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Nice! Fully agree. All the bs out there about how thios is a game changer and a challenge to Facetime, etc is bs.
Microsoft will end up writing down this purchase by 6b in 1-2 years and sell it back to Silver Lake for $2b who will in turn sell it to Nokia for $15b!
Maybe I don't get it… but 10x Rev. and 32x EBITDA translates into 31% EBITDA or so… "Low Margin"? I think not. Of course it doesn't justify the multiples, to me at least… Just find Evan's mug shot so cocky that I had to respond!!
Dumbest Deal of this Decade!!!
Steve B. YOU'RE FIRED!!! Pack and leave now!
Everyone under 20 uses Skype….Softie just bought a generational market of young people just going off to clollege or into the work force for the 1st time…..They are tech agnostic…but will be exposed to MSFT products/services DAILY . From stodgy to youthful with a captive market already addicted to Skype….try developing that market and base of users from scratch…Yes Softie must execute but on line gaming alone should a huge winner. They bought a primo tech hungry base of users as well as a foreign user base….just a little execution and this may be the best acquisition of the decade….bean counters may not like the price but it is a marketing departments dream acquisition.
Soooo. Good old boy steve did all this without Billy Gates involvement ? Wow! Amazing….
Here it is mentioned like skype has 70 crores of users.
on what basis they determined that i dont know.
Registering in skype is very easy process compared to other webistes. One physical person can create multiple skypenames and its happening too.Instead of being a moderate user of skype, I have nearly 10 accts. skype makes person lethargic to remember old passwords, as we can easily create new accounts. So 700 million is a wrong figure. i feel it might be aroung 50 to 100 million real persons.
It means 8500/100 = 85$'s for each person.
Imagine what board member Reed Hastings could do with this company. Hastings vs. Apple would spark one of the greatest corporate battles of all time.
I think i like the way the article is written and u pull the right chord of Microsoft…
From Innovations to Inapt resolutions is the next name for Microsoft with Ballmer on the way
Good on you…
Mukesh Pandya
Here's hoping the board keeps Steve Balmer. Microsoft is a huge company at least partly due to illegal abuse of monopoly power. It has single-ahdnedly held back innovation in the tech industry by about ten years. It will be good to see it go down in flames with this visionless sales dweeb in charge.
Steve Ballmer is the new Ray Noorda —- Look it up in Novell history
It's embarrassing that you think Skype has no proprietary technology. That's the whole point of the deal. It's the only scalable Internet communications platform that is widely adopted right now. Buying Skype gives Microsoft a scalable communications technology that already has acceptance.
Let's check back in 4 years and see how it's going. 4 years ago armchair quarterbacks were bashing Microsoft's investment in Facebook. Their investment valued Facebook at an appalling 15 Bn. How foolish of Ballmer to overpay just to keep Facebook from Google. Facebook is currently valued around 100 Bn and working with Microsoft on several fronts. Oops.
Skype is the defacto standard for cross-platform communications. As the number of mobile devices explodes so will Skype usage. Porting Skype to Microsoft's infrastructure will drop overhead dramatically and integrating it with existing products will drive up adoption rates of Skype and other Microsoft products.
That doesn't mean that Microsoft can't screw this deal up, but it will take a lot of work.
Yep, you gotta hate all those Microsoft investments in Alan Cooper and Tripod (Ruby ala Visual Basic) ,Seattle Computer Works (DOS), Sybase (SQL Server), Great Plains (Dynamics) and on and on. It's all about satisfing the consumer and catering to the political correct crowd of social networking zombies. Balmer and Microsoft should forget the enterprises with their millions of employees and dream of having a gadget in every teeneers and whimpies hand. After all, consumers rule technology, dumb it all down so that the monkeys can ride their bikes. Yes, let's check back in 2,3 and fours years and marvel at Apple's enterprise strategy and Microsoft's failed attempts at consumerism.
I'd bet if Google or Apple made the exact same purchase (especially Apple) it would be a genius move and applauded by the same blogger and many others. But because it's Microsoft it's automatically wrong.
What does having $50 billion in cash have to do with the deal being accretive to earnings? That cash is not earnings its just cash. If skype is profitable it will be accretive. If it is not, it will not be accretive. How much cash you have has nothing to do with it. Should you be writing about this topic if you don't know that?
The problem with criticism of the deal is that, price aside, it makes tons of sense. Of course, is that worth $8.5 billion? Likely not.
- anyone can use cash to buy earnings. It's another question if you can buy the earnings at a multiple not grossly in excess of the acquirer's – *that's* adding value. Put another way, if it were an all-stock transaction, would it be accretive?
- this deal is reminiscent of the old AT&T's acquisition of Comcast at ridiculous multiples 12 years ago, knowing that its long distance business made it a dinosaur. I wonder if Microsoft will continue to wither until someone buys it for its brandname too.
I can't tell if the author thinks this was a good deal or not
For years now, I wont even think of investing in MSFT because Balmer is simply horrible.
He should have been fired in 2000, shortly after the release of Windows ME.
Assuming the future of Microsoft lay in a pending, still pending… transition to (profitable) non-PC platforms, I'd almost applaud the move at $4B. They have cash, and invested lessor amounts in worse places (WebTV, MSR… aQuantive?). Microsoft needs a "Hail Mary Pass" for mobile, Skype has the potential to offer them. I say good luck Microsoft, don't @#$% it up!
$8.5 billion amortized over 5-10 years. Millions of eye balls to look at Bing Ads on Skype. Hey for the amount of audience, it's cheaper than advertising on the national TV. Just expense the $8.5 into the traffic acquisition cost for Bing and write it off.
Skype is the phone company for people with no money.
The only people using Skype are those calling home to their no-money relatives in far away lands and those who need Internet access through the public library.
No one with a data plan and a cell phone uses Skype. No one who can pay for all-you-can-eat toll calling uses Skype.
Wireless carriers lack any want to support Skype as Skype cuts into revenues. Yet, desperately, Microsoft is trying to convince wireless carriers to support phones made by others that run a Microsoft operating system.
Microsoft finds itself in a death match with GOOGLE and Apple.
Apple execs see themselves as device makers (iPad, iPhone) and content re-sellers (iTunes). GOOGLE execs see themselves as platform makers (Android, AdSense, DoubleClick, YouTube) and ad space sellers.
Microsoft still see themselves as a seller of personal seat licenses for software with the operating system as the chief focus.
In the only time, Microsoft execs tried to establish a platform, such foolish execs went into the hardware business with the Xbox 360 rather than decreeing a spec for any PC seller to make Xbox 360 machines and then selling access software to connect to an Xbox network.
Microsoft needs to spin off their consumer products (Xbox, etc) and exit the cell phone OS business as their execs do not get at all any business except selling personal seat licenses to corporate America. Instead, Microsoft execs should focus on acquisition of business software and engineering software companies.
The days of owning the desktop in the home are coming to an end. Tablets shall replace desktops and laptops for home use. Integration of tablets as wireless remotes for set-top boxes with display on flat screen TVs is coming.
How did Zune work out for Microsoft? Microsoft execs failed when they tried to become a device maker and content reseller.
As competing with Apple was not enough with an inferior device, Microsoft execs began to compete against Netflix with movie downloads through the Zune Marketplace.
Again, Microsoft needs to spin off any consumer products businesses as their execs do not get at all any business except selling personal seat licenses to corporate America.
This deal reminded me of Time Warner buying AOL.
One only has to look to Andreessen Horowitz [http://bhorowitz.com/2011/05/10/microsoft-buys-skype/] to understand the purchase; why they invested in the first place. There is more to owning a company than the bottom line. One must look at the cost of new user acquisition and other variables to see balance. For example, in 2010 Skype could boast these stat which are much higher today.
500,000 new registered users per day
170 million connected users
30 million users communicating on the Skype platform concurrently
209 billion voice and video minutes in 2010.
Consider that Balmer, as any CEO would in his position, knows things the press and pundits do not. Let's see if we can defame him this time next year for his purchase of Skype.
It's a certitude that Steve Jobs is laughing al the way to the top with egregiously bad deals like this from the other side. Microsoft will continue to fade as Apple continues to ascend.
Since the "investment" announcement I witnessed live at MacWorld 1997, I have been waiting for this to unfold, and "monkey boy" is going to make that happen !
All hail the pathetically self-absorbed… Mr Ballmer.
@Smack MacDougal
I spend at least three times more per month on Skype than I do with my mobile carrier. And often my mobile bill is over 50 GBP. There is absolutely nothing to back up your statements.
I agree that this deal is probably not the best, but Skype is a hugely popular service, across the globe, that appeals to consumers with disposable income willing to pay them for a better, simpler, less annoying service than mobile carriers.
How could anyone miss the not-so-obvious? Does anyone think MSFT is blindly buying into a biz with margins in secular decline while suffering the same already in PCs? Why is MSFT being coy and talking of synergies when no one else sees the synergies (Hotmail already has a voice app)?
MSFT could use Skype as a threat against the mobile makers and carriers: "Use W-mobile or I unleash Skype on every desktop in the world, integrate into the Windows and make versions for every mobile platform and destroy your margins".
The most MSFT loses is $8.5bn. No biggie compared to $200bn mkt cap.
The most the carriers lose is…their whole business. Handset makers too will lose their subsudies from the carriers. Better play nice boys and adopt that W-mobile.
Only a monopolist bully would do that? Not MSFT? Go ask Skype's seller Andreassen (remember Netscape?) his thoughts.
It's baffling no one else sees this is a Trojan horse acquistion and not a bet on Skype.
Microsoft startegy is unclear in every segment of its business. They are cutting by 80% the amount of fees that they've paid to resellers who manage large Microsoft customers, increasing the number of compliance audits within their large customer base…etc. Microsoft is only worried about revenue from quarter to quarter. They have no clear direction, no innovations and they are driving their customers away. It's just a sad story… Once cloud computing is widely adopted, Microsoft won't be the leader, I see Google Apps, Cloud computing providers emerging as winners. It's a sad story,,, Balmer is a bully and he needs to go.
ignored in all the 'ZOMG, MicroSoft and Ballmer are so stupid for overpaying SilverLkae!' breathless posts, are a few salient details.
1) MS/Skype now have the IP rights to the technology used for their service. That was an, um…rather large point of contention. Hard to put any value on Skype without that agreement. That alone increased Skype's value in any transaction [or none].
2) SilverLake installed a pretty good CEO that wasn't there in 2009.
3) Skype had several hundred more engineers than they did in 2009.
IMO, the above 3 things can account for a multi-billion bump in valuation.
Then you add new developments like Skype for iPhone, Ads, 80% more users, premium products like multi-party video, and enterprise.
Of course, MS still has to make the deal work.
But the mindless repetition of 'SL paid X so paying 2.7x 2 years later is CRAZY' completely ignored not only the changes in the stock markets & increased desire for these types of IT/social properties, but a significant improvement in Skype's Ops as well.
Scalabale Technology? I would have thought that Lync is used for that in the Enterprise. Not sure its scalable to the home PC user. Time will tell.
Looking forward to reading this in two years when WP7 is leading phone sales, Kinect is the not only the top selling entertainment device but business device (I know thats not very innovative), and Lync is the top selling enterprise communication platform. There were 600 Millions reasons to buy Skype – its users, its leverage, and that fact Microsoft bought a "verb" that provides invaluable marketing potential across all of their channels.
I agree with the general tone of the article. We should decouple the strategic rationale of the acquisition from the deal dynamics. Microsoft talked itself into unnecessarily paying such a ridiculous price.
Here's the real test of a CEO (or any employee). Would another company hire you? I can't imagine any tech-company hiring Balmer as their CEO. Can you? So, if no one would hire you, why even pay this bafoon?
There are many others out there who can do his job much better simply because they have passion and vision for technology, not just a balance sheet.
Where is WP7′s market share headed? They LOST market share over since may, down from 10% to 7%…
I would make a better CEO of Microsoft.
You were right Sir! Just look at what we have in 2013, WebRTC. Ouch…
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- Address:
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Fratelli's Italian Bistro
- Dining Style: Casual Dining
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Dinner: Mon-Thurs 4pm-10pm
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105 reviews since May 26, 2014
- Food3.9Service4.5
- Ambiance3.9Noise LevelModerate
good for groups (40)neighborhood gem (39)special occasion (29)great for lunch (28)fit for foodies (24)romantic (17)kid-friendly (16)great for outdoor dining (9)notable wine list (8)hot spot (5)scenic view (4)late-night find (4)great for brunch (3)vibrant bar scene (1)Show More
- Hard breadCarbloaderDined on 9/20/2014Bread was so hard. Pasta had big proportions, but wasn't anything spectacular. Beer list was sad.Special Features:
- Best Spaghetti Ever!HungryInAustinDined on 9/20/2014Thank goodness we made a reservation in advance! Fratelli's was packed with Rock N Roll 1/2 Marathon Runners seeking pasta to carb load the night before the race! Food and service was excellent. Thanks for a great dinner!Special Features:
- One Word: Outstanding!runderellaDined on 9/20/2014We booked this place on a whim as I needed a place to carb-load before running Rock 'n' Roll Philadelphia. The place is nice and cozy(I felt under-dressed) but it was fine. I ordered the shrimp parmigiana and it was delicious! The sauce was the best sauce I've ever tasted. My friends ordered from the prix fixe restaurant week menu and completely cleared our plates. Tiramisu and Creme Brûlée for dessert, which we loved. Our server, Dawn, was pleasant and funny and very attentive. I can not stop telling my friends and family about my experience here.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Just OKPNKJNDined on 9/18/2014Had the veal , my son the chicken....kind of tasted the same....ok, but not on par with other Italian restaurants I have tried.
- Another Great MealFoodieDined on 9/17/2014Fratelli's was great again..have yet to be disappointed in the service or the food. The Diver Scallops are delicious. Don't miss out if you haven't tried the food here, you won't be disappointed.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great spot before the theaterDollyDined on 9/13/2014We brought a small group of six to Fratelli's and were very pleased. The price fix menu was available and a great value for delicious food. The crabcake appetizer was substantial and creamy. The duck was beautifully done and the salmon dish got a great review. There is a nice choice of bottled wines and we thought the restaurant was priced reasonably for center city with a lot of menu choices. Combined with the groupon, it made the night more reasonable, especially since we were treating our children! We enjoyed the sleek and attractive decor and our server from Shippensburg (yea!) was so nice and very efficient. I would definitely recommend Fratelli's, especially for those who enjoy a primarily Italian/Continental menu.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Good food, but nothing memorableCarolineDined on 9/6/2014My boyfriend and i went and tried their pre-fix 3 course meal. The calamari was way too chewy but the crab cake was great. The pasta was fine. It was good but not outstanding. Not worth the price without the 3course price. Entrees alone are around $20 but a 3 course meal is $25. Our server was so attentive and a complete sweetheart. The wine was great and the restaurant atmosphere is really cozy and romantic. We will probably be back, but we weren't blown away by the food.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great RestaurantOliverDined on 9/6/2014Food, service, and atmosphere were all very good. Good selection on the menu and the portions were large.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- good eatesNemrac766VIPDined on 8/30/2014had a wonderful meal last saturday night chcken parm dry was ferfect just the way I liked it the angel hair pasta cooked just right the sauce on the side the bread fresh and good like the two choicesSpecial Features:
- An enjoyable mealKateDined on 8/29/2014Italian dishes we had were delicious as well as the seafood. We had a view of the street and there was a nice distance between tables. Waitress service was perfect.Special Features:
- Great placeMoz5019Dined on 8/29/2014I never leave there hungry! Portions are large and service is great. I would definitelySpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Perfectly PleasanthappydinerDined on 8/29/2014The restaurant was very welcoming. They were very good at honoring our Open Table request to be seated at a booth. The food was very enjoyable. I thought the prices were very reasonable and I appreciated that even the specials were fairly priced. The fish options were great. They offer it grilled with your choice of many different toppings/sauces. The herb marinade was delicious!! Our server was lovely and just attentive enough.I would recommend this to a friend.
- Just OKJjgarzDined on 8/27/2014The wait staff was very friendly and helpful. The food was the issue. The diver scallops were supposed to be in a garlic and lemon sauce and they had no flavor at all. The lobster sauce on my salmon was bland and had an odd orange color. The salad was good but nothing special.
- njwandererVIPDined on 8/24/2014Fratelli's is a great spot for an early dinner after a theater matinees. The food is very good and the service is efficient and friendly. We will definitely dine there again.Special Features:
- Great food and serviceOpenTable Diner Since 2009Dined on 8/23/2014We were a group of four for dinner. The menu is not extensive but offers lots of choices. What really stood out was the wonderful service we received although the courses do come out quickly. We are going back if a few weeks.Special Features:
- great food, reasonable priceJSKfoodDined on 8/20/2014Went there for dinner mid-week. Restaurant was very active but service was great and food was wonderful. Took advantage of the fixed price meal for some of us, which is a good value. Good kids menu as well.Special Features:
- fun downtown bistroAliceNoVaVIPDined on 8/11/2014Our first visit here -- for lunch on a Monday so it was fairly quiet. Food and service were very good. Great view of Chestnut street with the large front windows. Although there is outdoor seating, with the high volume street traffic, this was really an option for us. Keep in mind it is a Bistro, so more casual an atmosphere. Fun downtown place, especially for small groups. We had a groupon coupon which made it a great bargain.Special Features:
- Great choicehelzVIPDined on 8/10/2014Couldn't have asked for a better meal! Many choices from 3-course fixed priced dinner and a lot of food.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great food, great serviceAnnieMDined on 8/9/2014I love the bruschetta here! The waitress was really nice too, I have been here twice and had a great dining experience both times.Special Features:
- Still craving the pastaKrisDined on 8/9/2014I took my son and his girlfriend to dinner last Saturday, enjoyed the food and the service so much! The "gnocci" was fabulous, ate the leftovers for breakfast the next day, I was craving it so badly. We will definitely be back, "more sooner than later" said my happy couple guests.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great service by JustinOpenTable Diner Since 2011VIPDined on 8/3/2014We had a very good waiter. The food was pretty good. Kid friendly and convenient.Special Features:
- Dining is funDiningisfunDined on 8/2/2014It was up to me to choose a restaurant before going to a concert. I spent a long time on Open Table reading reviews. I finally chose Fratelli's. It was a great pick. We went with the 3 course price fix menu. Everything was delicious and each course was perfectly timed. Our server was delightful. We will definitely return.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great food!MusicGirl08Dined on 7/29/2014My friend and I had lunch at Fratelli's Italian Bistro and both of us enjoyed our meals very much. The food came fast and was cooked to perfection. I highly recommend this restaurant if you love good Italian food.Special Features:
- Great Food, and Great Service!Diddo84Dined on 7/25/2014The food at Fratelli's is a bit pricey, but delicious overall. My favorite is the chili pepper chicken rigatoni. It's in a light tomato, white wine, and garlic kind of sauce with a little kick of spice from the chili pepper flakes. My fiance loves the chicken battuta and their carrot cake. We went on a Friday night. It was a little busy, but service was excellent. We were able to get a tale right by the window, which we loved (we are big people watchers). Our waitress was extremely nice and friendly! We were very happy with our overall experience and will return.Special Features:
- TweakieVIPDined on 7/23/2014Once again we had a wonderful lunch--the service was terrific, the place is attractive and most important, the food is good. Looking forward to a return visit!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Good Service Not so good spaghettimrshooksDined on 7/19/2014I am allergic to seafood so I ordered spaghetti. I didnt enjoy it. The othe guest ordered seafood and said it was delicious. You decideSpecial Features:
- OpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 7/14/2014thought the food, service and restaurant itself was great. Would recommend this restaurant to all.
- Good locationnannygrannyDined on 7/10/2014Picked Fratelli's because of Groupon. Good service, great ambience, great location near work. Food was so-so. Portions were generous. Fish was overcooked. Grilled cheese tasted great but was on the greasy side.Special Features:
- Great foodJooliDined on 7/9/2014The caramelized duck is AMAZING and our waitress was funny, prompt and wonderful. My boyfriend did not really enjoy his veal parmigiana, saying it was overbreaded and the meat was dry, but I absolutely loved my entree [the duck]. It was so good I almost cried. The bread did come out cold, as did the butter, and I really prefer it warm, but otherwise I was very happy with the experience. The restaurant is decorated simply but nicely.Special Features:
- Strange AmbiencespeedtreeDined on 7/6/2014The food was pretty good and with a Groupon it was a great deal. The downside was that they were playing Nirvana, sublime and other similar 90s band which did not at all fit the ambience. I am a fan if those bands but not really in this setting. Also, for an Italian place the wine selection was sparse and there were no draft beers. Overall a good deal with Groupon but I would be hesitant to pay fill price with so many other options on the city.
- LunchFoodofileFrankVIPDined on 7/5/2014Stopped in for lunch at this mid town spot. We gave our drink and food order to Casey since we decided on everything before she came to the table for the first time. The first part of my meal and Mil's main course came out before Casey brought our drinks to the table. When we asked about our drinks they were "forgotten," The drinks eventually showed up as did my main course. The food was as expected, however, our server never checked back with us before we had finished our food. Service needs improvement. We almost always tip at 20% or above! but this time service did not merit that level of gratuity.
- kna4917Dined on 7/3/2014My experience was much better than expected. My roommate did not give a very good review of the restaurant, but I decided to still go because they had a wonderful Groupon deal online. I took my family that was visiting from out of town and the waiter that we had was great - he liked us so much we got a surprise meal for free! The food wasn't the best Italian I've ever had, but still delicious and worth eating again. The prices weren't crazy outrageous and the food portions were quite large!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
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The San Diego Padres are tipping their caps to the Navy SEALS who gunned down Osama bin Laden by busting out their camouflage jerseys tonight ... TMZ has learned.
Locker room sources tell us Padres players decided last night they wanted to honor the military by sporting the unis -- which they normally wear only for Sunday home games.
San Diego is home for many U.S. troops, including Navy SEALS ... and the USS Carl Vinson -- the aircraft carrier that buried bin Laden at sea.
We're told the Padres will also observe a moment of silence before tonight's game at PETCO Park to remember the victims of 9/11.
UPDATE: The Padres announced all active, retired, and veteran military personnel can get two free tickets to tonight's game. You can hear the cheers already ... "USA! USA!!"
ThinkingWoman 23 minutes ago
@Midnight Toker - The Padres are very generous with tickets to military. Every home Sunday game, the graduating Marine Company (Marine Corps Recruit Depot-San Diego) receive a bank of tickets. They've done this for many years.
thats kool,,here in wash dc they have been trying to get the washington nationals to pack the seats behind home plate with men in uniforms but they never do,,they remain empty
HaHaHa, SHAME ON YOU. As a New Yorker who witnessed the horrific consequences of his radical/violent behavior I am relieved he can no longer spew his venom.
Patriotism is never WRONG.
Very cool. Love that idea. Maybe a Navy Seal patch on the uniforms. Don't do it for too long though unless you want the entire place overrun by hillbillies with beer-coolers, beer-bellies, & gun-racks.
Tonight's Washington Nationals-San Francisco Giants baseball game in Washington, D.C. had long been scheduled as "Military Appreciation Night," including various salutes to the troops, flyovers, and the Nationals wearing special patriotic uniforms (not sure about the Giants). It may even bump the Nats' attendance by a few thousand. :)
The Padres have had the cammi uniforms for some time now. I'm not sure when they first wore them.
You're high, smelly troll.
The seating area where injured military men and women sit (often in wheelchairs) are above the usual 'behind home plate' TV shots at Nationals Park in D.C. The troops are saluted midway through every home game, often coming from rehabbing at Walter Reed Hospital. It's nice to even see the umpires turning to face our wounded warriors, and applauding.
Now you can go back to smoking your bowl, you loser.
That is nice to hear, Teddy. Thanks for sharing that information.
Anything to honor the more than 1,000,000 innocent Iraqis, Afghanis, and soldiers who've died in the hunt for bin Laden? Or do the Padres not give a **** about anyone else?
I think the camo jerseys are a GREAT way to honor those who brought Bin Laden to his final justice. Kudos to the Padres - very classy!
WRONG, TMZ. The padres ALWAYS wear those jerseys EVERY SUNDAY.. They didn't just but them out cause of the capture of osama and the for the seals..
@ Midnight Toker,
**** you, first of all.. 2nd of all, the Padres are going to be giving 2 FREE TICKETS to anyone who presents a military ID at any ticket window at Petco Park.
@ Midnight Toker
**** you, first of all. 2nd of all, the Padres are giving 2 FREE TICKETS to anyone who presents a military ID at the ticket windows tonight at Petco Park.
WRONG, TMZ. The Padres ALWAYS wear those jerseys every SUNDAY.. for the military... They didn't just bust them out for the seals and the osama capture.
are those navy camo's?
you ass'es wont be so happy when they get us back.
then everyone will cry and have candle light vigils.
Im going to curse the San Diego padres right now, hahaha- THEY ARE GOING TO LOSE, BECAUSE THE PADRES ARE LOSERS! IF THERE IS ONE THING THE PADRES DO BEST ITS LOSE!


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Well, well, well it's the time again! It's time for Neon! hosted by A-Team, Neon is a showcase gathering all Las Vegas' dance crews and putting them on stage to perform for you! Get ready to get bedazzled and amazed as the vegas dance community puts on a show! This will definitely light up your world! No neon lights needed!
- Ateam Krump
- Ground Zero
- High Profile
- Hypnotix
- Meccamee
- Rascals
- Select LV
- The Prodigy
- Tru Vibe
With a special musical guest performance by:
- Fools for Falling
Ticket pricing:
- $12 for Pre-sale tickets
- $20 at the door
Where and when:
- Cashmen Theater (850 Las Vegas Blvd Las vegas, NV 89101)
- Doors open at 5:30pm
- Show starts at 7pm
We hope you can all make it out and support your favorite local crews, let alone Meccamee! We all hope to see you there soon!


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Published on May 21st, 2012 | by Christian Cawley
BBC "Shake Up" Series 7?
The structure of Doctor Who Series 7 has been something of a mystery to fans since last June when the entire future of the show was in baffled confusion for a few hours.
Since learning that the show would appear in the autumn – hopefully on dark nights – fans have expressed relief and satisfaction, but a recent interview with Steven Moffat has suggested that there is in fact more to it than moving the show to be in a more seasonally suitable time slot.
With five episodes due before Christmas, a sixth – introducing Jenna-Louise Coleman – for Christmas itself and then another 8 in 2013, the shape of Series 7 continues to fascinate and befuddle Whovians. And now it seems that the Moff wasn't responsible for the decision…
"I don't know, on this occasion, that the thinking particularly came from me, actually. I've always been open to anything that shakes [the series] up. I think that decision actually came from the BBC.
"But I've been well up for anything that we can do to shake up the transmission pattern, the way we deliver it to the audience and how long we make the audience wait, simply because that makes Doctor Who an event piece."
Interesting words. Could this be tacit confirmation that the 50th anniversary episode will in fact form part of the Series 7 recording?
Or is it more about keeping the viewing public on its toes?
"The more Doctor Who becomes a perennial, the faster it starts to die. You've got to shake it up, you've got to keep people on edge and wondering when it will come back.
"So keeping Doctor Who as an event, and never making people feel, 'Oh, it's lovely, reliable old Doctor Who – it'll be on about this time, at that time of year'. Once you start to do that, just slowly, it becomes like any much-loved ornament in your house – ultimately invisible. And I don't want that to ever be the case."
We're not sure that this is exactly true – viewing figures certainly don't back this idea up, which seems to be a case of creating facts to fit an agenda.
5 Responses to BBC "Shake Up" Series 7?
I don't think this is anything to worry about. I think they've put this long break in to prepare for the media blitz next year.
I think this does make sense. Pretty much each year, there's been a shake up or change of some sort, whether it's a change of Doctor, change of companion or change of time slot or series start dates. After series 4, RTD gave us a barren 2009 just to whet the appetites again, and I think that's playing into this reconfiguration a bit as well.
I have no problem as after the past series, I'm in need of a bit of a rest from the show for a while. Things are going to be pretty Who-crazy starting this fall and probably most of next year so I'm good with the wait.
The show seemed to survive for quite a long time without viewers having to play 'Where's Wally' with the scheduling. In fact, when it went to weekdays in the Davison era, that created a downshift in popularity, if I remember correctly.
"We're not sure that this is exactly true – viewing figures certainly don't back this idea up, which seems to be a case of creating facts to fit an agenda."
They're saying they don't WANT it to become like that, but that fear it could; so they are considering ways to avoid it ever happening. Makes sense.
If the 50th anniversary – all the way off in November 2013 – is part of s7, then it means a longer wait for s8.
I despair of such thinking…it will only lose its audience so that only the die hard cult fans (like me) remain and frankly I want the show to be at the forefront of people's minds.


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How do I repair crumbling cinder block?
While breaking out my old cast iron clean out for the kitchen, I damaged the cinder block that it went through. Its still together like a puzzle, its just cracked. What are my options for repairing it? I'm also putting the new cpvc clean out back through it.
if the block's hidden, just use hydraulic OR mortar to rebuild it.
NEVER touch things that are not already broken ! ! ! :banana::clap::hide:
I'm installing new cpvc in my house so the old clean out had to be taken out.
If you can block off the outside surface, pump in concrete with a concrete pump; a 1" ID copper pipe with a sliding-fit dowel inserted.
You load up the business end with a handful of concrete and then plunge it into the crevices.
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Gluten-Free Strawberry and Chia Seed Newton Cookies
- TOTAL TIME: 55 MIN Plus 1 hour chilling
These gluten-free cookies have a delicious filling of dried fruit, strawberry jam and chia seeds.
Slideshow: Gluten-Free Desserts
- 3 tablespoons strawberry jam
- 1/2 cup dried strawberries or figs
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 tablespoons chia seeds
- 1 tablespoon chia seeds
- 3 tablespoons orange juice
- 1 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons gluten-free rolled oats
- 1/4 cup granulated cane sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon agave or maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup coconut oil
- To make the dough, stir together the chia seeds and 3 tablespoons of orange juice and set aside to gel. Add the rolled oats to the bowl of a food processor and pulse into a fine but rough flour. Reserve 2 tablespoons of the flour and set aside. Add the sugar, salt, cinnamon, maple syrup, vanilla extract and coconut oil to the bowl and continue to pulse to combine mixture into a ball. Turn out the dough out onto a sheet of plastic wrap, form into it a round flat disk and cover it tightly with the plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
- To make the filling, blend the jam, dried fruit, lemon juice and salt in the bowl of a small food processor until smooth. Add the chia seeds to the mixture and set aside.
- Preheat the oven to 350°. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Place a piece of plastic wrap over a work surface and dust it with some of the reserved oat flour. Place the dough onto the floured surface and cover with another sheet of plastic wrap to prevent the dough from sticking. Using a rolling pin, roll the dough out to a thin piece the size of a 14-by-6 inch rectangle. With a pizza cutter or knife, trim the excess cracking edges to shape straight edges.
- Spoon the filling along the center of the dough in one straight line leaving 2 inches along the bottom and top of the dough clean. Fold each side over the prepared filling and press the dough firmly to seal each layer. Cut about 10 equal slices into small rectangles from the long cookie strip and place closely together onto the parchment-lined baking sheet seam-side down.
- Bake the cookies for 15-20 minutes. Let cool on wire rack. Cookies can be stored in airtight container up to 3 days.
Make Ahead The filling and the dough can be made in advance.
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Echoes is an action-strategy game. It's set in an extensive universe on a torn Earth almost three-hundred years in the future. It joins the famous real-time strategy genre with many elements from the third person shooter genre, in a side-scrolling environment.
Please note this game is loaded with action, and may load on your cpu. If you have any slow frame rates try to lower the graphic settings. Also note Echoes is a heavy story-teller, with scenes and dialogues. If you're in only for the action, there's always a skip button in the corner.
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Combat mode:
- Mouse - aim, shoot
- W,A,S,D - movement
- Shift - sprint
- Q - command, drag for select units
- E - action circle
- 1-6 - activate abilities
- Z,X,C,V,B - select weapon
- Space - switch to Strategy mode
P, ESC - Pause game
Strategy mode:
- W,A,S,D - camera movement
- Shift - faster camera movement
- Mouse drag - select units
- Mouse click - order units to move
- Ctrl + Mouse click - order units to attack-move
- Hold shift while selecting units to select additional units.
- Space - switch to Combat mode.
- Ctrl + 1-5 to group a few units together.
P, ESC - Pause game
Rated 5 / 5 stars February 2, 2011
good game
i liked it all around but it took for ever to load, i cant tell if its the game or my computer, either way, niether are good
Rated 5 / 5 stars January 28, 2011
Awsome game that combines action and strategy in one. Amazing. Good game and campaign. The final boss is really tough though. Can't wait until the next one comes out.
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars January 27, 2011
Love it !
Totally perfect game . Only thing that i hate, is that to dodge enemy attacks, you should jump just in time to dodge them .
Rated 5 / 5 stars January 8, 2011
Amazing game
Pretty awesome game. Kind of annoying when it lags and you fight the end boss but its is very fun. Cant wait for more to come out. And by the way, anybody know the secret medals?
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars January 2, 2011
it takes a long time to load but worth it so i gave it a nine beacuse of that


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A manual handling assessment must be reviewed if there is reason to suspect that it is no longer valid or there has been a significant change in the manual handling operations.
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Workers who suffer from MSDs may have a reduced ability to do tasks, as well as pain or discomfort, and the most serious cases can result in permanent disability.
The construction industry has one of the highest rates of MSD.Typical construction activities that can cause injury are:
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In honor of June being National Homeownership Month, the South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs is offering you a free way to learn about the top issues that impact those wanting to buy a home and those in fear of losing one. It's hosting a webinar June 17th on the topic.
Consumer Affairs says housing scams and credit repair are the top issues that jeopardize homeowners the most.
In Spartanburg, counselors at Upstate Housing Partnership say the biggest hurdles people in our area are facing right now include credit issues and money management.
They say if you're trying to buy a home and you have bad credit, there's no quick fix. It may take months, even years, to get you prepared to buy a home. But they work with you every step of the process.
Counselor Cedric Herbert says if you're facing foreclosure, watch out for offers that "guarantee" to fix your problem.
"A lot of the clients are coming back and telling us that they are getting letters in the mail or having things slip in their door saying, hey give us a call if you want to save your house, or guaranteeing that they can save their homes," said Herbert. "A lot of that is scam. There is nobody that can guarantee it."
Herbert says to also watch out for offers to repair your credit for a fee. Those offers often include things you can do on your own for free.
To contact the Upstate Housing Partnership, call (864) 504-3090.
Consumer Affairs also has a section dedicated to homeowners on its website.
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History of Progressivism
…an ongoing journal of a continuing journey
The purpose of this page about the Progressive movement is to explain what Progressivism really is, where we came from, and how it differs from what Glenn Beck claims that it is.
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I realize that many visitors to this site have limited time, so in order for you to get the main ideas I am going to provide a summary of facts that Glenn Beck does NOT want you to know about Progressives and what we believe.
I have drafts of lots more material, so please stop back for updates, and share this with your conservative friends who bash progressives and have no clue what they're talking about.
Inconvenient Facts
|Progressive/populist achievements, traits, goals or outlook
|Glenn Beck's side's resistance, tendency, oppression
|Optimism, progress, belief in the inherent goodness of mankind and the concept of human rights
|Pessimism, maintain status quo or go backwards to an imaginary "good old days", belief that people must be controlled, very limited belief in human rights when social justice is the topic
|The creation of the middle class
|The robber barons and hyper-rich oligarchy (yes, that's the real spelling) and everyone else is subject to their whims
|Standards for safe food, drugs, and products
|Let the marketplace rule; if people die from food or drug poisoning the marketplace will take care of it. Word will get around and nobody will buy the products.
|Municipal police and fire departments
|Rule by the gun, home defense, volunteer fire departments or privately owned police and fire departments
|Professional standards for doctors, lawyers, engineers, and so on rather than anyone just reading a few books and going into practice
|Let the market take care of itself. If you get killed by a quack, make sure your heirs spread the word around.
|Growth and capitalism are great, but there must be purposeful human intervention to prevent concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few ultra-rich
|Social and economic Darwinism, meaning that the strong should be allowed to seize anything they can
|Social cohesion; in a society, people are not autonomous but instead are part of a complicated system of relationships with each other
|Every man for himself
|Exposure and battle with machine politics, railroad and robber barons; the Muckrakers, the magazine, newspaper, and book writers such as Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Lincoln Steffens
|Integration of politics and news apparatus with Fox News operating as a 24 hour anti-Democrat noisemaker. Phony outrage and made-up scandals, wild conspiracy theories, character assassination
|Pass strong child labor laws
|Offshore businesses to countries that use child labor to import products into America in order to make higher profits
|The "Social Gospel", foundation of the Salvation Army, a powerful attempt to work because of moral impulse to solve the problems of the poor, degraded, and impoverished worker class
|The Religious Right, (now infiltrated by a Mormon cultist), which largely exists as a political arm of the GOP and tries to influence centrist voters with wedge issues like prayer in public schools, "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, "evolution science" in schoolbooks, and abortion.
|Labor and trade unions; men and women have the right to organize for collective bargaining rather than having to face the power of a company by themselves
|Union busting, corporations have more rights than their workers, the marketplace will take care of it and if the unions don't like it we'll just offshore all of our production
|Living wage
|If you don't like your paycheck, quit and find another job. Even if there is 15% un-and under-employment
|Woman's suffrage
|Women are second-class citizens in every respect. They are to stay home and raise babies (Mormon belief). If they do make it to the workplace they can only go to a certain level of management(with a few exceptions) and on average they are to be paid 28% less for the same job that a man does
|Peace and negotiation, membership in the UN
|Pre-emptive war, endless war on "terror", US should quit the UN and kick them out of the country
|Religious and cultural tolerance
|The belief that there is only one true religion, Christianity, and Americans should be Christian. Other religions may be tolerated as long as they keep their place
Why "Progressives"?
Why has Glenn Beck determined that "Progressives" are the root cause of all of America's problems, real and imagined? The simple answer is that even during the birth, rise, and height of Progressivism, there were so many sub-groups with congruent and competing ideas that it was impossible to give a firm definition of what it means to be a Progressive. Today the Progressive movement is colloquially considered to be the left wing of the Democratic Party, or those who have splintered off into other leftist groups. But here's the deal. There is no real definition of "Progressive" so Glenn Beck can define the term to mean anything he wants. How can you argue with him? Who is going to argue with him? Nobody at Fox, that's for sure. That's why he landed on "Progressives" to demonize, and it's pretty clever, actually. But the bullshit stops here, Glenn. Right on this page.
Conservatives and Their Demonic Labels
Glenn Beck loves to throw the word "progressives" around like it's some kind of dirty word. For decades, conservatives have short-circuited political discourse in America through their tactics of taking a word, redefining its meaning, and then using it as a supposedly derogatory label. "Progressive" is one of the many words that has taken on this usage. There are other words, too, such as "liberal", "socialist", "leftist", "black nationalist", "labor", "union", even the word "democrat". Glenn Beck is not the first, and he won't be the last. He has a rich history of red-baiting, Jew-baiting, race-baiting, and communist witch hunts to draw on. He follows in the footsteps of Father Coughlin, Tail Gunner Joe McCarthy, Cleon Skousen, Carl McIntyre, Robert Welch, Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingram, Ann Coulter, Michael Reagan, and even Klan figures like David Duke.
The Pilonidal Cyst of Hate Radio
AM radio was on its last legs in 1987 when the FCC under the direction of Ronald Reagan quietly removed the Fairness Doctrine. The Fairness Doctrine was a rule recommended by the FCC in 1949 and implemented in 1961 that required as a condition of broadcast licensing that radio stations must present controversial issues of public importance and they must present all sides of the issue fairly. (This is not the same as Equal Time). The most famous and outspoken opponent of the Fairness Doctrine that I remember from that period was Dr. Carl McIntyre, who railed that he would never bow down to the tyrants at the FCC and to prove it he took his radio station onto a tramp steamer and parked it just outside US territorial waters. From there he continued to "prove" that there was a commie heathen behind every tree and bush in the US and call them out by name. I actually phoned into his show one night and he PICKED UP. Recently, I came across an internet site that has preserved many of his radio shows from 1970 and 1971. I believe it was April or May when I phoned in, and if I can find the .mp3 of that conversation, you'll hear a young W.W.Wexler in action!
Ending the Fairness Doctrine was heavenly news to the right wing nutjobs. It was also a infusion of money into the AM radio industry, which now could draw on polarized audiences driven by hate, falsehoods, smears, and demagogues to rally around their radios and buy Gold Bond Powder. The first one of these to really cash in was draft-dodging drug addict Rush Limbuagh, who took to the airwaves in as a conservative talkjock in 1984 and then after 1988 moved to NYC and has been on the air ever since. With the rescinding of the Fairness Doctrine, Rush could present all the controversial issues and make up the wildest bullshit imaginable and there was nobody that could stop him. The only way you could even get to the same audience was to buy up radio stations like they were little Monopoly pieces and this is exactly what Clear Channel and Sinclair Broadcasting, among others, have done. With mega-networks controlling what's on the airwaves, this led to syndication and therefore an opinionated little man huffing and puffing about the l-i-i-i-i-i-berals got national attention while America's rolls of fat got less itchy and our insoles were less flat than they could have been. Limbaugh made a cottage industry out of playing the Clintons like cheap, hillbilly violins. He came up with a new shocking scandal every week, and new revelations that played into the political hands of the mostly inept GOPER Congress who ended up trying to impeach a sitting US President over lying about whether or not he had oral sex with one of his campaign helpers.
Did You Forget About Beck or Something?
No, I was just getting around to that. Thanks for asking.
Beck has been especially busy redefining words, rewriting history, and connecting non-existent dots for about 3 years. He had about a year at CNN where he was pretty much of a failure. I remember hearing about him in those days as the "whiny guy who cries once in a while".
Then the Mormons picked him up, then Fox picked him up, and his fortunes have changed indeed. He has a national cable TV show and a syndicated radio show, a multimillion dollar merchandising operation, a couple of really, REALLY shoddy books, and even an upcoming slap in the face to the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, who gave his life in the struggle for black civil rights in America. He even has a whole day of his show, "Founder's Friday", dedicated to rewriting American history into his narrow, Mormon-poisoned, extremist worldview. The purpose of this page is to give real historical facts about the Progressive movement; how it started, what its goals are, and who are people who are pivotal in the Progressive movement from its inception through to today. This page is still developing, but I want to put it up as it is so you have some facts to use in your discussions with friends and neighbors.
Much more to come.
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this must be written by the angry young boy who's lunch was taken by a bully , we are sorry for you.
please review history and stop this. it will not help.
hate is hate whichever "side" you slice it on!
Tim is an idiot! You can't reason with someone that only has 10% of his brain fully functioning.
One factual error, is that the Salvation Army is not and has never been a "progressive" movement. While they did engage in similar actions in comparison to the practitioners of the "Social Gospel", they in fact did not and do not follow the same philosophy. They are a Conservative, Evangelical Protestant denomination and are as far from the "progressive" theology that created the Social Gospel as they could be.
Second, very few conservatives of any stripe in this age argue that all Americans should be Christians purely because they are Americans. Any that issue a statement like that are (in the majority of the cases) doing so not because they want Americans to be Christians but out of a desire to share their faith with all people, American or not.
Furthermore, your juxtaposition of "keep their place" vs "tolerance" is unclear and misleading. Tolerance can be defined in two primary ways. First, to allow all views, even if you disagree, while still having the freedom to advocate the truth of your view. Second, to argue, as most progressives seem to, that all views are equally valid and no comparisons of truthfulness can be made because one is not more true or right than the other. It is critical to understand this second usage is much more recent and not the primary meaning of the word. The literal meaning has nothing to do with truth-claims but is about allowance to believe/practice, not whether something is right or not. What progressives mistakenly add is that ideas or beliefs must be allowed AND equally true, while most conservatives would seem to hold that it is limited to freedom to believe and no issue of the "truth" is involved. Therefore, it is unfair to say conservatives are not interested in tolerance. Perhaps you ought to be more clear what you mean by tolerance. Perhaps a little less purple prose and yellow journalism would allow you to be a little less emotional about Beck and perhaps not paint all Conservatives with a "Beck-tinted" brush.
Actually, "Movement Conservativism" is not about preserving the "status quo." Its current manifestation, in Beck and the Tea Party, is mass movement with revolutionary, utopian, and milleniarian goals. And of course it needs enemies, hence the demonization of "progressives," President Obama, and the very ironic choice of Woodrow Wilson (who is probably spinning in his racist grave over a Black man as President) as the historical antecedent (see "Lies My Teacher Told Me.") (Originally, Theodore Roosevelt, who was actually the candidate of the Progressive Party in 1912, was Beck's bete noire, but apparently the folks at Fox News pointed out to Glenn that TR was still a big hero to many Republicans, particularly the neo-imperialist wing the Republican Party and he switched to the Professor.)
Other than those nits, enjoyed the blog.
Umm…Sir? I'm still waiting for the facts. Just what is the history of progressivism? How did it start? Why did it start? How is is same/different from what it began as? Why is beck wrong, how do you dispute his comments? I read you article, and as well written as it is, you did a great job of bashing beck and limbaugh, but didn't even begin to make reference to ANYTHING relevant. I am a big fan of Beck and Limbaugh, and am waiting for you to prove me wrong. So stop your bashing; focus, and get to the subject at hand.
And if you could, please, keep the over-used rhetoric (i.e. 'rewriting American history' into his 'narrow', 'Mormon-poisoned', 'extremist' worldview) to a minimum.
Thank you sir. I look forward to the rest of your article.
Mr. Wexler,
I'm on your side but wonder if you can see the contradiction in your words… you speak of the Right's religious intolerance but you use the term "Mormon poisoned" and "Mormon BS" in ways that leads me to believe that you harbor some ill feeling towards a religion different than your own. Sounds like intolerance to me. The Amish believe and practice women staying home to "raise babies"… does that mean they are poisoned and BS as well??
You have a very good website and present your argument very well but, in my opinion, using these terms come off as hypocritical.
Hahaha. I'm glad you've taken several college classes. Maybe you can help to teach me something yet.
What I am waiting on, sir, is an actual article on HOW the progressives brought about "middle class, living wages, professional standards, public libraries and schools, and a host of other things that were designed to help stabilize this nation and move it forward." What were the events that made it into a national issue? Who were the ones that brought it to the national stage and when?
Or maybe you should just send along those reading suggestions. Perhaps they could pass along the information I'm looking for without being condescending. (by the way, no…I havn't taken any history classes yet. I'm only in my freshman year. I felt my time was better spent in Federal Service than in the classroom.)
Clearly it is too much to ask for an atricle titled "History of Progressivism" contain anything about history of progressivism. I was truely curious, wanted to learn the origins to better my understanding of a topic. Was it the comment I made about asking you to validate your distain for Beck? Is that what raised your hackles? Or are you just another liberal hack that hates everything that doesn't fit into their little view of "fair?" Or maybe you're another mindless drone, sucking in every little driblet of hate drooled out by **insert any mainstream meadia outlet here(yes, fox news too)** and has no real thoughts or understanding of anything on their own. I listen to Glen and Rush because I share their overall political phylosophy…low taxes, small govt., gun rights, states rights. I'm sure you disagree with every one of those, may not even see why any person could possibly consider them. I listen to Glen and Rush, laugh at their jokes, when there is something that provokes a reaction, I research it and learn about it. For myself.
I did do a search, and your page came up. I was (again) surprised that the title was totally unrelated to the body of the paper. I continued to search, and found a bunch of crap…either too vague, or too in depth for my timeframe.
I was hoping you could for a few minutes put aside your biases and help another human out…isn't that what you liberals do? But clearly I was wrong.
P.s. Anyone of my age and a passing intrest in American history DID have a year of it in high school, but 2 tours in Iraq and a decade tend to blur the details. But again…I'm sure that is nothing you would understand.
Semper Fi,
May you meet the God you desire.
Very interesting article Wexler, thanks for the insight. Glenn Beck is the most interesting person to me… I don't believe he could honestly be as naive as he claims to be. I'm convinced the man is simply a media-whore and out to make a profit. Fox News certainly doesn't care about conservative politics (remember it's Fox that has Family Guy!).
To Matt,
Please do not take this as condescending or spiteful in any way, and I don't want you to think I'm simply bashing your conservative views. However, I do have to agree with Wexler that Glenn Beck is a liar, plain and simple. The other day, he claimed that Billionaire Soros was evil because he supported the Velvet Revolution (the peaceful overthrow of the communist dictatorship in the Czech Republic) because he was "destabilizing governments". You can bet that he was depending on the average conservative viewer not knowing what the Velvet Revolution was when he made that comment (a simple google search for "glenn beck velvet revolution" is all you need to find information). What is sad is that this kind of remark is common for Beck, and sadly, his viewers don't usually check their facts, resulting in a grossly misinformed and misguided voter base. However, I do agree with you on one thing – I was hoping to find a comprehensive article on the history of progressivism on this page.
Thanks for considering my pov.
you know wexler I read completly through this hopin you would answer some of the questions people asked you and i got nothing.. all you did was bash them telling them to answer questions you had before you would answer them.. come on defend yourself you pussy. And then you talk to a guy that has been on two tours in Iraq and all you can say is "what do you want me to do, stand up and cheer?" .. even if you are opposed to the war have some respect. I have never been in a war or really had anyone close to me go over there but im not going to bash on someone that has left everything they have known to go do something that they even may not like.. So if the Government lies and glenn beck lies who am i to believe?? You say "You'll get a lot further in life with an open mind" and in hearing fox news, msnbc, cnn it doesnt matter everything you hear opens your mind.. It makes you think.. Glenn beck tells me stuff i have never heard before most of the time.. so you know what i do?? i look it up and see if what he is saying is true. i dont believe everything the man says i watch him sometimes and just think to myself this guy is making way to big of deal about this.. but you know the same shit happens with any other idea i hear. ideas are what we live by. people taking other peoples ideas and forming there own. I dont want to hear the same stuff like i have my entire life. i want something to make me question everything and make me find out for myself and form my own ideas.
I want to hear something from you defend yourself, chang my mind. If what he tells me is false, you tell me what is true and back it up with facts that i can find by myself.
And yes i am also to lazy to capitolize my words and there is proly some spelling mistakes but i dont really care.
I don't have cable so I'm not blessed with the ability to watch Mr. Beck's Fox"News" program. I also work during the day and am unable to afford the luxury of listening to his radio broadcast. I HAVE reviewed his transcripts on Foxnews.com and based on my calculations have found that about 90% of those daily transcripts have blatant historical, financial, statistical, and to some degree interpretive errors. I realize that taking a small sampling (online transcripts of 10 minute segments of his TV show) of the overall output (the full show, his radio show, and his many public appearances, books, articles, etc.) might seem insufficient to some, but I liken it to reaching into a haystack and pulling out a small handful of hay. If I shake that handful and find 20 needles in it, I can be pretty sure that haystack is chock full of needles.
That being said, I would suggest changing the name of this particular page to something other than "History of Progressivism.†Perhaps something like "The Progressivism Deconstruction Errors of Glenn Beck and the Extremist Right.†As you noted in your article and responses, the history of Progressivism entails a myriad of different eras, contexts, and fundamental changes in its application to society. It's been changing since the mid 19th century and will continue to do so for a long time. It's far too complex to reduce to a 2 column comparison (albeit a good comparison as a snapshot of today's issues…) Call the page what it is, an initial defense of the concept of Progressivism as it stands today. There is absolutly nothing to be ashamed of in calling oneself a Progressive.
I think Matt deserves a reply concerning the history of the progressive movement. First off – just google "The Progressive Movement" for many authoritative educational articles on its history.
Here's the FranksAmericana take:
The Progressive Movement in the US was originaly a quite Christian movement with its basis in anti slavery during the mid 19th century. It moved forward in the 1870′s to early 1900′s with the labor movement, and was led by such notable Americans as Williams Jennings Byrant, Theodore Roosevelt, and Jacob Riis. Martin Luther King and Mohatmed Ghandi probably would have accepted the title of progressive as well.
In the 1980′s it was adopted in Central America under the label of "Liberation Theology" and while dammed by Mr Beck in his address on the Mall, and yes even the late Pope John Paul. The nuns raped and executed by right wing faciasts in El Salvador in the 80′s and Arch Bishop Romero of El Salvador gave their lives for their progresive views on feeding poor people.
BTW Jesus was also a progressive – he too was executed for defending the poor and upsetting the established order.
Great blog Wexler – and as Boris stated – as mad as we get, it is better to turn the other cheek and just let facts speak for themselves.


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Productivity Growth of Indian Manufacturing Sector: Panel Estimation of Stochastic Production Frontier and Technical Inefficiency
AbstractAbstract Applying a Stochastic Production Frontier to sector-level data within manufacturing sector in India, this paper examines Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth during 1979-80 to 1997-98. The analysis focuses on the trend of technical progress (TP) and Technical Efficiency Change (TEC). The stochastic frontier production function approach, applied in this paper, allows us to separate out these two components, and to identify productivity growth due to either improvement in efficiency or progress in technology. The most important difference between the frontier approach and the traditional index number approach to productivity growth analysis lies on assumption: the existence of an unobservable and idealized production possibility frontier with production-unit specific one-sided deviation from the frontier, i.e. explicitly allowing for inefficiency. If a production unit operates beneath the production frontier, then its distance from the maximal measures it's technical inefficiency. Hence, the frontier approach is capable of capturing both efficiency change and technological change as components of productivity change, which introduces an additional dimension to the analysis from the policy perspectives. The empirical result suggests that the total factor productivity growth in a large number of industries have improved during 1997-98 compared to 1980-81. TFP growth is mainly driven by technological progress not by technical efficiency change in case of Indian economy since all TECs are negative. In the light of empirical results, the policy implication is that the priority to boost economic growth should be in the enhancement of productivity based catching-up capability. In this direction, an efficiency oriented action plan aimed to improve productivity efficiency of manufacturing sector is required to be implemented for removing the fiscal and financial constraints faced by the enterprises which are located in industrially backward area. JEL Classification Numbers: D24, L60, O30, O53, O47 Key words: Total Factor Productivity, Technical Efficiency change, Technological Progress, Stochastic Production Frontier, Indian Economy
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10:28am Fyodor said:
I would like to print the MAC address for a host based on the packets
received. As Testic mentions this will only work on a LAN. And of
course only on Ethernet and similar systems (like 802.11B). It is
still valuable enough that I hope to add it this year. If someone
wants it desperately enough, you can consider sending a patch earlier
:). I might also do a number-of-hops test of some sort both as useful
information in itself and to determine whether the next hop is the
actual target and thus corresponds to the received MAC.
To audit LANs, I'm in the habit of firing up Craig Leres' arpwatch and
using nmap to generate the sweep of ARPs. But directly integrating this
into nmap would be really handy for ad-hoc MAC collecting.
FYI, recent arpwatch activity after much dormancy:
v2.1 Thu Jan 22 14:05:27 PST 2004
v2.0.2 Sat Jun 7 03:15:03 PDT 1997
If course, there is always this rather lowbrow way on linux:
nmap -sP LAN/MASK ; arp -n |grep -v incomplete
I should point out that collecting MACs across VLANs is a separate puzzle
to solve and would involve targeting weaknesses in your upstream switch
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