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January 31, 1967 Chad Channing born
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February 20, 1967 Kurt Donald Cobain was born in Aberdeen, Washington
January 14, 1969 born David Eric Grohl
1975 Kurt's parents split up. That leaves the singer injured, making it a timid child and very unhappy. He goes to live with me.
1978 Kurt's father remarries
1979 The family of Krist moves to Aberdeen
June 1980 sent to Krist Crocia where it gets a year living with relatives.
February 20, 1981 Kurt gets his first guitar (its 14 years)
May 1984 The Kurt I was home again.
May 1985 Kurt exits colgio
Autumn of 1985 Kurt Krist knows. Vrias They play together in small bands, including Stiff Woodies
December 1987 Kurt, Krist and drummer Aaron Burckhard riding Nirvana, a band influenced by Punk rock and New Wave in Aberdeen, Washington.
January 23, 1988 Nirvana records a demo with 10 songs with Jack Endino and Jonathan Poneman of Sub Pop Shut hire are the single \ "Love Buzz \".
30 October 1988 Kurt smashes his first guitar.
November 1988 Lanam the single \ "Love Buzz \" / \ "Big Cheese \".
1989 They record the album Bleach, which cost six hundred dollars mseros. Alm of Cobain and Novoselic, the disc, which was produced by Jack Endino, brings Chad Channing (drums) and Jason Everman (guitar). Bleach sold thirty thousand prints and emplaca the music \ "Sliver \" in the U.S. charts. They do a little turn on the west coast.
June 1989 officially Lanado disk Bleach.
October 1989 EP Blew Lanado
20 October 1989 Nirvana gets his first turn outside the U.S., this time was EUROPIA in Newcastle England
December 30, 1989 Krist Novoselic and Shelli get married in Tacoma.
1990 After making a respectable career for alternative circuit, Nirvana goes to a major label (Geffen). Dave Grohl took the battery group.
January 1, 1991 Sesso the studio in which only recorded \ "Anerysm \" and \ "Even in his youth \"
Winter 1991 The band signed with DGC (Geffen).
April 17, 1991 Nirvana plays first the classic \ "Smell Like Teen Spirit \"
September 24 de19 91 Sai Nevermind, the album that would undermine the structures of the pop world. It starts in place of the arrest Billboard 144, but soon Nevermind sell eight million of prints, from the front of Michael Jackson, Guns Nroses, U2 and other instituies pop.
October 1991 Nirvana performs in Seattle, one of the most talked about shows of the country. The group gained fame blow their instruments on stage (especially Kurt) and win gold.
November 2, 1991 The turn of EUROPIA lanamento Nevermind gets in Bristol, England.
November 1991 While Nirvana burst in his turn EUROPIA, MTV airs \ "Smell like a teen spirit \" pipe that became an anthem of generation.
December 1991 Nirvana makes a small turn to the American side of Pearl Jam and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
January 10, 1992 Nirvana plays first in the MTV studios.
January 11, 1992 The band plays in the program humorstico Saturday Night Live, and on the same day, Nevermind Alcana first place in the charts worldwide.
January 1992 Hormoanig Lanado in Australia and in Japan, a rare and difficult album to be found.
February 24, 92 Cobain married Courtney Love, lead singer of rock band Hole. \ "I am worth six millions of dollars. Will you marry me, bitch? \" Would have been the declarao love the singer. The union viewed with a certain desconfiana, j so that the two addicts card.
June 1992 Nirvana travels through Europe.
Born August 18, 92 Frances Bean Cobain, singer and son of Courtney Love. Kurt processes ingls that publishes a newspaper article that says that the girl was born addicted to Herona.
July 21, 1992 Lanado with the single \ "Lithium \" along with a booklet that three letters of Nevermind.
September 1992 The band plays \ "Lithium \" at the MTV music awards and even two prizes invoice.
December 15, 1992 lanada the coletnea Incesticide with rare tracks, and covers some things the group's career.
January 1993 is presented in Nirvana Hollywood Rock, in Brazil. During the presentations in Rio VIEW CAMERA Cobain spit in the Globe (which broadcast the festival) and simulates a masturbao onstage. Nirvana still surprises with unexpected covers of \ "we will rock you \" (Queen) \ "Rio \" (Duran Duran) and \ "Kids America \" (Kim Wilde).
April 9, 1993 Nirvana plays a concert in San Francisco's Cow Palace to raise awareness and generate funds for survivors of rape Bsnia.
May 1993 The vdeo \ "Sliver \" gets to play on MTV.
August 1993 During a discussion, fills Cobain Courtney Love blows. Courtney will policeman who finds several weapons in the couple's home. The complaint withdrawn.
September 14, 1993 Nirvana wins the prize for best vdeo alternative at the MTV Video Awards. Nirvana In Utero lana, a record produced by Steven Albini confuses and marked by the group and producer. Albini would have said that softened the sound of Nirvana In Utero to look more commercial. The prprio Cobain change the name of the disc was called last hour I hate myself and I wanna die (\ "I hate myself and I want to die \").
September 19, 1993 vdeo of the Estrie \ "Heart Shaped Box \" who would later win the prize for best art vdeo by MTV.
November 13, 1993 The group records the show for MTV Unplugged at Sony studios in New York. Cris and Curt Kirkwood of Meat Puppets play on three songs from Meat Puppets.
December 31, 1993 Nirvana Special emphasis on the MTV New Year.
January 7, 1994 Nirvana plays the Seattle Arena, which is this show different? Was the last show of the band in the U.S..
February 6, 1994 Nirvana boards in turn a more in Europe.
4 of 94 Maro Cobain goes into a coma after ingesting high doses of sedative Roypinol with champagne. Concerts in turn EUROPIA that Nirvana would only automatically canceled.
April 5, 1994 Died suicdio by Kurt Donald Cobain in the garage of his gentle, with a high dose of Herona. S this fact was discovered three days later.
April 8, 1994 Kurt found dead at his home in Seattle, USA. Left a note for wife, Courtney Love, explaining the reasons suicdio.
November 1, 1994 Lanado the U.S. album Unplugged in New York, included two tracks that were placed in the album appear on MTV.


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Patch 2.4 will likely go live this coming Tuesday and if not, then most assuredly next Tuesday. Are you ready? I went over some of the upcoming patch 2.4 changes back in February, as well as looked at a couple of the new tanking items. About the only skill change that is coming with 2.4 […]
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Sorry for my unannounced hiatus, but the last few weeks have been a bit hectic and I've been in and out of town quite a bit due to good ole 'real life' involvement! At any rate, I'm back and time to get rolling on the blog again! First a little post about me and my […]

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The ubiquitous presence of electronics and gadgets in the home is affecting kids' ability to get a good night's sleep, according to a new survey by The Sleep Council. The UK-based sleep advice organization took an online poll of 1,000 teenagers between 12 and 16 years old and found that many do not get the recommended amount of sleep on an average night, in part due to TVs, music, or video game consoles.
23 percent of those surveyed said that they regularly fell asleep while watching TV, listening to music, or with "other machinery" still running. The Council says that this is not surprising given that 98.5 percent of the teenagers have phones, music systems, or TVs in their bedrooms (almost two-thirds had all three).
Even at the younger end of the group, electronics in the bedroom are prevalent—58 percent of 12- to 14-year-old boys reported having a phone, music player, TV, or game console in the bedroom.
And although many adults claim that they fall asleep more easily with the TV on, it doesn't always work the same way for kids. One in five of all the teenage boys surveyed admitted that leaving the TV or computer on was affecting the quality of their sleep.
The teens aren't exactly bouncing back from the poor quality sleep, either. 40 percent of the group reported feeling tired in general each day, with 15- and 16-year-old girls doing even worse. But despite this realization, only 11 percent of teenagers surveyed felt that quality of sleep was important. "I'm staggered that so few teenagers make the link between getting enough good quality sleep and how they feel during the day," the Edinburgh Sleep Centre's Dr. Chris Idzikowski said in a statement. "Teenagers need to wake up to the fact that to feel well, perform well and look well, they need to do something about their sleep."


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PPSQFT calculated using condos only. However, only 1, 2, and 3+ bedrooms are shown on this chart. The difference between 100% and the total percentage shown by neighborhood equals the excluded studios. 1-4 families are excluded from this analysis.
(You must log-into the search engine and search pending and sold listings to see these property details)
The Absorption rate is 3.64 months. See the attached picture of the absorption rate over time. The absorption rate is a number that describes how many months it will take to see off the current inventory at the current rate of sales. We had 42 closings this month and we have 153 active listings. So at the current rate of 42 closings per month, it would take 3.64 months (153/42) to sell off the current inventory. See the chart attached as a photo to see how absorption rate has fluctuated over time.
The absorption rate is often thought of as the factor that indicates if we are in a sellers' or buyers' market.
Generally if there is more than 4 months of inventory it's a buyers' market. Less than 4 months it's a sellers'market. Prices are down but so is the inventory.
Another key factor is listing date to contract. See the quarterly review and consult an agent. Outlyer scan skew these numbers.
See the embedded document below for Price Per Square Foot by bedroom and neighborhood so you can understand how location effects price.
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The Shaping of Black America
Johnson Publishing Company, 1975 - African Americans - 356 pages
"What forces transformed Africans into African-Americans? How did they sustain themselves during centuries of captivity and oppression? In what way did their presence shape the attitudes--and fortunes--of white America? How did black people become a nation within a nation? And what are the prospects for that nation in the 1990s?" "These are among the questions that Lerone Bennett, Jr., addresses in this triumphant companion volume to his epochal Before the Mayflower. Where that book rendered the African-American experience chronologically, The Shaping of Black America tells its story from a developmental perspective. Its first section, "Foundations," encompasses black slaves and white indentured servants, the black founding fathers, and the relationship between African-Americans and Indians. In the second section, "Directions," Bennett traces the growth of black labor and black capital and the development of a system that unites and separates blacks and whites. The result is a bald and literate work that persuasively demonstrates its author's notion that "blacks lived a different time and a different reality in this country." Book jacket."--Jacket.
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The Azure Code Samples are currently available in English
IoT Hub Intel Edison Client application
This repo contains the source code to help you get familiar with Azure IoT using the Microsoft IoT Pack for Intel Edison Starter Kit. You will find the lesson-based tutorials on Azure.com.
This repo contains an arduino application that runs on Intel Edison with a Grove temperature sensor, and then sends these data to your IoT hub. At the same time, this application receives Cloud-to-Device message from your IoT hub, and takes actions according to the C2D command.
Set up your edison
Follow this page to set up your edison and enable SSH.
Build Azure IoT SDK
Clone this repo into your Intel Edison, then navigate to the repo folder to run the following command to build Azure IoT SDK
sed -i -e 's/\r$//' buildSDK.sh
chmod 755 buildSDK.sh
Connect your sensor with your edison
Connect with a physical Grove temperature sensor and LED
You can follow the image to connect your Grove temperature sensor and a LED with your Intel Edison.
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Cataclysmic Variable Star by Intergalactic Debris - 50 minutes of space music. Some of this previously existed on a download-only Obliquity album.
International Memories - split with MindSpring Memories. Two longform vaporwave tracks.
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Last week sources at Google suggested that a new Maps app for iOS might arrive "before Christmas". Now, Eric Schmidt has confirmed to Reuters that Google has not yet submitted a new Maps app to Apple.
Speaking after a Tokyo-based Nexus 7 event, Schmidt denied rumors which have suggested Google already has an app ready for iOS 6. Instead, he admitted that the company has "not done anything yet".
Given the timescales usually required to get an app through Apple's approval process, all this means that iOS 6 users are definitely in for a wait before they get Google's own app on their handset. Sadly, Christmas may turn out to be a realistic timeframe after all.
Update: Bloomberg has a slightly different—and more ambiguous—take on things. From its article:
"We haven't done anything yet with Google Maps," Schmidt told reporters in Tokyo today. Apple would "have to approve it. It's their choice," Schmidt said, declining to say if the Mountain View, California-based company submitted an application to Apple for sale through its App Store.
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Australia and Vanuatu take home gold at the Oceania Beach Volleyball Championships
Australia's Sam Boehm and Russel Moore were undefeated in the tournament, making them the strongest contenders for the title. Although New Zealand's Darryl Lewis and James Gilling played their hearts out, they lost the finals against the Australians in straight sets. Nevertheless, they have sent out a clear message that they are the team to watch out for in the next Oceania Beach tournament in Papua New Guinea in 2014.
The women's finals kicked off with two very determined teams vying for the top spot. After 45 minutes, Vanuatu got what they came to the tournament to achieve by winning the grand final 2-0 (21-19, 21-12).
Vanuatu rallied from the first set down against Team One from Tahiti to edge their rival and enter the finals, while the Australian duo beat Tahiti's Team Three in straight sets to clinch the final berth.
1st place: Australia vs. NZ 2 - 2-0 (21-18, 22-20)
3rd place: Tahiti 1 vs. NZ 1 - 1-2 (21-18, 13-21, 13-15)
Semi Finals
NZ 1 vs. NZ 2: 1-2 (21-10, 16-21, 14-16)
Australia vs. Tahiti 1: 2-0 (26-24, 21-18)
1st place: Vanuatu vs. Australia - 2-0 (21-19, 21-12)
3rd place: Tahiti 1 vs. Tahiti 3 - 2-0 (21-14, 21-18)
Semi Finals
Australia vs. Tahiti 3: 2-0 (21-13, 21-11)
Tahiti 1 vs. Vanuatu: 1-2 (21-12, 8-21, 9-15)


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St. Paul writes to St. Timothy, then a bishop but also a priest and a Christian: "In the presence of God and of Jesus Christ, who is coming to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingly power, I charge you to preach the word, to stay with the task, whether convenient or inconvenient — correcting, reproving, appealing — constantly teaching and never losing patience." (2 Timothy 4:1-2) This advice of St. Paul to St. Timothy is a succinct instruction on the ministry of the priest. While it is directed to St. Timothy and to all ordained priests, its meaning can likewise be applied with great fruit to the laity as well. When St. Paul expresses the need to "never lose patience," he is reminding Timothy and us that the preaching of the gospel involves rejection, that it involves suffering, that it involves sacrifice, that it involves self-sacrifice and that this suffering is a part of the definition of our baptismal priesthood, for a priestly people is one which offers sacrifice.
A faithful Catholic not only participates in the sacrifice of the Mass, he makes that sacrifice his own. He makes that sacrifice his own, not only at Mass while attending to the work at the altar but all day, every day. St. Paul did not only say: "I charge you to preach the word, to stay with the task — correcting, reproving, appealing — constantly teaching." This is just the beginning. He added that essential note of sacrifice, contained in the reminders: "whether convenient or inconvenient" and "never losing patience." These reminders help us realize that our priestly ministry, whether as ministerial or baptismal priests, is a sacrificial ministry, a self-sacrificing ministry. Would that we could all be known as people, as Catholics, rooted in self-sacrifice and self forgetfulness. In some circles there is a tendency to view the ministerial priesthood as some kind of honor bestowed upon men. While there is an element of truth to this perception, the fuller truth is that the ministerial priesthood is a call to offer and to be offered in sacrifice.
St. Paul identifies both preaching the word and sacrificial dying to self as integral elements of the evangelizing mission he entrusts to St. Timothy. He has no illusion about how eagerly the message of the Lord will be received. This is most clearly shown as he continues his instruction to Timothy: "For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but, following their own desires, will surround themselves with teachers who tickle their ears. They will stop listening to the truth and will wander off to fables. As for you, be steady and self-possessed; put up with hardship, perform your work as an evangelist, fulfill your ministry." (2 Timothy 4:3-5) Despite the fact that Paul predicts Timothy's teaching will be ineffective, that people will stop listening to the truth, he reiterates and insists upon the need for fidelity. As for you, he tells St. Timothy, be steady and self-possessed; put up with hardship, perform your work as an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. Paul could have quoted Mother Teresa, "God did not call us to be successful. He called us to be faithful." In our ministerial or baptismal priesthood, we are called not only to be faithful but faithful in a steady and self-possessed fashion. This requires a dying to self, an embracing of the cross, an acceptance of rejection.
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This via the Ubuntulite* mailing list, an unconventional Ubuntu setup on a 1Ghz VIA machine with only 128Mb of RAM.
Unconventional is probably not a fair adjective; by that I really only mean unconventional to me — I don't ever bother with desktop icons or trays or volume control buttons. But it does reiterate that you can build an entire (pseudo-)desktop environment with other utilities, and end up with a full-featured, pretty and complete system that probably runs rather fast too.
I'll reserve my own opinions on that setup, since I generally use something vaguely similar. It looks like Mirage, mplayer, ePDFView and a few others I recommend also won points in that "review."
I did try Decibel after seeing it mentioned, and it seems like a nice little audio player. Personally I prefer AlsaPlayer for machines that don't revolve around audio playback (like my Thinkpad or Inspiron, which are relegated to other tasks), or Audacious for machines that do. I think my main turnoff for Decibel was that the Arch version wanted to install dbus, which I happily avoid. (I mentally hook dbus, hal, fam, gamin and a crop of other daemonlets into a category called "somewhat undesirable although sometimes tolerated").
Otherwise the system looks more or less like my own creations. Nice wallpaper too. 🙂
*As best I can tell, it seems Ubuntulite is still operating, although in a state of quasi-dormancy. I believe the project leader might be approaching the end of a school term, and so things have quieted somewhat. I think it is now fully part of the RULE project, too.


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FreshlySqueezed needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 136 designs submitted by 40 freelance designers.
We would like to see something that would fit our
distribution aspect of the business and our retail aspect of the business.
Desired Style:
trendy, smart, unique, abstract
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
We need something smart and unique and something that would fit our distribution side of the business where we distribute juicing machines, and our retail side of the business where we open juice bars that sell freshly squeezed juices such as pomogranate, orange, kiwi, pinapple and many others including vegetable juice and wheat grass.
Our logo can be trendy, and fun, with a hit of sufistication and business like manner.
Dear designers, thank you very much for your active and creative participation! We appreciate your efforts to help us and we think that several of the submitted logos are able to fit our criteria if may be changed a little. But how come every one is using only oranges? Our machines can also squeeze pomegrnates, for example.
We are not saying to exclude implication on orange (since mostly we are selling orange juicers), but may be put something together so we can see what it would look like with pomegranates (or any other fruits and vegetables). Also, we were thinking about drawing our logo as a stamp ( something like this, but more creative http://members.farmline.com/hoskyns…stamp.gif)
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Over the weekend, House Speaker John Boehner colorfully called his Republican caucus "frogs in a wheelbarrow." But President Obama has his own collection of jumpy amphibians to keep on board.
Cory Booker, the charismatic Democratic mayor of Newark, N.J., and regular Obama surrogate, went off script Sunday on "Meet the Press" when he called the tone of the presidential campaign "nauseating" – explicitly mentioning Team Obama's attacks on Mitt Romney's former private equity firm, Bain Capital.
Mayor Booker – most recently famous for rescuing his neighbor from her burning house – went after Republicans, too. He disparaged the recent proposal, attributed to GOP strategists, to have an outside group attack Mr. Obama via his flame-throwing former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
But it was Booker's defense of Bain that made headlines, reinforced by his half-hearted attempt later in the day Sunday to walk it back in a video to his social-media fan base. Still, Monday morning, the Obama campaign stuck with its anti-Bain script, launching a new line of attack via the bankruptcy tale of another Bain acquisition, the Indiana-based Ampad. In a conference call with reporters, campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt and a former Ampad employee accused Romney of "run[ning] other businesses into the ground even while turning a profit for himself and his investors," as Mr. LaBolt put it.
The Obama campaign also put out a six-minute video about Ampad, highlighting workers who had lost their jobs.
The response from Team Romney and the Republican Party? Press releases – and a video (see below) – that gleefully try to fan the flames of the Democrats' mini-insurrection, focusing not only on Booker's comments but also other Obama allies sticking up for private equity. In addition, the RNC has bought ads on Twitter to publicize Booker's comments.
On MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Monday, former Rep. Harold Ford (D) of Tennessee said he would not have backed away from defending Bain if he were Booker.
"The substance of his comments on 'Meet the Press,' I agree with the core of it," said Mr. Ford. "I would not have backed them out.… Private equity's not a bad thing. As a matter of fact, private equity is a good thing in many, many instances."
On TV last week, former Obama administration "car czar" Steve Rattner also stuck up for Bain and the world of venture capitalism, earning him regular space on Romney campaign missives.
But it was Booker's first comment Sunday morning that really has legs.
Here's what Booker said: "I have to just say from a very personal level, I'm not about to sit here and indict private equity. To me, it's just we're getting to a ridiculous point in America. Especially that I know I live in a state where pension funds, unions, and other people invest in companies like Bain Capital. If you look at the totality of Bain Capital's record, they've done a lot to support businesses, to grow businesses."
Later on Sunday, in a YouTube video that was likened by some commentators to a hostage tape, Booker said that Romney's business record was fair game in the campaign.
"Mitt Romney has made his business record a centerpiece of his campaign, he's talked about himself as a job creator, and therefore it is reasonable – and in fact I encourage it – for the Obama campaign to examine that record and to discuss it. I have no problem with that," said Booker.
But Booker didn't back away from his characterization of the campaign discourse at "nauseating."
"I used the word 'nauseating' on 'Meet the Press' because that's really how I feel, when I see people in my city struggling with real issues," said Booker. "I get very upset when I see such a level of dialogue that calls us to our lowest common denominators and not the kind of things that can unify us as a nation and move us forward as a nation."
The big question is whether any of this kerfuffle is reaching the consciousness of swing voters in key battleground states, like Ohio and Virginia. A lot of it may well be inside-the-beltway chatter in a campaign season that is still only gearing up. But for now, Obama's anti-Bain message has some serious static.


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Two new books on global energy dependency deal in anecdote, theory and 'dreams come true' writes Hattie Hartman
The strapline for the World Economic Forum in Davos, 'The Great Transformation: Shaping New Models', sounded upbeat, but it was mostly sombre messages that emerged. Among these was the downside of globalisation marked by the number of young people with limited prospects, the ever-increasing polarisation between rich and poor, and the limits of our dependency on technology made only too apparent at Fukushima. Not to mention the ongoing global inability to address resource depletion and climate change.
Alongside the politicians, financiers and economists, a large number of social entrepreneurs also gathered, including BioRegional's Pooran Desai and Sue Riddlestone. 'Our experience was not one of pessimism, but one of great hope. I have never been so hopeful about the potential for change in 20 years,' says Riddlestone. According to Desai, Davos was different this year with 'big corporates recognising for the first time that the system is broken. "We are at an inflection point" was the phrase heard everywhere.'
Their vision of the future chimes with the optimistic narrative presented by American economist and social thinker Jeremy Rifkin, in his latest book The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy and the World. A confidant of Angela Merkel and frequenter of corporate boardrooms across the globe, Rifkin envisions a democratisation of energy that will revolutionise power provision the way the internet has transformed communications. To argue his case, he draws from the upheaval of the music industry precipitated by file sharing and internet success stories such as Etsy.com (an online marketplace for crafts) and Toms.com (where for every pair of shoes sold, one is given to a child in need) as collaborative business models of the future.
Rifkin's five interconnected 'pillars' that will drive this transformation are renewable energy, conversion of all buildings to micro-powerplants, hydrogen storage technology, a smart grid, and clean transport. The second pillar of his 'third industrial revolution' – every building converted to a micropower plant as an exemplar of passive design packed with renewables – is a dream come true for any green architect. According to Rifkin, 40 per cent of roofs and 15 per cent of facades in the European Union are suitable for PVs. His description of the potential of a smart grid equipped with digital meters, sensors and new storage technologies, which respond to real-time demand to adjust peak energy use, is one of the best I've come across.
From his base at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, Rifkin set out to learn from the European Union's ambitious (by American standards) efforts to reduce its carbon footprint. Seizing the moment of the 2008 financial crisis, he assembled a construction roundtable with experts in renewables, design, property, IT, utilities and transport to brainstorm ways towards a post-carbon world.
To date, Rifkin and his team – whose collaborators include Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture from Chicago, Milan's Studio Boeri and Barcelona's Cloud 9 – have prepared masterplans for cities as diverse as Rome, Utrecht, Monaco, and San Antonio, Texas. Particularly intriguing is Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill's 3D virtual model of Utrecht, which classifies buildings according to their energy-saving potential along with estimated retrofit costs. This provides an online marketplace for properties to be clustered together under an umbrella retrofit contract.
Rifkin's rundown of the first and second industrial revolutions is a bit lengthy. He then wades through a lot of economic theory – 'retiring Adam Smith' – to speculate that lateral power will create greater empathy between humans and the planet, resulting in 'a biosphere envelope' as a determinant of urban form. Though you might not buy into Rifkin's vision or dismiss it as wishful thinking, he presents enough compelling nuggets in his vision of a greener future to make for a very worthwhile read.
Austin Troy of the University of Vermont, another American academic, covers much of the same ground from the vantage point of planning in The Very Hungry City: Urban Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities. This book is most useful in describing how urban energy consumption patterns developed. Troy starts by recapping the factors that shape the energy intensity of cities, which he refers to as 'urban energy metabolism', and provides some fascinating background on topics such as how the advent of air conditioning in the 1950s precipitated migration to the sunbelt cities and the dependency of Phoenix and Los Angeles on power to pump in their water supplies. Though he makes brief forays to Copenhagen and Stockholm's Hammarby Sjöstad, his focus is primarily American.
Troy's chapter on The Building Energy Diet surveys a wide sampling of current initiatives that aim to increase urban energy efficiency. Although this overview is somewhat rudimentary for a professional design audience, programmes such as the proactive, publically funded Efficiency Vermont (which has mapped areas of the state where electric demand approaches capacity during peak demand in order to avoid building expensive new transmission infrastructure) and Denver's Living City Block model (which is working with multiple owners for an energy retrofit of an entire city block) are of interest.
Less prescriptive and more anecdotal than Rifkin, Troy fails to get beyond cataloguing these initiatives to suggest a convincing way forward for cities to reduce their energy metabolism. The concluding chapter presents Portland, Oregon's regional governance model, as an exemplar with the proviso that any form of regional government in America is most likely a vision of a very distant future. Short primers on five fossil fuels, as well as nuclear, biofuels and renewables provide succinct and informative summaries of the respective limitations and challenges of these fuels.
Troy sets much less stock in renewables than Rifkin. He is cautious about the viability of hydrogen storage due to its high cost and the limited availability of rare minerals required for the manufacture of turbines and PVs. Both books put the spotlight on a theme long overlooked but by now familiar to AJ readers: the important role that the built environment and buildings play in addressing climate change.
How quickly will any of this come to pass? The volatile price of energy will be a determining factor. Rifkin argues irrefutably that peak oil is imminent if not past and that his five-pillar transformation could be a reality within three to four decades; Troy takes a more measured view, noting that new fuel sources such as tar sands and shale gas hint at a longer timeline. In either case, both authors outline the enormity of the task at hand with a forceful call for action.
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The Obama campaign openly taunted Mitt Romney's overseas record in a new ad released Saturday, using Romney's own a cappella version of "America the Beautiful" as a backdrop to the ad.
The ad, called "Firms," starts with Mitt Romney at a campaign stop in Florida during the Republican primary season. Then it continues to hammer Romney on the major themes of the week for the Obama campaign: the former Bain Capital CEO's' outsourcing record and his offshore bank accounts.
Some of the snippets from news stories that the Obama campaign highlights:
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Car Emerges from 'Sea Foam' Blanketing Australia's Coast
(SYDNEY) -- Two traffic officers in Australia narrowly escaped injury this weekend when a car emerged from the sea foam that has blanketed the country's coastal towns.
In a scene captured on video and posted to YouTube, the officers appear standing with pedestrians on a windy, beachside road as a bus attempts to navigate the foam. Out of nowhere, another part of the foam begins to move and a car emerges with its headlights on.
One officer quickly pushes the other aside, moving them both out of the path of danger.
The foam, or coastal froth, is a result of extreme weather conditions in the country that included a tropical cyclone last week. The froth was formed when powerful waves forced air into the water, according to the Griffith University Centre for Coastal Management and reported by the Herald Sun.
Australia's Sunshine and Gold coasts were hit so hard by the foam that residents and tourists were asked to cancel all non-essential travel, according to reports. Witnesses also described seeing foam as high as nine feet at its peak.
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GCDS presents summertime seduction, where Kawaii is cute and at the same time sexy.
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Giorgio Matteo Lorusso's collection explores the constant depersonalization of human beings caused by the static nature of contemporary society.
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Rajini's daughter Aishwarya finds it difficult to market films
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This anecdote surely has the makings of one more
Rajini joke, to add to one of the many which have had the country in
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Life is so tough for young filmmakers, that even the legendary Rajinikanth's daughter Aishwarya is finding it difficult to push her films in the Hindi-speaking market, despite her father's pedigree and the power of the "Kolaveri Di" song, which rocked the youtube charts, "viralling" through the country and the world.
Speaking about the travails of young filmmakers in India at the 43rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Aishwarya said she found it difficult to market her Tamil and Telugu films in Hindi because of affordability factors.
"I approached satellite TV channels, but according to the law, a movie has to have a multiplex release to then premiere on TV. So even with my family background and the fact that the song I was associated with 'Kolaveri Di' went viral on the Internet, I struggle to spread my film," said Aishwarya, who's married to southern star Dhanush.
A video of Tamil-English song "Kolaveri Di" from the film "3", sung by Dhanush in a recording studio, went viral making it one of the most popular music videos of the decade.
Aishwarya, who already has three films to her credit, said her Tamil and Telugu films could not be marketed in Hindi because she could not afford it, even with her "background and family status".
And like her father, she claimed that the films she made were to entertain people in order to make them "forget their sorrows".
"People have the right to be entertained well and we have to give them something worthwhile," she said.


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The saga of Prenda Law might well have quieted down as the key lawyers involved pursue a lengthy and drawn-out appeal—but that's just not how things are shaping up. Four key players in the Prenda saga just filed a stunning array of papers in court yesterday, denying that they were ever served properly. The crown jewel is an exclamation-point-filled motion by Mark Lutz, the ostensible owner of several Prenda shell companies, who calls the defense lawyers "fraudsters."
The same day, defense lawyer Nicholas Ranallo filed a motion for sanctions that will make extremely uncomfortable reading for Prenda-linked lawyers. The motion includes allegations of forgery, identity theft, and obfuscation—all supported by statements made by Brett Gibbs, a former Prenda lawyer. Gibbs had been distancing himself from Prenda since March, but this new filing represents something much more dramatic. Gibbs has truly switched sides and now supports sanctions against his former colleagues. Gibbs' declaration is signed June 4, but it was just unveiled yesterday.
Buckle up.
Service, please
The business of Prenda Law is "copyright trolling." The company has sued thousands of John Doe defendants for illegally downloading pornography, some of which Prenda itself is alleged to have placed on BitTorrent networks, and then pressuring them into settlements of a few thousand dollars without going to trial. But earlier this year, things went south for Prenda after a federal judge sanctioned the men behind the operation for various forms of "fraud on the court," even referring them to criminal investigators.
Prenda is appealing those sanctions and it posted a bond for appeal, but the judge who sanctioned them recently said that the bond wasn't large enough.
On June 21, apparent Prenda mastermind John Steele filed a motion that was the longshot of longshots. He said that he never got a chance to properly defend himself because he was never served the appropriate paperwork, ever since he started representing himself (pro se) on May 17. The higher bond demand should be dropped, he said, and it's actually the defense lawyers, Morgan Pietz and Nicholas Ranallo, who should be sanctioned.
That idea went over like a fart in church. US District Judge Otis Wright took less than an hour to reject it with the single word "DENIED" stamped in red letters across Steele's request. Yesterday, Steele and his comrades doubled down—or quadrupled down, as the case may be.
"Total fraudsters"
Yesterday afternoon, four of the five leading men linked to Prenda law filed papers repeating Steele's arguments, each saying that they, in effect, "never got the memo." All of them—Steele, Paul and Peter Hansmeier, and Mark Lutz—say that it's Pietz and Ranallo who should be punished, not them. The motion filed by Lutz is particularly off the wall. He writes:
I am Mark Lutz and two attorneys named Morgan Pietz and Nicholas Ranallo are filing motions asking this court to issue orders without notifying me! I apologize to the Court for my anger, but I have never had a chance to fight any of their motions! The Constitution gives me the right of Due Process, which means that the courts can't take something from me without first giving me a chance to contest that decision. Just so I am as clear as I can be, I have never been served with any paperwork by either attorney Pietz or Ranallo. EVER.
People's faith in the law rests on the belief that attorneys who break the rules don't get away with it. I place my trust in this Court to make sure that these attorneys will be held accountable for their actions. Here the record is obvious that Pietz and Ranallo have been breaking the rules. I therefore ask the court to strike all pleadings filed by attorneys Pietz and Ranallo that do not have a proof of service filed with them. I also ask that any orders that were entered by this court against AF Holdings, Ingenuity13, or me be vacated. These guys are total fraudsters[.]
John Steele restated his own argument in a two-page motion. "The record clearly establishes that attorneys Pietz and Ranallo have fraudulently invoked the Court's coercive power by filing requests for relief without notifying the undersigned and others," he wrote. Steele said he never had any papers served on him until June 27, and the proof is in an e-mail exchange with Pietz, which he says is attached to his motion but which does not appear to be available from the federal court database.
Then there's Paul Hansmeier. He was "defrauded by attorneys Pietz and Ranallo," who deprived his compatriots of an opportunity to respond to accusations, he wrote. He continued: "The court's orders over the course of the show-cause proceeding were not the product of an adversary process... Attorneys Pietz and Ranallo should be severely punished for defrauding this Court and the pro se persons. The Court should vacate all of its orders and establish a closely regulated briefing process."
His brother Peter Hansmeier, who handles forensic work for the Prenda copyright trolling operation through a company called 6881 Forensics, acknowledged that he was at the April 2 sanctions hearing in Los Angeles. But Peter Hansmeier said he had "minimal participation," doing nothing more than "greet[ing] the Court" at the beginning of the 12-minute hearing, and he wasn't happy about being ordered to attend.
"Pietz's fraud has caused me great harm," Peter Hansmeier wrote. "It was very expensive for me to fly out to the April 2 hearing, book a hotel room, dry clean my suit, and take time off of work."
He said he was surprised when the court ruled that he had engaged in misconduct. "Pietz was secretly submitting documents to the Court to attack me," Peter Hansmeier added. "Rather than follow the rules and give me a fair chance to respond, Pietz chose to break the rules so that the Court would only hear his side of the story. I still have no idea what Pietz submitted, but it must have been pretty bad because there is a big difference between greeting the Court and engaging in misconduct."
April 2 seems so very far away
Whether or not these four were served properly is an issue that will be resolved in court when Pietz and Ranallo inevitably respond. But the more basic idea that any of them didn't know what was going on the case beggars belief. All of the Prenda-linked individuals were present at an April hearing in which they were berated in open court by an outraged US District Judge Otis Wright, who told them they were in serious trouble. Everyone was on notice that a decision regarding possible sanctions was on the way. They were also given a chance to put forward their side of the story, which they refused to do, instead pleading the Fifth Amendment.
When the sanctions did come, Steele knew they had happened and criticized them in an interview, saying he thought they weren't legally proper.
But the technical issue of service remains an important one. According to the court, each of these four individuals was found to be part of Prenda Law; Wright made that explicit in his orders. Thus, they don't need to be served individually. Pietz and Ranallo sent the proper paperwork to Prenda itself, which is ostensibly controlled by Chicago lawyer Paul Duffy (the one Prenda-linked lawyer who did not file documents pleading ignorance to the proceedings.) Steele, however, denies that he and Hansmeier have any part of Prenda, which both men insist is simply a law firm they do not control or work for.
Prenda lawyers have been quite difficult to serve in the past. The lawyer in charge of notifying Steele, Hansmeier, and others found it challenging to get acknowledgement of the numerous attempts to provide service by both postal mail and e-mail.
The court docket does indicate that a hearing is scheduled for July 12. The likeliest outcome would seem to be an in-person version of Wright's large red "DENIED" stamp, given Wright's earlier findings.
The defector
The same day that Mark Lutz filed his exclamation-mark-filled page suggesting that defense lawyer Ranallo should be punished, Ranallo filed a much more serious motion for sanctions in a separate San Francisco Prenda case, AF Holdings v. Navasca. That's the case Prenda has already lost, the one in which Paul Duffy seemed to have lost the original signature of "Salt Marsh," a mystery name who signed a document but was later described as a trust owned by Lutz.
Ranallo requests $23,554 in attorney's fees, and he wants Hansmeier and Steele—not just some oddly named shell company incorporated offshore—to pay up. "The entire scheme orchestrated by Mr. Steele and Mr. Hansmeier relies upon using litigation costs as a weapon of extortion," writes Ranallo. "It is entirely appropriate that Mr. Steele and Mr. Hansmeier should feel the other edge of this blade." He continues:
The frauds that were committed in this action were committed in order to shield Mr. Steele and Mr. Hansmeier from financial responsibility for their actions in these cases. This is why they created an offshore entity without assets or (supposedly) any living beneficiaries. This is also why they have gone to great lengths to use a nearly impenetrable corporate structure and why they regularly use "corporate representatives" to conceal the true parties in interest. This court should not enable this scheme by holding an essentially fictitious offshore entity wholly responsible for the actions of individual attorneys and officers of the court. Mr. Steele and Mr. Hansmeier have used the privileged position of attorneys, and the benefit of the doubt that we are often given, in order to perpetrate a fraud upon Mr. Navasca and thousands of other individuals and shield themselves from liability.
Ranallo's motion for sanctions is filled with evidence that would look dubious for Prenda in any circumstance—the shifting nature of "Salt Marsh," the changing story about Mark Lutz's role, and a copyright assignment that was allegedly forged with the name of Alan Cooper, John Steele's former property caretaker.
It would all look pretty convincing even if Ranallo hadn't managed to flip one of the lawyers closest to Prenda, having him submit a sworn declaration supporting sanctions against his former colleagues. But Ranallo did just that, and his motion is accompanied by a devastating statement by Brett Gibbs that puts Hansmeier and Steele squarely at the center of the scheme and suggests that Lutz's statements have been inaccurate.
Ranallo's fraud allegation are broken down into three key claims.
- First, the allegedly forged copyright assignment. Alan Cooper has denied ever signing the copyright assignment papers that allowed Prenda shell AF Holdings to file suit in the first place, and Ranallo marshals a great deal of evidence about Prenda's changing position, including the fact that Cooper's name was being used with Prenda-linked companies even before Steele claims to have spoken with Cooper about doing so.
- Then there's the "Salt Marsh" situation. Contrary to Prenda's later claims that Salt Marsh is the name of a trust, "AF Holdings repeatedly and intentionally represented to this court... that 'Salt Marsh' was a natural person," Ranallo states. That's backed up by Brett Gibbs' declaration, under oath, that Hansmeier specifically told him Salt Marsh was a real person who had complied with the proper litigation rules. Gibbs says he didn't even know Lutz, the supposed owner of AF Holdings, had anything to do with that company.
- And finally there's the declaration of Delvan Neville, the researcher who found evidence that Prenda actually seeded its own porn, presumably hoping that it might be downloaded so that it could lead to litigation riches. The argument that The Pirate Bay user named "sharkmp4" is actually John Steele was laid out in another case, and Ranallo is sure to bring it to the attention of US District Judge Edward Chen, who is overseeing the Navasca case.
Navasca spent a lot of money defending himself "against claims that he knows to be false," wrote Ranallo, who said that Navasca also deserves to have his attorneys' fees paid. But it isn't just about Navasca, Ranallo writes:
They have cowed countless others in Mr. Navasca's position to pay dubious "settlements" and have made literally millions of dollars in the process. The public opinion of the legal profession is no secret, and no point of pride. I have no illusion that a just resolution of the instant case will forever change the course of public opinion regarding our profession. What we can be certain of, however, is that without a just resolution, Mr. Navasca will forever be a cynic on the topic and, in all honesty, can we even pretend that he is wrong?