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But what, exactly, is Universal Music accomplishing by hassling a Pennsylvania mother over the use of a few seconds of ambient, garbled music to which they hold a copyright?
Intel on Thursday showed off a wireless electric power system that analysts say could revolutionize modern life by freeing devices from transformers and wall outlets.
In Internet forums, iTunes users complained they had been unable to download music since Monday. That was a day after the Art of Peace Foundation announced the release of "Songs for Tibet," with music by Sting, Alanis Morissette, Garbage and others, and a 15-minute talk by the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader.
Microsoft employees and partners including National Geographic had been tinkering with a private beta version of the technology. Microsoft was set to open Photosynth to the public late Wednesday, but on Thursday morning the working site had already been replaced by a page that displayed an apology.
Blog index/search engine.
Wireless carrier T-Mobile, playing catch-up with its U.S. competitors, announced Wednesday it had begun high-speed data service in the Twin Cities for those with compatible cell phones.
MySpace no longer is the one place to hang out online. Choices are rapidly expanding, and consumers can pick the sites that most closely match their own interests and attitudes.
The Minneapolis Wi-Fi network has reached a new stage: the beginning of normal operations. It has more than 10,000 customers, and as a result is operating at the financial break-even point for the first time, said network operator US Internet of Minnetonka.
Obama's campaign plans to break the news of the Democratic candidate's vice presidential pick to people who have signed up to receive e-mails and text messages from the campaign. It should give Obama's team access to tens of thousands of cell phone numbers that could be used to mobilize voters under 30 on Election Day.
Verizon and Google near a partnership deal, Intuit posts a wider-than-expected quarterly loss, and Apple is accused of false advertising. Jim Chesko has details.
Why are you stealing my games? It's a question asked recently by U.K. computer game developer Cliff Harris on his blog.
The volume of local searches continues growing, which means national-level search advertisers must develop strategic plans for incorporating local search into their national search programs. The benefit: lower cost leads with higher conversation rates.
Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week
Hyper-local search site CitySquares.com is the fastest growing search site, according to Quantcast. Launched in 2005, focusing on Boston, CitySquares opened up to more locations this past June. Now the site features 1.5 million businesses in New York City, eastern New York State and all of New England.
Lately, Google has had a global focus. Recently, they gave tips on developing a multi-lingual site. Now, they're enabling cross-language search in Google News.
The idea that surfing the web at work is taboo might largely be a myth. 57% of executives say it's alright that their employees browse non-work related websites during the work day, according to a survey by The Creative Group. 41% say it's not okay and 2% aren't sure.
Yahoo has released a new look for Site Explorer. Currently, the new version can be found at https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/new, but will be made default in the future.
The team at Google AdWords has announced that they will be rolling out improvements to Quality Score in the coming weeks. There are three major improvements to expect:
This session looks at the way publishers can generate revenue by carrying contextual ads offered by major networks and effective tactics for managing paid search in the contextual advertising arena. You'll hear from publishers delivering ads and those who manage contextual campaigns.
SES day three is over, well, day four is almost over now. Google News can be rejecting. Search Marketing Standard is sold. Google fixed the 404 widget. Google releases Java API update. Microsoft shuffles, while Yahoo loses. Yahoo Search goes iPhone. Yahoo tests new Site Explorer design.
Is the tech-savvy fashionista ready to shop by mobile phone? Polo Ralph Lauren Corp hopes so.
In 2008, the top four portals are projected to record 16.2% net growth (i.e., after traffic-acquisition costs) in online advertising – together accounting for more than $14 billion for the year.
Nearly two-thirds (64%) of business technology purchasers agree that being perceived as 'greenâ? helps their brand image, and the same percentage of affluent consumers (64%) say environmental considerations are a primary concern in their purchasing process, according to the Green TECHpulse '08 survey from Hansa|GCR.
Sprint will deliver live radio broadcasts of all NFL games, plus television broadcasts of eight Thursday night games on the NFL Network.
The downturned economy may have finally rocked the agency world, as industry execs observe a decline in client spending in all regions except emerging markets.
Microsoft is adding a new Search Business Group, which may indicate an increased sense of importance around certain search applications, such as mapping and geo-targeting.
P4P, which stands for Proactive network Provider Participation for P2P, is designed to alleviate some of the problems caused by rampant P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing provided by services like BitTorrent and Limewire.
So we're all awaiting, perhaps any minute now, the text message telling us who who Barack Obama has picked as a running mate. My guess is we will hear it today so the news cycle starts with today's evening news and dominates that weekend talking heads TV shows.
Don't let social media take control of your brand. Get back in the driver's seat through strategic widget development.
A Google clone highlights growing fears about the search engine, plus pre-roll makes a comeback, and the Olympics leave us wondering if there's really any gold for advertisers.
Experts say it's never wise to slash marketing budgets in difficult times. Rather, it's the time to define your niche and focus on the integrated marketing tactics that produce the best performance and ROI.
Growth of the Internet ad spend has risen quickly for several years, though many recent ad spending reports and forecasts show signs of a slowdown in the growth rate. An IDC Quarterly Wrap-Up Model report of the U.S. online advertising market details an advertising increase in spending, while slightly slower than in years past.
In its mission to make the world more connected, Facebook is helping its users connect more with its advertisers. The social networking site has begun testing a handful of new ad formats allowing users to interact with their Facebook friends within the ads themselves. The offerings are indicative of the ongoing challenge social sites are facing when it comes to monetizing the hordes of users and pages they generate. The firm is also unveiling new types of reporting to help advertisers recognize the value of being in front of its audience, beyond simple impressions and clicks.
Companies that ignore social media do so at their peril. That theme was repeated during four panel discussions this week at SES San Jose, where experts in social media and search marketing offered practical advice about how businesses should approach this evolving channel.
Trust is the backbone of customer satisfaction. And therein lies an interesting divergence between the general public's attitudes and perceptions toward search engines and search engine marketers' attitudes and perceptions. This divergence exposes a potential Achilles' heel for all the engines, especially Google.
The biggest problem facing online publishers and online broadcasters has nothing to do with Web 2.0, ad serving, SEO (define), Flash video, or audience fragmentation. This problem isn't new — it's been around since the mid-1990s when the Internet eclipsed proprietary services, such as Prodigy, CompuServe, and AOL, as what most people use online.
The single biggest problem facing online publishing/broadcasting: who gets paid the bulk of the money that consumers pay for online content.
This year, I'm the chair of the site design track for Online Market World in October. I'm particularly excited about the session, "The Seven Deadly Sins of Site Design." Today we'll talk about a few of these sins and what you can do about them.
Google is moving deeper into geo-aware waters with two new location-gathering API tools for developers. The company has expanded its Gears offline storage tool with a new Geolocation API and also beefed up its Ajax API to include an IP-to-geolocation discovery service. Both APIs are reminiscent of Yahoo's FireEagle platform and signal a clear trend ' tomorrow's web will know where you are.
We're referring to an educational comic strip (fat .pdf) on unlawful file sharing of music developed by judges and professors to teach students about the law and the courtroom experience.
Google Takes U.S. Share From Yahoo In July; Baidu Now Third Largest Search Engine In The World (ComScore)Google keeps gaining search market share in the U.S., but its global dominance is not as great as previously indicated. Last night, comScore released its search market share and query growth numbers for July and Lehman Brothers reported the numbers in a note this morning.
Today, we see the launch of Fwix, an aggregator that is taking a (thankfully) different approach. Fwix isn't concerned with your friends – instead, it keeps track of what's going on in your physical region. The site pulls data from over 30 APIs including Yelp, Twitter, and Eventful, with more on the way. Every 15 minutes it combs through thousands of potential stories, using a series of algorithms to determine what the hottest items are in your city – it's sort of like a regional News Feed.
This inbox item caught my eye. Ebay commissioned a survey on behalf of their fast growing Kijiji product (it competes with and engages in litigation with Craigslist).
Creating email spam lists is a multi-billion dollar business. Most webmail providers long ago closed a number of the more obvious methods spammers used to put together their lists in an automated way. One example – you don't get bounced email messages from webmail services for emails to address that don't exist. That way spammers can't verify if an email address is good unless they get a response (clicking the opt out link is one sinister method to verify an email is good) or include a tracking pixel.
For some reason 'Groupsâ? – a pretty standard feature in most social networks – seems to be giving LinkedIn more than a little bit of trouble. The site originally launched Groups without a search function, making it difficult to find groups that users were interested in. Last month, the site finally introduced a groups directory, but apparently the response has been too positive, leading LinkedIn to place restrictions on user accounts: the site has arbitrarily limited the number of groups each member can join to 50, and is doing users the courtesy of automatically dropping them from the most recent groups they've joined should they go over that limit.
Facebook is now the largest social network in the world. But they continue to trail MySpace by a massive 36 million users in the U.S., and at current growth rates it will take them 18 years to overtake them.
The Summit's theme was "unlocking innovation" and the speech talks about what user behavior tells us about the current climate for innovation. Horrigan argues that the great variety of user behavior presents opportunities for innovators and that, with the advent of the mobile internet, openness and security online are crucial to a healthy climate for innovation.
High definition "webisodes," RSS feeds, podcasts, and iTunes downloads will be integral elements of a new image-making campaign for the 256-year-old US Postal Service.
Just one day after the Federal Communications Commission released its official opinion and order regarding the cable provider's throttling practices, Comcast has changed its ways.
Customers are now buying more costly cell phones with features such as GPS, Bluetooth, and music enablement, not just in the US but worldwide, according to recent research by two industry analyst firms.
AT&T today launched ConnecTech, an in-home support team that deals with setup and repair of home media services, and not exclusively to AT&T customers.
The Internet is coming to your TV, reclaiming your split attention span from the other gadgets around the house. Intel announced its latest effort to power your living room yesterday with new media processors, reference designs, and software stacks that may eventually find their way into the cable boxes, Blu-ray players, and home media centers of 2010.
Even the biggest Websites do not have the reach of advertising networks. Google, viewed by 70% of US Internet users, was just ninth on the list of top ad-supported media properties and ad networks in July 2008 in terms of reach, according to comScore Media Metrix.
The proportion of US back-to-school shoppers who turn to the Internet will be the same this year as last, according to The NPD Group's "Back-to-School 2008" report. Nearly one out of five respondents said they would do some of their shopping online, the same percentage that said so in 2007.
The industry breakdown of ad placements and unit types and top 25 companies placing sponsored links. The data are provided by Nielsen Online.
Twitter was, perhaps, inevitable. It's a Web 2.0 service that allows users to let their social network know exactly what they're doing (or feeling or thinking or eating) at every minute of every day
Nearly 9 in 10 people exposed to advertising in healthcare facilities could recall at least one advertisement that they had seen during their visit or shift, according to a recent Health Media Network study conducted by Arbitron Inc.
The FCC has decided to launch a marketing effort "to increase awareness and educate consumers" about the Feb 17 conversion of televisions from analog to digital, featuring personal appearances from commissioners and teams of FCC representatives circulating 80 regions of the country
Online Job Searchers, those adults who have
conducted an employment search online during the past month, represent a youthful,
educated, racially diverse group, according to consumer and media research firm
Scarborough Research. Scarborough finds that Online Job Searchers are 62 percent
more likely than the total adult population to be ages 18-34; 23 percent more likely to
have at least some college education; and 47 percent more likely to be African-
Extreme Gamers spend an average of 45 hours a week playing video games and have purchased 24 titles in the past three months, according to Games Segmentation 2008, the most recent report from leading market research company, The NPD Group.
Some publishers are suspicious about the accuracy of panel-based measurement systems (e.g., comScore, Nielsen NetRatings), believing their count to be grossly underneath the real number of unique visitors to their sites.
The back-to-school season isn't just for kids. Now is the time for marketers to get a leg up against the competition and shake off the end-of-summer blues.
FTC Commish Says $77m Enough to Target Kids Online – ClickZ – News and expert advice for the digital marketer since 1997The Wall Street Journal today has an interview with Federal Trade Commissioner Jon Leibowitz regarding the agency's investigation into marketing to kids. One question deals with digital advertising in particular, and exemplifies how marketers are integrating on multiple platforms to reach kids.
Despite a weakening U.S. economy during the past year, the level of investment deals and acquisitions involving companies in the online advertising world have remained healthy, says a new report by ContentNext Media.
Today, there are 262 million domestic mobile subscribers, according to CTIA.org. In 2007, the teen market accounted for roughly 16 million subscribers, according to MultiMedia Intelligence, with 91 percent of females and 78 percent of males having cell phones.
Microsoft enlists Jerry Seinfeld in ad battle, Salesforce.com boosts profit but disappoints investors, and Intel and Yahoo team up to bring the Web to your TV. Jim Chesko reports.
The Federal Trade Commission has finalized new rules prohibiting telemarketers from calling consumers with recorded messages, known as robo-calls, unless consumers give their permission first. One exception to the new rules: political robo-calls.
In fact, most conversion actions are incremental micro-events that reduce friction and allow a visitor to continue moving toward your ultimate desired outcome. That outcome may not occur during their current visit — it may be delayed for months, or even years. The key criterion for defining conversion actions is that they must be measurable and have a clear value.
Ladies and gentlemen, another guide has seen the light of day! Hooray! Our newest debut is The Professional's Guide to Advanced Search Operators. Available in web and document format, it covers advanced searching and identifies various search operators that can help with competitive analysis, keyword research, site auditing, link building, and more. The guide also shares some valuable SEO tools available on the web.
When it comes to local advertising, the best conversions come from local media sites, such as newspaper and tv station sites, according to a new report from the Online Publishers Association (OPA). Local media sites see a higher percentage of visitors taking actions on local ads compared to a user review site or a portal.
As U.S. workers continue to check out the Olympics online during the work week, Yahoo is beating the competition in drawing eyes to its Olympic content. But if your in management, don't freak out. Peak time for your employees' daily Olympic fix is lunch time. Check out this data from Nielsen Online.
How do searchers interact with search engines? New research is constantly coming out revealing how searchers act. This session explores the latest studies and findings to provide tips and tactics for search marketers to consider.
Discover how search engines rely on link analysis as an important component for rank web pages. Learn also how to increase traffic to your site by building quality links in an appropriate manner.
How can you best tap into long tail terms? Are there targeting techniques you're overlooking? This session examines these and other techniques to help you get more out of paid search.
In what could be dire news for the world's #2 search provider, as Nielsen Online reports, Yahoo in July lost a full 11% of the US-based search traffic it had the previous year, down to only 17.4% of the nation's searches, or about 1.4 billion.
Three of American Airlines' routes out of New York will get in-flight Wi-Fi: Los Angeles, Miami, and San Francisco. The service will be available on all Boeing 767-200 planes in the fleet.
Two new AIM updates geared toward keeping the mobile user connected, were launched by AOL this morning: AIM Express (IE6 & 7, Firefox 2 & 3, and Safari 2 & 3) and AIM for Windows Mobile (5 & 6).
To remain competitive as user activity levels off, eBay has announced that Buy it Now sales will incur a reduced flat fee for an extended listing period.
In its latest Stop||Watch commercial rankings, TiVo found that, while viewers fast-forward through most paid advertisements, movie trailers are among the least skipped.
Bloggers have uncovered paperwork for two possible applications from Microsoft having to do with keeping the details of a user's browsing session private.
Today, IBM announced a $300 million investment around building upon its 154 existing data centers in 2008, with the addition of 13 new "Business Resilience" service delivery centers in ten countries, including the US.
If you own or run a website and are not following these six tactics for properly linking your website together then you're losing Google traffic as you read this. First some definitions. Internal linking is the links on your website that point to other pages within your same website. External linking is when you link to another website. Tactics are specific things to do to achieve desired results, or any mode of procedure for gaining advantage or success.
To successfully engage in Actionable Listening, the corporation must make an investment not only in Monitoring tools but in providing infrastructure changes that back-up the lip-service with speedy and effective results.
One of the biggest trends shaping technology today is called "cloud computing." Consumers and business are moving more of their data off their computers and into rich Internet applications that are available everywhere – e.g. "the cloud." You can experience this for yourself on sites like Yahoo Mail, Google Docs, Salesforce.com and Mint.com.
The majority of the UK's advertising growth in 2007 came on the Internet. Ofcom, the country's telecommunications authority, said in August 2008 that online ad spending had risen an average of 70.2% in each of the past five years, and reached £2.8 billion ($5.6 billion) last year.
It is a worldwide phenomenon predicted to generate $4.5 billion in 2012, up from $1.2 billion in 2008, according to In-Stat. The research company said the technology's mainstreaming would drive growth in what was once a plaything mainly for students and young adults.
Summer is the busiest time for car hire companies, and this applies to their websites as well. We've recently carried out some analysis of car hire search behaviour in the UK, and I wanted to share some of the key finding here.
After winning 8 gold medals, it is no surprise that Michael Phelps tops the list of most searched for Olympic athletes in the week to 16th August 2008. The following chart shows the five most searched for Olympic athletes last week – with searches for "Michael Phelps" more than three times higher than for "Shawn Johnson", the gold medal winning US gymnast.
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The wind howled outside my room and the tree branches crashed against the open window. I put down my pen and got up to shut the window and draw the curtains over it. The noise of the wind was muffled and I walked across my room to my desk. I sat down on my chair and went back to randomly doodling designs in my sketchpad, though I couldn't concentrate on it. I turned around and looked at the table beside my bed. My hands craved to open the drawer and my heart beat loudly in my chest. But I turned around and picked up the pen again, going back to doodling in my book pointlessly. But today had been a particularly tough day and I craved to lose track of it all. I wanted to disappear and let go of this world, even if it was only going to last for a few hours and it was going to bring me a step closer to death but I wanted it.
I stood abruptly and my chair fell over. Without picking it up, I quickly walked out of my room and made my way down the cavernous hallway. On either walls of the hallway, there was a mirror and I stopped in front of it. From my peripheral vision I could see myself, but I refused to turn and look at myself. I closed my eyes and breathed deeply. I started walking and made my way to the staircase. It was made entirely of stone and suspended in mid-air, just like my mother had always wanted. I climbed down the stairs and walked to the kitchen.
Everything in there was stainless steel and over-all it looked like it was taken out of an Ikea catalog. My mother always wanted the best and never settled for less. It didn't matter how much it cost. She always said that she and my father worked very hard to get where we are right now. She didn't indulge in much but her house had to be state-of-art.
Maria, the maid, looked up when I walked farther into the kitchen. She was busily preparing dinner. Maria was a heavy-set woman in her late thirties, who had never met a man to her liking so she didn't marry. She says if she finds her man too late, it will be fine, she can live her life without children.
"Miss Elizabeth, did you want something?" Maria asked me. I shook my head, sending my hair flying. I walked over to the sub-zero fridge and pulled it open. Then I took out the carton of chocolate milk and grabbed a glass. After placing the carton back in the fridge, I took a sip from my glass and walked out of the kitchen, leaving Maria to continue her work. Instead of going up to my room and being tempted again, I walked to the sitting room to watch TV.
Just as I sat down on the La-Z-Boy and reached for the remote, I heard voices coming from the hallway. I got up and moved closer to the wall and peeked into the hallway. I saw my parents walking towards the sitting room. Dad was dressed in a designer suit and Mom was wearing a grey dress with black stilettos and as always, the only accessory she was wearing was her wedding ring and watch.
"Lizzy," Mom said when she saw me. I stepped further into the hallway and Mom smiled. Her skin always had a healthy glow, which is why she never used any make-up. Her light brown hair was tied behind her head in a chic bun. They were the same color as mine. Mom was so proud of the fact that I was more like her than my father. I had the same exotic blue-green colored eyes like her, her small straight nose and high cheekbones. But looking alike is never the same as being alike and I was sure that I had let my mother down. I'd disappointed her.
"What's wrong?" I asked, looking between her and my father. My parents exchanged a quick glance but it wasn't quick enough. I saw it and my heart sunk inside my chest. There was definitely something wrong. But I couldn't imagine what it could have been. I was doing so much better now; at least I thought I was, though the worry never left my mother's blue eyes. They weren't quite green but they weren't entirely blue either. They were some exotic color of blue. I looked at Dad. His blue-grey eyes seemed so much darker now. His hair was a darker shade of brown than my mother's.
"Let's go into the sitting room," Dad said. So the three of us walked into the sitting room and I took my seat on the La-Z-Boy, while mom and dad sat down across from me.
"Is this about me?" I asked, fear encasing my heart. I knew I'd made mistakes but my parents had forgiven me. I guess I should have known it was too good to last long. I had hurt them so much.
"Oh honey, no," Mom said, taking my hand in hers and giving it a gentle squeeze. I relaxed a little but there was still something my parents were worried about.
"Sweetie, we recently took over a company in England and the company is in very bad condition and it requires your mother and I being there to fix it," Dad said. I stared at him and then at my mother. Did they just say what I think they said? I looked between the two of them; apparently yes, because they were both looking at me warily, waiting for my reaction.
"I know things were bad for a few years but I am not moving to England. However many issues I've had here, this is still my life and I'm not about to leave it and my best friend to start over in a new country in my senior year," I said. Mom and Dad exchanged worried glances. I knew I didn't deserve the best daughter of the year award but the punishment for that couldn't be uprooting me and asking me to leave behind home. This is the place where I felt safe, like the world couldn't reach out and touch me. I had nothing to worry about here.
"We were afraid you would say that, so we have another option," Mom said.
"I can move in with Kari?" I asked.
"No, the Sharma's don't have enough room since Karina's grandparents are visiting. They will be taking the spare room in the house," Mom said. I sat back against the chair, pouting. What other option was there besides moving to England? I suppose I could live there and a year goes by really fast when you have nothing to live for. I reached for the chocolate milk on the table and took two huge gulps.
"So what's the other option?" I asked, already knowing the answer.
"You remember our old college friends, don't you?" Dad asked. Old college friends? My parents had many old college friends but they'd lost touch with nearly all of them, all except two.
"The Burkes'?" I asked.
"Yes. Well, I talked to Regina and she said John and her would be happy to have you come live with them," Mom said. I don't know why, but I tried to sink in further against the chair. I wanted to disappear from the world entirely and this wasn't the first time I'd had such a feeling. Fortunately, now I knew what to do with such feelings instead of trying to bury them down until they made me want to kill myself. I had nothing against the Burke's. It was just that they had seven kids and all of them were boys; boys who were possessed by the devil at some point in their childhood. So basically, what my parents were saying was, either I could move to England, or I could move into a house of seven boys. And it wasn't that I didn't like the boys; the last time we'd met, we were little kids and they'd been like...like wild animals, and it had only been five of them. Now there were seven.
"So my two options are move to England or move into a house of seven boys that's roughly two hours away," I said, just to be sure I was getting things right. Mom and Dad nodded, their blue eyes trained on me, waiting for my answer.
"Do I have to decide right now?" I asked. Dad sighed.
"No, but soon," Mom said, with tears brimming in her eyes.
"Honey, we will miss you so much if you decide to stay," Dad said, taking my other hand into his. I blinked back the tears from my eyes and nodded. I'd never lived away from my parents. But I didn't want to move either. Why did this have to be so hard?


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More snow is heading our way and for one community in the Poconos, that means they'll be working late into the night to make room for the few more inches expected to fall.
Little by little, large piles of snow are scooped up, loaded into dump trucks and driven away in Stroudsburg.
Newswatch 16 found borough workers clearing mounds of snow from a parking lot downtown, all to make way for another round of winter.
"I'm not a snow person, sorry, don't like it. Sorry Poconos, sorry ski resorts," said Lynn Spieker of Reeders.
"I like it. I'll be skiing this week, so that's a good thing," said John Rutkowsky of Stroudsburg.
Whether you love snow or despise it, it's coming again.
Stroudsburg has declared a "Snow Emergency", meaning no parking allowed on streets marked as a "Snow Emergency Route" after 10:00 p.m. or driver's will risk getting towed.
"Stroud Area Regional Police have been great working with us and they usually get the cars towed before we get there," said Brian Bond, the Director of Public Works.
"They're doing a fine job, we just have to be patient. They can only work at their pace and we just have to make do," said Rutkowsky.
In the meantime, borough workers will be scooping up the snow, moving the snow and dumping the snow until the snow stops falling.
"We all have to be inconvenienced at one point or another, so it's got to be done," said Spieker.
Borough workers tell Newswatch 16: If your car is parked on a "Snow Emergency Route", move it before 10:00 p.m. Monday or risk getting towed.
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Earlier this year Microsoft released a major security update for Windows XP, which was designed to strengthen the operating system's defences against attack from viruses and hackers. One major part of the update was an improved version of its firewall software. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at antivirus firm Sophos, said the latest Bagle variants are designed to attack and disable Microsoft's new firewall application.


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Learn to Run 5K Clinic - Feb25 Week 8
This beginner-friendly, 8-week training program is designed to prepare participants to reach a distance of 5km.
Generally participants will begin at different levels of fitness and are encouraged to complete each training session to the best of their ability.
The Learn to Run 5K program is based on a run/walk progression, allowing you to run for 30 minutes at the end of the clinic. It is progressive and fun, and the amount of running done each week will increase by no more than 10% to help you achieve your goals and keep you injury free.
No past running experience is required. Weekly sessions will include talks covering training, gear and technique, followed by a group run session. A training plan will be provided to you at the first session outlining the entire clinic.
Cost: $40.
The clinic ends with participants completing MEC Langley Race One Langley City 5K on March 4th.
Clinic participants will receive a free entry into that event.
Clinics will run on Sunday mornings at 8 a.m. in Fort Langley in front of Lelam Cafe.


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Ryan Lochte's Business Meetings - Exclusive Details!
Ryan Lochte chats with some executives during a business meeting on Wednesday (August 29) in Los Angeles.
The 28-year-old Olympic gold medalist flew into town for the day after attending the Hennessy party the evening before in Chicago and we have all the exclusive details of his meetings!
After getting off the plane, Ryan met up with Rich Eisen of the NFL Network for an interview on The Rich Eisen Podcast (preview here) before heading off to his meetings.
First up was a meeting with Ryan Seacrest Productions to talk about a potential reality show. Next he met with Disney executives after stopping at In-N-Out burger for a quick lunch. Later he met with Warner Bros. excecutives to discuss television scripted and unscripted opportunities. Finally, he headed to the SLS hotel to meet with Ken Sunshine regarding publicity and Lionsgate executives with regard to his fitness DVD.
Ryan capped off his evening with a stop at Roscoe's Chicken n Waffles for the Carol C. Special before heading to the airport to catch the red eye flight home.
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One woman spoke the words so many people dream of saying and she did it in super style!
It happened during the Super Bowl, when 36-year-old Gwen Dean, a machine engineer from New York, popped up in a commercial with actor John Turturro. But she's not an actress, and the words she spoke are totally real.
Turturro said in the ad, "Let's talk about dreams, and the people who choose to pursue them! She's got a message for her boss, Ted, who's watching the game right now."
Dean the said, "Hi, Ted. I quit!"
Turturro replied, "She just quit her job."
Dean responded, "Yup!"
"In front of a hundred million people," said Turturro.
Dean then had these parting words, "Ciao, baby!"
The ad was for GoDaddy.com, which helped Dean set up her new business, PuppetsByGwen.com.
INSIDE EDITION's Paul Boyd asked, "After it aired, you actually emailed your boss and gave him two weeks' notice?"
Dean said, "Correct."
Boyd asked, "What was his reaction?"
"'Oh wow,' he texted me. He found it incredible, he congratulated me, he was laughing and laughing," she said.
Meanwhile, a Budweiser ad called "Puppy Love" was rated the best Super Bowl commercial in a USA Today survey.
Laura Petrecca, New York City Deputy Bureau Chief of USA Today told INSIDE EDITION, "That ad was a triple threat. Cute animals, a fantastic song and all-American imagery."
The runner-up was an ad called "Cowboy Kid," showing a little boy lassoing a bag of Doritos from his big brother.
Petrecca said, "Cowboy Kid did really well because it showed competition, which tied in with the Super Bowl."
What ads really succeed at the Super Bowl?
Petrecca said, "You have to tell a story, or pull at people's heartstrings."
Or give them a vicarious thrill, with words like Gwen Dean's, "I quit!"


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Volunteering in Botswana
There is no doubt that our typical North American "fur babies" lead pampered lives. As veterinarians it is a privilege to be able to help keep these loved members of your family healthy and happy and we truly appreciate and value the trust you place in our team. While there are pets in need right here at home, there is also a great need for veterinary care in many developing nations around the world. This year, Drs. Rob and Elaine Klemmensen, have made it a priority to volunteer their services with several international aid organizations for animals around the world including the Equitarian Initiative, World Vets and most recently, the Canadian Animal Assistance Team (CAAT).
Dr. Rob is returning this week from a 3 week volunteer trip to Maun Botswanna where CAAT has partnered with Maun Animal Welfare Society (MAWS) to run both a local veterinary clinic as well as a mobile clinic to more remote areas. The group consisting of two veterinarians and one veterinary technician from Canada as well as a number of dedicated local volunteers, provides a large variety of veterinary services from vaccination, sterilization, parasite control, treating illnesses and even more involved surgeries such as amputations, in what would be considered very basic conditions by our North American standards.
In addition to providing much needed veterinary care for the domestic dogs and cats of Botswana, the group also has an impact on the amazing and very valued wildlife in this country. Many of the diseases our domestic dogs and cats are susceptible to, can also be transmitted to the big cats, hyenas and wild dogs of Africa. By keeping the pet population healthier, the wild animals of Botswana benefit as well.
Dr. Rob had an amazing trip and hopes to make work with the CAAT and MAWS an ongoing commitment in years to come.


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In just a few days, the American Library Association (ALA) will kick off the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting conference in Seattle (the conference will run from January 25-29, 2013). To help library supporters get ready for the big event, Washington Office staffers prepared a list of sessions that conference-goers should know about before they get to the conference:
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Washington Office Update: What the Election Results Mean for Libraries: An Outlook for the New Congress
How are libraries going to be affected by the newly elected members of Congress? In what ways will the recent presidential and congressional elections impact library policies and legislation? On Saturday, January 26, 2013, Jennifer Duffy, senior editor of The Cook Political Report, will address library activists and detail the new political landscape during the ALA Washington Office Update session from 8:30—10:00a.m. in the Washington State Convention Center Room 602-603.
Duffy, who has accumulated more than 25 years of political campaign experience, is responsible for covering U.S. Senate and governor elections as the senior editor of the Cook Report. To help meeting attendees learn about library advocacy and the current political landscape, Duffy will discuss key characteristics about the new Congress, as well as share with library supporters ways to communicate in ways that will resonate with legislators and other decision makers.
Library supporters are encouraged to ask questions at the event and to discuss the latest issues. Additionally, ALA Washington Office staff will provide updates on a broad range of issues and announce the winners of the Madison, Oakley and Ray Patterson Awards.
Midwinter Meeting Copyright Session
On Saturday, January 26, 2013, from 10:30—11:30 a.m., in WSCC Room 604, the Washington office and the Committee on Legislation Copyright Subcommittee will host a panel discussion exploring the copyright landscape on Capitol Hill at the start of the 113th Congress. The outcome of the recent elections, as well as activity in the courts will be discussed. The focus of the discussion will be on the potential for legislation being introduced in response to the copyright case before the U.S. Supreme Court, Kirtsaeng vs. Wiley & Sons, Inc. At the center of the case is the first sale doctrine, which is also at the heart of what allows libraries to do what they do — lending books and other materials to the public.
Panelists include Kevin Smith, Scholarly Communications Officer, Duke University, Laura Quilter, Copyright and Information Policy Librarian, University of Massachusetts — Amherst, Vailey Oehlke, Director of Libraries, Multnomah County, OR, Lisa Macklin, Director of the Scholarly Communications Office, Emory University, and moderated by Nancy Kranich, Special Projects Librarian, Rutgers University.
E-books and Libraries: Where Do We Stand and Where Are We Going?
Over the past year, the American Library Association has taken significant steps to address the e-book lending issue affecting libraries, including the development of an e-book business models report and the implementation of an aggressive publicity campaign, among other tactics.
On Saturday, January 26, 2013, members of the ALA Digital Content Working Group (DCWG) will discuss ALA initiatives taken thus far–from reports and articles produced, to in-person discussions with publishers in visits to New York–and discuss ALA e-book policy strategies for the future. The session will be held in the Washington State Convention Center Room 602-603 from 1:00-2:30p.m.
The session will include a leading panel of experts and practitioners from the e-book publishing ecosystem that will illuminate policy priorities for ALA going forward. Panelists include: Matt Tempelis, cloud library business manager, 3M; George F. Coe, president of Library and Education, Baker & Taylor; and Jamie LaRue, director, Douglas County Libraries (Colorado).
Digital Literacy Forum: Setting the Agenda
On Saturday, January 26, 3:00-4:00p.m. in the Conference Center of the Washington State Convention Center room 304. Join members of OITP's Digital Literacy Task Force for an interactive discussion on their forthcoming report, a dissection of their National Conversations, and the first foray into developing a roadmap for future work. The Task Force invited public comment on the draft report and is developing a set of recommendations based on the report and member feedback. How can we ensure librarians continue to be leaders in the digital literacy arena? Contribute to this evolving conversation about digital literacy the role of libraries of all types.
Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013
Public Library Association Update
The Public Library Association (PLA) Digital Learning Center is an exciting initiative supported by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The Digital Learning Center will be an online resource for self-directed trainings for end-users to increase their digital literacy and for digital literacy trainers to share tools and best practices. PLA will host its PLA Update session on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, 10:30-11:30a.m. (in room WCC 604). The session will feature national survey results on digital literacy practices in public libraries and wire frames and user flows of a Digital Learning Center beta website.
Most importantly the update will offer attendees the opportunity to provide feedback and professional insight on the early development of this valuable project. A "question-and-answer" session–which will feature Jamie Hollier, PLA's Digital Learning Center project manager–will follow the PLA update session from 12:00-1:00p.m. in the Washington Convention Center Networking Uncommons area.
To learn more about these sessions, visit www.districtdispatch.org/alamw13
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Was The Grim Reaper Spotted At An Albuquerque Cemetery?
While people were waiting for the Supermoon, something else more other worldly was happening at a cemetery in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Albuquerque's KRQE reported that on Sunday night, people were preparing for the Supermoon that was going to be happening in the evening, many getting their phones out to take an epic selfie with the moon. In Albuquerque however, residents got the chance to take a picture of something more unusual. A hooded, dark figure was seen at the San Jose del El Rasario cemetery off of I-25 by Gibson. Commuters began pulling off of the freeway, off ramp and nearby roads to stop and stare at the figure. The person was wearing a white dress, covered by a black cloak covering their face and was holding a bouquet of freshly picked wildflowers. Witnesses also said that the Albuquerque Fire Department and Police Department responded to calls about the person but both are not commenting on the situation.
What do you think? Was the Grim Reaper really at a cemetery in Albuquerque? Or was this just a slow news day in Northern New Mexico?


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African Mahogany Guitar Set
African Mahogany has all the characteristics of a great tonewood; its weight and strength allow for well-defined ranges of tone as well as strong volume.
If you're looking for that special back and side set with the "vintage look" and "feel" you'd expect from old growth wood, look no further. We have available in a limited number of sets, 50 to 60 year old African Mahogany.
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We know you're all good, apple-pie-eatin', Mom-lovin', gas-guzzlin' Americans, but patriotism doesn't mandate that you pay more in taxes than necessary. Unfortunately, that might be what you're doing, according to a study last year by mutual fund info-snooper Lipper.
According to the study, almost one-fourth of the typical mutual fund's returns are consumed by taxes. We're talking about the capital gains and income distributions made by funds each year to shareholders. When you sell the fund, you'll have to pay additional capital gains (assuming you made a profit, which -- historians tell us -- did happen in the stock market sometime ago).
But don't despair, all ye fund-lubbers. Thanks to the Mutual Fund Tax Awareness Act of 2000 (which didn't take effect until 2002), fund families must provide the after-tax returns in their prospectuses. These returns will be based on the top tax bracket, so those numbers won't be as bad for most people. And if the fund is in a tax-friendly account such as an IRA, taxes aren't a consideration at all.
But if you have mutual funds in a taxable account, here are some ways to keep more of your money by giving less to Uncle Sam:
Invest in index funds: Not only do index funds charge virtually nothing in fees (0.2% to 0.4%, compared to the industry average of 1.25%), but the turnover is very low.
Choose individual stocks: If you're comfortable evaluating businesses, then buying and holding the stocks of good companies is very tax-efficient. It can also be cheap, if you use a discount broker or a dividend reinvestment plan.
Look for tax-efficient funds: These are funds that seek to mitigate the damage wreaked by taxes. According to the Lipper study, the after-tax returns of tax-efficient funds led the pack in many categories.
Keep funds in IRAs: If you're infatuated (trust us, it's not love) with a fund that has a so-so after-tax record, keep it in an IRA, where earnings are tax-deferred or tax-free (depending on if it's a traditional IRA or a Roth, respectively).
- Don't invest in a fund right before distributions: It doesn't matter how long you've held the fund; if you're an owner on distribution day, you'll have to pay the taxes, even if you got in just a week before. Call the fund family and inquire about distribution plans before investing. Most funds distribute income and capital gains toward the end of the year, but distributions occur at other times, too.
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Five Hilarious Movie Related Pranks [VIDEO]
The Canadian hidden camera show "Just For Laughs: Gags" has a new season set to air early next year, and it promises to be loaded with more pranks and laughs that we've come to know and love. This time around, we present a collection of movie related pranks spoofing everything from "Jaws" to "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels." Take the jump and have a few laughs on us!


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Five Things You Need to Know: Boom Over, 50 Basis Points, RUBLE not Rubble, Hindi Rider, Orgasmatron
What you need to know (and what it means)!
Minyanville's Five Things You Need to Know to stay ahead of the pack on Wall Street:
1. Good News! Economic "Boom" Over.
In the linear world, we could conclude that today's "weak" jobs report is just what equities and bonds needed.
- Headline: "Jobs Growth Falters in May; Futures Bounce On Fed Rate Hike Pause"
- True enough, the 75,000 jobs created in May was apparently the lowest since last October. Also, job gains in February and March were revised lower.
- This is all seen as "good" news for financial markets because it allows the Fed room to "cut rates" at the next meeting, and causes a bit of unwind in Fed Funds futures, which as of last night were pricing in a better than 70% probability of another 25 basis points hike.
- Wait, did you say "cut rates"?
- Yes. When you're in a cycle where 16 consecutive 25 basis point rate hikes becomes the norm, a pause at 17 is as good as cut in our book.
- Meanwhile, despite the new probabilities that the Fed indeed takes a "breather" at 17, look for the coming shift in inflation expectations to shift to outright deflation concerns as the housing unwind continues.
2. 50 Basis Points
The Economic Cycle Research Institute index of eurozone inflation showed underlying price pressures in the euro zone have reached a 5-1/2 year high.
- The institute's Eurozone Future Inflation Gauge (EZFIG) rose to 103.4 in April from March's 102.2.
- The ECRI inflation index reportedly attempts to anticipate cyclical swings in inflation rates by measuring underlying inflationary pressures, rather than actual inflation rates.
- Eurozone consumer prices, reported earlier this week, showed annual euro zone inflation at a higher-than-expected 2.5 percent in May.
- Although everyone expects the ECB to raise rates at its meeting next week (June 8), there is growing speculation, namely, by us, that the data is suggesting the ECB hikes by a greater-than-expected 50 basis points.
- On a somewhat related note, the ECRI also has a similar inflation index for Japan. And surprise, surprise, it was flat at 98.6, and actually down from February's eight-year high of 98.9 - which isn't saying much.
3. Russian Rubble Rises to Six-Year High
According to a report from Bloomberg, Russia's rubble has risen to a six-year high.
- For reasons that remain unclear, rubble in Russia has risen by nearly 7 percent compared to...what? Hold on just a second, MV Staff is saying something to me.
- What! What! I told you never to interrupt me when I'm doing Five Things. What is it!
- Oh. Yes, I see what you mean. I agree. It is a little embarrassing, yes.
3. Russian RUBLE rises to Six-Year High
According to a report from Bloomberg, Russia's RUBLE has risen to a six-year high.
- The Russian RUBLE has risen to a six-year high against the dollar.
- The RUBLE has risen almost 7 percent against the dollar this year, while it has fallen a little more than 1 percent against the euro.
- Although the Bloomberg article indicated the Russian central bank is seeking a stronger currency to curb inflation, an article from the Moscow Times earlier this week caught our attention:
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Currency Controls to Be Scrapped
By Artyom Danielyan and Gleb Bryanski
The Central Bank said on Tuesday that it would scrap currency reserve requirements and special accounts on July 1 in a further step toward Russia's goal of making the ruble fully convertible. President Vladimir Putin this month gave the government until July 1 to complete its work on ruble convertibility.
- What is currency convertibility? Convertibility refers to the ease with which a currency can be converted into another currency... or even (gulp) gold.
- For many, many years, the RUBLE has been inconvertible, not traded outside of Russia.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin had previously set a goal of RUBLE convertibility by Jan. 1, 2007, but recently moved it forward to July 1.
- The major restrictions on the RUBLE still in place affect foreign loans to Russian companies and foreign investments in Russian securities.
- Of course, inflation remains a significant barrier to true convertibility that is not strictly "formal." In other words, simply removing convertibility restrictions is not enough to stimulate convertibility in terms of foreign demand.
- What might stimulate foreign demand? Hmmm, a weak or unstable dollar might stimulate demand.
- Also, did you catch this item from last week? The Russian Trading System, Russia's premier stock market, announced Monday that it would start trading in gold, oil and oil products on June 8, according to Novosti.
Russian rubble, not RUBLE
4. A Man Went Looking For India... and Couldn't Find it Anywhere.
Pulled into Bangalore, was feeling 'bout half-past dead. Just need some place, where I could lay my head. "Hey, mister, can you tell me, mujhe kahan jaana chahiye to find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand, and "Nahin!", was all he said.
- India has 500 million
hippiespeople under the age of 25 who want to head out on the highway, looking for adventure and whatever comes their way. Harley Davidson has a plan to profit from it.
- Harley executives have been holding discussions with Indian officials, looking to get past the two major barriers to the motorcycle manufacturer entering India - strict emissions standards and extraordinarily high tariffs of more than 90%.
- Harley Davidson, which reported global revenues of $5.34 billion in 2005 and net income of $960 million, has been focusing on foreign markets (it recently opened a dealership in Beijing), and CEO Jim Ziemer has said that he believes international sales growth will continue to outpace domestic growth.
- According to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), motorcycle sales increased by 17.1% in 2005 and reached 5.8 million units, representing a market of nearly $4 billion, according to the Asia Times.
- What the Harley Davidson brand might represent to Indians remains unclear. In America, it represents freedom. But, according to George Hanson, representing freedom and actually being free are two different things. "I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace," Hanson said. "Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are. Oh, yeah, they're gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em."
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5. Orgasmatron
Today is the first, and probably the last, time that Minyanville's Five Things will use the word "orgasm" in a sentence.
- Dr. Stuart Meloy, while working on a device to treat chronic pain (yeah, right), accidentally discovered that the pain relief device can also cause an orgasm in female patients.
- According to ABC News, Dr. Meloy said, "The device is the use of a pre-existing device called a spinal cord stimulator," he said. "Instead of treating chronic pain with the stimulator, we're treating orgasmic dysfunction," he said.
- Meloy conducted a study of 11 women, six of which had never experienced an orgasm before and submitted his results for publication to the Journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. Also, Penthouse Forum.
- Meanwhile, a Texas company also claims to have invented a kind of Orgasmatron for women.
- Unfortunately, the device does not actually produce an orgasm the way Dr. Meloy's device does, it just gets a woman ready for an orgasm, the company claims. Bo-ring!
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Over the past year one thing I have been working on in all aspects of my horn playing is getting it right the first time, and every subsequent time. It is something then when I write it out it seems like common sense, but more often than not it seems that the process of "learning" invites in the possibility to make lazy mistakes. Expanding on what I wrote about last week in regards to interpreting the music into digestible and accessible fragments, this week when I took what I had learned and placed it back into the context of Nebadon I had to be very active in making sure I only allowed good habits and thoughtful actions into my playing.
What I mean by the above statement is that when I have a piece of music under control I will shift my focus to be more on musical elements, allowing the technical things to be driven more by the work that has been done to establish them. As I am still early on in the process of learning this work I have to be mindful to make sure that though I am pursuing musical things I cannot let mistakes happen, I have to remain in control and in anticipation of what could go wrong.
This is a concept I have worked on a great deal in my etude work this year that is having a great carry over to repertoire. To repeat, it is the process of being aware of my playing in a way that allows me to anticipate something coming up so I can act before the mistake happens. An example of this could be as such: My mid-low register is not responding as quickly as usual, so in my approach I need to take this into account so I can adjust the equation of air/attack/volume/etc. to make sure that the notes come out.
There could be an argument made (as I have heard it made in the past) that we should always be striving for musicality. I agree with this 100% but, that can't be an excuse to allow mistakes to happen, if you have a great phrase and you chip a couple notes and are out of tune I do not believe that your musical line will come across. All things in balance.


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Villager photos by Joshua Kristal
Pict. 1: Wilfred Moore, deacon of Gethsemane Garden Baptist Church, at Sunday services
Pict. 2: Sharing faith at The Graffiti Church
Pict. 3: Moved by the spirit at Gethsemane Garden Baptist Church
Pict. 4: At The Graffiti Church, a young worshipers tattoo mixes current realities and biblical prophecy
Hold the beer, say a prayer; Block bucks trend with 5 churches, (gasp!) only 2 bars
By Lesley Sussman
In a neighborhood where three or more drinking establishments per block is not all that unusual, E. Seventh St. between Avenues B and C doesnt seem to be in that kind of spirit.
Instead of the usual assortment of drinking establishments, five religious institutions hold sway here, making it the kind of block that would most certainly give any cocktail hour devotee the shakes.
Its a blessing, said Wilfred Moore, deacon of the Gethsemane Garden Baptist Church, at 223 E. Seventh St. I dont have a problem with the number of churches on this block because were outnumbered, anyhow.
Standing in the spacious and modern-looking sanctuary where he had just finished leading a Bible-study class, the baldish, African-American church leader added that he wishes the neighborhood had more streets like this one.
All you have to do is walk up and down the avenues in the East Village and you hardly see any churches at all theyre mostly bars and even more are coming, he said. Id like to see more churches on the streets and the avenues.
Just down the block at The Church of God, 195 E. Seventh St., a narrow, hole-in-the-wall evangelical church that caters to a mostly Hispanic congregation, The Reverend Wilson Ramirez paused before services begin to contemplate the situation. He smiled and said that the street is a divinely ordained one.
Its not coincidence that there are so many churches here, the grey-haired, soft-spoken pastor asserted. The Lord wants this block to be something special to demonstrate a different way of life in the East Village besides drinking.
At the nearby East Seventh Baptist Church/Graffiti Community Ministries, at 205 E. Seventh St, better known in the neighborhood as The Graffiti Church, the Reverend Taylor Field was getting ready to conduct Sunday morning services and several baptisms in the contemporary sanctuary filled with rows of red chairs and tall potted palm plants.
The 3-year-old, brick-walled church, which occupies the site of a former abandoned Orthodox synagogue, is located on the ground level of a three-story edifice that was constructed mostly by volunteers. It is the first building built by the Southern Baptists in the entire area and offers a wide array of community programs, including feeding the homeless in Tompkins Square Park each Saturday.
The number of churches here just seems to have happened, said Field, a lanky, amiable pastor, who has not lost his native Oklahoma accent. Its a block where we can see the expression of Gods love in a tangible way.
At 184 E. Seventh St. is the East Seventh Baptist Ministry, a small storefront also operated by the Graffiti Church. The storefront was the original home of the Graffiti Church. Known locally as The Underground Church, it now offers Bible classes to runaways and others most likely not to step into a conventional church and also serves as a clothing distribution center for the needy.
Another major religious site just a block away is the 158-year-old St. Brigids Roman Catholic Church, at Eighth St. and Avenue B. But the Catholic Archdiocese of New York is bent on demolishing the empty building and says it will use the site for a Catholic charities or mission purpose. Even so, the church still makes its spiritual presence felt on Seventh St. with the St. Brigid School, which the archdiocese has said will keep operating as a Catholic school.
The fact that Seventh St. may not exactly be a pub-crawlers paradise doesnt perturb Satsko, the attractive owner of Sake Bar Satsko, 202 E. Seventh St. The establishment is a kitschy 60s-esque den with a few dining tables and a small bar area that seems almost out of place on this street.
Its a very blessed block, said Satsko. I always look at the cross on the church across the street and feel that way. Its a very special block and I always try to be a good and respectful neighbor.
Sylvester Schneider, owner of the highly-popular Zum Schneider Bavarian Biergarten, a German-style beer garden that hugs the corner of Seventh St. and Avenue C, said he likes having the churches as neighbors but wishes the worship crowd would loosen up a bit and come into his establishment after services to have a drink.
It couldnt hurt, he said. After all, it was the monks in Bavaria who invented beer, so its definitely a blessed substance.
Not all the residents of E. Seventh St. sing the praises of this confluence of churches.
Joan Eddings, 21, confesses that shed rather have more wining and dining establishments along the block and fewer Bible-toting neighbors.
Youre walking along minding your business and someones always saying God bless you, she griped. Eddings added that, Some people think its a blessed block because of the churches, but its the realtors who own property here who are truly blessed.
Another disgruntled block resident, Michael Shenker complained, There used to be a beautiful garden where they built Gethsemane Garden Baptist Church, and we lost it. Id prefer that we had kept that open space open rather than another church.
Offering an Old Testament perspective of the entire situation was Rabbi Pesach Ackerman of the Congregation Anshe Mesertiz, a historic, Orthodox synagogue more than 100 years old located on E. Sixth St.
Id prefer that there be five synagogues on Seventh St. rather than churches, he said. But, all in all, its not a bad situation. It couldve been five banks. But God had other plans.
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- outscored12-1 over the final seven frames en route to a 15-4 win over the Jaguars Wednesday at Ray E. Didier Field.
NSU (17-18) pounded out 16 hits, led by Keith Cormier who went 4-for-5 with two doubles, one home run, three RBI and three runs scored. Tyler Duplantis finished 2-for-4 with three RBI and two runs scored.
South Alabama (15-17) jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Adam Ballew and Cameron Cummings led off the game with consecutive singles. Cole Gleason followed with a walk to load the bases with no outs. Hayden Jones followed with an RBI single to left field to score Ballew and give the Jags a 1-0 lead. Matt Wojciechowski followed with a sacrifice fly to center field to plate Cummings and double the USA lead to 2-0. Justin Cullifer delivered a one-out RBI single to left field later in the inning to score Gleason and extend the Jag lead to 3-0.
Nicholls State answered with three runs in the bottom of the first to tie the game. The Colonels cut the Jag lead to 3-2 on a one-out, two-run home run to right field by Cormier. Justin Smith reached on a two-out walk, and Charles Morton followed with a double to left field to put two runners into scoring position. Tyler Duplantis then lifted a sacrifice fly to right field to score Smith and tie the game 3-3.
Duplantis gave the Colonels a 4-3 lead in the bottom of the third on an RBI fielder's choice.
The Colonels then posted a six-run fourth inning to take a seven-run lead. Phillip Lyons reached on a one-out single, and moved to third on a double to right-center field by Leo Vargas. A walk by Jaguar right-hander Matt Bell to Cormier loaded the bases for the Colonels. Smith followed with a sacrifice fly to right field to score Lyons and extend the NSU lead to 5-3. Morton reached on an error when Ballew dropped a two-out fly ball in center field to allow two runs to score and push the Colonel lead to 7-3. An RBI single by Duplantis gave NSU an 8-3 lead one batter later, before David Zorn's RBI single to right field later in the inning extended the NSU lead to 9-3. Christian Correa followed with an RBI double to the left-center gap to push the Colonel lead to 10-3.
Tanner Vandevere delivered a pinch-hit double to left field to lead off the bottom of the seventh, and later scored on an RBI single to center field by Vargas to extend the NSU lead to 11-3. Cormier followed with an RBI double to right-center field to push the Colonel lead to 12-3.
NSU added its final three runs in the bottom of the eighth. USA loaded the bases with two outs in the top of the ninth, and Cummings followed with an RBI single through the right side of the infield for the game's final run.
Cummings went 3-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored to lead the Jags at the plate. Gleason went 2-for-4 with one run, and Cullifer finished 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored.
Zach Thiac (2-2) earned the win in two scoreless relief innings for the Colonels. Matt Bell (2-5) took the loss in 2 2/3 relief innings, allowing two earned runs on eight hits with a walk and two strikeouts. Matt Peacock tossed 2 1/3 scoreless relief innings for USA, and finished with a pair of strikeouts.
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Rick Shaw
Ive tried and owned both platforms, and Im still more impressed with the Macs speed and ease of use when it comes to editing, graphics, and compositing. Part of my appreciation for the Mac is its elegant system and up-to-date processor. If youve ever used a G4, you know what Im talking about. After working on a PC, Ive come to appreciate the Mac for its ease of swapping files from one application to another, and the way I can stick any weird character into a file name and the Mac OS doesnt care. Also, when I am working late at night and end up with a computer error, its much easier for me to diagnose and fix a Mac problem than when Im working with Windows. Its also cool that Macs can easily read PC disks and open their files something that Windows machines still balk at. In general, I think Macs are more modern in their processes, so, in my opinion, they are a good choice for doing demanding jobs like hi-res video.
Faster than
you can imagine, Macs had I/O cards, compression, and editing technology
that seemed to virtually explode from Radius, SuperMac (eventually
acquired by Radius), Intelligent Resources, Truevision, RasterOps,
Immix (acquired by Scitex and then Àccom), Data Translation
(now Media 100), and Avid. All of these companies were in competition
on the Mac platform and the PC side of things, in comparison, was
rather lackluster and just gaining a foothold. Most of what was
happening in the development of compression, QuickTime, and video
I/O was first being tried and tested on the Mac.
When Apple
lost its luster in 1997, it looked as if it was down for the count.
Macs made by Apple were slower and more expensive than the Mac clones
that were prevalent at the time. The Amiga also was long gone and
most developers scrambled to port their products over to the PC.
Adobe, Avid, Media 100, and Newtek the key players in the
industry eventually came out with PC products. Most people
thought that Apple was losing it, while at the same time it was
leaving its real power users to struggle with computers that were
more expensive and less powerful than their PC counterparts. Thus
began the slide from Mac to PC.
We all know
the rest of the story. Steve Jobs came back and revamped Apple,
made sweeping changes, and restored the companys profitability.
Jobs also bought-out all the other company agreements that had been
manufacturing Mac clones, putting Apple back into the drivers
seat again. Then, Apple came out with the iMac, a Lee Iacocca-type
of company bailout. Jobs knew that Apple was making too many machines,
was confusing the marketplace, and needed to stay in step with the
innovations that were now emerging from the PC world. Apple seemed
to be going consumer, and so video pros again thought theyd
been abandoned. We all started looking at NT machines a lot more
closely. Things have changed once again and Final Cut Pro deserves
much of the credit.
versus M-JPEG Video
FireWire video
signals can utilize the built-in hard drive on most Macs. Currently,
a relatively quick IDE drive with enough space can handle DV video
on a Mac, and the G4 can accommodate 100GB of storage internally
without hanging on additional arrays. Thats quite a bit of
space for most people, and this setup is ideal for Final Cut Pro
or Adobe Premiere. The DV format is very forgiving.
Most composite,
S-Video, component analog, or uncompressed videocards require some
form of SCSI or Fibre Channel disk array because theyre digitizing
M-JPEG and not the DV format. Throughput issues then become very
important, which also includes how many channels of audio will be
digitized concurrently with the picture. Many times, this factor
is ignored. On an Avid Media Composer, you can digitize high-quality
M-JPEG video plus eight channels of 44.1kHz digital audio and this
requires a SCSI accelerator and a carefully matched disk array or
Fibre Channel setup. It raises the cost of the system, but the quality
is better than DV because video can be captured up to uncompressed
resolutions on systems that are so equipped. When all of it comes
together correctly, up to HD resolutions are possible. At HD levels,
Fibre Channel becomes a sensible requirement.
The next factor
that is important to video pros is the issue of realtime effects.
These become more difficult to achieve as less compression is used
because two or three streams of digitized video have to be manipulated
in realtime. This type of performance still requires serious hardware
and separates the semi-pro systems from those that are considerably
more expensive with a greater number of professional features. Realtime
effects also require software drivers that can actuate the components
on the board to assist in the process of producing the effect on
the designated video layer. Without this hardware and software link-up,
not much can take place.
As of the time
of this writing, Ive been promised by both the board manufacturers
and software developers, including Adobe for Premiere 6.0, that
all of this is currently being developed. However, realtime effects
at this price point will have to be seamless if theyre planning
on competing with the big boys. Currently, Avid, Media 100, and
Àccom are the undisputed leaders in creating systems for
the Mac that use realtime effects with keyframe capability. Those
three companies have had years to perfect the marriage of their
hardware and software, and theyve managed to make it work
at professional broadcast levels. Needless to say, this is the 21st
century and miracles can happen. Also, its not the time to
ignore what is going on with the new version of Premiere 6.0. While
Final Cut certainly has made a dent in the video market, it was
developed by the same guys that created Premiere. The ease of sliding
Adobe files from one application to another and the importance of
third-party plug-ins for Premiere is not something to be taken lightly,
even if Final Cut Pro is an exciting system.
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Contributing editor Rick Shaw is managing director of Z Post, a post house in Atlanta that specializes in nonlinear editing and digital media production for a variety of broadcast and corporate clients. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Although folklorists have been collecting and setting down in print bits of oral tradition such as nursery rhymes and fairy tales for hundreds of years, the earliest print appearance of "Ring Around the Rosie" did not occur until the publication of Kate Greenaway's Mother Goose or The Old Nursery Rhymes in 1881. For the "plague" explanation of "Ring Around the Rosie" to be true, we have to believe that children were reciting this nursery rhyme continuously for over five centuries, yet not one person in that five hundred year span found it popular enough to merit writing it down. (How anyone could credibly assert that a rhyme which didn't appear in print until 1881 actually "began about 1347" is a mystery. If the rhyme were really this old, then "Ring Around the Rosie" antedates even Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and therefore we would have examples of this rhyme in Middle English as well as Modern English forms.)


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Sericea lespedeza, commonly called Chinese bushclover or Chinese lespedeza, is a legume sometimes used as a cover crop. This perennial plant grows in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 5 through 11. In addition to providing forage for wildlife and a natural method of soil conservation, Chinese bushclover can help enrich your soil and reduce soil erosion. This plant can be invasive in some areas.
Time to Plant
Although Chinese bushclover seeds can germinate in late fall, planting them in spring allows them to reach maturity before freezing temperatures arrive. Spring is a common time to plant legumes for use as ground covers and for soil conservation. When using this legume to enhance soil nutrients before planting cool-season crops in spring, plant during late fall to give adequate time for growing and incorporating the vegetation into the existing soil.
Site Preparation
Although Chinese bushclover grows in a range of soil types, it does best in soils with a pH between 6.0 and 6.5. Test your soil's pH and add any soil amendments recommended by the soil test results, working them evenly throughout the soil. Smooth the surface of the planting site with a rake, filling in any dips that may hold water.
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When planting legume crops, you can inoculate your own seeds, a process that can be time-consuming and daunting. Inoculating seeds coats them in a substance that helps them germinate. Avoid this extra step by buying inoculated Chinese bushclover seeds. Make sure your seeds are less than 12 months old to ensure a good germination rate.
Sprinkle the Chinese bushclover seeds over the prepared bed. Rake the seeds into the soil, covering them with between 1/2 and 1 inch of soil. Gently press the surface of the soil to remove any small air pockets around the seeds. Spread a light layer of leaves or straw over the site to help keep the seedlings from drying out during germination, especially in windy, arid areas. Water the seeds gently with a fine spray. Keep the soil slightly damp throughout the first week to ensure adequate levels of moisture during early germination. Allow the surface of the soil to dry out slightly after germination, while still keeping the soil near the level of the roots slightly moist and cool.
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