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Return of the FOAF blog
Well, it's been a more eventful few years than you might guess from the absence of postings here. Welcome to the re-animated FOAF blog, where we bring you not only the ancient archives from the last decade, but more recent news of developments in data portability, linking and all kinds of interconnectedness.
FOAF started over ten years ago, when we began experimenting with the idea of building a Web of linked documents that each made simple claims about our world. Both of us (Libby and Dan) were already working with W3C's RDF technology, and it was a very natural fit. Initially we called it the "RDF Web Ring" (and then RDFWeb), but the cuter name of our "utility vocabulary", FOAF, somehow stuck.
FOAF itself was several things: it was the idea that we can improve the Web and its place in the world through information linking and sharing; it was a project where we experimented with very practical, hands-on ways of doing this using W3C RDF technology, and it was our "starter dictionary" of terms that could be used to say things about people and the things they make and do.
Although we've been quiet "as a project" lately, a lot has been happening, both with FOAF and RDF, but also in the wider community. We can't summarise everything but here are a few highlights.
Back in 2006, Tim Berners-Lee wrote a design issues note on Linked Data, in which he suggested some improvements to the RDF linking model we had explored in FOAF:
The Friend-Of-A-Friend convention uses a form of data link, but not using either of the two forms mentioned above. To refer to another person in a FOAF file, the convention was to give two properties, one pointing to the document they are described in, and the other for identifying them within that document.
In fact, for privacy, often people don't put their email addresses on the web directly, but in fact put a one-way hash (SHA-1) of their email address and give that. This clever trick allows people who know their email address already to work out that it is the same person, without giving the email away to others.
This linking system was very successful, forming a growing social network, and dominating, in 2006, the linked data available on the web.
However, the system has the snag that it does not give URIs to people, and so basic links to them cannot be made.
This critique was perfectly fair. FOAF-based documents were indeed by far the largest deployment of linked RDF in the public Web, back in 2006. And it was indeed difficult to merge ("smush", we used to say) information about people without simple URI identifiers for them. Things are very different today. TimBL's critique (also articulated in his ISWC keynote of 2005) nudged us to tweak the FOAF spec to encourage people to assign themselves URI identifiers. It also inspired an explosion of activity around this idea of "Linked Data", through the Linking Open Data project and related efforts such as DBpedia.
FOAF and RDFWeb were a kind of ancestor to the Linked Data efforts. The Linked Data rules downplay FOAF's earlier emphasis on "reference by description" and encourage instead a focus on the benefits of assigning URI identifiers for everything. Our slight waryness of URIs-only identification came largely from the fact that FOAF emphasises people, and people are special: saying of someone that some URI is "a Web identifier for them" carries certain responsibilities. Especially when that person is perhaps a child, or a focus for controversy. For other domains (music, movies, lifesciences, …) this is not such a concern. FOAF's model also emphasised the documentary nature of the things we linked to, and was initially built up document-by-document. The 'Linked Data' Web has evolved database-by-database, as documented in the ever growing Linked Data cloud diagrams which simultaneously document and inspire the growing catalogue of linked rdf datasources.
These years also saw the rise of widespread concern for Data Portability, and for standard APIs and data formats that allow users to retrieve the data they create at social Web sites. We're happy that FOAF was a trailblazer here, and equally happy to see other successful approaches from the hcard and xfn microformats efforts which are based on simple HTML conventions, to Portable Contacts, which builds on XML and JSON.
FOAF remains distinctive both by its emphasis on mechanisms for mixing people data with other structured and linked information about their wider world, and through its ability to exploit new developments from the Semantic Web platform. In recent years these have included a powerful query language, SPARQL; the RDFa approach to encoding descriptions in human-facing markup, and W3C's SKOS language, which does for subjects (i.e. topics, keywords, …) what FOAF did for people, and which has become central in the linked library data world. The Semantic Web project is fundamentally a collaborative effort. Every new tool, standard, dataset or vocabulary improves FOAF, and every improvement to FOAF benefits applications across the Semantic Web and Linked Data communities.
While 'FOAF files' are no longer the main way people publish linked RDF, FOAF remains a major hub vocabulary in the Linked Data world, contributing useful terms for describing people, groups and organizations, but also documents and topics. Since it is so widely used in RDF descriptions, we evolve it more carefully than in the early days. The spec is still improving, and the foaf-dev list remains active and friendly.
So where does FOAF fit in the wider landscape of the Social Web?
FOAF, by embracing the original Web spirit of 'everyone, everything connected', works better as a descriptive system than as a prescriptive protocol. It is poorly scoped by careful design. FOAF can absorb and express anything that people want to say about themselves, and consequently works less well as a rigid 'record format' for people since it allows for such flexible variety of expression. We always emphasised the freeform, self-published 'homepage' over the boilerplated, corporate-hosted 'profile'. So it makes sense for more constrained standards like Portable Contacts (in the Social Web) or library information cataloguing practices (in bibliography) to be used in specific systems. FOAF, we hope, can be a tool that can help bridge these worlds, and help show how the historical social networks documented by historians, librarians and archivists are in fact connected to the occupants of contemporary online social networks. That, when we stand back and look at the Web and at history, the idea of humanity forming a single interconnected Web makes more and more sense. And that while there's more to describing our interconnectivity and inter-dependence than addressbooks and buddylists, there is also much to gain from having standard ways of describing people, the things they make and do, that apply equally to the present and to the past.
What does this mean in practice?
That we'll continue to maintain and refine FOAF, guided by our stated mission of 'linking people and information using the Web'. We'll try to be responsive to the needs of diverse communities, and to emphasise collaboration and mapping over competition between standards. We think FOAF has worked well in the past as an informal incubator and testbed for new ideas, and that as a project we need to balance that role with the responsibilities that accompany FOAF's widespread use as an RDF vocabulary.
Many of the ideas explored in FOAF's early days are now mainstream in the technology scene, and no-longer need much advocacy or prototyping from us. Other aspects, such as digitally signed RDF claims, while explored here over the last decade, are still waiting for that breakthrough. Spin-off and sibling projects such as FOAF+SSL / WebID, SIOC continue to evolve at their own pace, and there are creative things happening around e.g. OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial and OpenGraphProtocol that keep things unpredictably interesting for everyone. The SocialWeb is richer for this diversity, and we will continue to experiment here. In 2011 we'll be looking at folding into FOAF some ideas from the early 'Web of trust' vocabulary , and at the impact SKOS has had on our ability to talk about specific topics, skills and abilities. There are many other themes to explore, but those will have to wait for other blog posts rather than be squeezed into this one!
Dan and Libby


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The heavyweight rowing team had been scheduled to take on both Harvard and MIT Saturday morning for the Compton Cup. A determination on the possibility for the regatta to be held Sunday morning will be made at a later time.
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Jack had volunteered for the co-ed dorms. It was a new experiment, pushed by feminists. If men and women are equal then there should be no problem with them living not just on the same floor, but in the same room.
Jack supported equal rights and all that jazz, but that wasn't the only reason he wanted to live with a girl. The truth was he wanted a sex partner. Not just a girlfriend, he'd had those, but someone to fuck, and fuck often. Jack was horny all the time, all the time, and he found he could only masturbate in the shower because he came by the gallon. Ok, maybe not a literal gallon, but damn it was alot. Most guys could cum into a tissue, Jack needed paper towels. Plural, as in two or three. In the shower he didn't need to use a towel, instead he just let it go down the drain.
In fact, his showers used to go, a nice wank, cleaning himself, another wank, clean his dick, and then he was done. For the last year his showers were getting longer and longer because he kept getting more and more stamina. He'd orgasm, slowly deflate and a minute or so later he'd be hard again. His father was yelling at him about taking too long in the shower and keeping the furnace running. Jack didn't know how to tell him what was going on.
This tended to turn off his girlfriends. The first handjob, maybe two or three in to the relationship and girls didn't want to deal with the mess. A couple of brave girls had decided to try to give him a blowjob, but that tended to be a relationship killer.
He was hoping with a girl sharing his room he'd be able to ease her in to what he wanted. A few weeks of walking around in just his boxers, maybe a few planned nude accidental encounters could get her curiosity up. If he could just get her acclimated to his libido then maybe he could finally get some relief. And maybe, finally, a girl would let him fuck her.
Worst case scenario, if she wasn't interested, the suite they were going to share had an attached bathroom, so at least he could get in a long shower everyday, with privacy.
Jack got his housing assignment from the orientation people and parked near his dorm. The Resident Assistant said that his roommate had already moved in so with a deep breath Jack shouldered a book bag and carried his luggage in one hand. He walked into the dorm and shortly found his room. The door was shut, so he knocked and said, "Anybody home?" before he opened the door.
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Monica Ong is a poet and artist dwelling in experimental spaces. She completed her MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design in Digital Media, and is also a Kundiman poetry fellow. Her work has been published in Seneca Review, Drunken Boat, Glassworks Magazine, Tidal Basin Review, and others. An exhibiting artist for over a decade, she draws from her professional design practice to innovate on the alchemy of text and image. monicaong.com
Harjo says of "Silent Anatomies": This is one of the most unique poetry collections. It's a kind of graphic poetry book, but that's not exactly it either. Poetry unfurls within, outside and through images. The images are stark representations that include bottles that have been excavated from a disappeared age, contemporary ultrasound images of a fetus, family photographs and charts. They establish stark bridges between ancestor and descendant time and presence.This collection is highly experimental and exciting
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Maybe it was the Shenanigans gift certificate that put her over the edge. When children's librarian and self-professed nice girl Jane Jameson is fired by her beastly boss and handed $25 in potato skins instead of a severance check, she goes on a bender that's sure to become Half Moon Hollow legend. On her way home, she's mistaken for a deer, shot, and left for dead. And thanks to the mysterious stranger she met while chugging neon-colored cocktails, she wakes up with a decidedly unladylike thirst for blood.
Jane is now the latest recipient of a gift basket from the Newly Undead Welcoming Committee, and her life-after-lifestyle is taking some getting used to. Her recently deceased favorite aunt is now her ghostly roommate. She has to fake breathing and endure daytime hours to avoid coming out of the coffin to her family. She's forced to forgo her favorite down-home Southern cooking for bags of O negative. Her relationship with her sexy, mercurial vampire sire keeps running hot and cold. And if all that wasn't enough, it looks like someone in Half Moon Hollow is trying to frame her for a series of vampire murders. What's a nice undead girl to do?
Love in vein: bite into more of Jane Jameson's paranormal exploits.
©2009 Molly Harper White (P)2010 Audible, Inc.
"Hysterical laughs are the hallmark of this enchanting paranormal debut....Harper keeps the quips coming without overdoing the sarcasm, and her take on vampire lore will intrigue and entertain even the most jaded paranormal fan." (Publishers Weekly)
"What a HOOT!!!!!!!"
When I read the blurb for this book I was captured hook,line and sinker!!I listen to a lot of books while my hubby plays his video games and this book had me laughing out loud and the hubby wanted to know what was up with me. I pointed to my ear-buds and he said it must be really funny and it sure was!! The one liners, and the sarcastic view point of Jane was great. I've been told I have a sort of sarcastic sense of humor. I guess that's why I enjoyed it so much. I thought that Amanda Ronconi did an awesome narrating job and look forward to listening to more of her work. I will be buying the rest of this series!!
"Laugh-out Loud Funny"
I don't usually write reviews, and I am NOT a fan of the vampire romance genre at all! But I saw that other people thought this was funny, and felt like a laugh but I was prepared to doubt. Don't hesitate, truly, Molly Harper has such a funny turn of phrase, very dry wit, and she's written a smart incisive character (no pun intended) who is just like the friend we all want. Expect to laugh, well worth your credit :)
I've always been a avid reader so now I'm a avid listener. I prefer the paranormal genre but I do like to switch things up. It's boring if you don't have variety. Of course I do love the romance and the hotter the better. Also, you can't beat a good thriller filled with suspense and a ending you can't even guess at until the very end.
"Cute Story"
Audio is much better!!!
It's packed full of humorous moments.
Yes and I just LOVE her voice!!
I had a few laughs. Molly Harper has that effect.
It's a fun listen. If you want a listen without all the sexual content then you'd like this. I prefer "HOTTER" stuff. But I do love Molly Harper/Amanda Ronconi and the laughs I get from listening to this combination is worth doing without the more steamy stuff occasionally.
I like Fantasy & Science Fiction but not into Zombie. Due to Health issues, listen to Audiobooks/read ebooks where I can enlarge the print
"Refreshing take on the Paranormal Genre"
A few years ago if any one had told me i would be reading this sort of book i would have laughed at them.
It started when I found due to health reasons I could not read the fine print most of my beloved books had, so 10 years ago i started on audio books Fantasy and SCI-FI.
Eventually I ran out of the Audio books I wanted to read so I started reading books like True Blood, moved to Feehand and Lynsay Sands and then found this Gem.
This book is a very refreshing take on the Vampire Paranormal Books. I like the humorous take this book takes. It is wonderful romp from beginning to end.
Jane Jameson is a 27 year old librarian who becomes a Vampire because it was either that or die. I found Molly Harper Whites take on a young woman who has her own personal issues come to grips with her new life style as Vampire refreshing.
This is the sort of book you pick up and find that you are suddenly reading the last few words on the last page. It's one of those sort of books.
If you like this Paranormal Fantasy genre then you will love this book.
I cant wait to listen to the next one.
I'm a PhD theatre student who loves not proofreading my reviews (sorry) because I have to do enough of that in school. :)
"Quirky vampire chick book that kept me smiling"
When I read a book, I can only describe the mood by referencing the weather. Jane Eyre was dark, cloudy, and occasionally rainy, as was Wuthering Heights, and when I visited the Bronte parsonage, it made perfect sense. This book bathed in sunlight; which is probably odd for a vampire novel.
Most vampire books these days go for hot and romantic or dark and ominous... so to have a tale of a woman transitioning into the undead giving me the same impression of "weather" as a lite and cheery chick book was a bit of fresh air.
The book itself is light, both in mood and writing (the length is about half what I usually read/listen to) so I went in expecting a good time without the need to pick it apart with a critcal eye/ear. By the time I finished it, I was rushing to download the next two. A fun time, easy plot, and witty commentary left me light hearted and eager to hear more. The book is set in Kentucky, where I am from, and so the hilarity of having an aunt die in a "I bleed blue" tshirt (an avid UK basketball fan just like the other ¾ of the state) was an added bonus. She nailed Kentuckians and had me laughing at some of our quirks.
I found the use of everyday companies, occurances, and names (Mary Kay, Dick Cheney, etc) interesting since most authors skirt real life references for more obscure versions of the real thing. So Jane's comment about "the only thing to do at 2pm" was to "go to Walmart" got me giggling - oh how many times had I done the same thing (and can appreciate the outsider view on this even more having lived in Los Angeles for a time). I loved this aspect of the book.
The narrator did a fine job, though I did find it strange that the love interest and the best friend's mother sounded like they were from the Simpsons. Still, the whole experience was great and easily earns 5 stars.
"Laugh-out-loud funny!"
This book is absolutely hilarious! Seriously, I had to constantly stop the recording because of hard I was laughing. It was so good, I already wanted to get Books 2 & 3 before I'd even finished this one. I also really liked the narrator; it's a first-person narrative and Amanda Ronconi's voice was perfect for Jane.
All in all, great purchase!
Paranormal-urban fantasy book lover!
"Maybe the funniest book I have read ever!"
Yes again and again... I love Amanda Ronconi's narrating skills.
This is not the usual vampire book, it is lol funny and snarky.
All of it!
To steal from Molly Harper "Too Much Snark For one Film"
You might as well buy ALL the books in the series because once you start with this one you will need to get the rest.
Based on Amanda Ronconi's narrating skills in this series I took a chance on a series that I would not have thought I would like "Soul Screamers" by Rachel Vincent. Amanda narrates this series as well. I was pleasantly surprised with how the characters did not sound anything like the ones in this series and found another great series at the same time. See my rating for that series.
"A Standout Among The "Vampire Book" Craze"
Full of laughs, but with a serious undertone... With so many vampire books to choose from (most with the SAME theme/story) Molly Harper's Jane is a real treat! Amanda Ronconi does a terrific job - just the right mixture of humor, irony, sadness and outrage.
I finished it in one day, continually startling the people around me as I laughed aloud. The gift certificate in lieu of a severance check was priceless... sounds like something my boss would try... ehm.
"OK, it's good!!"
Having read Charlaine Harris and Jeaniene Frost I was a bit dubious whether this author would cut it. I was pleasantly surprised. From start to finish I was laughing my butt off. I will definitely be looking for more of Molly's books and the narrator was really good too!
"Great Find"
Molly Harper's humor is much like the glitter on a gypsy wedding dress ,,, all over the place and way over the top. Her books are sort of like listening to the Librarian of the Damned channel Tina Fey (or the way 'round) I thoroughly enjoyed every word.
"Fun and funny characters"
I just love this series of books! The interplay between the characters is very funny and the books just zip along. The narration by Amanda Ronconi is spot on and the story is very engaging.
As a 40 something truck driver who usually listens to Sci-Fi when travelling up and down the country you might not think that these books are aimed at me but I'm glad I gave them a try.
"Very enjoyable, light, humorous, vamp romance"
I picked this book out more or less at random as something light to listen to. I've been having difficulty reading actual text and I've turned to audiobooks to "read" more. I am particularly glad I picked this one.
Jane is a librarian who suddenly discovers herself to be unemployed, gets drunk at a bar, gets shot (mistaken for a deer), and has the choice of being dead, or undead. A few days later she wakes up a vampire. She has a best friend who is almost as dotty as she is, and an overbearing mother. But now that she's undead she has her favourite (dead) relative to keep her company and a suave, attractive sire who she fancies something rotten, but he did turn her into a vampire. On top of that, someone seems to have it in for her, and she needs a new job.
At least she lives in a world which knows vampires exist. The setting is wonderfully cynical; just my kind of concept. The existance of vampires was revealed as part of a disability lawsuit. Each chapter begins with a quote from the "Guide for the Newly Undead," and the local vampire community holds meet-and-greet parties for newbie vampires, hosted by a vampire property agent (how could anyone tell the difference).
The narration on this one is good. Amanda Ronconi pulls off the accents, even an English one, nicely and it felt like she enjoyed reading the story even as I laughed my way through it.
I'll be putting the second in the series on my wishlist.
"Very funny modern twist on vampire tale"
If you like Charlaine Harris then you will like this. Molly Harper writes with a funny, dry wit. Her tale of Jane Jameson's turning and life with her family, friends and boyfriend/sire is very engaging and had me laughing out loud while listening.
"Loved every second."
Everything. It was brilliant. Absolutely hilarious, I mean laugh out loud funny. Amanda Ronconi delivers each character brilliantly and doesn't make them sound fake. She manages to portray male characters well too.
I have two. Dick, and Aunt Jetty.
Highly recommended. I also recommend the other books in the series. They're all excellent.
"Light, funny, easy listening.."
Loved the quirky take on vampires and their way of life: the guide for the newly undead!If I'm honest, I didn't feel that much chemistry between Jane and her 'maker' (sorry I'm a truebie!)
Jane- just the right amount of crazy!
Brilliant as ever!
Of course! Vampires, werewolves, ghosts....what's not to love!
"crazy jane"
I have not read the printed version but i really like the audio version
When Jane was just turned and woke up to see Gabriel and flew up to the ceiling
she painted the picture superbly, i could not have done it if i was reading the book
Every time Jane spoke i laughed..The girl is crazy!
I already read all the books in the series and I absolutely loved them especially when Jane stuck it to her grandma, really enjoyed the books.
"Turns the vampire idea on it's head!"
Loved it! The MC is entertaining, articulate, self-deprecating and delightfully ordinary. Well, considering. Her reaction to the events is quite plausible and the story develops nicely. I love her manic family as well. THe narrator is perfect for this.
"An excellent, humerous, urban fantasy."
I picked this book out more or less at random as something light to listen to. I've been having difficulty reading actual text and I've turned to audiobooks to "read" more. I am particularly glad I picked this one.
Jane is a librarian who suddenly discovers herself to be unemployed, gets drunk at a bar, gets shot (mistaken for a deer), and has the choice of being dead, or undead. A few days later she wakes up a vampire. She has a best friend who is almost as dotty as she is, and an overbearing mother. But now that she's undead she has her favourite (dead) relative to keep her company and a suave, attractive sire who she fancies something rotten, but he did turn her into a vampire. On top of that, someone seems to have it in for her, and she needs a new job.
At least she lives in a world which knows vampires exist. The setting is wonderfully cynical; just my kind of concept. The existance of vampires was revealed as part of a disability lawsuit. Each chapter begins with a quote from the "Guide for the Newly Undead," and the local vampire community holds meet-and-greet parties for newbie vampires, hosted by a vampire property agent (how could anyone tell the difference).
The narration on this one is good. Amanda Ronconi pulls off the accents, even an English one, nicely and it felt like she enjoyed reading the story even as I laughed my way through it.
I'll be putting the second in the series on my wishlist.
If you are a lover of the Sookie Stackhouse - True Blood books, you'll love this!
It's funny, refreshing and made me smile. It's nowhere near as ermmm.... 'adult' or 'naughty' as the Charlaine Harris books but a good listen. I really liked the narrator, she has a great voice and accent. I listened to the whole book in three days (whilst doing house-work) and have just downloaded the next one which I'm looking forward to.
"Highly derivative: Sookie Stackhouse with fangs"
I bought this on the strength of the other reviews. In fairness, if I'd been in a coma for the last five years and never come across a Southern-virginal-beautiful-oddball-girl-with-supernatural-powers type heroine, then I would have been quite impressed by this book and its story of an alternative world ridden with supernatural beings. However, having worked my way through most of the True Blood books and dabbled in much of the rest of the genre, I have to say that this is a profoundly unimaginative rip off and basically more of the same - only Sookie has a different name and is a vampire, rather than telepathic. There are slightly more jokes, but nothing that laugh out loud so it can't, imho, even claim to be a satirical version of the same.
If you've run out of True Blood/Twilight/etc. etc. and are desperate for a new fix, this might be just up your street, but if you feel that the whole vampires coming out of the closet story line has been done to death, then I wouldn't recommend this title at all.
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The Rabbi's Cat Reviews
Charlotte Observer
Like the title character, the makers of The Rabbi's Cat follow their noses wherever a new scent leads. Their eternal curiosity buoys this Cat, then impairs it somewhat, but redeems it by the end.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4
Sfar's enchanting portrait of a society in which Jews and Muslims live compatibly is a lesson for our time
San Diego Union-Tribune
It's a movie that packs all its ideas in beautifully animated doses, filled with Northern African music and landscapes. It may get clunky, but it's easy to get lost in its loveliness.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
Los Angeles Times
It's a wild and vivid ride and a spirited reminder of the kinship between Jewish and Arab cultural traditions.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
Antagony & Ecstasy
One of the most grown-up animated features of the modern age.
Full Review | Original Score: 8/10
Spirituality and Practice
A French animated film about the unusual quest of a rabbi, a skeikh, and a talking cat to discover the essential unity of life.
Full Review | Original Score: 5/5
Common Sense Media
Fascinating, clever animated tale not meant for young kids.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
New York Times
The film presents an often sharp commentary on dueling beliefs and idiocies that unfolds in lush pastel hues and distinctively retro drawings.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
New York Daily News
Though we wander a bit, the trip is a delight, thanks to the witty company.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
AV Club
While the scenes don't always fit together thematically or tonally, each one is its own polished gem.
Full Review | Original Score: A
Village Voice
An absorbing, nuanced, and vividly animated tale of adventure, ambivalent morality, colonial injustice, talking animals, and the vagaries of religious zeal and colonialism.
Slant Magazine
Despite its flaws, the film is at least a consistent vision, attesting through both its story and animation to the rabbi's right to be different while also striving for human solidarity.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4
It is often colorful, witty and inspired, but also too episodic, and lacks a strong ending.
Screen International
For someone as gifted as Sfar at visual storytelling, the film is very, very talky. That said, voice work in French is a delight.
Hollywood Reporter
Despite the overstuffed storytelling, Sfar and co-director Antoine Delesvaux provide an incredible palette of visuals culled from the style Sfar originally created on paper.
New York Post
"Ambitious" isn't the word here; "random" is more like it.
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Reviewer: blind R eye, 65-74 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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My vision was 20/200. I have had only 2 injections. I have tears and a lot of pain for at least 8hrs. My eye is sensitive to light and still pains a great deal. I hope this gets better.
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In 2008 I had five injectionn of Lucentis in the Right eye for wet ARMD. Vison was good (20/20) and remained good. Wavy lines disappeared. Had very uncomfortable swelling, redness, itching, tearing of the eye, along with long lasting dicoloration of the skin around the eye. In March 2010, had one injection in left eye with similar reaction of the eye. Wet ARMD was diagnosed with photographs. ... Show Full Comment
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I am pleased with the success of the Lucentis injections. I do not like the two weeks of swelling, drying and itching experienced in treated eye. Is this unique or are others having same results?
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My father 69, was diagonised with WetAMD, after he lost his right eye, 3 lucentis injections were given every month to the left one, there were inital signs of improvement, but didn't last very long. After 6 months yesterday he went for his 4th injection, says no improvement so far. He's almost going blind and shelling out a lot $$$, quite unhappy. From our experience chances of this injec ... Show Full Comment
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Left eye. 3 Avastin,no effect; about 12 Lucentis, short term effect clearing then fading associated with foging after 10 to 14 days. I'd like injections twice a month at least temporarily to see if it helps.
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Ah, I love Halloween. I can throw on my homeless gear and shamble the streets moaning at random passersby without looking like a freak, if only for one day of the year. Okay, I don't actually do that, but I do a lot of other freaky things. One of them is sitting at home doing stock research.
Now, in some recent posts I've said some things that have made me pretty unpopular. And I'd like to say with all seriousness that if I ever say something untrue, I will correct it and beg the forgiveness of anyone I've spoken falsely against. As a person who's been accused of things I didn't do, nothing burns my fur worse than lies. I love good businesses, and I don't want to hurt them or the employees who work hard to make them successful.
But if you're running your company into the ground, I fully intend to call you on it.
Let's start with what the Friends of the Earth has called the world's worst company: Vale (NYSE: VALE). Vale is the world's largest exporter of iron ore, and is also a major player in copper, aluminum and other metals. It has done very well to diversify itself, and its current gross profit margins are over 50%. However, the price for this is simply too high, given Vale's history of human rights and environmental abuses.
The Belo Monte dam is a prime example of this. Could you imagine if you and everyone in your community were forced from your home without even getting a vote on the matter, and your compensation for this was tiny compared to what you were losing? For around 40,000 people (and who knows how many animals) along the Amazon River, this is precisely what Vale has set in motion. This is one company with a P/E around 8 and a 3.6% dividend I'll happily leave on the shelf. I couldn't spend that money with a clear conscience.
Fortunately, the list gets better from here. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) doesn't break communities or the environment. However, its customer service is rated at around 25 out of 200, according to consumer review website CustomerServiceScoreBoard.com. In this case, low is very bad.
Consumers complain of the company raising their mortgages payments without notification, sending back payments through their own automated bill-paying service and not providing company employees with information they need to help their customers. If this causes someone to lose their home or suffer undue credit damage, it's pretty shady business. With a dividend yield of .4% and a P/E in the 25 range at nearly penny stock status ($9.32 per share as I write this), I'll pass. But of course, banking is known to be a business where consumers often get frustrated.
Let's look at something more light-hearted, like some entertainment companies.
No one gets hurt when Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) or Activision takes a franchise and causes it harm, the way these companies did to The Sims, Mass Effect, or Call of Duty. It makes some gamers rage in the forums, but that's a relatively small thing. However, my fellow investors might also get a little steamed at EA's 200+ earnings multiple, wildly fluctuating share price, or the fact that it tends to hurt good brands. Consider what happens when a company buys a moat -- that's a good thing. But when that same company begins shoveling gravel into the moat, effectively ruining it, this is a seriously bad sign. The gaming community is speaking, and it's saying that they don't like EA's abandonment of its original mission of creating video games that are art.
But TV's safe, right? Sadly, no.
If I'm ever tempted to forget, Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) is one of the reasons why I don't have a TV. After all, when I can go online and watch a million hours of guinea pigs frolicking like pudgy little angels for free (don't judge me), why should I shell out cash to a company that can barely keep its channels up and running?
With over 14 million customers, the level of service most subscribers get is not rated very highly. Worse still, even the employees at Dish aren't too happy about the long hours and the holidays they have to work. According to Glassdoor, the CEO only has a 32% approval rating. With grueling hours and the inevitable drag on morale, Dish's 13.14 earnings multiple is a phantom of a good deal. I'll take Netflix over Dish in its current form any day, or buy a piece of YouTube through a share or two of Google first.
If this article sounds super-negative, just remember that it wasn't so long ago that Apple looked like nuclear waste. I wouldn't have written about these companies if I thought they had no hope, because they all have something going for them. It's never too late for a turn-around, and I hope these companies get it together before things get any worse.
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Vote Now for your Favorite, Colorful Room!
Small Kids, Big Color Contest 2010
They came. You Saw. Who is going to conquer?
Here they are...your top nine favorite rooms in the Small Kids, Big Color contest. Almost 150 colorful rooms were submitted (thank you to all!) and over the past three weeks we posted 67 of them. From bright and bold to soft and whimsical, these nine entries rose to the top. Now you have 48 hours to cast your vote for your favorite…
Click on the thumbnails above to see a photo of each room and you can also take a look back at the full submission post for each by following the links below. Once you've made up your mind continue to the survey below to vote.
• Lily's Made-with-Love Pad
• Alex's Fortress of Cute-itude
• Zoey's Handmade Haven
• Into the Woods...if the Woods Were Awesome
• Paige's Cheerful Place
• Brigsby's Carnival
• Colette's Cheerful Nursery
• Harper's Cheery Butterfly Boudoir
• Norah's Bright and Colorful Nursery
If you're ready to vote, here they are presented in random order. Good luck everyone!
The top vote getter will be crowned the 2010 Small Kids, Big Color winner and will choose his or her favorite prize package from among these fabulous choices: Package A, Package B and Package C. The second and third place winners will receive the remaining prize packages.
Thanks again to these companies for providing the prizes!
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I voted Zoey! I love that there are so many homemade elements and I find her room is cozy, warm and bright...somewhat sophisticated, yet still appropriate for a child.
As a side note, as a Mom of a baby boy I find it interesting that only 3 of the 9 finalists are boys rooms (and frankly I didn't consider voting for any of them because I found them either too cold/stark or too grown-up). I wonder if the votes are generally female-leaning because it's mostly moms on Ohdeedoh...? How many of the 67 entrees were boys rooms?
This is harder than I thought it would be.
I disagree that most of the "great" rooms are the girl rooms. I like the girl rooms, but the boy rooms are the ones I find myself drooling over most!
Into the Woods was a baby's DREAM room if that baby was a super awesome and totally hip baby. So cute and very well thought out. Jesus would love a room like this.
Into the Woods...if the Woods Was Awesome got my vote! Loved it. Loved it. Loved it!
i love the completely unique color-scheme for a child's room that into the woods uses! and the second you think it might be too dark, you notice that bright light is streaming into the room to give it perfect lighting!
How can I vote for just one? They are all lovely!
Love, love, love into the woods - great baby room and a great design for adults to enjoy!
nope, i tried...just can't pick
So many beautiful rooms, but Into the Woods is just spectacular!
I love Alex's Fortress! I love all of the meaning behind so much of his room. Great job!
I love Lily's Made-with-Love Pad. The room not only looks nice and beautiful, but also full of love. Children not only want to live in a pretty room, but also want to live in a room full of love. That why this is my favorite room.
So impossible to choose.
Zoey's Handmade Haven....Love it! Inviting, serene and mindful.
Isn't the correct grammar "if the woods WERE awesome"? Sorry, it's the English teacher in me. I can't help it.
zoey's room is eye catching. the colors combined are soothing, perfect for babies to do what they do best: sleep. good job, zoey's mommy.
Sofie you're totally right! The correct grammar is in the original entry. Drives me nuts too.
Its official. Into the woods is Jesus approved.
I loved Zoey's Handmade Haven.....It was just soothing and beautiful and just perfect for a little girl's room and voted for it, but wish I could vote for 2 b/c it was hard picking between the one I voted for and Into the Woods...if the Woods Were Awesome...the color combo and the birds just reached out to me.
I'm the owner of the "into the woods" entry....but I have to give some love to Zoe and Brigsby's rooms! Love them.
I would have liked to see AT feature more rooms for older children with beds, since I think it is a lot harder to design well when you have a mobile child who is going to be getting into things. Also, I'd be curious how much each person spent on their rooms.
JulieC, I agree. There definitely was a bias towards nurseries, particularly girls' nurseries. I think voters are more likely to ooh and aah over these. I figured that one out after I had entered the competition. Ohdeedoh, maybe a separate competition for big kids rooms with even sub categories for boys, girls & both?
Absolutely, britabroad! I'm looking at these lovely floor length drapes and low hanging mobiles, and am chuckling, because it would take my sons about 2 minutes to swing Tarzan style from the drapes and tear down the mobiles. Designing for older toddlers and boys are definitely different!
I voted for Alex's room. It was so striking and completely unique. But I really just want to curl up and have a nap in Colette's room. It was probably my favourite and I wish I could make it my own.
These are beautiful. So much inspiration ;)
Darn, I forgot to enter my daughter's room....
I think it could have been right up there as one of the 9 ;D lol
These are all so excellent, it was very hard to pick just one. I especially love Alex's fortress, Brigsby's carnival, and Into the Woods.
I agree with some of the other commenters that it would be great to see more older kids' rooms. The challenges are really different once they are no longer babies!
I voted Brigby's carnival. All the colors work so well together.
I has a very relaxing, calm and homey feeling about it
My vote is for Into the woods... absolutely loved every element of color in that space... so cohesive.
I love everything about 'into the woods'! The colors used are so great, the chair & stool, wall decorations, everythinggg!
Norah's Bright and Colorful Nursery is amazing! So deserves to win!
Voters are basing their votes on personal preference…if you like a soothing mix of colors for a baby's room because you personally feel it is more calming for them, you're not going to vote for the room with bright blue and orange walls. If you like bright vibrant colors, you're not going to vote for a room with a softer palette. I think all of these entries have a great mix of colors but to say that there is a bias seems bizarre, since everyone IS voting based on their preference. It's completely possible that more people prefer a softer color palette for their children's rooms and so those are the ones they gravitate towards.
Im allll over into the wood! LOVE IT
True. SOME are basing their votes on personal preference, but I think it's fair to assume A LOT of others are voting in response to certain Twitter and Facebook posts recruiting friends and personal blog readers to vote for a particular room. While completely within the rules, I can't help but feel these contests are giving the perception that this is all about the design of the rooms, when it's really about who can mobilize their personal troops of voters best via social media. In all fairness each of the rooms are beautiful, but I think there's a crazy discrepancy between the votes and the merits of the rooms. Just sayin'.
I voted for Brigby's carnival--The stenciling on the walls is Great! Alot of work and thought went into this.
I love the creativity of Brigsby's Carnival. His momma put in lots of time and love into it.
I voted for my very favorite room regardless who it belongs to but I agree with Ava's comment above - its like Idol or dancing with the stars - not always does the best win but the person with the most friends or contacts! All the rooms are great but I had to go with a calm and restful color scheme!


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Reed, a sophomore from El Dorado, sat out last season at Arkansas after transferring from Memphis, where he started nine games as a freshman - throwing for 1,690 yards and 10 touchdowns.
The 6-foot-3, 215-pound quarterback transferred to UCA following last season and will have three years of eligibility for the Bears, who were 9-3 last season.
Reed was 24-2 as a starting quarterback in high school at El Dorado, where he was the most valuable player of the Class 6A state championship game as a senior.
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LIGHTER LOAD: TRUCKERS AIM TO SLIM DOWN - One of the hazards of being a truck driver is that the long hours on the road can lead to unhealthy habits. Truckers are now looking for ways to stay fit on the job.
NEW YORK HOMELESSNESS ON THE RISE - New York City has seen a nearly 20 percent spike in homelessness over the past year. The city now deals with homeless numbers not seen since the Great Depression.
NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY AWARDED TO AMERICANS - Americans Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka won the 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry for studies of protein receptors that let body cells sense and respond to outside signals.
MAN CARRIES WEAPONS IN LUGGAGE - Yongda Huang Harris was arrested during a stopover at Los Angeles International Airport after authorities discovered his suitcase full of weapons, leg irons, a smoke grenade, a gas mask and a biohazard suit.
LIBYA ATTACK - The State Department now says it never believed the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was a film protest gone awry, giving congressional Republicans new fodder for criticizing the Obama administration's initial accounts of the assault.
CAMPAIGN - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is attending multiple events today in Ohio, an important battleground state in the upcoming election.
DC, COUNTERFEIT AIRBAGS - Car owners whose air bags have been replaced in the past three years may have had dangerous counterfeit bags installed, the Obama administration warns.
MN, END OF THE LINE: LAST HISTORIC COKE BOTTLE - Coca Cola will no longer be available in 6.5 ounce glass bottles. The last factory using the bottles produced its last batch on Tuesday.
NJ, 28 NEW FIREFIGHTERS SERVED OVERSEAS - New Jersey's largest city is graduating a new class of firefighters, and almost all of them are military veterans. 28 of Newark's 31 new firefighters served in Afghanistan or Iraq.
CA, MAN CHARGED WITH CARRYING WEAPONS IN LUGGAGE - A man is charged with transporting hazardous materials, after allegedly flying into the U.S. with weapons in his checked baggage. Yongda Huang Harris was arrested in Los Angeles.
TX, $1M PAIR OF WATCHES TOPS NEIMAN MARCUS GIFT LIST - Neiman Marcus rolled out its annual Christmas catalog, offering a set of 'his and hers' watches paired with a trip to Paris and Geneva for just over $1 million to shoppers who aren't worried about a holiday budget.
LA, COMMISSIONER GOODELL RE-ISSUES BOUNTY DISCIPLINE - NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell upheld the suspensions of Jonathan Vilma and Will Smith for their role in the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal and reduced penalties for Scott Fujita and Anthony Hargrove. (Oct. 9)
CA, LAWYERS: TENNIS REFEREE PASSED POLYGRAPH - A California woman's lawyer told the AP that his client, tennis referee Lois Ann Goodman, passed a privately administered polygraph examination, testing as truthful when she denied any role in her husband's death. (Oct. 9)
DOCTORS REMOVE BULLET FROM PAKISTANI GIRL SHOT BY TALIBAN - Pakistani doctors successfully removed a bullet from the next of a 14-year-old girl who was shot by the Taliban for speaking out in support of education for women.
RUSSIAN PUNK BAND MEMBER RELEASED FROM JAIL - A Moscow appeals court has freed one of the jailed Pussy Riot members but upheld the two-year prison sentence for the two others. The judge ruled that Yekaterina Samutsevich's sentence should be suspended because she was thrown out of the cathedral by guards before she could take part in the performance.
BURTON TALKS ABOUT NEW FILM - Tim Burton and his cast talk about his latest creation 'Frakenweenie' ahead of the opening of the London Film Festival.
LED ZEPPELIN ON REUNION QUESTIONS - Led Zeppelin held a press conference in support of their concert film 'Celebration Day' and gets testy about reunion questions. (Oct. 9)
GANGNAM STYLE - South Korean rapper Psy has catapulted Seoul's Gangnam district into the international limelight. The area is being compared to Manhattan and Beverly Hills and is said to be the hottest place in South Korea.
MOSCOW CYCLISTS - Cycling is increasing in popularity in Moscow, but riders say there's a long way to go before they feel safe enough to cycle to work each day. Many say they are terrified of riding their bikes on Moscow's streets.
ARGENTINA SOYA - Scientific developments in Argentina could soon mean that the country's biggest cash crop, soya, is made genetically resistant to both drought and floods. As the South American agricultural powerhouse tackles the effects of climate change, the breakthrough could mean buoyant future yields.
AUSTRALIA SHEEP RUN - While Spain's 'running of the bulls' causes hundreds of spectator injuries each year, Australia's 'running of the sheep' is a far less risky event. The annual festival attracts thousands for a showcase of all things sheepish, but there's little danger of a stampede.
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Dr. Mark Smith, 61, president and CEO of the California HealthCare Foundation since its founding, is stepping down at year-end, the Oakland-based nonprofit entity said late Friday.
Spencer Sherman, a CHCF spokesman, said late Saturday that Smith's impending departure "was his choice" entirely and stressed that Smith gave the board a full year to conduct a search and find a strong successor.
Smith has headed the organization since 1996. Along with the California Endowment, CHCF was created at that time as an independent private foundation when Blue Cross of California converted from non-profit to for-profit status.
Board chairman Ian Morrison praised Smith for his "remarkable leadership" over more than decade and a half.
Smith focused the foundation's vision on improving health care "where it matters most: in the clinics, the hospitals, doctors' offices and wherever Californians go to find care," Morrison said in the Jan. 11 statement.
During Smith's 16-year tenure, the foundation has made roughly $37 million in grants each year, for a total of more than $500 million. It has assets of $700 million and a staff of 50, according to its web site.
The group's goals include improving health care quality, promoting greater access to care for the poor and uninsured, and reducing "the cost of care for the state's most vulnerable and underserved residents," officials said.
CHCF hopes to have a new leader in place by year-end, at which point Smith will step down, officials said. A search for his successor will be conducted by the foundation's board, which is led by Morrisoin, a well-known health futurist and speaker.
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Growth accelerated in the second half of the year. Fees for investment advice, account administration, and securities lending accounted for 86% of 2012 revenue.
Performance fees — extra compensation for topping preset targets — generated nearly 5% of revenue. BlackRock Solutions, a business that provides risk management and other services to institutional clients, accounted for nearly 6%.
Assets under management rose 8% for the year to a record $3.79 trillion. Nearly two-thirds of those dollars are managed for institutional accounts, with 25% of total assets actively managed and 41% in index funds.
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Stock funds captured 97% of total new ETF money in January, but over the long haul fixed income may offer superior growth potential.
Assets in fixed-income ETFs rose at an annualized rate of 57% over the last decade, but still account for just 0.3% of the global bond market. BlackRock says it is jumping into portions of the bond market that large investment banks have vacated, opening new avenues for growth.
The consensus projects per-share profits will rise 13% in both 2013 and 2014. Both estimates have risen at least 3.4% over the last 30 days. In January, the company raised its quarterly dividend 12%.
At 18 times trailing earnings, BlackRock trades at a premium to its peer group well justified by its superior growth potential, and at a 18% discount to its five-year average P/E ratio. BlackRock has been added to our Long-Term Buy List.
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