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At best it might help with slashdotted sites.
It does nothing for those sites under a true DOS attack, other than denying legitimate requests to that the DOS attack can continue unimpeded without those pesky legitimate requests sneaking through.
It's meaningless. Browsers don't really participate in DDoS attacks; the attacks come from software that uses DNS reflection techniques to saturate TCP and other socket connections until load balancers fail, the servers are saturated, and everything has to time-out.
Protections really don't involve browser back-offs, they relate to parsing source address data, then filtering those out so genuine traffic gets through, rather than traffic that saturates the sockets.
Protections really don't involve browser back-offs, they relate to parsing source address data, then filtering those out so genuine traffic gets through, rather than traffic that saturates the sockets.
And that can't really be done at EITHER end, (browser or web server), but cries out for a middle-ground approach that can detect DDOS attack signatures and kill them off close to the source rather than forwarding them all to the target's ISP to handle.
The single ping flood is not the issue, and easily killed.
The request that appears once every two minutes from hundreds of thousands or millions of bots is very hard to distinguish from real traffic, other than the bots don't want the traffic either, a
Seems so. The linked article is just as insane as the post. I guess I got sucked in.
He's right... originally there was no way to turn it off until web developers bitched, me included, about how it's slowing down development. The problem was, as a developer i may reload a page often, or make a tweak, reload, etc. Waiting for this to clear was a bitch, so they put in the command line switch for us.
You'd be surprised when tweaking code or css how often you reload a page.
You can bet I'll be disabling it / using a different browser when Woot throws up a Bag of Crap......
But, yeah, were I being malicious, I'd be running my own code that spins up tons of requests once I find an error, not actually scaling them back.
Remind me not to use Chrome when camping Blizzard for Blizzcon tickets.
(disclosure: did not rtfa, this is perhaps just bullshit)
Actually, I think the point is that they want to help prevent XSS DDOS: go to a high-volume forum, set a <img src="http://target.example.com/asdf"/> in your signature and wait until your friends' home server dies.
Not how you take down Amazon, but that was never the subject. I think this has a nice, small, but nice, benefit. And no real downsides... I like it.
(I used to have a server like this and when somebody hotlinked an image on a busy for
This is just to prevent ACCIDENTAL DoSing
Noone in their right mind would attempt an intentional DDOS using a full-blown graphical web browser.
Judging by the amount of sites slashdot still manages to take down I disagree. Lots of unintentional DDoS still happening these days.
daps. you got there before i did.
i wonder if posting a link to
That's because
And this helps how?
If a site is overloaded, the service is denied to me. If *my* browser starts to "back off" it exacerbates the problem by increasing the outage I experience.
A site is placed in the net to serve users content and if a user can't access it, then that person is per definition subject to Denial Of Service. A browser constructed with the described mechanism has a defect built in by design.
nobody performs actual DDoS attacks with a browser.
Now, this might reduce the Slashdot Effect, but not a DDoS.
I seriously doubt Google designed this for what TFA says it does. TFA is too busy raking Google over the coals for not building in Do-Not-Track to even understand why this may be needed by legitimate sites who just happen to get slashdotted due to massive publicity or disasters.
People might not use DDoS from a browser, but that doesn't prevent them from being used.
For example, a certain URL redirection service loads a legit site in the iframe, while constantly reloading another site in an invisible frame.
Since dedicated DDoS programs like LOIC are readily available, nobody performs actual DDoS attacks with a browser.
DDoS campaigns have been launched by telling people "go to this web page and leaving it open"
The page is just a bunch of iframes reloading the target over and over.
Just because Anonymous can rally the troops with the LOIC,
doesn't mean that's how everyone else (or even anyone else) does it.
Seriously, when was the last time you heard of the LOIC being used by a non-Anonymous group?
Let's see how they muck it up now.
By overselling the concept.
It's a good way to keep one brand of browser from crapping on a website if something about it runs amok.
But it's going to have almost no measurable effect on the incidence and severity of actual DDoS attacks.
Let's see how they muck it up now.
By overselling the concept.
They already mucked it up by putting it in the wrong place. This would be a smart thing to build into Apache (or other web *server*) but pretty pointless to put in a web *browser*.
The web server is way too high up the stack, and having it do the work is how the DDoS wants to hamstring you anyway.
I was thinking that it should be distributed.
See, in order to block incoming traffic, you have to accept the connection at the lower layers so you can decode it to determine that it's from the offending IP address. DoS long ago devolved to just doing SYN floods, since it's impossible to stop a SYN because you don't look at its contents before it's tied up your hardware almost as much as it c
Many people run Chrome, right? It might not make much of a difference if a small percentage of a website's users are running Chrome but I wouldn't be surprised to see the other major browsers implement something similar.
I was thinking something similar. If Google could somehow convince Joe Sixpack that Firefox and IE are missing some valuable DDoS protection feature, then it would eventually be added to other browsers.
No, you don't use ICMP echo requests (and most other forms of ICMP), its too easy to filter upstream since it can safely be ruled out of the normal flow of traffic.
While many ICMP packets are indeed useful and blocking ICMP in general is a really retarded thing that some less than clueful people like to do on firewalls (seen often here on slashdot) it will in general not screw proper traffic up too much if you block ICMP echo requests/replies upstream during a DDoS.
If you want to do a proper DDoS, you have to make the traffic look like legitimate traffic so its indistinguishable from traffic the site actually wants so they can't easily block it.
If you just try to ping -f me, I'll just call my upstream and tell them whats going on and ask them to drop it upstream to my address space until further notice.
UDP dns queries are a good one to use as they can be spoofed and are pretty much impossible to block to a legitimate DNS server. TCP based connections like an HTTP request are more effective in the sense of the amount of traffic generated but are effectively unspoofable if you want to actually do more than a syn flood. If you can't spoof them then you become traceable and can be blocked since you're going to come from a specific address for each request, which can then be filtered, even if its a DDoS. Building a table of IPs to blackhole doesn't take long in most cases and can be pretty effective assuming your upstream firewalls/routers can handle the size of the blacklist, which may not be all that easy depending on the size and load of your upstream routers, but still far easier than dealing with a flood of legitimate looking UDP packets.
I haven't seen an effective ping flood since 1998-99 on any thing but some little tiny sites that simply don't know what they are doing.
On an unrelated note, I must remember to buy a replacement for my worn-out F5 key.
Do what I do, once F5 wears out map it to other F-keys. That way you can use up all 12 of them before you have to get another keyboard.
But how will I view the help?
Get a keyboard with 20 F keys and don't remap F1?
I have an interesting way to stop muggers. I just don't mug anyone.
And yet, by being more polite in public, you can demonstrate you are not a mugger, and we can better identify and deal with actual muggers.
So while Chrome was not previously DDoSing servers, this action (that is more polite than just not DDoSing things), helps everybody out. Neat, eh?
What I'd like to know is:
If the site is so overloaded that it can't return a response, how can Chrome get the error message from the site?
I personally hate this 'feature'. I don't understand what it defends against, because someone hitting refresh a few times in a browser is hardly a serious DoS attack. And it got in the way of me (and many others) the first time they rolled it out because the "DoS" it was defending against was me hitting my local test webserver which was returning a 500 because the page code was broken.
Here is the chromium issue, which was quite trafficy:
Issue 66062: ERR_TEMPORARILY_THROTTLED makes web development difficult
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=66062 [google.com]
This is going to make it that much harder to get a bag of crap off of woot.
... the Iranian military is upset with Google for possibly affecting their protester jamming systems which run Chrome OS. They have called it a "Zionist plot against Islam."
This will only make it more difficult to get my Bandoleer of Carrots!
And it's not a feature, it's a bug. It's been in chrome for a while now, suddenly popped up overnight, and made life more complex to all developers. Do you have any idea of how hard it is to test a webapp if you can only get an error message once?
It's a real piece of shit. I found a way to disable it, but it still pisses me off that google suddenly decided to implement such a stupid feature overnight, without warning, and without informing users of a way to disable it.
This kind of protection should be imple
Someone else posted a link to the bug report on this. It looks like the feature was disabled at the end of January. Why are you still so angry about it? It appears they have taken all the previous complaints into account for this new release.
Marvelous! The super-user's going to boot me! What a finely tuned response to the situation!


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|2012-07-25, 22:58
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It sounds like the rights for the movie are currently in negotiation for the US (and the UK), wonder if Funi gets it if they'd give it a theatrical release like they did with Summer Wars last time. But at least it sounds like someone, or possibly more than one someone, is trying to get the film to the US which I take as a good sign.
|2012-08-02, 17:42
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There's a regular cinema-based anime festival, Scotland loves anime held here in the autumn. I got to see Summer Wars a couple of years ago in Edinburgh at the Filmhouse. Here's hoping _Ookami_ is on the schedule for this October. No details yet though.
|2012-08-21, 06:09
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So yeah,I guess it's official,Hosoda's reached mainstream success with this film.
It's sold 2.4 million tickets and earned 2.9 billion yen (37 million dollars) in one month.
I'm sure NTV's promotion helped but the movie must have had great word of mouth as well since after an initial decline it's remained consistant in the past few weeks.
So I guess Hosoda and studio Chizu won't have a problem getting their next project off the ground.
|2012-08-24, 16:30
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No exact date yet though.
|2012-08-28, 20:25
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In all honesty that's one of the most powefull scenes in the movie ,hell maybe even my favorite, but I feel it loses a lot of power without the context and all the buildup so I'd advise people against watching it,that's why I didn't post it.
|2012-08-28, 21:43
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Yeah, I already regret having seen that. I knew a scene like that would be in the movie. It was inevitable. Is there a DVD/blueray release date yet? Usually it takes around 4-7 months for a movie to come out on blueray/dvd right?
|2012-08-28, 23:43
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No date from japan yet however the french licensor is bringing out the Blu-ray/DVD in about 4 months,I figure they wouldn't be releasing them before the Japanese release so my guess is January.
|2012-08-29, 20:49
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|2012-08-31, 04:34
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Coincidentally there's been a few small scenes uploaded yesterday that I feel are all alright to show, here and here
|2012-09-01, 09:03
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Wolf Children (Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki)
Hosoda hasn't directed a lot of movies, but he has directed very different types of movies so far. I feel that this is his most honest and open one so far. It is also his most mature work as a filmmaker and a very interesting take on the material he has decided to tackle.
I don't really feel the need to talk too much about the actual contents of the movie much, because I highly recommend that anyone interested should catch the movie at the earliest opportunity to see for themselves what it has to offer. Instead I would like to talk about the themes of the movie and how the director approached them and executed the story into film.
It's a relatively simple story, and probably the most straightforward one Hosoda has told. It is about a young woman who meets a man who is half-wolf, falls in love with him, and they have two kids. Due to various circumstances, she has to bring them up alone after moving to a quiet countryside. The movie is about motherhood, growing up, and children deciding how they want to live their lives.
How Hosoda approaches this material in an extremely direct way. When compared to some of his previous films like his One Piece movie and Tokikake, the most obvious difference here is that he has chosen to completely do away with the heavy handed use of visual metaphors and complex imagery. In doing so, it lacks of the darker and somber touch of those movies, but in exchange he has achieved his highest level of naturalism yet.
Much of the movie is told with extremely sparse use of dialogue, instead opting to use long montages and subtle interaction sequences driven by nothing more than music and the performances of the character animations. This method of direction reminds me most of classic Disney films, where many key moments don't require any scripted dialogue at all, but are communicated entirely by visuals and sound.
In addition to this there is very little dramatic overtones injected into the narrative, instead choosing to present a more honest and natural tale of how children grow up. Yes, the fantasy element of the wolf motif makes it more interesting, but that is as far as it ever goes.
Instead of relying on the traditional aspects of dramatic conclusions to a typical 3 act structure, the movie never quite telegraphs how far it is into the story, or when the narrative is coming to an end. Yet the pacing is far from disappointing, because it is an apt companion to the theme of life and growing up - in a way it never really ends, and how we tell one chapter of that life can just naturally conclude with major events in our lives which might not affect anyone other than ourselves. Things which hold a special meaning, but not necessarily something which everything was building up to.
I found the music, the direction, the art, and the animation impressive, but no single element overwhelms the others. Instead it is how it all comes together which makes the work feel special, because that is how well thought out the presentation is. Another interesting feeling I was left with is that there weren't really any memorable lines in the movie, but tons of memorable scenes. It feels realistic in a way, because real life is rarely filled with quotable quips.
I'll conclude by saying that if Hosoda's One Piece movie was a sign of an angry younger man trying desperately to have his talent noticed (and that is far from a bad thing), then this movie is a milestone showing the world that he has matured into a bold filmmaker who is now able to also tell a simple and direct story, without applying overly artistic film language, and yet lose none of the beauty and elegance of a great movie.
What makes this achievement all the more meaningful is that by telling a story this way, more people can appreciate the message he wants to share, and the appeal is much more universal. I'm not surprised at all that the movie is doing so well in Japan right now. It provides an experience which appeals to those who watch Ghibli films, but yet it is so far from anything Ghibli would ever produce and hence it offers a unique experience which cannot be found anywhere else.
|2012-09-01, 09:49
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How close would you say the Manga follows the original? I read a couple of chapters and decided not to continue in fear of spoilers. Anyway, thanks for hyping up this movie even more. The wait was already unbearable as it is.
|2012-09-01, 10:40
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|2012-09-01, 11:53
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My understanding is that Hosoda wrote the manga himself, so I assume it follows pretty closely. I'm tempted to read it, because it seems we won't be seeing the movie in the States until the DVD comes out in Japan.
|2012-09-01, 17:22
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The manga I'm not sure but it's close to the movie but you get the story without Hosoda's direction,not that the story isn't good but without hosoda it's not the same.
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|2012-09-01, 18:37
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The manga definitely isn't written by Hosada. The pacing is very weird in the manga. It doesn't make much sense.. There's no build up or anything. I've read that Hosada wrote the Novel himself. So that might be worth checking out, if it ever gets translated that is.
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|When the Body Speaks: Virginia Woolf and Luce Irigaray's Metaphors of the Body
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Both Virginia Woolf and Luce Irigaray re-envision the world through bodily metaphor to achieve a more truthful expression of their experience as women. Juxtaposed against each other, Woolf's and Irigaray's works are analyzed as literary texts with close attention to their use of spatial metaphors relating specifically to the female body and their power to create linguistic change for silenced women. The decades between the work of Woolf and Irigaray indicate that telling the truth of the female body is an ongoing social process of acknowledging and reinforcing women's potential and achievement. To illustrate this point, this paper looks at and analyzes the metaphors used in Woolf's A Room of One's Own, Mrs. Dalloway, and Orlando and Irigaray's Speculum, An Ethics of Sexual Difference, and This Sex Which Is Not One to describe their interaction with female expression.
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|8 years ago :: Oct 31, 2010 - 1:27PM #1
Titus 2:11-12
The righteous are opposite of the wicked(lawless) --
Ezekiel 18 gives numerous examples of practicing righteousness, one of which is feeding the hungry and clothing the naked. This sounds very much like Jesus in Matthew 25.
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|7 years ago :: Dec 09, 2010 - 10:23AM #2
Jesus' parable of the drag net ---
Jesus: "This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous" Matt. 13:49, NIV.
"But if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. - Ez. 18:21.
if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without committing iniquity, he shall surely live; he shall not die. -Ez. 33:15
Jesus: "He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him." - Jn 3:36, NASB.
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|7 years ago :: Dec 13, 2010 - 3:33PM #3
Is there a point here, or are we just quoting scriptures?
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|7 years ago :: Dec 19, 2010 - 3:57PM #4
"By grace are you saved, through faith; and not by works, lest any should boast."
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|7 years ago :: Dec 24, 2010 - 10:16AM #5
Hebrews 1:13-14 (New International Version)
To which of the angels did God ever say, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet"? Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?
Psalm 103:19-21 (King James Version) Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.
Revelation 12:17 (King James Version)
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
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|7 years ago :: Dec 24, 2010 - 10:52AM #6
HI, Tawonda --- you are absolutely right.
"By faith, Moses kept the Passover" - Hebrews 11:28.
Below is a link for some interesting commentary on this verse ---
People's New Testament
John 14:15 - "If you love Me, keep My Commandments" - Jesus said this about 18 hours before his death. An odd thing to say, if the statement was going to be voided out days later by his resurrection. But of course we know that the Holy Spirt was to keep us in remembrance of all he said.
John 14:23, NIV Jesus replied, "Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. 24 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
Matt. 19:17, NIV "Why do you ask me about what is good?" Jesus replied. "There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments."
Jehovah became Jesus in the flesh (Jn 1:3). He is still telling us to "choose life" - Dt. 30:19www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=deu...
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|7 years ago :: Dec 24, 2010 - 10:56AM #7
follow after righteousness -- Isa. 51:1; 1Tim. 6:11; 2Tim. 2:22
Isa. 51:6 -- but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Isa. 51:7 -- Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law;
Isa. 45:19 ---> Psalm 18:9 ---> Neh. 9:13
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|7 years ago :: Dec 24, 2010 - 5:39PM #8
Hi there Bob10,
The context of your quote above is 'encouragement of His Disciples.'
Reading the complete context, Jesus is not making religious rules. He is encouraging His disciples to stay in the game, not to loose heart, & have confidence in the Son and the Father.
8 Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us."
11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.
Bob, I do not dispute your philosophical view here, I question the efficiency of your scriptural selections. 'To demonstrate the importance of commandments and our following them', I feel you need to find those statements in context.
Many of your Old Testament quotes seem stronger in supporting your presentation. But here, in John,… this is a pep-talk to the guys. These men were already sold on Jesus' teachings; He is encouraging here, not declaring Salvationary Philosophy to the lost.
I will give an example regarding context; Many people like the Lord's Prayer. Popularly, most people put this prayer from the gospel with everything else Jesus said. That is, Jesus preached "Blessed are the poor…etc." from the Mount of Olives. This was His own sermon and we can understand the context… He is sitting, preaching.
Many people put 'The Lord's Prayer' into this type of context. But the proper context of the Lord's prayer is this: John the Baptist's followers were taught a prayer by John. When John was killed, his followers went to Jesus. At one point, during a get together, John's followers told Jesus that John had given a sample prayer to them as an aid in addressing the Father. They asked Jesus, would He do the same?. So, Jesus created this prayer at the request of His new followers. This is a much different context within which to hear the Lord's Prayer.
When I hear 'Blessed are the poor…' , I think… Declaration of Christ, philosophy, perspective given by God.
When I speak the Lord 's Prayer, , I think… 'I know I am reciting some personal worship technique given by Jesus at the request of people like me…believers'.
So, apples and oranges. Context is everything. Partial quotes and lists of partials or the simple appearance of a sound bite that happens to be in another book, does not create enough foundation to support anyone's philosophical view.
Best wishes, Issa.
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|7 years ago :: Dec 28, 2010 - 10:45AM #9
Ephesians 2:8 - For by grace are you saved through faith....
"without faith, it is impossible to please God" -- Hebrews 11:6.
Unfortunately, this is the state of the faithless carnal minded: they can not please God (Rom. 8:8). They hate God; they don't submit to the law of God (Rom. 8:7) - they have no faithfulness (Dt. 32:20, NRSV, NASB) to their Rock.
But we are the opposite of these people: we are spiritually minded (Rom. 8:6), our hearts are circumcised (Rom. 2:29) to walk humbly with God (Micah 6:8).
Jesus condemned sin in the flesh (Rom. 8:3) so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit (Rom. 8:4).
If those who walk according to the flesh confess their unfaithfulness against the LORD, and if their uncircumcised hearts (Rom. 2:29) be humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, because they rejected My judgements and statutes, then I will not reject them (Lev. 26:40-44, NASB).
"God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God...." (1Peter 5:5-6) --- humble submission to God as the Lord girded Himself with a towel to perform a servile office of humility and love, washing His disciples' feet, a scene in which Peter had played an important part.
"Humility is the vessel of all graces" [Augustine]
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|7 years ago :: Oct 30, 2011 - 3:40PM #10
Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit (Rom. 8:4) should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted. - Galatians 6:1, NIV
My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth (Ps. 119:142,151) and someone should bring that person back, remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins. - James 5:19-20, NIV
All who obey his commandments abide in him, and he abides in them.... -- 1Jn 3:24, NRSV
If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. - Jn 15:6, NKJV
save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh. - Jude 23-24, NIV
"I overthrew some of you
If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored:
then the Almighty will be your gold,
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I care about the subject because Nielsen Ratings are the industry standard - for good or for bad. It is way too often that good shows are canceled in favor of bad ones when Nielsen doesn't have significant ratings for them (ie Firefly). Yet these shows have proven to be hugely popular online.
Plus, the fact that they are limiting to shows with 3 min advertising blocks may doom the online model of much shorter intervals. Nielsen is intentionally overlooking an ample data source from sites like Hulu and the n
...they count bittorrent views.
Trust me, viewing a
Why would they count bittorrent views? Nielsen Ratings is information for advertisers. TV shows in bittorrent files almost always have advertisers removed. It makes no sense for Nielsen Ratings to carry those statistics.
I will second this completely.
I download TV illegally. But, first, let me explain what I won't do:
a) I'm not paying for shitty cable and for a TiVo when I already have computer hooked to my TV. Hell, technically, I do have free basic cable, and it's so poor I don't even have it actually hooked to my TV.
b) I don't really have enough bandwidth to stream. I get about 150kps download. That's really the lowest quality I can stand, too, so it works out to a minute of downloading per minute of video...which means that all streaming jumps to a lower quality, because that's too close to comfort. And forget about the higher quality stuff.
c) I want to control the entire thing with my remote control, and the streaming sites seem intent on not functioning in any HTPC interface anyway. (And I'm not sure how hacking hulu to watch in Boxee is somehow more 'moral' than just downloading the show.)
d) I am not paying for my TV shows in cash, hence I won't use iTunes. I will, like the rest of the world, pay in for TV in commercials. (When I pay in cash, I expect DVDs.) I won't promise to buy anything, but that never was part of the deal. And I'm really too lazy to bother with skipping them.
I'm not trying to morally justify anything, or claim I have the right to TV, I'm simply stating my situation, and stating as a member of the American people, I will watch TV. So I can either download TV illegally, or I can...um...hmmm...have no TV.
You give me a torrent I can download legally, I'm there.
I'd especially be there if you'd encrypt the episodes so I could download them in advance, and give me the key when they aired. I just mention that because that's how they should attract current illegal downloaders. Right now, it's end of episode+10 minutes+download time to watch. Let people have a download list, let them download the previous night, and then give them the key at the moment of airing. Unlike DRM, that actually could work with reasonable encryption, and lets people watch very high quality stuff even over bad connections. (Hell, you could technically watch about 5 hours a week over dialup, which would be helpful for people with basic cable who want to watch one or two other shows.)
But all this is, of course, crazy talk. If they provide digital downloads that people can actually download, why, people will download them, cut the commercials out, and redistribute them. (Which is a bit like worrying about someone breaking into your car by picking the trunk lock, when all actual thieves spend 30 seconds with a slim jim and get in from the doors.)
Why do they insist on only measuring "full length" media. They will make themselves obsolete if they insist on measuring the way old media works. Related to that sentiment they forgot option "c," keep on ignoring the ratings and do what you like not what they want us to do.
Studios keep making bad business decisions based on Nielsen ratings. They cancel shows with low ratings even when the DVD sales alone are enough to make a profit on the show. Rather than make the next season straight-to-DVD, they don't make it at all.
That's because they haven't yet learned that their current advertising methods are actually hurting viewership. I've bought quite a few DVD sets just so I don't have to suffer the bottom of the screen "popups" that seem to be the current fad nowadays. And you k
I was watching TV for the first time in about a year (outside of sports) with a friend of mine the other day. I couldn't believe how bad cable now is. I had been considering hooking my TV back up, but a couple hours at her house, and I was well convinced not to.
The internet TV I watch isn't much worse quality, and it's mostly content. I can't fathom how it would be worth paying $50 a month for that. I'm much more inclined to hook a spare system up to my TV now, and watch TV that way. It has the ben
No shit.
Ratings were important when it was 'Which of these shows will take up valuable time on the channel?' We even talked about 'prime time'. If one show was making a profit of $500,000 an episode, and you thought a different one could make $600,000, sure, cancel the first.
But it's goddamn stupid when you stop living in the idiotic 'broadcast TV' world. You should make both shows. In fact, you should make anything that makes you money, or at least has a reasonable chance of doing so. Because it makes you money. I cannot stress the whole 'it makes you money' concept enough.
The sad thing is, TV networks already know about this. It was 'syndication' long before DVDs came out, wherein TV studios make shows without having a network committed to buying them. Although that market was a lot smaller, and shows had to be very low-budget to make a profit on just that.
Bu they already had the model. They should have logically been able to make the leap to DVDs.
A lot of the problem is how TV studios are structured. Everyone wants 'their own' shows to be wildly successful, so a) often don't care about show they get handed by other people, and b) don't care about 'small' money makers they have. (And, of course, apparently corporations have no fiscal responsibility to their stockholders, you know, actually make that $500,000.)
Everything is all about who is credited for the next big hit. No one actually cares who makes money. Film studios are completely dysfunctional.
The future is looking good, though. We've had independent film makers for quite some time, despite there being less stupidity in the film industry...and we're just starting to get independent 'TV studios' as it requires less and less upfront costs for equipment and whatnot.
I wish one of the producers like JMS or Joss Whedon, who produces popular shows but has a terrible relationship with the studios, would strike out on their own. Release pilots to the public. Tell everyone to share them as widely as possible. If you like it, invest $10 in the show. If enough people invest, the first season gets made. It's released on the Internet with a CC-NC-SA license and you're asked to share it with everyone. It's also sold on DVDs and to any TV networks that want to run it, for pe
After all, Nielsen reports ratings so that shows can sell more advertising. If the show you're watching doesn't have the same number of ads, then it's useless in terms of advertising sales as it's not apples to apples.
Nobody in advertising cares if 500,000,000 people watch a show if no ads were seen.
After all, Nielsen reports ratings so that shows can sell more advertising. If the show you're watching doesn't have the same number of ads, then it's useless in terms of advertising sales as it's not apples to apples.
Nobody in advertising cares if 500,000,000 people watch a show if no ads were seen.
True, I can see where they're coming from. However I would imagine counting online views as a portion/percentage.
For example a typical show on Hulu has the same number of commercial breaks as the broadcast equivalent, but maybe 1/5 of the total commercials. IE, for every break there's usually a single 15-60 second commercial (averaging around 30 seconds a piece). So maybe count 5 Hulu viewings as 1 Nielson viewing.
Then you have paid online content... if an obscene number of viewers are paying iTunes for Show X then that should somehow be aggragated with ratings. After all, the network just received a chunk of change from those sales.
Different shows have on TV have different number of commercials too. I remember Fringe having only 60-90 second commercial breaks. How can Nielsen have ratings for Fringe then, compared to American Idle etc?
In fact, this is somewhat backwards of 'not counting'.
If I was an advertiser, and two TV shows had the same ratings and audience, but one had half the commercial time of the other, I'd try to get into that one, assuming the same price.
Why? Well, people are less likely to skip ads when they are shorter. Seems obvious to me.
OTOH, it might not be the same price...commercials cost more at the start and end of the break, and less in the middle, I believe, and a show with less commercials might not have a midd
Actually, counting it as a percent is idiotic. If you have 1000 viewings of a show with 1 commercial, and a 1000 viewings of a show with 50 commercials... which show has better commercial coverage?
The one with 1 commercial. Scarcity increases value. I watch every commercial that pops up on hulu. I watch 5 seconds of commercials on TV.
Nobody in advertising cares if 500,000,000 people watch a show if no ads were seen.
They do if ads can be added to the show in the future. I'd be very interested in such data if I were searching for a place to stick an ad. I'd be especially interested if I could be the only ad in the show, so my ad would stick out instead of being lost among the others. As such, I think Nielsen is being moronic here--advertisers on limited-ad broadcasts should be eager for such data and therefore so should the content producers.
It makes sense only in a short-sighted way. It's ridiculous to assume programs will be shown online with the same exact ads to all audiences. The presentation of content must be adapted to the medium if there is any hope that it is to be successful.
Nobody in advertising cares if 500,000,000 people watch a show if no ads were seen.
Yes, but advertising cares if Heroes has 1 million watching the regular broadcast... But 5 million watching on a website that servers a single ad right before the broadcast commences.
Bull. I straight up do not see (or hear) half of the ads that come up on television.
Most ads on Hulu, by contrast, I do see. So ignoring Hulu is ridiculous.
If I was Nielsen, I'd want to know the viewing habits for everything that was connected to a TV. DVR, Blu-Ray, XBox, even old VHS tapes... if they're watching it, I'd want to record that information to know to provide to my clients. That way, they know where ads are being viewed and where they are not.
And you'd be wrong. They measure DVR usage the same way they measure every other medium connected to a TV including video games. They only count playback, of course, not recording, since advertisers only care about viewers.
Clever using Accidentally on Purpose to describe whether someone watched it accidentally or on purpose. i'll throw you some karma elsewhere.
Companies selling products (all companies) need to fire Nielsen. The smart folk are ditching cable and going to Hulu and the like.
Smart people don't buy everything they see on TV. Neilsen doesn't want to focus on that audience, and neither do advertisers.
The smart folk are ditching cable and going to Hulu and the like.
That's while Nielsen isn't bothering counting Hulu views. It's very hard to sell useless products to smart people...
If there are no ads at all, and no intent on introducing ads in the future, then yes, Nielson should not count them because the whole point of the Nielsen ratings is to set advertising prices for a given slot. But Hulu does show ads, even though it is not as many as regular broadcast. So how do we set the price for those ad slots? Should the Hulu ad be cheaper or more expensive than the broadcast TV ad? This is an important question that needs to be answered. If more people are watching the online vers
Not as much sell more advertising but sell advertising for more.
I think it depends on what you're using the metrics for. I'd argue that they should collect everything, and then categorize it appropriately.
For example, suppose Hulu announces that they'll take one high-cost ad per show. Suddenly advertisers will want to know what their market share is and all that.
On the other hand, when networks decide what shows to cancel - they don't care about how many people watch the show on mediums other than their own, regardless of whether they have ads or not.
I suspect that the reason that Neilsen is doing what it is doing is that it is because it is what their customers are looking for. When Hulu pitches their online service to an ad agency they don't need Neilsen to tell them how many people are watching their shows - they already collect that stuff on their own.
When Hulu pitches their online service to an ad agency they don't need Neilsen to tell them how many people are watching their shows - they already collect that stuff on their own.
Said another way, why would Neilsen spend money to estimate the number of viewers of hulu when hulu already knows exactly.
Nobody in advertising cares if 500,000,000 people watch a show if no ads were seen.
Wrong. They care because that's where the next opportunities to sell ads are.
I don't understand Neilsen's plan. How will advertisers know where their ads *should* go, if they don't have all the numbers.
After all, Nielsen reports ratings so that shows can sell more advertising.
Yeah, but there's a problem in that Nielsen ratings get treated like the end-all and be-all measurement of a show's popularity and profitability. It's the same problem with a lot of standardized tests-- they evaluate for one specific set of things, which is fine, but then they get applied much more broadly than is applicable.
So if you're an advertiser who wants to place an ad on TV, then web views are fairly irrelevant. However, if your an advertiser who wants to place an ad on Hulu, then these Nielsen r
Actually, many television shows are moving towards product placement instead of traditional advertising. Most companies understand that the normal TV model is a thing of the past, considering that many people have DVRs and now stream TV online.
If you have ever seen the show "Chuck" on NBC, you would see quite a bit of this. For one, part of the show often takes place in an electronics retail store which allows considerable ads to be placed around the store in the form of cardboard cutouts and product displays. Video games are often topics for conversation, including major promotions from Call of Duty and Madden NFL 10 being incorporated (extremely cleverly, I might add) into the storyline. In addition to video games and cars (which have been doing product placement for years), Subway has stated that their product placement with Chuck was one of their most successful ad partnerships ever.
Now, as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't matter whether Nielsen includes steaming content in their ratings. Any network that streams its own shows should have access to their data without a problem, and if Hulu doesn't already provide this data back to the networks, I doubt it would make much for them to do so. Any ad exec that still bases his decisions solely on Nielsen ratings at this point doesn't deserve his job.
PS. Watch Chuck. It's a fantastically done spy comedy that always finds its way to cleverly tell a story, even if its premise is a bit old. (Unwitting everyman accidentally gains "superpowers" and must learn to become a hero.)
(b) Hulu and everyone else starts to put more advertisements on their shows (more likely, but would also pro
For those of us with no cable and using only digital OTA, Hulu (and other online sites) replace a DVR. And I think we'd be willing to sit through commercials.
Call me cheap, but I would, at least.
For some people, sure, but they could potentially lose a lot of viewers as well. Hulu currently hosts a surprisingly huge amount of anime. This, however, makes sense, since Japanese animation studios tend not to be so uptight about copyright issues and so there are at least 10 streaming versions of every major anime in existence on a site somewhere... Hulu offers a stable, consistently high-quality video in return for 1 minute or two of commercials per episode, so the company can make advertising money out
Into a trilobite, unfortunately.
It's inevitable really, since Neilsen's customers are advertising execs. Neilsen don't want to tell them that fewer and fewer people are seeing their ads, and the advertising execs definitely don't want that news getting out - that would be a strictly career limiting move.
It's inevitable really, since Neilsen's customers are advertising execs. Neilsen don't want to tell them that fewer and fewer people are seeing their ads
You really think you are seeing fewer ads? Than the people watching on television, sure. But as DVRs and Hulu eliminate seperate ads, product placements rise. And astroturfing. And sending hot girls into bars to order specific liquors.
I would rather their limited advertising budget was spent on obvious ads, and would be willing to endure more explicit a
OK, you watch the obvious ads, I'll go and hang out in bars where hot girls are being paid to get drunk.
Well, they are getting paid to get you to buy them drinks. So, you get to pay to talk to a hot girl who wasn't even interested in the drink you bought her, let alone you. To wit, she'll probably ditch it as soon as you aren't looking. Sounds good man!
Sometimes, they are out in the open and giving away free beer. I like those nights.
You know what chicks totally flip for? When you point out their factual errors. They just can't get enough of that.
Are you a chick?
Am I trying to fuck you?
Then I'm going to continue point out your factual errors. I'll also be point out your inferred errors. See this post for an example.
Trilobites existed way before dinosaurs, not after.
Trilobite [wikipedia.org]
That may have been the point...
Because then Nielson could put together a ratings list that shows ratings based on the amount of advertising. I won't lie, like most people one of the reasons I prefer watching TV through alternate means is to avoid the advertising. Yet I don't require zero advertising. There is a level of advertising that's more acceptable.
With this information, networks could find out how LESS advertising could generate more views. As a result, they could offer scaled advertising rates to advertisers based on the numb
Why should Hulu add more commercials? If they are viable as it is, wht do they care for Neilson? Neilson is there to help sell ads by giving a value to TV shows. If Hulu doesn't need that many ads why should they annoy their viewers to help an unrelated service?
Like it or not "free" television shows are advertising supported. Having a real way to measure how many people are watching online will finally give legitimacy to online advertising in streaming video and will help ad rates significantly. I know everyone likes free and hates advertising but in a medium like that there is no other way around it beyond pay per view or a wealthy benefactor who doesn't mind the idea of throwing away cash to entertain the masses.
There will be benefits to consumers as well, mor
I'm going to miss TV, at least a little bit. I calculated that if I connect my macMini to my TV, I can do practically everything I'm doing now with cable and Tivo -- but at $50 less per month.
There are a few drawbacks, of course. Live sporting events and knowing the exact location of the nearest tornado, to name a couple. But I almost never watch sports, and the radio can suffice when it comes to severe weather. Ultimately, these things just aren't worth the $100+ per month that I'm paying for my "bundl
> Flopping down on the couch and turning on the TV to "see what's on" are going to become a thing of the past at my house.
If if if if and if.
What are you waiting for? We did it two years ago and we've never been happier. My family spends a lot more time doing things together now, we play board games, we read a lot, we cook more instead of ordering in, we go outside and do things. You have no idea how much of your time the TV sucks up.
You probably feel like you don't have enough time to do all the thing y
Nevermind a couple of years a go.
Some of us fled "normal TV" over 10 years ago. '-p
Being liberated from broadcast schedules is a sublime thing.
Live sporting events and knowing the exact location of the nearest tornado, to name a couple.
Couldn't that be covered with a $10 antenna and, if necissary, a $30 converter box?
...like analog TV before: it all depends on how lucky you are and how good your signal is.
A $10 antenna probably isn't going to cut it.
Live sporting events and knowing the exact location of the nearest tornado
You can see the live sporting events at your local bar, and for tornados there's www.weather.com (the weather channel web site). It works well on a phone as well as a computer, even the radar maps.
I don't use Hulu, but if they have something like Google analytics included in their script soup then they can also create a detailed demographic profile of their viewers rather than just processing their own logs. That's something Nielsen can't do. If I were an advertiser I would be willing to pay a little premium for better targeted ads shown to only the eyeballs most likely respond to them. For instance, it's wasteful to advertise women's products to men. If I had 100% confidence in the gender of a viewe
So either, (a) everyone will rush out to watch their online TV on Comcast XFinity, so that their viewing counts in the ratings (unlikely), or (b) Hulu and everyone else starts to put more advertisements on their shows (more likely, but would also probably mean the death of Hulu)."
Or (c), Nielsen Ratings begin to lose their importance, clout, and influence over the next few years.
the content providers add another line to their pitch sheets... "While 'Ten Million Gorillas in a Bus' had a Nielsen of 10.2, there were also 4,320,000 Hulu viewings." whether any ads ever show up on Hulu or not, they can still reinforce the show's pull.
My most recent cable TV outage started me thinking about televised entertainment in general. I still remember when cable TV was highly desirable because it didn't have any commercials. Then commercials made occasional appearances in some shows, obviously a trial balloon to measure customer opposition. Then commercials quickly became as prevalent on cable as they were on broadcast TV.
I have been using MythTV for a couple years, and it's been fantastic. I haven't had to sit through a full commercial in that time, and I'd been loving cable TV again. While I fast-forward through commercials (automatic commercial skip is too unreliable), I sometimes saw something that grabbed my attention. In those cases, I usually watched at least a part of the commercial, and discovered a new product. Most often, though, I saved myself centuries (qualitatively speaking) of agony by not having to watch them.
When I got engaged, she and I had better things to do with our time than watch TV. Three weeks into our first month together, I realized that I hadn't missed TV at all, but was still paying $60/month for something I hardly used. I called Mediacom (the local cable company), and canceled the "service" last week.
At the same time, I subscribed to Netflix. For a fraction of the cost of cable, I have a vast choice of movies, a much smaller monthly bill, more reliable service, and a much happier experience overall experience.
When I first tried Hulu, it was an okay service. I had to sit through a couple 7-10 second commercials every half hour, but that wasn't too intolerable. Then Hulu started lengthening the commercials to 30 seconds. It was still not terribly intolerable, because there was usually only one of them every half hour. Then I started seeing two appear every half hour, and it became clear to me which direction Hulu was headed, so I stopped watching Hulu.
I'm at a point now where I watch TV only during tornadic weather, and only to watch the news coverage to track the storms. My fiancé and I watch one movie a night in bed before going to sleep, and that's it. We have freed ourselves from television, and we have advertisers' greed to thank for that. We don't miss TV one bit.
So, Nielson won't count online TV viewing unless its riddled with commercials. If Hulu ever starts to be counted, you can be sure that it has become a worthless service. As far as I'm concerned, it has already become a worthless service.
"We have freed ourselves from television, and we have advertisers' greed to thank for that. We don't miss TV one bit"
When it comes to fiancehood, past performance is not an indicator of future returns.
We are in desperate need of a refresh in how shows are rated. Networks rely on these statistics because they are the only thing they have to show to advertisers. With more TV viewing going online, a key demographic is not being represented fairly and as a result all of my favorite shows keep getting canceled. Arrested development, Firefly, etc. I think if demographics that view this content heavily online were counted, they would not have been so easy to cancel these shows.
This move is at least a step i
Networks rely on these statistics because they are the only thing they have to show to advertisers.
But the advertisers are only interested in statistics that involve viewers who view their ads. That's why Neilsen doesn't include TiVo and online viewing in the surveys.
I think if demographics that view this content heavily online were counted, they would not have been so easy to cancel these shows.
If the online viewership were able to pay as much as traditional advertising does, you'd have a decent argument.
Took an online survey about a year ago from Nielsen , first thing it wanted to do was download some software, an exe IIRC.
a no-go on linux.
I tried the survey in a VM windows instance and of course the file down loaded. Never did try too hard to find out what the
exe did, really didn't care that much, just reset the VM.
I have always assumed it was to measure my video viewing habits, but who knows?
No-one cares, people keep watching the services that they want to watch, the services keep making money through whatever channels they've always made, the content providers keep selling their content to whoever is dragging in the traffic?
Also, who is this Nielsen?
Great. Maybe now the dumbasses at NBC will take their stuff off Hulu, so I can watch it from outside the US, I always thought the US networks should make their shows available vie internet and sell targeted advertising embedded in the same video stream as the shows. Obviously ads for car dealerships in the US wouldn't be interesting to people in other countries, nor would those dealerships be all that interested in getting access to my eyes in a foreign country, but through the magic of teh intarwebz, th
The dirty little secret in TV is that you, the viewer, are not the customer. You're the product being sold. The advertiser is the customer. Neilsen conducts its measurements in order to discern how many people are exposed to the ads. That's why they leave out TiVo and online viewers - because the advertisers don't want to pay for those viewers, since they get no benefit from their viewing.
Air is water with holes in it.


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The Australian dollar backed off four-year highs versus the yen on Monday as markets waited with bated breath to see how far Japan's central bank would go to meet expectations of aggressive reflationary action.
Knowing the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has a habit of disappointing, investors booked some profits on recent hefty gains. The Aussie eased 0.5 per cent on the day to 94.22 yen , but remained close to Friday's peak of 95.02, a level not visited since 2008.
Facing relentless political pressure, the BoJ is expected to at least top up its asset-buying and lending programme by another 10 trillion yen and double its inflation target to 2 percent at its Jan 21-22 meeting.
Dealers, however, are cautious as anything less than radical would see the yen rally.
"The challenge for the BoJ is to surprise the markets with something beyond 2 percent and 10 trillion, but history suggests they come up with underwhelming responses," said David Scutt, a trader at Arab Bank Australia.
"(Should it be the case), it will be 'sell the fact' and 'sell the fact hard' given the recent (one-way) positioning," he said, seeing the Aussie test a double-bottom near 92.5 yen.
On the longer-term, however, Scutt said the Aussie's target was well and truly above 100 yen.
A sustained recovery in the Japanese economy would certainly be welcome by Australia, for whom Japan is a major export market. It would also bolstering global growth, trade and commodity prices.
Chart resistance for the dollar was seen at 95.45, the 76.4 per cent of the 55.0/107.9 move and around 77.86 yen for the kiwi.
With all eyes on the BoJ, the Antipodeans marked time against the US dollar. The Aussie edged up to $US1.0515, little changed from Friday's late local level, but within reach of a four-month peak around $US1.0600 set earlier this month.
Initial support was found at around $US1.0475/80, the 20-day moving average (MA), ahead of $US1.0460, the 55-day MA. Resistance was seen at $US1.0520.
The dollar shot up to multi-month highs against a floundering pound which plumbed to A$1.5056, its weakest since August.
Sterling has come under pressure across the board after weaker-than-expected retail sales data at home on Friday combined with fears of a return to recession with GDP figures due out on Friday.
It has skidded more than 3 per cent this year against each of the dollar and charts suggest further downside. The 5, 10- and 20-day MA point south with support seen at A$1.5000, the lower edge of the Ballinger band, ahead of A$1.4850.
Australian bond futures edged up with the three-year contract up 0.02 points to 97.220, and the 10-year contract 0.035 points higher at 96.650.
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CONCORD — Acclaimed songwriters (and longtime friends) Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin share the stage as an intimate duo, performing material spanning their vast catalogs as well as some of their favorite songs on Saturday, May 11, at 8 p.m.
Mary Chapin Carpenter has recorded 12 albums and has sold over 13 million records. With hits like 'Passionate Kisses' and 'He Thinks He'll Keep Her', Carpenter has won five Grammy Awards (with 15 nominations), two CMA awards, two Academy of Country Music Awards for her vocals and was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in October of 2012. Her songs speak to the most personal of life's details and the most universal. Ashes and Roses, the new album from Carpenter, was released June 12, 2012 by Zoë/Rounder. This is Carpenter's twelfth studio album and features a special duet with James Taylor on the track 'Soul Companion'.
Shawn Colvin has won three Grammy Awards, including two for the hit single 'Sunny Came Home', and has been nominated for another seven. She has released 10 albums, appeared on countless television and radio programs, had her songs featured in major motion pictures and created a remarkable canon of work. In June, Colvin released her eighth studio album, All Fall Down. Recorded in Nashville and produced by her longtime friend Buddy Miller, it features a group of stellar musicians including Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, Bill Frisell and Jakob Dylan. The album's release coincided with the publication of Shawn's memoir, Diamond In The Rough. Diamond in the Rough looks back over a rich lifetime of highs and lows with stunning insight and candor. In its pages we witness the inspiring story of a woman honing her artistry, finding her voice, and making herself whole.
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Last month, the Office of the Inspector General of the US Postal Service issued a white paperarguing that the agency "is well positioned to provide non-bank financial services to those whose needs are not being met by the traditional financial sector." The Postal Service wants to bolster its faltering finances, but the proposal's most prominent supporters, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, care more about improving financial access for the less fortunate.
I've read this script before. It's the story of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debacle, in which progressive legislators team up with financially ambitious government-created entities to start a supposedly win-win business that earns profits and helps the poor. That story ended in a multibillion-dollar bailout, and it's hard to be optimistic about a radical mission expansion for the Postal Service.
Like many 20th-century corporate behemoths, the post office's future business model is uncertain, and its legacy obligations are vast. Revenues from first-class mail shrank by almost 20 percent between 2008 and 2012, and the Postal Service's liabilities exceed its assets by about $40 billion. The service lost about $5 billion last year, which is at least an improvement over its $15 billion loss in 2012.
These losses include the approximately $5 billion or so that the post office must set aside annually to cover the future costs of current employees' retirement health benefits. The Postal Service deeply dislikes the pre-funding requirement. But as the Government Accountability Office notes, mail volumes and revenues are projected to keep declining, which can only make it harder over time for the Postal Service to pay the cost of its retiree health benefits. Declining companies — like people facing retirement — should be saving for leaner years ahead.
The natural path forward is for the post office to continue raising fees and cutting expenses. Speed is not the comparative advantage of first class mail relative to email. Congress should allow the Postal Service to reduce the number of delivery days. The Postal Regulatory Commission should allow permanent increases in the cost of first-class stamps. The post office can also consider money-making innovations that make good use of its core competencies, such as delivering packages on Sunday for Amazon.
But for the post office to enter an entirely different business — such as banking for the poor — is more likely to bring congressional allies than economic success. The inspector general's report notes that the average household underserved by conventional financial institutions spends $2,412 a year on interest and fees for alternative services. This is a troubling problem. But before we conclude that the Postal Service provides the natural solution, we must ask why market competition doesn't reduce banking costs for the less fortunate. After all, the post office is essentially arguing that there is a profit opportunity here that other, less perspicacious investors have missed.
The right-wing view is that the low-income population is costly to service and that high interest rates offset high rates of default. The left-wing view is that shifty lenders engage in unscrupulous practices that snare the underinformed. There is truth in both views, which is why the scrutiny that Massachusetts has placed on payday lending is entirely reasonable. Regulatory agencies should support nonprofit credit unions that want to engage more with the financially underserved, for these entities already know about lending.
The inspector general's report notes that the Postal Service already has offices in high-poverty areas and that postal offices in other countries offer banking services. Yet the presence of office space isn't much of an asset, because real estate in low-income areas is cheap. Far more important is the human capital — the knowledge and experience — needed to successfully lend to the poor, but the Postal Service has not developed such skills. Moreover, political pressure will make it difficult for the post office to ever collect on delinquent loans. Many foreign postal savings systems are deeply troubled, and our own post office shuttered its savings system, amid declining deposits, almost fifty years ago.
We must not simply ignore the past. The lesson of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is that when public entities do too much, they may gain congressional allies, but they also lose discipline and the ability to link costs and benefits. A politically palatable mission statement can lead congressional supporters to understate the risks of oceans of red ink. Senator Warren is right to crusade for better financial conditions for the poor, but expecting an already over-stretched postal agency to tackle this challenge is a mistake.Edward L. Glaeser, a Harvard economist, is director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.


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Rafael Nadal went through the pain barrier to reach his second successive final since returning from a serious knee injury by beating Martin Alund at the Brasil Open.
Nadal's 6-3 6-7(2) 6-1 victory sets up an intriguing final match-up against doubles partner David Nalbandian on Sunday.
Nadal made his return after nearly eight months at the VTR Open in Chile at the start of February but lost in the final to Horacio Zeballos.
The Spaniard then pulled out of the doubles draw with Nalbandian earlier in the week to save his knee for the singles and, given his complaints after his semi-final, it was a shrewd move.
"It was the worst day for my knee, and if the knee is not well it makes it very difficult to play,'' Nadal said.
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Something else to put in my "to buy" queue now....
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Well.. that episode was actually included in the Region 2 DVD set... so it'll naturally follow along into the Region 1 license distribution since they license the DVDs, not the television broadcasts.
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Has MediaBlasters released any of the dvds in the US yet? All i seem to be able to find are manga releases, and if so, what the heck? why are they hiding this information from me?!?! WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS??
sorry, just anxious to get my girls on disc finally!
and maybe free up some HD space... ^_^
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Kashimashi has been licensed and the DVDs are due to be released during the year.
Kashimashi - Girl Meets Girl - Vol 1: Role Reversal
Release date 12th June 2007
DVDPacific $12.50 (the retail price is $19.95)
There still appears to be some confusion over the exact details. AoD have listed the first (of 4) DVDs will be 125 minutes (i.e. 5 episodes) but this doesn't make much sense. The series is 13 eps (since the OVA will most likely be part of the license deal) and if there are 5 eps on the first DVD, then that means there will be only 8 eps over the next 3 DVDs. It's more likely that there is a mistake and there are either a total of 3 DVDs (for the 13 episodes, 5/4/4) or if there are 4 DVDs in total then the first DVD only contains 4 eps (4/3/3/3)
There is also the issue of the price ($20), most people have taken this to be a sure sign that the DVDs will be subtitle only, no English dub track.
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After looking for months I managed to find volume 1, in the only bookstore here that sells manga. Borders. It had been listed for a while as in shelf, but I could never find it, then it suddenly showed up in the new fiction section, volumes 2,3 are listed as special order, maybe they'll become normal too. It looked like they had at least sold one other book before I got mine. It was $23.95
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Here's another faux freakout from the right. An elementary school principal in New York said no to kindergartners singing Lee Greenwood's God Bless the USA at a graduation ceremony and the wingnuts are foaming at the mouth over it.
A controversial Coney Island principal has pulled the plug on patriotism.
Her refusal to let students sing "God Bless the USA" at their graduation has sparked fireworks at a school filled with proud immigrants.
Greta Hawkins, principal of PS 90, the Edna Cohen School, won't allow kindergartners to belt out the beloved Lee Greenwood ballad, also known as "Proud to be an American," at their moving-up ceremony.
It's bad enough that they have a graduation ceremony for kindergartners, which always seems silly to me, but even worse that they would have the kids sing that song. It's the single worst song ever written by practically every measure (yes, worse than Celine Dion's Titanic theme).
It was to be the rousing finale of their musical show at the June 20 commencement. The kids, dressed up for their big day, would wave tiny American flags — which, as the lyrics proclaim, "still stand for freedom."But Hawkins marched in on a recent rehearsal and ordered a CD playing the anthem to be shut off, staffers said.
She told the teachers to drop the song from the program.
"We don't want to offend other cultures," they quoted her as explaining.
The curt edict stunned both staff and parents.
"A lot of people fought to move to America to live freely, so that song should be sung with a whole lot of pride," said mom Luz Lozada, whose son, Daniel, is in kindergarten.
The song has been sung at previous school events. Last year's fifth-graders, including another Lozada child, performed it at graduation.
"Everybody applauded and whistled," the mom said. "They gave it a standing ovation."
Yes, I'm sure they did. Because they've been raised on the same kind of shallow, childish nationalism that we drum into the heads of children to make them respond emotionally rather than rationally whenever the government tells them we need to invade or bomb the next country full of dark-skinned people who've done nothing to harm or threaten us. And Lee Greenwood's song is a perfect way to send the message that you should not question your government or think too much about the country or the world.


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Thursday, September 23, 2010
Working too much to blog...
Hard work pays off some times. Here's the result of a couple of weeks of real focused grinding work in the salt mines. Six scandium frames will be in boxes tomorrow off to the heat treater along with a repaired team bike. These frames along with numerous repairs have made a September that really ran me down. I don't know how I'll have anything left to race cyclocross on Sundays but really, my job is to make fast bikes-not make my bike fast.....just the same, I'll still try !
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- Javier Daniel Valencia Vedoy said...
Hey Paul, when and where are the SC cx races? I was trying to find some info. I wanna race my lobster, dammit!
- September 24, 2010 at 6:49 PM
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go to cccx or surf city cyclocross sites. it's all online.
- September 25, 2010 at 8:19 AM
- Scott said...
I think I spy a funny toptube in there!
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Stocks edge lower as investors wait for the Fed
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NEW YORK — Stocks are edging lower in early trading on Wall Street as investors hold back ahead of a policy announcement from the Federal Reserve.
The Dow Jones industrial average was down 17 points, or 0.1 percent, at 15,301 in the first few minutes of trading Wednesday.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index was down two points, or 0.2 percent, at 1,649. Telecommunications stocks fell the most in index.
The Nasdaq composite index edged down three points, or 0.1 percent, to 3,478.
The Fed is winding up a two-day policy meeting. Traders hope the bank will clarify when it plans to slow down its bond-buying program.
Sprint Nextel fell 3.3 percent to $7.08 after Dish Network said it would not submit a new bid to take over the wireless carrier.
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Though the younger crowd has been aged, in order for them to legally frequent the nightclub Shelter, things in Llanview pick up six months after we last saw the show in January 2013…
David gives his reality cameraman instructions at Dorian's and addresses his Vicker Man fans. Dorian appears and shows David a newspaper article, which claims Dorian hid government documents. Dorian kicks out David's cameraman and insists she handed over the CIA documents.
Clint looks at Viki's engagement ring at Llanfair. Viki comments on its beauty then shows Clint The Banner's article. Dorian is at the center of yet another scandal. Nigel answers the door to Jeffrey King. Viki welcomes her freelance reporter and congratulates him on a job well done. Later, Dorian barges in and accuses Viki of clawing her in the back.
Natalie dresses in her apartment. Liam appears and hears his mom is heading to a big party. After Natalie puts Liam to bed, she gives the sitter instructions then leaves.
Tea wanders around what was to be her baby's nursery. Tea doesn't want to talk to Dani. After Dani leaves, Tea holds a teddy bear and sings to it.
Bo screams at Matthew at the loft. He holds out a plastic bag to Nora and says, "This is that damn Oxy crap." Matthew insists the drugs aren't his then leaves. He runs into Jeffrey on his way out and states, "Change of plans." Later, Clint arrives. Bo agrees to be his best man.
A man with a forearm tattoo runs through the empty Llanview streets. Someone catches up to him and strangles the man. From a limo in the vicinity Todd orders the driver to take him to Capricorn. The driver informs Todd the club is now called Shelter.
Cutter welcomes the crowd outside of Shelter. Destiny heads in first. Rama joins Cutter inside. Blair, who owns the club, joins a younger man who turns down her advances and says, "I'm not really into cougars." Todd arrives outside, holding a card with the same symbol as the dead man's tattoo. Natalie arrives, as does Dani and Jack. Dani, who's drunk, reminds Jack it's their dad's birthday. Natalie tries to blow Cutter off, but he grabs her. They heat up the dance floor. Rama interrupts, "We have a situation." Across the room, Dani joins Jeff, an old friend from London, and Matthew. Matthew tells Dani his dad took her Oxy. Dani hides when Tea appears and joins Blair. David appears outside, but isn't allowed in. A stranger follows Todd, as he pushes his way into the club - with David and his cameras close behind. The doormen chase Todd. Blair orders them to let Todd go. Suddenly, Dani passes out. Todd carries her out of Shelter, as the man following Todd privately reveals his face. It's Victor Lord Jr.!
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Since my two little brothers were born, I noticed how hard is to raise a child. How expensive it is and how much work it needs. My brothers are lucky. They have my mom and my dad who have a job to provide them food, vitamins, clothes and soon education. We were lucky to be born in a country where education is for everyone, where I don't have to worry about getting killed on my way to school. But not everyone is that lucky. Still I believe that the chance to survive and have a childhood is a right owed to every child.
In 1990 12.4 million children under the age of 5 died from causes that are preventable. Causes like AIDS/HIV, hunger, dirty water and violence.This number has reduced to 6.9 million in 2011, but it's still not enough. We have the power to change this number to zero. To make sure that these kids make their dreams come true. That one day they'll grow up and have their own families. If we come together, we can reach our goal. Zero immortality from preventable causes. Because I believe in zero.


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CORTLAND – Cortland Township residents will gather today to vote on whether to pursue legal action in an attempt to stop the landfill expansion planned by Waste Management.
At 7 p.m. today at the Cortland Township offices, 14 S. Prairie St., all registered voters in Cortland Township are invited to vote on whether there should be a tax levy to cover an estimated $60,000 in legal costs to seek an injunction against Waste Management.
Opponents of the landfill expansion hope a judge will provide a favorable interpretation of a statute that could give townships authority to control garbage disposal within its own boundaries.
The DeKalb County Board superseded the township's vote against the landfill expansion almost three years ago.
Frankie Benson, organizer of the special meeting, said she did not know the exact motions that would be voted on as wording could always change and more items could be added.
The two proposed action items read as follows: To authorize the township electors to assess a special levy to all township parcel owners to cover the legal costs of the above authorization and to retain the firm of Jeep & Blazer; and to authorize the township electors to open a special account for donations towards legal expenses.
Benson said the special account would assist in covering legal costs should voters pursue action.
Cortland Town President Robert Seyller said while he and many in Cortland have never been in favor of the expansion, there is little that can be done to stop it.
He said the town was voiceless in the process, which is why he reached out to Waste Management and secured benefits for Cortland should an expansion go through.
The town would receive roughly $1 million for projects the taxpayers would not have to fund and roughly $30,000 for firefighter training related to potential landfill emergencies.
Seyller said the town also was able to negotiate an increase in the protection zone from a half-mile to one mile for property value protection and stricter well-water monitoring.
"The general public thinks we somehow have the ability to say no, but we had absolutely no control or voice in the process," Seyller said. "We basically got run over by a bus and backed over a couple times to show we have no voice."
Benson, however, has not given up the fight. She encouraged all township residents to come out, discuss the issue and vote. She said those who do come out should be prepared for cold conditions because of poor heating in the facility.
"I hope as many Cortland Township electors come to the special meeting as possible. We need to hear from each other," she said. "It will be very cold and we will do our best with heat but everyone should bundle up."
If voters choose not to challenge the expansion, Waste Management would be closer to growing its landfill to accept garbage from 17 other counties including Cook. The additional garbage would generate enough revenue to fund the $27 million DeKalb County Jail expansion.


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A new Ventra problem emerged Thursday in connection with the commuter benefits program, which offers tax advantages to employers and their employees to pay for transit fares using pretax income. Employees who formerly had their pretax money loaded onto Chicago Cards are now being transitioned to Ventra cards.
But Thursday's debut of the Ventra commuter benefits website included instances of employees being associated with the wrong employers, several company administrators told the Tribune.
"I kept clicking and finally got my company,'' an administrator for a Chicago-based software company emailed to the Tribune. "But how is company information being safeguarded? If I can see someone else's information, then other administrators can see mine?"
CTA spokeswoman Tammy Chase confirmed that the transit agency received calls from "a few employers'' on the issue. A preliminary analysis indicates that no employer or employee information was compromised, she said.
But asked specifically by the Tribune whether employees' Social Security numbers and other private information was breached, Chase responded: "We contacted Cubic, because it is their website and they are in the process of resolving the issue.''
Cubic Transportation Systems Inc., is the Ventra contractor. Cubic's policy is to refer all media questions on Ventra to the CTA, Cubic spokeswoman Kim Gregory said.