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Ignatian Foundations Course Catalog
The Ignatian Spirituality Institute regularly offers the following course themes as part of Ignatian Foundations. Courses are offered at Montserrat Retreat House and at local parishes and churches. The course schedules can be found on the ISI Calendar, and upcoming courses are always listed on the homepage. Contact ISI if you would like for ISI to offer a course at your parish or church.
Igniting the Fire: Principles in Ignatian Spirituality
Igniting the Fire is a series of presentations on foundational principles of Ignatian Spirituality. The series is typically offered by different presenters and explores key aspects of Ignatian spirituality, including the manner Master Ignatius original perspective, development through the years, and our understanding today.
Ignatian Ways of Prayer and Praying
In the Spiritual Exercises, Master Ignatius invites persons to prayer using different frames and structures for praying. Prayer, as Ignatius knew, leads to deeper intimacy and ongoing relationship with God Our Lord. These course sessions explore ways of praying in an Ignatian manner. The sessions will also explore the practice of Ignatian noting of prayer, the recording of what happened and why it matters in daily life. The goal of the ISI courses on prayer and praying is to help participants deepen their own prayer experience, identify their desires and movements in prayer, find out why it matters in their daily life, and better understand how to live out of a life of prayer.
The Examen
St. Ignatius of Loyola believed the Examen prayer should be the most important fifteen minutes of a person's day, every day. The Examen is purposefully short and is prayed when most convenient in a person's day. The ISI course on The Examen explores purposes and benefits of developing this important prayer habit, and offers the practice of doing it.
Discernment of Spirits
Master Ignatius opened an understanding to what happenes in prayer and life. What are the invitations and distractions we experience and what might we learn from the experiences we note? The ISI courses on discernment of spirits unpack the experiences of consolation and desolation, as well as the causes and meaning of both.
Meet Master Ignatius and the Jesuit Saints
St Ignatius life and thought is the foundation of Ignatian spirituality and many Jesuit saints have handed on this spirituality into our present day. ISI offers courses to introduce Master Ignatius and his companions through the years. The courses follow the experiences of these Saints and why those experiences remain important to us today who are now passing on Ignatian spirituality to others.
Discernment in everyday life
Pope Francis urges us to pay attention to the three languages of daily living: head, heart, and hands. "The Gospel offers us a serene way forward: using the three languages of the mind, heart and hands – and to use them in harmony. What you think, you must feel and put into effect. Your information comes down to your heart and you put it into practice. What you think, you feel and you do. Feel what you think and feel what you do. Do what you think and what you feel." Discernment in everyday life explores the manner of living out a mindset and heartset as follower and friend of Jesus Christ in the thousands of decisions we make everyday.
Virtues in the Spiritual Exercises
"For just as taking a walk, journeying on foot, and running are bodily exercises, so we call Spiritual Exercises every way of perparing and disposing the soul to rid itself of all indordinate attachments, and, after their removal, of seeking and finding the will of God in the disposition of our life for the salvation of our soul." SpEx 1. ISI offers courses to help promote the growth of virtue in daily living. Virtue that rids of bad habits and promote good ones, so we are able to find God in all things.
Spiritual Maturity
The Spiritual Exercises lead a person to freedom in life and faith. Spiritual maturity explores how that freedom is lived out in the mature disciple. The course explores how the mature disciple stands in the chaos of our days, the push and pulls of life, and transforms the chaos and tension rather than transmit it.
Finding Christ in the world
This twelve week ignatian retreat in daily life is offered to small groups in parishes, churches, and at Montserrat. Participants pray daily with given materials and meet weekly in small groups to discover what happened in life and prayer. ISI brings companions and guides who meet with the small groups to support, encourage, and help the journey.


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He sings and tells Winfrey about his life, pre-Idol and after
It's hardly like Adam Lambert to be anything but upfront, so the recent mystery about his possible appearing with Oprah Winfrey on her show was a bit baffling. But baffle no more.
While the American Idol sensation addressed the rumors and Twittered last Thursday, "Oprah: def true," word from the Winfrey camp reached PEOPLE to say that the 27-year-old and the media queen taped their interview Wednesday at the Harpo Studios in Chicago. The show will air Tuesday, Jan. 19.
In the course of their sit-down, Lambert – sporting a new haircut – touched upon Simon Cowell's announced departure from Idol and its possible ramifications for the show, what life was like for him both pre-Idol and after, and his controversial performance at the American Music Awards.
The singer also performed "Whataya Want from Me" from his new album For Your Entertainment. Also on the Oprah Winfrey Show with Adam: chart-topper Susan Boyle.
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Drug Interactions With Pindolol
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It takes a certain nuance to be able to take a reflective look back and still maintain your forward trajectory. On a steamy Nashville summer night, Derek Webb embodied that dance perfectly as he celebrated the last show in his current tour commemorating the 10th anniversary of his debut solo album, She Must and Shall Go Free. Foregoing sheer nostalgia for a meditative "A lot changes in 10 years and a lot stays the same" attitude, Derek played through the entirety of the album and used his wise and witty between song banter to continually encourage and provoke, as well as speak fondly of the songs and songwriters that helped to craft the album. Derek reserved the lion's share of the praise for his tour mate Kenny Meeks, who originally co-produced the album with Derek and was also expertly handling electric guitar duties for this tour.
Derek kicked things off by playing the A-side of the album first - taking a moment to explain to the younger members of the audience what an A-side actually is. Even 10 years on, songs like "Nobody Loves Me," "Lover," and "Wedding Dress" rattle and resonate with so much freshness, truth, and significance that they sound as if they were just written. Derek's ability to play them with such intensity kept any stale "retrospective run-through" fears at bay as well. His booming voice was in its full roar/rasp glory and the swagger and sway of his Dylanesque "Nothing (Without You)" was my personal highlight of the side one set.
After the opening six songs, Derek took a little break for Kenny Meeks to play a few of his own songs. Kenny's rootsy, Americana guitar playing style really helped shaped the tasty tone of She Must and Shall Go Free and his own songs carry that killer vibe as well. Kenny does more within the first five frets than most guitarists can do with the entire fretboard. His twangy, tremoloed guitar playing fluidly backdropped his songs "Lonely Road," "Unfaded," and "We're Gonna Rise." In Derek's words, he essentially "just borrowed Kenny's sound" for She Must and Shall Go Free. So if you enjoyed the record, you'll enjoy Kenny's solo work as well.
Before jumping into the back half of the album, Derek asked for any requests. After the unavoidable barrage of simultaneous outbursts, Derek managed to pluck a couple of the understandable ones. "Mockingbird" and a poignant "Love Is Not Against the Law" made the cut, with the latter filling the room with an incredible atmosphere of reassurance and optimism. Derek then spoke of his upcoming album, I Was Wrong, I'm Sorry, and I Love You, and explained how it was essentially a follow-up to She Must and Shall Go Free in trying to answer again the questions of "What is our role in the Church?" and "What is the Church's role in our culture?" As always, those looking for clichéd, easy answers will be sorely disappointed. Derek's confessional words on cynicism vs. hope were wrapped up in his self-described "protest song against myself," "Everything Will Change." I Was Wrong, I'm Sorry, and I Love You will be released September 3 and you should definitely go ahead and mark your calendars now.
Diving into the B-side of She Must and Shall Go Free, Kenny returned to join Derek in "Awake My Soul," a song written by Derek's uber-talented wife Sandra McCracken. Kenny's instrumental influence was felt most between this song and the next - "Saint and Sinner" - as he weaved one slinky guitar line after the next into all of the sonic spaces. Next up was "Beloved," which is one of those songs that simultaneously destroys me and builds me back up every time I hear it. It's probably my favorite moment on the album and it was probably my favorite moment of the night. Really, really fantastic stuff. Derek then launched into "Crooked Deep Down" - his song about "you, me, Mother Theresa and Charles Manson" – and I swear I saw a couple folks trying to contain themselves from getting up and dancing. That is the essence of a Derek Webb show for you – incredible songs, laughs, introspection, discomfort, hope and a possible dance party. As with the album, Derek closed the show out with a musical thesis statement. As important today as ever, "The Church" is a constant reminder that it's impossible to be "apart from" and "a part of" anything at the same time. It was quite an experience to have a ten-years-ago album hit just as hard as it did the first time, especially without feeling like you'd have to "revisit" your ten-years-ago self to make it happen. Derek carefully marked the milestone by bringing the album forward, instead of just going back to get it. The more and more these types of "album in its entirety" concerts are being performed by other artists, the more they should take their cues from Derek's approach.
I Was Wrong, I'm Sorry, and I Love You will be released September 3 and you can stream the amazing title track here.
- "Nobody Loves Me"
- "She Must and Shall Go Free"
- "Take to the World"
- "Nothing (Without You)"
- "Lover"
- "Wedding Dress"
- "Lonely Road" (Kenny Meeks)
- "Unfaded" (Kenny Meeks)
- "We're Gonna Rise" (Kenny Meeks)
- "Mockingbird" (Derek Webb)
- "Love is Not Against the Law" (Derek Webb)
- "Everything Will Change" (Derek Webb)
- "Awake My Soul"
- "Saint and Sinner"
- "Beloved"
- "Crooked Deep Down"
- "The Church"
Friday, June 21, 2013
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Jack Johnson @ Third Man Records (Concert Review)
Before Jack Johnson's last minute "saves the day" addition to Bonnaroo's Saturday night line-up to replace an ailing Mumford and Sons, he stopped by Nashville's Third Man Records for a super special "live show recording meets breakfast" engagement like only Third Man can pull off. While a concert set for a Saturday morning may be a recipe for disaster for most bands, Jack's laid back, sun-soaked tunes provided the perfect soundtrack for the all-ages, family friendly audience. That's right, the room was full of bright-eyed and bushy-tailed kiddos - along with their not-quite-as-bright-eyed parents - dancing and singing along to every song.
However, it wasn't just the pre-show donuts and coffee or the pint-sized audience members that made this show extra unique. Third Man was also recording Jack and his band directly to acetate disc, an analog recording process that delivers superior sound quality by cutting directly to a master disc. Audience members could watch this process unfolding in two ways – through the large window just off the right side of the stage that looks directly into the recording lab or via a television monitor capturing a live feed of the lab. As with almost all live shows in Third Man's Blue Room, the concert was being recorded for a vinyl release, including the exclusive black-and-blue version that was included with ticket purchases. Like I said, super special experience on all fronts.
Now, on to the actual show…
Because of the unique process of recording directly to acetate – meaning no cuts, overdubs or "fixes" – Jack and his band opened up with an unrecorded "Inaudible Melodies" to get the proper levels and sounds. This fan favorite got the crowd immediately invested, as it turned out to be the first of many sing-a-longs featured in the set. After the "all good' signal from the lab technicians – looking very Willy Wonka-esque in their TMR-branded lab coats – Jack opened the recorded portion of the show with "Banana Pancakes" to an extremely enthusiastic response. If anyone thought the kids in attendance would only know stuff from Jack's contributions to the Curious George soundtrack, the reaction to this bouncy track from his In Between Dreams album proved them wrong. In fact, Jack's decision to feature a few songs from that album went over really well as songs like "Do You Remember," "Good People," and "Better Together" seemed to get some of the loudest background vocals from the audience. He also delighted the crowd with a few songs from his upcoming album, From Here to Now to You (releasing September 17), including "Radiate," "As I Was Saying" and "I Got You," which featured him swapping out his trusty acoustic for a gorgeous sounding nylon-string guitar. Appropriately enough, he also played his cover of The White Stripes' "We're Going To Be Friends," endearing himself even more to the audience and playfully paying homage to the man whose room he was playing in.
After running through six songs for Side A of the vinyl, switching out the acetate disc, and running through six more songs for Side B, Jack then coolly asked the crowd if they minded if the band practiced a few more songs for that night's Bonnaroo performance. After an approving roar from the audience, Jack and his band played through a spirited "Flake" (my personal favorite of his), a laid-back "Breakdown" (thanks to a ukulele surprisingly furnished by an audience member), and a touching "Hope" to poignantly cap the show off. Between the fantastic music, the charming child-like enthusiasm from the child-filled crowd, and all of the special little extras provided by Jack Johnson and the fine folks at Third Man, it ended up feeling like more than just a cool show, it was a one-of-a-kind experience that won't soon be forgotten, Especially since there's some tasty sounding (and looking) vinyl waiting to be pressed and then enjoyed for years to come.
Set List:
- "Inaudible Melodies" (not recorded)
- "Banana Pancakes"
- "Same Girl"
- "Radiate"
- "Do You Remember"
- "I Got You"
- "Good People"
- "As I Was Saying"
- "We're Going To Be Friends"
- "Home"
- "Mudfootball"
- "Upside Down"
- "Better Together"
- "Flake" (not recorded)
- "Breakdown" (not recorded)
- "Hope" (not recorded)
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Interview with Aoife O'Donovan
(Here's my most recent article for CMT Edge.)
The old adage that you never get a second chance to make a good first impression is never truer than in the context of an artist's inaugural album. In the case of Aoife O'Donovan's sophisticated solo debut album, Fossils, it's clear no second chances will be needed.
While she has already tasted success with a wide variety of collaborations, guest spots and songwriting cuts, Fossils proves the talented singer-songwriter is more than just a strong link in the chain of other artists. With the help of producer Tucker Martine (My Morning Jacket, the Decemberists), she has crafted her own strong collection of stirring, soulful stories and relaxed, rootsy rockers.
CMT Edge spoke with Aoife (her common Irish name is pronounced "ee-fah") about going solo, Martine's influence and the night she performed Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska in its entirety.
CMT Edge: First off, congratulations on Fossils being named as one of the summer's "must-hear albums" by Rolling Stone.
O'Donovan: Yeah, I'm pretty honored that Rolling Stone picked it. It's pretty bizarre! However, they did misspell my name. (laughs) You can't win them all!
Between being in the bands Crooked Still and Sometymes Why and your slew of guest appearances, you're no stranger to the recording process. This time around, though, was it a different experience recording your own album?
Absolutely. Being part of a band or being a guest artist on an album is a very different thing than making your own album. It's knowing at the end of the day that the final decision is pretty much up to just you and the producer. It was such an incredible experience getting to go into the studio and record 10 of my original songs. I was incredibly pleased with the results.
What exactly was it that drew you to choosing Tucker Martine as producer?
I first heard Tucker's production on Sarah Siskind's album Covered that came out about 10 years ago. I was totally blown away by the sounds that he got and the way that her voice fit into the mix in this way that I hadn't really heard before, especially on singer-songwriter records.
Then, a friend of mine in Nashville gave me a Laura Veirs record, and that was a game-changer for me. It was Year of Meteors, and I love that album. Again, Tucker's production.
When I first heard Abigail Washburn's album City of Refuge, I listened to it on repeat for three days straight. Tucker has this ability to draw a singer and the song out of where you think it's going to go and point it into a new place.
The opening track on Fossils is "Lay My Burden Down," a song of yours that was recorded by Alison Krauss. Can you describe the good fortune of having your song interpreted by a legend and then also getting to record your own version?
When I found out that Alison was going to record that song, I just had to pinch myself daily for a while. (laughs) I feel like for many people — and even for me — her version will be the definitive version of the song. It's so beautiful and so plaintive, and she sings it so well.
When I decided to record it on my own album, it was kind of at Tucker's insistence. I was thinking, "Alison already did it, and how could I ever top that?" He said, "We're not going to try and top it. We're just going to fit it into this record." It's a song that means a lot to me, and so we found a little bit of a different angle for our version of the tune. I think we took it into a little bit more of a happier place. Plus, that baritone electric guitar solo is one of my favorite moments on the album.
You've been a guest on albums by Noam Pikelny and Sara Watkins, as well as The Goat Rodeo Sessions with Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Yo-Yo Ma and Chris Thile. How does it feel to be on the other end and have folks like Dave Douglas and Sam Amidon guesting on your album?
It feels like it makes total sense. (laughs) I got to make a record with Dave Douglas last year, and it just seems so fitting that he would get to contribute his beautiful horn playing on "Thursday's Child."
Sam Amidon is a really old friend of mine. I've known him for over a decade, but we've never really worked together formally. He happened to randomly be in Portland at the time we were recording, and I thought, "We should get Sam in here to sing on 'Briar Rose.'" It was really last minute, and I love those little things that really make an album special.
I first came in contact with your solo work a couple of years ago when you covered Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska album during one of your Monday night residency shows at Rockwood Music Hall in New York City. As it's one of my all-time favorite albums, I'm curious what impactNebraska had on you and how you came about choosing to cover it in its entirety?
I never went through a Bruce Springsteen phase, but I did grow up listening to a lot of folk music. Somewhere down the line, I got a copy of Nebraska and sat down and listened to it all the way through and really took in the lyrics. I was like, "This is it." The character-driven song is hard to do well, but Bruce Springsteen is the ultimate at it.
I decided to cover the whole record when I was doing the residency, and I was thinking of things to do that would be cool. I learned all the songs on guitar and did the album from start to finish in jeans and a white T-shirt while drinking a Budweiser. It was a really fun night!
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Focus on your search
The first one is to create and share meaningful content. In fact, it is the best bet for any business for attracting and sustaining new followers to grow their business. Mashable spoke with some leading social brands few weeks back, asking the companies about their strategies for finding new customers as well as to connect with their existing customers. This social media news blog found that it is essential to keep a track of the social media behavior of your brands. Every day, more than 340 million tweets are sent and a few of them are likely to refer your brand without you noticing them. McKee Floyd, Sweetgreen's director of brand development says, "Just because chatter on social media channels isn't mentioning your brand by handle or hashtag doesn't mean it isn't happening."
Thus, you need to be proactive. One of the best ways to keep a track of what people are saying about your brand on the popular social channels is to set up notification for searches and mentions for your brand or relevant keywords. You can use the personal social browsers like TweetDeck to pull tweets and Facebook mentions, even if the users are not using the hashtag.
The key here is to start monitoring all of your brand or related keyword mentions religiously. While monitoring the mentions about your brand helps to know what people are saying about your company, monitoring relevant keywords specific to your business will help you to understand the need of the people as well as the market trend. Based on such information you can create strategies to cultivate a new audience, attracting them with your new offers and products that address their needs and demands.
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Nothing interests customers like the freebies and contests are one of the best ways to offer your giveaways. Better yet, contents are great to boost your user engagements. However, you need to be strategic about your offerings. While discussing one of their contests, Natasha Khan, the social media manager of ModCloth said, "The social actions surrounding that event brought in thousands of new fans, which we otherwise would not have gained."
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Research strongly shows that the longer someone is engaged in treatment, the better their chances are of long-term, successful recovery. It is fairly simple to keep someone on track with regular accountability. It is also fairly easy to get off-track without it. Alumni from The Meadows and intensive outpatient programs (IOP) can now attend weekly Recovery Enhancement Group meetings to focus on:
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The first hour of the meeting is peer-led and monitored by a licensed Meadows therapist. For the second hour, the group joins the IOP group meeting to demonstrate that ongoing recovery is possible. Meetings are held every Thursday from 10 a.m to Noon, and from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Contact the Meadows Outpatient Center at 928-668-4999.
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I call it Preventive Self-Help! Over the past 8 years, I'm sure if you combine all of the tangible books, as well as all the articles I've read online, I must have read at least 250-300 books. In just one 250-300 page book, there are approximately 55,000 words. Times that by 250 books and I have deliberately registered about 13,750,000 words into my brain. Out of these 250 books, I've only read about 5 fiction novels and the rest were self help. So that means that 13,475,000 of those words were directly aimed at improving my life. That also means that I have that many words to draw on, to help me in any given situation I find myself in.
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To Lev Steinberg, it seemed like a good place to park his nest egg.
Puerto Rico bonds offered high returns and tax-free income. And there was little chance, his broker assured him, that the government would default on its debt.
So Mr. Steinberg went all in, investing more than 85 percent of his retirement savings in funds with large concentrations of Puerto Rico bonds.
"They told me this was safe," said Mr. Steinberg, a 64-year-old mathematics professor at the University of Puerto Rico, "that the legal protections to repay the bonds were strong."
As it turns out, the bonds were far from safe.
Puerto Rico officials now say the government cannot afford to pay its $72 billion in debt. And last week, the government defaulted on a bond payment for the first time since the island came under the jurisdiction of the United States nearly 117 years ago.
More indebted than any American state by some measures, Puerto Rico sold its bonds far and wide, to everyone from wealthy Midwesterners to New York hedge funds. But more than 20 percent of the government debt is owned locally. And as values have plunged, some of the most intense pain is being felt by the tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans who bet much of their savings on the bonds.
"These are doctors, stay-at-home moms, teachers, older people, young people," said Jeffrey B. Kaplan, a Miami lawyer whose firm represents more than 150 Puerto Rico bond investors. "And now they have all their eggs in one basket."
How so many ordinary Puerto Ricans came to shoulder such a large share of the island's debt can be explained by a confluence of factors: a local government desperate to borrow money, banks collecting fees for selling the bonds, and brokers encouraging residents to buy them.
Even some of the riskier debt, which previous administrations had difficulty selling to investors in the rest of the United States, found a home in the investment accounts of ordinary Puerto Ricans, according to former finance officials.
It was not just residents who were loading up on the bonds. The island's 116 credit unions, which serve many poor and rural communities, also became big buyers after local regulators allowed these small lenders to take more risks with their investments.
A government spokeswoman says many locally owned bonds are insured, which could help limit losses. But already, individual investors have seen big hits to their retirement portfolios. At the same time, taxes have gone up and business has slowed in the face of a nine-year recession on the island.
Even when signs of a coming crisis seemed obvious to some analysts, local residents kept buying their government's bonds.
A big source of that demand was a series of uniquely structured bond funds that were required to have two-thirds of their holdings in Puerto Rico investments, including government bonds and other forms of locally issued debt. The funds were an easy sell for brokers working for large banks like the Swiss bank UBS and Banco Popular of Puerto Rico because they were exempt from local taxes.
The funds could not be sold on the mainland United States because they did not follow federal investment rules, which, among other things, limit how much leverage, or borrowed money, the funds could use to buy bonds. Exempt from the federal rules, the Puerto Rico funds ramped up their leverage. In good times, the leverage strengthened returns. But it magnified losses when bond prices fell.
Still, investors like Jose Castrodad, a private-school operator in a mountainous town on the island, said he ended up sinking most of his retirement assets in UBS Puerto Rico funds.
So did his wife, his son, his sister-in-law and his 84-year-old mother-in-law.
The bond funds were not just used as nest eggs. When Mr. Castrodad's sister-in-law needed cash for a medical procedure, her UBS broker persuaded her to take out a loan using her investment funds as collateral, according to a claim her family filed against UBS with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
"This was like the bubble in mortgages," Mr. Castrodad said.
The UBS funds were avid buyers of many government bonds, including those like pension obligation bonds that are now experiencing some of the biggest losses.
In 2008, with the island's retirement system facing a big shortfall, the government sold about $3 billion in bonds to plug the hole.
Ideally, the pension funds' returns exceed the interest rate on the bonds, making more cash available to pay the benefits of public workers.
The bonds used for this kind of arbitrage are typically not eligible for tax exemption in the United States, making them a tougher sell on the mainland.
But for island investors in the Puerto Rico funds, income from the pension bonds was free from local taxes.
One UBS Puerto Rico fund has about 45 percent of its holdings in pension bonds, according to fund documents. Today, the bonds trade for as little as 18 cents on the dollar.
"There is no question that some of the most toxic, radioactive debt got dumped into these funds," said Andrew Stoltmann, a lawyer representing Mr. Steinberg, the math professor.
Another Puerto Rico resident, Georgina Velez Montes, and a group of other investors have filed a class-action lawsuit against UBS in Federal District Court in New York claiming the bank steered them into the funds because of the high fees the brokers were earning. The lawsuit notes that even as UBS brokers were being paid by people like Ms. Velez Montes to buy the bonds for their investment accounts, UBS's investment bankers were being paid by the government to sell the bonds.
In court documents, UBS said that investors were told about the risks in the fund documents, which also explained the high concentrations of Puerto Rico bonds and the fact that the bank was sometimes acting as both seller and buyer.
"For more than 20 years, including through significant downturns in U.S. markets, investors in UBS's Puerto Rico municipal bonds and closed-end funds received excellent returns that frequently exceeded the returns available through investments in other bonds or bond funds," the bank said in a statement.
Credit unions in Puerto Rico were also attracted to those high returns and are now paying the price. Until 2009, the credit unions could invest only in the highest-rated bonds. But local regulators made an exception as long as the credit unions invested in Puerto Rico bonds.
As a result, the credit unions went from owning zero Puerto Rico bonds to holding about $1.1 billion worth today. And nearly half of the credit unions' holdings is concentrated in debt issued by the island's Government Development Bank, which has served as an emergency source of cash for the commonwealth. Because of concerns that the Government Development Bank may soon default, its debt trades as low as 29 cents on the dollar — raising fears in banking circles that losses on the credit unions' holdings could force some credit unions to limit their lending.
A local banking regulator, Daniel Rodríguez Collazo, said the credit unions had enough cash to absorb any blow. Still, they are working with the government to restructure their holdings in ways that would minimize their losses.
"We are prepared," said Mr. Rodríguez Collazo, who is president of the Corporation for the Supervision and Insurance of Cooperatives, which oversees the credit unions. "We have our reserves. We have our liquidity."
But Mr. Steinberg was not prepared for this.
He made his first investments in the UBS bond funds in 2005, totaling $70,000. Over the years, he would regularly reinvest his dividends from the bonds. He transferred his annuities there, too.
In March 2012, Mr. Steinberg moved over $100,000 from his savings account, increasing his investments in the bond funds to $248,325.
A few months later, as the economic crisis in Puerto Rico intensified and bond value dropped, he checked his account balance. "The $100,000 was gone," he said.
Mr. Steinberg had plans to retire in the next few years and buy a house in the mainland United States to be closer to his children. But with his savings in a shambles, he will have to keep working.
"I am a mathematician. I am not very good in this type of business," he said. "They told me this was the best place to put my money, and I trusted them."


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[Ernst Jandl (and Michael Horovitz) at the International Poetry Incarnation at The Royal Albert Hall in London, 1965]
AG: There's a film actually...
Student (CC): Wholly Communion. Yeah, I've seen it. It's around town
AG: In fact, we might try and get (it).. because the (Ernst) Jandl is on it, the Jandl (collaborative) piece is on it. Nineteen sixty-five..
Student (CC): It is..
AG: … (a) poetry reading in (London's) Albert Hall. Then...
Student (CC): Wholly Communion - W-H-O-L-L-Y Communion
Student: (There's another one)
AG: Pardon me?
Student: They had another one, "Poets Against the Bomb", at the Albert Hall…
AG: Yes, that poetry reading in (the) Albert Hall was started in (19)65, on this occasion. It was a big deal.
Student: Oh, it's an annual (event) now?
AG: No, they have an annual.. they have a big.. actually the British Government… (this) was something that was organized by local friends of.. John Lennon's, and bookstores, and little Beatniks in London, and it was Alex Trocchi who was one of the readers, myself, Gregory Corso (Lawrence) Ferlinghetti - we were all in Europe then. Then we got European poets. Andrei Voznesensky was there. Indira Gandhi sat in the balcony and listened for the whole evening (which was three-and-a-half hours!). (Bob) Dylan had just been there and played (the) Albert Hall, actually. So it was a great, great moment in England, of the Renaissance, of the Beatles (the Beatles were around and The Beatles provided some of the money to get (the) Albert Hall for us. Who else among the poets? - Harry Fainlight (who was an English-American poet), Simon Vinkenoog (of Amsterdam). ..
So all of this continues. Same. Ever since then the British Government [Arts Council] (has) had an annual poetry festival in Queen Elizabeth Hall, (but) much more formal. And then they dropped it a couple of years ago, and then Michael Horovitz, (who was originally from the Albert Hall thing) had a.. what was that that Gregory Corso went to last year, in Westminster Abbey, that got a write up, I think, in the International (Herald) Tribune? [editorial note - "Poetry Olympics" was the name of the event, launched in September 1980 by Horovitz from the "Poets Corner" at Westminster Abbey with a reading featuring, alongside Corso, Stephen Spender, Derek Walcott, Anne Stevenson, Linton Kwesi Johnson, and others. Subsequent "Poetry Olympics" have taken place in the intervening years].
And this October [Allen is speaking in 1981] there's supposed to be, sponsored by UNESCO in Paris, a poetry reading called "War Against War", organized by Jean-Jacques Lebel, who's a French activist hippie (he was involved in 1968 rock-throwing against the cops in the Paris uprising, he translated "Howl" and is a friend of (Lawrence) Ferlinghetti) . So he's organizing, with UNESCO, an international poetry-reading - but mostly African poets (they invited me and they invited (Andrei) Voznesensky and one Englishman, I think, but it'll be mostly Asian and African poets, as a "war against war", poetry against war. So there's always been that tradition of big international… [editorial note - Allen omits (unintentionally, for sure) the pioneering work of Benn Posset in Amsterdam and his One World Poetry]
Student: How many people would attend?
AG: At Albert Hall? There were seven thousand people, the place was packed, they had to turn people away, as many as could get in. It was a sell-out. (Bob) Dylan was astounded. He said "You sold out Albert Hall? I don't believe it". Because he (previously) had done it.
Student: Was he there?
AG: No, he wasn't there. He had just left. But he had just played Albert Hall and was following what was going on. About two years later, he was laying that trip - "Poetry was able to sell-out the Albert Hall? You got something there. You got good business there". Impressed him, anyway.
And there were larger readings, actually, I think in Hyde Park, there had been larger readings [editorial note - Allen is, perhaps, confused here]. That led to a whole series of free readings, like, a few months later, I think, or just around that time, [editorial note: Allen is referring here to the Rolling Stones free Hyde Park concert that, in fact, took place three years later] Mick Jagger gave a giant free concert and recited (Percy Bysshe) Shelley's "Adonais", in memorial to Brian Jones who died, yes, yeah, dressed in a skirt or something.. Odd days, those days…
[Mick Jagger reads the opening stanza of Shelley's Adonais in Hyde Park, London, 1968]
So back to.. but what's interesting [in Schwitters, Jandl, etc] is the sound poem and this kind of Dada approach - humor as well as common sense (as you'll [also] find in (Velimir) Khlebnikov, lots of common sense, like that poem, "I opened my shirt and gave air to the multitudes. And that was my revolution". There's a lot of strange common sense in Khlebnikov).
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RIP Brent Grulke- a friend of music, a listener of life
Posted by mcorcoran on August 13, 2012
Brent Grulke was a music man. He bought tons of records and worked with bands and eventually rose through the ranks of South By Southwest to become creative director in the mid-'90s. The reason that 2,000 acts play SXSW every year, instead of a more manageable 700 or 800 is, in part, because Grulke just wanted more, more, more when it came to music. "Playing music is a noble calling," he said at least once. It was a credo that guided him, professionally and leisurely.
Brent died Monday morning and the shock is still with those of us who knew his gentle soul. He was having oral surgery at the dentist office, a family friend told me, when he went into cardiac arrest. They worked on him for two hours, but he didn't pull through. He leaves a lovely wife Kristen and a precious six-year-old son. And his brothers Brad and Brian, who were so proud of Brent for making a good living following a passion that didn't pay shit in the early years.
Back around 1984, Grulke spent his last dollar co-producing an album called "Bands On the Block" that documented not only the so-called "New Sincerity" bands, but hardcore and power pop and whatever. He loved all kinds of music. I remember when the first Public Enemy record came out and he played it for everyone who was around. "This is going to change hip-hop forever," he said. He was always on top of it and, as music editor of the Austin Chronicle in 1990-91, he guided a young group of up-and-comers that included Jason Cohen, now with Texas Monthly.
Although he wasn't a musician, he co-wrote, with his best friend Mike Hall, one of the anthems of Austin in the mid-'80s: "I'm Sorry, I Can't Rock You All Night Long." He made an even bigger impact as a touring sound man for not only Hall's Wild Seeds, but True Believers, Doctors Mob, the Reivers, even the Killer Bees. He mixed sound loud, but he was laid back until it was time not to be. I've seen him rip new assholes and once it was mine (witness: Jim DeRogatis) over something I wrote about a Sonic Youth appearance at SXSW. It took a lot to get Brent riled so when he blew up it seemed justified.
I was Brent's roommate twice- here in Austin at the big party house across from Trudy's on W. 30th Street circa '86-'87 and then we moved together with Scott Anderson, the former Doctors Mob manager, to San Francisco in June 1988. That relocation proved to be short-lived. Not long after we hauled 80 crates of Brent's LPs up three flights of stairs, they were coming back down and heading back to Austin. He couldn't live without his records.
He also loved his baseball. Brent was so obsessed with the sport and its stats that we called him Abner, after the game's inventor Mr. Doubleday. Being from the Houston suburb of Spring, he liked the Astros, and touring with the Reivers made him a Rangers fan, but Brent was so taken with the daily diamond action that he seemed to love every team. Once, we went to Candlestick Park where it was about 40 degrees and the scoreless pitching duel went well into extra innings. It was so cold and boring that Scott and I were begging Brent to let us go home, but he wasn't going to miss the winning run.
The world's largest and most prominent music conference, SXSW can be a stress factory for decision makers. But Grulke was always ready for a good, goofy laugh, even in early March. His easygoing personality helped make SXSW a friendly, music-first, type of industry juggernaut. Unflappable, ego-less, handsome and nerdy- that was Brent. Austin had a big crush on him.
During the '80s, he had two looks: Jeff Daniels from "Terms of Endearment" and William Hurt. When he combed his hair back, off his forehead like Hurt, the women seemed to have a hard time swimming upstream and eventually flowed his way. But his secret to being a ladies man, one of his old girlfriends told me, was because he listened. He'd step over a gorgeous woman with nothing to say to talk to a gal in a "Howl" t-shirt eating peanut butter with her fingers. Brent loved conversation and one night walking by a sex shop in San Francisco, he went inside and paid $10 or $20 to talk to a near-naked woman behind a glass. He was in that booth a long time and when he finally came out, we pumped him for details. "She said she'd do more for more money," he said, "but I just wanted to talk."
There will be a lot of fond remembrances of Brent Grulke in the days to come and I can vouch for their sincerity. Grulke was a sweet guy who loved his family and friends. He wasn't competitive by nature, and I don't think he ever crossed someone who didn't deserve it. It hasn't all sunk in yet, but it's going to suck when he's not around anymore. He was kin to so many of us who felt like we arrived in paradise because music was always in the air. It feels like a piece of Austin, a piece of us, has died.
Noble songs seems in order. Now more than ever.
Here's an indepth interview with Brent Grulke from around 2000.
28 Responses to "RIP Brent Grulke- a friend of music, a listener of life"
August 13, 2012 at 9:48 pm
thank you for this Michael, this is so very hard
August 13, 2012 at 10:38 pm
[…] news has reached the Austin Fanzine Project (formerly Geek Weekly HQ): Brent Grulke, creative director of SXSW has died. In his memory/honor, we wanted to repost this interview which was originally published in Geek […]
August 13, 2012 at 10:41 pm
This is a unspeakably sad loss for, of course, Brent's family. But is also a major blow to the community of Austin music lovers who called Brent friend. I just broke the news to our friend Alejandro Escovedo who told me Brent was the first one to ever record the True Believers (at Mike Alvarez's studio). Amazing how someone like Brent – who wasn't necessarily a musician – could have such an impact on music in so many ways. And thank you, Michael, for your wonderful words. They help us make a little bit of sense about a loss that seems senseless.
August 14, 2012 at 2:35 pm
What Jody said…. Brent's passion for creativity and support for everything musical touched so many people in big and small ways. He encouraged me as a writer, I know. More stories of how he uplifted people and their passions will be coming out of the wood work. Just wait.
- August 14, 2012 at 2:35 pm
August 13, 2012 at 11:55 pm
Thank you Micheal for your loving and comforting tribute to Brent. I didn't know Brent well mainly only through Kristen. I met Brent a few times when he brought Graham to his swim lessons. I will hold Brent and his sweet family in my heart during these sorrow filled days.
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August 14, 2012 at 12:33 am
Shocked….I've worked for SXSW for the past 11 years and one face I always saw every year was Brent. He was always nice to me and I loved to see him working on finding more bands to play. It will not be the same without him, but he'll always be there in spirit. My thoughts are with the family during this time…surely will be missed.
August 14, 2012 at 1:01 am
Thanks Michael. You captured a lot of what was amazing and wonderful about Brent. I remember loaning him a book on Vietnam's history for one long tour he was about to go out on. As always he read the book AND brought it back AND we had quite a lovely discussion about it. I feel so bad for his family (including the SXSW/Chron family) and friends – this loss REALLY hurts.
August 14, 2012 at 1:39 am
I'm so sorry to hear this, Corcoran. I know you were good friends for a long time and that you have so many great stories together. I hope those stories bring you some comfort.
August 14, 2012 at 1:59 am
Amazing tribute, Michael. Very sincere and well-written as always. You done him right. I'm sure he'd be moved
August 14, 2012 at 2:31 am
This is one of those things that you and only you could write, Corky – what a gift to give someone such a thorough and thoughtful farewell.
August 14, 2012 at 4:25 am
[…] Grulke's friend and longtime music writer Michael Corcoran has penned a kind and thoughtful tribute to his friend at his blog, while the Austin Chronicle's Margaret Moser has posted a link to an article […]
August 14, 2012 at 5:38 am
Only you could have written this, Corky. And then some, I know. I feel for you and Louis and Roland and Mike and all who have known Brent since the early days. He was the best guy ever personally and professionally, totally in it for the music. You couldn't have stated it better – that "a piece of Austin, a piece of us, has died." I am especially saddened for Kristen. Comforting thoughts for all.
August 14, 2012 at 6:13 am
Thank you for writing this. This basically captures the very essence of Brent. Words can't even describe how much I miss him already. He is everything you spoke of and more.
August 14, 2012 at 6:34 am
I started to think about how on earth SXSW is ever going to find anyone who could fill his shoes. I know they won't. And that led me to the thought that it's not too soon to begin considering a way to honor him in an enduring manner. Endow a UT scholarship in his name? An annual SXSW award to a non-musician or annual music event in his honor? Michael, I know you're the guy who came up with the idea for SIMS. I'm sure this community can find an equally special way to honor Brent. I'll have to leave it to those who knew him best to conceive a tribute that would honor his memory and his family in the most meaningful way, but I'll be happy to help.
August 14, 2012 at 6:43 am
Brent loved music more than anyone I have ever met. Thank you for writing this Michael, you really captured what Brent was all about.
August 14, 2012 at 6:48 am
Maybe SXSW should endow a fund to get a far-flung band here every year that wouldn't otherwise be able to make it. Or create an annual grant to give to an artist (or here's a radical thought: a member of the music community who's not a musician) to spend a year or a few months getting to do something they love: traveling to music festivals, building a music library, kicking back and reading books, attending a class … whatever. Like those MacArthur genius grants. I would just love to think of something that can be more than a plaque; something that could be a living, regenerating memorial, something that could support musical creativity, perhaps by helping those who facilitate Austin's music scene like he did.
August 14, 2012 at 7:57 am
Brent also loved books more than just about anyone. And as that PE story shows, he was about so much more than just Austin bands or that classic period. My wife remembers him talking about going to catch Oneohtrix Point Never at Primavera last year (and sure enough they played SXSW this last time) and we were all over the moon at Pere Ubu that night too.
When I came to the Chron office (the one near Dirty Martin's) in September of '90, I was nervous because you were my connection (through Marla Perlman) and had left. I also remember being like, "NO WAY, you're married to Kathy McCarty!" (I had also met Glass Eye, and come to Austin in the first place, mostly because of visiting Marla one year earlier).
August 14, 2012 at 8:11 am
Very very sad!
August 14, 2012 at 3:03 pm
I sent the news to folks associated with the band Zona Tango in Buenos Ares. Here is their response, which tells a lot about Brent's influence on the lives of others.
This made us so sad..
We met Brent only 10 minutes while attending a Music International Fair here in Buenos Aires in September 2007. It was a breakfast meeting with all record labels. Of all music stands, he asked for our and began to talk to Pedro. He said "this is the kind of music I´m interested in, the new one" And then he came back to Austin and sent us the first invitation to SXSW 2008.
He was really a nice man and a guy who supported good music no matter what. We will be allways grateful for the opportunity he gave us.
And I don´t know if SXSW can be the same without him..
And he was so young…
Thanks for letting me know, Barbara.
August 14, 2012 at 5:52 pm
Love you, Michael.
August 14, 2012 at 5:57 pm
Jesus, this is such sad, sad news. Brent was a treasure to anyone who had the privilege of knowing him. My heartfelt condolences to his family and friends.
August 14, 2012 at 10:50 pm
huge fucking bummer. he was a nice guy, a true music fan, and a raconteur. he will be missed by me and many many others who knew him, and probably a lot of people who never even met him.
August 15, 2012 at 1:25 pm
He was a beautiful, steady, supportive man, especially through the band years, and it is devastating that he's gone. I have lived away from Austin for many years, but when back, I often ran into a smiling Brent. It seemed that he was always around, and I took it for granted that he would be around forever.
What a tragic loss for all of us. Love you, Brent.
August 15, 2012 at 7:36 pm
Brent was always steady and calming, even when I once optimistically suggested organizing his office. That lasted for about ten minutes before he found something more productive for me to do. He understood music and music fandom in a way few people do.
August 16, 2012 at 1:23 am
How MUCH this loss hurts.
Brent and I were friends since back in the early '80's, and hooted and hollered along with all our other we're-all-here-'cause-we-love-these-guys friends at just about every good band's show in Austin at the Continental, The Beach, or wherever. (And most members of the audience were also in bands, or writing about them, or recording them, or contributing somehow. Ok, or maybe just asking to be on the guest list, but hey – they'd yell hard! Yeah, I'm talking about you, every band on Bands on the Block, et al!) He was smart, funny, sexy, goofy, and kind. We dated briefly for a spell in there (I'd had a crush on him forever!), and the friendship was just as great after as it was before. Brent was a good guy and a good friend.
I've read several remembrances about how Brent respected and admired women; it's very true.
My heart goes out to Kristen and to their son, as well as to Brent's brothers. I grieve with you, as does a huge portion of Austin and the music community at large.
August 17, 2012 at 1:52 pm
How very sad. I met Brent at that famous party house, we used to call it the House of Boys, when a friend of mine was dating him and I was dating Corcoran-Hi Michael-Brent was a lovely, lovely man and though I haven't seen him for years , it appears he always remained that warm, funny, gentle person. That time I spent in Austin was magical and Brent Grulke was part of the magic.
August 18, 2012 at 1:45 am
It's hard to conjure up any words, except a big fat sigh of sadness. It's funny you think you know someone, and then you find out SO much more about them and wish you just had one more chance to tell them how amazing they were and to be able to spend time talking about music, books, films, wine and so much more. I don't know Kristin and Graham, but my heart breaks for them. Michael, thank you for writing such a beautiful tribute for a beautiful friend.
September 24, 2012 at 4:31 am
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Sophomore Bailey Paradiso was a double-winner for the Skyhawks at Division I Holy Cross today. (PHOTO BY Richard Orr)
Paradiso a double-winner for Skyhawks against Division I Crusaders
WORCESTER, Mass. (October 1, 2013) – The College of the Holy Cross won five of six singles matches after taking the doubles point to record a 6-1 victory over Stonehill College, ranked fifth in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Division II East Regional rankings, in non-conference women's tennis action at Sinnott Family Tennis Center this afternoon.
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Stonehill (3-1, 1-0 NE-10) is back in action on Thursday when it visits the University of New Haven for a Northeast-10 matchup at 3 p.m. The Skyhawks next home match is next Wednesday, October 9, against The College of Saint Rose at Charles Watt Tennis Courts at 3 p.m. Holy Cross (5-3, 0-0 Patriot League) hosts Simmons College on Sunday at noon.
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Holy Cross 6, Stonehill 1
1. Virginia Peck-Philips (HCR) def. Kirsti Toegemann (STO) 6-2, 6-2
2. Bailey Paradiso (STO) def. Taylor Stathis (HCR) 7-6 (8-6), 4-6, 10-7
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4. Molly Montgomery (HCR) def. Analise Kump (STO) 1-6, 6-2, 7-5
5. Marielle Newell (HCR) def. Kaitlyn Martin (STO) 6-2, 6-4
6. Cassy Deng (HCR) def. Lorraine Smith (STO) 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (7-3)
1. Peck-Philips/Stathis (HCR) def. Toegemann/Martin (STO) 8-0
2. Carroll/Montgomery (HCR) def. Lawrence/Kump (STO) 8-3
3. Paradiso/Amanda DePasquale (STO) def. Newell/Deng (HCR) 8-5
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The 31-year-old full-back, who played his last game for Munster last month, said injury problems were the main reason for his decision.
"I've hung up the boots for good," he said. "My mind is fresh and feels like I could sign another four-year deal.
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"Munster will always hold a special place within me. The toughest thing about retiring is walking away from Thomond Park.
"I just wish I could have done more for the club, my team-mates and Munster's great supporters."
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Now to the station itself: the main entrance is a bit of a hassle to get to, since it's an island in the middle of the street. There's a food stand inside, as well as bus schedules for every bus route in the system. There's a huge row of CharlieCard machines lining a wall, and even countdown clocks (still a relative rarity on the MBTA). Harvard is also one of the few MBTA stations with stacked platforms, with the outbound platform on top of the inbound. Another interesting thing about Harvard is the turn in the tracks just before the station. On the inbound side, trains make an extremely sharp turn, so don't be alarmed if your train is travelling extremely slowly and making screeching noises.
|A Red Line train at Harvard
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|Though it's a bit dingy in the busway, it's still better than waiting out in the cold.
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Station: Harvard
Rating (1-10): 8
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Apple's App Store is a Changing
Apple had a surprise press release yesterday where they unveiled 3 changes to the App Store going forward. This was definitely a surprise, as we are less than a week away from the company's Worldwide Developers Conference, and these are the sorts of changes that would make perfect sense at that conference. Apple's hyping up their conference saying that they have so much to show next week, this just couldn't fit and they're telling us now.
Whatever the reason may be that they announced all this early, let's dive into each update.
1. Fast review times are now the norm
Developers have been experiencing much faster review times as of late, dropping from 7 days to less than 24 hours in a lot of cases. They've been excited, but with a little trepidation. "Is this a fluke? Will it last?" they asked, but Phil Schiller put our minds at ease when he confirmed that these zippy review times are the expectation going forward.
Schiller said they achieved this new speed by doing 3 things:
- New tools to review faster
- New team members
- New policies
Nothing specific about those reasons was given1, but to me it sounds like the app review team had been doing this since the beginning and their process had not changed much since 2008. I suspect they had a bunch of employees and middle managers who had been there a long time and were stuck in a mindset that things couldn't get better for X, Y, or Z reasons. It looks like that team has had a little churn under Schiller's watch and things are much improved.
Ultimately, this is an unabashed win for developers, customers, and Apple alike. App review is an important part of Apple maintaining a safe storefront, but anything that can be done to make sure that process is as fast as possible is a good change.
2. New subscription revenue share
Apple's 70/30 split of revenue in the App Store has been around since the beginning of the App Store. As the store has grown, people have started paying for content differently with in-app purchases and subscriptions, but the revenue split has remained the same. Apple didn't blow that out of the water, but it did make one key change that might shake up how you pay for some of your favorite apps in the future.
The change is essentially that if you have a customer who is subscribed to your app/service through the App Store, you get the same 70/30 split for the first 12 months, but after that the split goes to 85/15. For example, if you have a $10/month subscription, you get $7 and Apple gets $3 each month for the first year. If your customer keeps subscribing after the first year, you start to get $8.50 per month and Apple gets $1.50. From your customer's side, nothing has changed, but you're making more money as the developer.
Apple pitched this as a way for developers to make more money off their products and ensures that apps have a better business model that is sustainable. The paid-up-front pricing model is really dying out, and this could be a way for apps that used to use that model to switch to subscription pricing and continue making money.
I think this is a good move, and will push more developers into the subscription pricing model. When you look at products like Office 365, Adobe Creative Cloud, Spotify, and Dropbox and see how they all operate exclusively (or almost exclusively) on recurring revenue and have seen lots of success from it, it just makes sense that Apple would make this model more appealing to developers.
3. Ads in App Store search results
This is the one that makes me take pause. Apple will begin selling ad space in the App Store search results page so that a search for "tacos" could display an ad for Taco Bell's app if they bought that word. Schiller pitched this change as a way to improve App Store search, but come on Phil, that's not it. Here's how The Verge summed up the change:
Basically, Apple figured search ads are something that consumers are already used to from internet searches and social media, and the company wants in on the marketing dollars from mobile app developers.
This is good for Apple, not really for developers. I've already seen skepticism from some developers I know, and I don't blame them for being weary. Apple didn't say they were making search results better, just that they were now letting people pay for keywords so their apps can show up on top of search results.
Going back to my taco example, this means that I could have an app called Taco Run, which is totally great and users love, but if you search the App Store for "taco run" I'll be the second app you see because again, Taco Bell paid to have their app show up when "taco" is in a search query. Moving from position 1 to 2 may not be the end of the world, but it's still a demotion and it bumps up search results for apps that aren't what you were looking for and just happened to pay for one of the words you searched for.
Apple is marking these as ads so they don't look totally like real search results and they're not showing ads to kids under 13, both of which are good, but I'm skeptical right now that this is going to be something that is embraced by the community. Developers will participate because they feel like they have to in order to remain competitive, but I don't see this exciting many smaller to medium sized development teams right now. It will come down to the details of how Apple pulls this off, whether it's a good or bad change for the App Store, but I don't feel great about it right now.
- Or at least it wasn't shared with those who were on the call with Apple. ↩


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At the start of it's tenth anniversary OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 was officially relased today, a week after the 5th Release Candidate (RC 5) had been released.
For those who don't know, OpenOffice.org is the leading open source, cross-platform software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It can be used as an alternative to Microsoft's Office tools like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, etc.
Since the release of OpenOffice.org 3.0, just about a year ago, there have been more than 100 million downloads and it remains one of the largest open source application projects out there.
Apart from fixing a number of bugs and numerous potential security vulnerabilities, the following are some of the features of the new OpenOffice.org 3.2 :
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- Support for open standards like ODF
- Support for Propreitary formats and better compatibility with Microsoft Office 2007
- Support for Postscript based commercial and free OpenType fonts for formatting, printing and display.
A few weeks before the Release of OpenOffice.org 3.2, the OpenOffice.org Community had formally announced the "End-Of-Life" (EOL) status for the legacy OpenOffice.org version 2.x series of it's productivity suite. This meant that support with patches, bugfixes and security updates is no longer available from the Community for these or before releases. It thus becomes imperative for the user to upgrade to OpenOffice.org version 3.x
You can download OpenOffice.org 3.2 from here and read about it's new features in detail here .
At the dawn of 2010, OpenOffice.org 3.2 seems to be the first and only complete Office application suite out of the kilns which has made an official release. It would be interesting to see how other Office suites compare to this release.


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