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Google's Android was the top smartphone operating system in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2011, overtaking the market share of Research in Motion's BlackBerry and keeping Apple's iPhone in the third position, according to ComScore.
Android runs 34.7% of the 72.5 million smartphones in the U.S. in the first quarter, the market research company said. Android-based smartphones accounted for 28.7% of the market at the end of the fourth quarter in 2010, when fewer smartphones -- 63.2 million -- were in use.
BlackBerry's share of the smartphone market dropped from a 31.6% share at the end of 2010 to 27.1% at the end of March, ComScore said.
Apple's iPhone share increased slightly from 25% to 25.5% over the first three months of 2011.
Meanwhile, the market share for Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 and older Windows Mobile products dropped 0.9 percentage points, from 8.4% in December to 7.5% in March. Palm and the WebOS under Hewlett Packard dropped from 3.7% to 2.8% over the period.
The ComScore report is based on surveys of 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers. ComScore reports have consistently shown that the U.S. market is different from the rest of the globe, where Nokia dominates.
ComScore said Android benefits from its support from several smartphone makers.
Samsung (which makes smartphones running Android and other platforms) was the top smartphone manufacturer, with 24.5% market share, followed by LG, with 20.9%, Motorola with 15.8%, RIM with 8.4% and Apple with 7.9%.
RIM's decline in the last half year has been fairly steep -- more than 10 percentage points -- since it held a 37.3% share of the U.S. smartphone market at the end of the third quarter in 2010.
RIM last week unveiled a new OS and two new smartphones among other new products and services at its BlackBerry World conference.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer also attended the RIM event, and announced that Microsoft would invest in the BlackBerry platform with Bing search and maps.
The RIM announcements came just a week after the company warned that its first quarter earnings would be lower than expected and that smartphone launches would be delayed later into 2011. The warning resulted in some analysts downgrading RIM's stock rating and a slip in RIM's stock price.
Matt Hamblen covers mobile and wireless, smartphones and other handhelds, and wireless networking for Computerworld. Follow Matt on Twitter at @matthamblen, or subscribe to Matt's RSS feed . His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The latest update lets users essentially go back in time with the ability to listen to previously broadcast programming (up to 5 hours). That means you don't have to scramble to make sure you catch the first couple of minutes of your favorite live programming. You can also back track to the beginning of a song if you're just tuning into a radio station
Additionally, if you have to go potty during your favorite programming, you can pause live radio, similar to cable/satellite DVR recorders for TV. Users can also replay a song of segment with a single click. Doing so will by default give you the ability to skip forward to hear what's playing next.
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In the last 25 years, the library catalogue has undergone an evolution, from card catalogues to OPACs, discovery systems and even linked data applications making library bibliographic data accessible on the web. At the same time, users expectations of what catalogues will be able to offer in the way of discovery have never been higher.
This groundbreaking edited collection brings together some of the foremost international cataloguing practitioners and thought leaders, including Lorcan Dempsey, Emmanuelle Bermès, Marshall Breeding and Karen Calhoun, to provide an overview of the current state of the art of the library catalogue and look ahead to see what the library catalogue might become.
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Readership: Cataloguers and metadata specialists, library adminstrators and managers responsible for planning and strategy, systems librarians, user services managers, electronic resources librarians, and digital library project managers, students on cataloguing, information management and digital library courses.
Foreword - Marshall Breeding
Introduction - Sally Chambers
1. Next generation catalogues: what do users think? - Anne Christensen
2. Making search work for the library user - Till Kinstler
3. Next-generation discovery: an overview of the European Scene - Marshall Breeding
4. The mobile library catalogue - Lukas Koster and Driek Heesakkers
5. FRBRizing your catalogue - Rosemie Callewaert
6. Enabling your catalogue for the semantic web - Emmanuelle Bermes
7. Supporting digital scholarship: bibliographic control, library co-operatives and open access repositories - Karen Calhoun
8. Thirteen ways of looking at libraries, discovery and the catalogue: scale, workflow, attention - Lorcan Dempsey
"Catalogue 2.0 certainly has its value as a snapshot of where the library catalogue is today and an exploration of where it may be headed. While sections of the book are particularly relevant to technical services and systems librarians, it is certainly worth a read for anyone interested in both a summary of recent developments in and forecast for the library catalog. It could also serve as a reading for a course on library systems, and some of the individual chapters may be appropriate for other library courses as well."
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"Chambers has succeeded in editing an evocative and convincing work. Those seeking an authoritative description of this historical moment, of what Calhoun call this "era of discontinuous change", will be well served by this collection."
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"What is the state of the library catalogue now, and what might it become in the future? Authors of this excellent book answer those questions through theoretical discussions and practical examples of what have been done by libraries. Written by an international team of library and information professionals, Catalogue 2.0 does not disappoint."
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"This book presents complex theoretical concepts well. It provides practical examples and case studies too. In my opinion it shows the Library Catalogue is alive and well – but is also evolving as the technological landscape and the needs and wishes of users evolve. I think it is essential reading and the broad range of topics covered give a good overview of the future of the catalogue."
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"This book is easy to read, and covers many issues in its 200 pages. The book encourages further discussion of the issues raised, rather than stating an immovable position. For this reason it is recommended as being suitable for students of library and information science, as well as cataloguers, systems librarians, managers, e-resources librarians and client services librarians. The sections on RDF will be of interest to all professionals working within cataloguing."
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1. Next generation catalogues: what do users think? - Anne Christensen
In the wake of the digital revolution, libraries have started rethinking their catalogues and reshaping them along the lines that have been set by popular search engines and online retailers. Yet it has also become a hallmark of next-generation catalogues to reflect the results of studies concerning user behaviour and user needs and to rely on the participation of users in the development and testing of the new tools. A wide array of methods for user-driven design and development are being employed, which ideally leverage discovery platforms that reflect the specifics of library metadata and materials as well as the need for attractive design and useful new functionalities. After looking back at the history of user studies on online catalogues, this chapter briefly investigates methods to involve users actively in the design and development processes for new catalogues before describing and examining the outcomes of studies of users' perceptions.
2. Making search work for the library user - Till Kinstler
The foundations of both search engines and library catalogues lie in the science of information retrieval. Whereas search engines harness a range of modern information retrieval techniques to provide relevant results for their users, library catalogues are lagging somewhat behind. This chapter starts by describing how Boolean search, using operators such as 'AND', 'OR' and 'NOT' to combine search terms, which is the key information retrieval paradigm used in library catalogues, differs from the Vector Space Model that is used in many search engines. The chapter then goes on to explore how such search engine technologies can be applied to library catalogues and, ndeed, if combined with Boolean based search techniques can lead to a powerful and usable search experience for the library users. Finally, other features of modern search engines, such as search suggestions and facets, are also explored. If all of these technologies can be combined and implemented within a library context, it can help the library catalogue get a step closer to meeting the expectations of today's web-savvy users.
3. Next-generation discovery: an overview of the European Scene - Marshall Breeding
Dissatisfaction with the online catalogues delivered as part of the library management system sparked the emergence of a new genre of products and services that focus entirely on providing an improved experience in the way that libraries provide access to their collections and services. One of the major trends of this phase of library automation involves a separation between the library management system that provides automation support for the internal operations, such as cataloguing, circulation, serials management and new material acquisitions, from the presentation layer facing the users of the library. In this age of decoupled systems, a variety of commercial products and services, as well as projects taken on by library organizations, now find use in many libraries throughout the world. This chapter provides a brief overview of the features and general characteristics of this new genre of library software, focusing on the products that have been deployed or developed in the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe. Some of these projects include adoption of commercial products from international vendors such as Serials Solutions, EBSCO, Ex Libris and open source products.
4. The mobile library catalogue - Lukas Koster and Driek Heesakkers
This chapter answers the following questions: What are mobile devices? What are mobile applications? Who are mobile users? What type of library are we talking about? What is the collection? Is the mobile view different from the standard view? Which services are targeted at mobile customers? Beginning with defining exactly what a mobile device is, and what it is not, the chapter then moves on to explore the different kinds of mobile applications it is possible to implement and look at the advantages and disadvantages ofeach. An overview of a range of mobile platforms is followed by a brief explanation of the mobile phone network technology. As mobile library services need to be developed for the end-users, the user needs of the target audience from a range of different types of library will be explored. Building on this understanding of user needs, the different types of mobile library services are then explored, before looking specifically at what functionalities of a library catalogue can be provided via a mobile device. With this background knowledge in place, the chapter then focuses on putting it into practice. Using the University of Amsterdam Library's 'UBA Mobile' implementation as a case study, the practical steps that need to be undertaken to 'get a mobile catalogue' is followed. This part includes practical tips and lessons learned to assist in making the task of implementing a mobile catalogue easier. Next comes a selection of implementation examples spanning various types of library and different software platforms. The chapter concludes with a ten-point checklist outlining the steps to set up a mobile catalogue.
5. FRBRizing your catalogue - Rosemie Callewaert
The Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, FRBR, is a conceptual model of the bibliographic universe. Although implementations of FRBR are beginning to emerge, it has not yet been implemented widely within the library community. However, one of the successful implementations of FRBR has taken place within the public libraries of Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. Using the Flemish public library web portal, zoeken.bibliotheek.be, as a case study, this chapter explores how the theory behind FRBR has been applied in practice in Belgium. Attention is paid both to the user experience and how the theoretical concepts of FRBR can be presented in a practical way for the end-user. In addition, the technology, particularly in terms of metadata creation and enrichment, is also described. With a look to the future, the shortcomings of FRBR in this particular case are also explored.
6. Enabling your catalogue for the semantic web - Emmanuelle Bermes
This chapter provides a short introduction to the Semantic Web and its practical implementation, Linked Data. It explores the reasons why a library would want to enable its catalogue for the Semantic Web and the different steps that would need to be taken. To help with this process, an introduction to the technology is provided and some ongoing and existing Semantic Web projects in the library domain are presented.
7. Supporting digital scholarship: bibliographic control, library co-operatives and open access repositories - Karen Calhoun
Research libraries have entered an era of discontinuous change – a time when the cumulated assets of the past do not guarantee future success. Bibliographic control, cooperative cataloguing systems and library catalogues have been key assets in the research library service framework for supporting scholarship. This chapter examines these assets in the context of changing library collections, new metadata sources and methods, open access repositories, digital scholarship and the purposes of research libraries. Advocating a fundamental rethinking of the research library service framework, this chapter concludes with a call for research libraries to consider collectively new approaches that could strengthen their roles as essential contributors to emergent, network-level scholarly research infrastructures.
8. Thirteen ways of look at the libraries, discovery and the catalogue: scale, workflow, attention - Lorcan Dempsey
There is a renaissance of interest in the catalogue. This volume is evidence of that. Yet it comes at a time when the catalogue itself is being reconfigured in ways which may result in its disappearance as an individually identifiable component of library service. This is because the context of information use and creation has changed, as it transitions from a world of physical distribution to one of digital distribution. In parallel, our focus shifts from the local (the library or the bookshop or . . .) to the network as a whole. We turn to Google, or to Amazon, or to Expedia, or to the BBC. Think of two trends in a network environment, which are termed here as the attention switch and the workflow switch. Each has implications for the catalogue, as it pushes the potential catalogue user in other directions. Each also potentially recasts the role of the catalogue in the overall information value chain. This chapter copies Stevens's conceit in his poem copy Stevens's conceit in his poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. Even though this results in some repetition it seemed appropriate to a topic about which we don't yet have a single story. Much of the discussion is relatively neutral, covering recent developments. The 13 sections are bracketed with an introduction and with a conclusion which looks beyond current developments to speculate about likely direction.


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For Lurkers, the newest name proposed by Dave Armstrong in our Parade of Characters is E.A.T.W. Budge - prolific writer who wrote extensively on Egyptian history from 1885 – 1930.
We don't have a specific writing from Sir Budge denying the existence of the Hittites; what we have are the writings of Melvin Grove Kyle (a contributor to The Fundamentals (1909) if that means anything to you!) where Kyle reports, "In 1904 one of the foremost archaeologists of Europe said to me: 'I do not believe there ever were such people as the Hittites…'"
No name, situation or context is given for this anonymous quote. Dave Armstrong argues (persuasively, in my opinion) Melvin Kyle is implicating Sir Budge with this quote, without directly attributing it to Sir Budge. The documentation provided by Dave Armstrong supports this position:
1) In 1912 (three years after The Fundamentals), Melvin Kyle wrote The Deciding Voice of the Monuments in Biblical Criticism. At pg 105, he states:
Some had even gone so far as to say, though not often for publication, that "no such people as the Hittites ever existed." Budge, in his History of Egypt, says: "The Kheta, who are, no doubt, the people referred to by the Assyrians under the name of Khatti, have been identified with the Hittites of Holy Scripture, but on insufficient grounds," and again, "In passing it must be stated that the commonly accepted identification of the Kheta with the Hittites of the Bible is as yet unproved, since it rests only upon the similarity between the Hebrew name Heth, and the Egyptian name Kheta."
The citation of Sir Budge immediately following the statement about Hittites not existing implicates Sir Budge either directly stated it, or supports it in his writing.
However…we encounter our first problem. Melvin Kyle is quote-mining. Sir Budge wrote a multi-volume set of History of Egypt in 1902. The second quoted sentence comes from Volume Six, page 34 [corrected link] where Sir Budge states
In passing it must be stated that the commonly accepted identification of the Kheta with the Hittites of the Bible is as yet unproved, since it rests only on a similarity of the Hebrew name Heth and the Egyptian name Kheta; on the other hand it may readily be conceded that the people who built the fortress temples of Baghaz-Köi and Eyuk belonged to the same race, if they were not actually the same people, as the Kheta depicted on the Egyptian monuments.
Whoops! Did you catch that? Melvin Kyle only quotes Sir Budge up to "Egyptian name Kheta" and then stops. I don't know about you, but if I continued a sentence with "on the other hand" I would appreciate being quoted entirely! Sir Budge specifically states it is "readily conceded" the people who built the fortress (the Hittites), belonged to the same race as the Kheta, "if not actually the same people." (his words.)
Sir Budge is NOT stating, "The Hittites never existed." He is indicating is that the connection between the Kheta and the Hittites has yet to be proven at the time of his writing. Now look at the first quoted sentence by Kyle Melvin which comes from Sir Budge's History of Egypt Vol. 4, pg 136 (1902)
The Kheta, who are no doubt the people referred to by the Assyrians under the name of Khatti, have been identified with the Hittites of Holy Scripture, but on insufficient grounds, and similarly the Khabiri have been identified with the Hebrews.
Again, Sir Budge questions whether Kheta is correctly identified with the Hittites. Not whether the Hittites existed at all.
1n 1906, archeology confirmed Kheta was referring to the Hittites.
Sir Budge wrote a book The Dwellers by the Nile which was originally published in 1885, but updated. I cannot confirm publication date of the copy linked, but in it, Sir Budge states at pg 53:
[F]or it was from this race the Khita nation, so celebrated for having waged war successfully against Ramses II, and recently identified with the Biblical Hittites, sprang.
(It appears in his later works Sir Budge refers to "Kheta" as "Khita.") Reasonably, this was updated some time after 1906—after the discovery linking the two. If we review The Mummy: A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archeology published 1893, but updated 1925, Sir Budge repeatedly refers to the "Hittites" as historical without qualification.
At best what we have is a scholar who questioned the sufficiency of proofs whether "Kheta" was referring to the Hittites. Notice he carefully qualifies his statement. He doesn't say, "Kheta does not refer to the Hittites" nor does he say, "The Hittites didn't exist, so Kheta can't be the biblical Hittites." He says the case is "unproven."
Further (contra Melvin Kyle's quote-mining) Sir Budge states whether Kheta refers to the Hittites or not—If Kheta is not actually the same as the Hittites, they must be the same race. How could one claim Sir Budge was stating "the Hittites did not exist"? How could the Kheta be the same people, or at least the same race, as a myth?
Upon gaining new information, Sir Budge readily accepts Kheta and Hittites are the same.
Now to the second document.
2) Melvin Kyle's entry on Archeology in the International Bible Encyclopedia (1915?) states,
Then grave doubts in the past have been raised concerning the Hittites Occasionally it has been boldly said that "no such people ever existed" (compare Newman, Hebrew Monarchy, 184-85; Budge, Hist of Egypt, IV, 136)
Uh-oh. Do you see those two cites? That first name may be familiar to you—Francis William Newman. He was a previous contestant in our Parade of names and we already blew out of the water the allegation Newman said, "Hittites don't exist." Indeed, he demonstrated he did think Hittites existed. And the second citation we have just demonstrated doesn't hold water, either.
Realizing these entries are not enough, Dave Armstrong claims Sir Budge made an oral statement to Melvin Kyle, who did not attribute it to Sir Budge out of friendship. Curiously, the only support given is that they were in the same occupation (really? Everyone in the same occupation are friends?), and that Melvin Kyle didn't attribute the quote to Sir Budge.
The second support is question-begging: We know they are friends, because Kyle didn't attribute the quote to Sir Budge. Kyle didn't attribute the quote to Sir Budge because they are friends.
I submit it more likely Melvin Kyle did not attribute this quote to Sir Budge, because Melvin didn't want to be called out on it! Safer and anonymous to say, "I heard it from a leading archeologist" than to actually call out a name!
How many times have we had conversations like that? How many assertions have you heard, started with, "They say…." Or "Scientists claim…" And when we look for the proof (like we are doing here) all of a sudden "they" and "scientists" and "skeptics" become difficult to find!
This is the reason we do not allow hearsay (a witness stating, "She told me…") in a courtroom. It is unreliable. We don't know the context, the credibility, the bias or anything at all about the person making the hearsay statement.
Take this simple situation. Bob is testifying:
Bob: Tim told me the truck was red.
But Tim isn't there; we cannot cross-examine him. What if Tim was color-blind? Or it turns out Tim wasn't in a position to even see the truck? Or Tim has some bias? This is the reason we indicate attorneys must be allowed to cross-examine the ACTUAL witness. Not what someone else claims the person said.
We have the same problem here. What was the context where Sir Budge talked (if he did at all) to Melvin Kyle? How many of us have heard someone quote what we said, and think, "Wait a minute. I wasn't saying that AT ALL!" or "Wait, that was taken totally out of context."
Melvin Kyle already demonstrated he has no problem quote-mining. What if Sir Budge said, "The Hittites as literally described in the Bible? In my opinion, no such people existed"? Many other scholars questioned the literal accounts without questioning the Hittites existence. (The same way if I was talking about Exodus and someone mentioned the Egyptians willingly giving the exiting Hebrews gold, silver and clothing to the point the Egyptians were plundered. Exodus 12:35-36. I could respond, "No such people existed!" I am NOT saying Egyptians didn't exist—I am saying those particular Egyptians are a myth.)
Melvin Kyle could easily take a sentence out of context or modify it, or mold it to his own wishes.
Or maybe he didn't. Maybe Sir Budge said to him privately, "All this Hittite nonsense is bunk. No Hittites ever existed." That is the problem with hearsay—we don't know! This is why we must rely upon our sources, and avoid inferring something not there.
Finally, it appears anachronistic for Sir Budge to write about the similarities between the Hittites and the Khetas—if not the fact they were actually the same people!—and then privately proclaim the exact opposite. A hearsay statement conveniently fitting what a quote-mining apologist wants to hear, who carefully avoids attributing it to Sir Budge.
The actual quotes do not align with what Sir Budge claims—the fact Melvin Kyle cut out a most important portion should cause heavy concern regarding his reliability. Not to mention citing Newman, who we have already seen, contended Hittites existed. If Kyle is willing to misrepresent Newman and is willing to misrepresent Sir Budge, why should we consider him reliable for claiming an anonymous statement, implicating the opposite of what Sir Budge wrote?


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- In two very different games, Murray State managed to get past the Golden Eagle Softball team and sweep Friday's Ohio Valley Conference doubleheader. The Racers took game one 3-2 and squeaked out a 2-0 win in game two.
Freshman Madison Taylor collected three hits while senior Chanelle Spalding and junior Kendall Hooper each managed a two-hit effort as the Golden Eagles posted a combined nine hits in two games.
The Golden Eagles strung together two runs on four hits in the first game, and stranded four runners, while Murray State put up three runs on five hits in the victory.
CheyAnne Gaskey (5-5) stuckout eight in the win for the Racers, while sophomore Taylor Ketchum (7-4) threw the complete game for Tech in the loss.
Murray State struck first, plating two runs in the second when Sarah Anderson sent a shot over the fence. The Racers scored again in the fourth, to take a 3-0 lead, but the Golden Eagles made a comeback in the bottom of the fourth.
Hannah Eldridge was hit by the first pitch of the frame, and advanced on a hard lined single by Taylor. Hooper and Brittney Spalding posted two outs, but Chanelle Spalding singled up the middle notching two RBIs.
The remaining three innings were a defensive standoff ending the contest 3-2.
The second game remained a scoreless until the fifth inning when the first Racer scored. Murray State scored again in the sixth on its second home run of the day stretching to a 2-0 lead.
In the sixth inning, the Golden Eagles had Eldridge in scoring position after she drilled a double down the leftfield line. Eldridge rounded third on a sweet shot by Taylor, but base-running forced Tech's demise when Eldrige got caught between third and home followed by Taylor being thrown out at third for the second and third outs of the inning. No other Golden Eagles reached base for the remainder of the game.
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Also known as the Puerta Vieja de Bisagra (old Bisagra gate).
These are the only surviving remains of the Arab wall.
The Puerta de Alfonso VI gate is the only surviving part of the Arab wall. It was once the main entrance to the city and dates from the 9th century, during Muslim times. The structure of the front is conserved practically in its original state, as when the new Puerta de Bisagra gate was opened in the time of Charles V, it remained bricked up for many years. On the façade there are three horseshoe arches, and the central arch –which is higher than the side arches– contains another horseshoe arch with a lintel. The side arches are pointed. It is also known by the name Puerta Vieja de Bisagra, or 'old Bisagra gate'.
- Construction: Gateway
- Artistic period: Arab
- Historic period: 9th century
- Setting: Nueva Puerta de la Bisagra gate.


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The Brandeis campus is operating in a reasonably efficient manner given the significant impacts of Blizzard Nemo.
While snow has been removed from the primary roadways and parking lots, most sidewalks, walkways and building entrances are not yet completely clear of ice and snow, and objects below the surface may not be readily apparent. Facilities Services personnel will spend the next 24 hours managing the snow and ice conditions throughout campus. We ask that students and employees use caution when outside, do not walk in the streets (if at all possible), and yield to snow removal vehicles.
At this time, Brandeis University plans to resume normal operations on Monday, February 11.
Parking & Transportation
- Students are reminded to park only in their assigned parking lots.
- Although Governor Patrick's driving ban has been lifted, please use caution if you need to travel.
- MBTA service remains suspended.
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New GOP polling firm goal: Catch up
The Republican polling community is about to get a shake-up.
With the GOP still reeling from its defeats in the 2012 election, a new Republican polling firm is seeking to help the party bounce back with a fresh stream of data on the state of the electorate.
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The outfit, Harper Polling, launches this week with the goal of putting the party on parity with Democrats in the field of IVR polling — a term that stands for interactive voice response polling, commonly known as "robo-polling."
For several cycles now, Democrats have benefited from a high-volume, relatively inexpensive flow of survey data from the company Public Policy Polling, which takes hundreds of polls in any given cycle checking up on individual races and national issue debates. Some of those surveys are released to the public, while others are conducted for private purposes by Democratic campaigns and interest groups.
( Also on POLITICO: Dems to Obamaland: Share your data)
On the Republican side, candidates and party committees have largely eschewed automated data collection in lieu of more expensive polling taken by live telephone interviews. In 2012, those costlier polls proved inaccurate in many cases, based on flawed assumptions that left the GOP stunned by the scale of its setbacks on Election Day.
Harper Polling founder Brock McCleary, the outgoing polling director and deputy executive director of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said the aim of his project is to give the GOP access to flexible, cost-effective polling data that matches what Democrats are producing.
In a way, the project is an extension of a 2011 initiative at the NRCC to conduct in-house IVR polling. That effort was successful enough, according to McCleary, that he decided it would be worth doing on a larger scale.
( Also on POLITICO: The GOP polling debacle)
"The technology is very affordable and very nimble. Having fast, precise polling was very useful for us," he said. "This is what PPP is and there's really no competitor."
The first wave of data from Harper Polling is expected this week, including message-testing on the fiscal cliff debate on Capitol Hill.
Harper Polling isn't intended as a clone of PPP on the right, McCleary said, but many of the goals are the same: polling races that get relatively little attention from national and media pollsters, getting status updates on topical debates and releasing data for public consumption in order to inform press coverage.
( Also on POLITICO: Rasmussen explains)
"We will touch everything, but I do think that we will probably be most focused on the House. That is my background. Few people, if any, run polls in House races and so I think we will probably end up running more surveys on House races than anyone else over the next two years," McCleary explained. "I will try to focus a good deal on, what are the party's competing messages on any given thing that's happening on the Hill? Or in a campaign — who's winning the tax fight in a campaign between the two candidates?"
Of the data the firm produces, "the overwhelming majority of it" will be for public consumption, he said.
If the polls are being produced for the benefit of the GOP, that doesn't mean the results will necessarily line up with what party leaders want to see. One of the essential ingredients of PPP's success on the Democratic side, strategists agree, has been a certain level of independence from the national party and a willingness to publish unwelcome survey results.


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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a new beta service called Graph Search.
This will allow users to navigate the Internet through the data Facebook owns.
For example, users will be able to search across different friends' Timelines without having to visit each individual profile to figure out if they like a specific place or thing.
David Wright and Joanna Stern at ABC News describe Graph Search as "turning some of the personal information people have shared on Facebook into a powerful searchable database."
For example, a potential graph query could be "Who are my friends that live in San Francisco?" Graph search would then scan all your Facebook friend's pages and spit back the relevant information about friends who live in San Francisco.
Another potential search term could be "Show me friends who like Star Wars and Harry Potter" for a big movie night.
Graph search is Facebook's way of searching for objects on the Internet by how they are mapped out in likes, not links. Metadata and connections are also factored in. Facebook is using Graph Search as a way to get back to its roots and allow people to use the graph to make new connections.
Graph search is currently in beta but people, photos, places, and interests are at the foundation of the beta. If the data from your Graph Search is too general, you can refine the search to get specifically what you want.
Zuckerberg told an audience of journalists and Facebook engineers that, "every piece of content on Facebook has its own audience, making graph search very challenging to build."
Here's some more information on exactly what Graph Search is via ABC News:
Until now, the search bar you saw when you logged in to your Facebook page wasn't very powerful. You could only search for Timelines -- your friends' pages, other peoples' public pages and business or product pages.
But now, after close to a year and a half of development, the new "Graph Search" will allow you to search and discover more about your friends and other information that's been put on the world's largest social site.
In case you were wondering, Graph Search is privacy aware too — every piece of content has its own audience, most content is not public and you can only search for content that has been shared with you.
Graph Search is rolling out slowly, it will only be available to a limited set of U.S. users at first. Users can sign up for the wait list here: https://www.facebook.com/about/graphsearch.
Bing search results are integrated into Graph Search too.
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It's rare to see this many big names still available heading into the second round of the NFL draft. Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o, West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith, USC quarterback Matt Barkley and a whole host of teams still looking for quarterbacks should make Friday the most intriguing "Day 2" of the NFL draft since the league changed to the Thursday night Round 1 format.
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With a lot of help from Mike Mayock's Top 100 prospects list, here's a look at the best players left on the board heading into Day 2 of the 2013 NFL Draft:
Top 10 players left
1. Eddie Lacy, RB, Alabama: Lacy's problem: There's not a logical fit for him early in the second round. The Arizona Cardinals?
2. Geno Smith, QB, West Virginia: If the Jacksonville Jaguars don't take him to start the second round, the Philadelphia Eagles, New York Jets, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Cardinals make logical options.
3. Jonathan Cyprien, FS, Florida International: Cyprien's ability to cover a large area of land in a few steps is incredible.
4. Menelik Watson, OT, Florida State: Eight offensive linemen went off the board on Thursday. Another one should go off the board early Friday.
5. Tank Carradine, DE, Florida State: There's a strong argument to be made he is more talented than teammate Bjoern Werner. (And a lot of other pass rushers.)
6. Ryan Nassib, QB, Syracuse: There's a good chance Nassib goes to the Jaguars, NFL.com's Ian Rapoport said earlier in the week. He shouldn't last long.
7. Arthur Brown, LB, Kansas State: One of Te'o's issues: There still are good linebackers out there like Brown, and LSU's Kevin Minter.
8. Jamar Taylor, CB, Boise State: He has the profile of a long-term NFL starter.
9. Jesse Williams, DT, Alabama: He got lost in the defensive tackle shuffle, but Williams has a dynamite skill set.
10. Manti Te'o, LB, Notre Dame: The Minnesota Vikings passed on Te'o three times in the first round. Perhaps the Detroit Lions will take the plunge at No. 35.
And ... 10 more
11. Kevin Minter, ILB, LSU
12. Justin Hunter, WR, Tennessee
13. Keenan Allen, WR, California
14. D.J. Swearinger, SS, South Carolina
15. Margus Hunt, DE, SMU
16. Matt Barkley, QB, USC
17. Zach Ertz, TE, Stanford
18. Cornelius Washington, OLB, Georgia
19. Terron Armstead, OT, Arkansas-Pine Bluff
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History and Current Events
December 2017
"This summer marks the first time Jackson businessmen have ever been faced with anything approaching the power of a federal law."
~ from Calvin Trillin's
Jackson, 1964
Recent Releases
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Anne Applebaum
According to Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin deliberately created famine conditions in Ukraine as an act of genocide from 1931-34. Making effective use of previously published and newly available sources,
Red Famine
documents the effects of collectivization, removal of food to other regions, and other oppressive measures that resulted in the deaths of four million Ukrainians. Applebaum concludes that Stalin aimed to replace ethnic Ukrainians with Russians to achieve a more compliant populace. Though her analysis may be controversial, it sheds light on current tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
Christmas: A Biography
Judith Flanders
In most Western countries, Christmas is celebrated even by people for whom it's not a religious observance, and this isn't a recent development. In this accessible, richly detailed study, social historian Judith Flanders chronicles a "biography" of the holiday from the fourth century to the present day. She highlights secular Christmas celebrations as well as the evolution of religious observances. For another recent look at secularism and Christmas, pick up Canadian historian G.Q. Bowler's
Christmas in the Crosshairs
A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Remarkable Story of an Italian Mother, Her Two Sons...
Caroline Moorehead
Acclaimed historian Caroline Moorehead has already published two books, focused on France, about anti-fascist resistance in Europe. Now, she relates a compelling and vividly descriptive account of a wealthy and prominent Florentine family whose members openly resisted Benito Mussolini and his fascist movement in the 1920s. The Italian movement is much less well known than the resistance in other parts of Europe, and this moving and well-documented portrait of courage brings it to life.
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
Liza Mundy
In this "sleek, compelling narrative" (
Kirkus Reviews
, starred review), journalist Liza Mundy details women's secret and essential contributions to American military intelligence during the 1940s. Drawing on voluminous government records and interviews with some of the women,
Code Girls
describes their code-breaking work and its significance. For a close-up of one woman's contributions to cryptography, pick up Jason Fagone's
The Woman Who Smashed Codes
Blood Brothers: The Story of the Strange Friendship Between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
Deanne Stillman
Lakota chief Sitting Bull's and William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's names have become emblematic of the "Wild West." In
Blood Brothers
, award-winning author Deanne Stillman focuses on the friendship between the two while illuminating the broader history of the 1870s, '80s, and '90s in the U.S. West. This complex and engaging narrative vividly depicts Cody's and Sitting Bull's lives amid the tragic consequences of social and political change that accompanied U.S. westward expansion.
The 20th Century Through the Years
Provence, 1970: M. F. K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and...
Luke Barr
The winter of 1970 was a pivotal year for the evolution of American cuisine, even though the key events took place in Provence, France. During that time, several influential American culinary experts were staying near each other and frequently dining together. Pulling information from diaries and letters, especially M.F.K. Fisher's diary, her great-nephew Luke Barr concocts a mouth-watering chronicle of their conversations, their opinions, and what they ate. Later, Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and their colleagues came into their own as leaders of the American culinary scene.
The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and...
John F. Kasson
In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was determined to restore Americans' spirits and the American economy, but he needed a way to restore consumer confidence. Cue the entrance of Hollywood child star Shirley Temple, with her irresistible smile and impressive talents. In this absorbing cultural history, historian John Kasson shows how her 1930s films raised spirits, incidentally leading Americans to spend millions on movie tickets and memorabilia. Her partnership with co-star Bill "Bojangles" Robinson also gave hope to African Americans while significantly breaking a racial barrier.
1924: The Year That Made Hitler
Peter Ross Range
Adolf Hitler spent 1924 in prison after his conviction in the failed Beer Hall Putsch -- a major setback to his political ambitions. This is when he wrote his manifesto,
Mein Kampf
My Struggle
). In this detailed analysis, distinguished journalist Peter Range chronicles Hitler's turning point, observing how he got a light sentence and early release and how his courtroom rants became the basis for his writing. This eye-opening account of Hitler's evolution into a successful tyrant sheds new light on the man many consider the greatest monster in history.
The End of the Cold War 1985-1991
Robert Service
In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev realized that if the Soviet Union didn't negotiate with the U.S. leadership to end the arms race, the Soviet economy was doomed. As the new General Secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, he sent feelers about detente to President Reagan and Secretary of State George Schultz. Though the U.S. at first rebuffed these overtures, Reagan's fear of a potential nuclear holocaust induced him to negotiate. In this deeply researched, insightful narrative, historian Robert Service documents some key plays in ending the Cold War.
Jackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America
Calvin Trillin
New Yorker
contributor Calvin Trillin's
Jackson, 1964
reports on American race relations in the last third of the 20th century. Reprinting richly descriptive, journalistic essays, Trillin depicts Jackson, Mississippi in the summer of 1964, relates the history of New Orleans' African American Krewe of Zulu (a Mardi Gras organization), recounts a 1976 controversy over restaurant desegregation in Boston, and describes other racially charged events around the U.S. Readers interested in U.S. race relations will find this a thought-provoking window into both the past and the present.
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December Mail Call
Thanks to all of you who send us your feedback. It helps us improve each issue of Creating Keepsakes to be what you want. Here are letters from loyal readers:
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Thank you for bringing back Brenda Arnall's column as an occasional feature in the magazine. I've used a lot of her travel pages as ideas for mine. Brenda's style is what I wanted for my travel albums, and I use them for the first two pages per day.
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Recording Family History
I loved your family history feature in the November 2008 issue. As a certified genealogist and family historian, I was interested in the questions to ask of your family. Everyone should record where you went to school and who your teachers were and your best friends in those grades. I have been trying to find where my mother went to school (they moved a lot) and would like to know how she met my father. She tragically died when I was 16, and my dad died 12 years ago.
Those sources are now, of course, gone to the grave, and I have lost a piece of my history. The census tells you a lot about where people live, etc. and I will eventually find this information, but how much easier it would have been to have it all down in a scrapbook, etc.
I am recording all of my data for my descendants and hope others can do the same. The most important thing is to put the names on your pictures/pages with a photo-safe pen or pencil. Your children won't have to guess, "Who is the lady in the big brimmed hat? She looks like me but who is she?"
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Now, I work in marketing and have for over ten years, so I do understand the difficulty in acquiring new customers, but the key is being able to retain them. Where I work we have been focusing on "delighting" our customers in order to be the best and lower our churn rates. Unfortunately, I have been more disappointed than delighted with CK and will probably not renew my subscription. I hope things change and that you can win me back. Thank you, though, for several years of great inspiration, ideas and techniques.
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Editor's note: We are sorry to hear of your disappointment, Laura, and hope to win you back with some fun changes in our January 2009 issue. Like you, we miss the days of the larger issues. We hope the economy will improve to where we can justify the costs down the road!
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Gordy Hoffman had been driving a cab in Chicago for 3 1/2 years when the sight of a homeless woman hovering around a gas station pump sparked the idea for "Love Liza," a movie about a Web designer whose wife has just committed suicide and who deals with his sorrow by sniffing gasoline.
"You have a lot of ideas when you're driving around, and obviously I was in gas stations all week long all the time for 3 1/2 years," Hoffman said. "I wrote it a couple of months after I stopped driving a cab, and a couple of months later I left Chicago."
A chain reaction
Hoffman showed the script to his younger brother, actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who, in turn, showed it to his old roommate in Los Angeles, Todd Louiso, who played the quiet, nerdy record-store clerk in "High Fidelity." Four years later "Love Liza," starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and directed by Louiso, was playing at Sundance and being viewed by potential distributors.
Like last year's Sundance film "In the Bedroom" -- as well as the soon-to-be-released-in-Chicago "Monster's Ball" and "The Son's Room" -- "Love Liza" deals with grief and catharsis, though in its own way. The mood is bleak yet the visuals sunny, and both the film and actor Hoffman, carrying a movie for the first time, have gained many admirers here.
Louiso's hands were shaking as he introduced his film's first screening Sunday, but by the time he and the two Hoffmans sat down for lunch Monday, they seemed not at all preoccupied with the potential negotiations between distributors and the movie's producers. To Louiso, the film's eventual audience wasn't a concern.
"It doesn't really cross my mind," Louiso said in his whispery voice. "I guess it's up to the company that purchases it, hopefully. I'm just happy that people saw it here, and if that was the end of it, that was the end of it."
That comment provoked laughs from the opposite side of the table.
"Of course we all hope it gets bought and distributed," Philip Seymour Hoffman said. "What we're saying is you put so much work into making a film, and just the fact that it finishes -- and then on top of it that you kind of like it -- you don't understand how satisfied you are just with that. So whatever happened after that is kind of gravy in a way."
The gravy was served. Sony Pictures Classics bought "Love Liza" later that day.
Catching the buying bug
Other distributors also have caught the Sundance buying bug. Miramax has acquired two films: Gary Winick's highly entertaining, festival-favorite "Tadpole," a comedy about a precocious prep student (newcomer Aaron Stanford) who's got a crush on his stepmother (Sigourney Weaver), and Karen Moncrieff's "Blue Car," a serious drama about an emotionally scarred teenage girl (Agnes Bruckner).
Fox Searchlight picked up Miguel Arteta's comic drama "The Good Girl," starring Jennifer Aniston as a discount store clerk who strays from her marriage with a much younger man (the older woman-younger man dynamic is a Sundance theme this year), and Lions Gate bought Lucky McKee's "May," a campy thriller.
Several other films also were said to be close to deals, including Gus Van Sant's existential, audience-dividing experimental film "Gerry" -- in which Matt Damon and Casey Affleck wander through the wilderness in long, beautifully shot takes -- and John Malkovich's directorial debut "The Dancer Upstairs," a smart but hard-to-follow Latin American political thriller that mixes some truly striking moments with some uneven stretches.
For an allegedly low-key Sundance -- one defined by smaller crowds and more fiscally conservative movie companies -- there surely has been a lot of activity.
"I think it's been kind of astoundingly vital," said Mark Urman, former Lions Gate executive and current distribution chief for the new ThinkFilm. "I can't believe how many films have sold and how much they've sold for. It's really vintage adrenaline-drive Sundance."
"I think the films this year on a whole are better than any festival in recent memory," said Paramount Classics co-president Ruth Vitale, whose company has yet to make a purchase. "There are just more movies that are interesting, well done, provocative, evocative and also commercial, which is a good thing, not a bad thing."
Her one regret: "The bidding is much higher than it ought to be, and so what has happened is that the smaller companies, the more conservative companies, have only helped bid up the price of the movie to Fox Searchlight and Miramax."
Another Sundance film with Chicago roots is Davidson Cole's "Design," though you wouldn't know without paying close attention. Cole and his crew (including "Stolen Summer" cinematographer Pete Biagi) shot this stylized, low-budget movie on the North Side and in Beverly and Des Plaines, and there's not a pretty skyline in sight.
Fans of Dinkel's bakery on North Lincoln Avenue should recognize the box in which a pastry is delivered.
"Design" is an ambitious, intriguing multicharacter film somewhat along the lines of "Magnolia," though far less polished, with the writer-director playing a cosmically doomed factory worker and North Shore resident Daniel J. Travanti a standout as an alcoholic father living in a trailer park.
At the post-screening Q&A someone asked Travanti why he had taken this role. "Because I'm intelligent and have good taste," he responded matter-of-factly.
Cole, who at times on screen resembles Nicolas Cage's only somewhat less unhinged younger brother, said he finally could relax a bit after the debut in Park City on Monday evening.
"It feels really good now to have the audience's response," he said. "Once you get that first screening out of the way, it gets a lot easier."


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How weird is an automotive subculture where the competing cars don't move an inch? Super weird. Still, even the strongest restraining belts can't contain the savage fun of this... dyno party.
Exhibit A would be the above dyno party produced by NYCE1S.com.The focus of the evening is CarlitoDaKing taking on Ceazdachamp in cars with their hoods removed to expose turbochargers the size of jet engines. While the propellers dip into the lunatic end of the rev range you cringe in anticipation of the whole shebang blowing up and showering the packed crowd with cherry-hot pieces of metal.
As both the DJ and the turbos spin away, it slowly dawns on the viewer that we're seeing an exquisite parody of what we should expect from a post-Carpocalyptic car culture. It's a sport where inflated and wholly pointless horsepower ratings with no roads to utilize them on do nothing to tamp the fun to be had. If this is the new automotive sub-culture in a world without money, we at least applaud the attention to technical detail if not the adrenalin rush of the old method of doing the same thing — straight-line racing on a drag strip.


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Corita Kent Untitled, 1974 From High Cards
Medium: Watercolor and ink on paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 5 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. (13.3 x 18.4 cm)
Credit Line: Collection UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. Corita Kent Bequest.
Accession No.: 1990.1.793
Paper/Support: Paper
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Howard Bragman is the vice chairman of Reputation.com, author of the book "Where's My Fifteen Minutes?" and a seasoned Hollywood publicist of 30 years.
And he's good friends with Miley Cyrus' rock star dad, Billy Ray Cyrus.
In light of 20-year-old Miley's raunchy MTV Video Music Awards performance on Sunday, Bragman tells Business Insider, "I think it's hard for parents to watch, but that's part of having a kid in entertainment."
"I know Billy Ray really well; I've worked with him and he's my friend, and I think he adores Miley and respects her talent a great deal," adds Bragman. "He understands that this is how it works in this business."
But Bragman, who has consulted on dozens of celebrity careers, says don't count Miley out despite all of the negative attention following her VMA performance.
"It's a rite of passage, particularly with these Disney girls. They seem to want to say 'hey, I'm not that little kid anymore, I'm a grown up lady.'"
"Effectively she killed Hannah Montana Sunday night," says Bragman. "Long live Miley Cyrus, I think that was the message."
The veteran Hollywood publicist explains, "I understand it from a psychological point of view and a marketing point of view."
"From a psychological point of view, everyone tells Miley that they loved her as Hannah Montana and I'm sure she wants to throw up," he explains bluntly. "From a marketing point of view, these artists want to carry their audience with them — which is hard to do. It's easy to be hot for a while but in music in particular, it's hard to keep that going."
So how does Miley "keep that going" and where does she go from here?
"I think she has a different kind of path ahead of her, different kind of music," says Bragman. "Whether you liked it or not, she made her point. She had to be the caterpillar that shed her skin and now we're going to see what butterfly she's going to become."
As for how to do that, Bragman advises "All it takes is a couple good songs and you're relevant and you're hot. It's less about branding and more about what resonates. I think this is part of her finding herself and finding her new brand."
While some reports state that Miley's team is "freaking out" over her nearly naked twerk-tastic VMA performance, Bragman argues "I think they're thrilled."
"The VMAs were up 66% in viewers, she got over 300,000 tweets per minute, I do not think that any damage was done."
But Bragman also doesn't think that it's the people behind Miley who are pushing her new look and act.
"I think Miley's been in the business a very long time; I know her, she has opinions," Bragman tells Business Insider. "She wouldn't do it if she didn't feel comfortable doing this."
Bragman adds, "You look at all the people who performed that night and we're all talking about Miley —who didn't win an award. But she won the night."
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Welcome to Hyperion Records, an independent British classical label devoted to presenting high-quality recordings of music of all styles and from all periods from the twelfth century to the twenty-first.
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|A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols - The Centenary Service
A moment of pure magic as the light fails on a midwinter's day and the still, small voice of a solo treble is heard … this is a cherishable document of one of this country's timeless musical traditions on its centenary.» More
|A Christmas Celebration
An album celebrating the Manchester festive tradition when the whole Hallé musical family joins together for hugely popular annual Christmas concerts.» More
|Adeste fideles
'An extremely well-sung traditional carol collection. The concert makes a great appeal by the quality of the singing and the beautiful digital recordi ...
'A model of its kind' (The Times)» More
|Christmas Night
The theme of this album is the birth of Christ, reflected in the words and music of twenty-two carols spanning more than six centuries. It includes some of the best and most-loved Christmas choral pieces of all time» More
|Christmas through the ages
'Other than to assure you that it works for me, need I say more?' (Fanfare, USA)
'If Christmas music is on your agenda–for yourself or for your best friends or most favored family members, this disc['s] original sources should make ...» More
|Favourite Carols from King's
Favourite Carols from King's is a collection of the most popular carols featured in the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols over the years, and a tribute to the King's Christmas tradition.» More
|Journey into light
'This album provides a lovely programme of music. The Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge perform beautifully and the album contains a lot of wonderful ...» More
|The Carols Album
Following their highly successful releases on Signum (the Hymns Album and Handel's Messiah conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras) the Huddersfield Choral Society is back in force with a magnificent collection of Christmas carols.» More


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2013 New York City Gathering
On May 4, McCallie's NYC Alumni Chapter joined forces with GPS alumni to host a "Pig Roast & Whiskey Toast" in Brooklyn. Nearly 100 alumni and friends of the two schools gathered at King's County Distillery, owned by Colin Spoelman '97. Special guests included McCallie's Dean of Student Life Bob Bires and former McCallie Chinese & Spanish teacher Jason Brooks.Read More


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Things were exciting late, but the Pueblo Centennial Bulldogs nipped the Cañon City Tigers wrestling team 37-28 on Wednesday at the Tiger Dome.
The dual was tied at 28 with two matches left, but the Tigers suffered a loss by pin and a 10-9 loss as the Bulldogs grabbed the victory.
Tigers fourth-ranked wrestler Garrett Benell beat 5-0 against eighth-ranked Damian Garcia in their 220-pound match. Garcia beat Benell earlier this season.
Caleb Coffey, Tommy Dexter and Anthony Kelly all won by pin, Anthony Abbott won a 15-2 major decision, and Gaven Guess beat 15th-ranked Ulysses Flores in their 138-pound match.
Because of some tough-luck losses, though, the Bulldogs pulled out the victory. In the 113-pound match, the Tigers led 11-5 before getting pinned with 45 seconds left. Stephen Bradshaw got disqualified for stalling when he was up 7-1 with 5 seconds left in the match.
Sports Editor Brandon Hopper can be reached at 276-7644 or facebook.com/CCDRsports.
What's on Deck
Jan. 25-26: Cañon City at Garden City Invite, Garden City, Kan.
Jan. 31: Cañon City at Pueblo West, 6:30 p.m.*
Feb. 9: Cañon City host Tiger Duals, 9 a.m.
Feb. 15-16: Cañon City at Region 1 tournament, Discovery Canyon High School in Colorado Springs
Feb. 21-23: Cañon City at Class 4A state tournament, Pepsi Center in Denver
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Tom Matlack interviews a former manager of an L.A. gentlemen's club for a glimpse of what it's like to work among strippers—and the guys who shower them with cash.
A couple months ago I had dinner with friends in Los Angeles. At the table was a guy I hadn't seen in 20 years: Brad, the younger brother of two of my buddies. Brad had an attractive young woman on his arm. We all enjoyed a drink together.
After the young woman left, the conversation quickly turned to the nature of her relationship with Brad. His brothers chuckled knowingly. Brad once managed a strip club, and the fresh-faced young woman had been a stripper there. He had since moved on to the gourmet-food business and hired her to conduct, and then manage, demonstrations in high-end grocery stores. Brad proceeded to tell stories I found funny, sad, and surprising about what it's like to work at a strip club.
That conversation came rushing back to me when the Good Men Project Magazine ran "The Professional." In that article, sex worker Charlotte Shane explains that she doesn't think of herself as exploited. She claims that many of her clients were good men. Of all the stories we've published, "The Profesional" was perhaps the most challenging to wrap my head around.
The editorial team at the magazine operates with complete autonomy; the first time I was aware of the piece was when I got an email from a source on one of the stories I'd written about teenage girls being forced into prostitution. She was emphatic that publishing "The Professional" had done irreparable harm, by endorsing prostitution and minimizing the violence done to women in the sex industry.
At first, I instinctively agreed with my source. I have sat with child prostitutes and the people who try to help them. I learned firsthand how their young lives were devastated at the hands of pimps and johns who exploited them emotionally and physically.
But two things changed my mind. I posted the piece on Facebook and asked my friends if they found it offensive. A dozen respondents all said it was a revealing glimpse into male sexuality and how the sex trade works for some women. They didn't interpret it as an endorsement of prostitution. Shane, a well-educated woman who chose sex work, was careful to point out that she was writing about her experience, not the experience of all sex workers.
The second thing that turned me around was recalling my conversation with Brad. While I didn't completely agree with his perspective on stripping as a vocation, I realized that it's important to distinguish fact from fiction when it comes to the sex industry. Where I had previously seen it as a black-and-white issue, I began to see shades of gray: all sex work is not the same.
After the publication of "The Professional," I called Brad to ask him a few questions.
TOM: What kind of club were you working in?
BRAD: They were owned by a larger chain, Scores, from New York.
How did you get involved in it?
I have a good buddy I ran nightclubs with back in Chicago. He called me, and he said, "Buddy, come on up to the club; you can work for a few nights. You'll be around a ton of girls, we get to hang out all the time, you don't really do anything. Let's have some fun." And I was like, "Well, I don't know." But I went, and it was easy. For the most part, I got a ton of cash for really doing nothing.
How did you get paid?
Tips. We made minimum wage, and every time a guy would walk in, I would start talking to him, sit him down, try to get him a drink or something, see how much money he had, and then I'd introduce him to a lady. At the end of the night, girls tip you out for helping them. I would say those girls would probably be tipping out anywhere from 30–40 percent of what they made.
Wow. So how much did the average girl make a night in that club?
Well, that club kind of sucked. I would say the average girl there would make anywhere from $300 to $700 a night. An amazing girl could come in there on the weekends and make anywhere from $1,000 to $7,000. They all had regulars who just sat there, and these girls would just talk to them all night, and by the end of the night the guy basically threw down, like, three, five grand.
Did the guys want dances, or was it that they wanted someone to talk to?
A little bit of both. Some guys just came in to hang out with these girls, and some guys came in because they wanted the dancing and to get as close as they could to sex—but nothing really ever happened like that.
Who was the typical customer?
Your regular blue-collar guy who was probably married or in a relationship, and would come in and just want to be next to a girl who excited him. Just your average guy. I didn't see too many white-collar dudes come in. The ones who did were regulars.
Sex was not allowed?
Not at all. I've been going to strip clubs since I was young, and any time you start getting into the nicer establishments, these places are watched over by the city and the police like hawks. We had cameras everywhere and security guys to make sure everybody kept his pecker in his pants.
Where do the girls come from and how do they get into this?
You just had all walks. They were college students who could make a ton of money doing this one or two days a week to pay their student loan, their car, their rent, and go shopping. Or you would have your seasoned veteran chick who'd just been doing it forever and kind of got addicted to the cash and couldn't figure out anything else to do, or you'd get your ghetto rats, and the kind of chicks who aren't well educated. You can tell the prostitutes when you see them; they go from club to club because they usually get caught doing something they're not supposed to be doing.
What was the mindset of the dancers? How do they deal with what they were doing?
Some of them were really secretive. Everybody has a stage name, but the funny thing was, they would keep their personas outside of work and continuously call each other by their stage names. A lot of those girls really protected their real identity, and the girls would only tell you their real names if they really thought of you as a friend.
What was the nature of those friendships?
At first, I would probably have loved to date any of these girls, but a lot of them do have some social problems or things like that. I'm still kind of like the lonely dude here in L.A., so if I ever want to go out and have a great dinner these gals will always oblige. Two of the girls still work for me.
They work for you in your food business, not stripping.
Does she strip still?
No. A lot of the normal ones, the minute they don't have to, they won't. You always hear they're just putting themselves through college, but the minute they can get a real job, they'll do it. The problem is, sometimes they find themselves a little bit too lazy to get up and do that. You can tell which ones are motivated and which ones are just kind of like,"Well, fuck it." The normal ones, I don't think it's ever their lifelong passion to stay in the business; they're always looking for something better.
So what are some of the crazy things that would happen in the club?
The VIP rooms are infamous for guys pulling their cocks out and not thinking it's a big deal. And then security comes in and they'll say, "Buddy, what are you doing?" And the guy will say, "What, what's wrong?" Well, that's illegal.
Retell me the story about what it means to "make it rain."
That was probably one of my first nights there. One guy sits down nonchalantly and says, "Well, could you do me a favor?" And I said sure. He's like, "I need to change out $9,000 in ones." And I go, "Say that one more time?" "Yeah, I need $9,000 in one-dollar bills."
I go over to talk to my buddy, and my buddy immediately says, "Oh yeah, it's going to storm." And he says, "Let me go check out in the safe." He comes back and says, "I can do this." We grab the gentleman's money, we change it into singles. His gal, the girl that he was looking for, goes up onstage. All of a sudden, he just starts throwing the money straight up into the air, and it's raining $1 bills, and it lasts for the entire song. Money's everywhere. I have to get up onstage with a big broom and sweep it up into big garbage bags. It takes me an hour and a half to recount it, and she pays me $150.
What made for the most successful stripper?
The most successful strippers were usually the girls who were intelligent and could talk to anybody. She could talk to a thug, and make him feel all warm and happy, but could also go up to the Mexican cowboy dude who doesn't speak much English, or the white college kids who would come in with the credit card. If you had a girl who could really only deal with one type of person, that's all you could use her for.
So it was personality, not necessarily how beautiful they were?
It was all personality. You'd be surprised at how different the girls would look outside of the club, in normal attire. Walking around in a bikini—these girls could make themselves look gorgeous, but you'd see them walking in or you'd see them leave, and it was like nothing special at all.
You're no longer involved with the club, right?
Correct. My friend still is.
In hindsight, do you have any moral pangs at all in terms of what was going on there?
No, no. I think it's an amazing business. One, it's just an incredible cash business. The tough thing is, my buddy, because he's been doing this business for the past six, seven years, he really can't do anything else. He puts that on his resume to go for a job outside of the industry and it's a huge hindrance.
So you don't feel bad in terms of how the girls were treated in any way.
No. They're there because they want to be there. It's not prostitution. The ones who aren't good at it or the ones who have a problem, you don't hire them back, or you don't schedule them.
What do you think is the biggest misconception people have about strip clubs?
Well, I think the majority of guys think that they could offer these gals money and take them home, that they're all prostitutes, and that's not true at all. I would say a good 40 percent of them are no different from any of the other women walking around, except they just don't have a problem taking off their clothes. They are comfortable with themselves, and they look at men as complete idiots. I can take that guy's money, why not? Why not. And I love that.
The other misconception is that everybody there is on drugs and whatever. You couldn't be. If these girls were drunk or on drugs, they couldn't talk to the customers, and we would ask them to leave. Everybody's there to make money, pure and simple.
What does it say about male sexuality that men, especially the big spenders, would go into the club and sit there for hours talking with some girl and spending thousands of dollars?
That we're complete suckers.
Suckers, or you think it says something about how we deal with our sexuality?
We have no control over our sexuality or over our hormones. That's pure and simple. The only time we have control is after we've busted a nut—that's the only time in our lives when things are crystal clear.
So your view is that, especially the 40 percent of girls who are smart and doing it for a period of time, they were just taking advantage of men, and "good for them"?
Totally. Good for them. Why not?
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Tom Matlack, together with James Houghton and Larry Bean, published an anthology of stories about defining moments in men's lives — The Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines of Modern Manhood. It was how the The Good Men Project first began. Want to buy the book? Click here. Want to learn more? Here you go.


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The MBTA is extending the hours of subway and bus service by 90 minutes, beginning this weekend.
The last trains will leave downtown stations around 1 a.m. Sunday through Thursday nights and around 2:30 a.m. on Friday and Saturday.
Here's a Q&A from the T.
What services will operate until 2:30 a.m. Friday and Saturday nights?
Rapid Transit—the Red, Orange, Green, Blue, Mattapan, and Silver Lines (except SL2)—and the Key Bus Routes. The Key Bus Routes are Route Nos. 1, 15, 22, 23, 28, 32, 39, 57, 66, 71, 73, 77, 111, and 116/117.
The RIDE paratransit service will also operate until approximately 3 a.m. to areas within ¾ mile of all late night services. Please note that this is only if both the origin of the trip and the destination of the trip are within three-quarters of a mile of bus/subway.
How were the services to have extended hours selected?
Rapid Transit and Key Bus Routes serve over 70 percent of all trips made on the MBTA each day. The map of the Rapid Transit and Key Bus Route network is already posted on most MBTA vehicles and in most stations, so this helps customers understand and take advantage of the new service.
Will the extended service operate like other MBTA services?
Service will operate as it does during the day, serving the same stations and stops as the normal routes. Regular rapid transit and bus fares will be charged on late night services.
All new trips will be scheduled and will appear on the MBTA website, on phone apps, on Google Transit, and anywhere else that such information is usually available. Real-time information for buses will also be available for the extended late night service. Real-time information for the Red, Blue, and Orange Lines, including the countdown signs in stations, may not work after 2:00 a.m. due to current technical limitations.
How frequently will service operate?
Extended late night service will operate approximately every 15-20 minutes in most cases. Some corridors served by multiple routes (such as SL4/SL5 and 116/117) will have combined service levels of every 15-20 minutes or every 30-40 minutes on unique segments.
Are there other routes or schedules affected by this change?
Bus trips that normally wait for "last trains," which are generally identified by "w" notes on schedules, will no longer wait on Fridays or Saturdays if they do not have extended late night service. The last trips on these bus routes will instead depart at their scheduled time on Fridays and Saturdays. This affects Route Nos. 9, 10, 11, 16, 24/27, 26, 31, 34, 35, 36, 43, 44, 47, 64, 69, 70, 72, 74, 75, 80, 83, 87, 88, 89, 93, 95, 96, 99, 106, 108, 109, 110, 120, 134, 210, 216, 426, 442, and 713.
Visit mbta.com for more information.


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LeBron James to give pregame speech to Ohio State
LeBron James has won back-to-back NBA titles to go along with consecutive MVP awards.
On a Saturday in September, he could be doing pretty much whatever he wanted.
This Saturday, he wants to be in Columbus, Ohio, where he'll be on the Ohio State sideline during the No. 4 Buckeyes' game against No. 23 Wisconsin and will also address the team before it takes the field.
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An Ohio State fan, James even has his own locker in the Buckeyes' locker room.
James, an Ohio native, who began his NBA career with Cleveland before leaving for Miami, will certainly be a hit Saturday.
Regardless what he tells the team in his pregame speech, just the presence of the nine-time All-Star and four-time MVP will amp up the intensity level in Columbus. You can also bet that the dozens of top recruits expected to be at Ohio Stadium will find Saturday night a one-of-a-kind experience.