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As my, Daytons spin, lowrider sittin low
Rag top six-fo', Henny in the passenger side
Smokin chronic just let me ride
You would do it if my name was Dre, second comin motherf**ker
Throw it up for the king of L.A
I'm known for makin b*t*hes take they clothes off
Long as I'm from Compton, California I could never go soft
I'm hard as a motherf**kin ounce of raw
Dribble rock like Kobe Bryant bounce the ball
f**k the law!! Feedin my son is a must
Whip it soft, whip it hard, in crack we trust
Why Andrew Jackson look high as f**k on the 20, G answer
Cocaine been around for centuries
Since I'm young, black and rich, I'm the public enemy
Ridin the bass drum, Just Blaze got the remedy
I got the remedy
Aftermath got the remedy
n***a back up (back up) back up (back up)
'Fore you get your punk-ass smoked
[Verse 2]
I ain't no joke G, so don't provoke me
I'm from the city of angels where that Jacob watch is a trophy
And starin at that Hollywood sign'll get you straight jacked
(Where you from fool?) Better say you pro-black
Causin walkin in Roscoe's wit'cha chain hangin
Is like Giuliani tryin to get rid of the gangbaners
Now that 'Pac passed, tryin to put us on Death Row
Get ready for the Aftermath
I run through the city like Godzilla
Doin mo' damage than Ice-T when he dropped Cop Killa
Pull a shotty out the trunk of the Chevy
There go another victim of a one-eight-seven
Who's the grim reaper wit'cha life in his hand
Even the toughest n***as run when my gun go... blam
So kick back and watch the b*t*hes dance
N.W.A. is back, now let me see your motherf**kin hands
[Verse 3]
I'm back by popular demand and so
All black interior on the cherry red six-fo'
n***as endin they careers tryin to shut me up
Actin like I traded in my khakis for a button up
The West Coast still dippin
Game still Bloodin, and Snoop still Crippin
So what you sayin loc? Red and blue bandana
Tied in a knot, as I creep through the chronic smoke
They say it ain't good weed if you don't choke
sh*t got my head spinnin like the hundred spokes
Three wheelin through the neighborhood
System on blast, as the motherf**kin one-time pass
The key to drivebys is aim steady
Turn that Bape hoody into motherf**kin confetti
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Yamaha Debuts Receiver Line
Yamaha this week unveiled a new line of A/V receivers, noted for their easy integration with customers' mobile devices.
The new products are the 7.1-channel RX-V671 ($599.95) and RX-V571 ($499.95), as well as the 5.1-channel RX-V471 ($379.95) and RX-V371 ($249.95). All except the RX-V371 sport USB iPhone/iPod input.
"Regardless of our customer's preference in mobile device, Yamaha has the solution to easily connect them with their home theater experience to enjoy hours of rich content," Tom Sumner, President, Yamaha Electronics Corporation, said as part of the announcement. "And with enhanced networking capabilities, our new A/V receivers offer home theater enthusiasts more control over that content, at unprecedented prices."
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Furniture Design Focus: Fuze Rampasi Bar Set
A Good Furniture design example, the Fuze Rampasi is a creative Bar Set design. Fuze Rampasi was designed in 2010, and here is a how it is described by its designer: Fuze Rampasi set brings a Fuze Bar Table and three Fuze Uzay Bar Stools in a single space setting, no matter how you approach it it is a unique set that will teleport you to a new world. Inspired by space age and designed organically, it is the perfect bar set for the most modern interiors.
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I can hardly even iron my shirt without burning myself so I'm absolutely impressed with this ad showing artists ironing a sheet into famous art pieces. A few snaps of the fabric here, some presses there and all of a suddenly there's a girl with a pearl earring.
The ad is made by Philips Russia, I wouldn't be against seeing art bedsheets in my hotel room. [YouTube via Laughing Squid]


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A frustrating Battle for Gilneas.
The mass CC from the Horde was insane.
It wasn't CC you would find on a toolbar, it was mental CC.
Although, maybe the majority of my teammates had the A.I. of a trash mob.
The primary Horde CC consisted of 1 Pally healer, and 1 Prot warrior.
Wherever they were you would find a collection of 5 alliance players, or trash mobs as I like to think of them.
- Warrior ~100% health
- Pally ~ 100% health
- Trash mobs – 100% focused on the Warrior while he mowed them down.
I came across this duo a few times as I ran pointlessly around the BG wondering where 1/2 the team was.
Each time I found 1/2 the team engaged with this duo, I killed the Pally within 30 seconds, at which point they would make progress on the Warrior, until the Pally returned that is.
That duo was some of the best CC I have seen.
The 5 living, breathing, supposedly Humanly Intelligent (H.I.) trash mobs were worse than the worst bots I have seen.
What a waste of oxygen!
Just for the record, Warrior taunts aren't meant to work on player characters, so use a little H.I. And switch to the healer, or hell, just ignore them both.
I'd rather an undergeared Bear futilely bashing a geared Resto Shaman (at least there are interrupts), than an underH.I. anybody hitting a tank while ignoring the heals.
Gnomer and Out!
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Justice Dept. opens civil rights unit in Alabama
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Justice Department is establishing a civil rights unit in Alabama after the state's crackdown on illegal immigration raised broader concerns about compliance with federal laws.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Perez said Tuesday fewer than 10 such units are located around the country. The nearest is in Memphis, Tenn.
Perez said the move is meant to ensure that the federal government has a continuing eye on civil rights issues in Alabama, which was a hotbed of unrest during the civil rights movement 50 years ago
The U.S. Attorney for north Alabama, Joyce Vance, says concerns and public meetings after the state passed a strict anti-illegal immigration law last year showed the need for the unit. It has a core of five lawyers in Birmingham and Huntsville.
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What were your thoughts on lights for the movie?
Is this movie a mixtape of movie moments? Sewn together to make an LA patchwork quilt?
Lucinella watches a lot and takes it all in, how much does she act? - on Tao's nice comments or responding to lore's ideas of reflecting on the past or being in a mood. One of the beautiful things about vacations is letting all these new thoughts, notions, sounds, songs, sensations, tastes and feelings and then scrambling, rewinding or skipping through them later on and making stuff bigger and smaller than it actually was
.Her passivity or reflective nature is such a cool vibe for the movie to surf on.
(Jenkins have you seen Rivette's "Le Pont Du Nord"? if not check it out an incredible and strange friendship movie with a conspiracy movie hidden inside it)


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Projections 2010
Here is the official blurb on the Projections for 2010. (I won last year's 2009 competition):
Be the first to spot Australia's next top photographer at Projections 2010, proudly presented by ACMP in Association with Sony. In November, Sydney, Melbourne Canberra and now Brisbane will host screenings of the finalists of Projections 2010 – an annual competition that is rapidly becoming a major talent-spotting event for the next generation of top photographers.
Photographers with less than 3 years' professional experience have submitted a series of works and are vying for one of five titles: Best Editorial Photographer; Best Commercial Photographer; Best Art Photographer; People's Choice Award; and the grand prize, Best Overall Photographer, and the new Pool Grant worth $10K to a lucky emergent photographer.
Creative directors, art directors, photographers producers and lovers of a fabulous visual feast are invited to come and have a few drinks, dive into the work in full HD screenings and meet some fresh photographic talent.
Projections is now in its 7th year, jointly presented by the Australian Commercial and Media Photographers (ACMP) and Sony. Entries in Projections are in a unique format – photographers are asked to submit a thematic series of images, rather than individual shots.
To best display the finalists work , it is shown in a full cinematic experience complete with soundtrack at the Chauvel Cinema in Sydney on November 16 and at the Astor in Melbourne on Tuesday 9th November. Canberra will host a screening at M16 Art Spaces's new premises in Griffith on Thursday 18th November.
The photographers are competing in five categories – Best Commercial Photographer; Best Art Photographer; Best Editorial Photographer; People's Choice Award; and the grand prize, Best Overall Photographer. As well as the new components, Sony's make.believe competition and The Pool Grant, created by Sean Izzard and Simon Harsent.
In its first few years of existence, Projections has produced an alumni of photographers who are gaining traction in the industry, both within Australia and around the world.
Tickets for the screenings in both cities are available from www.acmp.com.au/events – and at only $30 a pop for non members and $25 for ACMP members, including drinks and nibbles, you can afford to take the plunge and dive into Projections 2010.
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Winter has definitely descended upon North Carolina, so what better time than now to look at skiing photographs made by Hugh Morton. In the Morton collection, most snow skiing photographs are grouped together as Series 6.6, but there are others filed by name of location in Series 1.
Cataloochee Ranch was the first facility to offer commercial skiing in North Carolina, which at the time was the highest and southernmost skiing resort in the eastern United States. Cataloochee's first skiers hit the slopes of Fie Top on Christmas Eve morning, Sunday December 24th, 1961. On Christmas Day the Asheville Citizen carried a story (no byline) with a staff-photograph by Parris. (Would this be the newspaper's editor John Parris?) Later in the season, The State published a short cover article by "Old Trudge" (a pen name used by Carl Goerch) in its March 3rd issue that began, "We hate to admit it, but we saw our first skiing recently."
What brought Old Trudge to his reluctant observation? Artificial snowmaking.
Snowmaking has its beginnings in the post-World-War-II Canadian airline industry, and its alpine skiing roots in 1950s New England resorts. In his autobiography Mountain Fever, Cataloochee Ranch proprietor Tom Alexander wrote that he first had the idea for a ski slope at the resort in 1937—annotating the location of a "skin run" in the margin of a panoramic snapshot of the property. Monitoring winter weather conditions, however, revealed that snowfall was too inconsistent to make a run of it. Skiing at the resort was left to family members using homemade skis and golf clubs for ski poles.
Alexander came to learn of snowmaking technology by the late 1950s. In 1959 and 1960 he and his wife twice traveled to New England ski resorts to see if the snow guns used by northern resorts would work in the southern Appalachians. The Alexanders decided to "start small," installing a rope tow at the base of Fie Top behind the ranch house, using a fishpond for water to make snow, and converting a cow barn into a ski lodge. In keeping with the northeastern resorts, Cataloochee hired a European ski instructor, Karl Schoenschaller from Innsbruck, Austria.
Chronologically speaking, Cataloochees Ski Slopes' opening date and instructor selection are interesting on two fronts: Squaw Valley, California hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics—only the second time in the United States, the first being Lake Placid, New York in 1928—and Innsbruck would host the 1964 winter games. The Alexanders were apparently trying to catch the wave of excitement for skiing in the United States spurred by the Olympics.
According to the Asheville Citizen article, Cataloochee laid its first coating of snow on the evening of Thursday, December 22nd. Three inches of natural snow fell on Friday night. Then from Saturday night through dawn Sunday the snowmaking machines pumped out three feet of snow. The ranch debuted its first run—1,000 feet long and 300 feet wide—that morning. A 300-foot-long beginners slope opened by mid afternoon. Word caught on quickly and 40 to 50 people skied that first day. By March more than 200 people from the south and midwest would head to Haywood County to ski for a weekend. At season's end, the Alexanders "even showed a little profit." Perhaps more importantly to the Alexanders, they were able to extend the working season for their family members and staff, and help boost the local economy.
Cataloochee apparently hired Hugh Morton to photograph its ski activities and facilities two ski seasons later, because two images in the brochure "Ski Mile High Cataloochee in the Great Smokies" (see cover above) match black-and-white negatives in the Morton collection—including the photograph at the opening of this post. Given the time of year, it is likely that Cataloochee designed the brochure for the 1964-65 season. What makes Morton's photographs historically relevant is the decision by Cataloochee Ranch in 1968 to expand its entire ski operation "across the ridge" onto Moody Top to the north. Morton's 1964 photographs, therefore, portray the state's first commercial ski operation before its significant upgrade just four years later.
In total there are twenty-three surviving black-and-white negatives from this assignment—fourteen labeled "Cataloochee Ski Slope (Use)" and nine labelled "Cataloochee Ski Slope (Reject)"—and two 4×5 color transparencies dated February 22, 1964. As of this posting date, three of these images are available in the online collection. (More may be added.) Though not in the brochure, Alexander included the following Morton photograph in Mountain Fever.
There are also 35mm slides from this date in Slide Lot 009292, listed by location under Cataloochee in the finding aid—and this would be a good place to inject a bit of wisdom about conducting research using the Morton collection and finding aid: you need to be thorough and think broadly . . . and here's why.
There is one slide in Lot 009292 (slide #18) that is labeled in handwriting "Cataloochee / H. Morton" and it is a color variant of the black-and-white photograph used in Alexander's autobiography seen above. None of the other slides in the lot are labeled. The lot is described as containing twelve slides, and the frame numbers printed by Kodak on the slides mounts are 2, 8, 11, 17, 18, 20 22, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 36. Thirty-six exposures was a standard number of frames issued on a roll of film (twenty-four being another). Knowing this, you might deduce that several sides from this roll of film were weeded out somewhere along the line. But something else is may have happened . . . .
Slides 2 (a different pose of the model below shot on 4×5 sheet film), 8, and 11 look like Cataloochee scenes; slide 17, however, is a variant scene of an image printed in a brochure for Blowing Rock Ski Lodge! (Note: The Blowing Rock resort first opened for the 1962-63 season, then became Appalachian Ski Mountain in 1968. The next skiing post will look at Morton images from this resort.)
Did a Cataloochee image get into the Blowing Rock Ski Lodge brochure by accident, or did Morton move to the second location and continue with the same roll of film? Well, after frame 18 (labeled Cataloochee) is slide 20, which is a mostly nondescript interior view of skiers in a cafeteria, and slide 22 is another variant view of a different scene in the Blowing Rock Ski Lodge brochure. Slides 32 through 34 are also likely at Blowing Rock. The location for slides 35 and 36 could be, too, but would need to be determined by someone who can recognized the mountain in the background. But because there are so many gaps between frame numbers, the third possibility is that Morton weeded two or more rolls of film and combined the keepers from both into one box. A dead give away would have been seeing the same frame number of two slides from different locations.
Because the slides in Lot 009292 have subjects and scenes look similar, the finding aid describes the lot as "Cataloochee." It wasn't until further digging for this blog post (digging that given the immensity of the Morton collection could not have been done at the time of processing the collection) revealed that the lot actually contains work made at two resorts. Plus there are no entries in the Finding aid for Blowing Rock Ski Lodge . . . only Appalachian Ski Mountain. We'll have to reckon with the images to see if the dates are the same for both resorts, then go back and update the finding aid with the conclusions.
So once again, here's the take away: when researching the Morton collection, think broader than your specific topic and be thorough. You may discover and resolve another "Morton mystery!"


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Do you want to share the preparedness message in an interactive and fun way? Do you want a way to open eyes and give "ah ha" moments on preparedness? Want a whole community exercise that addresses recovery and not just response?
The Utah Prepare Conference and Expo is here!
Aug 25 2016
Make plans to join us on Saturday, August 27, 2016, at the South Towne Expo Center.
Be Ready Utah Week
Mar 24 2016
Governor Herbert declares the week of April 4-8 Be Ready Utah Week.
Save the Date - Utah Prepare Conference
Feb 17 2016
With just six months to go until our next Utah Prepare Conference and Expo, we wanted to make sure you can mark your calendars.
Winter Not Always a Wonderland
Feb 02 2016
The first snow storm and cold snap have brought with them the bitter realization that winter is upon us and it?s time to prepare for the risks that the cold season brings with it. As responders and as educators of the public we need to know and practice the following winter preparedness tips in order to be able to respond in times of disaster and help lessen the impacts of the coming storms.
The Deseret News has been a great partner in promoting emergency preparedness and the Great Utah ShakeOut each year. We truly appreciate their support.
Annual Utah Prepare Conference and Expo
Wed, 26 Aug 2015
Be Ready Utah Material's New Look
Mar 20 2015
We are pleased to announce a welcome change to our various emergency preparedness aids available on this website and at the Division of Emergency Management (DEM) office.
Prepare to Live Healthily After Disaster
Dec 11 2014
Healthy bodies and healthy lifestyles are important to everyone. Unfortunately accidents, illness and disease can strike without warning. Similarly, emergencies and disasters can also occur without warning.
Utah's Largest Preparedness Conference and Expo
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2014 National Preparedness Month
Aug 29 2014
The 2014 National Preparedness Month theme is: ?Be Disaster Aware, Take Action to Prepare?. This is a great chance to take action to get yourself more prepared for an emergency!
ShakeOut, Don't Freak Out on Thursday, April 17!
Apr 14 2014
The Great Utah ShakeOut is Thursday! Currently, more than 808,000 participants are registered to participate. Wait... you're not one of them?
Flood Safety Awareness Week is March 16-22
Mar 17 2014
Pedestrians cross State Street in Salt Lake City in 1983 after flood waters overran City Creek. Utah communities are always working on flood mitigation and preparedness. Are you? Photo credit: Utah Department of Transportation
Be Ready Utah and the Utah Division of Emergency Management are teaming up with the National Weather Service and FEMA to help Utahns be mindful of and prepare for severe weather. Take the next step by encouraging others to do the same.
Tornado preparedness information now available
May 22 2013
Prepare for tornadoes nowBe Ready Utah has added tornado preparedness information to its website. This information is designed to help Utahns to respond before, during and after a tornado.
ShakeOut. Don't FreakOut.
Apr 18 2013
Currently, more than 830,000 participants are registered to participate. Wait...you're not one of them? Help us reach our goal of 1 million Utahns under their desks in April!
Utah is a Force of Nature. You can be, too.
Mar 05 2013
March 3-9 is National Severe Weather Preparedness Week. This year, after a devastating fire season, we're focusing on fire weather and how you can be prepared.
Are you ready for "the big one"? Be Ready Utah, Utah State University Extension, BYU and Emergency Essentials have teamed up to put on a one day conference open to the public. Over 21 classes and demonstrations will be offered. For details and to register visit www.utahprepare.org
The Great Utah ShakeOut - Deseret News
Jan 31 2012
The following column was originally published in the Deseret News on Jan. 9By Joe Dougherty For the Deseret News
Resolve to Be Ready
Dec 27 2011
As New Year's Day fast approaches, many Utahns are thinking about how they want to improve themselves.
Governor Herbert Declares Oct. 23 - 29 Winter Weather Preparedness Week SALT LAKE CITY - Governor Gary R. Herbert has declared Oct. 23 - 29, 2011 as Winter Weather Preparedness Week in Utah. The week is an excellent time for individuals, families, businesses, government, schools and media outlets to learn more about winter weather terms and safety rules and review their winter storm preparedness plans.
Joey Thomas' face turned suddenly calm and serious at the same time. "Are you choking? Do you need me to help?" his mother, Susan, asked. Joey nodded. He wasn't breathing.Before that moment, everything was normal: Oct. 26, 2010, ordinary night at home in Sandy with his mom and brother, fall in the air, Halloween candy at the ready.
National Preparedness Month - September 2010
Aug 30 2010
This September marks the seventh annual National Preparedness Month ? one month designed to encourage Americans to take simple steps to prepare for emergencies and disasters. Even though we don't know when or where disasters and emergencies may strike, we do know that we can do more to be prepared for the unexpected.
WHO: Lt. Governor Greg Bell Mayor Ralph Becker ? Salt Lake City Scott Anderson, Zions Bank President and CEO Marty Shaub, Utah Emergency Managers Association - President
Utah Supports National Preparedness Month
Sep 03 2009
Salt Lake City, Utah - The State of Utah has joined a national effort during September to encourage Americans to take simple steps to prepare for emergencies and disasters. This year marks the sixth annual National Preparedness Month sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Ready campaign.
National Lightning Safety Awareness Week is June 21-27. The NOAA Lightning Safety Team, comprised of government and private sector businesses, will lead the lightning safety campaign, with participation from various state and local agencies and businesses. This campaign is de- signed to lower lightning death and injury rates and America's vulnerability to one of nature's deadliest hazards.
Duck, Cover, and Hold (KSL TV)
Tue, 07 Apr 2009
In this country, Utah's Homeland Security is again telling folks that the concept of "Duck, Cover, and Hold" is still the best immediate protection when the ground starts shaking. You drop under the nearest desk or table to cover your head and hold on to that table or desk.
April is Earthquake Preparedness Month 2009 On Tuesday, March 31 - Governor Jon Huntsman declared the month of April as Earthquake Preparedness Month in Utah. The Utah Seismic Safety Commission will lead the preparedness efforts during April and each week will have a focus:
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In 1952, the Leach family began selling propane related equipment in Bettendorf, Iowa. Now, over fifty years later, under the ownership of the Gibson family of Pleasant Valley and Bettendorf, Adel Wholesalers is still at the same location.
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Facebook Engineering Director Aditya Agarwal Departs
Facebook director of engineering and very early employee Aditya Agarwal is leaving the company after more than five years, he announced last night.
In a note published on his Facebook profile, Agarwal said:
I am extremely inspired by the changes that Facebook has affected throughout the Internet ecosystem and how it has changed user expectations about great products. Our Platform has created a unique set of opportunities for building products on the foundations of the social graph. It will be the cornerstone of many future disruptions, some of which I hope to accelerate.
Agarwal's projects have included Facebook newsfeed, search, ads, user commerce and services infrastructure. He said his last day would be Dec. 3.
Facebook spokesperson Larry Yu said via email, "After nearly five-and-a-half years, Aditya Agarwal has decided to leave the company. Aditya has been a key contributor since Facebook's early days and while he'll be greatly missed, we wish him all the best as he considers his next adventure."
Agarwal did not specify what his next project will be. His wife, Ruchi Sanghvi, was Facebook's first female engineer and left the company in August. (The two joined Facebook as a couple in mid-2005 after graduating from Carnegie Mellon.)
Agarwal is not Facebook's only director of engineering; others with that title include Andrew "Boz" Bosworth and Robert Johnson.
Facebook has given employees the option to cash out some of their shares through secondary markets, and plus, early members of the team have at this point just been there a long time. Meanwhile Facebook has put new people, both hires and acqhires, in charge. As I wrote in a feature for GigaOM a few months ago:
Staying at a tech startup for more than four years–the default stock option vesting schedule–is a rare thing, but it seems notable that at 6-year-old Facebook, many early and influential employees have moved on, several of them recently. Facebook is an unusual employer, having been incredibly successful while steering clear of the public markets longer than expected. Employees who leave are often emboldened by their work on such an influential and widely used product, and want to start their own companies. Others are burned out. Still others feel stifled by the company's management structure.
Although it's obviously hard to see your comrades leave, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had an interesting and somewhat counterintuitive explanation for the stream of people leaving the company in an interview he gave about a year ago:
"We're not pretending we're building a company that hackers are going to want to work at forever," Zuckerberg said, pointing to former employees like Steve Chen (who stayed at Facebook for only a short time before starting YouTube). Zuckerberg added his hope was to build a place where people could learn to build high-impact products–"a great hacker institution in the long term."
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Half of small businesses are still not ready to comply with Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT, with just three weeks to go before it comes into effect on 1 April 2019.
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) surveyed 746 VAT-registered small businesses and found that 27% of firms have not started preparing for MTD.
A further 23% have received quotes for software that will make them compliant but have not purchased any yet, while only 3% have been part of the MTD for VAT pilot scheme.
Small businesses are expecting MTD-compatible software to cost them £564 on average this year, while the bill could rise to £872 for larger businesses.
In light of the research, the FSB is urging the Chancellor to recommit to a soft approach to MTD enforcement at the Spring Statement on 13 March 2019.
Mike Cherry, chairman of the FSB, said:
"We're only three weeks away from the rollout of MTD and small businesses are clearly not prepared for it.
"That being the case, the Chancellor must double down on his commitment to light-touch enforcement when he delivers the Spring Statement on Wednesday.
"Small business owners shouldn't be punished for honest mistakes, made more likely by a rushed HMRC rollout."
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Douglas Island Indian Association focuses on youth's role in preserving culture
Published: 08/04/2011 12:00:00
We always enjoy reporting about efforts to keep local native culture alive and vibrant, especially when the focus is on young people and their role in carrying their culture into the future. That's exactly what the Douglas Island Indian Association is doing, in ways that reach deep into their roots. We learned about their Youth and Elder's Program from John Morris, a respected Elder of the DIA, and one of the program's instructors.
VIDEO: We always enjoy reporting about efforts to keep local native culture alive and vibrant, especially when the focus is on young people and their role in carrying their culture into the future. (Image: Rik Pruett)
"We've been working with the youth from 8th grade into high school; we bring them into the program that's sponsored by the Forest Service with Douglas Island Indian Association. We give them projects to work on during the summer that involve making button blankets, regalia vests, take them out and smoke salmon, pick berries, jar it, make jams, syrups, jellies and what not. But we get involved with more like a culture club where the elders pass on our knowledge to the younger folks so that they can have it. Today we're introducing the youth into button blankets, making regalia vests but also teaching them their clan, their moiety and what it represents, for instance we have a button blanket that's going to be a brown bear design we also have vests that are from the raven clan, thunderbird clan and the killer whale, those are four specific ones that we are working with today. A lot of the native corporations have been have been trying to figure out how to get our youth more involved with their culture, learn it so that they could retain it, and when they become elders it would be their turn to pass it onto their youth."
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I know everybody are waiting for news on the settlement and what it means to each individual and business claim and I will try and provide news as soon as I get it.
Water Front Residents To Be Compensated For The Oil Spill
The latest news to slip out about the settlement is the ability for water front residents in the affected area to file a claim. I guess panhandle of Florida to Louisiana wetlands region are eligible to receive compensation for loss of use and enjoyment of their property.
To be a resident in 2010 you would have to own a resident on the water or have a long term lease on the property on the water. So a week in Florida would not be enough to file a claim but a 6 month lease probably would.
This section right there is probably over 100,000 new claims.
Now what if you had a house but you where renting it out by the week, I am not sure if you could file a claim on the basis that you lost use and enjoyment of you property as you where renting it out.
Now if you where renting it out and lost rental income then yes you have a great claim and you should file.
This BP claim was not available though the GCCF, as they did not recognize this as a claim, but the new BP attorney settlement will pay these claims out when it gets up and running.
The new attorney settlement recognizes that residents in the affected region were unable to fully enjoy their homes in the aftermath of the oil spill.
Now the next question is of course what should a claim like this be compensated with, and I would have to say that I have no idea what the compensation would be but it would be something.
No Proof Needed If You Can Prove A Loss In 2010
Again some more great news coming from the attorney settlement.
"It is presumed that losses suffered by businesses and individuals in close proximity to the Gulf Coast, or in the seafood industry, were caused by the oil spill without further proof"
This means for most claims along the gulf coast and that would be from Texas to Key West. Individuals and business just have to prove their loss and not that it was caused by the BP oil spill
This should mean that people that have had a difficult time with causation of their losses in respect to the BP oil spill would now just have to prove they had a loss as the cause of the loss are presumed to be the oil spill. Wow this is really a great new development and it should make it much easier for many to get their claims paid.
Comparison year does not have to be 2009
For some people that I have talked to had something going on in 2009 or that year was a bad representation of their actual losses. In the new attorney settlement, if you can prove losses between any year from 2007-2009 compared to 2010 you will be able to file a claim.
This was again a thing that GCCF made sure of that the comparison year was 2009 for what ever reason. Now people can select what year they want to compare to 2010 for proving their losses.
The settlement program would allow a claimant to compare 2010 revenues against a broader time period, looking at revenues between 2007 and 2009
This should be huge for many business as 2009 maybe was not the best year and maybe 2007 was. This could literally mean hundreds of thousand of dollars on many business claims. Great News
Medical Claims Will Be Compensated By The Settlement
This is another big one, I don't know how many oil clean up workers I have talked to and I could not help at the time because of the stupid policy of the GCCF, this will change now. So here is the deal.
The Medical settlement will potentially benefit hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast residents and Clean-Up Workers who suffered acute or chronic illnesses from exposure to oil and chemical dispersant's in the weeks and months after the oil spill.
Clean-Up Workers can submit a claim with a Declaration under penalty of perjury describing the conditions or symptoms after exposure even if they did not seek medical treatment at the time of exposure. I guess the Attorney settlement will then give clean-up workers a monitary compensation based on what happened to each individual worker. Again more to come on this.
Residents and workers who suffer chronic symptoms or conditions from exposure will be required to submit medical records from the time of exposure and for ongoing medical care.
Coastal residents and Clean-Up Workers who experience future illness retain the right to sue BP without proof of liability for the spill and exposure.
VOO Compensation Part Of The Attorney Settlement
This is a big one also for lots of my friends in the VOO fleet, that have been waiting since November 2011 for word on the settlement that should have happened for them back then. Well the VOO claims are part of the settlement together with claims in these groups.
- Businesses and individuals that lost profits
- Sustained damage to coastal property wetlands and personal property
- Sustained real property sales losses
- Lost subsistence use
- Claims for failure to pay under BP's Vessels of Opportunity Program.
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Transnational Pollution: Why Are You Dumping on Me?
This material is replicated on a number of sites as part of the SERC Pedagogic Service Project
The purpose of this lesson is to familiarize students with the different types of transnational pollution, and to give them an opportunity to role-play in a hypothetical case of transnational pollution involving the Danube River. The flow of pollutants across national boundaries has confirmed that pollution does not recognize geographical boundaries. Clearly, environmental degradation in one country can spread to another, reconfirming that now more than ever, the health of the global environment is the responsibility of all nations, whether vast or small, rich or poor. The major goal of this activity is to make students cognizant that an incident in one nation may well have serious environmental consequences for other nations. Additionally, it will also give students an opportunity to play complex roles that are meaningful and consequential to global concerns. The lesson plan and accompanying handout are highly detailed with a clearly described scenario and characters and detailed activities and questions for the students.
Learning Goals
- Become aware that an incident in one nation may well have serious environmental consequences for other nations.
- Realize that a diversity of interests are involved in transnational issues.
- Practice, develop, and defend a position in a debate.
- Learn to evaluate the rhetorical techniques of other students.
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Teaching Materials
Teaching Notes and Tips
The lesson is geared for 9-12th graders, but is applicable to university students, especially non-majors. More characters could comfortably be added to the debate if the instructor does not wish to break up the class. Additionally, if the exercise is not just an introduction, each student could be asked to provide a position paper for his or her character.
One possible adaptation of this lesson for higher-level courses involves adding real data for the students to work with. Eurodelta has water-quality data for a number of rivers, including the Danube, and sediment data for their deltas. The International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River contains databases, currently with reports on emissions into the Danube.


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Rigatoni sausage bake
A great way to get kids to eat spinach, this comforting sausage supper dish is also perfect for a hungry crowd
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- fat33g
- saturates16g
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Bring to the boil, then simmer uncovered for about 15 minutes until thickened. Taste and season. Set aside.
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Preheat the oven to 190C/Gas 5/fan 170C. Bring a large pan of salted water to the boil. Add the pasta, stir well, then cook, uncovered, for 10-12 minutes, until tender. Remove from the heat, stir in the spinach and, when just wilted, drain well.
Tip half the pasta into a shallow ovenproof dish, about 2.2 litre/4 pint, and level. Spoon over the sausage sauce, then cover with the remaining pasta. Pour the white sauce evenly over the top and sprinkle with the cheddar. Bake for 20-25 minutes until golden brown. Leave for 5 minutes before serving.
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All it takes is one fan, to prove not only that Rob is a super friendly guy, but also get us some super secret intel on the MTV Movie Awards.
Rob was back at work on the Cosmopolis set today, and once he wrapped for the day, he made a group of fans very happy.
You're thinking this can't possibly get sweeter.. oh, but it does..
(Putting down his "man bag" like one fan called it, to sign for fans)
But the BEST part, was when offline82 asked Rob about the MTV Movie Awards
Sounds like a confirmation to us! - We can't let him down guys.. VOTE NOW
You can read more about Rob's meeting with fans in our wrap from today.
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Excellent reflexes, and points added because he made the catch barehanded (though points off because it's not like he had a choice). But doesn't this seem like the kind of thing that happens daily in baseball? Panesar didn't even completely lay out.
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How long does a Snapchat photo last? Ten seconds. How long does the partnership behind the country's hottest app stay together? Not much longer.
When then 18-year-old Evan Spiegel, future founder of Snapchat, the multibillion-dollar mobile-application start-up, set off on the seven-hour drive up Interstate 5 from Pacific Palisades to Palo Alto, California, home of Stanford University, he was embarking on more than a college education. He was journeying into the engine room of America's greatest wealth-producing machine. Long one of the world's elite colleges, Stanford, by the fall of 2008, had also become a noteworthy incubator of young entrepreneurial talent. For freshmen like Spiegel, cruising down Palm Drive past the majestic, 40-foot-tall Canary Island date-palm trees and beneath the white-on-cardinal welcome to stanford banner, there was of course the eagerness and anticipation of living away from home for the first time, but there was also a sense that here, in this unique period in history, anything was possible. For a young man to complete his education and embark on a promising career was not only likely but a given; for a young man of Spiegel's temperament and talent, to leave Stanford as anything less than a multimillionaire might even have been considered a disappointment. As it turned out, Spiegel would leave Stanford well on his way to becoming a billionaire, though the circumstances of Snapchat's conception and launch would be the subject of a lawsuit, filed by former classmate Frank Reginald Brown IV, that has cost Spiegel friendships and could ultimately cost him hundreds of millions of dollars.
Silicon Valley has always embraced meritocracy, the idea that it is the quality of one's ideas and one's willingness to put in 20-hour days that make for successful start-ups and lasting businesses. Unlike, say, hustlers in Hollywood or on Wall Street, the founders of tech companies are supposedly monastic programmers who toil away in harmonious teams and remain chaste when it comes to fucking over their peers. If that myth has been eroded by the saga of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and the Winklevoss twins, as described in The Social Network, it is now being destroyed by the lawsuits that surround the founding of Snapchat.
Snapchat, a messaging service that allows for disappearing text messages and photos, has become the latest hottest internet start-up, an app that seems to have a significant grip on younger users. It enables users to send photos and messages to other users or to post photos and messages to their Snapchat network, with little risk that the photos will be circulated on the web because they self-destruct in 10 seconds. Although tech writers initially dismissed Snapchat as a "sexting app," it is actually the first application to exploit what Spiegel calls the "value of the ephemeral." Why, Spiegel has asked, should everything on the internet be around forever? "Data permanence is a big issue," he says. "We were the first to understand that." Teens and 20-somethings have embraced that ethos, making the app among the fastest-growing in history. According to the company, 400 million photos are sent daily; Facebook, by comparison, claims 350 million photos posted daily. The company became so successful so quickly that Spiegel turned down a $3 billion offer from Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, calculating that Snapchat would eventually be worth even more.
The lawsuit in which Frank Reginald Brown claims, as originator of the idea and one of the founders of Snapchat, to be entitled to 33.3 percent of the company, proves that every tech company has not only its visionary founders, inspiring genesis story and long nights of programming but also its personality feuds and bitter battles that inevitably, it seems, end up in depositions and courtrooms. It happened at Facebook; it happened at Twitter, where co-founder Noah Glass was forced out of the company with virtually nothing to show for his contribution; and it is happening at Snapchat, where Spiegel has proved as ruthless and cunning as any of his tech forebears. The Snapchat story, as laid out in court filings, affidavits, depositions, recollections from college classmates and interviews with Spiegel before Brown's lawsuit was filed, is the latest saga of just how fast and furious the journey can be from dorm-room dream to next big thing in today's Silicon Valley.
"At Stanford and in Silicon Valley, we perpetuate the myth of meritocracy," Spiegel said last April in a speech to the Stanford Women in Business organization. "We believe that the harder we work, the more we will achieve.… This is not true. I am a young, white, educated male. I got really, really lucky. And life isn't fair. So if life isn't fair, it's not about working harder; it's about working the system."
Incoming Stanford freshmen go through a weeklong orientation during which they meet classmates at barbecues and are told what will be expected of them academically by their assigned freshman advisors. Freshmen wear their names on lanyards, and for most of them this week is when they begin to understand the unique hierarchy they have joined. Although 70 percent of Stanford students receive financial aid—and those whose parents earn less than $100,000 pay no tuition at all—there are still plenty of scions of wealth and privilege to remind those less fortunate exactly what is to be gained from a good showing here. Spiegel, who grew up in a $4 million home in Pacific Palisades and whose father, Stanford alumnus and significant donor John Spiegel, earned $3 million a year as an attorney at the firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson, was among the latter. Six feet tall and lanky, with a rectangular head, fine, sharp features and a hank of brown hair parted down and to the left across his narrow forehead, Evan Spiegel had driven to college in his BMW 550i and stood out even among this spectacular cohort for his focus and ambition. "Evan was always hustling," says one former classmate, "always looking to throw his energy into the next thing."
Among his hall mates that freshman year was a stocky blond from Columbia, South Carolina named Frank Reginald Brown, whom everyone called Reggie. He and Spiegel quickly became friends. While Spiegel took a calculated approach to most aspects of college life—by the time he was a sophomore he already had the contacts to organize some of the best parties on campus and had been voted social chair of his fraternity—Brown was more laid-back, whiling away hours playing computer games and watching TV in his Donner Hall dorm room down the white-walled, gray-carpeted corridor from Spiegel's. Spiegel was prone to wearing skinny jeans and a V-neck, while Brown tended to wear brightly colored khakis and backward baseball caps. Stanford prides itself on bringing together diverse elements of American society, and though both these boys were white and from privileged backgrounds, it was this meeting of two very different individuals that would catalyze the launch of Snapchat. Spiegel was a product-design major, which requires students to learn to conceive entire businesses, everything from the look and feel to the financing of a new product. The Institute of Design at Stanford, or "d.school" as it is known on campus, is a hothouse for future entrepreneurs and their start-ups. Brown, on the other hand, was an English major, which at Stanford is a far less gilded journey. In the new hierarchy at elite universities, it is the business, engineering and computer science geeks who are the cool kids potentially on the fast track to launching the next Google or Facebook, while English majors like Brown are on far more prosaic career paths and could even struggle for employment when they graduate. Despite their different paths, or perhaps because of them, the two became good friends, spending late nights in Spiegel's one-room double, drinking vodka and Red Bull. Brown regaled Spiegel with tales of growing up in South Carolina, his whimsical ideas for potential new products for Spiegel to develop and his opinion of the many attractive coeds who caught his eye. The unlikely pair had a tenuous friendship from the start. "They fought and bickered like an old married couple, even during freshman year," says a mutual friend.
In the spring of their freshman year the two pledged the Kappa Sigma fraternity, one of seven fraternities on campus and perhaps the hardest partying and among the most selective, accepting only about 10 percent of those who rush. That Spiegel and Brown rushed together is a testimony to the bond they had formed, for Kappa Sig tends to either take or reject incoming rushes as a group. Both were tapped, Brown making enough of an impression on his older fraternity brothers that he was awarded the blue suit traditionally given to the pledge expected to party the hardest. The suit, which has never been washed, has been passed down for longer than any brother can remember. Brown, as "Blue Suit," was expected to wear the outfit to most frat parties.
Sophomore year, they lived together in the two-story columned Santa Fe–style Kappa Sig house on Campus Drive. Among their roommates was senior Bobby Murphy, a mathematical and computational science major from nearby El Cerrito. Murphy, like Spiegel, was well aware of the possibilities Stanford offered, and he was waiting for the right tech start-up to come along. In the meantime he was ready to offer his computer skills to brothers in need. "He was down the hall, and whenever I needed computer science help I'd go wake him up at, like, four in the morning," Spiegel says.
The culture of the start-up, of dreaming up the next big thing and then cashing in on your invention, was already part of the curriculum at Stanford's business school, where Spiegel audited classes his freshman and sophomore years. Stanford Research Park, founded as Stanford Industrial Park in 1951, on Page Mill Road just off campus, is the crib of Silicon Valley. It is where William Hewlett and David Packard developed the audio oscillator that became the first product of Hewlett-Packard. Among the tech firms that have been started at Stanford or launched by Stanford alumni in the years since are Google, Sun Microsystems, Yahoo, LinkedIn and Cisco. While Spiegel was a junior, two Stanford grads launched Instagram, which Facebook acquired in 2012 for $1 billion. Under Stanford president John L. Hennessy, an electrical engineer and tech entrepreneur who sits on the boards of Google and Cisco, the college has become so intertwined with tech culture that Hennessy has been called the "godfather of Silicon Valley."
For bright students like Spiegel, Hennessy had practically built a start-up assembly line. All Spiegel had to do was come up with an idea, find programmers to build it and then use his Stanford professors to introduce him to investors and venture capitalists. He was sitting in classes next to visiting tech moguls such as Eric Schmidt from Google and Chad Hurley from YouTube, was given a part-time job by Scott Cook, founder of Intuit, and was introduced to potential investors by professor Peter C. Wendell, founder of Sierra Ventures. It was inevitable Spiegel would launch his own business, and by the end of sophomore year he believed he had found the next big thing, starting FutureFreshman.com, a college guidance and application website, along with math wiz Murphy.
"We had identified the problem that kids and parents didn't know what to do in applying for college. We had this thing where you could click on which schools you wanted to apply to, and it made you a massive to-do list," Spiegel says. "But nobody used it. Still, we learned a lot about what not to do." Spiegel designed the website and Murphy built it. Working on the project over a summer, both realized two important truths about start-ups: Don't get into a space where well-funded competitors (in this case a website called Naviance.com) could outspend you into oblivion, and make sure your idea is truly disruptive—a new idea, not just anothergood idea. The idea has to be killer, or no matter how well designed the product (and Spiegel still believes FutureFreshman.com was an impeccably designed website), the business will die.
Brown spent the fall of 2010 in Oxford, U.K., while Spiegel went to Cape Town, South Africa—typical of Stanford juniors, who often spend at least one quarter abroad. Spiegel had visited Cape Town before, helping locals get jobs by teaching them how to dress and how to conduct themselves during interviews. When he returned during his junior year at Stanford, he realized that the jobs he had helped the young men from one township secure had come at the expense of young men from another township. "I hadn't created jobs; I simply took jobs from students in other townships and gave them to mine. I was devastated." Life, Spiegel realized, wasn't fair.
While Brown and Spiegel were abroad, their fraternity had been kicked off campus for one year for serving alcohol during a dry week. Brown and Spiegel returned to the dorms, this time on the same floor of Kimball Hall, and the two took up their friendship where they had left off, frequently dropping by each other's rooms or hanging out with fraternity brothers. Spiegel was increasingly frustrated, worried that his time at Stanford was coming to a close and he had yet to come up with a killer idea. Meanwhile, the tech world had changed, and many promising new start-ups were now built around mobile applications instead of websites—Instagram being a prime example. Apple's iPhone 4 had further changed the tech industry, putting phones with front-facing cameras in everyone's pocket and demanding more user time than computers. Spiegel knew from his d.school classes that venture capitalists were looking for mobile apps that capitalized on this new technology, but he had yet to come up with a product he felt passionate enough about to develop.
One afternoon in April 2011, Brown was hanging out in a Kimball dorm room with two frat brothers. The three were watching television when Brown began to lament that he had sent a provocative photo of himself to a female acquaintance and now wished he could somehow unsend it. In fact, he observed, it would be awesome if you could do that with photos and sexy text messages. Or how about making any message or photo disappear?
"That could be a cool app," Brown said.
He paused, waiting to see how the idea played in the room. The other brothers, not seeing the potential, dismissed it as a sexting app. "Brown ran out of my room after he thought he had struck gold and went to Spiegel," says a fellow member of Kappa Sigma. "He just knew Spiegel would take him seriously and move forward."
Brown found Spiegel in his room and told him the idea, which Spiegel, according to Brown, exclaimed was a "million-dollar idea." Spiegel excitedly asked Brown if they could work on the project together, and Brown agreed. The two set off to seek a fraternity brother who could program the app. They recruited Spiegel's former partner Murphy to join them and, in an "explicit oral agreement," divided the venture into thirds, according to the complaint Brown filed in February 2013. Brown was to be chief marketing officer, Murphy chief technology officer and Spiegel chief executive officer. Why did Spiegel automatically take the preeminent role even though, as he acknowledges, the idea wasn't his? Because Brown was an English major and therefore didn't add as much value as a product-design major like Spiegel, who had already started and failed at one business. Spiegel has said in his own depositions that Brown was eager to participate so he could learn from Spiegel. In Stanford's culture, the humanities have been undervalued in the face of supposedly more practical majors such as computer science and engineering, something even university president Hennessy has lamented. This may be the ultimate expression of the new hierarchy: An English major, it goes without saying, is not qualified to be CEO, even if the whole damn thing was his idea.
Brown's idea was the seed for one of the fastest-growing companies in tech history. The app's usage expanded from a small group of high schoolers in Orange County, California—the school Spiegel's cousin attended turned out to be a key catalyst—to virtually every teen in America. While Instagram and Facebook tap people's vanity by offering them "likes" and "hearts" on their best photos, Snapchat taps their insecurity by offering them the freedom to send a picture they know will self-erase in a few seconds. And while Facebook and Instagram allow for the passive posting of photos, Snapchat allows users to push photos to whomever they like. "Our application makes communication a lot more human and natural," says Spiegel. "Our goal is to make communication fun again." That mantra seems to be working, as the company has gone from 40,000 users in February 2012 to more than 26 million U.S. users today, according to a Pew Research Center study. "Snapchat stopped being just an app and turned into a culture, a phenomenon," writes Chloe Drimal, a Yale senior, in a Yale Daily News op-ed. "It's basically Twitter combined with texting combined with crack. Twitter gives you 140 characters to say your thought or what you are currently doing; Snapchat gives you 31. A text is permanent; a Snapchat is gone within 10 seconds." In many ways Facebook has become too grown-up, too neat and tidy; Snapchat is where kids can go to goof off.
By the time Snapchat added video capabilities in December 2012, the rest of the tech industry was playing catch-up. Facebook scrambled to launch its version of Snapchat, called Poke. The project was built by Facebook engineers in just 12 days, with no less than CEO Mark Zuckerberg writing code and serving as the voice for the "Poke" notification. Spiegel retorted to Zuckerberg's panicked response with "Welcome, Facebook. Seriously," an homage to a 1981 Apple ad challenging IBM. "The idea of sharing your life in snippets of video has been transformative," says Yosef Solomon, a digital-marketing strategist. "The growth potential is based on Snapchat going from a mobile chat platform to a mobile social platform."
The great remaining question is just how much Snapchat is worth. Despite its remarkable growth, the company has no proven business plan to rake in revenue. Twitter went public in November with an $18 billion valuation, but financial analysts have since downgraded its stock, even with a market cap of about $30 billion. Snapchat's last round of investment, in June 2013, from several venture capital firms, valued the company at $800 million. (Spiegel personally extracted $10 million.) Zuckerberg's $3 billion offer in November established the current baseline valuation. Not bad for a company with 30-some employees.
For Stanford students Brown, Spiegel and Murphy, launching a multibillion-dollar tech firm should have been the modern equivalent of now-obsolete collegiate dreams: Write a novel before you graduate, get your band signed to a record deal or—who knows?—win a Heisman trophy. Snapchat is the latest proof that, if you are at the right school at the right time, you can indeed form a company and get no-worries wealthy before you can legally drink. That's why it is so tragic that Brown and Spiegel would never share in their success.
Pacific Palisades in summer has a surprisingly conducive climate for getting work done. The beachfront community of multimillion-dollar homes goes through an extended stretch of what locals call "June gloom," during which the days can remain overcast until midafternoon. For the three would-be tech moguls, who were staying at Spiegel's father's Toyopa Drive mansion (which Spiegel nicknamed "startuphau5"), the climate was perfect for long days spent programming their app, building the design and figuring out how to launch what they were then calling Picaboo. At this stage, before they had a product to sell, Spiegel and Murphy made tangible contributions—they were, after all, writing the code that would become the application—while Brown availed himself of the free food and beer provided by Spiegel. However, Brown made undeniable contributions even during this period, including coming up with the "Ghostface Chillah" logo. Brown directed Spiegel as he used Adobe In-Design to draw the logo. (Snapchat still uses a version of that logo.) Brown also began to draw up the terms of service, privacy policy, frequently asked questions and the potential offering language for the application in the iTunes store. According to court documents, Brown also came up with the name of the limited-liability corporation that became Snapchat's parent company, and in conversation all three agreed they would be equal partners in the venture. For now, however, the application was being developed under the aegis of Spiegel and Murphy's Future Freshman LLC, their old, failed start-up. This was, Brown believed, a technicality, and the fact that he had zero percent equity in his frat brothers' old business was irrelevant. At this point Murphy, in his communications with frat brothers about the new application, described it as the product of "Bobby, Evan, Reggie."
That would be the summer of Snapchat, what should have been remembered by all three men in their golden years as a magical season when they created an application that would literally change the world and that, for those few weeks, was known only to the three of them. To be young and so promising, and to sense and believe you are on the cusp of a transformative invention, to be working 15-hour days in harness to this dream and to actually be on the verge of realizing it—the application went live on iTunes on July 8, 2011—should have engendered generosity and fraternal love instead of what apparently came to pass: a betrayal, according to Brown, and disappointment in a friend, according to Spiegel.
By August, Brown had returned to Columbia, South Carolina, believing he was equal partner in the app, which he had, after all, conceived. While there, he began to write the patent application for Picaboo, because Spiegel was increasingly worried that another tech company could steal the idea. Brown put Murphy's name first in the patent application, followed by his own and then Spiegel's, an order that offended Spiegel. (The order of names on a patent application does not denote relative credit for the invention.) Spiegel expressed his anger by insisting that Brown speed up the patent process, an impossible task. Brown, sensing that Spiegel was becoming more distant, felt he needed to confirm the equity arrangement in their new business. He asked Spiegel if they could have a three-way call on August 16, 2011. Spiegel alerted Murphy, telling him, "Reggie wants to discuss equity."
Spiegel took the call from his bedroom, which his father had allowed him to renovate to his specifications with a white-leather king-size bed. Murphy was by the pool. Brown reiterated his understanding that he was an equal equity partner in the business, and he listed his many contributions. "He claimed that he had created the original idea," Murphy said in a legal deposition. "He had designed the ghost. And there were some disagreements about what that meant."
At one point in the conversation Brown said to Spiegel, "I directed your talents."
Spiegel hung up.
Murphy asked Brown what he wanted. "Thirty-three percent," Brown said.
"That's not gonna happen," Murphy said.
Spiegel and Murphy then changed the passwords on Snapchat's computer servers and accounts. They never spoke with Brown again.
Spiegel has by now written Brown out of the Snapchat genesis story, describing his first phone call with Murphy as the moment of inception, the moment he wanted to transform Future Freshman into "an app that would let people send photos that would disappear.… We had no idea that what we now know as ephemeral media would change the communication landscape. We just thought it might be cool to make photos disappear." In this alternative history, Snapchat is presented as the next in line of Future Freshman's products. In interviews, when pressed, Spiegel has gone so far as to say that a "friend" came to him with an idea, yet he refuses to acknowledge that as the foundational moment. It was his and Murphy's work writing the code and designing the product that was the true inspiration. In depositions Spiegel says Brown was working at Spiegel's father's house that summer in exchange for room and board and the valuable business experience gained at Spiegel's knee. Brown, after all, couldn't read computer code, so what value could he possibly have added?
Yet Brown's attorneys, in questioning Spiegel, have asked him, "Did you come up with the idea for deleting picture messages?"
"Uh, no."
"Did Bobby come up with the idea?"
"No, he did not."
"Who came up with the idea?"
Spiegel answered, "Reggie did."
Spiegel never graduated, but Brown did and has started business school at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business—never again will he be a mere English major. Spiegel has proven to be, in accordance with his worldview, very adept at "working the system" and now presides over the company viewed as the gravest threat to Facebook and Twitter and the best bet to be the next great social-networking empire. But amid recent criticism that he too cavalierly responded to a security breach in which more than 4 million user names and phone numbers were publicly posted, some question how skillfully he can play the CEO game if and when Snapchat goes public. He seems to have calculated every angle, including this one: Even a large settlement or adverse ruling that awards Brown hundreds of millions of dollars—perhaps the worst-case scenario in the event Spiegel loses in court—is still far less valuable than 33 percent of Snapchat.
Stanford University has become, if possible, even more start-up obsessed since Snapchat began its meteoric rise. Computer science became the school's most popular major during Spiegel and Brown's final year, and the number of computer science majors and students enrolled in introductory computer science classes has risen since then. In the summer of 2013, to better harness the value of its own offspring, the university announced it would invest in students' start-ups like a venture capital firm, through its incubator StartX.
If three frat brothers could work the system and create a business worth billions in a matter of months, then there must be more billion-dollar apples to be plucked on Stanford's verdant campus. If only, incoming freshmen think as they drive up Palm Drive, they can find the right idea.
This article originally appeared in the March issue of Playboy. Read more from our complete archives on iPlayboy.com.
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Best Things to Do in Tri-Cities on St. Patrick's Day 2013
St. Patrick's Day is Sunday, March 17, this year. There are a lot of fun things happening that weekend for all ages. Check them out here:St. Patrick's Church (Pasco) is holding
Tri-Cities Encounter 2013: A Place for Us
at Three Rivers Convention Center March 16-17. Both days are free and open to the public. Saturday features three art exhibits, live music all day including pipe bands and local Celtic band Skweeze the Weezle. Sunday is a concert from 2-5 p.m. featuring nationally-acclaimed sibling super group Celtic Spring along with performances by the Mid-Columbia Symphony, the Mid-Columbia Ballet and the Mid-Columbia Mastersingers.
Shamrock n Roll at O'Callahans
March 16 starting at 5 p.m. inside the Richland Shilo Inn -- an Irish buffet with corn beef & cabbage plus all the trimmings and mash. The party will have Leprechaun bowling, traditional Irish entertainment and games and the Secret Shamrock.
The Pub
with festivities beginning at 11 a.m., the party will climax in the evening with bagpipers and an appearance by The Jameson Girls.
The Three Rivers Runners often do a foot race for St. Patrick's Day, but this year the only event on their website is the
Leprechaun's Dash
for children under age 15. The run is one mile and begins at 9:30 a.m. starting at R.F. McDougalls. Visit the website to register or learn more.
The Tri-City Country Club
is holding a dinner March 16 from 5:30-10 p.m.
White Bluffs Brewing
is holding a celebration March 16 from noon to 8 p.m.
Kimo Sports Bar
St. Patty's Day Party on March 16 with special guests The Atomic City Roller Girls. No cover charge.
Other establishments that traditionally hold St. Patrick's Day celebrations but did not have anything listed on a website include:
Jack-Sons Sports Bar
R.F. McDougalls
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What does it mean to be 'assertively, self-consciously male' now?
Men are certainly under attack from all sides at the moment—whether it's the endless list of celebrity bad boys or the sociologists who have come to fame by pointing out the statistical impotence of men at-large. Apparently males these days watch porn 50 times a week, on average, play endless video games, fail out of school, and are increasingly anti-social.
Those of us with testosterone and a well-meaning heart, we don't have much room to maneuver. For a good number of guys in my cohort (40s, white, from supposedly forward-looking backgrounds), the double bind of manhood predates the most recent attacks. Our feminist moms told us to be just like them to be loved. For our dads, the idea of macho got lost in some encounter group somewhere (except for Burt Reynolds in Semi-Tough, when he is supposed to piss himself during a EST conference but sneaks in a catheder flask taped to his leg as back-up, which, ironically, I have a clear memory of going to see with my dad). So we just gave up on being macho.
If there is a gender war, men have just decided to gather up their marbles and go home. Virtual sex is better than real sex with a complex woman. Hanging with the boys over a beer and watching a game is better than getting your manhood wrapped around your eardrums. "Pass me the remote," is the mantra in response to getting kicked in the nuts.
So, The Good Men Project is about encouraging men to get their mojo back, to be proud of their manliness, to see good where we have been conditioned to be ashamed of our instincts, to ultimately define a new macho that does good in the world.
I am not debating the statistics about manhood. I realize that we are, in the majority, a group of Internet-obsessed masturbators with deep-seated emotional issues. I'm proud to be a member of that group.
No, my issue is that we collectively, male and female, are obsessed with the worst of the worst when it comes to men rather than the best of the best. An 18-year-old kid gets drunk and does something stupid and disgusting, but frankly no more stupid or disgusting than I did drunk when I was 18—and dare I say most guys and a lot of women, too? Yet because this kid has even the hint of celebrity—he was one of 75 hopefuls on the U.S. Ski development team—it leads the national news and blows up into an international story.
Image from A Conversation with Tim Hetherington
Meanwhile 18-year-old boys we all sent to Iraq and Afghanistan to fight our wars—wars that, arguably, we will never win—lay down their lives in silence. Those guys are macho in my book, for sure. We just choose not to focus on them.
"A real man doesn't lie or cheat or beat his chest, but stares down things that seem impossible—like flying at the speed of sound or walking on the moon—and doing them anyways," I recently wrote in a piece about astronauts, but I might as well have been referring to all men.
"The New Macho" is a guy who has an aggressive moral compass that prioritizes the things that he finds important—family, being honest, making a difference in the world. He goes all out to figure that out, yet he is also more apt to take risks "and stare down things that seem impossible."
"The New Macho" is a guy who has an aggressive moral compass that prioritizes the things that he finds important—family, being honest, making a difference in the world. He goes all out to figure that out, yet he is also more apt to take risks "and stare down things that seem impossible."
Let's take an easy category first: entrepreneurs.
Our economy is in a heap of trouble: untenable national debt, historical high rates of unemployment, stagnant growth. The one thing we still do best in the world is figure out new ideas and build huge, revolutionary businesses around them. We are still the world's best innovators.
If we are going to save ourselves economically, it's because of companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
These companies were all founded by men who believed in the power of their own ideas to transform the world in ways that no one else really thought possible. And it's their ideas that are most important. While Steve Jobs and Marc Zuckerberg are certainly huge personalities, their genius is in their innovation, not in their haircut or their editorials. One could even argue that the personalities of the male founders of huge companies tend to be neutral to negative. But the power of their product innovation is so great that they succeed despite themselves. They risk it all and stare down the impossible, proving themselves macho for sure. In the end, the personalities are not an intrinsic part of the business. The founder's fundamental insight into the market is.
Take Jobs, who suddenly-but-inevitably stepped down from his position as C.E.O of Apple and then tragically died after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer. In his New York Times piece, David Streitfeld quoted Jobs biographer, Alan Deutschman, as saying:
The big thing about Steve Jobs is not his genius or his charisma but his extraordinary risk-taking. Apple has been so innovative because Jobs takes major risks, which is rare in corporate America. He doesn't market-test anything. It's all his own judgment and perfectionism and gut.
Steve Jobs is the new macho.
Then think about the most well-known companies founded by female entrepreneurs: Martha, Oprah, Kate Spade, Gaga, Huffington Post, Mrs. Fields, Mary Kay. These are businesses built around a personality, even named after the founder. They aren't product innovations—magazines, handbags, cookies, cosmetics—as much as women who have successfully marketed an image of themselves. As such, they aren't as risky nor as significant in terms of changing the fundamentals of the marketplace.
Certainly one could argue that the workplace, venture capital, and particularly technology are all bastions of male sexism. Despite that, women like Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, and Sheryl Sandberg have played key roles in managing technology companies once they became huge. But not in starting them from scratch, when you have to believe you can walk on the moon because the whole world is telling you that you're insane.
Is it sexism that causes men to go where women have not yet? I don't think so. The Internet is a great equalizer. No one cares who the founder of a particular web company is. What they care about is whether or not the product works and solves a fundamental need. Again, people use Facebook despite hating Mark Zuckerberg, for the most part. And frankly, the really great companies are so great from the get-go that venture capital is hardly a roadblock. Google, Facebook, and the like took money only after they were massively successful.
If Mark Zuckerberg had been a woman, the world wouldn't have boycotted Facebook. If the product worked, we all would have used it—probably more than if an unlikeable guy was the founder. But no woman has stepped forward with a revolutionary idea that has turned into a multi-billion dollar transformative company. And my suspicion has to do with the risk-taking aspect of what it means to be male and macho in 2011.
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We are pleased to announce The Hans Wiehler Student Travel Award to be given to students and/or beginning researchers for attending the World Gesneriad Research Conference 2010 in Sarasota, FL, USA.
This fund has been established to promote participation and community among today's researchers and to foster scholarship in students of the family.
Awards will be issued on a competitive basis.
Application Deadline: 15 August 2010
To apply, send the following materials in a single PDF document to email@example.com with the attention line: HANS WIEHLER STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD.
1) Include your name, institutional affiliation, all contact information including address, telephone and email.
2) A 500 word or less description of why you should attend WGRC 2010. Be sure to include comments on your education and research goals and how attending WGRC 2010 will help advance these goals. Please sign the letter (and scan to PDF).
3) Your curriculum vitae, not to exceed two US letter size pages (CV's exceeding two pages will not be accepted).
4) Letter of recommendation from your major advisor, signed (scan and include in the single PDF).
Label the file exactly as done in the following example: John R. Clark would label his file Clark_JR_Wiehler_Travel_Fund_2010.pdf (i.e., last name, underscore, first and middle initials - no dots or spaces, underscore, Wiehler_Travel_Fund.pdf).
Applications submitted as multiple documents and/or in a different format (e.g., MS Word document) will not be reviewed with the exception for unavoidable technical limitations (e.g., no access to a scanner or program to assemble the single PDF document). In the latter case, contact the WGRC 2010 Registrar (email@example.com) well in advance of the deadline to make other arrangements.
Applications exceeding the specified length for description and CV will not be reviewed.
Review of applications will begin immediately after the deadline. Award recipients will be notified as soon as possible to expedite airline and hotel bookings as required. However, funds will not be issued until the conference - students will need to cover these costs in advance.
All applicants will be notified by email of their award status prior to the conference.
Thank you. We look forward to receiving your applications.
The WGRC 2010 Planning Committee
07 July 2010
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Colin Wyers finds players that exceeded PECOTA's WARP projection in 2010:
White Sox: SS Alexei Ramirez, +4.5 WARP. This might seem a bit of a surprise given Paul Konerko's career year (and Paulie is at +2.8), but the Cuban import has settled in to deliver an excellent second season at shortstop after getting moved across the bag in 2009, which shows up in WARP as well as in a variety of defensive metrics. Add in his getting some of his power back, and you've got a much better player.
WARP is:
Wins Above Replacement Player, level 1. The number of wins this player contributed, above what a replacement level hitter, fielder, and pitcher would have done, with adjustments only for within the season. It should be noted that a team which is at replacement level in all three of batting, pitching, and fielding will be an extraordinarily bad team, on the order of 20-25 wins in a 162-game season.
WARP is also listed on a player's PECOTA card. The PECOTA WARP listing is designed to correspond to WARP-1, not WARP-2 or WARP-3.