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ABC NO RIO, 156 Rivington St., 638-7039: Sun.Weekly poetry/spoken word readings, all are welcome, no time limit, 3 p.m., $3.
BLUESTOCKINGS BOOKSTORE, 172 Allen St., 777-6028: Womens Poetry Jam w/ Open Mike, last Tue. of every month, 7-9 p.m., 8-min. limit, $2
THE BOWERY POETRY CLUB, 308 Bowery, 334-6414: Mon.Da Bowery Improv. Poets, 9 p.m., free admission; Wed.Supreme Poets, poetry & spoken word, 8:30 p.m., $10; Sat.Poets4Life, monthly performance of poetry on the second Saturday of every month, $12, call 696-6455 for more information.
CARING COMMUNITY, 20 Washington Sq. N., 877-7699: Tue.Poetry writing workshop, sponsored by the Greenwich House Senior Center, 1:30-3:30 p.m., free.
CORNELIA ST. CAFÉ, 29 Cornelia St., 989-9318, www.poetz.com: Fri.Pink Pony West Reading Series, feat. poet and open mike, 6 p.m., $6, includes free drink.
THE PEN & BRUSH, INC., 16 E. Tenth St., 475-3669: Call for current readings & workshops.
THe pink pony, 176 Ludlow St., 212-253-1922: Various readings monthly, call for information.
THE POETRY PROJECT, 131 E. 10th St., 674-0910: Call for current poetry reading information.
POETS HOUSE, 72 Spring St., 2nd fl., 212-431-7920: Call for information about Poetry readings.
RAVEN CAFÉ, 194 Ave. A, 529-4712: Wed.Open Stage, 6:30 p.m., free.
13 BAR LOUNGE, 35 E. 13th St., 662-5560: Mon.A Little Bit Louder, weekly poetry readings/slam, 7 p.m.
ZINC BAR, 90 W. Houston St., 533-9317: Sun.Reading Series, 7 p.m., suggested donation $3.
Greenwich house, 27 Barrow St., 212-877-7699: First & Third Tue. of every month-Living Room Style poetry reading & discussion, 1:30-3 p.m., free.
South street seaport, Melville Gallery, 213 Water St., 212-748-8735: Call for current reading schedule for Winter 2004.
Borders, 100 Broadway across from Trinity Church, 212-964-1988: Call now about upcoming readings and appearance at this new location throughout the Winter.
Caffe sha sha, 510 Hudson St., 718-651-1664: Call for current reading schedule, $7.
PARTNERS & CRIME, 44 Greenwich Ave., 212-243-0440: call for current reading & author appearances.
SUFI BOOKS, 227 W. Broadway, 334-5212: Call for information about reading events.
TOASTMASTERS CLUB, 125 Worth St., 3rd Fl., 782-4850: 2nd & 4th Tue. of every monthStrengthen & Enhance presentations, leadership & listening skills, other hidden speaking talents & thinking quickly on your feet, 6-7:30 p.m., please call for more info.
Aesthetic realism foundation, 141 Greene St., 212-777-4490: Call now for Spring 2004 lecture information.
Apexart, 291 Church St., 212-431-5270: May 12-An evening of Poetry & Media, 6:30 p.m., free; call about upcoming art related lectures.
The center, 365 Fifth Ave., 212-817-1855: Call for information on upcoming lectures on Gay & Lesbian issues.
Downtown information center, 25 Broad St., 212-425-INFO: May 12-Doing Business Downtown, small business workshop, 6:30-8:30 p.m., free.
Educational alliance, 197 E. Broadway, 212-533-3537: May 12-Photography and Sculpture, by David Finn, 6:30 p.m., call for details.
FRAUNCES TAVERN MUSEUM, 54 Pearl St., 212-425-1778: May 11-Dress to My Portrait: Costume in American Portraits of 17th & 18th Centuries, 12:30-1:30 p.m., free with $3 admission to museum; May 26-John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy, by Evan Thomas, 6:30 p.m., free with $3 admission to museum; Call for upcoming lecture information.
League for the hard of hearing, 50 Broadway, 6th fl., 718-331-2446: May 18-Telecommunications Technology & Assistive Listening Devices Demonstration, 5:30 p.m., free.
The new school, 66 W. 12th St., 212-229-5353: Call about numerous lectures taking place at the New School.
New york studio school, 8 W. 8th ST., 212-673-6466: May May 11-Catherine Murphy, on her paintings, 6:30 p.m.; May 12-Glyn Vincent, R.A. Blakelock: Turning American Art Inside Out, 6:30 p.m.; call for more information.
SOUTH STREET SEAPORT MUSEUM, 12 Fulton St., 212-748-8735: May 19-New York Story Exchange, 7-9 p.m., free; Call for current lecture schedule.
SYNAGOGUE FOR THE ARTS, 49 White St., 212-966-7141: Call for current lecture schedule.
TUESDAY EVENING HOUR SLIDE LECTURES, 49 Fulton St., 385-3650: May 11-History of Staten Island Ferries, by J. Fred Rodriguesz, 6:30 p.m., $2 donation; Call for weekly travel slide lecture schedule.
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Charles "Charlie" DeWayne Schmeisser, 83, passed away at his residence in Ridgecrest, CA, on November 1, 2012. He was born on April 2, 1929, in Pawnee, OK. He served in the US Army during the Korean War and later moved to Los Angeles. After the big 1971 LA earthquake, Charles relocated with his family to Ridgecrest and remained here since. He worked at Shopping Bag and retired from Albertsons. His favorite pastime was fishing for catfish at Lake Isabella.
He is survived by his wife of 42 years Irene, brother Earl (wife Tweedie), sister Dorothy, sons/stepsons Gary, Richard, Michael (wife Karen), Stanley, daughters/stepdaughters Candyis, Sandra, Evelyn (husband Clint), and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He is predeceased by his parents Charles and Minnie Schmeisser, brother John (wife Edith), sister Lorraine, son Charles "Junior", and daughters Gwenda and Connie.
A memorial service will be held at 1pm on Wednesday, Nov. 7th at Holland and Lyons Mortuary, 216 S. Norma, Ridgecrest. Burial will follow at Desert Memorial Park.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington's fight over firearms restrictions isn't limited to Congress. It's also taking place in the halls of science — literally — where gun control advocates and the National Rifle Association differ over the direction federal research on gun violence should take.
John Frazer, research director of the NRA's legislative arm, told a committee of experts on guns and public health Tuesday that better data is needed on the benefits of gun ownership, such as peoples' use of firearms to defend themselves.
Dan Gross, the president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, focused on obtaining more information on how people get guns and the deaths and injuries the weapons cause.
The experts were meeting in a building used by the National Academies, a private organization that provides science advice to the government. The committee is deciding what recommendations to make about federal research of gun violence, which President Barack Obama ordered resumed after nearly two decades in which the work has been blocked by Congress.
"This is not about developing a policy agenda for guns. This is about developing a research agenda," said Alan I. Leshner, chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, who is head the research committee. "We are the science folks."
This year's debate over gun control, sparked by December's killing of 20 first-graders and six educators at a Connecticut elementary school, was hampered by old, at times unreliable data on guns. The Senate last week rejected a series of gun control proposals, and Democratic leaders put aside their effort to restrict firearms after realizing they lacked the votes needed for approval.
Now, the battle is carrying over to the type of research each side thinks is needed.
Gross told the panel about the estimated 30,000 gun deaths and 70,000 gun injuries that occur annually but spoke of the need for better information, including precise breakdowns of how many of the weapons involved were obtained illegally.
The Brady group leader estimated that 5,000 to 10,000 of the deaths were caused by firearms obtained illegally, but said, "It would be a lot easier to make that leap if we had the data around it."
The NRA's Frazer also recommended conducting surveys of inmates to determine how they choose victims, and figuring out how many guns are obtained from private transactions.
Currently, transactions by licensed gun dealers require background checks of buyers, but those sold privately do not.
"It would be worth knowing how many transactions this would actually affect," Frazer said of proposals to extend background checks to private purchases.
The Senate defeated a proposal last week to extend the background checks to all firearms bought at gun shows and online.
The experts plan to make gun research recommendations to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in two months.
Meanwhile, an author of a defeated bipartisan plan for expanding background checks for more gun buyers said he is considering changing the measure to try to get additional Senate votes.
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said that after last week's Boston Marathon bombings, he might change the legislation to bar people on the government's terror lists from obtaining firearms.
"It might get people more comfortable with it," he said of his colleagues.
It was unclear which terror list Manchin meant. The government has investigated hundreds of thousands of people for possible terrorist ties, but many are not guilty and only a few are on a "no-fly" list that bars them from flying.


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As the northern hemisphere summer draws to a close, three new emerging global crises threaten to dominate the rest of the year.
1) In the Middle East Bashar Assad's likely use of chemical weapons on his own citizens is certain to draw a military response from the West. Despite talk of a surgical strike and limited intervention, time and again over hundreds of years the Middle East has shown itself to be a quagmire, capable of embroiling even its most reluctant invader.
The Syrian morass pitches the United States against Russia and Iran. This local war easily could become a proxy for indirect military conflict between larger global powers, as happened so often during The Cold War. Western countries have a firm habit of becoming deeply embroiled in local Middle Eastern conflicts. The markets are aware of this and the price of oil (and other commodities) has started to respond accordingly.
2) While the markets may be clear about the impact of a Syrian strike, they are pretty much clueless as to where the ongoing rout in emerging markets will end up. Currencies of many important developing markets are in free fall as the market responds to the forthcoming "tapering" of money printing in the United States and with it the return of higher U.S. interest rates.
As the U.S. dollar becomes more attractive to investors, the flood of money exiting major emerging markets is threatening to become a deluge and may cause massive currency depreciation in emerging market economies, which now make up half the world economy (including India, Turkey, Thailand, Indonesia, South Africa and Brazil).
The real fear here is that the Federal Reserve is embarking on its new course of monetary action without really understanding the impact it will have on the global economy, including in the United States. If major economies such as India and Brazil suffer a substantial economic meltdown they will be forced to defend their currencies by dumping U.S. dollars and buying up Indian rupees, Brazilian reals and South African rands.
They will do this by selling the huge amount of U.S. debt they own, forcing up the price of U.S. Treasury bills and threatening to snuff out America's solid economic recovery. The United States no longer lives in a global economic vacuum.
For the BRIC countries themselves the days of easy credit caused by rock bottom Western interest rates are over and we all know what that did to peripheral European economies once the tap was turned off of their decade long debt binge.
3) That brings to the third crisis, the Eurozone, where last week the German finance minister admitted what many have long already known: That Greece will need a third bailout soon. Nothing will happen until Prime Minister Angela Merkel is safely re-elected in short order, but following this, depending on the extent of global turbulence from emerging markets, we can expect to see Greece request another haircut of its debt, to bring it down to a level they have some hope of repaying (perhaps 120% of GDP).
The crucial difference is that money written off will be, for the first time, cash provided by Germany a couple of years ago to bail the country out. This will be the first time the German taxpayer has taken a direct hit for keeping the Eurozone together. Many Germans will have realized that the money they "lent" to Greece over the last three years would never be re-paid. These loans being written off will be confirmation that their money is gone and will be hard for many Germans to take.
Even though I write this from a beautiful Mallorca beach where the Mediterranean resorts are full and the tourist towns heaving, large parts of the Eurozone's peripheral economy are unreformed and only tentatively emerging from two years of recession. If the third Greek bailout is not carefully managed, it could lead to a wider crisis across the Eurozone (particularly in Cyprus or Italy), and which will likely take place against military action in Syria and a tense period in the global economic environment.
It is going to be an interesting final few months to the year.


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Mercury Tabletop Conference System
- Full open SIP conferencing speakerphone
- Bluetooth® pairing with mobile phones
- USB connectivity for laptops running web conferencing or other software
- Native Zoom Rooms mode
- High-definition USB room camera
Crestron Mercury™ transforms your meeting rooms into highly effective collaboration spaces. Combining all the must-have conferencing features in one easy to use device, Crestron Mercury enables people to work together and share content irrespective of location. Exceptional full-duplex audio and optional HD video afford a gratifying and productive meeting experience for all participants. Integrated room scheduling and corporate directory access help to maximize efficiency. Crestron Mercury is secure, easy to deploy, easy to manage, and protects your investment by providing room usage data as part of a complete managed enterprise.
Voice Calling and Audio Conferencing
· Crestron Mercury is a full-featured VoIP conferencing speakerphone that's fully compatible with major SIP-compliant phone systems. Its advanced design provides highly-intelligible, full-duplex communication for every participant around a conference table. Dialing and answering calls is easy and intuitive using the large HD color touch screen. Corporate directory access (LDAP) enables one-touch dialing from the customer's centrally managed directory.
· Pair Crestron Mercury with any mobile phone using Bluetooth® to make calls or join a call in progress. Crestron Mercury instantly transforms a personal phone call into a whole-room audio conference with clear, echo-free audio and the ability to start and stop a call, adjust volume, mute, and display caller ID on the touch screen. Bluetooth-enabled phones appear automatically on the touch screen, enabling instant connectivity with the press of a button.
· Connect a laptop computer via USB to enable enhanced audio performance for any softphone application running on the laptop.
· Mute the microphone by simply tapping the mute bar on top of the Crestron Mercury device. Its extra-bright, bi-color indicator bar ensures that the mic and mute status are clearly visible to the whole room.
- Full open SIP conferencing speakerphone
- Bluetooth® pairing with mobile phones
- USB connectivity for laptops running web conferencing or other software
- Native Zoom Rooms mode
- High-definition USB room camera
- AirMedia® wireless BYOD presentation capability
- HDMI® input for full-motion HD video sources
- DisplayPort and USB-C™ input via optional Multihead cable
- HDMI output for room display device
- Exceptional full-duplex audio performance
- Extremely natural 2-way wideband voice quality
- Integrated 360° quad microphone array
- High-powered full-range speaker
- Limes Audio TrueVoice™ AEC technology
- High-visibility mic mute indication
- Available add-on mic pods for extra coverage
- 7" (178 mm) HD color touch screen
- Consistent and intuitive user interface
- LDAP corporate directory access
- Microsoft® Exchange integration
- Crestron Fusion® and PinPoint™ App integration
- Built-in PinPoint beacon
- Integrated room scheduling capabilities
- Built-in PIR occupancy detector
- Persistent occupancy awareness (patent-pending)
- Customizable welcome screen on the room display
- Cloud-based provisioning
- Web browser configuration
- Enterprise-grade security
- Dual LAN ports
- PoE+ or AC line powered
- 100-240V universal power pack included
- CEC, IR, or RS-232 display control
- Complete system packages
- Optional 180° swivel mount kit available
- Optional display and camera extender solutions available
- Complete Zoom Rooms packages available
- Depth : 12.74 in
- Height : 4.11 in
- Width : 8.92 in
- DC Voltage : 24 Volts
- Audio :
•Codec Support: G.711, G.722, G.729
•AEC: Limes Audio TrueVoice acoustic echo cancellation, automatic mic mixing, automatic gain control, and dynamic noise reduction full-duplex IEEE 1329 Type 1 compliant
•Microphones: Quad mic array with (4) cardioid electret elements
•Pickup Range: 20ft (6m) typical
•Speaker: Full range speaker
•Amplifier Power: 11W maximum
•Output Volume: 95dB SPL at 0.5m
•Frequency Response: 90Hz to 22kHz
- Video :
•Content Input Signal Types: HDMI (DVI and Dual-Mode DisplayPort compatible), AirMedia
•Camera Input/Output Signal Type: USB
•Display Output Signal Types: HDMI (DVI compatible)
•Content Input Resolutions: Up to 1920x1080 at 60Hz (1080p60)
•Display Output Resolutions: 1280x720 at 50Hz (720p50), 1280x720 at 60Hz (720p60), 1920x1080 at 50Hz (1080p50), 1920x1080 at 60Hz (1080p60)
- Product Weight : 5.50 lbs
- Active Power : 20 Watt
- Operating Temperature (Maximum) : 95 F
- Operating Temperature (Minimum) : 32 F
- AC Voltage (Minimum) : 100 Volts
- AC Voltage (Maximum) : 240 Volts
- Buttons and Indicators :
•Mic Mute Symbol and Light Bar: (2) Capacitive "buttons" with bi-color LEDs, either button toggles between mute and unmute, the symbol LED blinks green when the unit is powering up, all LEDs illuminate red when the mic is muted (and a red border appears around the touch screen display), all LEDs illuminate green when the mic is unmuted if a USB device is connected or a SIP call is active
•Ethernet: 10/100 Mbps (x2), auto-switching, auto-negotiating, auto-discovery, full/half duplex, TCP/IP, UDP/IP, CIP, DHCP, SSL, TLS, SSH, SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol), SRTP, IEEE 802.1X, Active Directory authentication, LDAP, digest access authentication, password login, HTTPS secure provisioning, IEEE 802.3at Type 2 compliant
•VoIP: Open SIP, SDP, IETF SIP (RFC 3261 and companion RFCs), DTMF tone generation (RFC 2833 and in-band), low-delay audio packet transmission, adaptive jitter buffers, packet loss concealment
•Bluetooth: Bluetooth 4.0 device pairing for wideband speech (HFP) and multimedia audio streaming (A2DP), Crestron PinPoint proximity detection beacon
•USB Device: USB 2.0 wired interface for computer running web conferencing software or USB Audio
•USB Host: USB 2.0 for camera input
•RS-232: 2-way display device control and monitoring up to 115.2k baud with software handshaking
•IR/Serial: 1-way display device control via infrared up to 1.1MHz or serial TTL/RS-232 (0-5 Volts) up to 19.2k baud
•AirMedia: Crestron AirMedia presentation gateway, connects to mobile devices via wired or wireless Ethernet
•Mic Pod: A2B bus protocol, single master, multiple slave synchronous data, multichannel I2S/TDM to I2S/TDM
- Connectors :
•G: (1) 6-32 screw
•Chassis ground lug
•LAN: (1) 8-pin RJ45 connector, female
•10Base-T/100Base-TX Ethernet port
•PoE+ PD port
•AUX: (1) 8-pin RJ45 connector, female
•10Base-T/100Base-TX Ethernet port
•Alternate LAN connection for separate SIP or AirMedia network
•IR: (1) 3.5 mm mini-phone jack
•IR output port for display device control
•COM: (1) 3.5 mm TRS mini phone jack
•Bidirectional RS-232 port for display device control
•USB B: (1) Micro-USB Type B connector, female
•USB 2.0 device port
•6ft (1.83 m) micro-B male to A male USB cable included
•HDMI OUT: (1) HDMI Type A connector, female
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•HDMI IN: (1) HDMI Type A connector, female
•Digital video/audio input for presentation content source
•MIC POD 1 - 2: (2) RJ9 4P4C connector, female
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•USB/ACC: (1) USB Type A connector, female
•USB 2.0 host port (for future use)
•USB/CAM: (1) USB Type A connector, female
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Availability of water resources is a limiting factor for economic and social
development in small island states. Many such countries rely almost entirely
on a single source of supply, such as groundwater (Barbados, Antigua, The Bahamas,
Kiribati), rainwater (Tuvalu, northern atolls of Cook Islands, and the Maldives),
surface reservoirs and imports (Singapore), or rivers and other surface flows
(Seychelles, Dominica).
Water supply is most vulnerable in the atoll states of the Pacific, where water
supply is sensitive to precipitation patterns and changes in storm tracks (Salinger
et al., 1995). Captured rainwater is stored in cisterns; the only backup
reserve for these islands is a thin wedge of fresh groundwater that sits on
top of the saltwater lens. A reduction in precipitation coupled with sea-level
rise would not only cause a diminution of the volume of potable water but would
reduce the size of the narrow freshwater lens (Amadore et al., 1996).
The situation is equally critical in the low limestone islands of the eastern
Caribbean, where seasonality of rainfall (a marked dry and wet season regime)
is pronounced. On islands such as Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, and
Barbados, more than 65% of total annual rainfall may be recorded in the wet
season, which spans the 6-month period of June to December. Moreover, most of
the rainfall is strongly associated with the genesis and passage of easterly
waves, tropical depressions, and storms (Gray, 1993; Nurse et al., 1998).
Thus, changes in the occurrence of these heavy rainfall events will certainly
impact the water supply of many Caribbean islands. The situation is further
exacerbated in Barbados, where recent research has shown that groundwater recharge
is restricted to the three wettest months of the year, and only 15-30 %
of annual rainfall reaches the aquifer (Jones et al., 1998).
Reduced availability of adequate water supply in a changing climate also poses
a potential threat to the Mediterranean islands of Cyprus and Malta. Because
these two countries already experience water shortages (Nicholls and Hoozemans,
1996), and given a projected decrease in mean summer precipitation over the
Mediterranean Sea region (IPCC, 1998), the water resources of these states could
be placed under considerable pressure in the future (Tables 17-2
and 17-3). The threat is equally strong in some
parts of the eastern Caribbean. Within the past few decades in Dominica, for
instance, an apparent tendency toward more extended periods of drought is well
correlated with reduced flows in the Castle Comfort, Roseau, Layou, and Geneva
Rivers (Government of Commonwealth of Dominica, 2000). Because rivers are the
main source of potable and irrigation water on the island and are also harnessed
for power generation, declining flows have become a matter of serious national
Climate change can present additional water management and related challenges.
Such challenges may arise from a variety of sources, including increased flood
risks and impeded drainage and the presence of elevated water tableswhich
may pose special engineering problems. It is projected that on Andros island,
the Bahamas, where the water table presently is only 30 cm below the surface,
high evaporation rates and increasing brackishness will eventuate with continued
sea-level rise (Martin and Bruce, 1999). Similar projections also have been
made for Cuba, where underground water supplies already are stressed (Planos
and Barros, 1999). For many small island states, the prospect of salinity intrusion
into the freshwater lens would be a matter of great concern. In many of these
islands where salinization from overpumping of aquifers is already occurring
(e.g., The Bahamas and Barbados), sea-level rise would compound the risk. In
some cases, higher salinity would be experienced not only in coastal aquifers
but also inland at freshwater pumping plants as the salty groundwater rises.
Singh (1997a,b) has reported a recent increase in salinity levels for several
coastal aquifers in Trinidad and Tobago in the southern Caribbean, attributable
mainly to rapid drawdown exacerbated by sea-level rise.
There now is substantial evidence to support the view that precipitation variability
in various parts of the world is linked to ENSO events. During the 1982-1983
ENSO event, rainfall in many parts of the western Pacific was a mere 10-30%
of the long-term mean average (Falkland, 1992). More specifically, it is well
established that ENSO has a strong influence on rainfall patterns in the tropics
and low-latitude regions of the Southern Hemisphere (Shea, 1994; Whetton et
al., 1996). In the Caribbean islands, droughts appear to be more frequent
in El Niño years, whereas conditions tend to be wetter in La Niña
years. The devastating drought in the region in 1998 coincided with what is
believed to be the strongest El Niño signal on record. ENSO-related droughts
also are known to occur in the low-lying atolls of the tropical Pacific. Thus,
in countries such as the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands
where rainwater is the main source of supply, more frequent and intense ENSO
events will impose further stress on already meager water resources (Meehl and
Washington, 1996); other islands in the central and eastern tropical Pacific
will experience heavy rains (Jones et al., 1999).
Realistically, the options available to many small islands for reducing the
adverse effects of climate change on water availability are limited. This implies
that greater urgency and emphasis will have to be placed on improving water
resource management efforts, including inventorying of resources and rational
and equitable allocation. Implementation of more efficient rainwater harvesting
methods, efficient leak detection and repair, use of water-saving devices, and
aggressive recycling efforts are strategies worth considering. Desalination
also is becoming an increasingly attractive option, especially where the necessary
technical and financial capacity is available and in cases in which more traditional
strategies are inadequate or not feasible (e.g., in Singapore, Malta, Cyprus,
Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Grenada). As part of
their long-term adaptation strategy, these water-scarce islands might wish to
include "no-regrets" measures, which will promote sustainability with
or without climate change. Some countries may even wish to consider application
of market-based systems to allocate water supplies, which could result in less
wasteful practices under current conditions and thus enable water users to more
efficiently adapt to climate change (Amadore et al., 1996).
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Maxine Hendrickson, 87 - January 07, 2012
Mary 'Maxine' Hendrickson, 87, of Stapleton, died Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012, at Premier Estates in North Platte.
Visitation will be 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 8, and 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 9, at Odean Colonial Chapel At C & Sycamore which is in charge of arrangements.
Funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 10, at Odean Colonial Chapel At C & Sycamore with Marcia Dorn of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church officiating. Burial will be in Floral Lawns Memorial Gardens.
Hendrickson was born Aug. 20, 1924, at Brady to Nick and Grace Henrietta Feather Camblin and was baptized in the Methodist Church. She grew up in the Brady area and graduated from Brady High School in 1942.
On June 20, 1942, she married Robert Dillon Hendrickson and they made their home in the Wild Horse Valley north of Brady. In 1957, they moved to North Platte and then to Stapleton in 1979.
Hendrickson worked for W.T. Grants in North Platte and was a sales rep for Royal Neighbors of America. She later had a painting and wallpapering business.
She loved to play cards. She was an excellent seamstress and did all kinds of needle work, family members said. She designed and needle pointed a square of Lincoln County which is part of the state wall hanging displayed in the state capitol. She had been a member of the Stationette Extension Club and was part of the Lunch Bunch for many years.
Hendrickson was preceded in death by: her parents, Nick and Grace Camblin; five sisters—Elizabeth Moore, Evelyn Vandarplas, Darlyne King, Bernice Schields and Gladys VonBehren; two brothers—Allison "Bud" and Nick "Tuffy" Camblin; and a grandson, Scott Johnson.
She is survived by: her husband of 69 years, Robert, of Stapleton; three daughters—Mary (Jerry) Johnson, Nickette "Nicki" Evans and Betty Bierbach, all of North Platte; three grandchildren—Jill (Eric) Hansen, Jason Evans and Read (Elizabeth) Bierbach; four great-grandchildren—Morgan, Kaitlyn, Emily and Bella; a brother, Robert Camblin, of California; many nieces, nephews and other family.
Memorials are suggested to the Stapleton Fire Department.
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Microsoft has positioned its most recent server OS, Windows Server 2012, as a fundamental building block for private cloud environments. The new server OS includes numerous changes to the Hyper-V virtual machine manager, including new security features to allow for better and more flexible network isolation between the virtual machines (VMs) of tenants that use the same Hyper-V instance. But Server 2012 also includes important changes to another crucial element of Microsoft-rooted private clouds: Active Directory (AD).
In this article, I focus on some key security changes that Microsoft bundles with Server 2012 AD. There's much to say about Dynamic Access Control, which represents a big shift in the Windows and AD authorization model. In addition, Server 2012 AD includes some smaller but no less important security-related changes.
Dynamic Access Control: All About Claims
Dynamic Access Control is probably the most fundamental security change that Microsoft incorporates in Server 2012. Dynamic Access Control integrates the claims-based access control (CBAC) model with the Windows OS and AD. Claims are statements about users or devices (e.g., "My account name is JanDC," "I am a member of the sales department") and are issued by a trusted authority. Microsoft first introduced CBAC in Active Directory Federation Services version 1 (ADFS v1), which was bundled with Windows Server 2003.
Claims can provide a flexible mechanism for exchanging trustworthy identity attributes between ADFS servers. Organizations can now use claims to protect the file and folder data stored on domain-joined Server 2012 or Windows 8 machines. Server 2012 domain controllers (DCs) can issue claim statements as part of the user and machine authentication process, by embedding the claims in the user's or machine's authentication ticket. (For more information on claims and how Microsoft leverages them, read "A Guide to Claims-based Identity and Access Control.")
Dynamic Access Control is built on several new and enhanced Windows data-authorization features for classifying and labeling data, applying CBAC settings, auditing access to data, and encrypting data. Under the hood, Dynamic Access Control relies on numerous Microsoft engineering changes to key Windows components, services, and protocols. These include AD, Group Policy Objects (GPOs), DNS, Kerberos, the Local Security Authority (LSA), and the Netlogon processes, as well as network protocols such as Server Message Block (SMB), LDAP, and remote procedure call (RPC). Microsoft has made several Dynamic Access Control–driven changes in Server 2012, including the following:
- Extending the DC and Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) logic, to enable the issuing of claims in authentication tokens
- Changing the Kerberos token format, to enable the transportation of claims
- Adding alternate data streams (ADS) in NTFS, to attach custom properties to files and folders
- Enabling the storage of conditional expressions in the ACLs of file and folders, to enable more flexible access control and auditing settings
- Extending the AD schema, to allow centralized storage of Dynamic Access Control properties and policies
Dynamic Access Control can leverage AD to store central access policies (CAPs) and GPOs and to push these policies to domain members. Microsoft also added a Central Policy tab (which Figure 1 shows) in the Advanced Security Settings dialog box for folders.
From this tab, administrators can choose the CAP that they want to assign to a given folder. Thanks to these changes, you can now grant access to files and folders in your domain or forest, based on the values of standard or custom attributes of your AD user and machine objects. For example, you can now refuse a user access to a file server share if the Department attribute of the AD user object doesn't contain the value "Sales" or "Marketing." This new flexible authorization logic is very different from the user- and group-SID–based logic that we've been using for years.
You can define CAPs from the Dynamic Access Control container in the revamped Active Directory Administrative Center (ADAC), which Figure 2 shows, or by using Windows PowerShell cmdlets.
You can call on the same tools to enable claim support for an AD user or machine object attribute and to add values to these attributes. A Server 2012 DC will add claim statements to user and computer authentication tokens only for the user and computer object attributes that actually contain information and that are linked to an enabled claim type. Before your Server 2012 DCs can issue claims, you must explicitly enable them to issue claim statements; indeed, Server 2012 DCs are disabled for CBAC by default. To enable CBAC, use the Domain Controller support for Dynamic Access Control and Kerberos armoring GPO setting in the \Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\System\KDC container. To use GPOs to push CAPs to your machines, you can use the new Central Access Policy GPO option in the \Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\File System container.
Dynamic Access Control brings the flexibility of claims not only to file and folder access control, but also to file and folder access auditing. For example, in Server 2012 you can configure an audit rule to track all users that were allowed or denied access to folders that are marked with the "confidential" property. To centrally define claim-based auditing settings for files and folders, you must call on the GPO Global Object Access Auditing feature that Microsoft introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2 and has now extended with Dynamic Access Control support.
Administrators can also define flexible access control and auditing settings on files and folders, in addition to or independent of the centrally defined CAPs. Microsoft changed the Advanced Security Settings dialog boxes in Windows 8 and Server 2012 to allow you to configure conditional expressions in the authorization and auditing settings of files and folders. Figure 3 shows this new interface, illustrating the definition of a permission that includes a conditional expression on a folder named SharedData.
Besides access control and auditing, Dynamic Access Control also provides new, flexible data-classification mechanisms. A good example is the ability to add custom file and folder properties, called global resource properties, to the access control and auditing setting dialog boxes of files and folders. Again, you can do this by using ADAC or PowerShell cmdlets. To propagate these custom properties to your domain machines, Microsoft equipped Windows 8 and Server 2012 clients with a special extension that uses LDAP to connect to AD and retrieve these properties. This new data classification feature gives you the flexibility to classify data based on your selected attributes and to apply protection accordingly.
You can classify files and folders manually by using the Classification tab in the properties of a file or folder, as Figure 4 shows. The Classification tab appears only on systems that have the Desktop Experience feature installed or that host the File Server Resource Manager role service.
For files, you can also automate the classification process by using the File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) feature. Introduced in Server 2008 R2, the FCI allows administrators to define custom classification labels, set up classification and expiration rules, and report on classifications. Administrators can manage FCI from the File Server Resource Manager (FSRM). FCI can also be used with the RMS Bulk Protection Tool to automatically apply RMS protection to files.
This is a very short introduction to Dynamic Access Control. You can find plenty more information, including how to set up, configure, and troubleshoot Dynamic Access Control, in the Microsoft white paper "Understand and Troubleshoot Dynamic Access Control in Windows Server 8 Beta."
New Security Management Functions in ADAC
In Server 2012, ADAC has become the main AD administration interface. ADAC even outpaces its predecessor -- the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in -- on the level of administrative features. Two new features that many administrators will welcome are ADAC's GUI support for recovering deleted AD objects and for configuring fine-grained password policy (FGPP) settings.
The AD Recycle Bin was introduced in Server 2008 R2, to enable the recovery of deleted AD objects and their attributes. An important shortcoming of the Server 2008 R2 AD Recycle Bin was its lack of a GUI. Administrators were forced to use either ldp.exe or PowerShell cmdlets, two tools that complicate AD object recovery and slow down the recovery process.
As Figure 5 shows, Microsoft has integrated a Deleted Objects container in the Server 2012 ADAC interface.
You can now easily restore a deleted user object by using the Restore or Restore To links in the right pane of ADAC. In Server 2012, the same restrictions apply to the use of AD Recycle Bin:
- It isn't enabled by default (you can enable it from ADAC).
- Your AD forest must be at least at the Server 2008 R2 functional level.
- You can restore deleted objects only within their Deleted Object Lifetime (DOL), which is 180 days by default.
For more information about the AD Recycle Bin, see the "Active Directory Recycle Bin Step-by-Step Guide."
The second useful GUI addition in ADAC relates to FGPP configuration. Microsoft introduced FGPPs in Server 2008 to allow the definition of multiple Windows domain password and account lockout policies that are linked to different AD user or administrator groups. Before that, Windows Server could support only a single domain password policy. To support FGPPs, Microsoft introduced a new AD object type called the Password Settings Object (PSO).
As for the Recycle Bin, Microsoft didn't provide a GUI to configure FGPPs in the Server 2008 release. Administrators needed to call on tools such as PowerShell cmdlets, ADSI Edit, or LDIFDE to define PSOs. In Server 2012, you can use the ADAC GUI to define new FGPPs and PSOs from the new Password Settings Container that's underneath the System container, as Figure 6 shows.
Just as before, your domain must be at least at Server 2008 domain functional level to use FGPPs. For more details, see "AD DS Fine-Grained Password Policy and Account Lockout Step-by-Step Guide."
Group Managed Service Accounts
Managed Service Accounts (MSAs) are a special type of domain account that Microsoft supports in Server 2008 R2 AD and later. MSAs overcome the password-management problems that administrators encounter when they set up a custom domain account for authenticating a service. Administrators prefer to define custom accounts, which allow them to better isolate the privileges of an application than when using a built-in high-privilege local account (i.e., Local System, Local Service, Network Service) as the service account. But unlike these built-in local accounts, custom accounts don't have automatic password management. Therefore, when you use custom service accounts, you need to manually manage their passwords or create a custom management solution.
MSAs resolve this problem by providing automatic password management. They also simplify the setup of Service Principal Names (SPNs) for a service. Unfortunately, the MSAs that are introduced in Server 2008 R2 could not be used by clustered or load-balanced services (e.g., services in a web farm) that want to share one service account and password. In these scenarios, administrators needed to manually synchronize the passwords of the service instances or implement a custom solution for automatic password synchronization.
Server 2012 group MSAs (gMSAs) resolve this problem for load-balanced services in web farms. Unfortunately, at the time of writing, the MSAs don't yet work for services that are part of a failover cluster.
Behind gMSAs, a new service called the Microsoft Key Distribution Service runs on every Server 2012 DC. This service ensures that the password of the single service account that the web farm service instances use is kept in sync between instances. To use gMSAs, your AD schema must be updated to Server 2012, and you need one or more Server 2012 DCs running the Microsoft Key Distribution Service. The service is automatically installed on every DC but defaults to a manual startup. Only services that run on Server 2012 can use gMSAs. You can create and administer gMSAs by using a set of PowerShell cmdlets. For more information on gMSAs, see "Getting Started with Group Managed Service Accounts."
Primary Computers for Folder Redirection and Roaming Profiles
The last new, powerful feature that I want to discuss in this article is the ability to label AD computer objects as the primary computers of certain domain users. You can use this feature to control the computers to which users' roaming profiles are downloaded and on which users receive access to their redirected folders. On computers that haven't been labeled as primary computers, users will have a local profile and won't have access to their redirected folders.
In the age of the consumerization of IT and trends such as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), this method is a powerful way to associate or dissociate user data and settings with particular computers or devices and to improve corporate data security. Designating primary computers reduces the security and privacy risks of downloading or leaving personal or corporate data on personal or public computers to which the user has logged on.
The Primary Computer feature is based on a set of new GPO settings and an AD schema extension. When a user logs on to a Windows 8 or Server 2012 machine, the logon logic checks the status of the Download roaming profiles on primary computers only and Redirect folders on primary computers only GPO-controlled settings. The status determines whether the msDS-PrimaryComputer attribute, which is linked to the user's AD user account object, should influence the decision to roam the user's profile or to apply Folder Redirection. The new GPO settings are in the \User Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\System\Folder Redirection and the \User Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\System\User Profiles GPO containers.
You can use the ADAC or PowerShell cmdlets to populate an AD user object's msDS-PrimaryComputer attribute with a list of DistinguishedNames of computer accounts that should be marked as the user's primary computers. Figure 7 shows how you can leverage ADAC and its built-in attribute editor to set the msDS-PrimaryComputer attribute for a user named Jack.
The support for the Primary Computer feature requires that your AD schema be upgraded to Server 2012. The feature can be leveraged only on domain-joined Server 2012 and Windows 8 machines. For more details on how to set up this feature, I advise you to read the Storage Team Blog post "Configuring Primary Computers for Folder Redirection and Roaming Profiles in Windows Server 8 Beta."
A Model Shift
Dynamic Access Control represents the biggest shift in the authorization and auditing model for Windows files and folders since the introduction of AD, and maybe even since the introduction of NTFS. The support for Dynamic Access Control is certainly the biggest security change in Server 2012 and AD, not only for the Microsoft engineers who developed it but also for anyone who decides to use it. If you're a Windows or AD administrator or architect, I advise you to test Dynamic Access Control thoroughly and become familiar with it before you start using it.
ADAC and PowerShell also enter prime time for general and security-related AD management tasks in Server 2012 AD. Like Dynamic Access Control, ADAC and PowerShell are primarily about adding more flexibility and making it easier for the people who administer and configure AD day-in and day-out.


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March Is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
March Is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
DOWNERS GROVE, IL--(Marketwired - Mar 4, 2014) - Studies have confirmed that screening for colon cancer is a contributing factor to declining colon cancer death rates. March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), representing the doctors who specialize in colon cancer screening, recommends that, starting at age 50, everyone should have a colonoscopy to screen for colon cancer, even if they have no symptoms and lead a healthy lifestyle. Screening should begin sooner if there is a family history of colon cancer or polyps or if other risk factors are present.
"Colon cancer is one of the most preventable cancers because the majority of colon cancers arise from precancerous growths in the colon called polyps, which can be found during a colonoscopy screening exam and removed before they turn into cancer," said Kenneth K. Wang, MD, FASGE, president, American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. "Often times, people put off getting a colonoscopy because of the time involved and preparation the day before the exam, however, it is just one day between the prep time and exam time, and it could save your life. Several different effective preparations now exist that can accommodate patient preferences for volume and taste. Colonoscopy is a safe and well-tolerated exam and is the only colon examination that can actually remove polyps. Patients at average risk with normal colonoscopy results won't need another colonoscopy screening for 10 years. We encourage patients to talk to their doctor about getting screened and work with them to determine an appropriate screening schedule."
Colon cancer, also referred to as colorectal cancer, is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States (when men and women are combined). It is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths when men and women are considered separately (behind lung and prostate cancer in men, and behind lung and breast cancer in women). It takes the lives of approximately 50,000 Americans each year. While screening is contributing to declining rates of colon cancer, a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that colon cancer screening rates remain too low. Approximately one in three adults (ages 50 to 75 years) are not being tested for colon cancer. ASGE recommends that, beginning at age 50, men and women at average risk for developing colon cancer should begin screening. People with risk factors, such as a family history of polyps, colon cancer or other risk factors, may need to begin screening at an earlier age. Some experts suggest that African-Americans should begin screening at age 45. Patients are advised to discuss their risk factors with their doctor to determine when to begin routine colon cancer screening and how often they should be screened.
Colon cancer is considered a silent killer because often there are no symptoms until it is too late to treat. Age is the single most important risk factor for the disease, so even people who lead a healthy lifestyle can still develop polyps and cancer. Although colon cancer is often present in people without symptoms, the following signs or symptoms might indicate colon cancer: blood in stools, narrower than normal stools, unexplained abdominal pain, unexplained change in bowel habits, unexplained anemia, and unexplained weight loss. These symptoms may be caused by other benign diseases such as hemorrhoids, inflammation in the colon or irritable bowel syndrome. The presence of these symptoms for more than a few days is an indication for a patient to talk with a gastrointestinal specialist about these symptoms and the patient's family history.
About Colonoscopy
Colonoscopy is a common and very safe procedure that examines the lining of the lower intestinal tract called the colon or large intestine or bowel. A doctor specially trained in the procedure uses a flexible tube that has a light and miniature TV camera on the tip. This instrument, referred to as the endoscope, is placed in the rectum and advanced through the colon. It is connected to a television monitor that the doctor watches while performing the test. Various miniaturized tools can be inserted through the scope to help the doctor obtain biopsies (samples) of the colon and to perform a wide range of maneuvers to help diagnose or treat a condition. When used as a colon cancer prevention method, colonoscopy can find potentially precancerous polyps and remove them before they turn into cancer.
Colonoscopy is considered the preferred screening test because it is a preventive exam; it is the only test that examines the entire colon, and both finds and removes precancerous polyps during the same exam. With other methods, if a polyp is found, that test must then be followed by a colonoscopy to remove the polyp. A person at average risk with normal colonoscopy results won't need another exam for 10 years. Should a polyp or cancer be found, screening intervals may be more frequent. A study published in the Sept. 19, 2013 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine showed that colonoscopy has advantages over sigmoidoscopy (a shorter examination that only examines the end of the colon) for the prevention of colon cancer. Researchers followed 88,902 study participants for 22 years and found that 1,815 developed colon cancer. Investigators estimated that 40 percent of those cancers could have been prevented if all of the patients in the study had received a colonoscopy.
Colonoscopy Tips for Patients
For more information on colon cancer prevention and to find a doctor, log on to ASGE's colon cancer awareness website www.screen4coloncancer.org. The site offers visitors a wealth of vital information including facts about colon cancer, screening options, what to expect during a colonoscopy, answers to frequently asked questions, the latest news about colon cancer, such as studies and statistics, links to patient support and advocacy groups, educational videos, and e-Cards. Colon cancer is preventable, treatable and beatable!
About the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Since its founding in 1941, the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) has been dedicated to advancing patient care and digestive health by promoting excellence and innovation in gastrointestinal endoscopy. ASGE, with more than 12,000 members worldwide, promotes the highest standards for endoscopic training and practice, fosters endoscopic research, recognizes distinguished contributions to endoscopy, and is the foremost resource for endoscopic education. Visit www.asge.org and www.screen4coloncancer.org for more information and to find a qualified doctor in your area.
About Endoscopy
Endoscopy is performed by specially-trained physicians called endoscopists using the most current technology to diagnose and treat diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Using flexible, thin tubes called endoscopes, endoscopists are able to access the human digestive tract without incisions via natural orifices. Endoscopes are designed with high-intensity lighting and fitted with precision devices that allow viewing and treatment of the gastrointestinal system.
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When is a Furniture Sale Not a Sale?
Apr 14, 2010 5:18:16 PM
Consumers are looking for deals on furniture, from couches and sofas, to chairs and bed frames. Furniture sales are an easy way for furniture stores or department stores to draw in customers, but they may be slightly misleading. A department store might be running a furniture sale, but that does not mean the best price of that store is the best price on that particular item.
For example, Thomasville is a furniture store that regularly runs furniture sales and specials. However, the starting price on much of the items they have in stock is marked up so high that even a 10 percent off deal is still overwhelmingly expensive. Other furniture stores such as Jennifer Convertibles and department stores such as Macy's will run similar promotions, pretending their sale prices are saving people money. In reality, finding a retailer that offers modern classic furniture at a great price will not likely happen in a mall. Ezmod Furniture offers prices so low, you would think there is a furniture sale going on 24-7!
For example, here are some items priced particularly low, especially when compared with our competition:
The Nelson Style 5 Foot Bench – Normally priced at $335, Ezmod has it priced at $209 everyday. That's almost 40 percent off!
The Tribeca Coffee Table – This item is priced at $499.99 on most sites, but at Ezmod it's only $360.00. A deal that saves you $140 is simply one of a kind.
The Eaze Lounge Chair + Ottoman – At most retailers, this item goes for $2,100, but Ezmod's amazingly low price of $839 shows just how low our prices truly are. That is almost 60 percent off the list price, a deal you really can't find anywhere else, online or otherwise.
Instead of paying 25 percent or more at a department store, even at a furniture sale, come to Ezmod Furniture where you can find everyday value at prices that will allow you to save money for more modern classic furniture, or just for your wallet.
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Industry types resond:
Adam Benzine of music industry bible 'Music Week' said it will really shake things up in terms of album pricing.
"Radiohead have really put the cat amongst the pigeons with this one," he told NME.COM. "The album will revolutionise the way people think about music. It had already forced people to question how much music is actually worth.
Cheers industry types!
― pisces, Monday, 1 October 2007 12:49 (ten years ago) Permalink
Or: the more you pay, the longer before the tracks fade out :-)
This is an incentive!?
― Trayce, Monday, 1 October 2007 12:53 (ten years ago) Permalink
Coolfer generally OTM, except I think this will shake things up more than he seems to suggest in his post.
― three handclaps, Monday, 1 October 2007 12:53 (ten years ago) Permalink
i wonder how much money Waste Products Ltd took last night?
― jed_, Monday, 1 October 2007 13:02 (ten years ago) Permalink
They are regarded by some music critics as the world's best rock band.
Just so you know...
― Mark G, Monday, 1 October 2007 13:04 (ten years ago) Permalink
wish the free one was 18 tracks though.
they need some incentive to sell the 'discbox' besides vinyl and digital photos that'll be on the internet the day the thing is sent out anyway.
No, I would guess they need some incentive to charge £40 for the deluxe version rather than the regular version. It says "So Far, it is only available from this website"-- so the idea is that eventually they will ship regular CDs, eh? I would guess this will happen on 12/3, same as when those who ordered the huge package get their shit. That is the release date.
Oct. 10, however, is the leak date: What Radiohead have done is leaked their own album, two months before its physical release -- same as everything else -- but they turned it into an event and a moral decision about whether you should pay for that leak or you should just steal/take it/sample it and maybe buy it later, whatever you want to call it. And they've enticed people to actually give them money for a leak in part by, at this moment, setting up this deluxe product as your only other choice to pay for their music.
― scottpl, Monday, 1 October 2007 13:10 (ten years ago) Permalink
well, the NME is reporting that the regular version, the single-disc one, is coming out in early 08 (i.e. after the holiday buying season), so, if true, my guesswork is already proven wrong, haha.
― scottpl, Monday, 1 October 2007 13:13 (ten years ago) Permalink
I was so enthusiastic about this this morning but now I just want to say - shittiest album title ever.
― Roz, Monday, 1 October 2007 13:18 (ten years ago) Permalink
Yeah, in this case they're really just "leaking" their album 3 months early, giving people an opportunity to buy a really nice physical product, and leaving it up to the individual to pay and consume as they see fit, really. It's really genius. "Hey, this is our album, and it's going to leak, but we'll be the ones to leak it. And some of you will never pay for this, and we understand that, so we're going to let you pay whatever you want to. We're respecting the way shit is done these days. We know that, if you respect us, you will pay us somehow for our hard work and good music, and if you don't you won't. This would happen either way, but at least now we're doing this on our own terms."
― three handclaps, Monday, 1 October 2007 13:19 (ten years ago) Permalink
So why isn't it out today? What's the ten day hold up? Are they drunk?
― caek, Monday, 1 October 2007 13:21 (ten years ago) Permalink
Also, whoever said they might give free concert tickets or something to the people who bought the $80 package thing is probably OTM here. Otherwise, I don't really see why they're bundling all that stuff up and making it impossible for anyone to order just the CD as of now . . . unless it's just because *that's what they want to do*, and that's what this whole thing is about anyway - a band creating and distributing its music the way it wants to as much as that can be done these days.
― three handclaps, Monday, 1 October 2007 13:22 (ten years ago) Permalink
oops, sorry, xpost
I just heard it was a hoax. Have asked how he knows, but no reply.
Ah, no there was a hoax one last week. This is real. False alarm.
It would be a very easy way to steal a lot of money, though, especially with the 10-day delay. Mind you, you'd only be stealing as much as people volunteered to pay.
― Jamie T Smith, Monday, 1 October 2007 13:27 (ten years ago) Permalink
Disc 2: Bangers and Mash!
Bangers and Mash: as performed by Thom Yorke and PJ Harvey:
Him: I met her down in Napoli and didn't she look great?
And so I brought her back to Blighty just to show me mates,
And though we're married happily I'll tell you furthermore
I haven't had a decent meal since 1944.
Her: Eat your minestrone, Joe.
Him: That's all you ever say.
Her: Eat your macaroni, Joe.
Him: Ever blinking day.
Her: No wonder you're so bony, Joe, and skinny as a rake.
Him: Well then, give us a bash at the bangers and mash me mother used to make.
Him: Bangers and mash,
Her: Minestrone,
Him: Bangers and mash,
Her: Macaroni,
Him: Give us a bash at the bangers and mash me mother used to make.
Her: Eat your tagliatelle, Joe.
Him: That's all I've heard for years.
Her: Eat your vermicelli, Joe.
Him: It's coming out me ears!
Her: You've got to fill your belly, Joe, Joe for heaven's sake!
Him: Well then, give us a bash at the bangers and mash me mother used to make.
Her: Well alright!
Him: Bangers and mash,
Her: Tagliatelle,
Him: Bangers and mash,
Her: Vermicelli,
Him: Give us a bash at the bangers and mash me mother used to make.
Reporter: (Spoken) 1943. Allied forces land in Italy.
Him: There's a smashing-looking bird over there, Bert. I think she's showing out there.
Bert: (Camp) Well why don't you chat her up, then?
Him: Right. Bon-gorno, sig-noreena there. Here, are you married?
Her: Drop-a dead-a.
Him: There you are, you can't have a fairer answer than that, can you?
Her: I met him back in Italy, so dashing and good-looking,
He wined me and he dined me every night.
He said I smiled so prettily and how he loved my cooking,
But since he's married me it seems he's lost his appetite.
Him: Eat-a your tagliatelle, Soph.
Her: That's all you ever say.
Him: Eat-a your vermicelli, Soph.
Her: Ooh! Every blooming day.
Him: You've-a got to fill your belly, Soph, Soph for heaven's sake!
Her: Well then, give us a bash at the bangers and mash your mother used to make.
Him: Bangers and-a mash,
Her: Minestrone,
Him: Bangers and-a mash,
Her: Macaroni,
Him: Give me a bash with (she laughs uncontrollably) the banger and the mash like the same one that your mother was — what are you laughing at now? Now, this is miserable, please!
Her: Joe?
Him: Yes?
Her: Why don't you belt up, or I'll give you a punch up the throat!
Him: Now she's-a tells me. Ha! Mamma mia!
― Mark G, Monday, 1 October 2007 13:27 (ten years ago) Permalink
What could the rationale possibly be for paying for the download, though? Once they offer it for free, then any money you decide to give is just like giving to charity. Only I'm not too sure Thom Yorke needs my charity.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 1 October 2007 13:29 (ten years ago) Permalink
Which band/label is it that does a pay as much as you like thing for downloads, and publishes the average as a guide?
― caek, Monday, 1 October 2007 13:35 (ten years ago) Permalink
Can you get one though?
I can't.
― Mark G, Monday, 1 October 2007 13:55 (ten years ago) Permalink
Bought one. Rather excited.
― kv_nol, Monday, 1 October 2007 14:05 (ten years ago) Permalink
ha ha "industry types" weighing in. These people--whose livelihood depends on the status quo--are the primary reason that the industry has tanked. They are the reason Radiohead is doing what they are doing. And if you've read Coolfer long enough, it's obvious that Glenn is dubious of technology and is empathetic to the old guard.
This is a great move by a great band.
― Dandy Don Weiner, Monday, 1 October 2007 14:13 (ten years ago) Permalink
I really hope we get to see the stats on how many discboxes were ordered within the first 24 hours of that announcement.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 1 October 2007 14:17 (ten years ago) Permalink
Props to them for trying something different, but I'm not so sure that it is prefiguring the future of music delivery. It's a move that could only be made by a band that was already phenomenally successful, and its business model seems to be: "The music's free, but we'll soak the geek-fan who fetishises the object." Not sure that's really going to work for 99 percent of people who make music.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 1 October 2007 14:29 (ten years ago) Permalink
Is it soaking if it's a package full of art and goodies?
― Eazy, Monday, 1 October 2007 14:31 (ten years ago) Permalink
"soak" was maybe unnecessarily pejorative, no one's forced to buy anything. But the tactic is to go upmarket. Forget about trying to make money out of the average punter, and to make up for it, charge the uber-fans 4 times more. (You can be sure that the product itself is not going to cost 4 times more to produce).
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 1 October 2007 14:37 (ten years ago) Permalink
It's clearly not going to change things for most bands, let alone a billion dollar industry.
The thing I love is that it reinforces the value of DIY, or at least as DIY as band of Radiohead's stature can be.
I really don't see why anyone would care if someone wants to pay $80 for what amounts to art, especially given what the box contains (I thought soaking the rich was good!). Seems like a good value to me, although I probably won't buy it. I certainly would rather the band get more of my money than some dude on eBay.
― Dandy Don Weiner, Monday, 1 October 2007 14:42 (ten years ago) Permalink
I think the main thing is that it prompts ideas. Obviously it's not going to change how things are done straightaway, but it's interesting and they're a band that's huge enough that when they do something like this, it gets the big labels to sit up and take notice.
A lot of artists these days are self-releasing records in a similar way but for the most part it's happening on the fringes. With Radiohead, at the very least, we'll get to see whether something like this can be viable or not in the long run, and yeah hopefully encourage more artists to take a bit more control in terms of how they want to make money from their music.
― Roz, Monday, 1 October 2007 14:44 (ten years ago) Permalink
Is In Rainbows the new punk? A 24,000 word essay in multiple instalments. Coming soon to a magazine near you!
― StanM, Monday, 1 October 2007 14:45 (ten years ago) Permalink
Put it this way.
Fan, or person who does not want to wait, pays £12 for a new CD.
The rest of us wait a year and get it for £5.
This way, Fan, or person with £40 disposable, buys this.
The rest of us get a cheapie.
― Mark G, Monday, 1 October 2007 14:46 (ten years ago) Permalink
I don't care if someone wants to pay $80 and I don't think Radiohead are doing anything "wrong" and I think it's an interesting experiment - but I don't think this model's really leading anywhere either. From a financial perspective, I'm guessing they'll make a fraction of what they made from OK Computer or Kid A. But yeah, props for trying something different.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 1 October 2007 14:48 (ten years ago) Permalink
From a financial perspective, I'm guessing they'll make a fraction of what they made from OK Computer or Kid A
Like EMI didn't make most of the money from those anyway, gimme a break!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 October 2007 14:50 (ten years ago) Permalink
I only think it's different in that it places a slight moral choice - should I or should I not pay something? Otherwise, it's just like any old album. Also even if you don't pay a cent, they still have your details and an excuse to spam your inbox.
― Roz, Monday, 1 October 2007 14:55 (ten years ago) Permalink
xpost OTM
I bet the five members of Radiohead will see more money from actual album sales on this than most of their studio records.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 1 October 2007 14:56 (ten years ago) Permalink
yeah, surely all the profit is going directly to radiohead, minus whatever cut they've worked out with the waste products people? there's no record company to siphon away massive chunks of the money.
― haitch, Monday, 1 October 2007 14:57 (ten years ago) Permalink
Also, farts.
(I don't wanna get banned frm noize brd)
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 1 October 2007 14:57 (ten years ago) Permalink
Always interesting even though they haven't been close to their artistic potential since "OK Computer".
-- Geir Hongro, Monday, 1 October 2007 11:17 (3 hours ago) Link
― stephen, Monday, 1 October 2007 14:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
I wonder if they'll make the price people pay public?
― caek, Monday, 1 October 2007 14:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
www.inrainbows.com down at the moment? (expected this to happen a lot sooner)
― StanM, Monday, 1 October 2007 14:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
Sure, evil record company made a bundle too. Don't know what percentage Radiohead was on, but I don't suppose they did too badly out of it. And now they don't have a record company to pay protection to. But in strict terms of business models, this latest strategy will generate only a fraction of what the previous (admittedly now unworkable) model generated. That's my guess anyway!
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 1 October 2007 15:04 (ten years ago) Permalink
Zelda, I'm loving all these caveats of yours, because nothing about what you're saying suggests anything the band clearly haven't thought of already. Which is PRECISELY why they are trying this out.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 October 2007 15:07 (ten years ago) Permalink
-- StanM, Monday, 1 October 2007 14:58 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
They removed the "Enter" link.
So, do this one:
― Mark G, Monday, 1 October 2007 15:08 (ten years ago) Permalink
Also even if you don't pay a cent, they still have your details and an excuse to spam your inbox.
-- Roz, Monday, October 1, 2007 2:55 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
exactly! you can bet there's a huge tour in the works, and that everyone who puts in their contact info for this download (whether they pay nothing, a little or a lot) is gonna get an announcement straight to their email in a few months.
NB: that's an really inexpensive way to market a really massive tour.
― stephen, Monday, 1 October 2007 15:09 (ten years ago) Permalink
Another thing that occurred to me as well -- no complaints about people making mp3 rips of radio broadcasts of pre-released tracks, not to mention no worries about radio stations playing anything before they're supposed to. Jack White must be grousing as we type.
(Also, some writer colleagues in the UK checked with the band's PR folks, who confirmed -- no advances/listening parties/etc., everyone gets it all at once.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 October 2007 15:12 (ten years ago) Permalink
thanks - but that's not working either/very very slow right now (xxpost)
but anyway, it doesn't matter, I ordered teh box this morning.
― StanM, Monday, 1 October 2007 15:13 (ten years ago) Permalink
Just finished the process. Man, that was hard work!
Ned, did you check the google group?
― Mark G, Monday, 1 October 2007 15:14 (ten years ago) Permalink
... so by the time a review appears in the monthlies, the download album will be more than two months old but it's going to be just in time for the box set (December) or the actual CD (if they release that in January).
― StanM, Monday, 1 October 2007 15:15 (ten years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 October 2007 15:16 (ten years ago) Permalink
how many of you are going to be ordering this? i can't decide. the most i've paid for a single piece of music is pretty much around $25. i like radiohead a whole lot but 80 bucks is a lot of money.
also, for US people who have ordered stuff from the UK before -- how much of the $80 do you think goes towards shipping? somehow i can justify it more if the shipping cost is like $30 or something.....
― Mark Clemente, Monday, 1 October 2007 15:17 (ten years ago) Permalink
grrrr NME
"listen to the album here!"
- click, page with ads and
"click here to go to the blog!"
- click, page with more ads and
"click here to see the whole message!"
- click, page with ads and the youtube live clips every blog has
― StanM, Monday, 1 October 2007 15:17 (ten years ago) Permalink
oh yeah, pay 20 quid transaction fee as well now plz
― rizzx, Monday, 1 October 2007 15:23 (ten years ago) Permalink
No, I haven't seen anyone's posts anywhere who had to pay that transaction fee.
― StanM, Monday, 1 October 2007 15:25 (ten years ago) Permalink
If Radiohead had done this with Hail To The Thief, I would have been one of the $80 discbox purchasers. I really love the Kid A/Amnesiac period, and went through a major period of Radiohead obsession based on those two CDs. As it turns out, they're the only two Radiohead CDs I truly like. So I'll do the cheap download to start, and will pay standard price for whatever lower-price CD or LP version ultimately comes out.
― mike a, Monday, 1 October 2007 15:25 (ten years ago) Permalink


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I am working on moving tables from one tablespace to another on an nt machine. I would like to use the import/export option. How do I start this utility on NT?. what kinds of things must I keep in mind when doing this.
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The period of the French Wars (1793–1815), known as the golden age of fighting sail in Great Britain because of the extraordinary victories won by the Royal Navy, produced an impressive roster of brilliant flag officers. To date, however, these naval leaders have been overshadowed by the legendary status of their contemporary Admiral Lord Nelson. This book corrects the oversight by putting eleven other admirals in the limelight.
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