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Big and small, he "took" them all. Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme is another blow to America's reputation, integrity….
The list of investors who say they were duped in one of Wall Street's biggest Ponzi schemes is growing, snaring some of the world's biggest banking institutions and hedge funds, the super rich and the famous, pensioners and charities.
The alleged victims who sunk cash into veteran Wall Street money manager Bernard Madoff's investment pool include real estate magnate Mortimer Zuckerman, the foundation of Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, and a charity of movie director Steven Spielberg, according to the Wall Street Journal.
By JOE BEL BRUNO and JANE WARDELL, AP Business Writers
Among the world's biggest banking institutions, Britain's HSBC Holdings PLC, Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC and Man Group PLC, Spain's Grupo Santander SA, France's BNP Paribas and Japan's Nomura Holdings all reported that they had fallen victim to Madoff's alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
The 70-year-old Madoff (MAY-doff), well respected in the investment community after serving as chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market, was arrested Thursday in what prosecutors say was a $50 billion scheme to defraud investors. Some investors claim they've been wiped out, while others are still likely to come forward.
"There were a lot of very sophisticated people who were duped, and that happens a great deal when you've had somebody decide to be unscrupulous," said Harvey Pitt, a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, a regulator in charge of monitoring investment funds like the one Madoff operated.
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Some of the world's biggest banks have revealed that they are victims of a fraud which has lost $50bn (£33bn).
Bernard Madoff has been charged with fraud in what is being described as one of the biggest-ever such cases.
Among the banks which have been affected are Britain's RBS, Spain's Santander and France's BNP Paribas.
One of the City's best-known fund managers has criticised US financial regulators for failing to detect the alleged fraud.
Nicola Horlick, boss of Bramdean investments, said US regulators had "fallen down on the job".
Mrs Horlick told the BBC: "I think now it is very difficult for people to invest in things that are meant to be regulated in America, because they haven fallen down in the job."
"This is the biggest financial scandal, probably in the history of the markets – $50bn is a huge amount of money," she said.
Banks and financial institutions across the world had investments with Bernard Madoff:
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Adam Lashinsky's Inside Apple:Â How America's Most Admired–and Secretive–Company Really Works is now available as a hardcover or ebook download. Inside Apple brings readers behind the scenes of the world's most valuable tech company and reveals business "secrets" that have allowed Jobs to stay one step ahead of the competition.
INSIDE APPLE reveals the secret systems, tactics and leadership strategies that allowed Steve Jobs and his company to churn out hit after hit and inspire a cult-like following for its products.
If Apple is Silicon Valley's answer to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, then author Adam Lashinsky provides readers with a golden ticket to step inside. In this primer on leadership and innovation, the author will introduce readers to concepts like the "DRI" (Apple's practice of assigning a Directly Responsible Individual to every task) and the Top 100 (an annual ritual in which 100 up-and-coming executives are tapped a la Skull & Bones for a secret retreat with company founder Steve Jobs).
Based on numerous interviews, the book offers exclusive new information about how Apple innovates, deals with its suppliers and is handling the transition into the Post Jobs Era.
If you enjoyed Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography, and wish to learn more about Apple's corporate culture, Inside Apple should be on your reading wishlist. You can pick up the ebook for iDevices via iBookstore or Kindle ereaders via Amazon, both of which sell for $12.99.
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exists to serve lay leaders and church employees in the more than 4,000 churches affiliated with the BSCNC. We provide consultation in matters related to retirement planning, insurance protection, structure and administration of staff compensation, and ministers' taxes.
Relying heavily on educational venues including personal consultations, phone appointments, group conferences, the internet, etc. the GuideStone Team, comprised of Davis Blount and Pamela Bills, works closely with GuideStone Financial Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention to offer wise counsel that is undergirded and empowered by spiritual insight.
We encourage you to take advantage of the many resources identified on this web page to assist in those critical decisions which every church has to make regarding equitable compensation that is legally administered in a world of limited resources for today's church. May the Holy Spirit give keen guidance as you follow the Biblical mandate to take care of God's servants.
Feel free to contact us personally if you have difficulty in navigating the web site to find the appropriate resource(s), or if you have questions that need a response and/or clarification.
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3.1 dropped with about as much stability as we've come to expect from major content updates. Servers were down for extended amounts of time with updates every hour asking us to be patient and wait. Stories were filtering in through twitter and various blogs of people not even able to apply the patch. Slowly realms came back up one by one and people began to log in. The gates to Ulduar were opened and raiding commenced after guild logs were flooded with Dual Talent Specialization achievement spam. Life in Warcraft slowly began to creep back to its normal pace. Raids started, on some servers later then normal, and players shuffled in to test out their new shinnies. Some braved the lag at the portal to Ulduar to get a glimpse of the new content, while others were content to hit Naxxramas one last time in the hopes of getting a long sought after drop (looking at you here Zabos!) On some servers, things went smoothly, on others… not so much.
Here's my tale of excitement and woe.
The day started out fine, I was a little disappointed that it was patch day to be honest, but I schlepped my laptop to work and set my home computer's vpn up so I could update both machines. The first bit of news I see on my RSS is that WoWMatrix is dead! Now while this isn't earth shattering, for me it just meant my job pre raid was going to be that much more difficult as I have a lot of mods I use to monitor things. Looking at them while trying to patch I realize I ran between 80-90 mods (now since reduced!). My hopes were restored when people on twitter pointed out curse had released a new beta client for mac, one that hopefully worked. I work full time, getting time pre raid to mess around with mods doesn't happen often.  I go to log into my system at home and start the patch process when I get an odd error saying it can't validate my account. I try again, receive the same error. At this point I start digging around and sure enough, battle.net accounts are having a difficult time downloading the patch. I decide to say meh and wait for BigDownload to get it and entertain myself by conversing with people on twitter (thank you guys again for that as always =D)
I get home, get patched up and installed, get everything that has an update updated and find that my server is still down. After about 30 or so minutes, it comes back up. I log in, get myself over to Naxx and get ready to go. Everything was going fine and dandy until Loatheb. We didn't wipe, but at about 1.2m hp left to go, the instance server freezes. We can still type in guild / raid / say / tell and we can log out and log back in on alts, but we were treated by a lovely scene of Loatheb's backside. Those of you on twitter got to read my lamentations that quickly rose to comedy. The jokes and statements of my fellow guildies more then enough to lift anyone's spirits by pointing out the sheer comedic value of the situation. While not the most exciting patch day (think 2.0) it was better then I assumed it would be, and to be honest it had been a lot of fun taking bets on which healer would spontaneously go from tree to crit – chicken or go careening off to smack a boss with their hammer. Stuck in the instance we logged out and back on alts and then out for the night. All things considered it was a pretty fun night for me, got a lot of laughs out of it.
How about you guys? How was your first experience of patch 3.1? Any good patch day stories to share?
Till next time
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When I set out to find women to comment on how they keep the faith as a woman in the church, I wondered how our male readers would take it.
One of my ulterior motives with this blog project has been to increase the number of female voices on this website. I've noticed that the vast majority of our regular commenters are men, and while their presence is welcome, I hope to encourage more voices to contribute. According to our Facebook page analytics, 53 percent of our "likes" are women and 45 percent men (not all people designate gender on Facebook). Among active users, however, 54 percent are men and 38 percent are women.
This probably has a lot more to do with how women interact with media than with the Catholic Church, considering how women fill the pews.
I've gotten a great response from women wanting to write about their faith, but so far the discussions on our site have been more centered on issues than gender. Femme fidele, however, was linked from another blog in a post titled, "Who Needs Men Anyway?" The discussion that follows in the comments section is interesting and brings up a number of issues about male versus female spirituality, the men's movement, and whether men should cultivate masculinity or their "sensitive side."
While there is something unique to many women's experiences, the editors never intend to be divisive with coverage of women's issues. We recognize that many of the issues women talk about also affect men, and as someone commented on "Femme fidele," working for the church is as much an issue of the laity as it is of women.
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Where do you start?
You see yourself in the mirror and know you should do something about how you look and feel. But, how to begin?
"People need to work on the easy things first," says Susan Bowerman, assistant director of University of California at Los Angeles' Center for Human Nutrition.
With so many of us launching diet and exercise plans for the new year — and often giving up within a matter of weeks (if not days) — I asked Bowerman for some strategies to get started. Strategies, that is, that aren't too hard to stick with.
"People always get overly ambitious at the first part of the year," she said, when they really should begin with "things that are doable that they can absolutely sustain."
Such as?
Bowerman's doable dietary suggestions include:
Eat a piece of fruit instead of cakes or cookies for dessert.
Include one dairy serving per day (if milk, switch from whole milk to 2 percent).
Eat airy, watery foods that will fill you up and have fewer calories (vegetables, not Cheetos). "Think of your sandwich as a salad between two pieces of bread."
Switch from high-calorie drinks (sugary soda, fruit juices) to water, even at just one meal a day.
Substitute 100 percent whole grain for white bread.
For more tips and encouragement, Bowerman's blog is a readable, supportive guide:
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It's not just food she's concerned with, and she offers some sustainable tips on exercise too.
"Sometimes the idea of 30 minutes a day of exercise is so daunting to people. Break it up. There's evidence if you do three 10-minute stints it's just as good.
"Also, just move around a little more. Talking on the phone like I'm talking to you, I'm pacing around the room.
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The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
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Windows Marketplace for Mobile to accept apps on July 27
In case you haven't heard, the Windows Marketplace for Mobile will come with every Windows Mobile 6.5 phone. So if you're a Windows Mobile developer, you can more easily get your apps to all those customers. And before the year is done, all users with Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 phones will get the Marketplace, too. That's a lot of potential Windows phones for your apps.
In the video, Todd Brix from the Windows Mobile team covers the news and shows you a quick Marketplace demo. You can find more details over on the Windows Mobile blog.
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Windows Mobile Marketplace..... <tumbleweed>
so who would i be selling to? I do not know of anyone in the last 4 years who has a WinMo device.
and I develop apps for CE devices.... I do know of a few folks who used to have WIn PDA's and phones and they traded for blackberry's and iPhones.
Sorry MSFT you lost this market even before the iPhone came out.
better go back to rsearch and come back with a whole new game.
Ok, instead of posting bile (like everyone else), I will attempt to write a Windows Mobile 6.5 application and submit, and I will document my journey!
I have one. So that's at least one person
Ok, by the way I am not against CE .... I just feel that it sucks how today almost no one (aside from developers) even knows that there is a WIndowsMobile OS.
and as I said I have 2 apps that run on CE devices made by Cassio, one of the apps is very loaded with stuff and is very critical to a clients business... I like .Net CF 3.5 *WAY* more than 1.x
but priorites are a little wonky i think.. games for windows has a much larger user base and it still sucks a$$.. why oh why isnt the xbox marketplace on windows? win mobile is a good step but there really needs to be a global microsoft marketplace for all the platforms.. with things like silverlight you could develop an app that runs on all these platforms, but there isnt a good distrubution channel, atleast not across all the platforms..
things liek the office addin gallery, expression and vs addins could also be interated in such a place. it would eclipse the app store in like a week
please get the lead out for a windows marketplace atleast..
Really cool. But they need to fix their payment systems asap, right now we need a US Bank Account. We can't a Global MarketPlace platform having only U.S. developers doing apps for it.
I agree that for being on Version 6+, it should be more well known. But with an estimated 30 million users... it's not too shabby in my opinion.
"with things like silverlight you could develop an app that runs on all these platforms, but there isnt a good distrubution channel, atleast not across all the platforms.."
SilverLight, come on!!! This is not what other platforms and even the web want, what they want is an open standard technologies for the web, SilverLight is not, Flash is not. Coupled with javascript, the new CSS Animations-3D effects if accepted by the W3C, HTML5, the new HTML streaming technology if accepted by the IETF are what they want.
"things liek the office addin gallery, expression and vs addins could also be interated in such a place. it would eclipse the app store in like a week"
This is blah, blah. I mean look at it, Apple yesterday announced that they sold more than 1.5 billions apps in one year (yes 1.5 billions!!!), they got more than 65000 apps in one year, they got more than 100,000 developers developing apps for the iPhone platform in one year.
And what you say? You are talking about office addin, expression or vs addin, those are toys, how long have windows mobile been in the market? Years, and Microsoft could not figure out how to sell apps to windows mobile users and in first place they did not figure out how to make an attractive platform for users and developers. So now, once someone has done it and proved that people are willing to buy and use apps on their phone, Microsoft again late in the game can only come in without more than ripping off the Apple's App Store. I mean look at the Market Place app, where are the new ideas, the innovation, even the interface is similar to what Apple came up with their app, so what?
Call me Apple fanboy or Microsoft hater, if you want, the matter of the fact is that some Microsoft blind fanboys (who rarely look outside their closed Microsoft world) should see the truth, the reality: Microsoft can't come up with original ideas that they can sell to people, an idea that can be successful, that people love and love the products that comes from the innovation. And i have to say that i am sad about that, a multi-billion company that continues to sell a crappy system for phones is just disappointing. You like it or not, Apple got 100,000 developers on his platform because it is innovative, modern, fun, easy to use. What is windows mobile today? Just crap, it is just crap!! Be honest, everyone having a minimum of honesty comes to the same observation. Windows mobile is old, boring, lacks modern technologies, and simply is behind the competition. Even Palm with far less resources than Microsoft managed to build an attractive platform with their webOS. It just blows away windows mobile. Sure it is very inspired from the iPhone, but they did something unique for the specific market that they want to go for in the mobile space.
People outside and inside Microsoft have to accept it, they got a crappy os for phones, as long as they pretend that everything is fine, we will never see anything good coming from Microsoft in the mobile space. And oh yes, there is Windows mobile 6.5, and what? It is awful, this is just a quick hack to keep Microsoft's head outside the water in the mobile space. And this Market Place, this is nothing, it just running behind the competition, just to say that Microsoft also does it.
I gave up on windows mobile a loooooong time ago.
That said I still roll it out to managers and sales people. Simply because out of the box they have exchange integration... but they wont be adding apps to it, just using it vanilla.
Ive switched to Android. Sorry but it really is fantastic.
I have been waiting for this to happen for a long time now. I am super excited to see the Marketplace and combined with future versions of Windows Mobile certain competitors I think will really see a strong reason to worry .
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im not calling you an apple fanboy or an ms hater, id rather call you a git with extreme double standards
you claim that flash or silverlight are not "the way" because they are not standardized but in the next sentence you hail the app store for its billions of apps that are written natively for the iphone! what happed to the webstandards?
and office and visual studo are "toys"? come on.. take your trolling elsewhere office is the most installed software in the world also factoring all the platforms you could potentially delevlop for using SL and .net, compared to the app store thats only for iphones (and mac? dunno..) a marketplace where you could get apps for your desktop, phone and tv (xbox) could have significant penetration.
you act like apple invented digital distrubution.. they didnt they evlovled it, true, and microsoft can evolve it further. if they could only get the lead out
fyi, i agree that win mobile is innferior. this would change alot if they included more .net/silverlight but there are't 100,000 iphone devs because the iphone is easy to develop for. its because there are alot of iphone users = lots of money to be made. this holds for any popular platform.
Whats up with active sync. Is this thing ever going to be stable ?!? I have never had as volatile a syncing experience as I do with windows mobile phones.
join domain = stops working
install sdk = stops working
weather man predicts cold fronts = stops working
dude. even a fanboy has his limits.
I think the opportunity is tremendous.
As Max said, there are close to 30 million existing phones in the market.
And lots of people will still continue to buy WM phones. Even if a few Alpha-Geeks and Influencers tout their iconic devices.
Speaking of iconic devices, Toshiba TG01 and new line up of HTC devices, as well as LG to Samsung will be pushing out some serious devices during the next few months with their own Ad campaigns. And you betacha there will be more Windows Mobile campaigns from Microsoft when the store launches. US carriers are catching on and grabbing up the new devices with un-heard of speed.
Forget the nay-sayers - there is still great deal of dollars to be had and fame to be won here. So get coding!
WM 6.5 Emulators are here. And Marketplace is soon to be open for you and other smart developers to compete for hottests app spots.


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It's your boy Lil B
A'yo Just Blaze come holla at me bro
It's your boy Lil B Red Flame Mixtape, this the intro
If you didn't get Blue Flame go get that to understand this
It's done, rap game's done
[Verse 1]
My nigga told me if I ever stop rapping
The game lost Jordan, trade him to the Magic
Exhibit Based not Exhibit C
You niggas couldn't see, let me part the sea
Part a part of me, nothing pardons me
You niggas arguably is worse than me
Meet the whole squad, let me go hearse your team
Pop bullets in his back make him work his knees
This is sick I'm on top now
I remember in the hood I was locked down Oakland, Yosemite
Having YA dreams the pen right ahead of me
Glad I didn't let a few suckas get ahead of me
Now I guarantee that they never be forgetting me
Like a hard drive man it's all about the memory
Strapped with a vest screaming' mutherfuck my enemies
Haters fuck around I start moving like a centipede
I'm the weed-man so you know I got the remedy
Plus I'm a user, dope-fiend music
Plus I'm a robber and I dare you suckas push me
Got the same pistol that they shooting in Blue Streak
Riding Aston Martin new suede with the blue seats
Then I ride Toyota, hit the hood solo
Doing dirt solo I'll tee like Mobo
Got the piece like po-po, spreading peace like grown folks
My mom should be proud of me
I don't know but I'm feeling like she doubting me
Real nigga shit everybody hating on me
[Verse 2]
And you don't know about these handles
Most of my songs now I gotta set examples
Growing up, I was always the one to have trouble with the ones that was never growing up
Now we grown up and they never going up I swear to god that's the type of shit that make me go nuts
Age 16 I was stealing out trucks
Had music in the deck, had zips in the trunk
Right before class popping bottles getting drunk
Never been a driver, never had a license
Walked in my house and it was smelling like incense
Bringing home DVD players and TV's
Give em to my Mom as presents for creating me
And you knowing that I love ya in the hood I'm like Peter Pan passing out hundreds
No hate in my heart, I was passing out money
17 I been fucking stunting
(Yeah, uh)
Before I was a rapper, I was just a trapper
Don't trap the real and I used to have a ski-mask
Never rob the family, never rob the innocent
Never rob a nigga who you cool and who you kicking with
Bringing back the G-code these niggas started breaking it
How you making death threats to niggas who was making it
At your house mad and you really started hating em
Want to be the hero but you never really taking shit
Fuck around with me I leave your ankles split
Desert Eagle grip with extended clips, wishing death to enemies
You hate on me, you a fake nigga
You a fake nigga like Ricki Lake nigga
Heart and soul of a cold-blooded killer
But my spirit too pure I had to shower in the river
And bless my heart I'm a visionary
Speak in 3rd person, cause it's the only one in the city
I'm the greatest rapper alive, Lil B I'm the rawest rapper
Greatest to ever do it (Based God motherfuckas! )
[Verse 3]
And I don't know how I survived my childhood
A lotta letters and the judge show a lot of love
PO hate still do a lot of drugs
Violate a couple times now I understand
You would act like my friend and send me to the pen
Not the pen juvenile hall like a gym
Start my day man I'm really nice with the pen
Our world ain't the same
I'm thinking hitman out nigga waiting in the trees
If he's relevant, I'mma make him Oddjob
I got the goldeneye, I got the Golden gun
I'm on the jet-skis no I'm not James Bond
Split a nigga wig make him think that he James Bond
If I ain't James Bond, bet I got the same gun
Plus I got money in the bank for the bail-bond
Pay him 80 G's if he thinking he can tell on
No witness make him run like Rev Run
No blood in his jeans (genes) like a stepson
Yeah I got 45's I'm traveling to India
I'm finna have 10 kids it's my millennium
Everything Lil B, everything Based God
Berkley like Gotham City, hitman is the Joker
Best friend Two-Face
Who do I approach when I move at night, like Batman
Show my respect with my right hand
Solid? eye contact, hip-hop notepads I bring it full contact
Really in the hood and I do it no contracts
And I won't eat pussy eating bitches like blunt-wraps
When you see me, it's like you seen a holy ghost
Put the nine in his mouth nigga like french toast
My niggas, we do it real extra-big
Wanna book Lil B that's G's
Start to see life real like my last name
Hey Just Blaze come holla at me man, come fuck with the greatest bruh
Lil B, rawest rapper alive can't nobody fuck with me
Hey, um, Jay Electronica I'm sorry I had to do that
This is the fifth track off of Lil B's second installment of his 'Flame' mixtape collection, Red Flame. A foremost example of Lil B showing off lyrical prowess. He raps over Jay Electronica's 'Exhibit C with a wit and flow only reserved for the most based songs in his extensive catalog.
He also spit this verse in his XXL Freshmen Cypher, seemingly impressing the other rappers.


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We had a bit of a debate with this one. He, a native speaker (unlike me) went for:
"less evil" implies that you are comparing evil people and "more good" implies that you are comparing good people
I always felt that there's no difference. Am I on the minority of English speakers? Who is more correct between the two of us?


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Nicki Minaj has apologized for using a famous photo of Malcolm X with a rifle in his hands and juxtaposing it with a racial slur for her new song.
Minaj posted the photo Wednesday on her website and Instagram page, and received criticism for how she used the Malcolm X image. It's for her new song "Lookin (Expletive) (Expletive)." The title uses the N-word.
After she was roundly criticized on social media circles and beyond for what many saw as disrespect to a revered icon, she offered an apology Thursday on Instagram to the estate of Malcolm X — who was assassinated 49 years ago this month at age 39.
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She also said that the song's artwork "is in no way to undermine his efforts and legacy."
"That was never the official artwork nor is this an official single. This is a conversation. Not a single," she wrote. "I apologize to the Malcolm X estate if the meaning of the photo was misconstrued. ... I have nothing but respect (and) adoration for u."
Still, she sounded exasperated that people were even upset over the issue.
"What seems to be the issue now? Do you have a problem with me referring to the people Malcolm X was ready to pull his gun out on as Lookin (expletive expletive)?" the 31-year-old asked in her post. "I am in the video shooting (the song) and there happened to be an iconic photo of Malcolm X ready to do the same thing for what he believed in!!!!"
"Lookin" is male-bashing song. The photo of Malcolm X holding the rifle was taken when he was trying to protect his family from death threats (his home had been firebombed).
A Change.org petition was issued Thursday, encouraging the rapper to change the cover artwork.
Minaj's personal representative declined to comment and a rep for her record labels, Republic and Cash Money Records, didn't return emails seeking comment. A lawyer for Malcolm X's children also didn't immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press.
The picture was deleted from Minaj's Instagram account, but was still on her website Thursday.


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YouTube to Cut Funding for Most Original Premium Channels
It's been nearly a year since YouTube announced its plan to invest $100 million to launch 100 premium channels with the likes of celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and The Wall Street Journal, and now many of those contracts are up for renewal. But the majority of those original channels will not receive additional funds from the Google-owned video site.
YouTube will begin sending out new contracts this week, but only between 30% and 40% of channel owners should expect to receive them, we were told.
Jamie Byrne, YouTube's director of content strategy, told AllThingsD that engagement — specifically, watch time — and cost efficiency were the two biggest factors in determining who will be given more money and who won't.
Channels that are already generating a sufficient amount of advertising revenue, and thus don't need additional funds from Google, will also be left out of the contract pool, we were told.
Last fall, producers received as much as $5 million in advances from YouTube to develop content, according to AllThingsD. (Google declined to confirm that number.)
The funds have allowed many companies to develop new, more experimental kinds of programming. IGN, for instance, developed a series of reality TV-style gaming shows to attempt to develop a new genre of gaming-themed entertainment that appealed to mainstream viewers — i.e., people who weren't necessarily serious gamers, the company told me during an office visit last year.
And what will happen to the channels that don't receive fresh funding? YouTube told AllThingsD it hopes they'll continue to publish work to the site. The company will also continue to collect ad revenue on videos from channels that haven't broken even on YouTube's investment.
Looking at AdAge's and Deadline's rankings of most-viewed premium channels, it appears that the same kind of content that performs well elsewhere on the site — namely, humor, sports and how-tos — have worked in the premium category, too. It will be interesting to see whether YouTube will continue to fund some of the more "serious" programming channels — like The WSJ Video Network, which ranked 25th on AdAge's chart and 28th on Deadline's, or The Intelligent Channel, which ranked 113th and 101st, respectively.
Meanwhile, YouTube continues to invest in new channels. The company announced earlier this year that it was putting an addition $200 million into the project, adding 60 more channels in the process.
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Mental illness isn't the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of a subject for a good comedy. Not only could the results very possibly be in bad taste, but you're likely to stir up a hornet's nest of protests from various activist groups no matter how tasteful your film ends up being.
Mental illness isn't the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of a subject for a good comedy. Not only could the results very possibly be in bad taste, but you're likely to stir up a hornet's nest of protests from various activist groups no matter how tasteful your film ends up being.
David O. Russell's new film, "Silver Linings Playbook," succeeds in finding comedy in various mental conditions without ever offering up its subjects for ridicule. Russell has done smart comedies before ("I Heart Huckabees") and taken potentially cliched underdog dramas and turned them into something emotionally resonant ("The Fighter"). In "Silver Linings," he combines these two sensibilities, starting with a familiar romantic comedy construct and ending with a surprisingly incisive study of romantic relationships.
Pat (Bradley Cooper) has just been released from a mental hospital after a particularly traumatic breakdown in which he caught his wife with another man and nearly beat him to death. He returns home to his parents (Robert DeNiro and Jacki Weaver), who aren't quite ready to handle his intense bipolar mood swings. Armed with some feel-good platitudes from his therapist about searching for silver linings, Pat decides to win back his wife, despite the restraining order that keeps him away from her.
That's when he meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a friend of a friend who has an almost Asperger's-like social awkwardness. Their bluntness seems like an almost perfect fit, but Pat barely seems to notice her, he's so focused on winning back his estranged wife. When Tiffany recruits him to help her compete in a dance competition in exchange for surreptitiously ferrying letters back and forth to his wife, Pat finds not just something to keep his mind focused and off of troubles, but a unique and beautiful companionship he never would have expected.
It's a strangely beautiful film, a smartly written and engaging tale of often disarming emotional power. Pat and Tiffany are not inherently likable characters. Their conditions make them sometimes abrasive and potentially rude, but there is a genuineness about them that is hard to ignore. Russell's deft screenplay navigates a minefield of relationship roadblocks, nimbly avoiding clich� and the often limp platitudes some of Pat's therapists have dealt in.
It also features perhaps the finest ensemble cast of the year. Cooper and Lawrence are both fantastic, embodying the at times maddening tics of their conditions while finding something deeper rather than just a series of quirks. DeNiro and Weaver nearly steal the show, however, as Pat's loving parents. DeNiro's obsessive compulsive disorder adds a layer to his relationship with Pat — a bonding over shared mental troubles, an understanding that is as distancing as it is uniting.
While other films last year like "Argo" and "Lincoln" have perhaps boasted larger ensembles, and in "Lincoln's" case, meatier roles, no other film featured the same kind of deeply impressive ensemble work as "Silver Linings Playbook." It is a perfect storm of great writing and expert performances working in tandem, a rare romantic comedy with both a heart and a brain that rings painfully and beautifully true.
Matthew Lucas, a former Davidson County resident, studied theater and film studies at Appalachian State University. He now resides in Banner Elk and has a blog where he posts movie news, reviews and commentary at www.fromthefrontrow.net.


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Not so very long ago on an internet not so far away, I received an email asking me to review an SAT- related book. Normally, I don't read the SAT books that currently flood the market; I've glanced at some of the books about the SAT (which I'm distinguishing from SAT preparation books) and mostly found them uninspiring. Many of them are too narrow, too poorly researched, too general, or too biased. But for some reason the email I got this day intrigued me and I foolishly said yes I'd read the book and post my commentary on it. So here goes.
First Take
At first glance the title is probably what caught my attention. SAT Sneak Attack How Computer Geniuses Hack, Beat and Cheat America's Most Feared Exam. It was catchy. It was sensational. It was inflammatory. This boded either really well or really poorly. I've been in SAT prep for over 20 years and I've pretty much thought about and discussed with friends, students, and colleagues every way to cheat the exam, yet this book suggested that there were folks out there who'd thought of ways to cheat the exam that I'd not considered and that this way worked. I was intrigued… I was skeptical, but I was intrigued.
So I opened up my Kindle app, downloaded the book sent to me digitally and got to reading. Immediately I noted that the book was exceedingly short and from there it went downhill. I tried to buck up and chalk my sinking feeling up to my being a bit of a book snob (if I bother to read something I want it to last. I typically only read series that have 3 or more books. I loved and read twice the Wheel of Time series that lasted 14 books each at 300+ pages) But I rallied; I was wanted to give this article/novella/research paper a chance to see what hidden gems I might find and to mine the secrets that the computer geniuses have to reveal about cheating your way to a better SAT score.
The tale begins with an anecdote of what sparked the author's interest in "investigating" this SAT "cheating" phenomenon. This is followed by the requisite criticism of the College Board, the inconsistency of proctoring, and the exorbitant salaries paid to executives. This set up period lasts too long for me, and includes too many phrases like "friends doomed to live with going to a less prestigious college." Additionally, the author makes many unsupported assumptions like "the average kid has a four function machine that can add, subtract, multiply, and divide." But putting all of these quibbles aside I read on hoping to find the much ballyhooed secrets to hack the SAT.
Finally almost 1/3 into the article we get to the crux of the matter and the secret begins to be revealed: programs can be purchased for the calculator to allow you to solve some questions faster and easier. I should have stopped reading there. Everything after that was anticlimactic and only tangentially related to what I was interested in. I felt cheated. I'd expected to learn some awesome new strategy for beating the test but all I learned was that programs exists that will make calculators do more than their original programming planned for. The author did a good job conveying some of the history of Texas Instruments and the College Board and the growth of supplemental programs used for cheating, but this really didn't do much to reveal "secrets to hack the SAT." Having spent an hour reading this Sneak Attack I certainly didn't feel I'd learned anything, and certainly not a way to sneak attack the SAT or how to hack, beat, or cheat the feared exam.
Summary and Questions
The greatest disappointment in this novella was that I was left with tons of questions. I would have appreciated the work if the author, who gives citation after citation about the reprogramming of the calculators, would have given some data on the effectiveness of these "cheating" tools. Here are a few of the questions this article left me with:
- What is the maximum impact on the score you could achieve using the calculator cheats vs not using them?
- Which of many cheat programs referenced are most effective? Which are ineffective?
- How do these programs impact the 2/3 of the test that is not math?
- What percent of students have access to the $189+ TI calculator?
- Does using these programs require any knowledge of the underlying math?
- Is there a difference in effectiveness in using these programs based on student score level?
- Have you had any actually 17 year olds actually test out the effectiveness and usability of the programs?
Given that the report was touted as a secret to hacking the SAT, it seems a pretty glaring omission not to address impact on score or ease of access (as in ability to purchase the TI calculator). In the short this was a nice story, mildly interesting to parents and teachers of high scoring affluent potential SAT test takers but having no real value for the vast majority of college bound high school students.


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Developing HTML5 Apps Jump Start (01b): HTML5 Semantic Structure, Part 2
Microsoft Technical Evangelists Jeremy Foster and Michael Palermo continue their discussion about HTML5 semantic structures. Topics include Semantic tags, Forms, Audio and Video, Canvas and SVG in Part 2 of this module.
Complete course outline for the Developing HTML5 Apps Jump Start:
- Module (01a): HTML5 Semantic Structure, Part 1
- Module (01b): HTML5 Semantic Structure, Part 2
- Module (02a): CSS Selectors and Style Properties, Part 1
- Module (02b): CSS Selectors and Style Properties, Part 2
- Module (03a): Advanced Layout and Animation, Part 1
- Module (03b): Advanced Layout and Animation, Part 2
- Module (04a): JavaScript Core Capabilities, Part 1
- Module (04b): JavaScript Core Capabilities, Part 2
- Module (05a): DOM Interactions, Part 1
- Module (05b): DOM Interactions, Part 2
- Module (06a): Advanced Topics, Part 1
- Module (06b): Advanced Topics, Part 2
This series of videos are a great way to help you prepare for Exam 70-480. Register now to take the Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 exam (70-480) exam. The promotion for the free exam using the promo code HTMLJMP is over, no new registrations will be accepted using the code. If you've already registered using the code then you're set.
If you want to learn how to apply these HTML5 skills to build your own Windows Store app, check out the Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 Jump Start.
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Hi :)
Great initiative with a swift intro to the new webcoding structure!
Thanks for the certification giveaways as well, I'm signed up and ready to go :)
A suggestion for improvement on the screencasts: a higher resolution would be excellent as only the code (with the large font) is legible, while filenames, text-input in VS.net, etc. is hard to read, even in the High-resolution version of the videos!
thanks again :)
Kind regards - Jakob
highres vid and bigger font will be nice.
btw can u use jquery in a windows 8 app?
@ronnel : Guys from @appendto has already worked on a jquery for win8 ,that should work on a the Windows Store App Local Context
See also : https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/3-130
Great video. Thanks.
I am a web developer and i am excited! Good job again!
Hey where i can get codeShow app, witch they use in the movie (they started them from start screen)?
@WNHacker: The code can be found here: http://codeshow.codeplex.com/ - Please read the section 'How to install the codeSHOW source code' first...
@WNHacker http://codeshow.codeplex.com/
after finish the video course, is it enough to take the 70-480 exam?
It will be much nicer if you two don't compete with each other in the video. All I can see is the fight now.....
Loving the videos so far. I can't take my eyes off those monitors, though - what setup is that?
Thanks for this great video. job well done.
Please where can get the voucher code on www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com
site when login.
How come the video sounds are muted? could not here a thing"""
The downloads are extremely slow 175kbs. The only reason I am downloading is because the video was so choppy, due to buffering, that it was unwatchable. Once downloaded I am sure it will be a good course.
Guys, great course and great videos. However, I really think that you should either make 100% sure that the demos work OR show us some of your debugging techniques, which I think is also super important for a developer. Either way thanks for preparing this great course.
Wow Thanks Good Class about Semantic Structure HTML5
great videos, these are really good jump starts for 70-480 exams
I am a web designer.
Great videos. I am almost done with second video. I ran into a problem When I run 'local machine,' I get an error.
0x800a138f - JavaScript runtime error: Unable to get property 'getContext' of undefined or null reference
Then, the app closes.
Would appreciate any help.
Very impressive videos... But
One question is running in my mind, that if I don't have the win8 and VS12 so I could not run this source code.
I am using Win7 and VS10. Please let me know if there is a way to see the source code examples.
Many Thanks
Good idea but poorly executed. You actually released these videos to the public? Your very first demo doesn't work. Not very inspiring.
great jobs. i am very excited for that .
Great job very well done for new designer.
Thanks for the course, however; I think this course is a bit boring because of too much talking for explaining a simple concept. Perhaps a good working example would have made it better.
Hi there,
Is it true that i can only schedule this exam in america? cause i live in holland.
Thanks in advance!
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Basic audio, video controls demo didn't work. That's poor. You should have recorded another video for that purpose.
Nice training. Hope to see how fast it changes in Windows 8 with HTML5 CSS3 and Javascript.
Doors opened to gain knowledge....
Great video.
Awesome video!
Audio not playing, Video not playing...good job, preparing yourself guys;)
Excellent material. I hope you continue to post more.
"horizontal knowledge, generating vertical growth. "
Hi, firstly thanks a lot for very useful jump start, really helpful. How can i download all of videos from this course, in one go?, is there any way?
What a live show! They just skipped the demo with real claps and jumped to the end? Ha!
The broken audio and video demos reflect badly on this series. By adding a closing tag, both examples work for me:
<audio src="/audio/hello.wma" controls ></audio>.
Oddly enough, the video worked without an explicit closing tag even though VS2012 gave me a warning when the AUDIO closing tag was missing.
Come on guys good intention but poorly demonstration ... Thanks anyway great idea this kind of training
thnkas it is very helpful!!
Great job very well done.
Is there a way to download all the videos together at one time?
With all due respect, this is a pre-recorded presentation, and you do not bother to make sure that so much hyped <audio> and <video> tag demonstrations actually work.
Hi All - the HTMLJMP promotion has ended but if you use this code you might still have an opportunity to get a free exam. HTMLMPN
Not sure when it expires, but thought I'd pass it along.
the video didn't play because maybe the "mp4" mimetype does not exist
@Rahul:No, you cannot run it. These are Windows store app, so you need to have Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 to run it.
This series of videos are a great way to help you prepare for Exam 70-480.The promo code HTMLJMP is available through 3/31/2013 while supplies last.
I think that I figured out how it works. For me I put the audio and the video in separated section tags. I don't know why but when you put the audio and video tabs together (audio and video above or vice-versa) they don't work properly.
I hope this will help you.
thik you
Hey guys.
I enjoyed the videos but I think you should show more examples, because there are many more tags and you didn't teach
i wish there are subtitles for these videos
How can i find one ??
Utterly pathetic. Your audio and videos examples didn't work. So obviously, you should figure out why and re-record the whole thing, or at least that section and edit it in later. PATHETIC.
please tell me free voucher code htmljmp and htmlmpn does not working can any one help me
tell me free voucher code on firstname.lastname@example.com
The problem with the audio and video content is off course, if you guys haven't figured it already ;-), that the "CopyToOutputDirectory"-property is set to "Do not copy"-value, visible at time 00:12:43.
Why MS have chosen this to be the default value and not "Copy if newer" is beyond me.


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In this lesson Steve shows how to play the introduction of the classic Jim Croce song, "Operator," in a fingerstyle fashion.
Taught by Steve Eulberg in Fingerstyle Guitar seriesLength: 22:21Difficulty: 3.0 of 5
how do I practice this with a metronome??
Steve, thank you so much for making your teachine vsual as well as auditive. My main fear was that Jamplay would be like out there in the world, where most teachers teach auditively only. Making it visual helps me so much. I wish all the other teachers would teach like this.
Looks like a good challenge.
Love your teaching style, Steve - clear, nicely paced and encouraging. Surprised that you find the middle finger difficult to use on that G#FA chord in the fifth measure - it's hanging right there ready to use. At first I thought I must be missing something. For me, the middle finger is so much easier than the thumb.
Good lesson, Steve. I'm having a little trouble reaching with the thumb in measure 5, but find the middle finger works nicely to this string. Sam
Great lesson, Steve! Thanks!
I've always wanted to learn this song. Thanks, Steve! :D
I can do all the intro except for the hammer ons and pull offs, they don't sound right at all.
Wow didnt see this coming. Im picking up my acoustic and starting the fingerstyle lessons.
ha ha ha.... sooner or later they all come to fingerstyle ;)
Just so you know the tab will be online soon :)
I'll come back to this when the tab is posted. Any idea when that will be?
Hello, the tab is actually posted! It was accidentally listed under the "audio" portion of the supplemental content. I have corrected it, thank you for posting this comment or else I would not have noticed!
good lesson, love the song
My thumbpick is an AlaskaPick (Which I've used for years, since they first came out--I use all larges for that brand.) The new ones are Fred Kelley "Freedom Picks" and I'm using all large ones of this brand as well.
Hi Steve, what size are those picks ?, so I have an idea what to buy for me.
This is a cool one Steve. I look forward to the rest.
HA! Freedom Picks! See? I'm not crazy.
Nope... you are not crazy.... just funny looking :p
I thought they were Alaska Picks, Matt.
Fingerstyle guitar is the classic art of playing the guitar solely with the fingers. Fingerstyle playing opens up a whole new realm of possibilities on the guitar.
Lesson 1
Steve introduces you to the world of fingerstyle guitar by teaching a few exercises and an orignal tune called "Porch Swingin'."Length: 38:00 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Steve Eulberg teaches you to play Op. 60 (No. 1) composed by Matteo Carcassi.Length: 42:00 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Steve teaches a fingerstyle arrangement of "House of the Rising Sun" by Animals.Length: 29:00 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Steve covers some of the fingerstyle techniques created by Elizabeth, or "Libbis" Cotten.Length: 24:00 Difficulty: 3.5 FREE
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Steve Eulberg teaches you how to play his original piece "Planxton's Farewell." This is part 1 of a 2 part lesson.Length: 34:00 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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This is part 2 of the fingerstyle song "Planxton's Farewell." In this lesson Steve teaches you the second half of this beautiful tune.Length: 22:00 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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Steve discusses drop D tuning and how it is used. He also teaches an original song in this tuning called "Neither Lion Nor Lamb."Length: 30:00 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Steve Eulberg teaches the second half of his beautiful fingerstyle piece, "Porch Swingin'."Length: 30:21 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 9
Steve teaches a fingerstyle version of the classic song "Five Foot Two."Length: 29:54 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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In this lesson Steve shows how to play the introduction of the classic Jim Croce song, "Operator," in a fingerstyle fashion.Length: 22:21 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 11
Steve returns to the beautiful Jim Croce song, "Operator," in this fingerstyle guitar lesson. This time around he demonstrates the verse.Length: 12:58 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 12
Steve finishes up the Jim Croche song, "Operator." He covers the chorus and brings the entire song together.Length: 9:55 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 13
Steve uses the classic childrens song, "Paw Paw Patch" to demonstrate how an alternating bass line can be played within a fingerstyle arrangement.Length: 15:42 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 14
Steve Eulberg teaches a beautiful fingerstyle arrangement of his original song, "We Wanted a King."Length: 36:31 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 15
Steve Eulberg guides you through a series of exercises meant to improve the dexterity and independence of the thumb.Length: 12:52 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 16
Steve Eulberg mixes up the fingers to create a dynamic fingerstyle exercise.Length: 12:48 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 17
Steve Eulberg explains how to play the classic song "Chopsticks" using fingerstyle technique.Length: 12:18 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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In this lesson, Steve Eulberg teaches an advanced version of "Chopsticks."Length: 8:11 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Welcome to the first lesson in a 3 part series on the song "Ode To Joy". Steve has arranged a very unique fingerstyle lesson that starts from square one. This 3 part series can really help any beginner...Length: 10:32 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 20
In the midst of this three part lesson series, Steve continues his "Ode To Joy" song lesson by introducing a parallel movement. This will demonstrate a "skip a string" technique with the picking hand and...Length: 7:25 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 21
In his final lesson in the three part series of the song "Ode To Joy", Steve adds a few more additional fingerstyle techniques to the mix. By adding a harmony and a D string drone note, this will complete...Length: 10:43 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 22
In direct response to a common issue seen in his live Q&A, Steve crafted the following group of 9 lessons devoted to "thumb building". Learn all 6 variations of the exercise Steve teaches and practice...Length: 16:38 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 23
The second installment of Steve's Thumb Builder lessons continues to build your finger and thumb coordination with multiple pattern variations.Length: 8:40 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 24
Join Steve for the third installment in his Thumb Builder lessons. Keep pressing on and you should be finding that the mechanical movements are becoming more and more natural.Length: 10:33 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 25
It's time to challenge yourself by adding more fingers to the mix! Instead of just responding to the thumb with one finger, you'll be using different fingers on different strings.Length: 8:42 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 26
Things are getting a little more complicated and a little more challenging as Steve marches through some more thumb building exercises. Keep up the hard work and practice!Length: 6:42 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 27
Steve continues to build up muscle memory and coordination. In these exercises, the thumb is gonna start jumping around along with the fingers.Length: 9:16 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 28
Part 7 of Thumb Building Bootcamp! Good job for making it this far! Things keep getting more challenging, but you should definitely be noticing a marked improvement in your finger-thumb coordination...Length: 8:03 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 29
Steve introduces a handful of new patterns to keep on building up that thumb.Length: 7:53 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 30
Good work! You've made it to the final installment of thumb builder exercises. Learn some of the patterns that Steve commonly uses in his own playing.Length: 6:48 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 31
Sometimes we hear the word exercise and it just sounds like work... That probably won't be the case when you listen to the exercise Steve teaches in this lesson. It will take some work, but you'll walk...Length: 19:30 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 32
In this lesson, Steve takes the familiar Frere Jacque and teaches how to play it in a round on the guitar.Length: 6:28 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 33
Turn this classic folk tune into a beautiful fingerstyle arrangement.Length: 13:24 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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An Award-winning multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, Steve Eulberg weaves mountain and hammered dulcimers with a variety of unusual instruments to create thought-provoking, smile-inducing, toe-tapping acoustic experiences.
He has sung and composed for religious communities, union halls, picket lines, inter-faith retreats, mountain-top youth camps, as well as the more familiar venues: clubs, coffeehouses, bookstores, festivals, charity benefits and showcase concerts.
Born and raised in the German-heritage town of Pemberville, Ohio, Steve was exposed to a variety of music in his home. Early piano lessons were followed by trumpet in school band, and he became self-taught on ukelele and guitar and harmonica. Mandolin was added at Capital University where, while majoring in History, he studied Ear Training, Voice and took Arranging lessons from the Conservatory of Music.
While at college, he first heard hammered and mountain dulcimers, building his first mountain dulcimer just before his final year. Seminary training took him the west side of Denver where he built his first hammered dulcimer. With these instruments, he was able to give voice to the Scottish, English and Irish traditions to which he is also heir.
Following marriage in 1985 to Connie Winter-Eulberg he settled in Kansas City, Missouri. There he worked cross-culturally in a church of African-Americans, Latinos and European Americans, with music being a primary organizing tool. He moved with his family in 1997 to be nestled beside the Rocky Mountains in Fort Coillins, Colorado.
Founder of Owl Mountain Music, Inc. he teaches and performs extensively in Colorado and Wyoming with tours across the US and the UK. He delights in introducing the "sweet music†of dulcimers to people in diverse settings and in addition to his own recordings, has included dulcimers in a variety of session work for other musicians.
In 2000 he was commissioned to create a choral composition featuring dulcimers for the Rainbow Chorus in Fort Collins. It was recorded in the same year (BEGINNINGS). He is currently at work on a commissioned symphony that will feature hammered dulcimer and Australian didjeridu.
Eulberg passionately believes that music crosses cultural and language barriers because music builds community. Influenced by a variety of ethnic styles, his music weaves vital lyric with rap, rock, folk, gospel and blues. Audiences of all ages respond well to his presentation and to his warm sense of humor.
Steve is a member of Local 1000 (AFM), The Folk Alliance, BMI and BWAAG (Better World Artists and Activist's Guild).
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What We Saw From The Cheap Seats isn't a major departure for Spektor, but it's generally more comfortable in its eccentricity than Far. It's more like 2006's Begin To Hope in the way it integrates Spektor's wilder, more Kate Bush and Björk-like impulses into snappy piano-driven pop. Spektor works lines from The Animals' "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" into the loopy Italiano anthem "Oh Marcello," hums the main riff from War's "Low Rider" during the coda of "Patron Saint," and gasps like a malfunctioning vacuum cleaner during the otherwise gentle and heartfelt "Open." Spektor's world is full of surprises, typified by album-opener "Small Town Moon," which begins as a relaxed piano ballad and then explodes into a big beat and clapping, while Spektor whoops and half-scats lines like, "Everybody not so nice-nice." Then "Small Town Moon" ends with Spektor quietly asking, "How can I leave without hurting everyone who made me?," re-grounding the song in earnest sentiment.
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Devín: Visiting Slovakia By Way of a Little Bottle of Wine
There are 1,368 varieties covered in Master of Wine Jancis Robinson's Wine Grapes. Bet you can't try them all.
Note from the author: There are 1,368 varieties covered in Wine Grapes by MW Jancis Robinson, MW Julia Harding, and Dr. Jose Vouillamoz. Bet you can't try them all.
In many people's minds, the wine world dead-ends right around the eastern borders of Germany and Austria. What lies beyond is just a hazy tangle of Eastern European countries and, somewhere beyond that, Russia, the Middle East and Asia. No wine there.
At least, that's how my mind saw the (simplified) map, until I embarked on this Weird Wine Grapes adventure last December. But in the last six months, I've ventured east into Slovenia and Croatia, Hungary, and Greece. I've been stunned by the beauty of wines in those parts, and slowly my mind map has filled in gorgeous imagery—cyan coastlines, fire-red fields and nearly black caverns hiding precious golden liquid—in places where only empty space existed before.
Today, fill in another hole on the map: Slovakia.
Slovakia, as it turns out, is closer than I thought. Its capital city, Bratislava, is literally on the border with Austria—less than an hour from Vienna. Drive instead 20 minutes south, over the Danube River, and you're in Hungary.
My friend Petra, the wine director at Epic Roasthouse in San Francisco, is from Slovakia. I received a cryptic voicemail from her one afternoon: "I have a little bottle of wine I want you to try. Also I have a bunch of reading materials for you. Come to Epic."
"Little bottle"? "Reading materials"? I was intrigued but not convinced. She called again one day, insisting that I see the materials and taste the mysterious "little bottle of Devín."
I went straight to Wine Grapes, which told me that Devín was made in 1958 by crossing the headily floral Gewurztraminer grape with the peppery Roter Veltliner. It was grown in the Czech Republic "before being named after a ruined castle near Bratislava" and authorized in Slovakia in 1997. That means Petra's wee bottle has less than 20 years of history in these parts.
Wine Grapes says that Devín "produces full-bodied, low-acid, lightly aromatic—spicy, fruity, and floral—wines." I also learned that Devín is susceptible to botrytis, that mystical mold that gives grapes a seductively spicy, honeyed aroma and flavor.
I'll see you Thursday, I told Petra. A master of building suspense, Petra poured us bubbles and Burgundy first and sent out piles of snacks: crazy-good steak tartare, bone marrow with toast points, hamachi ceviche, a wicked pea salad, and truly 'epic' mac and cheese. Three hours later, the mysterious "little bottle" finally appeared.
I could tell by the short, slender bottle that it was a dessert wine, but beyond that were just a bunch of words and accents that meant nothing to me. From top to bottom:
Karpatská Perla Dīlemūre Devín Hrozienkový Výber Biele Sladke
Petra served it with a funky and creamy goat's milk cheese and dried apricots. It may have been the visual suggestion of the fruit on the plate next to my glass, but I'll be damned if it didn't smell exactly like those apricots, with a similar dried and waxy fruit character. There was ginger and lemon zest, too; and childhood memories of dusting the coffee table with Pledge furniture polish came rushing back. The second sip teased out a wild, floral and weedy quality, conjuring up images of summer afternoons using dandelion petals for face paint or, more recently, quiet mornings with chamomile tea.
I'm usually wary of dessert wines as they often don't have enough acid to keep me interested, but this did quite the opposite, with a roundly sour mid-palate and a finish that whooshed in notes of ash and white pepper. It kept me so interested, in fact, that when Petra stepped away for a minute but left the bottle on the table, I poured myself another glass and drank it greedily in between bites of cheese.
Back at home, I tried to search online for the words I'd found on the label. I learned that Karpatská Perla is the producer, výber means something like "selection," and sladke is sweet. It's not much to go on, and it turns out the wine's not even available in the United States (sorry, guys)... But what's most important is that now in my mind's map, Slovakia isn't just an empty white space but a beautiful crescent of land where I lie in a field of chamomile flowers, my face streaked with sunshine and dandelion petals. I hope another bottle of Devín shows up soon. I'm already eager to revisit.
2007 Karpatská Perla Dīlemūre Hrozienkový Výber Devín
The Grape: Devín
The Region: Malokarpatský (Small Carpathians)
Retail Price: You won't find it in the US... though if you happen to go to Slovakia, the "little bottle" will run you roughly $18.
The Importer: None (yet?)
About the Author: Stevie Stacionis is a wine writer and Certified Sommelier based in San Francisco. She's currently drinking her way through the 1,368 varieties included in the new Wine Grapes tome. Follow her on Twitter @StevieStacionis and check out her snobbery-free wine videos at A Drinks With Friends TV.
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