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The Pros & Cons of Life in the Cloud
When you put yourself out there as someone who writes about technology, you really have to be a good example of best practices, especially when it comes to backing things up. In an effort to diversify my backups and also provide for a more seamless experience when working from multiple locations on multiple devices, I have been pushing more and more to the cloud. The super cloudified life definitely has its pros, but like anything, there are also a few cons…
The Pros & Cons of Cloud-ing it Up:
Relatively Inexpensive: For smaller amounts (under 5GB) you can find many options for free cloud storage, and you really do have your pick of who you want to go with — Google Drive, Dropbox, SkyDrive, just to name a few. If you're looking to get your feet wet with cloud storage and only use it as a flash drive replacement, 2 or so GB could be plenty. For my purposes, which are mainly photo and video backup, as well as file transfer, I have over 75 GB to use. What does that this cost me? Not a cent. 50 GB came free with a new Samsung phone thanks to a Dropbox promotion, which was added to my free 5GB Dropbox account (half of which was earned through referrals and photo upload promos), 10 GB free from CX, and the rest came free from Google Drive, SkyDrive, and a few other providers... not a bad deal at all.
Convenient: One of the awesome things about cloud storage is that you can really access it from anywhere. With the wide variety of app clients as well as web accessibility, as long as you are connected to the internet, you pretty much have a way to access what you're storing in the cloud. This is ideal when you don't want to think about which computer or phone you have those spreadsheets saved on, or whether or not you left the flash drive at home.
Collaboration Friendly: When working with a team, cloud storage is an absolute must. I love using the Workspace feature from Otixo, a cloud storage aggregator, with my team, as it gives us a cloud based folder that we all have access to which pulls from multiple cloud sources. It's great for someone like me who has a variety of cloud service providers and needs to be able to grab and share from them without having to go into the permissions of each file and cloud provider.
Redundant Backups: Remember what I said about being a good example? Well, I've learned my data loss lesson and have backups for my backups for my backups. Cloud storage is my third level of backup, and I devote a section of it to the things I really can't replace if lost. Because large amounts of cloud storage are not all that cheap and my photo and video library are rather large, I have two external hard drives to back up media locally, and then I use Bitcasa to back up these backups. Bitcasa is perfect for archiving large amounts of media in the cloud, as it's all you can eat for $10 a month. Is Bitcasa as fast as Dropbox for viewing, downloading, and uploading files? No, but it's much much less expensive and is a great solution for those hundreds of GBs of raw image files that I want redundant backups for.
No Internet, No Cloud: Internet troubles? Well, this means you've got cloud storage troubles. Without internet connectivity, cloud storage is pretty much dead to you. Your stuff is out there and accessible, but you can't get to it without internet, and the better your internet the faster you're able to access it. At my apartment in NYC, there is no shortage of internet woes, and it's been incredibly frustrating to watch Time Warner Cable struggle to download edited image files that were uploaded hours prior from another location. It's times like these where I am sitting staring waiting for a file to upload or download to a cloud based drive that I curse myself for not just using a flash drive.
Lost in the Cloud: While using a variety of cloud storage providers is great for review purposes, it's not all that practical. Some cloud storage options are better suited for certain tasks than others and it can make sense to have more than one, but it does get rather confusing the more that you add. Unless you have the same data in each cloud drive you can have the problem that you used to have with flash drives, where you wonder where you stored that document. You can alleviate this by only using specific drives for certain types of media or work and by using a cloud drive aggregator which lets you connect and access the various cloud drive services that you use with one login and dashboard.
Hacking: With the recent sad news of the hacking that happened to Mat Honan and the loss of the images of his baby daughter, it is important not to forget that cloud doesn't mean 100% safe. Not all cloud storage providers have equal security practices, and it's important to make a solid choice, as well as follow best practices in regards to online security, to do your best to keep everything safe. Even if you do everything right in regards to online security there is still a risk, so don't have the only copies that exist of irreplaceable data stored only in the cloud. Think redundant backups!
What do you think are some of the pros and cons of going cloud? How do you use cloud storage?
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I have never used a 'cloud' type program, but I email things to myself to back it up. Works for me.
hacking ... identity theft ... data mining ...
Great photo!
@STEPH12, If you've ever used any free email service (like Yahoo, Google, or Outlook), you might have more experience with clouds than you think.
I use clouds for email. Since I otherwise collaborate with myself, I find that I don't need my home computer to sync with my iPod before I actually arrive home, and would rather just sync to my own personal cloud, between my devices only, without sending all my information off to someone else's server.
For backups, I make a bootable clone of my entire hard drive every few weeks. I use a program called SuperDuper, which is reasonably priced and has, so far, never required me to repurchase an update. It has a feature which will only replace new information once the initial backup is complete, which is really convenient when backing up a laptop with 300gb of information on it.
I'm not anti-cloud, but would just would like commercially-available options that didn't rely solely on cloud syncing, since I'm not tech savvy enough to set up my own personal cloud at home.
I use Dropbox regularly, but not for much. My phone backs up photos straight to my Dropbox account each night, I keep a few random documents that I like to refer back to in there, and I'll use it for transfers between my home and work computers (like today at work I saved a pdf of a friend's thesis that I want to read, which I'm planning on converting to .mobi format when I get home so I can put it on my Kindle). I like it for short-term storage, for transferring (especially larger documents that won't email) between computers, and for easy access to references that aren't incredibly important or documents which are backup elsewhere. For long-term storage I have a 500gb external drive that I use to back-up important documents and all the photos I take, and I try to do that once a month.
I also use Springpad. There are a few documents on there for easy access (medical histories, for example, which are also backed up on my external hdd), but while it can be used as cloud storage for lots of photos and documents, I mostly use it as a web-clipper for various subjects, and as a way to organize things like packing, grocery, and to do lists.


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Green Mountain returns to NASDAQ 100 ETF
QQQ is adding the K-Cup maker back to its ranks.
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) is headed back to NASDAQ 100 (NDX) for an encore run in the index, meaning the stock famously sold short by David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital will soon rejoin the PowerShares QQQ (QQQ). The $36.5 billion QQQ is also known as the NASDAQ 100 tracking ETF.
Green Mountain will also join the NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index (NDXE) and the NASDAQ-100 Ex-Tech Sector Index (NDXX) prior to market open on Thursday, August 22, 2013, according to a statement by NASDAQ OMX Global Indexes. The statement was released Thursday after the close of U.S. markets.
Green Mountain had market value of $11.1 billion at Thursday's close, implying it will be a relatively scant part of QQQ's lineup. Discount retailer Dollar Tree (DLTR) has a market cap of nearly $11.5 billion but a weight of just 0.33% in QQQ.
QQQ, the sixth-largest U.S. ETF, has made some exciting changes this year, including replacing Oracle (ORCL) with Elon Musk's electric carmaker Tesla (TSLA) (TheStreet). Since July 16, a day after joining the NASDAQ 100, shares of Tesla are up 28.1%.
However, Green Mountain shareholders may not want their stock to rejoin the index. It was booted from the NASDAQ 100 late last year and has risen 70% this year.
Green Mountain's membership in the NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index means the stock is eligible to become part of the First Trust NASDAQ-100 Equal Weight Index Fund (QQEW) and the Direxion NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index Shares (QQQE).
Currently, Green Mountain is not a significant holding in many ETFs. The PowerShares Dynamic Food & Beverage Portfolio (PBJ), home to $322.4 million in assets, has one of the larger weights to the stock among ETFs at 2.6%.
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Welcome to the New York Radio Archive - Where Great Radio Still Lives!
Welcome to the New York Radio Archive
While there are many radio sites and forums on the web, short shrift is generally given to 1960s-1970s free-form, progressive and underground New York City FM rock radio. In addition, when air checks and other collectables are loaded to Forums on the web, they are frequently lost as the postings are removed or it's hard to follow which postings had the associated attachment. This site will serve to remedy those situations. So we'll cover the free-form radio FM scene, mainly for New York radio stations, but we'll also add some goodies for New York AM rock radio fans that don't exist on other sites.
The New York Radio Archive (NYRadioArchive.com) will feature airchecks, articles, advertisements and other documentation about New York radio culled from the air, from journals and newspapers of the day. In addition, it will contain a repository of air-checks and other radio archive materials.
Come back often to see what's new on the New York Radio Archive as we'll be posting new air-checks and other archival material often. We have a great team of contributors who are constantly finding that lost aircheck in their archives.
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July 30th Marked the 48th Anniversary of the WOR-FM Rock Format
WOR-FM started broadcasting their rock format on July 30th, 1966, 48 years ago.
When they first joined the air, they did so without DJs, due to a union dispute over setting a new minimum wage for FM DJs.
Their initial advertising was via a Milton Glaser design.
But it was hard to tell from the design whether it was going to be a true rock station or an FM station playing "beautiful music" versions of rock songs.
While today we would decry their jockless programming as a jukebox, it was a revelation back then. We were all used to WABC-AM, which never segued one track into another and almost always played at least one spot between each song.
WOR-FM gave us much higher audio quality (although few tracks in the early days were actually in stereo), few commercials and continuous music and we loved it. Standing near the Coney Island boardwalk with a transistor radio, we would high-five each other each time they played another track without a spot inbetween. It seemed miraculous (and ideal for taping).
The station would simulcast John Gambling until 10am, play music until 2am and then simulcast Barry Farber until 5:15 am.
In the early days, there were few spots, but one I remember they played all the time was for Hohner Harmonica. In those formative months, it still sounded like WOR-FM was going to be a top-40 radio station, albeit a slightly quieter one than what we were used to. The DJs wouldn't join until October 8th and the station would slowly evolve into a free-form radio station that played as many album tracks as singles. That would be a different revelation. But it lasted less than a year when Bill Drake was given responsiblity for programming all the RKO-General stations except for WOR-AM. But that's a different story. For more about the history of WOR-FM, click the WOR-FM page here. (Posted 8/7/14)
WBAI and WNYC-FM Personality Steve Post Dies at Age 70
Steve Post, who was one of the first practitioners of what would later be called free-form radio, died Sunday, August 3rd, at the age of 70.
In the late 1960s and early '70s, Post hosted "The Outside" on WBAI after midnight on weekends (Bob Fass hosted weekdays). Post would play music of all genres – music that would not be heard on commercial radio – woven with stories and complaints about living a modern life.
From 1973 to 1980, he hosted the WBAI morning show, "Room 101".
From 1982 to 2001, he hosted the "Morning Music" show on WNYC-FM. He returned to WNYC in 2002 to host "The No Show".
One of our favorite oft-repeated Post stories was the time he got locked in the bathroom at WBAI and had to climb out the window to get back to the studio so that there would be no dead air.
Post was also the author of "Playing in the FM Band: A Personal Account of Free Radio" (Viking Press, 1974).
Post broke every rule of conventional radio and was a great contrarian. So there was never any chance that he was going to work in commercial radio. But both Post and Fass had great influence on the early FM commercial free-form DJs. (Posted 8/4/14)
Dave Herman Dies
Dave Herman, one of the greatest air personalities of the free-form and progressive rock eras, has died at the age of 78. WABC Channel 7 news reported Herman's death apparently from "suffering an aneurysm of a major blood vessel near the heart".
Dave had worked at WMMR-FM in Philadelphia, a sister station to WNEW-FM, before coming to New York and joining the new air staff at WABC-FM around May of 1970. The staff also included Tony Pigg, Jimmy Rabbit, Jimmy Fink and John Rydgren late at night. Dave initially had a morning and an evening show on the station. In February of 1971 the station changed its call letters because it was afraid that WABC-AM was getting credit for its ratings in surveys. Legend has it that Herman came up with the WPLJ call letters, based on the old song, "White Port Lemon Juice". But by August of 1971, the station became highly formatted and Herman was unhappy. He left WPLJ in late 1971 and joined WNEW-FM in March of 1972, taking over the morning show on May 22nd of that year.
In late May of 1982, he took over the nightime slot, which was held by Alison Steele for many years. In 1983, he moved into Pete Fornatale's morning slot and in November of 1986, he returned to the morning show. From about early 1992 to 1996, he moved to K-Rock, where Howard Stern commanded AM drive and Pete Fornatale followed. Herman followed Pete. In January of 1996, K-Rock changed to a "Modern Rock" format and all of the former WNEW-FM jocks left the station. Herman and Fornatale returned to WNEW-FM with a "Classic Rock & Classic Jocks" format, but WNEW-FM never returned to its former glory. Fornatale was let go in the Summer of 1998 and Herman that November.
Herman was involved in many syndicated radio efforts including the "King Biscuit Flower Hour" concert series as well as a series of interviews, the most famous of which was probably his interview with Ringo Starr.
On the air, Dave had a wonderful presence, always sounding both incredibly friendly and incredibly important. He had an incredible knowledge of music and would frequently sneak in an off-format track, like a Louie Armstrong recording.
In late 2013, Herman was accused of soliciting sex with a young child by federal agents who set up a sting operation. We'll now probably never know the truth of those accusations, but there was word last week that the feds were reconsidering charges. Since there was no actual child and Herman never got his day in court, my preference is to remember the decades of joy that he gave everyone on the air. But regardless of the merits of the charges, I have no doubt that Dave actually died of a broken heart. (posted 5/28/2014)
Link: Vin Scelsa announces the death of Dave Herman.
Record Store Day: Countdown
Countdown until record store day:
Great record stores are an endangered species, so instead of complaining about their demise, go visit one and buy something. The latest casualty is J&R Records, which stopped selling music and video online in early 2014 and whose physical store closed in early April 2014, probably never to return.
And if you're interested in some great gently-used vinyl: LP Vinyl Music is our sister site where you can buy great vinyl, including unique and rare radio documentaries and interviews, as well as some DVD and Blu-ray titles.
Radio Unnameable news
Radio Unnameable, the documentary about WBAI's Bob Fass, is now available on a DVD which includes several hours of extra material including deleted scenes, rare audio recordings from Bob Fass' library, some archival video and short film called "Night People". It can be purchased from Kino Lorber or from Amazon.
More information on the film is available on our media page.
NY Radio & Twitter
We've setup a new Twitter display to show postings about New York Radio. It's imperfect, but it's still fun to see some of the posts, at least the ones that are decipherable.
Images of America: New York City Radio
Our friends Alec Cumming and Peter Kanze have put together a book for Arcadia Publishing that's filled with photographs about New York radio.
The book includes commentary and photos of such classic air personalities as Alison Steele and Dan Ingram as well as radio's pioneers, including inventors Edwin Armstrong and Lee DeForest. The book is a comprehensive, yet concise tour of New York City radio beginning at the turn of the last century and extending through the internet radio of today, stopping along the way at radio's pre-TV golden age and the growth of both top-40 and progresive rock & roll beginning in the late 1950s. The book contains many classic as well as rare photos. My favorites include a display of radios at Bamberger's Department Store from the 1920s, FM inventor Edwin H. Armstrong standing acrobatically on top of an antenna, some rare photos of Alan Freed along with such DJs as Jocko Henderson, Dr. Jive (Tommy Smalls), Bruce Morrow, and Bob Lewis before moving on to the progressive rock era of Rosko, Scott Muni, Murray the K, Alison Steele, Jim Kerr and many others. This is a must have for anyone who ever cared about New York radio.
More info and ordering here.(Just a link - we don't get anything for this)
John Zacherley
In 2012, The New York Times caught up with the great John Zacherley - still doing his thing at an amazing 94 years of age.
"Once a Ghoul, Always A Ghoul"
CAROL MILLER Book
Carol Miller has written a book: Up All Night: My Life and Times in Rock Radio.
As the book jacket says, "The all-American chronicle of radio legend Carol Miller, from her rise to success in a male-dominated world to the rock stars she's known along the way to, for the first time, the private story of her quietly waged battle with a deadly illness."
Carol's been on the air since 1971 and has been a New York air personality since 1973. To look at her and listen to her though, you'd think she couldn't have possibly been on the air for even half that time.
Click herefor the book on Amazon
Click herefor a NY Times article.
Our Contributors
Ken Tullipano
Ken Tullipano has an amazing archive of air-checks, primarily from WNEW-FM. He has graciously agreed to share them with us.
Ken tells us that he's lived in New York State his entire life (originally Port Chester and now Carmel) and that he loved listening to rock & roll on the radio going back to Murray the K on WINS and Scott Muni on ABC. When he discovered WNEW-FM, he was "hooked".
Ken started recording shows in 1977 and like all of us, he wishes he recorded a lot more. Ken tells us, "It never occurred to me that someday they wouldn't be around. They always made me feel like I was part of a big music loving family. Thankfully WFUV is carrying on the tradition." We couldn't agree more.
Rob Frankel
Rob Frankel has been in radio for years, has worked as a producer for Drake-Chenault, the RKO and ABC Radio Networks and is known by a title that few people hold: restorian. Rob is expert at taking old scoped air-checks and seamlessly adding back the music. Rob was also responsible for remastering the air-checks heard on WABC's Rewound program from 2000 to 2009. Rob was one of the producers of The News Blimp through most of the Eighties, and he has been Senior Producer for Citadel Media, where he was one of the producers of Flashback!, a weekly classic rock series, since 1989.
Check out Rob's website at RobFrankel.net where you can also find out about Rob's availability to create magic for you.
Charlie Menut
Charlie is a big radio fan who had the foresight to record many radio shows onto videotape where they have survived far better than many audio recordings of the era. Since 1981, he's been Regional Manager, Chief Engineer and on-air talent for Family Stations, Inc. From 1970 to 2010, he was also owner and President of Audio Headquarters, Inc., a consumer electronics repair facility.
Charlie refers to himself as a "life long radio geek, air checker, and these days as a radio program 'restorian'".
Steve Ronzino
Steve tells us he listened only to WNEW-FM from the late 60's thru the 70's. He worked in NYC at night in a computer room as was able to listen all night. He later listened to the short-lived WQIV.
He taped WNEW-FM and other stations knowing those recordings would be important someday.
He eventually left NYC for Florida and he's able to catch up with some of the former WNEW-FM DJs by listening to WFUV streaming and to SiriusXM. We're thrilled that Steve is willing to share his extensive aircheck archive with us.
Dan McCue
In 25 years as a practicing journalist, Dan McCue has written on everything from international trade, business and law to politics, science and the environment, but for all that, music and media remain closest to his heart.
A multi- award winner for his work in daily and weekly newspapers, Dan is currently writing a history of WNEW-FM, the working title of which is Where Rock Lived. For the project he has been interviewing scores of on-air and behind the scenes personalities at the station, as well as the musicians, concert promoters, record industry executives and others who interacted with the station during its glory years.
Myles Putman
Growing up on the Jersey side of the NYC metro area, Myles Putman, began actively flipping the radio dial and playing with recording devices since about age 9. He has wantonly engaged in creative "de-construction" (re-editing) of really, really bad music for over 30 years; and portions of his "montage" and "Skipping Delights" recordings were aired on WFMU in the 1980's.
Myles also created a large body of "real time- recording" collages of radio and music edits for "aesthetic" and possible historic value; in addition to a gallery of re-edited political speeches. He now resides in the Hudson Valley with his wife Judy. In his spare time he continues to sift through the back catalogue of radio edits and sound checks, and digitally concocting new forms of audio mischief on occasion.
Kimbal Brandner
Kimball is a great fan of New York top-40 radio and has contributed most of the WABC surveys and many of the WABC promotion materials that appear on this site.
David DiSanzo
David has worked for a number of music labels and is an intensive music collector and radio fan. He also fondly remembers his friendship with Alison Steele.
Allen B. Shaw
Allen Shaw was one of the earliest executives to promote rock on FM radio. He helped give birth to the early ABC-FM rock formats, such as the early experiments with Bob Lewis and Dan Ingram, the advent of the syndicated "Love" format, free-form WABC-FM and the emergence of WPLJ. He has graciously permitted us use of his photos of WABC, WABC-FM and WPLJ. These days, Mr. Shaw is Owner/President & CEO at Centennial Broadcasting II, LLC and Vice Chairman of the Board at Beasley Broadcast Group
Dr. Zoet
Dr. Zoet, who is the creator of this site and is sometimes known as Martin Brooks, grew up listening to New York top-40 radio and then to the FM free-form and progressive rock stations from the first day they joined the airwaves.
He worked in college radio, then became a recording engineer and producer and has produced thousands of hours of syndicated radio shows. But he now wishes that he saved more of the air-checks that he recorded and then erased (because recording tape was expensive!)
If you have air-checks or other materials that you'd like to contribute, send an email to info AT nyradioarchive.com (replace the "space AT space" with an "@" sign.)
Book Review
1950's Radio in Color: The Lost Photographs of Deejay Tommy Edwards
by Christopher Kennedy
(The Kent State University Press - ISBN: 978-1-60635-072-0)
In the media section of this site, we've put up a videography of movies about radio. We've always wanted to also publish a comprehensive bibliography of the best books about radio, but we haven't gotten around to it yet. But today, a book came in that's going to be our first entry.
Christopher Kennedy is an accomplished musician and songwriter who has released five albums with the band Ruth Ruth. For years, he's been looking for a copy of the long-lost rock 'n' roll film The Pied Piper of Cleveland, which purports to contain the earliest known footage of Elvis Presley. He still hasn't found that film, but in the process of looking for it, he came across a treasure trove of photographs taken by Cleveland DJ Tommy Edwards, mostly at WERE-AM and some concerts between 1955 and 1960. In addition, author Kennedy separately found copies of Edwards' own "T.E. Newsletter", a remarkably comprehensive review of the music industry in Cleveland as well as Edwards' personal weekly survey of important pop and country records.
The photographs in this book are remarkable because they show artists from all genres of music (and film) at their very raw, unvarnished and un-manipulated beginnings. And many of the Ektachrome photographs, in spite of some color deterioration, are amazingly beautiful in spite of the fact that they were photographed with a mere Kodak Brownie camera. Against a bright red stage, we see the deep blue pants of a 29-year-old Chuck Berry, playing then as now, with a pickup band. We have some great shots of Elvis from 1955. And we have Gene Vincent, a pimply Roy Orbison, Dion and Sam Cooke. But there's also pop stars like Billy Eckstine, Jerry Vale, Andy Williams, Patti Page and Johnny Mathis, movie stars like Charlton Heston and Henry Fonda and country stars like Johnny Cash. But my favorite photo in the book is a photo of soul singer Malcom Dodds, sitting at an old heavy-duty broadcast turntable.
The book contains several essays and each artist's photo is accompanied by a short article by the author, with many containing quotes about the artist from the "T.E. Newsletter" as well as contemporary comments from those involved. There's a lot of research contained in this volume.
What's important about this book is how it demonstrates that radio and the radio DJ were once the core of the country's culture. The DJ was completely immersed in the music and the artists that they played. Artists sought out the publicity that only radio could provide. In the case of Tommy Edwards, his newsletter was as insightful as those published by any radio consultant in later decades. I think it's all too easy to forget just how important and powerful radio was and how much radio was responsible for the birth and development of rock 'n' roll. And yet, at least in Cleveland, rock 'n' roll lived comfortably along with country music, just as Ray Charles would later prove that soul and country could be one thing as well. I dare say that if a new genre of music evolved today, it would not survive because none of the media that exists today could act as its guardian the way that radio guided rock. Buy this book. It's one of the last memories of what made 1950s American radio great.
Carol Miller
Here's a nice article about the great Carol Miller from Media Bistro
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New York: Rock My Radio by Gerry Dieffenbach
What a great track! Thanks to Rob Frankel for forwarding.
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Recently added NEW and REVISED CONTENT:
- Sept 1: WNEW-FM: RAW INTERVIEW: Scott Muni interviews John & Yoko, thanks to Dan McCue, from the Fall of 1971.
- Aug 10: WNEW-FM: AIRCHECK: Pete Fornatale interviews Dan Fogelberg from August 11, 1985, thanks to Ken Tullipano
- Aug 10: WNEW-FM: AIRCHECK: A few minutes of Scott Muni's syndicated Ticket to Ride show from August 11, 1985, thanks to Ken Tullipano
- June 11: WNEW-FM: AIRCHECK: Scott Muni interviews Jimmy Page, from 37 years ago, thanks to Dan McCue.
- June 11: WNEW-FM: AIRCHECK: Scott Muni interviews Jimmy Page, from 37 years ago, thanks to Dan McCue.
- June 11: Syndicated Radio: BOARD CHECK: Scott Muni interviewing Mark Knopfler for a radio show entitled "World of Rock", from June of 1988, thanks to Dan McCue.
- Jun 5: WPLJ: PHOTOS: Elton John, Jimmy Fink, Pat St. John, Tony Pigg and the 2001 MTVR reunion, thanks to Allen Shaw.
- Jun 5: WABC-FM: PHOTOS: The programming team, air personalities and Ike & Tina, thanks to Allen Shaw.
- Jun 5: WABC: PHOTOS: Bruce Morrow, Ron Lundy and Dan Ingram, thanks to Allen Shaw.
- May 29: XM Radio: Vin Scelsa announces the death of Dave Herman.
- May 16: Syndicated Radio: BOARD CHECK: Scott Muni interviewing The Moody Blues for a radio show called "World of Rock", from May of 1988, thanks to Dan McCue.
- May 12: WNEW-FM: AIRCHECK: Scott Muni from the first week of May, 1980, thanks to Steve Ronzino.
- Apr 18: WNEW-FM: AIRCHECK: Updated the below aircheck to a longer version.
- Apr 17: WNEW-FM: AIRCHECK: A very early Rosko aircheck from around March 16, 1968 accompanied by a complete newscast, contributed by our newest contributor, Steve Ronzino
- Apr 15: WNEW-FM: AIRCHECK: Pete Fornatale interivewing the great Kenny Rankin, who plays live in the studio, contributed by Ken Tullipano.
- Apr 8: WXRK: AIRCHECK: John Zacherley doing "Spirit of the Sixties" on Saturday, April 8, 1995, from the Charlie Menut archive.
- Apr 7: WXRK: AIRCHECK: Pete Fornatale from exactly 20 years ago, April 7, 1994, thanks again to the Charlie Menut archive.
- Mar 30: WXRK: SCHEDULE: Added a chart showing the 92.3 schedule from 1975 to 1996.
- Mar 29: WXRK: AIRCHECK: From the Charlie Menut archive, Alison Steele from March 20th, 1995.
- Mar 17: David Brenner AIRCHECK: Pete Fornatale's Crawdaddy Rock Review sydicated show, with guest, the late comedian David Brenner.
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The king of the fast-food industry recently released disappointing second-quarter financial results, confirming that the remainder of 2013 is likely to be unsatisfactory. Investors are now left with the question of what that news means to the entire industry and their money.
What Happened
On July 22, McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) reported second-quarter financial results. Earnings of $1.38 per share came in $0.03 below the expected mark of $1.41, while revenue fell just short of the $7.1 billion expected, at $7.08 billion.
McDonald's projects global same-restaurant sales in July to be relatively flat. The company's CEO Don Thompson commented, "Based on recent sales trends, our results for the remainder of the year are expected to remain challenged." The disappointment on the numbers side of things, as well as the downbeat forecast for the remainder of the year, combined to send the stock tumbling nearly 3% the next day.
Digging Deeper
The report included second-quarter same-restaurant sales in the United States increasing 1%. McDonald's blamed its uninspiring domestic results on smaller U.S. rivals, namely Wendy's (NASDAQ: WEN) and Burger King (NYSE: BKW), debuting attention-grabbing products and limited-time offers.
Most prominently, Wendy's Pretzel Bacon Cheeseburger is set to be the chain's best-selling new product in at least a decade. While McDonalds' did say its new line of Quarter Pounder hamburgers performed well, this comes after it pulled lackluster items such as premium Angus burgers and its Fruit & Walnut salad from its menu. Wendy's, an entirely domestic company, is expected to report a 1.1% gain in second-quarter sales when it reports in August.
On the European front, same-restaurant sales were down 0.1% for McDonald's, the third consecutive quarter of declines in the region. A deterioration in the European market does not appear to be a company specific trend, as in the first quarter, revenue generated from Burger King's Europe, Middle East, and Africa segment dropped nearly 10%.
A decline was also experienced in the Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa (APMEA) region for McDonald's, with sales falling 0.3%.
Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM) also recently reported weakness stemming from the Asian region, when it posted sales at established restaurants in China dropping 10% in June, up from a drop of 19% in May. Much of this decline can be accredited to fears of the avian flu. The disease is believed to be passed on by live poultry, and with chicken being KFC's cornerstone product, fears that KFC's products might contain the disease have driven down sales in the country.
How to Capitalize
In its report, McDonald's executives stated that it continues to gain share in the "informal eating out" category. While McDonald's has long been the leader in this market, Yum! Brands is rapidly gaining in this category in China, where 48% of the company's business is concentrated. Despite the recent problems Yum! Brands has had in the country, the ongoing expansion in Chinese incomes should fuel growth for this company in the future.
On the American front, Wendy's has recently been the major winner in the race to gain market share. Rumors are swirling that the Pretzel Bacon Cheeseburger could become a permanent menu item, which could hurt Burger King and McDonald's. Continued innovation from Wendy's could spark growth for the company.
Burger King has also recently unveiled a series of limited-time products, which should fuel strong performance when the company reports in August. However, the company will have to continually innovate to sustain its market share, something in the past the company has failed to do.
Burger King will also have to adjust to softening conditions internationally. However, the company has continually displayed the ability to expand, increasing its overall store count by nearly 750 between 2010 and 2012. Sustained growth in its store count could offset poor same-restaurant growth numbers in weak markets.
For McDonald's, the company's superior marketing and innovation capabilities should allow the company to maintain its leadership position in the industry. While the European and APMEA segments remain weak, a recovering Europe and strengthening Chinese consumer should make for a stronger 2014.
The Foolish Bottom Line
A challenging rest of 2013 awaits McDonald's. After the company fell short of numerical expectations, a gloomy forecast followed, sending the stock tumbling.
A primary cause of the weakness included stiff competition from Burger King and Wendy's, both of which launched successful products during the quarter, a feat which McDonald's failed to accomplish.
Digging deeper into the report and supplementary data reveals a marginally strengthening US market, in addition to weakening European and Asian markets.
Looking forward, investors should track the sustained lag the Avian flu has on Yum! Brands; improvement in economic conditions in Europe; and which companies innovate and are able to launch successful new products in coming quarters.
All in all, while McDonald's results were disappointing, the pullback may have presented an attractive entry point for long-term investors in search of a stable and solid company.
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I was naïve enough to think that if I was nice to people and made a point to respect them and build them up, they would do the same for me. But I've learned that dealing with people is often like dealing with a pack of wolves; if you don't demand respect they'll delight in tearing you apart.
Do you ever forget who you are? Does your concept of self get lost in your daily grind?
I've been trying to live an other-centered life, but in the process, I forgot who I am. I want to be divested of self, I want to be humble, but God made me who I am for a reason. I don't know what that reason is. It's hard to know what God has in mind for me when I don't even understand myself.
While sorting through old creations of mine - drawings, songs, photographs, and crafts of all kinds - I caught a glimpse of the girl I used to call "me." I was a writer. I was a dreamer. I was an artist. I was enamored with literature, with the beauty I found everywhere I looked, with the signs of our Creator smiling at me on all sides.
I'm still that girl. That girl has grown into a woman inside me, but I've trapped her in there. I've built walls and I rarely let them down. My heart is hidden deep inside layers of self-rejection and disappointment and a feeling of un-belonging. I've shut myself away and quietly slipped into the backseat. I watch life pass by my window and sit, outwardly content, but inside I'm boiling with stifled passion and life.
I've imprisoned myself. Why? Fear, maybe. Or maybe laziness. It takes effort to let people in and show them who I am. Or maybe I've been trying to be other-centered but am just going about it the wrong way. Or maybe I have that curious disease so many humans suffer from, that disease of feeling different. Instead of embracing my differences, I turn them into walls to separate me from the people around me. Sometimes it's a protective mechanism, sometimes it's the product of arrogance. Maybe the thought process of, "Nobody can understand me, I'm just too different," is simply a cleverly masked inflation of self-importance.
Whatever silly reasons there are for the walls I have built, I have to figure out a way to tear them down. I can't live out God's purpose for my life if I shut myself away from the human race. I can't be who God made me to be if I never show anyone who I am. I can't serve the people around me to the best of my ability if I don't take advantage of the unique characteristics God gave me.
So who am I? Because I forgot. God, help me to remember.
Those moments when you just want to go get a tattoo. Of anything, really.
I think I know what I want to do with my life. I think I've always known. But I haven't realized. Knowing is scary. Now I have to choose what to do. What I want to do might not be stable. It's different. It's not traditional. It's risky. Where do I go from here? I don't want to be wrong. What if this isn't what I want and I invest my heart into it and then I'm out of time? I still have time to decide, but I'm anxious. I want to make progress, but on what? I think this is my passion.
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Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Thousands of Egyptians defied a curfew imposed on three Suez Canal cities, openly challenging President Mohamed Mursi and dimming hopes for ending days of unrest that have clouded the country's bid for stability.
Tensions also flared in other cities, including clashes in Cairo, in a continuation of the violence that has left more than 50 dead since the Jan. 25 second anniversary of the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak. At least one person was killed in the capital yesterday and dozens wounded in skirmishes with security forces nationwide, on what was the first day after Mursi imposed a state of emergency in the provinces of Port Said, Ismailiya and Suez.
The unrest -- largely a manifestation of the rifts between secularists and Islamists -- is thwarting efforts to restore the political order needed to revive an economy still struggling to recover from the 2011 uprising. Mursi's critics say he has reneged on campaign pledges, and is intent solely on cementing Islamist rule at the expense of the nation's interests.
"We will not let down this great people by attending a dialogue that we know will have a dead-end," Nobel Laureate Mohamed ElBaradei said yesterday as he and other secular opposition leaders rejected Mursi's call for talks.
While some political leaders did attend the talks with the president, most of the attendees were Islamists largely in lock- step with him. The National Salvation Bloc opposition alliance boycotted the talks.
Dangers Facing Egypt
Port Said's governor gave government workers the day off today and vowed he would work to have the curfew lifted if order is restored, the state-run Middle East News Agency reported.
The rejection by some of the opposition to engage in dialogue "reflects their lack of understanding of responsibility and the dangers" confronting the nation, said Galal Mora, the secretary-general of the Salafi Nour Party, according to the state-run Ahram Online website.
In Port Said overnight, thousands chanted "Leave, leave," drawing on the vernacular of the 2011 uprising in rallying against the Islamist president who they blame for the deaths there. Some hoisted what they called an "independence" flag.
The fatalities in the city came after death sentences were handed down against 21 people in connection with last year's fatal stadium riot in the city that left over 70 dead.
The tensions have sullied prospects for a quick recovery and sounded alarm bells in Western capitals. The Arab world's most populous nation is seeing a $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to help cushion an economy that has seen the Egyptian pound fall 7 percent in the past month
In Washington, Victoria Nuland, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman, urged all sides "to work together through dialogue" to resolve issues, and she called on the government to respect citizens' rights.
"We are watching how the emergency law put in place will be applied, given the very sensitive history of this in Egypt," she told reporters at the State Department. "What's most important is that the Egyptian government respect the rights of all Egyptians to due process going forward."
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An anonymous reader writes "Why is there more than one Java GUI tool kit? The best answer is that one size does not fit all, nor is there a one-size-fits-all GUI tool kit to be invented soon. Each tool kit offers advantages and disadvantages that make selecting one more appropriate, given your needs and intended audience. Read descriptions of each tool kit's basic features, and the pros and cons of using each."


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ST. PAUL, Minnesota (WXOW) -- Booted from power, Minnesota Republicans must figure out their new role in state government.
They can be a source of noisy resistance against an all-Democratic government, an accommodating minority that is content with scratching out small victories or something in between.
The formal conversion of control occurs in January when the Legislature returns with Democrats in charge of the House and Senate to go along with a Democratic governor. It's the first time since the 1990 session that one party has held all three at once.
In the November 6th elections, Republicans forfeited the legislative majorities they claimed just two years earlier.
If legislative Democrats remain unified, for instance, they can pass education policy or write the $35 billion-plus two year budget without any GOP votes.
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Welcome to Tender Touch Farm where it is our mission to allow everyone a chance to experience the joy of interacting with our equestrian friends.
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Founded in 2008, Lisa Gilliam began the farm to provide children the experience and knowledge of horses through camps, lessons, and family fun. Our focus is and always will be providing average families with the experiences that used to be out of reach. Tender Touch farm is excited to enter a new phase and begin 2013 with much more. We will be adding Trail Rides, Equine Therapy, Parties, Weddings, and even a Paint Ball Course.
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Jon Rothstein's ACC Offseason Notebook
With the additions of Pitt, Syracuse and Notre Dame, the ACC will officially become the old Big East when it comes to the NCAA selection process in 2014.
Rothstein: This And That Around NCAA Basketball; Wiggins' Call, Duke-UCLA At MSG & More
Andrew Wiggins, the consensus No. 1 prospect in the Class of 2013 is expected to make his college decision in the early portion of this week.
Rothstein Files: Breaking Down The 4 Potential Destinations For Andrew Wiggins
We can't fully project next year's Top 25 in college basketball because arguably the best player in the sport has still yet to decide on his destination.
Second-Half Run Sends Kansas Past Tar Heels
Behind the impassioned play of Travis Releford and Jeff Withey, the top-seeded Jayhawks shook themselves out of a first-half slumber and blitzed No. 8 seed North Carolina down the stretch for a 70-58 victory Sunday.
Rothstein Files: ACC Offseason Notebook; Power Rankings, Breakout Players And More
The Wolfpack will have to deal with something they haven't faced in an awful long time — expectations.
Rothstein Files: This And That Around College Basketball
C.J. Leslie's decision to return to NC State next season immediately makes Mark Gottfried's team a threat for the ACC title.
Five Things: Rock Chalk Run And Kentucky's Dominance
By: Andrew Kahn It all goes so quickly. After an exciting weekend, college basketball is just three games away from deciding its champion. The Final Four, in New Orleans, is set: Kentucky, the lone 1 […]
Rothstein Files: What Fab Melo's Absence Means; Breakdown Of The NCAA East And Midwest Regions
All of a sudden, the Orange have a completely different look heading into the NCAA Tournament.
Rising Star: Anthony Davis
By: Mark Chalifoux Hardcore basketball fans have been talking about him all year and at the end of the NCAA tournament, even the most casual of fans will know who Anthony Davis is. If you've […]
Rothstein Files: This And That Around College Hoops
VCU coach Shaka Smart will be the first person to say Drexel deserves an at large bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Rothstein Files: Monday Morning College Hoops Notebook
For a player who was the center of Cincinnati's brawl earlier this season against Xavier, Gates has responded like a pro.
Rothstein Files: What To Watch This Weekend In College Hoops
Isn't it amazing how the Tarheels started the season as the unanimous top team in the country and now people barely even acknowledge that they exist?
Rothstein Files: A Wonderful Wednesday In College Hoops
The most storied rivalry in the sport takes center stage as the Blue Devils try and bounce back from Sunday's loss to Miami.


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Okay, it's time to come clean. Last week I wrote about some of the deadly pregnancy sins I committed when I was expecting my baby girl (who's 5 months old today!). I thought I was being all sly and funny and bad-ass. Not really, but I at least thought I was being funny. What I didn't anticipate was that I'd be called out by some of you REALLY bad-ass moms who treated pregnancy like it was New Year's Eve on crack. At least that's what you told me in the comments. In no uncertain terms, you said some of my deadly sins were lame.
I'm here to tell you that I wasn't entirely forthcoming before. I played it safe and chose to write about pregnancy faux pas I accidentally fell into. What I didn't tell you about were the ones I knowingly, willingly, joyfully embraced ... and let me warn you, they are seriously criminal. Let's just hope child services isn't reading THIS post.
I drank coffee. Not just once or twice. Every day. I dutifully abstained for most of my first trimester, but that decaf crap (even from Starbucks) wasn't cutting it. Ain't no way I'm giving up my sacred daily coffee just because I'm, you know, growing another human life inside me. And besides, these days doctors and even prudish pregnancy books say it's okay.
I drank wine. So yeah, I know I said I stayed away from alcohol in that other post, but I was drinking when I wrote it. No, actually, I fibbed a little. Go on, judge me. What I should have written was that I mostly stayed away from it, but I did have a glass of white or red here and there. I wasn't like some of you self-professed cocktail-guzzling pregnant women, but this kind of makes me cool, doesn't it? OH, OH, OH ... and I even went wine-tasting. TWICE. Now are you impressed? (Er, um, I spat out most of it. But still ... I'm bad, aren't I?)
I got my hair highlighted. The horror! But do I have to spell it out? Nine months is a hell of a long time to go with nasty, dark roots. I have my image. And need I remind you that I was (sort of) a shotgun bride? Wasn't about to walk down the aisle in the frothy white dress without my blond locks all nice and touched up, now, was I?
I ate deli meat. Tuna and turkey and ham ... oh my! Not that often. But enough to be scolded by judgy moms and brought into the fold by all you rebels.
I took cough medicine with codeine. Aha! Got your attention there, didn't I? Full disclosure: I did that before I found out I was pregnant. I'm not THAT devilish. Oh, and then I promptly threw up. Sorry. TMI.
Are these deadly sins really deadly this time? Are they?
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Everything in moderation and it's no big deal.. *shrug*
While I was pregnant the Dr. prescribed me codeine for my migraines. I also smoked herb for my morning sickness (hyperemesis makes you want to die) and the promethazine they gave me made me get lightheaded to wear my vision blacked out everytime I moved too much. I also took aspirin in the first trimester, drank coffee, changed the cat litter, ate deli meat, and lived on a diet mostly of fruity pebbles and microwave dinners.
I did all those (except for the codeine) with all 4 babies. All 4 are fine, it's all in moderation!!


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- Im going up the terrace / To the terrace for fresh air.
- Im going down to the basement / to the basement. (or down to the basement)
- Im going up the roof / to the roof. (or up to the roof)
- I'm going to bed / I'm going to sleep.
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Recap: Heroes of IPL 5
Manvinder Bisla
Team: Kolkata Knight Riders
Matches: 7
Runs: 213
Highest: 89
Manvinder Bisla played some handy knocks in the league stage but his most telling contribution came in the pressure tight situation of a final. Kolkata had omitted McCullum from the final line-up and with a massive 191 runs to chase, Bisla was under pressure opening the batting for KKR. But the batsman hailing from Haryana set about his task in the most blazing fashion. He cracked crucial 89 runs and powered KKR to their first IPL title.
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North Country hopes snow extends winter season
"We're thrilled," Jackson Ski Touring Foundation employee Raetha Stoddard said Tuesday afternoon, noting the new snow will make the skiing "delicious."
Inside the Jackson center, Adrian Rawn of Portsmouth said: "You have to enjoy it, right?"
Rawn said she was in the Mount Washington Valley on business, but took time out to go snowshoeing. "We'll take it, one last hurrah."
Farther north, Keith Landry, director of the Pittsburg Ridge Runners Snowmobile Club, noted that 90 percent of the 2013 trail network is open, though inlets to First Connecticut Lake and Lake Francis have begun to open up.
"Hopefully Mother Nature gives us some snow from this round so we can extend the spring riding season," Landry wrote on the club's website.
The folks at Bretton Woods ski area declared spring officially on hold, adding an enthusiastic "Woo Hoo!" to the ski resort's Facebook posting.
The bears at Clark's Trading Post recently woke up and had their first meals of the year.
That's a reminder to homeowners everywhere that bears wake up very hungry, and those bird feeders are like fast food outlets to them. New Hampshire Fish and Game recommends residents take down the birdfeeders by April 1.
The thinning of the ice as far north as Pittsburg is a reminder, too, that's it's just about time to get those bob houses off the ice.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Former Texas quarterback James Street, who took over the Longhorns' wishbone offense and led them to the 1969 national championship, has died. He was 65.
Serena Fitchard of the James Street Group said Street died early Monday but that no other details were immediately available.
Street started the 1968 season as a backup but was made the starter after two games. He led Texas to 20 consecutive victories, including the "Game of the Century" with Arkansas in 1969, a come-from-behind, 15-14 victory by the top-ranked Longhorns over No. 2 Arkansas to cap the regular season.
The Texas-Arkansas game was attended by President Richard Nixon. After the Longhorns' victory, Nixon declared Texas the national champions.
Street later went on to a career in finance and structured settlements.
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Time for this week's Access Points photo game: share in the comments what's in this photo and where you'll find it.
For those trying this for the first time: every week, I post a photo of something fun in the Atlanta area, and ask readers to guess what and where it is. The next day, I'll post the answer and the story behind it. For examples, check out our earlier Access Points games, or follow them on our new Access Points map.
If you know what it is and where to find it, share in the comments, or on Twitter @insideaccess! I'll reveal the answer at 4 p.m. Thursday!
December 10th, 2009
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December 10th, 2009
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Looks like a picture of a building from a train set.
December 10th, 2009
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The Fox Theater
December 10th, 2009
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pace academy?
December 10th, 2009
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Oh this is too easy….you're at the Party City on Mt. Zion in Morrow.
December 10th, 2009
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How do you get drunk "like a boss?" You slam shots with these DC Comic Super Hero shot glasses. No duh!
Needless to say, each glass is finished with one of three super hero emblems. These include Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman. And each shot glass is fitted with a color matching cape. Sure, you won't actually be able to fly, but after enough shots you'll probably be willing to jump three stories from the roof to the pool. However, you might end up like this kid:
ThinkGeek sells them for a whopping $8 each! Looks like all that licensing ain't cheap. Perhaps you better stick with the Drink/Drunk shot glasses.


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Book your room at Hotel Kennedy
3-star hotel near the beach
Set on the beach in Sant'Alessio Siculo, this hotel is within the vicinity of Letojanni Beach, Lido Mazzaro, and Greek Theatre. Area attractions also include Spisone Beach and Taormina Cable Car.
Hotel Features
Guests at this beach hotel will appreciate convenient onsite amenities such as airport transportation and multilingual staff.
Room Amenities
Televisions come with satellite channels. Guestrooms also feature wireless Internet access (surcharge), air conditioning, and climate control.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Hotel Kennedy
At your hotel
This Sant'Alessio Siculo hotel has its very own private beach. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. High-speed wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge.
This beach hotel also offers an indoor pool, tour/ticket assistance, and multilingual staff. For a surcharge, the property provides a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) and a train station pick-up service. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
- 24-hour front desk
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 83
- Number of floors - 5
- Bar/lounge
- Free breakfast
- Concierge services
- Elevator/lift
- Airport transportation
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Wireless Internet access - surcharge
- Meeting rooms
- Multilingual staff
- Restaurant
- Room service (limited hours)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Number of meeting rooms -
- Private beach nearby
- Free self parking
- Train station pickup (surcharge)
- Beach cabanas (surcharge)
- Beach towels
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Indoor pool
Stay connected
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( 5 EUR per 3 hours surcharge )
Available in some public areas: Wireless internet access ( 5 EUR per 3 hours surcharge )
Park your car
Free self parking
In your room
- Balcony
- Air conditioning
- Climate control
- Hair dryer
- Desk
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Satellite TV service
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
Eat and drink
A complimentary breakfast is offered.
Hotel Kennedy has a restaurant on site.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
The fine print for Hotel Kennedy
When you arrive
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-in time ends at midnight
Special check-in instructions:
When you leave
Check-out time is noon
How you can pay
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Diners Club, MasterCard, Visa
Your pets
Pets allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 1.5 per person, per night
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: EUR 5 (for 3 hours, rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: EUR 5 (for 3 hours, rates may vary)
- Crib (infant bed) fee: EUR 15 per day
- Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee
We should mention
Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation. Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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This image depicts the structure of the recently shut-down Kelihos botnet -
The following excerpt explaining Kelihos's take-down comes from Securelist, where you can read a more detailed and fascinating report on Kaspersky Labs role in the botnet takedown:
Kelihos is Microsoft's name for what Kaspersky calls Hlux. Hlux is a peer-to-peer botnet with an architecture similar to the one used for the Waledac botnet. It consists of layers of different kinds of nodes: controllers, routers and workers. Controllers are machines presumably operated by the gang behind the botnet. They distribute commands to the bots and supervise the peer-to-peer network's dynamic structure. Routers are infected machines with public IP addresses. They run the bot in router mode, host proxy services, participate in a fast-flux collective, and so on. Finally, workers are infected machines that do not run in router mode, simply put. They are used for sending out spam, collecting email addresses, sniffing user credentials from the network stream, etc. A sketch of the layered architecture is shown below with a top tier of four controllers and worker nodes displayed in green.


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Published: Sep 11 2012 / 09:23
Who likes being treated like they're in a minority group? Unless it means you're in that exclusive group of playboy (or girl) billionaires, "minority group" often ends up with you being unfairly discriminated against because you don't represent the perceived majority. As with social discrimination, technology discrimination is frequently the product of ignorance; people often don't understand the impact of their choices.


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OKAY so i was giving kings prints away but i saved one last copy of each for a super quick giveaway!
i am still so grateful for all the kind comments & support i've received from rt fans over the past year, so here's your last chance at getting these assortment of posters, incl. the last 3 which were meant for barbara & lindsay only !! ★★★
one reblog, one like only, international is a-okay, must follow me (i dont.. know why you would enter otherwise if you dont like my art @@), ends on sept 12! THANK YOU EVERYONE, ONCE AGAIN 💕💕
Of course! I followed DFT's tutorials pretty much to the T. Aside from very little details because I couldn't bevel really well. ^^; Thanks!
Achievement Hunter - ODST (Cosplay by P4g3.net)
Was going to take pictures of my gun + helmet, but Noble decided to pose along. *Insert Noble 6 jokes here* <3
We survived RTX 2014! We drove all the way from West Virginia to grace Austin, TX with our presence. It was amazing, met a few Roosterteeth lovelies, and had a great time. Thank you SO MUCH for EVERYONE who wanted to take my picture/take a picture with me. I worked hard on this cosplay, and I loved all you guys. T_T I'm pretty wore out from the 20+ hour drive. If anyone got pictures of me over the weekend, tag me in them or something! I'd love to see them. c:
I'm fin! We leave for RTX tomorrow, to make the trek from West Virginia. Excited to arrive, but not so much the drive. Please say hi! I'll be wearing this sucker all three days, hopefully it'll endure. I can't wait to get signatures on my helmet, that's my main goal! Hopefully people will get some pictures of me, this is kinda my legit first cosplay for a huge convention and I am SO NERVOUS.
Finished my helmet! It took a few days, but I got it finished in time for RTX. I need an actual visor in it, but it's way to close to leaving for me to be hacking away at it. Can't wait to get everyone to sign it! =D
Not bad for literally 3 days work. Just wanted to make a prop helmet for signatures that I can have everyone sign. ^^ it's not the most accurate but making all of it literally in 3 days was awesome. Painting it and all the rest of the armor soon(tm)! RTX is less than a week away omg.
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Lucky Banner with Mary Pat Siehl
March 10, 2014 by Core'dinator
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Nothing sets the stage for a holiday like a banner! Core'dinations has the PERFECT color for you for all your St Patrick's Day needs…it's Shamrock Green!
Mary Pat Siehl created this banner just for us today…ENJOY!
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January 7, 2014 by Core'dinator
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Summer Layouts and more with Tracy Gruber
July 24, 2013 by Ellen
Filed under Core Blog, Provocraft, Tim Holtz & Ranger Distress collection
Happy Wednesday! We hope you are enjoying your summer so far and today we want to start out with a super summery layout from Design Team Member Tracy Gruber. I always struggle with white as a base for my layouts but Tracy makes it looks so easy! Plus…all that embossing just makes me happy.


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A week after he and Mitt Romney lost, Fox News starts trying to rehabilitate Paul Ryan, calling him "Mr. Fix It." Click through to find out what Fox is not telling you about Ryan's destructive budget.
Fox & Friends admits that Biden won on substance, then immediately tries to pivot to something, anything else - and comes up with the idea that Biden is Dr. Evil.
Fox dissembles to distract from Paul Ryan's many, many lies.
On the other hand, it's better than suggesting Biden was drunk like Fox was doing last night (Biden doesn't drink).
Paul Ryan is kind of nice eye candy also. I'm just saying that he could chair my budget committee any day."
— Fox News contributor Monica Crowley, 8/15/12
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Those who cannot afford a $7,000 Fendi Silvana handbag, talk about those who can.
05 12 / 2012
I guess we should have seen this coming.
Forensic artist (that's a thing, did you know?) Joe Mullins has generated these images of what the royal baby may look like.
Of course at this point the child's feet are still webbed and it doesn't even have eyelids.
But there's no harm in guessing, right?
Right. Just like there's no harm in turning these little guys into 16x20 canvas paintings to go above my mantle either.
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The Daily Mail wants to know if I would pay €2,000 for a slice of Prince William & Kate's wedding cake.
Oh. Not only would I pay WELL over that amount, but I would preserve my slice of cake in a sapphire encrusted safe.
For the rest of time.
Or, until I gave birth to my first daughter. Whom I would obviously name Catherine.
And on her 5th birthday, I would cover the child in that sacred buttercream icing, and offer her up as a sacrifice to the royal gods.
Um. I think what I'm trying to say here is yes. Yes I would.
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May The Force Be With You All.
This is just another SW photo/video/text/other stuff blog, all dedicated to the best saga ever (at least for me, it is. And yes, Mark Hamill is my love, and yep, I post lots of stuff about him <3 (visit fuckyeahmarkhamill, a blog I co-mod and is awesome!) I love everything SW related, but what I post here is mainly from the original trilogy.
About the blogger: Paola, 19 years old and Mexican, student and Jedi. Has been a SW fan since age 6 and will go on. Some more topics you can talk about with me: 60's, 70's, The Beatles, rock, art, movies, literature, etc.
Feel free to submit stuff or ask anything.
Anonymous said: i was checking out ur blog and saw a pic of you (was it u actually?) with leia's buns. Any tutorial to tesch us how to do it?
Yes, it was me (with a pink tee, right?) sometime ago. Yes, I still know how to do it, but I have tosee first if I can get it right again. Imagine, I used hair extentions to get it then, now I have a different style (sightly) so I have to see if the hair I have is enough =P In case I can, I will try to make a video and upload it here. If not, I will wait sometime. But making a video tutorial is something I really want to do.
May The Force be With You!


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The Thin Green Line
Dispatches from the environmental battlefield.
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Californians support strong climate action; see economic opportunity
A new poll conducted by the Public Policy Institute in California found that Californians of all stripes support strong government action to combat climate change. Calpine Corp. To wit: 80 percent support federal incentives for renewable energy, and 84 percent support more stringent fuel-efficiency standards for automakers. Nearly 60 percent believe we should act now […] [Read More]
China teeters on the brink of environmental collapse
The environmental situation in China has gotten alarmingly bad, according to news reports and, most tellingly, a statement from the Chinese government itself. Joe Chan / Reuters Cancer is now the leading cause of death in the Asian country; it's linked to one in four deaths nationwide. Lung cancer is the most common form. Although […] [Read More]
Stronger Niño cycles likely as climate warms
The El Niño cycle brings lousy weather, with heavy rains in California during the Niño part of the cycle and droughts during the Niña phase. A new study that compared tree growth rings to ocean temperatures suggests that the future holds increasingly powerful Niño events. Paul Chinn / The Chronicle The study demonstrates that the […] [Read More]
Is California agriculture ready for climate change?
California is at the leading edge of addressing climate change. But with an agricultural sector that accounts for more than 10 percent of all U.S. production, the state isn't doing enough to protect crops from climate change — or to use farmland as a buffer against it. Agriculture relies to an extent that it's hard […] [Read More]
Smart growth packs in the savings, study finds
A little smart growth goes a long way, a state study has found. Intended to help cities and counties implement SB 375, the analysis weighed 10 years of the status quo against "urban infill and compact growth" geared toward public transit. Lea Suzuki / Chronicle Turns out, density makes almost everything bad better. Even your […] [Read More]
Do as I say, not as I do
The Sacramento city council has banned bottled water at its meetings and has imposed water restrictions on residents due to drought. But it's welcoming a Nestle bottling plant to the city, although the plant would consume 80 million gallons a year. Some will be purified and sold at a profit under the Pure Life label. […] [Read More]
Renewables standard is big news
The state legislature managed to pass a renewable energy standard on its last day of the session. The bill would require state utilities to obtain a third of their power from renewable sources by 2020. It would also limit their ability to use offsets to meet the requirement and to buy renewable power from out […] [Read More]
Mass human extinction?
A breathtaking article in the New York Times reports that tribes living in the Amazon rainforest are facing starvation as supplies of fish in the ecosystem's many rivers dwindle due to climate change. The Amazon gets less and less rain, leaving rivers low and fish stranded. I'm excerpting it here, but the full article is […] [Read More]
Weird weather watch: Rocky Mountain dust storms
An unusually high number of dust storms have swept into Colorado's Rockies, leaving the caps darker in color (see photo) and consequently quicker to melt. A faster melting snowpack exacerbates water shortages in the west. There isn't enough evidence to indicate whether the dust storms are a consequence of a changing climate, but if they […] [Read More]
Drought or no drought?
Although California is most often a pioneer of sound environmental policies, it's important not to become too complacent to challenge areas in which there's plenty of room for progress. One such issue is water. It's a hard fought battle in the state, with farmers, cities and environmental groups all vying for more of the stuff. […] [Read More]
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Move On or Move In?
It's been a week since my first two shows. I'm at that post-euphoric juncture where I see how tightly I'm going to hold on - or let time slowly dissolve the experience into less accessed memory. It is a common process after a personal high. I presume it's part and parcel of the human experience.
Time heals wounds but it also waters down that which we want sharp recall. Memory is not my strong suit. I forget names and directions quickly. But SNM is so visceral, it feels as though it is designed to hold the attention of my subconscious fixed upon it - sleep no more, for sure. Departing the matrix on West 27th has left me to attempt to recreate it here - ergo the blog and embrace of this community.
I sense that our brain is equipped to devalue the stuff on life's periphery, maybe for our own sanity. It's easier to naturally cling to that which we personally encounter every day - work, family, friends. But a great many ideas and discoveries have come from nagging ideas that weren't let go. My guess is that's why the hotel exists at all.
I don't want to let go. Don't know if I can - not while the McKittrick still bustles.
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By RICH ROVITOAssociated Press
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Al Horford's hook shot with 5.9 seconds remaining lifted the Atlanta Hawks a 103-102 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday night in a game that was close throughout.
Horford's shot came after a driving layup by Monta Ellis had given the Bucks a 102-101 lead with 10.8 seconds left.
Horford had 23 points and 11 rebounds, Jeff Teague also scored 23 and added nine assists, and Devin Harris contributed 21 points for Atlanta.
Ersan Ilyasova had 19 points and newly-acquired J.J. Redick added 16 points and seven assists for Milwaukee. Larry Sanders added 12 points and 19 rebounds, one off of his career high.
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- Willamette
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- Semester Materials: Fall 2014
Fall 2014 Semester (Aug. 25 - Nov. 26, 2014)
Semester Materials
Looking for your textbooks? Visit the Willamette Store Textbook Information. We expect textbook information to be posted in mid-July. (If you don't see your textbook listed, please contact the professor.)
- Class Schedule, Revised 9/11/14
- Curricular Offerings, Revised 9/11/14
- Final Examination Schedule, Revised 9/11/14
- Academic Calendar
- Instructions for Online Registration
- Civil Practice Clinic Program
- Part-Time Externship Program
- Full-Time Externship Program
First Assignments & Syllabi
(First assignments will be posted as we receive them.)
- LAW 101-01: Civil Procedure (Dobbins), syllabus
- LAW 101-02: Civil Procedure (Wise), syllabus
- LAW 103-01: Contracts (Bridgeman)
- LAW 103-02: Contracts (Molk), syllabus, reading list
- LAW 105-01, -02: Legal Research & Writing (Mazur-Hart)
- LAW 109-01: Torts (Friedman)
- LAW 109-02: Torts (Tamayo), syllabus
- LAW 202: Business Organizations (Friedman)
- LAW 206: Professional Responsibility (Tamayo), syllabus
- LAW 209: Workers' Compensation (Lyons)
- LAW 213: Evidence (Davidson)
- LAW 214: Real Estate Transactions (Hill)
- LAW 215: Federal Income Tax (Kim), syllabus
- LAW 223: Environmental Law & Policy (Smith), syllabus
- LAW 224: Int'l & Domestic Sports Law (Nafziger), syllabus
- LAW 225: Employment Law (Cunningham-Parmeter)
- LAW 234: Trusts & Estates (Vollmar)
- LAW 239: Arbitration (Birke)
- LAW 248: Health Care Law & Policy (Frisch)
- LAW 252: Con Law II (Williams), syllabus
- LAW 304: State & Local Govt (Diller)
- LAW 314: Antitrust Laws (Chiappetta)
- LAW 315: Intellectual Property (Chiappetta)
- Law 318: Int'l Business Transactions (Nafziger)
- LAW 325: Juvenile Law (Crier)
- LAW 333: School Law (Crier)
- Law 337: Secured Transactions (Sandrik)
- LAW 338: Payment Systems (Wise)
- LAW 340: Anglo-American Legal History (Clark)
- LAW 350: Immigration Law (Skinner), syllabus
- LAW 354: Patent Law & Policy (Sandrik)
- LAW 356: Water Law (Smith), syllabus
- LAW 361: Adv Topics in Conflict and Dispute Resolution (Clark)
- Law 374: Pre-Trial Civil Litigation (James)
- LAW 390: Appellate Theory & Process (Dobbins)
- LAW 397: Public Health Law (Diller)
- LAW 399: Sel Tpcs in Labor & Employ Law (Cunningham-Parmeter)
- LAW 478: Externship (Skinner)
- LAW 618/634: Clinic-Human Rights & Immigration Law (Skinner)
- LAW 619: Mediation (Birke)
Court Certification
Please review the rules for court certification, as they differ from state-to-state.
For Oregon, second-year law students may apply for court certification after they have completed at least four semesters of full-time legal studies amounting to not less than 50 credit hours, are in good academic standing (2.30 cumulative GPA or higher), and have successfully completed Professional Responsibility and Evidence. Visit our forms library to review the details of the Oregon Court Appearance requirements.
For Washington, second-year law students may apply for court certification after they have completed not less than two-thirds of a three-year prescribed course of study, are in good academic standing (2.30 cumulative GPA or higher), and have successfully completed Professional Responsibility and Evidence. There is a $50 application fee and several other parts to the application. Visit our forms library to review the details of the Washington Court Appearance requirements.
Academic Year
Willamette Law programs are on a semester system. Each regular academic year consists of two semesters - fall semester and spring semester.
Fall Semester is the first semester of the year and runs from late August through early December. Spring Semester is the second semester of the year and runs from mid-January to early May.
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Movie Review: The Wrestler
The Charlotte Observer
The best way to make a comeback in Hollywood is not to disappear but to make a succession of bad movies, then cap it with a good one. If you've been humbled long enough, the murmurs about an Oscar begin to build.
That's the case with Mickey Rourke's performance in "The Wrestler." Any actor mocked or ignored for 20 years has to identify with a character who saw his star fade in the 1980s but has plugged away in obscurity.
Emotions ooze slowly out of his creased and battered face in Darren Aronofsky's latest heart-wrenching, hard-to-market drama. The film's a little more accessible than "Requiem for a Dream" and a lot easier to understand than "The Fountain," but its low-key grunginess may restrict its appeal to people who have liked professional wrestling and/or Rourke.
He plays Randy "The Ram" Robinson, who's on the wrong side of 50 for a profession where you can catch a metal folding chair in the skull. He got the nickname for a patented pinning move in the ring, but he has earned it by confronting every problem in life head-on, without compromise or even a second thought.
When he's drunk, he lives back in the glory days, where he wrestled for spangled belts and big paychecks. When he's sober, he lives in a trailer in North Jersey and realizes he'd better supplement his dwindling ring income with a steady job.
A doctor warns Randy that heart will give out if he overstrains it, so he has extra impetus to cut meat in a supermarket instead of cutting up opponents in the ring. But he's offered one last big purse if he'll take a 20th-anniversary bout with an old enemy. Here the plot suggests the "Rocky" films, though "The Wrestler" is more scrupulously honest than any of those and not one-tenth as sentimental.
Director Aronofsky and writer Robert Siegel know the world of low-budget wrestling and present it with clear-eyed affection. Randy battles in unheated high school gyms and doctors himself with tape and painkillers. We see small tricks of the trade, such as a razor blade tucked into his tights; the Ram uses it to nick his own forehead, producing superficial cuts that stream blood.
When he attends fan "conventions" so small they can fit into one room, he sells highlight reels from his career. That moment shows Siegel and Aronofsky's eye for detail: Randy still peddles VHS tapes in a DVD world.
Randy has no better luck with women. He imagines he has a relationship with the stripper who gives him lap dances, but she's afraid to waste compassion on this broken-down hulk; she's chasing the dream of moving with her child to a better climate and a worthier job. (Native Brooklynite Marisa Tomei is ideally cast. At 43, she seems to be glorying in time's minimal effect on her body.)
He has long since abandoned hope for a warm relationship with his estranged daughter (Raleigh's Evan Rachel Wood). But he plugs away anyhow, absorbing her scorn in the hope that he'll finally prove he can be a dependable dad. He bulls forward obstinately with gifts and advice, though he suspects she won't want either, and he has no idea how to grapple with the idea that she's probably a lesbian.
Despite Randy's exterior, which verges on the makeup in TV's "Beauty and the Beast," Randy is a genial soul: He gets along especially well with wrestlers, who consider him a friend and an icon. "Do you mind if I use a staple gun?" politely inquires an opponent, whose ring character is that of a deranged hillbilly.
The film remains resolutely small: There can be no "Rocky"-sized vindications in Aronofsky's stories. That may frustrate audiences used to definitive triumphs or defeats, but those would be out of place in the grubby, inhospitable circles through which the Ram now plods. The best he can hope for, like the actor who embodies him, is to remind the world he still deserves to be taken seriously.
In comeback role, Mickey Rourke grapples grippingly with age, despair and longing for glory days.(Full review)


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Canadian design firm Uufie builds this lake cottage in the birch and spruce tree forest of Ontario's Bolsover region. The house, built with black steel and charred cedar wood, is covered with mirrors that surreally reflect the surrounding nature. The locally sourced materials naturally protect against termites and fire, their thickness and A-shape roof providing the occupants good heat insulation for the winter. Unlike the shiny and black exterior, the interior is light timber, warmly taking in the light from the surrounding windows.
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"Strict Machine" by GoldfrappIt was produced by Goldfrapp and describes laboratory rats in neuroscience experiments....