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When he rang the doorbell, Zia hadn't planned to step inside. He was there to pick up his fiancee who was babysitting, but she couldn't leave (the parents were running late) so Zia agreed to hang out for a bit. His fiancee said, "Let me introduce you to the kids" — the 2-year-old girl, the 7-year-old boy and, most important, squatting, with no shoes on, surrounded by ants on the back patio, the oldest — the 9-year-old — the one he would make world-famous on YouTube.
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The bulk of Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) profits come from three cash cows:
Windows: Develops and markets PC operating systems as well as related software and hardware products.
Server and Tools: Offerings include Windows Server, Enterprise Services, Microsoft SQL Server, System Center products, Windows Azure, and Visual Studio.
Business: Develops and markets business applications including Office, Exchange, Lync, and SharePoint.
These segments are comparable to the cigarette industry. All three are mature businesses, difficult to break into, have fat margins, and require little reinvestment. Unfortunately, these segments can't be expanded with additional capital so companies in this position have two options:
Become a cash machine: Return cash to shareholders through dividends and buybacks.
Reinvest in new ventures: Fund research to development new products or make acquisitions.
Microsoft has chosen to do a little of both.
Becoming a cash machine
Last year, Microsoft generated $31.6 billion in cash flow from operations and is sitting on $68.3 billion in reserves. The company can't find enough productive uses for its cash fast enough so it spins most of it off to shareholders in the form of dividends and buybacks.
In 2012, Microsoft paid shareholders $6.4 billion in dividends and $3.1 billion in buybacks. The stock has one of the highest dividends in the technology space with its yield nearing 3.3%.
Reinvesting into new businesses
But Microsoft hasn't returned everything back to shareholders. As Fool blogger Andrés Cardenal recently pointed out, the company reinvests a high percentage of sales back into research and development. What kind of returns have investors received for that investment?
Windows 8
Last October, Microsoft released the latest version of its Windows operating system. Early numbers have been disappointing.
Six months into the roll-out, Windows 8 has only captured 2.7% of desktop market share. By comparison Vista, universally acknowledged as a failure, had captured 4.5% of market share by a same point in its launch.
Commentators have provided several reasons for a slow launch including an ugly user interface, lack of innovative features, and poor support from the developer community. Increasingly, consumers are choosing to delay replacing their PCs in favor of tablets and smartphones.
On the mobile front results have been also disappointing. Microsoft lost its lead in the space six years ago to BlackBerry. Since then, the company has been losing ground to Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android and Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iOS which own a combined 90% of U.S. mobile subscribers.
However, it's not all bad news. Based on recent data from Kantar Worldpanel, Windows has taken third place in mobile based on February sales. The platform made noticeable gains in international markets as well.
Of course, this chart is hardly conclusive. During this study, BlackBerry had yet to launch its Z10 handset. We'll need to wait for more data to conclusively say Windows has secured third place in the smartphone wars.
It's also evident that Microsoft has missed the boom in tablet devices. The company's Surface has had difficulty picking up market share.
According to a comScore report released last month, Google holds 67% of the search market. Microsoft's Bing search engine trails a distant second with just 16.7%. During the last quarter Microsoft's online division, which includes Bing, lost $289 million.
Microsoft has also made a series of bold acquisitions in recent years including:
aQuantive: Microsoft purchased the search marketing firm for $6.3 billion in 2007. However, the company wrote off nearly the entire investment last year due to worse than expected performance.
Skype: Microsoft purchased the on-line telecommunication company to boost its enterprise collaboration business. However, with a $8.5 billion price tag, it's still unclear if this acquisition will provide a return for investors.
Yammer: Microsoft bought the internet start-up for $1.2 billion last year to bring social network features to its suite of business applications.
Poor returns
Given Microsoft's massive R&D spending, returns for shareholders have been disappointing as management has consistently missed the biggest trends in technology industry.
In contrast, rivals have achieved vastly better results. With relatively little investment, Apple has managed to disrupt several industries including music and mobile while nearly inventing the tablet space. Google has posted remarkable returns for shareholders by dominating search and creating the most popular mobile operating system in the world.
Clearly the market agrees. Since 2006, Microsoft investors have earned an underwhelming 2.3% annualized return.
Value trap?
Microsoft is one of the cheaper names in the large-cap technology space and the stock is a regular favorite of value investors. The stock is trading at just over nine times forward earnings and cash represents over 20% of the company's market capitalization.
Is it a good bet? The shift from PCs to tablets and smartphones is starting to erode the company's lucrative cash cows. While the company is slowly expanding to new businesses, this shift doesn't represent growth but only a transition.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers need Juan Uribe back from injury, and fast. Unfortunately, that does not appear likely to happen any time soon.
Injuries have created a black hole at third base, and the Dodgers have become desperate enough to use Miguel Rojas and Jamie Romak there on back-to-back days.
Without Uribe, the Dodgers had turned to Chone Figgins and Justin Turner, both of whom performed rather admirably over the past month. Turner was one of the offense's most productive players over the last month, and Figgins had made a habit of getting on base at a high rate.
Figgins is now on the 15-day DL with a strained quad, and Turner has had issues of his own with a calf strain. That has left the Dodgers to turn to Romak and Rojas, which is less than ideal for a team looking to gain some ground in the NL West.
Neither Romak nor Rojas is highly regarded for their offense, but Rojas is at least considered an excellent defender. At shortstop.
Rojas has all of 40 games played at third base during a nine-year minor league career, while Romak has not been listed as a third baseman since 2010. There is reason to be concerned, especially considering that this may not be a temporary situation with Uribe's injury. According to manager Don Mattingly:
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Once Uribe is cleared for baserunning, he will need to go on a minor league rehab assignment, further exacerbating the third base situation at the big league level. Mattingly noted this, saying:
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Vino: Refreshing Sake Two Ways
Sparkling Sake and cold Cucumber Sake cocktails are two great ways to beat summer's heat.
Sake is a fermented beverage made from rice (rice wine), whose long history dates back to the third century A.D.. Traditional Sake is made from Rice only, however; there are some sakes (mostly cheaper sakes) made from other grains, who have alcohol added to them.
In recent sake explorations I've discovered two ways beyond the traditional hot & cold versions: cucumber infused cold sake & sparkling sake.
The first is a sake drink made from marinating cucumber slices for many hours. After some practice runs here in the test kitchen I found that letting sake marinate in the fridge with sliced cucumbers for three to four hours produced the desired, cool cuke effect. Resulting in a light, crisp, refreshing drink with relatively low alcohol.
Another surprising find was sparkling sake. Although not widely available, sparkling sakes provide an interesting twist to the sake family. We tested the Poochi Poochi Nigori sake and found it delicious. Cloudy in color with a soft effervescence, a bit of sweetened egg cream on the palate, truly refreshing.
The Poochi Poochi can be found at Gotham Wines for $11.99 and Astor Wines for $12.99.
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I saw sparkling sake at Trader Joe's last weekend, and I wish I had picked some up. I am not a sake fan usually, but I do love sparkling white wines and your review makes it sound fabulous!
Like MEP, I am not a fan of sake and for sure I never taught at sake as a summer drinks. I will give a try to you cucumber sake cocktail when I got my hand on better sake.
Unlike the wide selection at Astor Wines store, the selection in Quebec is between two sake brands: the cheap Hakutsuru sake from Japan and the Californian Shobu Gekkeikan sake, Black & Gold Gekkeikan. I can stand the cheap Japan one. Did you ever try the Californian sakes?


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The life of Balbir Singh Sodhi began in the Punjab Province of India in 1949. But the story of his death began on September 11, 2001, four days before he would draw his last breath. That morning, Balbir watched with horror and fear as the World Trade Center came crashing down. Fear was a common emotion in America that day, of course, but for Balbir and others like him, it took on an added dimension. As footage of swarthy foreigners with beards and turbans flashed between scenes of fireballs and billowing smoke, newscasters speculated on who was responsible. And the people Americans were blaming for what was already being called an "act of war" looked a lot like Balbir.
Balbir Sodhi was a Sikh. Beards and turbans are about all Sikhs have in common with Islamic extremists, but he wouldn't get the chance to explain that to the man who shot him in the back.
The voice of Balbir's younger brother Lakhwinder is weighted with grief as he recalls the events in the last week of his brother's life, a week when the violence on television crescendoed to intolerance that struck his own family. But his first reaction on September 11 was like that of most Americans.
"That day, that terrible day in New York, I didn't think about my family," Lakhwinder says. "I only felt full of sympathy for those families that lost someone."
Later that day, he recalls, the phone rang. It was a distressed Balbir who had called with a warning. "All Sikhs will be in trouble soon," he told his younger brother. "The man they suspect, the one they show on television, has a similar face to us, and people don't understand the difference."
Lakhwinder says Balbir was protective, ordering him to stay home and lie low, and advising him not to go to work, to the store, or anywhere else out among the angry public.
"How about you?" Lakhwinder asked with a younger sibling's petulance. "You shouldn't be working either."
"Don't worry about me," Balbir told him. "I'm in a nice neighborhood. I'll be okay."
On Thursday, Balbir took Lakhwinder to the Sikh temple where they met with its secretary and leader, Guru Roop Kaur Khalsa. They told her they were worried about the safety of Sikhs in the Valley and wanted to do something about it as soon as possible. Their concerns were justified. The day before, September 12, an elderly Sikh man had been brutally beaten with a baseball bat in New York; a Sikh temple was fire-bombed in Cleveland; and a Sikh-owned gas station in New Jersey had been covered with threatening graffiti. They decided to hold a press conference that Sunday, to tell people not only who Sikhs were, but more important, who they weren't.
Balbir wouldn't live to see it.
On Saturday, September 15, Balbir rose for the last time around 4 a.m. He bathed, and then spent more than an hour praying and meditating as he did every day. Later he stopped by Costco to pick up supplies for his gas station at the intersection of 80th Street and University Drive, as well as to donate $75 to a fund for the victims in New York. He was well-known at the Mesa branch, where he frequently shopped. He had just been named businessman of the month; his picture was placed in a frame near the store's entrance, showing Balbir in a blue turban, a small pink smile blooming out of his black beard, his eyes full of light and pride.
Later, from the Chevron station he'd owned and run for a year, Balbir phoned his brother. Nerves and frustration strained his voice. "Lakhwinder, can you bring me four or five flags this afternoon?" he asked. Balbir wanted to put flags up outside his store, lots of flags, he said, but he hadn't been able to find any in Mesa. A display of patriotism couldn't hurt, he figured, as more reports of attacks on Sikhs circulated, including that of a 31-year-old Sikh cab driver who was choked and beaten and had a portion of his beard ripped out by two men in Seattle. Balbir himself had driven a cab for seven years in San Francisco, before moving to Arizona after a friend and fellow cab driver was murdered. At the time, owning a gas station seemed like a safer way to make a living.
While Balbir was deciding where to hang flags that would come too late, another Sikh was deciding between action and drama at a Phoenix video store. Sevak Singh Khalsa, a white Arizonan who had converted to Sikhism in the '70s, stopped in at Blockbuster Video with his wife to rent a movie, looking for a distraction from nonstop news coverage of the events in New York and Washington, D.C.
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Dear villagers of Ravenholdt,
Do you remember the Golden century? Times where WPvP ruled over Ravenholdt. Times where we were known as ''the RP-PVP'' realm of WoW-EU. Times where u and I were equal. Times where people were united. Times.. times where you stood for your faction. Times where stories were told about the battle of yesterday.
Let us go back into the time
It's the year 1853. Goldshire/RazorHill. You open the door of your house and look around. Close your eyes and u breath the smell of peaceblooms. You open our eyes and see the sun rising. And you're thinking. Today is the day where history is going to be made. You are so lost in you're mind, and enjoy your moments, because you know that this could be your last. Your women is calling you for breakfast, but you're not hungry. ''I'm going out for a walk'' u say. You walk around with your hands in the pockets. Checking the square of the village. Saying hi to the people and make a talk. After that you visit the Graveyard and say hi to the people which you loved. After saying a pray, it's time to go to the meat vendor. ''Roasted Beef'' u say, and the meat seller knows what time it is. ''May the Gods be with you'' he says. The meat vendor keeper gives you the beef for free and Honors you. You thank him and walk towards home. She waits me up in front of our house. She is very smart. My Plate chest is in her hands. She knows what time it is. I look at her. I see that she is covered in fear. Fears to lose me. There I am, face to face. I hand the Beef over to her and say: ''Tonight, tonight will be our night''. She drops a tear and we're hugging. Holding each other tight. ''I've to go'' I say. She hands me my armor, and prays. I kiss her on the forehead and I say: ''I love you''. I'm walking down the road, and people are cheering. Cheering that I serve for the Horde/Alliance, that I protect there lands, give them their safety. Childeren are throwing roses on me and they are saying: ''I would like to be like u Sir''. After a serenade, you fade away, on the long road, towards the capital city.
The Golden Century means for me the days where Ravenholdt was at his top. WPvP every weekend, massive groups, GM's who were watching our fights, People who started to transfer to our Realm, even guilds. Fighting and RP'ing side by side. It was 1 epic journey. But it seems that the magic is almost over. Players/Guilds are leaving. The server became low populated, but there is still hope. I need you all to be involved with this.
What I would like to do is to organize a great WPvP event in the upcoming month (January). I would like to have that people are gonna record this, putting it on youtube, take a screenshot, highlight this event in other forums, so that we as realm can get the publicity which it used to have.
I wanna go back to the Golden Century, but I need you all to join. I can't do it alone, it's us who have to take the rope in our hands.
If you have criticism, give me a constructive one. If you are positive about it, let me know it aswell.
I'm looking forward to read your comment.
Always yours,
Edit: The 22th January. It would be hold on a sunday. Servertime: 19:30. More info soon.
EDIT: I HAVE ADDED THE RULES FOR THIS EVENT! CHECK IT OUT! It's a Word Document.
A better Realm, starts with yourself
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Im in, great writing mate!
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Ever thought about writing a book ? Anyway great idea + a completely true story. We cannot hide the fact that Ravenholdt is dying... This could be a "New Beginning".
i'm up for cracking some horde's skulls
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thumbs up, nothing like the RH rp wpvp events <3
btw abby u look like a sl.ut
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Add me as a +1
Just get GM's from both sides involved and get the information flowing in trade. People dont read the forums often enough.
How about we do a Halaa event. I for one is looking for more Battle tokens. I am sure there will be more people interested in getting the mounts.
thumbs up, nothing like the RH rp wpvp events <3
Really i think i look like the average girls i meet on parties, or it that only in my country that they dress up like this?
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What the !@#$ did I just read
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I'm in ravenholdt needs this...
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thumbs up, nothing like the RH rp wpvp events <3
abbyke... i told u that there´s a different between look like a sl.ut or look very sexy like me ;-)
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I started watching Doctor Who by chance, at 13, with Christopher Eccleston. It immediately became a huge part of my life, though I ended up missing a chunk with a heavy heart due to lack of a tv and work obligations from 18-21. I'm all caught up on the new episodes now, and doing my best to get through the wonderful old ones, starting of course with the most legendary and iconic of all the Doctors. Everyone has 'their doctor', and while the Doctor of my childhood is 9, the Doctor of my adulthood is 4! I'm loving it all so much. Tom is an amazing Doctor and actor.
After watching the more contemporary Vincent and the Doctor, I've picked up painting, teaching myself how. Of course a lot of the paintings are themed around my favourite show. So, here's 2 of 4! One speed painting [LINK REDACTED, SEE PIC 4] and one that took a couple more hours and is a gift for another fan in the USA [LINK EXPUNGED, SEE PIC 2]
What do you think? Good likeness?
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Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is fighting back against increasingly violent criminals who are armed with the latest high powered weapons.He's now arming his deputies with AR-15 style rifles. Not only that, he's ordering them to protect themselves even when they're not on the job.Arpaio says the rifles will ensure his officers are safe when faced with increasingly and more powerful weapons in the hands of criminals.He says that each of his patrol deputies must carry a firearm with them at all times to be able to combat crime even when they aren't on duty."My deputies will carry guns 24 hours a day, even off duty. If they see any incident occurring, they will take action anywhere in this valley.""We live in a violent society, even here in Maricopa County, and across our nation, and the least we can do is to arm our deputies, let's say with enough firepower to fight back."This comes the same day a Sheriff's office employee was gunned down and killed outside of his home.Arpaio says the Police Chief of Phoenix assured him that everything will be done by his department to tray and catch Jorge Vargas' killer."The police department, Phoenix is investigating this incident, assisted by our office."Arpaio says he purchased all 400 of the Smith & Wesson rifles with money seized during arrests.
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I have mentioned before my ambivalence about Mad Men's Betty Draper. I do not know what it is like to be a "house cat," as Betty's late father described the daughter he raised to be a privileged princess. Even as Betty awakens to how lonely and soul-destroying it can be to live on a pedestal, I can empathize but not identify. And while I love Joan Harris (nee Holloway) for both her directness, obvious intelligence, skill and sex appeal, I am not Joan, either. I feel the most kinship with Peggy Olsen--the Catholic girl from a provincial family in the outer boroughs who, rather than accept the narrative offered to young women of her era, is struggling to determine her own path. And, in the process, is pushing her own boundaries related to religion, sex, motherhood, marriage, career--even pot. It's not that Peggy's story is exactly mine or anything. It is just that, still today, any woman, certainly any woman of color, can understand what it is like to be marginalized in a place like Sterling Cooper, where Peggy is alternately praised and respected; silenced and ignored; lauded or shamed for aggressiveness that would be an asset in her male colleagues; and, as we learned last week, paid less. Peggy has made her share of horrific decisions and minor missteps, but she seems to own them and refuses to be crushed by guilt (even when served by the local parish priest). And refreshingly, she seems clear on exactly what she wants and does not want. It is Peggy's willingness, even in the face of uncertainty, to boldly do the thing women like her are not supposed to do--especially if it fulfills a personal need--that has me wondering why so many people view Peggy's tryst with Duck Phillips on last night's episode of Mad Men as an example of an older man seducing and taking advantage of a young, naive woman.
For those who aren't as obsessed with this show as I am, Peggy was recently rebuffed after asking her boss, Don Draper, to increase her salary to one on par with her male colleagues. Then, last night, Don unloaded on her after she boldly requested to be considered for the new prestigious Hilton account. This, after Peggy has consistently been shown to be smarter and harder-working than the other (male) account executives. She even recognized the hot mess that would be the Patio "Bye, Bye Birdie" commercial before it happened...though Don and the boys dismissed her reservations. Don's smackdown made Peggy think twice about the (professional) advances made by former Sterling Cooper employee Duck Phillips, who has been trying to woo Peggy and her colleague Pete to another agency with promises of better accounts and more money. Of course, when Peggy showed for a hotel meeting with Duck, his professional wooing turned rather, um, personal.
Oh and seriously Peggy I know Don was a bitch to you but Duck? He's twice your age and carrying a boatload of baggage...Peggy, Peggy, Peggy...I hope she is using some sort of birth control. Is she like Don? Not learning from past mistakes and spiraling down into self-destruction because her ego has been bruised? Sounds like Don to me. Just like Don, her meteoric, unobstructed rise to the top came to a grinding halt. She got smacked down and just like Don, she risked ruining it all for the petty victory that is ego stroking. She wants to get with a loser named Duck? A drunk who has flamed out twice within the infrastructure of a company to support him? She's an ass. Unlike Don, though, she has not built the goodwill or the record to have people come to her rescue. Don may be a big baby and an ass, but he isn't disloyal. Peggy is being a disloyal fool. Oh, and Duck threw his innocent, loyal dog out in the street. What does Peggy think this drunk will do to her?I can't believe Peggy let Duck move straight in for the kiss like that. It's like she knew he'd try to bed her, and she resolved to accept it before she even stepped through the door.
As far as NOT being squicked by Duck and Peggy... I have to say, she's usually... okay, no, when it comes to men, she's NOT brighter than that. But to sleep with someone who's been blatantly blurring the lines between personal and professional to woo you away from your current employer is just... willfully naive. It makes me a bit sad for her, and I'd love to see some glimpse that she knows full well what he's trying to do and she's just taking him for a ride, as it were.
Okay, I'm not arguing that Peggy did not do a reckless and silly thing, just that the reckless and silly thing was her choice and that she was probably aware of its recklessness and silliness. I can't imagine, "Hey, why don't you meet me in my hotel room after work to return that gift I gave you" meant something different in 1963 than it does in 2009. Peggy may be young and often naive, but she is never stupid. It is interesting that when Don or Roger Sterling are reckless with their sexuality, when they bed a client or secretary or someone's wife, it becomes part of their alpha male mythology--a conscious choice that proves their adventurous natures. We assume that they know exactly what they are doing and that they have some ulterior motive, if not simply their own pleasure. And indeed they do not agonize much over consequences.
Peggy does not seem to agonize over her sexual choices either. Sometimes I actually wonder whether her sex life and lack of guilt are realistic given who the character is and the timing of the story. In season one, Peggy went to Joan's gynecologist to get on the pill (too late, though). She took her reproduction into her own hands at a time when doctors actually warned women not to become "strumpets" with their new found sexual freedom. Since then, she has explored her burgeoning sexuality. In the few encounters we've seen her have since then, we have not seen Peggy talked or manipulated into anything. She has chosen her choices, good and bad.
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Obviously, Duck did something right because Peggy wasn't exactly barging out the door as she was a few weeks back with Hamburger Guy. Yes, I know it's wrong and his seduction is in no small part due to his desire to woo her professionally, but Peggy's using him as well. Don's shooting her down at the office, her mother is cruel instead of thankful and Pete's getting on her last nerve. She's lonely and he wanted her. It's not too difficult to understand the temporary attraction.
This narrative of the wily, male predator using his superior craftiness and seduction skills to dickmatize a naive, fragile and virginal woman seems an anachronism in 2009, though it exists for sure beyond the small screen. If two characters on Mad Men were discussing Peggy Olsen this way, it would seem fitting with the mores of the early 60s. But it seems odd that viewers, many of whom are women themselves, are so quick to strip the agency from a female character who is all about having agency over her life. This is, after all, the character, who matter-of-factly told a (now married) coworker who left her pregnant following a post-party liaison, that she gave away their child because "I don't want that. I want something more." [paraphrasing from memory]
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The long slide
With these seven steps, you can avoid dangerous skids.
Truck drivers can attend special classes that feature all the latest techniques and
technologies for handling a skidding 18-wheeler.
But let's be realistic: once a big truck goes into a skid, especially on a slippery or crowded highway, all bets are off. Complex combinations of physical forces, panic and other motorists' reactions stack up against a happy ending. If you get away with just the truck in a ditch, you'll be lucky. Multiple-vehicle smashups, closed interstates, long delays, catastrophic damage, serious injuries and even deaths are the most probable consequences.
That's why professional driving instructors and seasoned truckers agree: the best way to handle a skid on a slippery surface is to avoid skids at all costs in the first place.
Take it slow
"In slippery conditions or poor visibility, we teach students to slow down and don't drive beyond your headlights," says Roy Williams, driving instructor at Sandersville Technical College in Sandersville, Ga. "'Slow down' covers about everything."
This common-sense advice seems inescapable, in the same neighborhood as "don't breathe underwater" or "don't light your clothes on fire." But every winter there's a new crop of inexperienced drivers who somehow just don't get it, and they mess it up for the rest.
"A lot of people drive beyond their abilities," says Williams, a former driver. "You get out there and you get a few miles of experience behind you, and you get overconfident.
"Everybody has deadlines, but the freight in the ditch isn't going to help anybody. We can all keep moving if everybody goes slowly. But when you can't get through, it's usually not because of the weather but because somebody got going too fast, got into trouble and blocked the road."
Be afraid
Perhaps the second greatest factor is "no fear." Driving an 18-wheeler on a slippery surface is extremely dangerous; only fools do it unafraid.
But of course, driving panicked or scared witless only compounds the danger.
"Too much fear is incapacitating," Williams says. "But on a slippery surface, a little fear is a healthy thing."
Slightly scared and not skidding is better than skidding and fighting panic.
"It scared the beejeebees out of me," says Allied Systems driver Tim Ward of Margate, Fla., telling of a skid he experienced when he'd been driving just two years. "I had no idea how far you can skid on snow and ice, even at just 30 miles an hour.
"It all happens so fast, in just a few seconds," says the 28-year veteran driver. "I was going through Evansville, Ind., one night. It was below zero and snowing slightly. The road just looked wet with a little bit of blowing snow."
Ward found out that at below-freezing temperatures, a wet roadway could really be an icy roadway.
"A light changed," he says, "and it kind of caught me off guard. I hit the brakes and started sliding." His trailer – a car hauler stacked with nine vehicles behind a GMC Brigadier day cab – started coming around on his right.
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Rumors swirled this week that beloved '90s show "Full House" might be returning to TV screens with a new spinoff. Unfortunately, or fortunately if you're cold and soulless, these rumors are not true. But while we're on the topic, isn't it fun to think about who would play each character 20 years later? Candace Bure (DJ Tanner) and Jodie Sweetin (Stephanie Tanner) had been rumored to have signed on to a reunion, but that was according to the hoax article originally posted by ScreenRant.com. Other than them, we were led to believe no other "Full House" originals had thrown hats in the ring. So here are our fantasy picks.
If 'Full House' spinoff came true: A fantasy cast
|Tom Bergeron as Danny Tanner
Massachusetts-bred TV personality Tom Bergeron took over for Bob Saget as host of the always hilarious "America's Funniest Home Videos," so wouldn't it be fitting that he step into the shoes of world's greatest dad Danny Tanner? It may seem like a poor fit because Bergeron doesn't quite have the acting experience, but then again, someone somewhere thought it would be a good idea for Bob Saget to originally play this role so....
|Mario Treadway as Uncle Joey
Again, the acting chops may not be there, but the relevancy is. Dave Coulier, the original Uncle Joey, was the man who influenced Alanis Morissette's classic "You Oughta Know" (and most of her "Jagged Little Pill" breakthrough album). Morrissette and Coulier broke up many moons ago, but now Boston native and rapper Mario Treadway is her main squeeze. Hopefully he can do a good Popeye.
|Rob Lowe as Uncle Jesse
John Stamos doesn't need to be replaced, let's make that clear. The man is a sun-bronzed Greek god and has somehow remained in the public eye. That said, Rob Lowe has followed a similar path of good looks that last and he may just have some free time now that he is leaving "Parks & Recreation."
|Elizabeth Olsen as Michelle Tanner
When Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen started on "Full House" in 1987, their younger sister Elizabeth hadn't even been born. Can she act? You got it, dude. Elizabeth gained attention for her role in "Martha Marcy May Marlene" and will be in the next "Godzilla" and chapter of "The Avengers" next year.
|Juile Bowen as Aunt Becky
No real rhyme or reason to this one other than "Modern Family" star Julie Bowen is the only other TV mom to look as good now as Lori Loughlin still does.
|Dylan and Cole Sprouse as Nicky and Alex Katsopolis
Jesse and Becky's blonde-haired twin boys go to the only other famous blonde-haired twin boys that happen to be of comparable age: Dylan and Cole Sprouse of "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" and "Big Daddy."
|Kristen Wiig as Kimmy Gibbler
D.J.'s best friend Kimmy was pretty terrible in the humor department, so why not cast an actress who is actually good for a few laughs?
|Jonathan Taylor Thomas as Steve Hale
Resurrecting a '90s heartthrob would be the best course for the role of Steve. Sitcom hunk Jonathan Taylor Thomas from "Home Improvement" seems like a solid option. It's about time that guy came back onto the scene.
|Donald Glover as Teddy
"Full House" producers definitely didn't get the most out of Taj Mowry when they cast him as Michelle's best friend. The character was always in the background and played second fiddle to Michelle. Glover could bring some humor, and maybe even some hip-hop, to an otherwise unremarkable character.
|Clay Aiken as Derek
When Derek sings "Yankee Doodle" in that one episode, there's no way he doesn't show signs of a young Clay Aiken.
|Johnny Knoxville as Aaron
Michelle's classmate Aaron was always kind of a shithead but was good for a few laughs at Bob Saget's expense. He could actually be a bit witty, too. Seems like a good role for Mr. "Jackass."
|Solange as Denise
Denise was Michele's good friend that always seemed trendy and a whole lot cooler than Michelle or any other elementary school-er, for that matter. She could also dance up a storm to the "Ranger Joe" theme song. Beyonce's sister's musical prowess, but more so her overall coolness, would be a good fit.
|Miley Cyrus as Gia
Good-girl-gone-badass Gia was the girl at school that your mother warned you about. Miley Cyrus is the pop icon that everybody worries about.
|Howie Dorough as Viper
The only person who can play a washed-up rocker with long curly hair is a washed-up sorta rocker with long curly hair. Howie Dorough of the Backstreet Boys wasn't as much of a bad boy, but there's definitely a resemblance.


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Best plan of attack!Busch Gardens Tampa: How to get around Busch Gardens?
From John McLaughlanPlanning to visit BGT on Tuesday 18th June. Our last visit was back in 2000. Can anyone recommend a good plan of attack for getting on all the main rides.
Posted June 8, 2013 at 1:54 PM
We have no time constraints and plan to arrive as early as possible and stay till closing time. Area there rides or attractions to avoid or are they all unmissable.
We will also have the option of a second visit.
Thank you.
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From Manny RodriguezSheikra First Then Kumba Then Scorp(abbreviation) Then Cheeta Hunt then finally Montu and Gwazi.
Posted June 8, 2013 at 3:12 PM
From Mike GallagherAnd the word "abbreviation" is longer than the word it's abbreviating.
Posted June 8, 2013 at 3:41 PM
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Not playing grammar Nazi, to use a pet phrase of yours, Manny. Just trying to save you time and space :)
From Manny RodriguezThanks mike :)
Posted June 8, 2013 at 4:33 PM
From Tony DudaJust do them in order as you go clockwise around the park- Gwazi, Sheikra, Kumba, Sand Serpent, Scorpion, Cheetah Hunt and Montu. Redo Cheetah Hunt and Montu. Ride the Skyride back to Sheikra and Kumba. Fit in Rhino Rally and Iceploration where you can.
Posted June 8, 2013 at 9:28 PM
If you want to see animals, see the Cheetah Run, Edge of Africa, primate trail, train ride the savanna from Nairobi to Congo, Curiosity caverns for reptiles, Jungala for tigers. Early morning they may have view-able animal operations in the Animal hospital in Nairobi. Birds and kangaroos areas are between Gwazi and Sheikra.
The stage shows at Desert Grill and Marrakesh are so-so, Sesame Street area is very much a kiddie area. Tut's tomb takes about 2 minutes to see.
From John McLaughlanThanks for the advice guys...
Posted June 9, 2013 at 2:28 AM
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All the sudden "110v reverse negative polarity"
Can this happen all the sudden...!?
So we live on the same house for the last 3.8 years and last night when connecting the cable box coaxial cables I saw sparks, Yes sparks and the box was not even plug to the wall in at the time..
In any case the cable man came today and he tells me we have "reverse negative polarity" in some of the outlets and we need to get them fix before they can replace the fried cable boxes (yes two of them fried at the same time, I guess by been connected to the same coaxial cable)
Is this easy to fix by a clueless guy like me or do we need a call a expert.
Also, how can this polarity change can happen all the sudden...?
we use the same outlets to connect the same appliances for years with out any trouble.
Thanks in advance for the guidance and sorry if is a stupid question, since for me is not..
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In the following review, Dretzka praises Mosley's debut novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, and anticipates comparisons of the author's work to other black writers of the detective fiction genre.
A couple of months back, just after books by Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton and Nancy Pickard hit the nation's bookstores, there was a flurry of articles about a boom in mysteries by American women writers.
The reporters, for Newsweek and other mass-market publications, finally had observed something readers of crime fiction long have taken granted: that our women could kill people off and solve crimes every bit as convincingly as Brits P. D. James, Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers and such American male counterparts as Tony Hillerman—and that, in...
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Cyclist David Zabriskie of Salt Lake City is among the witnesses who will testify against seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong in the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's case against him, according to media reports.
The New York Times and De Telegraaf in the Netherlands cited unnamed sources close to the investigation as saying that Zabriskie and Rowland Hall graduate Levi Leipheimer are among four former Armstrong teammates who will testify in the case.
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The Dutch newspaper additionally said that the former teammates — also including George Hincapie and Christian Vande Velde — made a deal with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency to serve six-month suspensions for their own doping, starting in September.
Neither Zabriskie, a seven-time national time trial champion who graduated from Olympus High School, nor Leipheimer could be reached for comment.
All four riders cited in the reports are competing at the Tour de France.
All four were members of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team who last month withdrew their names from consideration for the 2012 team that will compete at the London Olympics starting later this month. At the time, it was suspected the riders' involvement in the ongoing case against Armstrong was the reason.
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Multimedia compression is employing tools and techniques in order to reduce the file size of various media formats. With the development of World Wide Web the importance of compress algorithm was highlighted because it performs faster in networks due to its highly reduced file size. Furthermore with the popularity of voice and video conferencing over the internet ,compression method for multimedia has reached it next generation to provide smooth service even in unreliable network infrastructure. Although many methods are used for this purpose, in general these methods can be divided into two broad categories named Lossless and Lossy methods.
Lossless Compression Algorithms
There will be no data loss in this type of compression as it is defined by the name. Both original data and the compressed data are the same in this compression. The algorithms for the compression and decompression are exact inverse of each other in the Lossless Compression. The main mechanism in this compression is removing the redundant data in the compression and adding them in the decompression.
Advantages: The original format of the data remains even it is compressed.
Disadvantages: Reduction of the size of the data is a small. Sometimes the size can increase instead of decrease.
Run-length Encoding
Run-length encoding can be named as the simplest method of encoding. Any combination of symbols can be compressed by this encoding technique. The concept of this algorithm is removing continuous sequence of symbols using another shorten symbol which represent it. Practically what is does is to replace the number of occurrences with the numeric value and the symbol itself. For example, a text like 'AAAACBBBBB' is replace by 'A04C01B05'. This method is very much efficient when there are only two symbols.
Huffman Coding
This is a little bit complicated than the previous one. First, the frequency of each appearing character is taken. Then the characters that have least frequencies being taken to give values '1' for the higher one and '0' for the lower one and there wise it is continued. Then the each available character is represented by a separated code included with 1s and 0s.
Lempel Ziv Encoding
This system does the encoding as two processes. They are indexing and compressing a string of symbols. When there is a set of characters, first step is to check whether an index have the minimum available character combination that appears. If available then put the index number in the string. If not, it will be added to the index. This compression technique is more effective as it has a two way compression method.
Lossless Compression File Formats
- Waveform audio format (WAV)
- Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
- Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC)
- ATRAC Advanced Lossless
- Audio Lossless Coding
- Direct Stream Transfer (DST)
- DTS-HD Master Audio
- Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP)
- Monkey's Audio APE
- RealPlayer – RealAudio Lossless
- Shorten – SHN,TTA – True Audio Lossless
- WMA Lossless
- Adaptive Binary Optimization (ABO)
- Progressive Graphics File (PGF)
- Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
- Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
- Animation codec
- CorePNG, Dirac
- Huffyuv
- Lagarith
- MSU Lossless Video Codec
- SheerVideo
Lossy Compression Algorithms
It is the compression technique which will lose data in the original source while trying to keep the visible quality at the almost same amount. The compression ratio will be very high. Most probably the ratio will be a value near 10. It reduces non sensitive information to the human eyes and the compressed media will not be the media that was available before compression.
Advantages: Can reduce the file size more than in the Lossless Compression
Disadvantages: The original file cannot be taken after the decompression
Mathematical And Wavelet Transformation
In this process, images are converted to the mathematical functions. Discreet Cosine Transformation uses series of cosine functions to approximate image. This technique is used with JPEG, MPEG1 and MPEG 2 formats. A wavelet function is used to approximate the image. This can be used with the JPEG 2000 and MPEG 4 formats.
JPEG Encoding
In this encoding, an image is represented by a two dimensional array of pixels. A Grayscale picture of 307*200 pixels is represented by 2,457,600 bits and a color picture is represented by 7,372,800 bits. Due to the number of calculations to be had in a JPEG format of a grayscale picture, it is divided into blocks of 8*8 pixels. The number of the units' id equal to the number of mathematical equations of each picture. The whole idea of JPEG is to change the picture into a linear set of numbers that reveals the redundancies. In addition to those techniques, MPEG is also a Lossy Compression technique. It is a way to encode the moving images and audio included in it. It supports many video formats from mobile phone to HD TV.
H.261 is designed for video telephony and video conferencing applications. It was developed in 1988-1990. Data rate is a multiplication of a 64 kb/s. H.263 is a video coding technique for low bit rate communication. In addition, a 30% of bit saving can be done by this technique when it is compared to the MPEG-1. H.264 is a joint project of ITU-Ts Video Experts Group and the ISO/IEC MPEG group. All those three methods use different methods of reducing redundant data. There for the output differs from bit rate, quality and latency.
Future Trends Of Compression
cvements as they are being proposed. One of the available problems is the way how to handle the errors in a data loss of a data packet. Wavelet transform techniques will be a good further implementation for the next generation. Wavelet coding has two main advantages. The first one is that the video construction is achieved in a fully embedded style. Two processes of encoding and decoding can be stopped at a defined bit rate. The desired spatial resolution and the required frame rate can encode the stream. Vector quantization makes use of the correlation and the repeats between the pixels located near or between the frequency bands.
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Shorter girls, rejoice! The severe pointy-toe shoe is back and is making your legs appear longer and leaner. And, any chic French woman knows that nothing beats a pair of ankle-grazing pants, a crisp button-up, and a pair of killer heels as a wardrobe staple.
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"Floating" Liner And The "Bow-Tail" Debut Backstage At Erdem
Makeup artist Andrew Gallimore plotted the face at Erdem amid a flurry of buzzwords: robotic, androgynous, futuristic, intelligent, architectural. But it wasn't until Mr. Moralioglu talked about creating a "trick of the eye" that Gallimore's look fell into place. "He said it, and I thought of this floating flick in the socket. It's not on the lashline, it's not a 1950′s line—it's got a robotic, modern feel to it. And it's minimal—when there's so much going on with the clothes, this is just a touch of something different," he said, drawing a sideways triangle using MAC Fluidline in Blacktrack onto a perfected canvas of MAC Strobe Cream, Studio Sculpt Foundation, and its Prep + Prime Transparent Finishing Powder. A slick of MAC Lip Conditioner SPF15 kept mouths moisturized but discreet.
More glossy polish came courtesy of St. Tropez' resident skin-finishing expert, Nichola Joss, who used the shades of amethyst that shot through the collection as an excuse to break out a bottle of St. Tropez Violet Skin Illuminator, which added an almost unearthly, incandescent hue to the exposed limbs in the show. Even the nails weren't quite of this world. Erdem was very specific about the shade he was after—an androgynous but vibrant blue courtesy of Nail Girls Electric Blue 12, a custom color that will be available for purchase come August.
As for the hair, Marc Trinder used Moralioglu's hodgepodge of references to arrive at the "bow-tail"—a "super-luxe, polished ponytail with a tiny, girly bow," he elaborated backstage. Damp hair was prepped with Charles Worthington Sensitive Ultra Soothing Detangler Spray, worked into a center part, and then glossed up using its Hair Elixir. After smoothing the mid-lengths with hands that had been coated with Charles Worthington Front Row Heat Defence Spray, strands were flat-ironed and gathered at the nape of the neck. A fine black ribbon softened the sleek lines, with a drop more of the Hair Elixir to banish flyaways.—Grace Timothy
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Inside the window, several local photographers, many who freelance for both Patch and The Herald, have been displaying some of their best work.
The group of 12, which call themselves the Club of Long Island Professional Photographers (CLIPP), Malverne Division, has their second exhibit on display right now. Titled "Reflections," it explores various meanings of the word and also includes a write-up by each photographer about what they believe their work "reflects." Click through the gallery above to see some of the photos.
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Psalm 63: Draw Closer to God
Deepen your faith with the powerful words of this psalm, which will refresh your spirit and place you in the light of God's love.
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Psalm 63: Draw Closer to God
1. O God, You are my God; early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water.
2. So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory.
3. Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You.
4. Thus I will bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.
5. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips.
6. When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches.
7. Because You have been my help, therefore in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice.
8. My soul follows close behind You; Your right hand upholds me.
9. But those who seek my life, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
10. They shall fall by the sword; they shall be a portion for jackals.
11. But the king shall rejoice in God; everyone who swears by Him shall glory; but the mouth of those who speak lies shall be stopped.
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"The K-Rope"
By Alex Bernstein
Corvus, Issue 1.
"Endangered Species"
By Joel Richards
Cosmos, September 2011.
It's such a simple thing: buying the rights to an idea. But ownership is rarely that clearcut. As copyright is sundered day by day, the rewards—the protection?—of money become more elusive.
In "The K-Rope", we get an alternative history story about an inventor, Kleinman, who develops a method of swinging from train platform to train platform. Fun and efficient, his invention earns him fame and money. However, after a few years in the field, it turns out that wasps really enjoyed the material used to construct the ropes and they had infested virtually every train station.
The ropes are tossed; Kleinman's sued into bankruptcy and vilified into solitude. Years later, a corporation reveals that it has developed a K-Rope with new materials (nanotechnology, natch) and there is much publicity about the revival of the idea. Kleinman is dragged out of exile so as to use the new ropes, K++, and he is thrilled with the result.
Some interesting currents run under here. One is of course the human desire to progress, and the specific American focus on development. There is also mention of the specific American focus on legality—early on in the story, Kleinman is sued by his inspiration. A turnstile jumper, Ronald Snow, used a hanging chain to escape from station authorities, and Kleinman recognized the potential. The story dismisses Snow's claim (two lines are devoted to the incident), and the American justice system does too. Without proof of concept or such, the thug had no case.
Similarly, the American focus on tinkering is highlighted—by Universal Dynamics, the corporation who comes along decades later and perfects the technology. Kleinman does not begrudge them as the thug begrudged him—his technology was faulty, imperfect. Their design, while based off his, is different and therefore they deserve the reward.
In the wake of Steve Jobs' death, The New Yorker ran an article that posited his real genius was not in creation but in tweaking: He could take a good idea and make it great. He would hone that idea until it gleamed.[1]
Countless people in history have made their mark on the world in this manner. Indeed, tweaking is as important as inventing. Improving efficiency, sustainability, cost—these often define progress.
Where does this editing/improving leave us? Sometimes the forefather is acknowledged and rewarded. Kleinman's work comes in from the cold, essentially, and he regains a modicum of respect for having created the underlying mechanics of K++. But the thug was turned away at the gates.
Between these lines, we sense the transitive nature of ideas. From experimenter (the thug) to developer (Kleinman) to tweaker (Universal Dynamics)—the idea is bought and sold, appropriated and gifted. Is there any sense of original sin? Did the thug forfeit his claim to recognition by jumping a turnstile? Should Kleinman have officially recognized Snow's contribution? What about Universal Dynamics, who used Kleinman as a symbol of their product but offered no more compensation? There is almost a food-chain aspect to all this.
A reader might see the thug, an actor operating outside standard economy (ignoring transit fees), as an illegitimate heir to any profits reaped from the invention of the technology. That same reader might notice that the corporation, legitimized through charter, is allowed to poach Kleinman's concept as enough time has passed that the patent expired. The system reinforces corporate authority while dispossessing independent actors. This represents economic repression—the system mandating acceptable avenues of invention while disallowing others. Further, this commodifies knowledge and education, keeping it gated within the system. And so we come to the next story.
"Money," he says, "we need it," is the general thesis of "Endangered Species", which follows a pair of venture capitalists who pressure a time machine inventor into taking an improvised trip back in time. The basic ruse is they'll go back, hunt some docile-but-high-return prey in the extinct Irish elk, take home the antlers and make millions.
This group reasons that there will soon be competitors and regulators hot on the heels of their discovery; money will be their weapon with which they can retain control over the product and independence over its application. Money as freedom, message received.
And so money (and glory) drives the group into an ill-advised hunting trip back in time, where they come face to face with an Irish elk and that which drove it extinct: an evolved race of dinosaurs. A few frantic shots are fired on this new species before the humans flee for their time machine. The story ends with them wondering just how much they've changed their past and their future.
Money, driving the development of science as well as business in this story, therefore determines the narrative. Their target of Irish elk is set because of the price on its head as well as the geologic similarities and certainties of its lifetime. The immediate need for the security that wealth will provide their invention leads to a quick decision—rather than sending a team back to determine the safety of the time period and so on, they end up going back in time themselves. Four businesspeople and two scientists; not a single mercenary. This is a rush job because they need money.
Untrained hunters are thus backpacking around with sniper rifles and surprisingly something goes wrong: They hastily shoot at this new sentient life form. Without much more thought, the six of them run like hell. Only when they've achieved a bit of safety do they wonder what damage they might have wreaked on the timeline. But they don't think of going back and trying to patch up what happened: "Heat of the moment, sorry old chap." It might be a fruitless process but no one even utters the idea. A hasty excursion with no plan and this is the result.
Within the short span of the story, venture capital has endangered our entire future by hunting for an easy few million bucks. They assumed great risk by keeping the technology to themselves and by trying to insulate it with cash; that risk appears to have come due instead. The audience never finds how much of the future they really doomed, although the narrator is pessimistic.
Distilled, we have: rushed money developed a risky idea that probably backfired in a big way.
There are messages present about the danger of big money and research, and also about the danger of heightened prestige and money that comes with being academically published. (Those being the goals of the scientist Van Otteren, the tiebreaker vote on the plan to go back in time and hunt elk.) Both interactions represent conflicts of interest. Whereas the goal should be good science and the safe advancement of humankind, this group throws caution to the wind and bullrushes ahead with their plan.
Although these two stories are from 2011, it is impossible to ignore the implicit parallels with a news story from early 2012: the growing academic boycott of Elsevier, a publishing company of medical and scientific journals. In short, the company has been accused of charging far too much for access; inflating prices by bundling useless journals with valuable journals; being ruthless in price negotiations with libraries; and for supporting restrictive legislation such as SOPA, PIPA, and the Research Works Act.[2] They have, like the corporation in "K-Rope", commodified a warehouse of knowledge, using it as a weapon to get the returns they desire. This has been a successful strategy: according to Wikipedia, their profits in 2006 topped 1 billion euros.
In mid-January, thousands of academic writers, referees, and reviewers took up the charge to boycott Elsevier. The reasoning being that many have been privately boycotting them, but without a hit to Elsevier's wallets, their accusations would continue unabated. As of the publication of this issue, more than 3,200 academics have said enough is enough.
The mixture of money and education is a troubling thing that appears to have reached a boiling point. A few quotes from some of the people who have publicly boycotted Elsevier:
"With the moves of these mega publishers, we [are] seeing the beginning of monopoly control of the scholarly record." Hal Abelson, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.
"It's unconscionable for Elsevier to gouge the very clients their business depends on for free labor just because they can get away with it." Dillon Ethier,UniversityofRochester, Mathematics.
"Incredibly they want $350 for reprints of my own paper." Brayton Gray,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago, Mathematics.
"The problem is deeper than just journals: the economic globalization of higher education as a commodity is just one part, where entrepreneurs/middlemen just skim money from those who do the work." Iain Aitchison,UniversityofMelbourne, Mathematics.
"I can never reconcile the nature of knowledge and capitalism." Marcy Harsaran, Texas Woman's University, Biology.
Quotes are courtesy of thecostofknowledge.com.[3]
Not everyone writes one of these little testimonials, but virtually across the board when they do they support free access to knowledge. In general, each of these academics do their research through grants and do not receive payment for the article published through an Elsevier journal. They referee and peer review other papers for free as well. Their free labor is then bundled by Elsevier and thwacked over the head of libraries until money appears.
These questions—of free labor, of the nature of knowledge and capitalism—get to the heart of modern civilization. We live in a world where virtually everything is commodified—even scientific knowledge that was paid for by public grants. Even art, which is supposed to be a human cry in the darkness of reality. Where does it end? It doesn't. Society is confronted by what it created in the 20th century: a world that can be almost entirely bought and sold. Yet here, with the boycott of Elsevier, we see another revolt against the commodification system.
This article focuses on the Elsevier issue because it mirrors what is slowly happening to all knowledge, all content, all media. Monetary value is being stripped away, replaced by either pay-what-you-want or donations. This is all part of the information revolution: cost on the physical production of knowledge is negligible. These people boycotting Elsevier believe in a society that provides advanced knowledge for free, for society's own progress. What other reason is there to develop such knowledge? What's the point?
Neither "The K-Rope" nor "Endangered Species" provide much hope. Kleinman, in the former, is a washed up inventor trucked out to celebrate the success of a corporation. In the latter, who knows how venture capital has ruined our future. These are pictures of the world we have lived in for the last 150 to 200 years, a world of industry and commerce. A world that wondered foremost: How can I make money off this?
What comes after such a world? It's up to communities to determine that. We set our own futures beyond the corporations. We can function entirely as we see fit; we are not beholden to profits but to our craft and vision.
The only requirement is that you participate.
[1] "The Tweaker: The real genius of Steve Jobs" by Malcolm Gladwell. The New Yorker, November 14, 2011.
[2] More background: gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/elsevier-my-part-in-its-downfall
[3] My personal favorite, from Peter Easthope of UBC: "Independent electronic publishing is an alternative to corporate hegemony." Why yes, it is! A close runner up from Olaf Hall-Holt at St. Olaf College in Computer Science: "Perhaps Elsevier has been doing a good thing in the long run: helping everyone see how inappropriate the old publishing model is in this century."


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Local elections are Tuesday. Many voters will be selecting their city council representatives.
In Moline Scott Raes, 3rd Ward alderman and mayor pro-tem, will serve Moline well with 10 years of experience on council. Ald. Dave Parker, Dick Brown, and Kevin Schoonmaker, while unopposed, deserve your vote of confidence to continue the successful work to date.
The alderman-at-large race is contested, however. I appointed Stephanie Acri at-large after the death of Gary Brown. With unanimous approval of the city council, Stephanie quickly grasped the responsibilities of the position. A successful small business owner she understands operation, budgets and the needs of the citizens of Moline.
Difficult times require strong leadership and great problem-solving skills. A member of the 2012 council, Alderman Acri supported a 2013 tax levy equal to 2012. No increase! She voted to keep our fire department EMS while reducing the overall cost of the department.
A proven community leader, Stephanie has served on many local boards and commissions including the Quad Cities Chamber and is past chairman of the Trinity Medical Center Board. Her dedication and determination to move Moline and the greater Quad-Cities area forward is apparent.
She is not a one-issue candidate. Her 20-year residency in Moline and her involvement communitywide is testimony to her love for the city.
Ald. Acri has the proven leadership skills as a successful alderman and throughout the community.
On Tuesday vote for sound leadership. Return Stephanie Acri as alderman-at-large.
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Exeter hold nerve to stun Quins
March 2, 2013
Exeter had to be at their best to win away to champions Harlequins%]
Exeter pulled off a stunning Aviva Premiership upset as leaders Harlequins were sent crashing to a 27-16 defeat at The Stoop on Saturday.
Quins were marginally the better side for much of the contest but aside from a Ugo Monye try that put them in front early on, they could not break down a stubborn visiting defence. The hosts led with 12 minutes remaining but the Chiefs, inspired by fly-half Gareth Steenson, produced two late tries from Damian Welch and Luke Arscott as their bid to qualify for next season's Heineken Cup was given a boost.
The result means Exeter have done the double over the Quins after they also defeated the champions 42-28 at Sandy Park in October, while Harlequins' slip means Saracens can replace them at the summit with victory over London Welsh tomorrow.
Exeter were without Dean Mumm, Hoani Tui and Jason Shoemark who were all injured in last week's emphatic win over London Welsh, with Tui's absence allowing Alex Brown to make a first premiership start at prop. Nick Evans returned for the Quins after a three-week absence with an ankle injury while captain Nick Easter appeared at lock for the second time this season with Tom Guest at eight.
Harlequins took a seventh-minute lead with a splendid try. After winning a line-out in the Exeter 22, Jordan Turner-Hall's well-timed pass allowed Monye to break the defensive line at speed and race away for the try which Evans converted.
Steenson put the Chiefs on the scoreboard with two penalties, awarded after Harlequins first offended at a scrum then had Karl Dickson ruled offside.
The hosts suffered a blow when young full-back Ollie Lindsay-Hague was tackled heavily and limped from the field to be replaced by Ben Botica, with Evans switching to full-back. Evans missed a penalty for Quins before a third successful kick from Steenson put Exeter ahead.
Quins continued to dominate possession and territory and Evans' penalty just before the interval handed them a deserved 10-9 half-time lead.
Within four minutes of the restart Exeter were back in front, Steenson was again on target, but this time Quins hit back with two penalties from Botica, who had taken over the kicking duties from Evans. Referee David Rose continued to blow for transgressions as the flow of the game suffered, and from his next penalty award Steenson kicked through the posts for the visitors.
With Quins ahead 16-15 as the final 10 minutes approached, Exeter produced their best move of the game.
Showing great skill, Steenson evaded three players on halfway to race clear but with a try appearing to be a certainty Arscott wastefully knocked-on with the line at his mercy.
The Chiefs then had their best spell of the match as they camped inside the Quins 22. Steenson looked a certain scorer until he was ankle-tapped but they kept up the pressure for Haydn Thomas to send Welch over for the try which Steenson was unable to convert.
It was now all Exeter and with six minutes remaining Arscott brushed away a weak tackle from Botica to run 35 metres for a converted try that sealed a memorable victory.
Exeter coach Rob Baxter was delighted with the win and with five matches remaining is beginning to eye another Heineken Cup place.
"Today our performance was spurred by ambition not fear as we are safe from relegation," he said. "We saw today as the beginning of a cup run. We've taken nine points from the last two games and you soon move up the table. It was good to play on a firm pitch which suits us but I'm still frustrated by our loss at Sale as we should have finished that game off."
It was the second time this season that the Chiefs have beaten the defending champions and Harlequins director of rugby Conor O'Shea was disappointed with how his side handled the Devon side's physical approach.
"There was never any massive intensity or energy in our play as they held on to the ball and won all the collisions," he said. "I'm frustrated as every time we edged in front we conceded a penalty, but all credit to Exeter as they kept coming and coming and ramped it up at the end.
"We were tired out with all the tackling we had to do as a result of coughing up possession."
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The Auburn community is saying goodbye to a legacy today as crews work to remove the iconic oak trees at Toomer's Corner.
On Saturday, a record crowd gathered at the corner for one final roll and the University unveiled plans for the corner's redesign.
As the work to remove the trees continues, we are posting photos of the workers' progress to the MY12 section of WSFA.com. Check them out and add your own photos from Toomer's corner.
You can also keep up with the activity on the plains today by watching the live webcam from Toomer's Corner.
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