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gsr posted a topic in Buy, Sell, TradeI'm trying to create an account at the Digilent store for purchasing a PYNQ-Z1 board, but I had a problem in the middle of the process. I live in Brazil, but as far as I could see at the country box in the shipping details, the Digilent store doesn't ship to Brazil. Is that right? If I'm incorrect, what do I do to work around this problem? * In the attached image, I show the Country box in shipping details. The 'Brazil' should be beneath 'Bouvet Island'.


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The photo above was taken outside our local Academy Sports store just a couple of days ago. This scene is played out at thousands of retailers all across America every day. But why? How and why is this happening? Is this just a function of a public panic over threatened gun control action? A recent Rasmussen poll says 65 percent of Americans see the Second Amendment as protection against tyranny.
There's been lots of speculation over the last several months about ammo shortages. Consumers are frustrated with long lines and the lack of availability. The most common calibers are increasingly difficult to find. 9mm, .223 cal., 5.56 NATO, .40, cal. and .45 cal. have all but dried up. Prices are up 100 to 200 percent over just two years ago. I recently stood in line for over an hour and a half to purchase the last two 20 round boxes of .45 at a local retailer. I paid just under $30 per box. Two years ago, the same rounds would have cost just over $15, even less online.
Many have pointed to the outrageous quantities of ammo being sought by the Department of Homeland Security. According to a recent article by Breitbart.com columnist Awr Hawkins, the DHS has ordered some 1.9 billion rounds of 9 mm. Last summer, The Blaze reported the Social Security Administration had requested over 174,000 rounds of ammo. Even the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) made substantial purchases in recent months for their Office of Law Enforcement. Who the heck knew NOAA had (or needs) a law enforcement office?
Couple all of this with the private purchases that are increasing day by day and you've got a formula for a good old fashioned shortage. Could that actually be part of the governments plan? Think about it. Head on gun control does not work. California Senator Diane Feinstein saw her feeble attempt are reviving the so-called assault weapons ban of the 90′s melt down before her very eyes last week. So what if this rapid-fire buying frenzy on the part of DHS is actually an attempt to corner the market?
What if the government is preparing for some sort of 'civil unrest'? What's the plan? Shoot us all? Or what if this is actually DHS's way of trying to corner the market? What if the idea is to see if it's actually possible to stress the marketplace to a breaking point. Manufacturers like Winchester and Federal are working at full capacity, 24/7, and still cannot keep pace with current demand. Could this be what Janet Napolitano and the Department of Homeland Security want to test? Sound outrageous to you? Is it any more outrageous than the Social Security Administration or NOAA buying up bullets faster than you can say 'lock and load'?
Several congressmen have demanded that Napolitano and DHS explain these purchases. So far, Napolitano and company have stonewalled, refusing to answer questions. All this secrecy does is gin up more distrust against Napolitano and DHS. The agency has done little to endear itself to the American public and Napolitano, it seems, could give a damn less. The near all-powerful agency has even gone so far as to set up unannounced 'checkpoints' with agents armed with fully automatic weapons. These have been explained as 'drills' by DHS. Officials have, so far as we can find, refused to elaborate further. Do you believe the ammo shortages could be an orchestrated effort by DHS to stress ammo supplies, creating a backdoor form of gun control?
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Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds Spring Training FanFest set for March 22 at Goodyear Ballpark
Fans can play catch in the outfield, receive autographs, and take ballpark tours of Indians Spring Training home.
Cleveland, OH -The Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds annual Spring Training FanFest will be held Saturday, March 22 at Goodyear Ballpark in Goodyear, AZ.
The family-friendly festival will be held from 5:30PM-8PM after the Indians take on the Colorado Rockies. Fans will be able to interact with and receive autographs from Tribe and Cincinnati Reds players and coaches at the event.
Other activities at the event include:
- Play Catch in the outfield
- Batting Practice Experience
- On-field contests and giveaways
- Ballpark tours
- On-field/dugout photos
- Kids Zone activities and face painters
- Kids run the bases
Tickets for adults are $40, with Goodyear Ballpark Spring Training Season Ticket Holders and active and retired Military members receiving a discounted $30 rate. Kids ages 3-12 are $10, while kids 2 and under can enter for FREE. Event proceeds benefit the Southwest Valley Chamber of Commerce in Goodyear.
Admission prices include access to all on-field activities, autograph sessions, food stations and non-alcoholic drinks. A cash bar will be open for purchases throughout the event. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at Indians.com/Spring, the Goodyear Ballpark Ticket Office or the Southwest Valley Chamber of Commerce.


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Local actor to read exchanges between his younger self and killer
Hampton Union, January 7, 2014
[The following article is courtesy of the Hampton Union and Seacoast Online.]
Chris Bradley in a scene as the
Narrator in "A Christmas Story,"
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in December.
Here's an interesting premise for a film: A lonely, 14-year-old gay boy becomes pen pals with a 23-year-old female who is a convicted killer. The fact that it is based on real life makes it all the more interesting.
The name emblazoned across the envelope in hot pink and artful cursive is Chris Bradley, today a 37-year-old company actor at Seacoast Repertory Theatre. The sender is Pamela Smart, then in her early 20s, a media coordinator at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, convicted of murdering her husband, Gregg Smart, and sentenced to life in prison in 1991.
Bradley shared a few of Smart's letters for the first time publicly in 2013, in "I Could Just Diary," at Seacoast Repertory Theatre and, as they say, "the crowd went wild," the wheels turned, and "Pame," (Smart's spelling), the film project was born.
"I can't even explain; people were laughing so loud," Bradley said. "Rae (Dawn Chong) was in the audience ... and here we are today."
Chong, an award-winning actress ("Quest for Fire," "The Color Purple" and "Commando"), and Bradley came to an agreement regarding the film. Chong is producing "Pame," which will feature Bradley telling his story and reading select letters. Knate Higgins, "Diary's" producer and Rep company member, will direct.
The exchange between Smart and Bradley started in 1992, after her conviction. Bradley was an eighth-grader in Newburyport, Mass. His initial reasons for writing were mixed, he said, starting with the fact he was a lonely, lost boy.
"At the time (the murder) was a featured scandal and everyone was so against her. A friend and I decided to be contrary," he said, adding neither understood the gravity of the situation. "We decided to support her."
Chris Bradley at the age he became pen
pals with Pamela Smart.
At 14, he believed Smart was innocent. He wrote her a letter of support. Smart responded kindly and the pen pal friendship began and continued through Bradley's senior year.
At 14, he was a confused, depressed, lonely child looking to be accepted, Bradley said. He couldn't foresee the friendship when he first wrote to her, but she was kind and understanding and he was in a rough place.
"It's funny to look back into the mind of an awkward, gay teen in the '90s. ... She was my friend. That's the messed-up part, but she was my friend and I didn't have many, and she listened and helped me through a lot — well, if you didn't believe she was a convicted criminal." He laughed and added writing to someone in jail is fluky behavior.
"It's odd, but I'm odd," he said.
"I think my mom was honestly glad I was writing her, that I was doing something — anything — and that I was happy," he added. "I came from a very 'Roseanne'-like family."
The film will consist of Bradley explaining the situation and reading letters, "and it will be really funny," Chong said.
"Not to make fun of Chris or Pame, it's the insanity of it," she said. "She's serving a life sentence and she's giving sex and love advice to this 14-year-old gay boy!
"It's funny and touching and she's completely insane, and you're crying laughing! It's twisted. I cannot wait," Chong said.
Higgins knew of the letters long before Bradley shared them. Eventually, over a few drinks, his friend read excerpts.
"He'd read them and I would sit with my mouth agape," Higgins said. "All the documents are hand-stamped from the state pen (penitentiary), all written to him. It's mind-blowing. I remember thinking 'this is something extremely special.'"
The letters are humorous because of content and their surreal value. They run the gamut, happy to sad and, over time, become quite personal, Higgins said. Eventually, "they're pretty awful" after she's sent to federal prison.
The film project launched the "Pame" Kickstarter campaign last week for $2,000, but is shooting for $15,000 or more. The participants hope to film at the Rep in the spring.
"There's so many sides of this whole thing that makes it amazing," Bradley said. "It's definitely hilarious but it's sentimental realism, too. I really want to make sure, even if it's fun and we're doing it light, I just want people to know she was a friend, who I cared about and cared about me. On the other hand, she did sleep with a student and had the student kill her husband — so there you go! It's all so bizarre."


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Tina Fey can't get enough of 30 Rock – she's set to host "Saturday Night Live" for the third time.
The "SNL" alum turned "30 Rock" creator will return to studio 8H in New York's Rockefeller Center May 7, according to TVLine and The Hollywood Reporter.
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Publication Acceptance Date: 1/12/2010
Publication Date: 6/15/2010
Citation: Skinner, D.Z., Bellinger, B.S. 2010. Exposure to subfreezing temperature and a freeze-thaw cycle affect freezing tolerance of winter wheat in saturated soil. Plant and Soil. 332(1):289.
Interpretive Summary: Winter wheat plants are seeded in the fall and harvested the following summer and therefore must have winterhardiness, an ability to withstand several exposures to subfreezing temperatures. In this study, 24 winter wheat cultivars were evaluated for their ability to withstand freezing to potentially damaging temperatures after one of three pre-freezing treatments; incubation at -3C for six hours, or 16 hours, Or a mild, 24 hour freeze-thaw cycle followed by incubation at -3C for 16 hours. The mild freeze-thaw treatment resulted in improved freezing tolerance especially apparent under harsher freezing conditions. The six-hour pre-freezing treatment resulted in very poor freezing tolerance; the 16 hour pre-freezing treatment resulted in intermediate freezing tolerance. The ability of the cultivars to withstand freezing was not consistent among the pre-freezing treatments, indicating variation in the ability to withstand the different kinds of stress imposed by the three treatments. It should be possible to improve winter hardiness by genetically combining the ability to survive each of the kinds of stress brought about by the variation in the freezing treatments.
Technical Abstract: Winter wheat is sown in the autumn and harvested the following summer, necessitating the ability to survive subfreezing temperatures for several months. Autumn months in wheat–growing regions typically experience significant rainfall and several days or weeks of mild subfreezing temperatures at night, followed by above-freezing temperatures in the day. Hence, the wheat plants usually are first exposed to potentially damaging subfreezing temperatures when they have high moisture content, are growing in very wet soil, and have been exposed to freeze/thaw cycles for a period of time. These conditions are conducive to freezing stresses and plant responses that are different from those that occur under lower moisture conditions without freeze/thaw cycles. This study was conducted to investigate the impact of mild subfreezing temperature and a freeze/thaw cycle on the ability of 24 winter wheat cultivars to tolerate freezing in saturated soil. Seedlings that had been acclimated at +4°C for 5 weeks in saturated soil were frozen to potentially damaging temperatures under three treatment conditions: (1) without any subzero pre-freezing treatment; (2) with a 16-hour period at ¬–3°C prior to freezing to potentially damaging temperatures; and (3) with a freeze/thaw cycle of –3°C for 24 hours followed by +4°C for 24 hours, followed by a 16-hour period at ¬–3°C prior to freezing to potentially damaging temperatures. Plants that had been exposed to the freeze/thaw cycle survived significantly more frequently than plants frozen under the other two treatments. Plants that had been exposed to 16 hours at -3° (without the freeze/thaw cycle) before freezing to potentially damaging temperatures survived significantly more frequently than plants that were frozen to potentially damaging temperatures without a subzero pre-freezing treatment. These results indicated that cold-acclimated wheat plants actively adapt to freezing stress while exposed to mild subfreezing temperatures, and further adapt when allowed to thaw at +4° C for 24 hours. This phenomenon was observed in most of the 24 cultivars examined, but freezing tolerance of several cultivars was not improved by the freeze/thaw cycle, indicating variation in the ability to effectively respond to mild subfreezing temperatures. The cultivar Norstar had the greatest survival of the 24 cultivars when frozen with either of the subzero pre-freezing treatments, but the cultivars Wanser and Froid survived significantly better than Norstar when frozen without any subzero pre-freezing treatment. We suggest it may be possible to improve winterhardiness of wheat grown in saturated soil by combining the ability to effectively respond to mild subzero pre-freezing temperatures with a greater ability to withstand freezing to damaging temperatures without a subzero pre-freezing exposure.


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The primary-level activities for November 2011 invite learners to consider a variety of ways of approaching tasks and encourage them to reflect on the merits of different routes and solutions.
I suggest that in order to encourage a range of ways into a problem, it is best to present the pupils with a challenge to which they do not have an automatic learned response. In such situations they have to rely on their creative abilities and problem-solving skills rather than their memory of lessons and procedures. Presenting pupils with a challenge of this kind may allow the teacher to have a particularly good insight into where the pupils are in terms of their mathematical thinking. Some pupils may need to gain confidence and so realise that it is all right to have their own mathematical strategies. These are often helped to develop by having their ideas respected by those around them. Some of this month's activities give an opportunity for this to happen.
During the course of lessons such as these, when the pupils have achieved some results by different means, a time comes for them to share their ideas and consider the different approaches that have been tried. Such discussions probably need to be encouraged carefully as they are more in keeping with the atmosphere we might associate with circle time.
The challenges are as follows:
Lots of Lollies, which has many possible solutions.
Number Round Up, which involves simple addition in a non-standard context.
How Tall?, which gives the children a very practical challenge.
Eye View, which presents the children with a perspective problem.
Forgot the Numbers, which offers the children an arithmetic problem that is not so straightforward.
Fitted, challenges the children in a way that involves spatial awareness as well as number awareness.


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Even though S braved a 15 mile hike in the backpack yesterday, she still had a smile on her face for today's backpack ride.
If you look closely, you should see a praying mantis oriented vertically and facing right. We came upon this 5 inch long insect on our hike today and she was beautiful!


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It's going to take a couple weeks to really process all that I saw and heard at HIMSS 2011. In fact, there's no doubt that much of the content I publish over the next month or two will be things I learned from the people I learned from at HIMSS or influenced by what I saw and heard. However, after a good night's sleep in my own bed I'm really happy with my experience at HIMSS. The energy and passion for healthcare IT that was found at HIMSS was really powerful and wonderful to be apart of.
I think those people out there that are asking if we're in a healthcare IT bubble right now are on the mark. There's very little doubt in my mind that we're in a healthcare IT bubble. It's a feature of $36+ billion in EHR incentive money being given out by the government. I can't remember the size of the EMR market numbers off the top of my head, but $36 billion in money coming into what is a relatively small market is going to change things dramatically. So, it makes sense that this type of infusion of money would create a bubble of sorts.
One person in their comments that we're in a healthcare IT bubble asked if the bubble would pop before HIMSS 12 in Las Vegas. I believe we have at least one or two more years before the healthcare IT bubble pops. In fact, if you thought that HIMSS 11 in Orlando was big, I predict that HIMSS 2012 in Las Vegas will be even bigger. The EHR incentive money will have started flowing and the trench battles will be in full swing as the 300+ EMR vendors battle each other for customers.
EMR software was obviously my focus at the conference and despite my comments about the lack of innovation by EMR vendors and the future of EMR, I think there are a ton of really interesting EMR approaches that in aggregate are going to impact the EMR world in really dramatic ways. Here's some examples:
- Azzly described a meeting of EHR vendors they attended with ONC. The question was asked which EHR vendors in the room started development after the HITECH act was announced. Azzly was the only one to raise their hand. I'm sure there's other EHR vendors in that same boat, but it will be interesting to see an Azzly EHR that was built post incentive go up against the legacy EHR software.
- ClearPractice was the first native iPad EMR (called Nimble) that I'd seen and there's no doubt they've made a big play in that space. Will that combined with the backing of John Doerr and their internet driven sales change EMR as we know it?
- Will larger companies like Greenway and Sage continue to gain market share as they go after the EMR market while maintaining their customer experience? Or will they head the way of the Misys of the world and be bought up by other EMR vendors?
- What about NaviNet's entrance into the EMR world? Can they leverage their existing connections with so many providers to be a major player in not just interoperability but in EMR as well?
- Even the big behemoth of a company, GE surprised me when I visited with them. There was a polish and a professionalism that I loved about my visit with GE and GE's Centricity Advance people. I think there's a fair comparison with Microsoft. Something about the nature of the US loves the underdog and hates the big name player. Yet, the big company just keeps executing their vision and many doctors are going to happily buy and use their products.
- What about Ingenix's multiple EMR offering strategy? Will it just be confusing to clinicians or will they effectively differentiate their various offerings while providing a backbone for interoperability as well? Is the future large EMR vendor one that aggregates a bunch of niche specific EMR companies?
- What impact will the transcription based EMR vendors have on the market? I wrote about the change from transcription company to EMR vendor earlier this week. Watch for the names MD-IT, FutureNet, Intivia, and MxSecure.
- Many people probably don't recognize the name MedPlus. However, everyone knows the company behind the MedPlus Care360 EMR: Quest Diagnostics. There's something powerful about being able to turn on an EMR in a medical practice with basically the flip of an electronic switch. That's what MedPlus can do since Care360 is already being used in so many clinics that use Quest for their lab work. Add in their existing lab sales staff that already have relationships with large numbers of clinics and they're going to be a very interesting player in the EMR space.
- Free EMR is a really compelling marketing tool. There's a reason that Practice Fusion and Mitochon Systems free EMR offerings get so much press and so many doctors evaluating their EMR offerings. While many might disagree with their model or even believe that it will fail, these companies have and will have an interesting impact on the EMR landscape.
- MicroMD offers an interesting approach. First, because of their existing LONG term practice management clients. Second, because of the interesting integration with the supply side of their company. Not to mention, the executives that I met with were some of the most realistic people and well thought out people I met at HIMSS.
- Props to EMR company MIE that could use a fake EMR company (Extormity) to launch themselves into the EMR discussion while also helping to open up the discussion as well. If I were a doctor, I'd want to demo their EMR just so I could see if I could find any Extormity features in their EMR. Although, maybe that's just the blogger in me.
I could keep going on, but that gives you a bit of flavor of some interesting EMR vendors and their market approaches. Plus, this is just 16 of the 300+ EMR companies that are working in this space. Each one with their own interesting story.
The most exciting thing for an EMR nerd like myself is that we're really only at the beginning. Wait until we get beyond 15-25% adoption and reach 50% adoption. Then, the fun really begins.
Full Disclosure: Practice Fusion, MD-IT, MxSecure, and Mitochon Systems are all advertisers on this site. EMRandHIPAA.com's HIMSS11 coverage was also sponsored by Practice Fusion, provider of the free, web-based Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system used by over 70,000 healthcare providers in the US.


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February 15, 2011
The Honorable Ken Salazar
U.S. Department of the Interior
1849 C Street, NW
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Dear Secretary Salazar:
The undersigned scientific and professional societies, representing thousands of scientists and resource professionals, many of whom are employed by your Department, thank you for your support of scientific integrity through the recent adoption of the Department of Interior's Scientific Integrity Policy as part of the Department Manual. We especially appreciate the acknowledgement of the benefits of full participation in professional and scholarly societies.
We welcome your commitment to scientific integrity through this policy and we stand ready to work with the Department's agencies to ensure that our nation's resources are managed openly and scientifically. The Department's scientists and managers deserve to work in an environment where scientific findings are appreciated and valued, when concerns about misuse of science are openly expressed, they are not met with retribution, and where decision-makers apply them properly.
Policy is about making decisions that consider different values while obeying and implementing the mandates of the law. If a strong scientific foundation exists that indicates that a certain policy alternative will result in undesirable consequences to some resources if implemented, it is not an abuse of science if that policy alternative is selected as long as the decision makers acknowledge the science but choose the alternative based on the importance of other values. We cannot expect that good science will always result in a minimization of impacts to resources in policy decisions. However, far too frequently, policy makers have abused science and masked the true reasons behind recent policy decisions. We expect the new policy will help to make the process of weighing science, values, and the requirements of the law more transparent, more true to the best available science, and thus more effective at fulfilling the mission of the Department.
We are especially grateful to see participation in professional societies encouraged in this new policy. Scientific and professional organizations play many important roles, including sharing information through scientific and popular publications, facilitating expert networks, providing an independent and science-based perspective on relevant government policies, and offering professional development and certification programs. Such organizations also allow agencies to maintain a diverse and highly qualified professional workforce, help to develop a higher degree of public confidence and trust in professional abilities, and provide greater agency visibility and enhanced professional reputation. Full participation in professional societies is an important part of a scientist or resource manager's career and professional development.
Leadership in professional societies is crucial to many resource professionals' careers and should be encouraged, rather than hindered by the federal government. Thank you for recommending the removal of barriers to your employees serving as officers or on governing boards of such societies. In recent years, some federal agencies have chosen to enforce a policy that prohibits employees from serving on the boards of outside organizations under any circumstance, or have created conditions that make it virtually impossible for their employees to serve. We look forward to changes in these policies in light of your announcement.
While the Scientific Integrity Policy makes important strides in protecting the integrity of science within the Department of Interior, there is still work to be done. The policy does not address key issues, such as peer review or whistleblower protections, identified in President Obama's March 2009 memorandum regarding scientific integrity in all federal agencies. Our organizations stand ready to work with you to incorporate these, and other important topics, into future iterations of the policy or into other Department documents and procedures as appropriate.
Thank you for your strong public support for scientific integrity in the federal government. The undersigned organizations look forward to seeing the general principles elucidated in your policy translated into action at the agency level.
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We asked Emily Rubin, author of the debut novel, Stalina, to share her experience running the P&W-sponsored Dirty Laundry reading series.
In 2005, I cofounded Wash and Dry Productions to produce Dirty Laundry: Loads of Prose (DLLOP), the reading series that takes place in working Laundromats across the country. The idea to bring writers to local Laundromats came about one evening in a brainstorm session over a couple of beers with my friend and writer Gregory Rossi. We wanted to organize a series in a nontraditional setting where writers could share their work with their fans as well as people outside the literary community.
Sitting outside at Zum Schneider, a new German beer garden on Avenue C, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, we looked down the avenue considering places we might hold the readings. There was a bodega, a church, a Chinese restaurant, and then, at East Fifth Street, the Ave C Laundromat. Our eyes opened wide and we knew we had our venue. At the time, the third annual HOWL! Festival was organizing and the producers invited us to participate. Sam Lipsyte and Legs McNeill read at the first Dirty Laundry: Loads of Prose to more than seventy people at the Avenue C Laundromat that August. The writers and audience were enthusiastic and wanted to know when and where the next Laundromat reading would take place.
Since then there have been more than thirty readings and close to one hundred writers have been presented in between the washers and dryers throughout the New York City metropolitan area. We have taken the show on the road and presented local writers in Laundromats in San Francisco; Boulder, Colorado; and Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Poets & Writers' Readings/Workshops program funded a dozen readings in New York City from 2006 to the present. The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Meet the Composer have provided additional funding for the program. The series has been covered extensively in the press with articles in the Villager, Time Out NY, Brooklyn Rail, and several international journals as well. It has also aired on television on NBC, Reuters, and the NY Bureau of Russian TV, featuring radio interviews with writers and myself for National Public Radio and the BBC.
Photo by Taka Kawasaki.
Support for Readings/Workshops in New York City is provided, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, with additional support from the Louis & Anne Abrons Foundation, the Axe-Houghton Foundation, the A.K. Starr Charitable Trust, and the Friends of Poets & Writers.


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Madrid had reportedly been hoping to stage the match on the Friday in order to give them extra time ahead of their last-16 return trip to Old Trafford, the first leg of which takes place on Wednesday night at the Bernabeu.
However, the kick-off time has now been confirmed by the LFP (Spanish football league) as 1600 local time on March 2, which is the same time as United are scheduled to start their Barclays Premier League home match against Norwich.
That means the season's second La Liga El Clasico is unlikely to be screened live on television in the UK due to a clash with domestic fixtures.
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Bradley Klapper, Beijing
The United States and China will spend time over the next couple of days testing whether their annual "Strategic and Economic Dialogue" can produce tough compromises or just serve as a venue to talk about greater cooperation.
The Obama administration comes with a clear set of priorities to this year's meeting in the Chinese capital: closer coordination against climate change, an end to Chinese industrial cyber-espionage and stricter rules governing maritime claims in Asia's contested, resource-rich seas.
But it's unclear whether Washington will be able to forge an effective agreement with Beijing in any of these areas.
All told, the two sides will canvass 60 topics when they meet today through Thursday. Economic friction centers on the valuation of China's currency and claims by American companies of unfair market restrictions in China. Strategic discussions include the threat posed by nuclear-armed North Korea.
U.S.-China gatherings in recent years have vacillated between icy and warm. The dialogue two years ago in Beijing weathered the escape from house arrest by Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng and a U.S. decision to grant him asylum. Last year in California, President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to establish "a new model of major power relations."
Yet on many issues, the U.S. and China are mired in disagreement, reflecting natural friction between an established superpower and an emerging one.
The United States, with the world's biggest economy and strongest military, will be led this week by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew.
China's economy is set to surpass the U.S. in the coming decades and its armed forces are rapidly gaining strength. It will be represented by foreign policy chief Yang Jiechi and Vice Premier Wang Yang.
In a recent interview with The Associated Press, the top American diplomat for Asia outlined one area where he hoped to see progress: the restart of a cybersecurity working group that China shut down after the U.S. indicted five Chinese military officers. The Obama administration accused the officers of hacking into American companies' computers to steal trade secrets. China demanded the charges be withdrawn; it has no plans to extradite the men.
Such behavior from China "risks undermining the support for the U.S.-China relationship among the U.S. and international business community," Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Russel said. He said Beijing must address the problem of cyber-espionage.
China isn't playing ball. Its communist government has fumed since the indictments were unsealed in May, ending talks that the U.S. had hailed as a diplomatic coup when they were set up after Obama's summit with Xi. Obama is expected to visit China again later this year.
With no cybersecurity breakthrough likely, senior U.S. officials traveling on Kerry's plane refused to outline what would constitute a successful result this week.
Instead, they stressed the long-term importance of the two countries working through their differences for the stability of each, and the rest of the world, noting how several issues have been settled over time.
For example, the proliferation of Chinese nuclear technology, a serious worry in the 1990s, is no longer a central U.S. concern.
The last year has been difficult for U.S.-Chinese cooperation. Beyond the cyber-hacking dispute, ties are strained by Beijing's actions in the South and East China seas.
American allies Japan and the Philippines, as well as Vietnam, have become increasingly worried by Chinese efforts to drill for oil or assert authority in waters they consider their own. China also has tried to enforce control over contested airspace.
A U.S. push to get China to agree with its neighbors on rules to settle territorial disputes has gained no ground, with Beijing dismissive of what it sees as American interference in its internal and regional affairs.
Progress could come on climate issues, said the U.S. officials, who weren't authorized to speak publicly by name on the talks and demanded anonymity.
The U.S. and China have battled for years over how to rein in carbon emissions. While an accord is improbable on that front, the officials were optimistic of new cooperation on clean energy. They didn't elaborate.
They also suggested a toughening Chinese attitude emerging toward North Korea, given Xi's recent visit to South Korea. China could still oppose any harsh criticism of its ally in the joint statement expected at the end of the meeting. AP
US to press China on liberalizing high-tech trade
the U.S. is looking for concessions from China to kick-start international negotiations on liberalizing trade in high-technology products.
Trade Representative Michael Froman told reporters the U.S. wants to resolve differences with China over products covered by the Information Technology Agreement during annual high-level U.S.-China talks in Beijing.
Negotiations to update the 1996 agreement have been snared by China's desire to protect dozens of new product categories. Some 70 countries participate in the agreement, accounting for much of global trade in that sector.


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A Milwaukee man has been charged with the kidnapping and second-degree sexual assault of a girl who had been missing for days.
According to a criminal complaint, Lamar Cone and his girlfriend approached the girl on her way to the library just before Thanksgiving, offering her a ride.
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They took her to an apartment above Duke's Bar at Water Street and Juneau Avenue in downtown Milwaukee and wouldn't let her leave.
The girl told police she was pressured to "work the streets" and that Cone sexually assaulted her, according to the complaint.
The girl told police she woke up early on the morning of Dec. 2 and sneaked out of the apartment after being held captive for about a week.
She ran to her father's house.
Police said they got a tip from someone in the apartment building that they had seen the girl with cone.
The girl told police when investigators came by, he made her hide.
Cone is also charged with physical abuse of a child and false imprisonment.
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Whale Watching in Hawaii
Adult males range from 40 to 52 feet and can weigh up to 45 tons. Despite their size, humpback whales are graceful acrobats. Keep your eye on the ocean and you might see one breach, propelling up to 40 percent of its body out of the water and landing on its side with a spectacular splash.
Whales have great cultural significance for Native Hawaiians. They play a large role in Hawaiian legend—including one creation story—and appear in ancient petroglyphs on several islands. The return of the kohola (humpback whale) is considered more of a homecoming than a visit. Humpback whales are born in Hawaiian waters, making them kamaaina (native born). Some Native Hawaiians also believe the whales are aumakua (family guardians), so these gentle giants are treated with great respect.
Cultural Significance of Whales in Hawaii
Although humpback whales can be seen from all of the Hawaiian Islands, the shallow Auau Channel between Maui, Molokai and Lanai is one of the best whale-watching destinations in the world.
What's the Best Way to See Whales?
You may also spot kohola from the southern shores of Oahu, especially at Makapuu Lighthouse and along the seaside overlooks near Leahi (Diamond Head).
Kauai offers a range of whale-viewing opportunities, including Poipu Beach on the South Shore, Kilauea Lighthouse on the North Shore and Kapaa Overlook on the island's Coconut Coast.
On the island of Hawaii, whales are often seen along the shores of the Kohala Coast, as well as Hilo Bay on the east side of the island. The Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site is another great viewing spot, with its sweeping, elevated views near Kawaihae Harbor. In fact, Puukohola literally means "hill of the whale" in Hawaiian.
Boat tours may be your best option for viewing whales up close. Hawaii has dozens of tour operators, including a few that lead kayak excursions—a thrilling way to experience these majestic mammals.
In respect for the kohola and the safety of sightseers, all watercraft must stay a minimum of 100 yards from the whales, but you'll be surprised how close you feel when a 45-ton behemoth lunges out of the sea. If a boat tour is not for you, the whales' impressive acrobatic displays are often visible from miles away. If you're on land, keep a pair of binoculars handy because you never know when you'll see a humpback's spout (which can be 10–20 feet tall).
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OTTAWA – Amid heated riding battles to become candidates in upcoming elections, both the Liberals and Conservatives are banning those who lose nomination races from running for other parties or as independents.
Nomination application forms obtained by the Ottawa Citizen show that both parties require anyone seeking to become a candidate to agree they won't challenge the winner of the nomination battle should they lose.
And both parties go so far as to block the nomination hopefuls from running for other parties, in other ridings, as well. The restrictions appear to cover anyone who applies to run for the party nominations, whether or not they are disqualified or are even allowed into the race.
The agreements could affect upcoming elections in ridings such as Trinity-Spadina, where the Liberals refused to approve Christine Innes's application to seek the nomination, or in Calgary Signal Hill, where longtime Conservative MP Rob Anders lost the nomination to former provincial Tory cabinet minister Ron Liepert.
Under the Liberal agreement, Innes, for example, would be blocked from running for someone else against the eventual winner of the party's nomination race in the upcoming Trinity-Spadina byelection.
She is currently suing Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and a party official for $1.5 million for defamation over their allegations about the conduct of her campaign.
The agreements are part of the lengthy applications candidates must sign before getting party approval to seek the nominations. It is unclear what might happen to those who ignore the agreements and run for office after being rejected by their own parties.
Liberal Party of Canada national director Jeremy Broadhurst calls the possibility of a breached agreement hypothetical and said he couldn't speculate on how the party might respond if a failed contestant ran in the election.
He said similar language has been used in past nomination contestant agreements but he wasn't aware of any case in which someone who signed one went on to run as an independent or for another party.
The federal Conservative party did not respond to a request for comment.
The New Democrats do not require prospective candidates to make the same undertaking.
Questionnaires used by the Liberals, Conservatives and New Democrats require prospective candidates to list past political affiliations, describe any ongoing litigation or past bankruptcies, and disclose other matters that could prove potentially embarrassing to the parties.
Both the Liberals and Conservatives additionally require applicants to say whether they are currently involved in divorce proceedings or disputes over child custody or support payments.
In Calgary, former provincial Tory minister Liepert defeated Anders in the nomination in Calgary Signal Hill and will now represent the Conservative party in the riding in the next federal election.
There has been speculation that Anders could be eyeing the Conservative nomination in a nearby riding. However, potentially running as an independent against Liepert in the next election now appears out of the question because Anders signed the declaration.
Over in Calgary Skyview in the city's northeast, Puma Banwait and Buta Singh Rehill had hoped to challenge incumbent MP Devinder Shory for the party nomination, but they were both recently disqualified by the Conservative party without explanation.
Banwait, a successful Calgary businessman, says the party disqualified him because Conservative officials knew he had a good shot at beating Shory for the party nomination.
He assailed the party for having potential candidates sign a written declaration promising not to run as an independent when they won't even let challengers run in the nomination contest.
"How can you put a rule on me if you don't allow me to come play ball with you guys? It's absolutely ridiculous," Banwait said in an interview.
"Harper is preaching democracy all over the world and there are smoke and mirrors in his backyard. Are you kidding me? A lot of people are pissed off at him in the riding."
Banwait said he would not have run as an independent in the next federal election if he lost a fair Conservative nomination vote.
But he said he's 75-per-cent sure he will run as an "independent Conservative" in the next campaign because party members want their voices heard.


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TradeBy Janet Rae-Dupree
Blockbuster: Movie Business Remains a Moving Target
Though it may be hard to believe, there was a time when bright blue-and-yellow Blockbuster signs did not grace every strip mall and service road in the U.S.
But like Starbucks and Wal-Mart, Blockbuster has become a fixture in towns big and small, seemingly overnight. In the 20 years since its founding in 1985, Blockbuster Inc. has opened 9,100 stores in 25 countries.
During that time, it has rented millions of movies, and pushed the owners of countless mom-and-pop video stores into early retirement. Blockbuster has also become the conduit of choice for major Hollywood studios looking to move their hits into the home.
For the most part, when any new technology threatened the $6 billion Dallas-based juggernaut's business model, it coolly assimilated it and capitalized on the change. When the popularity of the DVD quickly overtook VHS, Blockbuster simply dumped most of its aging videocassettes and happily embraced the slimmer, cheaper, more durable optical discs. Thanks in large part to Blockbuster's switch, DVDs have mushroomed, from 22 percent of the home video entertainment market in 2000, to more than 90 percent today. Some experts predict Blockbuster will discard its entire tape inventory within the next two years.
But DVDs brought about some other, less welcome, changes for Blockbuster. The inexpensive nature of DVDsthe studios priced them around $20 at wholesale, as opposed to the $80 they were charging for VHS "rental-priced" cassettesbrought about a fundamental change in the dynamics of the movie rental business. Consumers were suddenly able to buy movies at a reasonable retail price soon after they had become available for rental. And about five years ago, that's exactly what they started doing. That struck at the heart of the $6.8 billion video rental market, of which Blockbuster holds a 40 percent share.
Then, in 1998, a pesky dot-com by the name of -Netflix Inc. appeared on the scene, proposing to mail DVDs to customers, thus saving them the expense of late fees, and the hassle of a trip to the local Blockbuster.
Blockbuster's financials began a rollercoaster ride and the stock price plummeted from a high of more than $18 in 2002, to less than $10 today. Last year, the company declared a $1.2 billion loss, thanks in part to a costly spin-off from former parent company, Viacom Inc. All of this drew the interest of the infamous corporate raider Carl Icahn, who snatched up shares on the cheap, ultimately acquiring 9 percent of the company, and earning himself a seat on the board this past May.
He has been publicly butting heads with CEO John Antioco, insisting that Blockbuster should tread water and reap the profits from its dominant position in a mature, possibly dying, industry rather than investing in high-risk technologies such as online rentals.
But Antioco has remained steadfast in his belief that online rentals are the only growth segment in an otherwise shrinking industry. Kagan Research LLC says online rental revenues jumped from virtually nothing when Netflix started in 1998, to $522 million in 2004. The analyst firm expects the industry to grow to $931 million by the end of this year, and to $2.9 billion in 2009.
And so, by late 2003, Blockbuster executives were feverishly putting the final touches on some major competitive restructuring, most of which would roll out in 2004.
Antioco earmarked tens of millions of dollars for several key initiatives to revitalize the core rental business and create new revenue: Online rentals, an in-store monthly subscription service called Movie Pass, a video game subscription service called Game Pass, a movie and games trading program, and the still controversial "No More Late Fees" effort.
Some of the new programs mimicked those of Blockbuster's competitors, some were entirely new business models, and some were pure marketing shtick. But coming along for the ride on each and every one was CIO John Polizzi and Blockbuster's IT department. The metamorphosis Blockbuster underwent in 2004 touched every part of IT, and it is a process that continues today. "It was a monster year," recalls Polizzi, a 30-year veteran of the IT business. "It was the most complex set of initiatives that I've seen a company take on. There was no shortage of things to do."
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Blockbuster doesn't publicly break out the cost of individual IT efforts, although a $100 million jump in capital expenditures from 2003 to 2004even factoring in the cost of 160 new storesindicates the overall restructuring effort has been huge. Among the biggest expenses has been Blockbuster's head-to-head response to Netflix.
After initially pooh-poohing the lack of immediacy and spontaneity in renting movies from an online subscription service, Blockbuster rapidly learned how to sing the online subscription hallelujah chorus. Netflix's market share jumped from 2 percent in 2003 to 7 percent in 2004. And the Internet upstart already has more than three million subscribers and expects to hit four million by the end of this year. Blockbuster had just under one million online rental subscribers at last count and hopes to be up to two million by early 2006.
Rather than trying to build an online mirror of its physical stores, Blockbuster instead established a separate online division in new offices situated about two blocks from its Dallas headquarters. That was a huge gamble, notes Frank Paci, executive vice president of finance and accounting, strategic planning and development. "The online business was a financial leap of faith, as opposed to the in-store initiatives, where we could try it out in a couple places and then change the system as needed," he says. "With online, we had to build the system before we had any customers for it. And you can't just try it out. The moment you're online, somebody in Alaska and somebody in Florida can use it."
That meant developing an entirely new business model inside Blockbuster's existing one, Polizzi notes, not just writing a new set of applications. At the outset, Blockbuster had roughly 100 IT people devoted to the effort, both from within the company and from outside IT consultancy Accenture.
"Now we're building our own internal capability to support the business," says Polizzi. Blockbuster also has contracted with India-based Infosys for both onshore and offshore IT help.
Why bring in outside IT resources? "Typically, when you start something new like this, you don't know what you don't know," Paci says. "You anticipate that there will be things you didn't anticipate and you need the flexibility to deal with that."
Such rapid expansion requires easy access to top IT people, Polizzi adds.
"The need to be able to extend your resource capability quickly with strong, skilled and competent people is critical," he says. "Infosys right now provides mostly onshore resources, but we're working with them with the idea that we'll eventually move some of it offshore."
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Company: Blockbuster Inc.
Corporate Headquarters: Dallas
CIO: John Polizzi
Revenues: $6.1 billion(trailing 12 months)
EBITDA: $1.42 billion (ttm)
Stock Price: $8.35 (July 22, 2005)
52 week high-low: $6.50$13.95
A key part of taking down Netflix will be figuring how best to leverage the existing 4,500 stores in Blockbuster's domestic network. Rather than relying solely on its 30 distribution centers scattered around the countryNetflix has 35Blockbuster has created pilot programs in which store clerks can use the slow retailing hours between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. to prepare and ship out online orders. And online subscribers can use two coupons each month to get free 7-day and new-release rentals at any Blockbuster store.
"They have a chance to eat Netflix's lunch," says Michael Pachter, a senior research analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities in Los Angeles.
With each store operating as a distribution center, he notes, Blockbuster will be able to wield one or two orders of magnitude more inventory than Netflix. "WebVan was going to put grocery stores out of business and eToys was going to put toy stores out of business. But you like to touch the tomatoes and try the pants on. People want to browse through a physical store. That constituency isn't ever going away."
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For those who like to browse the store every time they're in the market for a movie, Blockbuster created an entirely separate, in-store subscription service it calls Movie Pass, which allows renters to pay a monthly fee to keep a set number of movies from an individual store for as long as they want. While it would seem logical to let in-store subscription customers transact with Blockbuster Online, and vice versa, the complexities of revenue recognition and inventory management make that impossible. "If a member is paying, say, $25 per month to rent X number of movies, we need to allocate that monthly fee per movie in order to pay the studios," Paci explains. "That means we need to know which inventory it came from and who paid what for the rental."
Compounding the pain that the new online venture caused for IT was Blockbuster's massive, and nearly disastrous, "No More Late Fees" program, launched in January 2005. The drastic change to their business model gambled $250 to $300 million in annual late-fee revenue in hopes of attracting wayward customers back to the stores. It worked . . . sort of. The program has increased in-store rentals, though Blockbuster isn't saying by how much. But those customers who failed to read the fine print howled with outrage when they found the full retail price of a movie on their credit card invoices. As it turned out, "no more late fees" did not mean "no more due dates." Blockbuster records a rented movie as a sale if the customer keeps it more than seven days. If the movie is returned within 30 days, the price of the movie is credited back to the customer's accountless a $1.25 restocking fee. Keep the movie more than a month, and it's yours permanently.
Swamped with complaints, several state attorneys general filed false advertising claims against Blockbuster. All but one of those claims was dismissed after Blockbuster began a multimedia advertising campaign to clarify the program's details.
But the false advertising claims weren't the No More Late Fees initiative's only missteps. The IT department had its share of trouble persuading the stores' on-site servers to recognize the new rules; daily inventory management and sales transactions are handled at each store by a roughly ten-year-old Digital Equipment Corp. Alpha server.
"When customer service representatives are standing in front of you at the registers, the business rules are all driven off that DEC server," Polizzi says. "We had to deploy the rules in such a way that if the U.K. isn't using No More Late Fees, which they aren't, they can continue to run their business with late fees. And when Canada decided to join No More Late Fees in February, we had to be ready to transition and support that business as well."
Behind the scenes, IT needed to keep an eye on how the myriad changes were affecting inventory, rental volume and sales. "We were out in the stores doing a soft launch of the No More Late Fees program, without advertising, on Dec. 27, which is memorable for me because it's my wife's birthday," Polizzi says. "It was a very interesting holiday season last year."
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Adding to the complications of that holiday season was Blockbuster's new in-store DVD trading program, quietly rolled out in more than 2,600 stores last year and expected to be in 1,600 more by the end of this year.
The idea is to let customers bring in used movies they no longer want and walk out with others. Sounds simple enough. Turns out, however, that many states require such a trading program to adhere to the same regulations required for pawnshopsan entity for which every state has slightly different laws. "You have to be a certain age to trade, you have to keep records of who is trading what, and how often, in case there's an attempt to traffic in stolen goods, and all of that is taking place at the same time you're developing an entirely new category of inventory," Polizzi says. "When you go through 50 states, and 25 countries and 9,100 stores globally, understanding all those variables, and making it effective for the people who have to account for the supply chain, is a key part of what we have do through IT."
Rounding out Polizzi's year from hell was Blockbuster's push into an entirely new rental market: video games. As each new gaming console has come out, players increasingly have been loathe to plunk down $50 to $75 to buy a game that they have never tried before. With at least three new game consoles coming out in the next 18 months, Blockbuster sees a potentially, well, blockbuster revenue opportunity.
By some measures, video game rentals and retail combined already represent nearly 20 percent of Blockbuster's business. But analysts already see plenty of potential pitfalls. "Some Blockbuster video game departments seem to do very well, while others don't at all. It's very mixed right now," says Dennis McAlpine, managing director of media and entertainment consultancy McAlpine Associates LLC, in Scarsdale, N.Y.
In their traditional video rental space, Blockbuster has two decades of data about what inventory needs to be located where in order to make the most money. Without the same kind of detailed data in the games space, and little experience determining which selection will be a hit and which a dud, "you can end up with a lot of bad inventory if you buy at the wrong time," McAlpine warns. IT is confident its systems can quickly collect the data needed to avoid that trap, and Blockbuster is confident that the new Game Pass subscription modelwhich, for $19.95 per month, allows renters to keep any one game indefinitelywill explode as new consoles hit the market.
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Now that 2004 has drawn to a close, and plans for 2005which include expansion of the trading and Game Pass subscription programshave been set in motion, Blockbuster is busy eyeing the technologies that will become a priority in 2006. As an example of how quickly a new technology can affect, and threaten, Blockbuster's business, consider the words of CFO Larry Zine, who, last February, said of video-on-demand, "We don't think the economics work well right now." Then, during the company's annual call with analysts and investors the following month, Blockbuster announced that it had launched successful trials of video-on-demand in both the U.K. and the U.S., and that it plans to start its own VOD service through Blockbuster Online next year. Meanwhile, Netflix will be rolling out its own service for downloading movies from the Internet later this year.
Blockbuster still has the brand recognition and the marketing muscle to become a big player in video-on-demand, should the markets move in that direction. "VOD is the ultimate impulse decision," says Jennifer Illes, a research assistant at Harvard Business School who has co-authored a series of case studies about Blockbuster's transition. "Coupled with TiVo (or any brand of digital video recorder) it's the ultimate threat. There's been so much speculation about VOD being just around the corner, and it's not totally here yet, but with those two together you have the ability to get any movie you want at any time.
That could be to Blockbuster's advantage, though, if the company can make its mark in the new technology even as its traditional business model fades awaysomething that even Carl Icahn expects it to do. That could explain why CEO Antioco is so determined to take advantage of each new business opportunity. If VOD is a potential Blockbuster-killer, like Netflix before it, he wants to keep the Blockbuster brand at the forefront of VOD's adoption so that the company can replace any rental revenues lost to the new technology.
Yet others scoff at the idea of VOD taking so much as a nibble from either the rental or sale markets in DVDs. "VOD is a joke," says analyst Pachter. "The studios know it doesn't make economic sense to allow VOD at the same time as rental. Pixar Animation [shares] blew up because they only shipped 20 million copies of The Incredibles. What if they had no DVD sales at all? Literally 50 percent of studio profits come from DVD sales. The studios recognize the need for that gap, the window, between DVD release for rental and sales, and either pay-per-view or VOD."
The technology isn't even ready for prime time, Pachter warns. "You can't have dedicated bandwidth for 40,000 movies on demand all the time, which means you'll never get the same selection you get at the video store." Besides, he says, a number of U.S. households don't even have computers, much less broadband access. "It's not going to be a threat for at least ten years and it's foolish to look beyond that."
Perhaps. But Illes notes that the studios have two opposing views of the new technology. "They're very dependent on Blockbuster because home video rental is a huge chunk of their revenues," she says. "But Blockbuster is the middleman. If they could somehow get rid of them, then VOD could be extremely lucrative for the studios. Whether VOD is an ultimate threat for Blockbuster is dependent on how the studios end up handling their release windows."
And, of course, on how nimbly Blockbuster rolls with the changes.
Janet Rae-Dupree, the technology editor for the Silicon Valley Business Journal, has covered technology and science in Silicon Valley for a number of publications, including BusinessWeek and the San Jose Mercury News.
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A Des Moines man has been charged in connection with a motel room party in Ames Sunday.
Police said they received a 911 call about a disturbance at the EconoLodge Motel at 2600 Southeast 16th St. at 3:54 a.m. Sunday.
More than 20 people had been inside one motel room for an after hours party.
Witnesses told police that Deon Owens, 23, of Des Moines, displayed a handgun and threatened people at the party.
Police said party attendees attempted to disarm Owens at which time the gun discharged.
Police said the bullet traveled through two walls and a door. No one was hurt.
Owens left before officers arrived at the motel. Owens was later arrested and charged in Des Moines.
He was charged with 11 counts of first-degree robbery, 11 counts of intimidation with a dangerous weapon, 11 counts of going armed with intent, 11 counts of assault while participating in a felony and one count of possession of a firearm as a felon.
Owens was taken to the Story County Jail and held on bail of $500,000 bail.


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On 22 September 2011, I took part in a panel "From the Editor's desk", convened by Wendy Harcourt and Kees Biekart at the EADI/DSA General Conference in York, UK. The session was conducted as an open discussion among 6 journal editors on the new publishing arrangements with the coming of the digital age among development journals looking at both the opportunities and the current squeeze for resources.
There were 6 editors who took part in the exchange, five of whom are journal editors:
Wendy Harcourt – Development
Kees Biekart – Development and Change
Brian Pratt – Development in Practice
Caroline Sweetman – Gender and Development
Robert Cornford – Oxfam Books
me – Knowledge Management for Development Journal (KM4D Journal)
When it was my turn to talk, I introduced the KM4D Journal and gave some background on how the journal has developed. It is the youngest journal of them all – then in its 7th volume – and it has, unusually, gone from being an Open Journal System journal to one published by the commercial publisher, Taylor and Francis.
After introducing the journal, I very briefly presented some research on development journals that I've been doing with Iina Hellsten of the VU University. Iina and I are doing a scientometric analysis of top development journals. As part of this, I presented a few slides showing our preliminary results in which we had considered the institutional and country location of authors of three development journals, based on a sub-set of articles concerned with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for the years 2005-2008: namely World Development, the Journal of Development Studies and Development and Change.
This first slide reviews the institutional affiliations of authors. It shows (and I hope you can read it) that these journals are dominated by Northern institutions, both universities and international organisations such as the World Bank and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Of the institutions listed here, only one, namely the University of Delhi, could be described as a Southern institution.
Our next slide is concerned with the location of the authors in terms of country. Here, you can see the dominance of authors located in the North, and particularly the USA (green) and the UK (blue). This dominance becomes even clearer when we look at the third and final slide in which the authors for World Development are divided between the developed and developing world.
These slides show a reality of development journals being dominated by Northern interests and authors. As I then concluded, this picture makes me doubt the role of development journals as being developmental.
Not for the first time when I've presented these results, I received some angry reactions. One participant argued that this was not a problem because authors in the South have their own journals and didn't need access to the journals in my study. Another argued that although most of the authors are located in the North, they may well be Southerners, and that this undermined my argument. And that my approach was patronising to Southern academics.
As you can imagine, I was getting very worried and upset at this point, wondering if I was indeed chasing an irrelevant red herring…
But then, fortunately for me, Olivier Sagna of CODESRIA was in the audience. He argued that the difficulty of publishing in international journals was perceived as a huge problem by many African academics. He was also of the opinion that the fact that some of the authors were Southerners based in the North did not change the overall impression of bias. He noted that the brilliance of some Southern scholars was not recognised until they caught international attention by attaining senior positions in the North. When this happened, they found it easy to publish in international journals but before this, they had been just as good but had not been recognised.
Please see the full report of the panel, written by Wendy Harcourt.
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Tune in and drop out with The Timothy Leary Experience. The late-night program of three films by the king of 1960s US drug culture promise to be so trippy, you won't even need any illegal substances to have your mind broken. 11pm, Tribal Theatre 2.
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UPDATED 5:00 p.m. ET: The update has been made below as well, but Rees' charges are officially as follows: two counts of resisting law enforcement, minor consumption and battery. All are misdemeanors. The battery charge was previously a felony.
Yesterday, CBSSports' Dennis Dodd declared the opening of the "silly season" of college football, where no spring practices meant ample time for football players to get into all kinds of shenanigans.
Lo and behold, it only took Notre Dame quarterback Tommy Rees a matter of hours to get himself into trouble.
The Chicago Tribune and South Bend Tribune report that Rees, along with Irish linebacker Carlo Calabrese, was arrested Thursday morning when cops tried to break up an off-campus party. Police say Rees "actively resisted" officers trying to corral him and other party-goers before throwing an interception in the endzone.
"It wasn't terribly violent, but it was enough to be considered resisting," South Bend police Capt. Phil Trent told the Tribune.
However, WSBT-TV reports, via Trent, that Rees "kneed an officer in the stomach" and was pepper sprayed before being taken into custody. The Tribune was able to confirm both incidents.
Rees has been hit with charges of resisting law enforcement, battery to law enforcement, minor consumption and public intoxication — all misdemeanors. He was being held without bond until the county prosecutor's office decided on formal charges.
Calabrese, a backup LB who played in every game last season, was slapped with a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct. South Bend PD claims Calabrese told officers "my people will get you" before being arrested. He was released after posting $150 bond.
"The university is aware of this incident and is confident that it will be handled in a prompt and professional manner through the criminal justice system," Notre Dame spokesman Dennis Brown said in a statement. "Internal discipline is handled privately, in accord with our own policies and federal law."
Additionally, coach Brian Kelly offered this response:
"I am aware of last night's incident involving two of our football players. I am of course very concerned given the nature of the allegations, but I am still gathering information. I'll withhold judgment until I can collect all the facts and speak with both Carlo and Tommy."
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I was intrigued by your comments that you couldn't pause an audiobook playing on USB. I too would like to do this but haven't yet. I scanned the owner's manual and found a reference to pause, but it was for Bluetooth controls. The closest I found was one of two methods:
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When I tested this the track started where it left off. Granted, I didn't turn my car off so I don't know if that will change anything.
Anyway, if we stumble across anything it would be good to share. I'm sure there has to be a way...