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A former dancer with Top Of The Pops troupe Pan's People told a court that DJ Dave Lee Travis was a "big pussycat" and "absolutely never" did she witness him do anything inappropriate on the show.
Patricia "Dee Dee Wilde", who as part of Pan's People was a regular on Top Of The Pops in the 1960s and 1970s, described him as an "absolute professional" and a "lovely man".
Ms Wilde said that as young, female dancers they always had plenty of male attention, but would "slap down" anyone who approached them that they didn't want to.
She said: "We were in the most enviable position because we met every single pop star going and all the DJs. It was just the most wonderful, wonderful job for a young girl to have."
But she said they never had any problems with Travis.
She told Southwark Crown Court that when she first met him, before she joined Top Of The Pops, she thought "what a lovely man he was''.
She said: "He is a big bear of a man. If he came up and gave you a cuddle you felt very safe with him, unlike other DJs.
"He is actually a big pussycat."
Travis, from Buckinghamshire, is charged with 13 counts of indecent assault dating back to between 1976 and 2003, and one count of sexual assault.
He denies all the charges, and is appearing in court under his birth name David Griffin.
Ms Wilde said another big name DJ made them feel very uncomfortable, adding: "It was very different in those days. Things that were acceptable then are not acceptable now."
When quizzed about former Top Of The Pops host Jimmy Savile, she said: "I didn't like Jimmy Savile at all, he was very creepy.
"As a woman I didn't feel comfortable in his presence."
She said Savile would approach women quite close, "would pick up your hand and kiss it and lick it at the same time".
Travis, wearing a grey suit, white shirt and patterned red and white tie, listened to the proceedings in the dock with the aid of earphones.
Ms Wilde, dressed in all-black with leopard print high heels and a red scarf, told the court she was part of Pan's People from 1966 to 1975.
The group performed dances for songs by American artists unable to appear on Top Of The Pops and worked "52 weeks a year" during their time on the show.
She described Travis as a "consummate professional".
"Dave was one of the most gentle men and the nicest of all the DJs that appeared," she said.
Ms Wilde told the court that DJs who appeared on Top Of The Pops were "stars in their own right" just like the pop groups of the day.
She told the court "never once" did she hear complaints about Travis's behaviour.
Any complaints of inappropriate conduct would have "spread like wildfire", she said, such as a "DJ already mentioned" and a director/producer she refused to name.
Ms Wilde told the court she met Travis again more recently when he suggested forming Pan's Grannies for a performance at an old people's home.
Earlier, a female musician told the court that Travis was "very professional" when she posed naked for pictures he took at his house.
Elisabeth Birks said Travis asked if he could take photos of her after he saw that she had interesting tattoos at a charity event at London's Battersea Park.
Ms Birks said she was about to take to the stage with her husband when Travis tapped her on the shoulder and said he liked a tattoo on her back, which he had seen because she was wearing a backless dress.
She said: "He was very friendly, he seemed lovely."
Ms Birks said Travis asked if she would model for him, which she was happy to do, and gave her his card.
She visited Travis's home in 2010 with her husband, where the DJ introduced the couple to his wife.
After he gave them tea and cakes and showed her previous photos he had taken, her husband went to watch DVDs and his wife remained downstairs while Travis and Ms Birks went off to take photos together, she told the court.
Ms Birks said they started with her wearing a vest top and hot pants so Travis could take photos of her tattoos, but they eventually took pictures of her while she was naked.
Ms Birks said Travis was a "very, very professional photographer, very polite" and would always ask her if he wanted to physically move her.
She said: "He just made me feel very comfortable.
"Dave was very professional about it."
Asked if he ever did anything inappropriate, Ms Birks said: "No, not at all.
"I felt comfortable for the whole thing.
"Everything was fine."
Former Radio 1 producer Timothy Blackmore told the court he was not aware of any inappropriate conduct by Travis while they worked together at the BBC.
Mr Blackmore, who was part of the team which launched Radio 1 in the 1960s, said DJs at the station at that time were "elevated in the national consciousness" as it was the first legal station to play pop music all day.
He told the court that Radio 1 fans had a "great deal of enthusiasm to meet their heroes" but could not remember any particular incident involving Travis meeting fans.
"I specifically remember trying to rescue Tony Blackburn from a crowd," he said.
On another occasion he had to drive Noel Edmonds away from people "who wanted to tear every limb from his body", Mr Blackmore said.
He recalled an incident in which he travelled on a train to Blackpool with an unnamed Radio 1 DJ when a "couple of girls" spotted them on board.
"The end result was that when we got into Manchester he got off the train with them," the witness said.
"I tried to persuade him not to get off... but he insisted and went off to do with these two young ladies, I do not know what."
Mr Blackmore told the court that the DJ he referred to was not Travis, Blackburn or Edmonds.
Kevin Howlett, who worked on Radio 1 roadshows and produced Travis's Saturday show from 1985 to 1987, said the DJ was a "gentle giant of a man" and everything he associated with him was "warmth, friendliness and jollity".
Mr Howlett said Travis's way was to "just be friendly and give somebody a big hug", adding that he had received a hug himself from him when they made a programme together in the 1980s.
He described Travis as a "very experienced broadcaster, very well respected broadcaster", calling him "very gifted".
During cross-examination, prosecutor Miranda Moore QC asked him: "If somebody was overtly committing sexual assaults or being sexually inappropriate at the BBC, do you think that would have become known?"
Mr Howlett replied: "Yes, there would probably have been whispers or rumours. I never heard anything to do with that with Dave. Not one whisper or rumour."
Asked whether he had heard any rumours about Jimmy Savile while he worked at the BBC, Mr Howlett said: "Nothing substantial at all, really, just vague things that he was a bit of a ladies' man, or something like that.
"I wasn't aware of anything that has come out since, about underage girls. I just heard rumours he was a shady character."
Mr Howlett told the court that on the two occasions he met Savile he got the impression he was "a very strange character", adding that Savile did not go to Radio 1 events or roadshows.
The trial was adjourned until tomorrow.


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Ordnung und Rumspringa
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Living in northern Indiana does have its benefits. One of them is to be in close proximity to a fascinating group of separatists: The Amish. In a world where technology surges ahead at terabyte speed, the Amish attempt to freeze time and create an organic way of life. In a way that would make Heidegger proud, the Amish focus on cultivating a simple community of love and brotherhood. This is no small task in the middle of the United States, where technological innovation is unprecedented. So, to ensure that their way of life is preserved, the Amish have Ordnung.
"The Amish blueprint for expected behavior, called the Ordnung, regulates private, public, and ceremonial life. Ordnung does not translate readily into English. Sometimes rendered as ordnance or discipline, the Ordnung is best thought of as an ordering of the whole way of life … a code of conduct which the church maintains by tradition rather than by systematic or explicit rules. A member noted: The order is not written down. The people just know it, that's all. Rather than a packet or rules to memorize, the Ordnung is the understood behavior by which the Amish are expected to live. In the same way that the rules of grammar are learned by children, so the Ordnung, the grammar of order, is learned by Amish youth. The Ordnung evolved gradually over the decades as the church sought to strike a delicate balance between tradition and change. Specific details of the Ordnung vary across church districts and settlements." [Donald B. Kraybill, The Riddle of Amish Culture cited in Wikipedia article Ordnung]
Ordnung, then, is essentially Law. It is Law translated into life; behavior of conformity for the greater good of community, self, and God.
"The Amish, believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible and the Ordnung is meant to ensure that members of the church live life by following the Word of God. The Ordnung contains a set of behavioral rules. A person is expected to live a simple life devoted to God, family and community according to God's laws. Once a rule has been adopted, it is nearly impossible to have it rescinded or changed.
"Some of the most common rules are: separation from the world, hard work, a woman's submission to her husband, mode of dress, refusal to buy life insurance, and many more. Outsiders often think in terms of restrictions, i.e. no electrical power lines, no telephone in the home, and no personal ownership of automobiles. However many of their guidelines are for the purpose of guarding a person's character. The attempt is to prevent pride, envy, vanity, laziness, dishonesty, etc.
"The foundations of the Amish life are: an unassuming character, the love of friends and family, respect for the community, and separation from the rest of the world. The Ordnung defines who the Amish are. This code's purpose is to guide the behavior of the church's membership into Christ-likeness. Disobedience of these integral lifestyle regulations are punished by disciplinary actions initiated by the church leaders. Shunning (Meidung) is one of the most severe actions that the Bishop can mete out." [From Wikipedia Ordnung]
From the above, I highlight the following: many of their guidelines are for the purpose of guarding a person's character. The attempt is to prevent pride, envy, vanity, laziness, dishonesty, etc. Ordnung exists to create a community of righteousness and love; it guards against what the Apostle Paul terms "the desires of the flesh." It is a safeguard: Law counteracts the Flesh. Ordnung reigns the vices of our most base inclincations.
Ah, but the desires of the flesh will not be so easily tamed. In fact, when Law is put in place to stop the flesh, it often stirs the flesh all the more. Paul knew this well:
"I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, 'Do not covet.' But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from law, sin is dead. Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died." (Romans 7)
According to Paul, when Law is used to regulate the flesh it produces more desires. Tell someone not to covet something and the desire for that thing increases. We want what we cannot have; it is human.
The Amish seemed to have recognized this at some point in their development. No community of the blessed can exist if its members never understand what might have been. The outside world, the devil's playground, holds mystery and fascination. In his classic novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde puts it this way: The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing...
"Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the word take place also."
The above citation is a critical turning point in the novel. These words spoken by Lord Henry to Dorian Gray embed themselves in Dorian's imaginations and stir his wonder and curiosity, leading to his wish that he could sin forever without consequence and live as an eternal youth.
The Amish know the Apostle Paul, and whether or not they have read Wilde, they understand what is at work. For this reason, they have Rumspringa.
Rumspringa is a time for the flesh. It is an opportunity to quench the thirst, satisfy the curiosity, and taste the forbidden fruit. It is a time in the life of a young Amish to explore. This time comes prior to being baptized into the community and is something of a rite of passage. If a youngster comes through Rumspringa and is then ready to live under the Ordnung of the community, then they are welcomed into the fold.
There are a variety of different levels of indulgence during the period of Rumspringa. Not all Amish youth are rebellious; it all depends upon your opportunity, your group of friends, and your desire for experimentation.
"In large Amish communities like Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Holmes County, Ohio, and Elkhart and LaGrange Counties, Indiana, the Amish are numerous enough that there exists an Amish youth subculture. During the rumspringa period, the Amish youth in these large communities will join one of various groups ranging from the most rebellious to the least. These groups are not divided across traditional Amish church district boundaries. In many smaller communities, Amish youth may have a much more restricted rumspringa period due to the smaller size of the communities. Likewise, they may be less likely to partake in strong rebellious behaviour since the anonymity offered in the larger communities is absent." [Wikipedia "Rumspringa"]
So, the Amish balance Law and Flesh with Ordnung and Rumspringa. They cultivate a strict community where vice and lust are forbidden and the community and family are the priority. But in order to do justice to the desires of the flesh, they follow the insights of Oscar Wilde and allow room for the young to explore and indulge temptation. The result? According to the film Devil's Playground, 90% of Amish youth return to the community after Rumspringa.


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Since Side Effects May Include was written by Seinfeld writer Marc Jaffe and Emmy nominee Eric Coble, we had good reason to expect that a sensitive subject—in this case, a heartbreaking but very frank exploration of Parkinson's disease—will be handled with just the right touch. Just the right amount of honesty and just the right amount of courageous humor to make it possible to laugh at this decidedly not-funny dilemma. Only a Seinfeld veteran could pull this off. And he did.
How? By showing us ever so deftly that it's not the disease that changes us. It's the side effects.
"Phil," brilliantly played by Andrew J. Pond, is a middle-aged stand-up comedian, living a typical, more-or-less happy married life (the wife's sex drive is waning): They have a little girl they dote on, Phil's wife is a gynecologist and he's doing OK with his comedy gigs.
Phil is chastened when he learns that a diminished sex drive is the least of his worries compared to the complexities of Parkinson's disease and becomes a compassionate, sensitive husband and father. It's a tall order, but not without many light-hearted, sweet moments counterbalanced by withering realities and magnanimous sacrifices.
Pond relates this seesaw of a tale without missing a beat. Remember: this is a one-man show. It is totally up to him to make or break it. He is a storyteller par excellence. He plays Phil, and other characters including Phil's wife, daughter and rabbi.. From a two-room set—a bedroom filled with an impossible quantity of pill bottles and a stand-up comedy stage––he manages to paint a pictures of life with side effects. The side effects of the disease (good and bad), much more than the side effects of the medicine, are the heart of this heartfelt comedy.
Based on Jaffe's own bittersweet experience dealing with his wife's Parkinson's diagnosis, SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE is a "don't miss" theater experience unlike any you're likely to encounter. And, as if that's not enough, you'll be doing something good by going. MadKap Productions will be donating 10% of the proceeds from SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE… to Shaking with Laughter, an organization that was set up by Marc and Karen Jaffe in support of the Michael J. Fox Foundation. According to the Michael J. Fox Foundation,"Marc Jaffe has approached his difficult topic and his family's private challenges with humor and a sense of optimism. And those are two attributes that all of us at the Michael J. Fox Foundation particularly prize."Parkinson's disease is a chronic, degenerative neurological disorder with symptoms that can progress from mild tremors to complete physical incapacitation. In theUnited States, 60,000 new cases of will be diagnosed this year alone. While the average age of onset is 60, an estimated five to 10 percent of people with Parkinson's experience onset at age 40 or younger.
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1968 Chevy Camaro - Hollow Point
You're in your mid-thirties. You're unencumbered by a family and all the attendant expense. Despite your relatively young age, you are the sales manager for one of the world's premiere aftermarket wheel companies. That's circumstance. What isn't readily apparent is that you're infected and your bloodstream has carried that nasty hot-car spirochete for many years now-lifelong, you could say. Who knows how this stuff really happens? Perhaps it's just a fortuitous combination of ingenuity, desire, and ultimately, your wallet. Your budget won't allow anything extraordinary, but you are patient and your thinking skews somewhat conservative. So you look for a "finished" piece, something that can be driven "as is" until the madness begins, the demarcation point for a vehicle that becomes inoperable because then it's just chaff, pieces lying at your feet on the cold garage floor.
During that hiatus, you summon the will to continue and you can see the proverbial shining at the end of the tunnel. Meanwhile, your friends buoy you and help you with your project at every opportunity. Will Anthis is lucky like that. He got his psychic props and encouragement that drove him to the end. Therefore, it was very important to choose the guinea pig wisely. Will had help. He ran the scenes over and over in his head until they compelled him, drove him. "Ever since I saw the movie Better Off Dead, I have been fascinated with the black first-gen Camaro. My pal Dean bought a '67 that the owner sold because he needed the money. As soon as that happened I knew I had to have one."
The car he brought back home had that glistening cover but the underside was a little skuzzy, the interior was missing some important appointments (headliner and panels) and the engine wasn't the prettiest girl at the dance either. But Will had his foundation before him and got down to cases - literally. Since racing wasn't in the plan and over-the-road driving was, the 427 has plenty of beans to keep him interested. This wasn't no suicide squeeze here. Though Will didn't elaborate, this character sounds like an iron-head L72 minimally rated at 425/425. Along the way, someone had affixed a Torker intake manifold and 750cfm Holley combined with a strong flame MSD 6AL box. Headers with 2-inch primaries send the extraction through a 3-inch system plumbed with very rude Flowmasters.
Will was rippling, ready to tangle with his first muscle car. He looked in all the usual places. In a local trader rag, he found a postage stamp-sized image of a black Camaro with white stripes: "The cam-phone pic didn't give much to go on," he said. "And the ad was poorly written, but I was intrigued nonetheless. I remember thinking that all I needed was a car with good paint and I could do the rest. Being black, the body would have to be absolutely straight." Will felt somewhat blessed when he discovered that Rob (the owner) turned out to be a body and paint man. "I'd rate it 9.5 out of 10 points," the body man said. Will decided he'd have to see this car and make his own confirmation.
Six hours later, he and Dean arrived on the scene. "Be ready to hop back in if this car is a heap," quipped Will. At the same time that Rob fired the car in his garage, the door magically opened revealing a flawless black bullet. The story is age-old. Rob didn't want to sell but he had no choice. Domesticity called. He had to shift gears. Once in the house, Will met a soon-to-be-mommy and checked out the half-assembled crib next to the bonus pile of Camaro Accessories Rob had talked about. Will was in the right place at the right time. "I could see that it was hard decision for him," he said.
Will's transmission choice is odd but not totally original. Though it has a straight 1:1 high-gear ratio, the M22 is the icon of street four-speeds. He separated it from the original with Auto Gear Equipment (Syracuse, New York) that includes a Super Case, ductile iron mid-plate, and a rollerized low gear assembly. The transmission is preceded by an 11-inch Centerforce clutch and surrounded by a Lakewood blast shield. At the other end of the action, Will built himself a 12-bolt equipped with zingy 3.73:1 gears and a limited-slip carrier. The whine of straight-cut gears gives the Camaro a presence not possible with any other type of street transmission. The other guys out there are hearing an M22, so the car must be a bad actor, right?
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From trash to treasure, the elusive quest for zero waste
From trash to treasure, the elusive quest for zero waste
In late June, high-tech company Eaton trumpeted the fact that 39 of its manufacturing facilities globally had reached a zero-waste-to-landfill milestone. To put it another way, the sites collectively since 2010 have eliminated 2,750 metric tons of trash and materials through recycling, reuse and other new processes.
Eaton's definition of zero waste is pretty specific: to earn this status, a site must divert at least 98 percent through reuse, composting, recycling and incineration (more on this last strategy in a moment).
"Eaton has pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent, indexed to sales, by 2015. Programs such as zero-waste-to-landfill will help us reach this goal," said Harold Jones, Eaton's senior vice president for Environment, Health and Safety, in a statement. "It all starts with our employees generating the ideas and enthusiasm to help Eaton do business right."
Even though the term "zero waste" is a common phrase in the green business vernacular, the fact that Eaton needs to define its specific application suggests it is far from a mainstream concept. Here's a quick primer on why the process of striving for "zero waste" is imperative, even if the goal itself ultimately may be a nirvana we never can reach.
What is zero waste?
The phrase actually can be traced back at least to the 1970s, when chemist Paul Palmer began seeking ways to reuse chemicals produced within the electronics industry. The philosophy looks beyond recycling strategies to policies that minimize resource consumption from the beginning, by encouraging closed-loop product and production designs that stress reuse.
While many existing zero waste initiatives include recycling as part of the process, the focus is shifting to emphasize the value that can be derived out of those collected materials — whether it is excess food or materials that can find an appropriate second life. Influential entrepreneur and sustainable business strategist William McDonough suggests that moving forward, zero waste strategies should focus on a "cycle of endless resourcefulness."
Where can a zero waste philosophy have relevance?
Product designers, manufacturers, retailers, municipalities and consumers all share responsibility in moving toward zero waste — one reason that reaching zero is a tough act to pull off.
Sacrificing materials quality for the sake of minimizing consumption, for example, is a trade-off most consumers will refuse to make. After years of designs that stress "planned obsolence" and upgrade cycles (especially in the technology and electronics worlds), convincing product creators to design for longevity is a big mindshift. Meanwhile, asking manufacturing operations to overhaul processes and systems that have been in place for years just to accommodate some sort of recycled material is something that just won't happen overnight.
The secret lies in focusing less on how much waste can be diverted and more on how it can be used to create value. "In a zero waste world, every material relegated for recycling would have a specific destination, just as those liter-size Pepsi bottles are reprocessed into PET (a solid version of polyester) and then converted into new bottles," wrote consultant Anthony Zolezzi for GreenBiz. "Another example: Johnson Controls thermostats that have the perfect color and blend of plastics would be continually returned to the company and reused."
Where has meaningful progress been made?
A number of progressive organizations have adopted ambitious zero waste strategies under the guise of new recycling and trash collection programs, including communities such as Seattle, Austin, San Francisco and Oakland, Calif., and companies including Kraft, Procter & Gamble and Walmart.
On the municipal level, this agenda has translated into overhauls of traditional trash hauling and waste management strategies. In San Francisco, for example, the city has banned the use of non-compostable or non-recyclable food containers and mandated the reuse of all construction debris, to name just two specific initiatives. Oakland's program, adopted back in 2006, seeks to reduce the annual amount of waste sent to landfills to just 40,000 tons by 2020 (compared with 400,000 tons for the benchmark year). It, too, has focused on rethinking how different waste streams are sorted and collected.
At the corporate level, big manufacturers are making strides, as it turns out better waste management makes for more efficient facilities.
P&G unveiled its first zero-waste-to-landfill facility in North America (in Auburn, Maine) back in 2010 after achieving that status for eight sites in places such as Belgium, Hungary, Italy and the United Kingdom. In Maine, about 60 percent of the waste is recycled and the rest is used for energy generation.
Walmart's first step on its journey to zero waste is to divert 100 percent of the waste from its U.S. operations from landfills by 2025, with 2008 as the baseline for progress. As of April, the retailer has achieved this for 81.66 percent of the materials that flow through its stores, clubs and U.S. distribution centers. The total waste generated by its U.S. operations was reduced by 3.3 percent compared with a 2010 baseline. The retailer also has focused on producing more food with fewer resources, a strategy that covers optimizing fertilizer use and embracing sustainably produced palm oil for its private brands.
Reality check: What's holding back zero waste initiatives?
One big impediment centers on the collection process. Getting homeowners and businesses to sort different waste streams for collection, especially for food and organics composting, remains an uphill struggle even in places that support the idea. In San Francisco, which recycles or composts about 80 percent of its garbage — more than double the national average — some businesses were fined for refusing the services. Incentives have been necessary to get people on board.
Building on the point about having a "destination" for collected materials, some communities and businesses still use the controversial strategy of incineration to avoid sending things to landfill. It's telling that Eaton makes a point of saying that it uses this strategy "only if the heat generated by incineration is collected and used in order to create more energy than was required for the incineration process."
Denmark, one of Europe's greenest countries, traditionally has burned close to 80 percent of its household waste but it is trying to change this as it reflects its own zero-waste strategy. "We must recycle more and incinerate less," said Ida Auken, former Minister of the Environment, on announcing this strategy in late 2013. "It is my mission to make Denmark a waste-free society that recycles as many materials as possible. That is why we must sort our trash so we can extract the value from the waste. It is good for the environment, and it can create new jobs and business opportunities."
Editor's note: Eaton's zero-waste definition is at least 98 percent diversion, not 80 percent as the article originally stated.
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TAMPA — All of the mistakes.
The fumbles, ill-advised passes, bad snaps and lack of any big plays on defense.
Apparently, Skip Holtz forgot to pack them when he departed the University of South Florida last December, because they were everywhere the Bulls looked Saturday night.
Booed off the Raymond James Stadium turf after the first 30 minutes of the Willie Taggart Era — and the long-awaited restart of Marcus Shaw — USF dazzled with a touchdown on its first play, then could do little right the rest of the way in a stunning 53-21 loss to tiny McNeese State.
Let's repeat that.
McNeese State.
Cody Stroud threw a 22-yard touchdown pass to tight end Nick Jacobs and cornerback Guy Morgan danced 71 yards after intercepting Bulls quarterback Matt Floyd to cap a 31-point, second-quarter explosion by the Southland Conference visitors, who led 33-7 at halftime.
The Cowboys were 7-4 a year ago, but lost to the likes of Texas-San Antonio, Sam Houston State and Central Arkansas State.
Shockingly, the half-a-hundred-plus-three they hung on the Bulls were the most points ever scored by a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) team against a BCS-conference opponent.
Let's repeat that.
Uh . . . Let's not.
It was a most depressing of debuts for Taggart, plucked from Western Kentucky last Dec. 8 and handed the task of rebuilding a USF program that made six consecutive bowl trips from 2005-10, but has won just eight of 25 games since.
The Bulls had been 16-0 in home openers and 23-0 against FCS foes since becoming one of the "big boys."
Shaw, who ran for a state-leading 2,380 yards as a DeSoto County senior but only 391 in his first three years at USF, took a handoff from Floyd, broke through left tackle, left a defender lunging at the 30 and dashed 80 yards to give the Bulls a 7-0 lead just 2:13 into the game.
The sizzling sprint was the longest of his stop-and-start career, eclipsing a 63-yarder in his debut as a freshman against Stony Brook in 2010 — coincidentally, the first game of Holtz's three-year reign as USF's coach.
The touches and yards were coming easily for the 5-foot-9, 178-pound senior. Maybe too easily.
Shaw charged 14, 12 and 8 yards on three of his next five carries, caught passes of 5 and 27 yards from Floyd and had 147 total yards – in the first quarter.
He finished with 192, including 145 yards on 12 carries.
A bad snap over punter Mattias Ciabatti's head, and resulting safety, seemed harmless enough. But once unleashed, USF's follies took flight.
Marvin Kloss missed a 43-yard field goal, wasting an interception by Johnny Ward.
Two possessions later, McNeese drove 91 yards in nine plays, capped by sophomore Kelvin Bennett's 7-yard TD run.
Then, on first down from his own 5, Shaw was stripped by middle linebacker Bo Brown as he was being tackled at the 7.
Fullback Dylan Long's gimme touchdown on the next play made it 16-7.
Little did anyone suspect, but the rout was on.
A pair of three-and-outs by USF's offense set up Jacobs' score and a 47-yard field goal by Jean Breaux. Morgan's interception — just 12 seconds before the half — was the backbreaker, as the Bulls desperately drove to McNeese's 33.
Floyd (9-of-20, 72 yards), who beat out senior Bobby Eveld for the starting QB job in preseason camp, was intercepted again by safety Ryan Bronson on the first play of the third quarter, setting up Dylan Long's 1-yard plunge. If 33-7 wasn't depressing enough, now it was 40-7.
Eveld relieved Floyd on the next series and promptly threw a 59-yard touchdown strike to Stephen Bravo-Brown. He was 10-of-20 for 137 yards, adding a 7-yard TD pass to Andre Davis with 13:57 remaining.
But Stroud's 78-yard pass to Jacobs, just 58 seconds later, ended any faint USF hopes. Ryan Rome converted a 29-yard field goal with 5:37 left to end the scoring.
Bulls stunned in loss to McNeese State
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Alan's photograph for the Sepia Saturday theme this week was, as I deduced about 18 months ago, probably taken in the late 1940s or early to mid-1950s at Blackpool's Central Pier.
For my own contribution, I'm going to turn to the left and walk a mile or so south along the Promenade, past the South Pier to Blackpool's famous Pleasure Beach, according to Wikipedia "the most visited amusement park in the United Kingdom," and seen in Google Earth's Streetview above.
Postcard portrait of unidentified woman and child, 17 July 1933
by Charles Howell, Official Photographer, Pleasure Beach, Blackpool
Image © and collection of Brett Payne
Somewhere in this vicinity, close to the Promenade - I haven't yet been able to determine the precise location - was where Charles Howell (1866-1943) operated a popular seaside resort photographic business between the two world wars. In this postcard portrait by Howell a mother envelops her arms protectively around her somewhat fearful child, who is perched precariously in a saddle on the back of a stuffed pony, itself mounted on a wheeled base strewn with "grass." A large painted backdrop depicting a cottage in a rural setting and wooden floorboards complete the scene.
The printed back of the standard postcard carries an imprint, "Charles Howell, Official Photographer, Pleasure Beach, Blackpool." Although there are references to hundreds of postcard portraits on the web taken by Howell with this claim to official license, I have been unable to find any other photographers using the same title, and therefore assume that his permission to operate within the grounds of Pleasure Beach was sanctioned by the owners, the Thompson family. This must have been an important concession - in the mid-1890s, according to one report, around three dozen beach photographers were reported to be plying their trade in a single day (Moore, 2012).
Fortunately Howell was one of those thoughtful photographers who provided a clear date stamp on the back of most of his portraits, presumably as much to facilitate the purchase of prints by customers as to enable future family historians to date the holiday photos of their loved ones.
Postcard portrait of unidentified family group, 4 August 1928
by Charles Howell, Official Photographer, Pleasure Beach, Blackpool
Image © lovedaylemon and courtesy of Flickr
Charles Howell opened his first photographic studio in Blackpool on Bank Hey Street close to the tower in 1913, having operated briefly for a couple of years in Oxford Road, Manchester (Jones, 2004). Here, and later at 85 Central Beach, he exploited the burgeoning market for novelty caricature portraits using comical or grotesque painted foregrounds (Harding, 2008).
In 1923 he opened another studio which formed part of the rapidly expanding attractions at Pleasure Beach, and started to style himself as the "Official Photographer." The portrait of a young family above was taken at these premises in 1926, only three years after it opened, and demonstrates that the stuffed pony had already become one of what developed into a large array of studio accessories.
Howell ... offer[ed] playful portraits incorporating an assortment of novelty props ... you could be photographed wearing a top hat, playing a banjo or holding a giant bottle of beer. You could be photographed on a papier mache horse or a real, live donkey. (Harding, 2008)
In the summer of 1926 the pony was already looking a little worse for wear, with one floppy ear and a rather wrinkled coat. It is interesting to observe that the painted backdrop is very similar to that used for the summer 1933 portrait, althought not identical. I suspect that the same view had been embellished or repainted, perhaps more than once, in the intervening seven years. Certainly the base of the canvas screen (detail above) had become rather tatty, and the somewhat bedraggled "grass" looked more like seaweed.
Postcard portrait of two unidentified young girls, undated
by Charles Howell, Official Photographer, Pleasure Beach, Blackpool
Image © L.M. Wood and courtesy of Flickr
It's not surprising that some customers chose instead to pose on or alongside a real live donkey. I presumed that the donkey was borrowed or hired by the photographer from one of the many rides available on the nearby beach, until I noticed that in many of Howell's postcards that include the donkey, it has a saddle blanket with the neatly embroidered name "Radium."
Postcard portrait of unidentified woman on donkey, 28 August 1926
by Charles Howell, Official Photographer, Pleasure Beach, Blackpool
Image © and courtesy of Audrey Linkman
This postcard from 1926 has the donkey under some duress (although doing well not to show undue sufferance) and a more topical backdrop which includes a large ferris wheel and a representation of the Blackpool Tower. It includes a negative number at the top, which I have thus far only seen on one other Howell postcard, dated 30 Aug 1930.
Postcard portrait of unidentified boy, undated
Unattributed, but probably by Charles Howell, Pleasure Beach, Blackpool
Image © lovedaylemon and courtesy of Flickr
An undated portrait of a schoolboy still in uniform (presumably his socks and school shoes are stuffed into a satchel somewhere out of sight) riding Radium has another version of Blackpool's fairground style attractions on the backdrop.
Charles Howell's early studio at Pleasure Beach, Blackpool, undated
Image © and courtesy of Colin Harding/Photographica World
Colin Harding includes in his short article about Howell this photograph of the studio premises within Pleasure Beach, advertising 6 postcard photographs for a shilling, and makes it clear that the portraits would be "ready while you wait." The sign above the central doorway encourages visitors to "be photographed on the motor cycle," a studio prop which Harding refers to as Howell's trademark.
Postcard portrait of Sarah Corkish and friends, 1939
by Charles Howell, Official Photographer, Pleasure Beach, Blackpool
Image courtesy of Rootschat
In a group portrait dating from 1939, Howell went to great lengths to satisfy the whims of his customers. Not only are the six women arrayed around the legendary Coventry Eagle motorcycle and the perennial stuffed pony, but a large toy dog mopes dejectedly in the foreground, there is a 30 mph speed limit sign almost disappearing off stage to the right, and the woman on the far left carries one of the famous giant beer bottles. The backdrop depicting a large gatepost and (as I know from other portraits which include the scene) a driveway leading to a grand home completes this bizarre scene.
As Harding writes in his article, the studio was "... a place where people could escape the cares of the workaday world; a place where, if only for the fleeting moment, the boundaries between fantasy and reality become blurred." That was, after all, the ethos of the Thompson family's Pleasure Park.
Panel portrait of Bessie Fisher, 2 August 1929
by Charles Howell, Blackpool
Image © Peter Fisher and courtesy of SmugMug
I'm tempted to carry on showing you more of Charles Howell's wonderful variety of customers and array of studio props, because there are many, many examples to be found on the web, but I don't want to get carried away, so I'll leave you with a final example. This is one of the panel prints that Howell advertised at 6 for 6d.
Jones (2004) shows Howell working at the Promenade in Blackpool until 1939, but there are some dated examples of his work at that location from 1940 (listed in the holdings of the Greater Manchester County Record Office, via The National Archives ARCHON Directory). Charles Howell died on 26 November 1943 at Moore-street Nursing Home, Blackpool, aged 77.
Breen, Thaddeus C. (2012) Photographers and Studios in Dublin, on Irish Archæology
Edwards, Steve (2007) 'Poor Ass!' in "A Donkey in Blackpool, 1999," Oxford Art Journal 30 (1), p39-54, Oxford Journals.
Harding, Colin (2008) Charles Howell, Photographer of Pleasure, Photographica World, 2008/3, The Photographic Collectors'
Club of Great Britain, p16-19.
Jones, Gillian (2004) Lancashire Professional Photographers 1840-1940, Watford, Herts: PhotoResearch, 203pp.
Moore, Nick (2012) Blackpool and District Now and Then, The Chronology of a Holiday Resort, version XVI (accessed 18 Jan 2012)


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Number of U.S. breweries at 125-year high
Not since Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print and the Eiffel Tower began to rise over Paris have Americans had so many breweries from which to choose.
The total number of U.S. breweries as of June stood at 2,126, an increase of 350 additional breweries from June 2011 and the most since 1887, according to figures released today by the Boulder-based Brewers Association.
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I'm a realtor in Calgary,AB seeking to grow my business in the niche pre foreclosure market. Many sellers are faced weith foreclosure because the value of their homes dropped. I'm developing a website to market these listings to buyers who cant qualify for mortgages under the current lending guidelines. A win win win matchmaking service.
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Rod Stewart has released his first ever Christmas album "Merry Christmas, Baby" on Verve Music Group. The album includes guest appearances from Michael Buble, Mary J. Blige, Cee-Lo Green and a very special virtual duet with Ella Fitzgerald. In honor of this release, Splash Magazines Worldwide is giving on lucky reader the Ultimate Rod Stewart package valued at $140.
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"Merry Christmas, Baby" is an album of standards and traditional songs that find Rod joined by a number of A-list guests, starting with Michael Bublé, who duets with Rod on Winter Wonderland. We Three Kings is a duet with Mary J. Blige; and the title tune Merry Christmas, Baby is a duet with Cee-Lo Green featuring New Orleans favorite son, Trombone Shorty. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! features Dave Koz on saxophone and What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? is a very special virtual duet with Ella Fitzgerald featuring Chris Botti.
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Jennifer Klugh is now a three-time member of the USTFCCCA Division I Women's Cross Country All-Academic Team.
For the third consecutive season, Liberty redshirt senior Jennifer Klugh has earned a spot on the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division I Women's Cross Country All-Academic Team. To qualify for the USTFCCCA All-Academic Track and Field Team, the student-athlete must have compiled a cumulative grade point average of 3.25 and have either earned USTFCCCA All-America status or finished in the NCAA region's top 15 (or top 10 percent) in 2012. Klugh successfully met both criteria, as she currently owns a 4.0 GPA as she works toward a master's degree in secondary education. The Buckeye State native also finished a career-best sixth at the NCAA Division I Southeast Regional Championship. Klugh's lofty regional finish qualified her for the NCAA Division I Women's Cross Country Championship for the first time. She finished 93rd, becoming the Lady Flames' first representative at the meet since Heather Sagan in 2001. Earlier in the season, Klugh captured her third consecutive women's individual title at the Big South Cross Country Championship, leading Liberty to the team championship. She became the Lady Flames' first three-time Big South cross country champion. As a senior, Klugh broke the program cross country 5K and 6K records. Her 5K record time of 17:18.72 came at the Big South meet, while her 6K standard of 20:35.78 was achieved at the NCAA Division I Southeast Regional Championship.
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"act of running," c. 1300, from Old Norse ras "running, rush (of water)," cognate with Old English ræs "a running, a rush, a leap, jump; a storming, an attack;" or else a survival of the Old English word with spelling influenced by the Old Norse one. The Norse and Old English words are from Proto-Germanic *res- (source also of Middle Dutch rasen "to rave, rage," German rasen, Old English raesettan "to rage" (of fire)), from a variant form of PIE *ers- (1) "be in motion" (see err). Originally a northern word, it became general in English c. 1550. Meaning "act of running" is from early 14c. Meaning "contest of speed" first recorded 1510s.
race (n.2)
"people of common descent," a word from the 16th century, from Middle French race, earlier razza "race, breed, lineage, family" (16c.), possibly from Italian razza, of unknown origin (cognate with Spanish and Portuguese raza). Etymologists say no connection with Latin radix "root," though they admit this might have influenced the "tribe, nation" sense.
Original senses in English included "wines with characteristic flavor" (1520), "group of people with common occupation" (c. 1500), and "generation" (1540s). Meaning "tribe, nation, or people regarded as of common stock" is by 1560s. Modern meaning of "one of the great divisions of mankind based on physical peculiarities" is from 1774 (though as OED points out, even among anthropologists there never has been an accepted classification of these).
Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine. [Dick Gregory, 1964]
In mid-20c. U.S. music catalogues, "Negro." Klein suggests these derive from Arabic ra's "head, beginning, origin" (compare Hebrew rosh). Old English þeode meant both "race, folk, nation" and "language;" as a verb, geþeodan, it meant "to unite, to join."
race (v.)
c. 1200, rasen "to rush," from a Scandinavian source akin to the source of race (n.1), reinforced by the noun in English and by Old English cognate ræsan "to rush headlong, hasten, enter rashly." Meaning "run swiftly" is from 1757. Meaning "run in competition against" is from 1809. Transitive sense of "cause to run" is from 1860. In reference to an engine, etc., "run with uncontrolled speed," from 1862. Related: Raced; racing.
race (n.3)
"strong current of water," c. 1300, originally any forward movement or swift running, but especially of water, from Old Norse ras "a rushing" (see race (n.1)). Via Norman French the word entered French as ras, which might have given English race its specialized meaning of "channel of a stream" (especially an artificial one to a mill), which is recorded in English from 1560s.
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Since her days as Queen Amidala in the "Star Wars" prequels, Natalie Portman has grown up, choosing edgy roles in film such as "Closer" and "V For Vendetta." But in the new issue of V Magazine, the actress said she'd be getting revealing on screen like never before in Darren Aronofsky's upcoming "Black Swan."
"It's not raunchy – it's extreme," she said of a lesbian scene reportedly with co-star Mila Kunis in the 2010 drama.
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Natalie also has a sex scene – her first – in her next movie, December's "Brothers," and she said the decision to go more intense with her roles has come with age.
"I was figuring out my own sexual identity, likes and dislikes and all that stuff, and it's weird to be doing stuff on film as you're figuring it out," the 28-year-old star said of her earlier, less racy work. "Also, being a sexual object when you're a kid is really uncomfortable. After [debuting in 1994's] 'The Professional,' I was already getting creepy letters."
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New Android phone malware indicates transition to mobile platform attacks
The latest discovery includes a variant of the Zeus Trojan and embedded DroidDream malware in several mobile apps.
Two security firms have discovered new Android phone malware, and although the number of infections is miniscule, researchers said the discoveries are an indication of cybercriminals transitioning to mobile platforms.
The potential for bad guy mischief in this particular area is probably greater on Android than iOS.
Dean Turner, director of Symantec's Global Intelligence Network
Lookout Mobile Security Inc. discovered four infected Google Android applications that use a variant of DroidDream. The embedded malware gives cybercriminals the ability to break out of Android's application security sandbox. It can redirect victims to download other apps from the Android Market or direct them to a location to update the malware.
The infected applications were taken down shortly after they appeared. Lookout estimates that up to 5,000 people may have downloaded the apps, which include two games, a scientific calculator and a compass and leveler utility.
"Though our analysis is still under way, these applications are likely published by the same author as the original DroidDream malware," Lookout said in an Android malware security alert posted on its blog. "With the discovery of this new malware, it is more important than ever to pay attention to what you're downloading."
The Lookout security team said any application developed by publisher, "MobNet" could potentially be troublesome. One of the malcious applications "Best Compass & Leveler" is a malicious version of a legitimate application, the firm said, urging users to pay closer attention to the developer of the application prior to downloading apps from the Android Market.
Although mobile malware accounts for less than 1% of malware spotted in the wild, security experts predict that cybercriminals will increasingly target weaknesses in mobile platforms. Google pulled more than 50 applications from the Android Market in March after researchers discovered the first version of DroidDream. The firm also issued an over-the-air update to disinfect devices.
Enterprises need to understand how employees are using their smartphones and identify whether sensitive data is being stored on these devices, said Dean Turner, director of Symantec's Global Intelligence Network in an interview with SearchSecurity.com. Turner said the Google Android Market is more open than Apple's App Store, making it more prone to fraudulent activity.
"The potential continues to exist for a bad guy to sign a certificate and then make changes to a legitimate application, posting it on a legitimate Android Market for download," Turner said. "The potential for bad guy mischief in this particular area is probably greater on Android than iOS."
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Network security appliance vendor Fortinet Inc. has discovered a new variant of the Zeus banking Trojan designed to target Android smartphones. The malware poses as a banking activation application, Fortinet said in a blog entry describing Zitmo, the mobile variant of Zeus.
The malware is a SMS-banking Trojan designed to defeat two-factor authentication on smartphones. In addition to running on Android devices, the malware works on Symbian, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile phones.
The application listens to all incoming SMS messages and forwards one-time passwords sent via SMS to a remote Web server. The malware has been targeting smartphones for several months. According to Fortinet researchers Axelle Apvrille and Kyle Yang, the malware is sold in a crimeware toolkit and has surfaced in the wild targeting banking users in Spain.


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Tracking the recession with the Moyashi Index
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications just released economic figures for the last quarter of calendar year 2009. Their survey found that the average expenditures of a Japanese household, including one-person households, was ¥253,720. That's a 2.9 percent decrease from the same quarter in 2008, or 1.4 percent down if you take into consideration price changes.
This figure means little unless you know the income of an average family, which has 2.79 members and an average age of 45.2 years. Among "working households," meaning households whose income is from employment and not from pensions, the average monthly income was ¥464, 649, which represented a 4.6 percent drop from the same quarter the previous year, or 3.1 percent after adjustment.
These statistics indicate that households spent less because of a decrease in earnings, and since certain expenses can't be cut or reduced, such as utilities and expenses for education, the ministry tried to figure out what these households were doing without. Leisure, eating out and clothing were three items that received the axe, and since more people were eating at home, they also tried to save money at the supermarket.
And according to the Asahi Shimbun, the ministry found that households consisting of two persons or more reported a 10 percent increase in their consumption of moyashi (bean sprouts) over the same quarter in 2008. In fact, the ministry discovered that moyashi consumption has increased steadily over a period of 10 consecutive quarters.
The focus on the lowly bean sprout here would seem to indicate that the ministry has decided moyashi is a good index for determining the economic health of the average household. Moyashi are cheap and plentiful. A bag weighing 200 grams is usually between ¥35 and ¥40 yen in a supermarket, but you can usually buy the same amount for ¥29 in discount food stores and even cheaper on special sales days. Japanese traditionally use moyashi to increase volume for any number of dishes, but there's also a whole food culture built around the sprout. Made from mung beans, they are also notoriously nutritious and always in season, since they aren't "grown" in soil but rather sprouted in water. What's interesting is that the government assumes people are buying more moyashi not because they like it or want a healthier diet, but because they want to save money. We won't argue with that, but we also really like moyashi. Especially in ramen.
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The South Korean Supreme Court has affirmed a ruling that found Qualcomm guilty of illegal kickbacks to cellphone manufacturers to keep modem adoption high, and must pay at least 200 billion won ($243 million) in damages.
Apple developing own iPhone cellular modem, hirings and insiders say
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A new Apple job listing is suggesting that the company is looking to break the shackles of Qualcomm and Intel for the iPhone in the future, raising the possibility again that Apple might make its own cellular modem.
Verizon's new XLTE network doubles bandwidth for users of Apple's latest iPhones & iPads
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Verizon, America's largest wireless provider, announced on Monday the launch of its new XLTE network, an enhanced version of its 4G wireless data that offers double the previous speed available on the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c, as well as the LTE-compatible iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina display.
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AT&T-based users of Apple's iPhone 5 and LTE-enabled iPads will soon find their data access speeds greatly increased in a number of markets, as the carrier announced on Tuesday the expansion of its 4G LTE network to 79 new areas.
Apple requires its own tests to ensure carrier LTE networks are up to snuff
11/30/2012, 03:11 pm
Apple will only allow a carrier to offer the iPhone 5 on their LTE network after the company conducts its own tests of the wireless service, one carrier has revealed.
AT&T launches 4G LTE in 10 new markets ahead of iPhone 5 launch
09/20/2012, 07:09 am
AT&T has turned on its 4G LTE network in 10 new major cities across the U.S. in anticipation of Friday's launch of the iPhone 5, which is Apple's first 4G LTE capable smartphone.
Open Internet groups to file FCC complaint over AT&T's FaceTime blocking
09/18/2012, 12:09 pm
A trio of digital rights advocacy groups have indicated to AT&T they will file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission over the carrier's decision to block FaceTime calls over cellular data networks for some customers.
47% of US consumers feel they don't need 4G LTE
08/22/2012, 07:08 am
Though Apple's next iPhone is widely expected to have high-speed 4G long-term evolution connectivity, a new survey has found that nearly half of American consumers feel they don't need 4G LTE.
Australian judge approves $2.3M fine against Apple for 4G iPad marketing
06/20/2012, 10:06 pm
An Australian judge has approved an A$2.25 million fine for advertising claims Apple made about 4G compatibility for the third-generation iPad.
Samsung argues 4G Galaxy Tab not in direct competition with Apple's 3G iPad 2
05/26/2012, 10:05 pm
Samsung is fighting Apple's requests for a preliminary injunction against its Galaxy Tab with the argument that the 4G capability of its tablet means it does not directly compete with Apple's 3G-equipped iPad 2.
Inside the new iPad's 4G LTE mobile data: AT&T vs Verizon
04/13/2012, 04:04 pm
Apple's newest iPad sports very fast 4G LTE data service, available on either AT&T or Verizon Wireless in the US. Here's how the two carriers stack up as LTE providers.
NPD ranks iPhone 4S as America's most popular 4G phone due to HSPA+
03/13/2012, 03:03 pm
NPD Group has named Apple's iPhone 4S the most popular 4G smartphone, using a definition of fourth generation mobile networks that includes not just LTE and Sprint's WiMax but also the HSPA+ technology used by T-Mobile and AT&T.
Alleged Best Buy inventory leak shows mysterious Sprint iPad listings
03/09/2012, 08:03 pm
Purported leaked images of Best Buy's internal inventory system contain mysterious references to a Sprint iPad with what seem to be two-year contract options.
Apple Store begins taking new iPad WiFi and 4G orders for March 16 delivery
03/07/2012, 04:03 pm
The online Apple Store has begun taking preorders for the new iPad, with color options, 16, 32 and 64GB storage options, and WiFi or mobile 4G options all priced identical to last year's iPad 2 (which is now discounted $100).


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A third quarter snapshot of transactions released by BizBuySell.com suggests that the market for business sales is firming up a bit.
Here are some of the highlights:
- If you want to buy a business in San Francisco, the current median asking price of businesses for sale is exactly $250,000. One year ago, at the end of Q3 2009, the median asking price for businesses in San Francisco was $225,000.
- The Q3 2010 listed businesses in the San Francisco area had a median revenue of $460,000, up from $425,000 at this same time last year.
- The median cash flow, meaning the money that comes out of the business over the course of a year, is $100,884, versus median cash flows of $91,590 last year.
According to BizBuySell.com, business owners in the San Francisco area will typically ask for an average revenue multiple of .80 (up from .71 year over year) and a cash flow multiple of 3.21 (up from 2.99 year over year).
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