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Make It In America Legislation in the 113th Congress: A Stronger Economy Through Manufacturing
When more products are made in America, there will be greater opportunity for our people to Make It In America. House Democrats' Make It In America plan focuses on creating the best conditions for American businesses to manufacture their products, innovate, and create jobs right here in the U.S. President Obama has already signed ten Make It In America bills into law, many of which passed Congress with bipartisan support. Leaders in business and labor alike support the Make It In America plan because it will set us on a solid path forward to a future of greater competitiveness, more jobs, and long-term economic success.
Since the Make It In America plan was launched, House Democrats have met with a variety of stakeholders – businesses, labor representatives, entrepreneurs, innovators, economists – and repeatedly heard the same ideas about what it will take to Make It In America. That's why the Make It In America plan for the 113th Congress is focused on four key priorities that can bring about the changes needed to help businesses grow and create jobs here, and which are the most likely to draw bipartisan support. These priorities are central to creating jobs, helping manufacturers produce more goods here, maintaining America's innovation edge, and preparing a highly skilled workforce.
Adopt and pursue a national manufacturing strategy
Right now, American manufacturers are facing international competitors that benefit from other nations' carefully crafted manufacturing strategies. Such comprehensive strategies include tax incentives, investments in research, skills development initiatives, and support for infrastructure projects in order to help their manufacturers get ahead. A sustained national focus is necessary to ensure our policies are appropriately targeted and flexible to help our manufacturers compete. To do so, we must begin with a well-developed national strategy of our own.
- Make It in America Manufacturing Act of 2013 (Rep. Cicilline, H.R. 375): Establishes a competitive incentive grant program that will promote public-private partnerships and encourage an approach to enhancing the manufacturing industry that is driven by stakeholders at the regional, state, and local levels. Grant funds can be used to establish a revolving loan fund to make low-interest loans to manufacturers, or to award sub-grants to not-for-profit third parties, such as community colleges, to support training and education initiatives that align with employer demand, or to provide technical assistance to manufacturers to help them boost exports or pursue new opportunities in domestic supply chains and markets. Partners will be empowered to target strategies and investments to the particular needs of their state or region, and the bill will provide the resources manufacturers need to retool and retrofit their operations, close the skills gap, improve energy or process efficiency, and compete and succeed in the 21st century economy.
- Advancing Innovative Manufacturing Act of 2013 (Rep. E. B. Johnson, H.R. 1421): Creates industry-led consortia that will identify, prioritize, and address long-term, pre-competitive industrial research needs in advanced manufacturing; establishes a pilot program to promote advanced manufacturing and enhance the innovative capabilities and competitiveness of small and medium-sized manufacturers; creates a pilot program to award "innovation vouchers" worth up to $20,000 that small and medium-sized manufacturers can use to acquire technical expertise; and amends America COMPETES to provide competitive, merit-reviewed grants to community colleges for the development and implementation of innovative advanced manufacturing curricula and degree or certification programs.
- American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2013 (Rep. Lipinski, H.R. 2447): Directs the White House National Science and Technology Council, in consultation with business, labor and academia, to develop a national manufacturing competitiveness strategy that will attract manufacturing businesses to our shores, help them compete overseas, enable innovation, and encourage them to expand and create well-paying jobs here in the U.S.
- Economy, Energy and Environment Initiative to Support Sustainable Manufacturing (E3) Act (Rep. Esty, H.R. 2873): Supports sustainable manufacturing by authorizing the Departments of Energy, Commerce, Labor, Agriculture and EPA and SBA to coordinate and target federal resources to assist manufacturers in becoming more efficient, competitive and sustainable.
Promote the export of U.S. goods
Manufacturers need access to markets, both domestic and international, in order to sell their products. That requires reliable physical and telecommunications infrastructure, enforcement of fair trading rules, and targeted assistance to compete successfully in global markets. Businesses that Make It In America ought to be able to sell their products not just at home but easily do so throughout the world.
- Multimodal Opportunities Via Enhanced Freight Act of 2013 or the "MOVE Freight Act of 2013" (Rep. Sires, H.R. 974): Calls for the development of a National Freight Strategic Transportation Plan to assess the current national freight transportation system, designate priority freight corridors and gateways, and create a proposed investment plan to develop the priorities. It also creates a National Freight Infrastructure Investment Grants program, which would fund eligible projects such as port development, freight rail improvement, and intelligent transportation systems.
- American Textile Technology Innovation and Research for Exportation (ATTIRE) Act (Rep. D. Price and Rep. Coble, H.R. 937): Creates a competitive grant program to fund research and innovation and to promote increased textile exports.
- Clean Energy Technology Manufacturing and Export Assistance Act of 2013 (Rep. Matsui, H.R. 400): Establishes a Clean Energy Technology Manufacturing and Export Assistance Fund, to be administered through the International Trade Administration, to ensure that U.S. clean energy technology firms have the information and assistance they need to be competitive and to create clean energy technology sector jobs.
- Put America Back to Work Now Act (Rep. Connolly, H.R. 535) and Build America Bonds Act of 2013 (Rep. Neal, H.R. 789): Permanently extends the Build America Bonds program to help states and local governments leverage private capital to create jobs today and build the infrastructure that is the backbone of future economic growth.
The Customs Training Enhancement Act (Rep. Lipinski, H.R. 1322): Creates a public-private partnership between the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and American manufacturers to provide specialized training to CBP agents to prevent mislabeled or transshipped items from entering the U.S.
- American Export Promotion Act of 2013 (Rep. Gallego, H.R.1420): Authorizes the International Trade Administration's (ITA) Market Development Cooperator Program (MDCP). The program awards grants of financial and technical assistance to support trade association or local chamber of commerce projects that enhance the global competitiveness of U.S. industries. Successful grantees pay a minimum of two-thirds of the project cost and agree to sustain the project after the MDCP award period ends. On average from 1997 through 2012 projects generated $258 in exports for every $1 in MDCP awards made by ITA.
- Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act (Reps. Levin and Tim Ryan, H.R 1276): Levels the trade playing field by holding accountable countries that create an unfair trade advantage by manipulating their currency.
- Global Free Internet Act of 2013 (Rep. Lofgren, H.R. 889): Establishes a government task force that would review, prioritize, and act on attempts by foreign governments to degrade or disrupt the flow of goods, services, and/or content on the Internet.
- New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions (NAT GAS) Act (Rep. Larson, H.R. 1364): Provides incentives to encourage private investment in natural gas refueling infrastructure and the production and purchasing of natural gas vehicles and trucks that utilize growing low-cost U.S. natural gas supplies as a way to get goods to market.
- Invest in American Jobs Act of 2013 (Rep. Rahall, H.R. 949): Strengthens existing Buy America requirements for investments in highway, bridge, public transit, rail, and aviation infrastructure and equipment to ensure that all of the steel, iron, and manufactured goods used in these projects is produced in the United States. The bill also applies Buy America requirements to other transportation and infrastructure investment where such requirements do not exist in current law, including rail infrastructure grants, loans, and loan guarantees, Clean Water State Revolving Fund grants, and Economic Development Administration (EDA) grants.
- Enforcing Orders and Reducing Customs Evasion (ENFORCE) Act (Rep. Long and Rep. Linda Sanchez, H.R. 1440): Establishes new procedures for investigating claims that foreign manufacturers are evading anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders to better enforce trade laws and prevent illegal imports.
- Export Promotion Reform Act (Rep. Engel, H.R. 1409): Strengthens the interagency Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC); increases coordination among federal export programs; requires the government to gather input from more sources, including small and medium-sized businesses, when drafting strategic plans for federal trade promotion policies; and directs ambassadors to develop country-specific commercial diplomacy plans to increase U.S. exports.
Bridge to Jobs Act (Rep. Hahn, H.R. 1419): Authorizes vital infrastructure spending that would put Americans back to work, repair our nation's crumbling bridges, and revitalize our ailing economy. Each state would be eligible to receive a grant to repair, reconstruct, or replace a bridge that has been deemed "structurally deficient" by the Federal Highway Administration.
- Reducing Waste and Increasing Efficiency in Trade Act (Rep. Bera, H.R. 3004): Helps promote exports by creating the International Trade Data System to electronically link together U.S. government agencies to oversee the flow of goods that drive our economy. This data system will increase government efficiency and security while improving trade facilitation and enforcement.
- Miscellaneous Tariff Bill: Eliminates duties on certain products not produced in the U.S., particularly raw materials and intermediate inputs that are used by U.S. manufacturers, reducing these manufacturers' production costs and making them more competitive.
- National Infrastructure Development Bank: Establishes a federal funding mechanism to facilitate efficient investments in and financing of infrastructure projects—from leading-edge broadband networks and energy delivery systems to modern ports—that foster economic development and keep America competitive.
Encourage businesses to bring jobs and innovation back to the U.S.
In order to maintain a strong economy and remain the world's leader in innovation, we must encourage businesses to move jobs and innovation back to the U.S. where possible, and keep them here. When manufacturing moves overseas, innovation follows. As businesses face challenges including rising global shipping costs and times, and supply chain concerns, we have an opportunity to create an environment that capitalizes on the advantages the U.S. has to offer to get businesses to stay and invest here.
- Research and Development Tax Credit Extension Act of 2013 (Rep. Carney, H.R. 905): Make permanent and expand the Research and Development Tax Credit so research investments can draw capital that create tomorrow's jobs.
- The Bring Jobs Home Act of 2013 (Rep. Pascrell, H.R. 851): Eliminates the tax deduction for moving expenses for companies sending jobs overseas and provides a new tax credit for companies that bring jobs back to the U.S.
- Patriot Corporations of America Act of 2013 (Rep. Schakowsky, H.R. 929): Rewards companies that voluntarily meet "patriotic" standards (e.g., produce at least 90 percent of their goods and services in the U.S., spend at least 50 percent of their R&D budgets in the U.S., pay at least 70 percent of the cost of health insurance premiums) by giving them preference in government contracting and a 5 percent reduction in their taxable income.
- Market Based Manufacturing Incentives Act of 2013 (Rep. Honda, H.R. 615): Allows a tax credit for the purchase of new products certified as assembled in the U.S. and consisting of at least 60 percent of components assembled in the U.S.
- Advanced Vehicle Technology Act of 2013 (Rep. Gary Peters, H.R. 1027): The bill reauthorizes the Department of Energy's Vehicle Technologies research programs (FreedomCar and the 21st Century Truck Partnership) so that the next generation of advanced vehicles can be built in America.
- American Jobs Matter Act (Rep. Bustos, H.R. 1332): Directs federal contracting officers, government-wide, to solicit optional information regarding the impact a contract award may have on U.S. job creation and authorizes the use of this information in award decisions.
- Small Business Start-up Savings Accounts (Rep. Sewell, H.R. 1323): Establishes tax-preferred savings accounts for small businesses to grow and create jobs.
- Rare Earths Materials: Two bills have been introduced. Securing Energy Critical Elements and American Jobs Act of 2013 (Rep. Swalwell, H.R.1022), and the Resource Assessment of Rare Earths (RARE) Act of 2013 (Reps. Hank Johnson and Markey, H.R. 981). These bills support the assessment and development of U.S. capacity in the production rare earth minerals critical to the manufacture of energy, electronics, and other technologies.
- Congressional Made in America Promise Act (Rep. Kaptur, H.R. 194): Adds a new section to the Buy America laws to ensure that the U.S. Congress buys American made goods. Also eliminates the Buy America waiver for products that bear an official insignia of the House of Representatives, the Senate, or the Congress. Under current law, there is no requirement that Legislative Branch agencies procure American made products.
- Security in Energy and Manufacturing (SEAM) Act (Rep. Sinema, H.R. 1424): Expands the SEAM tax credit, initially created in the Recovery Act, to equip, expand, or establish manufacturing facilities in the U.S. that make advanced energy products. The program has already created more than 17,000 jobs and incentivized $5.4 billion in private-sector investment.
- SelectUSA Authorization Act of 2013 (Rep. Ruiz, H.R. 1413) Authorizes the SelectUSA program, a foreign direct investment initiative designed to promote the U.S. as the foremost place in the world to conduct business.
- Partnering with American Manufacturers for Efficiency and Competitiveness Act (Rep. Murphy, H.R. 1418): Reauthorizes a National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) grant program that incentivizes the development of new, cutting edge, public-private manufacturing assistance programs to generate jobs, promote commercialization of environmentally focused materials and processes, increase energy efficiency, and improve competitiveness. The bill would boost small businesses' manufacturing capability by promoting the use of clean, high-tech, and efficient processes.
- The Innovative Technologies Investment Incentives Act (Rep. Van Hollen, H.R.1415): Accelerates innovation by providing a 25% tax credit for qualified equity investments in eligible high technology and biotechnology small businesses.
- Cooperative Research and Development Fund Authorization Act of 2013 (Rep. Lujan, H.R. 1711): Authorizes a dedicated fund to provide for the government's share and enable small businesses to participate in Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) with the Department of Energy. CRADAs enable collaboration between a business and a national lab to develop the lab's technological innovations for manufacture and sale in the commercial marketplace.
- Advanced Composites Development Act of 2013 (Rep. Michaud, H.R. 2034): Establishes composites research centers through the Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and Department of Homeland Security. Each center will operate as a university-private sector partnership and will focus on problems that can be solved in five years through development of an advanced composite material. By working with the private sector and focusing on efforts that can realistically be moved out of the research stage in a relatively short period of time, each center will produce new composites with immediate, practical applications for manufactured goods.
- All-American Flag Act (Rep. Braley and Rep. King, H.R. 2355): Requires that any United States flags acquired for use by the federal government be entirely manufactured in the United States. While federal law currently requires that American flags purchased and used by the government are American made, it only requires that at least 50% of the materials used to make the flag are American made.
- GREEN Act of 2013 (Rep. Payne, H.R. 2863): Creates a lending program with a local match requirement to provide up to $2 million in financial assistance and $100,000 in technical assistance to small businesses that create green manufacturing, energy-efficiency retrofit, and other green jobs in low-income communities.
- Corporate Tax Reform: Reform could lower the corporate tax rate and bring investment back to make American business and the American worker more competitive globally. Our corporate tax system is far too confusing and inefficient. It causes economic distortions by forcing managers to make decisions based on tax consequences rather than on solid business principles. Many of these decisions, unfortunately, send investment and jobs overseas.
Train and secure a twenty-first century workforce
American businesses can only remain competitive when they have the trained and educated workers they need. We must strengthen our education and skills-training programs to make sure our workers are getting the preparation and certifications they need, and we ought to ensure that all those we train in high-demand skills have an opportunity to find work and contribute to our economy.
- Workforce Investment Act (Rep. Tierney, H.R. 798): Reauthorizes the Workforce Investment Act in a responsible way that ensures workers can obtain jobs and build careers through strategic partnerships and enables businesses to identify and hire qualified personnel to grow and continue our economic recovery.
- American Manufacturing Efficiency & Retraining Investment Collaboration (AMERICA Works) Act (Rep. Schneider and Rep. Barletta, H.R. 497): Strengthens our workforce by helping American workers earn certifications, degrees, and qualifications for the jobs American industry needs to fill.
Strengthening Employment Clusters to Organize Regional Success (SECTORS) Act (Rep. Loebsack, H.R. 919): Facilitates partnerships between employers, educators, and local workforce administrators to train workers for some of the most needed 21st century jobs.
- Job Skills for America's Students Act of 2013 (Rep. Takano, H.R. 1271): Allows a $2,000-per-student tax credit to employers that partner with educational institutions to provide skills training.
- National Fab Lab Network Act (Rep. Foster, H.R.1289): Creates a national network of "Fab Labs," a local lab equipped with basic design and fabrication machines and materials that are available for public use. Such labs would make available the same tools that are used in modern manufacturing and give both children and adults experience using them as a way to increase the number of people ready to enter the manufacturing workforce.
- Workforce Development Tax Credit Act of 2013 (Rep. Sewell, H.R. 1324): Provides a tax credit to businesses that develop an apprenticeship training program (50 percent credit on the first $2,000 in wages in a taxable year for each apprentice). The tax credit increases for businesses that hire and retain the apprentices for at least two consecutive years after completion of apprenticeship training (40 percent credit for the first $6,000 in wages).
- Job Opportunities Between our Shores (JOBS) Act (Rep. Enyart, H.R. 1436): Establishes a Workforce Investment Act pilot program to provide targeted investments to partnerships of community/technical colleges, local workforce investment boards and advanced manufacturing firms to design and implement education and training programs for current and prospective workers.
- Broadband Adoption Act of 2013 (Rep. Matsui, H.R. 1685): Brings broadband into the homes of more American families, enabling more Americans to receive the training and education required to enter the 21st century digital economy. Increasing broadband also helps manufacturers and small businesses connect with customers and market their products. The bill modernizes the FCC's Lifeline program to provide low-income households with broadband service alongside, or as an alternative to, the program's traditional support of telephone service.
- Workforce Development Investment Act of 2013 (Rep. Kuster, H.R. 1747). Creates a $2,000-per-student tax credit to employers that partner with community colleges or other educational institutions to provide skills training.
Click here to see a list of the ten enacted laws from the Make It In America plan.
Click here to read statements of support from across the country.
Click here for an issue report on the importance of manufacturing.Click here to read in PDF.


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Two Paths: Engineering or Business
Speaker: John Suzukida, PE, Owner, Lanex Consulting
John Suzukida, PE, Owner, Lanex Consulting
Track: Individual Development
Presentation: Two Paths: Engineering or Business
Time: Oct. 18, 9:45 a.m.
During this presentation, John Suzukida will help attendees discover the options available to them in their careers-some of which may come to them, others which they may need to pursue. The objective is to help participants make conscious decisions on how to spend their careers in a way that's most valuable to them-and not to passively allow their career to happen. An engineering degree can be an extremely valuable point upon which to build a life of doing what is most fulfilling-awareness of your options is key.
John Suzukida was previously Trane's Senior VP of Global Marketing & Strategy prior to founding Shoreview, Minn.-based Lanex Consulting, LLC in 2002, which focuses on energy efficiency, product-to-solutions transitions and organizational strategy. Clients include Daikin Industries, Portland Energy Conservation, Inc., McQuay, American Air Filter, The West Coast Zero Net Energy Coordinating Council, California Commissioning Collaborative Advisory Council, Danfoss, the National Conference on Building Commissioning, the Ramsey County Attorney's Office, and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Energy Engineering. He has authored numerous articles for industry publications. He has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Illinois and served as president of its Mechanical Engineering Alumni Board. John Suzukida is a licensed PE in the State of Wisconsin and is on the Board of Directors for Steffes, Corp. and the Board of Advisors for EnergyPrint, Inc. John Suzukida is a member of the Career Smart team of columnists for Consulting-Specifying Engineer magazine.
- Start with overview of options to introduce some positions of which the audience may not be aware, with ideas for questions to consider asking yourself.
- Include audience participation time to bring up additional titles/positions for engineers with time for discussion and sharing perspectives, which may resonate with others to help them figure out the right path for them.
Learning objectives:
1. Participants will learn to make conscious decisions on how to spend their careers in a way that's most valuable to them-and not to passively allow their career to happen.
2. The audience will explore and understand the three options available to those with an engineering degree: technical, business, and management.
3. Attendees will review options to introduce some positions of which the audience may not be aware, with ideas for questions to consider asking yourself as you consider various career path alternatives.
4. In a group setting, participants will create a list of possible engineering positions and their descriptions. This is an open discussion and exercise.
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Whether you plan to attend the 67th annual Apple Festive on just one day or all four, there are plenty of options for getting there and landing a place to park.
Trolley service
To find a free parking space fast, head straight to Jackson Park, less than a mile from the center of the festival, and take the trolley into town. The trolley costs $2 per person (ride back is free). Children under three ride free. Trolley services are provided by Elite Limousine of Mills River. Owner John Pauwels said two trolleys will run on Friday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; four trolleys on Saturday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; and four trolleys on Sunday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
If you want to park closer to the festival and walk to Main Street, the following metered city lots will be open: Dogwood (Fourth Avenue and Church Street), City Hall (Sixth Avenue and King Street), Maple (Fifth Avenue and King Street) and Azalea (Fourth Avenue and King Street).The cost is 25 cents per hour; only quarters accepted.
In addition, dozens of private lots around Main Street will have parking for a fee. Often these lots are operated by nonprofits or charities, so the North Carolina Apple Festival has no control over them.
Handicapped parking
The Visitors Information Center parking lot will be open for handicapped parking only, free, with no time limit. The lot will be accessible only by West Barnwell Street, since Main Street will be closed. With 30 spaces, the lot is made available by the Henderson County Travel and Tourism and will be manned by the Hendersonville Shrine Club to fundraise for Shriners Hospitals for Children.
Closed streets
Main Street will be closed to vehicles from Seventh Avenue to Caswell Street. Side streets in that same area are blocked off starting about a half block from Main Street.
Getting to the Festival
Whether you plan to attend the 67th annual Apple Festive on just one day or all four, there are plenty of options for getting there and landing a place to park.


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A man who was shot about 6 p.m. Wednesday in the 4600 block of Laurel Avenue in Northwest Baltimore's Cylburn neighborhood later died at a hospital.
The shooting took place blocks from where a man holding a gun was shot by police Tuesday night and also close to where another man was shot in the face and injured Monday night. This week, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said officials had pinpointed the area where the man was shot as a concern because of recent violence.
In another incident Wednesday, a 15-year-old boy was shot in the foot about 8 p.m. near the corner of Gay and Fayette streets, very close to Baltimore police headquarters downtown.
Police said they are investigating whether it was a botched robbery attempt and are searching for a suspect who ran from the scene.
The shooting was not the only one Wednesday near a law enforcement building. About 1:15 p.m., a man was shot in the arm in an apparent robbery attempt outside a city parole and probation office on Guilford Avenue.


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The End of Time
The adventures of Happenstance and Umber reach their epic, surprising, and emotional conclusion in this gripping end to a critically acclaimed series. As Happenstance struggles to master his unusual abilities, he realizes that time is running out—because Umber's rivals threaten to undo all the good he has achieved, while an unexpected new enemy with terrible destructive power approaches the kingdom….
Happenstance Found, the first book in the trilogy, was named to the 2010 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List!
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Phat fees: The day the music died?
WNRN 91.9 is in trouble. Well, not in trouble so much as fairly irritated.
You will be too, if you listen to the station via the internet. Of course, you're equally in trouble if you listen to HipHopBuzz, or KPIG, or Saratoga Dance Jams from your computer's speakers.
And if you don't listen to any of these internet stations, maybe you should think about it. With just a little searching, you could be listening to folk, blues, new release radio, doo-wop, or African drums– something besides the same five artists that the vast majority of radio stations play all day everyday.
On the other hand, don't get too attached. Most of internet radio– including Charlottesville's homegrown 91.9– may come to a crashing halt in October.
That's when internet radio will have to start paying, as well as back-paying, royalties on the songs that they stream out to listeners in cyberspace. For the vast majority of internet radio providers, including WNRN, the fees will be too much.
The short story goes like this. In February, the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP) issued a ruling on how royalty fees for web casting radio should be paid, and in June the Library of Congress also ruled on the rates. For internet radio, these decisions did not go well. Both internet-only stations and commercial radio stations with web-streaming options would pay 0.07 cents per song per listener. This means that for each song with a thousand listeners, webcasters would owe 70¢.
Worse for the stations, the fees are retroactive to 1998, when the Digital Music Copyright Act was signed into law. While traditional broadcasters have agreements worked out between Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) that cost them about 5 percent of their budget a year, internet radio stations will owe more than they take in.
The fees add up to thousands of dollars for the average internet station. For internet-only stations, that's usually thousands more than they earn.
"It's amazing," says Mike Friend, general manager at WNRN. "I don't understand how the Library of Congress got snookered into this with the record companies."
WNRN has been broadcasting on the internet to reach areas unserved by its 350-watt transmitter.
Friend thinks that record companies, frustrated by illegal internet downloads, are now shooting themselves in the foot.
"Here's one outlet that's got reasonable penetration– that's the internet– and the record companies are trying to stop it," he says.
One current bright spot is a bill introduced in July by Representative Rick Boucher (D-VA). The bill would waive the fees small webcasters owe until a new CARP panel can reconsider. Unfortunately, legislators are on recess until September, leaving just a month for something to happen before fees kick in.
There's another light on the horizon. Artemis Records, home to artists such as Steve Earle and the heavy metal band Kittie, announced last week that it would wave internet radio fees for one year. Given that Artemis' artists don't fall into the magic few played constantly on major radio stations, Artemis sees internet radio as a great means of exposure. Friend believes other record companies will eventually follow suit.
"I think they're going to have second thoughts," he says. They're starting to get some real sales from internet radio.
So you may or may not have your internet radio and actual music variety for a little bit longer, depending on who lobbies harder, whether Congress gets its act together in time to put a hold on the enormous royalty fees, and if record companies start to see things differently.
As Friend puts it, "We'll keep streaming until somebody tells us to stop." With a lot of luck, no one will.


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Apple, Microsoft, and others, a little over a month ago in a letter to the EU, warning that the EU's new proposed unified patent law could lead to more patent trolling:
To mitigate the potential for abuses of such power, courts should be guided by principles set forth in the rules of procedure to assess proportionality prior to granting injunctions. And PAEs should not be allowed to use injunctions for the sole purpose of extracting excessive royalties from operating companies that fear business disruption.
A new front opened today in the patent wars between large technology companies, as a consortium that owns thousands of patents from the Nortel bankruptcy auction filed suit against Google and other manufacturers alleging infringement. Rockstar, which is owned jointly by Apple, Blackberry, Ericsson, Microsoft, and Sony, filed suit in US District Court in Texas. In addition to Google, the consortium has alleged infringement by Asus, HTC, Huawei, LG, Pantech, Samsung, and ZTE.
They're not just scumbags - they are lying scumbags.
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So, if "offending" company comes independently to the same non-trivial tech, with the same investment, they should be sued?
Typically the patent is just a bunch of generic phrases. Also, patents are based on common knowledge. The knowledge, freely given to the world by it's inventors. This is not fair.
Why do you think hardware (or any industry) patents are non-trivial? They can be as simple as software.
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What a fun thread, I see a lot of people that I often see posting around other areas of the forum as well.
I couldn't find it in here - where are you all getting your information that Kira and Lacus are in ZAFT now? The series is 50 episodes (plus the recap episode, called "edit") right? I just finished 50, and there's no indication of that... was it speculation?
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Okay, here's a question. I haven't read this entire thread, so maybe there was an answer before the question of Shinn vs. Camille came up, but I really didn't see much of a trace of it, so I figured I'd just ask... Shinn was discarded as a main character, thus causing his character development to (much like the series itself) stagnate. Do we know what plans Fukuda had for Shinn before they decided to scrap him? I mean, we know that, in Gundam SEED, Kira was supposed to die at the end, but his popularity saved him. Have we gotten any such information about what was supposed to happen to Shinn?
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From what ive been told he was ment to kill kira in the final battle.
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Kamille at his worst punched a Titan and threatened to crush another Titan with a Gundam. I am sure all the people who were being oppressed by the Titans would've cheered.
Of course all of this is just my personal opinions. Obviously you guys disagree with them but that is fine. I am just contending that even if Shinn had developed just like Kamille he still would've been an unlikable character for me just because my initial impression of him is one of gross aversion.
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The other big issue I had was with Shinn and Stellar. When she's stampeding in the Destroy, Shinn just wants people to stop attacking her. What happened to the idea that war shouldn't happen? The same situation that killed his family is occurring on a larger scale below him (entire city was destroyed), and yet he can't bring himself to attack her. As if it's not bad enough, when Kira (whom 99% of the viewers love, based off of GSeed) steps in to stop the carnage, Shinn suddenly gets vengeful. I think that was it for me with Shinn - he didn't even seem conflicted over much, just a closed-minded character on the wrong side who's getting too much animation time.
Wierd way to do a series, indeed.
|2007-09-15, 21:11
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Jeez, am I the only person here who really likes Shinn?
You people are saying that you don't like him 'cause he's still upset that his family died two years ago. Let's face it, though: We didn't really see him moping before he started fighting again, or before he came into contact with people from/representing Orb. He's still carrying around his younger sister's cell phone, yeah, but that's not the same as having a pity party for two years. He's got friends, he was out shopping with Youlan, wasn't he? It's not like he was a jerk to everyone else, and it's not like he completely shut himself off from the world.
He just bears a grudge against Orb.
I'd say it makes enough sense. Grudges can resurface after coming into contact with people or ideals that remind us of our pasts. He doesn't like the earth alliance, of course, because they attacked his country and hate coordinators, so that aspect of him isn't explored as much because, let's face it, almost all the coordinators we see have some problem with the earth alliance. But it makes sense, too, that he'd bear serious resentment to the country that he felt was naive. Ever had someone say to you "but I was just trying to help!" when you were really pissed off? Does the fact that they were TRYING to do something they thought was good help at all? Maybe it does for other people, but I've never particularly felt that way.
Now let's say that the person who was "just trying to help" ended up contributing to the death of someone important to you, and two years later someone comes up to you and starts saying the same goddamn stuff you heard before from the helper-person. You might bear a grudge. You might disagree with their ideals. Just a little bit.
So yeah, we see Shinn mouth off towards Cagalli and Athrun, not knowing what they've been through, but we're only upset with him 'cause most viewers are biased towards them. Let's say someone we all hate was saying the stuff Cagalli was saying, and Shinn gave them a hard time. Most people would cheer Shinn on. Goddamn, don't ask me why, but when people are so biased towards the old characters, it bothers me... Probably just 'cause that bias in popularity effected the events in Gundam SEED Destiny too much, and made it so much worse than it could have been. Too many people were too infatuated with the old characters to try and see new ones blossoming...
And about saying "what happened to the idea that war shouldn't happen?" I think that Shinn doesn't disagree with the idea of war, he's not so optimistic about humanity. He believes fighting should be done PRECISELY because of what happened to his family. If Orb had fought sooner, I assume Shinn thinks, the mainland of Orb might have been saved. Perhaps if they'd started moving civilians out before the attack, or perhaps by launching the first strike and gaining an early advantage, they may have been saved. He never advocated that Orb should lay down it's weapons against the Earth Alliance, he never argued that war should not occur, and he never said that pacifism was the answer.
It's worth noting that he did exactly what Orb did against the earth alliance in terms of what he did against Destroy. Orb tried to rely on negotiations, on diplomacy, on words, and it didn't work. Shinn tried to use those same words to reason with Stellar. Does this make him a hypocrite? Hell yeah. But aren't we all hypocrites? Aren't all humans? Yeah, we try not to be, but Shinn was raised in Orb, so there's the innate Orbian in him talking when he tried to calm Stellar down. He hates Orb's ideals, but he's still influenced by them, and I think this makes him a deeply human character... He just didn't really have a chance to shine, thanks to the people who loved the old characters too much to give new ones a shot.
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But here, you have the old characters completely fighting with the new characters. Even worse, the new characters were completely aligned with the force of "evil" in the series. If Shinn had come around and fought alongside Kira and Athrun, or had they joined the plan, maybe people would have come to accept him more. One could argue that there was no evil - both sides wanted to prevent war, but had their own ways of doing it. That'd be valid, except that Athrun and Kira already have the just side in our minds, and the cinematic portrayals of the opposing side (ZAFT) made them seem evil, no matter how you put it.
I also understand where you're coming from with regard to Shinn getting upset at Cagalli, but when Shinn said "you don't know anything" (a few times, if I remember right), you really didn't feel anything? That's what set me off. We'd watched all of those characters struggle throughout the entire first series with the "realities of war" and finally reach a decision about how to deal with it. Then Shinn is there saying how they don't know anything, when he's only participated in a single battle? I wasn't very tolerant of that.
They also do not play it up that Shinn wants revenge on Freedom for killing his family. Shinn just wants to take out Freedom because Freedom is powerful, and also because Freedom did kill Stellar. The revenge aspect was drawn from that.
Actually, there's another loop of reasoning for why I get angry about Shinn. Shinn blames Kira for the death of Heine (although not as much as Athrun), and also for the death of Stellar. He also treats Stellar as if she had done nothing wrong. Yet, it was really Stellar that killed Heine. It just seems like two wrongs: letting Stellar get off of blame free, and then placing what should be her blame on Kira (who arguably had the purest intentions, even).
I can see that we viewed a lot of these events differently, which I find interesting. From what you're saying, I can understand how Shinn would be a more likable character. The series still does too much to portray him in an almost villainish manner, though. From attacking Kira (and despite lamenting over the first time, doing it again!) to following orders without thought, to disobeying orders without thought (returning Stellar), it just reeks of a seemingly bad character. What really ices the cake is the fact that he killed the Orb general who not only holds the true ideals of Orb (which the series, at least, puts into our minds as the ultimate source of good), but who looked after Shinn in his time of need, and got him out of Orb. Shinn didn't know who he was killing, I know, but the cinematic portrayals put Shinn in a very, very bad light.
|2007-09-15, 23:02
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So yeah, Shinn is definately put on the bad side in this story. I do, however, think that if people hadn't started hating him for hating on characters we like, he could have had some earnest character development (in the right direction), and the series would've been better... In my opinion. Who knows, he may not've killed the orb general... Was he named Takamikazuchi, or was that his ship? Meh.
On a slightly different note, I dunno, I just didn't like Kira in SEED Destiny... Because all his character development was basically in the first 13 episodes, and that was all it took. From there on out, pretty much, he just swoops in and owns everything, while being the usual infallible hero. His lack of any real personal conflict or confusion past just getting into the cockpit drove me nuts. Gundam is great, in my opinion, because of how it blurs the line between good and evil. Kira made that line much, much clearer than it needed to be. Yeah, he was good in GSEED, but he wasn't THAT good.
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Nah, I think Shinn is cool too. What pisses me off is when people say they don't like him because he always pissed off. 2 years, for what happened to his parents and his sister is nothing. Watching your family die isn't something you get over so quick... it's one of those things that may never go away. So can you really blame him? That cell phone is just like a picture to him. I highly doubt that at least HALF of the people that criticize him are fortunate enough to have never lost anybody really close to them.
|2007-09-16, 09:05
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I have never watched Star Trek, so I don't know all that much about your analogy, Kiramuro, but keeping a token of remembrance sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Plus, he's a soldier... I may be wrong, but don't some soldiers keep important mementos close to them?
|2007-09-16, 16:33
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|2007-09-16, 17:17
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Yeah, I think that's the problem with SEED Destiny. He rubbed people the wrong way initially, and people never got over that, so they slowly stopped portraying him as a good guy until around episode 33, I'd say . And so much of the audience wanted to see the old characters make triumphant returns and still have big parts, when really, they didn't need to have that happen. Say, does anyone know at what point, as in, what episode, Fukuda started diverging from the original plan for SEED Destiny? 'Cause it definately happened early on.
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Ya know, someone said that Shinn is a human character. Kira sucked in GSD because he turned into a "god". Shinn turned into nothing but a villain w/ no reason at all.
If Shinn was given good character development....
|2007-09-16, 18:27
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Goddess: Mother died of illness when she was still young, father assassinated. Yes, the Goddess's mother died of illness by this logic: if she was alive, we'd see the Goddess's mother with her. She isn't. And by anime/RPG cliches, all of the beautiful women die young, like when their children are still kids.
God: His best friend got Tolle'd.
Red knight: His best friend got Niccol'd. Mother killed senselessly, father went lunatic and died in the process before his eyes.
Better-off-as-a-soldier-tomboy: Her father blew himself to smithereens. An entire fleet of hers was incinerated before her eyes.
Murrue: Lost her bondage mistress, lost Mwu for a year.
Andy: Lost Aisha, one eye, one arm, and some of the functionality of one of his legs.
So by comparison, Shinn had absolutely no right whatsoever to keep bitching. But I guess you're doomed to failure when you're a fusion of Anakin Skywalker and Saucegay. Too much impatience, stupidity, and emo in one package that nobody short of the Goddess could undo. And no amount of strength can measure up to a pilot piloting a gundam imbued with Goddess Dust.
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Toys R Us Inc., the Wayne-based retail giant, plans to open more than 100 stores amid an expansion and renovation plan focused largely on China, the company announced today.
The global retailer already has started operating several of the 22 new stores scheduled to open this year in China, under a plan it says a priority after launching an e-commerce site and opening its first stores in Beijing last year. By the end of the year, the company plans to operate 51 stores in 27 cities throughout the country.
The United States will be the second-largest growth area for the company, which until April had been stuck in limbo over plans to go public, while grappling with the resignations of top executives. In a news release today, Toys R Us said it will convert or relocate 19 stores here, including nine new outlet stores.
In a prepared statement, interim CEO Antonio Urcelay said the expansion is a piece of the company's "long-term strategy — advancing our business in international markets with high growth potential, and the continued integration" of its Toys R Us and Babies R Us brands under one roof.
In October 2011, Toys acquired the majority stake of its in business in greater China and Southeast Asia from Fung Retailing, the news release said. The move allowed the company to own and control 70 percent of its licensed operations in the region.
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None of the relocation or conversion projects is in New Jersey, where the company has had its headquartered for much of its 65 years. The retail giant was publicly traded from 1978 to 2005, at which point it was acquired by a private equity group.
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On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Colin Putney <cputney at wiresong.ca> wrote:
> On 2010-03-04, at 1:18 PM, Stéphane Rollandin wrote:
> > I got it; see my answer to Juan. I guess I'm just programming in bad
> style: I do indeed consider that Object is part of my packages (or, more
> accurately, that Object is not a forbidden place for my package to go in).
> Hear hear. I've been wondering why people are so enthusiastic about #is: -
> good to see I'm not the only one.
> I think #isA: is fine, as an easy way to do #isKindOf: without a direct
> class reference. Being able to avoid class references makes it easier to
> avoid dependencies, which makes it easier to have a modular system.
> Juan's implementation of #is: puzzles me though. It replaces polymorphic
> dispatch with boolean logic. Good OO design generally goes in the opposite
> direction.
> Furthermore, Juan's version of #is: makes it more difficult to modularize
> the system. If I write a package that needs to add the concept of
> "greenness" to the system, I can add #isGreen extension methods wherever I
> want, without breaking any existing code. Somebody else can add #isPurple
> methods without breaking my code. But if we both need to override #is:, we
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> Note that #is: may work well in Cuis, but that's because Cuis is *not* a
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> Finally, I also want to point out that "simpler" and "fewer methods" are
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> understand, no matter how many of them there are. A single #is: method
> increases incomplexity as the number of tests it encompasses increases.
> So, consider this moral support for Stéphane, since he seems to be beset on
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Right, so I can't possibly write anything about a Dan Cederholm book without appearing to have a bias, so let me tell you right off the bat: yep, I think he's a swell guy, and yep, I got a review copy of his latest book for free.
That being said, I've had Bulletproof Web Design sitting on my desk for a few months now, and I just can't bring myself to stick it back in the bookshelf. It's got a special something that most tech books don't, namely cohesiveness.
The overall package feels like the perfect blending of its summary parts. From the book design to the illustration work, the paper texture to the book dimensions, it all adds up to something most books don't offer: a great experience.
The content's good too, as you might expect. "Bulletproofing" a web site means effectively blending liquid and fixed-width techniques, accounting for alternate browsing scenarios, and generally designing web sites in a web-like manner. You may not find anything new if you've been reading SimpleBits for any length of time, but having all these techniques in book form makes for easier explanation when speaking with clients and other designers.
I can't agree more Dave. I find that I refer to that book, and his other one, almost weekly. I tell all the other developers at work about it and tell them it is "a must" reference. I don't know Dan (wish I did), but I like his work and way of explaining it.
Oh, and not to leave out your book, which I purchased ASAP when it was out, is great as well. I helped get you on that "Customer's Favorite" list. Keep up the good work.
I had placed a "hold" on this book through our local county library system and it took about 3 weeks to get a copy.
I read it over the weekend and place an order for it on Monday at my favorite online tech bookstore. It's as good as Dave says.
When's the third book coming out? Dan has a way of explaining stuff that make you angry, angry that it was so simple and that you can't understand how you never figured it out before.
Easy to read and incredibly inspiring.
I'm also lucky enough to have a limited edition copy with the missing page!
There must be fifty "page markers" stuck in my copy of "Bulletproof" - I don't really need them, because when I look up something, I find an even better way of doing it because of Dave's way of giving you choices. Out of the hundred or more web design books on my shelves, his is the one most often referred to first.
I also have "The Zen of CSS design" and it is much more "down to earth useful" than the title would imply. I thought I was going to have to assume the Lotus position to do my a:links, but not so. Very easy to understand and to follow. Thanks.
I thought the 'bullet proof' title was a good way of describing the book's content. It really showed some great techniques and made a positive argument for 'extra markup'…not excessive, but just the minimal amount without markup being too non-semantic.
I have been reading SimpleBits for a couple of years now, but somehow, it wasn't until reading this post that I learned the meaning of "bulletproofing" in this context. With my newfound knowledge, this book will be a great recommendation for my colleagues in the future.
I absolutly agree with you Dave. I bought Dan's book 2 mounth ago and it gives you the possibility to explain CSS to other people on such an easy way. I do like the composition of an article. At first the text afterwards the XHTML and finally the CSS.
This was the first decent CSS book I found that focused on the truly important aspects of design without wasting too much time evangelizing or explaining basic how-to's.
And yes, it's wonderfully cohesive.
It's funny, at this very moment I have Web Standards Solutions open and Bulletproof Web Design sitting on the table. I've been trying to get my team to understand why Web Standards are so awesome, and it took showing them a stats table with 2 classes doing what a 3 level deep nested table used to do to get them to understand.
The thing about this book is that it's so 'pick-upable'. I bought it shortly after its launch, and yet it's one of the select few books in my possession (and the only reference book, I might add) that have never made the trip from on the desk before me, up onto my bookshelf. I persuaded my boss at work to purchase the book, and it hasn't yet been shelved there either.
You will have noticed that Bulletproof's introductory paragraph reads: "…before you close the book and put it back up on the shelf…".
Some hope! It's destined to become one of my most-thumbed.
Dan Cederholm not just a good coder, he is also a great author. All his books is written in such easy language, that I as newbie can easly understand all the aspectc of coding.
This a great book. The explanations are very lucid and pracical. I would recommend this book for anyone that already has some experience with CSS and XHTML. For the beginner, I think a book with some explanation of the properties and selectors.
I did have one problem with the indestructible box. Adding more paragraphs to this breaks it. This example I feel needed to go one step further to cover this situation, as I think many people would use the box in this way.
Great book was the first CSS book I have read that I could totaly understand.Lorens is absolutly right Dan is much more than a great coder.


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"With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans," Clinton said. "Was it because of a protest, or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make? It our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, senator."
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SDSU comes in after getting career highs from Hannah Strop and Chynna Stevens (16 points each) in an 11-point win at Fort Wayne Thursday night. The Jacks led by as many as 25 points in the first half, and limited the top shooting team in the conference to just 33 percent shooting, and eight points below their season scoring average.
Saturday's game against IUPUI will feature two teams that match-up very well as evidenced by their first meeting last month in Brookings. In that game, neither team reach 40 percent shooting on the night and the two combined for 37 turnovers.
But the Jacks displayed great balance, putting 10 players in the score column, outscoring the Jags 31-14 off the bench, offsetting 21 from Jags talented guard DeAirra Goss.
SDSU coach Aaron Johnston on Saturday's game:
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How Ari Graynor Breaks the Funny Female Mold
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For 11 years, to love Ari Graynor has been to suffer the unsatisfied cinematic angst of wanting more. The scene stealer dances in and out of bit parts, elevating typecast, party-girl caricatures into engaging women with her preternatural ability to find the humanity in the stereotypical. Whether the drama of Mystic River or the audacious humor of The Sitter, Graynor's stood to the left of the spotlight – until she teamed up with Lauren Miller for this week's must-see comedy, For a Good Time, Call… Finally, Graynor isn't the scene stealer, but the heart that holds the piece together.
Ari Graynor isn't an actress who slowly grew into her craft; her talents (and inevitable typecasting) were evident from the moment she strutted into Meadow Soprano's dorm room in The Sopranos. In her first moments on-screen, Caitlin Rucker is the drunken frosh, dancing into their dorm room, stripping to her underwear, and singing a bit of "New York, New York." She's the teen playing adult, spewing faux intellectualism while singing about her newfound college freedom. Five episodes later, Caitlin is pulling out her hair, overwhelmed by the darkness she sees in the Big Apple before running back into the arms of booze and party drugs.
It was a glimpse of the seriousness the actress was capable of, but in Hollywood, serious female-centric drama isn't as loved as drunken, lascivious party girls. Libations prevailed, but didn't conquer Graynor, and she infused her minor characters with a rare and palpable sense of humanity, never more apparent than her stint as Caroline in Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. At first glance, she looks like the obnoxious partier we see so often – booze flows from her flask, she drunkenly flirts with strange boys, runs around wildly, and vomits so often that she has special places where she prefers to hurl. She's the gross-out girl, so intent on saving her gum that she doesn't care where it rests between bouts of chewing.
Oh, that disgusting little piece of gum…
On first watch, there's little to do but writhe in your theater seat in disgust as Caroline fishes out her gum and slips it back into her mouth. But Graynor's facial expressions allow the scene to thrive on multiple viewings. Caroline pouts, ashamed as she slowly opens her mouth and returns the vomit-infused gum. But the bliss of the candy cannot be conquered by circumstance, and Caroline's lips curl into a smile as her eyelids close in happiness. The gag becomes the perfect delicate moment – her delicious comfort after running from assumed rapists and struggling to get home drunk and broke. The ludicrous setup almost toes the line of reality because her reactions are so idiosyncratically human. (See also the sandwich scene that comes before.)
Some of this ability is surely due to the fact that Graynor doesn't consider herself a comedienne, no matter how comedically skilled she is. It brings to mind the late Madeline Khan, who found comedy "very hard work" because fun "is carefree. I am not carefree. I am not, in general, a funny person." This isn't to say she is Khan, or that she has the same combative relationship with comedy, but both speak to a dynamic between drama and comedy. These days, we forget how much dramatic skill is often behind the laughs, especially in a studio system that loves lazy comedy. Projects like Damages (where icons like Lily Tomlin and Martin Short appear) serve as our reminder that comedy isn't just topping the ridiculous with more ridiculousness until reality is shot into space. Many of the old-school greats can rock serious drama as well.
Graynor isn't just Hollywood's cinematic party girl. Outside of Hollywood, she's recorded books on tape, and fostered a stage career working with the likes of Woody Allen and Ethan Coen. When it came time to star in her first major feature film (the less than $10k-grossing Lucky doesn't count), she was eager for the comedy to be more real and grounded than ridiculous and audacious, and the result is For a Good Time, Call… a wonderful, Bechdel-devouring female buddy comedy.
On paper, Graynor's Katie Steele is just like the rest of the actress' party girls. Katie reads like a typical caricature, and once again, comes to life through her actress' talents. She's the drunk girl Lauren Miller's "Lauren Powell" drove home in college, so wild that she'll urinate into a cup right in the car. She holds a million wacky jobs, and is uber-casual in any guise, even rocking one-piece pantsuits of denim and polyester as if they never went out of style. Graynor is at home not just because of her talent, but because the film functions much like she does – a cliché parade infused with enough heart that it's relatable.
Nothing is ground-breaking. There is the wild college past, Manhattan money woes, the free spirit who dresses from another time and holds strange odd jobs, the uptight neurotic who loves her 9-to-5 lifestyle, the gay best guy friend, the condescending twit of a boyfriend, the inevitable bonding and inevitable friendship-testing miscommunication, but it's all in good fun. It's a chance to see women talking to each other, coming of age, and delighting in the bawdy, with Graynor's Katie grounding the quirk.
The film infuses its clichés with humanity, and the comedy grows on you, likely because this is a story of women creating a story featuring women, about their experience, to fill a void in their professional lives. Costar Miller wrote the script with ex-college roommate Katie Anne Naylon. She was eager to have a better acting gig after many bit parts in then-fiancée Seth Rogen's films, and the pair had a great, real-life experience to expand from – Naylon had operated a sex line from their Florida State dorm room. There are, therefore, no women-through-men's-POV woes, and alongside films like last year's wild hit Bridesmaids, female comedy is ripped out of tiredly infuriating habits. The women grow because of their influence on each other – not because of the men in their lives. They don't need men to navigate the world or to teach them the "ugly truth." They help to blur the line between so-called "women's" and "men's" comedy.
Miller's character might fuel the story, but Katie is the heart that ties you to it. If this doesn't help Graynor earn her own spotlight, well, Hollywood is wearing blinders.
Go see it, enjoy the romp, and bask in a film where women can talk to women, be their own people, and be damn funny doing it.
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NWOGD (new wall of guitars day)
First of all, special thanks to Dave for unlocking the points thing for posting pics.
Not quite a wall as such but actually spread over several walls (luckily the wife is a guitar fan too or this would be a no-go!). Bought a new apartment in London, about half way through furnishing but will probably accept another contract abroad and it'll all have to go in storage! still have another few that i havent put up yet which i'll post another day
first wall left:
Ibanez JEM777SK (1987)
Ibanez JEM777DY (1990)
Ibanez UV777GR (1991)
first wall right:
ESP customshop tele (2010)
ESP gobstopper (1994?)
left of sofa:
ESP customshop EXP pre lawsuit (1993?)
right of sofa:
Jackson USA Sam Dimas (1984)
Suhr modern carve top (2009)
right of TV:
Feline custom (2002)
hall next to the toilet..
Gibson L12-p (1948)
close up of the Diezel for the fags
The big 3
family photo, excl the gibson L12 (purchased after this family shot taken in my parents house)
Do you ever worry about coming home drunk and knocking them off the wall down the hallway? haha
What is the story of the white and pink ESP's on the couch? The have the Dean Bel Aire shape except it is upside down.
Those come with a Kahler styled trem, dual bucks, vol tone knobs, and a 3 way mini toggle.
Well more specific the Hollywood version has all the. The Bel Aire is S-S-H config with a strat trem and same knob/switch setup.
nice collection
I tend to not get drunk that much anymore (falling over and puking up etc) I've grown out of shooters and all that shit, my friends now back at home have all got married and got kids so it's the same story. so I don't get into that state anymore, something switched in my body and told me one day 'nope'. If i drink 6 pints and a couple of whiskeys I'll be merry but I can't see myself drinking more than that unless I'm already at home with a guitar playing buddy
lots of drinking done at home now, keeps the wife happy. I'll post pics of the new whiskey cabinet in due course
regarding the 2 esp's, there is no story unfortunately. They are 80s or 90s models that I thought looked cool. I know nothing about them. The white one is stock and the pink one I've had blocked out and new electronics put in for versatility, and an X2N. Both are available for sale actually, in a couple of weeks time
You went through all the trouble to hang them up just to take them off the wall to take a picture. lol
Everything looks great, Mr. Ting! Fantastic collection. The green on the explorer looks awesome.
Thanks mr pus!!
Hahah. Well sir the original plan was we were going to settle in the UK. But after quite a laborious project I decided that it was time for 1 last adventure, and then we'd come back after a few months (sister babysitting the apartment for me). But I got an offer of sorts for hen I return, which is in asia again. And I don't know if I can refuse the money and the fun of it. It's a country that allows gambling (casinos) and they have poker rooms everywhere, cheap too.
We'll see in a few months time.
Thanks again
Thanks for the info on those guitars, I am not interested in buying, good luck selling them. They look like an explorer with the body upside down to me.
Very nice collection! ...is it wrong of me to want to lick the tolex on your Diezel? That's such a nice pink!
Cool crap, congas!
Place looks real nice too. Where in London?
How are you diggin the Tele, sound / feel? That was that chick's Tele, correct?
Thanks Gman. The place is in Fulham, sort of west london.
the tele is a customshop and used to belong to Lexi. I'll be honest it is absolutely amazing. The neck is not As 'fast' as id like, like a modern 24fretter. But it is comfortable and not too fender-ish. It's closer to modern than it is to vintage. It sounds lush as well, although I don't believe it's showing it's full potential with the humbucker in the neck. Just hadn't had time to change it to a lipstick yet, got to be done. It does coil tap but as you know, it's not the same thing. The neck is still spanky with all the tele bite one would expect. It's pretty weighty as well, but well balanced. The fretboard has that lovely fender customshop esq figuring to it and is oiled so it looks quite "posh" in person
its minty with case candy and was a bargain at $1200 (£750)
A thing to consider when you put in the neck single coil, my tele came wired with a 4 position switch which has an included "in series" positon, which is both a great sound and pretty useful (in the way I use my tele anyway.)


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Teen Battling Cancer Suffers 'Heartless Hoax' After Woman Lied About Paying His Bills [VIDEO, POLL]
For the past three years, Thomas Doty has been fighting for his life. In late 2009, when the teenager from Washington state should have been enjoying life, Doty was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer.
It's a condition that took an even worse turn thanks to a cruel prank.
Doty and his family have also had to deal with being the unfortunate victims of a hoax perpetrated by a woman who fooled them into believing that she would help pay his medical bills.
Who could do such a thing? And why?
It turns out that 'Deadlist Catch' star Johnathan Hillstrand, who happens to be a friend of the family, played a big part in all of this happening. Hillstrad decided to use his celebrity to help raise funds for Thomas and put a video online. After the video was posted, the family received an email from a woman named Jonnica Ellis who claimed that she would be sending the family a check for $250,000 to cover Doty's treatment. She even sent flowers and a get well card that said:
Just a little something to make you smile. Things will get better for you and your family, you have my word and promise. Keep your head up sweetie!
Despite having faith that she would come through, Ellis supplied the family with a series of different excuses, all the while promising that the money was coming. The Doty family has yet to see one dollar.
"I think she should be ashamed of herself," said Doty. "I hope that somebody finds out who she really is so she can't continue. Who knows how many other people she's done this to?"


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Blood cell gene fault linked to breast and ovarian cancer
Scientists have linked a rare genetic fault in the immune system to an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancers.
The research from a team at The Institute of Cancer Research suggests an entirely new way tumours develop.
The lead researcher on the study, Professor Nazneen Rahman, said it was one of her lab's "most interesting and exciting discoveries".
According to the study, published in the journal Nature, women with faults in a gene called PPM1D in their blood cells were 20 per cent more likely to develop breast or ovarian cancer.
That is twice the average breast cancer risk and more than 10 times the ovarian cancer risk of women in the general population.
The discovery could have implications for future genetic testing and targeted prevention, especially in the case of ovarian cancer.
Dr Emma Smith, Cancer Research UK's senior science information officer said: "This exciting discovery could help doctors identify women at higher risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer in the future.
"This may have a particular impact on ovarian cancer, which is often diagnosed at a late stage.
"Understanding the genetic mistakes that drive these cancers may also lead to new ways to treat these diseases."
The researchers speculate that they have uncovered a new cancer-causing process, since the PPM1D gene appears to operate differently to other genes known to increase the risk of breast and ovarian cancer, such as BRCA1 and BRCA2.
The team found that changes in PPM1D were not inherited and rather than being present in every cell - as in most inherited cancer-causing genes - they were only present in immune cells known as lymphocytes.
Even more surprisingly, the PPM1D gene was not altered in women's cancer cells, nor in their normal breast or ovarian cells, the study discovered.
The changes make the PPM1D gene overactive, reducing the action of a gene called TP53, one of the most frequently altered genes in cancer cells.
The ICR's Professor Nazneen Rahman, who led the study, said: "This is one of our most interesting and exciting discoveries. At every stage the results were different from the accepted theories.
"We don't yet know exactly how PPM1D mutations are linked to breast and ovarian cancer, but this finding is stimulating radical new thoughts about the way genes and cancer can be related."
Professor Rahman said the findings could also help inform women's decisions about future medical treatments.
A woman might, for example, consider keyhole surgery to remove her ovaries after completing her family if she knew she had PPM1D changes and had a one in five chance of developing ovarian cancer.
The study was funded by Cancer Research UK, the ICR, the Wellcome Trust and Breakthrough Breast Cancer.
Researchers analysed 507 genes involved in DNA repair in 1,150 women with breast or ovarian cancer, identifying PPM1D gene changes in five women.
They then sequenced the PPM1D gene in 7,781 women with breast or ovarian cancer and 5,861 people from the general population.
25 of the women with cancer had faults in PPM1D, compared with only one in the general population, a highly statistically significant difference, the researchers said.
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- Ruark E. et al. (2012). Mosaic PPM1D mutations are associated with predisposition to breast and ovarian cancer, Nature, DOI: 10.1038/nature11725


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Going Northeast with old school meets new school anthems, the band revives their hit Promotional Copy album.
Buckle-in for an unforgettable EDM ride with this superhero-obsessed pair. Adventure Club is on tour and blowing millions away.
Check out this Trinidadian rapper as she performs songs from her album, "The Pinkprint," with Meek Mill, Rae Sremmurd, Tinashe, and Dej Loaf.
Hook is back on the road with something new for fans to groove to.
Be prepared for the "human" voyage with Joell and !LLmind this summer.
Suwannee Hulaween is the destination for music, mischief and mystery on Halloween weekend.
Can't make it to Bethel Woods this weekend? We've got you covered!
The young DJ joins Skrillex's tour roster this year as the Full Flex Express Tour makes its return.
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Lodgepole PinePinus contorta var. latifolia
This handsome native pine gets its name from the long, slender pole-like trunk it develops. The narrow, cone-shaped crown is made up of yellowish-green to dark green needles that are twisted in bundles of two.
While its native range is western North America, the lodgepole pine is common in European gardens because of its exceptionally striking appearance.


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Almagro into Houston semis
Houston, TX – Top seed Nicolas Almagro secured a berth in the semifinals at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship.
The sweet-swinging Spanish star got past seventh-seeded Italian Paolo Lorenzi in 6-4, 6-4 fashion at River Oaks Country Club. Almagro popped nine aces in the 1-hour, 21-minute victory.
Up next for the Spaniard will be American wild card Rhyne Williams.
Williams reached his first-ever ATP semifinal by outlasting Spaniard Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo 7-6 (7-1), 1-6, 6-4 in just under 2 1/2 hours on Day 5. Williams is a 22-year-old from Knoxville, Tenn., and was a two-time All- America at the University of Tennessee.
The 2013 Houston champ will collect $82,300. This marks the lone ATP clay- court event in the U.S.


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May 7, 2007 -- On May 4, WMR reported on DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey's client list and Friday night's ABC 20/20 report on it: "ABC News has reportedly scaled down the number of clients who we be outed, possibly as a result of pressure from some of the clients' attorneys." ABC caved to intense political pressure from the White House, Palfrey's clients' attorneys, and members of Congress and their staffs not to air any additional names from the list. It merely recycled the story about two individuals already named, recently-resigned US Agency for International Development chief Randall Tobias and Pentagon "Shock and Awe" originator Harlan K. Ullman.
ABC's chief investigative reporter Brian Ross saw his story spiked by senior ABC News executives under pressure from Disney Chairman George Mitchell and CEO Bob Iger, as well as White House officials, including Karl Rove. Anticipating that the DC Madam scandal would name additional Bush administration officials, including what WMR was told is an extremely high-level official in the White House, the Bush administration went to "General Quarters" and sought to kill the story. After reporting that Palfrey's list contained a senior official at the World Bank, the head of an Air Force Intelligence squadron, the CEO of a major corporation, a White House economist (later said to be an official at the Office of Thrift Supervision across the street from the White House), and the head of a neo-con think tank, Ross said none of the names on Palfrey's list were "newsworthy." WMR has been informed that the CEO of a major corporation is a former CEO but, nonetheless, the aforementioned extremely high-level official of the Bush administration. The individual, who is definitely "newsworthy," reportedly engaged the services of Palfrey's escort firm while he was the CEO and maintained a residence off Chain Bridge Road in the Ballantrae neighborhood in McLean, Virginia, a few blocks from the headquarters of the CIA. A number of phone calls on Palfrey' s phone bills are said to have originated from the Ballantrae area of McLean during the time of the CEO's liaison with the Pamela Martin & Associates escort.
There is now an attempt to shift focus by some neo-con journalists in Washington away from the former CEO to officials of the Clinton administration who were also reportedly Palfrey clients. The White House spin machine is also a work. This editor noticed the top-level White House official was seated conspicuously next to his wife in the back seat of a Secret Service Crown Victoria executive black sedan minus the hallmark tinted windows but with the standard accompanying Secret Service motorcade vehicles traveling east on New York Avenue Thursday evening. In other words, the White House wanted pedestrians along H Street and New York Avenue to see this individual sitting with his wife in the vehicle, something unusual in the post-9/11 era.
ABC/Disney caved on Hookergate as many seasoned observers predicted. Ross has a history of having sensitive stories spiked. In 1998, his four month investigation on pedophiles being hired at Disney theme parks, including a puppet salesman at Disney World, was spiked on the direct orders of then-ABC CEO Michael Eisner.
The Washington elite began to push back in force on the Palfrey story during the middle of last week. The Washington Post started the push back with its hit piece on Montgomery Blair Sibley, Palfrey's attorney.
A U.S. government source told WMR that he believes there is a definite link between Palfrey's Pamela Martin & Associates and the Duke Cunningham/Dusty Foggo-connected Shirlington Limousine and Transportation Services, under federal investigation for allegedly helping to arrange for prostitutes to attend CIA contractor-arranged poker parties at the Watergate and Capitol Hill's Westin Grand Hotel. Unlike its role during the Watergate scandal, the Post is part of the criminal conspiracy to cover up "Hookergate." A public health nurse told WMR that it is irresponsible and a public health menace not to report cases of contacts with prostitutes in Washington, DC to public health authorities. The reason: With 152.2 AIDS cases per 100,000 people, Washington, DC has the highest AIDS rate in the United States.
HOUR 3 GUEST: Wayne Madsen on Dick Cheney's connection to the DC Madam.
While Cheney is out in the Gulf trying to start more wars, here at home their may be evidence that he has purchased "services" from the DC Madam!
A pack of Republicans want out of Iraq to save their own re-election campaigns, but they will gladly continue to let our kids die until their political party says it's okay. Criminal.
And General Batiste just lost his job at CBS for speaking out against Iraq. Liberal media, my ass…
These stories, a week in review, the real meaning of Mother's Day, your calls and much more on today's Randi Rhodes Show.
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with a 7 year gap between championships they're called team of the Decade, thats pretty funny, but whatever.
I Love our 3 titles this decade and making the Lakers cry on national TV in 2003!
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You really can't believe everything you read. Vitamin manufacturer NBTY is issuing more than $2 million in refunds to customers after the Federal Trade Commission found only trace amounts of DHA in vitamin bottles that claimed in packaging to have 100% of a child's daily requirement, according to CNN.
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The FTC alleges that for kids 4 and up, the vitamins contain one one-thousandth of the recommended amount of DHA, an omega-3 fatty acid that supports brain development. For smaller kids, the vitamins contain an even smaller percentage of what's required.
The Disney- and Marvel-themed vitamins, which feature Spiderman, Winnie the Pooh, Nemo, and princesses, were sold at Wal-Mart, Target, Walgreens, Kroger, Kmart, Meijer and Rite Aid, and online. Consumers who purchased the vitamins between May 2008 through September 2010 can file a claim here until October 12, 2012.


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Brett J. Barratt
Brett Barratt's department oversees and regulates all aspects of the $12 billion insurance industry in the State of Utah. That regulation includes financial solvency, licensing, criminal and administrative prosecution, legislation and rules as well as government agency management.
"Pursuant to the McCarran-Ferguson Act, regulation of the insurance industry is the exclusive jurisdiction of the states," he said. "The opportunity to make a difference and serve the public is the most rewarding aspect of my job. Holding insurers accountable, providing reliable and unbiased testimony to the Legislature to promote good law that protects consumers and promotes a competitive insurance marketplace gives me great satisfaction. I also enjoy the quality-of-life aspect of generous benefits and paid time off."
During Brett's time at MSU College of Law, Dr. Johnson's Contracts classes, Professor Lawrence's Constitutional Law classes, Professor Kault's Administrative Law class and Judge McKeague's Federal Law class provided him a foundation for success in his legal career.
"My participation with the Jessup Moot Court Team, Journal of International Law and Canadian Summer Law Placement are also highlights," he said. "MSU Law provides virtually limitless opportunities to become involved, participate, and learn about any aspect of law. I am convinced that MSU Law provided opportunities I could not get at other law schools."