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101 common money myths
If you believe that carrying a balance is good for your credit score or that bankruptcy will eliminate student loans, keep reading.
This guest post comes from Ron Haynes at The Wisdom Journal.
What if much of what you think you know is wrong?
Just because a belief is widespread and pervasive doesn't mean that it's true. If you read or hear something about personal finance or money, take a few moments to think it through. Do some independent research to see if there could be another side to the coin. And never let a financial myth stand in the way of achieving your financial goals. The only way one of these money myths can stop you is if you believe it.
I assembled some pervasive money myths after listening to unsuccessful people over the years. This is a big list, but I'll bet you have a few you could add to it. Which of these have you heard?
- I don't need to start a business or ask for a raise. I'll just wind up paying more in taxes anyway.
- Saving 10% of my income is plenty to carry me to financial freedom in my retirement.
- There is a magic bullet out there somewhere that will make me rich. I just need to find it.
- All credit cards are alike.
- Budgeting is for nerds. I don't need to waste my time.
- A few late payments on my credit card won't hurt my credit score.
- A few bounced checks won't hurt me either. The bank knows I'm good for it!
- An emergency fund is for someone who always lives in fear.
- I don't want anything expensive, so I don't need a savings account.
- I'm debt-free so I don't have to worry about managing my money or budgeting.
- More money will make me happy.
- I'm renting out my home while I'm living in another city, but I don't need to tell my homeowners insurance company.
- I can't switch checking accounts because I'm using overdraft protection.
- I can eat out at restaurants as cheaply as I can prepare meals at home.
- The more credit cards I apply for, the better.
- I don't need a will because my spouse and I own everything jointly.
- My home equity is my retirement plan.
- I don't make enough money to save.
- Going to a private college is always worth the cost.
- Individual stocks are the best investment for the long run.
- I can time my stock buys and sells to take advantage of trends in the market.
- No one can pick stocks effectively.
- Renting a home is like throwing money away.
- My work is just a job and all I need to do is enough to not get fired.
- All loaded mutual funds are bad and any no-load fund is better.
- I don't need to understand how an ETF makes money. I just need to know that it does.
- All mortgage companies have the same rates and fees.
- Real estate agents really understand the ins and outs of personal finance.
- I'm not very good at math, so I can't manage my own money.
- I always get a raise and a bonus every year so I don't need to worry about setting up a budget.
- Being happy is a direct result of being able to buy whatever I want.
- Money is the source of all evil, and trying to make more money is a bad thing.
- It's a fantasy to imagine that someone would pay me to do what I love.
- With today's low interest rates, I'm better off keeping my money under a mattress than in a savings account.
- I can make extra money anytime I want.
- Making extra cash by using the Internet is easy.
- You always get what you pay for.
- The U.S. income tax is illegal and voluntary according to their own charter.
- One of the major advantages of home ownership is the ability to deduct your mortgage interest on your income taxes.
- Real estate investing is the answer to all my financial problems.
- Late-night television infomercials have great ideas for making more money.
- Don't worry about the fine print. Credit issuers won't put anything nefarious in the contract.
- Bad credit won't stop me from getting a great job.
- Bad credit won't stop me from renting my dream apartment either.
- Unemployment benefits will keep me afloat for six months or more.
- I shouldn't deprive myself of anything.
- It's too late to do anything about college financial aid.
- Money is scarce.
- Paying all bills online is always cheaper.
- If I decide to walk away from my home, the mortgage company won't care because they get to sell the home and keep the profit.
- I'm too old to start saving now.
- I'm too young to save just yet.
- I'm middle-aged and still trying to get established so I don't need to save either.
- I don't need to worry about protecting my identity.
- Term life insurance is always the best bet.
- I'm too young to waste money on life insurance.
- I don't need any life insurance because no one is dependent on my income.
- No matter how much I have on deposit at the bank, I'm protected by the FDIC.
- A debt consolidation loan is the answer to my problems.
- I can declare bankruptcy on my student loans and get rid of them forever.
- Bad credit will follow me for the rest of my life.
- All credit cards come with automatic travel insurance.
- Life insurance is voided in cases of suicide.
- Only the rich pay higher taxes.
- Stockbrokers are required to have my best interests at heart.
- When the market hits the skids, it's time to sell everything.
- A 401k is always the best way for me to save for retirement.
- I don't have the time to develop a side income.
- I'm smart enough to handle all financial matters on my own.
- I can't find a job that I really want.
- Whatever it is, it won't happen to me.
- It's useless to save money for college because my kids will be less eligible for financial aid if I do.
- Once you hit your salary goal, you'll be satisfied.
- I can change my phone number and get those debt collectors off my back.
- Using credit counseling will hurt my credit.
- If something is on sale, it makes sense to buy it just in case you need it later.
- Actively traded mutual funds outperform index funds.
- To retire, you'll need 80% of your current income.
- Retirement means kicking back and relaxing all the time.
- I shouldn't worry about paying off my mortgage early.
- I can't do anything to positively affect my credit report.
- Young people don't have credit scores.
- A bigger home is a sign of success.
- You can get full Social Security benefits at age 65.
- Money experts are skillful with numbers.
- When layoffs are coming at work, it's best to stay under the radar.
- My credit score will improve if I always carry a balance.
- I need a large sum of money to start investing.
- The government will take care of my mortgage if I have problems paying it.
- Borrowing funds to invest (using other people's money) is a sure-fire way to make a fortune.
- I make rational, reasoned decisions when I spend money.
- A stack of credit cards could be used to successfully fund a new business.
- I should buy gold!
- There aren't any really creative ways for me to save money.
- Minimum payments on my credit cards are OK.
- I can't increase my value at work.
- I don't need any particular strategy when paying off debt.
- I need someone else to help clear up my credit.
- My job is secure.
- I'm too old to buy life insurance.
- There's nothing money can't buy.
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There is not an official timetable as to when Notre Dame will leave the Big East, but USA Today reported the school would have to give 27 months notice and pay a $5 million exit fee. Whether they will be held to the advance notice is in question, as Syracuse, Pitt and West Virginia all left the conference early.
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We have a president who, seven years ago, voted to oppose any more borrowing, rightfully calling it irresponsible and reckless. And that, by the way, was when the debt was less than half of what it is now. But lately, he has been saying any talk about freezing borrowing is irresponsible and reckless.Subscribe to Read!


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Speaking on that rebel theme, Keith says, "The purity in making music on your own terms -- to create art in your own way -- for me is at the heart of the outlaw spirit. It's those outlaws that we celebrate this year, who not only made it possible for a guy like me to do what I love, but who play a pivotal role in the strength of country music's diversity."
Montgomery Gentry , Trace Adkins , Rosanne Cash , Kris Kristofferson , Kid Rock and Billy Joe Shaver are also performing at We're All for the Hall, benefiting the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Keith and Vince Gill return as musical directors. Tickets go on sale March 1 via Ticketmaster.
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text: Posted Online: Feb. 11, 2013, 7:11 pm Rockets, Titans on track to share WCC North crown Comment on this story More photos from this shoot Photo: Gary Krambeck Rockridge's Darren Southwell (3) tries to pass the ball around Riverdale's Cade Sharp (40) and Drew Beale (50) during a nonconference game in Edgington on Jan. 29. The Rockets are on track to share the West Central Conference North Division crown with Monmouth-Roseville. The last week of the boys' basketball regular season is here, and with it comes the business of finishing up the area conference title races. Of the three, the Lincoln Trail Conference is the only one that has been all but wrapped up. Galva's 67-64 win over LTC Tournament champion Wethersfield last Tuesday, followed by Friday's 88-77 overtime win at Annawan, puts the 20-4 Wildcats at 8-0 in the league with only Sciota West Prairie (6-15, 1-6) and United (1-21, 0-8) left on their schedule. The defending regular season LTC champs have already assured themselves of no worse than a tie for the title, as second-place Stark County (11-14, 7-2) and third-place Wethersfield (21-5, 6-2) each have two losses and have both lost to Galva. Mercer County (16-9) and Ridgewood (15-11) are both out of the running with their 5-3 league marks. However, the issue is still in doubt in the West Central Conference's North Division, where Monmouth-Roseville and Rockridge (both 20-4) are tied for first with identical 7-2 records; and the Three Rivers Conference, where Kewanee's (21-4) 13-0 league mark has it just a game up on second-place Sterling Newman (22-3, 12-1). WCC North: Rockridge had a chance to all but lock up the conference crown last Friday when it welcomed Monmouth-Roseville to the Rockets' pad. However, the much-improved Titans spoiled those plans with a hard-fought 69-65 victory before a packed house that created the deadlock, with each having one division game to play on Friday. Monmouth-Roseville wraps up its league slate at home, welcoming Sherrard (6-19, 1-8) to the Shoebox for the Titans' senior night. However, the Tigers' record could be misleading, as coach Barry Jackson's club has scored a pair of impressive one-point wins over Kewanee (68-67) and Carthage Illini West (71-70). The latter victory by Sherrard also has a bearing on the race, as it knocked Illini West (14-12) into third place at 6-3. Had the Chargers won, they would have forged a three-way tie with only a Friday road trip to Orion (16-11, 3-6) remaining. Rockridge hits the road to Macomb (5-16, 3-6) to wrap up its final season of WCC North competition before joining the TRAC-9 next winter. Although going through a down season, the Bombers still could be a formidable test as Macomb has traditionally been a tough road trip for any team. Three Rivers: An earlier 58-56 homecourt win over Newman at Brockman Gymnasium is the difference-maker for Kewanee in the TRAC-9 standings. The Boilermakers wrap up conference play tonight as they celebrate Senior Night by welcoming a tough Bureau Valley squad (19-10, 7-6) that is looking to mark former Storm standout Jason Marquis' first year as head coach with a winning conference record. With Newman closing league play against last-place Morrison (4-23, 0-12) tonight at home, that almost makes a Kewanee win over BV an imperative task if the Boilers are to earn the outright championship. Riverdale (13-13, 8-5) looks to take a winning record into next week's Class 2A regionals with a Senior Night win this evening against Fulton (6-22, 3-9). Erie (15-13, 6-6) travels to Prophetstown (13-13, 6-7) in a rivalry matchup of teams wrangling with Riverdale and BV to land in third place. Contact Area beat reporter Terry Duckett at email@example.com


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More unseen photographs from the First World War
A treasure trove of pictures showing the unknown soldiers of the Somme caused a sensation when it was published here last May. But that was only the beginning of the story...
Saturday 29 May 2010
A year ago this month, the haunting faces of unknown British and Commonwealth soldiers of the Somme emerged from the mists of time and battle to gaze from the pages of The Independent Magazine. The lost Somme photographs – 400 glass negatives of Tommies, Aussies and Canadians of the period 1915-16 rescued from a rubbish heap in northern France – generated extraordinary interest all over the world. The images were by far the most visited item on The Independent website in 2009 – and over the past 12 months, these "unknown soldiers" have been viewed online more than 1,700,000 times.
France's First World War graveyards, and the many "memorials to the missing", contain a legion of names without faces. By contrast, the Somme photographs presented us with scores of faces without names.
The Independent article was followed up by local newspapers and television channels in France. As a result, people in the Somme département have now come forward with more old photographic plates, this time mostly of Scottish and English Tommies. A selection of these new images is published here for the first time: a second "lost platoon" of nameless British soldiers snapped as individuals, or in groups, by an unknown French photographer. Hundreds of other images have been located and are awaiting collection, scanning and processing.
All the images – the 40-odd new discoveries and the original 400 – can be seen here. The new exclusive images can be launched from the photograph above and the original 400 are at Exclusive: The unseen photographs that throw new light on the First World War. They present a poignant snapshot of the British and Empire army on the eve of, or during, the horrific Somme conflict of July-November 1916. The pictures capture an army at a time of transition. The regular and territorial soldiers, who fought in the terrible battles of 1914 and 1915, have almost all vanished. They have been replaced by Lord Kitchener's amateur volunteers – the "Pals" and "Chums" – who fought for the first time, and died in their tens of thousands, in the Somme offensive.
There are one or two hatched-faced, walrus-moustached soldiers of the old school with faces that could have fitted into the ranks at Inkerman or Waterloo. But the great majority of the soldiers seem heart-wrenchingly young and startlingly modern. They look like the kind of people you could meet on the street, or in a pub, in 2010.
Look at the two teenaged first lieutenants – "warts" to the older officers – who pose self-consciously with their cigarettes (above). They can be scarcely more than 18, and probably straight from public school. Look at the young Scotsman, little more than a boy, with a pistol several sizes too big for him (maybe a German "souvenir"). Look at the kilted Scottish soldiers, jauntily wearing their gas-mask holders where their sporrans should be.
Michael Stedman, a historian of the 1914-18 war and an expert on the Somme, believes the new images come from a slightly later period than the first batch published here last year: possibly from towards the end of the battle in October-November 1916.
"This is suggested by the presence of troops from the Royal Naval Division, which was not in the area until October onwards," he said. "Underfoot conditions look wet which would support this thesis of the images being taken during October-December 1916.
"There are men from the Machine Gun Corps and many other Corps and units, often mixed together... I suspect there is a medical unit present in the area and many of these men may be recovering from light wounds – but that is only conjecture. That idea seems to be supported by the complete absence of 'kit', apart from the rather odd posed image of the Scots private with a possibly non-standard pistol and holster which looks very strange – possibly captured."
The historical value of the plates, as a record of the British army during the most murderous battle in its history, was first grasped by two local men: Bernard Gardin, a photography enthusiast, and Dominique Zanardi, proprietor of the "Tommy" café in Pozières in the heart of the Somme battlefields.
A local amateur photographer is believed to have taken the first pictures between the autumn of 1915, after the British army relieved the French on the Somme, and the autumn of 1916, when the "Big Push" ended in a muddy, and bloody, stalemate. The unknown photographer presumably made a little money by charging British, Australian and Canadian soldiers a few francs for a snap which they could send home to their loved ones.
The original cache of photographs, preserved on 9x12cm glass plates, lay undisturbed for nine decades in the attic of a ramshackle barn at Warloy-Baillon, 10 miles behind the battlelines of 1916. When the barn was restored in 2007, the photographic plates were thrown into a rubbish skip. Passers-by rescued some of them. Others were lost – until now.
In 2008, Gardin, a 62-year-old amateur photographic historian, was given a batch of 270 glass plates by someone who knew of his hobby. He approached 49-year-old Zanardi, who has a museum and a collection of First World War memorabilia at his café. (His most recent acquisitions include several packets of perfectly preserved, army-issue oatmeal biscuits, with an eat-by date of 1917, also found in a Somme barn. I heroically tasted one. What does a 94-year-old British military biscuit taste of? Nothing.)
When Gardin approached him in 2008, Zanardi already had 130 similar photographic plates which he had been given by other local people. The two men, at their own expense, scanned and digitalised and, in some cases, lovingly restored the combined batch of 400 images.
Exactly the same procedures have now been applied to the new plates which were offered up by local people after The Independent and subsequent French media stories. The donors told Zanardi that they had bought the plates at local car-boot and jumble sales in the last couple of years. Up to another 500 or so images are waiting to be collected and processed.
Gardin believes that the new batch, shown here, may be the work of the same unknown local photographer as the first collection published by The Independent Magazine a year ago. Zanardi, however, is convinced that they were taken by another photographer. "The backgrounds are different and, to me, the style is different," he told me.
Between them, the two men have combed the area around Warloy-Baillon, looking for the buildings glimpsed in the backgrounds of the images in the hope of tracing the photographer's descendents. "We have got nowhere," Zanardi reported. "That area was largely destroyed in the later battles of spring 1918. The buildings have probably vanished."
Are the two men surprised at the extraordinary interest that their work has provoked all around the globe? "I have been following the debate on The Independent website," Gardin said. "Here in the Somme, people have a sense of duty to remember the soldiers who came from so far to fight for France. It has been very moving to find that the same interest survives in the countries from which the soldiers came."
Last year, The Independent appealed for information from anyone who thought that they might be able to identify a relative in the first batch of images. After 93 years, that was the longest of long shots. All the same, two or three tentative identifications were made and there was one near-certain match.
A young artilleryman sitting on the far left of the front row of the group of gunners in one photograph has been positively identified by family members as Jim Mundell from Dumfriesshire, who arrived on the Somme with the Royal Regiment of Artillery in September 1916. He was 20 at the time. He survived the war to become a farmer and died in 1955.
The original Somme photographs attracted – and continue to attract – scores of comments from The Independent website readers from all over the world. They have generated two poems and an impolite argument over whether Sir Douglas Haig, the commander of the British armies on the Western Front from December 1915 to November 1918, should still be honoured by an equestrian statue in Whitehall.
For many internauts, it was the sheer ordinariness of the soldiers – not posed stiffly, or lit heroically like many similar portraits taken in Britain – which was so compelling. "Countup" wrote: "I know them all. I can put the face of a friend, colleague, family member or person in our street in to almost any photo and they would not look out of place. Time distorts the horror of WWI but they are all just ordinary people like you."
Michael Stedman, the Somme historian, thinks that, overall, the two sets of images are a mix of medical orderlies, soldiers possibly recovering from light wounds and soldiers about to enter the slaughter a few miles to the east. Warloy-Baillon was the site of a clearance hospital, where troops were treated before being sent to Britain – or back into the line.
Mr Stedman said: "Prints from these plates would have been sent home to loved ones as a way of saying, 'Here, look at me, I am in France and I'm doing fine'."
The Somme was the most murderous single battle of the 1914-18 war. In a little less than five months, an estimated 1,000,000 British Empire, French and German soldiers were killed, captured or wounded. There were more than 400,000 British and Empire casualties, including 125,000 deaths – 27,000 on the first day alone.
For how long the nameless soldiers shown here were "doing fine" we may never know.
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Milwaukee Public Television Joins Effort to Harness Grassroots Enthusiasm for Public Media
Milwaukee, WI -- (January 3, 2011) Milwaukee Public Television (MPTV) has joined with public television and public radio stations across the country in an unprecedented effort to harness the enthusiasm of the 170 million Americans who watch, listen to or use the services and programming of public media each month (1). The centerpiece of the campaign is a web site - 170MillionAmericans.org - that represents the beginning of a grassroots effort to engage the support and energy of listeners and viewers in local communities from Homer, Alaska, to Fort Myers, Florida.
The 170 Million Americans campaign was founded on the belief that now, more than ever, our country needs a strong public media system as a source of non-partisan news, local cultural programming and non-commercial educational programs. Public funding ensures that public media will continue to enhance the quality of life of our local communities through its offerings of children's programming, news and public affairs, music and culture, and more.
MPTV plans to promote the campaign effort to members, viewers, and the SE Wisconsin community by urging supporters to join the campaign at mptv.org. "2011 will be the year when a vigorous debate over the importance of public media will occur," says MPTV General Manager Ellis Bromberg, "and we're proud to be a driver in this coordinated grassroots efforts to harness the support and energy of every supporter of public media in America."
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Critics PicksBen Brantley RECOMMENDS Charles Isherwood RECOMMENDS
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The following shows have received ratings of at least four stars from Times readers.BROADWAY OFF BROADWAY
68 Readers' Reviews
April 24th, 201112:57 pm
I also read Terry Teachout's review in the WSJ, which came much closer to my own than did Ben Brantley's. I think it's a pretentious, far, far too long play. I did not see any of the great themes the playwright claims it has. Teachout's characterization of Rooster Byron as "trailer trash" rather than Falstaffian is right on. And to say that the character "incarnates the spirit of a mythic England that may never have been but that everyone, on some level, longs for", as stated by Mr Brantley, is beyond my comprehension. I would grant that many might want to live large and experience great things but I really don't believe they would choose as its embodiment an alcoholic drug dealer whose brain is so fried that, among other things, he destroys a plasma screen TV and doesn't even remember doing it.
As for Mr Rylance's performance, I just found it annoying by the interminable end. The whole thing became to me a vanity piece for him to flay around the stage literally and figuratively. Incidentally his incomprehensible piece on St. George and the dragon in the Playbill further added to my sense of intellectual pretentiousness.
— Margaret F., NYC
April 24th, 201112:58 pm
consider "Jerusalem" an attempt at some personal longevity. The play is so long, the dialect so difficult to understand, the story so grudging that you will feel that you have slowed time. We are assuming that Mr. Brantley or his wife are related to the play-write or cast in some manner. Did he see the same show we and our seat-neighbors did? If masterpiece means boring, this one sets a new standard.
— Dr Charles, Brooklyn, NY
April 25th, 201111:45 am
I adore Mark Rylance and his performance is breathtaking and awe-inspiring. Worth the ticket price. But the play's another thing. Although I was reminded of Shakespeare's breadth of language, there wasn't enough plot to keep me fascinated or even intrigued. Kudos to the designers, however, and the actors. It's a monumental effort...yet signifying....what?
— happy, Boston, MA
April 25th, 20113:19 pm
An incredible night of theater I loved it, thought provoking, startling, unsettling and incredibly funny.
— Richard, New York
April 25th, 20114:57 pm
Theater-goers should be forewarned that in the case of "Jerusalem" Ben Brantley has fallen into the trap that professional critics are prone to (although I find this much more prevalent with The Times's film critics): He is so steeped in the theater (he'd want that in boldface capital letters!), its history and romance and traditions and craft that he loses sight of the perspective his readers need in order to decide whether or not to spend a small fortune to see a play on Broadway. That's why his review – as others have noted – failed even to tell you what the play is about.
Of course, a major part of the problem is that "Jerusalem" is not about very much.
Yes, Mark Rylance gives an impressive, boisterous performance. Yes, the set design is excellent. Yes, there are some laughs, especially in the first act. But by the middle of Act Two you begin to wonder where all the shouting is leading. And in the Third Act, with its gratuitous violence, you realize that the play is not leading to anything more profound than that some misguided lout thinks civilization is encroaching on his freedom.
Fine, iconoclasts, rebels, outcasts, have often proved to be more civilized and more insightful than the society that has cast them out. And if that were what this play was about I would have no problem with it. But it truly isn't. If that was the playwright's intention he failed to carry it out. What we have, instead, is a drug-dealing loudmouth who fell on his head once too often (he used to be an Evel Knieval type of daredevil) who is making some sort of "heroic" stand against the encroachment of urbanization. Not that he's defending public parks or anything useful like that. What his rights are that he believes are being infringed upon are never explained in any coherent way – he shouts something about it but not so you can make any sense of it – and apparently the vision of freedom or individual liberty or whatever the song "Jerusalem" is supposed to signify is simply never explained.
So you are left with an hour or so of a remarkable if unfathomable performance by a talented actor and a lot of head-scratching after that.
— Michael, Riverdale,NY
April 26th, 201111:39 am
Mark Rylance is mind-blowing in this production. Go and see it!
— Eliza, New York, NY
April 26th, 201111:39 am
Jerusalem is a jaw-dropping production, like nothing else I've seen before. Doesn't patronize or stereotype, great jokes and has a complex, fascinating hero in the shape of Jonny Rooster. I've seen it twice already and can't get enough.
— Alisha, New Jersey
April 27th, 201112:45 pm
The fact that the audience reviews are largely either one star of five stars is perfect for this show. If you prefer something pleasant, plot-driven, and literal, you shouldn't waste your money here, there are other excellent shows on Bwy you will enjoy much more. But it's a bit much to say the underlying themes don't speak to you so they don't exist.
I believe most if not all people experience a longing for something grander, wilder, more exciting, more unpredictable, and improbable than their own quotidian existence. Though the way one assuages that longing may be vastly different from the way these characters chose, the basic human condition is the same.
Who doesn't feel the attraction of youth, and the dangers inherent in not letting it go? Is there an adult who doesn't struggle with the balance of responsibility and recklessness? Wilderness versus civilization, blatant vulgarity versus quiet hypocrisy, talk versus action—these are among the battles we all wage or witness every day.
I personally found the interplay among vulgarity, lyricism, 'fragrant untruth' (thanks Urban Dictionary) and honesty to be endlessly engaging. But, after repeat attendance and much reflection, the thing that is sticking with me most about the script as a whole is the perfect calibration of the transition from comedy to drama. Such an arc usually falls somewhere on the 'rather awkward' to 'complete train wreck' spectrum. I certainly can't recall any other experience that took me so completely and seamlessly from "I'm laughing so hard I can't breathe" to "I can't breathe. Or blink. Or feel my fingers".
On another level, I find the play to be powerfully applicable to New York City at this moment in history. The theme of everything unpredictable, unclassified, unregulated, and unsuitable for a family audience being crushed under the heel of 'middle class morality' resonated deeply with me. (F.T.N.E. would be an apt rallying cry for the Coney Island 8) A relentless movement toward generic, corporate, safe, and tidy homogeneity seems to me as dire and immediate a threat to NYC's traditional culture of experimentation and creativity as the bulldozer is to Rooster's Wood.
— merricatnyc, Crown Heights, Brooklyn
April 27th, 201110:23 pm
This is a gripping and passionate story with fascinating themes. Ian Rickson's direction is brilliant and the cast is terrific. However, Mark Rylance's performance is so good I find it hard to find the words to describe it. I have seen this play twice in the last four days and have left both times in awe of his talent. My advice - do not miss Mark Rylance in "Jerusalem."
— Rob M., Hartsdale, NY
April 29th, 201111:04 pm
What starts out as a smart comedy turns into an epic tale of man vs nature, progress vs preservation, good vs evil. Mr. Rylance delivers a amazing performance that will be stay with you for a very long time. Beautiful, moving, and haunting. 3 green lights!
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— AndrewAndrew, New York City
April 29th, 201111:06 pm
I know of no other actor who could inhabit a character so totally as does Mark Rylance as Rooster, with help from a top-notch supporting ensemble. Less skilled actors will either be motivated to quit the profession, or redouble their commitment. I WAS disappointed.. that the final act featured, in my view, the weakest actor in the cast, playing Phaedra. I would have wished Rylance could have been given more help there. But in all, a stunning, provocative, memorable experience.
— hmh, nyc
May 2nd, 20111:12 pm
I loved it! I've seen it twice, once in previews and then Easter weekend. Mark Rylance is someone you have to see if you enjoy theater. I felt like if you're able to witness a giant of the craft working to create this character who transforms over the course of the show in ways that words can't begin to describe. I say it's like if in my lifetime I could have seen someone like Olivier on stage it's going to be memorable. The stage set is very lush and smells like springtime to me. John Gallagher has a pretty nice part and I really enjoyed his performance and thought he did a great job with the accent. He really fit right in and had a nice parting speech as a young guy leaving the town for Australia. I'm into stuff British but was worried I wouldn't get some of the slang/references but they seem to translate a bit for you in the beginning like I noticed Mackenzie Crook's character says toilet instead of loo which I imagine they wouldn't do in the original but overall I like that the director respects the audience's ability to "get it". Now that I think about it again I really enjoyed the whole cast.
In my opinion it's not a story about drugs at all. The story line does speak to a universal celebration and loss of the "wild" parts of our nature and culture. It seems that Johnny Rooster Byron has been the keeper of that wild nature and the youth of the town gravitate to him to experience that part of themselves before joining into their assigned societal roles as it seems like many come by to reminisce about their time together, whether it's the evil Troy or Johnny's sometime friend Wesley the pub owner and they all turn on or away from him in the end. I was reminded of the line of Neil Young's song from Rust Never Sleeps, "it's better to burn out than to fade away" and it's clear what the giant Rooster Byron chooses.
All in all I say try and check it out. I was moved to tears but we all have different tastes. They have rush tickets for sale at 10am day of performance for $26.50 too.
— dyvette7, Boston,MA
May 4th, 20119:02 pm
Mark Rylance is a thundering, breath-taking presence. The rest of the cast is pitch perfect. Go see Jerusalem while you can.
— ccwriter, Malden, MA
May 4th, 20119:04 pm
The performance of a decade! An electrifying, amazing play!!!! Wow! We must have been... tired or something. We actually left at the second intermission or "pause" as it is called. What is going on?
"...3 hours of tedious gibberish..." That makes more sense, thank you. And Michael in Riverdale, you got it right, thank you for helping me out here. My husband and I were stunned all the way home. Years ago, when I used to go to the Royal Court, I was blown away by the evening I saw Babies there. It was raucous, hot & sweaty and sexy, it felt good to be alive in that there little theater. Maybe that's what it was that got this play an award. The fact they were in a small theater, practically on top of each other and the actors, and, not in a big Broadway house... (I'm reaching here.) For god's sake, I would've loved to hear that pretty little girl sing, but you CAN'T hear her sing. You can hardly hear her at all.
I was at a matinee where everyone was elderly. They tittered, I guess at all the f and c words. I would love to know if young people are being bowled over by this.... CLAPTRAP as another reviewer here put it.
Oh, dear, I just read "the last 10 minutes will take your breath away". I guess we blew it and should have soldiered on... except one of us couldn't stay awake any longer. And the other kept drifting back over to the live chickens on stage...
— VictoiseC, New York
May 6th, 20119:24 pm
After my first encounter with Jerusalem, I knew I had to see it again. It was like an itch I couldn't quite scratch. Went to a Wed. Mat. and loved it. I saw so much more, particularly the massive arc of the play itself.
Yes there's mayhem in the first act, but strategically informative mayhem. The development of Mr. Rylance's character is pitch perfect, and truly virtuosic throughout. And toward the end, the play, thanks to Mr. Rylance becomes a giant before your eyes. That's all I'll say.
I was sitting with a stranger, and commented on some of the mythic themes that were presented in the course of the play, and I noticed my question caught her off guard. Like she hadn't actually considered what she had just seen in those terms at all. And I completely understand. But after seeing this play a second time those ideas ring out loud and clear, rising high above the battles onstage.
So I'm grateful for reviewers who know more than I do about the theater; its history, and where a certain play lies in a cannon of theatrical creations. The Times review claerly put into words what I couldn't, but nevertheless felt. Run to see this show.
— What do I know, NYC
May 15th, 201112:26 pm
Without Mark Rylance, would this be a play? No plot. No story. No character development. No climax. No catharsis. Will this ever be produced again? Let's see...Hamlet has been produced probably 4000 times. Jerusalem without Rylance...zero. That's not a play. It's a standup comedy routine, and..it's long, repetitious and leads nowhere.
— Theater Junkie, New York
May 16th, 20119:01 pm
This is an amazing and memorable play. EVERYONE who loves the theater must not miss Mark Rylance's amazing and unforgettable performance. This is really theater at its best.
May 18th, 20113:07 pm
This 3 hour play is awful. Boring, absurdly to long (should be no longer than 2 hours or 90 minutes at best). Mark Rylance is excellent but to say this is a performance that belongs in the pantheon of great performances is ridiculous. I'm a fan of Mr.Rylance and would put his work in Le Bete as far better partly because it's a much better play. In addition, I could not hear or understand the diologue for about a third of the play. I was sitting in the front mezzanine. One flamboyant character in a cast of 14 doesn't make a play. I feel very ripped off. B'way tickets are expensive and I went because of the amazing reviews. My friend pretty much said it best at the end of the first act. "Will someone please tell me when the play is going to start?
This couldn't be a more perfect example of "The emperor's got no cloths"!
Save your money!!!
— Jon J, NYC
May 22nd, 201112:56 pm
Epically empty. There isn't an actually imagined character, a whiff of actual story, a moment of actual drama or a hint of actual thought or feeling in this interminable, pretentious, vacuous exercise in self-indulgence.
Mark Rylance is a brilliant actor and theatrical force - witness the Globe Theatre's "Twelfth Night" several years ago, the most remarkable production I have seen of Shakespeare's greatest comedy. But he and the others praising this non-play are lost in some Druid forest of their own imagining. I'm all for theatrical experiment. But I've never had a theatrical experience so entirely void of drama, of interest, of raison d'etre. When you get there, there's no there there.
— Michael Wing, Brooklyn, NY
May 27th, 201112:15 am
I saw Jerusalem last night and was almost one of the many walkouts but I was really desparate for something to do.
Mr. Brantley must not have never been stoned in college because Jerusalem is just about a bunch of lowlifes making up silly stories while they are stoned (and we all know how much fun that is to watch). Just as it was in college, the folks that were stoned were enjoying themselves alot more than the people that were watching them.
This is not just an assumption on my part, dope is prevalent in the play and we are meant to believe that the characters are loaded on booze or grass.
I really tried to make something out of it but Rooster's stories were hardly that creative. Mythic, Mr. Brantley? I'm sorry, but I prefer my mythic characters with some color, character and a touch of dignity. My roomate provided much better alliteration in his verbal description of the Benjamin Britten War Requiem while totally blasted.
There is no doubt that Mr. Rylance gives a great performance of a drunk drug pusher but do you really want to watch that for 3 hours.
The blessing here is that, as another reader said, this play will never be done again. It's just plain very bad writing.
— Rich Reynell, Atlanta
May 31st, 201111:42 am
A 'tour de force' performance by Mark Rylance aided by very good performances by all the other actors. But you come to this theater and to this play to see, hear, and be enthralled by Rylance. Absolutely brilliant. A MUST SEE.
May 31st, 201111:43 am
My wife and I saw Jerusalem this past Sunday. It is a wonderful plau, full ofsound and fury, signifying everything. Yes, much of our youth is lost and yes, many choose to follow a pied piper who has never had any peace or direction himself. Many people seemed to find this play less interesting then we did but then there has never been a play written that appealed to everyone. Some bemoan the lack of humor in Hamlet. How to Succeed does not with all of the people. Jesusalem covers so many modern topics in this lost generation, it has such galvanizing humor, that it is impossible not to be causght up in Rooster's world. Add Mark Rylance's brilliant and unforgettable performance along with Mackenzie Crooke and John Gallagher and you have a cast for the ages. This Rooster crows, mates, this Rooster crows.
— actor007, New York City
June 2nd, 201112:38 am
Mark Rylance is a great actor, but I've never had the chance to see him in a great, or even good, play. For some reason, he seems (lately) to choose material that's way beneath him, of which "La Bete" is the most egregious example, with "Jerusalem" coming in second. This play may have intimations of something mythic, but they remain mere intimations; nothing adds up. My friends and I left the play baffled.
— nw2, New York
June 2nd, 201112:32 pm
this overwritten sophomoric play contains a bravura performance by Mark Rylance. but I for one was not riveted . after the first act,it dragged on . I longed for deliverance as the clock went past 11 pm. an analogy to the rise and fall of England ? could have been sharpened and shortened and rewritten .I wonder what NY audiences will make of it.
— joyce, new york
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Google Buzz: Is Google's Would-Be Twitter Killer Buzz-Worthy?
Google this week took another stab at social with the release of the unoriginally named Google Buzz, which was rolled out to Gmail users soon after Tuesday's announcement. As Matt McGee points out in a post on Search Engine Land, Google Buzz – basically a stream of status updates and shared items – is intended to compete with Twitter, Facebook, and even Foursquare, given its mobile features.
There's been a lot less hype surrounding Buzz (ironically?) than there was for Google Wave, which may mean that Google was wary of more buzz backlash. Hype or no hype, among non-tech-geeks I know, the initial "buzz" was very similar to the reaction to Google Wave: What is this? What is it for?
So is Buzz really a threat? According to Marshall Kirkpatrick, yes – it's disruptive because it's "built by a team of people taking a radical new approach to online publishing: Buzz is all about open, standardized user data." He thinks it could end up being a platform:
It's tempting to recoil at the thought of Google powering one more part of our lives online, and our friends' activity streams are a very important part of the online experience now. But if the growing number of data portability and open web advocates the company has hired can do their jobs well - then Google Buzz could be a big force for good.
People will build services on top of analyzing your public Buzz activity. They will build new applications for publishing to Buzz, just like the Twitter ecosystem has today. Planned support for things like the Salmon commenting standard mean that comments left on Buzz could appear out on blog posts around the web, and comments on blog posts could be viewed inside of Buzz when the post links are shared.
It's good to see someone cut through the fog of dismissal to consider the potential of the product. But for now it is just potential. What is Buzz offering us now?
Too little, too late?
Jeremiah Owyang put together a useful matrix outlining the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for Google Buzz, Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Owyang sees Buzz's strengths as its large potential user base of Gmail users and large talent pool of Google engineers. Its main weakness? Being late to the game.
Google seems to be developing a habit of jumping on a bandwagon after everyone interested was already on it. Active Facebook and Twitter users don't think Facebook and Twitter are broken, so they have little incentive to switch to a new social app (or add another with very similar functionality) – especially considering it would only have real value if all their contacts switched too. What about all the people who "don't get Twitter"? Is there an opportunity there? Certainly, but only if Buzz is easier to use and makes more sense. So far I'm not getting the impression that it is.
What's more (or what's less, really), it's missing some features that would make it more of a draw. On ReadWriteWeb, Frederic Lardinois offers a list of abilities that would make Buzz "more interesting and useful," including:
- Lists, a la Twitter and Facebook
- Better filters
- More third-party support
An even bigger hole, to me, is that there doesn't seem to be an easy way to reshare or "retweet" a Buzz post.
But more problematic than missing features are the new problems it introduces.
One is security, or the (equally important to users) illusion of security. Over the past couple of days, Gmail and Google Reader users have received notification that people in their contacts are now following them. But this isn't necessarily desirable. In a comment on the above RWW post, someone wrote:
The Google network in Reader was a small group. All of us are interested enough in the world and the internet to use Google Reader; over the last two years we've become pretty close. In many ways, it was a self-selective community.
Over the last two days, at least 14 people have started following me. But I don't *want* these people following me.
For me, Buzz - which I can't even access yet - has destroyed the online community that I was the most invested and interested in.
Similarly, someone I follow wrote on Twitter: "I have two current students who are following me on Google Buzz, based on however it decides who your friends are. Not good." This teacher is used to making remarks on Twitter that, though technically public, he is fairly sure his students will never see. Now he has to worry about those remarks popping up in his students' Gmail.
I understand how these people feel. I have a sense of lack of control—contacts are added automatically; I don't currently see my own "buzz" in the stream so I'm not sure what, if anything, is being pulled into it. I didn't explicitly connect my Twitter page or anything else to it, so hopefully it's only pulling in my shared items from Google Reader. But I don't feel 100% sure about that. Is it easy to block people you don't want following you? Not easy enough – I don't see a link next to my followers. (UPDATE: In response to feedback, Google has added the ability to block followers. Amazing that they needed to be asked for this.)
Irwin Chen makes a great point about why this following system feels different (in a bad way) from Twitter's:
Asymmetrical following: yes this is Twitter's lunch. The difference is it's less relevant given that a) the following isn't voluntary per se since Google takes the liberty of adding people you supposedly send lots of Gmail to and then b) shows you the conversations they are having with other people (most of whom are perfect strangers). This is weird and creepy, far from the interestingness you get from Twitter's opt-in asymmetrical following model. (I've seen some inane, offensive, childish, and incomprehensible bickering that I really didn't need to see.)
(Yep. I witnessed a bit of catch-up between someone I knew in high school and his best friend at the time, with whom I did not get along. Not offensive, but not relevant either.)
Itamar Kestenbaum finds a bunch more Buzz flaws, including some big security holes, to add to the list, among them that Twitter integration doesn't require a password (so you can theoretically pull in anyone's tweets!) and that popular "buzz" such as Mashable posts are always at the top, so you can never see what's new from non-power-users.
In addition, as Andrew Goodman points out, in a post called "Why Google Buzz Is, Um, Not Quite Right For Me," "services like this are premised on the notion of a single Gmail account, a single Google account, or perhaps, just on a certain world view of what people use these accounts for." In other words, people can choose to have two (or more) Twitter accounts or Facebook accounts, for example if they want to keep work and their social life separate. But if you want to have two Buzz accounts, you'd have to create two different Gmail addresses – and presumably it would be difficult to develop your contacts for the second account.
Similarly, Danny Sullivan notes that you can only use Buzz if you have a Gmail account, so if companies and celebrities want to get on board, as they did with Twitter, they need to create Gmail accounts, but their names and brands may not be available. To boot, making your Buzz account public makes your email address public as well.
Another big problem is one of duplication. If I was already following someone on Twitter and in Google Reader, I'm now following them in Buzz too, meaning I have the potential to see their shared items three times. (It would be four if I were on Facebook.) This just feels like needless clutter. Oddly, this is the exact opposite of the effect Google is aiming for:
Much like web pages became overwhelming, and where human categorization of them couldn't keep up and got replaced by search algorithms, so Google sees social connections becoming overwhelming. That there is valuable information being shared socially, and Google's job is to help people feel that's organized.
(That's Danny Sullivan again.) See, Google, I didn't feel that my social connections were overwhelming before, but now I sort of do. I'm curious to see how this supposed organization (presumably algorithmic) is going to take place.
Of course, for those uninterested in the service, it's easy to disable Buzz, but it isn't good for Google if people turn it off out of fear, or feeling overwhelmed, before they've given it a chance.
Search Highlights from the Week
Lots of good reading this week:
- The new SEO Bullshit blog is all rants, all the time! This WordPress rant takes the unpopular view that WordPress architecture is "idiotic" ("Just because a piece of shit is popular, that doesn't mean it's good. Stalin, Hitler, Mao and Pinochet were 'popular,' but as dead bodies I like them better") and not suitable for professional use.
- In "Having Fun with -Onyms in Keyword Research," Bill Slawski explains how to expand your keyword research beyond synonyms with holonyms, hyponyms, troponyms and more.
- On Search Engine Watch, Jason Tabeling reminds us of the importance of reviewing your PPC keywords to see what search queries are actually matching your ads.
- A post on Web Analytics Demystified predicts a coming bifurcation in web analytics – namely, "an increasing number of 'Google Analytics + Omniture Insights' implementations." Eric Peterson argues that "Google Analytics alone is simply not enough for truly sophisticated web analytics," and while many companies are dropping basic paid analytics packages in favor of Google Analytics, many will find they also need high-end, rich-functionality analytics solutions from vendors like Omniture.
- Search Engine Journal had a couple of detail-rich posts on SEO audits: one on domain strategy in technical audits and one on the anatomy of a hands-on SEO site audit.
Have a great weekend!
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Friday February 12, 2010
Internet Serendipity
A good blog article leads us to other good articles...
Jeremiah Owyang's matrix on Google Buzz, Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter was helpful. I don't know Jeremiah's work but some of his assessments on Twitter seem accurate to me. I think I need to investigate Google Buzz and perhaps consider using Facebook.
Search Engine Journal's anatomy of a hands-on SEO site audit looked very interesting. I think I may need to print it, read it a few times, and put it in my paper files (yes, I still use some paper).
Thanks for the serendipitous learning.
Sunday February 14, 2010
Haha I still print some stuff too Richard :).
Jeremiah writes a lot of great/insightful stuff about social media; he used to work for Forrester and is really well-regarded in the space. I defintely don't think you'll find checking him out to be a waste of your time :).
Thanks Richard!
Friday February 12, 2010
I have to say that my first thought was "why?" Closely followed by "for who?" It seems to be another one of Google's 'lets take over the world one app at a time' ideas, no real thought has gone into who would want this and why they would use it. It just seems that Google is showing off it's technical ability with a 'look what we did' kind of attitude. If they could put 5% of that drive and determination into some research to see what people really wanted it would be amazing!
Friday February 12, 2010
Amanda, I agree. It seems like Google's strategy is "Always Be Launching," and then they just see what sticks. But they are pissing people off in the process! I basically trusted Google, privacy-wise, before this, but no more.
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Sunday February 14, 2010
My son sitting on my legs and laughing, it means that you have super blog. :)
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nice post, this article is exactly on points. thanks,
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JANESVILLE, WI (WTAQ) - A Janesville woman does not want her family and friends to go through the stress of a funeral.
So instead, 52-year-old Diana Purdy Brown is having a party on Sunday, where she'll tell people how much they've meant to her.
Brown was diagnosed this fall with an inoperable pancreatic cancer. Doctors told her she'd have up to nine months to live. However, the cancer is spreading fast and she doesn't believe she'll be around that long -- so she's making the most of each day.
Brown achieved a long-time desire by getting a tattoo which honors her parents. She took her four children on a cruise. And she still frets about the idea that she'll see a lot of people for the final time on Sunday.
Brown tells the Janesville Gazette she can't be happy about that.
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Drayton Harbor Maritime knows a good catch when they see one.
When Richard Sturgill, the founding director of Drayton Harbor Maritime, caught wind that Trident Seafoods Corporation was
looking for a new home for its vintage 29-foot Bristol Bay sailboat, he looked for ways to have it end up as part of their maritime heritage collection. "They wanted to give it to a nonprofit who would take stewardship of it and display it to the public," Sturgill said. "So we developed a plan to do that and they agreed."
On October 17, Trident Seafoods officially donated their 1906 seafaring relic to Drayton Harbor Maritime (DHM), the non-profit historical society that operates the Plover ferry and the county's Alaska Packers Association (APA) Museum at Semiahmoo Park. Sturgill and others from DHM trekked to Anacortes to haul the boat home.
Trident Seafood had formerly used the boat as part of an exhibit at trade shows.
The boat, originally built in Astoria, Ore., is made of Port Orford cedar, a unique species of tree that grows in a small area of Oregon and California.
Sturgill said these boats were originally built in the 1860s for use in California fisheries, but eventually became so popularly used by the canneries along the Columbia River that they became known in the industry as Columbia River salmon boats.
For decades, these tiny, open sailboats trawled the waters along the western U.S. coast with gill netters aboard in search of salmon. The sturdy, double-ended boats were characteristic of the booming salmon-packing industry that monopolized waters during a time when federal regulations kept motorized vessels out of the fishing lanes.
Known as Bristol Bay sailboats, they were used by canneries all along the coast, and were leased out to fisherman for the season. The small two-man vessels were utilized six days a week to haul in the catch. "There was a captain and puller on each boat, and it was all business from Monday morning when they set out, until Saturday night when they returned with the haul," said Sturgill.
Sleek yet unwieldy, the boats were heavily used in the industry until 1952, when the federal regulations prohibiting motorized
boats in Bristol Bay were repealed.
Shortly thereafter, the boats that the APA had used for years began to fall out of fashion and out of production, leaving few remnants of their storied history.
Sturgill said even though this particular boat never fished in local waters, it is still a link to Semiahmoo's past, noting that it was part of a fleet operated in Bristol Bay by an APA cannery known as Diamond NN on the Naknek River.
This particular vessel is designated as the Diamond NN No. 59.
"These boats are wholly unique to the west coast," he said. "They built a lot of them and could build them in three days' time here at APA carpentry shop at Semiahmoo." It was just one of many canneries, including a major fixture here in Semiahmoo, whose only remnants are the water tower and large buildings on the spit. The Semiahmoo APA operated until 1964.
Sturgill said his group has ambitious plans for the craft, and will get to work straight away in hopes of meeting their self-imposed deadlines.
"Our first goal is to get the boat ready for the Fourth of July parade," Sturgill said. "We'll be sanding and repainting the hull to make it look presentable for that event. Then, as funds allow, we will be replacing 16 planks, fixing several ribs and recaulking it to get it back in the water. We want to make it seaworthy so we can offer a maritime heritage excursion out on an authentic Bristol Bay sailboat."
Norm Walsh, owner of Wash Marine Shipyard in Blaine, has donated space at the shipyard to allow the group to work on
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Sponsors will have their names engraved on a bronze plaque.
Though the boat is more than 100 years old, Sturgill said they still have good bones to work with in the rebuilding and hopes the process will go well.
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The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) is arguably the most well-known newspaper in the United States. Yet the company, as well as many of its dated and fallen industry peers, failed to capitalize on the growth of the Internet and the resulting spread of freely available news from a wide variety of sources.
Over the past decade, the New York Times has lost 80% of its market value, shedding asset after asset in a desperate bid to stay afloat. A final piece, its iconic Boston Globe newspaper and its related properties, was finally put up on sale recently - which means that the newspaper, founded in 1851, will be down to two remaining properties - its namesake newspaper and its European version, The International Herald Tribune. Is this the end of the road for the humbled New York Times, which is seemingly headed for the recycling bin, or will last ditch efforts to save the company with a paywall succeed?
Fourth Quarter Earnings
The New York Times reported its fourth quarter earnings on February 7, which topped estimates on both its top and bottom lines. However, both earnings and revenue still declined from the prior year quarter.
Source: The New York Times 4Q Report
Yet its shares immediately rallied 12% after the report. Was this optimism justified, for a company which has yet to prove that its core business is sustainable?
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To grasp the desperation of The New York Times' situation, we have to compare its top and bottom line growth to another dated media icon, The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO).
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The Washington Post has outperformed The New York Times over the past five years, thanks to its ownership of six television broadcast stations and Kaplan educational services - which have helped offset losses at its print media division. Warren Buffett is also a prominent investor in the Washington Post, which has kept it relevant in the minds of investors.
The New York Times, on the other hand, relies completely on print and digital revenue. It also has a high-profile investor in its corner - Mexican telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim, the world's richest man - who owns an estimated 8.1% of the company.
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A look at The New York Times' cash growth over the past five years reveals a surprising trend - it actually grew its cash and equivalents by 611%, ending the year with $955 million in cash.
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However, most of those gains were generated by sales of its non-core assets, which included its broadcast media group (eight TV stations and two radio stations), its regional newspaper group (16 local newspapers), career search site Indeed.com, About.com, and its divestment from sports-related joint ventures. In other words, New York Times has been burning the furniture.
The New York Times has also taken losses with most of these sales. For example, it purchased About.com for $410 million in 2005, only to sell it to IAC/InteractiveCorp for $300 million.
The company is also expected to take a large loss by selling The Boston Globe, its venerable but troubled print franchise. It originally acquired The Globe for $1.1 billion in 1993. Although the company hasn't put a price tag on The Globe yet, a local investment group once offered $35 million for The Globe in 2009, which The New York Times turned down. Back in 2009, The New York Times also did an industry survey to gauge how much The Globe was worth, and the results were grim - anything between a single dollar and $300 million.
The Boston Globe is also still bleeding cash. For 2012, it posted a 7.8% decline in ad revenue to $183 million and a 1.7% slide in circulation sales to $155.1 million. However, its paying digital subscribers rose by 8% sequentially to 28,000 - still a meager number that made little impact on the company's top line.
"All the news that's fit to recycle."
The New York Times' struggle stems from the decline of classic journalism, where highly-paid reporters were required to research, compile and write their own stories. Its threat is the rise of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) -based journalism, where content mills and blogging sites employ low-paid, anonymous writers to recycle publicly available news from sources - such as the Associated Press - with the sole intention of generating more page views, and thus more ad revenue, for their sites. The New York Times attempted to address this demand by buying content mill About.com, which embarrassingly turned into a failed investment that betrayed its core principles.
Internet portal sites such as Google News and Yahoo have also made print newspapers a relic of the past. The New York Times has struggled to successfully monetize its digital format, even though its website was only released two years after Yahoo.com, in 1996.
The Paywall
The New York Times erected a digital paywall in March 2011, in an effort to halt its rapid decline in revenue. Its paywall subscription rates range from $15 to $35, depending on the selected package. Print subscribers get full access to the paid content without any additional fees.
During the fourth quarter, The New York Times reported 668,000 paid digital subscriptions - a 13% increase from the third quarter.
Its website, nytimes.com, is still the most popular newspaper website in America, generating approximately 30 million visits monthly. While that number seems impressive, it pales in comparison to Yahoo, which logged 392 million monthly visitors, and Google and Facebook, which both reported over 1 billion visitors.
In the fourth quarter (excluding the extra fiscal week), The New York Times' print advertising revenue decreased 10.2%, while digital advertising revenue slid 1.7%. Total advertising revenue dropped 8.3% to $265 million.
The Bottom Line
The New York Times is still stuck where it's always been - between the past and the future. The problem is that its prospective audience is shrinking. Its remaining two properties - The New York Times and The Herald Tribune - simply cannot compete with Internet giants such as Yahoo or Google, or media conglomerates Time Warner, Disney or Viacom - which control large outlets of freely available, often recycled, online news.
All these factors make The Times' paywall look increasingly stodgy and archaic, and its declining top and bottom lines point to a sad inevitability - it is destined to devolve from an international brand back into a local paper.
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Between 1996 and 2000, Beverly Connor wrote five nicely crafted
archaeology mysteries, featuring her protagonist, Lindsay Chamberlain. The
series seemed to get better with each new edition, as the characters
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One woman took it way too far this weekend. Ana Gloria Garcia Gutierrez wasn't petting or feeding the manatees, but riding them. Now, she's in trouble with the law. What she did violates the Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act.
"She was, like, chasing them, get away from her," said Lynn Parrish, who saw the whole thing. "She was jumping from one to another."
Witnesses say Guiterrez refused to get off the manatees, even though people were yelling at her to stop. And then bolted after she got out of the water.
Wildlife officials say this is nothing new, there are signs everywhere to not touch the animals, that includes manatees.
Florida wildlife agents say trauma caused by human-manatee interaction can be quite severe. The more manatees are exposed to humans, the tamer they become. They'll be drawn to people, especially if they feed them. As a result, manatees end up injured. They get too close to boats and get cut or killed by the boat's propellers.
Guiterrez has turned herself in to police. She faces up to $1,000 in fines and 60 days in jail. Right now the case has been given to the State Attorney's office, they will decide what happens.
Gutierrez told law enforcement officials she is new to the area and didn't know it was against the law to touch manatees, but wildlife agents say it's no excuse.
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We will NOT find an alternative to energy dense, easily transportable conventional oil in time to sustain indefinate economic growth.
All alternative energies have one or more disadvantages that do not let them compete with cheap conventional oil.
Given our industrial civilization depends on massive amounts of cheap energy, the reliance on conventional oil is enormous.
The only quick solution I see is a drastic downscaling of economic activity.
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Feb 23 2013: Can I just say as a humble low priority worker look at life and how it is lived to find all your answers you all look for the difficult answers but look at the archeology its all there. You have nothing on the ancients, Don't forget they Didn't have our technology but can you explain their measurements, foresight, and accuarcy and craftmanship EXPLAIN THAT from us mere mortals whodon't know no better.
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