle, 6. Claire Tolson, 7. Abbie Young,8. Natalie King, coxswain: Kristen Brownlee
Second Varsity Eight:
1. Kristjana Gudmundsson, 2. Abby Loucks, 3. Elizabeth Vincent, 4. Kristina Wagner, 5. Emily Tormey, 6. Amber Anderson, 7. Martha Cosgrove, 8. Madeline Dinse, coxswain: Christine Devlin
Varsity Four: 1. Mieke Scherpbier, 2. Natalie Lapides, 3. Juliet Caragianis, 4. Jen Stockwood, coxswain: Margaret Ayers
Second Varsity Four: 1. Kara Freeman, 2. Brit Sharon, 3. Mimi Reichenbach, 4. Amina Edwards, coxswain: Laura Grimbergen
Third Varsity Eight: 1. Sabrina Malak, 2. Jane Cozey, 3. Emily Diana, 4. Regan Considine, 5. Kendall Chapin, 6. Mary Farner, 7. Emma Hammarlund, 8. Christine Tsai,coxswain: Sarah Weil
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I always ignore your convoluted posts anyway. Now at least you've given me real reason to. Enjoy looking up to a revered, gutless human being who's just another apple that fell from that ****hole family tree. I feel bad for your dogs.
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Funny. If someone started a hunting thread, id peek in and although i dont agree with hunting for fun, but agree on population control hunting, im mostly against it for sport.
But you wont see me posting negative stuff or my opposing view point, unless i was a sh!t starter because i know my opinion is probably not appreciated in that pro-hunting thread. But thats just me.
You wanna come in and post, give vick a break, thats cool.
Then leave cause you in the wrong thread for discussion or debate.
Either come in and clap or move on. Dont start crap.
There, there stop your bawling
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