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Los Angeles, California, 2008. Bruce Davidson- Magnum
Bruce Davidson is part of a generation of documentary photographers who emerged in the 1960s: Danny Lyon, Lee Friedlander, and Diane Arbus, to whom he was once close. He is best known for his photographs of people such as "East 100th Street," "Brooklyn Gang," "Freedom Rides," "Subway," but in the last twenty years has dedicated himself to an exploration of nature within cities, which has taken him from New York's Central Park to Paris. His latest series on Los Angeles completes this trilogy.
How does this photographer of human beings explain his recent pursuits? "Landscape is people to me," he explains. "To me a tree is as lovely as a bathing beauty."
His relationship to nature goes back a long way: "I grew up in Chicago across the street from a forest preserve. When I was ten years old I photographed owls. I always had a feeling for vegetation and the desert. When I was in the military I spent about a year in the Arizona desert. I enjoyed the exploration of things related to nature."
His new exhibition focuses on two parallel series shot in Los Angeles in 1964 and 2008. The two series could not be more different: it is as if in this 44 year interval Bruce has "tamed" a place that seemed at first to be alien territory. Together, the two series form a lyrical poem of sorts, an unlikely ode to a city that to most of us is not much more than a cliché.
Davidson's 1964 photographs give out a feeling of alienation and loneliness. Everything seems grey, lackluster and tawdry.
"In 1964 I was asked by Esquire magazine to photograph Los Angeles. It was dull and sort of lonesome. They were just getting started with the building. The editor did not understand the pictures at all. He gave them back to me and they stayed in my drawer until 1978."
There are men playing chess, athletes on Venice Beach, surfers, people waiting at a bus stop, most seen from afar. They seem like characters in a noir movie, dwarfed by a sea of interlocking highways and ugly concrete street malls. Buildings and cars have an air of unreality. A stocky, bespectacled woman pushing her cart looks like Duane Hanson's fiberglass sculpture "Supermarket Shopper."
In Davidson's latest series, shot with a Linhoff medium format camera and a Hasselblad, a sensuous black and white palette seems to evoke all the absent colors. "LA always was a black and white picture for me. I thought that I would never find the right green," Davidson explains.
Intent on photographing nature within the city, he went looking into unlikely places, including below the highways: "I had this vision of the superhighways, the freeways, commingling with trees… Underneath the 405, ivy was growing. Nature clings, nature will adapt, nature will find a way to live. Even under concrete, nature is there, surrounding the grid of the city itself."
In Los Angeles, he was struck by a range of nature that goes from desert to what he calls a Maine-like abundance. He is especially drawn to the palm trees, their brittle leaves, their rough-textured trunks, the shadows they project, their spiky silhouettes at dusk: "Palm trees are very lyrical because they are not needed. They don't give shade and they don't produce a lot of photosynthesis."
In his view of the Mulholland Highway, high grasses and a rolling hill dwarf a city seen from afar, drowning in the smog. To shoot the famous Hollywood sign from behind, Davidson climbed up a steep hill to show the scaffolding that holds the sign, like someone who, in a theater, would go behind the décor to see how it is all constructed.
"In L.A. I was not looking for anything," says Davidson. "I wanted something to look for me. There isn't an agenda. The photographs are not "about" anything. I only want to find beauty in banality. And that too can be very political."
And what does the veteran photographer, whose career began in 1957, want to do now? "I don't know what I'll do next but it always has to come from inside, some sort of quest, a mystery, a magic that gets you into a world. The quest is as important as the outcome."
To view slide show of Bruce Davidson Los Angeles photographs images click here
Bruce Davidson is an American documentary photographer and has been member of Magnum Photos for 55 years. His exhibition Los Angeles 1964/2012 is on view at Rose Gallery in Santa Monica, Calif. from August 10 – September 21, 2013.
Carole Naggar is a photo historian and poet. She recently wrote for LightBox on Chim's images of children in Europe after World War II, the visual fables of Pentti Sammallahti and Marc Garanger's portraits from 1960s Algeria.


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Puppy Mill Ads Banned from Facebook Marketplace
(NEW YORK) -- These days, that "doggie in the window," to quote the song, is just as likely to be wagging its tail from a window in your computer screen. Estimates are that up to half of puppy purchases are now made online.
But one thing hasn't changed: If that cute puppy is being sold by anyone other than the person who bred it, it probably came from a "puppy mill," where conditions are anything but cute.
The problem is that breeders who sell online fall through a crack in the federal law and are entirely unregulated. The Animal Welfare Act exempts people who sell directly to the public.
But there is now at least one website where puppy mill ads are banned: Marketplace on Facebook.
The ASPCA began by preparing to launch a campaign against Facebook but found an ally instead of an adversary. The advocacy group just announced a partnership, also including Oodle.com, which powers the Facebook Marketplace, to filter out the puppy mill ads.
That's not as easy as it sounds. Ads from shelters, from rescue organizations and from responsible breeders are still welcome. The designers of the filtering system are reluctant to reveal exactly how they do it, for fear the puppy mills will figure out how to game the system, but they say it's working. More than 10,000 ads have already come down, and they expect that number to grow as existing ads expire. Facebook declined to comment.
But an equally daunting challenge, they say, is educating the public about the ubiquity of puppy mills. A poll commissioned by the ASPCA found that while most Americans have heard of puppy mills and say they wouldn't buy a dog that came from one, most American also believe that the dogs in pet stores come from legitimate sources.
But the ASPCA says nearly every puppy in a window comes from a puppy mill, because no responsible breeder will sell a dog through a third party. That goes for online sellers as well. Good breeders want to meet the buyer and make sure they are sending the puppy to a good home.
Raids on puppy mills have revealed breeding houses where adult dogs are kept for a lifetime in wire cages, sometimes lying in their own waste. The females are bred every heat cycle and given no affection.
"People don't realize we're not talking about the puppies," the ASPCA's Menkin says.
"When you purchase a puppy from a pet store or over the Internet, you're condemning that puppy's parents to a lifetime of misery."
Why misery? It's just math. It's almost impossible, Menkin says, to breed puppies humanely and also make a profit. A Chihuahua, for example, produces two to five puppies per litter. The puppies can sell for roughly $200 each. A responsible breeder will breed a Chihuahua only once a year, which means an annual income of $400 to $1,000 per dog. Anyone who keeps a pet knows that food and vet bills can easily cost that much or more. So dogs bred for profit are not treated like pets.
Another result of simple math is that legitimate dealers cannot meet the public demand for popular breeds, particularly when a celebrity or a movie puts that breed in the spotlight.
The movie 101 Dalmatians produced an enormous demand for Dalmatians. Beethoven did the same for Saint Bernards, and Paris Hilton for Chihuahuas. In each case, puppy mills geared up to meet the demand. But many families discovered that these breeds can present challenges as pets.
A hot puppy one Christmas season often means a glut of unwanted adult dogs the next year. Unwanted Chihuahuas were so common on the West Coast after the Paris Hilton boom, they were actually airlifted east, where there were more families willing to adopt them.
The Internet is full of complaints from online buyers who received sick puppies, or simply did not receive the puppy they saw in the picture. Puppy mills count on the human heart to be too soft to put that puppy back in the box and return it.
A better solution is to be patient. "You're taking in a member of your family," Menkin says, "who will be with you from eight to 15 years."
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Pentâge Winery releases in 2011
Photo: Julie Rennie, Paul Gardner
Nine years after Paul Gardner and Julie Rennie opened Pentâge Winery, they finally are close to opening a tasting room as well.
In fact, the city of Penticton had a sign up in July, prematurely, directing visitors to the new access to the winery. The entrance is at 4551 Valleyview Road.
Until now, the winery address was 4400 Lakeside Road. Paul and Julie had considered, briefly, putting the tasting room and wine shop into or near their home, which is below the vineyard. That idea was vetoed, in part because getting there requires driving up a long and steep driveway. The Valleyview Road access is easier.
The tasting room has a better location at the top of the vineyard. The view over the vines and Skaha Lake is dramatic. The tasting room also is next to the remarkable 5,500 square foot cellar that was recently completed at Pentâge. It is a cool man-made cavern dug from the rock, with a thick concrete lid. The huge glass doors at the front, which roll up like aircraft hangar doors, give visitors good views of the barrel stacks inside.
Recently, Adam Pearce, the Pentâge winemaker, led me through a tasting of some of the wines in those barrels. After that, I came away with review samples of the current releases.
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Adam was about the bottle several of the wines. There is a 50-case barrel-fermented Rhone blend (57% Viognier, 36% Roussanne and 17% Marsanne), an appealing wine with aromas and flavours of apricots, melons and citrus (90 points).
There is a 50-case barrel-fermented 2009 Chardonnay, with a good core of butter and tangerine flavours and an appealing aroma of citrus and butter. (89).
The barrel sample of the 2009 Cabernet Franc is a lively wine with flavours of blackberry and raspberry and with a little more concentration that the 2008, reviewed below. (89).
The winery has 200 cases of 2009 Syrah Reserve, not yet released. It is a classic meaty, gamey Syrah with the peppery aroma of a delicatessen and with flavours of plum and black cherry. The rich texture adds to its appeal. (90).
Also not yet released in the 2009 Hiatus, a $20 blend of Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc. This is an easy-drinking Bordeaux blend with flavours of black currant, with notes of cedar and tobacco. (88).
Other gems in the cellar include a 2010 Malbec, a 2010 Petite Sirah, a barrel-fermented Icewine and 2010 Zinfandel port. There are small quantities of all these wines; and all rate 90 points plus.
If this seems like a long portfolio for a winery now making 5,000 cases, that's the way Paul Gardner likes it. "I would rather make small lots of interesting wine than big tanks full of wine," Paul once told me.
Here are notes on the current releases.
Pentâge Chardonnay Reserve 2007 ($20). Here is a wine for lovers of the mainstream California Chardonnay style, with no apologies for giving the wine as much oak as its rich fruit flavours can carry. There is citrus and butterscotch on the nose, followed by flavours of tangerine and butterscotch. The texture has a creamy weight and intensity. 90.
Pentâge Gewürztraminer 2010 ($17.50). This is a textbook example of the dry, rich (almost oily) Alsace-inspired Gewürztraminer. The wine is intense from beginning to end – intense spice and citrus aromas, intense flavours of grapefruit and lychee. The lingering finish could be timed with a stopwatch. 91.
Pentâge Sauvignon Blanc 2010 ($19.50). Crisp and zesty, this wine recalls the New Zealand style (which I happen to prefer). Beginning with grassy, citrus aromas, it has flavours of lime and grapefruit rind. It has a nice spine of minerals and the bright acidity wakes up the taste buds. 89.
Pentâge Skaha White 2009 ($16). Here is a complex but budget-priced six grape blend: 41% Pinot Gris, 30% Chenin Blanc, 12% Viognier, 6% Chardonnay, 6% Riesling, 5% Sémillon. The 2010 blend, already being sold as bag-in-the-box, is significantly different in composition but I did not have a chance for a side-by-side comparison. The 2009 has stone fruits and citrus aromas, with flavours of cantaloupe, citrus and apricot. Its texture gives it good heft on the palate. 88.
Pentâge Viognier 2009 ($19.50). The toasty aromas and flavours of apricots and pineapple, with an undertone of nuts, suggest that the wine may have been barrel-fermented. It is dry and even austere on its own but rich and delicious when paired with food (which is the point, after all). 90.
Pentâge Cabernet Franc 2008 Denmarc Vineyard ($26). This wine begins with aromas of red liquorice, spice and raspberries and has flavours of blackberries, black currants and even a hint of cranberry. It is a medium-bodied wine with a backbone of ripe but firm tannins. 88
Pentâge Gamay Noir 2010 ($19.50). Not many wineries have yet released 2010 reds but this wine is ready. It is a lively red, a Beaujolais with weight. Dark in colour, it has aromas of black cherries and flavours of cherries and plums. 88


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 403 diseños de 122 diseñadores freelance.
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We are launching a new company selling leather bags. The bags are made of thick cowhide leather and the designs are simple and practical. They are extremely durable and robust and while some of the designs are geared to women, most the bags are for men - the weight of the leather means that a bigger bag would be too heavy for most woman to carry. The price points are all at the mid to high, starting at about $400 for a man's leather briefcase.
Our target audience for this new line is predominately, although not exclusively, male - educated, wealthy, values quality over quantity - (would rather spend $200 on a new pair of shoes that lasts, than $40 on a pair that will fall apart in a couple of months). Enjoys the outdoors, travels both for business and pleasure.
New Logo: Wild North. I don't want to prescribe, I'd rather see what you guys come up with. I'd like something clean, simple, fresh and captivating/creative. It is going to be embossed on leather, used on the web, and in all advertising material etc. I'd like it to work at a life size of 2 x 1 inch on a bag. I'll check in frequently and let you know what I like. I'd like to receive the final files in a 1,000 x 1,000 pixel gif and/or jpeg, as well as a complete adobe illustrator layered file.
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We are a do it all garbage company based in Colorado. We are working on a new company branding campaign. Which means we are looking to give the companies images a complete overhaul. So we are starting with the most important piece which is our logo. When that is completed we will be moving on to a website and then company wide branding.
So the exciting part for you is you are the center of our campaign. For this to work we need a great logo. Which is why we have come to 99Designs.
We understand the logo we have is very outdated and pretty much anything will be an upgrade. I don't want to discourage any ones creativity so let it fly. But we are looking for a very sharp, modern, clean logo. We want our professionalism to stand out from our competition.
Just so everyone knows I am in charge of the project but there will be a meeting with the owners to make a final decision.
Anyone residential to commercial that needs their garbage picked up at a fair price without losing quality service. This logo will go on everything from letter head to the sides of the companies trucks and everything in between.
"Mountain View Waste Systems" is the name of the company and the tag line is "Providing the Highest Level of Service."
I would like some form of Mountains incorporated in the design.
I also wouldn't mind seeing the logo on the side of the truck picture I just uploaded. Not a must though!
I have attached the logo that we are upgrading from. Although we are looking for a modern take on this logo with a "green" feel I would also love to see ideas from outside of the box! So feel free to let your creativity run wild!
Colors: Earth tones would be best. The obvious lime green comes to mind but I am open to any thing. The company has a fleet of trucks that are already a light blue. So something that goes with that blue would help.
With the winning logo I would like a mock up/file of a letter head, business card and envelope. Also when chosen I would like the original file with the font files that were used so we can add website info and such. Will also like a black version and a white version. If this is a problem for any one please let me know!
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text: Alan Turing, born a century ago this year, is best known for his wartime code-breaking and for inventing the 'Turing machine' – the concept at the heart of every computer today. But his legacy extends much further: he founded the field of artificial intelligence, proposed a theory of biological pattern formation and speculated about the limits of computation in physics. In this collection of features and opinion pieces, Nature celebrates the mind that, in a handful of papers over a tragically short lifetime, shaped many of the hottest fields in science today. [Nature]


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HARTFORD -- A proposal to create a retirement trust fund for Connecticut residents --at no charge to the state -- has been proposed for the second consecutive legislative session.
Lawmakers joined union leaders and activists earlier this week to rekindle a bill that was defeated last year.
It would be a way for workers with inadequate or non-existent retirement plans to piggyback on state investments that are bringing back double-digit interest for the state's public-employee and teacher retirement funds.
Sen. Catherine A. Osten, D-Baltic, co-chairman of the Labor and Public Employees Committee, said the nonprofit trust would have an appointed board. Employers would allow portions of paychecks to be deposited directly into accounts, and would have the option to also contribute to employee plans.
"The state of Connecticut has an employee pension fund and a teacher's retirement fund that is on its way to being more solvent because of the steps that have been taken recently," Osten said, noting more state contributions to the retirement plans.
She reacted to a reporter's question indicating that pension plans for unionized state employees and public school teachers have been notoriously underfunded.
"Just because certain administrations going back a good two and three decades did not pay into the pension fund did not mean that the employees did not pay into the pension fund," Osten said. "This publicly-run retirement fund would not require an employer piece to it and therefore it would not have that piece of the problem that has happened," she said. "It's not as if we're planning on the state to pay in money. We're not. We are not requiring small business to pay into this at all."
Lori J. Pelletier, president of the state's 200,000-member AFL-CIO, recalled that over the last 30 years, so-called defined-benefit retirement plans, which 80 percent of companies had offered, have dropped to less than 20 percent.
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Workers could piggyback on state investments currently earning double-digit interest.
Workers could deposit some of their paychecks into the plan.
Unlike traditional pensions, the trust fund would not require employer contributions.
"Thirty years ago, something changed," she said. "Corporate CEOs decided that that retirement money could be better used in their own pockets and not workers'," Pelletier said. "That upside-down world that we live in has left people out in the cold."
Salvatore Luciano, executive director of Council 4 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said that the vast majority of the state's pension under-funding -- about $15 billion of the $20 billion shortfall -- is for some of the longest-serving state employees.
Luciano said State Treasurer Denise Nappier has been able to realize robust interest rates of 15 percent last year and 13 percent the year before.
"I think pensions are the vehicle you would like to do if you're going to be in existence for 20 and 30 years like some corporations still do," Luciano said. "But for a lot of people who may work three or four different jobs and for businesses that don't know if they'll be in business in five years, this is the best alternative option."
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'The Nyanzi Report' is a superb lesson in how light, composition, an acute eye and a meticulous attention to detail yields fabulous results. His photos are as immediately charming as he is - something he demonstrated by showing me around the nearest shops once I finished snapping.
I spent another day behind the camera today – the sound of its shutter is now less than a faint echo as I scroll through the resulting photos. But they will be for another week... For now I am casting the reel of my thoughts back to the summer, when I started my blogger portrait series, the first part of which can be seen here.
The aim was to capture something of the fashion and style bloggers I pointed my Canon 5D at – and I'm assuming that only they could tell you if I succeeded. The likelihood is that I have a lot more work to complete before I could ever produce a portrait that reflects the absolute character of the sitter, but I guess it's a goal. For now I just wish to celebrate the work of these bloggers I admire.
However, Lucy made a pertinent point when we were strolling through sunny Hyde Park with her cousin and Carrie. She asked me to explain my aims for the project, which I did. She was interested in the notion that my perception of appearance and what constituted a great shot was very different to her own. I could end up choosing to feature a photo she would never consider airing in the light of the internet. I found this fascinating – that it was up to me to pick out whatever characteristics and details I wanted to with my camera.
'Wish Wish Wish' makes me think of a British Bardot - her classic style and looks set off with a side ordering of whimsy. She is as (if not more so) lovely and engaging in 'real life' as she appears on her beautiful blog.
As self-style bloggers, no matter how objective we try to be, we are still depicting some kind of projection of ourselves. You might delete one photo because you can see skin blemishes, or you don't like the bags under your eyes. Maybe it just doesn't have the right atmosphere. And there's nothing wrong with that. I don't choose to showcase images where I appear tired or miserable. However, this means that the resulting posts will always subjective – a view of ourselves that we are happy to present to others. I guess it is an active manifestation of "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" – and as a blogger, you must, for a moment or two, be your own beholder. The photos I choose to post of myself on my blog might be accurate reflections of me, or total daydreams of characters I wish to embody.
Cameras, as I have said in the past, have the most magnificent ability to both conceal and uncover. I discovered this when hiding all signs of my scoliosis for several months. Critics sometimes refer to photographers whose lens no-one can escape as an 'all-seeing eye' – as though the camera holds within in it the strange power to uncover the true self of the subject (and thus why some people might be wary of having their photo taken). And of course this is true for the most talented photographers. Henri Cartier-Bresson once talked of the way he "craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph" and "preserve life in the act of living" (both quotes taken from the excellent 'Photographers on Photography' set of essays edited by Nathan Lyons – from a favourite bookshop in Hay on Wye). I can agree that the appeal of both photography and writing for me is the chance to grasp at something and stick it down, in either a photo or word document. And yet, the moment it is seen by someone else it is open to a completely different set of judgments - our taste being just another way we assert our own individuality.


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My father spent much of the later years of his life expressing his feelings through drawing. Here are some my favorites.
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My father, Samuel Wray passed away September 1, 2007. He was 86. My mother, Ellie, cared for him full-time for the last four years of his life. She is proud of his talent, and would love to share it with the world.
Please let me know if you are interested in purchasing a reproduction. All proceeds will go to his widow, my mother. Interested parties please write.
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Wife or sweetheart?
November 29, 2008 by © Joan Miller - Luxegen Genealogy.
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In my mind's eye I can see Marie, with a smile on her face, carefully choosing this post card for her old friend Verna. What stories these two might have shared? Was there truth in her words or was it a casual tease between dear old friends? If only the old postcards could talk….and they do! Our family [...]


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Above all, this object is really beautiful. It's hard to tell what it is, but once the clean-burning ethanol fire is lit, you get the idea. This is basically a reinvented fireplace. Since it uses ethanol, there is no point in having a chimney.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — Terry Gou did almost everything that Apple could ask for. He made all those iPhones — and he made them cheap. When Apple was subsequently criticized for low wages and poor working conditions at his factories in China, it was Mr. Gou's company, the Foxconn Technology Group, and not Apple, that caught the most heat.
But now Foxconn, a potent symbol of the perks and perils of globalization, is taking a step that, not all that long ago, would have seemed unthinkable: it is contemplating life far, far beyond Apple.
Foxconn, which is based here but does most of its manufacturing in mainland China, wants to reduce its reliance on Apple. Its new strategy is a shift away from making products that other companies design, and toward developing products of its own, with an especially aggressive push into designing and manufacturing large, flat-screen televisions.
"Foxconn senses that the Apple aura isn't as invincible as before," said Jamie Wang, an analyst at the research firm Gartner. "So they are worried that they need something besides Apple's business that will allow them to grow."
As the biggest contract manufacturer for American electronics companies like Apple, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Amazon, Foxconn has been faced with labor unrest, worker suicides, industrial accidents and complaints about working conditions and labor practices. It has been working with many of its client companies to improve conditions, raise pay and improve labor standards.
On a drizzly April afternoon at the headquarters of Foxconn Technology here, 300 employees gathered to burn incense and fake money in front of a statuette of Lord Guan, a Taoist deity. Mr. Gou, the chairman of Foxconn and a Taoist, had the statuette flown in from Shanxi Province in mainland China, carrying it himself to the door of his manufacturing empire. In Chinese tradition, Lord Guan is considered the go-to god for good business.
Good business is something Foxconn, one of the world's largest contract electronics manufacturers, needs right now. Last month, Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry, reported that first-quarter revenue was dragged down 19.2 percent compared with the same period last year because of declining iPhone and iPad orders from its main customer, Apple.
Apple representatives declined to comment on the developments at Foxconn. But analysts estimate that Apple contributes at least 40 percent of Foxconn's revenue. Moving beyond Apple could prove tricky; it is hard to make money in televisions these days, as many of the Japanese electronics companies can attest. And only 20,000 of Foxconn's 60-inch TVs have been sold in Taiwan, according to Simon Hsing, Foxconn's spokesman, who declined to disclose sales volumes from any other partners.
Foxconn's predicament mirrors a common problem faced by Taiwanese contract manufacturers, whose fortunes depend heavily on those of their clients. A handful of manufacturers, like HTC and Asustek Computer, have managed to shed their contract manufacturing businesses altogether to develop branded products. But as they began competing with clients, those clients began deserting them.
Here is Foxconn's problem captured with two sets of statistics. Global demand for LCD televisions declined 1 percent in 2012 compared with the previous year, and demand for all TVs dropped 6 percent, according to NPD DisplaySearch. Worldwide PC shipments fell 13.9 percent in the first quarter of 2013, compared with the same period a year earlier, according to IDC.
As a result, profits for many manufacturers are slumping.
"Taiwan companies have always relied on being a contract manufacturer and outsourcing manufacturer," said Luo Huai-jia, vice president at the Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association. "Now we need to start looking at original design manufacturing and directly matching the needs of consumers."
Kay Chiu, vice president of Foxconn's consumer electronics division, said in response to e-mailed questions that consumer interest and vertical integration — controlling all the steps in the supply chain — were behind the shift in production. "We still need to leverage business development partners' advantage to provide an attractive and most competitive product to the market," Mr. Chiu said. Other top Foxconn executives declined several requests for comment.
Since last year, Foxconn's investment choices have reflected its new strategy. Mr. Gou personally spent about $840 million on a 37.6 percent stake in Sharp's LCD panel factory in Sakai, Japan. Sharp needed a quick cash infusion and Mr. Gou's purchase gave his company a quick way to control a component that accounts for more than 50 percent of the production cost of a TV set.
Foxconn then released a 60-inch television in October with 90 percent of the components, like the LCD panel, backlighting and mechanical parts, made in-house, according to Mr. Hsing.
The company also recruited two companies, RadioShack in China and Vizio in the United States, to sell the television under their brands. "The decline in the business of our partners, such as Apple and Nokia, does affect us," Mr. Hsing said. "We don't want to just wait for orders. We are actively talking with many clients and asking if they can fully utilize what we make." He said that the company had no intention of becoming its own brand and instead planned to use its partners' marketing and distribution networks.
"Hon Hai is the largest electronic manufacturing service company in the world," said Mr. Chiu, the Foxconn executive. "We are the platform for all the brand-name customers, and to have our own brand does not suit the company policy."
Over the last six months, Foxconn has gradually found other willing partners. It has recruited several cable and Internet TV operators in Taiwan and China to subsidize the cost of the television for their subscribers in the same way that smartphones are subsidized by mobile operators in some markets. With Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan, for instance, a consumer can buy a 60-inch television for as little as 33,800 Taiwan dollars, or about $1,150, as long as the customer also pays 1,158 Taiwan dollars a month for a two-year television service contract.
Analysts say Foxconn's strategy satisfies two seemingly contradictory goals. The company does not want to compete with clients directly, because it has TV assembly orders from Sony, Sharp and Toshiba. (The company also assembles personal computers for companies like Hewlett-Packard and Dell, game consoles for Nintendo and the Kindle for Amazon.com.) But it needs to absorb excess LCD panels produced by the Sakai factory to take advantage of the lower manufacturing cost per unit. Therefore, Foxconn negotiates with partners to sell the television at or below its production cost.
"So what do you do in the meantime after spending about $840 million buying a plant?" said Thompson Wu, an analyst at Credit Suisse. "You just say, I have to decide whether I'm better off making TVs at a discount and make less money incrementally or having manufacturing not doing anything."
Kirk Yang, managing director of Barclays' Asia Technology Research, said, "Taiwanese companies will do this all the time."
"They will sell at loss just to get their foot in the door," he said. "With larger volume, better scale and more experience, they eventually make a small profit."
Adding to that pressure is a commitment Mr. Gou made to buy half the Sakai plant's output when he purchased his stake, Mr. Wu said.
The research firm NPD DisplaySearch estimates Sakai makes 6.7 million to 6.8 million 60-inch panels a year.
Its partner Vizio could help move some of those televisions, but only somewhat. In the first three months of 2013, Vizio sold 30 percent of flat-panel televisions measuring 60 inches or more in the United States, more than any other company, with Sharp in second place with 29 percent, according to NPD Group's Retail Tracking Service. Yet in the important holiday-filled fourth quarter, it shipped 403,000 sets in that size in North America, according to an NPD DisplaySearch analyst, Paul Gray.
Most analysts say they believe Foxconn needs a larger TV customer. Televisions represent less than 5 percent of Foxconn's business, far less than its revenue from Apple. And some analysts think Foxconn is just biding its time, waiting for Apple to figure how to create a game-changing television product that will increase demand once again.
Representatives of Apple and Foxconn said they did not comment on speculation.
Analysts say Mr. Gou's efforts to buy an LCD factory and vertically integrate his television manufacturing represent anticipation that orders for an Apple television product will come his way.
"Their gamble now is if Apple will put out a TV, and they should know better than anyone else in the world," said Mr. Wu, the Credit Suisse analyst. "They're making a bet that it'll work."


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An Apple inspired product is one of the hottest item going in South Korea this holiday season but it isn't an iPhone or an iPad -- or even a MacBook or an iPod.
In fact the Cupertino-based company does not make the product it helped push in South Korea but instead it comes from another iconic Bay Area company.
The blue Levi's 501 jeans often worn by Steve Jobs have become popular in South Korea partly because of the popularity of the late Apple co-founder.
A poll by South Korean department store Shinsegae said that the $150 a pair jeans are almost as popular as Apple products themselves.
The Los Angeles Times reports that 99 percent of South Korea's population under the age of 40 regularly uses the Internet and Apple's products are the kids' gateway drug of choice to get entangled in the web.
"In the case of Levi's 501 jeans, they were sold out for four days at Shinsegae's [flagship] store
after Jobs passed away Oct. 5," one store employee told the paper.
Meanwhile even Jobs sterile fashion sense is giving local smartphone and tablet maker Samsung another reason to deplore Apple and its trendsetting leader.


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Chuck Lorre's sitcom 'Mom' adopts serious tone
LOS ANGELES — A pregnant teenager, the daughter of an unmarried mother and granddaughter of another, is repeating family history. Does she decide to keep her baby and do her immature best to raise it, or choose adoption for her offspring?
That quandary anchors the season finale of CBS' "Mom" (9:30 p.m. EDT, Monday) a freshman sitcom that has balanced punch lines and pathos in tackling alcoholism, cancer, broken families and other weighty themes.
Any one of them would have fitted what TV sitcoms once somberly heralded as "a very special episode," but they are the bread-and-butter of "Mom," starring Anna Faris and Allison Janney.
It's a daring approach and, given its lineage, a surprising one: "Mom" was hatched by Chuck Lorre, the executive producer behind "Two and a Half Men," a show that traffics in superficial raunchiness, and the smartly frothy "The Big Bang Theory."
The women of "Mom" are winning but brittle and complex characters, deftly played by Faris as Christy, the mother of 16-year-old Violet (Sadie Calvano) and a son (Blake Garrett Rosenthal) from another relationship, and Janney as Bonnie, Christy's mom and a soul mate in battling alcoholism.
"Mom" has its own comedic pacing as well as content. Laughs are delivered at a pace more measured than that of a typical sitcom, giving emotions time to rise and fall convincingly.
For Lorre, "Mom" represents a return to the kind of real-life nuance that he explored in the early 1990s as a writer on "Roseanne" and in a sitcom he created about another single mom with addiction issues, "Grace Under Fire."
He got "turned in a different direction," as Lorre put it, with his hits "Two and a Half Men" (which developed its own real-life subplot, ex-star Charlie Sheen's ugly public clash with Lorre and Warner Bros. Television) and "The Big Bang Theory."
"Mom," which Lorre created and produces with Eddie Gorodetsky and Gemma Baker, was the way back. The show, which ranked No. 20 in recent weekly ratings among advertiser-favored young adult viewers, has been renewed for next season.
"I really wanted 'Mom' to be an opportunity to take chances, to see if storytelling and character development could be expanded, and maintain the promise that it's a comedy," Lorre said.
There's no "high concept" and nothing remotely funny in breast cancer or seeing your mom relapse into alcoholism, he said, "but the challenge of it, it seemed worth trying."
The pregnancy plot that forces Violet to confront what's best for her and her baby has been particularly delicate, Lorre said, including the relatively rare depiction of adoption from the birth mother's point of view.
(Faris, coincidentally, played an unwed teenage mother on "Friends" in 2004 whose twins are adopted by Monica and Chandler, series stars Courteney Cox and Matthew Perry.)
The option of abortion was "discussed obliquely but within the boundaries of what CBS will allow us," Lorre said.
The National Council for Adoption, which screened the "Mom" episodes, lauded the series for pursuing "an adoption story line in an in-depth way that isn't often done," according to a statement from the group's Megan Lindsey.
Lorre's cast relishes what he's aiming for with "Mom."
"I particularly love comedy that is rooted in real stuff and pain ... when it's all messy and mixed together. That satisfies me as an actor," said Janney, a four-time Emmy-winner for "The West Wing."
Faris said the show's range allows her to reach emotional depths and still experience "the joy of making comedy."
"As an actor who's known for comedy, I love being able to stretch my legs a bit," she said in an email. "It took me by surprise — I guess I was really naive — how much our industry separates the dramatic and comedic worlds." Faris recalled how drama auditions were tough to get after she appeared in "Scary Movie."
That Lorre has chosen a female-centric series as his incubator for experimentation should come as no surprise.
"For any writer working on any show, it's much more interesting to write for women because they're more empathetic, they're more compassionate, more articulate, more willing to express their feelings," he said. "Writing for women is an opportunity to express yourself as a writer in ways that you simply can't do with men."
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The Structure of Sharia Boards for Islamic Financial Institutions
The sharia board, or sharia supervisory board (SSB), sits near the top of an Islamic financial company's governing structure. If you look at the organization of such a firm, you often find the sharia board reporting to the board of directors, executive management, or executive board.
Sharia boards have two broad areas of responsibility within an Islamic financial institution:
Ensuring that a firm's operations are sharia-compliant
Confirming that product development is sharia-compliant
In practice, most Islamic financial institutions have three to six sharia board members. (And yes, those members may be women! Most sharia scholars working in the Islamic finance industry are men, but women can and do participate on sharia boards.)
Although some Islamic financial firms could probably rely on the guidance of a single Islamic scholar working as a full-time advisor on both product development and operations, most financial institutions engage multiple sharia board advisors on a part-time or full-time basis in order to instill confidence in the strength, authority, and accuracy of the board's rulings and oversight.
The general perception is that a financial institution benefits from having a diversity of scholarly opinions, backgrounds, and experiences. If it hires just one advisor and that person's opinions don't jibe with the opinions of many other sharia scholars in the industry, the firm may find itself promoting products that are heavily criticized for not being sharia-compliant. No Islamic institution wants to face that type of public relations battle.
Most of the scholars serving on a sharia board also hold full-time teaching positions, and many scholars serve on multiple sharia boards. No regulatory body requires a term limit for sharia board scholars, but an individual firm may.
The general sharia board structure most often looks like this:
One scholar serves as chairman of the sharia board, which means that he heads the team.
One scholar holds the position of general secretariat and acts as the board's liaison with the firm's senior management and board of directors.
Other scholars serve as board members, fulfilling the duties.
In a very well-established Islamic financial institution, the sharia board may be subdivided into various units that each takes responsibility for a different set of tasks. This kind of structure is called a sharia group, and its divisions may look like this:
Unit for sharia supervision supervises the firm's operations.
Unit for research and development undertakes various research activities for the institution and helps ensure that any new product development is based on sharia principles.
Unit for communication and support services shares information to and from the sharia board and the firm's senior management or board of directors. It's also involved in documenting resolutions, interacting with other scholars and boards, and preparing sharia reports for inclusion in the firm's annual report.
An international Islamic financial institution may use a slightly different sharia structure, which includes a central sharia board as well as various regional sharia committees.
Why employ this seemingly complex structure? The institution must make sure that its sharia scholars represent the spectrum of beliefs among its customers and potential customers. Sharia interpretations vary from region to region, so a company that operates in the Middle East and in Southeast Asia, for example, benefits from sharia board representation in both regions.


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Your Public Sex Seriously. It happens. And, ew. It's worst in big clubs with lots of nooks and crannies. Nobody wants to glance over to a private, discreet dark corner during their favorite band playing and see people banging. But people's definition of "private" and "discreet" get pretty loose by the end of an evening, and suddenly, that naughty turn-on you might experience finding a hidden spot to get dirty just turns into people averting their eyes and pretending they aren't seeing what they're actually seeing. For real. Ew.
But more important than the total ew factor is that when people go to bars and night clubs, they drink. And sometimes they drink until they make bad decisions, and sometimes they drink until they aren't capable of making decisions. Which means that when you and your special friend for the next five minutes get caught awkwardly trying to maintain an erection while not knocking over a barstool, any door guy or bouncer in town isn't going to know if what's happening is two people having consensual (but totally gross) sex or something else. Yuck. Don't do it. If you see it, tattle.
Your Impossible Expectations On the topic of tattling, the Door Guy is not omnipotent, and he cannot be everywhere at once. There's no such thing as instant response time, and sometimes things that shouldn't happen still happen. When it does, it is absolutely not a negative reflection on the venue or its staff. Random acts of oral or violence are exactly that -- random.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Tennessee Tech softball team has been sidelined due to inclement weather and field conditions. The Golden Ealges will resume play at Tennessee State Sunday in a doubleheader.
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In an eerie twist of fate, the East Coast is once again facing a Halloween hurricane.
Sandy, as it is named, should not be taken lightly. At this point, all hurricane track models have it making landfall somewhere between Maryland and Boston on Monday into Tuesday.
This storm could potentially be more destructive than Irene, which hit the East Coast last summer. What makes this storm different is that, according to NOAA, it could combine with another system and develop into a super storm that could impact the area for days. (Read More: East Coast Braces for 'Frankenstorm' — A Natural Horror Show.)
The area that could be affected represents about 8 percent of refining capacity for the U.S., which translates to 1.1 million barrels a day. These refiners make everything from jet fuel to gasoline and heating oil. The area has seen a steady decline in the number of refineries operating, with 13 in 2007, and eight in 2012.
So what will it all mean for gasoline and heating oil prices?
This week on "Futures Now" I have been discussing how we are already running a deficit of 8 million barrels year-over-year in gasoline supplies and 30 million barrels in heating oil/distillate. Take that figure, combine it with the fact that pipelines and barge routes could be affected too, and remember that rates have already been bid up because lack of space.
What we have is a recipe for a serious price spike in gasoline and heating oil. Although I believe any spike would be relatively short-lived, lasting only one or two weeks, it may turn a bad supply situation into a worse condition as we head into the winter and then the spring gasoline season.
Gasoline futures have already spiked, and heating oil has risen too, although not at the rate of gasoline. The potential impact to heating oil prices could be as great as to gas, if not greater, because of the deficit in supply and the fact we are coming into winter. (Read More: US Gasoline Futures Higher as Storm Approaches East Coast.)
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Premier League and Championship clubs eyeing moves for Aberdeen winger Ryan Fraser.
Sky Sports understands a host of clubs are battling it out to sign highly-rated Aberdeen winger Ryan Fraser.
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Last Updated: 30/11/12 5:02pm
Fraser is regarded as one of the best young prospects to emerge in Scotland in recent years after establishing himself in the first-team scene this season at Pittodrie.
The 18-year-old has been earning rave reviews with his performances and he has been voted the SPL Young Player of the Month twice this season.
A number of clubs in England have been sending scouts to cast an eye over Fraser and the skilful wide-man could only have impressed the interested parties.
The likes of Swansea, Wigan, Burnley and Huddersfield have all been credited with an interest in Fraser, while Scottish champions Celtic are admirers of the player.
Fraser's current contract expires in May meaning the youngster is free to talk to English clubs about a possible move from December 1st rather than having to wait until January if his deal expired in June.
The news has alerted Fraser's suitors who are all keen to steal a march on their rivals in the race to land the winger.
Aberdeen are still in talks with Fraser over a new deal, but they could find it hard to keep hold of the starlet in January if any clubs south of the border firm up their interest in the talented youngster.


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What are the criteria for getting your own reality series again? Be rich and at times foolish with money? Check. Crazy? Check. Controversial? Check. Not be self conscious about details of your life being made public? Check.
Once you look at he list, you wonder why it took so long for Ron Artest to get his own reality television series. Guess he just needed to move to Los Angeles.
Move over Lamar Odom and the Kardashians, there is a new, bruising forward on the reality television scene. Artest has struck a deal with E1 Entertainment and Tijuana Entertainment to produce and star in a new show called "They Call Me Crazy." Artest was just crazy enough to make sure he got producer credit.
As if there wasn't enough drama in the way the Lakers have played recently.
"I'm really excited to have the opportunity to invite people into my world to see the real me, and show them there are many more sides to the Ron Artest they see on the basketball court," Artest said in a statement.
"This show will allow me to share my experiences with others, and hopefully people can learn from the mistakes I've made," he added.
E1 Entertainment are the people working with Gene Simmons of KISS to do a children's show. Got to give them points for creativity. That show could either be the new Yo Gabba Gabba, or send children into therapy for years.
Artest makes a perfect reality show focus because he may be the least self-conscious athlete out there. While just a couple lockers down Lamar Odom will not do a post-game interview until he has all his stylish clothes on and is looking right, Artest does his with a towel loosely draped over him and his feet in a bucket of ice. He's done post-game live television interviews -- cropped from the chest up -- wearing a shirt but nothing below the waist. He is genuinely unconcerned about all this, or what you think of him.
Artest's life should be interesting to document. Just this year he went on a national television show in his underwear and went to China with artist Shin Shin (who just happens to be beautiful and a little out there as well). Of course, there is plenty to mine if the producers want to bring up the Malice in the Palace again. And you can be sure that they want to bring it up again. And again. Part of the aim of the show is Artest making amends for past transgressions.
It wouldn't hurt if he committed a new one or two.
Plus, Artest the hip-hop artist can use this to leverage his indie label, Tru Warrior records, and get word out about his other passion. E1 has a music division and is already trying to do a reality show and new album for Faith Evans.
Just what the Lakers needed, more entertainment reporters and cameras around. Not a problem, though, the team has looked so focused on the court lately… oh wait, that's right. They've been a mess. Well, all the better for the cameras.
Kurt Helin lives in Los Angeles and is the managing editor of NBC's NBA blog Pro Basketball Talk (which you can also follow in twitter).


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After seven weeks of dickwaving, Time Warner Cable and the MSG Network have reached a preliminary agreement that will return MSG to the 1.1 million households that have been blacked out. It's tempting to thank Linsanity, but the reality is more prosaic: the sides hammered out a compromise only under pressure from the City Council Speaker , the Governor, and the Attorney General. The deal hasn't officially been signed, but it's expected to be in place in advance of tonight's Knicks/Hornets game.
If you've been affected, you should be thrilled that the Knicks, Rangers, Devils, Islanders, and Sabres will soon return to your television set. You should also be furious that both sides only met once for negotiations during the blackout. While you were stuck following along your low-quality pirate streams and Twitter updates, Time Warner CEO Glenn Britt and Cablevision CEO James Dolan only first sat down this week.
And bear this in mind: a victory can also be a loss. The Time Warner/MSG feud was over carrier fees. MSG wanted a 53 percent increase in what Time Warner was paying to carry the channel. Presumably, they settled for something less than that, but Time Warner's costs have still gone up. And that'll be passed along to you, dear cable subscriber, the next time Time Warner adjusts its subscriber fees. You really have no say in the matter, nor did you ever. As your reward for suffering through seven weeks without basketball and hockey, you're only getting a bigger cable bill.


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Naan - Oven Baked Flat BreadNaan, the most popular Indian bread in the Western word. Naan can be the main attraction going to an Indian restaurant, naan directly coming from the clay oven "tandoor" taste heavenly. The texture and the earthen aroma from naan! It is so easy to just fall in love with Naan. My naan recipe uses a regular home oven and a clay pizza stone to give the naan same exposer as a clay oven.Prep Time 10 minutesCook Time 10 minutesTotal Time 20 minutesServings 3 people
- 2 cups all-purpose flour (plain flour, maida)
- 1 tsp active dry yeast
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1/8 tsp baking soda
- 2 tbsps oil (canola, vegetable)
- 2-1/2 tbsps plain yogurt (curd, dahi)
- 3/4 cup lukewarm water (use as needed)
Also needed
1 teaspoon of clear butter (ghee) to butter the Naan
1/4 cup All Purpose flour for rolling
Dissolve yeast in lukewarm water and let it sit for 10 minutes or until the mixture becomes frothy.
Add sugar, salt and baking soda to the flour and mix well.
Add the oil and yogurt to make crumbly dough. Add the water/yeast mixture and additional water as needed to make into firm dough. Note: The dough will soften as it rises.
Knead the dough until smooth. Cover the dough and keep in a warm place three to four hours, until nearly double in volume.
Heat the oven to 500°F with pizza stone (baking stone) approx. thirty minutes, until stone is hot. Using a baking/pizza stone will help to give the naan close to same kind of heat as a clay tandoor. Next turn the oven to high broil.
Knead the dough for about one minute. Divide it into six equal parts. Roll each piece of dough, into eight ovals. Dust the surface lightly with dry flour to help with the rolling.
Lightly wet your hands and flip the rolled naan between your palms. Place two naan on your baking/pizza stone and put it into the oven.
Bake the naan two at a time. The naan will take two to three minutes to cook, depending upon your oven. The baked naan should be golden brown on top.
Take naan out of the oven and brush lightly with clear butter or ghee.
Wait two to three minutes before baking the next naan to give oven a chance to regain lost heat.
Recipe Notes
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Solid Snake named for animal influence, says Kojima
Series creator Hideo Kojima has delved into an explanation of Solid Snake's name, and how it developed further has he had to come up with other characters to match.
Metal Gear Solid's main character, Solid Snake, has the gravel voice and mullet of Snake Plissken from the Escape from New York and Escape from L.A. films. But even with creator Hideo Kojima's film-loving sensibilities, and contrary to some previous comments, his name had more to do with the reputation of his animal namesake than the Kurt Russell character.
"The reason I used Snake as code name in [Metal Gear] was snake was the most appropriate symbol of living thing that hides his presence," Kojima said on Twitter (via Polygon). "The reason why I didn't use any specific snake names like cobra, anaconda or viper was because the protagonist is the player. The reason I use Solid was to give opposite impression of soft image."
He said he developed Liquid Snake to be a counterpoint to Solid, as clones can make for a strong enemy that can match the hero. The third snake, Solidus, was chosen as a reference to the physics term that "indicates the border between liquid and solid." He chose to break the sequence of natural states at that point. "Obviously the next would be 'gas' but Gas Snake would be like a human made of gas, and that's not a nice name," he said.
Kojima has referenced Escape from New York as an inspiration in interviews, and film director John Carpenter even claims he gave his blessing when Kojima wrote to him. But, he has said as far back as 2012 that Snake was not based on the character.
The next Metal Gear game, Metal Gear Solid 5, stars yet another Snake: Big Boss, otherwise known as Naked Snake.
Steve Watts posted a new article, Solid Snake named for animal influence, says Kojima.
Series creator Hideo Kojima has delved into an explanation of Solid Snake's name, and how it developed further has he had to come up with other characters to match.


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I've been healing lead of my guild for about 9 months. To be honest, it's a job I have mixed feelings about. Up until some point in Cata, I didn't even like healing assignments. I thought healing teams should be like well-oiled machines that didn't need to be micromanaged.
Now I understand that some assignments are necessary. The extent of my 'who heals who' assignments are generally limited to who heals the tanks and who heals the raid – sometimes I split healers up between melee and ranged or, depending on the fight mechanics, assign healers to other specific targets. Doing this gives the benefit of accountability and makes troubleshooting easier when people die.
But then there are also assignments for when people use certain abilities. A number of heroic fights in Cata required a set order of cooldowns on the tank to prevent him from getting gibbed. Other fights required raid-wide throughput or damage mitigation cooldowns to be used in sequence.
As much as I like to be organized the amount of cooldowns there are to coordinate is getting a little ridiculous. I run 25s, typically with 6 healers per encounter. We have all healer classes and specs. So on any given fight the cooldowns available for me to assign are:
- Output cooldowns – Tranq, Divine Hymn, Healing Tide Totem, Revival
- Raid-wide damage mitigation – Spirit Link Totem, Power Word: Barrier, Devotion Aura, Zen Meditaton
- Single target cooldowns – Ironbark, Pain Suppression, Guardian Spirit
And it's not just the healers' abilities I need to be concerned with. There are also:
- Tank cooldowns – Survial Instincts, Might of Ursoc, Avert Harm, Fortifying Brew, Shield Wall, Ardent Defender, Icebound Fortitude, etc.
- Ret and Prot Pallies also have Devotion Aura
- Ele and Enhance Shaman may have Healing Tide Totem
- Warriors have Rallying Cry
- Death Knights have Anti-Magic Shell
- Feral or Boomkin can Tranq
- If I use my Symbiosis on a Shadow Priest, they can Tranq too.
…this is making my head hurt.
My biggest frustration in doing these assignments is that I'm always getting whispered or having comments made in healer chat saying "you didn't assign my cooldown, when should I use it?" or "don't forget, so-and-so has a cooldown too". I'm appreciative that people are trying to help, but at the same time, it bothers me for two reasons. First, the idea of assigning exactly when to use 18 different abilities for every fight strikes me as absurd. Second, I generally have a pretty good idea of why we're wiping or why people are dying and a lot of the time it has nothing to do with how many or few cooldowns were used.
Here's an example – we did an exploratory raid a week ago and did Stone Guard. We wiped a number of times because we were getting destroyed by the Overload. Some people have the reaction "Aah! Damage! Assign more stuff!" I don't have that reaction. My reaction is that the Petrifications and the Overloads aren't lining up correctly. The raid should be taking ~25k each from Overloads, not ~125k – this is what needs to be fixed, it's not a problem that's solved by throwing healer cooldowns at it. The healers should be able to handle a bad Overload or two by popping a Tranq or a Hymn after it hits but, in my opinion, cooldowns shouldn't be assigned around the expectation of poor execution.
Some organization is necessary. Certain abilities require cooldowns so we can get through them and you don't want 6 healers blowing their loads at once and having nothing left when the next big damage ability comes around.
Then again, there's something to be said for people thinking for themselves. Have a damage mitigation ability that would be helpful? Use it before raid-wide damage and use it often. Have a big heal? Use it when lots of people are low on health and healer mana is running low.
I'm looking for some other perspectives. If you are a healing lead or raid lead how do you handle these kinds of assignments? Do you assign ALL the cooldowns? Do you just assign a few of the big ones? Do you change your assignments to make up for mechanics being missed or players taking too much avoidable damage, or do you expect those things to be fixed rather than try to bandage them with cooldowns?


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Deval Patrick DNC speech (text, video)
Good evening, Democrats! Are you fired up? Are you ready to go? I hope so.
This is the election of a lifetime. Because more than any one candidate or policy, what's at stake is the American dream. That dream—the ability to imagine a better way for ourselves and our families and then reach for it—is central to who we are and what we stand for as a nation. Whether that dream endures for another generation depends on you and me. It depends on who leads us, too.
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In Massachusetts, we know Mitt Romney. By the time he left office, Massachusetts was 47th in the nation in job creation—during better economic times—and household income in our state was declining. He cut education deeper than anywhere else in America. Roads and bridges were crumbling. Business taxes were up, and business confidence was down. Our clean energy potential was stalled. And we had a structural budget deficit. Mitt Romney talks a lot about all the things he's fixed. I can tell you that Massachusetts wasn't one of them. He's a fine fellow and a great salesman, but as governor he was more interested in having the job than doing it.
When I came to office, we set out on a different course: investing in ourselves and our future. And today Massachusetts leads the nation in economic competitiveness, student achievement, health care coverage, life sciences and biotech, energy efficiency and veterans' services. Today, with the help of the Obama administration, we are rebuilding our roads and bridges and expanding broadband access. Today we're out of the deficit hole Mr. Romney left, and we've achieved the highest bond rating in our history. Today—with labor at the table—we've made the reforms in our pension and benefits systems, our schools, our transportation system and more that Mr. Romney only talked about. And today in Massachusetts, you can also marry whomever you love. We have much more still to do. But we are on a better track because we placed our faith not in trickle-down fantasies and divisive rhetoric but in our values and common sense.
The same choice faces the nation today. All that today's Republicans are saying is that if we just shrink government, cut taxes, crush unions and wait, all will be well. Never mind that those are the very policies that got us into recession to begin with! Never mind that not one of the governors who preached that gospel in Tampa last week has the results to show for it. But we Democrats owe America more than a strong argument for what we are against. We need to be just as strong about what we are for.
The question is: What do we believe? We believe in an economy that grows opportunity out to the middle class and the marginalized, not just up to the well connected. We believe that freedom means keeping government out of our most private affairs, including out of a woman's decision whether to keep an unwanted pregnancy and everybody's decision about whom to marry. We believe that we owe the next generation a better country than we found and that every American has a stake in that. We believe that in times like these we should turn to each other, not on each other. We believe that government has a role to play, not in solving every problem in everybody's life but in helping people help themselves to the American dream. That's what Democrats believe.
If we want to win elections in November and keep our country moving forward, if we want to earn the privilege to lead, it's time for Democrats to stiffen our backbone and stand up for what we believe. Quit waiting for pundits or polls or super PACs to tell us who the next president or senator or congressman is going to be. We're Americans.
We shape our own future. Let's start by standing up for President Barack Obama.


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MQSeries::FDC::Parser -- Parse a portion of an MQSeries FDC file and return parsed Entry objects.
use MQSeries::FDC::Parser;
my $parser = MQSeries::FDC::Parser->new("AMQ09151.0.FDC");
open (FDC, '<', "/var/mqm/errors/AMQ09151.0.FDC");
local $/;
my @entries = $parser->parse_data(<FDC>);
close FDC;
The MQSeries::FDC::Parser class is typically not used directly, but invoked through the MQSeries::FDC::Tail class. When used directly, it can be used to parse a (possibly archived) FDC file and return an array of neatly-parsed MQSeries::FDC::Entry objects.
This class will try and deal with the vagaries of error-log processing, chief of which is that the MQSeries FDC is not written to in an atomic fashion, meaning that some error-log entries may be incomplete. In this case, the incomplete part is saved and prefixed to the data supplied in the next call. For this reason, you must create an individual Parser object for each file that is processed.
Create a new MQSeries::ErrorLog::Parser object. The constructor takes the filename as its argument; this filename is only used for error messages.
Parse a chunk of text with one or more FDC entries and return individual parsed entries.
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Happily ever after? Not a likely scenario any time soon for the characters on "Grimm," but the fantasy/procedural hybrid's rabid legion of devoted fans will certainly be thrilled as the show returns after a lengthy hiatus.
Addressing the jaw-dropping moment of the fall finale – in which Nick (David Giuntoli) finally discovers the manipulated romance brewing between the treacherous Captain Renard (Sasha Roiz) and memory-addled Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch) – is where the season resumes. "This had to come to a head," says executive producer David Greenwalt. "We didn't want to just play it out forever between the two of them, because it is Nick's girl that Renard is messing around with – albeit under a spell."
The actors playing out the love triangle are thrilled to see it heat up. "I was very excited to finally have a confrontation," says Roiz. "We waited a season and a half to see what will transpire when he finally discovers, and it's going to be a powder keg." "It comes to blows," adds Giuntoli, "and he has a bit of a height advantage on me, but I had a rage advantage on him."
Tulloch suggests she'll also be getting physical –in a different way – with one of her suitors. "In addition to the kerfuffle between these handsome men," she says, "there was also a bedroom scene that was so intense that it required a stunt coordinator and hours of rehearsal, which is really, really fun and crazy."
Now that Claire Coffee has been upgraded to series regular as lawyer/recovering Hexenbiest Adalind Schade, the actress promises that her hard-edged character will continue to have a bad attitude in her quest for vengeance, "bitchier beyond my wildest dreams, in fact," she adds with a laugh. "I've been doing a lot of reading and research about psychopaths, because she's fueled mostly by ambition: you get one thing, you want the next thing. She doesn't have a lot of friends, and so far I don't think she's focused on that. She's more focused on this supreme amount of power that she has in her mind."
And then there's the not-so-monstrous Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell), and his back-on-track romance with just returned Rosalee (Bree Turner). "I feel like I'm having more fun than a guy should have," says Mitchell of his passion for the series. "I love the stories that the writers are writing. I love the themes. I think they're really pertinent and they're handled in a very delightful way. There's dark, there's light, there's a gallows humor thanks to these guys, and we're dealing with crime and real stuff – there's nothing I don't like about this situation."
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