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It's Managing IT that Matters!
EII Seminar on IT Investment, IT Governance & Firm Performance
DATE: 1.00 - 5.00pm Thursday 19 July 2007 [5.00 - 7.00pm Networking & Refreshments]
LOCATION: UQ Business School Downtown, Brisbane, Australia
URL: http://www.eii.edu.au/seminar/GovIT
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Topics & Speakers
Keynote Speaker: Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Building a Foundation for Business Execution - Prof Peter Weill, Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) & MIT Sloan Senior Research Scientist, USA
Challenges in ICT Policy - Dr Lee Boldeman, Commonwealth Government Department of Communications, Information Technology & the Arts
Key Factors Leading to IT Value Realization: The Australian Experience - Prof Shirley Gregor, The Australian National University
The Importance of Software in the IT Investment Mix: Findings based on Australian Data - Prof Joseph Davis, The University of Sydney
Panel & Q/A: How does IT Governance Matter for Organizations? - Prof Peter Green [Chair], Dr Lee Boldeman [DCITA], Prof Joseph Davis [USYD], Prof Shirley Gregor [ANU], Mr Tony Hayes [Executive Director, Service Delivery & Performance Commission, Queensland Government] & Prof Peter Weill [CISR/MIT]
About the Seminar
This seminar gives insights from leading industry figures into the difficult problem of gaining value from investments in Information Technology. Nicholas Carr famously remarked "Does IT matter?" Our seminar demonstrates that what you do with IT and how you manage IT certainly do matter. The speakers show how effective IT governance leads to increased profits, how national productivity increases in Australia are linked to IT and how Australian organizations use some key strategies to gain value from IT. The seminar concludes with a panel session to allow different perspectives to be debated.
Cost: $275 [GST inclusive]
Deadline: 6 July 2007
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This event is supported under the Australian Research Council's Research Networks scheme. The ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure [EII] is funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) in conjunction with funding provided by 21 institutions.
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In General
- Tyrion Lannister is practically a walking, drinking, wenching Crowning Moment of Funny.
Barbarian: How would you like to die, Tyrion son of Tywin?Tyrion: In my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a maiden's mouth around my cock, at the age of eighty.
- "Tyrion found it disheartening to realize so many strangers were eager to kill him. Perhaps this had not been such a clever plan after all."
- "Tyrion was about to tell his father how he proposed to reduce the Vale of Arryn to a smoking wasteland, but he never got the chance."
- And this:
Tyrion: Take heart, Father. At least Rhaegar Targaryen is still dead.
- At the Lannister camp, Tywin is listing their multiple enemies on various fronts: the Starks, Lord Beric, Stannis, Renly, etc.
"Five thousand is an insult!" Tyrion called out. "I joust. I sing. I say amusing things. I'll fuck your wife and make her scream. Or your enemy's wife if you prefer, what better way to shame him? I'm murder with a crossbow, and men three times my size quail and tremble when we meet across a cyvasse table. I have been known to cook from time to time. I bid ten thousand silvers for myself! I'm good for it, I am, I am. My father told me I must always pay my debts."
- From one of Tyrion's ADWD chapters: "The ship groaned and growled beneath him like a constipated fat man straining to shit." Write What You Know, eh Georgie?
- When Tyrion is on the auction block... "and one!"
- Tyrion bidding on himself when he is being auctioned off, as a slave:
Innkeeper: "Don't kill him in here!"Tyrion: "Don't kill him anywhere!"
- Tyrion has something of a habit of chiming in during discussions that other people are trying to have about him as if he's not there.
- Many of the descriptions in the sex scenes. In particular, the descriptions in Cersei's AFFC sex scene with Taena Merryweather.
- While it's used as a horrible means of humiliation for Tyrion, the dwarf joust show is Actually Pretty Funny. It involves two dwarves riding a pig and a dog, exchanging colorful insults and getting confused about which mount belongs to which. In A Dance With Dragons, Tyrion meets Penny, one of the dwarf jousters, whose brother was killed because he resembled Tyrion. Penny complains that she had nowhere to go, she only knows how to mount comic joust shows and that needs two dwarves... Tyrion sees right through her intentions and refuses blatantly to participate. The next chapter starts with Tyrion riding the pig.
- Jon breaks his oath and beds Ygritte. He swears upon himself that it wont happen again.
- Jarl threatens to throw a bucket of water over the pair of them in the morning if they don't hurry up
- Before that Jon is embarrassed and uncomfortable with Ygritte always sleeping next to him. His response is to get Ghost to sleep between him and Ygritte to get her to give him some space (with Jon considering the absurdity of the situation)
- A few examples from the Night Watch:
- The Night Watch sets up straw dummies as bait for wildling arrows, and name them after different members. Pyp explains to Dolorous Edd that the straw man named for him had been leading the count until the last sortie, whereupon another "man" got three arrows to take the lead.
Edd: Though I would sooner it were wine than water. There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk. I knew a brother drowned himself in wine once. It was a poor vintage, though, and his corpse did not improve it.Jon: You drank the wine?Edd: It's an awful thing to find a brother dead. You'd have need of a drink as well, Lord Snow.
- He continues by complaining that the man the winner was named for was lucky because he completely missed the rocks when he fell off the bridge with an axe in his head.
- Dolorous Edd's dialogue, every word of it, can be considered a Funny Moment personified.
- When complaning about the cold and thinking of jumping into a pot of boiling water:
Pyp: The night is dark and full of turnips. Let us pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy.
- Pyp mocking Melisandre at dinner, thereby making the men of the Night's Watch chortle.
- Hodor often livens up Bran chapters, aided by Martin's narration. Standouts include the line " 'Hodor', Hodor said doubtfully" and when Bran tells him to stop hodoring.
His elk? said Bran, wonderstruck.His elk? said Meera, startled.His ravens? said Jojen.Hodor? said Hodor.
- There's also this gem in a conversation about Coldhands:
- It's not really funny that he gets beaten up badly for it, but after Theon takes Winterfell, he makes a speech to everyone there and basically asks if anyone has objections to his being in charge now. Hodor angrily shouts out "Hodorhodorhodor!"
- While Theon's chapters in A Dance With Dragons aren't exactly a laugh riot, there's a funny line in the middle of one of the chapters, where he's thinking about camp followers euphemistically called "washerwomen". "... Some of them even did some washing."
[Hot Pie]: "Pia says she saw something in the buttery."Pia was often seeing things in the buttery. Usually they were men.
- Likewise:
- The whole concept of Skagos is kind of funny. Unicorns are typically associated with the most idealistic of fantasy, which makes it amusing (and typical of the series) that the location where unicorns are found is a Place Worse Than Death the thought of which scares even jaded Westerosi. Also, the few details about unicorns shown so far, suggest they aren't the friendliest of creatures.
- Stannis' put down to Jon in A Dance With Dragons- You haggle like a crone with a codfish, Lord Snow. Did Ned Stark father you on some fishwife?
Bowen Marsh: Who better to command the black cloaks than a man who once commanded the gold, sire?Stannis: Any of you, I would think. Even the cook.
- Every time Stannis makes something that could be interpreted as an attempt at humor. His "jokes" are so absolutely unfunny they instantly become classic.
- Stannis does have a few instances of humor, if unintended. His tearing down of Janos Slynt, for instance.
Renly: A year ago I was scheming to make the girl Robert's queen, but what does it matter? The boar got Robert and I got Margaery. You'll be pleased to know she came to me a maid.Stannis: In your bed she's like to die that way.
- "Laws should be made of iron. Not pudding."
- In fact despite his reputation for having no sense of humor Stannis delivers some really cutting put downs:
- "Her own father got this child on her? We are well rid of her, then. I will not suffer such abominations here. This is not King's Landing."
- "I can only hope to win the north by battle. That requires stealing a leaf from my brother's book. Not that Robert ever read one."
- Stannis' dry, sarcastic and relatively modern (for the reader) humor is almost inconceivable in a world like Westeros. It's made even clearer when Stannis is one of the few characters that simply doesn't think that fools are funny, but others think they're hilarious.
- "Every once in a very long while, Lord Tywin Lannister would actually threaten to smile; he never did, but the threat alone was terrible to behold."
Jaime: "He seems to enjoy being dead."
- This makes for a nice bit of black comedy in AFFC, when Tywin's corpse is slowly drying out, causing the muscles of his mouth to shrink and tighten. Thus, for the entirety of his vigil and funeral (which is open-casket, by the way), his mouth is pulled back into a wide rictus grin, much to Cersei's continued annoyance and Jaime's mild amusement:
- One very early in the first book: before he leaves for the Wall, Jon gets Arya a sword as a present. Regarding learning to use it, he helpfully says: "First lesson: stick them with the pointy end."
- In-universe, Ned laughed when he asked Arya what she knew of sword fighting and she told him that, but agreed with the logic of it.
- Becomes a Tear Jerker later on, when Arya is running for her life, and confronted with someone who's going to take her back to her enemies. In a panic, all of the sword fighting lessons that she's had go right out of her head, "and the only lesson that she could remember was the very first lesson, the one that Jon had given her." It turns out to be enough.
- In a bit of black comedy/mood whiplash, Jon thinks of the line when he is (possibly fatally) stabbed in A Dance With Dragons.
- During a conversation with Tyrion, Tywin refers to Varys as "That cockless wonder."
- Alliser Thorne at one point tries to use eunuch to put down Varys in A Clash of Kings, to which Littlefinger chimes in with "To his face, we call him Lord Eunuch"
- Something between this and a Heartwarming Moment and a Crowning Moment of Making You Say "Awww!": the list of kings, houses and such in the appendix contains, as of Dance, such charming entries as "Lady This, died screaming in the black cells", or "Ser That, died of the bloody flux", or, "her enemies, false friends and uncertain allies", or "Vera, his axe" (all names anonymized to prevent spoilage)... but also, with Tommen: "his kittens, Ser Pounce, Lady Whiskers, Boots".
- And "Lysa Arryn, slain with a shove" on the House Stark page in A Feast for Crows kinda takes the dismissive-black-humor cake.
- The above example is even topped by "Tywin Lannister, Lord of Casterly Rock, Shield of Lannisport, Warden of the West, and Hand of the King, murdered by his dwarf son in his privy".
- Sharna's husband is simply referred to as Husband on the Brotherhood page in Storm of Swords because none of the POV characters who have met him knows his name.
- Half the things that come out of Tormund Giantsbane's mouth are hilarious. Mostly dick jokes, but they still raise a smile. Har!
Mance: Come inside. The rest of you, wait here.Tormund: What, even me?Mance: Particularly you. Always.
- An example would be "If a man does not use his member it becomes smaller and smaller until one day he wants to piss and can't find it".
- And Tormund ranting at Jon Snow for being a turncloak, including throwing his mug at him, but not before draining it first as he's not someone to waste good mead.
- Twice.
- Then after hours of swearing, threatening, and insulting Jon, he immediately starts acting like Jon is a drinking buddy.
- Both times Mance sends Tormund out so he can't talk to Jon alone.
- From "The Hedge Knight", Prince Daeron the Drunkard comes up with quite a droll description of his vicious, sadistic brother Aerion:
Daeron: Aerion's quite the monster. He thinks he's a dragon in human form, you know. That's why he was so wroth at that puppet show. A pity he wasn't born a Fossoway, then he'd think himself an apple and we'd all be a deal safer, but there you are.
- In the newly released chapter from Winds of Winter we have Arya unknowingly play what is heavily implied to be Sansa in a Bravossian play based on the start of the War of the Five Kings and the part Tyrion played... albeit demonizing him as a Richard III type cackling villain.
- Patchface's ramblings about life underwater suddenly become much funnier when you remember a famous song...
- Maester Yandel, author of The World of Ice & Fire, mentions having been found abandoned as a child and taken in by an archmaester who claims he might prove of use. Setup for some great destiny? Actually the archmaester was writing a paper on swaddling infants and needed a guinea pig.


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I yesterday plugged them in cowon c2 and now understand why lots of persons say that they are boomy. It players fault, you need to get player with less bass, like rocoo ba or sony z1000. With rocoo ba for example they sound fantastic- signature and quality is like hd25 and better than anything else- tf10, ie80, mmdt, westone 2 and so on.
I play the ckm500 through the revealing 'hisound studio v player' and i completely agree with the above post.
The ckm500 soundstage is intimate and involving .. for the money they are Superb !
The ckm500s are highly recommended for a good reason , in my humble opinion )
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Hi everyone,
For those who purchased the CKM500i (for iPhone), have you had any issues with them?
I keep my earphones in a tough Pelican case but the mobile phone controls on these earphones have spoiled.
They now skip, pause or fast forward my songs randomly without any touch of the controls.
And when I do press the controls, they don't do anything!
I really like the CKM500s so I might spring for another pair.
I was just wondering if anyone else experienced similar issues (CKM500 and CKM500i included).
Thanks in advance
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ckm500 sounds nowhere close to the hd25 in soundisg, and certainly not as good and has worse bass control (even out of a decent desktop source).
my 2 cents..
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I have tried my CKM500 with three sources so far.
1) My laptop which sounds thin and bright with recessed bass.
2) Ibasso d zero DAC/AMP which sounds neutral, may be slightly on the brighter side.
3) Sony MP3 player which sounds warm with just a bit north of neutral bass.
WIth all the three sources the CKM500 shows a muddy and prominent mid bass peak that colours the lower mids. The bass characteristics stays more or less the same regardless of the type of source (atleast the ones mentioned above).
I like the CKM500 for what it is (and love it after some Eq), but to be honest it is nowhere near the likes of westone 2, ie80 or tf10. I have not heard the HD25 but by judging how well it is mostly regarded as a respectable high end portable can, I believe CKM500 is the inferior one.
Just my opinions!
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Mine don't have that many ours on them, but the TF10 with more than one driver are just in another league. You may just prefer the sound-sig of the ckm500, which is fine.
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Bought myself a pair of the red CKMs a couple of weeks ago to use in the office, and I have been loving them. They sound great out my Leckerton UHA 6S - ohhhh, that bass! Meaty, visceral, ample. Basically all that I was not getting out of my old Meelec earbuds, and more. As others have noted on this thread, the mids are great, and soundstage is quite nice as well for this price point.
Of course, they do better with some genres of music than others. Electronic, rap and anything with a big bassline sounds just great. Is there too much midbass, as some have noted? Not to these ears, but I'm a bit of a basshead.
Case in point, TNGHT- Higher Ground (1080p, please!)
It does pretty well with guitars too. Ali Farka Toure sounds verrrry nice, with just enough bite to the strings:
Ali Farka Toure - Savane
Vocals? Yessir!
Joan as Policewoman - Flushed Chest
Jonathan Johansson : Aldrig Ensam
However, classical is just a no-go. Too congested, and for some reason, the soundstage narrows way too much. Like listening through a cardboard tube. With that said, it is still the best ~$60 I have every spent on iems.
Oh and, how about some appreciation for the packaging? Opening up the package is like some elaborate origami puzzle box, one tug and everything elegantly and effortlessly unfolds - now that is some seriously well-done frustration free packaging!
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Glad to see these are getting attention from new fans. Great tunes. I think if you just take them for what they are they are great like that.
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guys, quick ques.
what is the best way to burn these?
what is the best tip/earbuds to use for these earphones?
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Best burn in files. I use Drum n Bass music on a loop. If your using your PC you can use this. http://www.bassdrivearchive.com/flashme/ I would turn up the sound so it is fairly loud to you. Then take it off your ears. Turn it up 1/2 notch more and let it rip for the hours. For tips I would use Meelec tips. The stock ones aren't bad but they actually throw some limitations on the sound. Bigger wider nozzle types are best. Smaller nozzle tips like Sony hybrids end up restricting the sound on these. So tips that are wider than the nozzle opening are optimal. I remember a while back one of the guys liked the double flange tips from Meelec. Those initially seemed good as they widen the stage and it does but ends up deadening some of the dynamics in the highs and mids. So anything short with a wide bore is optimal.
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lol. I hate to be "that guy," but can anyone help me out with this question?
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They are vented, so isolation is only average, maybe even slightly below average. They dont isolate all that well, so they would not be optimal In noisy places.
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These are vented out back which gives the sound depth and the above average stage they have. In other words they don't isolate all that well..I don't think these would be ideal for isolation. They sound great as a result of the venting but you will be able to hear people around you.
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Does anyone have experience using Shure tips? I'm not sure where I tossed my Meelec tips..
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Here's a way for the President to enhance his popularity quickly. Denounce these UN and European do-gooders who are at it again as I predicted they would (here's the official comment from the UN website if you can stomach it):
The U.N.'s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, and the special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Martin Scheinin,suggested that the raid carried out in Pakistan early Monday morning may have been legal under international law. However, they said the U.S. should prove that by releasing more details about the operation.
The UN has a special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism? Cuts are obviously necessary at the UN, starting with useless positions like this.
Here's a European view:
In Germany, the media reaction has been especially noteworthy for its near unanimous criticism of the American raid. Many German analysts say the American action was illegal under international law and some Germans have called for an international commission (similar to the Goldstone Commission in Israel) to investigate the U.S. foray into Pakistan. Unanswered remains the question of whether European activists will accuse U.S. President Barack Obama of war crimes and seek a warrant for his arrest as they did for George W. Bush, who recently was forced to cancel a trip to Switzerland.
This is exactly why the International Criminal Court, the EU and the UN are not our friends. The President would have a REAL bounce in the polls if he said in public, "My answer to the UN can be expressed in three words that cannot be said in church!" I'll settle for: "The Constitution does not authorize any reports to foreigners on what we do about internal matters." Oh, I forgot, that is the Paul administration's response!


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This rice, spinach and Cheddar pie is a cinch to prepare—especially if you have leftover cooked rice. If you don't, follow package directions for 4 servings to get about 3 cups cooked rice. Serve with steamed artichokes with light mayo mixed with lemon for dipping.
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Making the pie was super easy... instead of the frozen spinach, I used 6oz of fresh spinach. I think adding a little more cheese would make it even tastier (although not healthier) and maybe some broccoli next time. I also put all the ingredients in my cast iron skillet and made it a "one skillet meal". My husband definitely enjoyed this new recipe.
This was so delicious! I made it just as the recipe instructed, loved it. I think I would throw some crisp bacon into it if I were making it for my meat loving friends.
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Maybe Jamie Pedersen and Joel Horn can ride to Wright Runstad's rescue again this time...
Wright Runstad rocks. I love them. I can't get enough of them. I'm going to start a band called Write Runstad & Company. We're going to sing Beatles songs and do some death dances for Mr. Feit. It's going to rule.
The real loser is the public.
Instead of competition -- which would happen if both sites were availalbe to Amazon -- including competition over the amount of "public benefits" and ayment to an affordable housing fund -- we will get a legal monopoly favoring Vulcan if the only available site is SLU.
The whole SODO zoning restrictions being imposed are a form of monopoly and lack of competition.
Why not have Amazon in SODO, why not require them to build some rentals there too? It's certainly chepaer land than SLU and could probably bear the burden of the more affordable housing better.
Oh and why protect those current uses in SODO?
Nostalgia over density?
Amazon would help transform the whole SODO area (yes some folks would hate and some love that) .... we don't need an anchor tenant for SLU it already has one.
*Wright. Oops.
Poe, you told me that you only sang E.L.O. covers.
You fucking liar.
That wasn't the only lie I told you.
I worked in the PacMed building during the Nisqually Quake in aught whatever, and I can tell you that I'd never ever ever EVAR live in a condo in that damn building.
Unless I wanted to die.
The whole SODO zoning restrictions being imposed are a form of monopoly and lack of competition.
Well, yes! But why having zoning at all, really?
Seriously, though, it is one means to preserve local industries within the city, and ensure that our local economy doesn't just become dot-com monoculture. Rezone SoDo, and the Port of Seattle is going to become much less competitive when compared to Tacoma. it is a very, very blunt instrument, but controlling land costs and rents for industrial businesses through zoning is really the only thing that a city can do.
I agree with @3. The Stranger just blindly picks a side and can't think rationally. You are all for density so why would you be opposed to development in Georgetown. On one hand the Stranger is decrying personal politics while it is practicing it in the same piece. Brilliant.
So I assume that you aren't the leading producer of midget shitting porn in the world. The things that I will believe while drinking...
@3 A monopoly? Really? Vulcan owns all commercial land in Seattle. Wow. I didn't know that! Thanks for the info.
Preserving an industrial sector in our economy is not being nostalgic. To be resilient against the fluctuations of retail/service and high-tech R&D, it's a wise strategy. There will come a day when the US will have to manufacture more on their own; it'd be nice if Seattle had the capacity.
Are homogenous zones the best to protect industrial (or any other land use)? Debatable, but it's what we got now.
Better yet, they could turn PacMed into a veteran's hospital....
@6, so Mr. Poe, does that mean that you don't think Mitt Romney brings lust to your heart?
I am shocked ...
unPC: Oh and why protect those current uses in SODO?
Nostalgia over density?
Why protect current uses? What about 12,000 plus jobs? What about cheaper goods? Less pollution and less damage to roads? These aren't good enough reasons for you?
Who the hell is Mitt Romney?
Could Paul Allen have picked a more threatening name than Vulcan? Seriously, it sounds as if our fair city needs a superhero.
The elephant in the room:
Having that industrial zone in that place is not the "only" thing we can do -- and suggesting it is the only possible zoning that has benefits is fairly stupid.
There are pros and cons for zoning in general and for particular zoning, OK?
But it insults intelligence to act like there are only benefits and no costs in any particular zoning.
HEre we have been worrying about Vulcan screaming we will lose Amazon if the City does not cave in to Vulcan's position on the payment to the affordable housing fund.
If Amazon has another choice (a/k/a competition via W.Runstad in SODO) then we, the City, have a card to play: squeezing more pbulic benefit out of the deal because duh, the land in SODO would be cheaper.
I know the theory of cognitive dissonance means if you like undustrial zoning you want to deny that....but it's a fact.
BTW you can still conclude it is outweighed by nostalgia, jobs or any other "plus" you see in the industrial zoning.
The point is all the costs and benefits should be considered instead of a knee jerk reaction.
Seattle has a pretty significant competitive advantage in the global market place because of its policies to retain its industrial sector. Zoning is one of the tools we have at hand. We have capital infrastructure investments and human capital as well.
As the rest of the county slides into recession Seattle's economy remains strong partially because we are a major player in the global trade and manufacturing economies.
The family wage union jobs are certainly a part of it but don't delude yourself into believing that we don't all benefit from an industrial retention strategy. This sector helps to diversify our economy during cyclical downturns (and saved our asses in the dot com bust). I also happen to think its a worthwhile policy goal to protect blue collar family wage jobs in Seattle. Its certainly more than that but thats good too.
@19 - unless you work at WaMu or any of the other firms that laid off tons of people ...
@20 - I don't think I would consider WaMu a manufacturing or industrial business...
I can add a bit to WR's burn, or history. Whatever.
I work in one of the Met Park buildings - a Wright Runstad property.
They were trying to sell those properties this past year and finally found a buyer (sorry, can't remember their name, but they were headquartered in SF). Things got all hot and heavy between WR and the buyer - and it got to the point that the buyers were meeting with building tenants to tell them about how great their new building owners were going to be.
And then. Nothing.
The whole deal fell through, or was aborted. And last I heard the Met Park properties are no longer for sale. Maybe they realized three buildings near SLU and full of tenants isn't such a bad thing.
Another Josh Feit classic. Umm, Judy Runstad's law firm representes Vulcan in all its South Lake Union developments. Do you seriously think she's trying to derail a Vulcan project?
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On This Day for 28th December
Historical Events
- 1065 Westminster Abbey consecrated
- 1612 First observation of Neptune - Galileo observes and records a "fixed star" without realising it is a planet
- 1767 King Taksin crowned King of Thailand and establishes Thonburi as his capital.
- 1836 Spain recognizes independence of Mexico
- 1860 Harriet Tubman arrives in Auburn NY, on her last mission to free slaves, evading capture for 8 years on the Underground Railroad
- 1908 Earthquake strikes Messina, Italy (nearly 80,000 died)
- 1943 All Kalmyk inhabitants of of the Republic of Kalmukkie deported by the Soviet Union to Central Asia and Siberia. Many die en route
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Filmmakers the Lumiere brothers, hold the first commercial film screening at Salon Indien du Grand Café, Paris
On December 28th, 1895
Famous Weddings
- 1936 British best-selling romantic author Barbara Cartland (35) marries 2nd husband Hugh McCorquodale
- 1936 Football player Bronko Nagurski (28) weds childhood sweetheart Eileen Kane in International Falls, Minnesota
- 1950 Author John Steinbeck (48) weds actress Elaine Anderson (36)
- 1956 Actress Elizabeth Montgomery (23) weds actor Gig Young (43)
- 1956 Singer Patti Page (29) weds choreographer Charles O'Curran in Las Vegas, Nevada
Famous Divorces
- 1942 Actress Janet Leigh (14) divorces childhood sweetheart John Kenneth Carlisle (18) 4 months after getting married
- 2010 Film and record company executive Justin Siegel (23) divorces actress-singer Emmy Rossum due to irreconcilable differences after a year-and-a-half of marriage
- 2012 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin (82) divorces Lois Driggs Cannon due to irreconcilable differences after 23 years of marriage
December in History
Real-life Tragedy for Theatrical FamilyOn this day a tragedy engulfed one of Britain's noted theatrical families of the early 20th century.
December 8th, 1926
The Face that Launched a Thousand Quips...The greatest and most famous clown of them all, and by whose name, Joey, all circus clowns became known, was born on December 18th, 1778.
December 18th, 1778
The Day Murdoch Spoilt the Queen's ChristmasQueen Elizabeth II made the first live Christmas Day broadcast of her reign on December 25th, 1952. Forty years later a pre-recorded message would be leaked.
December 25th, 1952
The Taming of Winston ChurchillWinston Churchill made a memorable and emotional speech to the Canadian Parliament on December 30th, 1941. His photograph from that day is also memorable.
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Today's Forum was written by Norah Vincent, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and originally printed in the Los Angeles Times.
Among the plaintiffs in every frenzy of high-profile lawsuits, there often seem to be a few charlatans masquerading as victims. This is happening to the Catholic Church in the current sexual abuse scandal, which has spanned decades and continents.
The latest accuser is Paul Marcoux, 54, who is claiming to have been sexually assaulted by the now retired-in-disgrace archbishop of Milwaukee. Marcoux's ''case'' is a blight on the cause of retribution for the innocent and threatens to further muddy the distinction between pedophilia and homosexuality and between abuse and consent.
Amid all the talk of betrayed trust, few critics have made the obvious and all-important distinction between the many cases of child abuse that have come to light, and this case, in which a 30-year-old graduate student appears to have entered into an adult, consensual homosexual relationship with another grown man.
Need we reiterate that pedophilia and homosexuality are not the same thing? One is a crime and a sickness, the other is not. Homosexuals are not pedophiles. There was no child involved in this case and no crime. No sickness. Just indiscretion.
Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland broke his vow of celibacy and, horror of horrors, turned out to be a homosexual. That's the extent of the scandal.
To the church, this would have been eminently worth paying $450,000 to cover up. Marcoux received this sum four years ago as a settlement on condition he sign a confidentiality agreement that said he would never speak of the matter again.
Ah, but here Marcoux is speaking freely and loudly on television and to newspaper reporters, breaking his contract without a thought. What good are such contracts if they can be broken with such preening alacrity? The church has grounds to sue him for the cash dispensed, but it is unlikely to do so because that would be perceived as blaming the ''victim,'' and Rome has enough to worry about right now.
But just who was the victim here?
If you perused the published letter that Weakland wrote to Marcoux back in 1980, when the two were allegedly involved, you'll find that it sounds a lot like Marcoux, far from being assaulted, had a relationship with Weakland and may even have entered into that relationship with the sole purpose of trying to wring money from church coffers to finance a project he was working on called ''Christodrama.''
The problem came, apparently, when Weakland didn't come up with enough money. Consider this passage from the 11-page handwritten letter, which surfaced this month: ''Paul, I really have given you all that I personally possess. The $14,000 is really my personal limit: it was the money I got from my community when I became a bishop, and I simply do not have private funds. What I can now do personally to help you will be minimal. I know you are pushing me for church money, for some sort of church support for the Midwest Institute of Christodrama. I feel you are putting me in an impossible situation here. I consider all that church money as a sacred trust; it represents the offerings of faithful and I must be accountable to them for how it is all spent. I simply do not see how I can authorize money for your project. It is not because I don't love you.''
Whatever Marcoux's game or Weakland's weaknesses, this case should not and must not be lumped together with all the others. First, because Marcoux was an adult at the time of the alleged abuse. He was not a child. There was no pedophilia.
Second, because according to the evidence that has surfaced, there was no sexual assault but merely a consensual relationship that, according to Weakland's letter, it seems Marcoux pursued. Weakland writes: ''You had made me promise earlier not to withdraw (apparently from a planned trip to Nantucket) but how to open up to you? I was frightened to do so.''
Does this sound like abuse? Assault?
And finally, Marcoux violated his confidentiality agreement by speaking publicly about something he agreed, for a handsome sum, never to talk about.
So let's bang the gavel on this and give our attention to one of the many worthier cases.
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Monday, June 3, 2002.
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Sun sets on Pune Jazz Club but jazz will live on
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While shutters on the 11-year-old Pune Jazz Club (PJC) were downed recently, former members of the club have decided to continue the tradition.
Known to be a hotspot for the expressive music style, the Jazz Club was run successfully by Ahmed Ebrahim. Escalating costs and unavailability of space forced him to call it quits.
Sudhir Patwardhan, who was part of the erstwhile club, says, "Around seven-eight former members of the club, including me, came together recently to form the Pune Jazz and Blues Club (PJBC). We felt that while the time for Ebrahim to hang up his boots had come, he had created something wonderful for everyone interested in Jazz. We have decided to take the same ideology forward with a little change. We will be taking Jazz to people more aggressively. Over the years we have realised that when people are exposed to the music form, they liked it a lot. We will do just that this time around."
The PJC earlier used to meet once a month at Max Mueller Bhavan (MMB) in the city. Their meeting had live performances as well as presentations on jazz artistes and styles. Patwardhan says that while the MMB never charged them money for space they used, they had to pay overtime charges. "Now they require the premises for their own activities. Also, it was not easy for Ahmed (Ebrahim) to sustain the entire thing by himself. The PJBC doesn't have any structural organisation. It is just a few people who are still enthusiastic of the art form and want to promote it," he adds.
The first meeting of PJBC will be held at Shisha Cafe on Sunday.
Patwardhan says they will meet once a month on a Sunday and will continue the same old tradition.
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