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ICC takes action against YouTube- 27 Mar 2007 00:00:00
The International Cricket Council has ordered its online rights protection agency NetResult to instruct video-sharing website YouTube to remove all clips of the Cricket World Cup under the charge of copyright infringement.
ICC Development, the governing body's commercial arm and World Cup rights holder Global Cricket Corporation believe that YouTube is infringing the rights of the tournament broadcast and sponsorship partners by screening action clips on its website.
'We are here to protect the commercial broadcast rights for the ICC and GCC and there is an issue here,' said Christopher Stokes, the chief executive of NetResult.
'In general there is a dilemma for rights holders in that they want people to enjoy the event but also have stringent contracts with TV broadcasters and with mobile rights holders. In today's world, broadcasters buy highlights as well as live coverage and mobile rights means clips. There is an obligation to protect them.'
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by James Fallows
THE wave of software standardization led by Microsoft products like Windows and Word has made computers simpler to use than they once were. It is easier now than it was a decade ago to sit down at any machine, anywhere, and have an idea of how to make it go. But it is harder for a software developer to introduce a genuinely new approach to word processing, data management, or any other established function. And it is much harder for a company even to keep a program on the market if another product, especially one from Microsoft, seems likely to become the standard in that field.
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Of course, I may be biased, since so many of the programs I consider most
valuable have been driven from the market through this all-or-nothing form of
competition. I still use several of these programs -- Symantec's GrandView for
making outlines, Lotus's Magellan for handling files, Lotus's Agenda for
organizing certain kinds of research data -- even though they have not been sold
for years and, as holdovers from the DOS era, are increasingly awkward to run
on current operating systems like Windows 95 and Windows NT. My bleak
consolation is knowing that people who have used and loved the Apple Macintosh
have more to complain about than I do, as the steady pressure toward
Windows-based standardization has come to threaten the very existence of the
Macintosh and its innovative programs.
Fortunately, there is an alternative to the dominance of big programs from the few major software houses: "shareware." Even substantial revenues can seem unsatisfactory to a large firm if a program is not destined to dominate its market niche. Lotus sold roughly 200,000 copies of Agenda (at an average retail price of $195) and 500,000 copies of Magellan (around $50) before canceling each of them in the early 1990s. Gross sales of about $64 million, that is, were not enough to keep Lotus in the game. But for the smaller firms that offer programs for the shareware market (and, even more, for software developers working from home offices), just a small fraction of these "disappointing" sales would mean huge success. "A benefit of being a small company is that you can afford to give your products a very long life-span," one shareware developer recently told me. "You don't need to maintain a huge sales volume to keep the product going. Give me a hundred thousand users and I'm in business for life."
The speaker was Tom Davis, a thirty-one-year-old self-taught computer programmer who until four years ago lived in New York and worked in advertising. Then he and his wife moved to Vermont, where he set up a one-man company and began writing a program to do the things he wished other programs would do. His program is called Zoot, and it illustrates both the commercial and the technical possibilities of the shareware approach.
Shareware operates on the principle of a free trial period followed by a paid "registration." To get a free copy of Zoot, for instance, you go to Davis's site on the Internet (http://www.zootsoftware.com) and download it. (The file is 2.8 megabytes in size and takes about twenty-five minutes to download with a 28.8-kilobits-per-second connection. It also comes on diskettes: send $5.00 to cover shipping and handling. You can reach Davis by phone at 802-453-6474, by E-mail at email@example.com, or by mail at 170 West Hill Road, Lincoln, VT 05443. Zoot will run under Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and OS/2.) You can use the program, with all its functions, free for thirty days. Then, if you are satisfied, you register your copy of Zoot by sending Davis a check for $79. He will send you back program diskettes plus a registration code that will keep Zoot functioning indefinitely. If you don't register, Zoot still functions indefinitely, but with flashing "nag screens" that ask you for payment more and more frequently.
For the shareware developer the advantage of this business model is its low fixed costs. Davis says that once he has done the work of writing the program, his only continuing expenses are postage, diskettes, and online accounts -- no manuals to print, no advertising, no fancy packaging or inventory. If he sells even 1,000 copies a year, the business is a roaring success and keeps him from needing to find a day job. The Internet is the crucial innovation that makes this model possible, because it gets word of the program's existence to potential purchasers -- who can in turn seek out the Web site and get the program without incurring distribution costs for its creator. For the user the advantage of shareware is not simply the free trial period but also the chance to get a program tailored to a more specific niche than is attractive to mass-market software houses.
THE niche for which Zoot was designed is people who have ever-larger amounts of data flowing into, and being stored on, their computers but are frustrated with current means of sorting and retrieving it. When Davis offered an early version of the program, he called it InfoSnatch. Last year he changed the name to Zoot, in homage to Frank Zappa and his song "Zoot Allures." (Davis says he likes to listen to Zappa's music while writing program code.) Zoot sounds artier than "InfoSnatch," but the original name got across the idea of the program. It is an unusually effective tool for snatching information as it arrives -- in E-mail messages, from Web sites, from online discussion forums or "newsgroups," from any other Windows-based research source -- and then snatching again just the parts you want, when you want them, wherever they may be on your hard drive.
The way the system works is easier to demonstrate on a screen than to explain -- something that is true of most programs that do something new and unusual. Its essential elements are these.
In countless other ways the program displays elegance of design. The effect is like finding a seat-warmer in a Mercedes or discovering that the hidden surfaces of a Lexus are painted as carefully as the outside. When you are checking Internet sites or copying E-mail messages or Web-site information to the clipboard, Zoot can unobtrusively store every address you encounter. The program can automatically strip out all the annoying "header" information that makes a one-sentence E-mail message take up unreasonable amounts of disk storage space ("Received: from mother.com ... by son.mail.net [NTMail 3.02.13] with ESMTP" and so on). Some people love using a mouse; some, including me, hate it. Zoot works with almost equal ease either way. Like every other first-rate program, Zoot includes programming tools you don't have to use -- but ones you can use when you become familiar enough with the program to want to tune it exactly to your tastes. For example, you can set it up to check for E-mail or Internet information downloaded to your hard drive, automatically classify information it finds that fits your criteria, and then discard, copy, or store the original material. I have used evolving versions of Zoot for more than a year. It has never crashed, but it makes automatic backups of its data in case some other program causes a system crash. Davis continues to revise and improve the program, and posts free updates on the Internet every month or two. Zoot has changed more dramatically in the past two years than Windows has in ten.
ZOOT bears a number of zany touches, of the sort that were common in the early, renegade days of software but that are rare in today's corporatized world. The program first caught my attention when Sean Fosmire, a lawyer and an online friend I have never met, quoted part of its help files in a CompuServe discussion. This help item concerned a clipboardlike function called the Zooter, and it read, "When you zoot information -- actually say the word 'zoot' out loud so your co-workers can hear you. Soon they will admire and respect you." Davis says that he builds surprises into his help files as a way of avoiding insanity during the tedious work of writing them. This, he says, is "like writing a note for the kids to do the dishes, but you have to take them through it step by step: 'Put the soap on the sponge ... '" The help files and program instructions are exceptionally lucid and interesting -- no doubt the reason they were so hard to write. Davis says that when he is trying to solve a programming problem, he wakes up at odd hours to go to the computer and barely sleeps; his brain keeps grinding through solutions even when he nods off.
"The past few years have been kind of a blur," Davis told me last spring, after completing a major revision of Zoot and a huge new set of help files. "If you stop programming even for a couple of weeks, you start to lose your abilities, like a foreign language. At the moment, I know every piece of the program, all the variables. There is so much information to keep track of that if you don't keep doing it, you just lose track of what is where. That is why I have been so quick to keep developing new versions while I'm at the top of my game." Zoot takes time to learn, and you have to be at least a little interested in computers to want to try. I love the idea of it, I use it constantly, and I am glad that shareware made it possible.
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Copyright © 1997 by The Atlantic Monthly Company. All rights reserved.
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An organization crucial to the development of young people is in desperate need of financial help. The YMCA of Selma and Dallas County needs to raise a million dollars by the end of the year or it could be forced to close its doors. The money is needed to pay off building costs. The Selma Y has launched a fundraising effort to make it happen.
"It would be devastating to Selma and Dallas County if we lost this YMCA, devastating," said Bill Porter, CEO of the YMCA of Selma and Dallas County.
The Y has been in operation in Selma since 1858. Construction on the new building finished started in the years before the economic downturn. The YMCA raised millions to help with construction, but once the downturn hit, a lot of people had trouble fulfilling their pledges.
"Because they had bank stock, investments, or they lost their jobs or whatever," Porter said. "They wanted to, they were giving in good faith, but they just couldn't fulfill it."
YMCA officials borrowed the money to finish construction. The banks have agreed the lower the debt to $1 million and set a December 31st deadline. Officials are hoping people are now better able to fulfill their pledges and help save the oldest YMCA in the state.
If you would like to help, you can drop off donations at the YMCA, which is located on 1 YMCA Drive off Medical Center Parkway in Selma. Online donations can also be made here.
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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - An 83-year-old woman who was struck by a van in Chollas Creek as her 8-year-old grandson looked on has died as a result of the injuries she suffered in the accident, police said Friday.
The woman was struck around 8 p.m. Thursday when she stepped in front of a moving vehicle alongside one that had stopped for her in the 5200 block of University Avenue in the Chollas Creek neighborhood, said San Diego police Officer David Stafford.
She suffered serious head trauma and several broken bones, Stafford said, adding that the woman's 8-year-old grandson, who was walking with her, was not hurt.
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Fort Worth, Dallas and Arlington are making strides in conserving water, but they could still do a lot more, according to two environmental groups.North Texas used more water per capita than other areas of the state and did little to conserve water until 2007. That's when the Legislature began requiring cities to make detailed plans for water conservation, including setting goals for reducing their per-capita consumption."Cities like Dallas and Fort Worth are beginning to go in the right direction," said Ken Kramer, state director of the Sierra Club.The Sierra Club and National Wildlife Federation analyzed the water conservation plans for 19 Texas cities and compared several areas: water use per capita and goals for reducing it; how strongly their water rates encouraged conservation; how many out-of-date toilets the cities replaced; how much they spent on conservation programs; their watering and irrigation ordinances; and their educational programs.Fort Worth and Arlington lag behind places like San Antonio and El Paso, which have led the state in conservation for years. But they're ahead of places like Tyler and Brownsville, which lack even basics like multi-tiered water rates."The extent of those programs does vary greatly," said Myron Hess, manager of Texas water programs at the wildlife federation.Texas' population is expected to double within a few decades, but it's becoming more expensive to find new water supply sources, so conservation is a key component of the state's water plan. If the cities reduce their water consumption enough, they can avoid expensive new water projects like lakes and pipelines."The best and cheapest source of water is the one that's already on tap," Kramer said.The report didn't analyze the cities' leak-detection programs, but Kramer said those play a major role. Fort Worth lost 14.5 percent of its water either to leaks or defective meters in 2008. San Antonio began aggressively fixing leaks a couple of years ago, and "it had a dramatic effect," Kramer said.Mary Gugliuzza, a spokeswoman for the Fort Worth Water Department, said the city plans to strengthen its conservation programs over the next few years. She cautioned that it could be a while before some programs show results, particularly the water-conservation ordinance. "Those really require changes in behavior," she said.She said the city agrees with the thrust of the study, that it's cheaper to save water than to find new sources."In the end, there still is a finite amount of water out there," Gugliuzza said.The cities are expected to report to the Texas Water Development Board in May.MIKE LEE, 817-390-7539
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How Arlington and Fort Worth stack up on a checklist of water-conservation measures, according to an analysis by the Sierra Club and the National Wildlife Federation. The full report is available at www.texaswatermatters.org.
Annual reduction: Both cities have relatively modest goals and won't reach the state-recommended goal of 140 gallons per customer per day within five years. Arlington residents use 161 gallons per day, and the city plans to decrease that to 153. Fort Worth uses 192 gallons per customer per day and plans to reduce that to 179.
Pricing: One way to reduce water consumption is to make it more expensive to use large amounts. Both cities earned a "moderate" rating. The cost per 1,000 gallons decreases slightly when customers increase their water use in Arlington, from $3.41 to $2.99 (based on an increase from 5,000 gallons to 25,000 gallons, without including wastewater charges). Fort Worth's cost increases a few cents over the same range, from $3.94 to $4.02. In Austin, by comparison, the cost more than doubles, from $2.91 to $6.21.
Toilet replacement: Another easy way to reduce water consumption is to replace old toilets, which use as much as four times more water than modern toilets (7 gallons per flush compared with 1.6). Arlington plans to replace 600 toilets this year; Fort Worth plans to replace 7,000. San Antonio plans to replace 20,000 toilets this year, and has replaced 120,000 over the last 15 years.
Conservation funding: $1.6 million in Fort Worth, compared with $6.8 million in Austin, which has fewer water customers.
Outdoor watering ordinance: Fort Worth and Arlington have year-round bans on wasteful water use, such as watering lawns between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Some cities automatically go to weekly watering schedules in the summer. Fort Worth and Arlington do that only during emergencies.
Plumbing retrofit programs: Both cities have programs to help retrofit old plumbing fixtures in homes and businesses.
Education programs: Arlington and Fort Worth offer water conservation programs in schools and have Web sites with educational materials.
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I don't mean the usual wipes while learning a fight, or the understandable, occasional accident that happens to everyone.
I'm talking about "That Guy" who only shows up on raid night, undergeared and underprepared, expecting to raid.
Not running heroics means that his gear is likely inadequate. It also means that he is learning Cataclysm play mechanics (healers and tanks were hit especially hard with the 're-learn your role' hammer this expansion) during the raid rather than in heroics.
That combination of undergeared and underskilled is deadly to progression. It means that at best the guild is nine-manning the fight, and at worst means they are being killed by someone standing where they shouldn't be standing.
If all of the healers are going OOM halfway through the boss fight, then the DPS is probably standing in the fire.
But if one healer is going OOM (or worse, letting their heal assignment die) before the others, then something is usually wrong.
If that healer is undergeared and refuses to gear up outside of raids (regardless of their reasoning), it's unfair to ask the rest of the raid to suffer repair bills and wasted time just to carry them and gear them up - especially when the other nine or twenty-four people have likely been grinding heroics in order to get themselves ready.
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Saturday Shelf Porn | Order in the court — and on the comic shelves
Welcome once again to our Shelf Porn column, where we help fans share their shelves. Today's submission comes from Chris Campbell, an attorney from Virginia who shows us his graphic novels, original art and more.
If you'd like to see your collection here, drop me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com with a brief write-up and some jpgs.
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Shelf Porn Saturday | A prescription for awesomeness
Hello and welcome to Shelf Porn, where we give fans the opportunity to show us their collections, both big and small. And today we have one that falls into the former category, as Bryan Hodgson a soon-to-be pharmacist who shares his collection of graphic novels, statues, original art and more.
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Shelf Porn Saturday | A collection mom forgot to throw out
Hello and welcome to Shelf Porn, where fans show us their collections. Today's submission comes from Victor Liew in Edmonton, Alberta Canada.
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Comics A.M. | Angoulême Official Selections; cartoonist suspended
Conventions | The Angoulême International Comics Festival has announced the Official Selections for the 2012 festival, which will be held Jan. 26-29 in Angoulême, France. Eddie Campbell's Alec, Craig Thompson's Habibi and Daniel Clowes' Mister Wonderful are among the almost 60 graphic novels on the list. [Angoulême]
Editorial cartoons | The Columbus Dispatch suspended political cartoonist Jeff Stahler after finding that his Monday cartoon was too similar to a New Yorker cartoon published in 2009. At The Daily Cartoonist, Alan Gardner posts several of Stahler's cartoons alongside earlier pieces with similar punchlines. While one can debate whether Stahler lifted his ideas from the older cartoons, it's obvious that he drew them in his own style, unlike David Simpson, who was recently accused of copying Jeff McNally's cartoons. [Comic Riffs]
Crime | Several pieces of original artwork, among other items, were stolen from the car of AdHouse Publisher Chris Pitzer while he was in New York City last weekend for the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival. Pitzer is offering a reward for any information leading to the recovery of the artwork. [AdHouse]
Saturday Shelf Porn | A map of Alison Sampson's world
After a too-long hiatus, Shelf Porn is back! Today's shelves come to us from Alison Sampson in the UK, an architect and comic creator who, as you can see in the image above, drew her shelves. How cool is that? The image above is part of a four-page story she did for a UK anthology, and she breaks down what was on them for this edition of Shelf Porn (and provides some photos of what they look like now).
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Lisa Hanawalt, J.G. Ballard, McSweeney's in multi-car pile-up
What is it with Lisa Hanawalt and the use of automobiles for untoward purposes? Last week she drew a review of Nicholas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling's neon-noir crime flick Drive, and now she's selling an original art piece entitled "Car Wreck Totem Pole." Originally created for the (very comics-friendly) Panorama issue of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, the watercolor illustration was inspired by Crash, author J.G. Ballard's novel about accident victims who've become sexually fixated on car crashes. (You may also recall director David Cronenberg's kinky film adaptation, starring James Spader at his James Spaderest.) It's on sale for $220 at Hanawalt's new online store. Where does she go from here — The Road Warrior, Death Race 2000, Vanishing Point, Duel, Cars, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Herbie the Love Bug? The possibilities are endless and/or unleaded.
And hey, while we're on a Ballard kick, it's never a bad time to check out The Diary of a Teenage Girl author Phoebe Gloeckner's extravagantly NSFW illustrations for Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition — well, unless you're at work, in which case it's a very bad time to do so. There's also this examination of Ballard's book covers by Simon Sellers and Rick McGrath, featuring striking from artists such as Salvador Dali, Chip Kidd, Max Ernst, David Pelham, Bill Botten, and Chris Foss. Finally, this is a bit farther afield from comics, but the excellent BBC4 rockumentary Synth Britannia, which is now available in its entirety on YouTube, spends some time tracing Ballard's influence on early synthesizer-heavy experimental and synthpop acts The Human League, The Normal, John Foxx, and Gary Numan. Buckle up!
Shelf Porn | Bookshelves from Brooklyn
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Comics A.M. | Kirby heirs appeal Marvel ruling; Steve Geppi sued over art deal
Legal | As he promised he would do last month after a federal judge declared the heirs of artist Jack Kirby had no claim to copyrights on the superheroes he co-created for Marvel Comics, Kirby family lawyer Marc Toberoff filed an appeal Monday with the Second Circuit Court of Appeal.
"Specifically, the estate of comic book superhero legend Kirby — co-creator of Captain America, The Fantastic Four, The X-Men, The Avengers, Iron Man, Hulk, The Silver Surfer and Thor — sent notices terminating copyright to publishers Marvel and Disney, as well as film studios that have made movies and TV shows based on characters he created or co-created, including Sony, Universal, 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures," Deadline reports. [The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline]
Shelf Porn | A 'trophy room' filled with statues and original art
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Amazing Spider-Man #49 cover art expected to go for $100,000
Heritage Auctions expects the original art for the cover to Amazing Spider-Man #49 to go for around $100,000 when it goes up for auction later this month.
Drawn by John Romita Sr., the cover features Kraven the Hunter and the Vulture double-teaming Spider-Man. According to Ed Jaster, senior vice president at Heritage Auctions, it's only the second cover by Romita they've offered for auction.
In addition to the Spider-Man cover, several other comic-related items will go up for bid in Heritage Auctions' Signature Vintage Comics & Comic Art Auction on Aug. 17-18. These include Victor Moscoso's original treatment for the wraparound cover to Zap Comix #4, Steve Ditko's original art for page 17 of The Amazing Spider-Man #12, a George Herriman hand-colored Krazy Kat Sunday comic strip and a page of art from an unpublished Superman story by Joe Shuster, Paul Cassidy and Wayne Boring.
SDCC '11 | You have until 1 p.m. to bid remotely in the CBLDF art auction
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is holding an art auction tonight in San Diego to raise money for their various programs, but even if you can't attend the live auction, you can still bid on some really nice art (like the above Snarked image by Roger Langridge). But you'll need to hurry — bids will only be accepted until 1 p.m. Pacific today. You can find complete details, including a list of what's up for auction, on the CBLDF site or after the jump.
SDCC Wishlist | The Beguiling brings original art from Paul Pope, Seth and more
The Beguiling is not just a comic shop up in Toronto — they're also an original art dealer for many top art-comix and indy cartoonists. And they'll be selling some of that artwork in San Diego this week.
Our buddy Chris Butcher, who shared what he's been reading with us this past Sunday, sent word that The Beguiling will be selling art in Drawn + Quarterly's booth, #1629, during the show. Some of the artists who will be represented include Seth, Paul Pope, Jeff Lemire, Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon, Becky Cloonan, Anders Nilsen, Jason Lutes and many more. Check out the entire press release after the jump.
Comics A.M. | Farewell, United Media; comic-book twist in murder case
Comic strips | After outsourcing all editorial, production, sales, marketing and distribution functions for its 150 comics and other features to Universal Uclick earlier this year, United Media closed the doors on its Madison Avenue office in New York on Friday. [Comic Riffs]
Comic Books | A copy of Detective Comics #27 owned by multimillionaire hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., who was murdered in 2009, could go up for auction and end up paying to defend his widow Narcy Novack. Narcy is facing charges that she had the comic fan and his mother murdered, plundered his bank accounts, then tried to pin the crimes on her own daughter. Narcy's daughter, May Abad, has persuaded a Broward County judge to hold off on the auction and give her at least 14 days to find suitable storage and insurance for Novack's massive collection. [Miami Herald]
Paul Pope original art sale explosion
Renowned Canadian comics retailer and art dealer the Beguiling has just made a massive selection of original art from Paul Pope available for purchase. Virtually everything that the cartoonist has touched over the past ten years is represented here in some form: THB, Batman Year 100, Spider-Man: Tangled Web, Strange Tales, Fantastic Four, the Star Trek comic he did with J.J. Abrams for Wired, illustration work for Diesel and DKNY, posters for the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, unseen and unused sketches and pinups…Best of all, there's something for buyers of nearly every budget, as the prices range from a princely three grand all the way down to a measly $50.
"I remember how it felt to be a kid in school and have no money but a passion for art so Beguiling always prices out some inexpensive art," Pope tweeted, complete with a smiley-face emoticon. Even if you're only just looking, this stuff'll put a smile on your face, too. But if you are in the buying mood, better hurry, as it looks like stuff's going fast.
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elementary my dear manson...
Inside the package was a used copy of "The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories" by Agatha Christie. There was no note, no indication of who sent it. I flipped through the book and looked at the receipt. Other than noting that someone loves me to the tune of $10.95 plus shipping and handling, there were no clues. The book had come from Esmond, Rhode Island and was ordered on April 25th.
I put on my jammies, crawled into bed and began reading "The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories" until a thought slowly occurred to me.
Maybe someone hates me to the tune of $10.95 plus shipping and handling. How quickly does it take to die from anthrax? Can one smell anthrax? Had I noticed any tell-tale powder?
Agatha Christie is one of my favorite people ever. But she did write about murder a lot. So...this could go one of two ways.
First thing this morning, I got on the horn to Esmond, Rhode Island. It took an eternity, explaining myself and my mystery to "Mark." I think he could tell from my fast-paced, time-is-money tone that I'm not used to someone looking this kind of information up in an actual paper file. This guy had like, a cabinet. With "records" and "copies" in it.
"Look under S. For Spotswood."
After listening to papers being shuffled for a fucking eternity, Mark announced, "Here it is! Well, it looks like a relative, or a husband."
"A husband is a relative."
"It's from a Richard Spotswood in Mill Valley, California."
"That's my father."
"He sent you a book!"
"So I guess I don't need to worry about Anthrax."
The Mystery of the Anonymous Package has been solved. Thanks Dad! And with his sweet gift, he reminded me of something. In my parents annoying quest to do good, they gave a bunch of their books to a retirement home, orphanage, etc. Recently over for dinner, I asked my father, "Remember that book 88 Men and 2 Women?"
My father's face fell. "Yes."
"I need to borrow it. I want to read it again." I had last read this non-fiction book on San Quentin's executions bu Warden Clinton T. Duffy when I was 10.
My father looked at my mother, terrified. "We...I gave it away."
"To the fucking orphans!?!?! My childhood book about executions!?!? You gave away?!?!?""
"I'm sure you can find it online."
Actually, for reasons I will never understand, it is out of print. But in my quest, I discovered THIS terrific article from a 1990 Los Angeles Times. It's a fabulous piece on the history of capital punishment in the Golden State, with a fascinating true version of the execution of Gordon Northcot. Yep, the guy from The Changling!
Did you know they stretched the hanging rope for 2 years to get rid of any bounce? How did they know it wasn't ready after 1 year? Or 6 months, even? 6 months seems like enough to me. But what do I know? I'm certainly no expert at this. And I never will be.
Because some poor kid or near dead is busy not appreciating my rightful first edition of 88 Men and 2 Women...
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You have my sympathies, Miss Beth.
A few years ago when anthrax was regularly in the news I became suspicious of a piece of junk mail I'd opened. It smelled funny--oddly sweet--and I began to feel a little odd myself. I tried to take a step outside of my mind and just watch the queasy acrobatics taking place in there. Then a long shower.
I happened to have an appointment with my neurologist the next day, and brought him the goods, sealed tight in a zip-lock bag. I told him my worry and asked him if he dared to give it a sniff.
"Does that smell weird to you," I asked, "or am I just nuts?"
He opened the bag, took it out, and, like a hound, ran his nose all over it. He shrugged his shoulders and took out his pen.
"Just nuts," he said. "Just nuts." tp
- Dick Spotswood said...
Bethy: Wonderful blog. I'm glad you enjoyed the book. Now the story behind it. I read an on-line article by the writer Bob Greene about the fellow who operated the tiny in-line bookstore (the guy you taklked to), describing him as an unusually honest man running a marginal business. Try to find it, it's your kind of article. Based on the article, I wanted to support him and went to his website. I saw the Agatha Chrisite book and bought it as a present for you and to help the bookseller. Love, Daddy


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Newcomers to Presho will find a warm welcome in the smiles of Presho Welcome Wagon volunteers Lois Comp and Bette Reuman.
By Nicole Choal
Organized by the Presho Area Chamber, packages are presented to new residents of Presho. The packages contain coupons from area businesses; novelty items such as caps, calendars, and mini screwdrivers; and a listing of local services such as the number to the Fire Department and local church services.
News travels fast in a small town, and word of mouth tells the Welcome Wagon of many new arrivals, but Kennebec Telephone also provides the chamber office a list of people who have recently asked for new phone service.
Lois and Bette have been welcoming new residents for a few years now, and before that Lucile Blocker spent years greeting people to the area.
New residents visited by the welcome wagon in the past few months were Ada Fedderson, Crystal Brakke, Harold and Jean Ann Brakke, Dennis Stanley, Ida Smith, Tyler Langdeau, Amanda Langdeau and Lance Comp, and Lindsay Penny.
Renee Shumpert and her son moved to Presho in May of 2003 and were welcomed by Lois and Bette shortly after their arrival. " I love it, it is just wonderful how you welcome people to town. It makes you feel at home and not like an outsider. It gives you a very warm feeling, " she commented.
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We're putting more digital mixers and consoles into churches than ever before because now there's a great digital mixer to fit any ministry budget! We've come up with seven hot digital mixers based on the recommendations of our staff technology experts. These are the digital mixers that other churches are buying from us and installing right now.
Our best selling digital mixer, period. 16 channels of beautiful PreSonus x-max preamps. 50 programmable channel presets so you can load in settings for various instruments, vocalists and microphones and recall them instantly. Last minute line-up change, no problem. Quick change between worship teams, no problem. With memory parametric eq on every input channel, aux buss, effects bus and main outputs, this mixer packs a ton of processing power into a compact package. Free capture software gives you full recording capability to a laptop. Free VSL software for remote operation, including iPad functionality through an attached laptop. No wonder this is our top pick under $2000! See More Details >>
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The biggest advantage of digital mixers is their flexibility. Flexibility can come at the cost of usability. There are just some techs out there that still won't use a digital mixer. We think that's going to change with the NEW Soundcraft Si-Compact 32. One look at the console and you already know how to run it. Controls are large, clear and easy to see. The layout is logical. They call it One Touch Easy Mix and we think it's a great design for Live Sound use. Soundcraft has also taken the use of LED lighting to a whole new level on this console. LED light strips next to the faders change color to let you know what function mode you have the board in. No more guessing or trying to look at a small digital display somewhere in the upper corner of the mixer. Talk about busses, the Si-Compact 32 has them. A total of 25 mix buses! Stereo In-ears, no problem! If you want a fast mixing, versatile, high quality professional digital mixer and don't need more than 32 active mic channels and 4 stereo line inputs, then the Soundcraft Si-Compact 32 mixer is your answer. See More Details >>
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Hands down, our most popular 48 channel digital mixer. Actually, 48 microphone plus 4 stereo line inputs for total of 56 inputs! 16 mix busses plus 8 matrix busses give you lots of options for on-stage monitoring. We've designed this mixer into systems with two whole universes of Aviom on stage monitor mixes, 60 inputs on the stage and still had room for effects. The large touch-screen control makes it an easy mixer to learn and operate for volunteers. Yamaha has stage boxes and remote preamps for a full eco-system of expandability. Best of all, Yamaha has designed a complete iPad interface for the M7CL. Now, you can walk up on stage and have access to all of the mixer settings, including patchable graphic EQ's! With one trip, you can do a complete monitor setup. How much time will that give you back during a hectic sound check or rehearsal? Big power, lots of channels and iPad control. No wonder it's still our most popular large frame digital mixing console. See More Details >>
We love the whole VENUE line of digital mixers. For those of you who edit on Pro-Tools and have a library of plug-ins, this is your mixer. The SC48 is the All-in-One version of the VENUE D-Show system mixers that are on tour with No-Doubt and Michael Buble. With full Pro-Tools integration, you can record all of the input channels individually during a rehearsal or sound check. After the band leaves, you simply play back the recording and continue to refine your EQ, effects and mix. No more band members playing flat and singers dropping their mics because they're tired! You get the mix you want, then simply recall it for the service. Innovative workflows allow you to focus on the mix instead of operating the board. We've installed VENUE consoles into several church systems and everyone raves about the ease of operation and most of all, the quality of the final mix. 48 mic inputs, 16 aux sends, 8 groups and 8 matrices give you all of the I/O you can handle. If you really need more, then simply step up to the D-Show VENUE system with integrated digital snake and stage box system for up to 96 mic/line inputs. See More Details >>


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Previously luckless Australian prospector uncovers an 11-pound gold nugget. His find is likely to inspire a new Australian gold rush.
SYDNEY – An amateur Australian prospector who hadn't had much luck searching for gold has struck it rich, unearthing a nugget heavier than a newborn baby and worth more than $300,000.
The anonymous prospector discovered the 177 ounce nugget near the country town of Ballarat and in an area known as the "Golden Triangle" due to its rich veins which sparked a gold rush in the 1850s.
The find came to light on Wednesday when the man walked into the Ballarat Mining Exchange Gold Shop and told owner Cordell Kent: "Mate, I found a good one." He then revealed the nugget, adding that he had weighed it on the bathroom scales at home.
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Royal cobalt blue resin flying kissing lovebirds gold plated necklace.
The total length of the necklace from one end of the clasp to the other is approximatly 42cm/ 16inch. the size of the charm is 66mm x 40mm.
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Hi everyone,
I've read this forum a lot but this is my first post so I just wanted to start off by saying thanks for all of the knowledge you have shared on here.
I am a young architect considering the architect developer path just trying to soak up any insight I can find. I am really curious why there aren't more architect developers - it seems like an obvious career pivot that can empower an architect to fully realize their vision of improving the built environment while also making a lot more money. I have generated estimated pro formas for several buildings where I was able to get cost data and I am routinely seeing profit margins of 25% and greater which is obviously a lot of money. Also the architect developer projects tend to be far more creative because you don't have some conservative developer with poor taste calling the shots. So can anyone speak to why more architects aren't doing this?
Also I am looking for any resources that you guys might know of. I am aware of Jonathan Segal and John Portman but outside of that it seems difficult to find knowledge besides going a masters degree or working for a developer. Please share whatever you know!!
If anyone else is looking to take this path I'd love to connect and talk as well.
Many threads on this subject are available via the search function...
You are on the right track. This is one of the best way for an architect to make some serious money and realize the original dream you had when you got into architecture.
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I love this idea.
Citizen's post would suggest that the topic has been discussed at length on the forum -- in fact it has not.
I'm similarly interested in the idea, and have searched but come up dry on useful info here. I like archinect, but on the subject of architect as developer, you'l learn much more elsewhere. Little real info. Everyone on here has likely worked with/for a developer, but that has little to do with what you are looking for.
Careful with the pro formas and projected profits. That said, I firmly believe that the profit potential far outpaces that of a conventional architect.
Shoot me a PM.
the topic has been addressed on archinect a lot, but its usually just a bunch of people saying they've never done it but want to, with a couple mba's that have done it chiming in. i guess i'll be one of them since this is a career path i'm actually interested in myself, and i did a business degree so i have a little knowledge of finance and accounting. in addition i've also bought and read a few textbooks on the subject of development. its seriously not as easy as everyone here makes it seem like it is, and is certainly not the weekend hobby or side business that people confuse with owning some rental properties. the more i learn the more i realize i don't know about it.
granted i have no practical experience, but the feeling i get is that just like architecture, you'd really have to work in it for a couple years if you really want to know what you're doing and how the industry actually operates. i also couldn't imagine doing it without at least a slightly-more-than-vague idea of how capital markets and investments work. it seems like if you're doing pro formas then you probably know something about business, but for everyone else i feel like taking some finance classes mandatory before you even start thinking about it.
finance people are totally different than architects, and in order to succeed you'd probably have to stop thinking like an architect and do straight out ugly development just like everyone else until you've figured out a way to combine the two skill bases. it would be naive to think that you could immediately and successfully blend the two professions when you don't have any experience or education in one.
my recommendation would be to stop looking for architect/developers as a place to start, and start looking at real estate development in general. no one is just going to sit down and have coffee with you and and transfer all their real estate knowledge like their telling you some type of password. you might get the impression that its a really simple field that anyone can do since some of the developers you meet probably seem a little stupid, but you're also following the same train of thought that your clients/contractors/relatives have of "well any moron can design a house; its not that hard."
if you're serious, pick up a text book and learn it. don't go for those "so you want to develop property" books you find at barnes and noble. get a 900 lb. college textbook and read it cover to cover. when you're done with that, go get another. if you're not sure which ones to get, go online and find master of real estate development programs that post their syllabi online, and read those books (I know that MIT has all of them posted). these will give you a general framework to teach yourself in. do problems, make homework for yourself, and get a full understanding of what you're actually doing. if you don't understand the math behind it, or where real estate fits into all the other financial markets, then you have absolutely no business trying to develop unless you want to take on an incredibly large amount of risk due to lack of information, in a field that's already based on risk.
i myself feel like i need a little more experience in architecture before i (most likely) leave it for a couple years to get some experience in real estate development. at that point i could probably figure out if the whole architect/developer thing is feasible. for you, i'm not sure how easy it is to get a job in it without some kind of finance/business related degree, but i have one. but then again i'm also one of those people that doesn't like putting myself into situations where i don't have enough information to make educated decisions (no flying by the seat of my pants). but anyway, that's what i'm doing. hope this helps.
All developers are architects. They determine the program, scope, budget and then hire some poor licensed slob to crank it out for them. If you want to be a developer all you need is cash and no qualms about cutting throats. The public is beyond clueless and price determines everything.
Ethics are detrimental to the business model.
Actually, Citizen is correct - there have been quite a few threads here that deal, directly or indirectly, with the topic of "architect as developer" - here are a few links you may find useful:
Anyone made a transition to work for a real estate developer?
Architect and Developer
Real estate/Developers & Architect
Architect + Developer: A Partnership
Real estate investment/developing experience
How is working for a developer?
Real Estate Developerment
any architects that have gone into real estate?
What other models for architectural practice might be workable?
There is a great interview you can check out with Jonothan Segal at the Business of Architecture website. I would post a link, but my tablet is acting up.
quizzical -- don't think so. As I said, I already did the search, read them. I appreciate your posting the links, but there is little info in them.
Miles, I enjoy the persistence of your pessimism.
But, again, as I said, most architects have worked for developers, but that's it. Have you ever personally performed as both architect and developer on a project?
Saint - with respect, I didn't post them for you - I posted them for the OP. If you don't find the links useful, fine - ignore them. That doesn't mean a newby to this topic won't find some useful background info there.
Anything's possible. But, like what?
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
I've done two projects as an architect developer. I sold the first one a year ago and made $220k profit after taxes and then I just sold the second one recently for a $275k profit. Starting out it was very stressful because I was inexperienced and constantly worried about making a mistake and mistakes are very costly in this game. But I had more confidence the second time around and didn't lose any sleep this time. I highly recommend this career path to every architect - it is rewarding in every way imaginable. You will feel empowered and be so much more motivated because of the greatly increased financial incentive. It will change your life forever.
This is the golden age of real estate development because we are at the beginning of a long term up trend and costs are still very low across the board. I would recommend starting immediately before things start to heat up again and interest rates rise along with labor costs. Not to mention it is easier than ever to get investor funds and crowdfunding is really taking off as well.
I just followed the Jonathan Segal model from www.architectasdeveloper.com. It has everything you need to get started including contracts and pro formas from his projects as well as 8 videos where he explains the entire process. He charges $500 for the materials but I can pass them along to any of you for $75. Email me at email@example.com if you are interested.
Those threads only go so far. BOOKS, damn it. Read BOOKS. This applies to every subject you ever wanted to learn about. Everyone thinks you can learn things online through the bits and pieces of misinformation and opinions that people post about stuff, but if you're more interested in the subject beyond "hearing about it it" and want to actually learn "how to do it", you gotta read!
Thanks Miles Bernard Shaw, but first you'll need to say something accurate ;-)
Blue Diamond -- question, because I don't know -- is it legal to sell those materials?
Very.....curious.....about Blue Diamond's entire post. Half a mill to the good this year, but needs to sell used course materials at a discount.
From a "different" archinect member maybe a month ago:
"Are any of you interested in the Jonathan Segal architect as developer seminar? I'm selling the videos and documents for $75 that I bought for $500 from architectasdeveloper.com. It's invaluable insight that is unavailable anywhere else."
Quite a coincidence.
Unfortunately the architect developer projects are not turning out to be far more creative. There are now plenty of average and boring projects done by junior architect developers. As has been said in these forums for long enough, and as is the case with most career paths, you just do it. The difference, as has been said here many times, is you must have access to funds.
Need proof? Have a look at the front page on archinect. Are there far more creative projects done by developer architects? Clearly not. Are you going to stop blaming the clients or did you ask a leading question because you were trying to sell something?
Development has the potential to generate an income received on a regular basis, with little effort required to maintain it. Almost every architect would develop if they had access to funds. It is not a complex matter, you have money, you make a building.
I am going to second what Atom said on the financial side. I have seen it several times. Wanna be a developer, just add money. If you have the funds, you can develop whatever you want. There are other ways to go about it, but it's not complicated. Have a vision. Have funding. Buy the land. Design the Project. Build the project. Lease the project. Sell the Project.
You minimize the risk by starting small and doing it on your own or working for someone else and learning how to do larger developments. You can read books all day long and educate yourself, gain knowledge, but at the end of the day you have to do it to gain experience.
That is right, funding is one of the key, the other is location. Experience and expertise is also very important. I have met a guy who spent over 20 million dollars of his own money and bought thousands of acres of land at a very inland location, and have not made a dime from this "great" investment yet.
Find a way to get loan, that is the first step.
If it is done right, architect/developer is a good way to establish stable cash flow to make you financially staple and can really do the things that you want to do.
Gang Chen, Author, AIA, LEED AP BD+C
Atom -- I think you misread mojada, who in context said:
Also the architect developer projects tend to be far more creative because you don't have some conservative developer with poor taste calling the shots
Meaning, more creative than the typical developer, not more creative than all architects, as I think you took it.
The disadvantage of being an architect/developer is: other developers may not be willing to give you design projects because you are now a competitor for them. That could mean a loss of 50% to 90% of design projects to a typical architect.
Gang Chen, Author, AIA, LEED AP BD+C
Gang - I'm not saying there aren't a million mistakes that could be made that would cost you everything. What I am saying is that the business model for development in itself can be very simple. The biggest barrier to entry for most is financing. Couple ways to minimize risk are as I described above.
Did your guy who spent 20 million have any experience in development or land banking? Just because you have the financing, doesn't mean you can be a successful developer. Mistakes can be costly, thus the recommendation to start small or learn from someone else how bigger developments happen.
Yes, don't, or do more doing than analysing. Not one of these new developer cults is lead by a developer that started with a vast amount of research. They made wood boxes on dirt lots before the internet.
Who are these junior architect developers? They are largely republi-kids with their parent's money to spend and that is usually a pre-requisite considering next to nobody will back the novices without experience. As soon as they get out of studio they all turn every bit as conservative as any developer. Creativity is not suddenly gifted to you when you make the decisions a developer makes. While we are at it, we should probably clarify the difference between an owner and a developer. Developers are like architects, they get a fee and are not always the owners. Everyone wants to be the client. Most of these creativity tantrums stem from the client not having the funds in a construction draw for embellishment.
Conservative developers are not inherently what stifles creativity. Some conservative developers consider themselves fans of architecture. I won't read you a list of things which can ruin projects but you know they range from committees through planning.
Architecture is not a bad background for a developer. Law and finance have also proven successful. I think it could be fun and you could earn money by doing nothing. I won't let stand the insidious notion that my building sucks because/and it was the developer's fault.
They already were creative designers. Becoming developers is not the reason they make interesting buildings but it is why they have a higher earning potential.
Sometimes unrelated ramblings don't end up culminating in a point.
Saint in the City is as a shill.
Guys - Start with the FHA 203k loan. 3.5% down. ~$800k max. 4 equal draws throughout construction. This is a rehab loan but there's a loophole where it can be used for new construction if you keep the existing foundation. Build a multifamily and aim for 30-35% margin, then sell and use the capital for your next project with a conventional construction loan. Banks are wanting 28% down right now. Multifamily is selling for above replacement costs in most major metro's right now and most established developers are not interested in 2-4 units because it's too small so this is your niche.
Atom: Saint in the City is as a shill.
For what / whom?
Many Architects learn how to develop real estate and land through The REDI Foundation's 6-Month Real Estate Development Mentoring Program. www.redii.org
That "bad taste" that developers have is also known as profit. That lawsuit for the thin demising walls the developer requested is also known as the architect's problem.
Speaking of working for more of a corporate development firm vs. going solo:
I'm in a mid-market city, Minneapolis. We are growing downtown quickly now but there's not the network of large development firms like say Chicago or NYC building high rise condos. In fact, the city is seeing its first couple mid-rise' condo/high-rent buildings in construction right now after probably 8 years. So this is where I want to take my career path - use my past few years working on multi-family housing and jump into a project mgmt role at a dev firm... with intent to taking classes and learn as much as I can on the finance and numbers side....
But what is one to do if there aren't any corporate development companies like Hines in the area? We have one large office - Ryan Companies - that's it - and they're mainly a huge contracting firm.... and after that we have a few 15 person firms...and a bunch of 2-4 person firms.
From what I"m reading here; many of you just say to go out on your own and learn it; read and absorb as much as you can. I"m not interested in flipping houses. And I'm a poor registered architect! lol I can't even afford to buy the average priced home in MSP at $200k. I want to add density and perhaps rehab brownstones or build new rentals/condos. Others have mentioned going corporate for stability and to learn the ropes ... of which I find the best measure path - A few years at a firm, hopefully make more money than the crap I make now, and down the road begin small on my own. I live/rent in a beautiful 12 unit 1920s brownstone updated 6 years ago and converted into condos. I would love to do projects like this eventually. Any comments - I'd appreciate it.
I think architects who choose this path get caught up in the creative process over the profit motive. Nothing will happen without capital/equity, no matter how great your design or concept is as a development. Nothing will happen without financing, either debt or bank financing or private money. The moment you identify yourself as a developer, the architect becomes a means to an end in that industry. The few architect/developers are really developers and they are comfortable in those shoes.
Network, meet high net worth people and those with access to capital for investment. Write a business plan that you can shop around to aquire properties or to invest and rehabilitate. Assume your architectural fees are part of your work, but don't put too high a dollar value on it since most banks wont finance the fees portion of architect's developments (I know first hand).
don't give up, but either go all in or don't go in at all.


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