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Danica Patrick believes she has chance to win at Talladega
While many drivers will worry about the race Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway and how it could damage their seasons, Danica Patrick will look forward to her best attempt for a solid finish.
Patrick, 28th in the Sprint Cup standings in her rookie season, enjoyed her best race of the year in the season-opener at Daytona, where she became the first woman ever to win a pole for a Cup race and then finished eighth in the Daytona 500.
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Talladega, the only other high-banked superspeedway where teams must use restrictor plates to reduce horsepower, requires similar tactics with drivers needing to negotiate the draft — often thanks to the help of others — to get to the front.
Two of Patrick's four best finishes this year have come on restrictor-plate tracks. She crashed at Talladega in May but then finished 14th at Daytona in July.
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Patrick believes she's more prepared to run well in a restrictor-plate race now than she was at the start of the year.
"I felt really comfortable at Daytona, in general, but I think I'm realizing how important it is throughout the race to try things and practice taking runs and things like that and being a little bit more brave without worrying about what happens as a result and knowing that as long as you don't lose the draft, you can be set up for the end of the race," Patrick said.
At Daytona in February after she won the pole, Patrick's Stewart-Haas Racing team limited her practice in order to make sure she did not damage the car. And then in the race, she didn't make a move until the final lap, when she got shuffled back from third to eighth.
"You have to at least know what your car can do to get a run and get by somebody," Patrick said. "I'm more apt to practice that now in practice and in the race.""
She might not find many takers willing to practice all that much. Those who are in the thick of the Chase for the Sprint Cup probably won't put themselves in any perilous positions until the final laps.
"The reason (the Chase favorites) don't look forward to it is exactly why I do — because someone like me has more of a shot there, just like everybody else," Patrick said. "So they're in the Chase and have run really well and been fast all year. So when we get on more traditional tracks, that's where they're going to fall into place more often than not.
"But with superspeedways, it's a toss-up what's going to happen. So that's why it's fun for me because somebody like me has a chance."


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So you must have heard about jailbreaking by now. Maybe you already hopped right on the long-awaited iOS 6.1 jailbreak for iPhone 5, or maybe jailbreaking is just something you're vaguely aware of. Now is as good a time as any to dive in head first, and you should consider giving it a shot.
In buying an iProduct, you're accepting that its fate will be dictated by Apple. They control what kind of apps you install on your device, and which of the hardware functions you can exploit to their full potential. Want to install an app that Apple hasn't explicitly approved? Sorry. Want to use an app over 3G that's been designated for Wi-Fi? Nope. Want to tether your phone? Run applications in the background? Change your device theme? Install system-wide gestures? Anything that Apple hasn't approved and doesn't condone? Too bad.
Jailbreaking will free you from those bonds. Admittedly, Apple's watchful eye keeps you safe from messily coded apps that can crash your whole phone, and other craziness like that. But when you jailbreak—a completely legal thing to do—you gain entrance to a whole world of possibilities. It's a little wilder out there than it is inside the Apple company town, but as long as you're not an idiot, jailbreaking is an easy, safe, and fun adventure.
When you jailbreak or unlock a device, you're changing some fundamental aspects of the system software—you know, real low-level stuff. The tools are generally good, and if you follow directions carefully, you should be fine. But if something goes wrong you can suffer data loss, so back up first. Beyond that, Apple claims that jailbreaking voids your warranty. You can restore your device to remove evidence that it ever happened, but you're probably going to lose everything you haven't backed up in the process. That said, jailbreaking is totally legal for smartphones thanks to some DMCA exemptions. So just be careful and smart, and everything will be fine.
Jailbreaking your iPhone used to be really hard and complicated. Really, really hard and complicated. But these days it's as easy as a push of a button. Literally.
Thanks to a recently released jailbreak for iOS 6.1 that covers all iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches, you'll be able to jailbreak your device even with the freshest OS. In fact, you should make sure to have it.
The first step for jailbreaking anything—ever—is to back up your data first. Things can go wrong, and you don't want to lose everything. So make sure you sync to iTunes or iCloud before you get started. And if you want a really smooth transition, you might want to wipe your phone ahead of time. You don't have to, but it'll speed up the process.
- The Evasi0n Jailbreak tool for whatever OS your computer is running.
- The latest version of iTunes
- A 30 pin/Lightning cable. Whichever fits your device.
- An iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch that's working and not currently jailbroken (duh).
After you've backed up your device (really, you should back up your device) all you have to do is plug it into the computer and then run the downloaded jailbreak app. You'll get a dialog box with a button labelled "Jailbreak." Click it, and then just step away from the computer while the magic happens. Don't mess with anything while it's doing its thing. After a little bit, your phone will reboot and boom, you are jailbroken.
You'll notice you've got a new app on your homescreen, the Cydia Store. This is where all the jailbreak magic happens. In the Cydia Store, you can find a wealth of apps that didn't/couldn't make it into the real App Store. These apps will let you do all kinds of stuff from changing the way your lockscreen works to changing the way your icons and UI look, along with all kinds of other functionality. And don't worry, the normal App Store and normal Apps still work too.
If you're looking for places to start exploring, the ModMyi community and Reddit's r/jailbreak are good places to start. You'll want to keep in mind that Cydia doesn't vet its apps the same way Apple does, but dangerous trash will appear as such to the keen eye, so there's not much to worry about. And when in doubt, just do some Googling. There is a lot of info out there, and plenty of people who will be glad to give you some advice if you ask nicely.
So you want to go back to jail. Can't hack it on the outside after all these years? That's understandable; jailbreaking isn't for everyone. Fortunately, going back isn't too hard.
- The first step, again, is to back up your device. Especially if you've done anything during your jailbreak time that you don't want to lose.
- Connect your device to your computer, go into iTunes, find it on the left-hand bar, and click restore. This will get rid of all your jailbreak-age and give you a fresh, clean device.
- Restore from back-up. If you're going to be taking your device to the Apple store or want ALL jailbreak evidence gone for whatever reason, you'll want to restore from the backup you did before you jailbroke (obviously). If that's not a big deal, you can restore right from your jailbroken backup. It'll bring over some old garbage jailbreak data that doesn't work anymore, but other than that, the restore will work just fine.
Jailbreaking is all about taking the training wheels off and getting in touch with your inner tinkerer. If the prospect of getting some new functionality at the cost of a few very minor scrapes and bruises sounds like fun to you, get to it. If it sounds like a pain, it's probably not going to be worth your trouble.
If you've got any tips, do's and don'ts, places to start, or MUST HAVE jailbreak apps, drop that goodness down below. It's a big wide world out there, and trading tips is the best way to see all the good parts. Happy jailbreaking!


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If you think it is far-fetched to compare Surrey to Brooklyn — that born-again and ultra-trendy New York City suburb that has become synonymous with hipster funk and gentrification — think again.
Because if ever there was an analogy between Canada's fastest-growing city and the poor-boy-on-the block borough that was Brooklyn, it is this.
Today, unbridled growth and city-to-suburb migration are transforming both, as more and more renters and buyers, and businesses, follow the dual magnets of affordability and open spaces, snapping up homes, townhouses and new condos, and spending their money in their newly adopted communities, frequenting the services and shops that are helping create new economic infrastructures to replace those that once relied on the port, in Brooklyn's case, and agriculture, in Surrey's.
Both cities have also sloughed off their tarnished reputations — having long been spurned by urban elites for being the repository of crime and the low-income, uneducated, working-class masses — and are embracing rejuvenation and respectability with a new middle-class ethos.
When you look at Brooklyn and Surrey, it is clear something's happening out there in North America suburbia, whether it's on the bustling East River in New York, or right here on the mighty Fraser.
The burbs are getting back their mojo.
In Brooklyn, the century-old streets are lined with a new generation of transplants frequenting the local galleries and restaurants, the museums and music academies, the theatres and parks and colleges and universities. They are wandering the botanical gardens, craft breweries and the wildlife refuge and, of course, they are making Coney Island the chic place to play.
A story in The Guardian last fall noted that Brooklyn has been "hogging the culinary limelight" of late, and that Bon Appetit's Best New Restaurants list included two in Brooklyn and none in Manhattan.
Simply put, Brooklyn is suddenly cool.
And Surrey is heading in the same direction. While it may not yet be considered hip to pull up stakes and head to Surrey in quite the same way it is for Brooklyn, it's getting that way.
The new Surrey City Centre is an architectural jewel, and stunning new buildings like the planned new city hall, the civic library, the newly expanded hospital, the SFU campus, pedestrian-friendly plazas, along with vast tracts of industrial, agricultural and park land and all that SkyTrain-friendly and wallet-tolerant housing, have become a collective carrot for entrepreneurs and young singles and families looking to flee Vancouver for room to move at a reasonable price point.
The evidence is incontrovertible: Recent media reports indicate that many businesses are decamping from Vancouver to Surrey, including the RCMP E-division headquarters, and a number of businesses from the Punjabi Market at 49th and Main. Ten new towers, along with a five-star hotel and performing arts complex, all part of $1 billion worth of construction and residential and business development in 2012 alone, are a bricks-and-mortar testimony to Surrey's suburban renaissance.
And the people are coming, 1,000 a month, flocking over the bridges south of the Fraser eager to embrace Surrey's affordable housing and lower taxes, free and plentiful parking, vibrant arts and sports communities, the diverse and widespread shopping, and a no-nonsense forward-thinking mayor focused more on meaningful growth and cleaning up the streets than planting peas in time for summer.
Housing, of course, is the greatest community litmus test of all, and Surrey is increasingly where prospective Metro Vancouver renters and buyers are finding their dollar stretches farther, where they can get more space — in a condo or townhouse, or in that coveted single-family home with a yard — for that rent cheque or mortgage payment.
According to recent statistics published in this newspaper, the price of the average detached house on Vancouver's eastside is $1.08 million. For a similar house in central Surrey? $579,000. Townhouse more your style? A 1,200-to-1,400-square-foot, three-bedroom townhouse in Surrey is $312,000. If you can find something for that price in East Vancouver, it will be a condo with one bedroom and half the square footage.
You might say that Surrey, an under-40-minute scenic train ride to and from the downtown Vancouver business core, is becoming everything Vancouver once was, which means it is no longer the ugly step-sister bedroom community relegated to the outer limits and the never-ending butt of jokes. Oh sure, there are issues — five murders in January, for one, and all that open space working against a sense of singular community, for another — but the growing pains are to be expected when your population of half a million is poised to surpass Vancouver's by 2040.
Could it be that Surrey's official motto, The Future Lives Here, might well be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
How long, one wonders, before Vancouver — which is increasingly an unfriendly collection of expensive self-contained enclaves with no central heartbeat and a fractious, misdirected community plan — becomes the suburb.


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The Geotechnical Soil Laboratories are a comprehensive testing facility that includes both standard (e.g. BS1377) and specialised test equipment and forms part of the BGS laboratory research facilities. In-house designed equipment simplifies and improves standard commercially available apparatus.
Soil testing facilities include:
The shrinkage limit test is very rarely carried out in the UK partly because the British Standard test methods use mercury, but the shrinkage limit is an important parameter when investigating the volume change of clay and mudstone. The shrinkage limit apparatus, developed at BGS, does not use mercury.
Specimen dimensions are measured with a laser rangefinder for the calculation of volume change. Weight is measured simultaneously from which water content is calculated. Shrinkage limit is calculated from the plot of water content versus volume. A prototype was first developed in 1994 and an automated shrinkage limit test and an automated version, SHRINKiT, is nearing completion.
The 3D swell strain apparatus was developed at BGS by adapting a design taken from the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM). The apparatus measures the orthogonal strains of a cube specimen of clay or mudstone immersed in water and subject to swelling. From the data the overall volumetric strain is calculated and, if required, the strain anisotropy. The BGS design is simple in concept and, whilst fulfilling the criteria of ISRM specification, does not require leak-proof seals for the strain gauges armatures illustrated in the ISRM method.
BGS's automated 1D swelling pressure apparatus was developed by combining a small triaxial load frame with an oedometer consolidation cell. The swelling of the flooded specimen soil is sensed by a transducer and an electronic feedback system initiates a vertical force sufficient to counteract the swelling strain is applied via the load frame motor. The load is logged and the result are summarised in a plot of swelling pressure versus time. The test fulfils the specifications of the British Standards swelling pressure test. Clay-rich formations are capable of exerting considerable stresses on foundations and services when exposed to an increase in water content from the desiccated state. The 1D swelling pressure test enables the susceptibility of these formations to be determined.
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Fire pits offer a functional ambience to the North Atlanta landscape while adding to the backyard's use. Fire pits can add a focal point to your landscape design. Outdoor Fire Pits are a wonderful addition to your outdoor living space adding the ambience of a flickering flame. American Outdoor Living can construct your fire pit with stone or brick. Fire pits can be constructed with surrounding built in seats if desired.
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ITS Client Services is the primary point of contact for technology questions, problems, and issues. This service is available to all UIS faculty, staff, and enrolled students.
Contact Information and Hours
All forms of contact are available during these hours, with phone support beginning at 7:30am Monday – Friday:
- 8:30 AM to Midnight – Monday through Thursday
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ITS Client Services is closed on campus holidays.
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Please see our Help Desk Services webpage for detailed information about the services we provide. ITS Client Services also maintains a current listing of supported software.
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Updating an SI policy
You must notify BWC regarding any changes to your self-insuring (SI) policy, such as canceling coverage or company ownership changes.
You must notify us within 30 days if there have been changes that may affect the administration of your program as stated in Ohio Administrative Code (OAC) 4123-19-03 (M). This includes ownership changes, subsidiary additions or removals, and mergers or acquisitions. There is no form needed.
Your must notify our self-insured department, in writing, of any changes within the required time frame. Do not wait until your yearly renewal. However, if there are changes to your policy that you've already notified BWC about, include this information with your renewal materials.
Canceling your SI coverage
If your company does not plan to renew its self-insuring status, you must notify us in writing. There is no form needed.
Important: If you still have employees operating in Ohio and cancel your self-insured policy, you must obtain BWC workers' compensation (state-fund) coverage.
In addition, as a cancelled self-insured risk, you must continue administration of all SI claims pursuant to OAC 4123-19-05.
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Ganz to Install Electronic Navigation System for Visually Impaired in MBTA [1]
Imagine being blindfolded and then turned loose to navigate the complex Boston subway system. Your plight might recall The Man Who Never Returned, that classic Kingston Trio song about a guy named Charlie whose fate on the subway was to "ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston." Now imagine you can never take off that blindfold. That's the real-life predicament of any visually impaired person who enters a busy subway station, and University of Massachusetts Amherst Professor Aura Ganz has a brilliant solution.
Called PERCEPT, Ganz' invention is a seeing-eye directory for the blind and visually impaired which will provide them with verbal directions, electronic signs, and a virtual information booth for finding their way around the subway station.
Ganz, a faculty member in the UMass Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, has received a two-year, $238,321 grant from the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) to install a prototype of her electronic navigation system for the visually impaired in the Arlington Metro Station.
When in place, PERCEPT can be utilized by any visually impaired individual equipped with a smartphone, a special Interactive Metro Spaces (IMS) application loaded with pre-set navigation instructions, and a near field communication (NFC) set of standards that allows smartphones to communicate with the PERCEPT NFC tags deployed throughout the station.
As Ganz explains, "Independent navigation through unfamiliar indoor spaces is beset with barriers for the visually impaired. A task that is trivial and spontaneous for the visioned population has to be planned and coordinated with other individuals for the visually impaired."
Independent sight-impaired individuals typically receive training from an orientation and mobility instructor in order to accommodate themselves to buildings they need to visit regularly, but subway stations are much more complex spaces. Unlike an office building, a subway station has no general flow or layout. Moreover, the subway layout can change, depending on time of day. For example, gates open at rush hour are closed at other times. Escalators move up sometimes and then down at others.
Signage is usually placed out of sight from those with low-functioning vision. The high level of ambient noise in the underground atmosphere makes it harder for the visually impaired to use their sense of hearing and detect openings, follow the flow of traffic, and generally navigate through space. Indeed, as noted by the MBTA and the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind, no deployed technological solutions exist that provide accurate and affordable navigation instructions in subway systems.
Not until now, that is.
As Ganz has written, "We will develop a prototype of an accurate and affordable navigation system for the visually impaired in subway stations. The prototype will be piloted in Arlington Metro Station of the MBTA and will be initially tested with visually impaired users as volunteers."
The proposed system is innovative because it incorporates several new paradigms. First, it features "interactive spaces," which relate to users in real time and accounts for their changing location throughout the station. Next, PERCEPT is operated by a gesture-based user interface on the smartphone that enables visually impaired users to interact with the space in the station. Finally, the system will offer detailed navigation instructions with safe navigation fundamentals.
When PERCEPT is in place at the Arlington Metro, NFC tags will be deployed at specific landmarks determined by an orientation and mobility instructor. Ganz cites the navigation experience of a hypothetical user, named Alice, to illustrate how PERCEPT will work in Arlington Station. Alice carries her smartphone that includes the IMS application. After choosing the destination (e.g. inbound), the IMS app will provide navigation instructions, either when the smartphone touches the NFC tag or when she swipes its screen for Next instructions.
Once Alice reaches the entrance to the station, she places her phone over the NFC tag located there. When the phone scans the tag, the app says: "Your current starting station is Arlington Main entrance, please proceed down the stairs along the right-side wall. When you get to the bottom of the stairs, scan the card on the wall to your immediate right, or swipe Next."
Alice proceeds down the stairway and identifies the next NFC tag located at the bottom of the stairs. She places her phone over the tag, and the app says: "Turn left and follow your right-hand wall past the elevator until you reach the opening and then swipe Next for further instructions."
After Alice identifies the opening, she swipes Next on her phone and the app says: "Continue to follow your right-hand wall into the opening. This is a long hallway that will lead into the main lobby. Swipe Next when reaching the end of the hall." In this way, the navigation system will continue to direct Alice to her destination.
Before being put into use, the new navigations system will be thoroughly tested by a total of 10 visually-impaired subjects recruited by Carole Wilson, certified orientation and mobility specialist with more than 25 years of experience from the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind in Boston.
As Ganz observes, "PERCEPT can significantly alleviate the challenges introduced above."
The PERCEPT system was developed with the cooperation of the Massachusetts Orientation and Mobility division of the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind using approximately $400,000 in funding from the National Institute of Health/National Eye Institute. (February 2014)


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Taxing: City residents get hit first
Two things you can be certain of: a year without tax increases is like hell freezing over, and no matter how much you mangle your similes, death only diverts the tax bill to your heirs.
The government's dig into citizens' pockets usually starts July 1. This year, Virginians get a slight reprieve until September 1, thanks to the extended special session of the General Assembly.
But the City of Charlottesville had its tax act together, so citizens started paying more July 1 for:
- Trash stickers. Didn't they just go up last year? Yup, and now it costs another 5 cents for a 13-gallon sticker ($1.05) and 10 cents for a 32-gallon bag ($2.10).
- Smokes. The city bumps its cigarette tax from 12 cents to 25 cents. Don't forget that the state also is upping the price from 2.5 cents, the nation's lowest, to 20 cents a pack September 1, and to 30 cents a pack July 1, 2005.
- False security-system alarms. Mainly from businesses, the cost of a faulty alarm system calling the cops goes from $50 to $100.
- E-911. One of those extra charges on your phone bill that you're never quite sure what the hell it's for, but they add up to a sizable chunk of the bill. The E-911 fee goes from $1.04 to $1.50 per access line.
- Large item pickup. Once free twice a year, now it'll cost you $25 to get that old refrigerator or ratty sofa hauled away.
The Commonwealth of Virginia requests the pleasure of you paying more September 1 for:
- Retail. The sales tax goes up 1/2 cent, from 4.5 percent to 5 percent. (That includes the 1 percent that the locality keeps.)
- Cigarettes. See above.
- Property transfers. As if the cost of buying a house isn't high enough, tack on an increased recording fee that goes from 15 cents to 25 cents per $100. And if you have a mortgage, you'll get hit again to record the deed of trust. Oh, and expect Albemarle and Charlottesville to bump their recordation fees, too, to one third of what the state charges. Sellers get to pay more, too: $1 per $1,000.
- Vital records: Birth, death, marriage, divorce– all these just got more expensive in Virginia by an extra two bucks, if you want a copy, and that started July 1.
- Seniors lose the $12,000 deduction they were getting regardless of income. Starting on their 2004 taxes, they have to pass a means test.
But wait, there are savings, too
- The state's four percent food tax slowly goes away– or at least, goes down– half a percentage point at a time, starting July 1, 2005, 2006, and 2007.
- Income tax personal exemption goes up a whopping $100, from $800 to $900 starting in 2006– although with increased revenues, taxpayers may see that tax break a bit earlier– January 1, 2005.
- Married individuals get a break, too. Their standard deduction goes $5,000 to $6,000 January 1, 2005.


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Today is a truly GRAND life in the nest giveaway. I'll cut to the chase. We are giving away today {through Monday} a Paulina Quintana designer crib bedding. Over $250 value. See giveaway rules below.
The crib set includes a crib skirt, bumper pad, fitted jersey sheet and crib quilt. All awarded to one lucky winner. {mod blue + brown print.}
You may know her name from the diaper bag featured in In Style magazine. Or maybe you've seen the simple, yet fashionable kids clothing line featured on the cover {and within} numerous parenting magazines.
Paulina Quintana designs with impeccable style. She pairs colors together to create perfectly tasteful combinations.
Paulina's story is unlike many others. After graduating from UCLA, she set off to create her own children's line of clothing. Quintana is a children's advocate in her hometown of Los Angeles, California. She combines her Art + Teaching degrees by aiding in educational programs for Latino children. With her Chilean roots and personable character, she exudes modern day heroism.
On top of it all, she stays up to date on growing trends within the fashion industry and designs with children in mind. Some styles include: blankets, bibs, diaper covers, hats, tanks, short and long sleeve t-shirts, leggings, pants, onesies, union suits, and dresses. Some of our favorite Paulina Quintana products...
Don't you wish she made adult clothing too? Everything looks so comfortable + stylish.
Paulina Quintana will be launching her own ecommerce site {you can buy directly from her!} this month. If you email firstname.lastname@example.com you will receive 15% off your entire order.
If you live in the LA or NYC area, she has her own stores {lucky you!} that you can visit in Silver Lake or the East Village respectively. I am jealous.
Or visit one of these online boutiques to find Paulina Quintana product {more retailers on her site}:
Thank you Paulina Quintana!
[life in the nest giveaway rules:]
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*please only enter once.
*entry will be open until midnight PST Monday. {comments posted after this will not be considered.}
*at this time, we can't guarantee international shipping of giveaway prizes. {do you have a friend with a domestic address? is he/she nice enough to accept the package for you? comment away.
*winner will be announced on Tangled and True on Tuesday morning.
Don't forget to check in Tuesday morning for the winner!
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We turn our attention this time to Accidental Records, the eclectic indie (as in independent) label founded by Matthew Herbert...
Who are you?
We are Accidental Records, a record label who specialise in weird and wonderful music, from wonky techno to kooky jazz to avant garde pop. Without getting too comfortable on our soapbox, we like to bring a little sparkle and integrity to a scene that could do with a little more.
Why did you start Accidental Records? Give us a potted and personal history...
Matthew (Herbert) had been releasing records on a range of underground dance labels in the 90s, and as the copyright reverted back to him, he realised that he wanted to be in control of how his releases were handled, and so Accidental was born. As time went on, he came across a number of artists who he found creative and exciting (and who share a similar ethos), and offered to put out their music-great artists such as Brooks, Mugison, Mara Carlyle, Max De Wardener, The Soft Pink Truth and other alumni through to our current roster - Matthew Herbert (obviously), Finn Peters, Setsubun Bean Unit, Eska, Micachu & the Shapes and The Invisible.
Video: The Matthew Herbert Big Band, 'Turning Pages'
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We see that you're based in South London - New Cross/Lewisham to be precise. DiS grew up there. Please tell me that it's gotten better since I left...
Accidental has always had a home in South London-most of our staff (and current artists!) have called this corner of the world home. In the last year or two the area has definitely improved-obviously the Amersham Arms and others have upped their game and are booking some great acts, alongside venues like the Montague Arms and Goldsmiths, but there is very much a creative resurgence in the area in around Deptford with lots of exciting music, art and fashion types setting up a more permanent space here. We, for one, share space with a great gallery.
You're a relatively new label, therefore, we assume you think you can teach some of the old Record Company dogs new tricks. Is that so?
Accidental has been around since 2000, so we're not that young! But the label did have a period of hibernation when Matthew went on a year long global tour, have a baby etc. But, in answer to your question, by being quite small and flexible, we are better placed to move with the times and lead the charge...
Browsing through your well-swish website, we see that you've got lots-of-records-selling Roisin Murphy on your label; how the hell did that happen?
Matthew (label boss) Herbert and Roisin are old friends ever since he remixed some of Moloko (Roisin's former band, of 'Sing It Back' fame)'s music way back when. Roisin liked his approach and the results so much that she got him to produce her debut solo album, 'Ruby Blue'. We had the pleasure of releasing it in a few out of the way places, like Japan.
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Do you have a secret uber-rich benefactor? Like a Russian Oligarch? If not, how do you manage to release records and not throw money down a large, dark hole at the same time?
We prefer to think of it as a King Midas thing, where if you throw enough into the hole, eventually it'll yield a fine harvest. Or something... Abramovich has been spotted leaving our office on a couple of occasions. It was a surprise to us when he announced his passion for wonky electronica!
What's the most exciting thing about your label (in your opinion) at this moment in time?
That we're releasing some of the most musically exciting sounds out there, without conforming to any trends whatsoever . We release music we love, and we hope that you will too.
Where do you think that you and record companies will be in five years time?
Record labels are already very different beasts from the creatures that they were a year ago, let alone five. Record labels are all trying to tap into alternative ways of making money from music, but so are other brands and companies, like Bacardi working with Groove Armada. To be honest, it's a confusing mess, but the plan is for labels like us to helping artists with a bit of a vision to get their art out to the world through any medium, whether film, music, or I don't know, cooking! We released a Herbert record called Plat Du Jour that featured, amongst others, Heston Blumenthal.
What tips would you give people who want to release records, start a label, start a revolution, etc?
Do It Yourself! Avoid majors for definite-they become more and more redundant as time goes on. The closer you are to your fans and friends the better, as they'll support you through thick and thin if you stay true to your vision. In many ways things haven't changed in that respect. "Build it and they will come", to paraphrase Kevin Costner.
Seven inches or digital downloads?
Why choose?
Tell us a secret. Note: we will tell everyone.
We're actually a front for the Russian Secret Service, recruiting from Goldsmiths.
Point your browser at www.accidentalrecords.com for more information on this ace little label and their releases. Matthew Herbert's second big band album, There's Me And There's You, is out now, and he's performing at The Royal Festival Hall on November 21st as part of the London Jazz Festival.


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text: Movie – This new DVD is the definitive life story of Bob Marley, the musician, revolutionary, and legend. It is the story of the man from his humble beginnings in the Jamaican slums to his rise to international superstardom. Over 30 years after his death, Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music. He is credited for helping spread Jamaican music to the worldwide audience. Working with official rights to the music and access to Marley's family and friends, Oscar-winning documentarian Kevin Macdonald creates a thorough account of Bob's life. The film features rare footage, never before seen performances, previously unreleased music, and revelatory interviews with the people that knew him best. His death, at age 36 in 1981, does not dominate the movie. Instead, the message of hope and freedom from oppression for people everywhere is the theme, as much as the great music. Marley's music and imagery was popular during the protests in the Middle East and Africa and at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. Bob's album Legend is the second-longest charting album in the history of Billboard magazine's record-keeping. Marley is an impressive and thoughtful portrait that will remain one of my favorite documentaries.


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Moving time always brings about my most creative, disgusting, and occasionally accidental-genius meals, so this
is all about using up the random ingredients in the fridge. Breakfast has been a desperate attempt to finish up all my various protein powders. I didn't realize I was such a whey protein ho?…
protein waffles topped with coconut butter, almond butter, brasil nut butter, and suga free maple syrup!
After breakfast, I read for a while, packed more, and then hit the gym. Since studying for my personal training certification, I have realized that I need to change up my lifting workouts! I always was aiming for high weight, low reps in order to get stronger and build more muscle, but now I am understanding the importance of having days that are aimed at muscular endurance. It was so much fun to do something new(ish) at the gym!
Foot Injury Friendly Lifting Workout
If possible, do each pair of exercises by alternating sets. AKA, do a set of 15 reps of one exercise, then a set of 15 reps of the other exercise, and repeat 5 times. Pick a weight that you can complete the full 15 reps.
- Bench press and Leg extension machine
- Lat pull down and Hamstring flexion machine (where you are on your stomach and pull your feet back)
- Back extensions holding weight plate and tricep raises holding weight plate
After that workout I was ready for lunch! Lindsay inspired me a while ago to use broccoli slaw mixed with canned tuna, greek yogurt, and spices to make a healthy salad. This has turned into a go to meal that is easy, quick, healthy, and satisfying both physically and mentally. The possibilities are endless!
The Go-To Lunch Salad
Recipe: Serves 1 – high protein, low carb, grain free
- the protein: canned tuna or sardines or salmon
- the sauce: 1 tbsp mayo + 1/2 cup greek yogurt
- the veggies: my favorite is broccoli slaw + chopped red bell pepper + diced onion. or any salad greens, sprouts, shaved carrots, tomatoes, etc.
- the spices: my favorite combo is curry powder, salt, pepper, raisins, and a splash of red wine vinegar and worchesire sauce. or mustard, honey, and a dash of red wine vinegar with slivered almonds. or lemon juice, lemon pepper, honey, a pinch of cumin, and a dash of white wine vinegar.
Dinner was left over chicken breast and roasted sweet potato with the a green bean salad on the side. I had this recipe pinned for months now and realized it was the perfect opportunity to use up the rest of my blue cheese and make a dent in my walnut oil and walnut stash. I was not expecting it to be fabulous – but it was. So much so that I immediately made another batch for tomorrow!
green bean salad with walnut oil, black walnuts, and blue cheese
Recipe: Serves 2
slightly adapted from cooking spree
- 1 bag of green beans
- 1 1/2 tbsp walnut oil
- 1/4 cup black walnuts, chopped
- handful of blue cheese, crumbled
- salt, to taste
Directions – Her directions are totally different than mine and will probably yield tastier beans, but I wanted to make this quickly. Add the beans to a large bowl with a drizzle of water, cover, and microwave until softened, about 3 minutes. Drain the water. Add the oil, salt, and blue cheese and toss so that the beans are evenly covered. Sprinkle with the chopped walnuts and enjoy!
And we mustn't forget dessert….
Clearly, I can't contain my excitement.
Recipe to come… 😉


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Andrew received the Steve Cutway Accessibility Award for for his passion to create an environment where persons with disabilities are able to access a full, enriching and transformative Queen's experience. Over the past 10 years, Mr. Ashby's work for students, staff and faculty living with disabilities has been of the highest quality. As a person living with a disability himself, he fully appreciates the significance of being able to work and learn at Queen's in a way that takes into account dignity, independence, integration, and equality of opportunity.
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Her happy place? Is the drive I take home every time I pick her up from work. Her happy place is the route my dad used to drive me around to cheer me up or make me fall asleep at night. Her happy place is one of my happy places.
When someone asked me about my happy place in front of her. I lied. I said "Having a midnight skate session during the full moon with the wind blowing behind me." Which is true and not true. My current happy place? Thinking back to that time when we were laying in my bed, going through my ipods pictures and videos. We were like that for an hour maybe and I was happy. I had her in my arms and I was happy. That is my happy place. I could never tell her that because she doesn't belong to me.She never really did.
Caring for someone when you shouldn't. How do I stop? I know she will NEVER be mine anymore. I won't interfere with her relationship anymore. I can't. not again.


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The Berlin Philharmonic, which has won more international awards – including nine Grammys – than any other German symphony orchestra, was formed in 1882 by a group of Berlin amateur musicians. Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Grieg were among its first guest conductors. Its home since 1963 has been the Philharmonie near the Tiergarten. The Berlin Philharmonic enjoys global renown as pioneers of the CD era (under Herbert von Karajan) and as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador (under Sir Simon Rattle).
The Bavarian State Orchestra, which plays for the state opera and the state ballet, is Munich's oldest orchestra, with its roots in the Munich court orchestra of the 16th century. A first opera performance in 1653, four Wagner premieres and the introduction of the Munich Opera Festival in 1875 are just three illustrations of its distinguished history. The orchestra's current general music director is American conductor Kent Nagano, who will be succeeded by Kirill Petrenko in 2013.
The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1946 by war refugees, among them former orchestral musicians from Prague. Joseph Keilberth, who had himself worked in Prague, became the orchestra's first chief conductor. From the inaugural concert onwards, he set a musical standard that far exceeded expectations in a town of only 70,000 people. The orchestra gave its first performance abroad in 1949, was invited to perform in the USA in 1954 and to date has over 100 concerts in Japan to its name.
Founded in 1949, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra has been named one of the world's finest orchestras on several occasions. It owes much of its reputation to the Musica Viva contemporary music festival founded by K.A. Hartmann and innumerable first performances of new works. High-profile chief conductors such as Eugen Jochum, Rafael Kubelik, Sir Colin Davis, Lorin Maazel and the current incumbent Mariss Jansons have always guaranteed music of the highest quality.
The NDR Symphony Orchestra, Radio Hamburg's inhouse orchestra, was established in 1945. By 1950 it was making its first guest appearance abroad. Big-name chief conductors such as Klaus Tennstedt, Günter Wand, John Eliot Gardiner, Christoph Eschenbach and Christoph Dohnanyi in turn maintained consistently high standards. The orchestra regularly performs not only in the Laeiszhalle but also at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and in concert series in Lübeck, Kiel and Wismar. Its new home will be the Elbe Philharmonic Hall.
The Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, which later became the Hessen Radio Symphony Orchestra, was established in 1929. Even in the early days, it was strongly committed to contemporary music, giving the first performance of works by Hindemith, Weill, Schoenberg, Strauss and Bartók, and resolutely continuing this tradition after the Second World War. Thanks to the orchestra's long-serving chief conductor Eliahu Inbal and his current successor Paavo Järvi, the music of Bruckner and Mahler has also been given great prominence in Frankfurt.
The history of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra dates back to 1945, when the then American-run Stuttgart Radio acquired its own orchestra. In addition to high-calibre chief conductors such as Sergiu Celibidache, Sir Neville Marriner and Sir Roger Norrington, there have been many famous guest conductors including the composers Stravinsky, Boulez and Penderecki. The Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra regularly performs at the Schwetzingen Festival and has frequently travelled to Asia, its 2010 tour being its ninth visit.
The orchestra was established in 1923 and began working with the recently launched local radio station the following year. In 1946 it became the MDR Radio Orchestra, one of whose functions was to play for the former East Germany's DEFA films. The orchestra has enjoyed a glittering history, performing premieres of works by Weill, Dessau, Penderecki and Stockhausen and receiving numerous awards for its recordings. Today the MDR Symphony Orchestra can be heard at the Gewandhaus concert hall, the MDR Summer of Music and around the city of Leipzig.
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I have almost 2500 automated sources sitting on MyHeritage.com generated by their extraordinary Record Search function. Basically, all I had to do was upload my family tree and voila! I have a huge number of original sources to process. This just adds to the pile of other unfinished genealogical challenges I have stacked up waiting for my attention. I realize that I am far from unique. Almost everyone I talk to in the genealogical community has some unfinished pile of something or another to worry about.
What saves me from paralysis is focusing on one task at a time. I use to do lists, not to give me daily goals, but to remind myself of all of the unfinished projects. A good example is the scanning of the thousands of negatives and photos I received indirectly from my Great-grandmother. I could easily spend all day for weeks scanning and labeling these images. But, I am forced by other commitments to do the work piecemeal. So what I do is dedicate a full day once a week or so to doing this one task. Even though some weeks, such as this one, when I am in St. George, Utah, I cannot spend any time on the project, I still have one day a week where that project is a priority and so when I get back home, I pick up the work where I left off. Scanning and labeling images has become the background to everything else I do.
One trick I have found, is using my own family files for examples in teaching classes. When I teach a class about FamilySearch.org's Family Tree program, I use the time in the instruction to edit the entries in my own family online and add more sources. Surprisingly, I make quite a bit of headway in editing the entries simply by using them as examples every week in my classes.
Presently, one of my major time consuming projects is preparing PowerPoint presentations for classes at Expos and conferences. I find this to be extremely time consuming, but by dedicating blocks of time to this effort, I can begin to make headway. Sometimes, with deadlines, I have to abandon all other activities to spend all my time with preparation. This could be frustrating, but it becomes less so, if I work steadily on the PowerPoint projects and try to stay undistracted by other activities. Fortunately, I can stay current with email and blog posts with my portable devices and use odd hours when I am waiting in lines or for appointments to keep up-to-date.
As the amount of genealogical information and data piles up, I have resorted to computer-like filtering processes to keep from getting buried in the non-essential. I use news aggregators, such as Google Reader, to give me an overview of the blog stream and I do the same thing with email. I use an email aggregator so that all my email addresses come to the same place for review. These same apps work on my iPad and iPhone so I can see email at odd times and places as I mentioned. Sometimes, if the piles get too large, you just have to cut your losses and dump a huge amount of input as read so you can, in essence, start over again the next day. For information on news aggregators see Wikipedia:News aggregator.
Like many, who have done research for years, I have a huge pile of boxes with family documents, photographs and an endless series of papers from old scrapbooks to letters. The boxes seem to defy organization. So last summer and again this coming summer, I intend to hire one or more of my grandsons to scan documents and enter metadata about the scanned documents. Fortunately, all of my grandchildren have grown up with computers and I find this to be an opportunity to help them appreciate genealogy also.
One of the things I can't do anything about is the overload of information coming over the Internet. It is sort of like processing ore in an open pit mine; only a very small percentage of the overburden is valuable ore, but you still have to dig through the whole pile. It seems like days will go by when there is nothing I am really interested in reading, but suddenly there are significant shifts and I am spending all my time just trying to keep up with the flow of newsworthy stories. It would help if all of the genealogy companies didn't wait until the same conferences to announce their new programs, but they do them all at once and I end up scrambling to keep up with the latest changes. In some rare cases, the vendors will send me new material in advance so I can write about it beforehand and be ready to release the announcement at the time the product is introduced.
Another aspect of genealogy that is changing rapidly is the availability of online sources. I have lately begun expecting records that I need to research to be online and this is becoming more and more common. Keeping up with the flood of newly digitized records is almost impossible, but the key here is knowing how to search for new records. Sometimes, huge online collections go entirely unnoticed by the genealogical community because they are outside the mainstream of their focus. For example, most genealogists have a tendency to ignore or be unaware of Trove the website of the National Library of Australia. That site alone has over 327 million Australian and online resources:books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more. OK, so how do you find out about all this stuff, much less keep track of everything? The answer is quite complex.
Part of the answer is learning how to turn it all off. Sometimes we forget there is a power switch on all of the devices. Keeping up can be addictive so it is good idea to be acutely aware of that possibility and try to maintain balance. You do need to have a life outside of the electronics and genealogy.


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Mike Nichols (Charlie Wilson's War) will helm a remake of High And Low/The Ransom (trailer above), a detective film by legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, the film that inspired The Magnificent Seven). David Mamet (Redbelt) wrote the adaptation, which is loosly based on the Evan Hunter novel King's Ransom. Source.
Mike Sobel, a former criminal lawyer, is writing Skyscraper for Universal Pictures and producer Neal H. Moritz (Made Of Honor). It will be a disaster film in the vein of The Towering Inferno, where construction on a mile-high building in Chicago will take an unexpected and dangerous turn. Source.
Barry Sonnenfeld (RV) is in talks to helm Bronwyn And Clyde, a romantic comedy written by Tom Vaughan and Kristy Dobkin. Source.
Acclaimed filmmaker Gus Van Sant (Paranoid Park) will direct The Electric Kool-Aid Test, based on a non-fiction book by Tom Wolfe (The Right Stuff). The story recounts Wolfe's experiences with fellow author Ken Kesey (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest) and people called the Merry Pranksters driving around in a school bus and taking LSD. Dustin Lance Black (The Journey Of Jared Price) is writing the script. Source.
Author Neil Gaiman (Beowulf) has confirmed an adaptation of his bestselling The Graveyard Book is in the works. The story tells of a boy raised by ghosts. Source.
Prolific music video director Marc Webb will write and direct the sci-fi flick Age Of Rage, which is described as Children Of Men meets Lord Of The Flies. Source.
Randall Wallace (We Were Soldiers) is adapting the Outlander series of fantasy novels into a potential franchise.
[Diana] Gabaldon's series of six novels center on an 18th century Scottish Highlander and his time-traveling wife.
From what I hear, the story is more romance than action, but then again, Randall Wallace is writing…Oh wait, he wrote Pearl Harbor, I take that back. Source.
Samuel L. Jackson (Lakeview Terrace) will portray the villain Sho'nuff in a remake of the 1985 martial art cult film The Last Dragon (trailer below).
The updated plot will be along the same lines of the original, centering on young martial arts student Leroy Green in his quest through the streets of New York to achieve the highest level of martial arts accomplishment, known as the Last Dragon. Those who achieve the high ranking possess the Glow, making them the greatest fighter alive.
Dallas Jackson (Uncle P) is writing the adaptation, and producing it. Source.


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Why, with butterflies and trowels, and matching colors all in a row! Plant beautiful flowerz, set up matches and cascades, and keep planning ahead to make your garden flourish round after round.
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Click on an empty space to plant the next flower in your queue. Build a row or column of at least three identical flowers, and they will be removed from the garden.
Some flowers need to be matched twice. Match the outer color first to make it disappear, then match the remaining color to remove the flower. Plan wisely to cause a cascade of matches.
Use a Butterfly to change a flower's color to the same as the Butterfly. Use a Trowel to move a flower from one space to another. The game ends once you run out of empty spaces!


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Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln," which tells the story of the famed president's final days in office, earned seven Golden Globe nominations Thursday, including best movie in the drama category, best director for Spielberg, best actor for Daniel Day-Lewis and best supporting actress for Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln.
The movies nominated for best drama were pretty much as critics predicted. In addition to "Lincoln," "Argo," "Django Unchained," "Life of Pi" and "Zero Dark Thirty" earned nominations.
Lesser-seen films dominated the film comedy and musical category. "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," "Les Miserables," "Moonrise Kingdom," "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" and "Silver Linings Playbook." Of those, "Les Miserables" is the only one to be opening in thousands of mainstream theaters, and that not until Christmas Day.
Major names filled the best director category. Ben Affleck was nominated for "Argo," Kathryn Bigelow for "Zero Dark Thirty," Ang Lee for "Life of Pi," Steven Spielberg for "Lincoln" and Quentin Tarantino for "Django Unchained."
On the television side, "Breaking Bad," "Boardwalk Empire," "Downton Abbey," "Homeland" and "The Newsroom" were drama nominees. "The Big Bang Theory," "Episodes," "Girls," "Modern Family" and "Smash" were nominated for best TV musical or comedy.
After the nominations were announced, Christoph Waltz, nominated for best supporting actor for his role as a dentist-turned-bounty hunter in Tarantino's "Django Unchained," talked to TODAY's Savannah Guthrie about his reaction.
Waltz noted that his name was the last of the five to be read, saying that by that point, he'd thought to himself, "I kinda know what I need to do in January anyway," only to be surprised by his inclusion.
"Django Unchained" opens Dec. 25, which Waltz noted is very late in the awards season. "I see it picking up steam," he told Guthrie.
Waltz also said he felt lucky to be able to help develop his character along with Tarantino.
"I was allowed to kind of follow the genesis," he told Guthrie. "I saw this character come to existence ... become a personage."
Naomi Watts was nominated in the best actress category for her movie "The Impossible," which focuses on a family's experience during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. She told the TODAY anchors she was celebrating her son's birthday with pancakes when she received word she was nominated.
"I did a little yelp and my son got worried," she said.
There was little dialogue in "The Impossible," much of which was shot in water, not exactly a favorite substance for Watts.
"I had a bad experience with riptides, like, when I was a teenager," she said, telling of a time in Bali when her family was trapped in waters rougher than expected. Her mother, she said, "miraculously" found solid footing and pulled her daughter to safety.
"I've had a fear of water ever since," she said.
Bradley Cooper, a nominee for best actor for "Silver Linings Playbook," also spoke with the TODAY anchors about the awards. "Silver Linings Playbook" is also nominated in the best movie, comedy or musical category, and Cooper's co-star Jennifer Lawrence also received an acting nomination.
"It's a small film, and it's a word-of-mouth movie," Cooper said. "And hopefully the fact that it's getting this kind of attention, more people will go see it."
Cooper heard his nomination announced by his friend and "Hangover" co-star Ed Helms. "On a personal level, it's just surreal," he said of being nominated. "I grew up the nerd who would like, wait to hear the announcements."
He also said his date for the awards would almost certainly be his mother.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, both nominees in the TV best actress category, will host the Golden Globes, which air on NBC Jan. 13.
List of nominees:
Best movie, drama
"Django Unchained"
"Life of Pi"
"Zero Dark Thirty"
Best movie, comedy or musical
"Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"
"Les Miserables"
"Moonrise Kingdom"
"Salmon Fishing in the Yemen"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
Best director
Ben Affleck, "Argo"
Kathryn Bigelow, "Zero Dark Thirty"
Ang Lee, "Life of Pi"
Steven Spielberg, "Lincoln"
Quentin Tarantino, "Django Unchained"
Best actor, movie drama
Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln"
Richard Gere, "Arbitrage"
John Hawkes, "The Sessions"
Joaquin Phoenix, "The Master"
Denzel Washington, "Flight"
Best actress, movie drama
Marion Cotillard, "Rust and Bone"
Jessica Chastain, "Zero Dark Thirty"
Naomi Watts, "The Impossible"
Rachel Weisz, "The Deep Blue Sea"
Helen Mirren, "Hitchcock"
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Wired has a big article on A/B testing this month, which makes a good point:
Today, A/B is ubiquitous, and one of the strange consequences of that ubiquity is that the way we think about the web has become increasingly outdated. We talk about the Google homepage or the Amazon checkout screen, but it's now more accurate to say that you visited a Google homepage, an Amazon checkout screen.
But it's not just web pages that change with A/B testing, it's prices, too. And Exhibit A in this regard is the Financial Times. Go to this page, laying out the cost of subscribing to the FT, and you could get any number of different prices. A standard online subscription in the United States, which excludes the Lex column and a handful of other extras, shows up for some people as $4.99 a week. Others see $5.39, $5.75, $5.79, or $6.25. Guan Yang reported this morning, for instance, that on his first attempt at viewing the FT page, he was given a price of $4.99; when he opened the same page in Chrome, the price was $6.25. Chrome for Windows, meanwhile, revealed a price of $5.39.
All of these prices are pre-tax, and are weekly based on an upfront annual commitment: the equivalent of those newspaper ads touting incredibly low airfares which are "one-way based on round-trip purchase" and exclude hundreds of dollars in taxes. When I subscribed to the FT last year, they charged me an extra 8.88% in sales tax — which means that someone buying a subscription at $6.25 a week will end up seeing their credit card charged a total of $353.86.
What's more, Rob Grimshaw, the FT managing director who sets all these prices, tells me that in fact that annual price is "heavily discounted because those customers are willing to make a longer-term commitment." That, in turn, implies that the real price of an online subscription, by Grimshaw's measure, is $35 a month. Which, adding on sales tax, comes to $457.29 per year. And that includes no premium content at all."
By contrast, a basic online subscription to the NYT is $15 every four weeks, tax included: that's $195 per year. And the WSJ charges $17.29 every four weeks, or $224.77 per year; it's a bit cheaper, $207.48, if you pay by the year. It's not the NYT which is the outlier, it's the FT.
Even if you reload that FT page in multiple browsers on multiple operating systems and eventually get the cheapest possible $4.99 offer and pay a whole year up front, you're still paying $282.52 for a year's access, which is 36% more than the WSJ charges. The recommended retail price, or RRP — the default amount that the FT will charge me for renewing my subscription — is $353.86, or a 70% premium over the WSJ rate. And if I want the full FT online package, including Lex, then that's $486.35 annually, or 2.3 times the cost of a WSJ online subscription. Alternatively, it's $53.35 per month, which means that you end up paying more in four months than you would for a full year of the WSJ.
I don't think it's any coincidence that I run into the FT paywall much more often than I run into any other paywall. Grimshaw says that the problem of hitting the paywall when following links on Twitter or Facebook "was fixed some months ago and seems to be working well"; I'd beg to differ. He also says, more encouragingly, that there will be social login later this year, which will allow non-subscribers to view a (very) limited number of articles by logging in with their Twitter or Facebook accounts, rather than having to set up and remember an FT-specific username and password.
But I fear that so long as the FT keeps up this super-premium pricing strategy, it's going to wind up chasing local maxima. Here's how the Wired article puts it:
A/B tests might create the best possible outcome within narrow constraints—instead of pursuing real breakthroughs. Google's Scott Huffman cites this as one of the greatest dangers of a testing-oriented mentality: "One thing we spend a lot of time talking about is how we can guard against incrementalism when bigger changes are needed."
If you test lots of prices for your FT subscription, it makes sense that the higher the subscription price, the higher the revenues generated, and the higher the publisher's profits. Most of the FT's subscribers have very little price sensitivity: either they're on expense accounts, or they're incredibly rich, or their subscriptions are handled by some kind of support staff and they never even know how much they're paying. In that world, it makes sense to raise the RRP as much as possible, since the RRP is the rate that all renewals get charged at, and most renewals are automatic. Even if the amount stands out on some expense report and eyebrows get raised, the FT, by policy, won't refund the payment. "We do not provide refunds to customers who wish to cancel their subscription mid-term but the subscription will remain valid until the term of the subscription expires" is how Grimshaw puts it in the official FT email.
The result is that the FT's readership will slowly drift further and further away from the 99% — something which has to affect its journalism at some point. When real people look at the price of an FT subscription, they'll have much the same reaction as they do when they look at the prices at Cipriani. They won't just refuse to pay, they'll take away the understanding that the FT was never written for them in the first place, and that the readership of the FT is a chummy group of of rich people who probably like the exclusivity that a high entrance price provides. It's like the membership fees at exclusive golf clubs, designed more to keep the middle class out than to actually pay for any particular service.
And while it's possible to make the case that the global 1% is big enough and rich enough to comfortably support a publication like the FT, it's dangerous to chase that demographic too assiduously, to the exclusion of everybody else. If you want to be a newspaper rather than a newsletter, you have to aspire to being more than a service vehicle for bankers.
After all, it's pretty much impossible to make the case that the journalism in the FT — the product being paid for — is so better than the journalism in the WSJ or NYT that it's worth twice as much money. Especially when much of the best FT journalism is still free, on Alphaville and Martin Wolf's Economists' Forum.
And as I can attest, because news is social, you don't end up reading the FT very much even after you've paid through the nose for your subscription.What's more, at least for readers in the US, the FT isn't remotely comprehensive enough to suffice as a one-stop shop for business news. The FT has some fantastic content, but it needs to be read in addition to, rather than instead of, the NYT / WSJ / Reuters / Bloomberg. As a result, you need to be really price-insensitive to buy it: you can get access to all four of those sources online for less than the price of a single premium FT subscription. When a five-course meal costs twice as much as a four-course meal, you generally go with the four courses.
And as I can attest, because news is social, you don't end up reading the FT very much even after you've paid through the nose for your subscription. I read news which is shared with me, and the people in my social circles don't share FT stories all that often. In turn, I want to read news I can share, and it's very hard to share FT stories, since I can't assume that the people in my social circles, or the people reading Counterparties, have FT subscriptions.
This I think is the real problem with the FT's pricing strategy. In the old world, the more you charged for a subscription, the more it was valued, and the more your journal was read by its subscribers. In the social world, the more you charge for a subscription, the less it gets read by its subscribers. As a result, the amount I end up paying per story that I read becomes enormous. I kinda wish the FT had a ticker, like the NYT did at one point, telling me how many stories I've read this month. It would give me some kind of masochistic thrill, working out what vast sum I was paying per article. Either way, over the long term, the marginal cost of reading an FT article will become so high that even business-news junkies like myself won't be able to justify it any more.
On the other hand, there could be a silver lining here. The FT's pricing doesn't make sense as a long-term strategy: it makes new-customer acquisition extremely difficult, and it only serves to remove the FT ever further from the minds of the global professionals it really wants to reach. As a short-term revenue-maximization strategy, on the other hand, charging people as much as $640 a year for an online-only subscription makes all the sense in the world. And if Pearson intends to sell the FT in the next year or two, it would surely love to be able to point to healthy profits and cashflows as a way of justifying some enormous purchase price.
I'm going to hold out hope, then, that the FT's prices are a temporary aberration, a way of extracting some huge sum from potential buyers. I don't really think that the FT will ultimately end up being sold on some multiple of profits or cashflows, but those things can never hurt when you're deep in negotiations. Once the FT is finally sold, to Thomson Reuters or to somebody else, its subscription price will be able to revert to reality. But it's not going to come down before then.
Update: My commenters have worked out that if you really want a cheap FT subscription, you can get one for less than $50 if you live in India, and you're more than welcome to pay with a foreign credit card. This actually works, it seems, for people with VPNs.


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The Tekkeon 3450i was recommended to me by a few TS members. I've searched for these and they seem to be discontinued and a bit hard to find?Are there any newer batteries out that would have a similar feature set?I'm primarily interested in the dedicated 5V usb for powering the PMD 661 or Zoom H6, and the switchable voltage output for the Mix Pre-D, so that they can be run off the same battery.DigiGal said the Tekkeon 3450i is especially suited for this because the selectable voltage can be set by a dip switch ("set it and forget it", so to speak), unlike the other versions where you have to choose the voltage each time you power up the unit.
Tonedeaf was the first to discover the Naztech and I swear by them. I tried running a 788T on a Tekkeon 3450 double and it did not like it at all--even running at 16V. So far so good with the Naztech.
Quote from: boltman on June 07, 2015, 01:24:54 AMTonedeaf was the first to discover the Naztech and I swear by them. I tried running a 788T on a Tekkeon 3450 double and it did not like it at all--even running at 16V. So far so good with the Naztech.What exactly don't you like about it? I've got a 3450i double and it's been good for powering everything except an AD2k+ which draws too much current on startup.
I have two Tekkeon MP3300's (both purchased from the community here, so I don't know how old they actually are) But I have had one abruptly fail while powering my Marantz PMD661, on a couple of occasions. Even though they had been charged and the light meter showed a full charge... This happened during live performances so I just powered it back up as soon as I noticed and both times, and luckily didn't lose power again. At first I thought I might have an issue with the Marantz, but after reading this I wonder if the Tekkeons are just getting old? Is the PMD661 prone to sudden current draws that might cause it to shut down like that? (I had the Tekkeon set to 5V)
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Last night Kylie went with her Dad to Parent Teacher Conference. Kylie's teacher said she is right on track with her reading. They have asked if it is okay to have her get a little extra help with her reading to make sure she finishes first grade ahead of the game. She is excited about that. She likes to have the one on one attention. She also is doing well with her math. We are supposed to be doing timed problems with her to help her get faster at her math. Also, her teacher thinks she is cooperative and attentive. It was so good to hear positive things about her, not that I doubted it. She is a really good girl!
Friday, February 8, 2008
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Our New Adventure
Our most recent family adventure started on Saturday when our toilet upstairs stopped working. We couldn't figure it out, just kept plunging it hoping that it would work. When that didn't work, I called a plumber on Monday to fix it. Long story short, he snaked it, it didn't work, he took the toilet off and tried from both angles to snake it out, but nothing worked. More than $100 later I was told that we need to just replace the toilet. The plumber scoped the toilet and found that someone, later to be named Jacob, shoved a Barbie down the toilet. It was bent in half around one of the turns and there was no way to get it out and leave the toilet in one piece. I wasn't a happy mommy when I was writing out that check. Jacob is still alive, but he had to spend a lot of time downstairs away from me so I could calm down. Needless to say, Dalen and I now know how to install a toilet and we have had a LONG talk with our kids, particularly Jacob, on what belongs in the toilet and what does NOT! Hope you enjoyed this story! The first picture is how our bathroom looked after the plumber left, the toilet on its back laying on the floor. The second picture is of the hole in the ground that I had to look at the rest of the day until Dalen was able to come home and find a toilet on Craigslist.com for $50 and we put it in. NOT a fun day for mommy.
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Saturday, February 2, 2008
More Cute videos of my family...
This first picture is of our friend, Tom Mormon with Malia. He and his wife are moving to Salt Lake (I know it isn't far, but it's been really nice to have them close- just down the street). He came over to get more boxes and to say goodbye. The kids really like him. We have known him since he moved here, shortly after we moved into our house.
The second one is of Malia at dinner. She is such a smiley baby. She reminds me a lot of Jacob, not only in her looks, but also with how happy she is.
Okay, so my kids are my life, isn't that what happens when you are a Mom? I took a really cute video of the Malia playing after dinner with her Daddy and Jacob. At the end of the video- my favorite part, I just couldn't help but laugh. We call Jacob our "Motor-Pooter" because he likes to toot all of the time, and he is good at it. You would think he was older by the sound of most of his toots. The rest of the entries are just so you can share in my joy.
The second video is of Malia, of course. She loves to laugh. It is her laugh that brings me joy everyday, just like her sisters and brother. Check it out and see if you can keep from laughing!!!???
From the brain of MakingChanges at 7:32 PM
Tag You're It
Tag You're It!
A. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.
B. Each player answers the questions about themselves
C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names and then goes to their blogs and leaves a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and that they should read your blog.
10 years ago... Now this makes me feel REALLY OLD! I was still on my mission, but out of high school, graduated from Ricks and was more than half done with my mission. This would have been about the time of year that I was tracting in the snow, up to my knees, in a dress. I believe I was serving in the Ammon West Stake in Idaho Falls.
5 Things on my to do list today... Since the day is almost over and it is Sunday tomorrow- my list is going to be for tomorrow... Go to Stake Conference, shower (actually, I will probably do that first), eat some food, take a nap, go to work (I don't like this one).
Snacks that I enjoy... my problem is that I like snacks way too much! I like just about anything chocolate, beef jerkey (when I am at work), chips, crackers, etc.
What I would do if I were suddenly a billionaire... Not a safe question for me. I would love to be out of debt so I think about this a lot. I would love to get a different house, that wasn't falling apart, help my parents get out of debt and buy them a house closer to me, help Dalen's mom, save for missions, college, buy different clothes for myself (ones that I haven't had for more than 10 years- sad, but true, that I still wear clothes from my mission and before).
3 of my bad habits... 1) I still bite my fingernails (although I try really hard not to) 2) I let my laundry pile high when I don't want to do it. 3) I yell at my kids too much (I hate this one!)
5 places I have lived...1) Simi Valley, CA 2) Rexburg, ID 3) American Fork, UT 4) Provo, UT 5) Pocatello, ID
5 jobs that I have had... 1) Movie Theater 2) Math Tutor 3) Candy decorator 4) Custodian 5) Grocery Stocker (not to be confused with a stalker).
5 things people don't know about me... 1) I listen to LOUD music in the car when my kids aren't with me 2) I secretly have a crush on Edward Cullen (not much of a secret for those who have read the Twilight series) 3) I was engaged to a few other people before I married Dalen 4) I still own clothes from before my mission (but not much of a secret now, if you have read the above answers) 5) I would love to have more kids if I could.
Tag, You're It... Shanna, Laina, Amy, Raechal
From the brain of MakingChanges at 7:08 PM
God Be With You Till We Meet Again
We just finished watching the funeral for President Hinckley. We also watched the life sketch they did of him on KBYU. How touching to relive those moments when he introduced the Proclamation to the World on the Family, the time he spoke of increasing the number of temples and the introduction of the Perpetual Education Fund. I also have fond memories of seeing him speak at Ricks (back when it was Ricks) at Firesides. He was a wonderful man, prophet, and leader. I will truly miss his voice and his humor. He is the prophet that I most remember in my lifetime. I am so glad, though, that he is back with his sweetheart. Dalen and I were talking, after it concluded, that we only hope that we feel the same about each other that President and Sister Hinckley felt about each other. That we are as good to each other as they were. I know it is a lofty goal, but I hope that we have a number of years ahead of us to share with each other! Hope you all had an opportunity to watch and reminisce and feel of his love. Like he said, "Lets all try to work a little harder to be a little better." It was always do a little more than what we are doing. I think that is going to be my new New Years Resolution (changed a little into the year, but I think appropriate). Love you all!
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