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Want to know the 2012 Emmy results? Homeland, Modern Family, and Game Change. Chances are, whatever category you're thinking of, the winner came from one of those shows. (Fine, you can see a real complete list of winners at Vulture.)
That doesn't bode well for locals. Mad Men, with its Westchester setting, walked away without a single award. Considering it had 17 nominations, that's a pretty spectacular shutout.
Our actors were similarly helpless against the big juggernauts. Dobbs Ferry's Max Greenfeld, who plays the rascally Schmidt on New Girl, was up against most of the cast of Modern Family. I thought they might split the vote, giving Schmidt the win, but Eric Stonestreet, who plays Modern Family's Cam, walked away with the prize. (We still love you, Schmidt!) Similarly, Bedford's Glenn Close and her plum role on Damages couldn't best Claire Danes's starring turn on Homeland.
I did spot manager and past Emmy winner Emily Gerson Saines of Larchmont in the crowd, sitting next to Palisades native Hayden Panettiere, client, presenter, and star of Nashville. That's really the closest thing we have to a winner.
I'm not sure why Emmy voters don't like to spread it around more. Not only do Emmy voters seem to take one show and vote for it in every category—as the Homeland and Modern Family sweeps can attest—they often choose the same nominees year after year. All four Modern Family actors were nominated last year, for example. Bryan Cranston lost to Homeland's Damian Lewis this year, but he won for Breaking Bad in 2008, 2009, and 2010 (and the show didn't air in 2011, so it was ineligible, or I'm guessing he would've won again). This is one thing the Oscars have over the Emmys: The movies are different every year, so we don't keep seeing the same nominees and winners over and over.
What was your favorite Emmy win? Let me know in the comments.


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UBS exposure to subprime market (Q3 2007)
Supporting this initiative underlines UBS's commitment to the arts in Singapore and Asia Pacific and further enhances the firm's partnerships globally with orchestral music.
For UBS, the area most severely affected by the market dislocation in third quarter 2007 was the inventory of securities related to the US sub-prime residential mortgage market. When these positions - which are sizeable - were taken, we entered into partial hedges designed to mitigate risk in normal and volatile market conditions. The deterioration of this sector in third quarter, however, was more severe and sudden than any such event in recent market history. The securitized credit markets became illiquid and UBS's positions, including securities with high credit ratings, lost substantial value. The valuations applied by UBS in its balance sheet on 30 September 2007 reflect the weakness in the US housing and mortgage market during the quarter.
Net losses during the quarter in the books with these positions were USD 4.4 billion (CHF 5.3 billion), made up of gross losses of USD 5.6 billion (CHF 6.7 billion) offset by gains on hedges of USD 1.2 billion (CHF 1.4 billion). Where possible, holdings are marked at the quoted market price (also known as "level 1" inputs in accounting terminology). For the positions related to the US sub-prime market, this was and is still not possible in present market conditions. UBS therefore mostly uses valuation techniques based on "observable inputs" derived from similar assets in similar and active markets, from recent transaction prices for comparable items or from other observable market data ("level 2" inputs). For positions where observable reference data is not available UBS uses econometric models with non market observable ("level 3") inputs. The inputs to these econometric models principally comprise remittance data from mortgage service companies. These are received towards the end of each month and relate to the preceding month's cash flows on the mortgages underlying the relevant mortgage backed securities. Our models assess the level of risk in the underlying mortgage portfolio and estimate the fair value of the positions we hold.
Although our models are proprietary and there is no single market standard model, our approach is similar to that used by other market participants. Our models are calibrated to transactions in similar instruments and are reviewed and updated from time to time. They do not necessarily contain sentiment or predictions that are implicit in active, liquid, level 1 transactions. Such models have inherent limitations, and different assumptions and inputs would generate different views.
UBS's main remaining positions at end September 2007 included:
holdings of sub-prime residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). These consist overwhelmingly of presently AAA-rated tranches, of which around 80% have an expected weighted average life of less than three years. Following this quarter's writedowns, the net exposure was USD 16.8 billion (CHF 19.5 billion).
about USD 1.8 billion (CHF 2.1 billion) net exposure to collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) held in warehouse lines and retained after securitizations. Most of the securities are currently rated investment grade, predominantly AAA, with the majority having an expected weighted average life of less than five years.
positions in super seniors, meaning AAA-rated tranches of CDOs. Super senior CDO debt ranks above other AAA tranches of the same issue in the event of default. The aggregate notional values of these securities are USD 20.2 billion (CHF 23.4 billion), although this does not necessarily indicate the risk exposure of this portfolio. These securities have a range of subordination levels, maturities and rights in the event of default. These positions are valued using level 3 methodology.
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Two years ago, a man was charged with terrorizing the I-96 corridor between Oakland and Livingston counties after shooting into cars going up and down the freeway. Now police are looking for another possible shooter, this time targeting drivers on M-59 in northern Oakland County.
Police say four shootings have been reported in Pontiac, Auburn Hills and Orion Township. For those unfamiliar with the area, that's all nearby Wixom, where the last shooter was captured.
Officials haven't said if anyone has been injured but one driver had their back window shattered. There are no leads, except that another driver spotted a Ford Fusion in the area of one of the shootings.


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by Ralph Onesti
We went to see the Rockettes yesterday (Dec. 28).
Let's see…how did that go?
It started well enough until we hit the Lincoln Tunnel where the traffic was outrageous. We got shoved into the wrong lane, which happened to be an EZ pass lane, but I still had room to fix it. A cop there refused to let me change lanes well in advance of the booth, saying: "You should have paid attention to the signs." In South Philadelphia, he would be counting fractures on an X-ray by now. I'll probably get a ticket. Well, OK.
Then we got abused by parking attendants for a while, long enough to miss our lunch engagement. Well, OK. Now we've had no food since the night before. Well, it's OK, I guess. I need to lose a few pounds.
We get into the line for the show, and I'm trying to shake off what has happened so far, but my PTSD holds up that process big-time.
We get into Radio City Music Hall, where the Rockettes have been a holiday tradition for 85 years, which now looks like a movie theater/circus/carnival. Hey, time's change.
The show was fabulous. The Rockettes were precise, as expected; the choreography was fun until it got to Jesus. Suddenly there was a huge religious theme I didn't expect or appreciate, but we'll give them that one! I went to see the Rockettes, not go to church. Santa was enough fantasy for me. Is the whole world delusional?
The orchestra was tight. The only thing that would have made them better: Howard Levitsky at the helm. Howard is a music director/friend who takes charge of these events on a rotating basis. I think he's the best! Although the orchestra was good, it was so loud I spent most of my time with my hands over my ears.
With that, the guy next to me insisted on using the flash on his cell phone, even though the audience was asked not to use flashes. So I kindly and quietly offered to shove it down his throat, which seemed to calm the flashes.
All in all, on a scale of 10, the show got a 4. I think the audio engineer needs to make an appointment with an audiologist.
We did have a meal finally at a Brew House on 51st Street. It was nice, and the Scotch helped. For dessert, we had a five-hour drive home. The entire way home I'm thinking, "Was the a Jersey cop or a New York cop?!" I get New York; I don't mind the people, the shoving, the discourtesy, even the stupid parking attendants, but I'm afraid the tone was set by the cop. OK; that's my disorder. I still want to know if he was New Jersey or New York. They are civil servants. I don't like that name. If you can't be civil, quit and become a plumber. Otherwise, chill and help an out-of-towner. It turns one off from returning and spending money in your area.
Now I see New York as a box full of junk rather than the cultural capital of the world. We would have taken the train, but we were supposed to wind up on Long Island in Saybrook. (At the last minute, of course, our plans were cancelled.)
The unfortunate part of the whole thing was that this was my ONLY day off this year, and now it's gone! Oh, I'll get over it. And I will go back to New York because it is the cultural capital of the world. I just hope I meet that cop again. He and I need to have a drink together — and a discussion.
So, how was your Christmas holiday?
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The January 18 mass blackout protest over the "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA) and the "PROTECT IP Act" (PIPA) has come and gone. But its undisputed effectiveness will live on in the decade to come as the moment that a new breed of activism was born. Not only did the blackout push SOPA and PIPA off the congressional agenda (for now, at least), it has also forced the Washington lobbying industry to reassess its power, and how it does business in the future.
To sum up exactly what happened on that fateful Wednesday, blogger Frugal Dad has created an infographic that shows the full extent of the blackout the surrounding response, from both the entertainment industry and Congress. The data and other stats in this helpful image are truly astounding, and put into context the power of Web citizens to shape the digital world in which we all now live.
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When we look back on 2012, there's no doubt we'll talk about it being an election year. But the presidential battle aside, it was a year jam-packed with intense political battles. So it's no wonder that even though the general election was decided over a month ago, somehow partisan politics have bled into the holiday season. Yup, there's actual speculation on what side of the aisle Santa Claus himself falls on.
So, does Jolly Ol' Saint Nick identify as a Democrat or a Republican? Public Policy Polling recently asked voters, and the result actually makes a lot of sense ...
According to 44 percent of American voters, Santa Claus is a Democrat. Meanwhile, 28 percent say he's a Republican, and another 28 percent aren't sure. But clearly the majority knows what's up. Santa's obviously a Dem, because he ...
- ... made his life's work about "spreading the wealth." Every year, the guy levels the class warfare battlefield by caring for every boy and girl -- no matter where they live or what tax bracket they're in.
- ... believes a Tea Party is one that involves a brand new tea set made by his elves.
- ... aims to deliver presents to 100 percent of the people. Not just 47.
- ... is as old as time. Thus, he must value the elderly and would give them Medicare if that's all they wanted for Christmas.
- ... would very, very rarely say no (unless you've been very naughty). Unlike Republicans who only know how to say no, no matter how naughty or nice President Obama has been.
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Cheap Bangladeshi Labor Doesn't Mean Cheap Clothes
Cheap garment-factory labor doesn't always equal cheap clothes. The availability of low-cost workers has sent mass-market clothing labels of all stripes--from H&M, Gap, Zara and others—into Bangladesh's $20 billion garment industry. WSJ's Christina Passariello reports.
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How To: Mute Grabs With Chippa Wilson
You don't see a ton of mute airs, and there's a reason: they ain't easy. On the upside, because of how close your upper body needs to be to your board to grab mute, your center of gravity will be nice and low. On the downside, they're harder to go big with because you'll normally bend down to grab the board as opposed to a frontside air where you can bend your knees and suck the board up higher to your feet to produce some more height. Still, they're steezy and different.
-Aim for a nice buttery launch section. Widen out that stance coming up the face just before lifting off.
-You'll punt with your front knee bent more heavily than a typical air so that your front hand is closer to the deck of the board for the grab. You want to grab earlier than normal to keep your board from flicking away.
-Ideally, you want to land tail forward. If you land sideways you're likely to dig a rail, and it kills your momentum—both things that make it very tough to ride out of. If you can let go of the grab before you touch down, good for you. Most likely you'll want to hold it 'til you land.
-In the split second after you land, your fins will catch and will whip your nose back around. It happens quick; just keep low and go with the motion, and you'll be riding out like a champ.
-Even more so than others, this is a majorly wind-dependant air; you'll need either no wind or a slight onshore breeze. Anything else makes it really difficult to hold the board to your feet on backside airs.
-Your best bet is an open face, not an end section, which will usually have too turbulent of a landing pad. As well, you'll be landing pretty much blind, so the fewer surprises (and whitewash spikes), the better.
-Keep in mind that since you're grabbing and down low to your board, it's harder to use your arms for little counterbalances. This means you really need to have backside airs wired and get the right section served up to make one of these.
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As a lover of good food (and some of the not-so-good-for-you foods as well) - I have always been a gourmand, but a certain pressing/critical medical condition has forced me into a low-sodium diet. If you could share your thoughts/ideas as to how to make a low-sodium diet more palatable, please let me know.


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This appeared today in Reddit's Skyrim community. It's the mod "Normandy," which adds a crash site of the Mass Effect ship into the game. It's located outside of Whiterun, so really, you can probably fast travel to this thing no matter where you are in your character's progression.
Still, what the hell else did this guy install in his game? Because that looks like some kind of undead guy wearing a Red Dead Redemption hat while riding a horker. Small wonder this was posted under the headline, "I think maybe I should stop installing mods for a while." Admitting you have a problem is always the first step.
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Wow, lots of anti-leash sentiment.
To follow up on Gabe's point: When I was in Baja this winter I felt like the newbies who weren't using leashes (as opposed to me, a newbie who was using one) were hazards to others. In the crowded area relatively close to shore, they were zigzagging back and forth trying to go upwind to get their boards -- and freaking out about it.
Combine that with people on boards who can't really go upwind, much less avoid other people in the water...
Sounds like a leash at Alameda on a busy day might be the saner and more civic thing to do, as long as you've got your helmet on. But what the hell do I know?


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Photoshop – How To Use Selection Tools To Create Stunning Designs?
The Photoshop selections tools are fundamental for design control. Having the right tool at your disposal can give you a huge advantage. You can duplicate effects and isolate and blend different parts your design or image to produce the desired 'total' effect. Using other tools to create designs and effects becomes fairly easy once you have made your selection. The general conception among people is that selections are a way to copy, imitate or mask parts of the whole design. But learning more about the various editing options helps us understand that selections are really an integral part of the entire process of designing.
Try this for a start. Select a selection tool to apply to your drawing. Choose a paint bucket and incorporate it into the selected area. There you go. Your drawing now has a brand new shape. (This action would have ordinarily required us to make a fresh layer, and do this exercise discretely on a separate layer before proceeding with the rest of the design.)
Let's try another one. Create a fresh layer and a corresponding fresh selection area. Now choose the gradient tool with the paint bucket. The default gradient option based on the color of your foreground is displayed on the main menu. Now, to apply the gradient, click the mouse on a spot outside the boundary of your selected area. Then choose another spot right across from this first spot, also outside your selection area. This will apply a gradient across the area you selected and the gradient will be based on the foreground color you've chosen. In case you wish to apply the gradient to a section of your selection area and not the whole, repeat the same process except make sure the two spots are inside the selection area.
The best way to learn to apply gradients is to play around with the tools to see how they work. The above mentioned process is a good way to experiment with applying gradients from left to right and top to bottom of any shape or design. You can also cover up your selection area completely with the gradient or just add a hint of an effect to the sides and corners. Be creative with the way you apply your gradient. Trying out new ways of starting and ending your application can help you come up with exciting new patterns and effects. You can also create color highlights or saturate color and effects in the middle of your design.
There is a whole lot more to gradient application besides these options. What we have discussed so far only constitutes placement options of the default gradient. There is a bunch of other exciting gradient presets beside the gradient menu. These presets consist of a combination of different color tones. Place your mouse over the gradients to know their names and color blend information. Try one to see how it enhances your design. The copper gradient is a cool option. It adds a lustrous coppery gradient to your design.
Options for gradient application are available on the right of gradient color display. The options are radial, linear, angle, diamond and reflected. You can experiment with them to know their functions. The angle gradient for instance lends dimension and a touch of depth to your application. The radial feature creates a circular gradient effect which you need to define with the center of your circle and outermost point. The linear option is for applying a smooth gradient in the direction of your first and last


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ECHO PARK — Yoga and meditation instructor Joslyn Lawrence of Echo Park was looking to create the perfect space for her clients. A clean, beautiful environment to help facilitate the practice. When she looked out into the lush terraced backyard of her hillside home, she saw potential in an old, run down building that served as a painting studio.
Joslyn and her partner, Brian, were able to transform their space into the ideal yoga studio, which also serves double-duty as the family's dedicated quiet space for resting or doing homework. They drywalled, installed new flooring, painted and added some new, much needed windows. In about a month's time their desperate backyard space was transformed into an intimate wellness studio.
Challenge: Dry Rot
- It is a very old building and the problem with old buildings is that once you get into the walls there's often more dry rot than you bargained for. With a problem like dry rot, it made sense to set a limit on the time and effort to devote to the project in order to make it work within your budget. Otherwise, it may be worth it to tear it down and start all over.
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- The fact the space is right in their backyard made it very easy to put a few hours in here and there when possible to get it done – even late at night. The whole project felt natural and came together easily.
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- The amount of dry rot and the ensuing decision of when to stop spending money on it.
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The front door on the studio. It is a ten-pane windowed door that lets in the morning light and really defines the space in a welcoming way. The old door was heavy and kept out the light. Joslyn went to salvage yards, looked online, and eventually found an obscure ad on Craigslist. She drove out down a ten mile dirt road on a ridge in Topanga Canyon and there, in an airstream trailer on 20 acres, was a guy with a whole pile of doors for sale. Her beautiful, airy door was among the pile. It was an epic adventure which paid immense dividends.
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Wall Street Gives New T-Mobile Thumbs-up
May 1, 2013 2:26 PM PT
T-Mobile on Wednesday announced that it had completed its merger with MetroPCS. The new company debuted on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker "TMUS," ringing in a new start for the No. 4 U.S. mobile carrier.
Under the terms of the deal, T-Mobile's parent company Deutsche Telekom paid MetroPCS stockholders US$1.5 billion. Also, MetroPCS took T-Mobile's capital stock from DT in exchange for approximately 74 percent of MetroPCS common stock.
The merger gives T-Mobile an additional 9 million subscribers, for a total of 43 million.
It also gives T-Mobile more wireless spectrum, something every U.S. carrier desperately seeks. With the merger, T-Mobile will have spectrum licenses in approximately 90 percent of the top 25 metro areas in 2014 and beyond, the company said.
"This helps T-Mobile greatly where spectrum is concerned," said Roger Entner, principal analyst at Recon Analytics.
"Actually what they are doing is pretty smart -- by not integrating immediately," he continued. "They are expanding the MetroPCS brand nationwide and that will continue to be done out of Dallas, while the T-Mobile brand will continue out of Seattle."
Stronger Four
What the deal won't do is boost T-Mobile in the rankings. It will remain the fourth-largest carrier, but it will be a much stronger No. 4, said telecommunications analyst Jeff Kagan.
"It isn't going to change the landscape," he said.
"T-Mobile needs to get bigger and stronger. When the AT&T merger didn't go through, [T-Mobile] really needed to get bigger and stronger just to survive, and they have done much more than just survive," Kagan told the E-Commerce Times.
"Now they will have more speed, more spectrum, more revenue," he said. "However, T-Mobile has not been growing at the rate that AT&T and Verizon have been growing."
T-Mobile has been stuck for several years because of bad decisions it made in the past, according to Kagan.
"They never really made the shift from 2G to 3G," he noted. "They didn't see the need, and they didn't see the smartphone revolution changing the market. When they finally realized it, it was too late."
The MetroPCS merger could allow the company to move forward, Kagan said.
Metro Moves
While there has been speculation that perhaps T-Mobile and No. 3 carrier Sprint would merge, the acquisition of MetroPCS seems to be a more logical move, as it opens up business opportunities that might not have come with a merger with Sprint.
"MetroPCS also has a prepaid business model, which meshes very well with T-Mobile," said telecommunications analyst Stephen Blum, president of Tellus Venture Associates.
"It was a good fit," he told the E-Commerce Times. "T-Mobile gets three things out of the deal: spectrum, which it desperately needs; 9 million customers; and MetroPCS' distribution channels."
What T-Mobile may need now is something that didn't come with the acquisition, however.
"It's going to take some time -- the company says two years, but that's probably optimistic -- to convert MetroPCS customers from CDMA phones to GSM and redeploy the spectrum, but T-Mobile can leverage MetroPCS's sales channels starting today," Blum said. "Both rely more on pushing product through a wide range of general retail locations than on company-owned or specialty mobile phone stores. That's the advantage of a prepaid business model."
Even though the two companies will maintain separate brands and target different sections of the wireless market, the merger means one less competitor for T-Mobile.
"Not having to compete with MetroPCS for shelf space is another instant advantage," Blum added.
Caught in the Middle
This deal will also impact the No. 3 carrier, which has a sizable prepaid business with its Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile brands.
"It certainly makes life a lot harder for Sprint," said Entner. "That carrier will be left in a virtual limbo. Until that is figured out, they really can't do much."
Future mergers may give Sprint a way out of limbo -- and possibly even further strengthen T-Mobile.
"We've seen an extraordinary number of telecom and carrier mergers," said Kagan. "Nearly every merger that came up was approved, but now that we're at the end of the line, we are seeing the regulators are saying yes to some and no to others. Going forward, we'll see that some mergers will be approved and others won't be."


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October 4, 2007
Over 70 former Glee Club members, some traveling from as far as California and Massachusetts, returned to campus on Homecoming and performed throughout the day on Saturday.
Seven decades of Wabash men were represented at the reunion, led by featured Chapel Speaker and award winner Dick Ristine '41. Dick's son Tom '72 also joined in with the group. The Riddles, father Ray '59 and son Jim '86 (the architect for the new Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house), attended as well. Former Glee Club director Fred Ford and his wife Kathy were able to catch up with many former members.
The Glee Club alumni performed at the Homecoming Chapel (pictured above), the Celebrating Leadership Luncheon, sang the National Anthem before the football game, and were featured in the Homecoming concert. Somehow they found time to sandwich in a reception and dinner between football and their concert.
Many thanks go to Richard Bowen, the Glee Club director, for his efforts to make the reunion a big success. Many attendees were already talking about returning in 2012 for their next reunion.
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Conrad Murray is pointing the finger back at Michael Jackson's Estate -- after it threatened to sue over stories he told about holding MJ's penis -- claiming the Estate was the first to open the can of worms that is MJ's medical secrets.
As we reported, the MJ Estate is threatening to sue Murray for blabbing to the media about the singer's sordid medical details -- including a story about holding Michael's penis every night. The Estate is claiming Murray has been violating the doctor-patient privilege by running his mouth in public.
But sources close to Murray tell us, he's not scared ... because he believes once Katherine sued for wrongful death (and exposed a bunch of MJ's medical secrets at the trial) she compromised the doctor-patient privilege on her son's behalf.
Murray's team believes the information the Estate is trying to protect is, at least generally speaking, already out in the public ... exposed during the AEG wrongful death trial ... so he's not saying anything new.


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You don't get to make your own party? I think I'd skip the game just because I don't send the message that I want EO5 to be a more standard jrpg.
Okay, way more information (and some scans) have started popping up. This is... really... odd. Definitely a new direction for EO. The graphics and presentation looks the same, pretty much like EO4, except it no longer looks like a "create your own party from the start and just explore" dungeon crawler. Instead there's a main character who you can name (he is voiced in story scenes), and there's a full story where you meet other characters, and they join your party like a story RPG. All the characters appear to be voiced.The storyline is based on EO1, but there are a ton of changes. The story starts with the main character running into a mysterious girl. The main character is a young man from the Highlands, doing some job for the guild office in Etria, and the girl he runs into is Frederica Irving, who appears to have lost her memory. Her character design has her holding a gun too.So yeah, an EO1 remake with named characters, voice acting, and more focus on plot. Did anyone really ask for this? It's... somewhat interesting though I must say. It also means you no longer create classes for your party too, since all the party members are actual characters who have their own fixed classes. Hmm...
So it's a re-imagining of the original EO now turned into a standard RPG? Not sure if want...There are some scans available (along with those of Devil Survivor 2).


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Making a jelly with damsons as beautiful as these cannot result in anything less than deliciousness!
Ceramic, like glass, can be a nightmare for turning out jellies therefore I made this jelly much firmer set than I usually would. Also, this mould is tall and tapers towards the top making it far less stable than a lower, rounder jelly. I gave the very tip of the mould a squirt of cake release spray and I think this helped (you don't taste it).
Turning out a jelly is always a heart in your mouth moment but thankfully, this one came out perfectly. As you can see, it suffered a little with "Brewer's droop" but that didn't matter as it caused mirth all round...a little too much mirth perhaps, we reverted to 5 year olds. And yes, I am fully aware of what it looks like!
Damson plums have such a lovely fruity flavour that they are perfectly suited to jams and jellies. Didn't it come out a pretty colour?
Note – this is the basic quantity for the jelly – you can scale it up as required but allow extra setting time. For my mould I used 1.5x the quantities.
8 leaves gelatine
750g damsons – washed, but no need to stone
225g caster sugar
600ml cold water
To serve: cream
Start by soaking the gelatine leaves in cold water until they are soft.
Place the damsons, sugar and water in a saucepan and heat gently until the sugar has dissolved.
Simmer further and mash the damsons with a spoon or – and I found this really productive – the masher you'd use to make mash potato.
The stones will naturally come out of the fruit and be captured in the next stage.
Pass through a sieve and return the liquid to a clean pan.
Heat gently and then remove the pan from the heat.
Squeeze all the water from the gelatine and whisk into the damson juice – it will dissolve very quickly.
Leave the jelly to cool a little.
Pass through a sieve into your chosen mould – sieving again will strain out any bits that passed through first time.
Chill until set – I left overnight.
Turn out of the jelly mould any way that you find works for you! For this ceramic mould we stood it in warm water for a minute then gave it a vigorous shake!
Serve with cream.
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If you want to get involved with the work of the Hawk and Owl Trust via a local group and you live in the South Gloucestershire area then we have the perfect opportunity for you.
We have lots of different tasks that we need help with from nest box monitoring and conservation work through to record keeping for these projects.
The South Gloucestershire Group Vice Chairman Stuart Robson elaborates:
'We need help to organise our group's conservation work, which includes running our Farm Team (we have in excess of 50 farms and other landowners in South Gloucestershire and the list is growing – where we promote habitat creation etc.); our Nest box Team (responsible for the monitoring and maintenance of 340 boxes) and our Kestrel Highways project (monitoring and maintenance of 55 boxes).
In addition we need help keeping our group Conservation Records for all these projects. I keep them electronically in my own way but we need a more efficient programme designed specifically for our work and I am not PC wise enough to able to do that.
We have a great team of active members in our group and they have really stepped up to the plate. We already have some of our members filling other posts such as our Chairman and Education Unit Organiser (visiting local events, schools etc.) Treasurer/E-newsletter Editor and a Speaker Meetings Organiser. The remainder are happy to continue with their practical support but are unable to take on organising roles.
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What has essentially happened today, 2/3rds of the country have just rendered the federal government irrelevant on the environmental file. Dragging their heels, playing games with numbers and baselines, creating a leadership vacuum, all are responsible for today's announcement, it really is a conclusion of their own making. A large portion of Canada now has a framework based on real reductions, not the nonsensical "intensity" based copout offered by the Conservatives. The door is open for others to join, and I suspect they will, as these provincial governments look to the future:
"One of the reasons we got together is that we think we can go further, faster," McGuinty told Canada AM Monday. "The feds have failed to put forward a plan in keeping with the ambitions and aspirations of Canadians."
Charest told Canada AM that the two provinces are pushing forward with a carbon cap-and-trade system because that's the way most of the world is going.
Charest noted that Quebec and Ontario use the 1990 carbon benchmark acknowledged by most of the world, whereas the federal government uses a 2006 benchmark.
Emilie Moorhouse, executive director of the Sierra Club, said the federal government is being "left in the dust."
"I think the collaboration that we're seeing between the provinces effectively renders the Harper government's approach to climate change obsolete," Moorhouse told CTV Newsnet...
Their cap-and-trade system trumps the Harper government's climate-change plan, one that has been criticized for not going far enough to combat global warming.
"We are very much open to expanding this and ideally, this would serve as the foundation for a national cap-and-trade program," Mr. McGuinty said.
"This is hardly an exclusive club that we are putting together here. I know that in the past, representatives of B.C. and Manitoba have expressed some interest in this, and Jean and I would want to work hard together with our colleagues to lay down the foundation."
"Left in the dust", "Obsolete", "Trumps", no wonder Hot Air Baird was fuming, there is nowhere to hide.
A very good synopsis.
Looking at the political angle, NDP supporters will be sure to note the endorsement of their approach. Important to remember, Charest already has a carbon tax, proving that no approach is mutually exclusive. I would also add B.C. is cited as a possible future partner to today's initiative, again suggesting the folly in either/or arguments. Where all of this leaves the Liberals, remains to be seen, but I suspect people have already factored this to the policy development, Dalton would hardly leave brother David out in the cold.
What is perfectly clear today, the mirage of "leading the world" has evaporated, more rightly the "obstacle has been removed", or just bypassed, as the case may be.


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BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia's government has officially backed a joint bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics with neighbors Poland, Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Wednesday.
Slovak officials will meet with Polish partners by the end of the month to discuss details.
The two European countries share a border straddled by the High Tatras mountains, a favorite winter holiday destination for locals and tourists from Russia, Ukraine and Hungary.
Germany's Munich, beaten by South Korea's Pyeongchang for the 2018 Winter Olympics, is also considering a bid for the 2022 Games while a planned Swiss candidacy of Davos and St Moritz was rejected by local citizens.
"There will be a joint meeting of Slovak and Polish ministers and prime ministers in (the Slovak town of) Poprad. A joint bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics will be one of the topics," Fico told reporters after a government meeting.
Poprad unsuccessfully bid for the 2002 and 2006 Winter Games.
Poland's Sports Ministry said in January it would back a proposal to co-host the Winter Olympics, centered around the city of Krakow, and the government would soon discuss providing the necessary guarantees for the bid.
Poland successfully co-hosted last year's Euro soccer championship with Ukraine.
Slovaks are keen on hosting ice hockey and skiing events, with the total cost of hosting the 2022 Games estimated at up to $2 billion.
The financial burden would be split between the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which would be expected to provide some 40 percent of the funds, and the two countries with Poland providing the larger share.
The IOC has set November 2013 as the application deadline and the host city will be elected in July 2015.
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Two of the world's largest environmental organizations, WWF and IUCN, supported by Nokia, are launching connect2earth.org for young people to tell the world what they think about the environment
Gland, Switzerland, and Espoo, Finland, 4 March, 2008 (IUCN, WWF and Nokia) – A new online community where young people can have their say on the environment by uploading videos, pictures and comments is being launched today.
The site, www.connect2earth.org, will also allow people to rank other entries, discuss the issues that matter most to them, and share smart ideas and solutions from their own communities. Each month users will vote on a winner who will be rewarded with a Nokia mobile phone.
The overall winner, selected by a panel of prominent conservationists, will get the chance to participate in the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Barcelona this October and present his or her ideas directly to political, environmental and business leaders from around the world.
As mobile phones become an increasingly popular way to access the internet and online communities, the connect2earth site is optimized for using mobile phones to create short films, capture photos and submit comments.
IUCN Director General Julia Marton-Lefèvre said: "We live on an amazing planet – we need to protect it. We want to encourage young people to be involved in environmental issues and take action. With connect2earth they have the chance to influence real decision makers."
James Leape, Director General of WWF International, said: "connect2earth is a truly global space for young people to connect, share, express their concerns and their hopes about the environment online - and win some prizes in the process. This new community allows them to tell the world why they care about the environment and why it should be protected."
Kirsi Sormunen, Vice President of Environmental Affairs at Nokia, said: "Young people feel increasingly strongly about protecting the environment because, for them, it represents their future. We wanted to support WWF and IUCN in this exciting initiative to create a way for young people to express and share their ideas and connect with their peers in a new way."
The website is aimed at people aged between 13 and 35. Visit www.connect2earth.org with your PC or mobile phone and start changing the world now!
For more information, please contact:
Sarah Halls, IUCN Media Relations Officer, Tel: +41 22 999 0127; Mobile: +41 79 528 3486;
Email: sarah.hallsiucn.org
Moira O'Brien-Malone , Head of Media Relations, WWF International, Tel.: +41 22 364 9550; Mobile: +41 79 377 7958; E-mail: mobrienwwfint.org
About IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)
IUCN, the International Union for conservation of Nature, is the world's oldest and largest global environmental network. IUCN is a democratic union with more than 1,000 government and NGO member organizations, and some 10,000 volunteer scientists in more than 150 countries. The Union's work is supported by 1,100 professional staff in 62 countries and hundreds of partners in public, NGO and private sectors around the world.
IUCN helps the world find pragmatic solutions to our most pressing environment and development challenges by supporting scientific research; managing field projects all over the world; and bringing governments, NGOs, the UN, international conventions and companies together to develop policy, laws and best practice.
About WWF
WWF, the global conservation organization, is one of the world's largest and most respected independent conservation organizations. WWF has a global network active in over 100 countries with almost 5 million supporters.
WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the earth's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by conserving the world's biological diversity, ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable, and promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.
About Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. Nokia makes a wide range of mobile devices and provides people with experiences in music, navigation, video, television, imaging, games and business mobility through these devices. Nokia also provides equipment, solutions and services for communications networks.


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The discussion in this topic is aimed at better understanding how the principle "there is no difference between code and data in LISP" works in practice.
My intention was to "execute" comand-variables containing LISP code as their values (like variable "command") so that all variables which appear in this code assume local values within current lexical environment during the execution. And macro "true-eval" does this job! It may fail in some other situations like in your input-output operators (in some implementations). In my implementation (Allegro CL),
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee Tech looks to break the streak of
five consecutive Ohio Valley Conference rifle championships by the
Jacksonville State Gamecocks this weekend at the 2010 OVC Rifle
Championships competition.
The two-day event, which takes place Saturday and Sunday, will be held on the campus of Murray State University. Along with the Golden Eagles, teams from Jacksonville State, Morehead State, Murrray State and UT Martin will compete for the championship.
Last weekend,Tech fired a 4,479 team total in a match against Ole Miss, an event that included two season-high marks by Golden Eagle shooters in air rifle. Johnathan Zimmerer shot 568 which was not only his season-best, but also a career-high for the junior from Lindsay, Texas. With that score, Zimmerer also recorded his season-best aggregate total of 1,116 after posting a 548 iin smallbore.
Senior Jessica McCauley from Hannibal, Mo., had the team's other season-high in air rifle, posting a 573 during her time on the Tech range. Tech's top score of the day in air was a 580 by Austin Litherland, a junior from St. Francisville, La. Curtis Gagne was Tech's fourth in the discipline, firing a 565.
In smallbore, Gagne, a senior from Clearwater, Fla., posted a 557 for Tech's top score. Litherland was just two points back at 555, followed by Zimmerer at 548 and Patrick Stidham with a 533.
Jacksonville State will try to make it six straight at this
year's OVC Championship. The event will be held at the Pat Spurgin
Rifle Range at Murray State.
Last year on the Tech range, the JSU Gamecocks won both the smallbore and air rifle portions to win the title with an overall score of 4,628. UT Martin mixed finished tied for second with Morehead State with a score of 4,515, followed by Murray State (4,513), Tennessee Tech (4,489) and UTM women (4,362). Jax State went on to finish third at the NCAA National Rifle Championship, while taking the smallbore national title. JSU returns to its team 2009 Smallbore National Champion Brian Carstensen, also the OVC Freshman of the Year and OVC Smallbore Athlete of the Year.
The OVC Championship will start at 9 a.m. each day, with the smallbore competition taking place on Saturday and air rifle on Sunday.
Results will be available on www.ovcsports.com after the completion of each day's events.
2010 Ohio Valley Conference Rifle Championship Schedule
Saturday, February 6 - Smallbore Competition
9:00 a.m. - Relay 1
12:00 a.m. - Relay 2
Sunday, February 7 - Air Rifle Competition
9:00 a.m. - Relay 1
11:45 a.m. - Relay 2
Information for this story was provided by The Oracle (Leah Meffert, writer)
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The Boulder Valley School District has three people assigned to help teachers at 55 schools figure out how to integrate technology into their classrooms.
Looking for a better way to use limited resources, a committee of teachers, principals and community members spent a year developing a vision and researching programs in school districts nationwide. The group settled on a model in which small groups of teachers will receive extensive training and then serve as mentors to other teachers in their schools.
"It's a good new direction," said Boulder Valley educational technology manager Kelly Sain, who worked with a similar model in two other school districts. "The enthusiasm from our teachers has been huge."
In this first year, the district is asking middle and high school teachers to apply for 30 spots. The next year, 30 elementary teachers will be chosen, and the program will be open to any Boulder Valley teacher for 30 spots in the final year. Teachers can apply until Oct. 29, with the training expected to start in January.
Teachers in the program will receive nine days of professional development, salary credit and about $2,600 worth of digital tools to use in their classrooms. The professional development will include time for the teachers to collaborate, Sain said.
"We want to build a community of learners," she said.
Librarians at the schools also will serve as resources for the teachers as they try new projects in the classrooms. The digital toolkit is expected to include devices like video cameras, iPods and smartboards.
Once the first group is trained, they will be expected to become resources at their schools, helping and encouraging colleagues.
"They know the staff members and the culture," Sain said. "They can do a fantastic job connecting with others. That's really important as we go forward to try to figure out how to use digital tools with our students."
Andrew Moore, Boulder Valley's chief information officer, said the three people in the educational technology office have been spread too thin. This model, he said, should be a more effective way to help teachers incorporate technology in their lessons.
He said another reason for trying the model now is that it's becoming increasingly difficult for teachers to keep up with all the innovations, from iPods to netbooks to the paperless possibilities of Google collaborative environments.
"Technology is changing rapidly," he said. "We're in a different world than we were even just three years ago. Teachers need to know how technology can keep kids engaged in the learning process."
For more information, go to https://sites.google.com/a/bvsd.org/21st-century-cohort.


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A set of Matlab scripts has been developed illustrating the treatment of inelastic scattering in non-equilibrium Greens function (NEGF) based quantum transport models. The first script highlights the core principles using a simple conductor described by a (2x2) Hamiltonian matrix, while the second script shows how the model can be extended straightforwardly to arbitrary conductors described by any (NxN) Hamiltonian. Numerical results are presented in both cases highlighting the subtle effects of inelastic scattering on quantum transport. By understanding these scripts and the results they produce, students will be prepared to implement dissipative scattering in NEGF simulations.
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Andrea Bocelli – Landmarks Live in Concert Preview
Preview: Season 44 Episode 26 | 30s
Andrea Bocelli – Landmarks Live in Concert continues the new Landmarks arts strand on Friday, June 30 at 10 p.m. on PBS (Check local listings.) Each Landmarks Live in Concert special features an artist or band performing at a legendary destination of personal significance. The series is hosted by Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, who conducts one-on-one interviews with the artists.
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The US Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with several manufacturers, has announced a voluntary recall of certain pool and in-ground spa drain covers. The CPSC determined that certain pool and in-ground spa drain covers were incorrectly rated for protection against body entrapment by independent third party laboratories (See CPSC Drain Cover Press Release). Hayward specific models affected by this recall are WGX1031B, WGX1032B, WGX1033B, WGX1031BHF, WGX1033BHF, WG1032PAK2, WG1033PAK2, WG1033HFPAK2. Replacement of these Hayward square drain covers may be required in certain cases. Please review documents below for specific Hayward products affected by the recall and then contact Hayward at (888) 407-9281 to process your replacement order, if the square Hayward drain covers in your pool or in-ground spa are affected by this recall. For all non-Hayward drain covers please visit the Association of Pool & Spa Professionals (APSP) www.apsp.org/draincoverrecall.
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Seattle takes a minimum-wage leap
Seattle City Counciln has raised its minimum hourly wage to $15 (£9), setting the city on the path to providing workers within its jurisdiction with the highest such rate in the country.
The increase will roll out in increments, reaching the new level in 2017. Behind the local celebration of the new wage standard, however, a larger national debate continues over the economic rationale behind minimum-wage increases - particularly ones enacted on a municipal level, since prospects for a nationwide wage increase seem dim.
Last year, Seattle fast food workers walked out on their shifts and began a strike to protest against low wages, sparking a citywide movement to increase Seattle's lowest wage. The strike began at the same time as the Seattle mayoral race, eventually becoming a centrepiece in the city's elections - a voting platform that candidates, like the current mayor Ed Murray, could not ignore.
In the neighbouring city of Seatac, voters in November approved a ballot measure raising its own minimum wage to $15. After he was elected into office the same month, Mr Murray stayed true to one of his principle campaign promises and successfully pushed for an increase.
As local politicians celebrated their legislative success, however, outside critics, like chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine Steve Forbes, have voiced their views on the increase, arguing that this policy shift represents a negative turn for the city.
Forbes argued that Seattle was "wounding itself" by raising the minimum wage. The increase, he writes, "will destroy jobs, especially for young people, and bankrupt numerous small businesses that operate on tight profit margins".
Despite these potential consequences, he concedes that Seattle's decision to raise the minimum wage reflects "the frustrations and anger that erupt when an economy is stagnant".
"Seattle will say goodbye to many of its low-skilled workers, most of whom serve the retail and leisure and hospitality sector," former chief economist of the Department of Labor Diana Furchtgott-Roth writes in the New York Times.
With the potential loss of low-skill jobs, others argue that the minimum wage increase could lead to a larger economic equality gap as unskilled workers in Seattle could face challenges in finding work.
"It will deepen the tendency towards labour market polarization as a non-trivial number of workers, starting with those who command a market wage of $9.32 or less, will find themselves locked out of formal employment," writes Reihan Salam for the National Review.
Aside from the growing online debate, some critics are taking their complaints to the courthouse. The Washington DC-based International Franchise Association plans to sue the city of Seattle as a result of the minimum wage hike. The association views that the increase is discriminatory because it requires smaller, franchise businesses to raise wages for their workers at the same rate as big businesses.
Supporters counter that the minimum wage increase will not hurt businesses, but rather attract workers to Seattle, thus fostering a stronger standard of living.
Former Clinton administration Secretary of Labour Robert Reich says that higher wages will bring more workers into the workforce, including some who wouldn't have been interested in the previously lower wages.
"That means they'll end up with workers who are highly reliable and likely to stay longer, resulting in real savings," he writes in the New York Times.
Additionally, Reich says, it's not just workers who will benefit from the increase in minimum wage:
More money in the pockets of low-wage workers means more sales, especially in the locales they live in - which in turn creates faster growth and more jobs. A major reason the current economic recovery is anaemic is that so many Americans lack the purchasing power to get the economy moving again.
Taking on trickle-down economists who champion economic policies supporting the rich rather than the poor, Seattle entrepreneur Nick Hanauer says that this increase will help further the already thriving economy of Seattle.
"A city in which restaurants pay workers enough so that they can afford to eat in restaurants, doesn't have fewer restaurants. It has more of them," he writes for the New York Times. "A $15-an-hour wage isn't a risky and untried policy in Seattle. It is the natural evolution of common-sense economic thinking."
As the debate comes to a head, perhaps only time will tell if the minimum-wage hike was a good decision for Seattle and potentially for other cities that are considering similar minimum wage increases.
As Quartz's Tim Fernholz points out, Seattle's minimum wage increase is not only unprecedented in the United States (outside of little Seatac), it would be the highest effective rate across the globe as well. Last month Swiss voters could have set the record with the equivalent of a $25 (£15) minimum wage, but they overwhelmingly rejected the measure.
It's impossible to fully predict the greater effects that the increase may have on the city and the globe.
That said, it's difficult to deny that Seattle will present a good opportunity as a petri dish for economists and politicians alike to gain a new understanding of the real-life effects of raising minimum wage.
(By Annie P Waldman)


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Season Three Premiere of HOMELAND Delivers The Series' Biggest Premiere Episode & Night Yet, Up 26%
MASTERS OF SEX Ties Season One Premiere of HOMELAND – Sampled By Over 2.4 Million
With 1.4 Million For The Night PLUS One Million Pre-Premiere Sampling
- The season three premiere of the Emmy® and Golden Globe® Award-winning SHOWTIME drama HOMELAND returned with its highest-rated premiere yet last night with 1.9 million viewers at 9 p.m. and 2.61 million viewers for the night:
- Besting its season two debut by nine percent (vs. 1.7 million) and 26 percent (vs. 2.07 million) respectively.
- The network's top-rated and also most time-shifted series, HOMELAND attracts the most DVR+7 and On Demand viewing per week of any SHOWTIME original series (69 percent delayed viewing).
- Season two averaged 6.25 million weekly viewers.
- The new SHOWTIME drama series MASTERS OF SEX debuted to one million viewers at 10 p.m. and 1.4 million viewers for the night, tying the HOMELAND season one premiere.
- Over one million viewers and counting have sampled the MASTERS OF SEX premiere, which was offered two weeks prior to its premiere across multiple platforms, including select television providers On Demand channels and websites, on SHOWTIME ON DEMAND® and SHOWTIME ANYTIME®. Online viewing data will be available in the upcoming weeks.


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One of the best ways to save energy and cut carbon emissions isn't the much-touted "smart grid," low-watt light bulbs, or high-tech appliances – it's a little neighborly competition.
Just ask Sacramento resident Kat Kelly, who last year began getting a new "home energy report" from her utility company that compared her family's electricity use directly with her neighbors'.
On the report, one bar chart rated her family's electricity use against the average of 100 neighbors with similar sized houses – and also of her 20 most energy-efficient neighbors. The report had three rating levels: "below average," a smiley face for a "good," or two smileys for a "great!" average.
A self-described "competitive person," Ms. Kelly says she was shocked to learn that her family not only failed to get a smiley, it received a "below average" rating. That same day, she began turning off lights, changing the thermostat, and switching off her power strips – anything to save juice and win future smiley faces.
"It got my competitive spirit going," Kelly says. "I wanted to be one of the
energy conservers in my neighborhood."
Her reaction is not unusual. Some say it's the power of competition – the desire to keep up (or in this case "down") with the Joneses. Others say it's just logical
decisionmaking. Whatever it is, the simple act of informing residents about their neighbors' power use can be like firing a starting gun in a race to save energy, researchers say.
Improving residential energy efficiency is critical to combating climate change since it equals about 35 percent of total US energy use and 15 percent of total US greenhouse-gas emissions, federal data show.
Over the decades, Americans have become more frugal with energy. But thousands of tiny personal choices around the house could substantially cut energy use.
How much? The "human dimension" in energy consumption could whack household energy use 22 percent nationwide – a 12 percent reduction in overall US energy consumption, according to a new American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE). By comparison, all solar, geothermal, and wind power consumed last year amounted to about 1 percent of US energy use.
Yet human impact has been largely ignored by electric utilities. Instead, their efficiency programs have focused mostly on "widget based" programs that pay rebates for efficient appliances, for instance.
But with new state laws boosting efficiency requirements, widget programs are reaching their limits. That's pushing dozens of utilities to experiment.
"Energy is very much an invisible commodity for most people," says Karen Ehrhardt-Martinez, an ACEEE researcher. "It's not like pumping gas into your car. It flows invisibly into the house, and you don't know anything until you get the bill. We need people to have all the information so they can make better choices."
Widely used on college campuses today to combat binge drinking, a "social norms" approach surveys and then publishes data to make plain to students that campus drinking levels are (almost always) far lower than they think. Less binge drinking is the frequent result.
The social-norms approach has also been applied to curb gambling and environmental pollution, and to promote health choices. Online retailers use it to encourage purchases when they tell visitors that "customers who bought the items in your shopping cart also bought...."
"The middle is a magnet for behavior," says Robert Cialdini, professor emeritus of psychology at Arizona State University and a pioneer on the social-norms impact on energy use. "What you find is people who are in the outlying areas as violators of the desirable behavior will move to the middle when they learn they're outliers."
That's what the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) in California found when its social-norms pilot tests over the past year cut energy demand by 2 percent – just by telling folks how their energy use compared with their neighbors'. That drop may sound puny, but SMUD saved 9.5 billion watt-hours, equal to the electricity use of 1,000 average homes for a year.
The Kelly family, for instance, cut its energy use 10 percent – and have yet to win a smiley face. But Kat Kelly and thousands like her have SMUD officials smiling.
"Even those folks who received the 'You are below average' message from us saved, and actually saved the most of any other group," says Alexandra Crawford, a SMUD project manager. At least two dozen utilities nationwide are experimenting with saving energy this way.
"You aren't born knowing what your utility bill should be or 'Am I using more than I need to?' " says Daniel Yates, president of OPOWER, in Arlington, Va., which analyzes SMUD customer energy use and pioneered using smiley faces. "You know people think a Prius is a good thing and a Humvee is bad," he says. "Well, a lot of Prius owners have Humvee houses and don't even know it."
While OPOWER focuses on developing reports like those SMUD sent by mail, others are putting it on the Internet.
At Efficiency 2.0, a New York-based software provider to utility companies, Andy Frank's team is working with the Western Massachusetts Electricity Company to create a Facebook-like community where people can help one another save energy and compare results in a friendly, yet competitive way.
Online comparisons come with frowny or smiley faces and also give people highly customized tips about how they can reduce their energy use. It offers, for instance, a calculator tallying myriad decisions – take shorter showers, adjust thermostat settings, or hand-wash dishes.
"We're like Weight Watchers for your energy use," says Mr. Frank, Efficiency 2.0's executive vice president for business development. "Most Americans would like to lose weight, but they don't do it because they don't get feedback. We provide that feedback [to cut energy use]."
Wendy Penner loves that feedback. Her website profile tells the community of users that she has chosen to hand- wash her dishes in cold water, saving 238 pounds per year of carbon dioxide and knocking $45 off her energy bill.
When those results didn't satisfy her, Ms. Penner further pledged to dial down her water heater temperature from 135 to 115 degrees F., saving 626 pounds of CO2 and $92 worth of fuel annually. Overall, she's lowered her personal energy use by 1.4 percent and is on track to save $190 per year and 1,120 lbs. of CO2.
That hasn't won her a smiley face yet, though. Until recently, her page sported a frowny face because she's doing better on energy use than only 25 percent of the community at large. She would like to be competing against a group of "energy friends," but doesn't have any since the site has only been running a month.
"This is really a very powerful tool and I like it a lot," Penner says. "The motivation from it is pretty strong. People really don't like getting the frowny faces." (In fact, SMUD and others have nixed frowny faces after some negative reactions.)
Commonwealth Edison, a Chicago-area utility, is pleased overall with its program, which is similar to SMUD's.
"In a few cases we've been accused of being agents of some secret service spying on them," says Val Jensen, vice president for marketing and environmental programs for Commonwealth Edison. "But that kind of reaction has been in the low single digits. Only one homeowner has said, 'Stop sending me this.' "
When Dennis Boland, a stock-index trader from Glenview, Ill., got his new home energy report from Commonwealth Edison last month, he was aghast.
The report showed that the 20 most efficient homes in Mr. Boland's neighborhood used about 587 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per month, while his group of 100 neighbors used 1,150 kWh per month. And Boland's home? Try 1,987 kWh monthly – 92 percent more than the average.
"My first observation when I read the report was: 'I am a pig!' " he says. "I knew I was paying a lot every month for electricity, but I thought everyone was. I didn't know I was such a glutton."
Even though it made him feel guilty, Boland says he was also grateful. Now he's changing his thermostat setting to reduce his air-conditioning load and looking for other ways to save energy – and money.
He's eager to see the next report to determine if he's off the "below average" list. "I hope more power companies will pick up on this," he says, "and not be afraid to tell their users: 'You're below average' or maybe, 'You're a pig!' "
[Editor's Note: The original version of this article referred to OPOWER by its previous name, Positive Energy.]


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A year ago, word went out that Rupert Murdoch was looking to buy this newspaper. Reaction was swift, strong and all over the map.
Some envisioned the father of Fox News turning The Times into another partisan mouthpiece. Others fretted over Murdoch's enmeshment in the United Kingdom's huge phone-hacking and police-corruption scandal. A few countered: Here is a man who loves newspapers and invests in them, lavishly.
In short, the response was as complicated as the man. This is the challenge facing David Folkenflik in "Murdoch's World: The Last of the Old Media Empires." Six decades ago, Murdoch began to create what so many media executives yearn for today: a global media empire. From his father's modest company in Australia, he built a business spanning 50 countries, a powerhouse of influential TV and movie production companies, newspapers and book publishers. Admired, loathed and feared, Murdoch is hard to size up neatly.
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Folkenflik, NPR's media correspondent, alerts us up front: His focus is on the U.K. scandals, but we'll need considerable context to understand them. After a scene in a London hotel in which Murdoch speaks contritely with the family of the dead girl whose cellphone his journalists hacked, we swing back in time to Australia, where everything Murdoch-related begins.
Having launched his native land's only national general-interest newspaper and assembled over time the dominant papers in most of the major cities, influential news websites and a controlling stake in the nation's largest cable TV provider, Murdoch personifies the alarm that the phrase "global media tycoon" evokes.
As one media critic tells Folkenflik: "It's bad for a democracy when 70% of the newspapers in this country are pushing one line and pushing it so hard."
That Australian template is one Murdoch "has perfected in his exploits around the globe," Folkenflik writes. He chronicles Murdoch's reach into the United Kingdom in 1969 before moving on to New York in 1974. It is in the U.K. that Murdoch set out the philosophy that was to determine the highs and lows of his legendary career.
"Anybody who, within the law of the land, provides a service which the public wants at a price it can afford is providing a public service," Murdoch said in a public address.
That little "law of the land" detail was sorely to bedevil him. But, oh, what successes his no-holds-barred thinking — or, in the author's nice phrase, "circumvention as innovation" — would yield.
One success devoutly desired by Murdoch was the takeover of the British Sky Broadcasting Group, or BSkyB, the U.K.'s largest cable broadcaster. The tension between that quest and the unspooling scandal is the heart of the book, and it's rich with detail: The pompous denials by cops and news executives, News Corp.'s hapless defensive stands, crumbling inexorably toward the closing of the tabloid News of the World, the firing of Rebekah Brooks and the collapse (for now) of the BSkyB dream.
This makes for meaty reading. But Folkenflik's devotion to context keeps us hopping across oceans and back and forth in time. We veer off to Fox News, to the Wall Street Journal, to check on Murdoch family members.
"Murdoch's World" is bolstered by deep reporting, including scores of interviews, and laced with delicious anecdotes. But, compelled as Folkenflik feels to tell multiple good tales rather than one, the read is often choppy.
Still, it all feeds into an intriguing notion of what makes Murdoch who he is. We feel the ubiquity of his reach. One angry victim of the phone hacking testified against the Murdochs in court, then went on to appear in five movies produced by Fox-owned studios, see his TV shows run on a Murdoch-controlled cable channel and his book published by a Murdoch-owned house.
"It was hard to do business without the Murdochs," writes Folkenflik.
Then there is Murdoch's self-invention as an outsider — "a preposterous confection," Folkenflik notes, for an Oxford grad consulted by the mighty and invited to all the toniest occasions.
Murdoch and his Aussie mates, says the author, "believe themselves to be outsiders" yet become "consummate and powerful insiders, creating their own establishment from which to operate." And, he adds, tenaciously defining themselves by their enemies.
In the end, declared by Parliament unfit to lead a major media company and compelled (this year) to split his empire in two, Murdoch only savors the challenge: "I have been given an extraordinary opportunity most people never get in their lifetime: the chance to do it all over again," he told investors in New York City.
He seems to mean it, in life as well as in work: At 82 (his mother died last year at 102), he has bought himself a winery in the hills above Bel-Air. Newly single, he's getting dating advice from GQ. His Sun on Sunday, successor to News of the World, leads the Sunday U.K. tabloid market. The Melbourne Theatre Company has staged a dramatization of his life: "Rupert."
His Twitter attacks on the "toffs" back in the U.K. who want to "gag the press" steam on, even as the Brits finalize oversight measures triggered by his own lawless journalists.
So what to think? Pull for Murdoch to buy the hometown paper? Pray that he won't? "Murdoch's World" confirms: It's complicated.
Overholser, former director of USC's Annenberg School of Journalism, has worked for the New York Times and the Washington Post and was editor of the Des Moines Register. She is now an independent journalist in New York.
Murdoch's World
The Last of the Old Media Empires
David Folkenflik
PublicAffairs: 384 pp., $27.99