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Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
The genius behind Steve — The CEO is the heart and soul of Apple Inc. yet he's got a deep management bench from which to choose his eventual successor. — (Fortune Magazine) — Let's start with some uncomfortable truths. We wouldn't be publishing an article about the under-the-radar guy who's …
Discussion: VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, iLounge, Valleywag and Apple 2.0
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider: Is Tim Cook Smart Enough To Run Apple?
Charles Starrett / iLounge: News: Mix: CastCatcher, Ferrari + iPod, Cook as CEO, Ocarina
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0: The day Tim Cook calmed the waters
Study shows how spammers cash in — Spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5m e-mails they send, finds a study. — By hijacking a working spam network, US researchers have uncovered some of the economics of being a junk mailer.
Discussion: CircleID, Ars Technica, Tech Central, Mashable! and TheNextWeb.org
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten / TheNextWeb.org: One sale for every 12.500.000 Spam messages sent...
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
MacBook Nano Looks Like It Came from Cupertino — I don't know if these MacBook Nanos are a custom hack or if they come from some kind of shady outlet selling retrofitted MSI U100 laptops made to look like shiny—and fictional—Apple notebooks with Mac OS X installed.
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, Liliputing, MacBlogz, Gadget Lab and TUAW
Quincy Pince-Nez / 9 to 5 Mac: MacBook Nano...take a deep breath, it is fake...
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab: MacBook Nano Netbook Mod Is Impressive, Convincing
Robert Palmer / TUAW: Flickr Find: FakeBook Nano
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Microsoft Does MSN Toolbar Distribution Deal With Java — Continuing on with its strategy to build search share by gaining distribution partners, Microsoft has landed a deal to have its MSN Toolbar offered to anyone in the United States who downloads Java for Internet Explorer.
Discussion: Reuters, The Register, Clickety Clack, Inquirer and WebProNews
Daisuke Wakabayashi / Reuters: Microsoft Strikes Web Search Deal with Sun
Effective Cpms / Clickety Clack: MSN Search Toolbar Deal With Java, Goes Live Today
Paul Hales / Inquirer: Microsoft ropes Sun in on MSN search push
Mike Sachoff / WebProNews: Microsoft Reaches Search Deal With Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems to Distribute Microsoft Live Search-Powered Toolbar …
Sun Microsystems to Distribute Microsoft Live Search-Powered Toolbar …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, LiveSide, TechFlash and Microsoft Pri0
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb: Sun to Distribute MSN Toolbar with Java
Todd Bishop / TechFlash: Microsoft and Sun bury the hairball
Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0: One-time Microsoft enemy Sun Microsystems to distribute Live Search toolbar
Joseph Tartakoff / The Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft partners with Sun to boost search
Microsoft partners with Sun to boost search
Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog and All about Microsoft
Circuit City, Electronics Retailer, Seeks Bankruptcy — Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) — Circuit City Stores Inc., the 59-year- old seller of televisions and computers, filed for bankruptcy protection, becoming the biggest retail casualty of the slowing U.S. economy and frozen credit markets.
Discussion: GMSV, Gizmodo, GigaOM, Destructoid, Lifehacker, NewTeeVee and Switched
John Murrell / GMSV: Circuit City shorts out
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo: Circuit City Goes Bankrupt
Om Malik / GigaOM: Congratulations Mr. & Mrs. Tofel!
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee: Circuit City Files for Bankruptcy
Darren Murph / Switched: Circuit City Files for Bankruptcy
Circuit City files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Circuit City files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Discussion: SlashGear, Electronista, O'Grady's PowerPage, Neowin.net, DailyTech, CNET News and Guardian
Chris Davies / SlashGear: Circuit City files for bankruptcy as creditors circle
Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage: Circuit City Files for Bankruptcy, Shutters 155 Retail Locations
Shane McGlaun / DailyTech: Circuit City Files Chapter 11
Margaret Kane / CNET News: Circuit City files for bankruptcy
Jack Schofield / Guardian: Circuit City has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Bill Gates' New Career? Patent Troll For Nathan Myhrvold? — from the kinder-capitalism? dept — Plenty of folks have been wondering just what Bill Gates is up to now that he's left his full-time position at Microsoft. Longtime rabble-rouser theodp has alerted us to one thing …
Discussion: TechFlash, The Register and Gizmodo
Todd Bishop / TechFlash: Bill Gates, top Microsoft executives do some of their inventing on the side
Gavin Clarke / The Register: Gates joins ex-Microsoft CTO to register patents
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo: 25 Years Ago Today, Bill Gates Announced Windows 1.0
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1a hitting Best Buy next month — Thanks to our Best Buy ninjas, we've just got some screen shots showing that Sony Ericsson's X1a (North American model) will definitely be hitting best buy early next month. The actual in stock date as of now is December 7th. The price?
Discussion: wmpoweruser.com, Engadget, pocketnow.com, CrunchGear, Sony Insider and Gizmodo
Joseph L. Flatley / Engadget: Sony Ericsson's X1A surfaces in Best Buy's inventory
Chuong Nguyen / pocketnow.com: XPERIA X1 North American Edition to Hit Best Buy Soon!
Christopher MacManus / Sony Insider: Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1a Coming to Best Buy In Early December
Sean Fallon / Gizmodo: Sony Ericsson Xperia X1a Coming to Best Buy Next Month
Sydney Morning Herald:
Cyber criminals target Facebook users — Facebook has been infiltrated by Nigerian scammers and other cyber criminals who use compromised accounts to con users out of cash. — Now that even non-tech savvy internet users know not to respond to, or click on links in, emails from strangers …
Discussion: Sophos, CNET News and All Facebook
Graham Cluley / Sophos: Graham Cluley's blog
Elinor Mills / CNET News: Nigerian scammers hit Facebook
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook: Facebook Phishing, the New Scam
Study: new MacBooks likely 33% of US sales — Apple's recent MacBook lineup and the iPhone may make it one of the better-positioned companies to survive a likely steep drop in spending during the holidays, according to new data from ChangeWave. The analyst firm says that a full third …
Discussion: Apple 2.0, Computerworld and MacBlogz
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0: Holiday shoppers like Apple and Dell
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: Apple will weather consumer spending 'breakdown' …
Denise Dubie / Network World:
One in four DNS servers still vulnerable to Kaminsky flaw, survey says — Despite industry efforts to lock down DNS servers, one in four remain vulnerable to cache poisoning due to the well-documented Kaminsky flaw identified earlier this year and another 40% could be considered a danger to themselves and others, recent research shows.
Discussion: CircleID
Bryan Betts / Computerworld:
Survey: One DNS server in 10 is 'trivially vulnerable'
Survey: One DNS server in 10 is 'trivially vulnerable'
Discussion: The Register, eWeek and InfoWorld
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Everybody's Underwater In Silicon Valley — As tech stocks plummet, more Silicon Valley workers find themselves holding worthless options — the kind that would allow them to buy company stock at higher prices than they are currently being publicly traded. — They're "underwater."
Betsy Schiffman / Epicenter: Google May Have An Options Problem
Paul Boutin / Valleywag: One-third of Googlers have underwater options
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Dapper MashupAds Turn Your Website Into Contextual, Display Ads — The most important ad for a company or brand is its Website. So why not use that Website to generate ads? Dapper, a startup that can create a feed from any Website, is applying its technology to generate contextual …
Discussion: CNET News, VentureBeat, The Semantic Web, ReadWriteWeb and Vimeo
Rafe Needleman / CNET News: Dapper builds dynamic, contextual ads
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat: Dapper MashupAds makes display ads smarter
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb: Dapper MashupAds: A New Lease on Life for One of the Coolest Tools on the Web
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
VideoCrawler: AT&T Launches its Own Video Search Engine — It is not quite clear to us how a video search engine fits into AT&T's portfolio, but the telecom giant just launched VideoCrawler, a video search engine it developed in cooperation with Divvio, a Menlo Park-based startup.
Discussion: PR Newswire, CNET News, VentureBeat, DSLreports, RotorBlog.com, NewTeeVee, Electronista, Search Engine Watch and AppScout
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News: AT&T debuts video search site
Karl Bode / DSLreports: AT&T Launches Video Search Website …
Arnold Zafra / RotorBlog.com: AT&T Launches its Own Video Search Engine, VideoCrawler
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee: Vid-Biz: Brightcove, AT&T, HoneyShed
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch: AT&T Launches Online Video Search Site, VideoCrawler.com
Chloe Albanesius / AppScout: AT&T Launches Video Aggregator Site, VideoCrawler
YouTube to post full-length MGM films — NEW YORK (Reuters) - YouTube, the largest video-sharing website, will show full-length television shows and films from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's archives in its latest step to boost advertising revenue by adding professional programing, the company told Reuters on Sunday.
Discussion: Gizmodo, Podcasting News, Ars Technica, TG Daily, Obsessable and Engadget HD
Kit Eaton / Gizmodo: Full-Length MGM Movies To Come to YouTube
Wolfgang Gruener / TG Daily: Better late than never: YouTube to host full-length MGM films
C.K. Sample III / Obsessable: MGM soon to post full-length films and TV shows on YouTube
Steve O'Hear / last100:
I've been playing with Nokia's new touchscreen phone - the 5800 XpressMusic (aka the Tube) — Ever since Nokia officially announced its new consumer touchscreen smartphone, the 5800 XpressMusic (aka the "Tube"), I've been dying to get my hands on the device.
Discussion: Electronista
Wall Street Journal:
Dell Lags in New Products — Michael Dell last year promised innovative new consumer products to generate "product lust" and spark his company's turnaround effort. But in the runup to the holiday sales season, Dell Inc. has been slow to deliver on that promise.
David Chartier / Ars Technica: Dell scraps MP3 player encore, will focus on music service
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: Dell Zune Killer Postponed
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider: Hey Dell, Where's Your iPhone Killer?
Jose Vilches / TechSpot: Dell drops MP3 player plans
Priya Ganapati / Gadget Lab: Dell Kills Music Player Plans, Leaves the Field Clear For Apple
Antone Gonsalves / InformationWeek: Dell Reportedly Nixes Digital Music Player For The Holidays
Daniel Ionescu / Macworld: Has Dell quit the fight against the iPod?
Eliot Van Buskirk / Listening Post: Dell Wisely Drops MP3 Player Plans
Erin Barker / Contentinople: News Bits: Circuit City Files for Chapter 11
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: New Dell Music Player not coming in time for Holidays
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Google, T-Mobile, Give AOL a Hand and a Big Check — Apple (AAPL), Research In Motion (RIMM) and Google (GOOG) are duking it out for consumers' smartphone dollars this fall. But here's an early winner: Time Warner's AOL (TWX), which has just landed a giant contract to push Google's G1 phone for the next two days.
Discussion: Profy, CNET News, Mashable!, AndroidGuys, dailywireless.org, RCR Wireless News and mocoNews.net
Svetlana Gladkova / Profy: T-Mobile G1 Large-Scale Advertising Campaign Brings Money to AOL
Stephen Shankland / CNET News: T-Mobile, Google plan Android ad onslaught
Paul Glazowski / Mashable!: 8 Android Apps Worth Paying For (And Some That Aren't)
Sam Churchill / dailywireless.org: How Much Power is Enough for WiMAX?
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
iPhone trumps RAZR as most purchased US consumer handset — Apple's iPhone 3G dethroned the top-ranked Motorola RAZR as the leading handset purchased by adult consumers in the U.S. during the third quarter of the year, according to market research firm NPD.
Discussion: Infinite Loop, Agence France Presse, 9 to 5 Mac, Silicon Alley Insider, Crave, Electronista, TUAW, MacBlogz, Mobile Industry Review, I4U News and The Apple Core
Chauncey Dupree / 9 to 5 Mac: iPhone 3G outsold all other US phones in the consumer space
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider: Apple's iPhone The Best-Selling Phone In U.S., Beats Motorola's Razr
Marguerite Reardon / Crave: iPhone 3G crowned most popular phone in U.S.
Michael Rose / TUAW: NPD reports iPhone was top US handset in Q3
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: The Apple iPhone is now the bestselling Phone in US
Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core: iPhone tops RAZR in sales; twice as reliable as Blackberry
Scott Ferguson / eWeek:
VMware Wants to Bring Virtualization to Your Smart Phone — VMware is looking to bring its virtualization technology to smart phones and cell phones in 2009 through a new virtualization platform called the VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform, or MVP. The platform will use …
Discussion: Reuters, Bits, LinuxDevices.com, Inquirer, Computerworld, virtualization.info, OStatic blogs, Virtualization.com and BrianMadden.com
Jim Finkle / Reuters: VMware buys Trango mobile virtualization company
Ashlee Vance / Bits: VMware Lends Virtual Hand to Mobile Phone Crowd
Jon Brodkin / Computerworld: VMware acquires Trango, debuts mobile hypervisor
Alessandro Perilli / virtualization.info: VMware acquires Trango, the hypervisor is ready to go mobile
Robin Wauters / Virtualization.com: VMware Takes Virtualization To Mobile Phones
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Three Rings launches Whirled online games site — Banking on virtual fantasy, Three Rings is launching its Whirled virtual world and game platform today after months of beta testing. — It's the latest casual online gaming site to let players build their own virtual rooms …
Discussion: CNET News and Virtual Worlds News
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News: Three Rings officially launches 'Whirled'
Joey Seiler / Virtual Worlds News: Three Rings Launches Whirled
Peter Kafka / All Things Digital:
Time Inc. to Employees: Want to Quit? We're All Ears [MediaMemo] — At least some of the Time Inc. employees awaiting their fate will finally get some news today. Managing editors at five of the magazine group's titles that employ Newspaper Guild members-Time, People, Sports Illustrated …
Discussion: paidContent.org and Gawker
David Kaplan / paidContent.org: Time Mag Looks To Cut 20 Staffers; SI, People Make Buyout Offers As Well
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker: People Magazine Seeking 18 Editorial Buyouts
Scott Moritz / Techland:
Nortel cuts jobs, shakes up management — Nortel (NT) plans a major restructuring and another round of job cuts as demand for tech gear plunges. — The Toronto networking equipment giant said Monday it would trim 1,300 jobs on top 1,200 cuts previously announced. Nortel had 32,550 employees at the end of 2007.
Discussion: Between the Lines, Digital Daily, Nortel, The Register, New York Times and Silicon Alley Insider
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: No Christmas in Nortelville — Nortel has sacked so many employees …
Austin Modine / The Register: Nortel losses $3.4bn in Q3
Ian Austen / New York Times: Nortel Cuts 1,300 Jobs and Lowers Its Outlook
Apple and Asustek reduce notebook outsourcing by 20-30% in 4Q08, says paper — Apple and Asustek Computer recently reduced their notebook outsourcing for the fourth quarter this year by 20-30% impacting the two vendors' main OEM partners Quanta Computer and Pegatron Technology, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.
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Conservatives Feud Over the "Cost" of Immigration Reform
GOP groups push back on report that immigration bill could cost $6.3 trillion.
May 6, 2013 -- In Washington, even simple math is up for debate.
Conservative groups are engaging in a fierce internal fight about the economic impact of the Senate's bipartisan immigration reform bill. The outcome of that debate could influence whether fiscally-minded GOP lawmakers decide to vote for the proposal.
On Monday, the Heritage Foundation released a report on the Senate's bill that claims it will cost taxpayers $6.3 trillion in government benefits provided to legalized immigrants over their lifetime as a group, a period that could span five decades.
You can read the full report here to see how Heritage arrived at its number.
Here's our short summary: The group, led by former senator and longtime foe of immigration-reform, Jim DeMint, views the bill through the lens of "the makers versus the takers."
In Heritage's view, there are million of immigrants who could benefit from legalization who have lower levels of education and work skills than the general population. Heritage acknowledges that if immigrants are legalized, they will earn higher wages and pay more in taxes. But that won't be enough to prevent them from becoming a drag on government services (aka "takers"), according to the study.
The study also suggests, they will end up taking more from the government in direct benefits, under programs like Medicaid, means-tested welfare, and even in police and fire services than they will add to the government in tax revenue.
Current immigration law, in which 11 million people are living in the shadows, is a "better deal for the taxpayer," according to the study's co-author, Robert Rector.
But conservative proponents of immigration reform see a litany of problems with Heritage's report, saying the methodology it uses to count costs is flawed.
Most importantly, they don't view immigration reform through the "makers versus takers" lens. They believe reform that legalizes the undocumented could provide significant economic benefits, which they say Heritage has downplayed or outright ignored.
"Here we go again. New Heritage study claims huge cost for Immigration Reform," tweeted Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), who helped negotiate the bill. "Ignores economic benefits. No dynamic scoring."
Haley Barbour, the former GOP governor of Mississippi, put it more bluntly.
"It's a political document," he told reporters on a conference call. "It's not serious analysis."
For example, pro-immigration reform conservatives say the Heritage study does not adequately account for the rising wage levels for immigrants who, say, go from being a dishwasher to owning a restaurant as a result of gaining legal status. They also say that education levels, especially among younger undocumented immigrants, could rise dramatically if they adjust their status.
Higher education levels could lead to higher paying jobs. And higher-paying jobs mean less welfare benefits and more tax dollars for the federal government. One study published by the libertarian Cato Institute last year said that, taking those factors into account, comprehensive immigration reform could add $1.5 trillion to the U.S. gross domestic product over ten years.
Even though the report has serious issues, the political consequences of this "cost" debate could help determine whether the bill advances with bipartisan support, or dies on the vine because of a Republican revolt.
When the last immigration reform bill was released in 2007, the Heritage Foundation published a similar study that claimed it would cost taxpayers $2.6 trillion. That helped fuel conservative outrage against the proposal and ultimately it failed in Congress.
Cognizant of that, pro-immigration reform conservatives have mobilized to counter Heritage's study. Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) circulated a "pre-buttal" memo to top Republican aides on Capitol Hill last month that criticized the work of Robert Rector and the Heritage Foundation.
"The Heritage Foundation is a treasured ally in the conservative movement and a pillar of the conservative policy community," Joshua Culling, ATR's top immigration policy aide, said in a statement on Monday. "However, this study is every bit as flawed as its 2007 iteration."
"This study is designed to try to scare conservative Republicans into thinking the cost is going to be so gigantic [they can't support it]," Barbour said. "The opponents of immigration reform think ... they can try to redo the same tactics and strategies [they used six years ago]."
All of this might seem like inside baseball. But it's esoteric debates like this one that could eventually determine the fate of some 11 million people.

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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (February 18, 2006) - Standing in third place after the first day of competition, the ETSU men's track and field team engineered a day-two comeback to claim the team title at the inaugural Atlantic Sun Indoor Championships, Saturday in Memorial Center. The Bucs tallied153 points on the weekend, and bagged a total of 14 medals, including six individual first-place finishes, and a relay victory.
With the win, ETSU claimed a pair of the A-Sun post-meet awards, with James Rainer (
Rainer earned a set of gold medals, posting wins in 60- and 200-meter dashes. The senior cruised to victory in both events, clocking times of 6.75 in the 60, and 21.61 in the 200. Rainer quieted the competition, winning the 60 by nearly two-tenths of a second, and the 200 by well over a quarter of a tick.
Since the meet was the first indoor championships in conference history, all winning marks will set the standard for the future, becoming A-Sun championship records.
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Wright then went on to finish second in the 60-meter hurdles (8.48), and second in the high jump (6-4), to go along with his bronze medal from last evening's long jump competition.
The high jump competition was an all-ETSU affair, with Wright and teammate Shane Estes (
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Also scoring for the Bucs on Saturday were Tucker in the 60 (4th, 7.07), McDaniel in the 400 (4th, 52.82), Reber in the triple jump (5th, 40-7.5), and Daniel Williams (
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Thursday, February 12, 2015
Audiences need permission to like unfamiliar music
That photo of Sir Malcolm Arnold and Julian Bream appears on the late composer's website. Ten years ago I was literally very close to Sir Malcolm's music. He spent his final years being tended by his carer Anthony Day in Attleborough just a few miles from where I live in Norfolk. I managed Sir Malcolm's website and one of my first posts about his music dates from that time. Following Sir Malcolm's death in 2006 I never lost my appreciation of his music, but it featured less frequently in my listening. However, recently I have returned to his symphonies, and listening to them again has raised some important questions. His nine symphonies are the product of a master craftsman. They move forward from Mahler and Shostakovich, yet should be immediately accessible to contemporary audiences saturated in the music of those two composers. But, despite this, Sir Malcolm Arnold's symphonies remain unknown outside a small circle of admirers. Why?
Let me make it clear at this point that this post is not yet another plea for more Malcolm Arnold. It is a much needed exploration of the process that determines the popularity of composers, a process that, as I will explain, has important implications for widening the audience for classical music. Sir Malcolm Arnold's music is just a convenient example. I am sure readers can suggest many other composers from around the world who could be used as an example - Albéric Magnard, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Arnold Bax, Alan Hovhaness, Eduard Tubin, André Jolivet and Edmund Rubbra are just a few who spring to mind. A cursory glance through concert programmes shows that the music of Mahler receives a thousand times more exposure than Sir Malcolm Arnold's or that from any of the composers mentioned above. Which again prompts the question of why? Let's accept for a moment that the concept of a 'better' composer is meaningful. Is Mahler's music a thousand times better than Arnold's? I do not argue that the two composers are equal; but I do argue that the received wisdom reflected in concert programming that Mahler's extant nine symphonies are a thousand times 'better' than Sir Malcolm's is a dangerous doctrine that is damaging classical music.
Early championing by Leopold Stokowski, Bruno Walter and Dimitri Mitropoulos in the States and Sir John Barbirolli in Europe introduced Mahler's music to a mass audience. Leonard Bernstein's Mahler in the concert hall and on record in the 1970s provided the tipping point, together with advocacy in Europe by Sir Georg Solti and Bernard Haitink in Europe. The composer's popularity was boosted by the addition of pioneering cycles of his symphonies to a record catalogue which, at the time, did not contain multiple versions of every classical work ever composed. All of this has led to Mahler being one of the most performed composer's in the twenty-first century. The Mahler revival and his subsequent popularity is usually attributed to this surge in availability of live and recorded performances of his music. But the process was more complex than that. Respected figures such as Stokowski, Bernstein, Solti and Haitink gave audiences positive permission to like music that fifty years earlier Arnold Bax had described as eccentric, long-winded and muddleheaded. Moreover the endorsement of major record labels gave further permission for audiences to like and explore this unfamiliar music. It is this little-understood process of permissions that, I propose, explains the huge differences in popularity between composers of broadly similar merit.
The role of permissions is receiving considerable attention in the areas of normative systems, jurisprudence and - of particular relevance to this discussion - information management. In a paper for the Journal of Applied Logic, Audun Stolpe of the University of Oslo identifies two main categories of permission. Negative permission allows an actions unless the action is specifically prohibited, whereas an action is only positively permitted if, and only if, a code explicitly permits it. Based on this approach, I am proposing that the theory of permissions explains the skewing of classical music repertoire towards a small group of favoured composers. If permission theory is deemed applicable to classical music in the micro context of individual composers, there is potential in exploring whether the absence of positive permissions in mainstream media and in the education sector explains the decline in the popularity of classical music at a macro level.
My thesis is that the huge difference in profile between Mahler and Arnold is not because Mahler is a thousand times 'better' composer than Arnold, but is because a network of permissions that is often mediated by opaque commercial agendas determines the exposure a composer receives, which in turn determines popularity. In the 1970s respected conductors and established record labels gave audiences positive permission to like the little-known music of Mahler. But fast forward to 2015 when the influential permission granting conductors are churning out the same narrow range of repertoire - currently Mahler and Sibelius. This skewing of the repertoire is aided and abetted by the all-powerful management agents who boost their earning by sending their clients on tour to wherever there is money wherever there is money performing Mahler.
Occasional token performances of Malcolm Arnold and other little-known composers are no more than negative permissions, which lack the positive authority for audiences to like this unfamiliar music. Yes, visionary conductors such as the late and much-missed Vernon Handley and Richard Hickox gave positive permission for audiences to like Arnold - and Bax and Rubbra - and today the indomitable Kenneth Woods is doing the same for Hans Gal. But, to the discredit of the classical music establishment, none of these conductors had or have the international profile to grant global permission.
A number of responses to my recent post 'Classical music must go on a diet to survive' expressed the view that not only is there too much classical music today, but there is too much of the same music. To take a topical example, the current London residency by the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle is spread across five concerts. The repertoire for these concerts comprises no less than seven Sibelius symphonies plus the composer's Violin Concerto, a Mahler symphony (no 2.) played twice, and two token - in presence not stature - performances of the sixteen minute 'Tableau for orchestra' by the little-known Helmut Lachenmann. In an earlier post I expressed the view that classical music's big opportunity is not a mythical new younger audience, but the current audience. Based on this assertion, I suggest that the current obsession with the 'short head' of repertoire - Mahler, Sibelius etc - at the expense of the 'long tail' - Malcolm Arnold etc - is stifling an important opportunity to expand the market. If every current audience member attending ten concerts in a year (that's less than one a month) was persuaded to come to one more concert, the classical music audience would increase by 10%. Similarly if every classical music buyer purchasing 10 CDs (or streams/downloads) a year bought one more CD, the market would grow by 10%. And, at the risk of repeating myself, if every classical radio station listener increased their listening from 10 to 11 hours a week, the classical radio audience would be 10% bigger. And that 10% growth is a lot better than classical music's big new ideas are currently achieving.
How much more Mahler and Sibelius can the vital core audience take? Does the catalogue really need another Zarathustra? But 10% growth could be achieved by broadening the tastes of the existing audience. To do this concertgoers need to be given positive permission to like the music of Malcolm Arnold et al. Which involves more than token performances: it involves total commitment from celebrity conductors, concert promoters, music festivals and media organisations to treat these composers as serious musicians, not freak shows. All musicians, especially those earning a king's ransom - have an obligation to broaden classical music's tunnel vision repertoire. This involves programming complete cycles of little known music at the expense anniversary composers, and it will not produce short term results. But we have to accept that there are no quick fixes that will extend classical music's reach. Classical music's big opportunity is its current audience, and giving that current audience positive permission to like a wider range of music is the first step along a road in turning a major opportunity into audience numbers.
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17 comments:
- Pliable said...
It is good, if unsurprising, to see one of Sir Malcolm Arnold's publishers, Faber Music, tweeting this story with the comment 'Wise words'.
- 10:06 am
- Unknown said...
Over the years I have been reading, I have found your blog a very rich source of positive permission. The blog is the reason, for example, that when I found your most recent post I was listening to a new recording of Nielsen's 2nd (Alan Gilbert and the NewYork Philharmonic). I also recall a comment in the American Masters special on John Cage that part of his importance for the art and music world is that "he gave us permission."
- 10:11 am
- Philip Amos said...
Before I get to my main comment, a litte trivia. My eyes widened a little when I read that Arnold lived in Attleborough, for that is where my niece lives and it is not far from Horham, the very small village where my late brother lived and where Britten, rather oddly, bought a house to escape from an airfield close to his main home. You could walk to the airfield near Horham. Then I recall that in the 60s I lived a pleasant walk away from Andrzej Panufnik, who might be added to that list of neglected composers. England, and London ten-fold, is such that all this is not so very surprising. Carrying a very large painting, I literally collided with Sir Adrian Boult outside Sotheby's. Courteous as ever, he graciously accepted my apology and asked about the picture.
But to something pithier, after reading your synopsis of Stolpe's article, I looked at it, thinking "I'd better see a mention of Isaiah Berlin in this". I didn't. This is too big an issue for me to go into it here -- I'd exhaust the allowed length -- but if you want to further develop your thesis, Bob, I have a suggestion. Stolpe's subject is really a variation on a concept Berlin presented in a series of lectures in 1958 and published by the OUP: Two Concepts of Liberty. Those two are, of course, the positive and the negative, and Berlin's 57-page book, which I have, can be read on the internet -- just google that title and it appears as a pdf. Perhaps first look at a surprisingly good Wikipedia article entitled Positive Liberty. Berlin's work is considered seminal, which is why I wanted to see it cited by Stolpe. I have to give Stolpe a close reading, but substituting 'permission' for 'liberty' may from the academic view be a bit dodgy.
Berlin's exegesis and analysis is seminal, but he is discussing concepts that start with Plato. What I thought relevant here is his argument that Positive Liberty as conceived by Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, Kant and Hegel had an unfortunate consequence, a twist in a different direction. They viewed it as grounded in rational knowledge, and thus the preserve of an elite. This also manifested in Mill, and thus came the famous dispute with James Fitzjames Stephen. And thus also came about today those conferences of the Great and the Good in classical music who decide what the masses should listen to. The Great and the Good are, of course, as we've much discussed, the management agencies, the CEOs of music festivals, the boss of BBC Radio 3, et al.
Positive Liberty, as Berlin argues, is desirable only when conceived as the autonomy of individuals and their liberty to choose. This is what classical music audiences do not have. Positive Liberty as conceived by Hegel could lead to totalitarianism -- and perhaps it did. Reading Berlin may summon up ideas on how to combat the Great and the Good.
- 11:26 am
- Pliable said...
Richard Bratby has pointed out on Facebook that by auspicious coincidence Simon Rattle is conducting the Young Orchestra of London in an extract (?) from Sir Malcolm Arnold's Little Suite No.2 at the Royal Festival Hall on Feb 15.
And for those tempted to sample a Tubin symphony, a performance of the composer's Fourth Symphony Sinfonia Lirica by the BBC national Orchestra of Wales is currently available on iPlayer - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b051cm9z
- 5:34 pm
- Joe Shelby said...
My particular contributions to the "if you don't know them, look 'em up" list would be William Shuman and Einojuhani Rautavaara, and I've recently started digging through the symphonies of Pierre Wissmer.
I also second the mention of Panufnik, and have been devouring the CPO releases each time one comes out (they're up to an 8th volume).
As for radio, well again in the states, there are financial factors that may come into play even more than just the "same stuff" problem that BBC3 has. With no commercial interest and no state support, most classical is now non-profit publicly-funded radio. In order to save money with ASCAP and BMI, they tend to emphasize non-modern material a lot, to the point that there is more 17th century music than 20th played. i appear to be the only one that complains about that. In the end, I gave up, and occasionally listen to online stations or just my own extensive collection.
- 8:11 pm
- Antoine Leboyer said...
The real danger when music is overplayed is that musicians start looking for novelty for novelty's sake.
Case in point: yesterday's reading of Sibelius 5 as heard on the radio by the BPO/Rattle. Wonderful playing indeed and lots of work but why play with the tempi except to try to artificially bring a new light to a now more familiar work ?
There are so many examples.
- 7:29 am
- Pliable said...
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These are good points. It is absurd to say that Mahler is 1000 times better than Arnold. Or that Sibelius is better than Bax. Is this partly Anglo-Saxon defensiveness? I'm a great fan of big, blousy, anxious, wonderful Arnold and tedious, inspired Bax, and spend more time with them than I do with Mahler. Never mind Bax as a symphonist: if you hear William Primrose playing him, I don't think you can say that he is inferior to anybody writing chamber music at that time anywhere. But in the end, Mahler stands taller than Arnold because his music has even greater spiritual force (perhaps it reminds us what early Christianity might have felt like), because he came from such an explosive cultural centre (reminding us of the transitoriness of such centres, since Austria has not produced a single major composer since 1945, or correct me) and because he speaks so poignantly to us from the other side of 1914. Conductors conduct Mahler too much. My resistance-movement is that I refuse to buy Mahler recordings.
Still, permissions count. Germans needed permissions with English music, and I suppose they got them via Colin Davis and others.
- 11:17 am
- Philip Amos said...
Joe, two things that may be of help with your dilemma, which I understand well. Firstly, google listenlive.eu There, organized by country you will find direct links to classical music stations across Europe that can be streamed online. There is an awful lot of them, much exploring to do, and of course there are clunkers. But in general they put the North American situation to shame (just as, by the by, the U.S. puts Canada to shame). I have myself settled upon two stations in Italy: RAI FD5 Auditorium (which often draws on the RAI archive of concert broadcasts) and Radio Classica Bresciana. I've heard more British music, Arnold included, on the latter than one is ever going to on BBC 3.
There is also the site 'Classical Live Online Radio Webcast', the same except that it covers the globe. I do sometimes re-explore stations listed there, heading always to South America, where they take classical music seriously. Again, just simple links, so a click and you're off to the symphony, so to speak.
Second, go to tso.ca, the site of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, sign up for their very, very occasional e-newsletter, and then accept the invitation to sign up for Beethoven on Demand -- just a couple of clicks and nothing to download. Once in BoD, you'll discover it is, in fact, the Naxos Music Library, now yours free, which in Canada saves an annual subscription of about $250 p.a. As Naxos distributes about 700 labels (and now the entire HMV/EMI and RCA catalogues), and the catalogues of all are in the library, you have about 106 000 full-length CDs to choose from, streamed with a couple of clicks. There are new additions daily. The only difficult thing about it may be thinking of a composer you won't find in there! (--: This has been called the biggest bargain on the internet, but given that it's free, I tend to think of it as a wondrous gift. If historical recordings are of interest, the great artists of yore or those unjustly forgotten, it's a cornucopia of those as well.
I hope this helps.
- 11:46 am
- Rory HR said...
I believe the data bear out that classical music's greatest asset is an audience which returns to the concert hall year after year, decade after decade. My question is this: if a symphony won't program the repertoire from last week, why is it ok to repeat the same warhorses from last year?
- 11:52 pm
- Joe Shelby said...
I'll keep those bookmarked.
In the meantime, I should note that this month's BBC Music (well, the Feb issue just hit American newstands. I know we're a few weeks behind.) has Rautavaara as their "composer of the month".
This makes me happy, if for a little bit.
- 1:00 am
- Joe Shelby said...
That said, selling lots of classical music for near-free may do good to maintain the audience, but perhaps it devalues the music too much (as do the the dollar-bin conductor compilations - when I can get a 10 disc set from EMI for some of Andre Previn's best recordings for less than $60?). It doesn't do the classical artist much in terms of revenue to survive when their music is given away, giving them no royalties to live off of.
- 1:03 am
- Philip Amos said...
As I mentioned, Joe, although Naxos produces its own recordings, it is also a distributor. Apart from EMI, RCA and a couple of others, all those labels are independent, and obviously happy to have their catalogues in the NML. You can't download or purchase at any price from the NML, and free access for streaming is, apart from the TSO arrangement, as far as I know only made with libraries and universities. Much to the advantage of some of us, many of the artists on some labels and greats of yore and no longer with us, and many of the labels are so specialised that the artists are paid a flat fee rather than via royalty -- and just as well for them. I suspect it ultimately benefits the labels, else they would not choose Naxos as their distributor and agree to inclusion in the NML as part of the terms of the contract. I'm not privy to any other detail, so for all I know, the labels may get a financial return on inclusion in the Library from Naxos (hardly a typical classical record company in any respect) or they may discern other benefits. At any rate, I cannot myself discern any devaluation.
- 3:04 pm
- Unknown said...
" If every current audience member attending ten concerts in a year (that's less than one a month) was persuaded to come to one more concert, the classical music audience would increase by 10%."
More accurately, it should have said that if every concert-goer was persuaded to attend on average 10% more concerts a year, attendance to concerts would increase 10%. Your math assumes that 100% of audiences attend 10 concerts annually, which certainly would only describe a minority of concert-goers. Also, this would be a strengthening of dedication among audiences, not an actual increase in the audience population.
Sorry for splitting hairs. I think the point is clear, and I'll be passing it along.
- 3:00 pm
- Steerforth said...
I can't complain about the current glut of Sibelius, as he's been out of favour for so long and it is his 150th anniversary.
As far as Arnold is concerned, yes, he is underrated and misunderstood, but it's heartening than a younger generation are reappraising his music (Charles Hazelwood's R3 programme about the 5th Symphony was an eye-opener). I come from the post-Glock generation and when I became interested in classical music, I couldn't understand why Mahler and Britten were venerated while Sibelius and Vaughan Williams were almost ignored by the Proms. Many of my friends felt the same way.
I'm not convinced by Bax, but I'm not sure how much of a symphonist Mahler is either, so it would be interesting to see how different things might have been if Bax's 3rd had been given the same advocacy as Mahler's.
On the subject of 3rd symphonies, it was good to see Magnard's given a mentioned - easily as good as, or even better than Cesar Frank's Symphony in D Minor.
- 6:42 pm
- Unknown said...
Lachenmann is not little-known.
- 9:23 am
- Unknown said...
I make it quite clear in the paper,which is a formal logical analysis, that the distinction between positive and negative permission is not mine. No one has read everything. I havent read Berlin, althoug it sounds like I should have.
As far as the topic of the blog post goes, I agree wholeheartedly. What happened to all the magnificent composers in Mahler's immediate spatiotemporal surroundings? When does one ever get to hear Zemlinsky, Schulhoff, Schmidt or Foerster? Or, from among thr British, Delius, a man whose music was admired by no less a figure than Bartok. Classical music is being streamlined for the complacent middle classes. There is a lot of rebellious, angry, strange, beauitfully weird music out there that equally strange, rebellious etc people would identify with if it were ever played. The concert halls cater for the consensus. It is a branding of classical music that is ultimately not in its interest.
- 11:04 pm
- Unknown said...
I dare you to read the rest of the paper. Let me know if you still find it "academically dodgy".
- 11:09 pm


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SANTA CRUZ — More than a decade ago, Kevin Cornell moved from Toronto to Santa Cruz to be a Borland vice president overseeing the software company's field operations in North and South America.
"I was told, in no uncertain terms, do not live in Santa Cruz," Cornell said. "It's too weird."
Borland was then emerging from an identity crisis, in the midst of dropping the name Inprise and refocusing its business. Cornell ended up embracing Santa Cruz, and Borland would build a large campus near Highway 17, but it is the city itself that now seems to be engaged in soul-searching.
After the controversy over a popular needle exchange program and a spasm of violence that culminated with the Feb. 26 execution of two Santa Cruz police officers, there is a streak of outrage among local residents who say the city has gone too far in nurturing its offbeat reputation, trading order for chaos, and becoming an asylum for the troubled and the wicked.
"Unfortunately, it's attracted the dangerous part of weird as well as the good stuff," said Cornell, who's seen beaches closed due to needles and had to evict a homeless camper from his property. "Safety has to be a higher priority than weirdness."
Since the countercultural revolution half a century ago, Santa Cruz has drawn more than its share of freaks, hippies, surf rats, pothead programmers, environmental hardliners, lefties, cultists, druggies, punks and dropouts. Together, they established Santa Cruz's reputation for tolerance and free-thinking.
But there has always been a dark side. From 1970s serial killers to an ongoing, seemingly intractable homelessness problem, Santa Cruz has never been the idyll it appears at first glance.
Some are now blaming a decade-old local branding effort: "Keep Santa Cruz Weird." Considering the county's blend of drum circles, kooky politics, surfing Santas and the guy who used to walk around in pink women's clothes, the campaign — borrowed from Austin, Texas — seems like a diagnosis more than anything else.
Yet many now see it as part of the disease.
"I don't think weird is the problem if we define it as what we want it to be. It's the definition and the rules you wrap around it," Cornell said. "We don't have any containment (now), we just run around saying we're weird."
The blow-back is mystifying to Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors Chairman Neal Coonerty, the longtime Bookshop Santa Cruz owner who started the campaign about a decade ago. He said it was meant to defend and raise money for street performers, not to announce Santa Cruz as drug-friendly and throw out the welcome mat for the homeless and criminally insane.
"It's just not that," Coonerty said. "We're talking about the Great Morgani, or somebody strumming their guitar playing 'Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,' not about drawing murderers to town."
Furthermore, Coonerty said, Santa Cruz simply doesn't stand out for either crime or weirdness. The violent crime rate is similar to the rest of the state and the homicide rate is lower, according to state crime stats. And many California coastal towns have offbeat elements.
"This community is not the cause of things," Coonerty said. "We should continually try to do things better, but we're the victims here, we're not the cause. These murders are not who we are as a community."
"Keep Santa Cruz Weird" is not a widespread branding effort, but Bill Tysseling, executive director of the Santa Cruz Area Chamber of Commerce, acknowledged it is a "substitute target" (and not a particularly useful one, he added) for an evolving conversation on how Santa Cruz defines itself.
Downtown visitors still run into aggressive panhandlers, boisterous drunks and those spewing impromptu expletives. Yet, while pointing out that many local problems aren't unique to Santa Cruz, Tysseling said the city is moving away from its reputation for weirdness.
"I don't minimize the political piece of this, the sense that there are people who like the idea of Santa Cruz being a refuge for alternative lifestyles," Tysseling said. "I think those are conversations that are ongoing, but I think a lot of that has to do with the constraints we put on the behavior of people that choose to live here."
Tolerance seems imprinted in the community's DNA, but there have been recent efforts to clean up homeless camps, address homelessness in more meaningful ways and reshape the needle exchange program. And local voters of late seem to favor moderate candidates.
The police officer slayings — by someone who not only appeared to have moved here for a new start, but according to police also seemed about to move on — followed a downtown homicide and the robbery and shooting of UCSC student on the Westside. Strung together, the crimes have caused some fed-up locals to argue that Santa Cruz needs to become less hospitable to undesirables.
"These people see Santa Cruz as a place for a great potential for profit through a variety of criminal pursuits with a relatively small chance of being caught and fully prosecuted. These people have no regard for the city or its residents," 12-year Santa Cruz resident Wade Garza wrote in a recent Sentinel piece.
That "Keep Santa Cruz Weird" has been targeted here is, well, weird to people in Austin. Originally uttered as a cultural vanguard against an influx of California tech companies (including Borland), it has been adopted by communities across the U.S.
"Austin's one of the safest communities in America," said Rebecca Melancon, executive director of the Austin Independent Business Alliance. "If that slogan came from us, it certainly has done nothing but help Austin.
"Preposterous," she added.
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AMD A10-5800K & A8-5600K Review: Trinity on the Desktop, Part 2by Anand Lal Shimpi on October 2, 2012 1:45 AM EST
Discrete GPU Gaming Performance
Although likely not the target market for someone buying a Trinity APU, we looked at performance of AMD's latest APU when paired with a high-end discrete GPU. The end result is a total loss for Trinity. If you're going to use processor graphics Trinity is a clear winner, but if you plan on pairing the APU with a high end discrete GPU you're much better off with the Core i3 3220.
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Crono - Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - linkIt's good to finally see pricing on Trinity.
Looks like AMD is still competitive at lower price points for Video transcoding performance, which is good news for me and others who's highest CPU workloads are mostly video editing.
But even for gaming the A10-5800/K doesn't look too bad for $122 chips.
Glad to see it isn't quite "Bulldozer" all over again. I need to build a new system for Windows 8 and Trinity looks promising for a budget to mid range build. Reply
ac2 - Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - linkBig deal...
Just look at pg 2, the single threaded performance of the A10 is lower than a friggin Pentium G850
Pg 3 Sysmark, only slightly ahead of the Pentium even with 2 additional Integer cores
I wish Anand had included the Pentium G850 power comparison as well though at 65W vs 100W TDP we can be sure which way that will swing...
And the G850 costs a little more than HALF the A10 suggested price... That puts a $70 saving towards a discrete graphics card, which, as per pg 6 should result in a much better gaming performance as well... Reply
StevoLincolnite - Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - linkIt's also slower than an old Core 2 Quad Q6600 overclocked to 3.6ghz+ which was released in 2007 both in single threaded and multi-threaded tasks.
However, what I would like to see is some under-volting tests to see how low they can go in terms of TDP as AMD has always been incredibly conservative (Even on the GPU side) with voltages, would be excellent in a Mini-ITX rig without the need for a dedicated GPU. Reply
MrMilli - Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - linkhttp://www.computerbase.de/artikel/prozessoren/201... Reply
Belard - Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - linkReally cool how the performance charts are NOT static.
Ah, German technology. :) Reply
phillock - Friday, January 26, 2018 - linkI think there is very little need for raw single-threaded performance increases in consumer-level "general computation" processors (e.g. few-core x86 processors). So who cares if we don't have a second intel? What we do need are better ways of extracting performance from multiple cores, and from the massively parallel architectures found in GPUs. Part of the equation is ensuring that these two paradigms are pervasive, and therefore,https://audiomanagerapp.wordpress.com/2017/10/11/a... from a big-picture point-of-view, AMD really *is* pushing things forward with Trinity Reply
B3an - Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - linkTrinity truly is embarrassingly slow. I think it should be even cheaper for this performance level. And it's also disappointing that Intel have no performance competition AT ALL from AMD. We need this for some real progression to be made in desktop CPU's and also drive prices down at the high end. Reply
IKeelU - Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - linkWhat kind of progress are you talking about? Power efficiency? Raw general computing performance? Progress comes in many forms.
I think there is very little need for raw single-threaded performance increases in consumer-level "general computation" processors (e.g. few-core x86 processors). So who cares if we don't have a second intel? What we do need are better ways of extracting performance from multiple cores, and from the massively parallel architectures found in GPUs. Part of the equation is ensuring that these two paradigms are pervasive, and therefore, from a big-picture point-of-view, AMD really *is* pushing things forward with Trinity. Reply
Belard - Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - linkAMD's progress is about 2 years behind. While this is somewhat intel's fault by illegal competitive practices which in turn kept AMD from profiting as much as they could have during the Athlon64~X2 era.
AMD has done a lot of things wrong and would take at least 2 years to sort out... if ever. FM2 is no better than FM1 and not cross compatible. Neither is compatible with Socket AM3 and nothing AMD has on the market even supports PCIe 3.0.
Compared to buying an intel i3-something system, in which you can upgrade to an i7-something easily. AMD has a mess on their hands and I suspect part of their performance problems could also be rooted in their chipsets. (Across the board, the performance hits a wall). Yeah, for a notebook - the powerful GPU part comes into play. And both intel i3 and Trinity is more than powerful enough for MOST people. hell, I'm still running on a Q6600 at 2.4Ghz and it does quite well (going i5-3570 this weekend)... But for those who want their money's worth when performance counts, AMD is not in the game.
The performance from AMD has to be consistent, and its not. The heat is not good along with the cheap fans they include that are noisy and should be replaced with a good $20~50 cooler. Meanwhile intel CPUs are running cooler and their fans are very quiet.
So as of today, in general - it costs more to get an AMD. I really want AMD to do well, I've sold lots of AMD systems in the past. Reply
Origin64 - Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - linkAbout PCIe 3.0, nobody needs that. 2.0 * 8 is enough to drive every card on the market with maybe 2% performance loss, which is within the error margin of every benchmark. To keep prices low, of course they're not going to add extra features that nobody needs. I think it's a smart move.
Other than that, I agree. AMD hasn't been doing well price-performance wise the last two years. I have a Phenom II, and when they were released they were still competitive, for the price and the time, but the last two generations have seen no singlethreaded performance increase and cost about the same. Reply


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(Pocket-lint) - Firms like Western Digital are always telling us not to wait until a drive fails to invest in some backup solutions. And people like us are always ignoring them, assuming that it will never happen to us. Well, it did happen to us, and it was only once our 3TB drive started to fail that we thought to get the data off it as quickly as humanly possible.
This is stressful when it's your photos, data and video on the line, but it's also a great way to test a NAS, and a great way to see how it handles huge amounts of data.
You can get the WD Duo - we'll stick with that name, the full version will wear out our keyboard - in two possible configurations. Either with two, 2TB drives, or two 3TB drives. There are two ways your can set up the NAS as well. You can either bundle these disks together, using something called JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) or you can use a proper RAID configuration for safety.
And here enters the time honoured question: safety, or capacity? We are testing the 2x2TB system, so bundling the drives together with JBOD would give us 4TB and using RAID leaves us with a mirrored 2TB system that should protect us from a single-drive failure.
Given the circumstances, we opted for the safer, RAID system. This isn't just about mirroring, because with a JBOD configuration, if one drive fails, you also lose the data that was stored on the other drive. So it's not like a 50:50 thing, it's very much an all-or-nothing approach. Someone once describe JBOD as "great for people who hate their data". Drives do fail, after all, and it's a pretty miserable experience.
In RAID - specifically RAID1, used here - your data is kept safe using "mirroring". This means that two copies of your data are kept across the two drives. If one fails, the NAS should warn you, via its admin console - or, if you install it, the WD Quick View app, which monitors your NAS from a PC.
If you do get a failure, then you can remove the drive and replace it with a fresh one. Expensive, yes, but data is almost always worth more to us that a new hard drive. When you do this, the WD Duo will re-build the RAID array - which takes a long time, allow several hours - and before long your data is safe again.
The Duo is pretty much perfectly designed. You'd struggle to make it more practical, although you probably could make it more pretty. But doing so would also increase the cost, and honestly, we think the Duo is quite expensive enough as it is. Of course, with a NAS like this, the majority of the cost is tied up with the two hard drives that sit within. Because of production problems - the tragic tsunami in Thailand, which has resulted in a drive shortage - prices for these devices are quite high at the moment anyway.
The two drives sit in a sort of caddy system. You could remove them if you wanted, and, of course, should one fail, you'll have to. They are locked in place with a thumbscrew-type device that holds a mesh cover over the drives. It's easy enough to get off, but it's a bit stiff and you need some bravery to do it.
At the back is an ethernet socket, USB connector and, as you would expect, a power socket. The USB allows you to connect a thumb drive, or other USB drive, and share that content to others on your network.
If you're expecting your new NAS to fly along at speeds similar to your regular external hard drives, you're in for a fairly substantial disappointment. The transfer speeds depend on a lot of different factors too. The most we ever saw was around 10MB/s, which is perfectly reasonable, especially for relatively small amounts of data.
However, we moved 300GB in one folder alone, and that took a long time. Happily, most of the files were quite large, which means you get a good, solid transfer rate on them. Moving another, smaller folder, of emails was a lot more arduous, because the process of copying small files is a lot less efficient.
Our network, while based on pretty modern components, isn't gigabit speed. The WD NAS is, so if you have the right cable, router and computer you may see a speed boost. Honestly though, getting gigabit ethernet to work is one of the ongoing challenges in most home networks. We're certain many will be enjoying one, but we are not. Currently.
The thing we'd love to see, but which isn't possible, is a way to get the bulk of you data on to the WD without using the network. There is a USB socket here, but that's for sharing out USB drives for other network users, not to connect your computer directly. Allowing such an initial copy would really make the whole NAS installation process a lot more speedy and far less frustrating.
For a NAS to be effective, you need to store stuff on it manually, by copying data yourself, or automatically. Windows and MacOS both have tools to do this, and the WD Duo is Time Machine capable, so Mac users will likely have no worries. Windows users have a less elegant solution, in Windows own backup software, but it does work and will help keep your data safe.
It's also worth pointing out that Microsoft has a utility called SyncToy. This handy little app allows you to select folders from your Windows-based PC and keep them synced to another drive. It has to be local, but if you map your NAS to a drive letter, that's fine. This utility means adding new photos to your library can be auto-synced to the NAS. There is no need to rely on the backup system here, and the files remain easily accessible. A handy tip for those looking to keep data safe.
There are, of course, countless other options for backups, including some free ones. It's a little out of the scope of this review to recommend one, but you shouldn't want for options.
The personal cloud
One of the big selling points of the new Duo is its personal cloud functionality. This revolves around a couple of apps, which give you access to the files on your NAS via your phone or tablet. Both apps work on iOS and Android, and are free to download.
WD Photos was the first to be released, and it's pretty reasonable at what it does, which is letting you access photos stored on your NAS. They need to be in the correct share area, but that's a minimal concern. Images can be cached too, so looking at them over and over won't continue to consume data. It's a nice app, and a good feature, but it's not one we think will sell the device.
What might, is the WD 2go app. This is what WD means when it refers to your personal cloud. Essentially, your NAS is shared via your internet connection and gives you access to all of the files stored on it it from anywhere in the world. So, get to a meeting in New York and realise you've forgotten a zip of your portfolio, then a few taps in WD 2go and you'll have everything downloaded on your phone or tablet.
It works very well, and it's quick too. But be aware, transferring large files from your NAS to the internet is likely to be slow, as most home internet connections do not have fast upload bandwidth. Add to that the fact that most mobile internet connections are not that fast, and you might wait a while for files if you're not on Wi-Fi. But none of this matters, because the app works as well as it possibly can, and it's bound to be useful to lots of people. We certainly really liked it.
The WD MyBook Live Duo Personal Cloud is a pretty flexible device. If you have valuable data at home, you really need a NAS to protect it, and ideally, that NAS should have the protection of RAID.
Of course, RAID is expensive, because it halves the usable space. But in return, you get a hugely reduced chance that you'll lose valuable data. But at least with the WD you get the choice. And while no one could call these the pricing of either the 4TB or 6TB systems cheap, considering the price of hard drives currently, the high cost isn't a surprise.
Still, our WD Duo has worked brilliantly, the set-up is easy - if a little laboured for the RAID initialisation - and we feel our data is safer than before. Low power standbye also means this drive makes a better home media server than your power-hungry home PC, so if you're looking for a place to keep video, photos and music, there are worse ideas.


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Every business owner needs commercial insurance of some kind or other. It is definitely classed as one of the most vital purchases for any business. Commercial insurance protects the business and its stock holders against a wide variety of events such as theft, damage to property and liability lawsuits. Any business without commercial insurance is asking for trouble.
The most frequently used types of commercial insurance are property, liability and worker's compensation.
Property insurance is there to cover the cost of repairing damages to the physical property of the business such as buildings. It can also include coverage for things like machinery (for accidental breakdowns of machinery), debris removal (should your property be hit by an act of God that leaves a huge mess to clean up), builder's risk (in case damage is caused while construction is taking place), glass (all windows etc), inland marine (for property in transit or other people's property that is store on your land), business interruption (for recovering lost income and paying expenses while business is unable to continue), ordinance (if you have to tear down a building that is not compliant and then rebuild it), tenant (covers damages to improvements made that were caused by employees), crime (for criminal activity, obviously) and fidelity bonds (losses due to theft by a bonded employee) insurances.
Should you or your business cause injury to a third party, you need liability insurance to cover the expenses laid on you by a lawsuit. This commercial insurance includes errors and omissions (inadvertent mistakes that cause injury), malpractice (damages caused by a professional failing to adhere to the professional standard of conduct), car (for all automobiles used by the business) and directors or officers (for lawsuits directed at representatives of the company) insurances.
If you have any employees involved in the day to day running of your business, especially if the business has a high risk of injury to its employees, the it is a good idea to take out worker's compensation insurance. This type of commercial insurance covers the expenses incurred by an employee getting hurt through a work related incident. It may also protect you against a law suit by said employee since they will be receiving compensation for their injuries.
When a business owner is looking to start up a new business, the first thing they should do after drawing up the business plan and scouting property is investigate commercial insurance. There is no telling how soon they will need it. However, they also need to bear in mind that a new business is a high risk for insurance companies and so they will get a higher premium than a similar business that has been in operation for years. This means that they should review their policy every year and try to work it down as low as they can. Every good business person is about making the most profit that they can after all and unnecessarily high commercial insurance premiums cut into profits in a big way, but then, so do lawsuits.


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There's the race card, the gender card and now the cancer card? When things get out of your control, or you find yourself falling short or perhaps are treated unfairly, does it ever occur to you to use the fact that you have had or are being treated for cancer?
In the spring of 2006 while I was still recovering from major reconstructive surgery, my mother had a fall and needed immediate surgery. Since we had just got the call from a doctor the morning of the emergency surgery for my mom, we were pretty much racing to cover the four hours between Michigan and where she was just north of Toronto. As things go, we were stopped by a police officer for speeding since we failed to make the adjustment from miles to kilometers once over the border. We expressed our need to get there in a timely manner. But because my husband had forgotten to bring his wallet with his license, we had additional charges, and the officer said that I would have to drive. I still had tubes hanging out of my body, and was definitely feeling less than healthy.
It never occurred to me to tell the police officer that I was a cancer survivor that had just undergone major surgery. Would that have made a difference? Would it have been appropriate? I really don't know the answers to those questions. Recently though I have wondered about it. I thought about a friend of the family who had used the fact that he was stressed about his daughter who was undergoing cancer treatment to get the bank to help correct an error he made.
When someone is treating you unfairly, or when you really feel you may need special consideration, do you play the cancer card? What I do know is that one, it is yours to play, and two, there are no published guidelines for whether it is appropriate or not. What I don't know is if it would make a difference, or if it should make a difference. Surely cancer is no fault of the recipient of the disease, and truly there are numerous lingering effects both from the disease and treatment. Whether these facts are enough to justify using the fact you had it to affect the outcome of a situation, I just don't know.
As individuals, only we can know for ourselves how cancer has affected and continues to affect our lives and by extension any given situation. I know I have concerns that there is the potential for people to think differently of me. I can't say for certain having had cancer would discriminate me from others, but I am careful about not letting people I want to work with or for know up front. And there are no real laws to protect cancer survivors from discrimination. So, the questions remain: Do you play the cancer card in certain situations and is it appropriate?
I'm just asking,
Important: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not Everyday Health.


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Yoga (yoga)
refers to traditional physical and mental disciplines originating in
word is associated with meditative practices in Hinduism, Buddhism and
In Hinduism, it also refers to one of the six orthodox (?stika) schools of Hindu
philosophy, and to the goal toward which that school directs its
In Jainism it refers to the sum total of all
activities - mental, verbal and physical.
Major branches of yoga in Hindu philosophy include Raja Yoga,
Karma Yoga, Jnana Yoga,
Bhakti Yoga, and Hatha Yoga.Raja
Yoga, compiled in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and known simply as
yoga in the context of Hindu philosophy, is part of the Samkhya
Many other Hindu texts discuss aspects of yoga, including Upanishads,
the Bhagavad Gita, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Shiva Samhita and
various Tantras.
The Sanskrit word yoga has many meanings,
and is derived from the Sanskrit root "yuj," meaning "to control," "to
yoke" or "to unite."
Translations include "joining," "uniting," "union," "conjunction," and
India, the term yoga is typically associated with Hatha Yoga and its asanas (postures) or as a form of exercise. Someone
who practices yoga or follows the yoga philosophy is called a yogi or
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Fantastic tips. Frugality is an important subject for all, of course. But young people (living on smaller salaries and often strapped with debts) can benefit the most from learning how to save.
But young people should also know where to invest. My strong opinion: themselves! That's why I believe Diversification is For Old People. You should invest every dollar into making YOU as productive and valuable as possible.
Thanks again.
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Hello Ladies
HOWEVER, as you can see on the tub of pudding, hold is actually the last thing mentioned on the label underneath the name of the product. In order it states that this product, moisturizes, shines AND Holds. So I feel it is necessary to address the other two claims.
So I ask, what do you use to keep all of your strands in place?


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Angiotensin II Receptor Blocker (ARB)/Potassium Supplements Interactions
This information is generalized and not intended as specific medical advice. Consult your healthcare professional before taking or discontinuing any drug or commencing any course of treatment.
Medical warning:
Moderate. These medicines may cause some risk when taken together. Contact your healthcare professional (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) for more information.
How the interaction occurs:
When these two medicines are taken together, your body may not process potassium properly.
What might happen:
Your blood levels of potassium may increase and cause toxic effects.
What you should do about this interaction:
If you experience breathing difficulties, chest pain, irregular heartbeat, confusion, or muscle weakness, contact your doctor. If your doctor prescribes these two medicines together, you may need to check your blood level of potassium. The dose of your medicines may need adjusting. This interaction may be worse if you have kidney disease or diabetes.Your healthcare professionals (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) may already be aware of this drug interaction and may be monitoring you for it. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicine before checking with them first.
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Sencha Touch version tested:
Platform tested against:
- 1.1 rev 1
- iOS 5.0
- iOS 5.1
Test Case:
- ST is used with phonegap in hybrid mode.
- A list with input fields in each row jumps when an input field is tapped.
- When previous/Next buttons on the keyboard/numpad are used, the input field in focus goes out of the viewable area.
- List auto scrolls sometimes when the Numpad is open/visible and when one tries to select/tap on a row
Code:<!DOCTYPE html><html><head> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0" /> <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" /> <title>Numbers</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sencha/resources/css/sencha-touch.css" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="sencha/sencha-touch.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> Ext.onReady(function() { Ext.regModel('Numbers', { fields: ['number'] }); var store = new Ext.data.Store({ model : 'Numbers', data: [ {number: '01'}, {number: '02'}, {number: '03'}, {number: '04'}, {number: '05'}, {number: '06'}, {number: '07'}, {number: '08'}, {number: '09'}, {number: '10'}, {number: '11'}, {number: '12'}, {number: '13'}, {number: '14'}, {number: '15'}, {number: '16'}, {number: '17'}, {number: '18'}, {number: '19'}, {number: '20'}, {number: '21'}, {number: '22'}, {number: '23'}, {number: '24'}, {number: '25'}, ] }); var list = new Ext.List({ itemTpl: '<input type="tel" value="{number}"></input>', fullscreen:true, store: store, }); list.show(); }); </script> </head> <body> </body> </html>
Steps to reproduce the problem:
Problem 1: List jump
Problem 2: Input field out of viewable area
- Tap in the input field
- Tap next 10 times
- Once you are at number 10, the focus from 10 to 11 moves the input field out of the viewable area
- From 11 to 12 the list comes back to the original position.
- This keeps happening as one moves down or up in the list
- The list keeps jumping as previous or next is clicked
Problem 3: Auto scrolling (Not consistently reproducible)
- Scroll to the bottom of the list
- Select the last entry, i.e. 25
- Tap previous multiple times
- List Scrolls till #15 and then the focus goes to the field which is out of viewable area
- Follow steps in Problem 2
- Once the focused field is out of viewable area tap anywhere in the list
- The list will jump to the original scroller offset, i.e scrolled all the way to the bottom of the list and then start auto scrolling to the top (scrolling is not consistent though, but the list jumps every time)
The result that was expected:
The result that occurs instead:
- The input field in focus should remain in the viewable area
- Explained above


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Mounting on Heat Activated Fome-Cor®
Heat Activated Fome-Cor® provides an easy to use and time saving mounting package.
The original Fome-Cor® board is evenly coated on one side with adhesive, which activates rapidly at a low temperature and provides a secure bond.
Mechanical or Vacuum Press
- Be sure the press is clean and free of adhesive, dirt and debris. Heat the press to 165 – 170 degrees F. Temperatures of 160 F or lower will not activate the adhesive, higher temperatures may melt the adhesive too quickly, preventing the air under the print from being removed before the press fully closes.
- Cover the Heat Activated Fome-Cor®, adhesive side up, with the art to be mounted and place a sheet of the release liner over the artwork. (The shiny side of the release liner should be placed against the print.)
- The release liner should cover the Heat Activated Fome-Cor® completely to avoid adhesive transfer to the inside of the press.
- Several release liners are provided and each liner may be used more than once. For multiple uses, the mounted print should be allowed to cool at least 20 seconds before the release liner is removed. The release liners may have or develop a wavy appearance but they are acceptable for use. IF THE RELEASE LINERS ARE CREASED, DO NOT USE THEM FOR MOUNTING. The creases may telegraph through to the mounted artwork. Do not use damaged release liners. Commercially available release liners may be substituted if necessary.
- Smooth the print and release liner to remove any trapped air bubbles. It is a good practice to cover the release liner with a piece of mat board, release board or smooth chipboard to prevent the release liner from slipping when the press is closed. This will allow the press to close completely, eliminating air pockets and bubbles before the adhesive begins to melt.
- Place the Heat Activated Fome-Cor®, print, release liner and mat board combination in the press for 2 minutes at 165 degrees F. The vacuum press should be closed and under full vacuum for at least 90 seconds. Strips of Fome-Cor® can be placed around the Heat Activated Fome- Cor® to prevent rounding of the edges.
- Remove the mounted print from the press and allow the release liner to cool for 20 seconds before removal. If the release liner is removed too quickly, some adhesive may transfer to the release liner and could contaminate subsequent prints. The mount can be placed under cooling weights if desired.
- Trim the mounted print and frame.
Roller Laminators – (at least one heated roller)
- Laminator temperature should be set to 225 – 230 degrees F and the speed set to 2 – 3 feet/minute. Laminator type and print weight can significantly affect the performance. Conditions may need to be adjusted for the particular machine.
- Uncoated media generally adheres to Heat Activated Fome-Cor® readily, however, coated media needs to be tested for adhesive compatibility before mounting.
- If Heat Activated Fome-Cor® touches a heated roller, adhesive will transfer to the heated roller. It is necessary to either have the print to be mounted larger than the Heat Activated Fome-Co®r or cover the Heat Activated Fome-Cor® print with a release liner. The shiny side of the release liner should be placed against the print.
- The laminator gap should be set about 20 mils (.020") less than the thickness of the Heat Activated Fome-Cor®, artwork, and release liner combined. When setting the gap with pressure cylinders, pressure should be sufficient for a 20-mil compression.
- The Heat Activated Fome-Cor, art work (and release liner if used), should be fed to the laminator being careful not to expose the adhesive to the rollers. It is a good practice to have an idle roll on the discharge side of the laminator to keep the print in place while the adhesive cools.
- Laminating film can be adhered over the print while mounting with Heat Activated Fome-Cor®. Both temperature and speed may need to be adjusted when using a laminating film. In general, it is better to decrease laminator speed before increasing the temperatures.


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I received a code review from a senior developer today asking "By the way, what is your objection to dispatching functions by way of a switch statement?" I have read in many places about how pumping an argument through switch to call methods is bad OOP, not as extensible, etc. However, I can't really come up with a definitive answer for him. I would like to settle this for myself once and for all.
Here are our competing code suggestions (php used as an example, but can apply more universally):
class Switch {
public function go($arg) {
switch ($arg) {
case "one":
echo "one\n";
case "two":
echo "two\n";
case "three":
echo "three\n";
throw new Exception("Unknown call: $arg");
class Oop {
public function go_one() {
echo "one\n";
public function go_two() {
echo "two\n";
public function go_three() {
echo "three\n";
public function __call($_, $__) {
throw new Exception("Unknown call $_ with arguments: " . print_r($__, true));
Part of his argument was "It (switch method) has a much cleaner way of handling default cases than what you have in the generic __call() magic method."
I disagree about the cleanliness and in fact prefer call, but I would like to hear what others have to say.
Arguments I can come up with in support of
Oop scheme:
- A bit cleaner in terms of the code you have to write (less, easier to read, less keywords to consider)
- Not all actions delegated to a single method. Not much difference in execution here, but at least the text is more compartmentalized.
- In the same vein, another method can be added anywhere in the class instead of a specific spot.
- Methods are namespaced, which is nice.
- Does not apply here, but consider a case where
Switch::go()operated on a member rather than a parameter. You would have to change the member first, then call the method. For
Oopyou can call the methods independently at any time.
Arguments I can come up with in support of
Switch scheme:
- For the sake of argument, cleaner method of dealing with a default (unknown) request
- Seems less magical, which might make unfamiliar developers feel more comfortable
Anyone have anything to add for either side? I'd like to have a good answer for him.


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This Blaziken is a fire/fighting-type Pokémon owned by Harrison.
Harrison received Blaziken as a Torchic when he started his journey in Hoenn. Blaziken's first on screen appearance was when it battled and defeated a Sneasel allowing Harrison to capture it. At the time, Ash's Pokédex was unable to identify Blaziken since it was from the Hoenn Region.
Blaziken later appeared to battle Ash's Bayleef and Charizard. It casually grabbed Bayleef's Vine Whip and effortlessly pulled her towards it before knocking her out with Fire Punch. Charizard provided a far greater challenge, beginning the battle with Flamethrower and Blaziken countered with the same move. Then Blaziken displayed its incredibly jumping abilities by dodging Charizard's next Flamethrower and using Quick Attack in midair. Charizard flew up to avoid it and Blaziken fired another Flamethrower which Charizard narrowly avoided. Once again the two Fire types fired Flamethrowers at each other and were evenly matched. Blaziken and Charizard then started trading blows, dodging and striking each other repeatedly until Blaziken tried to hit Charizard with another Quick Attack. Charizard dodged it but Blaziken skidded to a halt, turned, and smashed a Fire Punch into Charizard's face. Charizard struck back with another Flamethrower before dodging the next Quick Attack and hitting Blaziken with his tail. Charizard then grabbed Blaziken and hurled it to the ground with Seismic Toss. For a moment it seemed that Charizard had won but then Blaziken stood up, battered and bruised but far from defeated. It landed another Quick Attack, endured Flamethrower, and leapt into the air when Charizard tried another Seismic Toss. Charizard flew after Blaziken but was caught off guard by a Blaze Kick attack. Blaziken fired another Flamethrower, intending to finish the battle and Charizard countered with Dragon Rage creating a massive explosion. When the smoke cleared both trainers encouraged their Pokémon to stand up. With a considerable amount of effort, Blaziken managed to get back to its feet and Charizard did the same a few seconds later. However when Charizard tried to use another Flamethrower, he was overwhelmed by all the damage he had taken and fainted.
Although Blaziken had defeated Charizard, it had been badly hurt in the process and Harrison refused to allow it to fight in the next round out of concern for its condition. Since he didn't want to risk having Blaziken get hurt even more badly than it already was, he lost the next round.
Known moves
Voice actors
- Katsuyuki Konishi (Japanese)
- Darren Dunstan (English)
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text: Section: OMC News OMC offers an effective way for smokers to overcome their tobacco addiction Posted on Jun 2, 2017 OMC offers an effective way for smokers to overcome their tobacco addiction Ozarks Medical Center (OMC) and the American Lung Association will be offering the Freedom From Smoking program, an 8-week smoking cessation class for adults. Meetings will be held every Wednesday during the session beginning on Wednesday, June 14 at 9:00 a.m., in the OMC Pulmonary Rehab Conference Room in the Shaw Building. There is no cost for the program, but enrollment is required. As America's gold standard smoking cessation program for over 25 years, Freedom From Smoking helps participants create personalized plans to overcome their tobacco addiction. With a recent new edition, the program is based on the latest research on addiction and behavior change. It approaches the difficulties of quitting with a sensitive, supportive style. Studies show that people who use the program are six times more likely to be smoke-free one year later than those who try to quit on their own. According to Ruth Nabors, Pulmonary Rehab Coordinator at OMC, the program is especially helpful because it is taught by a trained facilitator who helps participants learn what triggers their smoking, when they are most likely to smoke, and the best way to approach the quitting process. "Our Community Health Needs Assessment showed the need for OMC to address causes of cancer and heart disease. Cigarettes and second-hand smoke are a leading cause of disease," said Tom Keller, OMC President and CEO. "We want to improve lives by improving health. Helping people avoid health problems that can be prevented by stopping smoking will achieve a healthier community." The public can enroll in this free program by calling Ruth Nabors at 417-257-5959, extension 6905. Please leave your name, phone number, and address on the voicemail and you will be contacted. The classes are limited to the first 15 to enroll. Related Articles OMC's Walter R. Holloway, M.D. chosen as a 2018 Top Doctor by 417 Magazine 1-Feb-2019 By Kim Wood OMC Welcomes Their Largest Nurse Residency Cohort 20-Aug-2019 By Drew Clark Dr. Taghogho Agarin Joins OMC Pain Management Clinic 28-Dec-2015 Psychiatrist Alan B. Korbett Joins OMC Behavioral Healthcare 28-Feb-2018 OMC Sponsoring a Free Weekly Breastfeeding Support Group 1-May-2018


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The bold lines and innovative shapes of the Diavel Dark merge to create a superb, unmistakable design, capable of turning every head. The unique character of the powerful 162 hp* Testastretta 11° Dual Spark engine, ensuring muscular torque, combines with the athletic ease of a chassis built to provide riding pleasure beyond all expectations.
*The power values indicated above are measured using a chassis dynamometer. Homologated power data, as quoted in the Bike Registration Document, are measured using an engine dynamometer according to the homologation regulation. The two power values may differ because of the different measurement equipments.
Front - 2 x 320 mm semi-floating discs, radially attached Brembo monobloc 4-piston callipers with Bosch ABS
Rear - 265 mm disc, 2-piston floating calliper ABS
Front - Lightweight alloy, 14-spoke with machined finish, 3.5 x 17 in.
Rear - Lightweight alloy, 14-spoke with machined finish 8 x 17 in.
Front - 120/70 ZR 17 Pirelli Diablo Rosso II
Rear - 240/45 ZR17 Pirelli Diablo Rosso II
Dry - 463 lb. (210 kg)
Kerb - 527 lb. (239kg)
Kerb weights indicate total bike weight with all operating consumable liquids and a fuel tank filled to 90% of capacity (as per EC standard 93/93).
Chain drive
Front sprocket - 15 tooth
Rear sprocket - 43 tooth
1st - 37/15
2nd - 30/17
3rd - 27/20
4th - 24/22
5th - 23/24
6th - 22/25
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Rear - Fully adjustable shock with progressive linkage, Remote spring preload adjustment, Single-sided aluminium swing arm; Travel - 4.7 in. (120 mm)