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Alliance One411 Eagleview Blvd Suite 109 Exton, Pennsylvania U.S.A.
Alliance One company called me wanting me to locate a neighbor and pass on information Exton Pennsylvania
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What can I do to keep them from calling me? This is a first time call that I have received and I did look up their website and called the number on there to inform the person on the other end that I had better not receive any more calls from this company, to which, the women on the other end of the line, wanted me to give her my name, phone number, etc. and I informed her that I was not going to give her any information that I only wanted her to know that I was filing a company with the attorney general and of course that is when I heard the click of her hanging up.
how are collection (I assume that is what they are) companies allowed to call persons with the same street address as someone that owes them?
What can be done about this? Please advise.
Bowling Green,, Kentucky
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The good news is that any number that is not listed to the debtor's residence can be ceased verbally. That includes cellphone and work phone numbers that are valid for the debtor. Also, collectors are only supposed to leave a message on a third-party's machine or with a third-party once.
The thing about calling a collection company back to have them remove your number is that, well, you HAVE to give them your number or how else do you expect them to look it up in order to take it out? They already have your name and number and aren't looking to get money from you, so just verify with them that you don't want to be contacted because you don't know the debtor and your name will be taken out.
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As part of the US Army quality assurance program for human T-cell lymphotropic virus type III (HTLV-III) testing, we recently sent identical proficiency panels to five large commercial firms that offered HTLV-III Western blot testing on a fee-for-service basis. Each panel consisted of 15 samples from healthy, low-risk adults whose serum was repeatedly negative for HTLV-III antibodies and five samples from HTLVIII-infected (culture-documented) patients. By Western blot analysis, all five positive samples produced definite, but not strong, bands at 41 kilodaltons (kd) and other molecular weights characteristic of HTLV-III proteins.1Scores ranged from 85% to 100% accuracy (Table). Four of the five laboratories reported at least one falsepositive test result. The six falsepositive results were all on different normal specimens, suggesting that the errors were due to technique and not to intrinsic biologic properties of the specimens. There was a substantial range of clarity of the
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Four Reasons for Optimism
"The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals," by journalist Michael Pollan is a withering indictment of America's industrialized food system. Overdependent on one crop – corn – and propped up by disastrous mix of pesticides and long-distance food transportation, American agriculture has scarred the land and left its citizens overweight and undernourished.
But on May 2, 2007, at the "Fourth Annual Conference on Science and Nutrition," in San Diego, Calif. (co-sponsored by the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, which Dr. Weil co-directs) Pollan also sounded an optimistic note. "I do see a lot of hopeful trends in American food," he said. The best way to reform the system, he said, it to support positive movements such as these:
1. The rise of alternative agriculture. "Organic and local" are becoming powerful words in the American food marketplace, said Pollan. "More and more farmers are deciding to put quality above quantity. So there are choices out there that did not exist 30 years ago. These choices are in supermarkets now, but there are also new choices outside of supermarkets. There are over 4,000 farmers' markets; the number has doubled in 10 years."
2. The growth of an American food culture. Americans eat badly, Pollan said, largely because we lack a native food culture that anchors us to tried-and-true healthy eating patterns – consequently, we fall prey to fads pushed by processed food marketers. But in the 1970s, forward-thinking restaurateurs such as Alice Waters of Berkeley, California's Chez Panisse restaurant "began to create an American cuisine, one based fresh, local foods," Pollan said. "Now, there is a restaurant like that in every city in America; one based on quality ingredients rather than fancy technique."
3. Food is becoming prestigious. "You cannot overlook the importance of glamour in America," Pollan said. When Hollywood stars begin eating only organic food or free-range poultry, "it gets filtered through to the whole economy and the whole culture." One fortunate effect is that farming itself is becoming glamorous. "Now, the farmer's name is on the menu of the restaurant. Suddenly, becoming a farmer is a sort of cool occupation." Pollan added that, "The number of farmers has fallen in America since the turn of the last century, but it is finally ticking up now. The new farmers tend to run small operations, usually servicing farmers' markets" with quality food."
4. More Americans are engaged in food politics. "When I speak to large groups of people, I feel a real political energy around this issue." Pollan said. "People are realizing that two major problems come together with this food problem: the health issue and the environment issue. And it is something we can do something about. Every day, we get three votes on what we will eat, called breakfast, lunch and dinner. That's a great power, and people are starting to use it. Voting with your fork is catching on."
But Pollan added that consumer choice, "won't solve all of our problems….in the end, you need to vote with your vote as well as your fork." Specifically, Pollan urged audience members to weigh in on the Farm Bill, which will determine how tens of billions of tax dollars are spent. For more information on the bill and how you can help support the growing of nutritious, environmentally responsible food, visit the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy at www.iatp.org.
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Bradley, Provodnikov News and Notes From Aftermath
By Francisco Salazar
Some news and notes about the Timothy Bradley-Ruslan Provodnikov fight and the fallout from event …
- After his unanimous decision victory over Ruslan Provodnikov, Timothy Bradley admitted to HBO's Max Kellerman in a post-fight interview that he thought he suffered a concussion because of repeated blows to the head. Dr. Paul Wallace, a California State Athletic Commission physician, advised Boxingscene.com after the fight that Bradley was sent to the hospital for signs of amnesia and not a possible concussion.
During the interview with Kellerman, Bradley did admit that he could not remember certain sequences in the fight.
- Do not count on Provodnikov dropping down and facing the best fighters at 140 pounds. Trainer Freddie Roach stated to a few members of the press after the fight that Provodnikov will remain at 147 pounds. "It has been hard for him to cut weight to get to 140 pounds. He's not moving down."
That would make things interesting considering there is talk of Provodnikov fight the winner or loser of the Brandon Rios-Mike Alvarado fight on March 30th. Would either boxer make the move up in weight to fight Provodnikov?
- After Bradley recovers from the brutal bout against Provodnikov, he is sure to get another "beating" of sorts. Trainer Joel Diaz says that he is going to have a stern talk with Bradley when the time is appropriate. Diaz was upset Bradley fought against the fight to Provodnikov, but not to trade with the hard-hitting Russian.
"He's going to hear it from me," said Diaz, who has trained Bradley since 2004. "I kept yelling at him to not trade with him because he (Provodnikov) was hurting him. I kept telling him to box, move, and work from the outside."
- Promoter Artie Pellulo told Boxingscene.com that Provodnikov will be out of action six months. Not sure if he forecasted that time because of the cuts on Provodnikov's face or to recuperate from the energy expended from the fight.
- Attendance at the Home Depot Center was announced at 3,050.
Francisco A. Salazar has covered boxing in Southern California and abroad. His twitter handle is Salazar_soccer and could be reached at [email protected]
[QUOTE=tlarry;13162123]Certainly wasn't Bradley born to win. He's the right negro in the right place at the right time. They are going to get him seriously hurt expecting him to defend against top competition. Bradley wouldn't figth anyone before Pacquaio. He…Comment by ..David.. on 03-19-2013
props to both men say whatever you want about the judges but both showed tremendous heartComment by tlarry on 03-19-2013
[QUOTE=mathed;13161644]Still undefeated though huh? He is one lucky dude...guess some people were just born to win.[/QUOTE] Certainly wasn't Bradley born to win. He's the right negro in the right place at the right time. They are going to get him…Comment by Hougigo on 03-19-2013
[QUOTE=SlimTim;13161970]I don't care for Diaz, he's ready to stop fights too quickly and gives bad advice. That fight was considerably too close to tell Bradley to move and hold in the final round. You don't stop an even fight regardless…Comment by ИATAS on 03-19-2013
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Bruno's pharmacy to close with change in ownership
Published: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 at 5:40 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 at 5:40 p.m.
TUSCALOOSA | Wednesday is the last day Bruno's customers will have pharmacy services at the McFarland Boulevard supermarket.
After Wednesday prescriptions will be forwarded to Rite Aid stores in the area.
The pharmacies in all of the 57 stores owned by Birmingham-based Southern Family Markets, which are being bought by Belle Foods LLC, will be closed.
Four stores in the Tuscaloosa area — the Food World stores on Bear Creek Road, University Boulevard and McFarland Boulevard East in addition to Bruno's — are part of the acquisition, but Bruno's is the only store in Tuscaloosa with a pharmacy that is being closed.
Jonathan Harris, an official in the marketing department of Belle Foods, which also is based in Birmingham, said Belle is closing the pharmacy because the company is dedicated to food.
"We're focusing on our core business, which is obviously grocery," Harris said. "The changes (customers) will see in the coming weeks, I think they'll be pleased."
Not everyone, however, is happy about the move.
Morris Simon of Brookhaven said that he and his wife, Sherry, have used Bruno's pharmacy for about 30 years.
He said he was shocked to learn that the decision to shut the pharmacy was only made on Thursday, giving employees and customers one week to make arrangements.
"We just learned, like most other people did, that they're changing on the spur of the moment and we're going to have to change all our prescriptions on a moment's notice," said Simon, 71. He said the pharmacy employees at Bruno's have become "like family."
"To me, that's just an example of bottom-line mentality," Simon said, "and that's just incredibly stupid to do that to a staff that's been very attentive to the customers' needs."
According to several media reports, Belle Foods was formed earlier this year solely to acquire the stores from Southern Family Markets. The Associated Press said in February that Belle Foods LLC will take over stores in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi. Southern Family Markets operates Food World, Piggly Wiggly, Bruno's and Southern Family Market stores.
Belle Foods said it plans to offer jobs to current grocery store employees and work with unions.
The company was started by industry veteran Bill White, who is president and CEO, and his son, Jeff White, who serves as the administrative officer.
Supermarketnews.com reported in February that Jeff White said the company intends to keep all 57 stores open.
"We plan to operate all 57 stores going forward, with no plans for any closings," he told the website. "Hopefully, we can continue to make the stores profitable and possibly improve that a little bit."
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I uploaded my old wordpress blog files into my new server (with new /appropriate wp-config installed) and it's all up there except my posts.
I've gathered that I SHOULD have exported my posts into some file that I would be able to import them back into my new server but I have not done this and my old server is gone. I have backed up my entire blog directory folder which I figured that information would have been kept in.
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- Overview
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- Moving around the file system
- Creating and reading files
- Copying, moving, renaming, and deleting files and directories
- Creating hard links and symbolic links
- Understanding user identity, file ownership, and sudo
- Setting file permissions with alpha and octal notation
- Changing the PATH variable
- Using the command history
- Directing input and output
- Configuring the Unix working environment
- Searching and replacing using grep and regular expressions
- Manipulating text with tr, sed, and cut
- Integrating with the Finder, Spotlight, and AppleScript
Skill Level Beginner
In this movie, we are going to learn how to utilize the Unix command history. Early on in this training, we learned how to use the up arrow to go back and review commands that we had issued previously. We can then either reissue those commands or make edits to them. But what you may not have thought about is how does Unix remember those commands? Because even if we close the Terminal window, even if we shut down our Mac and reboot it, Unix still remembers what our previous commands are. So it must be keeping track of them somewhere, and it is. It does it inside a file and that file is inside our user directory, ls -la.
You can see it here. It's a dot file, bash_history. And this is where the bash shell stores its history of commands. We will take a look at the contents of that file. You will see that it lists our previous commands. It's just one line per command. Now yours is probably a lot longer than mine. I actually went in and edited mine to make it a lot shorter. I want you to notice something. If we hit our up arrow now, our last command was actually to look at the bash history and the command before that was to see what's in the directory and the command before that was to change to our user directory, but none of those are being reflected in this bash history file.
That's because bash writes to the bash history file whenever it quits. So once we quit the sessions, close out this window, it'll write our reset commands to that bash history file, and the next time we come in, bash will read the bash history to reload those commands and make sure that it has them in memory ready to go. Until then, until we quit, it just keeps them and holds on to the main memory. So, essentially these commands that we see here in this list are the commands that were issued prior to our current login. If we want to the full list of commands, then we need to issue the history command. Just simply history and then we will see a list.
What we are seeing here is a list of all previous commands, those that were in the bash history, plus the more recent ones. Notice that the list is numbered. We can use these reference numbers to do that command again. This is much easier if we have done a whole lot of things than hitting the up arrow over and over and over till you find the command that you did a long time ago. Then chances are if you're like me, you still will end up using that up arrow a lot of the time. There is something that was done a long time ago, you know, 50 commands ago, then just go to your history and look for it this way. So how do we reference these numbers? Well, there are some shortcut commands to work with the history and you can recognize them all easily, because they all start with the exclamation point.
Exclamation point followed by the number of the command that we want to execute. So for example, if we want to execute the calendar command, it's just !1, and there it is. It runs it. Notice that it first tells us what command it's actually doing and then it goes ahead and does it. Now, also I want you to notice, if you hit the up arrow, that we don't see the !1 anymore. That was just a shortcut, right. What we actually see is the command itself, which is really useful, because then, for example, we can edit this. So we wouldn't be able to edit it if we didn't have the actual command itself.
So I can make an edit here. I am just going to hit the down arrow without hitting Return. Okay, it's very important, because I want to show you something. So I have made a change to this line. Hit the down arrow again. Now let's type history one more time. Notice now that it does show that command that I just executed a moment ago, but it changed it. Now it says Cal 6 2008. So hitting the up arrow, making edits to command, it does change them in the history. And it includes an asterisk next to the number to let you know that it was edited. So even though that command never ran, it's in our history that way. All right, let me show you the next shortcut, which is to use the exclamation point and then a minus sign and then the number of commands back that we want to go.
So for example, if I want to run a command that was two commands ago, that one command back would be my history. Two commands back could be that cal command. I am going to hit Return and you will see what it does. It actually did this command, Cal 6 2008. Even though that's the amended command, it still does it. But the minus 2, you can do minus 3, minus 4 whatever, it's always relative to where you are now. If I do minus 2 now, it won't give me that cal again, right? It's a moving target. Now two commands back would be the history command.
So it's relative to where you are, how many commands back, but if you have done something, you do one command, you do two commands, you do three commands, you do the fourth command, and say, I want to do that, first one again, well, it's real easy just to say all right, I want to go back four commands and do that command that I did a moment ago. In most cases it's probably going to be easier to use the absolute id value instead of this relative one. Another nice shortcut is that we can actually use the exclamation point followed by alphanumeric characters and it will go back and try and find the command that begins with those characters.
So for example, you see up here that I have command number 10 is to evaluate this expression. If I type expr and then hit Return, that was the most recent command I did that began with expr. Now I didn't actually have to type the whole command. I could just type ex and it would have done the same thing. It again tells me what command it's issuing and then gives me the results of that command. That's a nice handy trick. So let's say that you added a file using nano and then you do a few other things and then you say oh you know what, I needed to edit that file again, well, if you haven't done another nano since then, you could just type !nano and you will be re-added in that file again.
Keep in mind of course, if you move around and change directories, then that command may not work the way it used to, because it's always being executed from where you are in the file system. So you might have to modify the path to the file that you want to edit in order to get it. There's another very useful shortcut that I use all the time and that's to use exclamation point, exclamation point. This is the same thing as doing exclamation point minus 1. Where it's most useful is let's say we were doing a chown and we are going to chown on unix files. Inside there we had a file called ownership.txt.
That in the ownership movie, we were talking about changing ownership of that file, but remember, operation not permitted. I can't do that. I need to do it with sudo in front of it. So it's a classic use case. We say sudo!!. Right? Saying no, I really mean it. Do the same command, but this time prefix it with sudo. See how that works? So it doesn't just execute the command. It's actually a reference to the command. I will use the up arrow, so I can change that ownership back. Notice that once again the command itself has changed so that now sudo is in front of it.
We are actually seeing the actual command itself, not sudo!!, which is perfect for a use case like this, where I want to go back and edit the line and re-execute it again. Another one that's really handy is exclamation point followed by a dollar sign. What that does is it references the arguments from the previous command, so let's say for example that I do nano and let's go in to my unix files and I am going to edit the file fruit.txt. Here is my file. I go in, I make some changes. When I am finally done, Ctrl+X and I exit out.
Then let's say I go, you know what, did I make change correctly? I want to look at my changes. I want to cat that file. Well, I could type the whole thing again, but I also can use exclamation point dollar sign and what that references is the arguments to the previous command. So, not the nano part, but the unixfile/fruit.txt. And there it is. See, here is the command that it actually executed. It shows you that first. That's what it did. it grabbed just this last part here and used it with the new command.
That's super handy because a lot of times, you want to have a file and you want to do several things to that file, right? You might want to move it and then you might want to copy it and then you might want to edit it. You can just keep using this to keep referring to that same file without typing it over and over again. You can read the man pages on history to see some of the other things you can do with it. I just want to give you a couple of options that are helpful. Let's say we have history and let's say that I want to get rid of a line. Let's say that this line 27 that's here. We have it twice. I want to delete that out of my history,. You can do that with -d and then the number, and now I want to do history again.
You will see that it's gone and everything shifted up one. So the numbers are not absolute. Each command is not completely bound to these numbers, but if we delete it, they shift up so that it doesn't leave a space. And if we want to clear all of our history, you can use history-C. That will clear it. Or you can just get rid of that bash history file. You can just remove the file. So just so you have a quick reference, here is a chart that shows where all of those shortcuts are, just so you can see them and refer to them. Make sure that you understand what they all do, and try and get used to using them, because they will make life easier.
You may feel a little odd at first, but if you get used to using them, I think you will find that they really speed things up for you a lot.


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- And old man with more beard than face spat a trail of baccy across the stump of a felled tree.
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As the excitement builds, fans may wonder what our chances might be against Choate's teams.
Re: "Re: 'Why We'd Rather Be Here Than Choate,'" Letter to the Editor, January 27, 2010
I would like to take a moment to consider the spirit behind the rivalry. I was shocked when I read the comparison between our Choate Day traditions and harassment practices of the Ku Klux Klan. I find it disturbing that someone perceives me and my peers as capable of such egregious acts of hatred as seen in the South during the height of the violence carried out by the Klan.
Re: "Why We'd Rather Be Here Than Choate," Sports, November 11, 2009
…holding a mock funeral for a Choatie and burning a giant C, in my opinion, come too close for comfort to being reminiscent of the lynchings and burnings of the South not many decades ago…
Letter from the Editor: Choate Controversy
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Letter to the Editor: Choate Controversy
I have just received the November 11 issue of The Scroll which does not express the Deerfield Academy I once knew. The juvenile article about Choate and its students is a fall from the grace I did not expect from The Scroll, the school and the students.
Sports Editorial: Choate Controversy
I feel it is my duty as the editor of the sports page to share some of my thoughts on the immediate criticism of and disdain for the unfortunately infamous "Choate quotes" article that was present in the November 11th issue of the Scroll.
Letter to the Editor: Choate Controversy
As a staff member and the parent of an alum, I found the tone and the sentiments inane and disappointing as well as just plain embarrassing, and I have to question the editorial decision-making process that chose to run this feature.
On November 14th, Choaties Shall Vanquished Be
As Mr. Davis put it, this year's event is "its own little chapter in the history of Deerfield-Choate rivalry."


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The mechanical aspects of rotary draw tube bending haven't changed since modern tooling was developed 50 years ago. Likewise, the role of the tooling (mandrel, pressure die, bend die, and wiper die) hasn't changed. However, tube fabricators these days have many choices in regard to the tooling, especially wiper dies. Choices include material, rake angle, and whether the wiper die's feathered edge is fully machined or honed by hand.
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Losing the game
"We will not go ahead with the poorly-targeted tax relief for the video games industry." Just one line in George Osborne's Budget speech yesterday sent an industry into despair. For years, the big guns of the games business have been in and out of Downing Street lobbying for help for their industry - and back in March when Alistair Darling finally delivered the tax relief they'd been asking for, the champagne corks were no doubt popping at developers and publishers across the UK.
Even after the arrival of the new government, the industry seemed convinced it was still in line for help. After all, the new digital minister was Ed Vaizey, who'd already promised a games industry conference back in March that tax breaks would be introduced in the Conservatives' first Budget. Perhaps ELSPA (Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association), the industry's main lobbying organisation, should have been listening a bit more carefully a couple of weeks ago when Mr Vaizey and his boss Jeremy Hunt seemed just a little more cautious about what the Budget would offer.
Anyway, yesterday ELSPA's boss Mike Rawlinson sounded like a bride jilted at the altar:
"Bearing in mind the pre election commitment towards tax breaks made by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats we are extremely disappointed by the outcome of today's Budget. Our industry will be rightly puzzled as to how tax breaks can be lauded before an election, only to be seen as 'poorly targeted' and scrapped just six weeks later."
But why should the games industry really expect special treatment at a time of huge strains on the nation's finances? The argument is that a vital creative industry which is a significant exporter is losing out because other countries, such as Canada, are using government money to lure games investment away from our firms. In Los Angeles last week at the E3 games event, I met leading British developers who accepted that tax breaks were bad for the industry as a whole - but argued that if others were playing that game, the UK could not afford to stand on the sidelines.
But if we do have such a thriving industry already, where's the evidence that it really needs propping up? TIGA, another industry lobbying group, put out a report earlier this month showing that UK developers were eager to export even more - but, of course, that would only happen if the tax relief was delivered. And like every industry down the ages, from coal to steel to cars, the games folks pushed the line that a little investment now would deliver a return for the Treasury in the long run: "TIGA's research shows that over a five year period it (tax relief) will generate £415 million in tax receipts for HM Treasury."
A Treasury which has heard those arguments many time before appears to have looked sceptically at those sums. But the games lobby had another, perhaps more powerful argument - if we are prepared to support the British film industry, now a minnow on the world stage, why not give similar help to an industry which has a far brighter future? I think that's to ignore the justification for the help to the film industry, which is there for cultural rather than economic reasons. In a movie industry still dominated by Hollywood, it would be hard for British films to make an impact without some support, though you can argue whether the likes of "Sex Lives of The Potato Men" are a great adornment to our unique cinematic heritage.
"We're part of the culture too!" is the response from UK games developers, but is there anything uniquely British developed here? The big winner at this year's games BAFTAs was Rocksteady's Batman: Arkham Asylum, and the big hits made by the leading independent developer Blitz Games Studios are based on American TV shows. Both are making excellent games but they hardly reek of Kentish Town or Leamington Spa, where they were made.
Still, the games industry will have another chance to put all of these arguments to a government minister next month. Ed Vaizey is speaking at the Develop conference in Brighton - he may want to sharpen up his first-person shooter skills in advance.
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Comment number 1.At 12:06 23rd Jun 2010, Neil Wilson wrote:
The problem with tax bungs for an specific industry is that the flip side is rarely reported - tax hikes for all other industries. What you give to the video games industry you have to remove from somewhere else.
Everybody loves a tax break if they can get it. The government should show some backbone and belief in a free market by resisting demand and eliminating economic distortions caused by bungs.
Comment number 2.At 13:19 23rd Jun 2010, Peter_Sym wrote:
#1 "The government should show some backbone and belief in a free market by resisting demand and eliminating economic distortions caused by bungs"
There's one flaw in that idea- the government can only legislate for Britain's 'free market'. Most industries and especially entertainment are global markets. If the US or French give their games makers 'bungs' then the "economic distortions" put ours out of business.
The real tragedy of this budget is thats its hitting industries that are a vital source of exports. Games like 'Tomb Raider' (invented in Derby) have generated millions of pounds in revenue for no 11. If Shefield Forgemasters hadn't had their loan (and I stress loan... not bung. It would have been repaid) for a 15,000 ton press cancelled by the govt they'd have been the world leader in producing the cores for nuclear reactors.
We have precious little manufacturing industry left. The tiny tax breaks they need are dwarfed by the £180bn benefit bill, yet our leaders prefer paying people not to work rather than using the money to create work.
Comment number 3.At 14:06 23rd Jun 2010, Chris wrote:
Games developers are businesses, right?
Well as a business they've had their tax burden reduced in the form of lower corporation tax, lower employer NI contributions. and if anyone was starting up in the business then outside of the South East the 1st 10 staff they take on they won't have to pay employer NI at all.
by the end of this Parliament the UK will have one of the lowest rates of Corporation (profit) tax in the world
And importantly so will all other business
Comment number 4.At 14:11 23rd Jun 2010, Chris wrote:
@ #2
A lower tax rate overall is preferable to specific tax incentives targeted at industries.
And with a lower tax on profits and a lower cost of employing people the UK may actually be more favourable to France & Canada which are currently offering games industry incentives.
In fact I'd like to hear about one big game that has come out of Canada (other than the FIFA series made by EA's Montreal studios, as that has always been developed their) None? So if I was a Canadian taxpayer I'd be demanding better value for my tax dollars
And the Sheffield Forgemasters wanted a loan because the new owners wanted to borrow money but not give up equity in the company... I'm sure every single business would want money and not have to give up equity, are tax payers going to fund them all? Of course not!
Comment number 5.At 14:18 23rd Jun 2010, Phil Collins wrote:
What so many people seem to miss is that so many great gaming titles have come from the Games Industry here in the UK.
As well was Tomb Raider, mentioned by "Peter_Sym" above, we have also produced almost the entire Grand Theft Auto series, the chart-hit Red Dead Redemption (in co-op with Rockstar San Diego). We've also created the Fable series through Lionhead Studios. Not forgetting the entire line of Donkey Kong Country for Nintendo, Perfect Dark and Viva Pinata.
In the UK we also produce the Crackdown series, about to get its sequel on the Xbox 360 ..
I know I've forgotten some other big titles too but what I'm saying is that here in the UK we produce some excellent "Triple-A" titles and some groundbreaking new IP's for the major publishers and manufactures. Yet the government still see it as a fledgling industry. The chancellor needs to realise that the games industry in the UK brings in more than the film industry.
Without the help companies will simply move to more profitable countries and we will lose our place in what is fast becoming the biggest entertainment industry on this planet. I thought the Tories/LibDems were planning for the future?
Comment number 6.At 15:09 23rd Jun 2010, Peter_Sym wrote:
#4 While I agree that lower tax rates in general are a good thing for business I wouldn't give up equity in a company for A LOAN either. Its not like Dragon's den where the money is invested. Forgemasters were meant to repay it with interest. Nor am I suggesting that taxpayers fund 'all businesses that want to borrow money'.... just the ones that will generate jobs, revenue and exports. With the trade deficit, budget deficit and unemployment as bad as it is its the governments DUTY to boost our exports and tax revenue and sensible investment in profitable industry is the best way to do that.
As for the quality of forgemasters products... ask Saddam. Only place in the world that can make an artillery gunbarrel 500metres long and capable of firing a shell the size of a phonebox! At least in some industries we're still world beating (and that IS a slightly tongue in cheek comment)
Comment number 7.At 17:52 23rd Jun 2010, Andy Moore wrote:
@ #4 > I'd like to hear about one big game
> that has come out of Canada (other that FIFA)
Most of Ubisofts games are developed in Montreal....
So how about the Prince of Persia games, or the Assassins Creed games, or the Tom Clancy Splinter Cell or Rainbox Six games? And this is from just ONE development studio in Canada. Ubisoft themselves are HQ'd in France, but do most of their dev in Canada because of the tax breaks...
In future Chris, speak up only when you know what you are talking about.
Comment number 8.At 19:21 23rd Jun 2010, MarkG wrote:
??? I don't quite understand how anyone can't work it out. Here is how it works (for all parties and ALL politicians)
Before Election:
Promise the earth
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Do What You Want
This is why I spoilt my vote this year. Neither the Conservatives OR Labour deserved it. They hand out cash to those on the take, at the expense of the working man.
Comment number 9.At 19:36 23rd Jun 2010, Si wrote:
Now, Rory, did you name this title so just to troll all the people still playing The Game?
Comment number 10.At 19:38 23rd Jun 2010, FraserC wrote:
@ no. 4
Ubisoft Montreal, as mentioned, makes a lot of big titles. There's also Bioware - Mass Effect, Dragon Age, KOTOR etc.
The problem is that decisions about the industry are being made by people - like Chris - with little knowledge of it.
With the video game industry in the UK producing triple A titles - many of which were shown off at E3 - and the historically dismissive attitude of politicians to the industry, it's likely Osborne simply thought the video game industry was an easy place to save money, without thinking it through as much as he should have.
Comment number 11.At 00:23 24th Jun 2010, Harry wrote:
Maybe they should bring out a fox hunting game. That would get the tories behind them.
Comment number 12.At 10:18 24th Jun 2010, Phil Collins wrote:
The situation is simple, (in terms of politics, it's exactly as #8, "MarkG" put it) our current government still regard the "Games Industry" as "teenagers in bedrooms".
The removal of the "poorly targetted" tax relief will come back and bite us as we will lose our place at the forefront of games development.
Can someone please introduce our current goverment to "the internet" before they decide we don't need that any more.
Comment number 13.At 11:51 24th Jun 2010, Mel0dymaker wrote:
The global gaming industry makes more money than music and film put together. I find it sad that they didn't do what they said they would do. GB has a fair few game developers. And an awful lot in the north of England which is where the tories said they want more economic infrastructure. It's a missed opportunity for the govt to get more people into work and encourage big gaming companies to develop more in the UK. Maybe even it will scare developers from the UK so we make less money.
Judging from the budget I think it will stifle regeneration in this country and we may see a summer of discontent if a General Election is not called by next summer. The rich really should of bailed us out on this one. I know it's a tory govt but the reality is that the average people in this country cannot afford to bail the country out AGAIN.
Comment number 14.At 12:11 24th Jun 2010, Daniel Walker wrote:
Coal, Steel and Cars are physically tied to the land on which they stand, which means that they can make a compelling argument that the nations which host them, could usefully assist them against unfair competition from similar plants in other nations. Even a films industry has a certain level of infrastructure, studios, locations, which tie it down, geographically.
Now, for the games industry, there are locations, like Warwick/Leamington, where games development has a long legacy, but this is often because people like the Oliver twins or the Stampers actually came from those areas, and chose to continue living there.
The industry has obviously moved on from the days when you could run such a business out of a dilapidated farmhouse in the middle of nowhere - but as a creative industry, it still stands or falls by the creativeness of it's people, and, not only can those people will move wherever the living is best for them, but Software is notoriously easy to outsource, to wherever the cheapest (although, in reality, seldom the best) developers can be had.
Even if the creative process is not outsourced (and it is arguable that compelling and attractive entertainment cannot be produced by the cheapest developers available in the cheapest country to be found - even if governments believe that other Software projects can be run in this way) Tax breaks will not make people any more creative, in the same way that tax breaks could help a steel mill afford a new press, or a car maker retool for a new assembly line.
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I was told the pillows were out of stock and asked If I would like to continue waiting for them. I said "No, we'd like a refund." The person with whom I spoke told me it would take 3 - 6 weeks to get a refund check by mail.
When the refund had not arrived by May 28, 2003 I called again and was told by "Doug" that he would put a note on his supervisor's desk and the matter would be investigated. However, despite my asking "Doug" twice how long this investigation would take he insisted he couldn't give me a timetable for the so-called investigation they were supposedly going to do. Naturally my father has not yet received his refund nor have we ever heard one word from Deer Creek.
I believe the reason "Doug" wouldn't give me a timetable is because Deer Creek has no intentions of returning the money they stole from my father. This became apparent to me when "Doug" calculated the refund and didn't include any shipping cost in the amount because he ordered a third item.
However, Deer Creek's shipping schedule indicates costs are incremental based on the size of the order. Therefore the Deer Creek crooks stole a minimum of $23.00 from my bedridden father.
My advice to anyone reading this report is to never order anything from the Deer Creek slimeballs and warn your friends not to order anything from them either.
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Another part of what got me excited for this week is that this is the one where we focus on the bedroom, which gives me an excuse to tackle my closet. I love a well organized closet. Rows of beautiful clothes organized by color and sleeve length… It borders on an obsession.
Day 9: Create a Landing Strip.
I already had a system in place with most of the key elements of a landing strip. The only problem? 90% of the time I just breezed right by it and tossed my stuff wherever, to be dealt with whenever. Which led to conversations like this, "I can't believe that check still hasn't come!" "Oh, honey, I think I saw it. Somewhere…" I added a few key elements to my landing strip: a place to put the mail and a catch-all for the odds and ends floating around in my purse.
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For my goal project I selected "Buy a few accessories and hang some art to make it feel a little more like home." I already have an entire apartment worth of stuff I really love sitting in a storage unit, so my goal was to find things that went with my stuff as well as the somebody else's stuff that I am actually living with. I also wanted to avoid spending a fortune or duplicating anything I already own. No big deal. Here's how I made out.
I've been checking out a lot of the local thrift shops lately to restock my prop cupboard for food photography. I expanded my search a bit and came up with two milk glass vases and a handful of brass candlesticks in various sizes. I cleaned them all up and now they're sitting pretty. I also discovered a nice quilt tucked away in the guest bedroom closet, laundered it and used it in my room. Finally I picked up a pretty pin tucked pillow to tie the bedroom together. Grand total, under $60, and I'm starting to feel much more at home.
Day 11: Try a Media Fast.
To be honest, I was dreading this one. Normally, I don't usually have too hard of a time unplugging from the outside world, but this week the boyfriend is away on business and it already feels way too quiet around here.
I decided to spend the evening the way that I loved to when I was living on my own in the city. I picked up some bubble bath, a magazine and a bottle of nail polish at the drugstore and had a little spa night. I think I might need to do this more often.
Day 12: Declutter Books and Media.
This is the first one that I found that I truly couldn't participate in. We have a grand total of 5 books in the temporary digs — not much to organize. I decided to follow this post's advice instead and use the time to get my digital life in order by organizing my Pinterest.
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Beyoncé has been hailed and awarded for pretty much every aspect of her skill as a musician, dancer, and actress, and compared to big diva names ranging from Diana Ross to Marilyn Monroe. What is about the super-poppy "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" that goes so perfectly with her ever-growing image as a contending queen of pop?
There's the female independence theme, and the perfection of the Sasha Fierce alter-ego. But for "Single Ladies," the outstanding feature—and the one that's gone beyond viral on the internet—is the music video. Shot in black and white in order to pair it with the video for "If I Were A Boy," the "Single Ladies" video features Beyoncé with two back-up dancers in black leotards doing an original dance that has become "the single ladies dance." As if we needed to tell you that.
And we probably also don't need to tell you that a gazillion people have made YouTube videos imitating the dance, and that of these gazillion, a few of them were very young children.
On top of that, you have probably already picked up on the fact that Justin Timberlake attempted the dance on Saturday Night Live, and that Kanye West made a fool of himself defending the music video at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.
We might need to tell you, however, that even President Barack Obama reputedly has his own version of the dance. At least, that's what he told Beyoncé when he met her backstage at his inauguration.
You know you're a big deal when everyone from small children to Barack Obama wants to be like you, and most of the rest of the country approves. For the time being, Beyoncé's calling card, perfected in the "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" music video, is being a ridiculously talented woman who is about as widely imitated as anyone in the world.


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What advice would you give someone starting this project? Watch lots of YouTube videos and do an invisible zipper. Don't try to get all fancy on the interfacing! My original dress, which I actually could've worn, was put back into my scrap box. I tried to use a contrasting fabric for the interfacings like I'd done with my mom's dress. Well, I chose a Batik wax-dyed quilt cotton that was much too stiff and heavy. By the time I realized this, I'd already done lots of understitching, etc., and I just couldn't save it.
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The cost of a parking permit is $50. That wouldn't be so bad, but it only covers one specific lot. Which means you can't drive across campus to get to class or rehearsal. And if you do get caught parked in a lot you aren't supposed to be in, you get very little warning before being towed.
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They continually told us that the faxes we sent never got there, or the information was old and had to be updated and we would have to start the entire process all over again. Then they would recommend another type of modification or another type of program they thought would help us. All we want to do is keep our home. Our interest rate is 7.25 and due to loss of income, the payments have been hard to keep up. If they would just modify the interest rate to something affordable, we could make the payments!
This home is more than just a house to us. My father was an underground copper miner for 35 yrs, and he and my mother scrimped and saved to be able to help us get this home. Both my parents have passed on now, but their last years were spent in this home. I raised my son in this home. Why can't someone help us?! I have never been so distressed and upset in my life. This home means everything to us. I finally looked up some information reguarding this mortgage company and they had approx. 1.2 million complaints against them. They have since changed their name to Homeward Residential. How convenient.
This company is impossible to deal with. They do not want you to save your home. They have a forclosure date for my home in exactly one month. Finallly, they have assigned us to a "relationship manager". The problem is we have been assigned to one before, and they could never be reached. All of our faxes, packets, everything sent by mail, have either not been recieved by the company or we "sent it to the wrong " place . 90% of our information was never recieved... however, when you are making a payment they have no problem receiving that. I hate this company. We are almost out of time. Someone please help us.
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