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Sorting Out the Sharing License Shambles
from the too-much-of-a-good-thing dept
At the heart of the various movements based around sharing -- free software, open content, open access etc. -- lie specially drawn-up licenses that grant permissions beyond the minimal ones of copyright. This approach has worked well -- too well, in fact, since it has led to a proliferation of many different licenses: the Open Source Initiative recognizes over 60 of them for open source. That's a problem because slight incompatibilities between them often make it impossible to create combined works drawing on elements released under different licenses.
To reduce these incompatibilities there has been a general move towards license simplification. For example, Wikipedia was originally licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), reflecting the fact that Wikipedia took its inspiration from the free software movement, which uses the GNU General Public License (GPL), and that in the early days of Wikipedia the Creative Commons licenses simply did not exist.
That became a problem as Creative Commons' cc by-sa license became popular, since it was not possible to re-use Wikipedia content with works released under that license. The solution was to relicense Wikipedia material under both the GFDL and cc by-sa, a shift that took place in 2009.
More recently, in the realm of software, version 2 of the Mozilla Public License (MPL 2.0), used by Firefox and many other programs, has been drawn up; one of its key aims was to reduce incompatibilities with other free software licenses:
the license is now compatible with the Apache license - anyone who complies with the terms of the MPL should also be compliant with the Apache license's terms. Similarly, by default, the license allows the code to be distributed alongside code licensed under the GPL or LGPL.
The Apache license is used by the Apache Software Foundation for the well-known Apache Web server – currently running around 60% of the public Web – and many other applications. The LGPL is a variant of the GPL. That means that MPL 2.0 is now compatible with the two most important free software licenses – a big step forward in terms of tidying up the license mess in the free software world.
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Challenging the industries that breed body hatred: videos from Endangered Bodies conference
We must act personally and politically: MTR
Laura McNally, Melinda Tankard Reist, Sarah McMahon Rick Kausman,
Here's some You Tube clips from the Endangered Bodies conference held in Sydney in August.
I'm interviewed in the first, followed by a combination of speakers at the event, then Dr Rick Kausman, Susie Orbach and Sarah McMahon.
Dr Rick Kausman
Susie Orbach
Sarah McMahon
Join Endangered Bodies Australia
And like Endangered Bodies Facebook page
See also:
'They are mining bodies' Susie Orbach tells UN Status of Women Committee
Colonising the world with body hatred
Support calls for a Senate inquiry into dieting industry
How to talk to your daughter about her body, Huff Post


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The ethics arm of Justice Department is reportedly recommending reopening nearly a dozen Iraq and Afghanistan prisoner-abuse cases, a move that could lead to CIA employee and contractor prosecutions and be at odds with President Obama's pledge not to revisit Bush administration policies.
The department is already planning on releasing today a 2004 inspector general's report on prisoner abuse that is expected to outline abuses by the CIA. Details from the report that have leaked describe CIA officers carrying out mock executions and threatening at least one prisoner with a power drill, The New York Times reported. It is illegal to threaten a prisoner with imminent death.
With the inspector general's report and recommendation by the department's Office of Professional Responsibility, it likely that Attorney General Eric Holder will appoint a prosecutor for a criminal inquiry, sources tell the Times.
He is expected to announce his next move within the week, the paper reported.
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Pursuit is a worship-focused community. There is nothing on earth like communing with God, and it is our sole purpose each week to speak to Him and give Him space to speak back. Although geared with young adults in mind, all ages are welcome! Won't you join us?
Our "Pursuit" community gathers at Willow Park Church@33 (439 Hwy 33).
Kids Church is available for newborn to grade 4 (6:15-8 pm).


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lira, sweden (2017)
SELF RELEASED . FOLK ROCK. The Estonian trio Trad.Attack! was formed in 2014, released its acclaimed debut album the following year and has already toured in about thirty countries around the world. The sophomore release is out now and the band has changed its sound to a certain extent. While many of the tracks on the first album were built around old archive recordings of folk singers, this element is less featured here, and the tracks are more rock-oriented. Acoustic guitar is sometimes used with a marked distortion, as in Kabala, and percussions are also pretty heavy occasionally. Which, of course, works splendidly at the band's (often quite big) live shows.
On the contrary, the first single track Spark is a serene, beautiful melody with low whistle and glockenspiel, contrasting delightfully against the louder stuff. The ten minutes long title track which closes the album is largely built around a pulsing guitar loop so effect-loaded that the instrument is almost unrecognizable. It is combined with pounding percussions, a Jew's harp riff, and distant vocals floating in here and there. A very unusual piece, and Shimmer Gold as a whole is a very exceptional album.


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Records Management provides copy work for Civil, Family Law and Probate files. For Juvenile, Criminal, Small Claims and Unlawful Detainer copies, please contact those units directly.
Please send your request to the Records Management Division:
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If you do not have the case number, you may conduct a search by accessing our Public Records Index. The Records Management Division does not research files. If you do not know the date the document was filed, you may search for it by accessing our website, or you may retain the services of a local copy service to assist you.
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Canon MX926 Printer Driver Software Printer Setup
We will give you the download link with a single click, please select the appropriate of your operating system
Operating Systems For Windows:
- Windows 8.1 (32-bit) (64-bit) Windows 10 (32-bit), (64-bit) Windows 8 (32-bit) (64-bit) Windows 7 (32-bit) (64-bit), Windows Vista (32-bit) ,64-bit) Windows XP
MX920 series MP Drivers Ver.1.01 (Windows)
Date : 01/29/16
Size : 38.54 MB
This file is a driver for Canon IJ multifunction printers. You can install the following items of the software: MP Drivers: The driver for Canon IJ multifunction printer. IJ Scan Utility: The software that allows you to easily scan photos, documents, etc. IJ Network Tool: The software that performs the setup for printing in the network connection. IJ Scanner Selector EX: The software that performs the setup for scanning in the network connection.
File name : mp68-win-mx920-1_01-ea32_2.exe
How to Setup Your Printers on Windows and MacOS
Are you having trouble to set up your new This Drivers? Here, we will help you to solve this problem. Below, we explain how to set up this printer on two Operating Systems, Windows and MacOS. So, let's get started.
How to Install on Windows
- Download the driver file. latest driver file is compatible with Windows 7, 8.1, and 10 (32 bit and 64 bit).
- Find the ".exe" file on the location where you save the downloaded installation driver.
- Double-click the ".exe" file to open it.
- The system will decompress the file and following by displaying Setup windows.
- Follow the instruction on that window until the last step.
- Once you've followed all instruction, your Canon MX926 Printer Driver is ready to use.
Operating Systems For Mac:
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MX920 series Scanner Driver Ver.19.1.0b (Mac)
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Size : 26.75 MB
This file is a TWAIN-compliant scanner driver for Canon color image scanner. You can install the following items of the software: ScanGear: The TWAIN-compliant scanner driver for Canon color image scanner. IJ Scan Utility: The software that allows you to easily scan photos, documents, etc. IJ Scanner Selector EX: The software that performs the setup for scanning in the network connection.
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|Find the best surf spots
Trip: Working on the railroad ...
Thursday February 18 2010 01:30:47 AM
Date: from Feb 18, 2010 to Feb 18, 2010
Surf trip description:
Amtrak Surfliner that is. It was a beautiful morning in the hood (Long Beach) "Shots Fired" the other night. Dragged (Kansas City) John out of bed at dawn and headed down to Trestles, San Clemente. Arrived just after sun-up, parked on the side of the road by the Burger King and began the long trek. Talked to a guy coming up the trail, said it was really good!
The local rabbits and squirrels were already up as we walked under the railroad trestle to Uppers. Looked pretty good, light offshore breeze holding up chest to shoulder high peelers with the occasional head high set rolling through.
Lowers Surf Video:
By the time we waded the creek and slogged down to Lowers, John was done. He watched me paddle out, shot one video of a Grommet on the inside and went to sleep! By 8 AM the crown thinned out until 9 AM, the next shift showed up.
Lowers is a perfect A-Frame peak that sucks up really fast on the shallow reef. Took a while to get it dialed in, then backsided the peak for a cover up on a nice set wave. As the tide came in, the lefts started to pump, you could bottom turn then do a Pinkie hand stall in the lip.
Stayed out till 10 AM, a caught a clean, head high, lefthander all the way to the beach on my last wave but twisted my ankle on the rocks getting out ... nurse, nurse it hurts!
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Hawks open homestand vs. struggling Nets
ATLANTA -- The Atlanta Hawks have some positive energy for their longest homestand of the year.
The Hawks (11-30) won the final game of their West Coast road trip and begin a stretch that sees them play nine of their next 10 games at Philips Arena. The six-game homestand starts Friday when Atlanta hosts the Brooklyn Nets (15-28).
This will be the last of four games between the two clubs. Atlanta won two of the three meetings this season, most recently a 110-90 home win on Dec. 4.
Atlanta went 1-4 on its latest road trip, blowing late leads against the Phoenix Suns and Los Angeles Lakers, but finished with a 110-97 win over the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday. The Hawks outscored Denver 28-19 in the final quarter to banish some of their fourth-quarter woes and end a 10-game road losing streak.
"We were locked in from start to finish," Hawks center Dewayne Dedmon said. "We came out here with a game plan and we executed, so it worked out for us."
Atlanta is finally healthy again. Dedmon and forward Mike Muscala are back. Dedmon missed 19 games with a left tibia stress reaction and Muscala missed 22 games with a sprained left ankle. Dedmon had nine points and nine rebounds in 20 minutes against the Nuggest. Muscala had nine points, including five during a decisive stretch in the final quarter.
"I was definitely feeling good," Dedmon said. "I wish I could have played more minutes, but it's fun. The team, we all played together and executed."
The Nets have lost three straight games and were drubbed 114-80 by Detroit on Wednesday. It was Brooklyn's worst home loss of the season and came just two days after a one-point loss to Toronto in overtime and followed five straight games decided by five points or less.
"This is our job and we're all here to play basketball," said Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie, who scored two points after getting a career-high 31 Monday. "We came out here and laid an egg. That's inexcusable and unacceptable. We're going to look to flush it and play better next time out in Atlanta."
Brooklyn was outrebounded 54-34 and trailed by as many as 40 points.
"(Detroit) dominated us in every phase of the game," Nets coach Kenny Atkinson said. "There's not much more to say than that. The message is that we have to go to Atlanta and get this one back. We obviously don't like these types of losses. It hurts your individual pride and competitive spirit."
Former Atlanta forward DeMarre Carroll missed his second straight game with a sprained right knee. He was injured on the final play of Saturday's loss to Boston and is questionable for Friday.
Atlanta's latest win was also the 200th of coach Mike Budenholzer's career.
"I feel very fortunate to have had a lot of great players, including this group," Budenholzer said. "I love coaching them and am very fortunate to be where I am. Hopefully there's a lot more to come."
Hawks guard Dennis Schroder is on the verge of a personal milestone. He needs to score six points to reach 4,000 for his career.
The Nets are 12th in the Eastern Conference, six games out of the final playoff spot. The Hawks are in last place and have the worst record in the league.
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If you've got an iPhone, you probably already know that it can provide you with a history of your calls. You can also edit your call history if and when you need to by deleting individual call records. Whatever the reason (hey, we don't judge), we can walk you through how to delete certain phone records out of your call history.
- Launch the Phone app from the Home screen of your iPhone.
- Tap on the Recents tab along the bottom of the screen.
- Now tap on the Edit option in the upper right hand corner.
- You'll now see that each phone record now has a delete option to the left of the caller's name or number. Tap on it.
- To confirm the delete, tap on the Delete button off to the right.
- Repeat this process for the calls you'd like to remove and once you're done, tap on the Done option in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
That's it, those calls will now not appear in your recent calls any longer.


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I think it always reminds me a bit of a chain letter scenario, and for some reason they give me the creeps... Hey! That can be fact #1!
So, here we go: I have been tagged by Heather Wardell
the rules:
1) Link to your tagger and list all these rules in your blog.
2) Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3) Tag 7 people at the end of your post by including links to their blogs
4) Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog
the facts:
- chain letters give me the creeps
- according to local water restrictions... I am only allowed to water my garden on tuesdays and saturdays, between the hours of 6am and 8am... which irks me like you wouldn't believe... because I always FORGET until it is too late... and then I have to wait another three or four days before I can water... and then I forget again... and... well... you can see where this is going, can't you?
- I love bad soapies
- totally addicted to diet coke
- am currently wondering what on earth possessed me to volunteer for the role of treasurer at our local kinder (and whether the compulsory POLICE CHECK will reveal anything interesting)
- love the smell of wet eucalypts
- have always wanted to build my own house... it would be a mud rendered straw bale construction, with loads of character... built and furnished using reclaimed/recycled/second-hand materials... and totally OFF GRID


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Taylor Swift and Red Tourmates Celebrate July 4 in Style
Taylor Swift and her tourmates on the super successful Red Tour enjoyed a rare day off, celebrating Independence Day in colorful style. Swift posted tons of photos of the July 4 celebrations on her personal website, so fans could see how she and the people she works with were able to make the most of their time together while offstage.
There's facepainting, jumping, lounging around, pool playing and lots more summer-appropriate activity. In addition to red, white and blue ensembles, the revelers are wearing huge smiles on their faces. It looks like good times were had by all.
Check out 13 photos --since 13 is Swift's lucky number- from the festivities and frolicking in the sun.
Swift posted this note with the photo scrapbook:
Happy belated 4th of July. Independence Day is one of my favorite holidays of the year. This time around, my touring family joined me at the beach and I wanted to show you some of the pictures because you're the reason we all get to be on tour together. You've seen us all in our show costumes on the Red Tour.. Here's what we all look like in RED, white, and blue:) Hope you had a lovely 4th. I love you and I'll see you on the road.


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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
The #1 Thing That Impacted My Research in 2010
"Reflecting on the past year, what was the number one thing that impacted your genealogical research? Was it a family discovery, a class taken, a lecture attended, a new distant cousin or something else?"
I got some really interesting answers from my friends. Now it's time for me to add my own answer.
This may seem very simple to the rest of you but it was quite profound for me. It was all about footnotes. I love footnotes for the way they can reveal and point you to sources you didn't know about before.
I have been reading peer-reviewed journals such at the National Genealogical Society Quarterly (NGSQ), the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record and the New England Historical & Genealogical Register for quite some time. I read the NGSQ cover to cover, with great interest but not purposefully.
This year instead of reading articles that were merely presented to me I learned that I can seek out articles that relate specifically to my research interest either geographically or for a given time period.
It finally dawned on me that if I am researching Yarmouth, Massachusetts I can seek out other articles on Yarmouth and the footnotes will be specifically helpful to me.
I know your saying that is so obvious but it wasn't obvious to me. I've always known to do a PERSI search or a search of the NEHGS catalog or the Family History Library catalog for a specific family but it didn't really occur to me to seek out articles specifically on a location. Or my location based research focused on records and not on published articles.
How this affected my research
I receive a copy of the Register regularly but I have to admit I have seldom read it in the past. The articles just seemed a bit dry to me. But when I realized that I could seek out the exact footnotes that could help me that all changed. Most of my research, both professional and personal, is focused on New England and New York. And to think that I was ignoring the one journal that could help me the most.
Now I check the table of contents for the Register immediately to see if any of it is relevant for my research. I also check back issues online at the NEHGS website. I still don't read it cover to cover but the articles have greater significance for me when I do read it.
I guess 2010 was year for location based research!
Research Suggestion
Have you been purposefully looking for peer-reviewed articles that are similar to your research targets? If not, think about where you are researching and what time periods. There are great journals across the United States and Europe that will help you. If you are having trouble finding journals that meet your needs leave me a comment and I'll try to help you find some.
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- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2011 at 6:01 PM
Thank you Marian for this article. I also have never searched on specific locations. I am most certainly going to use this technique in future research.ReplyDelete
Sherry Gould
I've been derelict about using journals in much of my research, but your suggestion to focus on location rather than specific families is persuasive. One more tool! Thanks, Marian.ReplyDelete
Hi Marian,ReplyDelete
That's a great way to put footnotes to work for your research. The things that impacted me the most during 2010 were blogs! Believe it or not, I never really read a blog before this year. Now I subscribe to feeds about genealogy as well as artist and freelance writing blogs.
See you in April,
- AnonymousJanuary 6, 2011 at 8:45 AM
can I leave a comment without a password?ReplyDelete
Yes you absolutely can leave anonymous comments! You just did!ReplyDelete
Good article, Marian. I find myself paying moreReplyDelete
attention to footnotes now myself, and to bibliographies at the end of articles and books. I've got to start making a list soon to see if any
of the ones that might help me are available either online or in libraries.
I've been doing that for 20 years; talking about it for 20 years; writing about it for 20 years; and blogging about it for 3 years. Maybe people will listen to you, but I doubt it. People want easy. People want it on the Internet. You've just broken the two ground rules of Average Joe Genealogy.ReplyDelete
Budding genealogist here... What is a PERSI search? Thanks!ReplyDelete
Marian, I had this same epiphany a few months ago, when I found that an ancestor's tribulations had been documented in a fairly new textbook, which I quickly purchased. There were tons of footnotes to court documents and other items I hadn't considered looking for (or had time to think about). And the beauty of footnotes is that they tell you exactly where to find what you're looking for! Sometimes there really is no need to reinvent the wheel!ReplyDelete
Diane - PERSI is short for Periodical Source Index. It's an index of genealogical publications that can be searched by name, location, periodical or how to's.ReplyDelete
It's used to see if anything has already been published on your topic of interest.
So for example if you have an ancestor named Orange Hill (yes that is one of my ancestors) you can search for Orange Hill and search for all occurrences of that everywhere. You can also search for Pompey, NY. Or you can search for Pompey, NY and Orange Hill together.
The idea is that PERSI will let you know if any articles have been published already on either of those topics.
The most common way to access it is through a database called HeritageQuest Online which is available (from home) through many local libraries.
You can see a longer (and probably better) explanation here:
I have to admit I don't use PERSI nearly enough. It's a great tool.
Thank you, Marian!ReplyDelete
Wonderful article, Marian!ReplyDelete
For those genealogists on a slim budget, one must make full use of all educational resources. Reading NGSQ and the Register cover to cover, including all of the footnotes, is one of the greatest educational activities there is.
I would go so far as to recommend reading back issues of these journals, *regardless* of the geographic or other focus. For example, the techniques used in a case study involving 19th century German immigrants to New York may help you trace newly-freed African Americans in Mississippi. The footnotes may not be entirely relevant *specifically* but may alert you to look for similar records in your research location.


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Fasting Blood Sugar Levels
Fasting, as the name suggests, means refraining from eating of drinking any liquids other than water for eight hours. It is used as a test for diabetes.
After fasting, a carbohydrate metabolism test is conducted which measures blood glucose levels.
Glucagon during fasting
When fasting the hormone glucagon is stimulated and this increases plasma glucose levels in the body.
If a patient doesn't have diabetes, their body will produce insulin to rebalance the increased glucose levels.
However people with diabetes either don't produce enough insulin to rebalance their blood sugar (typically in type 1 diabetes) or their body is not able to use the insulin effectively enough (typical of type 2 diabetes).
Consequently when blood glucose levels are tested, people with diabetes will have blood sugar levels significantly higher than people who do not have diabetes.
What is the fasting blood sugar test used for?
The fasting blood sugar test is also used to test the effectiveness of different medication or dietary changes on people already diagnosed as diabetic.
Fasting blood sugar levels are measured by taking a blood test after a period of fasting, usually of 8 hours without food. Typically, fasting blood glucose levels are taken in the morning before any breakfast is eaten. When having your fasting blood glucose levels taken, you should not have any drinks apart from water during the period of fasting.
A fasting blood glucose test can be useful to see how well the body is able to manage blood sugar levels in the absence of food. When we do not eat for several hours, the body will release glucose into the blood via the liver and, following this, the body's insulin should help to stabilise blood glucose levels.
A fasting blood glucose test therefore shows:
- Whether the body is able to bring down the raise in blood glucose levels from the previous meal
- How effectively the body copes with its own release of glucose
The target for fasting blood glucose levels are the same as the targets for before meal readings.
- For adults with diabetes, the target level is between 4 and 7 mmol/l
- For children with diabetes, the target level is between 4 and 8 mmol/l
However, some people may be set individual targets, by their doctor, that differ to the above levels.
Fasting blood glucose tests for people with type 2 diabetes are useful for showing how well your body's insulin responds to periods without food, such as overnight.
In type 1 diabetes, fasting blood glucose levels help to show whether your long term insulin, also known as background insulin, is set at the right dose. If you are in any doubt, Your healthcare team can help you to understand the levels you are getting and suggest any dosage changes.
Fasting tests
The fasting test should be conducted on two separate occasions to ensure consistent results and in order to avoid a false diagnosis.
This is the case as increased blood glucose levels may be as a result of Cushing's syndrome liver or kidney disease, eclampsia and pancreatitis.
However many of these conditions are often picked up in lab diagnostic tests.
Fasting test results
The results of a fasting test with respect to glucose levels in the body are as follows:
- Normal: 3.9 to 5.4 mmols/l (70 to 99 mg/dl)
- Prediabetes or Impaired Glucose Tolerance: 5.5 to 6.9 mmol/l (100 to 125 mg/dl)
- Diagnosis of diabetes: 7.0 mmol/l (126 mg/dl) or above [361]
The American Diabetes Association reduced the level of diagnosis in this test from 140 to 126 mg/dl in 1997.


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I still wish I'd done more, but we were also museuming it up, taking in the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, the Modern, and the Kimbell twice.
Without further ado, here are the results of a couple days' sketching.
The Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas. I was inspired to tackle this one after seeing a fantastic Richard Haas litho of this building. Of course, Richard had access to a higher point of view (and he works from photos).
In progress:
The gorgeous Tarrant County Courthouse in Fort Worth, right up there with Bexar and Victoria County courthouses. A police officer approached me while I was taking pictures, before I began my sketch. At first I was afraid I'd be in trouble for taking pics of a govt building (I've heard many horror stories of urban photographers being harrassed) but he just wanted to talk to me a little about the history of the building, and he was very friendly and knowledgeable. Yet another reason Fort Worth is my favorite city in TX (besides SA of course.)
The rest of my sketching locations are conveniently identified within each sketch to provide the requisite geographical context:


text: Pumping gas into a diesel engine, or vice versa, is a big no-no that may well screw up your engine. We all know that, don't we? But for those, uh, "fuel-type challenged" people out there that get it wrong, there's this new Fuel Checker gizmo. You install it inside your filler flap, and touch the pump nozzle to it before filling up: it'll check the type and flash green for go, and red for no. No idea how it works, but it comes in gasoline or diesel versions. Or you could, you know... read the label on the pump and double check the color of the nozzle you're holding, and save yourself $40. [Red Ferret]


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'blanket' started as a bedroom project from Bobby Pook and Simon Morgan. Later recruiting Steven Pellatt and Matthew Sheldon to form a live show. 'Our Brief Encounters' was released in 2017 to much critical acclaim, the band then toured that EP around the UK and mainland Europe.
"a five-track sweeping euphony that runs through a gamut of textures from ambient, textural soundscapes to ebullient, cloud-nine euphoria in 26 minutes" - The Independent
The band has always directed and filmed their own visuals, music videos and content with Vocalist Bobby running a video production company (Sumo Crucial Productions), ahead of their first full length release in early 2018 they made a short film documentary entitled 'Fragments Of A Dream' about their home town of Blackpool and a look at the differences between the old days and new of the town.
In May 2018 the band released 'How To Let Go' their first LP on Music For Nations / Sony Music UK.


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I went to see a doctor at Stamford Hospital about this cough on Wed., and I left in a daze because everyone I encountered there was so nice to me. It was weird. I wondered if I just looked especially appealing (I did take the time to shower and put on a cute outfit), or maybe sounded pathetic (the chest congestion made it hard to talk), or if the staff at Stamford Hospital is just nice. I have to go with the last option. I was there for four hours, and I only experienced kindness and patience.
Parking lot attendant: super nice.
Registration people: pleasant, knew right away that I was the last minute, squeezed in X-ray patient.
Registration lady: insisted on wheeling me to my chest X-ray because I said I was short of breath.
X-ray Lady: super-nice to me, walked me to elevator after the X-ray.
Pulmonologist secretaries: super-pleasant, and you know secretaries aren't always super-pleasant.
Pulmonologist: nice, got a lady to hold my hand when I was freaked out by the naso-laryngeal swab he wanted to do.
Hand-holder: super nice.
Back to registration for blood test: nice, almost awkwardly so, because I had an embarrassing coughing fit when I tried to talk.
Blood-taker: super nice.
Granted, my standards for nice aren't that high. You just have to act like you don't hate me, and maybe smile and tell me to have a nice day. But in this busy world, people don't always even bother to do that, so when it happens, it's remarkable.
My second antibiotic has kicked in quite nicely, so now I'm just trying to make sure I don't overdo it, because it feels so good to feel good after feeling bad for 5 weeks! Still coughing some, especially at night, but I don't feel like dog doody every second of the day, and that's something to feel very happy about.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Stamford Hospital Rocked My World
I went to see a doctor at Stamford Hospital about this cough on Wed., and I left in a daze because everyone I encountered there was so nice to me. It was weird. I wondered if I just looked especially appealing (I did take the time to shower and put on a cute outfit), or maybe sounded pathetic (the chest congestion made it hard to talk), or if the staff at Stamford Hospital is just nice. I have to go with the last option. I was there for four hours, and I only experienced kindness and patience.
6 comments:
- Leadhyena Inrandomtan said...
I'm so glad you're feeling better!
- December 7, 2008 at 2:48 PM
- Irenesbooks said...
I went to the Stamford ER in the middle of the night recently because of a UTI with more or less uncontrolled bleeding. Everyone was fantastic, from the EMT guys who got me there to the ER staff and the MRI technician (they wanted to rule out kidney stones).
The ER doctor, aware of my problems with allergic reactions to antibiotics which they had in the computer from several visits earlier in the year (don't ask!), insisted to call my own doctor at 5:00 AM to consult!
Get well soon, Kristine!
- December 7, 2008 at 4:24 PM
- Whitemist said...
this is what I have been experiencing otherwise I do not know how I would get through it. But you'll see I have had yet another encounter
- December 9, 2008 at 8:46 PM
- Melina said...
The emergency clinic at Tully is very nice too.
For a white glove hospital experience check out Greenwich Hospital. I don't know if its better per se, but it sure is fancy!
I like Stamford Hospital alot...and of course, they are trying to sell themselves to people with good health plans...so they should be nice! Ive spent way too much time at NYC hospitals in the past few years iwth my grandpa, and they are disgusting...the bathrooms are filthy and the employees outside around the waiting rooms are scary. The doctors, however, are fantastic. They see so much of everything so fast that they get very good at diagnostics and treating.
But I'm trying to move all the old folks to Stamford or Greenwich doctors so that the next time I find myself hanging around a hospital room its HERE and not in some smelly pit in NYC...
Glad youre feeling better K...I hope youre taking vitamins; a multi and C and some minterals. The zicam swabs also work great. But my favorite remedy these days is oregano oil capsules. Its a natural antibiotic so you'd have to take it at the onset of illness...I find that the two of those really work well if I feel something coming on.
Also be sure you're on fish oil and evening primrose if you have any PMS or skin rash problems...anything inflammatory responds well to evening primrose.
The kind vitamin people at whole foods can help!
UTI folks, be sure to be taking real cranberry daily...I have horrible problems with that too!...a very good Stamford hospital doctor is helping me out with it, but Im also taking lots of cranberry every day.
- December 9, 2008 at 10:19 PM
- Irenesbooks said...
I have friends in Greenwich who have all their doctors in Stamford so that the can use Stamford Hospital.
- December 11, 2008 at 5:31 PM
- Sarah said...
I also had a great experience at Stamford Hospital when my boyfriend had his appendix out last year. Everyone was so very nice!
- December 16, 2008 at 3:03 PM


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We seem to live in a camera world with untold possibilities. Whilst photographers had mainly to be satisfied with ISO 400 sensitivities when films were analogue, extreme settings of ISO 12,800 or 25,600 can be chosen today on modern system cameras.
No need for a really good photo to be always exactly focussed! – That may sound a little strange. However this will be less surprising after having been on the latest Tamron Workshop in the Sächsischer Schweiz National Park. For three days the 13 participants had every opportunity of looking over the shoulder of professional photographer Jürgen Müller.
Camera shake is the most common reason for blurry images. This is caused by an involuntary movement of the camera during the exposure time. The longer the exposure, the more susceptible a photo is to camera shake. However, with a few tricks, and using the VC image stabilization, the risk of camera shake can effectively be minimized.
Most of us take pictures in landscape mode. It's only natural: in the horizontal our field of vision encompasses about 180 degrees, but vertically only about 130 degrees. So we see in widescreen, so to speak. Computer monitors and televisions are designed for landscape-format representation. Cameras are designed so that we can conveniently take pictures in landscape format.
A few weeks ago in our blog we posted a contribution regarding the most common mistakes. Are you, too, often not really satisfied with your pictures? Do you get the feeling that your photos are somehow lacking harmony? The cause is usually a composition that has not been thought out: the composition of the individual elements in the picture is not strong enough. The linear composition does not stand out clearly.


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TORONTO - An Ontario judge was urged Monday to consider whether the historical reasoning for a law which strips some expatriates of their voting rights makes sense in today's world.
The request came from a lawyer for two Canadians who are challenging the rule which affects citizens living abroad for more than five years.
"The most critical thing is to look at whether these provisions are constitutional now, considering the current context of globalization and the way people travel around the world and are able to stay connected," said Shaun O'Brien.
"Lots of things existed in voting legislation that we no longer accept...The fact that historically the nature of our system requires residence doesn't meant that residence is required now."
At the heart of the case being heard in Ontario Superior Court this week are the experiences of Gillian Frank and Jamie Duong.
Both men moved to the U.S. for higher education and stayed on as their studies led to jobs, but both plan to move back home as soon as they find appropriate employment in their fields.
The pair were shocked to learn in 2011 that they couldn't cast a ballot in the last federal election due to the five-year rule.
They launched a legal challenge against the federal government two years ago arguing the rule in the Canada Elections Act is arbitrary, unreasonable and should be struck down as unconstitutional.
Their lawyer argued Monday that while residency is a mechanism to organize Canada's voting structure, it should not curtail the right to vote.
"Most people voting will be residents in Canada and there's no issue and this isn't changing that," O'Brien explained. "The point is that if you're not resident, you're still entitled to have your voting rights recognized."
O'Brien also pointed out that Canada has typically been a leader in voting rights, giving the vote to prisoners and the mentally disabled, unlike some other countries.
"We've interpreted our Charter rights very strongly to say these rights are of fundamental importance and so the court should follow that," she said.
The federal government has argued the current law helps strike a balance between the democratic rights of Canadians while ensuring sufficient ties exist between a citizen and Canada.
But O'Brien and her clients disagree with that reasoning.
"These people care about Canada not in just an abstract or sentimental way but also in a practical or real way," said O'Brien. "They will be impacted directly by the direction the country is moving in."
The five-year rule was imposed in 1993, but wasn't widely enforced by Elections Canada until 2007.
That helps show that the country already knows what will happen if the law being challenged is struck down, O'Brien argued.
Before 2007, the five-year clock would reset for expats who returned even for short visits. Now, they have to "resume residency'' before leaving again to regain their right to vote abroad.
Some long-term expats, such as members of the Armed Forces and diplomats, are exempt.
The notion of capping voting rights at five years specifically was targeted at Monday's hearings.
"What's magic in five years," asked O'Brien. "Why do we have this line in the sand that earlier you're connected and after you're not."
O'Brien added that contrary to the government's suggestion that allowing all expatriates to vote would alter Canada's electoral landscape, those who actually take the pains to cast ballots from abroad aren't numerous enough to be cause for such concern.
The judge presiding over the case also noted Monday that there were more votes cast by prisoners in Canada than by citizens who lived abroad.
For the Montreal-raised Duong, whose parents were at Monday's hearing, the suggestion that expatriates don't have enough of a stake in Canada didn't make sense.
"I care very much about my niece's education, I care very much about my parents' health care, I care about all these issues," he said outside court.
"It's so important that Canadian citizens regardless of where they call home be given the right to vote. It is a fundamental part of our charter, it's a fundamental part of our democracy."
Meanwhile, Frank, a Toronto native who served in the Canadian military before moving to the U.S. to get his PhD, took issue with the questioning of his ties to Canada.
"We don't measure it for people who are residing here, we shouldn't measure it for people who are residing abroad," he said. "It's intangible. How can you establish who's connected and who is disconnected."
He added that expatriates who go through the procedures required to vote from abroad are demonstrating the strength of their links to Canada, yet seem to be rejected by their country.
"Disenfranchising citizens and disabling them from voting basically tells them that they're second class," he said. "It's an affront to my dignity and to my citizenship."
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Mel Gibson and girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva have split, according to a new report.
A source told People that the actor and the Russian singer, who welcomed a daughter together – Lucia – back in October 2009, "just drifted apart."
"They're both working hard on their careers and trying to raise a sweet baby together," the source close to the pair added. "They're still friends and they'll both raise Lucia together."
Among their work obligations are a new film for Mel – "How I Spent My Summer Vacation," which is currently shooting in Mexico — and music writing for Oksana, the mag reported.
The split will no doubt come as a surprise to fans of the star, as Mel was gushing about both mom and his new daughter in an interview with Access Hollywood's Shaun Robinson in January.
"She luckily looks more like her mother than me and is an angel and the mother, turns out she's a wonderful mother," Mel told Shaun.
Mel even opened up about why the two weren't heading down the aisle.
"She'd make anyone a wonderful wife, but for the moment, she's a mother," he said.
A Gibson rep had no comment to the mag.
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By Chris Bergeron
Daily News Staff
LINCOLN - Like falling down a rabbit hole, visitors will see funny folks, curious critters and far out scenes at Jerry Beck�s new art show at the Clark Gallery.
In "RPM (Revolutions Per Minute)," he has transformed the Lincoln gallery into a wonderland of fascinating art that includes kinetic sculptures, paintings, drawings, prints, photos, clothes and writing.
Beck�s intriguing automatons and conceptual paintings fuse personal and public archetypes to explore his long, strange trip through American culture with incisive wit.
"It�s a body of work I�m excited about,�� he said by way of explanation.
The "revolutions�� in the title refer to his inclination to swirl together varied styles and genres that his busy mind keeps spinning at immeasurable RPMs, creating art that blasts comfortable boundaries while promising, "Figuring it out will be half the fun.��
Carved from plywood and driven by motors found in thrift shops, Beck�s automatons move jerkily through repetitive tasks like geriatric robots.�"Your Birthday Answered My Question�� saws a locomotive in half and�in �"Pioneers and Pillows,�� a man�nudges a covered wagon with his shoe.
What�s going on?
One way to "understand�� Beck's conceptual art is to think of the Fitchburg resident as a Zen master teasing students with enigmatic riddles.
Raised in Miami where his father ran an arcade, Beck's an Eastern dude who favors boots and broad-brimmed cowboy hats and�likes to subvert familiar icons of the American West.
In "RPM,�� he nudges viewers into reimagining everything they ever learned about American history in high school or watching�"The Wild, Wild West.��
Most work in the show combines visual impact with a layer or two of meaning that involves deciphering a subtext often based on the American folklore that Beck likes to tweak.
Made from hundreds, maybe thousands of wine corks, his largest piece, the 8-by-5 foot "Six Shooter,�� looks like a big toy cap gun. But Beck spins a revealing yarn that recalls its lethal origins.
Several years ago, he�d been making public art with Boston kids when a teenager asked when he could start his project.
"The next day he was shot to death,�� said Beck. "I�ve been struggling with the commodification of violence in our culture that sucks in (children) through video games.��
One of the few artists to create a series of paintings based on his footwear, he�s showing eight works from his "Cowboy Boot Series.��
With titles like "Mermaid and Mutant�� or "Hooked on Mill Towns,�� Beck�s 22-by-30 inch mixed media on paper works feature elaborate images of boots on which he�s drawn curious figures that� seem both familiar and surreal.
The stories to be gleaned from these works�are no more inscrutable than Marc Chagall�s paintings or, maybe, Czech experimental cinema.
Norman Rockwell told stories. But his didn�t include, like Beck�s, green mermaids, a cheerleader shaking her pompoms and a parachuting bodybuilder, actually Beck�s father who used to be Mr. Florida. Hmmmm.
"I�m connected to the images,'' he said. "The stories are hopefully alive.���
It�s a mistake to consider "RPM�� one�solipsistic artist's navel gazing. Beck is pulling his seemingly obscure figures from a public grab bag of icons and archetypes from Elvis to unicorns, from bare-breasted space aliens to donkeys, another personal favorite.
Hey, James Joyce�s "Ulysses�� can be hard to figure out, too.
This show comes at a significant time in Beck�s 30-year career as an artist and organizer on several public stages.
Once regarded as the P.T. Barnum of the local art scene for his panache, Beck emerges in this show as a March hare, spinning his own creative logic through work that explodes conventional boundaries.
Enigmatic messages are painted on cowboy boots. Abe Lincoln, Charley Manson and Jesus hang out on Miami Beach. A banjo combines UFO and Native American imagery.
For 30 years, Beck forged a reputation as a maverick who organized innovative programs for inner city kids�and founded a "nomadic�� museum in empty railroad boxcars that grew into the Revolving Museum that flourished in Boston and Lowell until 2012.
But after the museum closed amid contention and controversy, he said, "I was suffering."
"For weeks I was wondering what I should do next,�� Beck said. "My orientation had always been site-specific public art. But I started drawing for the first time.��
After several years working for the Fitchburg Art Museum and the city of Fitchburg, Beck has gone back to the studio and made personal art that explores the dark and bright sides of an�American� culture that offers creative freedom while killing its children.
Some works are just fun to look at like "The Captain�s Jacket�� that has been decorated with a gazillion sea shells, periwinkle shells, clam shells and any other kind of shell all painted jet black.
Other images provide a sort of key to unlock Beck�s all-absorbent mind. Sometime Beck the artist resembles the "symbologist�� Robert Langdon in Dan Brown�s bestseller "The Da Vinci Code�� who can uncover strange tales in images that often go overlooked.
For example, his striking mixed media on paper work, "Indian, Motorcycle and Bruce Lee Girl�� indeed includes a miniature Bruce Lee figure,�guided missiles, bones where the axel should be and an 8-year-old girl who happens to be his daughter.
Beck explained the 4-by-5 foot work expresses the conflict he feels as a middle-aged male drawn to the excitement of racing a motorcycle and his responsibility to avoid becoming road kill so he can provide a protective paternal presence.
This remarkably eclectic exhibit routinely defies conventional genres and is based on the mostly justifiable assumption that viewers share enough of Beck�s visual vocabulary to find meaning in his work.
"I�ve always believed art could create a revolution,�� he said. "That�s the way my mind works.��
Chris Bergeron is a Daily News staff writer. Contact him at email@example.com or 508-626-4448. Follow us on Twitter @WickedLocalArts and on Facebook.
RPM (Revolutions Per Minute) by Jerry Beck
WHEN: Through August 30
WHERE: Clark Gallery, 145 Lincoln Road, Lincoln
INFO: 781-259-8303; www.clarkgallery.com
Portrait of the artist as a revolutionary
By Chris Bergeron


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Flavor Flav has a new court date in Las Vegas that doesn't interfere with his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
A judge on Thursday agreed to postpone arraignment for the rapper and former reality TV star on felony assault with a weapon and child endangerment charges until May 7.
The 54-year-old entertainer's legal name is William Jonathan Drayton Jr.
Defense attorney Tony Abbatangelo says Drayton's in Los Angeles for Thursday night's Hall of Fame induction with the rap group Public Enemy.
He's accused of chasing and threatening his longtime girlfriend's 17-year-old son with a butcher knife during an argument at home last October. Drayton also faces a misdemeanor domestic battery charge.
Abbatangelo says Drayton will plead not guilty.


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Tree pollen season may affect 2010 Winter Olympics
Jan 19, 2010, 08:15 ET
OTTAWA , Jan. 19 /CNW Telbec/ - The Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology is concerned that the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver and Whistler will be taking place at the peak of the tree pollen season on the West Coast. While the rest of North America and Europe may be suffering a particularly harsh winter, participants and visitors to the 2010 Winter Olympics may not be thinking that their allergies could affect their performance or enjoyment of these winter games. The Pacific North West is a significant source of red alder tree pollen that typically hits its peak in mid to late February and early March. The pollen counts from these trees can reach into the thousands of grains per cubic meter and are a significant cause of allergy and asthma exacerbations in people who are allergic to this tree pollen. Alder pollen has an important cross-reactivity between other types of tree pollen, particularly birch and oak trees which are much more widely distributed across the northern hemisphere and these tree pollens can cause allergy and asthma exacerbations as well.
There is also concern that a number of the symptoms of these pollen allergies can mimic those of respiratory infections or influenza, and this may cause undue concerns among visitors or participants in the Olympics when they develop symptoms. Also the use of over-the-counter allergy and cold medications may lead to disqualification of athletes if they take some of the banned medications such as pseudoephedrine which are common in these medications.
There may be a shortage of allergy and asthma medications to treat symptoms at this time of year in Vancouver . Decisions about stock-piling these medications are usually made in Central Canada where the pollen season is usually delayed by a couple of months compared to the West Coast.
The Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology would like to remind all participants and visitors to the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games to be prepared to treat allergy and asthma symptoms with medications they have arranged to obtain beforehand. Please keep in mind there may be some difficulty getting timely access to medical personnel at a time of year when local allergy sufferers are also having similar problems.
The Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology would like to offer best wishes to all Olympic visitors and participants and hopes that they find this information useful in their preparations for the upcoming games.
Richard Warrington, MB.BS, PhD, FRCPC CSACI President
For further information: For further information: contact the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: (613) 730-6272 or by email at: firstname.lastname@example.com


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When Tabitha Nelson's friend and mentor Rebecca is murdered, Tabitha's grief and confusion are intensified by the dream she had the night of Rebecca's death. In the dream, Tabitha entered a strange house, and saw a woman's body posed by the front door... just as Rebecca's body was posed.
As the people Tabitha loves are killed one by one, each found dead in the same way as they appear in Tabitha's dreams, she is drawn further and further into the house of her dreams... but will she find a nightmare in the final room?
well, ok, check "make friends with Tabitha" off the list of things to do in the new year.
This isn't a hook it's a description of action.
Start over. Suspense has to have an antagonist.
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Posted by Miss Snark at 12/23/2006 09:32:00 AM
Labels: Crapometer-hooks
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I need some more information about Tabitha. Who is she? What does she do? Why does she need a mentor? How old is she? Why should I care? and so forth.
This hook is just too general for me to get a sense of the story.
- 12/23/2006
- December Quinn said...
The premise interests me, but is Tabitha killing them somehow, or is she just psychic? Who's after her family and friends?
I'd love to know, because I do love psychic mystery stuff.
Lol Miss S!
- 12/23/2006
Sounds interesting. I would check this out.
- 12/24/2006
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Have you ever found yourself, mid-s'more, feeling like maybe, just maybe...something is missing?
You're not alone, buddy. But the matter has been given much thought, and a conclusion has been reached: that missing thing is cream filling, and the solution can be found with a certain famous sandwich cookie.
When s'mores meet Oreos, magic--in the form of an oozy, creamy, unapologetically sweet treat--ensues. Basically, you won't be able to believe you've lived this long without them.
CakeSpy Note: I made mine in the microwave, as I am not an outdoorsy type; however, if there is a campfire handy, feel free to make yours using toasted marshmallows.
- Either one, or two (depending on how decadent you feel) Oreos--Double Stuf optional
- half a jumbo marshmallow per s'moreo (a whole one was just too big)
- 2 rectangles from a regular sized Hershey bar
With One Oreo: If you've elected to use just one Oreo, twist it apart so that the top and bottom are separate. Face the filled side up, and put the chocolate squares on top, then layer the marshmallow half, then top it off with the remaining Oreo half. Put in the microwave at high for approximately 15-20 seconds. The marshmallow may rise and cause the top half of the Oreo to fall off; this is ok. Simply place it back on top upon removing from the microwave, and enjoy immediately.
With Two Oreos: If you're going for the double Oreo version (good decision), repeat the same steps as above, simply using a whole Oreo for the top and bottom. It may take a few more seconds in the microwave, but it's oh so worth it.


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Thank you to all the good people who came and stuffed packets. And ate pizza. And drank beer.
How odd. I had beer and pizza last night as well and didn't see anyone stuffing packets around us. Curious. Must have been some Monkey Jedi mind trick.
"He conquers who endures" - Persius "Every workout should have a purpose. Every purpose should link back to achieving a training objective." - Spaniel
Skooter 2.5
The King of Beasts
i had fun. i dreamed of boxes all night.
huh... so did i
"As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, And I've learned much from both of their styles." ~ Jimmy Buffett
"I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.""
Hoodoo Guru
my team won our futbol game to seal up 2nd place in the league.
Cool. 2nd place is 1rst loser.
The tangents are moot.
"run" "2" "eat"
Cool. 2nd place is 1rst loser.
actually should have called it 2nd seed.
tournament begins in a couple weeks.
now all we have to do is kick some lipscomb arse in early december.
i find the sunshine beckons me to open up the gate and dream and dream ~~robbie williams
The Thunder
I love tha underwater rhymes! Not to mention the packet man!
Still here...
I love tha underwater rhymes! Not to mention the packet man!
you had to get the tape though! it had more tracks like the classic "gutfest '89" but yes great album!!!
mc blowfish signin out.
MTA: dude totally- I only ever owned that wreckord on tape
It really is a great album...I was gonna go to the packet party, but they weren't down with Humpty...apparently Nashville Don't like the way they swing...
MTA: dude totally- I only ever owned that wreckord on tape
i wore out the tape and bought the cd. only to return it with my heart crushed.
Why do people call CD's and album? There ain't no vinyl in there. Always confuses me. Good music though. Not the best ever, but good.
I said it was a great album, and I said I bought the cd. I never said cd = album. Don't be a douchy vinyl snob. I work with too many of those already.
Technically, an "album" is simply a collection. As in a collection of songs. It can be a tape, cd, or record.
Sorry to interrupt. Carry on with your manly Sex Packets chat.


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There will be tributes, mentions and flashes of the statue that now sits at the entrance of Mission Hills Country Club. But, sadly, few of the players at this week's Kraft Nabisco Championship will know much about Dinah Shore or the impact that she has on women's golf.
"I bet a good number of the young players don't even know who she is," said former LPGA Rookie of the Year Laura Baugh, who counted Shore as a good friend for more than 20 years. "When you look back at where our tour was in 1972, Dinah took us to another level. She was years ahead of her time."
Long before the LPGA began actively marketing players as celebrities, Shore had them on her variety and talk shows. Sometimes she had them hit balls, but they were often cooking with her in a studio kitchen or singing with her at the piano that was always close by.
A recording artist with a string of hits in the 1940s and '50s, Francis Rose Shore (Fanny to her friends and Dinah to the public) was the female Bing Crosby of her day, a versatile performer who could sing, dance, act and charm an audience with her infectious smile and exaggerated air kisses. Few can name a single song from that period, even though her hit, "Baby, It's Cold Outside," which she recorded with Buddy Clark in 1949, is played hundreds of times every Christmas season.
Dinah became a star because of her voice and her magnetic personality, starting at the Grand Ole Opry in her native Tennessee before she headed to New York and then California. But she remained a star for half a century by adapting. When her songs fell out of vogue, she hosted a music variety show sponsored by Chevrolet. Then she entered the talk show arena, holding her own against heavyweights like Merv Griffin and Michael Douglas. Oprah Winfrey owes most of her initial success to the road paved by Dinah Shore.
The players who tee off this week in Rancho Mirage owe a huge debt to her as well. It struck her as wrong that her good friends Crosby and Bob Hope had successful professional golf tournaments for men, but no one had anything for the women. Even though she was a far more serious tennis player than golfer, Shore founded the best tournament of the spring with a purse that was three times higher than anything else on the circuit.
"Colgate did not initially get involved because they suddenly discovered the LPGA," Baugh said. "They did it because of Dinah.
"She would go out of her way to make us feel welcome in the most genuine ways you can imagine. She would cook spaghetti for everyone and she would get Bob and Dolores Hope involved. They had a big house on the hill (overlooking Mission Hills) and everyone would go over for a parties. Dinah did it all."
She looked after the players in other ways as well.
"I played with her (in the pro-am) just a couple of years before she died," Kris Tschetter said. "She was wonderful, as always. But I remember this one especially, because I was young and we had a man in our group who got a little touchier than I felt comfortable with. Dinah saw that and ran interference for me. We were rolling our eyes and laughing about it together, but she was just great."
That concern for others stayed with her until the end. When her ex-boyfriend Burt Reynolds was going through personal struggles in late 1993, he called Dinah to talk. She listened and consoled him and did her best to buck him up. She never mentioned that she was dying.
Dinah passed away from ovarian cancer in February of 1994, a month before the 23rd playing of the tournament she founded.
"I think it's absolutely horrible that (the tournament) is not the Dinah Shore anymore," Baugh said. "Nothing against Kraft Nabisco, they are wonderful people and a great sponsor, but you could certainly call it the Kraft Nabisco Dinah Shore. It's a disgrace not to have Dinah's name front and center. She is in our Hall of Fame. Putting her name back on her tournament is the least we could do."


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'The Best Thing I Ever Ate' Pizza Episode
Philip G. (aka Prairie) calls our attention to the Food Network's Best Thing I Ever Ate episode on pizza, breaking down the list for us:
- Ted Allen: Graziella's, Brooklyn, Pizza Arugula and Parmesan
- Duff Goldman: Gino's East, Chicago, Sausage-Patty Style
- Marc Summers: Osteria, Philadelphia Margherita pizza
- Tyler Florence: Serious Pie, Seattle, chanterelle and truffle pizza
- Alex Guarnaschelli: Five Points, New York City, yukon gold potato pizza. (Says Philip: "This oven is cool, btw. Need to head here. Not for this pizza though, yuck.")
- Adam Gertler: Little Dom's, Los Angeles, breakfast pizza
- John T. Edge: Pizzeria Bianco, Phoenix, Pizza Rosa. (Philip: "OK. Seriously, JTE was my favorite food writer before this. And now that he picked my favorite pizza joint in the world, good God.")
- Aaron Sanchez: Max Brenner, New York City (and other locations), chocolate pizza. (I say: Seriously!? Does this thing even count as "pizza"?)
Philip again: "The episode was OK; I almost died when John T. came on. : )"
Me again: I think Ted Allen is right on about Graziella's. Damn fine pizza there. Though I haven't had the arugula and Parm pie.
The pizza episode of Best Thing I Ever Ate aired last night. If you missed it, don't worry. Like all things Food Network, it will repeat ad infinitum, ad nauseam. (Looks like the next airing is September 5, 2009, at 6 p.m. ET.)
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200,000 farmers to get improved wheat seed
200,000 farmers to get improved wheat seed
KABUL (Pajhwok): Some 200,000 farmers across the country would receive improved quality wheat seed this season, the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) said on Monday.
MAIL acquired 10,000 metric tonnes of improved quality wheat seed from Afghanistan National Seed Association against $6 million under an agreement signed between MAIL Minister Asadullah Zamir and seeds production association's chief Abdul Qadar Sadaat.
The minister said the cost of the seeds was provided from MAIL's development budget.
Zamir said the improved seeds would be distributed to 200,000 farmers in all the 34 provinces of the country.
MAIL's cereal department head, Mohammad Akbar, told Pajhwok Afghan News the ministry had suggested the president to provide the seed with 40 percent subsidy to farmers; however, no response was received as yet.
Minister Zamir said 10,000 metric tonnes of seeds would be cultivated on 200 acres of farmland, adding it would help increase wheat production by 30 percent.
"In the past 13 years, the purchase deal of seeds is taking place on time for the first time. And the seeds will also be distributed to farmers in the right time."
Winter wheat seeds are planted in October in Afghanistan.
Sadaat said the association established last year had membership of 130 seed production companies.
Wolesi Jirga member from Herat province Ghulam Farooq, who was present at the seed purchasing agreement, asked MAIL to ensure the seeds reached needed people in far-flung areas.
He said it had been experienced that the seeds had earlier not reached farmers in remote parts.
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SCHUMANN The Symphonies Bernstein DVD 0734512
Schumann's dotted rhythms, which can so easily trip up the progress of his music, have consistent verve; and some of the codas . . . are even more high-powered than they were before. There's no loss of youthful emotion, either . . . There is, however, a real gain in control of details, particularly details of articulation, texture and balance. Even more than in the earlier performances, passages that traditionally seem thick take on a luminous glow; and whether in the ghostly fugue at rehearsal letter O (5'23'') in the third movement of the Second or in the fugal writing in the finale of the Fourth, the ingenuity of Schumann's counterpoint emerges with remarkable vividness . . . the life-affirming vitality of the more outgoing music is impossible to resist . . . these performances belong in your collection.
I believe it to be the single greatest set of Schumann symphonies ever recorded, and while the audio discs have been available, the PCM and DTS 5.1 options, along with added adventure of watching the concert make this an experience that any lover of Schumann should definitely have in his or her collection. . . . The Second has quite simply never been bettered -- it is as Schumann wrote it for Bernstein to conduct, and dry eyes are plainly not an option after the slow movement stops. The grandeur of the "Rhenish" is magnificent, and Bernstein's vision of the Cologne Cathedral in the forth movement is simply glorious -- austere, powerful, and always bringing out those ever-important trombone parts. Perhaps the biggest surprise is his way with the "problematical" Fourth Symphony; he uses the final version, but has such a way with the instrumental balances, a judicious and subversive ability to detect where the primary emotional component of any particular chord or melodic line lies, and then incorporating it into the phrase in a manner that cements the passage as no other conductor seems to manage. The sparse and few melodic motives that Schumann provides in this work all of a sudden blossom into a coherent whole with rousing results. Top of the line for sure, and a first choice in any medium.
Needless to say, you need to hear this set, and seeing it is a bonus. Humphrey Burton, who directed many of Lenny's films, proves a skilled and able advocate here as well, a pioneer in filmed concert presentation. This goes to the top of this year's Want List.
Needless to say, you need to hear this set, and seeing it is a bonus. Humphrey Burton, who directed many of Lenny's films, proves a skilled and able advocate here as well, a pioneer in filmed concert presentation. This goes to the top of this year's Want List.
Leonard Bernstein's traversal of Schumann's symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic is beautifully filmed and sounds wonderful . . . Just watching the conductor as he breathes these pieces with a great band is a true privilege . . . No one who loves Schumann can be without this.
. . . si la respiration laisse du temps au temps, les codas peuvent ętre fulgurantes. Public enivre et conquis. Et conclusion repetitive: ŕ quoi bon résister?


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Overlays, Underlays and the New World Order
The networking industry has recently developed a renewed interest in virtual overlays, often wrapped in an "SDN as the controller" context. Amidst the promise, the hope and the hype, the following questions present themselves:
- What exactly is an overlay?
- What distinguishes an overlay from a VPN?
- How decoupled can an overlay be from the underlay network and what are the tradeoffs?
- What are the advantages of overlays and will they emerge as the new networking world order?
In this post, I will attempt to answer these questions.
In broadest terms, an overlay is a virtual network that is built on top of an underlying network infrastructure (the underlay). For the purpose of this discussion, an overlay must further meet the following four characteristics, as identified by the emerging work in NVO3:
- guarantee traffic segregation among users (tenants),
- support address space independence among those users,
- allow for dynamic end-station (server or VM) placement or migration independent of the underlay network's addressing scheme, and
- support all of the above at large scale (millions of end-stations).
All these characteristics are, in essence, the attributes of a VPN. VPN technologies deployed today, whether Layer 2 or Layer 3, are implemented as overlays on top of an IP or MPLS underlay. In a VPN, the edge devices host the complex service functions such as tunnel encapsulation/de-capsulation, traffic and address space segregation via disjoint forwarding tables, etc… The core nodes of the network (or fabric, if you will) provide basic transport and connectivity among the edge nodes. To illustrate this point, consider the parallels between VXLAN and E-VPN. Both technologies serve to provide Layer 2 (Ethernet) virtual LAN connectivity between endpoints separated by an IP network. Both technologies overcome the ~4K VLAN identifier limitation. Both technologies construct their forwarding tables based on correlation between a given MAC address and an associated tunnel endpoint. In E-VPN, this correlation is distributed in BGP, whereas in VXLAN it is done via data-plane learning. The option of using control-plane learning for VXLAN is left as an open possibility (and Yves' blog post discusses how LISP can serve as this control-plane). The main architectural difference between the two technologies is in how the multiplexing of virtual network segments is done: VXLAN uses globally assigned 24-bit VXLAN IDs, whereas E-VPN uses downstream-assigned 20-bit MPLS labels. Of course, this architectural difference has ramifications on what control-plane needs to be running between the endpoints for the purpose of assigning the identifiers and on the data-plane encapsulation used. It is these differences which make each solution interesting for different customer types.
Overlays provide the allure of enabling new services with a high degree of transparency and decoupling from the underlay network. However, as with any engineering system, there are tradeoffs; and with overlays, these tradeoffs present themselves in a number of operational aspects.
The first aspect to consider is network performance. In the absence of any coordination between the overlay and underlay, the network cannot provide strict performance guarantees except with overprovisioning (read higher CapEx).
Another aspect is network manageability (i.e. OAM), and in particular fault isolation. By design, OAM mechanisms specific to the overlay have no visibility into the underlying transport topology. So network troubleshooting necessitates toolkits that span both the overlay as well as underlay network and can perform the correlation between overlay traffic and its mapping to underlying transport paths. This is reflected in the emerging work on OAM for Data Center technologies in the IETF's TRILL, NVO3 and L2VPN workgroups. TRILL is currently the furthest along of the three, where the requirements, framework and solution are in the process of being crafted. In parallel, an OAM reference framework for overlays has been proposed in NVO3, while LSP layer OAM functions for E-VPN have been proposed in L2VPN.
A third aspect is traffic protection in the case of transient congestion caused by failures. Failures within the underlay that impact, for instance, the bisectional bandwidth across the fabric (such as the case where a link fails in an Ethernet bundle) are completely transparent to the superimposed overlays. This is the case unless if feedback mechanisms are employed to propagate state to the edge devices, to perform head-end rerouting decisions. Alternatively some means of exposing the knowledge of important overlay traffic to the underlay would be required so that the underlay transport steers critical flows away from the congestion point, at the possible expense of taking a sub-optimal path.
One of the main advantages of overlays is that they provide the ability to rapidly and incrementally deploy new functions through edge-centric innovations. New solutions or applications can be organically added to the existing underlay infrastructure by adding intelligence to the edge nodes of the network. This is why overlays often emerge as solutions to address the requirements of specific applications over an existing basic infrastructure, where either the required functions are missing in the underlay network, or the cost of total infrastructure upgrade is prohibitive from an economic standpoint.
From a political or administrative domain standpoint, the emergence of overlays is sometimes a reflection of the conflicts of interest or opposing viewpoints between the stakeholders in a given networking system. In other words, the person establishing the overlay does not want to be deeply coupled to the transport network. To ground this postulation with an example, one can reflect upon the raging arguments in the Data Center on whether host-based or network based multi-tenant segmentation is the way of the future. VXLAN with flooding/learning or a directory-based control-plane resonates with server administrators. FabricPath/TRILL coupled with TRILL-EVPN for data center interconnect aligns more with network administrators' perspective. Eventually, the technology building blocks to support both paradigms will be available and deployments will choose one or the other depending on administrative considerations as well as the relative advantages and tradeoffs.
So, are overlays going to be ushering in a new networking world order? To answer that, let's reflect back at a historical example of how Internet transport started as an overlay on top of the public telephone network (e.g. SONET, Dial, Frame Relay). What began as an overlay, later grew to become the platform over which a multitude of applications (including telephone/voice service) were enabled. This cycle has repeated itself for many of the services that we consider to be an integral part of the network infrastructure today, as the demands for performance and ubiquity forced the functions down into the underlay infrastructure. In conclusion, overlays are not disrupting how networking is done. Rather, overlays are one of the stages in the cycle of life of nascent networking technology.
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…I really agree with your last sentence: "Overlays" are indeed one of the stage cycles in the perpetual evolution change of networking technology…


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Gilmore Girls
" New and Improved Lorelai" - (TV-PG, L) (HDTV)
Tuesday, May 16 2006
THE ANSWER TO LORELAI'S DREAMS - Picking up on the same night as last season's finale, Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Luke (Scott Patterson) begin making plans for their future, but Luke (Scott Patterson) is embarrassed when word spreads that Lorelai was the one who proposed. Still hurt over Rory's (Alexis Bledel) decision to drop out of Yale and move in with Emily (Kelly Bishop) and Richard (Edward Herrmann), Lorelai tells her parents that they can take care of Rory from now on. Richard hires an old friend and respected attorney (guest star Robert Foxworth, "Falcon Crest") to help Rory get an easy sentence for stealing the yacht, but the judge gives Rory 300 hours of community service. Logan (Matt Czuchry) throws Rory a "felon" party. Yanic Truesdale, Liza Weil and Sean Gunn also star. Amy Sherman-Palladino wrote and directed the episode (#2T6301).


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BOSTON (Reuters) - Nok Nok Labs, a Silicon Valley startup that is developing technology to help companies quickly validate the identities of their users over the Internet, said on Tuesday that it has raised $15 million in early financing from ONSET Ventures and Doll Capital Management.
The firm, which was founded in November 2011, is collaborating with companies including Ebay Inc's PayPal electronic payment division, PC maker Lenovo Group Ltd and semiconductor maker Infineon Technologies AG to establish standards to help businesses quickly authenticate a person's identity from mobile phones, PCs and any other device that is connected to the Web.
Nok Nok Labs Chief Executive Phil Dunkelberger told Reuters the company will sell software and equipment that businesses can use to implement those standards, allowing customers to authenticate large numbers of customers using methods including fingerprints, facial recognition and traditional passwords.
Dunkelberger is a software industry veteran whose most-recent job was as chief executive of PGP Corp, which he sold to Symantec Corp in 2010 for about $300 million.
Board members include Richard A. Clarke, the former White House anti-terrorism czar who is now CEO of cyber security consulting firm Good Harbor, and Michael Barrett, chief information security officer of PayPal.
Reporting By Jim Finkle; Editing by Richard Pullin


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NAME: sci.ethnobiology STATUS: unmoderated PROPONENT: Peter Werner (boe666 at u.washington.edu) RATIONALE: There is presently no Usenet newsgroup for the discussion of ethnobiology. Ethnobiological topics are scattered among various newsgroups and mailing lists. Because of this, much of the cross-disciplinary discussion necessitated by the very nature of ethnobiology doesn't take place. This newsgroup would create a place specifically for the discussion of ethnobiological topics. CHARTER: sci.ethnobiology is a newsgroup for the discussion of ethnobiology and its many subfields including ethnobotany, ethnomycology, ethnozoology, ethnomedicine, ethnopharmacology, ethnopsychiatry, ethnoecology, and ethnotaxonomy. Related topics in economic botany, pharmacognosy and pharmacology of naturally-occurring substances, and human ecology are also welcome. An interdisciplinary approach to the ethnobiological questions is encouraged. What this newsgroup isn't: Ethnobiology is sometimes confused with biological anthropology. Biological anthropology is, in fact, a synonym for physical anthropology. Many topics in physical anthropology, such as the biological aspects of human ecology, are relevant to sci.ethnobiology. However, discussion of physical anthropology per se belongs on sci.anthropology. This newsgroup is not alt.drugs.natural. While scientific discussion of the use of psychoactive plants in various cultures and their pharmacognosy and pharmacology is both relevant and welcome, "How do I get high from this" and "Where can I get some of that" threads are not appropriate to this newsgroup. These belong on alt.drugs. Discussion of drug legalization belongs on talk.politics.drugs unless there's a particularly ethnobiological angle of this issue being discussed. "What herbs can I use to cure my headaches", etc. aren't appropriate here either. Discussion of herbs that can cure headaches, etc. is certainly relevant to this newsgroup, but threads specifically looking just for home remedies belong on alt.folklore.herbs. If one can derive some personal health benefit from something discussed on sci.ethnobiology, that's great, but its not the focus of this newsgroup. Ethnobiological questions have a political side and these topics are appropriate to this newsgroup. However, most discussion of environmental politics belongs on talk.environment and alt.save-the-earth. The kind of blind cross-posting that takes place from these groups to sci.environment should not take place here. CROSSPOSTING: This RFD is crossposted in the following groups: alt.drugs news.announce.newgroups alt.folklore.herbs news.groups bionet.agroforestry rec.food.historic bionet.announce sci.anthropology bionet.biology.tropical sci.bio bionet.general sci.bio.ecology bionet.mycology sci.med bionet.plants Several of these groups are gated on to mailing lists: Newsgroup List bionet.agroforestry AGROFORESTRY bionet.announce BIONEWS bionet.biology.tropical TROPICAL-BIOLOGY bionet.general BIOFORUM bionet.mycology MYCOLOGY bionet.plants PLANT-BIOLOGY sci.bio.ecology ECOLOG -L This RFD has also been sent to these mailing lists: Indigenous Knowledge List (INDKNOW%UWAVM.BITNET) Myconet Medlist (medlist at myconet.org) What is the Process of Creating a Newsgroup ----------------------------------------------------- >(a) RFD: Discussion, i.e., public hearing to take place in the newsgroup news.groups for 21-30 days (b) CFV: Call for votes (the voting period will be between 22-30 days) (c) Counting of votes and public display of votes (d) Announcement of new newsgroup (a)-->(b) assumes no major disagreements about this newsgroup during discussion. (c)-->(d) assumes that the vote is favorable, i.e., Y> N+100 and Y> (2/3)(Y+N). Y being the number of YES votes, N being the number of NO votes for the creation of the proposed newsgroup. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Werner 4/7/1993 boe666 at u.washington.edu -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \ The above does not represent OIT, UNC-CH, laUNChpad, or its other users. / ------------------------------------------------------------------------


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Test scores at this school fall below the state average. This suggests that most students at this school may not be performing at grade level.
Parent tips
Ask the school what it's doing to help students who are behind. Understand what on-track learning looks like,... More and explore higher-performing schools in your area to find the best opportunities for your child to succeed.
Students at this school are making average academic progress given where they were last year, compared to similar students in the state.
Average progress with low test scores means... that students are starting at a low point but keeping up with their peers.
Parent tip
Ask the school how it interprets this rating and how it might use this information to help students grow and reach their full potential.
Disadvantaged students at this school are performing about as well as other students in the state, but this school may still have achievement gaps.
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Look at the Race/ethnicity and Low-income sections below to see how different student groups are doing at this school. Are there big gaps?... More Start a conversation with a teacher or a fellow parent about how to interpret this information. What's the school doing to help all students succeed? How can you help?


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Finding advice on removing a cartridge bearing from a bicycle wheel proved surprisingly difficult recently. Even a fairly recent and comprehensive bicycle repair manual that I had to hand didn't say anything about it. :
It turns out the way to do it is to remove any end caps and locknuts and washers and nuts and then bang the end of the axle really hard against a piece of wood. You will probably make dents in the piece of wood.
This works because cartridge bearings are pressure fit both to the hub and to the axle. (This is really neat!) Both the hub and the axle are stepped to hold the cartridge in place. A hard enough bang will simultaneously make the step on the upmost side of the axle pop the upmost cartridge from the hub and make the step on the downmost side of the hub pop the downmost cartridge from the axle. You can then pull the axle out and remove the other cartridge by poking through a screwdriver or similar and tapping with a mallet.


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beccawright necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 132 diseños de 37 diseñadores freelance.
designbar will be the ultimate invitation-only website for interior
designers to source high end products and bespoke services from a
range of designers, manufacturers and dealers.
An invaluable resource, via the website designers gain single point
access to the collections of top design manufacturers as well as
hand-picked new talent including some exclusive product. They can
search and browse at a product level across a range of styles and
then buy or enquire about commissioning services.
Unfortunately we don't have a website to show at this stage, but the
product aggregation concept can be viewed with a modern italian
design feel at architonic.com and stylepark.com
- Global english language audience (starting in the UK)
- interior designers and interior architects
- 30+
- simple, clean, high end logo
- designbar should appear in full in lower case
- exclusive, luxurious, cross-over between classic and cutting edge
(e.g. B&B Italia and Established & Sons logos)
- interiors rather than an architecture feel
- no furniture icons in the logo please, just text
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The brilliant business analyst and writer Peter Drucker has made me a lot of money over the years. The 95-year-old dedicated his professional life to an engaging and exhaustive exploration into how organizations succeed and stumble. His insights double as a blueprint to market-beating investing.
I want to share with you a key Druckerian principle that has helped me find some fantastic small-company stocks in my newsletter service, Motley Fool Hidden Gems.
Drucker believes that most people and, by extension, most companies are terribly unfocused. They have too many loves to satisfy and too few commitments. They dabble here, dally there, and fail to master anything. Peter Lynch, the greatest mutual fund manager of all time, called this phenomenon di-worse-ification. Drucker hates it just as much, naming it a primary driver of sustained mediocrity.
So, why do American companies diversify?
Loads of public companies actively diversify because, in the short term, all that variety and expansion generates buzz. Aggressive extensions into new markets make CEOs look ingenious. Buyouts, product launches, and new divisions are the stuff of an emerging empire. They grab the headlines and turn executives into visionary white-horse heroes. And that's delicious to investors targeting quick-hit investment gains.
But what about the long run? After all, what are the chances that American audiences, for example, will care about Paris Hilton in five years? The long run is won by those who pursue excellence through their specialized talents. Take, for example, athletic-shoe designer Saucony
Well, the company learned that sex appeal doesn't often deliver permanent value. In the 1990s, Saucony took a dangerous detour into the bicycle business. Management felt its running shoes gave it permission to enter into the expanding market for sports equipment. Whoops! Executives underestimated the complexity of the business, and the move dropped the stock from $50 to $5. Ever since, Saucony has maintained the discipline of focus. Hidden Gems analyst Zeke Ashton recommended the stock in August 2003. The next February, management elected to pay out a $25 million special dividend to shareholders rather than use the capital to expand. Ashton's recommendation is up 178% for our members.
The only stock to outperform Saucony in Hidden Gems is another disciplined small company that has risen 179% since November of 2003. Middleby
Then a strange thing happened. Rather than count on expansion to save its hide, Middleby's board of directors installed new management, which aggressively abandoned product lines. CEO Selim Bassoul simply walked away from 25% of the company's sales, choosing to focus all energies on its high-margin commercial ovens. Just as with Saucony, so too with Middleby: Executives chose to pay out a special dividend rather than plow cash into expansion.
The power of focus
Operational focus is crucial to the success of most every small company in the world. Yet few small-business leaders practice it. In Hidden Gems, it's my goal to help you find the most disciplined companies, poised to become Peter Lynch's next great 10- and 20-baggers. The next monster winner among small caps will be a company focused like Starbucks
When these companies were small caps, they had enough capital to expand into wildly diverse product and service categories. Instead, with attractive opportunities to grow organically, they drilled down into their core business, innovated within a defined space, scavenged for economic efficiencies, and made their stockholders rich. Focus, you see, is how competitive advantages are gained, how defensive moats are carved, how commercial niches are dominated, and how long-term margins of safety are widened for investors.
In my experience, the small companies you'll want to own are more likely to expand dividends than product lines. They're more likely to buy back stock than buy up competitors. Meanwhile, their failing competitors will forever look outside for growth. Even with a core business growing 15% or more, they'll blow money on the new-new thing, lose sight of their unique talents, and fall behind.
Don't invest in the jack-of-all-trades. In fact, promise me that the next time you go in search of truly great small-cap stocks, as we do every day in Hidden Gems, you'll remember this Italian proverb:
Often he who does too much does too little.
As with each of us, so too with the companies we invest in. If you want to find the next stock to rise 10 times in value, you won't find it glad-handing every new opportunity. Peter Lynch knew that. Peter Drucker wrote about it extensively. Heed the words of the masters and let's beat the market.
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This article originally ran April 28, 2004. It has been updated.


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List of severe weather alert systems throughout Missouri provided by local governments, media outlets, and other sources. This is an easy-to-explore, interactive dataset.
Open data is powering a new civic movement that is changing the way citizens experience our nation's cities, counties, and states.
Local Severe Weather Warning Systems in Missouri
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How is your city doing in open data and transparency? A recent survey looks at what data cities are sharing and not sharing and how they rank in transparency and accessibility. You can add your city to the census and see others … Continued