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Summer travel spending is on the rise, especially at the top.
If you have the funds to order up a private jet on demand, some locations become more appealing than others.
Based on current booking patterns, the private jet set this summer is expected to favor many of the same destinations that were popular in 2013—just a lot more frequently than before, according to Sentient Jet. The company, which offers on-demand charters as well as 25-hour jet cards, is forecasting a 34 percent growth rate above 2013 levels at its Top 10 summer destinations.
The increased summer expectations come on top of a strong winter. During the first quarter of the year, when severe weather walloped the major airlines, Sentient had its best financials in six years with $43.7 million in revenue, a 21 percent year-over-year growth.
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Just got a TV after many years .
I watched my first program on CNN this morning. It was an hour long special by a bald guy named Ali about misplaced consumer confidence assisting the Obama campaign. Their point was that folks are too confident in the economy and that is getting Obama votes.
Explain why the "Liberal press" is sinking this big unfair advantage for Obama. I saw his votes melting away.
My explanation is that it is accurate news that their GOP owners think folks will watch and thereby sell ads.(and make money)
Your explanation?
If you have none then how bout all that material baja presented?
The conservatives who work throughout the media could at any time have a huge hit by bringing forth the proof of media bias.
CNN conservatives like Greta van Susteren and others have moved over to fox from other networks through the years. They are insiders at CNN and elsewhere.
Where is the big expose that Fox is dreaming of showing?They have the people from the "liberal press" on payroll. I am an old time conservative who has waited for this proof for 40 years.
yes cnn is the training grounds to move onto fox. Paula Zahn, Bill Hammer, as you mention greta and so on. Note there is not one partasan liberal that has ever been there with their own show and moved on. other blatentaly partisan are nancy grace, Jack Kaffarty and so on.
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ted koppel and the so called liberal media. Ted made his name by doing a show every night attacking Jimmy Carter. remember his count up on the hostages.
Se lets see Ted made his name of attacking a predident every day for years.
the so called liberal media was attacking the next democrat every single day with whitewater. 8 years of attacking him. and not one grand jury which it is so easy to get a grand jury to indict but with 70 million spent and two special prosecutors not one grand jury. Even the first partisan right wing prosecutor said he cound find no wrong doing. yet 8 years of right wing hate media. with tons of right wing special interest money attacking him including the trust fund kid hater richard Mellon scaife owner of the media, and funder of the paula jones lawsuit even before clinton was sworn in. That right wing trust fund kid hate..
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One enterprising researcher took this 29 percent figure, and extrapolating from figures on CIA expenditures for covert operations, found that the cost of propaganda in 1978 was around $265 million and involved 2,000 personnel. Comparing this to figures for other news agencies, he concluded that the CIA "uses far more resources in its propaganda operations than any single news agency.... In fact, the CIA propaganda budget is as large as the combined budgets of Reuters, United Press International and the Associated Press."[8]
CBS took Daniel Schorr off the air after he leaked the Pike committee report. This was most likely a convenient opportunity for William Paley, chairman of CBS, who didn't approve of Schorr's interest in the network's own CIA connection. Former CBS News president Sig Mickelson, who by 1976 was president of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, said that in October 1954, Paley called him into his office for a friendly discussion with two CIA officials. Schorr mentioned this on Walter Cronkite's show, and in an op-ed piece for the New York Times (Arthur Hays Sulzberger, the late publisher of the Times, had been cozy with the CIA also).
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Mr. Sulzberger did not always appreciate the content or the tenor of the editorial page. He thought it was anti-business, especially in the 1960s and 70s. If you were a corporation, you were wrong, whatever you were doing, he said. But he almost never imposed his views. Though he did nudge Mr. Oakes into retirement a year or two early, Mr. Oakes said, I literally can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times that I had to go to bat for an editorial. Mr. Oakes died in 2001.
The topics might be of national importance, like the structure of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the military being a subject he cared about as a former Marine who had served in World War II and the Korean War. When he felt the boundaries of good taste had been crossed, he let the editors know it. But the notes could also be about mundane matters. In one, in 1976, he complained to A. M. Rosenthal, the executive editor, about a published recipe for cooked eel.
Why cant our food pages have something on them that most people like? Mr. Sulzberger asked.
One A. Sock letter, an unflattering take in 1979 on the National Organization for Women, brought a sharp rebuttal letter. Mr. Sock deserves a punch, it concluded. It was signed Gail Gregg, the publishers daughter-in-law at the time. Convinced his cover was blown, Mr. Sulzberger wrote almost no A. Sock letters again.
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Saw an analysis of the two debt plans on CNN. They were responding to a non partisan group which concluded that Romneys plan was mathematicly impossible.
They agreed that the numbers were impossible.
They concluded that Obamas plan, while the math is possible, makes unfounded assumptions and was not going to work either.
Why would they undercut their master in these ways so close to the election?
I also saw the same news about that nonpartisan assessment of Romneys plan on the news on Fox. The newscaster said that the Romney plan made perfect math. He said you just had to change most of the ideas and numbers around from those proposed and all was perfect.
They felt it was unfair of the analysis to use Romneys plan when assessing Romneys plan.
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mat-ty, I will admit that I didn't watch the Caddell video when you originally posted it, but now I have. First of all, my commentary in response to your posts is based on what you say and how you say it. I don't think that anything I've said was inaccurate, so I wouldn't change a word of it.
Regarding Caddell, it's my impression that he is one angry guy that has a lot of sour grapes because the news media isn't doing what he wants them to. Admittedly, he criticizes both Democrats and Republicans, but that doesn't change the fact that he believes the media isn't taking his lead on the topics most important to him, and arguably of those funding him. That rings very clear in his dialog. He's pissed. But I have to ask myself, do I find synergy in what Caddell was ranting about? Well, no. Nevertheless, he did have the stage at Accuracy in the Media, and from what I learned, he is a fairly frequent commenter on Fox News shows, so it's not like the media is shutting him out. What I've learned over time is that everyone in the media has an agenda, and it doesn't have to be in the interest of the majority of Americans. Oh, there can be a lot of phony dialog and talking points dragged out in the name of sustaining freedom and fairness, but that doesn't make any of it true, appropriate or necessary.
Because the recent Libyan incident involving the deaths of the American ambassador and others was a notable highlight in Caddell's speech, it serves as an example just how news can be twisted and manipulated to serve an agenda. I have no doubt myself that the Libyan incident is being fully investigated by many in the US government, but just not in the manner and focus that Caddell and his supporters want. They want a pointed media trail that heaps boatloads of criticism on the Obama Administration. Isn't that what you want mat-ty?
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ABC's Stephanopoulos Leads Post-Debate Media Spin for Democrats
By Rich Noyes
October 02, 2012 | 08:50
Leading into tomorrows presidential debate, journalists are busy setting expectations for the candidates. On Sundays Good Morning America, ABCs George Stephanopoulos argued that Mitt Romney is under huge, huge pressure: He is behind right now. He is behind nationally, hes behind in all of the battleground states. This is the last big audience that Mitt Romney is going to have with about four and a half weeks left to go.
But more undecided voters will be swayed by the medias post-debate spin about who won and who lost than by any pre-debate expectations. Reviewing the last several campaigns, MRC analysts have found a clear trend of network reporters fawning over the performance of liberal candidates, while harping on any perceived weaknesses or gaffes from conservatives.
One of the most reliable pro-Democratic pundits is none other than George Stephanpoulos not especially surprising, given his track record as a loyal operative for Bill Clintons 1992 presidential campaign, but hardly the objective, unbiased voice touted by ABC News. MRC has documented how, in eight out of the last nine general election presidential debates (every one since he joined ABC News in 1997), Stephanopoulos has gone on his networks airwaves to claim victory for the Democratic candidate, all in the guise of offering impartial analysis.
Stephanopoulos even called Al Gore the winner after the first debate in 2000, the one in which the Democratic candidates excessive sighs and rude interruptions were parodied by Saturday Night Live in a classic spoof. (SNLs Al Gore: Jim, Id like to interrupt here and answer that question as if it were my turn to speak.)
This past Sunday, previewing Wednesdays debate, Stephanopoulos even raised the topic with Donna Brazile, who was Gores campaign manager that year: I know for a fact that everyone on your team thought that he cleaned George Bushs clock in that debate, but on mannerisms and, on the takeaway, he ended up losing.
Of course, Stephanopoulos eagerly matched the Democratic campaigns initially jubilant assessment of Gores performance.
Only after the second debate in 2000 (October 11) did Stephanopoulos see a Republican winning: Governor Bush had a very, very strong night tonight and probably won the debate, in part because as you said, he looked so surefooted on foreign policy. But Stephanopoulos also insisted: Vice President Gore, no mistakes no obvious mistakes at all. But he didnt really get a chance to talk about his issues.
Since that date nearly 12 years ago, Stephanopoulos has been a consistent champion for the Democrats presidential candidates, crowning John Kerry the winner three times in a row and doing the same for Barack Obama in 2008. Below are the quotes and attribution for clips used in the compilation video, starting with Stephanopouloss post-debate analysis of the 2000 presidential debates:
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So you are so afraid of Romney losing the debate you are sandbagging ahead of time? I know he is unlikeable, but wow.
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And then we have George
ABC's Stephanopoulos Leads Post-Debate Media Spin for Democrats
By Rich Noyes
October 02, 2012 | 08:50
Leading into tomorrows presidential debate, journalists are busy setting expectations for the candidates. On Sundays Good Morning America, ABCs George Stephanopoulos argued that Mitt Romney is under huge, huge pressure: He is behind right now. He is behind nationally, hes behind in all of the battleground states. This is the last big audience that Mitt Romney is going to have with about four and a half weeks left to go.
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George S should get out of there, he is horrible.... he is paid off to be a lightweight. He will not ask the tough questions like some of the good liberals on MSNBC. We need a real partisan who is allowed to be a real partisan like others on ABC are allowed for the right.
Next he does not have his own shows, he is just a paid off yesman. Now on ABC they have diane sawyer. She is a top broadcaster and with many slots on ABC, where George is just a undering. Diane Sawyer was a partisan Nixon speechwriter.
then on ABC there is also Geoge Will. another far right politically partisan in every stupid word he utters, not to mention he is one of the most read journalists in the so called Liberal Media.
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HOUSTON - Five people were shot, three killed, after a rap concert at an after-hours club in southwest Houston.
About 2,000 people gathered at Hottyz gentlemen's club on Westpark Drive and Ace Street to see Houston rapper Trae. When the concert finished, hundreds were in the parking lot when someone started shooting shortly after 3:15 a.m.
Detectives said it appeared the gunman fired in one direction, spraying the crowd with 20 bullets.
Four men and a woman were hit, including the rapper, Trae, whose name is Frazier Thompson.
Two of the men and a woman died at the scene. One of those killed was 32-year-old Carlos Dorsey. His street name was "Dinky."
"If you knew Dinky, you knew he wasn't nothing but love," friend Demesha Watson said. "Nothing was negative about him whatsoever."
The names of the other two people who died have not been released. Police said the woman killed was an innocent bystander.
Trae and another man were taken to the hospital. An official said Trae was shot in the shoulder and has been treated and released from Ben Taub Hospital. He is expected to recover.
"He's real known in Houston, and it's real messed up cause it happened and I don't know why. There's people crying," witness John Esquivel said. "We were just outside chilling, waiting. Everybody was talking, enjoying the night, and all of a sudden, we heard about 20 shots. Then I look up and a girl is dying. She was alive when I got here, but when police arrived, she was dead."
That woman was Erica Dotson, 29. Her family told KPRC Local 2 she leaves behind three young daughters.
"They will have to live without their mom all of their lives," said Sylvia Price, the victim's aunt. "It's too much, she didn't deserve to be shot down like this. She was shot multiple times in the chest."
Detectives said one of the survivors left the hospital and returned to the scene to help homicide detectives.
The gunman escaped.
"There were literally hundreds of people here," HPD spokesman Victor Senties said. "Somebody who was here had to have seen or heard something."
Houston police said they need help from witnesses to identify a suspect.
"A lot of time on the street they say snitches get stitches," HPD Investigator Kevin Carr said. "How does that help anybody out? It doesn't. We can't do our job properly if people don't get all the information they need to know. All you've got to do is reach out and we will help you. We're not going to leave you hanging."
Investigators said they were looking at surveillance video to see if anything was caught on camera.
A motive for the shooting is not yet known, but police said it may have been in retaliation to a shooting at the Breakers club in southwest Houston that occurred in November. That killing has not yet been solved.
In 2008, Trae Tha Truth was awarded by the mayor of Houston, Bill White, and council member Peter Brown with his own day, Trae Day, in honor of his outstanding work within the community. It was the first time the honor was extended to a rap artist.
Trae Day was celebrated July 22, 2008.
"Trae is the heart of the community," said Tiffany of Angels by Nature. "We've done what we've could to give back to the city. That's really Trae's message: 'I'm here. I'm doing for the city and I'm here to be a productive member of society.'"
In 2009, four people were wounded in a shooting at one of Trae's concerts. Investigators said they think it was gang-related.
Hottyz will be closed for a week. The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission issued an emergency suspension of its liquor license.
Wednesday night the leader of the New Black Panther Nation, Quannel X, gathered with some of the victim's family and friends. He lead the group in prayer then sent out a plea to the community.
"For those of you who don't want to say anything but saw exactly what took place, think about (the victim's) children," Quannel X said. "There are too many people out here who saw what happened, you know exactly what happened."
Anyone with information is asked to call the HPD Homicide Division at 713-308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.
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Everton defender Seamus Coleman has signed a new five-and-a-half-year contract with the club.
It means the 24-year-old Republic of Ireland international has extended his stay at Goodison Park until the summer of 2018.
"I'm over the moon. I'm glad to get it all done and to sign for so long at a club like Everton is a great achievement - I want to be here for as long as possible," he told evertontv.
"Signing a contract here is fantastic and I'm really looking forward to the next couple of years.
"I'm going to keep working as hard as I have done since day one and keep improving every day in training to impress the manager.
"I'm really happy to have signed for the length of time that I have."
Coleman has missed the last three games through injury but has proved to be an increasingly useful addition on the right-hand side.
Having joined from Sligo Rovers in January 2009 for just £60,000 he made his debut against Benfica in October that year and later went on loan to Blackpool in their promotion-winning year.
He was rewarded with a new three-year contract in May 2010 and signed an improved four-and-a-half-year deal in January 2011 in a season in which he made 24 Premier League starts, his best to date.
Manager David Moyes found a place for him on the right of midfield for many of those early first-team appearances but has since slotted him back into the side on the right of defence.


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This is the story of how Dutch indie developer Vlambeer (Super Crate Box) almost lost its way entirely after its game was cloned, and that clone became a big hit on the App Store -- and how it found its way to work again with the help of some notable collaborators.
Whether Vlambeer's Rami Ismail was attempting to hide the deep anguish he was feeling or not, it was pretty obvious that he was bummed out during GDC Europe back in 2011.
We laughed and joked about various silly means by which Gamenauts' Ninja Fishing, a clone of Vlambeer's own Radical Fishing that was being downloaded by the millions, could be used to the Dutch studio's advantage. Perhaps the tables could be turned, and Vlambeer could pretend that Ridiculous Fishing was in fact a sequel to Ninja Fishing. How could Gamenauts really complain about that line of fire?
Through all the smiles, it was obvious that day-to-day life at Vlambeer wasn't so chirpy following the cloning outbreak. But while the entire ordeal has been well documented in the past, what hasn't been explored in great detail is just how deep it had all affected Ismail and his partner Jan Willem "JW" Nijman.
But let's start on a positive note. Ridiculous Fishing is finally getting a release on March 14. It's the iOS version of Radical Fishing that was started on December 7, 2010 -- the same year that the original iPad came out, and iOS had really begun to gain traction.
Ismail's demeanor has changed dramatically since 2011. "It's a weight off of our shoulders," he says. "It's been such a long time coming, the whole game. It's been in the back of our heads, this lingering desire to show the world we have a great game."
As Ismail and collaborator Zach Gage hit the App Store submission button just weeks ago, there was a pure 10 minutes of dancing, celebrating, and shouting "Hell yeah!" -- followed by a Skype call to other coconspirator Greg Wohlwend, which was followed by even more celebrating.
"It's just such a relief to be done with it," Ismail adds.
Ridiculous Fishing, for those who have missed the drama, is a stylish mobile game all about catching as many fish as possible, then flicking them up into the sky and blasting them with your shotgun. It's a project that has tormented the team since the day it was casually cloned by another studio, and one that very nearly brought about the end of Vlambeer.
To really gauge the rollercoaster that Ismail, Nijman, and co. went on over the last couple of years, it's necessary to go back to the start. The beginning of 2011 saw huge strides in getting the game up and running, and for four to six months it came along in leaps and bounds. Then the clone hit, and it all went to pot.
"We were working on Serious Sam: The Random Encounter at the same time, and when the clone hit, my main job at the time was Serious Sam," explains Ismail. "What ended up happening was, my full-time job became just handling the fallout from the clone, so JW had to take over Serious Sam."
"Everything just started falling apart. We didn't work on Ridiculous Fishing for about a year -- maybe a few days every now and then -- and then we had another short stretch of work on it just before IGF. And then we didn't work on it for another year!"
From an outside perspective, it seems like the answer was obvious: Drop Ridiculous Fishing, try to put the painful memories to the backs of their minds, and get on with doing what they did best -- make games. But it wasn't that simple, and this project lingering on the backburner preoccupied both Ismail and Nijman.
"We couldn't kill Ridiculous Fishing. We just couldn't," says Ismail. "We just really liked the game, and we knew that we could make it a good game, but we knew that if we tried to make it during that demotivated period, we'd just end up getting really depressed. That ended up being a weird sort of constant tension between me and JW."
This led to a prolonged period of discontent within the duo's working relationship. "Everything was stressful for a really long time," admits Ismail. "You want to be happy working, and for a while we weren't. For a while we were just constantly worrying about everything we did, about whether we were going to be able to continue doing Vlambeer, to be able to continue making a living."
Not that Vlambeer has ever been a simple coming together of two friends -- far from it. Ismail and Nijman spend a good portion of their time arguing with each other on everything from visual design to gameplay, and worrying about stuff is just their way of dealing with life.
Notes Ismail, "We know that if we want to be an indie developer, we're going to have to worry about stuff. We want to worry about making the best games we can. We want to worry about building an indie scene in the Netherlands. We want to worry about organizing events.
"But the one thing we don't want to worry about is the idea that when we release a game, people will realize that it's a Vlambeer game, and that our work gets acknowledged," he adds. "That's the one thing that we don't want to worry about."
Seeing people discussing his games, whether it's in a positive or not-so-positive light, is a large part of why Ismail makes games in the first place. He loves watching people pick apart his work, and that acknowledgement that he's made something worth picking apart is rewarding enough to keep his desire to make games alive.
But there's a flipside to creativity. "What the clone did was make us realize that someone else could just come in, take our stuff, release a highly similar game..." he trails off, the memory of it all clearly catching up with him.
"With Ridiculous Fishing, we were set up to have people credit another company for our ideas," he continues. "And when we started worrying about that, that was sort of this abyss of 'I don't give a shit anymore.' It turns out that creativity is not a solid something. It's pretty fragile. It's not an infinite resource that you can just tap into."
Anyone who knows Vlambeer, and Nijman's past endeavors in particular, will know that feeling of demiurgic bliss. As it turns out, having your ideas ripped off doesn't exactly do wonders for your creativity.
"We had this period where JW had a really tough time with ideas, and I had a rough time working on the execution of ideas," Ismail says. "JW is normally extremely prolific, making games in 15 minutes, or in a few hours -- and then suddenly we weren't quite doing that. We skipped the Global Game Jam, and we'd normally always do that."
"And that's what nearly ended Vlambeer -- we realized that we weren't able to be Vlambeer," he adds. "Vlambeer is prolific, Vlambeer makes lots of games, Vlambeer releases prototypes and weird experiments. That's what we do. Sort of like between the big indies who only make really polished stuff, and then the extremely prolific part of the indie scene. We're between that."
Suddenly, the Vlambeer pair found themselves sat at their computers, staring at blank screens, wondering why they were even there at all. They weren't making anything, and they'd lost the motivation to care -- and all because of one incident that, to the eyes of an outsider, had come and gone many months before.
"We found ourselves at a bar, at a meetup that we organized ourselves, questioning, 'Can we still do this?'" says Ismail. "We canceled one really big project that we were planning to do, because we realized we weren't doing it because we wanted to, but rather because we just wanted a project to be working on. Cancelling that project was a big step. I think if we hadn't done that... We just weren't making anything, and we weren't being productive. We just needed something at that point."


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Jim Caldwell is not looking too far ahead.
That's also the advice the Detroit Lions coach is offering to his team as they prepare for the Thanksgiving Day matchup with the NFC North-leading Minnesota Vikings at Ford Field.
The Vikings (8-2) lead the division by two games over Detroit (6-4).
But don't try telling Caldwell that this next game is more significant than any other.
"They're all big," Caldwell said. "Every single one of them's a factor in the grand scheme of things. The most important one is the next one.
The Lions only need to look back to the 2016 season to understand how looking ahead can lead to disappointment.
Last Thanksgiving, the Lions and Vikings also met, and Detroit's 16-13 victory improved the Lions to 7-4 and gave them the NFC North lead by one game over the Vikings.
However the Lions dropped their final three games of the regular season, while the Green Bay Packers, 5-6 after 11 games, ran off five wins in a row to grab the NFC North title from Detroit.
Examples such as last season, and others he's encountered over his coaching career, convinced Caldwell to narrow his focus and avoid looking beyond what's next.
"I fight against it with everything I have," Caldwell said. "That's part of my DNA. I'm not going to change.
The Lions' 27-24 win at Chicago on Sunday gave them a 3-0 road mark within the division for the first time in the Super Bowl era.
The Lions have a solid 4-1 road record, but are only 2-3 at Ford Field.
Despite being one game out of a playoff position, the Lions still face a tough climb to qualify for postseason play.
Seeded seventh at the start of the day Monday, the Lions would drop to the eighth seed if the Atlanta Falcons (5-4) defeat the sixth-seeded Seattle Seahawks (6-3) on Monday night, because the Falcons beat the Lions earlier this season.
The Lions also lost to the Carolina Panthers (7-3) and New Orleans Saints (8-2) and would lose any tiebreaker to either of those teams.
Not that Caldwell is worrying about all those possibilities.
"We're worried about how we play. That's what our goal is, to get focused in on our preparation and get ready to play a tough, hard-fought game."


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Every Saturday morning for most of my life, it has been the sweet, lingering smell of fresh-baked bread, rather than an alarm clock, that has lulled me out of a drowsy haze and brought me gently back to reality.
In a ritual initiated by my dad, the piping-hot baked dough wrapped in a simple paper bag and delicately decorated with sesame seeds found a way home with him before ending up on the kitchen table, where its aroma swirled around the house until it found and awakened me.
It was devoured almost immediately, while the loaf of toast routinely used during the week for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that ended up in lunch boxes remained untouched. It wasn't just any kind of bread. It was barbari, an Iranian flatbread whose origins began many hundreds of years ago in a part of the world that I was born in, but that couldn't be any more different than the one I grew up in.
The marriage of my multilayered identity, including our beloved barbari tradition, is perhaps most evident during this time of year. On Saturday, a mad dash to the bakery, followed by a feeding frenzy, took place. Soon after, gingerbread men were made, Ralphie and his Red Ryder BB gun was watched on a loop in "A Christmas Story," and presents were wrapped. And a few days after 2012 was ushered in by the Rose Parade in neighboring Pasadena, the holidays will start all over again for many families like mine as we celebrate Armenian Christmas on January 6, better known around the world as "Epiphany."
Growing up as a child of immigrants is a harrowing experience, littered with pangs of insecurity and identity issues that stay with you. Pulled between two worlds, you find yourself not really fitting in anywhere, trudging through life with cultural issues that make that already awkward phase of adolescence and being a teenager all the more — well, awkward.
Caught between the Verdugo Hills and the Caucasus Mountains, barbari and toast, Christmas and Epiphany, your dual identities wage internal war with each other. Your sense of now and here competes with your parents' sense of then and there.
It happens that the weight of making peace with a multilayered identity is sometimes overwhelming. You feel an ultimatum must be made, a decision must take place; and embracing one surely means losing the other layers. But there doesn't have to be a sense of loss.
I am a child of immigrants, of two individuals who came to this country, just like all the others before them and after them from every creed, race and religion, with the hope of making their lives, and the lives of their children, infinitely better. For a long time when I was younger, a battle that spanned thousands of miles across continents, culture and tradition was fought within me. It reared its head between embarrassment and discrimination and told me to choose.
As I got older, I made peace instead, realizing that one layer doesn't have to invalidate the others, and recognized in the process that there's plenty of room for them to dance with one another without stepping on each other's toes. These experiences, borrowed and melded together from layers, makes the holidays that much sweeter.
It was with this in mind that I ate my Iranian barbari bread and watched my favorite American Christmas films. I made gingerbread men while Armenian songs from another time and place blared in the background. I drove through Altadena's festively lit Christmas Tree Lane and hoped for strength to deal with whatever will take place in the next 365 days. And less than a week into 2012, on a day that for me is more about culture than religion, I'll repeat Christmas all over again, the Armenian way.
My identity, held together by the marriage of many worlds, formed by experiences and padded by peculiar customs, has made peace with itself, all the while looking forward to adding more colorful, mismatched thread to its ever-expanding rug of life. And that's entirely OK.
As children of immigrants, we often think we need to take away or reject something to become whole. Adding those layers, though, is what ultimately makes us richer. Identity doesn't have rules, only dimensions. And that can't be bad, especially if it means you get to celebrate Christmas twice.


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Staples bounces back with lopsided win at Trinity Catholic
STAMFORD -- It looks like the Trinity Catholic baseball team has finally found someone to fill the role of No. 3 starting pitcher behind ace right-hander Randy Polonia and junior lefty Cameron Greig.
The long-awaited discovery just didn't come the way veteran head coach Tracy Nichols expected.
The Crusaders sent junior right-hander Anthony Hoegermann to the mound on a blustery day against a Staples team looking to bounce back from a tough loss against Wilton on Monday. Things didn't go well for Hoegemann, who failed to record an out before being pulled as Staples struck for eight runs in the top of the first inning on its way to a runaway 14-1 victory Wednesday afternoon at Mickey Lione Field.
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Staples (6-2, 5-1 FCIAC) finished with 13 hits and received a nice effort out of senior right-hander Justin Gallanty, who scattered six hits over six innings to pick up his third win of the season.
On the bright side, the Crusaders did get six tough innings out of senior righty Rob Tusch, who scratched his way out of the first inning after taking over for Hoegemann and pitches a scoreless second and third to stop Staples' momentum.
Tusch would end up allowing seven runs and eight hits over six complete innings, walking three and striking out two. But he did it with 109 pitches in relief, battling his way through the rest of the afternoon, never allowing the Wreckers to get as comfortable as they were in the first inning when they sent 13 men to the plate.
With a team filled with varsity newcomers and veterans forced to switch positions for the betterment of the team, that's all Nichols can ask at this point.
"We're searching for a No. 3 right now. We put Anthony Hoegermann out there a couple of times. Today wasn't his day," said Nichols, whose team fell to 4-4 overall and 3-3 in the FCIAC. "But Rob Tusch came in and I thought he did a great job stopping their momentum. It's tough to give up eight runs in the first inning against a team like Staples because that can balloon up to 25 runs if you don't compete. That's all I asked the kids to do after the top of the first and I thought Rob led the way in competing for us."
Tusch didn't earn the No. 3 pitcher's spot for good, but he was able to put himself at the top of the list with his gritty performance.
"I don't know if I found a No. 3 or not," Nichols said. "But we'll find out because he's going to get that opportunity again."
Staples went into the game looking to make amends at the plate after managing just four hits during a 3-2 loss against the Warriors.
The Wreckers accomplished their goal quickly. Freshman third-baseman Ben Casparius collected two hits and two RBIs in the first inning alone. Shortstop Sam Ellingwood (three RBIs) had a two-run double, catcher Adam Dulsky (2-for-4) drove in one run with a single to right and outfielder Bryan Porter (2-for-2, two walks) slashed an opposite-field double to left to score two more runs.
Ross Poulley (2-for-4) and sophomore designated hitter Noah Yokoi added singles to keep the big inning going. Yokoi went 2-for-2 with two walks and two runs scored.
"We had a rough day on Monday so we were looking to swing the bats," Staples head coach Jack McFarland said. "We were concentrating on hitting the ball hard on the ground. I thought we did that well today."
Nichols was able to see some other bright spots amidst all the runs being put up by the Wreckers. Senior Jackson Solis is getting better every day at first base after switching from catcher to make room for junior Tommy Costigan and Matt Fraioli is rounding into a solid third baseman.
Sophomore designated hitter Dillon Daine continued to swing a hot bat, going 2-for-3 while driving in Trinity's only run with a two-out single in the bottom of the first.
Polonia, one of the top pitchers in the FCIAC, is also starting to look like a star at shortstop. Polonia also had two hits and scored Trinity's lone run.
"I was happy with the way the guys competed, and we have some guys who are starting to swing the bats," Nichols said. "I'm finding some things out about some kids, where they're comfortable, where they're going to be successful. So we'll see."
Staples 14, Trinity 1
Batteries: S-Justin Gallanty (W, 3-0), Alec Johnson (7) and Adam Dulsky; TC-Anthony Hoegemann (L, 0-2), Rob Tusch (1), Kyle Kaishain (7) and Tommy Costigan.


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Few dare to say it, but it's time we acknowledged a sad truth about American politics: liberalism is dead – and it has been for 40 years.
Of course, America's conservative talk-show hosts can't admit this without facing the embarrassing fact that they have been beating a dead horse all this time. One can imagine their fervent prayer: "Dear God, we don't have Soviet Communists anymore. Please keep a few liberals for us to kick around."
As a political ideology, liberalism has been so discredited that few people even dare to call themselves liberal.
A half-century ago, the opposite was true: liberalism was the dominant, almost exclusive force in American politics.
How did this reversal happen?
As an intellectual force, political liberalism went out of office with Lyndon Johnson. Public disenchantment with LBJ's Great Society programs during the Vietnam era, muddling it together with permissive sex, drugs, and rock "n" roll, was liberalism's death knell.
America has tilted right ever since. It twice elected Republican Richard Nixon, who was then succeeded by a Midwest conservative, Gerald Ford. Though saddled with scandals, he nearly beat Democrat Jimmy Carter in 1976. But President Carter was no liberal. Recall that Ted Kennedy tried – and failed – to dethrone him in 1980.
Then, two terms of Ronald Reagan plus another term of George H.W. Bush gave Americans what they wanted: 12 years of conservatism. Mr. Bush was denied a second term mostly because Ross Perot siphoned off his votes. Without Perot, there would have been no Clinton ascendancy.
But even President Clinton's two terms did little to halt liberalism's demise. Indeed, he was complicitous in the conservative effort to peel away the last layers of the New Deal and the Great Society.
In 2000, the Supreme Court anointed right-wing Republican George W. Bush as president. His two terms have driven a stake through liberalism's heart.
Today, some take hope in the popularity of Democratic contender Barack Obama. He is, after all, the most liberal member of the Senate, according to a National Journal ranking.
But today, that distinction seems as quaint as an Amish buggy poking down a Pennsylvania country road.
Any reported wave of liberalism simply cannot buck the conservative tide. Regardless of who is elected president in 2008, there seems to be little enthusiasm for liberalism.
More important, there is little or no money to fund new social programs. Costs for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are running into the trillions of dollars. Presidents often raise taxes to pay for war. Bush didn't (he accelerated tax cuts in 2003), which has made the fiscal cupboard even barer. The war on terror called for a tax increase, a kind of Osama bin Laden tithe. But that had no support.
Even if a Democratic president were to push through a liberal national health insurance program, it could hardly be called forward-looking. Such an enactment would merely be catching up with the rest of the civilized world.
There is, however, something deeply troubling in the new conservative triumphalism. It is an uncritical, unthinking damnation of anything liberal. When I suggest to conservative friends that if they really loathe liberalism, they should forfeit their access to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, I am met with stony silence. There's no denying that tens of millions of conservative Americans live better lives because of the liberal initiatives of an earlier generation.
Liberalism may indeed be a political spent force, but we should fervently hope that the human decency and concern for our fellow man that spawned programs such as food stamps, Head Start, Aid for Dependent Children, and the Peace Corps, still speaks to the inherent and unselfish goodness that used to be America.
Today, it remains indisputable that the political climate that allows an African American and a woman to viably seek the presidency is yet another testimony to a political process driven by the best of the previous centuries' liberal traditions. Liberalism may be a dead ideology, but like benefactors of a wealthy relative's estate, Americans are still living on its inheritance.
When I was a young reporter covering the House of Representatives in 1968, a very decent California congressman, a liberal named Jeff Cohelan, sat me down in his office late one evening and gave me a tutorial on American politics. "Young man," he asked, "Do you know what liberalism is?" I had no ready answer. "The essence of true liberalism," he said, "is tolerance." And he repeated it, "tolerance."
It will be especially tragic this election year, as American conservatives renew their dance on the grave of liberalism, if they also revel in an illiberal intolerance that increasingly grips this country.
• Walter Rodgers is a former senior international correspondent for CNN.


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LONDON (Reuters) - Kimi Raikkonen will race for Ferrari next season in a two-year deal that takes the 2007 world champion back to the glamour team he left in 2009 and creates the strongest pairing in Formula One.
Ferrari said in a statement on Wednesday that the 33-year-old 'Iceman', currently with Lotus, will replace Brazilian Felipe Massa alongside Spain's double world champion Fernando Alonso.
"Scuderia Ferrari announces that it has reached an agreement with Kimi Raikkonen. The Finn will join Fernando Alonso in the driver line-up for the next two racing seasons," the statement said.
The famously taciturn Finn told the Ferrari website (www.ferrari.com) that he was happy to be returning to Maranello.
"I can't wait to be driving a Prancing Horse car again and to reacquaint myself with so many people with whom I had such close links, as well as working with Fernando, whom I consider a great driver, in order to bring the team the success it deserves," he added.
Alonso, who has a contract to the end of 2016, had left little doubt that he would have been happy to continue with Massa and thanked the Brazilian for his support in their four years together.
"Come the end of the season, it will not be easy to say goodbye to a team mate like him," said the Spaniard. "He has always been truly professional and loyal to the team."
Alonso did not mention Raikkonen by name, welcoming instead his "new travelling companion."
Massa, championship runner-up to Lewis Hamilton in 2008, had already announced on social media that he would not be driving for the Italian team in 2014.
Ferrari last had two world champions in their lineup in 1953, when Italians Alberto Ascari and Giuseppe Farina were together.
Raikkonen and Alonso should be a force to be reckoned with, although there could also be fireworks.
In contrast, other top teams have opted to pair a champion with a driver whose resume is less glittering.
Red Bull have a new face in Australian Daniel Ricciardo, who has yet to stand on the podium, as team mate to triple champion Sebastian Vettel while 2009 winner Jenson Button has Sergio Perez alongside him at McLaren but the Mexican is not yet a race winner.
Germany's Nico Rosberg, who partners Hamilton at Mercedes, has been on the top step of the podium twice this season but only three times in his career.
Since the arrival in 1996 of Michael Schumacher, the seven times-world champion Raikkonen replaced at the end of 2006, Ferrari have preferred to have one clearly dominant driver in their lineup.
That was not the case in 2008, when Massa almost won the title, but Alonso wasted no time in stamping his authority on the team when he replaced Raikkonen.
Massa started 2010 still recovering from near-fatal head injuries sustained at the previous year's Hungarian Grand Prix and the Brazilian never regained his previous level of performance.
Ferrari chairman Luca Di Montezemolo has said in the past, reacting to speculation that Vettel could partner Alonso, that he did not want "two roosters in the same henhouse".
Ferrari decided, however, that Raikkonen - who won this year's Australian season-opener and recently ended a record 27 race scoring run - was a better bet than Massa.
Red Bull and Vettel have a firm grip on both of this year's championships and Ferrari are already focusing much of their attention on next year, when the rules go through significant change and a new V6 power unit is introduced.
The team, winners of a record 16 constructors' and 15 drivers' championships but without a title since 2008, are not in the habit of re-signing their ex-drivers although Austrian Gerhard Berger had two separate three-year stints at Maranello in the 1980s and 1990s.
Raikkonen should have no problems fitting in at Maranello, with Pat Fry and James Allison - his former technical directors at McLaren and Lotus (formerly Renault) - now with Ferrari. Both men also worked with Alonso, who won his two titles with Renault, at those teams.
The Finn won nine races for Ferrari between 2007 and 2009.
"I sense he is very happy to be returning to Maranello and very determined to tackle the work that awaits him in the best way possible," said team principal Stefano Domenicali.
Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Pritha Sarkar


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I was happy to hear that the magazine Database Trends and Applications had recently relaunched their website. While I'd been a columnist
there for a quite a while, I'd never been able to easily find my own
articles nor check to see if they'd generated any interest. DBTA has
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Twin Cities Church would like to give "kudos" to Old Barn Self Storage for the use of its moving van this past Sunday. Old Barn Self Storage allowed us the use of its van to collect and transport food items that our TCC folks brought to church with them to be donated to Interfaith Food Ministries. The threat of rain was upon us, so the enclosed Old Barn Self Storage van was a blessing. We collect food for IFM each month, but this month was a special extend compassion emphasis for the holidays, so we had a lot more food to transport than usual — filled about half the capacity of the Old Barn Self Storage van, which would have been equal to many pick-up loads. Kudos to Old Barn Self Storage — one trip and no fear of wet groceries!
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I tried what was on this post: Change folder permissions and ownership and I still can't move files. (Except if I use nautilus)
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A new survey from ChangeWave takes a closer look at how the Verizon iPhone may shake up the mobile market, revealing the highest churn rate AT&T has seen since ChangeWave began surveying mobile subscribers. A total of 4,050 subscribers were surveyed, with 15% of AT&T and T-Mobile users saying they were likely to switch carriers in the next 90 days, compared to only 4% from Verizon.
Diving even deeper with AT&T specifically, things don't look much better. The survey was conducted before the Verizon iPhone was officially announced, but still shows 16% of AT&T subscribers were looking to jump ship to Verizon once they have the iPhone. Another 23% said they weren't sure, but could possibly make the switch. But when they looked at AT&T iPhone users only, they found as high as one-in-four (26%) were likely to leave AT&T for Verizon.
This somewhat falls in line with our own poll showing 41% of readers would be sticking with AT&T, while 15% were willing to switch for the Verizon iPhone. Although 15% is a pretty big chunk, it doesn't feel like we'll be seeing a mass migration from AT&T to Verizon, although the impact will definitely be felt by AT&T in the coming months.
The culprit? It looks like AT&T users aren't satisfied with reception under the network (42%) along with issues with dropped calls (27%), and although AT&T has been making upgrades to their infrastructure (dropped call rates dropped from 6% to 4.7% since the last survey) to help with the problem, it may be too little too late for AT&T with some of their iPhone customers.
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The mapping wars have only just begun. While Google struck a major blow to Apple with the return of Google Maps to iOS last week, Apple is reportedly in the process of beefing up its offering for a return to the field. According to the Wall Street Journal, Cupertino is currently in talks with Foursquare, a move that could make Apple Maps an app worth using.
Apple has endured withering criticism in recent months since the release of Apple Maps, much to the competition's delight: The utter lack of transit directions. Horrifically-rendered 3D models. The inability to lead people to actual places. All these and more contributed to review after review lambasting the service, resulting in the sacking of Scott Forstall and millions of iPhone faithfuls hoping Google would save them from their shared nightmare.
Seriously. Saying Apple Maps is bad is like saying water is wet. It's a scientific fact.
But a deal with Foursquare could give Apple an edge it sorely needs to stay competitive. Foursquare has earned considerable acclaim as the recommendation engine de rigueur of any social app user, allowing you to check-in to venues and discover new places you and your friends might love. It already competes with Yelp and Google for offering up-to-date, attractive local data, user-generated tips, and deals. And Yelp is already built into Apple Maps – adding Foursquare could solidly make the product a social user's dream.
The prospect of an Apple-Foursquare partnership would be a strategic win for both companies. Foursquare can only benefit from Cupertino's support, while Apple could potentially revitalize their own flagging Map app. Imagine checking into your favorite bar via Siri? Such a feature might help turn Apple Maps into a viable product and make Google Maps a redundant alternative, despite its more robust, time-tested features.
Apple surely knows that, despite its rocky reception, there's no turning back. Offering a complete ecosystem with a decent mapping utility that competes with Google is a battle too dear to lose. A Foursquare deal might the first real push that gets them back on track. And it's only good news for users: You may have gone rushing back into the comfort of Google Maps, but the more viable alternatives out there, the better our options will be.


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Between 1909 and 1932, the only organized sports teams at East Carolina Teachers College were women's teams. Women's basketball was by far the most popular sport until 1932, when the number of men on campus allowed for the organization of a men's basketball team. The image of the 1915 women's basketball team can be found in the University Archives photograph collection, Call Number 55-01-0082.


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The LNN recently received an early release copy of the upcoming graphic novel Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom by author Bruce Brown. In lieu of a "review," which we find dull and cliche, we have unleashed our director of public relations, Charles Ward, on the task of chronicling a personal encounter with the text.
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"Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom": Appetizer for Existentialism
by Charles Ward
The mind of a child is precious thing to waste. . . at least that is what I would imagine a cannibalistic cultist might say before shopping at a local daycare. My childhood mind was filled with Heinlein, Bradbury, and all the Outer Limits and Twilight Zone reruns I could bear to watch alone. Sometimes I wonder how I would have turned out differently had I not been permanently traumatized by The Zanti Misfits, but I'm sure it only improves the complexity of my cranial culinary potential.
I will freely confess that I was never a big fan of comic books, as they were hard to come by and always seemed a bit patronizing to me in their lack of intellectual complexity. My local library had too many other tempting distractions, and I usually ended up loading up my bicycle with tapes of Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World and forgetting about Superman and his spandex beclad escapades.
Considering these things, reading a pre-release copy of Bruce Brown's upcoming graphic novel Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom evoked a different feeling than I had anticipated. The text is a juxtaposition of two starkly disparate worlds: on the one hand, it is a family friendly tale of adventure, and its rhetoric is clearly dialed down to a child's level; yet conversely it draws from the literary heritage of the deepest and darkest of weird fiction à la the treacherous dreamscapes of Lovecraft. Though the cartoon bubbles are filled with the language of a child, its images are unremittingly menacing and I image they could easily be seen as quite disturbing. This conflation of the puerile and sinisterly sublime is not something that we see too often--if ever--in mainstream media, but it was also something I appreciated and sought out when I was young and always found deeply fulfilling.
Though I will admit that my feelings about Wes Craven are mixed at best, in the documentary The American Nightmare (2000), he offers a glimmer of insight into his work that I have felt is a key to unlocking many of the mysteries of entire horror genre. He says,
"Kids who are in a much more chaotic state of mind and life than most adults remember or realize, they can go into these [horror films] as kind of boot camps for the psyche, as I have said. Strengthening their egos, strengthening their sense of fortitude; just as a soldier comes, you know, from momma's arms into the drill instructor's gaze and ends hardened, but feeling like he can survive battle. I think that's, in a sense, what goes on with kids that go to scary movies. And it's something that the grownups never seem to think about; they're always worried about, 'Oh, the kids have been damaged, the kids have been traumatized.' It's always been kind of the basis for my sort of optimism about what I do, and of being kind of a right thing, because the kids feel spontaneously grateful for it, even if it gives them nightmares, there's something going on there that is needed."
While Freddy Kreuger was probably too much for me at a very early age, the terror of the Outer Limits, for example, was just about right and provided me an entry point into what I was then too young to understand was a very real craving for the intellectual and ideological challenge unique to horror media. It was wasn't merely a "scary movie" I was watching for fun. I would later develop a vocabulary that allowed me to begin to process what I was watching: Lovecraft, of course, called it "cosmic horror."
This is what sprang to mind while perusing Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom. It is a children's story to be sure, but it is attached to something so much deeper. Like the dreams of its titular character, the graphic novel itself is a gateway and portal to an intellectual awakening and reevaluation of one's place in the universe, wrapped up neatly in a package digestible for the cautious, young existential acolyte curious about what he or she might find.
Perhaps I am over analyzing this--maybe it's just wishful thinking--but since this reading only serves to heighten my enjoyment of the project, I remain blissfully unrepentant. However, it does seems prudent at this point to at least briefly casually invoke Sartre at the expense of Mr. Brown's status as not-yet-dead: my reading is neither definitive nor at odds with any intentionality of his.
In summation, reading Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom was a highly pleasurable experience, but it was not an empty thrill. It is precisely the sort of dark, yet accessible text I would have sought out as a child and risked my mother's wrath to furtively read before she discovered and confiscated it. It is an entrance into something much bigger than the simple story of a boy's strange adventure: it is a doorway into a new way of thinking about one's place in the universe. There's something going on there that's needed.
I haven't decided yet if it's a good thing or not that this type of project does not appeal to more people. This is a complex and perhaps unanswerable question I shall have to ponder further. When the text is released early next year, Mr. Brown might have the opportunity to share it with a large contingent of the current generation of youth. I don't know what TV shows kids watch these days, but I can just picture this erupting violently into my childhood via Reading Rainbow. I imagine it would go something like this, as read from the lips of an exuberant eight year old:
"And then little Howard enters the hideous cave and encounters the blasphemous monstrosity of unspeakable horror where his sanity is destroyed and his insignificant place among the cosmos is finally revealed--but you don't have to take my word for it!"
Charles Ward is the LNN's Director of Public Relations and resident phrenologist. He enjoys pop semiotics, rhetorical altercations, and leverpostej. He lives in a state of denial with his wife and two cats.


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Netflix shares held onto big gains in late trading Wednesday after the company posted better-than-expected earnings and subscriber numbers for the lasted quarter.
The stock rose more than $50 a share putting it close to the $400 level.
Netflix reported a fourth-quarter profit of $48 million, or 79 cents a share, on revenue of $1.18 billion. During the same period a year ago, Netflix earned $8 million, or 13 cents a share, on $945 million in sales.
On the company\'s earnings call, CEO Reed Hastings discounted the effect of a recent court ruling overturning so-called net neutrality rules. The court decision is generally seen as positive for cable companies competing with Netflix for viewers.
\"There's some draconian scenarios where some ISPs block Netflix. But we think that is very unlikely. And the most likely scenario at least in the near-term is that there is no real change," Hastings said.
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Jumping into the Netflix earnings call now. Q&A ongoing.
Stock is up 17% on strong report.
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Hastings: "We have no plans to go towards advertising-based models. Our brand at least over the next couple of years and at this point really stands for that commercial free experience that we have where the consumer's in control of the experience. … It's fundamental to that control orientation that we don't cram advertisements down people's throats."
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Hastings takes on the potential impact of the Net neutrality ruling: "There's some draconian scenarios where some ISPs block Netflix. But we think that is very unlikely. And the most likely scenario at least in the near-term is that there is no real change."
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The Google Hangout page Netflix is using for the post earnings interview appears to have crashed.
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One investor just noted on Twitter, with some disappointment, that the Google Hangout crash came just after analysts asked Hastings about the total addressable U.S. market.
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Well, it looks like the Netflix interview post earnings is over, per a message on the Google hangout Netflix used. Agree with a tweet from @MicroFundy that $NFLX will probably not use Google Hangouts to stream its post earnings interviews anymore.
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Let's hope most subscribers have better streaming experiences with $NFLX videos than investors did today.
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The call came back for a few more questions, Netflix execs talked about how important social media is to consumers in deciding what shows they decide to watch. Now the interview is officially over.


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"W" is for waterworks.
Kim Kardashian burst into tears on Sunday's episode of "Kourtney and Kim Take New York" and pledged to "fire everyone" after finding out photos from her nude shoot with W magazine would show her, well, nude.
"Oh my God, I'm more naked that I was in Playboy," Kardashian fumed after getting a courtesy look at the Mark Seliger-snapped photos for W's annual November art issue (via Us).
The spread obscured Kardashian's lady parts on the cover. But photos inside the fashion mag showed Kardashian dressed in silver body paint – and left little to the imagination.
"I'm so mad right now. [W] promised I would be covered with artwork — you can see the nipples," Kardashian howled, adding that she felt "so taken advantage of."
While Kardashian is known for wearing revealing outfits, the W photos dropped after she had publicly second-guessed having appeared nude in Playboy in 2007.
In an exchange with her sister, she called the photos "serious porn" and pledged never to disrobe again for print, except "maybe if it's Vogue."
It fell to Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner -- who Kim has said first talked her into doing Playboy -- to convince her to "own" the W photos.
"I'm glad I did it," Kim eventually said, coming full circle by the end of the episode.
It's the line Kim's stuck to ever since.
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LOS ANGELES — A five-student Anderson team won second place at the Southeast regional Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) held at the University of North Carolina. As one of the top two teams in the competition, Anderson advances to the national finals on April 10 to square off against the nation's seven other top regional finalists.
Second-year Michelle Nguyen, third-year FEMBA Paul Kaseburg, and first-years Neal Hansch, Rob Hoyt, and Richard Yen competed against teams from Emory, Georgetown, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Notre Dame, Purdue, Wake Forest and Wharton. The Anderson team, battling under the given firm name of Dave Matthews Band Ventures (DMB Ventures) to maintain anonymity and avoid school bias among judges, finished second behind Wharton.
Anderson's VCIC team greatly enjoyed competing for the school despite the two near all-nighters. "The competition was really challenging and a very realistic experience," said Yen. "I'm looking forward to nationals next month."
The Anderson team chose to donate the $2,000 second-place prize money to the Price Center.
The VCIC brings together teams from top business schools for a three-day competition that realistically simulates the venture capital investment cycle. Teams review business plans from real companies trying to raise venture money, interview the companies' management teams, and make investment recommendations to a panel of judges from the venture industry. Held annually since 1998, the VCIC event has grown dramatically in popularity and awareness and represents an important venue for the school to compete in the areas of venture capital and entrepreneurship.
Upon arriving in North Carolina on Thursday night, the team received five business plans that ranged from biotech to software to fuel cell technology. Following a long night of plan evaluation, DMB Ventures met the company management teams on Friday afternoon to discuss their business strategies and competitive advantages during 15-minute Q&A sessions. These sessions were an important part of the team's evaluation and were monitored by venture capitalist judges from the Research Triangle Park area in North Carolina.
The key to the interview process, and how teams earned points from the judges, was to identify all the major risks, as well as the true valuation, of the given deals.
"It was difficult to get all the information you'd like to and drill down into any given answer from the companies' management within 15 minutes," said Yen.
Based on the interview sessions, the team delivered final investment recommendations and term sheets on Saturday and defended their decisions during a 15-minute presentation to the judging panel. Judging was based on each team's ability to assess each investment's risks and construct a term sheet that mitigated these risks while accurately valuing the company.
Many of the deals were early stage ventures based on leveraging intellectual property out of Duke or UNC. The deal that the team eventually elected to invest in was a biotech investment that leveraged several patents from Duke medical school.
Because none of the members had any biotech investing experience, the team had to quickly learn as much as possible and make assumptions in the areas of company milestones and valuation metrics.
Next month's national competition, also at UNC, will have eight teams composed of the top two finishers from each of the four regional competitions. All but one of the top 25 business schools competed in the various regional competitions. Anderson has competed annually in the VCIC the past four years, performing best in 2000 with a second place in nationals. Nguyen was a member of last year's VCIC team that finished third in the regional competition.


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Increases to business rates will switch from the RPI measure of inflation to CPI from April 2018. This is 2 years earlier than planned.
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It's an exciting time to be a fan of Berserk. Kind of shocking to have this much going on at once. I was really looking forward to Lost Children in the new anime, but I guess it's looking like that's not happening...dammit! The last Musou game I played was Dynasty Warriors 3. It was uh, pretty goofy as you'll see in this YT clip... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeSMpetv34MHahaha so glad I found that clip! Anywho, I'll buy it regardless because I'm a sucker for anything Berserk related.P.S.Everybody knows Rickert is the true God Hand


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Oregon passes landmark livestock compensation and wolf coexistence bill
Innovative program will prioritize proactive efforts to reduce conflict
- The Oregon Senate gave unanimous approval for a bill today that will put into place a comprehensive livestock compensation and wolf coexistence program. Gov. Kitzhaber is expected to sign the legislation, which passed the House earlier this week 60-0.
- Ranchers who proactively use nonlethal deterrents and best management practices to protect their livestock will be eligible to receive compensation payments for subsequent losses to wolves.
- Passage of this bill signals Oregon's ongoing commitment to responsible wolf management.
- Defenders thanks the Governor's office, the Oregon Cattleman's Association, legislators, Hells Canyon Preservation Council and others who worked toward this collaborative solution that will reduce conflict and allow wolves and livestock to better coexist on the landscape.
The Oregon Senate unanimously approved a bill today that will establish an innovative livestock compensation and wolf coexistence program in Oregon to help ranchers protect livestock, aid wildlife managers in conserving wolves, and reimburse ranchersfor livestock losses to wolves. The program is the result of a collaborative effort, including valuable contributions from the Oregon Cattlemen's Association, Wallowa County ranchers, the Oregon Farm Bureau, the Governor's office, Hells Canyon Preservation Council and Defenders of Wildlife.
The following is a statement from Suzanne Stone, Northern Rockies representative for Defenders of Wildlife, who led the effort for wolf advocates involved in these negotiations:
"Governor Kitzhaber's leadership was instrumental in bringing together traditional opponents to develop an innovative livestock compensation and wolf coexistence program. By empowering local communities to address wolf management issues in a responsible and transparent manner, this program may well become one of the best in the country. Wolf conflicts are not impossible to address when using a rational and civil approach."
"Getting this bill passed required an intense commitment to collaboration among varied interests, including the Oregon Cattlemen's Association, the Oregon Farm Bureau, Hells Canyon Preservation Council and Defenders of Wildlife, showing that it is possible to find common ground among stakeholders on wolf management. When there is a willingness to sit down and work together, we can find practical solutions that benefit all parties. With a little extra planning, Oregon can support both a healthy livestock industry and healthy wildlife populations.
"With fewer than two dozen wolves on the ground in Oregon, it's essential that we pursue all opportunities to maximize their chances of survival. That includes finding better ways for wolves and livestock to share the landscape. Livestock losses on public land are common for a variety of reasons: bad weather, disease, loss and theft to name a few. We may not be able to prevent every single loss, but those ranchers who do their part to minimize the risk of depredation will have less to fear from wolf related losses.
"Oregon's Livestock Compensation and Wolf Coexistence bill will create one of the most innovative livestock loss compensation and prevention programs in the country. Ranchers who take proactive steps to minimize potential conflicts between wolves and their livestock will remain eligible to receive compensation for losses. The bill also dedicates at least a third of allocated funds to implementing effective nonlethal deterrents to help ranchers prevent losses to wolves. This ensures that livestock producers are doing their part to protect their animals while giving Oregon's wolves a real chance of survival."Background:
Once the bill is signed by Gov. John Kitzhaber, the new Oregon wolf compensation and coexistence program will go into effect, officially ending Defenders' long-standing wolf compensation program in the Northern Rockies. Since 1987, more than 900 livestock owners received benefits from this program, which paid out more than $1.4 million through our privately funded reimbursement program to help ranchers adjust to the return of wolves. Last year, Defenders announced the sunsetting of its compensation program and has now turned its focus to helping ranchers adopt effective preventative methods to deter wolves from preying on livestock.
Learn more about Defenders program to reduce conflicts between wildlife and livestock
Contact(s):John Motsinger, 202-772-0288
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Family Food TraditionsWhat are your favorite family food traditions?
Making your own root-beer? Green-eggs and ham on Saint Patty's? Making Sour Cream and Onion Potato Latkes for all the neighbors during Chanukah?
Visiting the same bric-a-brac diner to celebrate all family birthdays?
You may think that something as simple as, let's say, visiting the same diner time and again with your family, isn't all too important in the long run. But remember, these traditions are as much a part of you as are those blueberry pancakes in your stomach. These traditions become a vehicle for transmitting your culture. Sometimes even your family identity.
This week's episode of The Generations Project features some awesome Italian Food. Deanna, star of this week's episode tries to find a connection with her great-grandparents who were killed in a fire decades before she was born. She honors their legacy by preserving the beloved family recipe - pasta con sarde. (Watch her make it.)
What food traditions did your parents institute? Which will you continue with your family? Which have you stopped carrying on? And how has having family food traditions made you feel like you were connecting with your culture or family?
Lastly, how much do you love authentic Italian pasta?
Pasta Con Sarde
1) Finely chop two medium sized onions.
2) Mince 2 cloves of garlic.
3) Sauté the onion and garlic in olive oil in a sauce pan over medium heat until translucent.
4) Add in one head of fennel, chopped medium.
5) Sauté fennel until translucent.
6) Add one flat tin of sardines.
7) Stir into paste.
8) Separately, boil pasta until al dente (be sure to salt the
water with a big pinch of salt).
9) Chop 1/2 cup of fresh parsley
10) Combine the sautéed paste with the pasta in a bowl.
11) Throw in chopped parsley, toss all together until it is
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Speedy Tomato Soup
After browning 1/2 pound of ground beef in a Dutch oven, Wilma Wood turns it into a speedy soup. She adds two cans of tomato soup, diluted with milk, and 1 cup of cooked macaroni. "I also like to sprinkle in some parsley flakes for additional color," writes the Milton, Wisconsin cook.
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When foster care youth age out of the system, they face significant challenges in higher education. According to the Foster Care Alumni of America, only two percent of these individuals overcome the roadblocks and earn a degree. Observing this hole in support, Paul and Amy Blavin decided to step up and initiate change.
This change took the form of the Blavin Scholars program, an initiative created by the Blavins which would provide the emotional and financial support that former foster care youth need to obtain a higher education.
"This is an area that is very deserving and in need of private support," Paul Blavin says. "Foster care gets very little attention from philanthropists. That's a mistake because the easy thing is to jump on the bandwagon for popular charitable causes, but those may not be the ones that really need support."
Through the Blavin Scholars Program, donors can support former foster care students and provide funds for expenses not covered by the university or federal aid—this way, the recipients can avoid taking out loans for their education.
However, the Blavin Scholars program is not just a scholarship program. The initiative includes a network of additional support resources for students, including housing, room supplies, academic guidance, and mentorship. Assisting these students in various ways is critical to help ensure their success.
"We want to make sure that all Blavin scholars know that we have their back, and we are going to do what it takes to help them succeed," Blavin says.
After a successful career in investments, Blavin affirms that the Blavin's Scholar Program is the one that has yielded the most returns for him personally.
"By making this gift and enabling these students to earn a degree, it's not only changing their lives, but it's a major contribution to reversing a well-documented cycle of failure," Blavin says. "So donors aren't just helping the Blavin Scholars—they are dramatically helping generations to come."
Five NAU students are currently supported through the program. Each has been paired with a faculty member who serves as a mentor guiding the student through academic challenges and toward personal growth opportunities.
Sharon Downer, a Blavin Scholar and senior comparative cultural studies major, talks about the difference this mentorship has made on her undergraduate journey.
"I have become really good friends with my mentor," Downer says. "I can talk to her about what's on my mind, and she's a great role model for me. We share dinner and holidays, and it's nice to have someone like that in my life."
Another student, junior Bay-Lee Fournier, explains that the support of the Blavin Scholars Program has not only helped her on her path to earning a psychology degree, but has also left an impression that will stay with her long after graduation.
"I learned that people genuinely care," Fournier says. "When I first came to NAU, I didn't believe in myself. That's just a thought pattern I developed over time from being in foster care. The program gave me the boost I needed to succeed and prove I could do this."
In May 2013, the Blavins saw their first Blavin Scholar—Kyle Beloin—graduate Northern Arizona University with degrees in political science and philosophy. For the Blavins, seeing Beloin find success affirmed the impact their program can have in the lives of students and the difference it can continue to make going forward.
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Last year Franklin High student Sarah Zuno became the first Rose Parade Princess to come from Highland Park. She may also be the last, according to The Pasadena Star-News. The newspaper reports that the Pasadena Tournament of Roses has ended a three-year experiment allowing students from Eagle Rock High in Eagle Rock and Franklin High in Highland Park to become eligible to serve in Tournament of Roses Royal Court. The reason, say tournament officials, is that other nearby schools and communities asked that they also be included in the expanded boundaries. But the volunteer organization said it lacked the resources to enlarge the pool of potential princesses.
So, the tournament this year reverted to a previous rule that limited Royal Court candidates to attend schools within the boundaries of the Pasadena Community College District. Zuno, who was also the first L.A. Unified student to serve in the Royal Court, told the Star-News
"In a sense, I'm very disheartened," Zuno said Monday, while welcoming competitors at the Tournament House. "I feel like I was an ambassador for the Highland Park area."
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"Electric Church" was a belief held by Jimi Hendrix and his experience, as well as followers of psychedelic music that electric music (like The Jimi Hendrix Experience)brings out emotions, feelings and ideas in people, and encourages spiritual maturity. The influence the psychedelics have on one is truely amazing, I only wish more people appreciated this belief and genre. Jimi Hendrix considered "Electric Church" his religion, and based his third album "Electric Ladyland" on it.
When asked why he didn't name his then-new album "Electric Church" instead of "Electric Ladyland", Jimi said that some ladies were electric too. (then he laughed as if he were embarassed.)
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Nobel Prize Shared by Belgian-Jewish Physicist
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JNS.org – Belgian-Jewish physicist Francois Englert and British physicist Peter Higgs will share the Nobel Prize in Physics, for their famous discovery of the Higgs Boson particle.
Englert, 80, was born to a Belgian Jewish family and survived the Holocaust by hiding his Jewish identity and living in various Belgian orphanages and homes. A professor emeritus at the University of Brussels, Englert also has ties with Tel Aviv University as the Sackler Professor by Special Appointment in the School of Physics and Astronomy.
Higgs, 84, is a British theoretical physicist and emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh.
Englert and Higgs theorized about the existence of a particle that acts as one of the basic building blocks of the universe. The particle later became known as the Higgs Boson or "God particle," during their work in the 1960s. Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at Switzerland-based CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, later confirmed the Englert-Higgs findings in 2012.


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A winner was selected from 142 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
Need an eye-catching icon for an IPHONE APP called "Speed Gauge" to be displayed in APP STORE fitness section.
The application calculates SPEED based on the distance and time the user enters. It will be targeted to RUNNERS. For example, if you ran 100 meters in 10 seconds, the application will display "22 MPH."
- 512 by 512 pixels icon – This is the icon image displayed in the App Store- 57 by 57 pixels icon – This is the icon image displayed in the IPHONE device- Graphic files in two formats: Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.- The small icon does not need to match 100% to the large icon. It is more important that it is sharp and visible
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