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Pundits spin Osama tape for Bush
On the October 29 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, following the release of a taped message from Osama bin Laden, Newsweek chief political correspondent and NBC news analyst Howard Fineman spelled out how partisans of President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry each might plausibly interpret the political impact of the tape as benefiting their side in the final 72 hours of the presidential race. But while Fineman did not endorse either interpretation, a slew of cable pundits and reporters Friday night did -- and they were unanimous and mostly unequivocal in adopting the partisan Bush line. NBC's Andrea Mitchell went further, saying "it almost makes it more difficult" for Kerry to continue pointing to the administration's failure to capture or kill bin Laden.
The basis for most of these assessments is the assumption that Bush's opinion poll numbers would likely climb with terrorism back in the news. Yet a FOX News/Opinion Dynamics poll, conducted October 28 and October 29 and released late Saturday, showed Bush's support falling three points, from 50 to 47 percent. Kerry's support was unchanged at 45 percent. An article about the poll on FoxNews.com noted: "Polling was conducted Thursday and Friday evenings, so about half of those interviewed would have had the opportunity to hear reports of a new tape from Usama bin Laden." And according to Salon.com's "War Room," Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg told reporters in a call on the afternoon of October 30 that voters split 46-36 in favor of the view that the bin Laden tape makes them think Bush "took his eye off the ball in Afghanistan and diverted resources to Iraq."
While it's not possible to know what motivated bin Laden, conservatives, resurrecting their months-old "terrorists for Kerry" smear as documented by Media Matters for America (for example, here, here, here, here, here, and here) charged that the tape was designed to help Kerry, ignoring entirely the possibility that the tape was intended to help Bush. As the Bush campaign attacked the Kerry campaign for politicizing the tape, Republican National Committee (RNC) adviser Peggy Noonan appeared on FOX News Channel's Hannity & Colmes and did just that, saying, "Do you think he [bin Laden] wants George Bush to have a nice day on Tuesday? I don't think so."
On the October 29 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Fineman explained:
On Democrats' side, on the Kerry side, Kerry's arguments for months and months has been I would be a better, smarter commander in chief because I wouldn't have taken my eye off the ball. I would have surrounded Osama bin Laden and his fighters in Tora Bora and Afghanistan. I would have hunted them down the way I did in Vietnam when I was a swift boat commander myself. I wouldn't have gotten involved in the adventure in Iraq and I certainly wouldn't have done it the way George Bush did it. So that's John Kerry's argument, and the fact Osama bin Laden reappears a few days before the election apparently in good health, sort of sitting at a lectern like he's giving a political science lecture, has to underscore Kerry's point.
But on Bush's side, the president can argue, the emotions of this. He can say as did he already today, we will not be intimidated by this barbarous enemy. That the American people will rally around the cause of fighting terrorism. That in fact, the reappearance of bin Laden shows the nature and the implacability of the enemy we're fighting and only somebody willing to take offensive as I have, Bush will say, and is saying, only that kind of commander-in-chief can fight somebody like bin Laden. And if you look at our poll and everybody's poll, on the question of who can better fight the war on terrorism, not Iraq, but the war on terrorism, Bush is ahead by 20 points. So anything that reminds people of the war on terrorism, and that's bin Laden has to benefit the president.
Yet sixteen reporters and pundits, appearing on CNN, MSNBC and FOX News Channel, saw only an upside for Bush:
• KAREN TUMULTY (TIME magazine national political correspondent): Well, considering, however, that the arguments for the last week have essentially consisted of bouncing from headline to headline, I think this gives us the message for the rest of the campaign. Quite frankly, I find it hard to find any way that this helps John Kerry. What we've seen over and over and over again is that when terrorism is the topic, and when people are reminded of 9-11, Bush's numbers go up. [CNN, Lou Dobbs Tonight, 10/29]
• ROGER SIMON (U.S. News & World Report chief political correspondent): I don't have any trouble parsing out who this helps. I think this is an enormous boost for George Bush. And if the president is reelected, to some extent, he will have Osama bin Laden and this tape to thank for it. ... That's why I think energizing the base is so important. Any little unexpected thing -- we thought the October surprise might be the capture or killing of Osama bin Laden. This tape is better than either of those things for George Bush. [CNN, Lou Dobbs Tonight, 10/29]
• CHRIS MATTHEWS (MSNBC host): The big thing in politics, of course, is picking the right topic. This shifts the topic from Iraq where the challenger was hitting the president hard for alleged mismanagement of the war. Now it takes it all back to 9-11, the moment of the president's greatest heroism. ... This creates a terrible situation for the challenger because it seems to me that Karl Rove has his finger on this. He knows that the American people have only one president at a time. And that's George W. Bush. We only have one protector at a time. We have to rally behind the president when we're threatened by an enemy. Osama bin Laden. And he's done it again. [MSNBC, Hardball with Chris Matthews, 10/29]
• ANDREA MITCHELL (NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent): Absolutely (following Matthews' first sentence above). And it almost makes it more difficult for John Kerry to use a standard part of his stump speech when he talks about having his allegation that George Bush let Osama bin Laden get away In Tora Bora. It is almost difficult now for him to do that because he would appear to be taking advantage of this new tape. It makes it harder for Kerry, and it shifts the subject matter back to what George Bush is strongest on. The Bush people may not say that they are happy about this, but I'm sure that they could not be more pleased that this is the subject of the closing days. How do you say October surprise? This is one that could benefit the president. [MSNBC, Hardball with Chris Matthews, 10/29]
• MORTON M. KONDRACKE (Roll Call executive editor): Well, I think what it serves is to remind people that Osama bin Laden is still lurking out there and we face a dire terrorist threat. I mean both candidates reacted similarly forcefully to this thing. But the fact of the matter is, is that our FOX News poll, and consistently this is the case, shows that on the issue of terrorism, Bush leads by miles. I mean, our latest poll at 61 to 28 that Bush leads on the issue of terrorism. If this -- if Osama bin Laden injects this issue back into peoples' heads, then I think it benefits Bush. [...] Well, it's not going to help defeat -- no, I don't think it's going to help defeat Bush for the reasons that I said. [FOX News Channel, Special Report with Brit Hume, 10/29]
• JEFFREY H. BIRNBAUM (Washington Post staff writer): Yes. That is exactly the question. And in almost every case where there was a threat implied or otherwise, I think that we'd find that the polls showed a bump for George W. Bush. So this should be a benefit for Bush. In fact, I mean when I saw -- the moment I saw bin Laden on the screen, I was wondering, completely in jest of course, whether at the end of it Bush himself might show up on the screen and say, "I'm George Bush and I approve this message." [laughter] Because I think that -- because I think this is a benefit for the Bush campaign, coming right at the moment when he needs it. Because I think he's been losing some steam due to the New York Times missing-explosives piece. [FOX News Channel, Special Report with Brit Hume, 10/29]
• BILL O'REILLY (FOX News Channel host): All right, this Osama bin Laden video was just released late this afternoon. And I believe it will help President Bush because it's a reminder of the villain, what he's done. He's actually gloating about what he's done. And even though Bush hasn't gotten him, all the polls say Bush is much stronger in the minds of Americans on terror. [FOX News Channel, The O'Reilly Factor, 10/29]
• CHARLIE COOK (Editor and publisher of The Cook Political Report): You just have to wonder whether Osama bin Laden may have just made a huge in-kind contribution to President Bush's reelection campaign, bigger than George Soros ever did for John Kerry. I mean I can argue this thing either way, but the case for it helping John Kerry is fairly anemic. Yes, you could say that it puts the attention back on the fact that we went into Iraq and went after Saddam Hussein instead of Osama bin Laden. But to be honest, I have to think that this helps President Bush a great deal. [MSNBC, Hardball with Chris Matthews, 10/29]
• JOE SCARBOROUGH (MSNBC host): I really do think that history is going to record Osama bin Laden's election to the American people earlier this afternoon as a deciding factor in the 2004 presidential campaign. ... Let me tell you something, friends, today bin Laden made the war on terror the issue, the only issue, in this political campaign. And that means that the candidate who is enjoying a 20-point lead on that issue, will reap great political advantages. Expect to hear this from Republicans. [MSNBC, Scarborough County, 10/29]
• LAWRENCE KUDLOW (CNBC's Kudlow & Cramer co-host): It plays into Bush's hands. ... It falls into Bush's lap, and unlike 2000, I think it's the kind of thing that will cause the remaining undecided voters in the next 72 hours or so to break for Bush, whereas in 2000, the DUI incident caused those voters to break against Bush. [MSNBC, Scarborough County, 10/29]
• PAT BUCHANAN (former Republican presidential candidate and MSNBC analyst): Clearly, bin Laden is showing us he alive and well and taunting us and saying Bush did not get me despite what he said. But clearly at the same time, he is insulting and challenging the president of the United States, and if he turns this in Osama bin Laden versus Bush, the president is going to benefit for the next three days. [MSNBC, 4 Days & Counting: An Election Special, 10/29]
• G. GORDON LIDDY (radio host and former Nixon administration official): I think what we need to do is take the bin Laden tape in association with the Azzam tape that came just a few days ago, also, directly from Al Qaeda, and the insults are not a problem. What they do did is directly threaten the American people. And that has got to redound to the benefit of President Bush because, as you know, when they ask people who can best keep you safe, it's Bush. [MSNBC, 4 Days & Counting: An Election Special, 10/29]
• MIKE BARNICLE (Boston Herald columnist): Instinctively I would say it would play strongly for President Bush, especially among those that might be undecided at this late stage in the election, because the mere appearance of Osama bin Laden on our TV screens is a vivid reminder of the finest moment of his presidency, a moment when I would view his becoming president of the United States on the rubble within the World Trade Center several days -- a few days after the World Trade Center towers collapsed, and they collapsed because this man assembled a group of people that came here to kill us, and George Bush is intent on killing them. And John Kerry issued a strong statement this afternoon on the tarmac in Florida, but this would be, I think, play right to George Bush's strength. [MSNBC, 4 Days & Counting: An Election Special, 10/29]
• STEPHEN HAYES (Weekly Standard staff writer): I think, as most people have indicated, it's [the bin Laden tape] likely to help President Bush. [MSNBC, 4 Days & Counting: An Election Special, 10/29]
• MAJOR GARRETT (FOX News Channel general assignment correspondent): One quick observation on the bin Laden tape. Last week, I talked to a couple of Democrats in town who said their biggest fear this week would be that the president would raise the terror threat level right before the election. They thought that would bring into fresh release the whole anxiety the country has legitimately about the terrorism threat. This bin Laden tape essentially does that in its own way with the administration not elevating the terror threat. Now Democrats feeling, generally speaking, that terror works to the president's advantaging and not theirs. [FOX News Channel, Special Report with Brit Hume, 10/29
• JEFF GREENFIELD (CNN senior analyst): I think it increases the chance that people who want change and are concerned that they shouldn't change in a national security terrorism umbrella will think more that way. Whether this is the late October surprise, I don't know. [CNN, NewsNight with Aaron Brown, 10/29/04]
Notwithstanding the above consensus, seven other pundits said or implied that bin Laden was actually trying to help Kerry:
• NEIL CAVUTO (FOX News Channel host): People might look at this and say, hey, this knucklehead's still out there. He's still a threat, but -- but, if he's doing this to get the American people against Bush, that could kind of be the wrong message, right?
ALAN COLMES (FOX News Channel Hannity & Colmes co-host): I don't think the terrorists think -- I don't think he's narrowing escape with a Kerry-Edwards sticker in the cave. I don't think that's what's happening.
CAVUTO: But he's all but doing that, isn't he? I thought I saw a button. [FOX News Channel, Your World w/ Neil Cavuto, 10/29]
• DICK MORRIS (FOX News Channel political contributor, author and columnist): But then the second thing is that obviously he criticizes Bush more than Kerry, OK? Obviously. So obviously it's a design on his part to help Kerry, and that's going to backfire massively as everybody knows. [...] Bush has nothing to defend himself about. This tape will help Bush enormously. [...] It's all going to help Bush. Because, look, in the worst poll, he gets by a 10-point margin being better in Iraq and a 20-point margin being better in the war on terror. And there is no way that Kerry is going to flip those issues with three days left. [FOX News Channel, The Big Story w/ John Gibson, 10/29]
• FRED BARNES (Weekly Standard executive editor): Well, I don't know. But I talked to somebody at the White House a little bit ago who said, you know, next to actually capturing Osama bin Laden, having him campaign against you was probably the best thing that could happen. And even picking up some of the Democratic language. You know, he talked about Bush reading that "My Pet Goat" book to school kids in Sarasota, Florida. After -- I mean he, Osama bin Laden, tried to maintain that Bush was doing that and the government was stopped from reacting to the attacks. Which is nonsense, of course. [...] This certainly isn't going to help defeat Bush. [FOX News Channel, Special Report with Brit Hume, 10/29]
• BILL GERTZ (Washington Times defense and national security reporter): Well, you know, that may be the message here, that, "you can't find me," and I can continue to make these messages. He was kind of taking a dig at the United States again by highlighting why he did the September 11 attacks. He made no mistake about that. He is the guy who's responsible for the murder of 3,000 Americans. I'm not sure that this is going to work to his advantage, if he had some intention of trying to influence the election against Bush. He talked about the Bush family, Bush, Sr., in this, and compared the United States to a regime that's similar to some of the military regimes or some of the dynasties and monarchies in the Middle East, which he's opposing. [FOX News Channel, On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, 10/29]
• PAUL MCGUIRE (radio host): The way I see it, Bill, is that this is an attempt by al Qaeda to influence the election as they did in Madrid, Spain on March 11th. Three days before the election in Madrid, Spain, al Qaeda struck the trains. And they caused a conservative government to be removed and a socialist government to be put in. I think al Qaeda and this other guy are trying to tip the scales of the American election to appeal to the Michael Moore crowd and the undecided soccer moms. And I think it's an attempt to sway the people to get Bush out and to put Kerry in. [FOX News Channel, The O'Reilly Factor, 10/29]
• SEAN HANNITY (FOX News Channel host): Why would Osama bin Laden, who's been quiet for so long, come out and virtually try and influence the election today in favor of John Kerry by attacking the president the way he did? Let's be analytical here. Why would he do that if he didn't think Bush was a stronger leader? [...] Let me -- this is important, though, because obviously, bin Laden's been so silent, decided to come out now and impact this election and influence this election. And in the course of what he said, he says how to avoid another Manhattan. He says Bush is still deceiving you. He says we had no difficulty in dealing with Bush and his regimes. They resemble our countries. Bush adopted despotism. On and on and on. He's attacking Bush. Clearly, he wants George Bush to lose, and the question is why? [FOX News Channel, Hannity & Colmes, 10/29]
• PEGGY NOONAN (RNC adviser, author and speechwriter): This is a man on the run who got into a studio, got a camera on him and tried to act like he was a big, strong guy. This guy is half finished, and the reason is George Bush. Do you think he wants George Bush to have a nice day on Tuesday? I don't think so. [FOX News Channel, Hannity & Colmes, 10/29]


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Ferguson, Loudres set to meet again
Experience in lengthy matches often against each other is what has made the Ferguson and Lourdes girls' volleyball rivalry one of the most entertaining this season in Miami-Dade County.
Get ready for the decisive chapter.
Both squads fought off tough opponents Wednesday night to advance to the regional semifinals and earn a chance to play each other for the fourth time this season.
Ferguson held off a resilient Coral Reef squad on the road to win in five games in its Region 4-8A quarterfinal. Lourdes, meanwhile, defeated Palmetto in four games at Columbus to set up the rematch.
The two squads will play Tuesday in the Region 4-8A semifinals at 8 p.m. at Columbus.
Lourdes leads the season series 2-1 winning the most recent meeting in five games to claim the District 15-8A title.
"There's not much more either of our coaching staffs can do because we know each other so well at this point," Lourdes coach Pedro Penate said. "The girls just have to come out and play a great game. It should be a great one."
Region 4-8A quarterfinal — Ferguson d. Coral Reef, 28-30, 25-15, 25-23, 28-30, 15-11: The Falcons had trouble from the start pulling away from the host Barracudas in a rematch of this year's GMAC final. Ferguson won a regional match for the first time since 2009 — the last time it advanced to state.
After a close first game, Ferguson used its height at the net and quickness to take control and cruise to a second-game win. The Falcons appeared ready to win the third game with ease, leading 22-12 before Coral Reef scored 10 points in a row to tie it at 22. But Daniela Diaz and Dominique Barnes each had kills that put the game away.
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Celsion Corporation, an oncology drug development company, develops and commercializes targeted chemotherapeutic oncology drugs based on its proprietary heat-activated liposomal technology.
Thermodox (Doxorubicin Encapsulated In Heat-Activated Liposome)
The company is developing its primary product, ThermoDox that is in Phase III clinical trial for primary liver cancer; and in phase II clinical trial for treatment of recurrent chest wall breast cancer.
ThermoDox is a liposomal encapsulation of doxorubicin, an approved and frequently used oncology drug for the treatment of a range of cancers. Localized mild hyperthermia (39.5-42 degrees Celsius) releases the entrapped doxorubicin from the liposome enabling high concentrations of doxorubicin to be deposited preferentially in a targeted tumor.
The company manufactures microscopic vesicles consisting of a discrete aqueous central compartment surrounded by a membrane bilayer composed of naturally occurring fats. Through a perpetual, worldwide, development and commercialization license from Duke University, the company has licensed heat activated liposomal technology that is differentiated from other liposomes through its low heat-activated release of encapsulated chemotherapeutic agents.
The company is conducting a ThermoDox double-blinded, placebo-controlled, global Phase III clinical study with ThermoDox in primary liver cancer study under a Special Protocol Assessment agreement with the FDA. The study is being conducted at approximately 70 clinical sites in North America, Italy, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
The company has a licensing agreement with Yakult Honsha under which Yakult was granted the right to commercialize and market ThermoDox for the Japanese market.
The company has a joint research agreement with Royal Phillips Electronics that is evaluating the combination of Phillips' high intensity focused ultrasound with Celsion's heat activated liposomal technology to develop new cancer drugs.
In 2009, the company commenced a pivotal open label, dose escalating ThermoDox Phase I/Phase II clinical trial for patients with RCW breast cancer.
Celsion Corporation was founded in 1982.
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- Legal – What laws and legislation will exert influence on the style the business is carried out?
IFE, EFE, IE Matrices
The Internal Factor Evaluation matrix (IFE matrix) is a strategic management tool helping audit or evaluate major weaknesses and strengths in a business's functional areas. In addition, IFE matrix serves as a basis for identifying and assessing relationships amongst those areas. The IFE matrix is utilised in strategy formulation.
The External Factor Evaluation matrix (EFE matrix) is a tool of strategic management that is typically utilised to assess current market conditions. It is an ideal instrument for visualising and prioritising the threats and opportunities a firm is facing.
The essential difference between the above mentioned matrices lies in the type of factors incorporated in the model; whilst the latter is engaged in internal factors, the former deals exceptionally with external factors – those exposed to social, political, economic, legal, etc. external forces.
Being a continuation of the EFE matrix and IFE matrix models, the Internal External matrix (IE matrix) rests upon an investigation of external and internal business factors integrated into one suggestive model.
Porter Five Forces Analysis
The Porter's five forces analysis studies the industry of operation and helps the company find new sources of competitive advantage. The analysis surveys an industry through five major questions:
- What composes a threat of substitute products and services?
- Is there a threat of new competitors entering the market?
- What is the intensity of competitive rivalry?
- How big is the bargaining power of buyers?
- How significant is the bargaining power of suppliers?
VRIO Analysis
VRIO stands for Value, Rarity, Imitability, Organization. This analysis helps to evaluate all company's resources and capabilities and bring them together into one aggregate table that includes:
- Tangible resources
- Financial
- Physical
- Technological
- Organizational
- Intangible resources
- Human
- Innovation and Creativity
- Reputation
- Organizational capabilities
The result of the analysis gives a clear picture of company's competitive and economic implications, answering the questions if the resources mentioned above are:
- Valuable?
- Rare?
- Costly to imitate?
- Organized properly?


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We've seen Mario as a GTA character, which is badass on its own. But have we seen him fully outfitted as a punk rock anarchist?
Brazilian graphic designer Butcher Billy has quite an impressive, pop culture-filled profile on Béhance, including his latest, stunning crossover, featuring Super Mario characters and legendary punk rock band Sex Pistols, which he made for the Brazilian Nintedo World magazine.
When Nintendo World, the official magazine for the japanese video game giant in Brazil, invited me to bring my personal vision to one of the greatest company's characters, I couldn't be happier. Been a retro gamer since the NES times, I take games as a form of art and one of my inspirations in pop culture along with cinema, tv, comics, music and others.
So I decided to go with everyone's favourite italian plumber. Instead of simply trying to make Mario look badass (like loads of pointless fan-arts across the web), I wanted to challenge myself, choosing the most improbable and badass real life characters I could think of, and make them impersonate Mario and his universe, yet keeping both visual sources totally recognizable in their concepts.
The Sid & Nancy Nintendo Lost Levels by Butcher Billy [Béhance]


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I finally got around to putting this old code on github here: freebsd-impersonation.
It's unlikely that it'll be of much to use to anyone in the real world but every now and then I see someone fetch the uimp.pdf file that this describes. Just this weekend I re-discovered the code on an old hard drive and thought it might be nice to preserve it, even if it did turn out to be pretty much useless.


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Wikipedia defines a thought leader as
…an entity that is recognized by peers for having innovative ideas. Thought leaders often publish articles and blog posts on trends and topics influencing an industry.
I often get asked who are the true "thought leaders" in social media. In a world of voluminous tweets and blog posts, with many contributors simply compiling lists of other's content or rehashing of other's ideas, it really is hard to decipher who are those that are not only recognized by their peers but also have "innovative" ideas with regards to various aspects of social media.
An interesting conversation in my Social Media Strategies for Business LinkedIn Group, which you should all join if you haven't already, led to the list which I am going to publish below. It all started by this question from a member:
Today's top Thought Leaders of Social Media?
Aside from you of course Neal! ;) Who would you (those in group) identify as the hot thought leaders and/or users of social media. Those who have just been getting it right in terms of providing insight, information and utlization.
Considering that those in the group are social media practitioners and thus could be considered "peers," below is the list of everyone who was mentioned. This is by no means an authoritative or comprehensive list – as there weren't too many contributors – but it is a good (and eclectic!) snapshot of some that have been recognized and are good to follow to get top advice from perceived thought leaders on a wide variety of social media-related topics. Note that everyone is listed here in order of when they appeared in the discussion, earliest being on top.
Brian Solis – Brian is the prolific author of Engage!, The End of Business As Usual, and Putting the Public Back in Public Relations. More importantly, though, he is someone who is always pushing the ball forward on our understanding of social media, and provides new and unique insight with every speech.
Jeremiah Owyang – While Jeremiah hasn't written any books (I wish he would!), he is the leading industry analyst at the leading social media think tank Altimeter Group. If you go back to Jeremiah's blog posts from a few years ago you will recognize the tremendous insight that he has – and if you have the chance to see him speak here and today, you'll be on your way to better understanding the future direction of social business.
Charlene Li – Charlene is the founder of the above mentioned Altimeter Group and is also the co-author of one of the historically groundbreaking books on social media: Groundswell. Her more recent book, Open Leadership, is also a highly recommended read.
Seth Godin – As group member Jennifer Bulman eloquently wrote, "Parse a post by Seth Godin. Every sentence is useful and every sentence is tweetable." Although Seth is known more for being a general marketing guru, I've already blogged at length at what Seth Godin taught me about social media marketing. Seth leads while everyone else follows. Seth has written a plethora of books, but I would start by reading what I believe to be his classic 3: Tribes, Purple Cow, and Permission Marketing.
Jeff Bullas – Jeff is an amazing blogger hailing from Australia who is constantly giving out very concrete advice to help us all in our social media marketing and was mentioned by multiple people in the discussion as being worthy of being on this list. It is a shame that Jeff is our only non-American on this list – please do share in the comments who else from outside the United States deserves a place here!
Beth Kanter – Beth is without a doubt a thought leader often mentioned in relationship to the realm of social media for nonprofits. Author of the classic The Networked Nonprofit, Beth brings to us knowledge and experience that can be utilized for any organization, not-for-profit or for-profit.
Katya Andresen – Another thought leader in the nonprofit space is Katya Andresen, who wrote the classic Robin Hood Marketing back in 2006 and still is active in blogging at her Non-Profit Marketing Blog.
Mark Schaefer – Mark has made a name for himself in social media by not only being extremely active and engaging both within social media and on his blog, but also through the publication of his recent book Return on Influence. His first book, The Tao of Twitter, was also recently republished if you didn't get a chance to read it the first time around.
Geri Stengel – Geri runs the unique Ventureneer site, where she offer advice for the social enterprise, nonprofit, and small business. Her advice combines a unique combination of content for nonprofits and entrepreneurs, all woven with the thread of social responsibility. A refreshing leader to follow – for social good.
Mari Smith – Although her best-selling book might be The New Relationship Marketing, Mari is also co-author (with Windmill Networking contributor Chris Treadaway) of a book regarding the platform that she is most famous for: Facebook (Facebook Marketing: An Hour a Day). Not only is Mari the most-tuned in expert for advice on Facebook, but she is also one of the friendliest (and interesting!) people you will ever met in socialmedialand.
Lee Odden – Lee is best known for his Top Rank Blog but also became an author with the release of his recent book Optimize, which looks at the intersection of social media marketing, search engine optimization, and content marketing.
Amy Porterfield – Following in the footsteps of Mari Smith is Amy Porterfield, co-author of Facebook Marketing All-in-One for Dummies and popular blogger on all things Facebook related.
Michael Stelzner – Michael was talking about content marketing before the term became popular, but he is best known for his leading social media website Social Media Examiner. Author of the classic Launch, Michael is also a genuinely nice and giving person who reveals all that he knows in a truly selfless way. A true thought leader who is also a role model to emulate.
Gary Vaynerchuk – Gary Vaynerchuk is probably the one person on this list that has more chutzpah than Mark Zuckerberg. The guy famous for the quote, "What's the ROI of your mom?" Gary is one of the most successful entrepreneurs who utilized social media as a main platform to propel his business with Wine Library TV. The author of the classics The Thank You Economy and Crush It!, Gary is also one of the most engaged people on Twitter – and speakers – that you will ever meet. When Gary talks, people listen!
Jason Falls – Jason has been traditionally known for his leading social media blog Social Media Explorer, but the publication of his first book No Bullshit Social Media clearly placed him as a leader in insightful and practical advice for businesses of all sizes to better leverage social media. I had a chance to meet Jason at Blog World and can tell you that he is in person as down-to-earth and thoughtful as is his advice in his book and speeches.
So there you have it. I expect you all to have your favorites, so here is your chance: Do you think the above is a representative list? Who is missing? Who are you glad was listed? Chime in and have a say!


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Asus to use Qualcomm chipset in this year's Google Nexus 7 tablet
posted by Daniel P. / Feb 08, 2013, 2:26 AM
Rumor has it that Google might be switching to Snapdragon for the next iteration of the Nexus 7 tablet line, instead of using Tegra 4, for instance. The idea is to save on logistics, as Snapdragon is a system-on-a-chip package, meaning that the broadband radio is included in the chipset.
Supply chain conversations indicate two reasons for Google's selection of the Snapdragon APQ8064 over Tegra 4: competitive pricing, and a decision to single-source the application processor and 3G/4G modem to simplify logistics and create a fully pin-compatible platform interface," declared McConnell.
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1. KingKurogiii
Posts: 5713; Member since: Oct 23, 2011
mmm, i don't think so. they'd lose the Tegra Zone gaming support and the integrated baseband radios aren't really so important for something like the N7.
posted on Feb 08, 2013, 2:38 AM 5
3. wendygarett unregistered
My question is, will Google still appoint Asus to make tablets?
posted on Feb 08, 2013, 2:58 AM 4
5. KingKurogiii
Posts: 5713; Member since: Oct 23, 2011
i guess. Google wants the best and ASUS still kind of is the best Tablet OEM and they can build for cheap. o:
posted on Feb 08, 2013, 3:02 AM 6
24. Taters
Posts: 6474; Member since: Jan 28, 2013
I disagree. The Nexus 7 and infinity had some major build quality and performance issues. Mostly from Asus insisting on cutting costs by using cheap and slow I/O memory. LG or Samsung should definitely do the next Nexus 7. Since the Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 are both amazing devices and the Nexus 7 is just alright.
posted on Feb 08, 2013, 12:31 PM 0
26. CanYouSeeTheLight
Posts: 1122; Member since: Jul 05, 2012
While that is true, the slow I/O was fixed on the 32GB Nexus 7. Oh and Samsung doesn't have build quality problems? Let me laugh for a sec. Just write Note 10.1 build quality on google and see.
posted on Feb 08, 2013, 4:21 PM 1
2. Nikolas.Oliver
Posts: 1574; Member since: Jul 01, 2012
y u no exynos octa core?
posted on Feb 08, 2013, 2:39 AM 0
11. RaKithAPeiRiZ
Posts: 1488; Member since: Dec 29, 2011
Samsung is not given the chance to make the next nexus 7 , so they are a bit reluctant to give away their best technology to some other brand that will definetly be a rival to their galaxy tab series
posted on Feb 08, 2013, 3:23 AM 5
4. BattleBrat
Posts: 1476; Member since: Oct 26, 2011
I posted this before, I'll post it again; Nvidia Never had the most powerful chips, but they have done more for android gaming than the other companies. What you hardware hounds fail to see is that the Tegra 4 itself is pretty much overkill, as is any other latest gen mobile processor. How much do you really need on a 5" 1080 screen? What needs work is the gameplay, and just as important, control. Few android game developers provide controller support, Nvidia (and Ouya) are working on it with Shield with OUYA, is Qualcomm? Is Sammy? Nvidia is the one working on making Android a gaming platform. And for that Nvidia has my support. I have an Xperia Tablet S (Tegra3 ) and a sony Walkman Z (Tegra 2) and they play games BEAUTIFULLY You may also Notice that these devices have lower res screens, I think that Retina screens are over kill, my walkman 840 x 480 screen ( i believe) playing Samuri 2 JUST as pretty as my iPod Touch 4th, Anything beyond 720 on a phone and 1080 on a tablet is just wasted horsepower (maybe 1200 on larger tablets)
posted on Feb 08, 2013, 3:00 AM 8
6. KingKurogiii
Posts: 5713; Member since: Oct 23, 2011
i completely agree. i want my next device to have a Tegra 4 for those reasons. from here on out it's really more about the support for me. o:
posted on Feb 08, 2013, 3:04 AM 6
9. wendygarett unregistered
And I don't understand the hype of powervr gpu... My dad own ipad4, but several sluggish when playing temple run and even the cut the rope... I will try the tegra 4 and see, is tegra 4 support lte?
posted on Feb 08, 2013, 3:14 AM 0
12. RaKithAPeiRiZ
Posts: 1488; Member since: Dec 29, 2011
the icera 500 4G LTE chip is coming as stock on Tegra 4 soc's
posted on Feb 08, 2013, 3:26 AM 0
14. KingKurogiii
Posts: 5713; Member since: Oct 23, 2011
well the PowerVR series is kind of all that. maybe it was the games themselves? Cut the Rope usually works great for me but Temple Run has been pretty notorious for buggy behavior for me. yeah, the Tegra 4 has integrated LTE.
posted on Feb 08, 2013, 3:31 AM 0
16. wendygarett unregistered
Not just that, wild blood and need for speed as well :(
posted on Feb 08, 2013, 3:45 AM 0
27. KingKurogiii
Posts: 5713; Member since: Oct 23, 2011
why is this getting thumbs down? even fanboys who deny the 4th iPad's speed are foolish...
posted on Feb 08, 2013, 7:43 PM 1
21. CanYouSeeTheLight
Posts: 1122; Member since: Jul 05, 2012
+1 I have a Tegra 3 smartphone and i couldn't be happier, great games and just so much horsepower for normal tasks that it never slows down, also the fifth power saving ninja core makes the phone use little to no battery when in stand-by which is a very good feature IMO. The only problem with Tegra is that it seems to have many haters, i seriously never understood why, as Battlebrat posted Nvidia is the only one who cares about Android gaming and it shows on the THD optimized games, it might not have the brute force of the PowerVR GPUs but it can run games that are as beautiful despite having less power. I have seen many people say "Mali 400 pwns the Tegra3!1!1!!!" But that isn't entirely true as they trade blows with each other on GL benchmark, Tegra has its flaws so does Mali. Also the bad performance on Gameloft games is just because they are lazy and just port iOS games, they have never bothered about Nvidia and that is why the games sometimes run bad on Tegra devices.
posted on Feb 08, 2013, 6:51 AM 1
33. Berzerk000
Posts: 4275; Member since: Jun 26, 2011
Let's just hope we don't have another Tegra 2 incident. Nothing got updated past ICS, and I can only think of 2 devices that did get ICS. It was that little fiasco that gave Motorola a bad name with updates, with all the angry Atrix and Droid X2 owners.
posted on Feb 09, 2013, 10:03 PM 1
7. Piotrek007
Posts: 119; Member since: Dec 07, 2010
I can't agree with the res... As for now 720 is very good, but why shouldnt we get better if samsung said that 1080 uses less power than 720... let it be 1080 then.
posted on Feb 08, 2013, 3:07 AM 0
17. tedkord
Posts: 17311; Member since: Jun 17, 2009
You need the same power you'd need for any size 1080p screen. The size is irrelevant, its the same number of pixels being pushed. If you want smooth framerates, you need a gpu that can handle it. No mobile gpu today can give you 60fps in an intense 3d game at 1080p.
posted on Feb 08, 2013, 4:07 AM 0
Posts: 1256; Member since: Nov 12, 2012
will it be pricey? since it will now use Qualcomm chips? I feel sorry for nvidia.. they lost another costumer!
posted on Feb 08, 2013, 3:18 AM 0
13. RaKithAPeiRiZ
Posts: 1488; Member since: Dec 29, 2011
it might cost a bit more , the chips will cost the same ,but the new screen,more ram and a rear camera might add a bit
posted on Feb 08, 2013, 3:27 AM 1
15. jove39
Posts: 2145; Member since: Oct 18, 2011
I would really like to see tegra4 in next Nexus7...nvidia have icera500 modem to bundle with tegra4 and I think gpu on tegra4 is also better than adreno 320...moreover...google should keep diverse platforms in their devices...it helps to build better custom roms for other devices on same platform.
posted on Feb 08, 2013, 3:35 AM 0
18. TylerGrunter
Posts: 1544; Member since: Feb 16, 2012
Daniel, the APQ8064 is not a "a system-on-a-chip package, meaning that the broadband radio is included in the chipset" as it does NOT include broadband radio. So please correct that. The reasons to go for a Snapdragon APQ8064 are probably: more performance, in particular in GPU. Less power consumtion as it is built in 28nm while Tegra 3 is in 40nm. In other words: Tegra 3 is too weak, and Tegra 4 is too much for a 7 inches tablet. APQ8064 is perfect as it's somewhere in the middle.
posted on Feb 08, 2013, 4:23 AM 1
20. nikenturd unregistered
TEGRA IS OVERRATED.period. My HTC One x was a dog....then when I sold it for a Note 2 my gaming experience was soo much smoother.
posted on Feb 08, 2013, 4:57 AM 2
23. CanYouSeeTheLight
Posts: 1122; Member since: Jul 05, 2012
Actually that is HTC's fault not Nvidia's. I own a One X and it is HTC's stupid CPU governor that messes up game performance. An example of this is the Nexus 7 running games better than the One X. I now have a custom kernel on my One X and the games are running smoothly.
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USTDA Launches U.S-Brazil Aviation Partnership
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, on the occasion of the visit of President Dilma Rousseff to the United States, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) joined with the U.S. Department of State, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) together with Brazil's Ministry of External Relations in announcing the launch of the U.S. – Brazil Aviation Partnership. The Aviation Partnership is a unique public-private partnership that is enhancing bilateral cooperation in areas such as airport expansion, airspace management, safety and security. These programs will support Brazil's aviation infrastructure development priorities, while connecting U.S. companies to the growing business opportunities in the sector.
The Memorandum of Understanding establishing the Aviation Partnership was signed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, USTDA Director Leocadia I. Zak, TSA Administrator John Pistole, and FAA Acting Administrator Michael Huerta on behalf of the United States; and by Minister of External Relations Antonio Patriota on behalf of Brazil. Initially, six companies will participate in the Aviation Partnership, alongside the supporting U.S. and Brazilian Government agencies.
"Brazil and the United States have a long history of cooperation in the aviation sector, and the Aviation Partnership will open more opportunities to work together," stated USTDA Director Zak. "We are excited to work together to support the growth of Brazil's dynamic aviation sector and deepen our commercial engagement with Brazil."
The launching of the Aviation Partnership during President Rousseff's visit to the United States is timed to better coordinate U.S. engagement with Brazil in the aviation sector. As a result of rapidly increasing air traffic because of Brazil's growing economy and the upcoming World Cup and Olympic Games, Brazil is facing an urgent need to increase its investments in aviation infrastructure in order to accommodate the expected growth. U.S. companies are eager to connect to the export opportunities created by these investments.
As the first official activities under the Aviation Partnership, in June 2012, USTDA will host a delegation of Brazilian aviation officials on a reverse trade mission to the United States to familiarize them with U.S. technologies, best practices, and regulatory approaches for airports modernization. In October 2012, USTDA will host a Latin American Aviation Summit in Miami, Florida, to introduce hundreds of U.S. aviation company representatives to aviation officials from countries across Latin America, including Brazil.
More information about President Rousseff's visit to the United States can be found here.


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The Demuth Museum, established in 1981, is dedicated to developing awareness, understanding and appreciation of the artwork and legacy of Charles Demuth (1883-1935). As a leader of the American Modernist movement, Demuth is best known as a pioneer of the Precisionist style and a master watercolorist. The city of Lancaster was his home and inspired the majority of his artworks. The Demuth Museum owns more than 45 original Demuth works in its permanent collection, along with an extensive archive and library. The Demuth Tobacco Shop, the oldest operating shop of its kind in America, and other historic buildings surround the museum; all are open to the public.
Exhibition: "Returning Home: Additions to the Demuth Collection." On view April 28 - July 2, 2017. Museum hours: Tues-Sat 10-4 and Sunday 1-4 pm. Visit www.demuth.org or call 717-299-9940 for more details.


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Teens' Program Keeps Troops Connected
By Samantha L. Quigley
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 20, 2007 - Two Massachusetts teens are working to turn Americans' unwanted cell phones into more than 12 million minutes of prepaid talk time for the nation's troops.
"Cell Phones for Soldiers is the original (cell phone) recycling program created to benefit the troops and provide free prepaid calling cards and communication assistance to military members and their families," said Brittany Bergquist, one of the group's founders.
Brittany, 16, and her brother, Robbie, 15, began this endeavor in April 2004 with $21 of their own savings. Since then, they've provided more than 250,000 prepaid calling cards, equivalent to 2.5 million minutes of talk time, mainly with the cash they receive by recycling unwanted cell phones.
"Ultimately, we would like to provide free satellite phones for all military personnel serving throughout the world so that they don't have to rely on getting to a landline to call home," Brittany said.
The duo has discovered their goal will be costly. They're hoping to raise more than $9 million in the next five years to fund this and other new programs. One such program would provide video phones so deployed servicemembers and their families can see each other on a more regular basis.
Since the teens have been collecting phones for recycling, Liberty Tax has come on board, offering its nationwide locations as phone drop-off sites. The tax preparer's locations are just some of the more than 5,000 sites where donors can drop off unwanted phones. Communications giant AT&T will begin collecting phones at all of its company-owned wireless stores in the United States on July 4.
In their effort to support the troops, the Bergquists discovered their program benefits the world as a whole, Brittany said.
"The great thing about Cell Phones for Soldiers has been a boost to the morale of the troops, and it has also kept toxic chemicals out of our landfills throughout the country," she said. "It's an easy way for people to do a great thing for our military while protecting our environment."
Cell Phone for Soldiers is a member of America Supports You, and has realized many benefits from its membership in the Defense Department program. America Supports You connects citizens and corporations with military personnel and their families serving at home and abroad.
"America Supports You has helped to spread the word about Cell Phone for Soldiers through (its) newsletter and articles on (its) Web site," Brittany said, adding America Supports You also has helped her and her brother make important military connections.
"When we needed a contact in the Coast Guard, (America Supports You) was able to put us in touch with top level officials who could help us distribute our phone cards," she said.
The Bergquists know their group has shown that no matter how people feel about the war, "We all care about our troops and the sacrifices that they're making."
"We will continue Cell Phone for Soldiers as long as there are troops deployed so that they can communicate with their loved ones for free," Brittany said.
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After viewing the first episode I would have to say that I'm in. It's dark, beautiful, a little spooky and a lot kooky. Things that made me chuckle included Holly Hunter channeling a new-age troll doll; Elizabeth Moss (Madmen) with a strangely fluid antipodean accent (not a patch on Anthony Hopkins as Burt Monroe); a cast covered in freshly-inked tattoos; and Robyn Malcolm as a walking, talking, American mid-life crisis. Oh and she's covered in chimp bites. She used to sleep with the chimp, before it turned feral and then she came to Queenstown to join a community of 'recovering' women who live in shipping containers. It's part Mad Max part The Killing.
Essentially it's a whodunit but the crime may not be murder, all we know so far is that the 12 year daughter of a criminal looking guy is pregnant and she's missing.
Emily Nussbaum of the The New Yorker, who's seen the entire series, raves about it, "funny, sexy, disorienting and emotional" but reckons that it's Campion rather than a troll doll that Hunter has been fashioned to look like. Elsewhere in her review she gushes, "Top of the Lake needn't be a template for TV production, but it's an eye-opener, in both senses: a model for the sort of series in which words and images carry equal weight." She also compares it to Twin Peaks.
For what it's worth, I thought that Malcolm's accent was better than Moss's but then again I'm thinking that the show wasn't really made for us. A slightly off the mark Australian accent is not noticed in America and the American accent is so ubiquitous that New Zealand actors are usually pretty good at it.
Actually Anthony Starr has been really, really good at it in Banshee, so much so that I have only noticed that I haven't noticed. You could say that Banshee has a firmer handle on tone than the Top of The Lake, which has so far veered from creepy to silly. Still, the comic-book simplicity of Banshee is probably easier to pull off than the complexity of a Twin Peaks, and TOTL is a moody bloody thing to be sure, even if the quirky characters have yet to threaten the creations of David Lynch.
Back to accents: I know that actors play different characters from different places and all that, but it's always better when it comes naturally.
If it must be done it makes things easier if you don't know the actor, as many of us didn't while watching The Wire for instance. "OMG McNulty is English? Stringer Bell too?" I've banged on before about how we forgive the lame British voice employed by the 'Imp' in Game of Thrones. More recently watching Luck, I noted that Michael Gambon's drawl was so thick that he seemed to be chewing his way through the script, in the way that Englishman do when they're playing American's from the south. It may be momentary, but an accent that strikes a bum note takes you out of the moment, if just for a moment. Because I'm so used to Elizabeth Moss being Peggy from Madmen I do find myself following her every word as Aussie cop Robin Griffen with a sense of trepidation.
A strange accent related moment: Recently while I was watching a DVD of the superb Danish political thriller Borgen, the Prime Minister spoke English - a perfectly annunciated posh delivery that was at complete odds with her usual lazy Danish burble. (The show is 90% Danish, but the actors routinely bust out into English and French just to remind us how linguistically inept we are down here.) It wasn't bad, it was just weird, as if a different person had entered her body. It's not often that in the space of one show we got to see an actor doing two accents, her own and another less convincing one. (More on Borgen soon, can't recommend it highly enough.)
Aside from the occasional vocal hurdle and an over eager tattoo department, there is much to savor in TOTL, as you'd expect from anything with the name Campion attached. Firstly, the scary dad, Peter Mullan, steals every scene like a career criminal on a crime spree. (And nails his Scottish accent, possibly because he was born there) The great David Wenham is also present and is at his gruff best. Another good sign is that it feels slightly uncomfortable, like a new pair of shoes. The best shows always feel a bit odd at first. Like the landscape of the southern lakes, it feels both beautiful and creepy, and given the antics of the women of the 'cult' it clearly has a sense of humour. Actually these scenes reminded me of the women's bookshop skits on Portlandia. As for violence, the first episode included the drowning of a real estate agent and the shooting of his dog. Strangely I felt worse about the latter. There are no buckets of blood. If you're worried about jumping in at episode 2, don't, you'll be fine. The set-up so far has been minimal.
I'm still hanging in there for our truly homegrown whodunit, The Blue Rose, which started out looking more promising than it has turned out to be. If I make it to the end it will mostly be because Antonia Prebble appears to be holding the whole shebang together with the sheer force of her appeal. Her performance reminds me of Matt Prior holding on to save the test for England. Surely Hollywood must be busting down the door.
Top Of The Lake (UKTV, Monday 8.30pm)
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text: Successful Farm Transition, Get the Paperwork Done July 17, 2013 08:31 PM Farms are normally a family business which makes it extra important to develop and implement an action plan to insure the farm can continue to the next generation. By Dennis Stein, Michigan State University The process of transitioning a farm from one generation to the next often runs into problems when family members have not put their transition and estate matters into a written format. Getting the paperwork completed must happen prior to the death of any of the major players in the family business. Too often we procrastinate until we see that someone is slipping into poor health to get started on developing a plan and taking necessary actions. Not having a will can leave the entire family in turmoil if someone dies, divorces, becomes disabled or becomes disassociated with the family farm business. Working with farm business management planners or qualified transition managers is often when the transition plan process begins. The details and process of a transition plan can be more complicated than one may think until you become engaged in the process. Getting the major players of the farm to the point that they realize that the entire farm family needs to get the paper work done correctly is the most important first step. So what does getting the paper work done correctly entail? This is not just one simple form but rather a combination of information and in most cases includes legal documents to provide the foundation for a smooth transition when a major event happens in the farm family. A farm is not just a title to some real estate; rather it is often treated as a part of a farm family's tradition that is often handed down from one generation to the next. The farm may have strong ties even to those that are not currently living or working on the farm. We often have aunts, uncles and extended family members expressing the desire to see the family farm continue. Michigan State University Extension suggests that every family farm situation has just a little different set of circumstances so a "one size fits all" checklist will not fit every situation or family. Taking a practical approach often starts with building a basic understanding of the process of transitioning a farm would be a good starting point. Step one, paperwork: The development of a will and/or the trust is necessary. If there is no paperwork, then there is no will or trust in place. If this is the case, the state of Michigan law automatically becomes the deceased's estate plan. The law requires all assets that were not jointly held with a spouse to go through the probate court system. Probate is a system where the court determines as best as it is capable of to determine the implied desires of the deceased are met for the assets that were owned. Although everyone realizes the importance and need of a will and or trust, we still find that many people are without even these basic estate planning documents. The three main parts of the will identify who will be your personal representative (the person that will be put in charge and responsible for administrating your estate after you have passed). Secondly, the will provides an explanation of how and to whom you would like to inherit the assets of your estate. This is extremely important for family farms as providing a method or process for the farm assets to remain part of the farm can be vital to the long term viability of the farm. This is the section that often scares individuals into not taking any action to develop a will or trust and leave the future up for chance. The third component of the will gives direction as to whom you would like to care for any dependents you have at your death. This may be a minor child who will need a guardian or a family member with special needs who may require some special arrangements for long term care. A great place to start is to review the latest succession planning news and "Leave a Legacy" blog written by Farm Journal's succession planning expert, Kevin Spafford. You can also learn more by attending a 2013 Farm Journal Legacy Project workshop. Back to news


text: Artist/actor/director Vincent Gallo is selling a portrait of himself by Julian Schnabel. When Gallo portrayed painter Francesco Clemente in Schnabel's directorial debut, "Basquiat" (1996), his scene was a re-creation of a dinner at Mr. Chow where Schnabel drew Clemente's portrait in a guest book facing the page where he drew Schnabel's portrait. Since Gary Oldman played Schnabel in "Basquiat," Clemente drew Oldman's face opposite Schnabel's likeness of Gallo. Schnabel gave both drawings to Gallo for appearing in the movie. But Gallo is now selling them on eBay for $25,000. Gallo — whose collections include 500 guitars, 400 microphones and 35,000 vinyl albums — told Page Six: "I'm building a new house in downtown LA. I want everything to fit . . . I'm going through things." Gallo said he'd never hang a portrait of himself in his own home: "I don't want it, and it's too valuable to give away. I'd rather buy shoes."


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Source: www.espn.comThrough their 7-1 start, the Knicks are the top defensive team in the NBA, holding opponents to 90.0 points per game.
ESPNNewYork.com decided to dig into the numbers to see how they've been doing it, and this is the main takeaway: While they're preventing players from getting inside, they're forcing opponents to shoot outside jumpers -- and based on contesting and strategic rotations, with some luck mixed in, their opponents are missing.
Here are four key elements of their suffocating perimeter defense:
1. More jumpshots, less layups: While opponents are shooting 63.7 percent in the restricted area -- the Knicks are a bit undersized down low with Carmelo Anthony at the four -- they're rarely allowing them to get in that space. They're giving up the fewest field goal attempts in the restricted area (190), and the ninth-fewest points in the paint per game (38.8). That's because the Knicks' perimeter defense has been airtight. Looking ahead, if opponents can figure out how to break through more often -- which the Grizzlies did by pounding the ball inside Friday night -- that could pose a problem, especially exposing Anthony to foul trouble. But hopefully for Knicks fans, if that does happen, Marcus Camby and Amar'e Stoudemire, when he returns, will provide more of a defensive punch down low.
2. Causing bricks: The Knicks are forcing a league-best 31.5 and 30.6 percent on jumpers and catch-and-shoot Js, respectively. What's interesting is that opponents are shooting 29.8 percent on unguarded outside shots. That number suggests the Knicks are rotating on the perimeter effectively to leave weaker shooters open. Of course, they're also fortunate there's been more clanks than swishes.
3. J.R. Smith and Ronnie Brewer's impact: The two wing players have been making the biggest difference, based on the time they've been on the court. When Smith is playing, the Knicks are holding opponents to 10.4 fewer points per 48 minutes; and when Brewer is playing, the team is holding opponents to 6.1 fewer points. Also when they're on the court, opponents are shooting worse from the field and 3-point range and committing more turnovers. Overall, the Knicks' two best defensive lineups include Smith and Brewer.
While Brewer has excelled at rotating and forcing players to pass back out, Smith has been the Knicks' best individual perimeter defender, as he's been holding opponents to 34.9 percent shooting in one-on-one situations (post-ups, spot-ups, isolations and pick-and-rolls). With Felton and Kidd being average individual defenders -- they've been picking up steals more from traps and help D -- Smith and Brewer have helped close the gaps around the arc. Iman Shumpert, when he returns, should do so even more.
4. Pablo Prigioni and Rasheed Wallace's underrated D: When Prigioni is playing, the Knicks are holding opponents to 8.9 fewer points per 48 minutes; and when Wallace is playing, the team is holding opponents to 5.7 fewer points. Prigioni, in fact, is part of the best two-man defensive lineup on the Knicks. When Prigioni and Brewer are on the court together, the Knicks are holding opponents to 63.9 points per game per 48 minutes.
As for Wallace, listen to this: Out of the 218 players in the league who have defended at least 50 plays, he's held opponents to the second-lowest field goal percentage (26.3). Sheed has stepped in nicely for Camby and Stoudemire; the Knicks just need more of an interior presence, especially against frontcourt-oriented teams like the Lakers and Clippers.
For now, the Knicks have basically sealed the perimeter shut.
IMO, we're not quite at 100%. We have STAT & Shump to work in to the fold. We have to work on our rotations when we mix up the units. Remember it's one thing to know your job, it's another to know everyones job and then know how to adapt when played out of position i.e. Novak at the 3 vs Novak at the 4.
It will take time to perfect this yet we have the talent to achieve being one of the top defensive teams in the league.
You guys know my priority is to BEAT THE HEAT. Construct a team and implement coach's plan to primarily beat MIA. If we can use our size advantage, lock-up on D and be one of the best...
That to me is the way you beat the Heat. Way to go team, keep up the good work. Never be satisfied.
And thanks coach.
*Mods, relocate this thread to the statistics thread (or wherever), if you wish


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The recent public dustup involving Paula Deen has me more than a little worried. Initially, I paid little attention to reports about the obnoxious comments she made causing her such a firestorm of trouble.
I figured it to be just another instance of celebrity mouth running without a brain involved. Does anybody remember Mel Gibson?
So I put it out of my mind and didn�t think much more about it. I chalked the episode up to a gastro-larynx disease that�s sweeping the nation � verbal diarrhea.
She caught it and got fired, but I�m all for consequences of bad behavior. It serves her right.
Oops, imagine how surprised I was to learn her transgression occurred three decades ago! That stopped me in my tracks.
I�ve done and said a bunch of bad things in my life but always figured time outran them. The thought they could follow me through 30 years of advancing years was truly sobering.
Thankfully, I�m not a celebrity so my future doesn�t hinge upon the general public�s perceptions of me. However I still couldn�t dodge the Charles Dickens shock of being visited by �ghosts of mistakes long past� of which I have many.
I suppose she�s paying the just price, however long delayed. Justice must not have a required speed and distance limit, which is good to know.
For Paula it�s too bad, so sad. What bothers me more is the huge number of others impacted by this.
Think of rap music artists who have captured the American dream plying their craft. These are performers who have blazed new entrepreneurial trails with huge successes.
Now I guess they�ll also have contracts canceled and suffer expulsion from selling their wares in stores and on Amazon. It doesn�t seem to me they deserve that. After all, racial pejoratives are often part of their products, sometimes most of their products.
Surely comedians who inject such sensitive slurs into their art won�t suffer destruction of careers. Many have worked very hard to achieve successes and shouldn�t be denied the rewards of their efforts; but given the recent revelation about Deen and its implications, the outlook is bleak.
I guess retailers will quit selling their CDs and venues will quit booking their acts. In a moral sense, perhaps it�s justified, but in human terms seems harsh. I�m sure everybody was as blindsided by this Paula thing as I.
Resurrecting such ancient stuff just doesn�t seem fair. As much as I dislike President Obama, I wouldn�t have wanted him pillaged by the public over cocaine use decades ago.
But even had it been an issue, I guess it wouldn�t have mattered. Nowadays, illegal drug use takes a backseat on the moral equivalency scale to certain words spoken.
So I wave goodbye to Paula Deen and hope Snoop, LL, Ludacris, Wayne, Eddie, Chris, Jamie and Steve don�t get pounded too hard for past utterances. If the worst should happen, they should remember that when one door closes, another opens.
I�ve heard Tony Bennett is looking for backup singers.
Otis Gardner�s column appears here weekly. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Yellowcreek Elementary in the city of Middlesboro, Kentucky, was adopted as our main project, and we have enjoyed being a part of the students' lives for several years.
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Of all the baby care products shampoos tend to have the most ingredients. Use a shampoo that has natural herbal ingredients, preferably organic. Products by Aubrey Organics, California Baby, Dr. Bronner, and others are safer than commercial shampoos. Two of the most problematic ingredients in shampoo are sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) and propylene glycol. SLS is a wetting and foaming agent frequently used in shampoos and toothpastes. It can cause skin irritation, mucus membrane irritation and urinary tract infections, drying of the skin, and it is a mutagen capable of causing changes in genetic material in cells. Propylene glycol is a wetting agent or solvent. It is a common component of anti-freeze and brake fluid. It has been linked with kidney damage and liver abnormalities as well as rashes and dry skin.
Other common ingredients are not much better. Polyethylene glycol (PEG) is a degreaser used in spray-on oven cleaners. PEG dries the skin and has been identified as a potential carcinogen. DEA, MEA, and TEA, the ethanolamines, are hormone disrupting chemicals known to form cancer-causing nitrates and nitrosamines. These foaming agents have been associated with liver and kidney cancer. The synthetic paraben preservatives methyl-, ethyl- and propylparaben are also hormone disrupters with toxic properties. Some preservatives added to skin and hair products release formaldehyde (Urea and DMDM hydantoin). The word "fragrance" denotes synthetic compounds with up to 4,000 separate ingredients, many of which are carcinogenic, toxic, and capable of producing a wide range of symptoms including hyperactivity, irritability, headaches, and skin irritation.
Lotions and creams
Some excellent products exist for moisturizing and protecting your baby's skin. Products with essential oils can be especially soothing. It is probably best to avoid lavender, since it has been implicated as an estrogenic substance. Avoid lotions, ointments, and creams that contain petroleum or petrolatum and alcohol. Many of the same harmful chemicals found in shampoos will also show up in lotions. Companies that make an effort to use only natural ingredients include Weleda, Mustela, and California Baby, as well as the organic products by Aubrey, Avalon, and Jason. Several of these companies make diaper creams and baby lotions that are soothing and nontoxic. Natural moisturizers such as premium shea butter (www.sheainstitute.com) and virgin coconut oil work very well and have no added frangrances or chemicals. Shea butter contains vitamin A and the fatty acids in virgin coconut oil discourage free-radical production and bacterial growth in the skin.


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Chrysler recalls 667,000 cars, vans for safety problems
Chrysler Group is recalling nearly 667,000 vehicles because passenger safety restraints could fail to work properly due to electrical problems.
Two separate recalls are taking place, and they don't involve the same models or the same parts.
It's hardly the kind of news Chrysler needs. The automaker wound up in a showdown last month with federal safety officials when it refused to recall 2.7 million Jeep Liberty and Grand Cherokee SUVs that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said were too likely to catch fire in a rear crash.
Chrysler Group CEO Sergio Marchionne and NHTSA administrator David Strickland reached a compromise -- 1.56 million recalled, and the remedy is simple and relatively inexpensive -- in a phone call shortly before the June 18 deadline for Chrysler to recall or risk being hauled into federal court.
Story: Chrysler agrees to downsized Jeep recall
The current recalls:
The smaller one affects 224,254 2013-model Chrysler Town & Country, Dodge Grand Caravan and Ram C/V Tradesman minivans built May 10, 2012, through June 7, 2013.
An electrical polarity problem could cause the wrong side-impact airbags to inflate in a side crash. If the van is hit on the right, the left-side bags would inflate, and vice versa.
That not only leaves occupants on the crash side without bags to help absorb the impact, it also conceivably could push occupants on the side of the van that wasn't hit toward the crash impact.
A fairly simple reprogramming of the airbag system cures the ill, Chrysler says. Dealers will do that free once the official recall begins in August.
The larger recall involves 442,481 vehicles. It can be traced back to the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, which interrupted supplies not only of cars but also some components.
Chrysler says: "The potentially faulty micro-controllers...entered the supply chain after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan caused a worldwide micro-controller shortage."
2011-2013 Chrysler Sebring and Chrysler 200 cars manufactured June 28, 2011, through December 13, 2012;
2011-2013 Dodge Avenger cars made June 25, 2011, through January 14, 2013;
2011-2012 Dodge Nitro SUVs built June 17, 2011, through December 15, 2011;
2011-2012 Jeep Liberty SUVs manufactured June 17, 2011, through August 15, 2012.
The faulty micro-controllers could prevent the active head restraints on the front seats from moving forward slightly in a rear crash, as they are supposed to do to minimize whiplash injuries.
Beginning in August, dealers will reprogram a control system or replace a control module, whichever is required, at no charge.


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Today is Blog Action Day. The purpose of this annual event is to focus blog discussions on a particular topic. This year's topic is poverty. A stitching blog like this doesn't really have much relevance to poverty. However, it did make me realize how thankful I am that I'm able to indulge in activities like embroidery, sewing, beading, etc.
The Cross-Stitch & Needlwork blog today had a list of organizations that accept stitched items as donations. While not addressing poverty explicitly, this is a great way to contribute to a charity. One thing not on their list which I think is a great idea is making pet blankets for animal shelters. I'd like to say I had done this but unfortunately I've only thought about it. Guess it's time to do more than think!
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