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Alaska governor's plan would change cruise waste rules
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Gov. Sean Parnell is proposing changes to the way the state regulates wastewater from cruise ships — drawing criticism that his proposal would roll back provisions of a 2006 citizen initiative that required cruise ships to meet state water quality standards when dumping wastewater.
The proposal, SB29 in the state Senate, got its first hearing Wednesday in front of the chamber's Resources Committee. Larry Hartig, commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Conservation, said the proposal would align the rules for cruise ships with those for others who get discharge permits from the agency.
According to a sectional analysis, the measure would require that cruise ships discharge wastewater in a manner consistent with applicable state or federal law. It would strike the more stringent requirement that discharges meet state water quality standards at the point of discharge.
It also would allow authorization of mixing zones if ships meet certain standards for treatment of discharge. The system used either would have to be an advanced treatment system or the ship would have to use methods that achieve the quality of effluent comparable to one or more ships using an advanced system.
Hartig said the department can set restrictions for mixing zones and decide where, when and how ships can discharge to protect for other uses.
Lawmakers in 2009 passed legislation allowing the department to temporarily let cruise ships have mixing zones; at that time, cruise ship companies weren't meeting the more rigorous standard set out by the initiative, at least for certain pollutants, Hartig said in a letter to lawmakers earlier this month. That authority is set to expire in 2015.
The legislation also called for a science advisory panel that was tasked with looking at pollution and pollution control issues. That panel concluded that advance wastewater treatment systems required in 2004 were "state of the art," Hartig said, and it could not identify other systems that exist or were on the horizon that would bring ships fully into compliance.
The panel, in a preliminary report from November, found that none of the advanced wastewater treatment systems on ships operating in Alaska waters could consistently meet water quality standards at the point of discharge for "constituents of concern" — ammonia, copper, nickel and zinc.
Parnell, in his transmittal letter, said the advanced systems being used "are significantly more effective and produce a higher quality discharge than most municipal systems."
"Even without incremental improvements to cruise ship wastewater quality, aquatic life and human health are protected through provisions in the current cruise ship General Permit that restrict the location of discharge and when ships must be under way before they discharge," he wrote.
Gershon Cohen, project director with the Campaign to Safeguard America's Waters, said the proposal isn't based on the best available science.
"The best science for what puts people and marine ecosystems at risk are the Water Quality Standards," he said in an email. "Using public waters to dilute waste isn't good science, it's simply risk management. It is saying, how much risk are 'we' willing to take on to not require a polluter to clean up their discharges."
He also said a science advisory panel, "refused to acknowledge" some treatment devices work better than others and that combinations of technologies could reduce emissions below the water quality standards at a "minimum" cost to each ship.
Guy Archibald, mining and clean water coordinator for the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, said he's not sure what the rush is to "rescind" the 2006 initiative, which has already been modified. For example, in 2010, the Legislature passed a reduction in the cruise passenger head tax. The move was aimed at attracting more ships — which Parnell says it has — and at settling a lawsuit with the Alaska Cruise Association, which it also did.
Cohen was kicked off the science panel after questions were raised about his objectivity — concerns he said were bogus. He said he was removed before the committee ever met because the cruise industry didn't want him on the panel.
He said no definition exists for an advanced wastewater treatment system, and he referred to mixing zones as "legalized pollution" zones.
"So much for Alaska fish being the best in the world because of our pristine waters..." he wrote in an email.
For the text of SB29: http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_bill_text.asp?hsid=SB0029A&sessio... .
The bill is HB80 on the House side.
Follow Becky Bohrer on Twitter at http://twitter.com/beckybohrerap .
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—No. 16 Birmingham-Southern returns home to Panther Stadium this weekend to face Trinity University, Saturday, Oct. 13, at noon.
The Panthers are 5-1 after suffering their first loss of the season this past weekend to No. 6 Wesley College in Dover, Del. Trinity stands at 3-2 after defeating Rhodes College, 30-22, in San Antonio last weekend.
This will be the sixth meeting between the programs, with Trinity holding a 5-0 record against BSC. The teams were both members of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference until this season when the Panthers moved into the newly-formed Southern Athletic Association. The Tigers remain members of the SCAC.
Senior quarterback Jimmy Stainback leads the BSC offense with 950 passing yards and nine touchdowns. He is 52-82 with five interceptions (three of those against Wesley last week). Junior Joseph Moultrie and senior Shawn Morris lead the rushers; Moultrie has 401 yards on 51 carries with eight touchdowns, while Morris has 394 yards on 65 carries and five touchdowns. Sophomore receiver Sam Vermilyea also leads with 327 receiving yards and five touchdowns on 11 catches. On defense, senior safety Andrew Shannon leads the Panthers with 44 tackles (23 solo).
For Trinity, quarterback Nyk McKissic is 79-120 for 1,215 yards with 11 touchdowns and one interception. Pat Granchelli leads on the ground with 307 yards and two touchdowns on 65 carries, and Mason Lytal leads the receivers with six touchdown catches and 364 receiving yards. Tom Puskarich and Nick Darling lead the Tiger defense with 35 and 34 tackles, respectively.
Saturday's game will feature live video at collegetvticket.com as well as a live game tracker available here. Tickets are $10 for adults; children under 18 are always admitted free to all BSC athletic events.
The Panthers are also at home next weekend for Homecoming 2012, facing Sewanee on Saturday, Oct. 20, at 1 p.m. in the last home game of the season.

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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Treasure Chest Thursday -- Handmade Jewelry
These pieces of jewelry are very special to me because they were made by my children.
The heart pin was made by my daughter in one of her school classes. I can't remember which year. Somehow I have lost the pin part so I am going to have to replace it.
I believe my oldest son made the shell necklace for a mother's day gift in kindergarten.
My youngest son is responsible for the bead work. He made the turtle necklace just because, and I believe the gecko earrings were a gift. These were not part of any school project.
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The first thing that comes to mind when I think of Treasure Chest Thursday is a trunk full of keepsakes from my grandparents and beyond. THANK YOU for reminding me that MY everyday treasures belong in this category too! I bet our ancestors didn't think about thier everyday things being passed down as keepsakes. It is kinda humorous what we family historians treasure like an old handkerchief or hairpin :) Thank you for sharing your priceless treasures!ReplyDelete
How precious these keepsakes must be to you. Those beaded earrings and necklace must have taken some time and creativity on the part of you son.ReplyDelete
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Yosef, Gad and Benjy headed down to the dining hall in their high school. As they walked along the corridor they noticed a new vending machine had been installed. The three admired the machine, and eyed its beckoning display of treats.
"I wonder whom the machine belongs to?" asked Yosef. "Do you think it belongs to the school?"
"I doubt it," said Gad. "Look, the name of the company that owns the machine is on a label. Let's return after lunch and get a snack for desert."
After they finished eating, the three boys returned to the vending machine. They browsed the selections: candies, chocolates, cookies, gum, potato chips, and other nosh.
"I'm going to get a large chocolate bar," declared Yosef. "We can all share it."
Yosef inserted two dollar-coins in the machine and made his selection. The chocolate bar fell to the bottom, and he heard two quarters drop into the change compartment, "Clink, clink." He reached in to take out his two quarters and was surprised to find two additional quarters there.
"Wow! There's extra change," he exclaimed. "That saved me fifty cents!"
"Who says you can keep it?" asked Gad. "You need to place a sign for hashavas aveidah."
"What's the point of hashavas aveidah?" asked Benjy. "There's no identification on the money, anyway."
Other students joined in the discussion, debating whether Yosef could keep the money.
"Maybe you should give the money back to the vending operator," added Benjy. "Someone said he comes on Tuesday mornings to restock the machine."
A bit of a commotion began.
While they were arguing, Rabbi Dayan walked by. "What's going on?" he asked. "Sounds like an earnest debate!"
"I found extra change in the vending machine," said Yosef. "We were arguing what to do with the money?"
"It is usually permissible to take the change for yourself," replied Rabbi Dayan, "but in some limited cases, it is proper to contact the vending operator."
"Why can I keep it?" asked Yosef.
"At first glance, this seems to be a case of hashavas aveidah (returning lost property) to the previous customer, who lost his change," explained Rabbi Dayan. "Since we presume the customer already became aware that he left his money, and likely does not know the exact permutation of the change or abandoned hope of retrieving it (yei'ush) – the finder is permitted to keep it." (See Hashavas Aveidah K'halacha 12:8)
"Wouldn't the vending operator automatically acquire the lost money that sits in his machine?" asked Benjy.
"A person's property can acquire a lost item on his behalf, even without his knowledge," said Rabbi Dayan. "However, this is only if the property is secure and the owner is likely to find the item left in his property. [C.M. 268:3] Here, the change compartment is not secure, nor is the operator likely to find the money, since it will probably be taken by someone else first."
"Why did you say, 'At first glance?…' asked Gad. "Is this not a typical case of lost money?"
"Actually, though the change was dispensed for the previous customer, he never acquired it, since he did not take possession of it," explained Rabbi Dayan. (C.M. 203:7) "Therefore, upon further reflection, this case is similar to a borrower who placed the money he is returning before the lender, with his permission, but the lender did not take the money. While the lender has no further claim on the borrower, what is the status of the money? R. Akiva Eiger [C.M. 120:1] writes that the money becomes hefker, since the borrower relinquished his claim to the money and the lender did not take it. Here, too, the untaken change becomes hefker."
"In truth, the Nesivos [123:1] disagrees with R. Akiva Eiger and maintains that the money does not become hefker, but remains owned by the borrower," continued Rabbi Dayan, "but even he would likely agree here. Since the vending operator expects the machine to dispense the change to an unsecure place, where it can be taken by anybody, he effectively renders it hefker or expresses yei'ush [C.M. 260:6, 261:4; Shach 261:3]. Thus, it is permissible to take the extra change."
"Either way, I can take the money," said Yosef. "What's the difference whether it's lost by the customer or became hefker from the vendor?"


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This is from FAIR and concerns the relative invisibility of the Downing Street Memo in the U.S. media:
Network Viewers Still in the Dark on "Smoking Gun Memo"
Print media continue to downplay story
May 20, 2005
Following FAIR's call for more mainstream coverage of the "smoking gun
memo"--the secret British document containing new evidence that the Bush
administration manipulated intelligence to justify its plan to invade Iraq--a
steady trickle of news reports have appeared. But that coverage has been
downplayed in general and is still completely absent from the nightly news.
The Los Angeles Times published a page 3 story on the memo on May 12, and the
Washington Post ran a page 18 story the following day. More than two weeks after
the story broke in the Sunday Times of London (5/1/05), it finally made the
front page of a major U.S. newspaper, the Chicago Tribune (5/17/05).
After referring to the memo (5/2/05) in a story on the British electoral
campaign, the New York Times failed to report on the document's implications
about the Bush administration until today (5/20/05); the one-column story didn't
mention the manipulation of intelligence until the eighth paragraph. (Times
columnist Paul Krugman also discussed the memo on the paper's opinion page on
May 16.)
The Washington Post's ombudsman, Michael Getler, who the previous week (5/8/05)
had mentioned reader complaints about the Post's lack of memo coverage without
evaluating their substance, revisited the issue with a much more critical eye in
his most recent column (5/15/05). (The ombud gave back-handed credit to FAIR and
the group Media Matters for America--both "self-described media watchdog
organizations"--for prompting him to delve into the story.) Getler wrote
that Post editors initially told him they didn't pursue the story because they
were "tied up with election coverage"--this despite the fact that the
leaked memo became a major election story in Britain and likely contributed to
Tony Blair's weak returns. When he questioned them again after the email
campaign, Getler wrote, "editors agreed that this story should be covered
and said they were going to go back and do that"; the Post's May 13 story
Getler called investigation of the memo's conclusions "journalistically
mandatory" and suggested that the Post story should have been placed on the
front page.
While the memo has begun to get wider coverage in print, broadcasters have
maintained a near silence on the issue. The story has turned up in a few short
CNN segments (Crossfire, 5/13/05; Live Sunday, 5/15/05; Wolf Blitzer Reports,
5/16/05), but the only mention of the memo FAIR found on the major broadcast
networks came on ABC's Sunday morning show This Week (5/15/05), in which host
George Stephanopoulos questioned Sen. John McCain about its contents. When
McCain declared that he didn't "agree with it" and defended the Bush
administration's decision to go to war, Stephanopoulos didn't question him
further. A look at the nightly news reveals not a single story aired about the
memo and its implications.
When finally questioned by CNN (5/16/05), White House press secretary Scott
McClellan claimed he hadn't seen the memo, but that "the reports"
about it were "flat-out wrong." British government officials, however,
did not dispute the contents of the memo--which can be read in full online at ht
tp://downingstreetmemo.com/ --and a former senior American official called it
"an absolutely accurate description of what transpired" (Knight
Ridder, 5/6/05).
The Chicago Tribune (5/17/05) named several factors that had caused a "less
than robust discussion" of the smoking gun memo: Aside from the White
House's denials, and the media's slow reaction, the paper asserted that
"the public generally seems indifferent to the issue or unwilling to rehash
the bitter prewar debate over the reasons for the war." Of course, it's
hard to judge the public's interest in a story the media have largely shielded
them from.
Please contact the nightly news programs and ask them to investigate and report
on the new evidence that the Bush administration manipulated intelligence to
support its plan to invade Iraq.
ABC World News Tonight
Phone: 212-456-4040
CBS Evening News
Phone: 212-975-3691
NBC Nightly News
Phone: 212-664-4971
PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Phone: 703-739-5000
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Rene Mioch (pictured) heads LA operations.
Amsterdam-based cross-platform media company FCCE is opening a new office in Los Angeles. This follows another new office in Beijing.
Co-owner producer Rene Mioch has been heading the LA operations since Dec 1.
The office will deliver daily content for shows such as Films & Stars, Hollywood Buzz, Action Zone and Kids Flix, as well as a daily news feed.
The company will also roll out its Entertainment Experience in the US, after launching the user generated movie idea with Paul Verhoeven in The Netherlands.
FCCE CEO Rene Mioch: "Opening an office in LA was just a matter of time and focus. After establishing a very strong portfolio of weekly shows, which are distributed around the world, we feel we can serve the industry even better. Together with the daily news feed we have a reach of hundreds of millions of people, bringing infotainment news as it is. We don't do paparazzi-styled items, we're not interested in gossip; we want to entertain and inform people about their favorite actors, actresses, directors, movies, glamour lifestyle & fashion."
FCCE's Chief Commercial Officer Justus A.G. Verkerk added: "FCCE delivers to every thinkable media platform. And TV audiences are converting slowly
into consumers using media anytime, anywhere, anyway….This has also changed FCCE's focus. We create communities based on a shared interest. Context, continuity, loyalty and interaction are all crucial ingredients of a successful platform, but the LA office will bring the most important one: CONTENT.
With the launch of Entertainment Experience in the Netherlands in 2011 - a user generated movie directed by Paul Verhoeven - FCCE took involvement, engagement and interaction to a new level. Audiences, broadcasters and business partners participated in a unique multimedia format that defines the age of personalized and tailor-made television and broadcasting. We think the US market, US consumers and US advertisers are also ready for this fresh look at the entertainment business".


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One of the most fascinating stories of the last year has been the evolution of Amazon Prime. In exchange for a recurring fee, you get access to a huge, varied media library: movies, TV shows and books. And yeah, some of that content isn't all that great, and even more isn't stuff I would choose, but a lot of it is amazing. And yeah — I can't access all of that content on any device I want, but most of it I can, and the range of those devices, especially for digital video, is growing.
But the original genius of Prime was grouping together three values: membership, exclusivity and instant delivery. By paying a premium, you became a VIP in an exclusive club that got access to some things faster than other people could. Oh, you've got to wait five to nine days? I can get that overnight. And by putting those pieces together, wrapping them together with services, Amazon helped bind its customers to its platform. They weren't just online shoppers; they were Amazon Prime members.
Amazon is in a position to do this because they've built up the infrastructure, on the ground and in the cloud, to deliver it to your house. And nobody really has a problem that Prime members get faster delivery than non-members; they've paid the money, and you could join up too. Or you can wait a little while and get what you've paid for a little bit later.
That subscription model has proven so powerful that nearly every notable media startup has adopted it in one form or another: Netflix, Hulu Plus, Spotify, Rdio, Pandora, etc. (These services too are regularly chided for having incomplete or disappointing content.) Even Apple, who usually can do no wrong in bloggers' eyes, is regularly cajoled to offer up a subscription-based music service, or TV, or movies, or anything besides iTunes Match. The only fever dream Piper Jeffrey analyst Gene Munster holds dearer than an integrated Apple TV set is an Apple television subscription service. And he's not alone.
This is all to say that in the last decade, we've been steadily rediscovering the virtues and working to recreate a model that's existed for a long time, which is vastly more popular than anything comparable that began on the web, and which we kvetch about endlessly. Most of us want cable TV or something very much like it. We just refuse to admit it.
The roots of our dissatisfaction
Even those of us who say we don't want or need cable find ourselves filled with longing when cable and cable alone offers something new — this week's Mad Men premiere, "Linsanity," or a new season of HBO's Game of Thrones. We want to have those experiences; we want to be part of that conversation.
Many of you have probably seen this cartoon from a popular strip by Matthew Inman called The Oatmeal, titled "I tried to watch Game of Thrones and this is what happened." The protagonist has just read the book series, can't find a way to stream or download the first season of the show legally, so he pirates it instead. Many of you probably also read MG Siegler's "Help! I'm Being Forced To Pirate Game Of Thrones Against My Will!" which appeared a few weeks later and basically lifts the same argument, rewriting in blog post form (with a tiny, non-attributive link) — just about the now-airing Season 2 rather than Season 1.
Both Inman and Siegler make the same points. They want to watch Game of Thrones. But they don't want cable. And importantly, they don't want to wait. At all.
Because you can totally watch Game of Thrones without cable — if you're willing to wait. In Inman's case, Game of Thrones Season 1 came out on DVD and Blu-ray, and then digital download, within a couple of weeks after he published his post on February 20. Inman himself notes this on his blog — although he says the incident he describes happened earlier and stands by his general point about piracy versus availability. (Inman even includes an affiliate link to buy the discs from Amazon — good on him.) Siegler is even less patient than Inman; he bought Season 1 on iTunes and wants to watch Season 2 immediately in the same way. Because he can't — or rather, "because of the aforementioned naughty cuddling deal HBO has with the cable companies" — he says is being forced to pirate new episodes of the show.
Continue reading 'The Nimble Empire: In Defense of Cable' ...
I'm not about to deny that piracy is easy or that it's inevitable, because it is clearly both. I'm not even here to argue that piracy is immoral. Seriously, even if you read The Oatmeal, it covers that ground pretty well. What bothers me is Siegler's notion that his turn to piracy suggests that HBO and the cable companies' business model is wrong — whether economically or morally.
Because it isn't. First, you have three legal options to watch the second season of Game of Thrones:
- Subscribe to cable and HBO. Heck, cancel after the season ends if you want to. Back in the day, when video piracy was still pretty hard and HBO original series were way better than they are now, we used to do it all the time.
- Wait for the season to end so you can buy the discs from Amazon, rent them from Netflix, or buy the digital files from iTunes. Let's call this the "Amazon Super Saver" approach. You save money, you get only what you want and what you've paid for — but you have to wait longer than the Amazon Prime folks who've paid for their subscriptions. But then you get to binge on the whole season at once! Not that bad, really. And no different from waiting for a movie to leave the theaters and come out for home purchase. There's a reason they call it "Home Box Office," after all.
- Watch the shows at a friend's house. Do you have friends? Do they like the same things as you, but like watching a lot of TV a little bit more? Find them. Ask them if you can come over. Maybe offer to bring some beer or wine. Might even be better than watching an HD .mkv file on your laptop all alone.
Really, what the pro-piracy arguments come down to — at least in the United States, where most content is pretty ready available (a few exceptions aside) — is "this is legally available, but not at a price I am willing to pay," and/or "this is legally available, but not for a time that I am willing to wait."
Or rather — "I insist that you immediately provide your content at a price and on a device or devices of my choosing." This is a newly emerging and oddly curious expectation towards media. And, in an equally curious bit of irony, it's actually the universe that services like Amazon Prime have encouraged us to believe in.
How would you price that?
This is one of my favorite games. Anytime anyone says, "I wish that company X would offer pay service Y without complication Z," I ask them, "what would you pay for that?" Typically, the other person hasn't actually thought it through all the way from "what-if?" service to actually-existing, would-you-actually-spend-so-much-money-on-that? product.
About a year ago, I did this for subscription-based access to the full contents of every book ever published on any device. I argued that I would pay $100/month for the digital version of Library of Babel. Most people I spoke to on Twitter as consumers thought that was way too much. To me, looking at what I pay for my digital voice and data plans alone, it still feels remarkably low.
Lately, I've been having similar conversations about HBO. I did this about a month ago on Twitter with Chris O'Brien, who writes about business and tech for the San Jose Mercury News, and who would also rather pay for HBO without a cable subscription. How much would you pay for cable-free HBO? I asked.
"I would pay $10/ month which is what Comcast charges," O'Brien replied. "That saves me $65/mo since I can ditch Comcast. HBO gets 100%." That would be a net gain for HBO, since they wouldn't have to split the fee. (Best estimates by SNL Kagan suggest HBO gets about $7.27 in revenue per subscriber, while cable carriers get the balance.)
I'd say O'Brien's response is pretty typical. On its face, this seems pretty reasonable, particularly when (as O'Brien points out) you think about HBO trying to compete with Netflix, Hulu Plus, and the like for standalone video. But when you break it down, there are actually really good reasons why HBO is that cheap when bundled with cable, and why it would have to be a lot more expensive if sold stand-alone to individual subscribers.
First, to say Comcast buys HBO in bulk is an understatement. Other cable companies, too, (and satellite and AT&T/Verizon/other telecoms doing video) have profound purchasing power. They also heavily promote HBO to their hundreds of millions of customers. So HBO gets a lot more from Comcast for its $7.27 (or whatever it is Comcast might pay) than it would get from me or you for our $10.
HBO costs $10 per month because it's bundled. It's not the fair market price. Untie that knot, and you have to untie everything.
And on the other side, frankly, HBO offers a lot more than Netflix than Hulu Plus does, especially at the same price. Hulu is charging $8 per month (with advertising!) for next-day access to free TV, plus a smattering of catalog content, place-shifted onto your iPad or TV box. (And I pay it.) Netflix charges $8 per month, but is only beginning to make a tiny bit of original content. Netflix also might go broke at that price point, unless the math of their subscription numbers and digital rights payments changes. (And yes, I pay for Netflix too.)
HBO is never going to let itself be priced at anything but a premium relative to Netflix and Hulu Plus. (Starz has way less cachet and much less to lose than HBO, and still walked away from Netflix negotiations rather than dilute its brand.) And HBO is never going to dynamite its multi-decade relationship with cable companies unless individual customers were willing to make a Godfather offer.
To my mind, the bidding for standalone, web-delivered HBO and HBO Go starts at $20 per month. And to my mind, at that price, you'd see pretty substantial adoption — when you add in the back content and multi-device support, it's really a pretty amazing deal. But I think you'd also see the same cast of suspects claiming that HBO's business model is all wrong, that it's forcing them to pirate their favorite shows, that they shouldn't have to pay for True Blood when all they really want is Game of Thrones, that HBO should really be giving away their content for free and looking to monetize its users in other ways, etc. This loop is endless.
It's a silly assumption to think that HBO's primary concern is preventing piracy. I don't think it is. It doesn't matter how much piracy occurs at the margins. The company can tolerate that. Because cable television and premium pay cable isn't actually in trouble. It's still the most popular form of home entertainment in the country, bringing in millions of dollars.
You want to pirate Game of Thrones today and turn around buy the Blu-ray tomorrow, blogging about how much you love it in between? No problem. That's like throwing Brer Rabbit in the briar patch. This is not a radical act. And you are not dealing with the music labels here. This industry is not going anywhere.
The real problem with cable
It's a pretty darn good buy, the bundle of product you receive for about forty dollars a month. You get in excess of a hundred channels, each with twenty-four-hour entertainment. If you buy a cup of coffee for four bucks and add a sandwich, you get to ten bucks, then drive across the George Washington Bridge, where the toll is eight bucks—these are everyday things that you don't even think twice about. Like if you take the family to a game or go to the movies, you're going to spend far in excess of what is asked for cable television. I believe cable is perhaps the greatest bargain in history.
— John Skipper, ESPN, as quoted in Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller's Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN
Our real problem with cable is not the idea of cable, paying $40 or even $100 per month for an unprecedented amount of bundled entertainment. Our problem with cable is cable as it actually exists. Our problem is with bad service, local and regional monopolies, crummy interfaces, waiting in line for hours to return a stupid set-top box before we can leave town and move somewhere else to do the same dance all over again.
We've become so frustrated and paralyzed by these problems, they've come to seem so inevitable and intractable, that we've largely stopped talking about them. Instead, we talk about other things — business models, technology companies, disruptive startups — that just might possibly get our real problems, with our service and with our experience, to change.
What cable companies and their customers really need isn't Apple marching in to tell programmers they're going to sell their content à la carte now, because some Very Serious People on the internet would really enjoy writing about that. They need Apple and Google and Microsoft working with them on how they can make their existing services work better. They need Verizon and AT&T offering video and voice and internet that are at least just as good at competitive prices in the same cities and neighborhoods. They need to continually find ways to make their own products and their own technology better, catching up to where consumers are today: using the living room for something other than television, and watching TV content on screens that aren't anywhere near the living room.
Psst: What we need is what's already happening. This is amazing. Just keep watching.
Photo: HBO Go on Xbox 360, courtesy Microsoft
Opinion Editor: John C. Abell @johncabell


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The Best of 2012: Stage
Tracy Letts' works stood out in S.A. theaters.
This was a big year for playwright Tracy Letts' work on local stages.
Letts wrote three of 2012's strongest productions. The biggie was the Sheldon Vexler Theatre's stunning San Antonio debut of his masterpiece, "August: Osage County." Every aspect of the director Paul Fillingim's production was rooted in truth, resulting in a show about family that was both funny and shattering.
The two other Letts shows that popped up to excellent effect were the Playhouse Cellar's "Superior Donuts," including nuanced and heartbreaking turns from Bill Gundry and Kristopher "K.T." Thomas; and the Rose Theatre Company's aptly disturbing staging of "Killer Joe."
The other memorable shows this year included:
"King Lear," Classic Theatre: Allan S. Ross delivered a towering performance in the title role.
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" AtticRep: Gloria Sanchez-Molina, who stepped into the monster role of Martha less than three weeks before the show opened, crafted one of the performances of the year. She was well-matched by the rest of the cast, especially the great David Connelly as Martha's seething husband/sparring partner, George.
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See the San Antonio Express-News critics' picks for the year's best in movies, TV, stage, books, music, art and dance.
"íCarpa!" Jump-Start Performance Co.: Billy Muñoz's immersive trek back in time was funny, visually striking and achingly sad.
"Open Sesame!" Overtime Theater: Playwright Rick Stemm's inventive Bollywood/panto mash-up, staged with a sense of merriment by director Kyle Gillette, may have been the most fun you could have in a theater this year.
"Firebugs," Classic Theatre: Director Diane Malone pulled together a sizzling, unsettling take on Max Frisch's absurdist play.
"A View from the Bridge," Sheldon Vexler Theatre: Vividly drawn performances from Scott Leibowitz and Belinda Harolds provided the foundation for director Jim Mammarella's explosive production.
"Macbeth," Proxy Theatre Co.: Staged in a tiny space, director Nathan Thurman's production had a visceral kick that was tough to shake.
"God of Carnage," AtticRep: The dark comedy about adults behaving childishly — complete with a set surrounded by a sandbox — was memorably tart and funny.
"I-DJ," Overtime Theater: Rick Sanchez delivered a fierce, fantastic performance in Gregg Barrios' far-reaching piece, which helped open the Overtime's new home in fine style.
"25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," Woodlawn Black Box: The musical's misfit spellers — particularly those played by Ben Carlee, Benjamin Scharff and Walter Songer — were weird and winning.
"Les Misérables," Broadway in San Antonio series at the Majestic Theatre: Given a complete overhaul for its 25th anniversary, the touring production earned many goosebumps and prompted many tears.
"An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein," Cameo Theatre's Zumbro Lounge: Four versatile comics presented offbeat skits and songs.
"Hello, Dolly!" Playhouse: An excellent Katy Stafford Moore played the title role and got terrific support in the staging.
"My Fair Lady," Playhouse: Director Frank Latson's smooth and creamy production included a superb rendering of "On the Street Where You Live" by Christopher Garcia.
"American Buffalo," AtticRep: The company ends the year on a strong note with a pitch-perfect staging, which closes today.
Freelance writer Michael E. Barrett contributed to this list.
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The Buffalo Bison suffered a 27-21 loss to the Douglas Bearcats at home Friday night.
Buffalo now stands at 2-2 on the season.
We will have stats from the game on Monday.
FOOTBALL - The Big Horn Rams have won two straight and head back out on the road after winning at home last week Head coach Bert Dow says the rams have a tough task in front of them tonight in Glenrock.
We will have the Rams / Glenrock game for you live tonight kickoff is scheduled for 6:00 on our sister station 95.9 fm, Ron Richter and Ben Chalker will have the play by play.
The Broncs are 3-1 and host the 1-3 Rock Springs Tigers Head coach Don Julain says the Tigers can be a dangerous
After the Bison football team got out of Green River last Friday with a 17-14 overtime win, they were rewarded with a new No.2 ranking in the 3A polls this week, moving up from 5th to 2nd.
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL - The Sheridan Bronc football and the Big Horn Rams both play tomorrow night the Rams will be in Glenrock and the Broncs at home against Rock Springs.
The Rams have won two straight and head back out on the road tomorrow Head coach Bert Dow says his young team is getting more comfortable with their new offense.
Dow says they face a tough Herders team tomorrow that can really run the ball.
The Lady Bison swim team was at the Newcastle Invite last Saturday and came home with some great performances under their belts.
As a team, the girls finished second behind Doulas, followed by Cheyenne South, Newcastle and Worland.
Individually, wins went to the girls' 200-yard medley relay team of Misty Ballek, Hannah Chapin, Sara Ott and Caley Stafford; the same team in the 200 free; Stafford in the 200 IM and the 100 breast; Chapin in the 50 and 100 free; Ballek in the 100 fly and 100 back; and Gracie Meachum in diving.
The Bison cross country team continues to show improvement, but especially in the junior varsity ranks.
They were in Dougals last Friday for the Jackolope Invite, and the JVers looked good again.
The top finish came from Tori Schumacher who finished 15th, followed closely by Laura Kelly at 16th.
Kathryn Eklund took 28th, Sammy Burton 30th, Candace Carder 36th and Audrianna Carder 67th.
The girls' team finished fifth.
SC BOOSTER BBQ - The Sheridan college booster club will host their annual fall sports fan kickoff BBQ tonight at 6:00 at the Hoffman dome all Sheridan college supporters are urged to attend
FOOTBALL - The Sheridan Bronc football team hosts the Rock Springs Tigers Friday night we will have the game live for you on 14-10 KWYO.
The First Federal savings bank pregame show will start this evening at 6:30 with the kickoff at 7:00.
The Big Horn Rams play at Glenrock Friday kickoff is at 6:00 and will be broadcast live on 95.9 FM.
SHERIDAN COLLEGE BOOSTER CLUB - The Sheridan college booster club will host their annual fall sports fan kickoff BBQ tomorrow night at 6:00 at the Hoffman dome.
All Sheridan college supporters are urged to attend the free BBQ Sheridan college men's basketball coach Steve Smiley.
Smiley says the athletic department at the college really makes an effort to get their athletes out into the community as much as possible to meet with community members and community groups.
BRONC FOOTBALL - The Sheridan Bronc football team won a 42-35 shoot-out at Evanston Friday night.
The Broncs spotted the Red Devils a 14-0 lead after to turnovers in the first quarter but climbed back in the game and took the lead and held off a late Evanston rally to win it.
All the damage was done on the ground as Jordan Roberts ran for 354 yards and four touchdowns Gabe Dahmke had 79 yards and two touchdowns after the game a relieved Head coach Don Julian.
The Buffalo Bison football team traveled to Green River Friday to take on the top-ranked Green River Wolves and came away with a 17-14 win in overtime.
Buffalo, outscored 14-0 in the first half, came roaring back in the second half to tie the game and send it into overtime.
Green River had the ball first in overtime, but Buffalo held the Wolves on three downs before blocking their field goal attemp on fourth down.
The Bison then kicked the winning field goal on first down to escape with a 17-14 overtime win.
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Elora was founded in 1832 by Captain William Gilkison;
a sailor, adventurer and land speculator born in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Originally called Irvine Settlement, the village was renamed Elora when the post office was established in 1839. Capt. Gilkison named the community after his brother's ship, which was itself inspired by the Ellora Caves in India. Elora was settled by mainly Scottish pioneers who left their mark on finely crafted limestone houses, many of which remain today.
In the 1850's and '60's, Elora's Downtown Core enjoyed its heyday as a major agricultural marketplace.
The stores on this street sold a range of goods as diverse as anywhere in Canada.
In the 1960's, the first craftspeople and artists took up residence in Elora and established the village as a tourist destination. Artisans transformed the century-old buildings into shops and galleries full of character and charm. And created the art that introduced Elora to the world.
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Elora Gorge Park was also established.
The Elora Gorge is one of the most scenic areas in Southern Ontario with its limestone cliffs descending 80 feet into the Grand and Irvine rivers where small caves, rapids, falls and quiet waters beckon visitors.
The Elora Gorge Park offers paddleboat rentals, hiking, camp-grounds, fishing, swimming and picnicking during the spring and summer months, and beautiful scenery year-round.
At the foot of Mill Street stands the Elora Mill, one of the few early Ontario five-storey grist mills still in existence.
Currently closed for extensive revitalization and reopening in 2014.
In 1999, Elora was merged into the township of Centre Wellington.
The primary communities in the township are Elora and Fergus.
Also including a number of smaller communities, stretched across rolling hills and Mennonite farmland.
"One visit is all it takes to fall in love with Elora"
Elora is a cultural haven with so much to offer. Rich in live music, visual arts, crafts, up-scale boutiques, natural beauty, architecture, culinary flavours, and diverse in culture; Elora provides an alternative lifestyle not typically found in small, rural communities in this day and age. Discover for yourself what makes Elora so unique and you will fall in love too!


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I am nearly positive I didn't come up with this analogy myself, but quick googling reveals no link. Anyway, a great deal of the software I use professionally on a daily basis has been grown organically. Frequently, it started from one person's itch, was released into the wild via source control system, and has been sort of hardened over time by the contributions of many individuals into something more or less production-worthy. Sometimes it was sensibly designed at first by the original author, but many other times it was just a hack thrown together because it was cheap, and propagated because it was useful.
I suspect much software is written this way. I am a believer in worse-is-better design. I am pretty happy with this state.
All too frequently, the software proves unequal to the task at hand, however. In this situation one of two things happens. Sometimes, someone gets a bee in his bonnet and architects the "right" solution from scratch. All the previous work is thrown out. The first 90% of the effort is getting the new design implemented. The second 90% of the effort is patching all the little niggling fixes that make software usable, the fixes that the collective intelligence of the user community provided for the previous wattle-and-daub implementation.
Other times, nobody cares enough to fix the irritation. Workarounds and horrible kludges are developed to keep things limping along. Everyone can see the system is basically busted.
Almost never does someone refactor existing code to use a new algorithm or what-have-you. It is always either add another layer of whitewash onto the sagging wall or burn the wall down and start over.
This state of affairs with broken legacy software bugs me. I think refactoring existing codebases is a good thing. I myself have never done so, almost always opting for the kludge route. I suspect this is fairly widespread. Is it?
Do you think refactoring should be occurring with the same regularity as redesigns? Greater frequency? Do you have a personal guideline or belief on when to give up and start over versus when to limp along with existing code?


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Twins introduce free-agent righty Nolasco
Former Dodger, Marlin was one of top starting pitchers available on market
MINNEAPOLIS -- The Twins officially made their first major upgrade to their rotation on Tuesday, as they welcomed right-hander Ricky Nolasco to Minnesota in a news conference at Target Field.
Having passed his physical on Monday, Nolasco inked a four-year deal worth $12 million annually with a club option that could vest in 2018. The $48 million pact is the largest free-agent signing in the club's history, surpassing Josh Willingham's three-year, $21 million deal signed before the 2012 season.
"This is a good day for the Minnesota Twins," Twins general manager Terry Ryan said. "As everybody knows, we've had some issues on the mound, particularly in the starting rotation, and we set out this fall to improve our ability to compete. So when Ricky filed for free agency on Nov. 2 or so, he was one of the guys we pinpointed to bring over here, and we did just that."
Nolasco, who turns 31 on Dec. 13, is a major addition to a rotation that finished with the worst ERA in the Majors last season. Nolasco posted a 3.70 ERA with 165 strikeouts and 46 walks in 199 1/3 innings with the Marlins and Dodgers last season.
Nolasco said he was impressed by how aggressive the Twins were in free agency and believes he can help turn around a franchise that has experienced three straight seasons with 95 or more losses.
"Them making me feel so wanted here was probably the biggest factor," said Nolasco, who changed his Twitter avatar to a Twins logo shortly after news broke that he had agreed to sign with the Twins on Wednesday afternoon. "They reached out to us on Day 1 and never slowed down. It's a good feeling to have someone come after you like that and feel wanted. So I'm happy to be here."
He was a solid addition for the Dodgers down the stretch after being acquired in a trade with Miami on July 6, as he posted a 3.52 ERA in 16 appearances. He also made one start in the National League Championship Series against the Cardinals, giving up three runs over four innings.
Nolasco is known for his durability, averaging 31 starts per season over the last six years. He's made at least 30 starts in five of the last six seasons, missing the mark in '10, when he made just 26 starts because of surgery to repair the meniscus in his right knee. He hasn't been on the disabled list since that season.
Nolasco has a career 89-75 record with a 4.37 ERA in 229 career appearances, including 212 starts. He's struck out 7.4 batters per nine innings over his career, which was his exact mark in '13, as well. He also has walked just 2.1 batters per nine innings throughout his career.
"He has a lot of ability," Ryan said. "He can strike people out. He doesn't walk people. He competes. He's very dependable. He pounds out innings. And also his character and the way he is as a teammate all adds up to what we were looking for."
The Corona, Calif., native was originally drafted by the Cubs in the fourth round of the 2001 First-Year Player Draft, but was traded to the Marlins before the 2006 season.
He's represented by agent Matt Sosnick, who was also present at the press conference. Nolasco said the fact the Twins were willing to go four years with an option was a major factor in his decision. Nolasco's contract has a $13 million option with a $1 million buyout. The option can vest if he throws a combined 400 innings between 2016-17.
"I think the vesting on the fifth was even bigger for us to turn this into a possible five," Nolascco said. "The way I look at it is it's a five-year contract for me. I have no issues with my body and feel great. I believe 100 percent in myself that I am going to fulfill all five years of the contract."
The Twins have one more signing to announce this week, as they've yet to officially sign free-agent right-hander Phil Hughes, who agreed to terms on a three-year deal worth $24 million on Saturday. But it's expected to come as soon as Thursday, and Ryan indicated more signings could be on the way.
"We are not done in this free-agent issue," Ryan said. "We still have a few more things we'd like to pursue and have gotten close to. If we can the pitching staff on this ballclub straightened out, it can help us in a lot of ways."


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Arizona Diamondbacks infielder Eric Chavez announced his retirement following a distinguished 17-year Major League career.
Chavez, 36, was a 6-time American League Rawlings Gold Glove Award ® winner at third base from 2001-06 as well as the 2002 American League Louisville Slugger Silver Slugger Award ® at third base. In 2002, he was named to The Sporting News AL All-Star Team and finished 14th in AL MVP voting, the first of 4 Top-30 AL MVP finishes.
His career .970 fielding percentage at third base is tied for third best all-time (min. 800 games) with Ken Reitz behind Mike Lowell (.974) and Brooks Robinson (.971), while his 6 Gold Gloves at third base are tied for fourth with Buddy Bell and Robin Ventura behind Brooks Robinson (16), Mike Schmidt (10) and Scott Rolen (7).
Among active third basemen entering today's games (stats only at third), he ranked fourth in games (1,403), hits (1,367), doubles (290), triples (23), home runs (244) and walks (586), fifth in RBI (833), tied for sixth in slugging percentage (.482), seventh in OPS (.828), ninth in on-base percentage (.346) and 10th in average (.271).
His teams won 6 Division Titles (4 AL West championships with the Oakland Athletics [2000, '02, '03 and '06] and 2 AL East championships with the New York Yankees [2011, '12]), were a Wild-Card qualifier once (A's in 2001) and advanced to the ALCS in 2006 and 2012. He played in 34 games over 9 series in his 7 trips to the Postseason.
The left-handed hitting infielder spent 13 seasons with the Athletics from 1998-2010, 2 seasons with the Yankees from 2011-12 and 2 seasons with the D-backs from 2013-14. In 1,615 career regular-season games, he hit .268 (1,477-for-5,518) with 816 runs scored, 318 doubles, 24 triples, 260 home runs and 902 RBI. He owns a career .818 OPS with .342 on-base and .475 slugging percentages. Defensively, he appeared in 1,402 games at third base, 21 at first base, 5 at shortstop and 2 in left field.
Chavez spent 2 seasons in the Minors in 1997-98 and in 1998 was named the Baseball America and Topps' Minor League Player of the Year after hitting a combined .327 (173-for-529) with 45 doubles, 33 home runs and 126 RBI in 135 games with Double-A Huntsville and Triple-A Edmonton. He was the Athletics' first-round selection and 10th overall pick in the 1996 First-Year Player Draft out of Mount Carmel High School (San Diego, Calif.), where he was a 2-time Baseball America High School All-American.


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We need a logo, business cards and letterhead for our Information Systems Consulting company. We are keen on clean lines, curves in the logo and bold colours - particularly green and purple but feel free to convince us otherwise! Please ensure your design also works in black and white/greyscale ie for photocopies etc
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Webroot, a leading security provider for the consumer, enterprise and SMB markets, today announced the latest release of Webroot® Web Security SaaS to further protect organizations around the world from the rapidly increasing amount of Web-born threats.
Web-borne malware increased more than 500 percent last year alone as cybercriminals developed new attack vectors like personal Webmail accounts, social networking sites, trusted websites and other Web 2.0 applications. According to Webroot research, up to 85 percent of all malware is now distributed via the Web making these threats more pervasive than those delivered by email, the traditional attack vector. Since only a small percentage of all businesses currently filter Web content for malware, this shift in malware attack vectors underscores the importance of Web security solutions that can provide an additional layer of protection for corporate and mobile users.
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Unlike traditional on-premise solutions, Webroot Web Security SaaS is a comprehensive solution that provides virus, malware and spyware protection combined with powerful end-user management capabilities to protect against threats in real time while enforcing Internet usage policies for corporate and mobile users. It is a complete solution, delivered as a service that can add to, or complement, a company's existing security infrastructure without requiring costly hardware or software. Because companies only buy what they need, and the implementation time is quick, the time to return on investment is short.
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Paris Hilton is the latest celebrity to fall victim to the prank fad known as "swatting," in which a SWAT team is deployed to a celebrity's home as the result of a hoax phone call on the part of practical jokers.
A call came in to Los Angeles police early Saturday evening reporting that an intruder was in Hilton's home, according to TMZ. When cops arrived at the scene, they found that no one was home and concluded that the call was a prank, TMZ reports.
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We're just starting to record the video inserts for a new online training course we're developing. As I'll presenting at the TCUK 2014 conference on on this topic, I thought I'd take a few photos in case they come in handy during my TCUK presentation.
We record the presenter actually presenting the slides, as this results in a more natural presentation style. The presenter sees the slides on the laptop, and we use the laptop's camera for recording the video.
Previously, we've recorded to a white background, but for this course, we're going to be using a green screen. We record the audio using a USB microphone and a digital voice recorder. This means we have two audio recordings of the presentation.
The presenter sees a copy of the slides on the laptop screen, which he can progress through using a remote control. He also sees the script via a teleprompter on a tablet.
The green screen (we use chroma-key to remove the background) is giving us more consistent results than having a white background.
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Belfast, 1889. A young woman haunted by her mother's death embarks on an Alaskan adventure among the Tlingit Indians.
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Ten year old Micka wants a puppy and his brothers to stop bullying him. Eleven year old Laurie wants his life to be more ordinary. Together the two dream up something different. Something secret and unpleasant
The Gallows Curse by Karen Maitland www.karenmaitland.com
1210 and King John has seized control of the Church. In the village of Gastmere Elena, a servant girl, is dragged into a conspiracy to absolve the sins of the manor
The Assassin's Wife by Moonyeen Blakey www.moonyeenblakey.com
The War of the Roses divides 15th Century England. Nan, a young girl destined to serve in Middleham Castle, is burdened by visions of two noble boys imprisoned in the tower.
Catching the Eagle by Karen Charlton www.karencharlton.com
Easter Monday, 1809: Kirkley Hall manor house is mysteriously burgled. When suspicion falls on Jamie Charlton, he and his family face a desperate battle to save him from the gallows.
The Chosen Man by J.G. Harlond www.jgharlond.name
Early spring 1635: A storm and pirate raid wreaks havoc with rogue Italian merchant Ludovico da Portovenere's routine voyage from Constantinople to Amsterdam, disrupting his plans and entangling others in his secret commission.
Song at Dawn by Jean Gill www.jeangill.com
Provence 1150. Love, music and political intrigue surround Estela in the royal court of Narbonne.
Mrs. Jones by B.A. Morton www.bamorton.weebly.com
A New York cop tries to protect a young English woman who witnesses a murder and he finds that both sides of the law want to question her. Is she all she seems?
The Fenwold Riddle by Dave Edvardson www.daveedvardson.com
Brave young Marshal Dominic Bradley is charged with finding a way through the impenetrable wall that encloses the land of Fenwold.
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text: Justine Shapiro starts her historical journey dodging swords in a re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings, then travels up the coast to visit the Royal Pavilion in Brighton. Passing through London, she takes a canal ride up to the Yorkshire Moors where she boards a double-decker bus/hotel. The next stop is Whitby, the eerie coastal town that inspired Bram Stoker to write "Dracula." Justine strolls along Hadrian's Wall, has a chance meeting with a centurion and rides a steam train before visiting Liverpool, home of The Beatles. Venturing south into England's West Country, Justine meets the very eccentric Marquess of Bath and joins a pagan celebration in Glastonbury before ending her journey in Ottery St. Mary, where the locals run through the narrow streets with huge, flaming tar barrels to celebrate Guy Fawkes Night.


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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas transit. Shopping bags are filling train seats, and buses are crawling along high-traffic shopping corridors. To keep you in good cheer, Going Public has devised a December transit road map so you can have happy haul-idays.
>> That new iPhone is cool and all, but I'm a gonna have to stop you from pulling it out on the train. Thieves are watching for distracted riders. Watch your bags, especially at transit stops near stores with pricey products such as the North/Clybourn stop (Apple store) and State/Lake (Macy's).
>> If you're in a hurry, try to avoid express buses that travel State Street in the Loop and North Michigan Avenue. Buses are slowed by taxis that stop in the right lane to pick up passengers with multiple bags. Use train service when possible.
>> Keep your spirits up by visiting the CTA's annual holiday train. There are only seven days left to ride the bedazzled train this year. Follow the CTA's Twitter account (@cta) for up-to-the-minute train location and delays. At some stops, lines form early for the train, so factor that into your timing.
>> Buy your transit cards before you get to the station. The line for cards can be longer this time of the year thanks to confused tourists. This is especially the case at the Midway and O'Hare stops.
>> Set a good example for a smoother ride. Trains can seem more crowded than they are because riders are wearing bulky coats and accessories. Don't put your bags and coats on a seat if a rider wants to sit down. Also, be careful when swinging bags so you don't hit other riders.
>> Although they can be annoying and slow travel, please help the tourists out with directions. 'Tis the season for good will and good "L."
Transit challenge
The votes have been tallied and the winner of the Apps For Metro Chicago Grand Challenge contest is... not going to be announced until Friday. The challenge pits the top apps from the community and transit rounds against 10 new entries. Prizes are awarded to developers based on civic value, functionality and creativity. Some of the transit apps in the running are:
>> Taxi Share Chicago: You can find others going to your destination and share a cab with them.
>> Wasmycartowed.com Find out if your car has been towed.
>> What's Driving Costing You Chicago: Compute your fuel costs, vehicle emissions and other factors to see how much it costs you to drive in the city.
Track the holiday train
The CTA holiday train will travel Wednesday, Friday and Saturday on the Red Line and Thursday and Saturday on the Purple Line. Go to redeyechicago.com/holidaytrain to upload your holiday train snaps.
My pledge to ride every CTA bus line continues. I rode the No. 81W-West Lawrence last week and boiled my review down to a tweet.
@tracyswartz 23 mins from Jefferson Park to Cumberland Blue Line. Gives the Blue Line a run for its money on speed. Goes thru Harwood Heights, Norridge.
137 routes down, 2 to go!
Next up: No. 54A-North Cicero/Skokie Blvd.


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Laura's house, located in the heart of Melrose, is featured in the film but her home isn't the only local shot. In fact, the entire film was shot in Melrose featuring Grimsby's restaurant, the Gately Funeral Home, and Melrose High School. The only shot not considered "in town" is Nasty Nonni's Wine & Spirits, but locals claim it's within town lines.
The places aren't the only local connection in the film. Director and editor, Paul Serafini, is Laura's boss at WGBH Boston but his reasons for doing the film were for more than local support.


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There are so many of these New Super Mario Bros. games. Two out already on DS and Wii. Two more coming this year, for 3DS and Wii U. They all look more similar than, say, Super Mario Bros. 1 and Super Mario Bros. 3 did, but a new trailer for August 19's New Super Mario Bros. 2 brings new hope that this one, at least, is going to have a visual identity of its own.
Enjoy the new trailer and all of its gold stuff.
Question for the readers: if this game is all about grabbing the most gold coins, shouldn't it be New Super Wario Bros. 2? Shouldn't Wario be the star?


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If Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina end up beating the odds on Tuesday, you can bet Hollywood won't make their thank-you lists.
The two Republican candiates have mounted spirited challenges to their Democratic challengers Sen. Barbara Boxer and former Gov. Jerry Brown, but the industry's band of conservatives have largely decided to sit out these hotly contested races.
TheWrap found a pathetically thin list of Fiorina donors with industry ties (only one hand necessary), and less than two dozen for Whitman (see charts).
Even Whitman's list pales in comparison to the scores of movie, music and television stars who have opened their wallets for Brown and Boxer.
Executives like Michael Lynton and Haim Saban (both well-known liberals) have given to Whitman; but they give a lot more to the other side. Best-selling author Dean Koontz has donated to Fiorina (see below), but after that the list grows scant.
Who's giving to Boxer and Brown? See: Elections '10: Who's $upporting Whom in Hollywood
Instead, right-leaning actors and producers such as Jerry Bruckheimer, Gary Sinise and Jon Voight have largely chosen to give to out-of-state Republicans like Illinois Republican senate candidate Mark Kirk or Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown.
At least, they're giving. Some past donors, such as Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall, haven't written a single check.
Fiorina's campaign doesn't deny there's been a problem, but charges that it's bad politics.
In relentlessly backing the Democratic establishment, Hollywood is voting against its own self-interest, Fiorina spokesperson Andrea Saul told TheWrap.
"Despite Boxer's decades of repaying special interests who bankroll her campaign, Boxer has been especially bad for the entertainment industry by pressing for job-killing legislation, more than a trillion dollars in tax hikes and more government intrusion into our lives while limiting our film, music, and television shows' global reach and exposing them to more piracy by opposing free trade," Saul said.
See also: Kamala Harris Weighs In on Opponent Steve Cooley and Polanski Case
So what's behind the GOP money shortfall?
For one thing, this time the California Republican standard-bearers may be too far right for Hollywood-style conservatives, who like their tax cuts but don't get as passionate about gay marriage and abortion. For instance, some Grand Old Party boosters like "Desperate Housewives" creator Marc Cherry and Bruckheimer donated to Fiorina's Republican primary opponent, the more socially liberal Tom Campbell.
"Fiorina has run as fairly dogmatic — she's anti-immigration and anti-gay marriage. Whitman has tilted more toward the center, but she's still running to the right of Arnold Schwarzenegger," Larry Gerston, professor of political science at San Jose State University, told TheWrap.
Also, "The California races are not duplicating the national pattern in that the Democrats will likely win. There are a lot of real close races across the country, and they may feel that they will have a greater impact if they donate outside the state," Raphael Sonenshein, a professor of political science at California State University, Fullerton, told TheWrap.
Spokespeople for Bruckheimer and Sinise declined to comment, and representatives from other Hollywood conservatives did not respond to TheWrap's requests.
Whitman has fared better than Fiorina, owing in part to her days as an executive at the Walt Disney Company and DreamWorks. What support she has in Hollywood, with donors like Disney's former Chairman Dick Cook and DreamWorks Animation President Lewis Coleman, seems to stem from the relationships she built at those companies.
It's a far cry from when Schwarzenegger was able to exploit his industry ties to convince those in the business to cross party lines and support a Republican. Of course, it also helped that he was also progressive on issues such as abortion and gay rights.
This go-round, Schwarzenegger's neutral position is another contributing factor to entertainment business' tepid response to Fiorina and Whitman. The governor has declined to endorse either candidate, primarily because both have expressed indifference to his environmentally friendly policies.
"If you read between the lines, Schwarzenegger has said positive things about Jerry Brown, and they have a friendship there, and his legacy is the climate change bill, which Whitman plans to eliminate," Andy Spahn, an entertainment industry political consultant, told TheWrap.
Read also: What the Mid-Term Elections Will Mean for Hollywood
Beyond an on-the fence Governator, there's also the reality that the movie business is a difficult one for conservative politicians to break into, even for big-moneyed former Fortune 500 executives.
"Hollywood is predominantly liberal in its orientation, so it's hard for newcomers, unless they have ties to the industry like Schwarzenegger or Reagan to get attention. It takes time to build those connections, and in races like these there isn't time," said Republican political consultant Sal Russo.
Of course, where some see a wasteland, others see fertile ground for an ideological shift. Other Republicans, such as conservative agitator Andrew Breitbart, argue that contrary to the paltry record of donations, there are the first stirrings of a Republican revolution taking place in the industry.
"We are starting to see the beginnings of a movement that sends messages to those people on sidelines to slowly but surely come out of the closet," Breitbart said. "A silent conservative beast is starting to awaken in this town that's been slumbering for 40 plus years."
The beast may be rising, but if this election is any indication, don't ask it to give.


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Robert Bowling, the former public face of Call of Duty, left his role earlier this year to become president of Robotoki Studios. And now, he's revealing Robotoki's first game.
The July issue of Game Informer reports that the new game is called Human Element, and that the human element of survival stories is indeed what it hopes to show us.
Existing games have made us all experts in the fine art of zombie shootin'. Human Element, from the sound of things, wants us to look at survival a little differently. Instead of just taking out waves of undead, Bowling says the game is meant to look more carefully at the costs of survival. Fear, he explains, is the real threat in a doomsday scenario, "Unreasonable fear that leads us to do unreasonable things to survive."
The character creation, as outlined, reinforces the idea that different people, at the end of the world, might have different goals and need to choose different paths to survival. Character classes are defined by their approach to problems: Action, Intelligence, and Stealth. The system also has the player choose from among three different identities: Survive Alone, Survive with a Partner, and Survive with a Young Child.
One imagines that the zombie apocalypse would be very different indeed for someone action-oriented flying solo, as compared to someone stealth oriented who has to protect a young child. But it'll be a while yet before any of us get to find out: Human Element is currently set for "release on next-generation consoles, PC, mobile and tablets" (so, pretty much everything) in 2015.
Robotoki's 'Human Element' Revealed [Game Informer]
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