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In the advent of a new mixtape era where promotional materials transformed into free albums, many music executives and artists worried that their true money makers and litmus tests, retail albums, would suffer as a result. For better or for worse, HipHopDX's Top Mixtapes of 2012 list confirms those fears even more than other recent years. Inclusions from this year's roster of top mixtapes did their duties of showcasing talent and getting fans talking, but many of the artists had trouble using that momentum as a launch pad for further success on their retail efforts. They built trust with their fans, but the romanticized vision of tapes being portals into their "real" albums was debunked. Mississippi rapper/producer Big K.R.I.T. had outproduced many of Rap's elite with his three universally acclaimed three projects, but reviews of his Def Jam debut weren't as enthusiastic. Rich Forever secured Rick Ross the crown of MTV's Hottest MC, but even a press conference with Lyor Cohen couldn't give his God Forgives, I Don't album life beyond the summer.
Their careers are still likely intact, but the concept of the retail album as an event is quickly becoming as archaic as the idea of going to a physical store to buy them. The only acts from this year's collection of Top Mixtapes who didn't suffer losses were Joey Bada$$ and Showbiz & A.G.: acts whose ages and tactics shield them from immediate repercussions. Bada$$'s debut 1999 sees him paying homage to the era that came before him, while Showbiz & A.G.'s Preloaded sees them adding a free price tag to the same formula they've honed for years. Something both acts have in common is willingness to stick to their guns and pace themselves, instead of chasing to keep up with rap's Joneses. As usual, the fans win either way: they get free, high quality music to fill their iPhones and laptops to score their daily lives. But what's a victory or two without a championship ring?
Joey Bada$$ – 1999
Many pretentious teenagers and disgruntled old heads use message boards and comments sections to cry about a lack of "real Hip Hop," but Joey Bada$$ demonstrates it where it counts: the music. The 17-year-old pairs beats from his Pro Era crew with resurrected instrumentals by legends like J Dilla, MF DOOM and Lord Finesse to recreate the feel of Rap's "golden era" more successfully on 1999 than some old timers who were actually there. The aura doesn't stop with the soundbeds, though: songs like his viral breakthrough "Survival Tactics" showcase a unique flow, detailed rhyme schemes and an ability to articulate his ideas that goes beyond his years. Even rap legend Showbiz gave Joey Bada$$ his cosign in a September interview with HipHopDX. The world got an glimpse of him in the BET Hip-Hop Awards Cyphers, and he looks to have a promising career ahead of him.
Big K.R.I.T. – 4Eva N a Day
With K.R.I.T. Wuz Here and Return of 4Eva serving as highlights of 2010 and 2011, 4Eva N a Day was a fitting addition to Big K.R.I.T.'s trilogy of prodigious free releases. In a loosely conceptual disc, the Mississippi youngster continues to revere the legends, culture and home state that raised him while staking his own claim as one of the future's brightest voices. He enlists live musicians to enhance his soul-drenched backdrops, which back some of his most seasoned lyricism to date on songs like "Handwriting" and "Insomnia," two of the disc's many artistic triumphs. He channels legends like Pimp C for slinky odes to poon and candy paint ("Temptation"), and infuses bounce into energetic numbers like "1986" and "4EvaNaDay Theme." Rap hasn't been this balanced as a genre in years, but K.R.I.T. does the job as a one-man act.
Rick Ross – Rich Forever
Before God Forgives, I Don't and The Black Bar Mitzvah exposed chinks in his armor, Rich Forever displayed Rick Ross as the infallible bawse who ran Rap. Raucous bangers ("High Definition"), scathing hater dismissals like ("Holy Ghost"), and triumphant crew anthems ("MMG The World Is Ours") made Rich Forever one of the most whip-ready discs of the year. Don't forget the abundant star power: Diddy, cockier than ever, uses the intro and the album's halftime mark to pop shit, while Nas reminisced days as an incapable drug dealer on "Triple Beam Dreams." On "Stay Schemin," Drake unleashed an alimony-thrashing one-liner that instantly permeated Twitter timelines and memes. Fans wondered how the Maybach Music sultan could afford to give away so many gems on a free download when he had a retail disc on the brink, and surely enough, GFID kept two of Rich Forever's highlights as bonus tracks.
Showbiz & A.G. – Preloaded
Regardless of its legends' revered catalogs and influential career trajectories, Hip Hop is a "what have you done for me lately" type of game; great records from past decades are worthless if your last album sucked. With Preloaded, Showbiz & A.G. show that they're just as potent as they were during their heyday of running New York in the '90s. "That Nigga Crazy" tackles self-hate and bad influences that plague the inner cities, "Wolves" enlists fellow D.I.T.C. member O.C. for conceptual wordplay, and DJ Premier contributes his signature scratches to the aptly-titled "South Bronx Shit." The duo celebrates friendship and success and "Berri Love," and cements their partnership with "The Bond," which ends the disc. A.G.'s pragmatic rhymes and Show's crate-digging are two decades in, and they haven't lost a step.
Meek Mill – Dreamchasers 2
With hits like "I'm A Boss," "Tupac Back" and "House Party" permeating dance floors and radio waves, Meek Mill's buzz was at a fever pitch: his DJ Drama-hosted Dreamchasers 2 mixtape crashed DatPiff's servers, netting nearly two million downloads within 24 hours. On DC2, Meek kept the hits coming: "Amen" saw him and Drake spitting blasphemous bars between one of the year's catchiest hooks, while "Lean Wit It" and "Flexing" continued his winning streak of club bangers. He also showed the unfiltered rhyming ability that impressed listeners of his previous mixtape: "Ready Or Not" sees him deftly navigating a Fugees sample, "Burn" teams him with Big Sean for a drill of verbal calisthenics, and "A1 Everything" serves as a playground for him and Kendrick Lamar to experiment varying flows.


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Dadra and Nagar Haveli
The enclave of Dadra and Nagar Haveli [1] is a tiny union territory in Western India wedged between the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat. The two regions - Dadra and Nagar Haveli are separated from each other by a few kilometers. Both lie on the West coast, at the mouth of the Daman Ganga river.
The Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli is a small piece of land wedged between the Maharashtra and Gujarat. Until 1954, this area was under the Portuguese colonial rule. Between 1954 and 1961, it was self-governing. On its integration with the Indian Union in 1961, Silvassa was made its capital.
It is less than 500 sq. km. in size, covered with tall trees and winding rivers. The hospitable, kind, unselfish native tribals have their own customs, dances and rituals which are quite fascinating. The territory enjoys a very pleasant climate from November to March, which is actually the best time for a visit. Temperatures during summer are comfortable both even during the day due to its proximity to the sea.
Get in
By plane
Mumbai has the nearest airport.
By car
Dadra and Nagar Haveli almost touches the National Highway 8 between Mumbai and Delhi.Silvassa is about 14 kms, from Bhilad and Vapi.
By train
The nearest railway stations are Bhilad & Vapi, about 14 km & 18 km respectively from Silvassa, and are on the Western Railways.
Get around
Tourist Spots to be seen in and around Silvassa town are Children's Park, Tribal Museum, Ram Temple, Balaji Temple, Ayyappa Temple, Church, Van Dhara Garden, Hirva Van Garden (both these gardens are near the river). Vanganga Garden is located in village Dadra, this garden has facility of boating. There is Madhuban Dam situated on the river Daman Ganga. Going southwards, approximately 18 km from Silvassa a small village called Bindrabin (in local dialect), some call it Vrundavan is Temple of Lord Shiva.
There really isn't any order of things that you can do. If you are looking for a quick weekend getaway, Silvassa is the place for you. You can be holed up in any one of the many resorts in Silvassa and surrounding areas, but you let yourself loose only in the lush green sights of the surrounding flora and fauna.
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Bangkok. Thursday. Finished my work once more pretty early. Skipped the pre-match presscon since I was able to talk or get some earlier quotes. They don't really tell you anything substantial anyways. Emailed my work then went out to the city. Wasn't able to do much at MBK (Mahboonkrong) the previous day so I went back. Gotta love an eight-story complex of over 2,000 shops selling different kinds of goods. Always love going here.
There was a time when the knockoffs at this mall were top class but this time around, they look and feel nothing like the real thing. The football shirts made use of poor material. Like poor grade dry fit. If one is a football fan who regularly buys kits, you'd know that sports apparel companies have shifted to lighter and more smooth material that doesn't smell. The printing of the names of the players, clubs, and sponsors is poor. I can tell it's a knockoff a mile away. One shop owner told me that there was higher grade material and that cost about 450 baht. Yup, just checking though.
What caught my eye were the Star Wars-themed shirts. There were about at least half a dozen designs that I saw. The pic above is just one of them. Here in Bangkok, save for the department store like anywhere else, you have to haggle for a lower price and not just pay for them. Remember, even if you ask for a lower price and they agree to it, they know they still make a tidy profit. So push for lower prices and try to get away with it. If not, they usually aren't the only shop selling that kind of shirt.
Oops. I did it again! With a wax statue of Britney Spears at the Siam Discovery center in Bangkok. Below me checking out Sarah Oleksyk's Ivy at Kinokuniya at Siam Paragon (the best Kinokuniya is in Singapore's Nge An City). Ivy is an indie comic book that she both wrote and drew that is your coming of age story. Kinda like Juno, the film. I swear I could spend a whole afternoon here (and in Asia Books) and not get bored. Wish I had more money though. Hopefully, one day, I'll own a bookstore, a cool one that people would go to.


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Want to automate opening of your favorite websites everyday? Here's how to open a specific page once your favorite web browser starts.
Google Chrome
Go on to your chrome settings and On Startup options, click to choose "Open a specific page or set of pages".
For the startup pages, you can create and add one or many depending on you as shown:
Internet Explorer – internet options
For IE, its equivalent are creating home page tabs at Internet options, you just need to type each addresses on its own line as shown below:
Digging Windows Registry for Internet Explorer Patches
If you'll examine each situation, IE patches the following registry folder so that when Internet explorer starts, It will just open each websites.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Start Page = http://www.google.com/
Secondary Start Pages = http://www.yahoo.com/
Create your own application that patches the Registry
Using the Windows Registry patches given above, we'll be able to create our own application using RegDevelop that will patch the registry for the web address then afterwards, Internet Explorer will open the website once the browser starts.
Drag and drop one textbox and label control as shown and set the configuration options:
Registry settings for Textbox Control
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Start Page
Label Control Settings
Internet Explorer - start your Browser with this specific address
Finally, press the Build Now button to use the software – That's it!
RegDevelop is a development platform that let's you create your own Tweakui-like software and applications for Windows Registry and other command-line utilities. Try the application – It's fun!
Mozilla Firefox
With Firefox, starting the application with specific address on browser startup provides a similar user interface. Go to the options window by pressing Alt+TO and you'll be able to set the startup page or home page as shown:
Cool? Thanks for reading the article!


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Mike Gillespie explains how integrated security can be much more than just a security system. ROI is a crucial consideration when deciding what systems to purchase and Mike explains all the factors that could see a ROI on an integrated security package sooner rather than later.
As the video explains integrated security can give you so much more than just CCTV images. Integrated security is about using the CCTV… Continue reading


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An overused and most often misunderstood word, the true definition of what it means to be a warrior or the warrior mindset eludes most people.
Humans have a natural tendency to define all things down to the simplest most easily digestible level. Deep thought requires effort and effort is as foreign to many citizens as constructing an algorithm.
The oversimplified definition of a warrior is merely a fighter, a member of an organized military or fighting force or simply a brute or barbarian.
While a warrior might be a fighter or part of a military unit, mere membership does not make one a warrior.A true warrior possesses a mindset or an ethos that guides his daily action in all things, not just conflict. A warrior understands and accepts that life is conflict and that overcoming conflict requires effort on his part. This effort may involve a physical confrontation and force of violence. He accepts this and prepares his mind and body for the conflict.
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During that time, I also received some special awards, including being one in their top 100 genealogy sites awarded by MyHeritage and The Rose Blogger Award by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino. You may see all the names and links of these kind people at Awards.
With sincere appreciation and gratitude, I want to thank the three bloggers listed below for the four new awards. Please visit their blogs, if you haven't already done so.
Nancy at My Ancestors and Me, and other Relatives, too gave me The Wonderful Team Member Readership Award
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Brenda Leyndyke at Journey to the Past gave me the Blog of 2012 The Year
Heather Rojo at Nutfield Genealogy gave me the Blog of 2012 The Year


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Ed Spencer is a developer for ExtJS.
One of the more immediately useful components of HTML5 is Geolocation. Various imprecise forms of geolocation have been in use on the web for some time, usually in the form of a crude best-guess based on your IP address. Today we have a plethora of new location-aware devices using a variety of location sensing techniques. The HTML5 Geolocation API provides a way to find a device's location without caring how that information is discovered.
The first thing to say about HTML5 Geolocation is that the spec is a working draft and may be subject to change. Support is already in Firefox 3.5+, Safari 5+, Chrome 5+ and Opera 10+. Thankfully, detecting support for it is easy:
if (navigator.geolocation) { // do your magic } else { // geolocation is not available... have you considered a forward-thinking browser? }
With that caveat out of the way, let's take a look at how we can use it. Geolocation has two main modes of operation -- "one-shot" mode and continuous update mode. Both modes are asynchronous and accept a callback -- here's how we might use one-shot mode to fetch nearby tweets from Twitter:
// our callback function, let's fetch some nearby tweets: function fetchTweets(position) { alert("Fetch tweets from " + position.coords.latitude + ", " + position.coords.longitude); // use JSONP to fetch local tweets from twitter }; // get the location navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(fetchTweets);
The implementation of getting the tweets from Twitter's API is left to the reader but given the coords object it is a relatively simple operation.
A More Complete Example
We have a couple of additional options -- we can provide an error callback if the device's location could not be found for some reason, and an options object giving the geolocation some constraints:
function locationNotFound() { alert("Oh noes! We couldn't find you"); }; var options = { timeout: 10000, maximumAge: 20000, enableHighAccuracy: true }; navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(fetchTweets, locationNotFound, options);
The options object API is straightforward: maximumAge tells the browser that if the last location was found less than 20 seconds ago, we will reuse it; otherwise find the location again. The timeout option tells the browser that it should only wait 10 seconds for a location fix before calling the error callback. Finally, enableHighAccuracy is a hint to the browser that we'd like the most accurate location it can give us. The effect of this will vary between devices but usually involves a trade-off, where increased accuracy is paid for with slower response time.
Our success callback is always called with a single object that contains two properties: coords and timestamp. The timestamp is the time that the location was discovered, and coords is the object we used in our fetchTweets function above. As well as latitude and longitude (in degrees), devices may provide altitude (in meters above the reference ellipsoid), the accuracy (in meters) of the latitude and longitude, altitudeAccuracy (again in meters), heading (in degrees relative to true north) and speed (in meters per second).
The error callback gets a much simpler object consisting of a code number and a message string. The code tells the application whether the request failed due to lack of user permission, because the geolocation hardware couldn't find its position or because the operation timed out.
Continuous Updates
The second way to interact with HTML5 Geolocation is through the watchPosition API. Its signature is identical to getCurrentPosition, as are the objects passed to the success and error callbacks that you provide. The only difference is that your success callback will be called every time the device detects that its location has changed. When you no longer need to receive these updates just use the clearWatch function:
//start continuous watching var watchId = navigator.geolocation.watchPosition(fetchTweets, locationNotFound, options); //stop watching for updates navigator.geolocation.clearWatch(watchId);
HTML5 Geolocation is a young but promising part of HTML5 with a large number of potential applications. It's currently in last call status in the W3C, but seems reasonably settled.


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Napoli goes way, way deep
At the conclusion of Tuesday's workout at Tempe Diablo Stadium, Angels manager Mike Scioscia held an impromptu hitting contest among his catchers.
With Scioscia serving up soft tosses, the receivers took their cuts. The prize for longest drive went, not surprisingly, to Mike Napoli when he unloaded a towering drive to left that bounced off a truck passing by on an access road beyond the trees at the back of an embankment.
"Nap killed it," Scioscia said.
"He must not have gotten the memo," Napoli said of the truck driver.
"Imagine what that guy was thinking," Bobby Wilson said, "just driving by and then he hears something crash."
Napoli, who said he hasn't felt this good in the spring since his rookie year of 2006, is crushing balls in batting practice. Best buddy Jeff Mathis, meanwhile, is lashing line drives to all fields, hoping to maintain the stroke he carried through the postseason with five doubles among his seven hits in 12 at-bats.
Wilson also went deep against his manager, while Ryan Budde — arguably the team's strongest individual — unloaded several bombs.
Scioscia routinely begins the day with a pre-game address that features a wide range of hilarious exchanges, usually involving young players asked to make unusual presentations. Roars can be heard outside the clubhouse on a daily basis, but the audience is sworn to secrecy.
What happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse.
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I would like to see Morales moved to third and Napoli to first so that Napoli could play everyday.
Is Napoli left-handed though? I guess it's not a golden rule or anything, but most great first basemen are left-handed. Getting Napoli in the daily lineup would be sweet though. Perhaps outfield?


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Where Florida Gators Go To Blog! This site is dedicated to the University of Florida Gator Fans. It is an open site to discuss and rehash the wins and losses and make plans toward the next National Championship! Here you will find truths, half truths, information and misinformation about the University of Florida Gators (P.S. This site endorses a 16-team playoff tournament in Division I college football.)
Thursday, October 8, 2009
This Week's Pat Dooley Show (with guest James Bates)
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The Peanut Butter and Bacon Burger at Shake Shack on the Upper West Side
If you really love peanut butter and bacon, perhaps even more than you love a good burger, the Upper West Side Shake Shack's peanut butter and bacon burger ($5.50) is the burger for you. The burger, which was served as a special this past Saturday, will be available this upcoming Saturday. The bacon is generously portioned, and the peanut butter is warm and oozy; together they dominate the experience. So while delicious, the beef is barely noticeable. In fact, it might be even better without the burger as just a straight bacon and peanut butter sandwich, or if the beef were replaced with sliced bananas.
Until that sandwich shows up on the menu, the regular Shack Burger (topped with American cheese, lettuce, tomato, and Shack Sauce) is pretty damn close to burger perfection, and that's what I'll be ordering next time I'm at Shake Shack.
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Come, Ye Disconsolate
31243, Hymns, Come, Ye Disconsolate, no. 115
1. Come, ye disconsolate, where'er ye languish;
Come to the mercy seat, fervently kneel.
Here bring your wounded hearts; here tell your anguish.
Earth has no sorrow that heav'n cannot heal.
2. Joy of the desolate, Light of the straying,
Hope of the penitent, fadeless and pure!
Here speaks the Comforter, tenderly saying,
"Earth has no sorrow that heav'n cannot cure."
3. Here see the Bread of Life; see waters flowing
Forth from the throne of God, pure from above.
Come to the feast of love; come, ever knowing
Earth has no sorrow but heav'n can remove.
Text: Thomas Moore, 1779-1852. Verse three, Thomas Hastings, 1784-1872
Music: Samuel Webbe, 1740-1816


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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Surveillance video appeared to capture the man described as the "neighbor from hell" in the act, according to his neighbors.
"He was trying to intimidate me," said Francisco Torres, speaking about Mitchell Igelko, his neighbor.
Earlier this month, Mitchell Igelko was arrested and booked in the Miami-Dade County Jail on two counts of criminal mischief and two counts of stalking.
According to his neighbors, Igelko, who owns a lawn maintenance company, has been bullying and tormenting them for nearly four years
"All of his acts are of a retaliatory nature," said next-door neighbor Kelly DerHargopian.
Neighbors said those acts included repeatedly tossing nails on their properties, spraying poisonous chemicals on their lawns, egging their homes, and even hiring others to smash car windows, douse vehicles with gasoline, and blow up boats.
The latest video shot by Torres with a small camera captured Igelko on his lawn in a heated conversation, trying to lure Torres onto his property.
"Come. Come. I will put a bullet in your head," Igelko said in Spanish. "You are all scared. See the way you neighbors live with surveillance systems, fences and everything else... Spend another $50,000, as you already did. I have you crazy spending money."
"He tries to intimidate you to either respect him and, if you don't respect him, he'll do damage to you," said Dr. Bob DerHagopian.
The doctor and his wife, Kelly, live next door to Igelko.
"You'd like to have a trench or a wall between you and he," Bob DerHagopian told Local 10 Crime Specialist John Turchin.
The DerHagopians said it all started about four years ago when they used another landscaper to do some work on their property.
The incidents, they said, included poisoning a tree and some plants. When they compared notes with others in the cul-de-sac, they realized they weren't alone.
Others shared similar stories. So, the neighbors got together and decided the best way to document what was allegedly going on was to catch him in the act. Many of them bought and installed sophisticated surveillance cameras.
"I don't think any neighborhood should have to live with this type of fear and anxiety," said Bob DerHagopian.
Local 10 also discovered there are dozens of police reports filed against Igelko, including allegations of domestic violence, criminal mischief, and shoplifting. In that report, it's noted that Igelko suffers from a mental illness and that he is bi-polar, depressed, delusional, and has an anxiety disorder.


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Honoring 40-Year Employee Ronelle Schumpert
Hooray for Ronelle Schumpert, one of 4 Lexington Medical Center employees who has been with the hospital for 40 years — since the day it opened.
Ronelle started her 40-year career at Lexington Medical Center as a staff nurse on 3rd Medical as a staff nurse. It was here that she cared for patients for 34 years before becoming a monitor technician. She came to work at the hospital a week before it opened, helping stock rooms and make patient beds.
"I never would have imagined that the hospital would have grown so much. In fact, we have been growing ever since we opened – from a community hospital into a community medical complex," she said.
Ronelle who lives in Leesville, SC, has been married to her husband Alfred for 53 years. They have three children, five grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
"Lexington Medical Center has been good to me and my family as a workplace and as a hospital where we receive our care," she said.
This month, Lexington Medical Center celebrates its 40th anniversary. We opened as a small county hospital on January 6, 1971. Today, we've grown into a modern medical complex with state-of-the-art technology and an unsurpassed culture of caring. Each day this month, we'll share a story from our hospital's history book.


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6-5-11 PNC Park
It was a Sunday game, which was a day game following a night game, thereby decreasing the chances of batting practice.
I got to the stadium around 11AM, and saw no trace of the batting cage or screens. So, I hung out on the bridge for twenty minutes, where I could see directly into the park. I then left, resigned to the fact that there would be no batting practice. Coupled with 35,000 people at the game, it just wasn't worth running around all game for a ball or two.
I started walking back to the car when I got a text from my fiancee Amy, who was working the game. She told me that they were wheeling out the screens and that batting practice would be on.
I jogged back to the park and made it into the left field bleachers by 11:35, 35 minutes after the gates had opened.
Only the Phillies would be hitting today.
And, it was packed.
I glove tricked ball #1 and ball #2 towards the left field foul pole:
The stadium was absolutely packed. Check out the bleachers:
My view straight ahead:
I decided to move towards the foul pole where I would have slightly more room to move.
The move paid off, as I caught a Ben Francisco home run ball on the fly here for ball #3:
I didn't snag anything else until the 5th inning. A large group of people left the front row in center field, so I went down for a minute to give myself a chance at an Andrew McCutchen warm up ball. He fired a perfect strike to me, while I was on the phone with Amy, who I was meeting up with for some food on her break.
That would be my fourth and final ball of the day.
Today's baseballs:
Sweet spots:
Game: 4 balls (1 hit, 1 thrown, 2 device)
Season: 177 balls (67 hit, 40 thrown, 47 device, 23 found)
Games: 29 games
Average: 6.10 balls per game
Career: 1,299 balls
Attendance: 35,505


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Critical legal studies (CLS) is a theory that challenges and overturns accepted norms and standards in legal theory and practice. Proponents of this theory believe that logic and structure attributed to the law grow out of the power relationships of the society. The law exists to support the interests of the party or class that forms it and is merely a collection of beliefs and prejudices that legitimize the injustices of society. The wealthy and the powerful use the law as an instrument for oppression in order to maintain their place in hierarchy. The basic idea of CLS is that the law is politics and it is not neutral or value free. Many in the CLS movement want to overturn the hierarchical structures of domination in the modern society and many of them have focused on the law as a tool in achieving this goal. CLS is also a membership organization that seeks to advance its own cause and that of its members.
CLS was officially started in 1977 at the conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but its roots extend back to 1960 when many of its founding members participated in social activism surrounding the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War. Many CLS scholars entered law school in those years and began to apply the ideas, theories, and philosophies of post modernity (intellectual movements of the last half of the twentieth century) to the study of law. They borrowed from such diverse fields as social theory, political philosophy, economics, and literary theory. Since then CLS has steadily grown in influence and permanently changed the landscape of legal theory. Among noted CLS theorists are Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Robert W. Gordon, Morton J. Horwitz, Duncan Kennedy, and Katharine A. MacKinnon.
Although CLS has been largely a U.S. movement, it was influenced to a great extent by European philosophers, such as nineteenth-century German social theorists Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Max Weber; Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse of the Frankfurt school of German social philosophy; the Italian marxist Antonio Gramsci; and poststructuralist French thinkers Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida, representing respectively the fields of history and literary theory. CLS has borrowed heavily from Legal Realism, the school of legal thought that flourished in the 1920s and 1930s. Like CLS scholars, legal realists rebelled against accepted legal theories of the day and urged more attention to the social context of the law.
CLS includes several subgroups with fundamentally different, even contradictory, views: feminist legal theory, which examines the role of gender in the law; critical race theory (CRT), which is concerned with the role of race in the law; postmodernism, a critique of the law influenced by developments in literary theory; and a subcategory that emphasizes political economy and the economic context of legal decisions and issues.


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United Airlines Kicks Travel Writer Off Of Plane For Photographing His Seat
from the not-how-you-attract-customers deptThis one is from a few weeks back, but it's worth catching up on. In an age when pretty much everyone has a camera in their pocket via their telephone, it's fairly crazy to try to enforce "no photography" rules -- especially in places where they don't make any sense. And, yet, for reasons that are not at all clear, United Airlines apparently has the following "no photography" rule for passengers on their airplanes:
Naturally, the FA's warning bothered me and I felt the need to explain myself. I signaled for her to come back and asked her to hang my coat. I then said this verbatim—Just a few minutes later, he was told that the captain was ordering him off the plane. Klint eventually was able to speak to the captain who insisted that he had disobeyed the flight attendant, when he makes it clear he had not. It became a he-said/she-said debate and the airline, of course, won.
"I want you to understand why I was taking pictures. I hope you didn't think I was a terrorist. Here is my business card [offering her one]. I write about United Airlines on an almost-daily basis and the folks at United in Chicago are even aware of my blog."
She took my jacket but refused to take my business card saying, "No, that's okay," then saying, "I did not know that" after I explained my reason for taking pictures. I again emphasize, I took no more pictures.
After the story started to get some attention, United reached out to Klint and claimed they were launching an "extensive internal investigation."
Klint is, quite reasonably, pissed off about the flight attendant lying about his actions. And he feels United needs to earn back his trust (and he notes they have not offered any sort of apology). However, it seems the bigger issue is the whole "no photography" rule. It's likely this was a rule that's supposed to protect the "privacy" of fellow passengers, but it's clearly one that was being misapplied by this flight attendant, who apparently stopped quite a few people from taking such pictures.
Yet, in an age where everyone has a cameraphone, the idea of stopping photographs in a settling like that isn't just silly, it's counterproductive and can be used (as in this case) to escalate a perfectly benign situation into a complete mess.
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Facebook agreed to acquire LiveRail, a San Francisco startup that helps businesses buy more relevant video advertisements, its first move into serving video promotions on the Web beyond its own social network.
Terms weren't disclosed. The deal, announced in a blog post today, is part of Facebook's push to offer better video ads around the Web. The company earlier this year started offering TV-like marketing clips on its site, the world's largest social network.
Facebook and Internet rivals such as Google and Twitter have made a string of acquisitions in recent months to add tools for marketers. The companies are competing to control more of the online-advertising market outside of their main websites. LiveRail serves video ads on the Web for ABC Family, A&E Networks, Gannett and Major League Baseball.
"We believe that LiveRail, Facebook and the premium publishers it serves have an opportunity to make video ads better and more relevant for the hundreds of millions of people who watch digital video every month," Brian Boland, a vice president at Menlo Park-based Facebook, said in the blog post. "Publishers will benefit as well because more relevant ads will help them make the most out of every opportunity they have to show an ad."
LiveRail lets companies and organizations improve targeting for video ads, automatically raising and lowering the price they're willing to pay for a spot based on changing data about the audience. The market for digital-video advertising in the U.S. will grow 42 percent this year to $5.96 billion, according to researcher EMarketer..


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Moody's Proposes Making Pension Liabilities a Bigger Factor in Bond Ratings
Moody's proposes making pension liabilities a bigger factor in bond ratings, which may lead cities to make better financial decisions.
States and localities with big pension liabilities could see changes to their overall bond rating if new rules proposed this summer by Moody's Investor Service are adopted.
Moody's is proposing giving more weight to pension liabilities and other long-term debts in its overall scorecards for rating general obligation (GO) bonds. The agency would increase the weight to 20 percent from 10 percent and decrease the weight for economic strength to 30 percent from 40 percent. Weights for governance and management (20 percent) and financial strength (30 percent) -- the other two factors in the way Moody's scores its GO ratings -- would stay the same. The step by Moody's is just the latest in what has become a marathon of changes by various organizations in recent years that aim to place a bigger emphasis on pensions' effect on fiscal health.
Interested parties and stakeholders have until Oct. 14 to submit comments to Moody's.
In its methodology paper, Moody's noted that debt burden trends are an indicator of a population's capacity to absorb additional obligations. In the event that a local government's capital needs are great, this may foretell future financial distress. Thus, a bigger weight should be given to such burdens when considering an overall GO rating. Moody's said in a release that it chose to reduce the weight on economic health because it recognizes that some local governments are either unwilling or unable to capitalize on the strength of their local economies (i.e., a city may not be able to raise taxes because of anti-tax sentiment).
But municipalities with a large unfunded liability may not necessarily see their rating automatically fall under the new rules, Moody's said. "We recognize that funding levels naturally will rise and fall as retiree activity diverges from actuarial assumptions, as benefits change, or as investment returns fluctuate. In the case of an unfunded pension liability, Moody's will examine the reason that it has arisen and the entity's ability and willingness to address it over a reasonable period of time, which is broadly defined to encompass the working life of the beneficiaries so that liabilities are not passed onto a succeeding generation."
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Only if such an analysis showed a pattern of underfunding annual pension contribution requirements, would a large unfunded liability "be viewed as a negative credit factor because it is a claim on resources that reduces financial flexibility," Moody's said.
Moody's maintains GO ratings or issuer ratings for approximately 8,200 local governments: 2,960 cities, 864 counties and 3,362 school districts.
The methodology change, if kept intact, should bring more attention to dangerous unfunded liabilities earlier on in a municipality's downward spiral and potentially help retirees, said Frank Shafroth, director of George Mason University's Center for State and Local Government Leadership. He pointed to cities that have declared bankruptcy like Central Falls, R.I., where retirees had to give up half their pension income, and Detroit, where Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr has said pension cuts will be part of the restricting plan, and said that retirees have far less leverage in bankruptcy than out of it. If cities have more consequences for bad pension finance local officials may be more inclined to right the ship while it's still feasible.
"We all have a human responsibility to protect these people," Shafroth said.
The methodology proposal comes after a change Moody's made earlier this year to the way it calculates pension liabilities. In April, Moody's announced it would adjust pension debt using a long term bond index rate, a discount rate that would likely result in rates of return smaller than the 7 to 8 percent assumption over 30 years that most governments use in calculating their pension liabilities. The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has also taken steps that have the effect of highlighting unfunded liabilities previously hidden in government financial reports. Beginning this year, net pension obligations must now be included as a liability on governments' balance sheets. Governments should also use what GASB considers a more reasonable discount rate – one that more accurately reflects the current rate of return (generally between 3 and 6 percent for most funds) rather than the higher, historic rate of return.
Breakdown of Moody's Rating Approach for Municipal GO Bonds
(Four key rating factors and 16 sub-factors)
a. Size and growth trend
b. Type of economy
c. Socioeconomic and demographic profile
d. Workforce profile
a. Balance sheet/liquidity
b. Operating flexibility
c. Budgetary performance
a. Financial planning and budgeting
b. Debt management and capital planning
c. Management of economy/tax base
d. Governing structure
e. Disclosure
a. Debt burden
b. Debt structure and composition
c. Debt management and financial impact/flexibility
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This topic is about drug
abuse and dependence in adults. For information about drug abuse in teens or
children, see the topic
Teen Alcohol and Drug Abuse.
Drug abuse is using drugs in a way that harms you or that leads you to harm
others. You can abuse illegal drugs, prescription drugs, or
over-the-counter drugs.
When you abuse
drugs, you are not always able to meet work, home, or school duties. You may be
late to work. You may use drugs in dangerous situations, such as when driving
or operating machines. Or drugs may cause problems in your
Drug abuse can lead to drug dependence, where you
addicted to a drug. The drug controls your life. Any
of the following can happen:
Drug dependence is a disease. It's not a weakness or a
lack of willpower. It's your choice to begin using a drug. But as you use it
more, your brain begins to change. This change can lead to a craving to use the
drug, and this can influence how you act.
Drugs that are
abused include:
Behaviors that may be signs of a drug problem include:
Having these signs doesn't always mean a person is using
drugs. The behavior could be because of work or school stress, or it could be a
sign of
depression or another medical problem. But behavior
changes like these are common in people who abuse drugs.
signs of drug abuse and dependence include:
Drug problems may
be diagnosed at a routine doctor visit or when you see your doctor for a health
or social problem linked to drug use, such as anxiety,
depression, or family conflict. If a partner or friend
thinks you have a drug problem, he or she may urge you to see your
Your doctor will ask questions about your symptoms and
past health. He or she will do a physical exam and sometimes a mental
health assessment.
Treatment includes
medicine, therapy, and support groups.
The first step in treatment is to quit using drugs. You may need medical care to manage withdrawal symptoms when you first quit. Some people call this detoxification, or detox.
After you stop using drugs, you focus on staying drug-free. Most people receive
some type of therapy, such as group counseling. You also may need medicine to
help you stay drug-free.
When you have stopped using drugs, you
have taken the first step toward
recovery. To gain full recovery, you need to take
steps to improve other areas of your life, such as learning to deal with your
work, family, and living situation in healthy ways. This makes it easier to
stay drug-free.
If you feel that you have a drug problem, get help. You can visit a
doctor or go to a self-help group. The earlier you get help, the easier your
recovery will be for you and your family.
Helping someone who has a
drug problem is hard. If you are
"covering" for the person, you need to stop. For
example, don't make excuses for the person when he or she misses work.
You may be able to help by talking to the person about what his or her
drug use does to you and others. Talk to the person in private, when he or she
isn't using drugs or alcohol and when you are both calm. If the person agrees
to get help, call for an appointment right away. Don't wait.
Learning about drug abuse and dependence:
Being diagnosed:
Getting treatment:
Ongoing concerns:
Most of the time,
drug abuse starts with casual use. People don't use drugs because they want to be
addicted. Drugs can make
you feel good for a while. They may make you feel energetic, self-confident,
and powerful. You may take a drug to reduce
stress or
anxiety or to help you forget a problem.
Drug use
changes your brain and how it works. If you continue to use drugs,
you may develop strong cravings for them, and it may get harder to say "no" to further use. At the same time, you may begin to lose interest in
activities you always enjoyed. This is because you may feel that they are not
as enjoyable as using drugs. You may then become dependent.
Not everyone who uses drugs abuses them or becomes dependent. Other
things that influence whether this happens include your
genes, family, friends, and life situations. For more information, see
What Happens and What Increases Your Risk.
When drug use,
abuse, and
dependence occur, you are more likely to have changes
in your behavior than to have physical symptoms.
These signs don't always mean a person is using drugs.
The behavior could be because of work or school stress, or it could be a sign
depression or another medical problem. But behavior
changes like these are common in people who abuse drugs.
If you
think you or a loved one might have a drug problem, use this short quiz to
check your drug use:
Drug abuse in older adults may go unnoticed, since the signs may be similar to those of
aging. Older adults often take more medicines, such as sleep medicines and
painkillers, that can lead to dependence.
When you are dependent on a
drug and you stop using it, you may have physical symptoms known as
withdrawal. These symptoms differ for each drug. They can include feeling sick to your stomach,
vomiting, having belly pain, sweats, nervousness and shaking, and
You may not feel that using drugs is a
problem. Maybe you feel that you are a casual user because you use drugs only
now and then. You may feel that you can stop using drugs at any time.
But drug use quickly can become a habit, and for many people it may lead
abuse and
addiction. You may begin to use drugs without thinking
about how drugs can harm you and those you care about.
Drugs can cause you to have
health problems, such as:
Drugs also can lead to problems with thinking and
remembering. They can affect judgment, decision-making, emotions, and learning.
Different drugs harm your body in different
ways. Drugs that can cause harm include:
You are more likely to have unsafe sex when on drugs, and you may get
and spread
sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
If you're
pregnant, drugs can pass into your uterus and
harm your baby.
Drug use also can lead to problems with
your partner, family, or friends. You and
your family may feel that you have turned against each other. You may be angry at
them, and they may be angry at you. You may do poorly at work or in school, or
you may even quit. You also can have legal problems, like being arrested for
driving while on drugs or for using or selling drugs.
Not everyone who uses a
drug develops a drug problem. Certain things make
abuse and
dependence more likely. These are called risk factors.
Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you or someone else:
Call your doctor if:
Health professionals
who can diagnose, prescribe medicine for, and treat
drug abuse problems include:
Counseling usually is part of treatment. This can be done
Watchful waiting is a
wait-and-see approach. If you get better on your own, you won't need treatment.
If you get worse, you and your doctor will decide what to do next.
Watchful waiting is not a good choice for drug abuse and dependence. If
you have a drug problem, or if you believe that your health or other areas of
your life are being affected by drugs, you need to take steps to stop using
abuse and
dependence may be diagnosed during a routine doctor
visit or when you see your doctor for a health or other problem linked to drug
use, such as
depression, or family conflict. If your partner or a
friend suspects a drug problem, he or she may urge you to see your
If you think you or a loved one might have a drug problem,
use this short quiz to check for drug use:
Your doctor will ask you questions about your symptoms and
past health and will do a
physical exam. If your doctor thinks you have a drug
problem, he or she may ask about
current and past drug use. He or she also may ask if it's okay to give you a test to check for drug use,
such as a urine or blood test.
Your doctor may ask to give you
tests to look for health problems related to drug abuse. These may include
tests for
hepatitis B,
hepatitis C, or
If you and your doctor agree that
you have a drug problem, your doctor probably will refer you to a specialist in
drug abuse or dependence.
People who use
drugs also may have mental health problems. These include
anxiety disorders, or
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). If your doctor
thinks this may be true for you, he or she may do a
mental health assessment.
If you use
drugs and have a mental health problem, it's called a
dual diagnosis. If you
treat only one problem, treatment may not work well. When you treat both
problems, you have a better chance of a full
recovery and less chance of using drugs again.
Treatment for
drug abuse or
dependence usually includes group therapy, one or more
types of
counseling, and drug education. A
12-step program is often part of treatment and
continues afterward as part of your
Treatment doesn't just deal
with drugs. It helps you take control of your life so you don't have to depend on drugs. You'll learn
good reasons to quit drugs. Staying drug-free is a lifelong
process that takes commitment and effort.
You might start with your family doctor, or your doctor may recommend that you
enter a treatment facility. A friend could bring you to a self-help group, such
as Narcotics Anonymous, or you might walk into a clinic that deals with drug
You may have a treatment team to help you. This team may include
psychologist or
counselors, doctors,
social workers, nurses, and a case manager. A case
manager helps plan and manage your treatment.
You may be asked
questions about your drug use, health problems, work, and living situation. Be
open and honest to get the best treatment possible. Your team may
write a plan, which includes your treatment goals and ways to reach
those goals. This helps you stay on track.
Your doctor may decide you need
medical care to manage withdrawal symptoms when you first quit using drugs. This is sometimes called detoxification, or detox.
People who are dependent on
drugs often have to go to a hospital or treatment facility. Detox usually is
done under the care of a doctor, because withdrawal can be
dangerous without medical care. A doctor may prescribe medicines to help with withdrawal symptoms.
Treatment for a drug problem usually
involves one or more types of therapy.
Treatment usually includes going to a support group, such
as going to Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings. Your family members might also
want to attend a support group such as Nar-Anon.
You may take medicines to help you quit
or to help you overcome
withdrawal symptoms. Medicines often are used for
addiction to
opiate drugs like heroin or certain painkillers.
Medicines that can help you include methadone (such as Dolophine) or Naltrexone (such as ReVia).
Treatment programs can be
outpatient, inpatient, or residential. They offer similar therapies. Your
treatment team can help you decide which type of program is best for you.
Some treatment programs give rewards, called vouchers,
when you stay off drugs. The rewards may get bigger when you go for a long time
without drugs.
Many programs give regular drug tests while you go
through treatment. Knowing that you will be tested can make you more likely to
resist your cravings.
People with drug problems
often have other problems. They may need other
treatments, or other resources may be available to help them with the drug
Your doctor may prescribe medicine during
detoxification to ease
withdrawal symptoms or during treatment to help you
move away from
dependence. These medicines are mainly used for
dependence on
heroin or other
Medicines that can help
Recovery from
drug abuse or
dependence means finding a way to stay drug-free while
changing your attitudes and behaviors. In recovery, you work to restore
relationships with your family and friends and with people at your job or
Recovery isn't a cure. It is a lifelong
process. There are
10 principles of recovery(What is a PDF document?) that can help you reach your goals and learn new things to
help yourself.
To help stay
drug-free after treatment, you can find things to do, such as
sports or volunteer work. Stay away from friends or family members who use
drugs. Learn how to say
"no" to alcohol and drugs.
An important part of recovery is being
sure you have support. You can:
Stopping drug use is very hard.
It's normal to have setbacks, even years later. Very few people succeed the
first time they try. A lapse or
relapse is likely.
A lapse or relapse doesn't mean that you or your treatment has
failed. It may mean that you just slipped up. You also may need more treatment,
another type of treatment, or more time in support groups such as Narcotics
It's smart to
plan for a relapse before it happens. Your doctor, family, and friends can
help you do this.
Part of recovery is finding
your way back to a healthy lifestyle.
If someone you care about has had a drug problem, you know how hard it
can be. You know how living or dealing with someone who has a drug problem can
change and even destroy your life. But family members and friends can play an important role in helping a loved one recover from drug use and addiction.
hard to get someone who uses drugs into treatment if he or she doesn't want it.
You may be able to
help the person get treatment by:
After the choice for treatment
has been made:
probably will feel relief and happiness when the person decides to get help.
But treatment and recovery mean changes in your life too. Your emotions may
become more complicated. You may:
These feelings are common. You've been through a bad
period of your life, and what happened isn't easy to forget. Nor is it easy to
forgive the person. Keep in mind that recovery is the road to a better life
and that you can help your loved one get there.
Find your own
support. Nar-Anon and similar programs are for people with family members or
friends who have drug problems. They help you recover from the effects of being
around someone who was addicted. You also may try
family therapy.
The American Council for Drug Education provides current scientific
research, prevention materials, and programs on tobacco, alcohol, and illegal
drugs and their effects. It offers programs and services for teens and provides
information to parents, employers, educators, health professionals, policy
makers, and the media.
LifeRing is a network of support groups for people with
alcohol or drug problems. Support groups meet about an hour each week. LifeRing
is abstinence-based, like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or Narcotics Anonymous
(NA), but does not rely on a "higher power" concept for recovery.
Nar-Anon is an organization dedicated to helping family and friends
of people suffering from drug addiction to cope with addiction. Support group
meetings are available in most communities at various times. Contact Nar-Anon
or check your local phone book for meeting dates and times.
Narcotics Anonymous is an international, community-based support
group that serves people recovering from drug addiction with more than 31,000
weekly meetings in over 100 countries worldwide. NA provides an environment in
which people recovering from drug addiction can help one another stop using
drugs and find a new way to live. Meetings are available in most communities at
various times. Contact NA or check your local phone book for meeting dates and
This organization provides information for the public on
drugs. It contains information about how certain drugs affect the brain.
SAMHSA provides information on substance abuse prevention and
treatment. Its website is the gateway to the Center for Substance Abuse
Prevention (www.samhsa.gov/prevention) and the Center for Substance Abuse
Treatment (www.samhsa.gov/treatment).
CitationsCloninger RC (2008). Genetics of substance abuse. In M Galanter, HD Kleber, eds., Textbook of Substance Abuse Treatment, 4th ed., pp. 17–27. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing.Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies (2010). Results From the 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Volume I. Summary of National Findings (NSDUH Series H-38A, HHS Publication No. SMA 10-4586FINDINGS). Available online: http://store.samhsa.gov/product/Results-from-the-2009-National-Survey-on-Drug-Use-and-Health/SMA10-4586FINDINGS.National Institute on Drug Abuse (2010). Drugs, Brains, and Behavior: The Science of Addiction (NIH Publication No. 10-5605). Available online: http://www.nida.nih.gov/scienceofaddiction/sciofaddiction.pdf.Other Works ConsultedDepartment of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense (2009). Clinical Practice Guideline: Management of Substance Use Disorders (SUD). Available online: http://www.healthquality.va.gov/Substance_Use_Disorder_SUD.asp.Strain EC, Anthony JC (2009). Introduction and overview section of Substance-related disorders. In BJ Sadock et al., eds., Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 9th ed., vol. 1, pp. 1237–1268. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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I finally got around to changing the gearbox on the power front seat in the 64 Caddy today.Unbolt the seat and tip it back and used a car stand on each side to support it. I now have access to the power motor and gearbox. Some rough bastard in the states, has had a go at this once before. The two bolts that hold the motor and gearbox frame to the seat are missing and its zip tied there. First job, was remount that with bolts and yeah, they're a turd to do, but ya kind of need them.Four hex head bolts each side of the box releases the 6 cable drives from the box and another two bolts and the gearbox slips off the drive shaft.The motor can stay where it is, as it works fine.Split the box open to find second gear seized. (good reason the seat didn't forwards or backwards since we owned it.)I've got another box I bought last year for $125 USD that's reco'd and ready to roll.I figure it might be good to check all the drive cables.Cool, the Blue cables aren't connected at the screw drives on the seat. (Another good reason the seat didn't back or forth)5 out of six cables are free as a bird (Not You) with one a bit tight.WD40 is a wonderful product, hung the cable, lubricated the Shit out of it and its all good.Slide the box back on the drive shaft making sure its engaged the drive itself.With everything bolted up, its snug as a bug.Refit one cable in the morning and lower the seat back into position and bolt down and we should be working in all 6 directions.Its a bloody robust system for moving a seat.The thing could be used to jack the car up.All this for power seat.
I did slice a finger slightly on a sharp edge.I was holding a torch in my teeth at one point and turned my head.Friggin hurt as the torch was knocked out of my mouth, but that's all.
Very cool story Ed.Makes me want to come down for a visit.
I might half a chance to get my hands on a Windsor powered XP Futura 4 door. Was built about 12 years ago, but assembly never completed. All the bits are there to complete it. Just need to convince the owner I'm a worthy recipient...Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk
Lol! My mates got an identical coupe, colour and everything. Bought it spur of the moment when it came into his workshop.Sent it up to a friend to have some minor rust repaired and came back with a full respray. Still sports stock hubcaps.No idea what he'll ever do with it. It will never get driven (dispite having club reg) and he doesn't sell stuff...
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In the past 12 months, the fitness industry saw encouraging signs that it was breaking free from the recession that engulfed the latter part of the previous decade. More club company owners were able to refinance their debt, thus putting them in better position for expansion and acquisition. More club operators created new brands, some in the form of the still-growing high volume/low-price arena, while personal training studios and cycle-only clubs continued to grow. And, at least according to statistics released by the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA), the industry enjoyed 5 million more memberships since the last roll call in 2009.
However, for every 24 Hour Fitness grand opening, there was a club such as the 20-year-old Spa & Fitness Club in Costa Mesa, CA, that closed. For every new LA Fitness, there was the Naples (FL) Fitness Center that closed after 32 years. For every club that In-Shape Health Clubs acquired or built, there were clubs such as Lakeshore Athletic Club that closed. For every new Planet Fitness, Anytime Fitness or Snap Fitness, there was a Bally Total Fitness, a World Gym, or a smaller gym, such as Medina's Gym in Hayward, CA, that closed its doors. Growth was everywhere, but so were reminders that the industry, like all industries, is still grappling with a lagging economy.
As with almost every year, some fitness facility operators and equipment manufacturers faced their share of legal battles. Some lawsuits are still pending, while others have been ruled on. Incidents of violence at fitness facilities coincided with stories of members whose lives were saved with the help on an automated external defibrillator.
Some manufacturing jobs left the United States for China, as was the case for Star Trac, Irvine, CA, while some jobs returned to the United States from China, as was the case for Med-Fit Systems Inc., Fallbrook, CA, which makes Nautilus equipment in its Independence, VA, plant.
Innovators came onto the club scene, while some of the great figures in the industry died.
The year 2011 was one of transition. Join us as we take a look back at some of the stories that shaped the year.
Acquisition Activity for Commercial Health Clubs Abounds throughout Industry
Revenues Improve at Public Health Club, Fitness Equipment Companies
More Health Clubs Get into the High Volume/Low Price Game
More Gold's Gym Operators Leave Brand
Cybex Ends Year with Mixed News
Fitness Industry Mourned Passing of Leaders in 2011
Mother Nature Damages Fitness Facilities throughout the Country
Several Health Clubs Face Lawsuits for Sexual Harassment
Violence Erupts Outside Health Clubs
Military Focuses on Functional Fitness Training
Public-Private Partnerships Take Off at Recreation Centers
University Rec Centers Look Off Campus for Revenue
Mobile Apps Remain Popular with Fitness Industry
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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2005 News Releases > August 2005 > WBU Music Department Hosts Presentation
WBU Music Department Hosts Presentation
PLAINVIEW -- Wayland Baptist University's Department of Music will host a special multi-cultural music workshop entitled "Connect to the Voices of the Afro-Spanish-Caribbean." The workshop is designed to help music educators implement more world music within the classroom setting.
The workshop will be held on Friday, Sept. 16 from 12-3:30 p.m. in the Miller Recital Hall in music wing of Wayland's Harral Auditorium.
Alejandro Jimenez of Hartford, Conn., is the featured speaker. Jimenez has been a bilingual music educator with the Hartford Public Schools since 1974. He has been a workshop presenter at many conferences, including MENC, on issues of the Afro-Spanish-Caribbean music of Puerto Rico.
"This will be the second year that the Wayland music department is bringing in a presenter to help further the knowledge base of our music educators," said Debbie Flournoy, assistant professor of music education. "Such presentations give local music educators a chance for growth within their own classroom lesson planning, create an opportunity for our future teachers to meet local teachers and help keep both current on teaching techniques and strategies for elementary and middle school music students."
Participants will receive several packets of music that can be used for their own teaching endeavors. The cost for the workshop is $10. To register, please call Flournoy at 806-291-1075. Please register early to reserve your music packets. The fee is payable at the door.


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This documentation is for an older version. If you're using the most current version, select the documentation for that version with the version switch in the upper right corner of the online documentation, or by downloading a newer PDF or EPUB file.
This section describes some techniques that can help you use mysql more effectively.
mysql supports input-line editing, which enables you to modify the current input line in place or recall previous input lines. For example, the left-arrow and right-arrow keys move horizontally within the current input line, and the up-arrow and down-arrow keys move up and down through the set of previously entered lines. Backspace deletes the character before the cursor and typing new characters enters them at the cursor position. To enter the line, press Enter.
On Windows, the editing key sequences are the same as
supported for command editing in console windows. On Unix, the
key sequences depend on the input library used to build
mysql (for example, the
libedit or
Documentation for the
libedit and
readline libraries is available online. To
change the set of key sequences permitted by a given input
library, define key bindings in the library startup file. This
is a file in your home directory:
libedit and
.inputrc for
For example, in
Control+W deletes everything before the
current cursor position and Control+U deletes
the entire line. In
Control+W deletes the word before the cursor
and Control+U deletes everything before the
current cursor position. If mysql was built
libedit, a user who prefers the
readline behavior for these two keys can
put the following lines in the
file (creating the file if necessary):
bind "^W" ed-delete-prev-word bind "^U" vi-kill-line-prev
To see the current set of key bindings, temporarily put a line
that says only
bind at the end of
.editrc. mysql will
show the bindings when it starts.
Some query results are much more readable when displayed vertically, instead of in the usual horizontal table format. Queries can be displayed vertically by terminating the query with \G instead of a semicolon. For example, longer text values that include newlines often are much easier to read with vertical output:
SELECT * FROM mails WHERE LENGTH(txt) < 300 LIMIT 300,1\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
msg_nro: 3068
date: 2000-03-01 23:29:50
time_zone: +0200
mail_from: Monty
reply: email@example.com
mail_to: "Thimble Smith" <email@example.com>
sbj: UTF-8
txt: >>>>> "Thimble" == Thimble Smith writes:
Thimble> Hi. I think this is a good idea. Is anyone familiar
Thimble> with UTF-8 or Unicode? Otherwise, I'll put this on my
Thimble> TODO list and see what happens.
Yes, please do that.
file: inbox-jani-1
hash: 190402944
1 row in set (0.09 sec)
For beginners, a useful startup option is
--safe-updates (or
which has the same effect). It is helpful for cases when you
might have issued a
statement but
forgotten the
WHERE clause. Normally, such
a statement deletes all rows from the table. With
--safe-updates, you can delete
rows only by specifying the key values that identify them.
This helps prevent accidents.
When you use the
option, mysql issues the following
statement when it connects to the MySQL server:
SET sql_safe_updates=1, sql_select_limit=1000, sql_max_join_size=1000000;
See Section 5.1.4, "Server System Variables".
statement has the following effects:
You are not permitted to execute an
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DELETE statement unless you
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clause or provide a
LIMIT clause (or
both). For example:
val; UPDATE
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LIMIT clause.
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SELECT statements that
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--max_join_size options:
mysql --safe-updates --select_limit=500 --max_join_size=10000
If the mysql client loses its connection to the server while sending a statement, it immediately and automatically tries to reconnect once to the server and send the statement again. However, even if mysql succeeds in reconnecting, your first connection has ended and all your previous session objects and settings are lost: temporary tables, the autocommit mode, and user-defined and session variables. Also, any current transaction rolls back. This behavior may be dangerous for you, as in the following example where the server was shut down and restarted between the first and second statements without you knowing it:
SET @a=1;Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.05 sec) mysql>
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connection, and after the reconnection it is undefined. If it
is important to have mysql terminate with
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Fight The Power: Chuck D Sues Universal Music For Hundreds Of Millions In Unpaid Royalties
from the bring-the-lawyers deptWhen Eminem's publisher won its lawsuit with Universal Music over how to account for iTunes royalties, we expected a flood of similar litigation, possibly enough to seriously cripple the world's largest record label. Universal Music insisted that Eminem's deal was unique and the case was specific only to that, but so far, we're seeing more and more musicians understanding the implications of the ruling, and filing similar lawsuits. If you don't recall, the battle came down to the simple question of whether or not an iTunes sale was a sale or if it was a license. Amusingly, in almost all other legal contexts, Universal Music claims that when you "buy" a song at iTunes it's just a license. But that proved to be UMG's undoing here -- because many of its old contracts had extremely different terms for royalties on "sales" and "licenses."
Now, there's a good reason for this. Historically, sales were of things like CDs, where Universal had relatively higher production, storage and distribution costs. So for "sales" (of CDs), the royalty to the musician was lower. "Licenses" generally referred to things like licensing a song for a movie or TV commercial. There, labels were willing to share higher royalties with the artist, and for good reason. The costs to the label of such a license were minimal, and licensing was always a relatively small part of the business.
But, of course, iTunes makes for a weird situation. The labels want to pretend it's the same thing as selling a CD, and thus they've been paying the lower royalty rate. But, in other legal contexts they keep claiming that downloading a song from iTunes is not really a "sale" but merely a "license." Thus, the basic legal claim from musicians is that for iTunes sales, they deserve the much higher royalty rate (usually closer to 50%, rather than 10% for sales). The court in the Eminem/FBT case said that iTunes songs were licenses... and thus the higher rates applied.
As we noted, when others started suing, this could lead to somewhere around $2 billion that the labels may need to pay out to artists, and the artists are noticing.
The latest to file suit is is Chuck D of Public Enemy, claiming that Universal owes him hundreds of millions of dollars.
The full filing (embedded below) provides some additional details about UMG's "standard" recording contract. As was detailed earlier this year by entertainment industry lawyer, Martin Frascogna, royalty rates are often just a part of the calculation -- and those royalties tend to come after a bunch of other "deductions." In the Chuck D lawsuit, he notes that the "sold" equation includes a ton of additional "deductions" compared to the "licensed" equation. This includes a "container charge" and an "audiophile deduction." Because of those significant other deductions that only are used on "sales," the claim is the amount owed is even larger than just the discrepancy in royalty rates... and considering that the "container charge" is officially for physical packaging of a CD, it seems pretty ridiculous that UMG has been applying the container charge to digital licenses like iTunes.
In the lawsuit, Chuck D actually reveals the data on how UMG has been calculating royalties... and how they should. It highlights record label accounting at its finest:
As the lawsuit notes, the proper way to account for digital royalties would show a much, much higher number: $315.85 for every 1,000 units sold:
UMG is going to be facing a lot more of these kinds of lawsuits, and it's somewhat amusing to see it hoisted on its own petard for being so insistent that iTunes and other digital stores were "licensing" deals. And, for what it's worth, Chuck D has actually been one of the artists on the forefront of embracing the internet and what it allows -- way before almost any other artist. All the way back in 2000, we had an article about him defending Napster in a debate against Lars from Metallica. If anyone deserves to take Universal for "hundreds of millions of dollars," he seems like a good candidate.
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Returning sectional qualifiers Breedlove, Walters lead young Boilers
Outside of two returning sectional qualifiers, the Kewanee High School wrestling team will be counting on plenty of new faces during the 2012-13 season.
"We've got a lot of rookies," said sixth-year KHS coach Charley Eads.
Leading the youthful Boilers are senior Mark Breedlove and sophomore Bo Walters. Breedlove is a three-time sectional qualifier, while Walters advanced to the sectional meet in his freshman season.
"With Mark and Bo, I really think they can make it down to state this year," said Eads. "As long as I can work it so they're both peaking at the right time, I think they could make a great run to get down to state and place down at state."
The Boilers are 2-2 on the dual season — dropping matches to Streator and Chillicothe IVC in the season-opening triangular Nov. 20 and sweeping Alleman and Sterling Newman Friday night — and placed 13th in the 16-team Seneca Tournament Saturday.
Breedlove starred Saturday at Seneca, winning his 138-pound weight class and being named the tourney's most valuable wrestler from 106-145 pounds.
"He wrestled a pretty good tournament," said Eads of Breedlove. "There were some talented kids there and he handled them the way he had to."
Breedlove made short work of Payton McCully of Streator and Jake Leake of Seneca with first-period pins, then won a 13-0 major decision over Martin Oruduno of Beardstown in the semifinals and a 10-4 decision over Mike Stone of Rockford Lutheran in the championship match.
Eads said Breedlove's experience is showing in practice and on the mat.
"I didn't say a word to him this year and he just jumped in there and started leading the stretches in practice," said Eads. "After being here for three years, he knows what I expect."
Eads is able to fill 11 of the 14 weight classes early in the season, and hopes to fill all but 106 as the season progresses.
"Numbers will help us win, and hopefully that motivates the kids to try harder so we can win some of the close duals," said Eads. "We should have quite a few close duals because we have enough decent kids that will keep us in the running."
The first two weights — 106 and 113 — are currently open for the Boilers. Eads is hoping Cesar Zepeda can drop from a trio of wrestlers at 120 and fill the hole at 113.
Brendan Jamison and Conner Oetzel are competing for time at 120, with Walters locked in at 126.
Senior Steven Cleveland gets the nod at 132 for the Boilers, followed by Breedlove at 138 and Omar Delgado at 145.
First-year wrestler Raful Solano will compete at 152, with Andrew Slusser at 160 and freshman Jack Breedlove at 170.
The upper weights find sophomore Anthony Barnhill fitting in at either 182 or 195, freshman James Hunt at 220 and Skylar Finin at 285.
Also competing for varsity time are Damon Rohrig at 126, Khalil Turner at 132, Jose Paredes and John Rule at 145, Robin Turner and Stephen Partridge at 152, and Alec Padilla at 285.
"I think these kids are learning, growing and getting stronger," said Eads. "They're going to win matches here and there. As a team we've already won some duals on numbers, and I think that gives some motivation to the kids. It lets me push them harder to get better."
2012-13 KHS wrestling schedule
Dec. 7 — At Monmouth-Roseville, 5 p.m.
Dec. 8 — Petersburg PORTA Tournament, 8:30 a.m.
Dec. 8 — Morrison JV Tournament, 9 a.m.
Dec. 13 — Kewanee and Peoria Heights at Illini Bluffs, 6 p.m.
Dec. 14 — St. Bede at Kewanee, 5:30 p.m.
Dec. 22 — Farmington, Ashton-Franklin Center and Durand at Kewanee, 10 a.m.
Jan. 3 — Kewanee and Knoxville at Eureka, 5:30 p.m.
Jan. 4 — Erie-Prophetstown at Kewanee, 5:30 p.m.
Jan. 10 — Kewanee and Morrison at Fulton, 5:30 p.m.
Jan. 11 — Erie JV Invite, 4:30 p.m.
Jan. 11 — Kewanee and Princeton at Rockridge, 5:30 p.m.
Jan. 12 — Kewanee Invite, 9 a.m.
Jan. 18-19 — Orion Varsity Invite, TBA
Jan. 24 — Amboy and Riverdale at Kewanee, 5:30 p.m.


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AP Source: Bucks trade Luc Mbah a Moute to Kings
Milwaukee to receive 2016 2nd round draft pick
The Milwaukee Bucks traded forward Luc Mbah a Moute to the Sacramento Kings in exchange for a 2016 second-round draft pick, a person familiar with the deal said Tuesday.
The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press because teams can't confirm moves until the new league year begins Wednesday, also said Milwaukee has the right to swap 2018 second-round picks.
"Just landed in Cameroon and got told I've been traded to Sacramento!!" Mbah a Moute wrote on his Twitter page.
The 6-foot-8, 230-pound forward has emerged as a standout defender since he was drafted 37th overall out of UCLA by the Bucks in 2008. He has averaged 6.9 points and 5.3 rebounds in 25.1 minutes per game in his career.
CBS Sports first reported the trade.
Mbah a Moute has two years left on a four-year deal worth about $19 million that he signed as a restricted free agent before the lockout-shorted 2011-12 season. That move came when Milwaukee matched the offer sheet from Denver, where new Kings general manager Pete D'Alessandro worked in the front office at the time.
In Sacramento, he will be expected to fill the void at small forward. The Kings made an attempt to sign Andre Iguodala at that spot before he landed a four-year, $48 million deal with the Golden State Warriors last week.
Mbah a Moute will compete with incumbent starter John Salmons for playing time. The Kings will likely still explore other opportunities in free agency.


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My first attempt this bread I concocted came out excellent with a nice moist open crumb and crisp crust. I decided it was time to try it again and change-up some of the flours and grains used in the soaker. I just picked up some Bulgar Wheat so I decided to add that to the soaker along with rolled oats, malt rye berries, oat bran and cracked wheat. I also used a different mix of flours including spelt which has become one of my favorites due to its nutty flavor. I used pumpernickel flour instead of medium rye as well.
In trying to calculate the bakers percentages for this recipe I included all the water from the soaker, final dough and also the water from my refreshed 65% hydration AP starter. When I calculated the water from the starter it also included the water from the seed starter which I'm not sure it that is necessary or not, but the overall hydration of this dough ended up being 86%. If you are not comfortable with wet doughs, you may not want to try this one. I do have to say that a lot of the water is absorbed by the soaker so it's not really as wet as it sounds.
If you venture to try this, please let me know how your attempt comes out.
28 Grams. Rolled Oats
57 Grams Malted Rye Berries
57 Grams Bulgar Wheat
28 Grams Oat Bran
28 Grams Cracked Wheat
359 Grams Boiling Water
Final Dough
425 Grams White Starter recently refreshed
98 Grams Whole Wheat Flour
86 Grams Pumpernickel Rye Flour
28 Grams Spelt Flour
144 Grams First Clear Flour (you can substitute bread flour or High Gluten Flour)
14 Grams (2.5 Tsp) . Seas Salt or Table Salt (Note: I usually use 2.5 Tsps. of salt, but I have started to weigh the salt which ended up being 14 grams. According to my conversion program it should be 18 grams)
173 Grams Water, 90 degrees F.
Mix all ingredients for soaker in a bowl and add boiling water. Let it sit for 2-3 hours covered until the grains are soft.
After 2-3 hours add the soaked grains along with the remaining liquid in your mixing bowl and add the flours, salt and remaining water and mix for 2 minutes. The dough should come together in a shaggy mess and should be relatively moist at this point. Let it rest for 5 minutes and mix for 4 minutes more on medium low-speed.
Remove dough from mixing bowl to work surface and do a stretch and fold. You may need to wet or oil your hands and the work surface since the dough will still be very sticky at this point. Form the dough into a ball and let it rest uncovered for 10 minutes. Let the dough rest uncovered for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes do another stretch and fold and cover the dough with a moist lint free towel or plastic wrap sprayed with non-stick cooking spray. Do another stretch and fold two more times letting the dough rest 10 minutes each time. After the last stretch and fold put the dough into an oiled bowl and cover it tightly.
Let the dough sit in your bowl for 2 hours at room temperature. It should only rise slightly at this point. After the 2 hours are up put in your refrigerator for at least 12 hours or up to 3 days.
When ready to bake the bread take your bowl out of the refrigerator and let it sit at room temperature for around 2 hours. After 2 hours shape the dough as desired being careful not to handle the dough too roughly so you don't de-gas it.
Place it in your bowl, banneton or shape into baguettes.
Let it sit at room temperature for 2 hours covered with oiled plastic wrap or a moist cloth.
Pre-heat oven with baking stone (I use one on bottom and one on top shelf of my oven), to 500 degrees F.
Slash loaves as desired and place empty pan in bottom shelf of oven.
Pour 1 cup of very hot water into pan and place loaves into oven.
Lower oven to 450 Degrees and bake for 25 – 35 minutes until bread is golden brown and internal temperature reaches 200 degrees.
Shut the oven off and leave the bread inside with the door slightly open for 10 minutes. This will help dry the loaves out and keep the crust crunchy.
Let cool on cooling rack and enjoy!
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Apple is profiting at the expense of our stupidity.
Yes, stupidity. Consumers have been a little too excited about Apple's products lately, and the company is more than happy to take advantage of that.
Earlier this month it was revealed that Hewlett-Packard must sell seven computers to equal the profits that Apple earns from just one Mac.
This is where Apple's nickel-and-diming begins, but it is not where it ends.
To Be Fair, Hewlett-Packard's Computers Are Absolute Crap
It's true what they say: you get what you pay for. While it isn't always wise to assume that the most expensive item is the best one available, Hewlett-Packard desktops and laptops are some of the cheapest and weakest machines on the market. They are built very cheaply, they are prone to severe quality issues, and they fall apart more easily than most other Windows machines.
Taking that into consideration, it's no wonder the company has to sell seven machines to earn as much money as Apple makes selling one Mac.
Still, there is something seriously wrong with this picture. Hewlett-Packard laptops aren't seven times cheaper than a MacBook or MacBook Pro; if they were, consumers might be more willing to embrace their shortcomings. Meanwhile, Apple doesn't charge several hundred dollars more than Hewlett-Packard because its MacBooks cost several hundred dollars more to manufacture. Rather, Apple charges more because it knows that it has produced a product that consumers view as a "premium" item.
(Our) Stupidity is Surprisingly Profitable (To Them)
Last fall, Nintendo – the Apple of the video game world – got a little cocky and told Bloomberg Japan that the Nintendo 3DS was priced higher at ¥25,000 (and $250.00 in the U.S.) partly because of the positive consumer reaction to the device. While Apple isn't foolish enough to make a similar remark, you can bet that its strategy isn't all that different from Nintendo's: the more we crave a particular product, the higher the price we'll see at retail.
Forced Upgrades and Gargantuan Gimmicks
If you've read this far down, you must either (A) be in agreement with at least some of what I'm saying, or (B) plan to argue against my editorial by posting a comment at the end. If the latter is your goal, that's okay – I can live with your complaints. Despite my disgust with Nintendo's cockiness, I still bought a Nintendo 3DS. And despite my belief that Apple is charging much more than it has to, I own many of the company's products and plan to purchase others in the future.
Regardless, there's no denying one thing: Apple is out to screw to consumers for what it believes to be the greater good. This was proven the moment the company released Final Cut Pro X, a dummied down sequel to its professional video editing software. The new Final Cut has received nothing but complaints, partially because of its odd control scheme (FCPX is closer to iMovie than the original Final Cut), but mostly because it removed several features from the last iteration, Final Cut Pro 7.
In response to user complaints, Apple announced that it would "restore" some of the missing features every six months. The company did not say if it would charge for the restoration, but let's not kid ourselves into thinking that they will all be free.
Thus, if you want a broken version of Final Cut, you can get that now for $299.99. Motion and Compressor retail for $49.99 each, so you'll have to spend $400 for the full package. I expect the first update or two to be free, but after that, plan on shelling out another $50 to $100 to acquire features you once had with Final Cut Pro 7. When all is said and done, you will have spent several hundred dollars and waited several months (if not years) to get a downloadable version of Final Cut Pro X that vaguely resembles the older software you purchased several years ago.
If that's not the very definition of nickel-and-diming consumers, then I don't know what is.
And The Greater Good is…?
Apple seems to think that by designing a video editing tool that anyone and their brother (and their brother's lazy friend) can use, it will sell millions of copies and turn the world into Mac-using indie filmmakers. But that isn't going to happen. We already have a program for that – it's called iMovie. Killing the Final Cut Pro brand now in an attempt to build it up later with new consumers is arguably the biggest mistake Apple has ever made.
This move ensures that Avid will retain its status as the industry leader (while films like The Social Network were edited on Final Cut Pro 7, most movies and TV series are edited with Avid). It also ensures that when filmmakers want a cheaper alternative, they will look to the various offerings from Adobe and Sony.
Want Final Cut Pro 7? Too Bad
Apple could remedy this whole mess by throwing Final Cut Pro 7 onto the App Store. The company could spin this decision by saying that Final Cut Pro X is now the "eXpress" version of Final Cut, and that FCP7 will continue the true Final Cut legacy. Apple could sell each Final Cut Studio program individually, allowing users to buy FCP7 for a fraction of the full Studio price.
Sadly, this is only wishful thinking. Apple has taken Final Cut Studio – and all of its contents – off the market. In addition to being removed from Apple's own site, Final Cut Studio has now disappeared from bhphotovideo.com, one of the leading retailers for professionals in the film industry.
The Silver Lining
When I first heard that Final Cut Studio had been discontinued, I was furious – not just with Apple but with myself. "Why didn't I buy it when I had the chance?" I wondered.
Bu I have since realized that this was for the best. By waiting as long as I did to acquire Final Cut, I had the luxury of learning one very sad truth. While it is safe to buy an iPod, iPad or MacBook without fearing that they will soon be obsolete, it is no longer safe to purchase a "professional" piece of software from Apple.
If I had already acquired Final Cut Studio, I'd be royally screwed right now. Final Cut Studio does not have a future. It won't be upgraded, which means it won't be able to support future file formats, or contain the new features that filmmakers crave. It is, in essence, as dead as Final Cut Pro X.
How sad that I consider this to be the "silver lining" in this whole mess. If only other video editors were equally as lucky.
-- Louis Bedigian


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Time for another exciting installment of our Featured Wikian interviews, this time we're talking with Captain Crimson a PotCo player and CSS enthusiast.
Wikia: Tell us a little bit about yourself...just some general information about you.
- Captain Crimson: Well, um hullo! *waves* Hi mom! - I'm in middle school, and I've been on Wikia for about a year now. I speak 3 languages, Hungarian and English fluently, and Slovakian partially. Hungarian is my home language, I was born there, and I moved to the United States when I was 9. Enough about me... But man, all of these questions are about me.
Wikia: How did you first discover Wikia?
- Captain Crimson: I discovered Wikia when I was looking up Pirates of the Caribbean Online glitches. At first, I discovered the Pirates Online (piratesonline.wikia.com) Wiki, the main reference wiki, but then I migrated to their fanon (potcoplayers.wikia.com) wiki, and soon achieved the title of adminship.
Wikia: Which wikis do you spend the most time on -- and which is your main wiki?
- Captain Crimson: I spend a lot of time on the Pirates Online Players Wiki (potcoplayers.wikia.com), since I am a former admin of it. I would rather not go into my resignation/demotion, because I am in fact ashamed of that. This wiki is still my main wiki to this day. I made many, many pages there and I have been with them for such changes that when I look back at it, it's just very hard to think of all that - assimilation, I think it the right term, though others might call it fiasco.
Wikia: What would your top 5 tips for new folks on a wiki be?
- Captain Crimson: Top 5... top 5... Well, editing, making a wiki (if you read my inactive blog on community central), administrative duties, wiki markup, and CSS. They all interest me because they make the most differences in a wiki and its appearance. :D
Wikia: What would you like to see that isn't on Wikia already?
- Captain Crimson: There isn't much that I can think of at the moment, I'll have to get back to you on that (aka Wikia is perfect as it is).
Wikia: You edit on Pirates Online Players Wiki, can you tell us a little bit about that wiki, explain what you guys do there?
- Captain Crimson: Well, I often enjoy helping out the new users and assisting administrators. Merrystar could tell you, if she remembers (no, she's probably not old), that I helped clear up an internet protocol scrambler who was trolling, vandalizing annoyance after I was demoted. I stopped him from commenting rude and inappropriate terms, and just rude comments. Others might view it as a drama filled wiki (I know I do sometimes), but I see it as the young adolescent who hasn't got his priorities set up correctly yet (meaning their rule foundation, which I have helped multiple times during my adminship, and after it also). We have some well behaving, mature people, but most are of the younger sort who play Pirates Online, and they role-play, so that starts fights. But in all essence, the wiki is getting it's balance and is coming along faster, and better then I have expected. Gotta go, time for my swim practice now. :)
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