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The first TNG movie not written by Braga and Moore but scribed by the series' former executive producer Michael Piller, the man who took over the show in the third season and saved the show.
Insurrection is the re-write of his original screenplay. The original premise was essentially Star Trek: Apocalypse Now in which Data goes crazy (par for the course) but sets himself up as the leader of the Baku and Picard is sent to destroy him and does actually succeed in killing him, but then a whole conspiracy is revealed and it finds Picard and crew actually rebelling against the entire Federation and Starfleet and not just Admiral Doherty and the Son'a. It had the potential to being the darkest, grittiest Trek movie ever, but Patrick Steward (executive Producer Patrick Stewart that is) got wind of it, hated it and said, "let's do funny." Because, it worked so well in Stark Trek 5, right?
Taking place in the latter half of the DS9's 7th season, they don't even try that hard to expalin Worf's presence, just a brief off-screen remark that he was at the Manzar Colony. Since you guys are going to be watching DS9 the events that were taking place at this time in Trek history and for Worf in particular, will make you realize why the fans of DS9 cried foul at his just "appearing there" because it was a TNG movie. on DS9, the Federation was fighting a 2 year-long war against the Dominion and Worf's wife had just been murdered by a Cardassian. Not the best time to give him Klingon puberty
So Data can now remove his emotion chip? What, did Brent Spiner get tired of having emotions? He seems to be Season One Data again, learning to play tag in the wheat fields with little boys.
Once again we see Riker's combat skills at work. Let's give a brief rundown of Riker's tactical abilities. In
In Rascals he let two salvaged Klingon birds of prey, crewed by a bunch of Ferengi, cripple and capture the Enterprise. The man fired one shot! A "point seven-five burst" to "get their attention." In Generations the Duras sisters got a hold of the Enterprise's shield frequencies and started firing madly, Riker again, fired one phaser shot and then came up with some technological solution to getting the Klingon's shields down. Here he fires a couple of torpedoes then essentially throws gasoline on the Son'a and lights them on fire.
The Son'a. What a waste of F. Murray Abraham. if you look at the special features or read any of the behind the scenes stuff, you'll find Rick Berman constantly trying to find a new Kahn for a villian. Let's face it, there was no one that can duplicate what Montalban did with Kahn, so you really need to stop trying to come up with Trek's "ultimate villian." JJ Abrams realized this when he had a Romulan truck driver become the villian in last year's movie.
At its core it really was a Trek tale, following the Prime Directive and so forth. But it was a glorified episode with "wacky" moments with firm boobs, flotation devices, Klingon pimples, Riker shaving, Picard doing the MAMBO and a CGI little chipmunk created to pre-empt Jar Jar Binks and as annoying CGI in the late 90's.
But it did have its moments. The crew standing together with Picard to save the Baku, Geordi seeing a sunrise and Riker and Deanna finally getting together.
But the whole movie collapsed with this one scene:
"Mister Worf, do you know Gilbert and Sullivan?"
"No, sir, I have not had a chance to meet all of the new crewmembers since I've been back."
Queue the bouncing ball lyrics. Who would've thought that Data could be incapacitated the same way Sideshow Bob was?
Best Villian: Data.
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Favorite Planet: The Manzar Colony. A strategically placed world to the plot of the movie where Worf was apparently vacationing.
Favorite Cameo: Gate McFadden as Beverly Crusher, because apparently she had 4 lines in the entire film.
Favorite Technology: The razor, because it lures Deanna Troi into a bath tub. Followed up closely by Star Trek Fan's most hated piece of tech. The manual steering column. Still curious to what the trigger actually does.(itunes subscription)
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Cheesecake: How tasty is your code?
- Summary
- Why Cheesecake?
- Usage examples
- Requirements
- Installation
- Obtaining the source code
- Documentation
- Unit tests
- Buildbot
- Mailing lists
- License
- Authors contact info
- Algorithm for computing the Cheesecake index
- Sample output
- Case study: Cleaning up PyBlosxom
- Future plans
The idea of the Cheesecake project is to rank Python packages based on various empirical "kwalitee" factors, such as:
- whether the package can be downloaded from PyPI given its name
- whether the package can be unpacked
- whether the package can be installed into an alternate directory
- existence of certain files such as README, INSTALL, LICENSE, setup.py etc.
- percentage of modules/functions/classes/methods with docstrings
- pylint score
- ... and many others
Currently, the Cheesecake index is computed for invidual packages obtained through a variety of methods (detailed below). One of the goals of the Cheesecake project is to automatically compute the Cheesecake index for all packages uploaded to the PyPI Cheese Shop (possibly at upload time) and to maintain a collection of Web pages with statistics related to the various indexes of the packages.
Cheesecake currently computes 3 types of indexes:
- installability index
- documentation index
- code kwalitee index
The algorithms for computing each index type are detailed below.
Why Cheesecake?
The concept of "kwalitee" originated in the Perl community. Here's a relevant quote:
It looks like quality, it sounds like quality, but it's not quite quality.
Kwalitee is an empiric measure of how good a specific body of code is. It defines quality indicators and measures the code along them. It is currently used by the CPANTS Testing Service to evaluate the 'goodness' of CPAN packages.
Since the Python package repository (aka PyPI) is hosted at the Cheese Shop, it stands to reason that the quality indicator of a PyPI package should be called the Cheesecake index!
Usage examples
To compute the Cheesecake index for a given project, run the cheesecake_index script from the command line and indicate either:
- the package short name (e.g. twill) or
- the package URL (e.g. http://darcs.idyll.org/~t/projects/twill-0.7.4.tar.gz) or
- the package path on the file system (e.g. /tmp/twill-latest.tar.gz)
In all cases, the cheesecake script will attempt to download the package if necessary, then to unpack it in a sandbox directory (/tmp/cheesecake_sandbox by default). If either of these operations fails, the Cheesecake index for the package will be 0. If the package can be successfully unpacked, the cheesecake script will compute the values for a variety of indexes detailed in the algorithm given at the end of this file.
If the package can be successfully downloaded and unpacked, a log file is created in the system /tmp directory and named <package>.log (e.g. the log file for twill-0.7.4.tar.gz is /tmp/twill-0.7.4.tar.gz.log). The log file is automatically deleted after the Cheesecake index is computed, except for situations when errors have occured.
Command-line examples:
Compute the Cheesecake index for the Durus package by using setuptools utilities to download the package from PyPI:python cheesecake_index --name=Durus
Compute the Cheesecake index for the Durus package by indicating its URL:python cheesecake_index --url=http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/durus/Durus-3.1.tar.gz
Compute the Cheesecake index for the twill package by indicating its path on the local file system:python cheesecake_index --path=/tmp/twill-latest.tar.gz
To increase the verbosity of the output, use the -v or --verbose option. For more options, run cheesecake_index with -h or --help.
- pylint is required for part of the code kwalitee index computation
- setuptools is required for the installability index computation
Manual installation
If you have downloaded a Cheesecake package, follow this steps:
Unpack it:
tar zxf cheesecake-0.6.1.tar.gz
Change to the cheesecake directory:
cd cheesecake-0.6.1/
Run setup.py that will install Cheesecake automatically. This step need to be run as root:
python setup.py install
Using easy_install
If you have easy_install on your system, installing Cheesecake is as simple as running:
easy_install Cheesecake
Note: if you already have an old version of Cheesecake installed, easy_install will not automatically download the latest version. You can ask for a particular version by running for example:
easy_install Cheesecake==0.6.1
If you're feeling adventurous you may install development version:
easy_install Cheesecake==dev
Obtaining the source code
You can get the source code via svn:
svn co http://svn.pycheesecake.org/trunk cheesecake
Note: make sure you indicate the target directory when you do the svn checkout, otherwise the cheesecake package files will be checked out directly in your current directory.
You may want to modify your subversion client configuration to automatically expand tags, like $Id$, $Author$ etc. To do so add following two lines to your /.subversion/config:
enable-auto-props = yes
in [miscellany] section, and:
*.py = svn:eol-style=native;svn:keywords=Author Date Id Revision
in [auto-props] section.
The most recent code documentation should be always available at http://agilistas.org/cheesecake/mk/docs/. You can also generate this documentation directly from the Cheesecake sources. Run this command from the main source directory:
sh support/generate_docs.sh .
|Generating documentation requires epydoc tool installed.
Unit tests
We use nose for automatic testing of our project, so if you want to test Cheesecake on your machine, please install that first. Running the standard set of Cheesecake unit test is as easy as:
python setup.py test
This command is equivalent to:
nosetests --verbose --with-doctest --doctest-tests --include unit --exe
We also have a set of functional tests, which can be run by issuing this command:
nosetests --verbose --include functional
Functional tests can take a bit longer to complete, as they test cheesecake_index script as a whole (as opposed to testing modules and classes separately).
If you happen to find any of our tests failing, please don't hesitate to contact us, either via cheesecake-devel mailing list or via Cheesecake Trac.
Mailing lists
- Developer mailing list: http://lists2.idyll.org/listinfo/cheesecake-dev
- User mailing list: http://lists2.idyll.org/listinfo/cheesecake-users
Cheesecake is licensed under the Python Software Foundation license, the same license that governs Python itself. The text of the license is available in the LICENSE file in the source code distribution and can also be downloaded from http://www.opensource.org/licenses/PythonSoftFoundation.php.
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Note: clipart for the cheesecake slice logo used with permission from Kazumi Hatasa, Director, the Japanese School at Middlebury College, Purdue University.
Algorithm for computing the Cheesecake index
The overall Cheesecake score is the sum of values of 3 main indexes (installability, documentation and code kwalitee). The values of these indexes rely on values of their subindexes and so on. The whole index tree and corresponding values for each leaf are presented below:
- Installability
- package is listed on and can be downloaded from PyPI: 50
- package can be downloaded from given URL: 25
- package can be unpacked without problems: 25
- unpacked package directory is the same as package name: 15
- package has setup.py: 25
- package can be installed to given directory via "setup.py install": 50
- package contain generated files, like .pyc: -20
- Documentation
- package contain files listed below
- package contain directories listed below
- code is documented by docstrings: 100 [2]
- docstrings have proper formatting (like epytext or reST): 30 [3]
- Code Kwalitee
- package has high pylint score: 50
- package has unit tests: 30
- package doesn't follow PEP8 conventions [4]: -2 for each error type and -1 for each warning type
The final score depends on how well the package scores for all indexes listed above. The score is presented in absolute range (number of points) and relative (percent of points obtained compared to maximum possible points).
|(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) It is enough for a package to contain only one of listed files.
|Number of points is proportional to percent of documentable objects (module, class or function) that have docstrings. For example, if you have 50 documentable objects and 32 of them have docstrings your code will get 64 points (because 64% of objects are documented).
|Number of points depends on number of docstrings that are found to contain one of known markup. Currently ReST, epytext and javadoc are recognized. We give 10 points for 25% of formatted docstrings, 20 points for 50% and 30 points for 75%.
|PEP8 defines a good coding style for Python, see PEP8 document for details.
Sample output
$ python cheesecake_index -n nose py_pi_download ......................... 50 (downloaded package nose-0.9.1.tar.gz following 1 link from http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/nose-0.9.1.tar.gz) unpack ................................. 25 (package unpacked successfully) unpack_dir ............................. 15 (unpack directory is nose-0.9.1 as expected) setup.py ............................... 25 (setup.py found) install ................................ 50 (package installed in /tmp/cheesecakeOzL_mb/tmp_install_nose-0.9.1) generated_files ........................ 0 (0 .pyc and 0 .pyo files found) --------------------------------------------- INSTALLABILITY INDEX (ABSOLUTE) ........ 165 INSTALLABILITY INDEX (RELATIVE) ........ 100 (165 out of a maximum of 165 points is 100%) required_files ......................... 110 (4 files and 2 required directories found) docstrings ............................. 43 (found 139/329=42.25% objects with docstrings) formatted_docstrings ................... 0 (found 53/329=16.11% objects with formatted docstrings) --------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION INDEX (ABSOLUTE) ......... 153 DOCUMENTATION INDEX (RELATIVE) ......... 44 (153 out of a maximum of 350 points is 44%) unit_tested ............................ 30 (has unit tests) pylint ................................. 37 (pylint score was 7.29 out of 10) pep8 ................................... -16 (pep8.py check: 7 error types, 2 warning types) --------------------------------------------- CODE KWALITEE INDEX (ABSOLUTE) ......... 51 CODE KWALITEE INDEX (RELATIVE) ......... 64 (51 out of a maximum of 80 points is 64%) ============================================= OVERALL CHEESECAKE INDEX (ABSOLUTE) .... 369 OVERALL CHEESECAKE INDEX (RELATIVE) .... 62 (369 out of a maximum of 595 points is 62%)
Case study: Cleaning up PyBlosxom
Many thanks to Will Guaraldi for writing this article about his experiences in using Cheesecake to clean up and improve the structure of his PyBlosxom package.
Future plans
Cheesecake is under very active development. The immediate goal is to add the unit test index measurement, followed by other metrics inspired from the kwalitee indicators. Please edit the IndexMeasurementIdeas Wiki page to add things that you would like to see covered by the Cheesecake metrics.


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With a preview version slated for November 2008 and beta versions as early as 2009, Microsoft's newest DirectX will be here sooner than you think. ExtremeTech's Loyd Case digs deep into DirectX 11 and discusses its new features and how it differs from DX10. While improved graphics are expected out of the new release, DX11 hopes to improve upon crunching complex graphics with the GPU through hardware tessellation, which many people hoped to see in DX10.


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Head to the south end of Broker, to the gated community that Faustin calls home. Head to his house and walk on in to catalyze a cutscene with him and one of his associates. First and foremost, Dimitri is nowhere to be found, which displeases Faustin greatly. But he dispatches one of his associates to take care of that. Instead, he brings to your attention the fact that he has a daughter, and that he considers her an ungrateful whore of sorts. He suspects she's hanging out at Firefly Island with a biker dude, and if that's the case, he wants you to kill him. Easy enough, right?
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On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the September 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #21 "Seattle". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1]. The tarball for the September 2009 release is available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads .
Due to the continued rapid pace of Rakudo development and the frequent addition of new Perl 6 features and bugfixes, we recommend building Rakudo from the latest source, available from the main repository at github. More details are available at http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo. Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release code named after a Perl Mongers group. September 2009 is code named "Seattle" for the enthusiasm they have shown for Perl 6 during monthly meetings, and the feedback, encouragement and support given me for the past several years. Since the 2009-08 release, Rakudo Perl builds from an "installed Parrot" instead of using Parrot's build tree. This release of Rakudo requires Parrot 1.6.0. For the latest information on building and using Rakudo Perl, see the README file section titled "Building and invoking Rakudo". (Quick note: the "--gen-parrot" option still automatically downloads and builds Parrot as before, if you prefer that approach.) Also, unlike previous versions of Rakudo Perl, the "perl6" (or "perl6.exe") executables only work when invoked from the Rakudo root directory until a "make install" is performed. Running "make install" will install Rakudo and its libraries into the Parrot installation that was used to build it, and then the executables will work when invoked from any directory. Some of the specific major changes and improvements occuring with this release include: * Rakudo is now passing 15,497 spectests, an increase of 3,128 passing tests since the August 2009 release. With this release Rakudo is now passing 71.5% of the available spectest suite. * Rakudo now supports contextual variables. * Rakudo now supports the rational (Rat) data type. * Rakudo now supports overloading of many of the builtin operators, many of which are now defined in the core setting. Many have also been improved to be more faithful to the specification with respect to types and coercions. * Substantially improved support for trait handling. Most of the "built-in" traits are now defined in the core setting. * The %*ENV variable now works properly for modifying the process environment. Since the Perl 6 specification is still in flux, some deprecated features have been removed from Rakudo. Prominently among those are: * '=$handle' is deprecated in favor of '$handle.get' (one line) and '$handle.lines' (all lines). * 'int $obj' is deprecated in favor of '$obj.Int'. The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Perl possible. If you would like to contribute, see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help , ask on the perl6-compi...@perl.org mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode. The next release of Rakudo (#22) is scheduled for October 22, 2009. A list of the other planned release dates and codenames for 2009 is available in the "docs/release_guide.pod" file. In general, Rakudo development releases are scheduled to occur two days after each Parrot monthly release. Parrot releases the third Tuesday of each month. Have fun! References: [1] Parrot, http://parrot.org/


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Nearly 2 million Californians will receive $73.9 million in rebates from health insurers as part of the federal healthcare law, according to state officials.
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Figures released Tuesday mark the final tally for California; insurers must issue refunds by Wednesday. Many employers and consumers have already received letters informing them of their rebate amount.
The average rebate is $65 per family, according to the state insurance department.
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PORTSMOUTH – It has become a tradition for employees at Portsmouth Ford to celebrate the holidays by helping to serve others in their community. For the fourth consecutive year, employees joined together at the dealership's annual holiday party on December 15th to collect non-perishable food and toiletry items for the Portsmouth Food Pantry.
"As we have done over the years, we asked our employees and their families to bring non-perishable food or toiletry items for the local food pantry," said John Sawyer, owner, Portsmouth Ford. "Our employees want to do everything they can to help ensure people don't go hungry over the holidays."
More than 180 employees and their guests attended this year's holiday party that collected more than 3,200 non-perishable food and toiletry items. Wes Lockwood from Portsmouth's Auto Body division contributed the most items to this year's effort – donating more than 800 items – along with sales associate Mike Shannon with 600 items. Both employees received $50 Best Buy gift certificates for their generous efforts. Anyone who donated an item for the pantry received one raffle ticket for a 32" LCD HD TV which was generously donated by Towers Motor Parts Corporation as a grand prize for the Food Pantry drawing.
"Portsmouth Ford employees recognize how important it is to give back to those in need in our community," said Dan Brubach, fixed operations manager, Portsmouth Ford. "Our holiday food drive has become an important tradition at our dealership and each year we continue to outnumber the amount of donated goods from years past. This year we exceeded that number by setting a goal to double our donation and our employees rose to the challenge."
All items were donated to Seacoast Family Food Pantry in Portsmouth on December 18th. The Pantry, with a history dating back as far as 1816, was renamed and its mission reformed in 2007, to serve the needs of low-income individuals by providing food, personal care products, and education for healthier living.


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A Gallery of Dogs at Home
If there is one thing I love to see in a set of Apartment Therapy photos, it is a pet. All varieties are wonderful, of course, but as someone who shares her home with a little pup, I especially enjoy the shots of dogs at home. Whether they are simply too sleepy to be bothered, kinda curious or definitely posing for the photographer, the faces in these photos always evoke a smile from me.
So, if you are like me, then just sit back and enjoy - here are 20 cute canines (and the posts they first appeared in) to check out...
Shown above, first row, left to right:
1. Kyle's "roommate" from Kyle's Jamaica Plain Gem, 1 Year Later
2. Pierre of Becke & Lee's Vintage Cabin
3. A happy napper from Vanessa's New Oakland Digs
4. Bacon! from Wes, Kayla & Bacon's Brookline Remix
5. Iggy Pup from The Brick House
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6. I just had to include my own dog Beatrix from Simple Joys of Working at Home.
7. Moe from Berto & Mary's Cozy Casa
8. Someone is ready for a walk at CJ & Renee's Sleek White Space
9. Orange from Shannon and Emmett's From Factory to Family
10. Rogan & Benet from Down Under and Family Friendly
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11. Charlie Brown of Carrie's Calm, Cool & Collected
12. A super sweetie from Johnny & Stacie's Super Sweet Loft
13 & 14. The two pals from Stephen Improvises a Home
15. A proud pup from Joanna & Dave's Arizona Dream Home
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16. Otto from Sarah & Steve's Attic Aerie
17. And another happy napper from James's Bernal Heights Re-Make/Re-Model
18. Curled up in a cozy spot in Caryn's Enchanting Fairytale Loft
19 & 20. Argyle & Redding from Sara and Michael's Bohemian Salvage
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Being from California we don't always experience seasons as fully as other parts of the country. I wanted to experience winter and translate that into an editorial. With La Tavola velvet grounding the inspiration as it reminded me of new fallen snow, golden glowing candles bringing in warmth, marble showcasing weight, and gorgeous crystal adding a feminine romance. Shasta Bell created the most stunning paper goods and Native Poppy created all the lovely floral pieces.


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HOUSTON (AP) - January 23, 2013 --One of the people hospitalized after yesterday's shooting on a Texas community college campus has been booked on two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Sheriff's officials say Carlton Berry will be arraigned tomorrow. His condition, and the condition of the other person believed to have been involved shooting, haven't been disclosed. A maintenance worker who was caught in the crossfire was also sent to a hospital.
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The New Year is a great time to take a fresh look at your home library. Having interesting things to read at home is a great way to keep kids motivated.
Below are a few questions to ask yourself about your home library. Some simple changes on your part can help you create an amazing home library, and help your young reader start this New Year on the right reading foot!
Does your home library offer ?
- A variety of books? Kids love to read all sorts of materials, including books, magazines, newspapers, and poems. Consider including travel brochures, street maps, and programs from school plays.
- Books written at a variety of reading levels? It's important to have some books that are easy for your child to read, but it's also good to have some that can be read most successfully with an adult. This balance enables your child to feel confident with some books, and grow as a reader with others.
- Some method of organization? Sometimes grouping books by topic or series helps your child find other books they might like to read. Grouping books using book baskets also help kids find a book more easily than a crowded shelf.
- Lots of nonfiction material? Even the youngest readers love to read about real places and things. These materials often include photographs, maps and charts full of interesting information.
- Lots of choice? Find creative ways to add books to your library. Playgroup book swaps, yard sales, and used book stores all offer affordable ways to add to your collection.
Take the time this New Year to consider your home library. Your reader will be glad you did!
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In 2011, after more than 20 years of intense gigging and recording, Chris Robinson set off to shape something new, a fresh rock mythology, a breathing kaleidoscopic thing stuffed with chooglin' soul, bedrock boogie and shuffling wisdom birthed in intimate clubs and amongst the tall trees of the Golden State and eventually taken nationwide as the Chris Robinson Brotherhood evolved. What began as an experiment without expectations turned into a 118-show journey for Robinson (lead vocals, guitar), Neal Casal (guitar, vocals), Adam MacDougall (keys, vocals), George Sluppick (drums) and Mark Dutton (bass, vocals) that surprised these seasoned pros as music of unshakeable solidity and exuberant reach poured out of them, a New Cosmic California sound with tendrils reaching to the original Fillmore West, Topanga Canyon and outwards towards far horizons that finds its fruition on the CRB's studio debut Big Moon Ritual (arriving in June), to be followed by companion album The Magic Door (September).
"People were surprised to see a van roll up and just the band and our tour manager roll out," says Robinson. "I'm lugging around this hippy-fied custom Twin Reverb amp at gigs and loading out at the end of the night. Some people asked, "Why are you doing this?' Because you build a temple brick by brick."
"This music is unashamedly what we're into," says Robinson, who cites Neu!, Melanie, Flatt & Scruggs, Mel Tillis and Morton Subotnick as regulars in their van listening. "It's not a psych band because you have a Prince Valiant haircut and wear Beatle boots. It's psych because that's where our heads are. We want to make music that blossoms. We want to make music that sounds cosmic."
For a full year, the CRB road tested their ideas, and in the process turned into an empathetic, limber congregation of talents, something different than any of their previous work with the likes of Phil Lesh & Friends, Ryan Adams & The Cardinals and JJ Grey & Mofro. By the time of their sold-out four-night run at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall last December, the Brotherhood were fully switched-on. This is the band that entered Sunset Sound in Los Angeles in January 2012, setting up shop in Studio B and coming out the other side of a six-day session with 27 different songs with 97 takes, most of it captured straight off-the-floor with only minor enhancements after the fact.
"Part of the master plan was not to do anything besides touring the wheels off the thing for the first go-around, and it worked for us and allowed us to figure out who we were," says Robinson. "One of the best things about the lack of a proper music business is if you have an idea, you can do something. If everybody is on the same page, and it's not about the dough on the table, and it's really about something you believe in, then you can get there."
The fruits of this hard-charging January session are heard on kindred albums Big Moon Ritual and The Magic Door, with each song cycle spotlighting seven tunes, including a cover of Hank Ballard's "Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go"--to be included on The Magic Door--already a CRB setlist staple.
"It's about being boutique," says Robinson. "If before you wanted to have a million people hear what you do, now we're making music the right way for the right people. When we got to these cool sonic spaces we took advantage of them. It was totally the most radical recording session I've ever done, especially in terms of aesthetics."
Thom Monahan (Vetiver, Devendra Banhart, Papercuts) produced the record. "Thom and I have wanted to work together for a long time," says Robinson. "We talked about it at a show in Los Angeles and I told him as we stood behind George's drums, "This is it (gesturing at stage gear). We're not bringing anything else with us into the studio. This is what brought us here this year, so this is exactly what this is gonna be. We didn't even change strings from the last Cali run [laughs]."
The Chris Robinson Brotherhood is also a torchbearer for rock's 1950's roots, tapping the catalogs of greats like the Everly Brothers and Elvis Presley for their ever-changing cover tune selections-and this band does have a way of truly inhabiting the work of others.
"Remember, when they shot that satellite into space a few years ago, Chuck Berry's music was on there," says Robinson. "My thing is bringing in the lost language of rock n' roll. I find myself listening to tons of fifties rock music and the songs are just so great! Still, we maintain our zero gravity sound even in these tunes, and when we get into it really good, we consider it a classic California space boogie."
"We really feel these records set the stage for another full year, where we'll see how far we can go with it," says Robinson. "We already feel successful because we have the freedom to do what we want. And it's always cosmic. The times demand it."
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The storylines in Indianapolis were never-ending.
Andrew Luck was the No. 1 pick. Coach Chuck Pagano battled leukemia. Offensive coordinator Bruce Arians was named the 2012 Associated Press NFL Coach of the Year. The 12-month turnaround from two wins to 11 was completely unexpected.
Lost in the shuffle was the status of linebacker Dwight Freeney. The 11-year veteran has made it seven Pro Bowls, is a three-time first-team All Pro and is the all-time franchise leader in sacks. There should be more talk about a player with those credentials possibly leaving the organization that drafted him No. 11 overall in 2002.
"It would be great to finish off my career as an Indianapolis Colt," Freeney told NFL.com's Austin Knoblauch on Thursday. "I've been there my whole career, and I don't know anything different. ... Ideally, it would be great to stay there. But it is a business, so we'll see.
"Right now, I'm just thinking about Indianapolis until they tell me otherwise."
He'll be told otherwise sometime soon. At least he should be. Freeney never quite adjusted to being a 3-4 linebacker after playing his first 10 years as a 4-3 defensive end. He was a liability in coverage and managed just five sacks. That's a career-low outside of 3.5 sacks in 2007 when he played just nine games. A pass-rushing linebacker is high on the list of Colts' needs this offseason and Robert Mathis made the transition much better.
Freeney believes he'll be back, but is that realistic? He watched Peyton Manning, Dallas Clark, Joseph Addai and Gary Brackett walk out that door last year. And Freeney knows his career is nearing an end regardless of what jersey he wears on Sundays.
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After two months of working with the savory side of baking, Daring Bakers are once again exploring the sweet sensations! The challenge for the month of November is Caramel cake with Caramelized butter frosting. According to Shuna Fish Lydon of Eggbeater, the leading lady of this month's challenge, sugar is the STAR of the party! Her co-hosts are Dolores of Chronicles of Culinary Curiosity, Alex - Brownie of the Blondie and Brownie duo: and Jenny of Foray into Food. The gluten-free version was provided by Natalie of Gluten-a-Go-Go.
Notes from Natalie for those of you baking gluten-free:
Verdict: I loooved the caramelized butter frosting but I wish I could say that about the cake. Shuna had mentioned in the post that this cake is all about the balance between dry and wet ingredients, so probably by reducing the amout of sugar in the cake, I tipped the scales in the wrong direction! ;-) The texture, (and definitely not the taste), was the biggest negative for me. But everyone else seemed fine with it, so I guess its just a matter of personal taste!!
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The Florida Marlins finally won in Cincinnati, something they haven't been able to do since 2006.
And it took them nine innings to even score in this game, coming alive in the ninth inning after trailing 2-0 to win the game 4-3, snapping their nine-game losing streak against the Reds.
The Reds were 57-0 when leading after eight innings, the only NL team left with a perfect mark. Manager Dusty Baker decided to try to protect a 2-0 lead by having Francisco Cordero (2-6) pitch for the fifth day in a row.
Turned out to be one too many.
The Marlins sent 10 batters to the plate in the inning, which started with left fielder Wladimir Balentien's error — he misplayed Chris Coghlan's liner. Uggla's run-scoring grounder tied it, and John Baker's hit put the Marlins ahead. Florida had four hits off Cordero, who retired only two batters.
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4EVER - Efficacy, Safety, Health Economics, Translational Research of Postmenopausal Women With Estrogen Receptor Positive Locally Advanced or Metastatic Breast Cancer (MACS2096)
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In light of the need for new treatment options for postmenopausal, hormone receptor positive, HER2 negative women after failure of prior non-steroidal aromatase inhibitor (NSAI) therapy, the BOLERO-2 trial was performed and demonstrated significant efficacy of the combinatorial treatment of Everolimus and Exemestane compared to an Exemestane monotherapy in this setting.
In this randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled trial a statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) by adding Everolimus to exemestane versus Exemestane alone was reported. Adding Everolimus determined a 2.4-fold prolongation in PFS from 3.2 up to 7.4 months and so lowered the risk of cancer progression by 56% for these women. These findings were confirmed by an independent assessment (4.1 vs. 11.0 months, risk reduction: 64%). The quality of life data shows positive trend in the Everolimus plus Exemestane treatment arm. (Baselga 2011, Hortobagyi 2011). Thus, the benefit of the combinatorial treatment versus Exemestane monotherapy was shown in a defined patient population under controlled conditions.
The primary objective of this trial to assess the Overall Response Rate (ORR) in postmenopausal women with hormone receptor positive breast cancer progressing following prior therapy with NSAIs treated with the combination of Everolimus and Exemestane. The secondary objectives include, Progression free survival (PFS), Overall survival (OS), Safety, Change in Quality of life scores over time, Health resource utilization. The exploratory objectives reflect scientific interest within the treatment of metastatic breast cancer and are to be modified, if applicable, according to the current scientific state of the art at the time of actual analysis. These include: the influence of age, performance status, cancer activity and inflammation on anxiety and depression; changes in serum bone-turnover biomarkers; Pharmacogenetics of Everolimus in patients with advanced breast cancer; presence and molecular characteristics of Circulating Tumor Cells; correlation of response to Exemestane/Everolimus with Proteomic analysis.
The present national, multi-center, open-label, single-arm study aims to evaluate the efficacy and safety, quality of life and health resources utilization of the combination of Everolimus and Exemestane in a broader patient population compared to BOLERO-2, i.e. without limitations as to the number of previous chemotherapy lines, the time point of progression after NSAI therapy, and the previous endocrine therapy as patients under Exemestane monotherapy may be enrolled. Since the combination was shown to significantly improve PFS in the previous BOLERO-2 trial, for ethical reasons no endocrine comparator drugs will be investigated in the present study, due to the low efficacy of Exemestane monotherapy (PFS 3.2 months).
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|301 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Phase IIIB, Multi-Center, Open Label Study For Postmenopausal Women With Estrogen Receptor Positive Locally Advanced or Metastatic Breast Cancer Treated With Everolimus (RAD001) in Combination With Exemestane: 4EVER - Efficacy, Safety, Health Economics, Translational Research
|Study Start Date :
|June 2012
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|November 2013
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|November 2013
Experimental: Everolimus & Exemestane
This study will be performed in 300 postmenopausal women with hormone receptor positive locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer progressing following prior therapy with non-steroidal aromatase inhibitors (NSAI) as defined by: 1. Recurrence while on or after completion of an adjuvant treatment including Letrozole or Anastrozole, or 2. Progression while on or following the completion of Letrozole or Anastrozole treatment for locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer. Except for prior use of mTOR inhibitors, there are no restrictions as to the last anticancer treatment prior to enrollment. Patients must have documented evidence of recurrence or progression on last therapy prior to enrollment. Written informed consent must be obtained prior to any screening procedures. The investigator or designee must ensure that only patients who meet all the following inclusion and none of the exclusion criteria are offered enrollment in the study.
Drug: Exemestane
Exemestane is supplied by Novartis until Everolimus is commercially available for the study setting. Afterwards the investigator will prescribe Exemestane according to the individual label. Commercially available Exemestane will be supplied as tablets of 25 mg strength for oral administration. Complete guidelines for management and administration of Exemestane can be found in the package insert. Exemestane will be dosed starting on treatment Day 1. Patients will be instructed to take 1 tablet of 25 mg Exemestane orally. Package insert instructions should be followed. On the first day of each cycle, patients will receive an adequate drug supply (before commercial availability) or a prescription (after commercial availability) for self-administration at home. The investigator must emphasize compliance and will instruct the patient to take Exemestane exactly as prescribed.
Drug: Everolimus (RAD001)
Everolimus (RAD001) is supplied by Novartis until Everolimus is commercially available for the study setting. Afterwards the investigator will prescribe Everolimus according to the individual label. Everolimus is formulated as tablets of 10 and 5 mg strength for oral administration. All study medication will be packaged into blister packs. The blisters should be opened only at the time of administration, as the drugs are both hygroscopic and light sensitive. Everolimus will be dosed starting on treatment Day 1. Patients will be instructed to take 1 tablet × 10 mg Everolimus orally with a large glass of water once daily at the same time each day with or without food. On the first day of each cycle, patients will receive an adequate drug supply (before commercial availability) or a prescription (after commercial availability) for self-administration at home. The investigator must emphasize compliance and will instruct the patient to take Everolimus exactly as prescribed.
- Overall Response Rate (ORR) after 24 weeks of treatment [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]The Overall response rate (ORR) is the proportion of patients with a best overall response of confirmed complete (CR) or partial (PR) response by Week 24. The best overall response is determined from the sequence of investigator overall lesion responses according to RECIST 1.1. To be assigned a best overall response of CR at least two determinations of CR at least 4 weeks apart before progression are required. To be assigned a best overall response of PR at least two determinations of PR or better at least 4 weeks apart before progression (and not qualifying for a CR) are required.
- Progression free survival (PFS) after 48 weeks of treatment [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]Progression-free survival (PFS) is the time from date of start of treatment to the date of event defined as the first documented progression or death due to any cause. If a patient has not had an event, progression-free survival is censored at the date of last adequate tumor assessment.
- Overall Response Rate (ORR) after 48 weeks of treatment [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]The ORR by Week 48 will be derived from the sequence of overall lesion responses as described for the primary efficacy variable. The ORR by Week 48 will be summarized using frequency tables presenting absolute and relative frequencies together with appropriate confidence intervals
- Overall survival (OS) after 48 weeks of treatment [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]Overall survival (OS) is defined as the time from date of start of treatment to date of death due to any cause. If a patient is not known to have died, survival will be censored at the date of last contact. OS will be summarized using the Kaplan-Meier method.
- Safety within 48 weeks of treatment [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]The assessment of safety will be based mainly on the frequency of adverse events and on the number of laboratory values that fall outside of pre-determined ranges. Other safety data (e.g. vital signs, and special tests) will be considered as appropriate. For all safety analyses, the safety set will be used.
- Resource utilization [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
Data relating to Resource Utilization will be used for the purpose of economic evaluation, which will be carried out and reported as a separate activity.
The study population receiving RAD001 plus Exemestane will be compared to alternative cohorts (e.g., purely endocrine treatment with Fulvestrant monotherapy, Exemestane monotherapy or chemotherapy, e.g. Capecitabine) using a Markov model. For each alternative therapy option, median PFS, OS and health-related quality of life will be determined by a systematic review of literature or databases.
- Health-related quality of life [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) will be assessed using the EORTC QLQ-C30 and BR23 questionnaires and the EuroQoL EQ-5D questionnaire. The HADS D questionnaire will be used to assess anxiety and depression. Scoring will follow the instructions of the respective manuals.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Main Inclusion criteria:
Metastatic or locally advanced breast cancer not amenable to curative treatment by surgery or radiotherapy or any other non-systemic treatment.
Histological or cytological confirmation of estrogen receptor positive (ER+) and/or progesterone receptor positive (PgR+), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) negative breast cancer Postmenopausal women. Disease progression following prior therapy with non steroidal aromatase inhibitors (NSAI), defined as: Recurrence while on, or following completion of an adjuvant treatment with Letrozole or Anastrozole, or Progression while on or following completion of Letrozole or Anastrozole treatment for ABC/MBC.
Radiological evidence of recurrence or progression on last systemic therapy prior to enrollment.
Patients must have at least one lesion that can be accurately measured or bone lesions: lytic or mixed (lytic + sclerotic) in the absence of measurable disease.
Written informed consent obtained before any screening procedure and according to local guidelines.
Other protocol defined inclusion criteria apply.
Main Exclusion criteria:
HER2-overexpressing patients by local laboratory testing (IHC 3+ staining or in situ hybridization positive).
Patients with only non-measurable lesions other than bone metastasis (e.g. pleural effusion, ascites etc.).
Previous treatment with mTOR inhibitors or known hypersensitivity to mTOR inhibitors.
Symptomatic brain or other CNS metastases. Previously treated brain metastases are allowed provided the patient is free of symptoms, prior radiotherapy for brain metastasis was more than four weeks before enrollment and the dose of corticosteroids is low (i.e. ≤ 10 mg/d Prednisolone equivalent) and stable for at least two weeks prior to enrollment.
Patients with Hepatitis B or C or with a history of Hepatitis B or C. Patients unwilling to or unable to comply with the protocol. Other protocol defined exclusion criteria apply.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01626222
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|Study Director:
|Novartis Pharmaceuticals
|Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Additional Information:
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Novartis Pharmaceuticals
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01626222 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|June 22, 2012 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|February 23, 2017
|Last Verified:
|February 2017
Keywords provided by Novartis ( Novartis Pharmaceuticals ):
Estrogen Receptor Positive
HER2 negative
Locally Advanced
Metastatic Breast Cancer
Everolimus (RAD001)
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Breast Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Breast Diseases
Skin Diseases
Antineoplastic Agents
Immunosuppressive Agents
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Antibiotics, Antineoplastic
Antifungal Agents
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Aromatase Inhibitors
Steroid Synthesis Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Estrogen Antagonists
Hormone Antagonists


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Clumsy Grace Penworth is an impossible young lady. She can't sing, she doesn't play the piano, and can't embroider or paint. In fact, she has none of the accomplishments required of a young Regency lady. All she can do is write critical essays, and when she is sent off to London to find a husband, she means to use the chance to meet with her publisher. A chance collision between her carriage and a curricle belonging to the Duke of Standen brings her ...


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- Brand: Powerfields
- Type: Fencing
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"Works great, got some more!"
Originally we purchased this electric netting to keep raccoons out. It works very well. It even keeps my cows and dogs out! We like it so much so we got 1 more to extend hen area to make it double of size. And 1 more for our new chicks. Plan to get some more to try on goats later. Currently we are using this 2 netting + 2 gate kits with Gallagher PowerPlus M150.
"Keeps my goats in!"
This is a great product and we have used them for at least 7 years. As long as you have a good ground there should be no problems. We have used them with both solar and plug in chargers. They are easy to move around. They do wear out after a few years especially in the hot, humid climate we live in, but that is expected. Have not been disappointed in these fences. Would recommend them.
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Bought the electrified netting fence for our Saanan goats and their kids. Seemed nice to move around for grazing during the day, then back to regular pen at night. We have experience w/ electric, followed all instructions.Our goats walked over it the first day. Worse yet, the kids pushed heads through the netting and when stuck they push forward.We nearly lost several kids as they stuck heads through the fence like knitting. They couldn't breath and it was terrifying having to untangle and eventually even cut one out of the fence.Manufacturer even sent us a new fence charger ( we have 3 chargers, all in great condition, they couldn't figure out why this fence not working for us.)We had new ground rods, fence staked and extra posts, tried everything. Worked on a meek goat, until she decided to go back to the main pen. Unable to return, waste of $ and nearly killed our kids. May work for someone else, not for us. I sold mine on CL with this cautionary tale. Never heard if it worked for them.


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S.M.A.R.T. hard drive monitoring
Originally by frontalot from linkstationwiki.org
1. Install the SMART monitoring tools:
apt-get install smartmontools
2. I recommend enabling the SMART daemon which will automatically monitor the LinkStation hard drive and report any serious problems. Edit /etc/default/smartmontools:
3. Smartd, the SMART daemon, will now automatically initiate on boot and monitor the hard drive.
4. Now edit the smartd config file, /etc/smartd.conf:
comment out: DEVICESCAN add: /dev/hda -a -H -m root
If you use a Kurobox Pro or related platform, dont forget to use the following option (-d marvell), else smartd wont recognize your drives:
/dev/hda -d marvell -a -H -m root
5. This enables monitoring of /dev/hda only and reports any hardware failures via mail to root. You can also use the following commands:
report drive information: smartctl -i /dev/hda report drive health: smartctl -Hc /dev/hda
6. You can display the temperature of your internal drive (the last number is the current temperature):
smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep 194
7. A more detailed listing of smartmontools commands are available at http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/6983/print.
8. For LS1 (ppc) with FreeLink Firmware, if you want to view SMART results with Webmin, you need fdisk installed. As debian PowerPC has no fdisk, simply install pmac-fdisk and create a symbolic link:
apt-get install pmac-fdisk ln -s /sbin/pmac-fdisk /sbin/fdisk


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Tokyo is pretty normal. Though, sometimes, there's the occasional oddness. In years past, people would simply mutter to themselves, "Boy that was strange." Now they take photos and paste them on the internet. Progress!
This weekend, a group of individual dressed as Pikachu, along with a sole Ash cosplayer, took to the Tokyo streets, popping up in Shibuya and even stopping by a McDonalds in Harajuku for burgers. Hey, Pikachus gotta eat, too.
東京でサトシと大量のピカチュウが出没しているらしい [オレ的ゲーム速報]


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|2011-04-19, 12:52
|Link #261
AS Oji-kun
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Hokkaido
Age: 69
What I wrote to TRL was this:
There aren't many anime that delve into the dynamics of modern Japanese organizations. One example I can think of in support of my line of argument is Kashiwa's difficulties in Welcome to the NHK!. She tries to get her fellow workers in a public sector agency to consider new methods for delivering services. She gets rejected at every turn, partly because of blatant sexism, but also because the rest of the staff are averse to innovation. That's a common complaint about public-sectors worker in the West as well, of course, so I don't know if this example depicts an aspect of Japanese culture or a consequence of sinecures.
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|2011-04-19, 14:34
|Link #262
Feeling comfy
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 43
Song China (960 to 1276), for example, was on the verge of an industrial revolution before the Jin and the Mongols conquered the country. And the mammoth encyclopedia Science and Civilisation in China — British scientist and historian Joseph Needham's magnum opus — clearly shows that there was no lack of scientific curiosity and innovation in supposedly repressive Confucian China.
Moreover, if we were to look at the even bigger picture, you'd soon see that practically every other country in the world is no match for the United States when it comes to modern entrepreneurship. That would immediately suggest to me that, rather than there being something inherently wrong in Japan (or elsewhere, for that matter), there is rather something particularly fortuitous about conditions in the US that encourages BIG BUSINESS entrepreneurship.
And, if you ask me, it's simply because there is no other country in the world at the moment where the best brains are easily matched with the deepest pockets.
Steve Jobs had a better-than-average chance — compared with his contemporaries anywhere else in the world — of getting his ideas off the drawing board because he could easily find venture capitalists or angel investors to fund his craziest (but wildly successful) ideas. Few other places in the world, not even London, can boast the kind of high-risk-superb-returns venture-capital ecosystem present in Silicon Valley.
And then, there is the sheer size of the US economy. Japan was just until recently the second-largest economy in the world, with a GDP of US$5 trillion. By comparison, the US economy is valued at US$15 trillion, three times that of Japan's. Practically speaking, it's far easier to scale up a business in the US than anywhere else in the world. Hence, again, I would say that Steve Jobs enjoyed a better-than-average chance at mega business success than his contemporaries in other countries.
All that aside, if we move away from the idea of an entrepreneur as a mega-hit success like Jobs, you'd probably see that entrepreneurship is not really "dead" in places like Japan, or even in Singapore, another country that suffers periodic angst over the seeming lack of entrepreneurship.
Yet, even here, among my closest circle of friends, three of them are businessman, out of which two of them are already well on the way towards being self-made millionaires. Of these two, the first one originally secured the local franchise for an international modelling agency, then used the contacts he built up over the years to establish his own luxury events-management business. Having all but clinched the account of every major luxury brand in Singapore, he then branched into a new business, setting up private schools in China. The second friend built his own jobs-recruitment portal from his bedroom back in 2000, and grew that business over 10 years, making it the third-largest company of its kind in Singapore. His company was just this month acquired by a far larger American business, suddenly giving him a brand new reach across the entire South-east Asian region.
As for the third friend, his idea hasn't quite hit the big jackpot yet, but his food-review portal is already by far the most recognised brand of its type in Singapore. All he needs now is a "killer app" to turn a great idea into a steady flow of cash, and he'd be a made man.
Meeting such friends for dinner or supper every now and then often leaves me privately depressed. It makes me feel like a hopeless underachiever.
But, back to the original point, nah, I can't fully agree that culture is what's holding back Japanese entrepreneurship. It is possibly a contributing factor, but not the only one, nor even a particularly crucial one.
I mean, think about it: almost all the anime studios you can think of are self-started businesses. That's entrepreneurship! Granted, not on the same scale or even in the same universe as Apple's, but still healthy entrepreneurship all the same, albeit on the mom-and-pop, small-business level.
|2011-04-19, 15:55
|Link #263
AS Oji-kun
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Hokkaido
Age: 69
I'm not mounting a defense of McClelland or trying to make a culturally deterministic argument. Every society has its share of entrepreneurs, though some societies seem to have more support for entrepreneurship than others. Certainly the availability of venture capital has made a big difference in the US, though I don't think it played so great a role in the earlier spurt of technological innovation in the 1950's. Some companies from that period like Digital Equipment Corporation had venture backing; others, like Raytheon, took advantage of the surge in military spending during and after World War II. For people living in societies without a huge "military-industrial complex" like we have in the US, it's perhaps easy to overlook the role that military spending has played in the development of the modern US industrial state.
If it weren't for the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense, we might not all be communicating over the Internet today. (The fundamental technologies of the Internet were developed to solve the problem of communications during an all-out nuclear war.)
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|2011-04-20, 00:29
|Link #264
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Well, being an Economics major and a non-native English speaker, I can tell you that had I not taken some of my Economics and Business classes in English, I probably wouldn't know what the word "entrepreneur" stands for.
All the same, the Japanese language does loan some foreign words like most other languages do. In fact, entrepreneur isn't even an English word either, but French. But, either way, I do know they have the term "kigyōka" (企業家) which means the same thing. So, if the use of アントレプレナー is not that common, then I'm not surprised about Kimimaro not knowing what Masakaki was talking about.
|2011-04-20, 02:09
|Link #266
Feeling comfy
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 43
All my previous posts were meant, at least to me, to be no more than a short aside and, in the spirit of learning and inquiry, one could always take it as background knowledge for the setting upon which this anime is based.
It ties in, moreover, with concerns about [C]'s apparent pretentiousness, a view which I'm inclined to share at this point.
And, as I've said earlier, I'm not necessarily looking for something convoluted like the "sea of information" that characterises the dystopian world of Major Kusanagi Motoko (which to me classifies as hardcore sci-fi). I'm also fine with something fun and whimsical, like Summer War's Oz (not really, sci-fi; more like science fantasy).
But as lordshadowisle said, as it currently stands, [C] comes across as shounen fighting/fantasy drapped in some "fancy financial setting". In other words, it appears to be adopting these fancy costumes and financial mumbo-jumbo to disguise what looks, at the moment, to be just a shallow story.
Of course, it's just one episode. We don't yet know how the show will develop, so I'm reserving judgment and giving the story's outlandish premise some benefit of doubt. Moreover, I well know that most anime fans dislike heavy-duty topics in their entertainment. I'm under no illusion, for example, that viewers loved Spice and Wolf not because of the opportunity to learn about the mechanics and history of mediaeval economics, but simply because of cute and coquettish Horo.
Don't get me wrong. I love shallow entertainment as much as any other guy. I wouldn't have salivated over Highschool of the Dead otherwise. But I do have a problem with shows that pretend to be more intelligent than they really are. Revel in being shallow! Why pretend to be otherwise when you're not?
|2011-04-20, 02:22
|Link #267
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006
The bold part to me highlights uniqueness in premises at least as far as 'C' goes, in which a part of me is waiting to see which direction the series will take or how much the finance backdrop will influence the characters in the series. Although I feel it is a great marketing that is interesting to say. And what would 'C' be without the finance and economic? perhaps generic if people believe and not to mention the battles are practically one hit KO or will are they going to go into long cinematic battles like dragonballz?as far episode one shows there is no confirmation on the direction this series will take.
That one word pretentious bothers me so much I wonder why. My feelings are, there is a balance between both element. Neither elements, the battle or the economics seems to take center focus. What would people classify persona trinity soul series as? It has elements of shounen fights but they were never the central focus. That series to me is what is being reflected in 'C' currently.
EDIT: hmmm perhaps I need to clarify better.
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|2011-04-20, 03:18
|Link #268
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Singapore
Perhaps some of my original words were a bit harsh, my apologies if anyone's enjoyment of the show was thus affected.
Though I'm not fond of the fighting/battle part of the show, I'm quite interested in learning more about the setting and the characters. Specifically, some of the questions that I hope to see revealed are:
Whatever happened to the economy? We already see some of the aftereffects. It would be interesting to expand more upon the original cause(s) as well as the ongoing signs of depression.
Whatever happened to the main character? What other things caused him to adopt such a pragmatic(?) attitude? Lastly, what would happen if he has money? What would he do, how would he change?
Somewhat off tangent here, but after reading some of the discussions on the word "Entrepreneur", I do hope that some real entrepreneurship is done. It would be somewhat gimmicky if "Entrepreneur" was just an in-setting euphemism for "Prize Fighter" or "Gladiator", though perhaps it may be argued that in their world entrepreneurship is that risky.
|2011-04-20, 03:26
|Link #269
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: in the land down under...
Or the same question to anyone else?
|2011-04-20, 03:46
|Link #270
Feeling comfy
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 43
But money is never enough (avarice is, after all, one of the seven sins). The devil himself is on the prowl, scouting always for new marks for his champion to defeat. With every duel won, hell's splendour grows, even as ever more economic vitality gets sucked away from Japan.
Now that I think about it, the above reminds me heavily of one of my favourite songs of all time. Yes, it's off-topic and, yes, I'm showing my vintage. But, still, it's cool (and eerily relevant).
Spoiler for TL;DR:
Cookies to whoever eventually gets around making an AMV of [C] based on this concept.
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|2011-04-20, 14:22
|Link #271
Crossdressing Menmatic
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Where you live... the question is, do you see me?
Age: 25
Suspension of disbelief is about accepting untrue things as true. Naturally, those who are more experienced in a field will have more difficulty accepting something contrary to their life's work. You might ask yourself, "Why doesn't this part of the show match up with the model of supply and demand?" However, from a newbie's point of view (myself, who knows little about economics), this show did not appear pretentious at all. Episode 1 provokes a lot of thought about money in general, but little about economics. Sure, they go to a college for economic studies and characters calling themselves entrepreneurs battle in the Financial District, but no further economic concepts are used.
At least for now.
|2011-04-20, 15:40
|Link #272
C.C. Loyalist
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Southeast Asia
Sunopsis and screencaps of the second episode are up at the official site!
Seems to me Kimimaro will be having a non-Japanese for his first opponent?
@ about [C] being "pretentious"
Ah, I see. Oh well, it's just the first episode so we'll see~
@ "Hell Notes"
So that's the basis of those currencies?! COOL! I didn't expect for there to be "hell money" in the real world.
@ TinyRedLeaf
I look forward to seeing a [C] AMV using that song *_*
|2011-04-20, 16:00
|Link #273
Also a Lolicon
Join Date: Apr 2010
The usage of English, entrepreneur, when the Japanese word would be better at conveying meaning in any message the have to say about economics to a Japanese audience, is a hint that they aren't trying to be serious about critiquing the economic system, but rather use it to look mysterious and thus cool, like Eva used christian symbols, or people on this side of the Pacific have Kanji tattooed onto them.
If [C] turns out to be a shallow series without serious commentary on economic issues, which I really hope it doesn't since I was really hoping for [C] be a serious show, I think the translation of words like entrepreneur should follow "keep it foreign," and be replaced by a word like kigyouka. This will help the economic experts enjoy the series a bit more.
|2011-04-20, 17:41
|Link #274
Varsity Slacker
Join Date: Mar 2008
Age: 27
I actually hope they keep the econ concepts to a relative minimum and just make it an underlying social commentary that Japan's economy is going to hell in a hand-basket. I already found myself becoming distracted by the "conflict of interests" problem. I watch anime to escape the drudgery of econ studies. XD
|2011-04-20, 18:44
|Link #275
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: in the land down under...
p.s. Hey, but classics never get old!
|2011-04-20, 22:52
|Link #276
Japanese Culture Fan
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Planet Earth
Age: 27
C - Episode 1
I liked this episode. It explored some things that I've rarely seen in other anime before, such as mentioning the recession. Although it's obvious the anime industry has stagnated in variety of content due to the recent recession, this may be the first time I've seen it actually mentioned in an anime, let alone be a basis and catalyst for the plot like it is in C.
The financial district might be a metaphor for the stock market or the casino, as it is shown as a legitimate alternative source of income that is more risky than a steady job.
As far as this episode, Kimimaro is a good protagonist. I can sympathize with his asocial habits, as there are many people I know in college who I feel inadequate among. "I'm not part of that crowd." "She's pretty, but she's out of my league." All those kinds of thoughts. His reactions to Masakiki were very much full of disbelief and confusion but he never overreacted or slipped out of character. He's just a hardened, apathetic college student. How his character as a whole turns out will be determined by how he develops in the rest of the series. I sincerely hope he doesn't become another overpowered chivalrous action guy who constantly monologues his opponents.
About Hanabi, I think she's just a really nice and friendly person. It didn't feel like she was 'leading Kimimaro on', although of course that's a possible case but from this first episode it doesn't point in that direction. And I don't think anybody is obligated to tell a classmate about their relationship status, unless they find themselves squeezed into a possible sexual fling that could ruin their other relationships. And anyway, it's refreshing to see somebody like Hanabi in an anime. She's attractive and she's nice. It's understandable for somebody like her to have a boyfriend, especially at her age, as opposed to the typical formula in anime where we have 4+ gorgeous and sweet girls who have never touched a boy's hand in the past suddenly going horny for the male protagonist. And the timeslot C is in is generally geared towards women in their 20's. You know, those who are working and studying hard to get money and jobs. Silly otaku values need not apply to this anime. I'm sure lots of people who watch this show would feel jealous of Hanabi for getting a rich boyfriend.
This anime has made me want to start learning economics, even though I'm primarily a science student. For anyone with experience, what are the best economics textbooks for college out there?
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|2011-04-20, 23:25
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Paul Samuelson's Economics was the gold standard for introductory textbooks in my day. The Mankiw text in that list is probably its successor. You can browse it online at Amazon.
Economics is usually taught in two parts: microeconomics and macroeconomics. The first is really where most of the theory lies -- how markets function, how prices and quantities are determined, how choices are made with perfect and imperfect information, and how industries and markets should be regulated. Macroeconomics focuses on large aggregates like national product, the money supply, and the role of government spending. The news tends to focus on macroeconomics, but most economists, especially mathematical economists, focus on micro.
If you have the math for it (mostly differential calculus), you might try Varian's Intermediate Microeconomics, the second book in that list.
I hope you have access to a college library, because the prices on these books are just ridiculous. You can probably pick up a couple of syllabi from the Economics department and see what they use.
|2011-04-20, 23:32
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