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First impressions count: Why leaving Rebels' 'best for last' is a big deal
It may have gotten lost in the flood of Adam Driver news yesterday, but Amy Ratcliffe wrote about the Rebels reveals, toys and being a woman in fandom for The Mary Sue.
Rebels cast reveals spark discussion of diversity, representation
While we've focused on the female character introductions and (lack of) toys so far, Mia Moretti at Eleven-ThirtyEight takes on the issue of character races and representation – and the fandom reactions to it.
The importance of diversity is something that Bria and Nanci at Tosche Station wrote up not so long ago, while Brian took on some of the common arguments against it. While we're a while from seeing if Rebels can deliver diversity beyond the main cast, it's interesting to note that these discussions weren't happening as openly even as far back as The Clone Wars debut.
As for the issue of female action figures, Amy Ratcliffe has some numbers.
Podcasts: Dunc talks Club Jade on Full of Sith, the Forcecast takes on Star Wars diversity
I always feel weird about self-pimping (mostly,) but so be it: I'm a guest on the most recent episode of Full of Sith, with hosts Mike Pilot and our pal/translator Bryan Young. We talked about Episode VII and the sequels, Mara, running fan site and, of course, Club Jade.
In other recent podcasts that are relevant to our very specific interests, Bria of Tosche Station and Tricia of Fangirl Blog were on the Forcecast to discuss diversity and gender in Star Wars.
Today's must-read: Reporting harassment at a convention
With summer con season now formally ramping up, it's as good a time as any to remind folks that harassment is not okay – and what to do about it.
Over at Scalzi's Whatever today, writer Elise Matthesen shares how she reported her sexual harasser at recent convention. It's a fantastic post with great advice about making sure things are formally on the record – the perpetrator in her case is not a first-time offender.
Inspired by Matthesen, Maria Dahvana Headley shares some of her own tales of being harassed at genre conventions. A former pirate negotiator, she has this chilling statement: "The pirates in the maritime industry were generally a great deal more polite than the creeps in the SFF world. They stuck to terms."
It's been a while since we've addressed this topic, and sorry to be a downer as we approach the weekend, but this is important stuff for everyone to know.
Hollywood's lady problem: 30% representation?
Well, here's a factoid for you: Only 30% of the speaking characters in last year's 100 top-grossing films of 2012 were women. (Here's those 100 films – how many of them were led by women? By my count, 12, the top one being The Hunger Games.) And that's only the beginning of the facepalm-worthy figures.
And that's just in front of the camera. Behind the camera? Well.
Star Wars still kind of a boys club, shockingly
I swear I'm not taking This Is Madness particularly seriously – some things I am happy to leave to Hondo – but let's admit it: It's particularly disheartening to see neither of the female characters made it past the second round.
Hell, Leia, perhaps the most recognizable Star Wars lady, could only muster 33% of the vote against a droid. Now I love Artoo, but come on: He's a droid. And having no particular attachment to either character, I'm not sure what to think of Chewbacca's victory over Ahsoka. I can understand favoring Chewbacca – I mean, who hates Chewbacca? – but Ahsoka is certainly one of the most developed characters (not female, just characters) to come out of The Clone Wars, and she still only got 35%.
So much for the theory of a Clone Wars surge, huh? Should we chalk Obi-wan's victory over Han to Ewan McGregor fans who didn't stick around for the other votes? (No cookies for you, Wantons.)
Does it even really matter? Of course not. It's a goofy March Madness takeoff, nothing more. (And given that I generally have little patience for most March Madness ripoffs, I'm a little ashamed at even falling for this in the first place.) But it's still a damn shame, and a key reminder: No matter how many t-shirts we buy, we're not done yet, ladies.
Her Universe makes 2013 the 'Year of the Fangirl'
Her Universe and Ashley Eckstein today announced Year of the Fangirl, a new campaign to highlight geek girls. Ashley's team – Tricia Barr, Erin Kelahan, Amy Ratcliffe, Victoria 'Scruffy Rebel' Schmidt and Lillian Skye – will be highlighting ladies as their "fangirls of the day." You can fill out the form yourself or even nominate a friend (or twenty.)
A look back: The 5 biggest Star Wars news, events, and kerfuffles of 2012
Tonight, we say goodbye to 2012. Here's a look back at a few of the happenings in fandom this year – I'm sure you can guess at a few
The 'fake geek girl' is back, and no one is impressed
College Humor is not making many friends in the comics blogosphere, lately. The ad at right has appeared on the back page of several DC Comics books, and… Well. Take it away:
WonderAli: That Joke isn't Funny Anymore. "College Humor, and DC by association, are perpetuating the message that comics simply cannot possibly be enjoyed by girls. They are for BOYS ONLY–mouth-breathing, women-hating boys at that. Sorry, intelligent woman who is enjoying the hell out of Wonder Woman, this book is not for you!"
The Mary Sue's Susana Polo: So, The Back Cover Ad on Batman This Month Is a "Fake Geek Girl" Joke. "I just can't decide which is more depressing to imagine: someone in marketing at College Humor (whose work I generally enjoy) pitching this specific example from their series of real life comic book "villains" to DC for an ad… or someone on DC's marketing team saying "These 'villains' you came up with are all super funny, but you know… Some of our readers might feel targeted by the "guy who gets angry on forums" joke or the implications that they're not good at personal interaction. And we probably shouldn't use the one about executives… seeing as how we're employed by them. So we'll use the one that's a girl. Girls don't read comics anyway.""
iFanboy's Jim Mroczkowski: Real Geeks Only, Ladies. "Funny how people who were bullied throughout their childhoods will become the most hateful bullies themselves at the first whiff of a victim. Hang on: when I typed "funny," I misspelled "unimaginably depressing." A round of applause for human nature, everybody."
Are we seriously not past this crap, yet? UPDATE: Becky Allen says the same, only much better than I.
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For those who have not heard of the "dark night of the soul", I think Wikipedia does a good job of explaining it! It is important to note that a bad week/month does not qualify as a dark night of the soul- we all have dry patches from time to time. The dark night refers to a prolonged period of spiritual dryness, and is sometimes seen in lives of mystics and deeply spiritual saints. Typically, if the individual perseveres and continues in prayer, trusting that God has not truly abandoned them, they come out the other side stronger in faith then ever before. It is essentially a time of holy purification.
Because it is a rather rare occurrence, I don't think that there are any hard and fast rules to overcoming spiritual dryness. I would first encourage people to seek spiritual direction with a priest, religious, or youth leader. Spiritual direction is a valuable tool, and not just in times of spiritual dryness. It might also help to read or do some research on the lives of saints and holy people with this experience. The few that came to mind were St. John of the Cross, St. Therese of Lisieux, and even Mother Teresa. There are writings that chronicle a large portion of her life where she was experiencing this absence of God. As a testament to her true faith and trust, she continued in tirelessly serving the poor. I have no personal frame of reference for this, but I have to believe that that kind of selfless service to others is one way to, if not overcome, at least cope with spiritual dryness. I know that St. John of the Cross also wrote extensively, and some of his works reference the dark night of the soul (I believe he was the one who coined the term, in fact!).
If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.
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Certainly, the most important and difficult advice would be to persevere in prayer. It may not yield any consolation or assurance of God's presence, but our faith tells us that God will never abandon us.
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Opening promo was very nicely done, and while neither man was always "on" they both did a good job, and this feud is always a goodie, no matter who or how it's written. Great title match for the Rumble, IMO this could main event Mania it's that good
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Carlito has turned heel, das cool. He'll no doubt involve himself in the Flair/Shelton match
Shelton wins thanks a bunch to Carlito for indeed screwing Flair out like I thought he would. Alot of mini-feuds are alive here going into the Rumble which is cool
Cena/Michaels going on currently doesn't make this the best feud to have going, if that's what is going on...
Good main event, HBK walks out on Cena, but Superman manages to pick up the win anyways. Trips drills Angle with the Pedigree, making a statement ahead of their title match, and all looks good ahead of the Rumble, which I'll no doubt be back for
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PLAYERS: Stephen Strasburg, Matt Harvey, Ian Desmond, Ike Davis, Lucas Duda, Drew Storen, Chad Tracy, Adam LaRoche, Kurt Suzuki, Roger Bernadina, Denard Span, Zach Duke
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Stephen Strasburg lost Friday night's pitching duel to Matt Harvey in the Washington Nationals' 7-1 loss to the New York Mets. The Nats still have yet to find their rhythm, as the game was punctuated by the inconsistencies that have plagued them of late. Laboring early in the game, Strasburg threw 28 of his total 111 pitches in the first inning and allowed two unearned runs to score, after an Ian Desmond error and a wild pitch. He struggled with command throughout, and though he kept the game close – the score was 4-0 when he exited after six innings – he was not pitching up to the ace standard Nats fans have come to expect from him. Strasburg gave up two home runs in the bottom of the sixth to Ike Davis and Lucas Duda, his second and third of the season. Drew Storen gave up two more in the eighth, again to Davis and Duda. Nats pitchers have now given up the fourth-most home runs in the National League, though last year only one NL team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, surrendered fewer. It isn't any fun watching the opposing team go yard against the Nationals, but once their pitching settles into a rhythm, those numbers should start to slow down. Though his performance on the mound was less than spectacular, Strasburg made sure that Harvey – who posted a stellar line of seven innings pitched with one earned run and seven strikeouts – wouldn't completely outshine him by breaking up his no-hitter himself with a double in the top of the third. That was about the sum of the Nats offense for the night though. Their bats were asleep against Harvey, and they only managed four hits and three walks the whole night, leaving men on base without scoring in four innings. The offense was most disappointing in the seventh inning, when the bases were loaded against a tiring Harvey, and the Nats totally let him off the hook. They scored their sole run in that inning, when Chad Tracy drove home Adam LaRoche who had walked to lead off the inning. They then loaded the bases on a throwing error, but a Kurt Suzuki strikeout, a Roger Bernadina foul out, and a Denard Span ground out ended the inning on a flat note. Zach Duke took possession of the one shining moment of the night, as he used just ten pitches, seven of which were strikes, in a 1-2-3 seventh to keep the Nationals in a position to make a comeback. Unfortunately, the Nats were not able to execute that comeback, but as always, the great thing about baseball is that there is another game today, with another opportunity to put a curly W in the books.
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For some, using only a bow to take down more than 700 pounds of black bear in two days might seem impossible. But for two trucking company managers from Arkansas, it's all in a day's work.
Stephan Richardson and Jason McKamy both work for Hurricane Express, a family-owned trucking company based in Springdale, Ark., running 60 units coast-to-coast. They have been hunters for most of their lives.
"I grew up in a hunting family," says Richardson, an account manager at Hurricane. "My dad was a hunter, as well as my grandparents and brother. I've been bowhunting since I was 17, and it's my preferred method because of the challenge of it. It's much more personal because you have to get so close to the animals. It's pretty intense."
But this fall Richardson and McKamy, a driver relations manager, decided to take on new game – black bears.
It was a rainy October night at about 5:30 in Washington County when Richardson took down his first bear from 13 yards away. The two men took turns hunting so they could film one another in action.
"As long as it's not a real downpour, the bears don't mind the rain," Richardson says. "They don't like being out in the wind, so as the wind calmed down, the bears came out. I took mine down probably about an hour before it got completely dark." Richardson's bear weighed more than 300 pounds and measured 5.5 feet from nose to tail. On just the second day of bear season, Oct. 2, 2004, Richardson had made an impressive kill.
Richardson is a skilled bowhunter, and this year he filled his hunting tag quota using exclusively the bow. He prefers a Matthews LX bow when he hunts, and this year on his tags killed one bear, three deer and one turkey. When asked how often he practices with his bow and goes on hunts, Richardson replied, "More than my wife likes, but I never skip church to go hunting."
Richardson and McKamy enjoy hunting on private land owned by mutual friend Kenneth Williams. Because the land is privately owned, McKamy was able to bait the bears leading up to the hunt. Bait is often used with the black bear because of their excellent sense of smell. With a nasal area 100 times more sensitive than humans, baiting them is an easy way to train them to frequent an area. Bears have a range of anywhere between two and 15 miles, and a life expectancy of 21-33 years. They also definitely have a sweet tooth, and their preferred foods are nuts, fruits, bugs and anything sugary.
After months of baiting the bears with pastries and other goodies in 55-gallon drums, McKamy killed his bear at 7:15 a.m. on the opening day of bear season.
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With 'Gone Baby Gone' Ben Affleck has made a searing and daring first feature that takes incredible risks and nearly pushed me over the edge while bringing me to tears. I'm sure the studio behind that movie begged him to change certain things; the end for starters and what happens at the 90 minute mark. I'm glad he didn't. But I told my wife never to watch this movie. I take back a lot of things I've said about Ben Affleck over the years, and Mr. Affleck if you're reading this now, I apologize. You're a hell of a filmmaker. You nailed Boston to the cross and you've made sure everyone knows what a great actor your brother Casey is. I'm fairly over the moon about a couple of things these days, book, movie and music related. The new Interpol record, 'Our Love To Admire', is a savage brilliance. Adam Goldberg's performance in '2 Days in Paris' is nothing short of incredible. He breezes through 90 minutes while deftly dealing with the cougar like performance of Julie Delpy, who isn't shabby herself. Goldberg has been a potent force on the perimeter of Hollywood for years going back to 'The Prophecy'. I love watching him not act; he's so naturally easy going and funny. I'm sure it's supposed to be this way, but God, is he great. A couple of books; one getting excerpted in the New York Times magazine section, 'The Lemur' by Benjamin Black and 'Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name' by Vendela Vida. Both are amazing in their own way, but Ms. Vida has basically redefined the path of contemporary fiction with this novel, or rerouted the path it's currently on. She delivers with chiseled prose a wonderful and emotionally involved novel about a girl looking for her parents and finding her true self in the process. There isn't much old fashion emotion in the post modern novel these days. It's been replaced with schmaltzy sentimentality via Danielle Steel or John Grisham. That's fine if you want chocolate milkshakes all day. But Ms. Vida delivers a wide spectrum of ideas and emotions, worth every moment of your time. Benjamin Black, well, what can you say, this book soars, a reverse of the Vida novel, in its restraint and the wonderfully muted detail's of New York City, class, wealth and just how far away you and I are from being rich. Each week I wait for another excerpt.
It's Not A Secret Unless I Tell Someone Shining City by Seth Greenland Bloomsbury
It's thrilling to get in on the ground floor with a writer, and I was fortunate enough to hear about 'The Bones', Seth Greenland's stunning debut a few summers ago. It was the Mamet quote that got me to pick it up and from there it was a rip roaring good time. But we're not talking a rainbow of Skittles here; it was a brutal evisceration of the Hollywood class system which at times was off color but savagely honest. Then I waited. And waited for the next book, finally it came along and much to my surprise it will be released this summer. Greenland has grown up a little bit, not that his debut was kiddie stuff or cotton candy in anyway, but he's matured his narrative, slowed it down, and not surprisingly shown an incredible amount of restraint and patience. More sizzle and less flash. 'Shining City' starts off like a scene from 'The Bones', but then drops into a lower gear and moves like a bad case of gray hair. We gyrate with a man who is overweight, chin deep in grade 'A' working women and maintaining his extravagant lifestyle with oldest trade known to man. But we don't know what or who he is, really, until later. Greenland then peels the onion on modern life, slowly and painfully we dip into Marcus Ripps life and it's all good, well timed, and middle of the road. It's a grind, lets be honest. And this is where the book takes a turn for the interesting. It's not often that modern man, contemporary man is painted with such painful colors. Greenland gives a perfect picture of domestic bliss through Marcus, but he's anything but normal. You see, I saw him trapped, and it isn't played like that in the book, but he's wishing for more money, he's content with what he has; wife, kid, job, strangling debt, and his surroundings his jailers. But as they say, when you're in a hole…stop digging. There were details about Marcus avoiding a hangover by taking aspirin the night before and the weather playing a part, both seem to be symptoms of a man recognizing his environment and terrain, extenuating the happiness from the surrounding dread. Slowly he maneuvers through his life knowing the pitfalls, and gauging risk versus reward. Marcus receives a windfall which comes in the form of sweet and sour. He loses one thing that was holding him down and gains another that will allow a personal reinvention. Middle aged men in America today are rarely ever given this opportunity and with a keen eye on financial security (meaning; not having to worry about money ever again) Marcus tears the rearview mirror off and goes blissfully into the life as pimp. That's right he runs a team of call girls in Los Angeles. Running parallel to this story is Jan, his wife, who has realized that she's running her own business into the ground and dragging Marcus down while she wears gilded blinders. Jan has a business partner that is slightly stereotypical, but yeah, there is that thing called stereotypes… for a reason. This storyline and all the characters that come home to rot make a delicious story all the more meaningful and relevant. Initially you thought things were going off the rails into areas that weren't necessary, but Greenland reminds us that good fiction keeps all the balls in the air for a reason. Marcus starts to make money, real money, and Greenland enjoys this turn of events almost as much as his hero. Jan jumps up the social chain in her community while Marcus drives and wears the fruits of his labor. But these people aren't stupid. They've been conditioned by an environment where the rich get over and the poor, well…they take it on the arches. Marcus knows the real world will all go away if he zigs when he should zag. For someone who seemed pinned down by his circumstances, mainly a long time job as a bean counter and a manageable amount of revolving debt, he plays his hand just about as well as could be expected. Marcus was at a crossroad and he didn't even know it. What Greenland examines in this wonderfully insightful and slightly sneaky novel is what America is all about, well (what it's become), in that commerce isn't always nine to five, and if it goes off shore, you should turn what you know upside down and look at it from the other side of the street.
Now You See Him by Eli Gottlieb Morrow
I've been complaining about literary emotions missing their mark in contemporary novels, whether it's the minimal narrative details or the purposefully muted prose that finds its way into most everything I read and even the writing that I do myself. It's there and happening plus editors are finding ways to make it flourish. I've told a white lie, my father has mentioned to me that he doesn't see enough emotion in fiction these days (I'm paraphrasing) and feels that someone like Benjamin Black is being synthetic and surgical in his descriptions. There is nothing wrong with that kind of economy if you ask me, but he does make a point just the same. So when a novel like 'Now You See Him' comes along and delivers one long brutation of emotions I have to tell you about it. If a story moves quickly I sometimes look under the hood just to see what might be the cause of such slickness. Mr. Gottlieb finds ways to tell this story with a mixed up non linear narrative that shows his uncanny powers of storytelling. I've always been a fan of this kind of novel, agents and editors like to say they don't get it (you've lost me…I was engaged and then you flashed back…why does anyone care? Things I've heard about this kind of narrative), but someone is doing it so there has to be gold in them hills. The writing is beautifully sad, his hero Nick Farmington seems to be midlife crisis, holding his own and examining the details of his life with shock and horror at who he's become. The event that gets this boulder moving is a best friend, a literary star local boy who kills his girlfriend, bullet to the brain, later turning the gun on himself, well, that's what we're supposed to believe. This book is about fathers and sons. How one boy can transpose his life into the body of another, a kid he idolizes and live a life he never had. Nick begins to mourn his dead friend and in doing so poisons the well of his own life so thoroughly that he can only fold in on himself where he desperately grasps for answers in the most darkened corners of his past. He realizes that his family, two beautiful children and a darling wife are not what he wants. His dead pal Rob Castor has a sister he finds himself attracted to in more ways than just carnal. Gottlieb toggles back and forth between Nick's life and the fallout of his marriage, death of a friend, professional jealously and self loathing that has no peer. We go back in time to hear about tragedy, brutal realizations of what he thinks he knows actually aren't what happened. Rob is a ghostly guide for Nick, and it's something strange and mythic that keeps Nick from losing his mind. While visiting his father in chapter 21, (I sight this chapter because it is one of the finest father/son conversations I've ever read, mostly because it seems like Gottlieb sat witness to conversations between my father and I.) we realize that Nick and his parents couldn't be farther apart. The truth of this novel cuts deep and leaves its inhabitants dismembered and changed for ever. Mr. Gottlieb has written a fantastic novel which dives into rarely traveled emotional depths, life, love, hatred, and the feelings you get when you don't reach the stars you thought were so close. He does it with a savvy ear for dialogue and an amazing eye for the simple truths that surround us. Got something you'd like me to read? -- Frank Bascombe
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I never post here, but I just wanted to say keep it up, Frank. I always look forward to your columns, even if the comments are more sparse. Thanks for the recommendations, and I think I read "The Bones" based on a previous column. Good stuff.
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Quick Spanish Marinating Sauce
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- 1/2 teaspoon bottled minced garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon ground oregano
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1/4 cup fresh orange juice
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- Sauté 1/2 tsp. bottled minced garlic, 1/2 tsp. ground oregano, and 1/4 tsp. ground cumin in 1 tsp. olive oil in small saucepan over medium heat 1 minute. Stir in 1/4 cup fresh orange juice, 2 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice, and 1 Tbsp. fresh lime juice.
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Njuguna, Michael K., Galpaya, Dilini, Yan, Cheng, Colwell, John M., Will, Geoffrey, Hu, Ning, et al. (2014) Investigation on temperature-dependent electrical conductivity of carbon nanotube/epoxy composites for sustainable energy applications. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. (In Press)
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Grandma's New Favorite Question? WHAT?
Dani Klein Modisett: With 3000 miles between us, I don't live near my mother. Which is not to say that I don't see her, because I do.
I produce a show in Los Angeles that now travels to her home in New York City pretty regularly. Not to her home literally, although I am sure me and my toddler descending on her one bedroom apartment makes it feel that way. My point is, I don't see her daily, or at weekly sponetaneous grandma visits/babysitting during the week, or for Sunday night dinners.
So although we have a good relationship, it's not one with a ton of face time. Lately, every time I get off the plane I am taken a back by the image of a small older woman bouncing on her toes at the gate to see her grandson.
Neither she nor I thinks of her as old, as in "little old lady" and yet, at 75, she qualifies. This last trip I adjusted quickly to the visuals, but had a harder time with the fact that she is not hearing me well anymore. Or maybe she's just too tired to listen. Either one would be okay with me if she wasn't so nasty about it. She's not a woman who is comfortable with being wrong so even if she makes an obvious error based on what she didn't hear you say, it's still your fault.
To admit her own culpability would mean accepting aging which is not acceptable. She picked two fights with me this last trip. In both, she accused me of being irresponsible for not telling her where I was going. But I had. I found myself biting my tongue so I didn't shout, loud enough for her to hear, "I'm not irresponsible, you're deaf!"
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Dish Trumps Sprint's Clearwire Offer by $3 Billion
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It's no secret that Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) wants desperately to acquire more spectrum to expand its business. If you ever doubted its resolve or how far it was willing to go in its quest, its $5.5 billion offer to buy Clearwire (NASDAQ: CLWR) must be a shocker.
Through an unsolicited, non-binding bid, Dish has trumped an offer by Sprint (NYSE: S) to buy out Clearwire. Dish is offering $3.30 per share, which amounts to a whopping $3 billion more than Sprint's offer of $2.97 a share.
While I admire the hubris shown by Dish, I doubt it will be successful. There are a myriad of reasons for my pessimism. The main reason relates to the tight leash Sprint has on Clearwire in the form of the majority stake it already owns in the company. You may recall my last post about how the telecommunications sector was heating up as players clamor to secure as much spectrum as possible and as customers are burning through the finite resource with their increasing use of smartphones and tablets.
For months, Sprint has been crafting a multifaceted deal with Japan-based SoftBank. Due to be completed this year, the deal provides that the foreign company acquire a 70% stake in Sprint for $20 billion. The transaction would result in an infusion of about $8 billion of cash into Sprint, which Sprint desperately needs to help shore up its finances. However, the deal is contingent on Sprint acquiring the remaining stake it has in Clearwire. Sprint, in the fall, sold $1.5 billion of notes to fund Clearwire and its subsidiary Clearwire Communications for its spectrum.
Dish's offer entails it buying about a fourth of Clearwire's spectrum and infusing it with $800 million in additional financing.
If Sprint's $2.1 billion offer for Clearwire holds up, Sprint would own more spectrum than any other carrier. This would allow it to considerably close the gap between it and number one Verizon and number two AT&T.
Given what's at stake, I don't see Sprint simply picking up its toys and going home. It made that clear Tuesday within hours of Dish's proposition going viral, by releasing the following statement:
"In contrast, the DISH proposal includes a series of interdependent commercial agreements, debt and equity purchases and spectrum sales, which together with the other conditions required by DISH to complete the transaction, makes the proposal not viable. In addition, the DISH proposal would require Sprint to voluntarily waive rights that it holds as a stockholder of Clearwire and that it possesses through various vendor and customer contracts that significantly predate Sprint's proposed acquisition of the remainder of Clearwire. Sprint does not intend to waive any of its rights and looks forward to closing the transaction with Clearwire and helping consumers across the country realize the benefits of this combination."
I can imagine the giddiness of Clearwire execs as they reviewed Dish's offer. Just a few weeks ago, the company's president conceded that even though there were concerns that Sprint's offer was too low, without it, Clearwire would go bankrupt. Now to be propositioned with an offer that is considerably higher has to give Clearwire something to cheer about.
I can also imagine Dish being anxious about the offer considering the series of regulatory hoops it will have to jump through to make it happen. Still, I can understand its resolve, as it really has nothing to lose but a lot to gain.
For years, Dish has tried desperately to secure more spectrum, but efforts to enter the space had been hampered by the frustratingly slow pace of the federal government to give it approval. Even more frustrating, the satellite-TV provider has been sitting on the sidelines watching the main players, like Verizon, in the mobile phone industry get spectrum approval. This has caused the competition gap between it and the big boys to only widen.
Clearwire has a special committee that is mulling over Dish's offer. It's going to be interesting to see how Clearwire trades in the coming days. During intraday trading on Wednesday, Clearwire was trading around $3.14 a share. That's considerably lower than Dish's offer, but in line with that of Sprint.
Dish may very well be putting itself in a negotiating position, which could be good for shareholders who wanted more than the $2.97 being offered through the Sprint/SoftBank deal. Given how fluid the situation is now, I'd steer clear of buying Sprint and Dish. I'd consider Clearwire, however, because it seems a bidding war is in motion and the stock will likely trade higher from here.
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Delicious! I made this to take to work and it got rave reviews. I added a pint of blueberries and a streusel topping.to make it a blueberry coffee cake. It was moist and delicious, I would definately make it again.
Apricot-Almond Coffee Cake
Yield: Makes 15 servings
- 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup apricot preserves
- 1 (16-ounce) package pound cake mix, divided
- Pinch of orange food coloring powder (optional)
- 1 (8-ounce) container sour cream
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 1/2 cup sliced almonds
- Glaze
- Beat cream cheese, apricot preserves, 1 tablespoon cake mix, and, if desired, orange food coloring powder just until blended; set mixture aside.
- Beat sour cream, milk, eggs, almond extract, and remaining cake mix at low speed with an electric mixer 30 seconds or until blended. Increase speed to medium, and beat 3 more minutes.
- Pour into a lightly greased 13- x 9-inch pan. Drop cream cheese mixture by rounded teaspoonfuls evenly over batter. Swirl batter gently with a knife. Sprinkle almonds evenly over top.
- Bake at 350° for 25 to 28 minutes or until golden.
- Cool on a wire rack 20 minutes. Drizzle Glaze over slightly warm cake or individual pieces.
- Note: For testing purposes only, we used Candy-n-Cake Powdered Food Color #5531 Orange.
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Does Revit MEP track flows throught flex pipe? I'm working on a project and have started to hook-up the hydronic unit heaters. I thought I'd be able to flex from the mains but it doesnt' seem to be working. If I "hard pipe" to the connectors on the unit, flow is transfer from the assigneed valve at the unit to the assocated piping network but not it the connection uses flex pipe.
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3:50 AM and I am awake
Some of you might be asking yourself, "Why is Tyler awake at 4 in the morning?"
Others might be wondering, "I wonder if Tyler thinks I care that he's awake at 4 in the morning…because I don't…really care."
In other news, Kanye West got diamonds in his bottom set of teeth. Well. That's just another reason I refuse to listen to his music. I hear too much asinine, egotistical bullshit spewing from him to stomach. He's like a volcano of crap. Mmmhmm. It's four, what do you want from me? The point I'm trying to make is: How can I listen to his douchery (let alone his music) if his teeth keep clinking against the diamonds embedded in them? You have to think about these things.
Additional news on Yahoo reports that a pair of crocheted socks are going for $500 at some Manhattan boutique. Cool.
I have to get out of this country.
I'm in the worst place imaginable. Some of you might be wondering, "Does he mean that literally or figuratively? Is he bitching about his geographical coordinates or is Tyler just in one of 'his moods?'" Others might be wondering, "How does Dancing With The Stars continue to make headline news on Yahoo.com?" I don't have an answer for any of that shit. Sorry. Except that America sucks. Like a Hoover.
In other news, I took a Benadryl to fall asleep. Don't worry, it's not working, so I'm going to continue to complain about my life.
I still have to get out of this country.
America is on a steady decline. I've been thinking about that a lot lately. There's something about our culture that makes me ill. And I'm not talking solely about Oprah or McDonald's. Not that McDonald's doesn't extend far beyond America. It's everywhere, which is gross. In fact, I'm sure Bin Laden has one in his cave, you know? Richie Rich had one in his house; I'm sure Osama does too. And Oprah. I'm not going to get too deep into Oprah, because I don't have the words for how evil I
think know she is. I can see through that fake human shell, Oprah. You're a fucking dragon underneath. A dragon. With halitosis instead of fire breath. Maybe just really awful-smelling fire. I know your secret. Of course, after this expose, the American government is probably going to start auditing my blog and looking for reasons to kill me. Another reason I need to move tomorrow.
I also hate learning music. And singing music. And, let's get serious, I'm probably going to start hating listening to music next.
I've been thinking a lot lately about switching career choices.
I've also been thinking a lot lately about Pumpkin Spice lattes from Starbucks because, like, they're delicious and shit.
But then I wonder if they're international, and that keeps me from leaving the country. Someone remind me to see if there are Pumpkin Spice lattes in Spain.
Hey, has this post made you depressed yet? On the bright side, you're probably not reading this at four in the morning because you're too busy sleeping or something. Probably with another person. And no, that doesn't make me jealous. I don't like other people and I certainly don't like sleeping with other people, so I really just can't fathom why you're doing it. It's not what God intended, or something.
There, I blew off steam for thirty minutes. Here's what I'm going to try to do now: Pee, then see if I can sleep.
Wish me luck, and don't tell Oprah that I know she's a halitosis dragon.
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We have now stayed at the Warwick on three or four occasions and each time have felt very welcome. The rooms are spotless and comfy and Adele is an excellent host. Breakfast is very good and the location suits us perfectly with off-road parking etc. Our little dog was made very welcome as well.
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Montreal indie wonders Arcade Fire have finally confirmed what we've long suspected, with Win Butler and company admitting that the 'Reflektor' Instagram account belongs to them, as well as continuing to pimp out the date 9/9, posting another teaser for 9pm on the 9th September.
The band posted an image to the account (below), showing a banner attached to the front of a New York City building, reading "Arcade Fire 9pm 9/9″, indicating that the 7-piece are either really hot for Yoko Ono or, more likely, that they'll be releasing more details or a single from their upcoming fourth studio album, which is set for release on 29th October.
Arcade Fire have been on the tease campaign for some time now, posting photos of the word 'Reflektor' inside a mysterious symbol tagged in different cities around the world, as well as launching the website TheReflektors.com and airing a sneaky trailer during Lollapalooza and Osheaga festivals.
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Evaluating the Impact of Changing Mississippi's Tobacco Tax
AbstractA multiple regression was performed on 37 years of data to determine the impact of raising the tobacco tax on cigarettes by $.24 per pack on cigarette sales in Mississippi. The t-statistic for the slope was significant at the .05 critical alpha level, t(29) =1.69 and p=.05. Thus, we conclude that there is a positive significant relationship between taxes and sales volume. Further, about 91 of the variability in sales volume could be explained by the demand model.
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If your main tank is a Death Knight, the main healer will absolutely be a Discipline Priest for the damage mitigation. The question will be whether many guilds will raid with a DK MT. It's still looking like Resto Druids > Holy Priests for healing in the current build.


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From Proteopedia
TSG101(UEV) domain in complex with Ubiquitin
The UEV domain of the TSG101 protein functions in both HIV-1 budding and the vacuolar protein sorting (VPS) pathway, where it binds ubiquitylated proteins as they are sorted into vesicles that bud into late endosomal compartments called multivesicular bodies (MVBs). TSG101 UEV-ubiquitin interactions are therefore important for delivery of both substrates and hydrolytic enzymes to lysosomes, which receive proteins via fusion with MVBs. Here, we report the crystal structure of the TSG101 UEV domain in complex with ubiquitin at 2.0 A resolution. TSG101 UEV contacts the Ile44 surface and an adjacent loop of ubiquitin through a highly solvated interface. Mutations that disrupt the interface inhibit MVB sorting, and the structure also explains how the TSG101 UEV can independently bind its ubiquitin and Pro-Thr/Ser-Ala-Pro peptide ligands. Remarkably, comparison with mapping data from other UEV and related E2 proteins indicates that although the different E2/UEV domains share the same structure and have conserved ubiquitin binding activity, they bind through very different interfaces.
Ubiquitin recognition by the human TSG101 protein., Sundquist WI, Schubert HL, Kelly BN, Hill GC, Holton JM, Hill CP, Mol Cell. 2004 Mar 26;13(6):783-9. PMID:15053872
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1s1q is a 4 chain structure with sequence from Homo sapiens. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
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Google to drop Chrome's support for popular video format
Google announced on Monday that their increasingly popular browser Chrome will be dropping native support for the H.264 video format.
As the latest versions of browsers are being released there is increasing support for native video playback, ie. users will no longer need proprietary plugins such as Flash or Silverlight to watch video on the web. This means each browser has to support certain video formats themselves. The battle at the moment is between the proprietary H.264 (heavily supported by Apple and now Microsoft) and open-source WebM / Ogg Theroa formats (supported by Mozilla and now Google).
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"Though H.264 plays an important role in video, as our goal is to enable open innovation, support for the codec will be removed and our resources directed towards completely open codec technologies."
At focus we think open-source is great, in fact we build our web sites on open-source technologies every day. However, we think this move by Google (who's motto is "Don't be evil" by the way) is bad for a number of reasons.
H.264 is an established format. Millions of mobile devices support hardware acceleration of H.264 video and there are millions of videos already on the web encoded in the format (including every video on the Google owned Youtube).
Users are still stuck using Flash. Any Chrome user trying to view an H.264 video will have to use Flash as a 'middleman', slowing the process of moving away from Flash to HTML5 / native browser support for video.
This isn't about enabling open innovation at all. This is about competiton with Apple in the mobile market and trying to make life as difficult as possible for them. Which is fine in itself, but not when it's being diguised as openness.
There are licensing question marks around the WebM format. Promoted as completely open-source, there are reports that the WebM format may have licensing issues of it's own.
In the end I think despite both H.264 & Flash being proprietary technologies, H.264 is the better more transparent one for the user. The licensing cost is paid by the Browser vendors (let's face it, Google, Apple, Microsoft can afford it) not the developer or end user.
Orginally written for focus.