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The disturbing experience of attending a film festival in a conflict zone; and how filmmakers can get their voices heard politically.
A few days ago, I sat at the Jerusalem Cinematheque watching Abderrahmane Sissako's powerful and disturbing Timbuktu.
The fiftysomething local woman sitting next to me was shielding her eyes when there was a scene of a gazelle being hunted down. I, too, hated seeing that gazelle on the way to its death, but I also started to wonder, was this woman sitting next to me as horrified watching children in Gaza dying on the nightly news? Were people crying at home about the conflict in Israel before crying in the cinema about other people's stories?
It was certainly a new experience for me attending a film festival in a country experiencing such violence. Whether or not we call what's happening in Israel this week a war or not, it certainly does feel like a war zone at times.
There have been air-raid sirens that have interrupted festival events (such as Park Chan Wook's masterclass). At a dinner in Tel Aviv on Saturday night, I saw and heard Hamas rockets (intercepted by the Iron Dome system) – I'll freely admit that seeing them was pretty terrifying and not an experience I ever want to repeat. I wasn't necessarily fearful for my own personal safety, but here was un-ignorable evidence that a war was going on over my head.
As tensions escalated here, and Prime Minister Netanyahu ignored UN calls for a cease fire, I saw horrific scenes on international news channels. I became more and more uneasy about even being in the country, much less trying to cover a film festival as 'business as usual.' It just felt all wrong.
So many questions swirled through my worried mind: Could I really sit back and watch charming international films and schmooze with film industry professionals over a glass of wine while innocent children were dying 70 kilometers away? The festival's partners include government bodies and the catalogue has a welcome letter from Prime Minister Nethanyahu — by simply attending the festival was I somehow condoning his military actions? Did Arab filmmakers avoid the festival for political reasons or not feel welcome? If a dozen international filmmakers had cancelled their visits, what the heck was I still doing here?
Yet I agreed with the festival's decision to carry on as best as it could under the circumstances – cancelling culture and art can be a mistake in times of conflict. But I guess I was looking for more signs of unease from the people around me., 'business as usual' no longer seemed good enough and I was wondering if everyone else had their blinders on?
Today I learned they didn't, when the Israeli filmmakers at the festival spoke about the conflict [full story here]; how they had struggled to decide whether or not to screen their films at a time like this; and how they wanted to use their voices to make a stand to call for a cease fire and for more balanced media portrayal of the situation in Gaza. They called for the media covering the festival to not just look at the films, but to look at the situation too.
I know it's politically harder for the festival administration itself to make such statements; but by giving these filmmakers a platform, they've made the world of Israeli film feel more relevant on the world political stage. And they've made this festival feel like it's not just in some weird bubble.
Keren Yedaya, one of the filmmakers, had tears in her eyes as she read out a list of children killed in Gaza in the past week. In a group statement, the filmmakers wrote: "In these terrible days, we as artists and creators expect from ourselves, the festival's administration, the spectators and the media to use this event to issue a clear, loud cry for change."
I hope the other attendees of the Jerusalem Film Festival, and supporters abroad, hear that cry.


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Security dealers score $10,000 wins at ISC West
2GIG Technologies recently shipped its one-millionth panel and the lucky Utah security dealer who ordered it was awarded $10,000 at the ISC West show on Thursday as a result.
And remember SAFE Security's ISC West promotion in which it was offering a $10,000 bonus to dealers who signed up for its dealer program by the last day of the show?
Well, the show and the promotion don't end until tomorrow, but SAFE President and CEO Paul Sargenti told me on Thursday that it looks like 11 dealers have qualified so far.
That's just one shy of the dozen dealers he was anticipating, he said. And although everything has not been finalized, Sargenti said it appears that "it's one of our best results for a promotion."
Sargenti said that for the dealers, the bonus was only part of the draw. "The money offer was nice but they were looking for a program that had stability and longevity," he said.
SAFE, based in San Ramon, Calif. is one of the nation's largest full-service security companies and does business in every state but Hawaii and also in Canada, Sargenti said. The company is growing rapidly and just completed a $130 million senior debt refinancing in late February.
At the 2GIG booth on Thursday afternoon, Ben Edstrom, CEO of Jordan, Utah-based Elite Home Security, was delighted to learn a panel he ordered from 2GIG contained a "golden ticket" worth $10,000.
"We've been placing some large orders," he told me. "I guess we placed it at the right time." The panel was shipped last week, the company said.
Edstrom plans to use the money to take a trip to Hawaii.
Lance Dean, co-founder of Carlsbad, Calif.-based 2GIG, a manufacturer of security and home automation equipment that was established in 2009 and is known for its Go!Control system, surprised Edstrom with the award at a small ceremony Thursday. Dean sounded as thrilled as the $10,000 winner.
"This is a huge milestone for us," Dean said of the fact that now 2GIG has shipped one million panels. He said he dreamed of such success when the company began but is happy it has happened so quickly.
Nortek, the parent company of Linear, which helped development the 2GIG Go!Control product, recently announced the acquisition of 2GIG for $135 million.

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Hey guys!
I know a few of you have expressed an interest in past Ludum Dare events, so here's a friendly reminder that Ludum Dare 23 is next weekend.
For people new to LD, it's an indie game programming competition where you have 48 hours to create a game based on a theme that's announced at the beginning of the competition (the last theme was "alone" and before that it was "escape"). It's mostly a friendly competition (the last LD had almost 1000 entrants) to celebrate what people can do in 48 hours. You'd be amazed at what you can accomplish if you just give it a try.
There is also a "Game Jam" version, which is pretty much the same thing but with more relaxed rules (you get an extra day, you can work with other people, etc). In fact, our own Tjstretch is looking for people to team up with: http://www.javaprogrammingforums.com...-dare-jam.html
I strongly suggest anybody interested in game programming (or indie programming in general) check it out. You don't have to be an expert to make an entry, especially if you form a team (or join Tjstretch's team) and enter the Game Jam instead of the 48-hour competition.
(Self-advertising ahead) I've also been putting together a website designed to help indie developers deploy Java (and Processing) games without worrying about web development. A big part of my motivation for building the site is competitions like Ludum Dare, where you might not have the time to create a website as well as a game. Just upload a jar, a background, and a thumbnail image, and you have a decent-looking website to show off your game as an applet, webstart, or downloadable jar. Check it out if you feel like it: Static Void Games
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CD Reviews: New Kids on the Block; Alkaline Trio; JJ Grey & Mofro; April Verch; Charles Bradley; Kenny Roby; The Band Perry
New Kids on the Block
The Block
It was goofy enough seeing men approaching their 40s performing as the New Kids on the Block when the '80s boy band reunited in 2008. But what made it really ridiculous were the sexually-charged lyrics on its comeback album, "The Block." The boys (er, men) sang about giving ladies some "Grown Man," and "Full Service" used the unsexy task of filling up at a gas station as a metaphor for coitus.
Well, the boys (sorry, men) are even older now, so the eager carnal elements have been swapped out for more serious romantic fare on its new album, "10." Theoretically, that would be the right call, but there's a problem with that transition. As ludicrous as the songs on "The Block" were, they were still a blast, the work of boys thrilled to be back in the game. That same spirit can be found in "10" single "Remix (I Like The)." Dumb title aside, it's a zesty track about a girl transforming from "wallpaper to heartbreaker" set atop a blend of retro grooves and modern pop hooks. But most of "10" is heavy on boring, slow-to-mid-tempo ballads with forgettable melodies, generic lyrics and middle-of-the-road vocals. The Kids have finally grown up, and they lost their sense of fun along the way.
- Piet Levy, email@example.com
New Kids on the Block perform July 2 at the Marcus Amphitheater during Summerfest, with 98 Degrees and Boyz II Men.
Alkaline Trio
My Shame Is True
Heart & Skull/Epitaph Records
The third track on "My Shame Is True," the ninth studio album from Chicago's Alkaline Trio, is titled "I'm Only Here to Disappoint." But there's no disappointment to be found on the album. On the contrary, it's impressive that after nearly 20 years, the band still sounds so urgent and lively, with vivid lyrics about longing and love lost. The single "I Wanna Be a Warhol" is a standout in that regard, using art as an apt metaphor for the need to mean something to someone.
"My Shame Is True" bursts with the kind of energy you'd expect from a band trying to make an impression with its very first track. That said, the power-pop punk guitar hooks, grand as they are, tend to repeat themselves. They also take some interesting detours. "Only Love" incorporates sensitive piano, while "Young Lover" has a wistful guitar hook that's more Coldplay than Green Day.
- Piet Levy
Alkaline Trio performs June 1 at The Rave, 2401 W. Wisconsin Ave.
JJ Grey & Mofro
This River
Alligator Records
Southern soul rocker JJ Grey and his band Mofro are so omnipresent-they've released seven albums since 2001, and last year Turner Hall hosted both a concert and a screening of a concert film-that it's pretty easy to take it for granted. But its latest album "This River," its first studio album since 2010 (that's a pretty long gap for these guys), is a good reminder of what makes the band special. Customary of the Florida group's style, it's one big zesty gumbo pot of funk, soul, blues, Southern rock and R&B. "Somebody Else" has full-bodied Stax Records-style horns, and opener "Your Lady, She's Shady" takes a surprising left turn, opting for light sax-led funk grooves just when you expect it to bust into a heavy blues rock breakdown.
- Piet Levy
"This River" comes out April 16. JJ Grey & Mofro performs April 11 at Turner Hall Ballroom, 1040 N. 4th St.
April Verch
Bright Like Gold
Slab Town Records
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Charles Bradley
Victim of Love
Charles Bradley was abandoned as a child, experienced periods of homelessness and poverty, and worked odd jobs as he pursued his dream of being a soul singer. The difficulty of maintaining that dream can be summarized with two dates: He was born in 1948; his first album, "No Time for Dreaming," came out in 2011.
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- Jon M. Gilbertson, Special to the Journal Sentinel
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Kenny Roby
Memories & Birds
Little Criminal Records
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It's a deceptively low-key record, much more likely to employ gentle strings than rowdy guitars, and featuring vocals that place Roby even closer to Randy Newman and late-period Elvis Costello than he was already.
Yet beneath the graceful tempos and washed-out colors of songs like the dark "Colorado" and the brassily depressed "Tired of Being in Love" lie rich tales of men, women and children facing hard truths as best they can and with as much hope or hurt as they can muster. Roby sings their stories with respect; he obviously lives near them.
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Republic Nashville
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Monkees singer Davy Jones died Wednesday in Florida of a heart attack, the medical examiner's office in Martin County confirmed to NBC News. He was 66.
The Monkees were formed in 1965 by Screen Gems Studios, to be stars of their own sitcom about the exploits of an up-and-coming rock band. Jones was the first to sign on, and he was eventually joined in the made-for-TV band by drummer/vocalist Mickey Dolenz, guitarist Michael Nesmith and bassist Peter Tork.
Though the show lasted for only 58 episodes over two season, from 1966 to 1968, they won the Emmy for Best Comedy after their first year, and a loving place in the hearts of America.
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From the outset, critics derided The Monkees as Beatles rip-offs and inauthentic. But they overcame the snobbery and backlash to win millions of fans with their infectious radio-friendly hits and squeaky clean image, of which Jones was the absolute personification.
And they stuck together after the show's cancellation, eventually throwing off the yoke of their creators to record their first album on which they wrote many of their own songs and played their own instruments, "Headquarters." The record would debut at No. 1 on the Billboard charts in 1967.
They released six top-10 hits during their first run -- with Jones singing lead on "Daydream Believer"-- and over the years they sold more than 65 million records worldwide, spawned a comic book, made a feature film and continued to record and tour off and on.
The band's popularity was so great in the late '60s that another young British rocker named David Jones felt compelled to change his name to avoid confusion. The performer would eventually settle on David Bowie.
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Six months into 2007 (almost...) and there's already a not-so-proverbial shit-tonne of albums in contention for the coveted Album of the Year 'gong' at DiS – again, the winner will be selected by you, the readers, from a shortlist compiled by us. Yup.
Seems like as good a time as any, then, to weed out any that might've been acclaimed at the time but, in hindsight, maybe ain't so stunning as we initially thought. And we need you guys to help us out. Listed below are a number of records that received hearty slaps on the back from the DiS critics, but are they still worth a damn? Are Field Music's Tones Of Town and Jamie T's Panic Prevention really ten-outta-ten albums? Shouldn't Deerhunter's Cryptograms have received a maximum score? (Few records have been on rotation as often, at my place at least). Was Bloc Party's A Weekend In The City any good in the first place, really?
Here's a selection of what we've enjoyed – a lot – since December turned into January and a whole new year. Do please tell us about your favourite albums of the year so far – after all, ultimately it's you that decides our album of the year come the end of 2007…
Mathew Sawyer and the Ghosts
Blue Birds Blood
Catbird Recordings, released January - review
The Shins
Wincing The Night Away
Sub Pop/Trangressive, released January - review
Hell Hath No Fury
Zomba, released January - review
Wires On Fire
Wires On Fire
Buddyhead, released January - review
Jamie T
Panic Prevention
Virgin, released January - review
Kranky, released January - review
of Montreal
Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer
Polyvinyl, released January - review
Field Music
Tones Of Town
Memphis Industries, released January - review
Myths Of The Near Future
Polydor, released January - review
My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go
Chemikal Underground, released January - review
Bloc Party
A Weekend In The City
Wichita, released February - review
A Sunny Day In Glasgow
Scribble Mural Comic Journal
Notenuf, released February - review
Do Make Say Think
You, You're A History In Rust
Constellation, released February - review
Temporary Residence, released February - review
The Besnard Lakes
…Are The Dark Horse
Jagjaguwar, released February - review
Herman Dune Giant
Source, released February - review
Arcade Fire
Neon Bible
Sonovox, released March - review
LCD Soundsystem
Sound Of Silver
DFA, released March - review
Panda Bear
Person Pitch
Paw Tracks, released March - review
Machine Head
The Blackening
Roadrunner, released March - review
Andrew Bird
Armchair Apocrypha
Fargo, released March - review
Mute, released March - review
Friend Opportunity
ATP, released March - review
I'll Sleep When You're Dead
Definitive Jux, released March - review
Korova, released March - review
Drums And Guns
Sub Pop, released April - review
The Adventures Of Ghosthorse And Stillborn
Touch And Go, released April - review
Blonde Redhead
4AD, released April - review
No Shouts, No Calls
Too Pure, released April - review
The Reminder
Polydor, released April - review
One Little Indian, released May - review
Napoleon IIIrd
In Debt To
Brainlove, released May - review
Shady Bard
From The Ground Up
Static Caravan, released May - review
The Cribs
Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever
Wichita, released May - review
The National
Beggars Banquet, released May - review
Warp, released May - review
Simian Mobile Disco
Attack Decay Sustain Release
Wichita, released June - review
I reckon you can add the new albums from Justice, Queens Of The Stone Age and The Icarus Line to that list – all release their respective LPs next week. Then, later this month, there are new records from Souvaris, No Age, Annuals and, of course, The White Stripes. We've been playing Icky Thump this morning. It's a bit icky, alright.
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As her friends were getting married and having kids, Long Beach native Kristin Newman decided to get out of town — way, way out of town.
Inspired by the diversity of her hometown and by her love of being single, the TV sitcom writer spent her 20s and 30s traveling the world on her own. After some adventure, and a few hook ups, Newman felt she had a story to tell.
"What I was Doing While you Were Breeding," (Three Rivers Press) is a humorous paperback memoir chronicling her younger and wilder years.
Newman, who is now married and settled down in Santa Monica, will be coming back home to Long Beach to sign copies of the book at Barns & Noble on Thursday.
"I'm a comedian and I wrote it to entertain and to be a collection of fun stories, but if there's any message it's that I really believe single women should go on a trip by themselves," she said.
Newman attended Long Beach Poly before heading off to college at Northwestern University in Chicago. As a sitcom writer she has worked on hit comedies like "That 70s Show," "Chuck" and "How I Met Your Mother."
She infuses some of her humor into her 14-chapter book with stories about her travels, which took her to dozens of countries including Argentina, Brazil, Israel, Russia, China, Iceland, and throughout Europe.
Much of the book is focused on sexual tales of short but exciting relationships that she's dubbed "vacationships," which she said were an important part of her overall travel experience.
"They take you into their world; you end up at their favorite bar; meeting their friends; you end up going to their mother's birthday barbecue; you are suddenly getting the real experience of the place you're visiting," she said.
Her travels, however, all started with a broken heart at the age of 26.
"I had been with this guy all through college and afterward. The trips were to try to blow a little steam off and at first it was with girlfriends," she said.
But her friends soon started to get married and began having families so Newman started her solo adventures with a trip to Argentina.
Since her writing job allowed her to take months off at a time, Newman was able to immerse herself in the places she traveled. On her first big solo trip to Buenos Aires she got an apartment, took tango and Spanish classes and met expatriates as well as locals.
It was the first of many experiences she found on the transformative and life-changing road.
"I think women are told that maybe you can have one crazy spring break, or two, but if you aren't pretty soon trying to focus on building a relationship that's going to lead to marriage and children, there's a sense that you are wandering, or lost, or slutty, or wasting your time," she said.
"It wasn't that I was just wandering and wasting my life, I was making my life what I wanted to be when it was happening and that was important," she said.
"So I hope women will feel maybe inspired if they read the book to follow what they really want versus what they think they're supposed to want."
Despite her early aversion to marriage, Newman is now a newlywed and stepmother to two young sons.
"It's been three weeks, so we've obviously been through all the ups and downs, the boring parts. I feel like an old married woman," she joked.
Her book has been getting praise from a few well-known Hollywood players.
Newman has posted many of the acclamations on her website, including comments from screenwriter Diablo Cody and comedian Patton Oswald.
"Kristin Newman reminds me of David Sedaris, but with more joy," Cody said, while Oswald called her travels "misspent youth well-spent."


text: Changing your colors in Visual Studio.NET - Black versus White September 7, '06 Comments [31] Posted in Musings Sponsored By UPDATE: http://studiostyles.info/ for a great growing community of Visual Studio Styles and Themes. You can create, import and export themes in your browser! I run my Visual Studio.NET with Consolas 15pt and have since I discovered Consolas. I like to run at a big(ger) font for a few reasons. First, it looks best at 15pt. 16pt? Crap. 13pt? Please. I also run it with a white (paper-like) background and the default colors. I also tend to run FullScreen with SHIFT-ALT-ENTER. More and more though I hear that folks are vibing on the black background again. Personally, I've always found the black blackground folks to be a little creepy - just a little too black t-shirt, if you know what I mean. Lately, though, it seems, that folks I respect have been trying the black background thing. A while back Atwood blogged about this. There's a lovely theme for Mac folks running TextMate using the Monaco Font by this fellow at Vibrant Ink. Folks with "TextMate Envy" can get a free Monaco Font for Windows here. Since that was so easy to find, I figured I'd try black background world also. But not just "switch to black background," no, no, that'd be too simplistic. I need to pump up the color on the foreground as well. Now, that doesn't look too bad. Here's what I did from Tools|Options inside Visual Studio.NET Changed the font to Monaco in Environment|Fonts and Colors under "Text Editor" Changed: Plain Text - White Line Numbers - Silver Comments - 213,0,213 (Purpley) Identifier - 253,223,57 (Mustardy) Keyword - 244,122,0 (Orangey) Operator - White String - Lime UserTypes - 179,179,0 (Mustardy) I think I'll leave it like this for a while and see what happens. Feel free to post links to a screenshot of your colors and fonts in your editor in the comments. Put the link to your screenshot in the Home Page field in the comment and your name in the comments will automatically turn into a hyperlink. Now, gray background people? Well, they're just freaks. ;) About Scott Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author. About Newsletter Sponsored By Hosting By Comments [31] Share on: Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or use the Permalink


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Don't start 2013 playing catch-up. Here are 10 tips – from a broad range of experts – to help switch your focus from 'getting through Christmas' to 'getting ahead'.
1. Cut your losses
Closely examine your difficult clients to determine whether they're worth your time and money.
David Baumgarten, CEO of three Sydney-based business enterprise centres, says small businesses should be wary of clients who abuse credit terms.
"You are not a bank … we need to be very conscious that a tight control is needed over debtors, as it will impact on the bottom line," Baumgarten says.
"Watch for the tell-tale signs of a business in trouble – delay in payment and stretching payment beyond your terms of trade.
"One bad debt, or having all your eggs in one basket, can virtually put you out of business."
2. Be picky, not complacent
Getting comfortable with long-term clients who provide a bulk of your income creates obvious pitfalls.
Build a "stable of clients – the number depending on your ability to service," says Baumgarten.
"Do not position yourself as a one or two-client business. Choose who you wish to do business (with) and who you enjoy working with."
He says the days of taking on just anyone a client are over.
"You will find that if you put your skills set out in the market, and set the criteria on how you operate your ethical business, you will attract the same."
3. Nurture existing relationships
You assume your clients are happy – but are they? Have they had better offers? Do some digging and show some appreciation.
Founder of The Good Manners Company, Anna Musson, says distinguishing yourself from competitors could simply come in the form of a handwritten thank-you note.
"What a wonderful way to be remembered, as someone who took the time and effort to pen a note which contains some wit and sincerity," Musson says.
"A handwritten note has a formula - thank or congratulate, refer to past, refer to future and sign off," she says.
4. Broaden your appeal
Michelle Gamble, 'chief angel' at Marketing Angels, says many small businesses focus on attracting new customers, rather than increasing value for those they already have.
"With a slow-growth economy – and in some sectors negative or static growth – finding new, innovative ways to grow revenue (by) adding more products and services to offer current customers is a key opportunity," Gamble says.
"Do some customer research to find out what else your customers need … perhaps run some trial offers to establish key opportunities for growth."
5. Build your brand
"Customer engagement and brand love is becoming increasingly important," says Gamble.
"Creating brand love, by delivering on your brand promise in the customer experience, is becoming increasingly important, with loving and engaged fans having the ability to build word-of-mouth for you via social media.
"Understanding your brand values – (and) how you'll bring these to life for customers – is time well spent going into 2013," she says.
6. Get engaged
"Content marketing is booming," Gamble says. "Simply offering a product is no longer enough – you need to also provide additional useful content to customers or potential customers."
She recommends creating interesting content that will entice customers to engage with your brand.
"It could be a 'how to' video, an e-guide, a free book or styling suggestions or tips. By offering useful content, you'll also grow your word-of-mouth and loyalty."
7. Review your business plan
Joe Kaleb, chartered accountant and CEO of small business portal www.australianbiz.com.au, says "developing a business plan that supports a vision of where the business is heading, and helps it get there, is a critical tool".
"All business decisions can then be made within the context of the plan, to ensure that resources are not wasted on areas that don't add to the overall direction of the business," he says.
"Note that business plans are never static and need to be constantly revised in light of new information and circumstances."
8. Plan for growth
"When planning for growth, businesses should anticipate the resources that growth will require," Kaleb says.
"This goes beyond budgeting for extra sales staff…other matters that should be considered include impact on working capital, premises requirements, management time required and systems capacity".
9. Review financing options
It sounds like extra work, but comparing financing options is time well-spent if you find a better deal.
"There are many different financing alternatives that are available," Kaleb says.
"Business owners should be regularly reviewing and comparing their financing to ensure that it is appropriate and that the current provider remains competitive."
10. Gain control by losing a little
It's common for small business owners to wear multiple hats. But consider delegating non-core activities so you can focus on running your business, rather than getting bogged down in busy work, says organisational psychologist and FBG Group director, Simon Brown-Greaves.
"The key role for a small business owner is to work on the business – not be completely immersed within it," Brown-Greaves says.
"If you find that all your time is spent on staff/administration, outsource it to someone whose core business is people or administration."


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Jeff has worked as a self-employed painting contractor for more than 35 years and Penny has worked for the Northwest Ohio Educational Service Center for the past 21 years, serving as a truant officer for Fulton County Schools. She also owns Quaint Wedding Stationery & Accessories.
The couple celebrated with an Italian dinner prepared at their home by their three children, Kendra (and Jason) Batdorf, Hayley (and Nick) Tule, and Whitney (and Nick) Lavinder. Their anniversary cake was decorated with love by their grandchildren, Lola and Karsyn Lavinder, Benjamin and Ella Tule, and Delaney Batdorf.
A larger celebration is being planned this summer at the family cottage on Nettle Lake.


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Exploration licences to be approved before Dáil sitting
THE DEPARTMENT of Energy says new oil and gas exploration licences for the Atlantic margin will be approved before the resumption of the Dáil next month.
However, Fianna Fáil energy spokesman Éamon Ó Cuív has appealed to Minister for Energy Pat Rabbitte to defer his endorsement until a promised review of the State's current oil and gas licensing terms by an Oireachtas committee.
"Whatever Mr Rabbitte may feel about the suitability of the terms, the public perception now is that we are giving away a natural resource," Mr Ó Cuív said.
"An Oireachtas committee debate will allow for full information and discussion by elected representatives."
Some 15 applications were received by the department for the round, initiated by Fianna Fáil junior energy minister Conor Lenihan last year – the highest number of applications for any such round to date. The department has declined to release names of the applicants for "privacy reasons", but has said evaluations will be completed this week.
The new licensing round will allow successful companies the first refusal on exploration licences over 250,000 sq km of the Atlantic shelf, an area about three times the size of the island of Ireland.
A 2006 study for the Department of Energy, published in 2007, estimated a total reserve potential of 10 billion barrels of oil equivalent for offshore frontier basins west of Ireland – worth €750 billion at recent prices of €75 a barrel.
During a debate last April on a Sinn Féin motion to amend the terms, Mr Rabbitte agreed to a proposal by Mr Ó Cuív to refer the issue to an Oireachtas committee.
However, he refused a Siptu request, also echoed by Mr Ó Cuív during the summer, for a moratorium on issuing licences until the review had been completed.
A position paper published by Siptu noted that the current licensing system transferred ownership of resources to the lease holders, and companies were not required to sell any oil or gas or both into the Irish market – but could sell at full market price.
Siptu has said that a revised fiscal system – such as a contractual system – would afford the State more return and more control, and could be used to pay for the transition to renewable energies.
Mr Rabbitte had "no response" to the Siptu report, according to his department.
He had said he would keep the terms "under review", but his department's focus was on attracting a "larger share of international exploration investment to Ireland to increase the chances of new commercial discoveries being made".
Mr Rabbitte has pointed out that only four discoveries off the Irish coast had proved to be commercial to date, including the Corrib gas field.


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Al Baker's legacy to magic is gigantic: his books have become modern classics of conjuring literature. His influence as a thinker and inventor of subtle magical effects resonates with some of modern magicdom's brightest stars, among them, Eugene Burger and John Carney.
Just a Sweet Cake is a previously unpublished interview with Baker, conducted in June of 1941. Baker discusses his upbringing, his contemporaries (Cardini, Vernon and Houdini), as well as his philosophies about performing magic, and humor. Other subjects covered include Chautauquas, Baker's signature routines, Adelaide and Alexander Herrmann, Harry Kellar, Elmer Ransom, Martinka's Magic Shop, the Society of American Magicians, and much more.
Produced in a limited edition of 200 and presented as a souvenir to attendees of the 2009 40th Annual Magic Collectors' Weekend, only a few copies of this delightful discussion with Baker remain. Order now to avoid disappointment!
8.5 x 5.5", 32 pages, saddle-stitched. With an introduction by Gabe Fajuri. Illustrated with photographs.


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On Capitalism and Corporatism
I am occasionally accused of being anti-things: anti-capitalist, anti-corporate, and anti-globalization, mainly. If you've read Jennifer Government, you may have an inkling why. But that's a novel, not an essay. So I am going to settle the burning issue: What Max is Anti-.
Let's start with anti-corporate. People say this just because I wrote a book in which Nike commits mass murder as a promotion for sneakers. The truth is, I consider myself fairly pro-corporation. After all, I believe they should be allowed to exist. I'm happy for them to manufacture things, and offer those things to me in exchange for money. So long as they don't externalize the true costs of such manufacture—by, for example, dumping their waste in a river—that's totally fine. My only beef with corporations is that they would clearly kill any one of us if there was a clean profit in it, and they seem to be getting themselves into a position to do just that.
Now apparently that makes me anti-corporate. Which I think is totally unfair; after all, I can be pro-lawnmower even though I don't want them running over my feet. I don't believe that corporations are evil. I don't think they're immoral. They're simply amoral: they have no capacity for ethical judgment. Like a lawnmower, they do what they've been designed for.
My attitude toward corporations doesn't depend on whether they're large or small, chain or independent, foreign or local. It's certainly true that companies that serve the general public (like McDonald's and Apple) act nicer than companies that don't (like Monsanto and Halliburton), but this is no anomaly: it's just further proof that corporations are only interested in public opinion when it affects their bottom-line. Fundamentally, all public companies are cast from the same mold. They are all machines, running different programs on the same operating system.
This is not a particularly common view in these days when corporations appear to us as grinning clowns and energetic bunnies. We are generally encouraged to view them as real people, complete with emotions and personalities and quirky senses of humor. To me this is the purest horseshit, and why I am never surprised by scandals of companies caught behaving badly. They are not people, and it isn't cynicism to say so: it's the plain truth.
(By the way, I suspect that the increasing personification of corporations might turn out to be their Achilles' heel. The more society buys into the myth that companies are real people, the more we expect them to adhere to human-like standards of ethical behavior. People like me would allow corporations to get away with murder, because we expect nothing better. It's the people who get shocked when they discover that designer-label clothing is manufactured for ten cents an hour by children in China who cause trouble for a brand's image and force companies to improve their behavior.)
As for capitalism, I'm definitely pro- that. At least, I'm in favor of the kind of regulated capitalism that clearly beats the pants off any other economic system the world has come up with so far. Capitalism has its pointy bits, but it's hard to argue with life-saving medicines, mobile phones, and being able to buy a vintage Chewbacca figurine over the internet. Now, I don't think it's a smart idea to privatize water, or the government, or any other essential service that isn't subject to natural competition, but that doesn't mean I'm anti-capitalist. That means I'm not a zealot.
Somehow, the words "corporation" and "capitalism" have gotten mixed up: the prevailing view is that corporations are champions of capitalism, while anybody prone to waving a placard outside a Gap store must be against it (and maybe even against *cough* *cough* freedom.) I don't know how anyone who's actually worked for a corporation can believe this. Companies are like the Soviet Union pre-1989: they're centrally-managed, they're always trying to establish a monopoly, and there's nothing they love more than a little price-fixing. Sometimes they send people to lobby government, but not for more competition: no, they want subsidies, special favors, tax breaks, and government assistance. So who's the pinko? It's corporations that are anti-capitalist, not people like me.
Finally, globalization: I'm pro- that, too. Its great potential benefit is that as it erodes national boundaries, the privileges of rich nations leak out to the poor. Today, the single greatest determinant of your health, wealth, and general standard of living is which part of the Earth you happened to be born in—something you had no say in, and can take no credit for. There is currently some consternation in Western nations about jobs flowing offshore, to people who will work for less pay (although this has been the case ever since I can remember, just in different industries), but as far as I'm concerned, this is terrific. As much as it would suck to be made redundant from your call center because the work is moving to India, that job is going to someone poorer than you, who needs the work more than you, and who in unemployment faces more serious consequences than having to cancel his World of Warcraft subscription. We are gradually coming to grips with the concept that people shouldn't be discriminated against for things they can't control, and thanks to globalization, this will eventually apply to people outside our own national borders. It is an outrage that Western nations preach free trade while blocking poorer countries from selling us their goods; it perpetuates Third World poverty in order to protect First World jobs. I'll suck up a lot of lost Aussie culture and Planet Hollywood stores to get rid of that.
Idiot Does Stupid Thing
Okay, look, yes: I realize some idiot has auctioned his forehead for advertising space, and January is a slow month for the media so they're all writing articles about it. And yes, of course, some idiotic company is going to pay some idiotic amount of money for it, and that'll make news all over again. (If you haven't heard about this, here's all you need to know: his mother is proud of him because he's "thinking outside the box.") Haven't we already established that the world is engaged in a slow, hapless slide into corpocracy? Do we really need to celebrate every milestone?
Update (12-Jan-05): For a full listing of idiots, check out the hundred or so people currently offering various parts of their anatomy for sale as billboards (thanks to M. Burns for the link). Two items are worth a look, though: first, the "Forehead Ad Blocker" (screens out ads on idiots' foreheads), and "Watch me bitch slap everyone selling their forehead". Now that's tempting.


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A story surfaced over the last few days about a Norwegian skydiver who captured on film a rock flying by just after he deployed his parachute. Actually this happened about two years ago during which time some experts have been examining the evidence and have concluded that what he recorded was a falling meteoroid (it becomes a meteorite once it hits the ground) I was very skeptical about this story and was waiting for the bad astronomer to debunk it but he failed to do so, so I will have to do it for myself. Update 7-4-2013: Phil Plait has now posted a more skeptical followup suggesting similar ideas as written here (and by others elsewhere) which I fully agree with.
The first thing to think about is what are the chances of this happening? Records indicate that only one person has ever been hit by a meteorite. The person was a German boy who was hit by a pea sized meteorite. He was fine. There is also a story of a dog that was hit and vaporized but that story seems to be fake. In addition there are also a handful of cases where cars have been hit by sizable meteorties. At least one, the Peeksill meteorite was verified.
It could be that there are more unrecorded cases but we dont need precise numbers so let's assume that as many as one car a year is actually hit by a sizable meteorite. There are about a billion cars in the world and most of them are outside exposed to the sky for most of the time. That is a lot of target space. On the other hand there are not too many active skydivers, maybe a hundred thousand at most doing on average a few jumps a year. Let's be very optimistic and call it a million jumps where an event might have been recorded. A typical descent lasts about 5 minutes which is about a hundred thousandths of a year. You can work it our yourself, with these generous figures and the assumption that a car hit has a similar cross-section to the claimed event, then we expect about one event like this every 100 million years. Yes, coincidences happen, but not something like that.
So what are the alternative theories. One possibility is a planned hoax. It would not be hard to put such a hoax together and there are plenty of hoaxes around, but the motivation to do an elaborate science hoax like this seems lacking. This is much more likely to be a hoax than a meteoroid but I dont think that is the best solution.
The most plausible explanation is the first thing that came into my mind and which others on slashdot have also suggested. It was a small stone that fell out of the parachute. Some people have disputed this because they say it was going too fast. In fact the estimated speed of the falling stone depends on its size or distance from the camera. The meteor experts estimated a large rock of a few kilograms travelling at 300 km/hr, but that is really based on the assumption that it is a meteoroid falling at terminal velocity. If it was a stone that fell out of a parachute it would have to be much smaller and slower and therefore nearer to the camera. This is equally consistent with what was recorded.
The object fell past about four seconds after the canopy opened. This is perfectly in line with expectations if it was on top of the parachute and bounced off. Is it possible for a skydiver to pack a stone in his parachute? Yes certainly as this video shows. A testimony from a skydiver on slashdot confirms that this happens. It is not common but it is common enough to expect someone to capture it on video sooner or later.
Update 8-4-2014: There is now an official explanation along the lines that the stone fell out as the parachute began to open and then passed the camera as the skydiver turned back a few seconds later. This is possible, as is my own similar explanation that it bounced off the top of the parachute and fell back a few seconds later.
Now everybody is saying that it is all fine and they knew all along that it might not have been a meteorite etc. Funny that the video and all the news reports made a very strong case for it being a meteorite and very few of us immediately noticed that this was very unlikely. That is the power of wishful thinking, confirmation bias and the persuasiveness of the authority of a qualified expert . If you were fooled, you will know to be more skeptical next time. In fact if you watch the video again you will see that they considered the possibility that it fell from the chute and that this was the one other possibility that they could not easily dismiss, but they did not say that outright. They just conveniently skipped over it and talked about other theories that could be more easily dismissed. The expert is also reported to have said that the chances of this happening are like winning the lottery three times in a row. That is about right and it is something that never happens but he did not seem to get that. Sometimes people's desire to be involved in something special are just so strong that their powers of reason are put on hold.
Of course this does not mean that everything a scientist says can be dismissed. It means you have to listen to the reasoning rather than just the claim. It is not always possible to estimate the approximate probability for something being true as it was in this case and not everyone has the right kind of sense to make the right judgement. If that is you then you might want to take note of who quickly saw the truth in this story and who didn't so you have a better idea of who to trust next time 🙂


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Jennifer Hudson is launching a clothing line.
The Oscar winner plans to debut her collection, to be sold on QVC, Sept. 6 during Fashion's Night Out, one of the kick-off events for New York Fashion Week.
Hudson will join Nicole Richie and Isaac Mizrahi on the cable home-shopping network from 9 p.m. to midnight ET to debut the line.
Her collection includes printed dresses, flowing skirts, leggings and a hoodie dress. Hudson has told multiple publications her line aims to represent women of all sizes.
"I've been on both sides of the fence," Hudson told Women's Wear Daily. "I've been a big girl and now whatever this is, the average size, whatever you want to call it. But I wanted the clothes to be where any girl could wear it — no matter what size you are — and you could feel comfortable in it."
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seems to be approaching that of being in a rut. How many birds/dunes/droplets does one need?
Need? None, of course. We don't need any photographs. But looking at your droplets gave me a lot of pleasure and lightened my mood; and that's a Good Thing. Keep doing droplets and fake dunes until you're bored with them. Then meander around until you run across something else that amuses you. If you've a restless spirit, you'll never be completely satisfied, but that's a Good Thing too.Jeremy
I've recently gotten kudos with some droplets and my "snow mound/desert" images...the desire to continue those accolades is beginning to affect my choice of material. I'm even playing with things like flour in a pan to form into appropriate looking mounds of sand dunes. Once you have learned the technique, a developing of "style"seems to be approaching that of being in a rut. How many birds/dunes/droplets does one need? Where does one draw the line?
The best advice an artist can take.......it will feed you soul.Peter
It sounds like what you are saying is that you've taken the snow mound shots about as far as you know how to take them at the moment and now, every time you approach them, you feel like you are doing the same thing. That doesn't mean that you've all you can ever do on them. It may just mean you need to get away from that project for a little while.I'm currently in a similar situation. I've been shooting a particular location quite a bit and lately I'm feeling like I'm either repeating myself or else the shots I'm getting are just boring and conventional. I need to shoot something else for a while (although I'm having trouble thinking of what that might be)As you suggest, it is really tempting to keep doing the thing that people are praising you for and it's kinda scary doing something else because maybe people won't like that.Would it help to just go out and shoot something radically different from what you normally do? For example, if you shoot natural landscapes, what would happen if you shot in the heart of a city? It may not be your favorite subject, but it might help you get perspective on what is really important to you in the sort of stuff you normally shoot.
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Vegetable recall over Listeria concerns
A Southern California grower and food processing firm has expanded its voluntarily recall of packaged onions and celery because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Oxnard-based Gills Onions LLC say no illnesses have been linked to the recall.
Gills Onions initially announced a recall on July 18. The product list was expanded on Thursday to include diced, slivered and whole-peeled onions and diced onion and celery mix with use-by dates on or before Aug. 3.
The recalled products were shipped to stores in California, Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Montana, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Washington and Canada.
The FDA and Gills officials are investigating the cause of the contamination and how Listeria was found in its plant.


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George Clooney readily concedes he's an actor, not a diplomat, but he's once again traveled to Sudan to use his leverage as a celebrity to bring awareness to the possibility of another bloody conflict as the country is positioned to split itself in two.
In an interview on TODAY Tuesday with Ann Curry — who accompanied Clooney on his weeklong trek through south Sudan — Clooney said he remains optimistic that a civil war can be avoided as the predominantly black African south fosters its own nation.
"I think [a civil war] can be stopped," he told Curry. "We stopped it in 2005, we stopped the north-south war … and we stopped it with diplomacy. We didn't stop it with soldiers. If we get involved now we have a shot."
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The people of south Sudan vote Jan. 9 on whether to secede from the Arab-Muslim north, and U.S. groups are already making a presence in hope of avoiding a repeat of the bloody, 21-year civil war that left nearly 2 million people dead. The U.N. Security Council, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and a private group that included Clooney have visited the southern region in the past week.
Clooney says a repeat of the genocidal war that rocked the western region of Darfur is indeed in the offing without due diligence.
"If we think that somehow we don't get involved and lay off — that somehow, at this point, when there's so much more at stake, that people aren't going to be killed — we're going to have to trust this same group of people. I think that's a very naive choice."
Clooney noted that previous diplomatic work on behalf of Sudan by the U.S. crossed party lines, and he believes no less than another full-on effort by the U.S. is needed to stop a full-scale civil war from breaking out again as Southern Sudan sits on the verge of independence. Already reports have surfaced of a massive military buildup in the north.
"We're very generous people, Americans," he told Curry. "We gave a billion a year with the Sudan to protect and help people after these tragedies. We're going to be involved one way or another; we're going to be there. It would be a lot better without spending a single dime, without costing any American lives — to get in there now with robust diplomacy, hard-core diplomacy, freezing assets, freezing bank accounts, doing everything we can to protect the people who want to vote for the right to freedom."
The high-level visits by U.S. groups are putting the spotlight on the Texas-size area of Sudan that is far less known to Americans than the western region of Darfur, where the mass atrocities were committed over the last decade.
"If you knew a tsunami or Katrina or a Haiti earthquake was coming, what would you do to save people?" Clooney asked Curry while traveling in Sudan.
Clooney spent the week traveling to remote, conflict-prone areas of Sudan's south with John Prendergast, a founder of the Enough Project, an anti-genocide advocacy group.
One photo posted by Curry on her NBC blog showed Clooney pointing over a field that Curry wrote was the site of a mass grave from 2008. That was in Abyei, a town that was largely burned to the ground after southern and northern armies clashed there, prompting an estimated 60,000 people to flee. The U.N. reported at the time that at least 140 people died.
Clooney also visited the town of Malakal, where elements of Sudan's northern and southern armies have clashed twice since the end of the north-south civil war in 2005.
"You don't have to be doing this ... you could be sipping wine in Italy," Curry told Clooney, bringing up the fact that he'd had some wild experiences, including being in a small plane during an electrical storm, sleeping in tents and huts overridden with mice and dealing with live frogs jumping out of toilets.
Clooney told Curry of his unique interactions with the local people — one being a grandmother who spit on him.
"I was blessed by the grandmother of a friend of ours," he said. "The way you're blessed is, she spits in both of your hands, and then pulls you down and spits on your head. I hadn't been blessed like that before, or I didn't call it a blessing when they did it!"
For more information on the conflict in Sudan and what you can do, click here.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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ROCK HILL, South Carolina – February 27, 2013 – 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) announced today that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Geomagic, Inc. ("Geomagic"), for $55 million in cash. Geomagic is a leading global provider of 3D authoring solutions including design, sculpt and scan software tools that are used to create 3D content and inspect products throughout the entire design and manufacturing process.
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More information on the company is available at www.3DSystems.com
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Geomagic is a global company dedicated to advancing and applying 3D technology for the benefit of humanity. 3D from Geomagic is breaking new ground and new levels of usability in 3D digital reality, touch-enabled design and product verification. The company's scanning and design software solutions are used to capture and model 3D content from physical objects, organically sculpt complex shapes, and prepare products for manufacturing. In addition, the company produces 3D metrology and inspection software that verifies dimensional quality by comparing as-built products to master designs and its Sensable Phantom haptic devices simulate the sense of touch in a digital environment.
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- Peel and chop apples. Cook them however you like. I went the lazy route and stuck them in the microwave for 2 minutes.
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One of the countless examples of creative excellence in Rang De Basanti (2006) was the placement of the song Chhu Kar Mere Mann Ko with a slight variation. DJ (Aamir Khan) and friends were bowled over by Sue (Alice Patten) (here's where they met), and the one song they would sing to lighten the mood every once in a while was 'Sue Kar, Mere Mann Ko'. It sounded excellent and funny when I first saw the film. And those qualities have not diminished. Of course, the popularity of the original song prompted its use 25 years later. And that original song is the subject of this post.
From the film Yaarana (1981), with music by Rajesh Roshan, lyrics by Anjaan, and vocals by Kishore Kumar. The film starred Amitabh Bachchan, Neetu Singh, Aruna Irani, Amjad Khan, Tanuja and others.
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