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Where were these noms?
They forgot to send hookers and blow to the Oscar committee. The parties responsible have been sacked.
I was wondering that myself. My girlfriend made me sit through part of the Oscars last night and at one point some clueless celebrity started gushing about how the Oscar is the "most prestigious award in the world". Really? More prestigious than the Nobel prize? More prestigious than the Medal of Honor or Victoria Cross?
Give me a fucking break. I'll never understand the fascination that a lot of my countrymen have with Hollywood and the culture surrounding movie stars/other celebrities.
Even more than the AVN awards?
Are you seriously implying that the Nobel Prize has any meaning whatsoever? Seriously?
Do you really believe that the Nobel Prize is anything but a circle-jerk, just like the Oscars?
The Nobel Prize awards would mean more if they were not given out until there was someone of worth to award it to. Instead they are given out regularly, as if the world continuously produces people worthy of the awards. The more often they give them out, the more it is like being one of the 40 million high school queens at the prom each year. Now, if there were only one prom Queen for all the high schools in the USA each year... now that would be special.
I quite agree with you.
I actually lost any respect for the Nobel Prize a long time ago, shortly after first learning about them and being mighty impressed,
I went through the list of the laureates.
To my surprise, I did not find Gandhi.
Instead I found that he was nominated five times, but was never awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Now I can accept the last omission, as that was within the rules of only living people being eligible and he was assassinated after being nominated for the fifth time, but I could never accept the other four times.
There have been many other problems with the awards and omissions of them, but I still feel that this was the worst blunder of them all.
The Nobel Prize has been inflated in the minds of some (with help from the media, no doubt) to be far more than it is. It is not designed to be awarded to people who just make mind-blowing life-changing discoveries. Nobel's will specifically stated that it be awarded annually:
The capital shall be invested by my executors in safe securities and shall constitute a fund, the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind
It then goes on to stipulate what categories each award is for.
So, the Nobel Prize was originally intended to simply be sort of a "man of the year" competition in various fields, and was supposed to pertain to work that was done during the preceding year. In that spirit, Gore's prize was proper, since he was being awarded for stuff he had done during the previous year, while those prizes given to scientists for discoveries made years or decades earlier were technically in violation of Nobel's original intent, since it was supposed to reward only work done during the preceding year.
If the Nobel Prize was awarded as a "Man of the Year in x field" rather than "person who made earth-shattering discoveries in x field", you wouldn't have near the controversy it always seems to generate.
Celebrities live in a different world. It's kinda like a snow globe filled with lithium and cocaine. In their world it is the most prestigious award.
I truly believe some of the work they do is incredible and no one else in the world can come close to the product they create
Directors, special affects artists, and maybe writers, yes. But good acting isn't hard to come by. Acting is pretty easy, and there are lots of great actors who are never given the opportunity to work with the best directors, producers, or writers.
As for the Oscars, I think the opening act was insulting. A room full of millionaires gave a standing ovation to a musical bit making fun of the economic hardships we're facing. Talk about living in a bubble...
Acting is pretty easy
I dunno about that... I've got some 'actor friends,' I've seen a lot of plays and movies and TV shows and I don't know / haven't seen too many people who could have rivalled Sean Penn's performance in "Milk" or Winslet's in "The Reader..." and on it goes. Utterly brilliant.
The Oscars are a bunch of MAFIAA types stroking themselves, and assuming (with the complicity of the media) that the entire fucking world cares about it.
When we give/get awards, it's in the family.
The Oscars have nothing to do with the MPAA or RIAA. The Oscars are the entertainers themselves nominating and awarding themselves. The votes are from current members of the actors and director's guilds (unions) and other members of the entertainment industry. They have nothing to do with the AA's other than the fact that the actor's and director's don't get paid when you pirate.
The women in my house have a tradition for Oscars (and award shows in general) They like to open a bottle of wine (each) and sit back and giggle at the movie industry players. That alone is enough to put me off watching any of it. I didn't watch so finding out that Ledger won, and slumdog won... well I figure that I missed out on nothing. period.
When there are items in such award shows that actually have something to do with 'news for nerds' then I'll watch. Since there was no news for nerds in the awards s
I mean really the guy died for the role so the 20 seconds to post that yes he did get his statue and that whatever movie got the rest of them is fine.
Why do you know when Brittany's tour kicks off? Hell, I didn't know she was out of the loony bin yet.
What's a Brittany? Is that a new phone?
I think that really did it.
Every year that goes by the Oscars become more of a farce.
Slumdog was the most cheesy and predictable film i have seen in years. The screenplay seemed like it was written by a 3 year old, the acting was horrendous, and you knew exactly how the film would end after about 8 minutes into it.
I'm not going to enter an extended rant. But I do wish this kind of story didn't make the front page on
Movie nerds are among the largest classes of nerds, dude.
Okay, fair point. But I just figured that
Movie nerds are among the largest classes of nerds, dude.
Okay, fair point. But I just figured that
We had this same argument during the earthquake in China over the summer. If you don't want to see this on the front page, use the firehose to mod it down. If you're using the beta index, mod it down so you don't see it. It's News For Nerds. Stuff that Matters. To many, this does matter. Not all of us participate in online forums (specifically that work doesn't block during the day) and it's nice to discuss it.
Just because this article doesn't pertain to your interests doesn't mean you have to come in and troll it. There's also many kinds of Technologies that go behind making movies from the start to finish.
I don't have any interest in the Mars Lander, but I don't go in trolling ABOUT THOSE DAMN NASAHOLES and how JUNIOR CANT READ GIVE THEM MONEY. Get over yourself and scroll down, it's not that big of an inconvenience to ignore one article.
Sorry, but "the firehose" is completely unusable.
Makes no sense from a UI design perspective and is slower than molasses on a modest computer system (i.e. G4 and G5); to the point of crashing the machine.
I guess if you want to chase away your loyal older readers, it's a good move.
But for the same reason younger people don't hang out at their dad's lodge or coffee shop, they won't be coming here any time soon either.
And yet it doesn't say Technology on the site header.
What would be appropriate content for the entertainment department in your opinion? I'm honestly asking here, as a movie/tech/gaming nerd I'm curious.
What is this new trend for everybody who has any kind of interest calling themselves "nerds" or "geeks"? I heard some beautiful person on TV the other day describing themselves as a "Musical Theatre Geek". WTF?
My current theory is that this is a nice way of bragging that "I know loads about this". By saying you're a "geek" it makes it sound like you're being humble about it.
Seriously though, I was proud of being a geek/nerd when it meant being a computery person who is passionate about science and technology and who therefore sometimes seems odd to people who are not into those things. However, if the word "nerd" has come to mean anybody with any kind of interest, it seems a bit of a lame and meaningless term.
[T]he words "geek" and "nerd" exchanged status positions. A nerd was still socially tainted, but geekdom acquired its own cool counterculture. A geek possessed a certain passion for specialized knowledge, but also a high degree of cultural awareness and poise that a nerd lacked.
From The Alpha Geeks [nytimes.com], an op-ed piece by David Brooks. It's actually an interesting read -- worth checking out.
Seriously though, I was proud of being a geek/nerd when it meant being a computery person who is passionate about science and technology and who therefore sometimes seems odd to people who are not into those things.
<nelson>ha ha</nelson>
Geekdom has always had its camps: you've got your computer geeks, music theater geeks, comic book geeks, fantasy geeks, and so on. Basically if you were interested in something that wasn't considered cool (i.e., something other than cars, sports, cheerleading, binge drinking), you were a geek of one stripe or another.
Of course now, in some sort of wicked irony, it's cool to be a geek. Part of it is a reflection that so much of our lives have become so closely intertwined with technology and gadgets. For
Movie nerds are among the largest classes of nerds, dude.
There are already tons of sites for those people. The difference between a movie nerd and a real nerd is that movie nerds have dedicated huge portions of their brains to meaningless, typically mindless entertainment. They have memorized the names, faces, shoe sizes, and favorite foods of people who could not give one tenth of one shit about them and if they met them on the street would probably tell them they smell funny.
Please, please keep the non-geek-interest entertainment schlock off of slashdot lest it
I dunno, I actually enjoy news articles like this sometimes. It's a welcome surprise from all the Linux zealotry/Microsoft bashing this site is used to.
I dunno, I actually enjoy news articles like this sometimes. It's a welcome surprise from all the Linux zealotry/Microsoft bashing this site is used to.
Bah....in the old days we would add Mac Fanboyism to the mix and call it a night. We were happier back then.
You must not come here often, or you get your information from uncyclopedia. Posts saying anything negative about Microsoft are almost always modded flamebait, especially when true. Say something negative about Linux and you're more likely to get a comment reply educating you.
I had six stories posted to the front page last year, eight the year before that, and IIRC not one dealt with Linux or Microsoft. If you haven't submitted any stories, don't bitch about what's posted.
That said, I agree completely with
Posts saying anything negative about Microsoft are almost always modded flamebait, especially when true. Say something negative about Linux and you're more likely to get a comment reply educating you.
This hasn't been my experience at all. What I have noticed is that if you say the same old boring shit against Microsoft, or if you say some shit against Microsoft that just isn't true (e.g. completely fucking ignorant psuedotechnical examinations of Windows that purport to discover flaws which aren't really flaws while ignoring the real issues) then you are likely to get modded down by a community tired of hearing people make shit up.
I enjoy this sort of story every once in a while too. Here on Slashdot we're more than happy to talk all day about what technology is being used in making films or about Hollywood's often overzealous antipiracy efforts or any number of stories about the Watchmen movie, all of which just reinforce the fact that movies are part of our lives. So if Slashdot wants to toss in a story about the Oscars, which after all happens only once per year, I don't see it being all that big a deal. The way folks are react
You could argue it's much much harder to do sound when none exists whereas a crowded street provides them all for you.
Most live-action movies have overdubbed sound. Not all, but it is the norm. So the difference between a live-action film and an animated film, in terms of creating a soundtrack, is quite small. Both have massive sound effects -- in a live-action film, each footstep, each door opening, each paper crinkling, each jingle of keys, each car passing, and every single uttered syllable, is likely dubed. And even if you do have live sound (which, nominally, you do), there's lots of manipulation that needs to be done to turn it into a soundtrack. Just like with an animated film, except you lack the live sound recording.
and every single uttered syllable, is likely dubed.
That's where you lost it. Most sound effects are dubbed, yes, but there's an entire team of people on a film set dedicated to keeping the dialogue clean and usable. Dubbed dialogue can rarely match the intensity of a real, live recording of a scene and using it almost always robs a performance of some quality.
I disagree. Barring anything stupid like bad sync, dubbed does not rob anything. The sound mixers can do wonders, and they do. If a producer or director wants it to sound crappy to match the feel of other footage, they can add that right back in.
That's what I tried, and failed, to say up there. From a performing standpoint, dubbing is a very different and less authentic process than being on a set and interacting with other performers and colors the final result.
I see now your point. The thing is that I think that good actors are good, and that is just acting. When I watch a particularly good movie, I watch it a few times. Then I wait for the DVD and I watch the commentaries. In almost every case during the commentary there was something to the effect of, I needed to rerecord this dialogue, I am happy with how well it turned-out. If I had never heard the commentary, I would have never even noticed. In fact there are some cases where words were changed, and the effe
I agree that Burtt got robbed.
Would Slumdog have been even noticed had it not been made by a British Director? Thousands of movies have been made about poverty in India. They get as much attention as movies made about drugs in American cities. People deal with this shit in their everyday life and dont want to watch it when they pay to enter a theater for some relaxation. Only people who have never seen poverty get their rocks off by watching something like Slumdog. Then again probably why Rambo and Die Hard were so popular outside the States was that guns are a big deal in countries with gun control.
One possible reason why no one has said "you must go and see Slumdog" before is because never before has a movie been called slumdog.
All, jackassery on my part aside, nobody flipped you knew flipped out over Dark Knight?
Would Slumdog have been even noticed had it not been made by a British Director?
Your point is very valid. But in this case it's not the director. Danny Boyle wasn't a bankable name, or, indeed, a successful director. Or indeed, a good director. He's a hack who steals ideas from other movies. Slumdog would have been much better with a talented artist at the helm.
Note also that he had an Indian co-director who's had absolutely no credit whatsoever.
No. In this case it's the producer who got it its success-- multi-millionaire Paul Smith, realty TV hack, and expert publicist. Cashing in nicely on India.
I strongly suggest watching Ram Gopal Verma's film "Satya" and/or Madhur Bhandarkar's "Chandni Bar"
instead of slumdog for a better exposure to the same subject.
Satya and CB portray the genuine trials and tribulations of Mumbai's different peoples without degrading or dehumanizing an entire country of people like Boyle did with slumdog.
Thank you for those suggestions. Slumdog was a gangster movie with a love interest and a game show hook. It is by the numbers. If it had not been set in India everyone would have seen it for what it was. I was very disappointed to see it do so well. I saw it and Coraline on Saturday and Coraline was the much better movie, and Coraline had much potential that it did not take advantage of in the closing third. As I was watching Slumdog I could not stop thinking that this movie must be incredibly offensive to
Slumdog was a gangster movie with a love interest and a game show hook. It is by the numbers.
Oh, absolutely. I can't tell you how sick I am of the unending stream of gangster romance movies set against game shows.
As I was watching Slumdog I could not stop thinking that this movie must be incredibly offensive to Indian people, and I don't know that much about India.
How very enlightened and noble of you. I'm sure that the world's 1.1 billion Indians will sleep better knowing that you've taken time out of your day to be offended on their behalf.
without degrading or dehumanizing an entire country of people like Boyle did with slumdog.
Can you educate me as to how Boyle did this?
Was Slumdog the co-creation of an Indian director who is not getting sufficient credit? Or is it a Western director degrading India for profit? Both criticisms cannot be simultaneously true.
The idea that Slumdog Millionaire "degrades" India is offensive. It implies that any movie that shows the negative aspects of a society is inherently degrading. Thoughts like that come from a perspective that we have to treat some countries like "special" children--keep them from all harm and make sure they wear their helmet and kneepads all the time. Give me a break. No one would be complaining if this exact same movie was set in the U.S., where there are plenty of slums and gangsters and game shows. That betrays a subtle racism of low expectations toward India. In comparison I do not recall similar outcry when Western filmmakers began to use Hong Kong cast, crew, and concepts to make movies.
India has slums and violence, as many, many Indian movies have portrayed. Note that much of the production and acting crew of SM come directly from the Indian film industry, and are happy about their work in the movie. Including the Indian co-director.
Which ideas has he stolen?
From where?
If I recall correctly (and I'm at work and can't verify), I thought the producers of the film and Boyle were so thankful to their casting director for rocking their socks off with such talent that they gave her a co-director credit. It was purely symbolic since that goes against "the rules" of the director's guild or whatever. Maybe that's the co-director you're thinking of?
http://www.jacklail.com/blog/archives/2009/02/marc-andreessen-the-game-is-co.html [jacklail.com]
Excellent discussion of technology, economy, kindle, newspapers and social networking.
Anyone else think that the Oscars are pretty much irrelevant? Anymore it's just about the movie industry patting itself on the back, and not at all about what was actually praiseworthy. Count me in the buck of "didn't watch, didn't care". What happened to news for nerds and stuff that mattered?
Actually, 4 of the 5 films nominated for best picture went relatively unnoticed in the US, despite all being critical successes. Only 'Benjamin Button' received a widespread release, or could have been considered a "blockbuster" by any measure.
If nothing else, this makes this year's ceremony a bit more noteworthy than years past. Even the industry seems to acknowledge that the films that did well at the box office this past year were by and large awful, in spite of there being some legitimately good films
The asinine amount of replies to this topic is completely mind boggling.
From all the fine arts, cinema is the most accessible and for the same reason the art that most matters, since all of us are exposed to it in a way that sculpture, classical music, literature, dance or architecture can only dream about.
This form of art awards prizes in different festivals and ceremonies, and undoubtedly the Oscar is the most important prize in the English speaking world, which in case you didn't know, dominates the movi
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Thanks to passage of Proposition 30 last month, high-income Californians would pay the nation's highest marginal income tax rates -- nearly 52 percent -- if President Barack Obama and Congress fail to make a deal to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff," according to a new study.
Without a fiscal cliff deal to the contrary, the Bush era tax cuts on high-income taxpayers would expire next year and rates would return to their previous levels.
Gerald Prante, an economics professor at Lynchburg College in Virginia, and Austin John, a Lynchburg economics student, calculated marginal tax rates -- the highest rates on the highest levels of income -- for all 50 states. They combined state, federal and, where applicable, local income taxes, pluspayroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare and included the deductibility of some taxes.
Proposition 30 added three percentage points to the marginal state income tax rate for California's highest-income taxpayers, bringing it to 13.3 percent. That action raised California over other high-tax jurisdictions to a marginal rate of 51.9 percent, slightly higher than New York City's level. Hawaii was the only other place with a calculated rate above 50 percent.

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Well, let's hope that's over.
President Barack Obama was in Martha's Vineyard, playing golf. Hillary Clinton arrived, ready to sign books. They were headed for the same birthday party where, a Clinton aide said, they intended to "hug it out." Peace was declared. Extraordinary! You would think they were both professional politicians.
As the whole world now knows, Clinton gave an interview to The Atlantic last week in which she took issue with Obama's "don't do stupid stuff" foreign policy mantra, pushed a harder line than the White House on Iran, and disagreed with Obama's refusal to arm the rebels in Syria.
The Clinton camp insists she had no intention of breaking with the president. But if that's the case, then the former secretary of state had trouble saying precisely what she wanted to say about foreign policy. That just doesn't sound like Hillary Clinton, who is a great conversationalist off the record, yet has an absolute genius way of saying nothing exciting whatsoever when the tape recorder is running.
Some people think that after years on the diplomacy trail, she may have lost her edge. "I don't know if her political instincts are in top shape," said a Friend of Obama. But then, you know, FOB.
Given all the options, I'd prefer to think it was a minor betrayal. Loyalty may be an overrated virtue in high-level politics. Really, nobody cares if a president backbites a former colleague or dumps a best friend. Just keep the country running and we're good.
Anyway, he forgives her! Hugs scheduled for the birthday party for Vernon Jordan's wife.
It's only been six years since Obama and Clinton ran against each other, but, wow, does it feel longer. Watching Obama, I remembered a time during the 2008 campaign when he told a story about a woman who'd "seen some years," adding: "She's maybe close to 60." Some of the middle-aged women in the crowd started to hiss.
Now, the president himself looks as though he's seen some years. He's long since gotten his first AARP mailings. And Clinton has been heir apparent – forever. Democrats have gotten so used to thinking of her as the next president that they've stopped seriously evaluating her as a candidate for their nomination.
The Atlantic interview sort of bounced everything back into perspective. Liberals with dovish leanings raced to Google to see whether any high-ranking Democrats have been sighted at the Iowa State Fair. What does Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley think about uranium enrichment negotiations with Iran? (We always describe him as "Maryland governor" because nobody outside of his home state knows who Martin O'Malley is.) Has Elizabeth Warren totally ruled out running? (Yes.)
Hillary's still got the virtues her base has always admired: intelligence, experience, remarkable ability to take a punch and keep on running. Everybody loves the woman who showed up on "The Colbert Report" the other night, having a name-dropping contest with the host. Everybody remembers her determination to lift up women's rights in Asia and Africa, her unflagging energy as secretary of state (956,733 miles traveled; total travel time, 2,084 hours).
But now that she's brought up actual issues, the party's rank-and-file deserves some more information.
Back in the 2008 primaries, Obama was arguing that with the right leadership in the White House, America could get rid of the old brain-dead partisanship of the past and reach a new era of bipartisan cooperation. Hillary, working off long experience, said the real world was tougher and more complicated than that. After the election, as Washington ground to a hopeless, vicious, zombified halt, she was proved right.
In foreign affairs, too, Clinton reflected what she'd learned when her husband was president. Airstrikes worked in Kosovo. Bill Clinton brought Israel and the Palestinians right to the edge of a peace deal, but the Palestinians backed away. The president failed to intervene in Rwanda, and regretted it forever. The bad guys only understood a firm hand. During the debates, she refused to say that during her first year in office she'd be open to meeting with leaders of countries like Cuba or North Korea. If the Iranians declared nuclear war on Israel, she told an interviewer, as president she would "totally obliterate" them.
This is the Hillary who popped back up this week. She was probably being neither politically calculating nor blundering in the Atlantic interview, but simply being unusually clear about what she believes. And we need to hear more, not less. Does she really think the Syrian disaster could have been averted if the United States had helped the rebels? In The Atlantic, she was a little oblique on that point. Maybe a debate with Joe Biden. …
"I'm excited about signing my books," Clinton said Wednesday night, when a reporter asked how she feels about Obama's Iraq policy. It's August, everybody's friends, and we may not hear another serious conversation on these matters until 2015.


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HANOVER, N.H. - Yale swept a combined meet with Dartmouth and Penn Saturday at Karl Michael Pool, defeating the Big Green 172-71 and the Quakers 159-84. Alex Righi set a pool record in the 100 backstroke, swimming the leadoff leg of the men's 400 medley relay in 49.57. Jeffrey Lichtenstein set a school record in the 3m diving competition with a score of 344.75.
Righi also posted a win in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 21.06, .4 seconds ahead of his closest competitor. Lichtenstein also was a double-winner, taking the 1m diving competition with a score of 291.80.
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Monday was the deadline to file your income tax returns. However, knowing you're going to get money back is a powerful incentive to file early.
In 2012, the federal government refunded more than $16.7 million to Illinois residents and businesses, according to a chart on the IRS website, down from more than $19 million the year before.
Are you getting more or less back this year? Or are you in the unenviable position of owing the government?
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Though the Asia-Pacific region "has seen impressive gains" in the fight against HIV/AIDS "-- including a 20 percent drop in new HIV infections since 2001 and a three-fold increase in access to antiretroviral therapy since 2006 -- progress is threatened by an inadequate focus on key populations at higher risk of HIV infection and insufficient funding from both domestic and international sources," according to a UNAIDS report (.pdf) released on Thursday at the 2011 International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) in Busan, South Korea, a UNAIDS press release states (8/26).
Across the region, "the number of new HIV infections dropped from about 450,000 in 2001 to 360,000 in 2009," according to the report, Deutsche Presse-Agentur/M&C notes (8/26). "About 4.9 million people in the region had HIV in 2009, and that number has been relatively stable since 2005," the report states, Bloomberg News writes (Bennett, 8/26). According to the report, HIV/AIDS programs in the Asia-Pacific were under-funded, Xinhua reports. "In 2009, an estimated $1.1 billion was spent in AIDS/HIV programs in 30 countries across the region -- approximately one-third of the funding needed to achieve universal access goals to HIV services," according to the news agency (8/26).
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In October, the people of Tuvalu had to ask for urgent assistance, because they had almost no water left in their entire country. At the same time that assistance was being given, three quarters of Thailand was flooded by biblical proportions of water. The gaps between those once in a hundred year droughts and floods are getting shorter and shorter. The warning signs are there, if people make the right connections. And yet there seems to be a gap, an ever-widening abyss, between the climate changes and impacts we are witnessing and the economic decisions taken by our leaders - as if there was no connection between the two... Find out more.
Italy is the latest European country after Germany, Switzerland and Spain to declare nuclear power will be phased out. And it was the people, via a public referendum, that shifted Berlusconi's Government. The result came the same week that radiation contamination from the meltdown a Fukishima was picke dup in Minke whales 1000 kilometers from the coast of Japan... Find out more.
People power has kicked off 2011 with radical changes taking place in Egypt in the last few weeks. Last year it was Kiwi power that marched to tell the Government not to undermine New Zealand by mining our national parks. We too got our Government to move. And while the world waits to see what changes the uprising in Egypt, and much of the Middle East will bring, many of us here wonder what will become of the Government's outdated economic plans of dig, drill and burn. Find out more.
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Lenovo celebrates 5th quarter of growth
Better than the rest
Posted in Personal Tech, 19th August 2010 14:17 GMT
Lenovo's financial results for its first quarter ended 30 June 2010 show it has grown faster than any of the other top manufacturers.
The company's PC sales grew 48.1 per cent compared to the industry average of 20.9 per cent. Lenovo now claims 10.2 per cent of the world PC market.
Lenovo made sales of $5.1bn and a pre-tax profit of $75m in the quarter.
Operating profit was $82m and the firm has cash reserves of $2.2bn.
The quarter also saw Lenovo's first smartphone launch in China, where it remains the top handset brand.
Laptops accounted for 60.5 per cent of total revenues and shipments were up 58 per cent.
Desktop sales grew 35 per cent and provided 32.2 per cent of revenues.
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Wheeling set out with a plan on Thursday night -- to keep the ball out of Buffalo Grove senior guard Luke Potnick's hands as much as possible.
The Wildcats executed this plan by trapping and double-teaming Potnick nearly every time he touched the ball. On a few instances the double team came before Potnick even caught the ball. The philosophy behind the strategy is one that reaches across all team sports: don't let the opponent's best player beat you.
Potnick did not beat Wheeling. But Buffalo Grove did.
The Bison used a balanced scoring attack that saw four players reach double figures in a 72-54 win.
"I figured that philosophy would come at some point," Buffalo Grove coach Ryan O'Connor said. "We hadn't seen it yet. Obviously when we saw it, it was nice to see the other guys respond. Those guys stepped up, and were able to finish at the basket. So we've shown that we can win that way."
In the first half Potnick (7 points) picked up a technical foul, and O'Connor pulled him from the game. He did not return until the second half. The Bison were able to maintain their lead with balance with Potnick on the bench.
Senior guard Jonah Malin scored a game-high 18 points, with 13 of them (including three 3-pointers) coming in the first half.
"We moved the ball around really well, so I got some open shots, and some other people got some open looks and made us get on our little run," Malin said.
Malin also credited his team's effort on the defensive end in the first half. The Bison held the Wildcats to 20 first-half points.
Buffalo Grove (4-3, 1-1) junior guard Andrew Apel, who finished with 13 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists, and senior guard Steve Soifer (12 points), were also key contributors in the win.
After halftime, Buffalo Grove struggled to make jump shots, but senior forward Kevin Newman was there to clean up.
"That's the best half of basketball I've seen Kevin play ever," O'Connor said. "I'm hoping that is a springboard for that to continue. I thought he played great."
Newman scored 13 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in the game. Eleven of those 13 points came in the second half.
"I always say that defense and rebounds is what I'm here for, and the points will come along with it," Newman said. "As long as I play hard defense and run back, I'm going to get some points coming with rebounds."
Wheeling (3-5, 0-2) had a balanced scoring attack as well. Junior guard Chris Pierro, senior guard Nate Majkowski and senior guard Kameron Hill each scored 10 points. Senior guard Nick Riccardi added 9, and senior guard Bubba Bendewald scored 7.
"Their bench and secondary guys really did a heck of a job," Wheeling coach Anthony Como said. "Jonah scoring 18 tonight was a big factor. We wanted to put pressure on their other guys to knock down key shots. He did a great job. I give him and their team a lot of credit."


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MIT Finishes 11th in Learfield Sports Directors' Cup Rankings
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – For the second year in a row MIT placed 11th among all Division III schools in the National Association of College Directors of Athletics (NACDA) annual Learfield Sports Directors' Cup. The Engineers' Institute-best finish once again registered as the highest performance by the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC).
Tech Lands Six on the Academic All-District At-Large Teams
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Six MIT student-athletes were recently named to the Capital One Academic All-District At-Large teams, including a pair that also garnered national recognition from the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). In addition to sophomore swimmer, Wyatt Ubellacker, and field hockey standout, Molly McShane, who landed on the Academic All-America squads, Keri Dixon, Beth Stavely, Tim Lee and Columbus Leonard earned regional recognition as part of District One. The At-Large category is traditionally the most competitive of the CoSIDA awards, as it encompasses the sports of bowling, crew, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming and diving, tennis, water polo and wrestling.
Ubellacker Named Academic All-America
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- MIT swimmer Wyatt Ubellacker has been named to the third team of COSIDA's Academic All-America program. As a swimmer, Wyatt earned a spot on the at-large team, the most competitive group as it includes student athletes who compete in a variety of sports, including swimming and diving, men's volleyball, tennis, lacrosse, field hockey and fencing. He was first named to the First Team All-District, which includes all New England states, New York, and several Candian provinces.
Men's Swimming has Best National Finish in Institute History
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The MIT men's swimming team was All-America in five relays and had five individuals earn All-America mentions as they finished fourth as a team at the Division III Swimming and Diving championships.
Nineteen MIT Swimmers Bound for NCAA Championships
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The recent NCAA Division III swimming and diving championships have been dominated by a handful of schools. MIT's men's and women's teams are hoping to give those squads a run for their money this year, and have the talent and numbers to do just that. They will compete in the NCAA men's and women's swimming and diving championships from March 23rd to March 26th in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Thirty Engineers Named Academic All-Conference
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) has announced the Academic All-Conference teams for the winter season of the 2010-11 academic year. The MIT swimming and diving and basketball teams have had 30 players tabbed for Academic-All Conference honors.
Ubellacker, Dunn Earn Top NEWMAC Honors
Cambridge, Mass. – MIT swimmers Wyatt Ubellacker and Colby Dunn and coach Dawn Dill have received end of the year honors from the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC). Ubellacker was named Swimmer of the Year, while Dunn was named Rookie of the Year on the men's side. Dill was honored as coach of the year for her work with the women's swim team.
Men's Swimming and Diving Captures Third Straight NEWMAC Title
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – In the final night of competition, MIT swept all six swimming events helping it capture its third consecutive New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Men's Swimming and Diving crown. With their sixth conference team championship, the Engineers tied the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's record for league titles. MIT touched the wall first 16 times out of 18 races en route to a total 1,153 points while Coast Guard finished as the runner-ups with a tally of 822. Springfield College rounded out the top three with a tally of 540.
Records Fall as Engineers Remain atop the Standings in the NEWMAC Championship
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – On the strength of seven first-place finishes, MIT increased its lead during Saturday's finals session in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Men's Swimming and Diving Championship. The host Engineers raised their total to 769 points while the U.S. Coast Guard Academy maintained its position in second place with a tally of 517. Springfield College continued to rank third with 346 points. The three-day competition concludes on Sunday at 11:00 a.m.
MIT Leads the Field After the Opening Day of the NEWMAC Championship
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Defending New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Men's Swimming and Diving champion MIT won four out of five events during the first day of competition in Friday evening's finals session at MIT's Zesiger Center Pool. The Engineers tallied 298 points, while the U.S. Coast Guard Academy ranked second with 268 points. Springfield College rounded out the top three with 194 points. The three-day competition continues Saturday at 11:00 a.m.
MIT Swimming Gears Up for NEWMAC Championships at Wheaton Invite
NORTON, Mass. – With the championship competitions just weeks away, the MIT men's and women's swimming and diving teams attended the Wheaton Invite on Saturday to get some competitive swimming and plenty of time-trials in against other local schools. The non-team scoring competition featured the Engineers against NEWMAC rivals Wheaton and Clark, as well as the Jumbos of Tufts University.
Men Set Four Pool Records but Fall to Amherst
Amherst, Mass. – Despite setting four pool records, the MIT men's swimming program suffered its first defeat of the season on Saturday afternoon, falling to Amherst College 167-131. Ryan Terbush, Michael Liao, Colby Dunn ad Wyatt Ubellacker started off the meet by winning the 200 yard medley relay and setting a pool record with a time of 1:33.75. Liao set the pool mark in the 100 yard breaststroke winning in 58.34 and would later win the 200 yard breaststroke in 2:08.73.
#5 Men's Swimming Cruises in Senior Day
Cambridge, Mass. – The fifth ranked MIT men's swimming team coasted to a victory on Saturday in their last home meet of the season. The Tufts University Jumbos were no match for the Engineers, who celebrated Senior Day with a 200-98 victory.
#5 Men's Swimming Upends Springfield and Coast Guard
Cambridge, Mass. – MIT men's swimming scored a 225-73 victory over Springfield College and a 195-103 win over Coast Guard at the Zesiger Pool on Sunday in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) tri-meet. MIT swept their weekend of events and remains with an unblemished ledger this season.
#5 Men's Swimming Wins Every Event in Rout of Colby
Waterville, Maine – MIT's men's swimming and diving team did not drop a single first place point on Saturday en route to a 234-44 rout of Colby College. The Engineers stayed perfect on the season after being ranked fifth in the country this week by CollegeSwimming.com's College Swimming Coach's Association of America (CSCAA) Division III Poll.
Dunn Named NEWMAC Swimmer of the Week
Cambridge, Mass. -- After helping the Engineers swimming team kick off the new year with a victory, Colby Dunn has been named the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) swimmer of the week for January 3-9.
Men Sweep Swimming Events, Beat Wheaton
Norton, MA – MIT's men's swimming team won all 14 of the swimming events Thursday night to beat host Wheaton College in a dual meet. In the sixteen total events, Tech only dropped first place points in the two diving competitions en route to a 219-78 victory, keeping their undefeated record this season in line.
Men's Swimming Overwhelms Competition at MIT Invitational
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Breaking two school records and earning one NCAA A cut and nine NCAA B Cuts, the MIT men's swimming and diving team had a thoroughly dominating weekend, winning the six team MIT Invitational swim meet. The Engineer men amassed 1424 points, almost double that of second place NYU and third place Tufts University.
Ubellacker, Kokensparger Named NEWMAC Swimmers of Week
Cambridge, Mass. – MIT swimmers Anna Kokensparger and Wyatt Ubellacker have each been named swimmers of the week in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC).
Men's Swimming and Diving Upends Babson, Bowdoin
Cambridge, Mass. – Led by a record-breaking performance from Wyatt Ubellacker, the MIT men's swimming team defeated Bowdoin College 217-77 and Babson College 226-60 in a tri-meet this past weekend at the Zesiger Pool. Ubellacker broke the Institute record in the 100 meter Butterfly, winning the race in 49.67. He also won the 50 meter freestyle sprint in a time of 20.97, qualifying him for the NCAA "B" cut.
Swimming and Diving Starts Season with Impressive Showing at Batterman Relays
Norton, Mass. - Last weekend, MIT's swimming and diving teams competed against Tufts University, Wheaton College and Roger Williams University in the annual Charlie Batterman Relays. The Engineers women delivered a strong performance, winning eight of their nine events. MIT's men fared equally as well, as the two teams combined for sixteen wins and seven meet records.
MIT Announces 2010-11 Winter Sport Schedules
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. MIT announced today its team schedules for the 2010-11 winter season. Eleven teams will compete, beginning with the rifle squad, whose season kicks off on October 2. A number of teams, including the mens basketball, mens and womens swimming & diving and mens and womens track & field are coming off extremely successful seasons, which culminated in appearances at their respective NCAA Championships. The womens basketball, mens and womens fencing, squash and mens volleyball schedules were also released.
MIT Ranks Fourth Among All NCAA Institutions in 2010 NCSA Collegiate Power Rankings
CHICAGO, Ill. – The National Collegiate Scouting Association (NCSA) recently announced its eighth annual Collegiate Power Rankings. Following another tremendous year, the Engineers were listed fourth overall in securing their highest ranking in the history of the report. The NCSA Athletic Recruiting's Collegiate Power Rankings assess the academic and athletics standards of all NCAA athletic programs across the country. The Power Rankings were developed to help prospective student athletes and their families evaluate the particular strengths of the top colleges and universities at the Division I, II and III levels.


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Llyod needs to add a lot more size in order to be competitive nowadays.
11 years battling for that pro card really has paid off, you definitely got the equation down now in what it takes to possess the mass, best of luck
Seems to be a cool dude, God bless him and his career.
Real men deadlift.
Whats's up Lloyd,
What impressed me the most about Dollar's video is him giving out his cell phone number for business opportunities. In today's world where good money is hard to come by, I sense his relentless drive to try to make the most out of his business. I love America, because it is a free country, and I can only applaud him for using his mind and imagination to come up with different methods of trying to make a "Dollar."
Dollar will be guest posing at this years NPC Mid Florida, June 15, 2012 in Orlando, Florida.


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Top 5 with Lisa Foiles: Top 5 Cutest Redheads
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"I..uh" *gets shot*
Captcha: developed plyRe. I think it is appropriate for this site.
Wait CN owns pokemon? Then why is it appearing on Disney channel??????
I actually think Lisa looks much better as a red head.
Conspiracy! The reason you dyed you hair red was to entrance Anthony.
She's the Deathbringer!!!
OT: Now that that's out of my system. Nice line up and interesting facts about Claire.
what about Vanille?
wait what, neither of them owns pokemon.
Isn't that.. brown?
Rose from finalfantasy:crystal chronicles the crystal bearers(FF:CCCB) is by far the cutest and most annoyingly awesome redhead character ever and 1 of my fav vid game chars ever, she even has an amazing voice actor in eng, she even made me laugh many times which i rarely do in from a vid game.
The game FF:CCCB is one of my fav games ever, it is a bit of an aquired taste but i have played the game through 5 times and every time i have played it through i have discovered something awesome and new.
Does anyone else get upset how everything can be called redhead nowadays?
Funny Episode, Loved It. Those bits before and after the list are great.
You going redhead make me ragequit?
Cute redheads, huh? Ok, I think I know an example...
...What? Ok, ok, fine. Here is the real one:
Isn't she just adorable? And she kicks ass in a mech, too!
Suikoden = win, I loved that random vampire/talking sword/romance story arc shoved in the middle!
Suikoden, PHCKYEAH!
Suikoden3 was epic. I wished they'd brought back the fighting system from it.
Oddly enough, lots of people see red hair as brown hair (Kairi (KH), Rise Kujikawa (Persona4), etc.)
I loved that Misty and Kairi (two of my favorite red heads) were shown (I love Kh...)
Lisa... as a red head...
I'm sorry for that...
the new color def looks better!
I love redheads!
I´ve watch all of Lisa´s videos (even the ones with Angry Joe), they´re all great and she is really funny, but what made me post a comment was this number 1, I LOVE Suikoden, Suikoden 2 is the only game I paid more than 100 dollars for, I own all the games (first one in PS3 downloadable). I just freaking love the game, is the best RPG ever and I was surprised that finally a videogame reviewer talked about it. Congrats Lisa, you might been the first popular reviewer that mention the game.
There was only one redhead on this list, and it was Misty. Everyone else, including you, are varying shades of brown.
1:47 That's hot... (fast forward to just before credits roll...) I think there's a fetish for that.
But yeah, i was hoping that since she wasn't a blonde no more that she'd be more serious, but no, same-old Lisa.
She belongs on "Anthony Saves the World."
Hell yeah! I love your new look, Lisa! Redheads are totally the hottest, most fun girls. As usual, your show rocks.
Liking the new hair Lisa!
Great side sketch video, by the way!
I've always thought red was best.
Coincidentally... I just picked up Red Dead Redemption.... I wonder if I can find any red heads who aren't fat Welshmen in it?
Red hair>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Blonde hair. Lisa, you've gained 9001 heart points! Also, loved the MGS music in the shootout. Then again, I love MGS music in general!
Red heads has no soul and only has freckles!
Good top 5
The list was okay, but the opening and closing were absolutely hilarious. Nice one.
I know she's supposed to be the "hot chick" on the site and all, but I just can't get there. Good content sometimes on these top 5s ... just no schwing (paging Wayne and Garth).
"....big bag of muscles with a face..."
226 eh? (writes in stalker journal)
I don't know, MY Joanna was brunette
The change in hair colour is a big improvement, Lisa. Although, anything's an improvement over blonde.
Not my favorite episode (the list, not the framing device with the nerfgun fight: That was great), but I like the new hair, Lisa. I recommend keeping it!
I don't don't dispute that that's red (or that it looks good), but it's not natural in the least. Dismissing real red hair (or more subtle dye-jobs) because it doesn't look like you dunked your head in a dye-vat is silly.
Freaky, I just recently became a redhead...
One can only hope!
OT: I can't believe that she left out...
-Nariko from Heavenly sword
-Mai From the FF and KOF series (originally she WAS a red head)
And of course... Ranma (female version)
I still can't belive that she wastes the first half of the vid fu*king around!
Even if it was a natural hair colour I still wouldn't call it red. Like I said already, reddish brown or chestnut. Real natural red hair would be ginger.
If she didn't have red hair, than the world is going to end 2 hours after I post this.
It was a dark red, so yes, she has red hair.
You are going to have to not use the word red in the words you say to describe it or any words that by definition mean red, if you want to say that her hair wasn't red.
That opening rocked, great work!
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Smarter Mom: C'mon Get Happy
I'm starting a grad school program this fall, and in one of my classes this week we talked about happiness. It's actually a much deeper concept than just putting on a happy face or "thinking positive." Being happier is really about thinking what is important to you and how you're spending your time.
Did you know the most popular class at Harvard is about happiness? These brilliant young people spend a semester not learning about economics or science, but how to be happier. And it seems they could use it ...4 out of 5 of them report an episode of depression at some point during their years at Harvard.
A few things came up several times that are pretty good routes to happiness: exercise, sleep, relationships (with a partner, kid, family or friends), and laughter. I agree: I am a mess if I get sleep deprived and am no fun to live with, I think working out is the best medicine there is, no one makes me happier just by walking in the room than my husband and kids, and if I can't laugh it's a screaming warning siren I need more of any of the above, stat. I also would include getting out in the fresh air, trying new things, and listening to music as my own personal happiness ingredients.
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CHICAGO (July 22, 2009) - Discover Boating, the recreational boating industry's national awareness campaign, announced today the winners of its amateur video and photo contest, i-Discovered Boating, designed to showcase Americans' love of the boating lifestyle.i-Discovered Boating received nearly 300 video and photo entries. Boaters across the nation took to the water to show how they `Discovered Boating' and why life is better with a boat for a chance to win up to $10,000 and have their creation featured in a national advertising campaign for Discover Boating. Contest judging was based on three criteria: originality, overall appeal, and likelihood to motivate people to go boating. Discover Boating is awarding each winner with $5,000, and if the video or photo is used in a future ad campaign, the chosen winner will receive an additional $5,000. Winners are as follows:
Video Winner:
"What can you discover when you Discover Boating?" (David Knight, Pittsboro, N.C.)
Knight's video illustrates the essence of Discover Boating and addressed a broad audience by showcasing the many facets of the boating lifestyle. This video captures the evolution of boating, how it connects family and friends and builds traditions.
Photo Winner:
"Just add . people" (Ken Lancaster, Highland Village, Tex.)
Lancaster's snapshot highlights the importance of spending quality time with friends and family and how there's nothing better than spending that time aboard a boat.
"This contest allows us to share the experiences that real boaters have on the water with millions of potential boaters," notes Carl Blackwell, spokesman for Discover Boating. "We were overwhelmed with impressive entries from around the country, all of which captured the essence of why 70 million Americans take to the water each year."Nine entries were also selected in each category as honorable mentions and are featured along with the winners on DiscoverBoating.com. The recognized video and photo entries used humor, emotion and creativity to highlight the numerous benefits of boating, while illustrating what it's like to Discover Boating.
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About Discover Boating
Discover Boating is a national awareness campaign developed by the North American recreational boating industry and managed by the industry's trade group, the National Marine Manufacturers Association
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Public Notice - City of Mount Vernon - 3/14/2013
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The City Council of the City of Mount Vernon will conduct a public hearing on Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at 6:00 p.m.,
in the Council Chambers of City Hall, 109 N Kaufman street, Mount Vernon, Texas.
The purpose of this hearing is to hear evidence for or against granting a 3 year tax abatement on new improvements on real property to McDonalds of Mount Vernon.
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NIH Allocates Funds to Study Drugs That Might Prevent Cognitive Dysfunctions Among HIV-Positive People
October 4, 2006
NIH is funding a recent effort aimed at studying drugs that might prevent dementia and other cognitive dysfunctions among HIV-positive people, a condition also known as "neuroAIDS," the AP/ABC News reports. At least one in five HIV-positive people experiences memory loss and other cognitive dysfunctions that can occur when the virus affects the brain, and the number is increasing as HIV-positive people live longer. According to the AP/ABC News, HIV can enter into the brain soon after transmission, but current antiretroviral drugs often prevent the onset of cognitive dysfunction symptoms among most HIV-positive people until four years before death. Harris Gelbard, a neurologist at the University of Rochester Medical Center, is part of the NIH-funded effort aimed at finding treatments that can prevent the effects of HIV on the brain. Gelbard said he estimates the condition reduces the mental function of an HIV-positive person by 25%. "HIV is the commonest cause of cognitive dysfunction in young people worldwide," Justin McArthur, vice chair of neurology at Johns Hopkins University, said, adding, "There's no question it's a major public health issue." Kathy Kopnisky of the National Institute of Mental Health said that HIV-positive people are "living longer with HIV in the brain ... [a]nd they're aging, so they're going through the normal brain aging-related processes" that can leave them susceptible to Alzheimer's and other brain degenerating diseases. NIMH is spending $60 million to research the effects of HIV on the brain. NIH-funded efforts are focused on discovering which antiretrovirals best treat HIV-positive people with memory problems, as well as which drugs protect nerve cells against the inflammation-related effects of HIV, the AP/ABC News reports (Neergaard, AP/ABC News, 10/2).
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This article was provided by Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. It is a part of the publication Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report. Visit the Kaiser Family Foundation's website to find out more about their activities, publications and services.


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See what's on, who's playing and where to go. Connect with the local music and art scene in MN with The PlayList on-air or online.
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4/7/2011 - Experimental folk music from the Range comes barreling down Highway 53 when Roxy Magistrate performs live in the WDSE•WRPT studio. The musicians are part of the Iron Range Original Music Association who'll combine guitars and voices for a memorable evening; and muralist Ta-Coumba Aiken explores our similarities and differences in a collective project hosted by the College of St. Scholastica.
4/14/2011 - Test drive Duluth's Art for the Earth Gallery Hop and kick off a season of inspiring art with area galleries; rock music takes center stage when high school musicians go head to head for the annual Battle of the Bands; and Duluth-based indie band, The Alrights perform live on The PlayList!
4/21/2011 - Ceramic artist Dave Lynas digs in and let's his heart guide his hands as he creates beautiful art and coordinates artful contributions to Duluth's Empty Bowl project; and groove to the classy jazz works of The Mark Anderson Trio, live on The PlayList!
4/29/2011 - Max Pollak's rhythms tap their way into your imagination as he previews his upcoming DSSO performance, live for The PlayList audience! And preview the Duluth Homegrown Music Festival.
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(By Delegates Moore and Reynolds)
[Introduced January 24, 2012; referred to the
Committee on Banking and Insurance then the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §46A-2-106 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; relating to requiring that at least twenty days prior to accelerating the maturity of the unpaid balance of any installment obligation or any other secured obligation, commencing any action or demand or taking possession of collateral on account of default, the lender must provide notice of consumer's right to cure default including a certification of the exact amount due in order to cure the default and a certification that the notice was in fact mailed to the borrower.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §46A-2-106 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
§46A-2-106. Notice of consumer's right to cure default; cure; acceleration.
After a consumer has been in default on any installment obligation or any other secured obligation for five days for failure to make a scheduled payment or otherwise perform pursuant to such a consumer credit sale, consumer lease or consumer loan other than with respect to a covenant to provide insurance for or otherwise to protect and preserve the property covered by a security interest, the creditor may shall give him or her notice of such the fact in the manner provided for herein. Actual delivery of such the notice to a consumer or delivery or mailing of the same to the last known address of the consumer is sufficient for the purpose of this section. If given by mail, notice is given when it is deposited in a mailbox properly addressed and postage prepaid. Notice shall be in writing and shall conspicuously state the name, address and telephone number of the creditor to whom payment or other performance is owed, a brief description of the transaction, the consumer's right to cure such the default and the amount of payment and other required performance and date by which it must be paid or accomplished in order to cure the default. A copy of the notice required by this section shall be: (i) Delivered or mailed to the last known address of any cosigner of the obligation in the manner set forth in this section unless the cosigner has waived in writing his or her right to receive copies of the notice: Provided, That a waiver of notice contained in the consumer credit sales agreement or consumer loan agreement does not constitute effective waiver of notice of the cosigner's right to receive notice of the consumer's default for purposes of this section; (ii) retained by the creditor; (iii) certified in the manner prescribed by this section by an officer or other authorized representative of such creditor; and (iv) notarized by a person licensed as a notary under the laws of the State of West Virginia or any other state or territory of the United States. The certification required by this section shall substantially conform to the following language:
" I, _______________(name of person certifying ), the __________________________ (title of person certifying) of _______________________(creditor's name), hereby certify that the notice of the consumer's right to cure default amount reflected in the notice on which this certification appears (or to which this certification is attached ) is a true and accurate balance of all unpaid sums legally due from the borrower on the date of this notice. I hereby further certify that the foregoing notice of the consumer's right to cure default was on this ____ day of __________________, 1920_____, mailed to the person(s) whose name(s) appear herein (therein) at the address(es) set forth herein (therein).
Failure to send notice to a cosigner as required by this section does not, in and of itself, give rise to a cause of action against the creditor.
Except as hereinafter provided in this section, after a default on any installment or any other secured obligation other than with respect to a covenant to provide insurance for or otherwise protect and preserve the property covered by a security interest or lease, a creditor may not accelerate the maturity of the unpaid balance of any such installment obligation or any other such secured obligation, commence any action or demand or take possession of collateral on account of default until ten twenty days after notice has been given to the consumer of his or her right to cure such default. Until such period expires, the consumer shall have the right to cure any default by tendering the amount of all unpaid sums due at the time of the tender, without acceleration, plus any unpaid delinquency or deferral charges and by tendering any other performance necessary to cure such the default. Any such cure shall restore a consumer to all his or her rights under the agreement the same as if there had been no default. A consumer who has been in default three or more times on the same obligation and who has been given notice of such fact three or more times shall not have the right to cure a default under this section even though previous defaults have been cured and his or her creditor's right to proceed against him or her and his or her collateral shall not be impaired or limited in any way by this section. There shall be no acceleration of the maturity of all or part of any amount owing in such a consumer credit sale, consumer lease or consumer loan, except where nonperformance specified in the agreement as constituting default has occurred.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to ensure that West Virginia borrowers are provided accurate notice of their right to cure a default on any installment or other secured obligation and to encourage more careful scrutiny on the part of creditors over the calculation of the amount due from the borrower in order to cure the default and, finally, to extend the time frame during which a cure can be effectuated.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.


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Back from Chile now, tell you more later.
Leaving for Chile in 6 hours. We have two shows confirmed, one in Santiago and one in Talca, and hoping for at least one more.
Also, one of them is the presentation of the first ever UPMA book, first published in Chile because we are lazy and our chilean grandmaster isn't :P It celebrates our 10 years.
This is what you do in case you lose your camera:
I'm dumb and forgot to tell yous: got Christmas cards from Kaimee and Trin :D
Thanks, girls, really cool!
Started watching "The Mighty Boosh". Thought the first episode was horrible. but it started going up from there. And episode 4 (Tundra) was plain fantastic, including this amazing song:
Also, since the 2010 reading challenge will help me keep track of what I read during this year, I've decided to make a wiki to do the same with the movies I watch:
Patricio's 2010 list of movies
4 and a half hours of the new year have passed already and so far it seems to be very much like the old one. But people, congratulation
Seriously, hope you all have a happy new year!!!
Just watched the first episode of Whitest Kids U'Know. I'm not that impressed with the acted sketchs, but I thought the musical ones were quite good.
Hitler Rap
Get a new daddy
An early merry happy Christmas to all of you. It's been a pleasure sharing another year with some of the best people around.
And, as usual, to all my friends, well, much gratitude!
Friday night Antes Bien played it's second show. It was a small place (about 75 persons). There were about 50 persons or so.
While it was far from full, it was a pretty good show, we managed to sound better than the previous time (even with the drumms kit breaking during our set and some problems with disconnecting cables I had), joke a lot and improvise (when the drumms set broke, I started playing and singing a quiet, almost acoustic song that we weren't going to play, with Pablo following me with some quiet arpeggios. We managed to get through half of the song before the kit was fixed. Worked pretty fine to entertain the people).
OUr personalities on stage haven't changed a lot yet: Fede is still the most energetic and "alive", followed by me. Pablo is still a mummy :P But I'm quite happy by the ammount of energy we manage to send from stage into the crowd, something that I didn't think possible. We are pretty quiet people usually and on stage there's a change that works nicely.
Also, I could really get used to all the congratulation
We played a 14 songs set, including all the songs in our EP plus two covers ("Along the way" and "About a girl"). We even pulled a "three songs in three minutes" mini set inside it. I'm quite content. Now, if everything goes as planned, the next gigs should be in Chile.
Custom My Little Pony for you!
Got an iippostcard!
Woohoooo! February 22: NOFX in Buenos Aires! :D
I have several Google Wave invitations. If you want one, just lemme know.
And this is the reason why comics aren't considered a more important art form:
My band's first EP:
7 imagenes imperfectas ep
Finally got around to watching "Zombieland". Loved it!
Now to upload an Antes Bien song here.
Right now I'm listening to the final version of Antes Bien's first ever album :D :D :D :D :D
7 songs, lotsa hardcore punk, some pop... I'm quite content :D
First, it's Mother's Day in Argentina, so Happy Mother's Day to you, you and you. And maybe to you. And maybe to you too, you just don't know it yet.
Recording updates:
All guitars, drumms and bass recorded. About 75% vocals recorded, only 2 songs and back up voices left.
This afternoon we should finish all the recording and next weekend do the mix.
I jusst finished reading one of the most fascinating webcmics ever. It's just 44 strips long, you can probably finish it in 10-15 minutes and it's totally worth it.


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A Sell Out Crowd At Utica On Tap [PHOTOS]
It was a sell-out crowd at Utica on Tap Saturday, at the Stanley Theater. Hundreds enjoyed over 95 craft beers. Thanks for making another successful event that will hopefully become a yearly tradition. See photos from the day.
You can also check out photos from the Stanley Center for the Arts Facebook page.


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Leonardo bemoans Zlatan Ibrahimovic's red card in Paris Saint-Germain's win
PSG sporting director Leonardo claims Zlatan Ibrahimovic was only sent off against Valencia because of his reputation.
Last Updated: 13/02/13 2:56pm
The Swedish striker appeared to become riled as he challenged with two Valencia players and went over the ball in a challenge with Andres Guardado, prompting referee Paolo Tagliavento to brandish the red card.
The dismissal came swiftly after Valencia pulled a goal back in stoppage time, having trailed 2-0, and the Spanish side will head to Paris in three weeks' time looking to make up a 2-1 deficit, with Ibrahimovic suspended.
Leonardo was asked if he regretted the late twist to the night's events.
"To concede a goal, that can happen due to fatigue for example," Leonardo said.
"But the red card... I think Ibrahimovic pays for his reputation. If it was another player committing this foul, he wouldn't be sent off.
"Suddenly, there is a slight bitter feeling because of it."
Carlo Ancelotti's Ligue 1 leaders had taken command at the Mestalla with first-half goals from Argentinian pair Ezequiel Lavezzi and Javier Pastore, with Valencia's late reply coming from Adil Rami.
"Even when you lead 2-0, it's not easy," Leonardo said.
The Brazilian former World Cup winner stressed it was worth remembering the progress PSG have made since Qatar Sports Investments took control of the club in 2011.
"It's only been a year and a half since QSI took over the club," he said, according to psg.fr.
"We are still in the construction phase. Our ambitions isn't only to win a match in the last 16 away from home. It's more than that.
"To win the Champions League? This year, I don't know. But after that..."
Manager Ancelotti agreed with Leonardo's assessment of Ibrahimovic's dismissal.
"It wasn't deserved," he said. "I don't under stand it, it isn't fair."
Italian Ancelotti added: "We played a good match on a difficult pitch. There was quality and a good attitude. We will need to have this same attitude in the return match.
"We had a lot of chances to score and we defended very well. It's a very good performance even if we let in this goal at the end of the match."
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Many people believe the only place to eat Swedish meatballs is IKEA. That is just not true.
In my family we call them Scandinavian meatballs, in the interest of fairness. My father is Swedish and my mother, Norwegian, so we keep the peace with the term Scandinavian.
When my grandmother would visit Norway, she would always make sure to buy some Klydder Blanding. This is a spice, she claimed, that you could only get in Norway.
Now, I am fairly certain that we can all be in agreement that Norway is not the spice capital of the world. It always baffled me that Norway would be the only place to have this spice.
If she had said that India was the only place to get this spice, it would be more believable. After all, we all know that the Scandinavians consider cardamom their spice, but it did originate elsewhere.
Well, after blindly accepting that Klydder Blanding was only available in Norway, I decided to do a little investigating of my own. (My spice jar is now over 20 years old.)
First of all, I looked up Klydder Blanding on the Internet. What a shock. It means Spice Mix. Underneath was another few words. I though maybe this would be my answer. The words were "alt I ett dryss". These words translate to "all in one sprinkle."
Seriously, this was of no help. I tried smelling the spices to see what the combination could be. But with a bottle that was over 20 years old, the spices were not that pungent anymore.
Determined not to give up, I started asking people to smell the spices in the jar and give me their opinion. Again, no help, everyone had a different guess.
If you do not own a jar or Klydder Blanding, don't despair. The spices you will need to get the same taste are allspice (if you don't have allspice, use nutmeg), white pepper and dry mustard. Sounds like an odd combination, but it is delicious.
Swedish (Scandinavian) meatballs are generally made with a mixture of lamb, pork, ground beef, onions, breadcrumbs, and, of course, Klydder Blanding. The meatballs are served with gravy, usually over noodles, potatoes, or rice. Even served alone, they are quite good.
In the interest of ease of preparation, affordability, and healthiness, consider making the meatballs with ground turkey. To make things even easier: How about making them in the slow cooker?
This is the way that I like to make them and my family loves them. My grandmother always fried her meatballs in a pan on the top of the stove. We never ate them with the traditional cream sauce. I think it was because the meatballs alone were so good we just ate them plain.
I prefer to make the meatballs ahead of time and freeze them so that I can make them whenever I want to. I have tried making the meatballs in the slow cooker when they were still raw. Although they do cook, they have a tendency to fall apart. If you want to put your Swedish meatballs in the slow cooker for a full 8 hours, cook them on the stovetop first and then freeze them. Put them frozen into the slow cooker. You will be very happy with the result.
I like to use a cookie scoop so that my meatballs are all about the same size. If the meatballs are the same size, they cook evenly.
Scoop the meat mixture into the cookie scoop and then round it into a ball shape. I use the medium-size cookie scoop. The meatballs will be about 1 ½- to 2-inches in diameter. Put two tablespoons of butter in a skillet and cook these meatballs until they are done.
Since the whole idea of using a slow cooker is to make things easier, make your sauce from items you have on your shelf at home. Use two kinds of cream soups (I used cream of celery and cream of chicken), add cream cheese and water. You will not be able to tell that you did not make a white sauce and fuss for hours.
When making these meatballs, perhaps you will remember to say: "Tack sa myket" if you are Swedish, or "manga takk" if you are Norwegian. Perhaps a simple thank you will do. Anyway you say it, be sure to show appreciation to the person who prepared this meal. No one was ever insulted by someone showing gratitude.
Serve these Swedish meatballs over egg noodles, mashed potatoes, or rice. It is a delicious meal your entire family will love.
And remember,… a good cook always cleans up!
2 lbs. ground turkey
1 ½ cups fresh breadcrumbs
¾ cup milk
1 medium onion, grated
1 TB butter
1 egg
1 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. cardamom, optional
1/8 tsp. white pepper
1/8 tsp. nutmeg
¼ tsp. allspice
¼ tsp. dried mustard
4 TB butter
Grate onion with a cheese grater and cook over low heat with one tablespoon of butter until onions begin to look translucent. Remove to a plate to cool.
Cut up about 3 to 4 pieces of bread (crusts removed) into very small pieces. Place crumbs in ¾ cups of milk and let sit for 5 minutes.
Once onions are cooled and milk mixture is ready, combine all other ingredients together. Mix well.
Use a cookie scoop to get the meatballs similar in size.
Melt 2 TB of butter in a skillet and cook half of the meatballs, turning as needed. Remove to cool.
Melt 2 more TB of butter for the rest of the meatballs.
Once all the meatballs have cooled. Freeze until you are ready to use them.
Slow cooker ingredients:
2 cans cream soup (chicken, celery, mushroom, etc.)
¼ cup cream cheese
1 cup (or more) of water
3 TB sour cream
1 tsp. allspice (optional)
Place your frozen meatballs on the bottom of the slow cooker.
Mix two soups and cream cheese until smooth, add one cup of water (or more) to soups.
Pour over meatballs. Set slow cooker to 8 hours on low or 4 hours on high.
Once the meatballs are done cooking, remove meatballs and keep warm.
Add 3 TB of sour cream to the sauce and mix together well. Add 1 tsp. of allspice for extra flavor.
Serve sauce over meatballs.


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Cairo: At least 16 people were killed and some 200 injured in fresh clashes that erupted Saturday outside Egypt's Port Said prison.
The clashes took place between security forces and family members of 21 convicts who were sentenced to death over the Port Said massacre of last February, Xinhua reported.
After the Port Said criminal court Saturday awarded death sentence to 21 accused for last February's massacre of more than 70 people, families of the convicts attempted to break into the prison where they are detained.
Security forces responded by firing tear gas cans to disperse the angry crowd, the state TV reported.
Seventy-three people, including nine top security officials, were arrested after tragic riots at Port Said stadium last year following a soccer match between Port Said's al-Masry and Cairo's al-Ahly teams.
"The final verdict for the rest 52 of them will be announced March 9," said Sobhy Abdel-Meguid, presiding judge of Port Said criminal court, which was held in Cairo for security reasons.


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Bank fined $50m for buying drivers' data
Payout strengthens anti-stalker law
A bank which purchased the names and addresses of more than 650,000 people in the US has been ordered to pay a $50m fine. The case was brought by a Florida resident against Fidelity Bank and also included the Electronic Privacy Information Centre.
A court in the US has ordered the payment because it said the bank had violated the Drivers Privacy Protection Act (DPPA). That federal law was enacted in order to protect drivers from being tracked down through their driving records.
The law was based on a California state law which was passed after actress Rebecca Schaeffer was killed by an obsessed fan who tracked her down through driving records.
James Kehoe sued the bank for its purchase of the records, which he said it used to market car loans to drivers in Florida. EPIC joined the suit at a later date.
A district court in Florida found that Kehoe had to prove actual damage to him before he could be awarded financial damages. He appealed that decision and won.
Kehoe's class action lawsuit said that Fidelity Federal Bank and Trust had managed to purchase the data over a three year period to 2003 for just $5,656. EPIC filed a "friend of the court" brief in support of Kehoe's case.
"A narrow interpretation of the DPPA that does not award liquidated damages would create a risk that commercial data brokers will continue to acquire and resell personal information from motor vehicle records," said EPIC's brief. "Similarly, a private investigator might continue to access motor vehicle records unless there is a strong default punishment. Plaintiffs, unless they manufacture losses, face hurdles in showing that merely accessing the motor vehicle record or receiving junk mail constitutes an actionable harm.
"What people suffer from the unauthorised distribution of their private information is a privacy violation of a nature so elusive to quantify that it explains the DPPA's provision of a fixed minimum sum as appropriate compensation," the brief said.
EPIC erargued that unless the were financial damages awarded, the DPPA's usefulness as an anti-stalker law would be hampered. "Without liquidated damages, an individual whose personal information was purchased by a stalker or potential attacker would not be entitled to recovery until they were actually harmed," it said.
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