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2011 GAS GAS TXT Pro Raga 250 specifications, pictures, reviews and rating
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|GAS GAS TXT Pro Raga 250
|Enduro / offroad
|72.2 out of 100. Show full rating and compare with other bikes
|Engine and transmission
|247.70 ccm (15.11 cubic inches)
|Engine type:
|Single cylinder, two-stroke
|Bore x stroke:
|72.5 x 60.0 mm (2.9 x 2.4 inches)
|Fuel system:
|Carburettor. Dell´Orto PHBL26BS - Intake by reed valve
|Lubrication system:
|2-stroke-oil/fuel mixed 1:50
|Cooling system:
|Transmission type,
final drive:
|GG 1/3 hydraulic-diaphragm-system
|Chassis, suspension, brakes and wheels
|Frame type:
|Chrom-Molybdenum tubular
|Front suspension:
|Marzocchi 40 mm Aluminium Right-Sight-Up
|Front wheel travel:
|177 mm (7.0 inches)
|Rear suspension:
|Aluminium swing arm. Progressive system with Sachs shock absorbers
|Rear wheel travel:
|164 mm (6.5 inches)
|Front tyre:
|Rear tyre:
|Front brakes:
|Single disc. Floating, 4-piston caliper
|Front brakes diameter:
|185 mm (7.3 inches)
|Rear brakes:
|Single disc. 2-piston caliper
|Rear brakes diameter:
|150 mm (5.9 inches)
|Physical measures and capacities
|Dry weight:
|66.5 kg (146.6 pounds)
|Seat height:
|650 mm (25.6 inches) If adjustable, lowest setting.
|Overall height:
|1,130 mm (44.5 inches)
|Overall length:
|2,045 mm (80.5 inches)
|Overall width:
|825 mm (32.5 inches)
|1,340 mm (52.8 inches)
|Fuel capacity:
|2.50 litres (0.66 gallons)
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Tiger Woods withdrew from the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational during Sunday's final round, sparking fears that he had suffered further serious damage to his back.
Playing just his third event since undergoing microdiscectomy surgery in March, Woods was four over par after eight holes when he pulled out on the ninth hole at Firestone Country Club.
The former world number one looked in severe pain after hitting his tee shot on the par four, wincing as he struggled to bend down to pick up his tee.
And moments later he was on a golf cart being driven straight to the car park where he again looked in real discomfort as he prepared to leave a venue where he has won eight times, including by seven shots last year.
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Pierre Andurand, the trader who shut his BlueGold energy hedge fund after it lost 34 percent in 2011, seeks to cut volatility of returns by more than half when he opens a new fund next week.
Swings in performance will be 10 to 15 percent a year at Andurand Capital Management LLP, compared with 40 percent at BlueGold, Andurand said in an interview at his office in London yesterday. The fund will start Feb. 1 trading mostly oil, as well as commodities and foreign exchange, he said. About $200 million has been pledged by investors and assets will probably stay below $1 billion, he said.
"It's a commodities fund, with a heavy bias in oil," he said. "I like to keep the door open to other commodities and fx as well, because it gives me a better view on oil and sometimes there's some good opportunities in those markets."
BlueGold and some of its largest peers were tripped up in 2011 as commodity markets failed to establish trends long enough for traders to profit from them. It returned 209 percent in 2008, 55 percent in 2009 and 13 percent in 2010. Commodity hedge funds lost an average 3.8 percent in 2011 and 2.6 percent in 2012, according to the Newedge Commodity Trading Index. Fortress Investment Group LLC shut its $500 million fund in May, the same month that billionaire trader John Arnold told investors he would close his Centaurus Energy Fund.
BlueGold team members including Fernando Diamond, an oil analyst, Kieran Fontaine, a metals analyst, Chief Operating Officer Hakon Haugnes and Chief Financial Officer Paul Feldman will join the new fund. Andurand will be the only trader, unlike at BlueGold where there were also buyers and sellers of equities, soft commodities and metals.
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Former BlueGold investors who place money with Andurand won't have to pay performance fees until they have recouped any losses, maintaining the so-called high-water mark, he said. The fund targets returns of 15 to 20 percent and will probably get most of the $500 million it seeks in its first three months from BlueGold investors, he said.
Andurand is joined by Duet Asset Management Ltd.'s Tony Hall in attempting to attract investors to a new venture. Hall set up Hall Commodities LLP with former colleague Arno Pilz, according to filings with Companies House, five months after the pair left Duet.
BlueGold, which managed about $2.2 billion at its peak, started trading in February 2008 with a focus on energy derivatives. France-born Andurand, 35, and his co-founder Dennis Crema, 51, worked at commodity-trading firm Vitol SA before forming London-based BlueGold.
Andurand began his career in 2000 as an oil trader at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Crema, who served as chief executive officer at BlueGold, is not part of the new hedge fund.
"We tried to find a way to part ways, but we couldn't come to an agreement so we had no other solution" but to close BlueGold, Andurand said. "Looking back, I don't think it's a bad thing, because then I can have a rest mentally and recover, then start again with the team I want with the conditions I want."
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Two years ago, the SEC charged a teenager with defrauding people out of over $1 million by convincing them (somehow) that by giving him their money, he would get them a guaranteed 2,500% return (yes, you read that number right). The SEC made him give back most (though, apparently not all) of the money, and went easy on him after he apologized and promised not to break the law again. However, going after easy money is apparently too big of a draw for this kid. He's still a teen, but now he's been accused of trying to defraud a bank out of nearly half a million, using a similar scam. He wanted a bank employee to give him the money, which he promised he would use to gamble online for huge profits, and then he would return the missing money to the account and everyone would profit. The bank employee, not being a sucker, turned the kid in. The kid's response on being caught is that he didn't do anything wrong, and the whole situation was set up by federal authorities to get him. Meanwhile, the SEC, who let him off so easy two years ago, is now asking a judge to reopen the case and impose fines of millions of dollars on him. Apparently, the slap on the wrist wasn't very effective.


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After Tom Pinch has finally found himself free of Pecksniff, he come to Londion to make a life with his sister and on arriving there wanders wondering through the streets, looking first at the "the jewellers' shops, with all the treasures of the earth displayed therein." But for Tom,
what were even gold and silver, precious stones and clockwork, to the bookshops, whence a pleasant smell of paper freshly pressed came issuing forth, awakening instant recollections of some new grammar had at school, long time ago, with 'Master Pinch, Grove House Academy,' inscribed in faultless writing on the fly-leaf! That whiff of russia leather, too, and all those rows on rows of volumes neatly ranged withinÑwhat happiness did they suggest! And in the window were the spick-and-span new works from London, with the title-pages, and sometimes even the first page of the first chapter, laid wide open; tempting unwary men to begin to read the book, and then, in the impossibility of turning over, to rush blindly in, and buy it! Here too were the dainty frontispiece and trim vignette, pointing like handposts on the outskirts of great cities, to the rich stock of incident beyond; and store of books, with many a grave portrait and time-honoured name, whose matter he knew well, and would have given mines to have, in any form, upon the narrow shell beside his bed at Mr Pecksniff's. What a heart-breaking shop it was!
There was another; not quite so bad at first, but still a trying shop; where children's books were sold, and where poor Robinson Crusoe stood alone in his might, with dog and hatchet, goat-skin cap and fowling-pieces; calmly surveying Philip Quarn and the host of imitators round him, and calling Mr Pinch to witness that he, of all the crowd, impressed one solitary footprint on the shore of boyish memory, whereof the tread of generations should not stir the lightest grain of sand. And there too were the Persian tales, with flying chests and students of enchanted books shut up for years in caverns; and there too was Abudah, the merchant, with the terrible little old woman hobbling out of the box in his bedroom; and there the mighty talisman, the rare Arabian Nights, with Cassim Baba, divided by four, like the ghost of a dreadful sum, hanging up, all gory, in the robbers' cave. Which matchless wonders, coming fast on Mr Pinch's mind, did so rub up and chafe that wonderful lamp within him, that when he turned his face towards the busy street, a crowd of phantoms waited on his pleasure, and he lived again, with new delight, the happy days before the Pecksniff era.
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The modern era of Internet search marketing is about 15 years old—long enough for it to be considered almost a legacy channel, with not much else required of marketers. But that's not so. There have been dramatic changes in how marketers have to address search—changes that transcend marketing channels and technological disciplines. Search remains at the core of how prospects research, find and interact with companies today. And marketers that want to reach them need to integrate search marketing with a number of other activities.
"Today it's pretty much about being logged into a Google property; but it also has a correlation to social signals, which are important for organic search," said Mike Gullaksen, co-CEO at search engine agency Covario Inc. "Marketers need to think about customer behavior and know those customers' needs and wants about content. And it also means understanding how to use that content to create relationships, driving social signals to customers." "Search today is about thinking bigger," Gullaksen said. It may also be about marketers having to pay to get stronger search results.
Last summer Google began encrypting the data of all search activity except clicks on paid search ads, thus preventing marketers from gaining insight into the search terms they painstakingly crafted to enhance organic search results. "It's a bald move to push marketers into paid ads," said Rich Dettmer, director-digital strategy at b-to-b agency Slack and Co., Chicago. Since keyword analytics are now only available for paid search campaigns, "Google has made it harder and harder for organic search to work," he said. Dettmer said the Google ecosystem is helping drive that.
For example, in September Google said it would require viewers of YouTube to have an account on its social network, Google+, if they wished to post a comment on the videos they watch. Beyond integration with YouTube, the association of Google+ with its search parent giant allows for better visibility in searches for verified content, which includes pictures right on the search page. Then there's the social component to the huge universe of Google properties, such as the Chrome browser; Google Maps; Google Now, the "intelligent personal assistant" for Android devices; and the opportunity to create closer relationships through the various Google+ circles.
Dettmer said marketers can still get a "pretty good idea" of the performance of their organic keywords, depending on which landing pages website visitors came to, because "if your organic program is structured well, you have an entry page for each keyword set." "The changes in search don't really change the value of search itself," Dettmer said. "It's still a core, foundational activity. The only thing that's changed is the true integration between search and other digital channels and platforms.
"Beyond keyword sets, the two main drivers of search marketing today are content marketing and social media. Content itself shows up in search results, and when crafted toward specific market segments will appear high in search queries. Social, meanwhile, is a driver of product sentiment and content sharing, both of which in turn appear in search results. "Social is the prime content distribution opportunity when you are able to get to influencers and they validate your content and distribute it to their followers," said Scott Gillum, channel marketing practice leader at gyro, Washington, D.C. Gillum said that when he researches companies, he first goes directly to the websites of up to three brands.
Then he goes to social sites to get a feel for reputation, customers and services. "Content marketing activities are critically important for search marketing," Gillum said. "And it's not as simple as adding a few keywords in the content. It's about trying to understand your audience and the way they look for information. It's about knowing how to work content together in a way that it's easy to be found." Among other recent changes from Google, the company in September upgraded its natural language search capabilities to respond to more complex, conversational queries.
The new search algorithm, dubbed Hummingbird by Google, is built on the company's Knowledge Graph technology that shows more intuitive query results. The technology displays or vocalizes results based on natural language and crowdsourcing, and is driven by voice as well as keyed-in queries. "I do believe search is going in the direction of voice," Covario's Gullaksen said. "I don't think that diminishes the idea of keyword sets, but there will be less focus on keyword optimization and more on the needs and wants of customers built around themes. Thus, brands have to focus on these needs and wants, as customers ask questions."
"Yes, keywords will remain the easiest means to address needs and wants," he said. "But the future of search will be more about themes, as Google anticipates what the meaning is behind a customer's search."


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This week's Photo Friday entry: 'Pattern'
At the end of last year I finished my second chapter for photography degree module one. One of the categories was pattern so I had great fun both in the water in Bali and wandering around London finding patterns.
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When people describe their favorite jeans, they might mention the cut, the wash or the placement of the pockets.
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One thing they likely won't mention is the smell. (Let's hope, anyway.)
But one denim company in Canada is changing that. The company is called Naked & Famous and it's selling a $150 pair of jeans that smells like raspberries.
Why, you ask? Well, because it's fun.
Brandon Svarc, the company's 29-year-old founder, has a penchant for taking traditional denim and giving it a quirky twist. In the five years since he established Naked & Famous, he's come up with a number of unique products – among them, jeans made from a camelhair blend, jeans made from a stainless steel blend and jeans that glow in the dark. In December, he began selling the heaviest jeans in the world, which retail for $495 and, at three times the weight of normal jeans, are "guaranteed to be the most uncomfortable jeans you've ever worn, or your money back." (If you're curious, he created 132 pairs of those jeans and has only four left in stock to date. "There are at least 128 crazy dudes out there," he says.)
Svarc's bread and butter may be his basic line of jeans, which are sold online as well as through retailers such as Barney's and Neiman Marcus, but it's the novelty pieces that really get people talking. Svarc says he overheard a woman at Barney's last year call his glow-in-the-dark jeans the stupidest things she's ever heard of. The woman's 16-year-old son, on the other hand, was amazed.
Svarc says getting any sort of strong reaction – good or bad – is what drives him.
"If I get feedback that someone says they hate it, I know someone else is going to think it's the greatest thing they've ever seen," he says.
Naked & Famous, which prides itself on using high-quality Japanese denim and manufacturing its products in Canada, produced about 800 pairs of scratch-and-sniff jeans in late January. Sales have been strong, with Svarc saying stores such as Canadian department chain Holt Renfrew have sold out and ordered more.
The jeans don't look particularly unusual, but they've been treated with a special coating that emitsthe scent when scratched. Svarc says he had a choice between about 15 different scents, including lemon ("not bad") and soap ("really gross"), but he chose raspberry because it smelled the most of candy. The scent is expected to last through at least five washings.
Surprisingly enough, the jeans are currently available in men's sizes only. Svarc admits that his strategy is counter to what much of the premium denim industry is doing, as women are often courted first – but he says that Naked & Famous' customer base is 90% men and 10% women. He plans to introduce a women's scratch-and-sniff jean in the near future.
For those that know Svarc, his strategy shouldn't come as a surprise.
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Predict the Blow Not surprisingly, brand companies have aggressively pursued a variety of lifecycle-management tactics. Transferring brand equity (and prescriptions) to a follow-on product, reformulation, or new delivery system, can sustain the franchise. Switching the Rx brand to an over-the-counter product, when possible, is another way to retain revenue.
Despite these tactics—and the great effort devoted to them—the bulk of the expiring brand revenues will at some point give way to generics. The question for a pharma company is: How quickly? And a key corollary question is: If a company can predict how quickly brand revenues will erode, are there different tactics it should use depending on the rate of decline?
The challenge, though, is not just to recognize a brand's potential loss to generics but also to forecast it effectively. Companies must account for the timing of generic launches as well as other circumstances that may affect postexpiration performance. Investment decisions—continued brand promotion or a clinical trial for a new formulation—depend on a reliable forecast. As generics enter, brand teams must grapple with planning and forecasting decisions that differ from those encountered during the patent's life and may include strategic options such as the possibility of an authorized generic.


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Over the years, design patterns are being best practiced in IT and SE. Design Patterns are the solution guidelines to common problems identified in software applications. DPs are taken care of during application design or during refactor process. Most of the times, DPs are not followed because of lack of experience or knowledge. In case of MCV/MVP, lack of knowledge of difference between them is one of the fear factors for not choosing the right pattern. This article would try to differentiate between the usage of MVC and MVP.
Before going into how MVC/MVP work and what are the key benefits of either of the two, a note that can be made is that both of them are being practiced for many years to achieve the OO principle of separation of concern for UI Layer and Business Layers. Both of them are UI presentation patterns.
A number of frameworks are provided to implement these patterns. For example:
DPs are the blueprints but not the solution itself. They should be used as a guideline for the implementation within the problem domain/space.
UI Presentation Pattern focus on separation of view with Model
Based on MVC (UI Presentation Pattern)
Separation of responsibility between three components:
Separation of responsibility between four components:
The three components would interact with each other. Controller would sometime also be responsible to update view (like Front Controller Pattern)
Presenter can also interact with Controller to access Model
Any pattern has its pros and cons in association with the environment it is being implemented in. It is not always advisable to implement the patterns everywhere in the application. There are benefits of MVC/MVP usage:
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LONDON (AP) — Britain may consider vetoing an extension of the European Union's arms embargo on Syria if the situation does not improve there, Prime Minister David Cameron said Tuesday.
The EU has a blanket embargo against shipping arms to Syria, though last month Britain persuaded the EU to soften the embargo and allow member states to provide non-lethal aid, such as armored vehicles, to the rebels fighting the regime of President Bashar Assad.
Britain and France have signaled their support for lifting the embargo further to allow weapons into Syria. The current EU embargo expires in May.
Western countries have been rethinking their stance on helping the rebels as Assad's support erodes.
The United States, in a significant policy shift, announced Feb. 28 that it would for the first time provide non-lethal aid — things like food rations and medical supplies — directly to rebels who are battling to oust Assad.
But a senior U.S. military commander, Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, warned last week that the situation is too complicated in Syria now for the U.S. to provide opposition forces with lethal aid. In the EU, some diplomats also oppose changing the embargo, preferring a political solution.
When asked about his position on the embargo Tuesday, Cameron told a parliamentary committee: "I hope that we can persuade our European partners (and) if and when a further change becomes necessary, they will agree with us.
"But if we can't, then it's not out of the question we might have to do things in our own way. It's possible," he said.
Meanwhile, Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said that another group of Russians and others left Syria aboard a government plane on Tuesday. The ministry said the Il-62 plane arrived in Moscow just before midnight Tuesday with 103 Russians and citizens of other ex-Soviet nations. The plane flew from the port city of Latakia in northwestern Syria, where it had delivered a cargo of humanitarian aid. The flight was the latest in a series of such missions conducted since January.
Russia has been the main ally of Assad, shielding him from the U.N. sanctions over his crackdown on a two-year uprising that has become a full-blown civil war killing more than 70,000 people.
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Vote fraud: It, and mistakes, happen
January 27. 2014 7:04PM
The Keene Sentinel was one of the most strident opponents of New Hampshire's voter ID law during the 2011-2012 legislative session. The paper mocked the very idea that voter fraud happens in New Hampshire. So it is amusing that the state Attorney General's office announced this month that voter fraud was committed in Keene in 2012.
Adam Kumpu of Milford was fined $1,000 and his mother, Janine Kumpu of Milford, was fined $250 for the fraud. Janine Kumpu obtained an absentee ballot in her son's name, and he used it to vote in Milford last November. He also voted in person in Keene.
That was proven fraud. Then there is the mystery of a vote recorded in Caitlin Legacki's name in the 2012 general election. The bloggers at Granite Grok reported last week that someone voted in Manchester in 2012 under the name of former Jeanne Shaheen spokesperson Caitlin Legacki.
We confirmed with the city clerk's office that a vote under Legacki's name and address was recorded. But Legacki moved out of New Hampshire shortly after the 2008 election (in which she voted) and was in St. Louis on Election Day 2012, working for U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill. "It certainly was news to me" that she was checked as having voted in Manchester in 2012, she told us last week.
The 2012 election was the first one in which photo IDs were required for voting in New Hampshire. As there was no challenged voter affidavit filled out in her name, there are two possibilities: Someone voted in her name and showed a photo ID, or the box was checked in error. We asked Assistant City Clerk JoAnn Ferruolo what the odds were that it was a simple error.
"The odds are good," she said. "Mistakes happen."
That they do. And so does fraud, which is why it is important to have laws in place that discourage it. Voter ID laws do that. So does the scrutiny of political activists like the bloggers at Granite Grok. "We know that opposition researchers were always looking at that," Legacki said of her campaign workers' names on the voter checklists, "so somebody would have to be pretty dumb to do that."
No one has noted, though, that Legacki was one of many out-of-state campaign workers who moved to New Hampshire for a temporary campaign job in 2008, voted in the election, then quickly left. The state Attorney General has held that this is legal. It should not be. Fixing that loophole should make its way back onto the Legislature's agenda.


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Animal Collective Infidelity
edited April 2012 in Non-Animal Collective Discussion
I was wondering what other fan bases people are apart of? I'm a fan of Ezra Miller (if you dont know who he is look him up), Andy Warhol (I dont really know if that counts for anything but...), of Montreal and Deerhunter.
in terms of owning entire discographies, i like Odd Future, MGMT, dan deacon, The Gorillaz(only self-titled and demon days),biggie smalls,MF Doom, Quasimoto, Bon Iver and of course Animal Collective. other than that its just like i have a couple songs from various albums by a million different artists
If we're talking music wise discographies.. I thoroughly enjoy AC (duh), Radiohead, The Appleseed Cast, DeVotchKa, Maps & Atlases, Modest Mouse, Minus the Bear, BoC, At The Drive-In just off the top of my head. But I dig Warhol as well ! Dali is great too
RADIOHEAD and SUPER FURRY ANIMALS! those 2 and AC are The Big 3! cloud cult, mark mallman, men without hats, REM those have been quite important to me too! xiu xiu, the mae shi, gang gang danse! i think most have been set pretty in stone by 2003/04ish still open to new bands but man... age 14 to early 20s is like that golden time though every so often i still get really hit (hard!) like with sufjan AGE OF ADZ or PRINCE RAMA! llama ding dong!
Bands: Animal Collective, Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Fleet Foxes, Yeasayer, REM, Sufjan Stevens, Arctic Monkeys, Fountains of Wayne, MGMT, Deerhunter, Flying Lotus, LCD Soundsystem, and Pink Floyd to name a few. Visual Art: (pandering) Turtlebite (I saw what you said was your worst stuff so your best stuff must be amazing)! TV: The Wire (I'm only started the first season and I already am a huge fan), The Walking Dead, and also Top Gear. I forgot about the Colbert Nation. Movies: Is it possible to be in a fanbase here without being super into a movie? Books: I like reading but I really don't have a favorite author or anything.
Also I like Brigitte Bardot,MGMT, Ariel Pink, Syd Barret Panda Bear and Avey Tare, Atlas Sound, Ducktails, Bright Eyes, Wavves, Best Coast, and The Velvet Underground Books: The Perks of Being a Wallflower, American Psycho Movies: Rocky Horror Picture Show People: Edie Sedgwick, Michael Pitt Shows: Mad Men and Freaks and Geeks
Was this thread more about music or about fanbases in general?
Hell, I'd wonder what sort of OCD someone had if all they EVER listened to, EVER, since Kindergarten, was AC. You'll get to know us, Narnie, if I may call you that, and often we are here because we don't have anyone else to talk to about AC, but there's only so much to say. AC is like the light that draws us in and then we stay for the free drinks and comraderie. That is misspelled. Is it? Once upon a time we each had a profile where we could list all our fave bands and made additional connections that way. This (fairly) new message board format put the kibosh on that so we're all kind of groping in the dark. (grope grope, ewww!) If there is a specific band you'd like to talk about, check for topics in the Audible section, then start your own. We're very wide ranged and kind of weird, so you may not find exact kindred. But you'll find Very Interesting Individuals.
You may be a VIP, well i'm a VII Double OG.
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VII as in 7.
This is supposed to a thread about fanbases, but whatever. AnCo and Ezra Miller are the two things I "stan" for most at the moment.I help run a fan blog called weneedtotalkaboutezramiller, it can get pretty intense there. And on a sidenote: I have never read any of the Narnia books but my nickname is Narnia.
So was saying that I like the Walking Dead appropriate?
Yeah, anything that you love on an (almost) parallel level to AnCo.
Aside from the AnCo fanbase, I dwell in the Bowie, Panda Bear and Bjork fanbases.
This is supposed to a thread about fanbases, but whatever. Holy *barbie collection*, guys, stick to the topic, ok?!
Winilula, your speech up there was beautiful
Thanks, Dragon. And Narnie, just to warn you, we have trouble staying on topic, although I knw that wasn't what you we saying.
Hm... I'm not involved in any other forums, but I am a fan of and collect the grooves of Atlas Sound, Kraftwerk, Avey Tare, Deerhunter (except for their first album) and Joanna Newsom, in no particular order. I have an irrational love for the movie Driving Lessons.
COMPUTER WORLD I like Jane a lot, and lots of the bands people have listed above my post. I like a lot of the things people have posted overall actually. And I am on a Bukowski kick, as far as reading goes. He is real
huge fan of BLACK DICE Javelin Avey Tare Atlas sound Kria Brekken Black Moth super rainbow Diamond rings James Blake Eric Copeland Jimi Hendrix Led Zeppelin MF doom Zoo Kid/King Kruel Deer Hunter Wavves King Onyina But this is the only forum i go on.
im currently getting into pink floyd.i only have DSOTM, Meddle and wish you were here. i like them all
When Im not listening to the anco im typically listening to rap, or the grateful dead. I love primus, lotus, the roots, sublime, the red hot chili poopers, wierd al yankovik. they might be giants, fleet foxes, the new riders of the purple sage (hence my name). Bob dylan, keller williams, slightly stoopid, ani difranco, the evette brothers, yonder mountain string band, yoyoma, zizi perlman, wu tang clan, jefferson airplane, INFIDELS! FIDEL! MUERTE SE?!?!? INFIDELIS!!!!
Oh! and to add to my fav. books: American Psycho has been my fav. book (next to "Perks") since I was 12. I have read it six times.
i like lady gaga and iamamiwhoami and the smiths and cold war kids enough to join forums, but i really dont have the energy to think about all their music like that. Anymal is most productive, i think, most worthy of my time.
Lady Gaga, there is a confession thread on this board for that. Although I must say I did like a couple songs by her when I had to listen to the local pop radio station in art class two years ago. I don't hold nothin' against that man. Animal Collective can be music to think to or music to lose yourself to.
Judaaaas! Jud a a aaaaas! I am a Gaga fan. Not all the time and not all her songs, but she's a beast.
Oh! I love The Smiths too Ly!
I'm surounded by GAGAS! Ah Gas! I like the Smiths a bit. Mainly because I loved Oasis back in the day. In general, it's good to like some more mainstream pop stuff like Gaga so that when you are at a party or something of that sort you can dance along and feel good while doing it. I can't really explain why but I don't mind.
I wish I liked mainstream pop only because I look lame at parties. I just stand around and pretend like I am having fun... which isnt enjoyable at all.
(i think GAGAZ genius just manifests in the form of a pop song. i caint fight it. i tried once, but i was only denying myself.) i came out of the womb singing the smiths. i have marrissey in my dna.
I haven't listened to Gawgaw in a loooong time. Scheiße's my favorite from her tho.
Me too Ziggy!
just danse! gonna be ok! dah doo doo dda!


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Five Coaches in Need of a Good SeasonPosted by rtmsf on October 22nd, 2010
David Ely is an RTC contributor.
On Monday we gave you the list our five biggest coaching moves from the last offseason, now it's team to look into our crystal ball and see who's in danger of getting a pink slip. The guys from Monday would be advised to check out this post. All of the coaches below at one point carried the same promise and excitement of better things to come at their respective schools. But as at least one of them will most likely see, sometimes things just don't work out. Here are the top five coaches who need to have good seasons in order to feel secure about their jobs.
Paul Hewitt, Georgia Tech
- Record at School: 176-142 (67-93 ACC) in 10 seasons.
- Postseason Results: Five trips to the NCAA Tournament (NCAA runner-up in 2004); one trip to the NIT.
- High point/low point: Hewitt's high point is an easy pick and it's one of the reasons why it's confusing that he finds himself with so much to prove this season. The man coached the Yellow Jackets to the National Championship game in 2004, his fourth season at Georgia Tech. At that time there was so much promise in Atlanta, what with Hewitt's knack to bring in big time talent (Chris Bosh and Jarrett Jack, for example) and what at the time seemed like an ability to coach 'em up and mount a run at a title. At least that's what appeared to be the case. It didn't take long for fans of the Ramblin' Wreck to grow wary of Hewitt's up and down nature. You could point out a number of things for the low point of the Hewitt era. There's the fact that GT has never has won more than nine games in the ACC. There's his four losing seasons. But I'd have to go with his disastrous 2-14 campaign in 2008-09, when the Yellow Jackets finished dead last in the ACC.
- Reasons to stay: Hewitt knows how to recruit. He's signed three guys that went on to win ACC Rookie of the Year honors in Bosh (2003), Ed Nelson (2002) and Derrick Favors (2010). Hewitt definitely knows how to sell the program to recruits, and it would be tough to find another guy that can bring in the same kind of hauls Hewitt has on his resume.
- Reasons to leave: Hewitt is consistently inconsistent. Considering the talent on some of these Georgia Tech rosters, it's dumbfounding that Hewitt has just one 9-7 ACC regular season to his name. Hewitt has made back-to-back NCAA Tournaments only once (2003-04) and hasn't made it past the Tournament's opening weekend since the Yellow Jackets' run to the National Championship game in 2004.
- Bare minimum he needs to stay: Hewitt needs to finish with at least a .500 record in conference, and the Yellow Jackets need to win a game in the NCAA Tournament. The preseason talk in Atlanta is how the Jackets are better than they were last year, despite Favors' departure to the NBA. That means there's no excuse if Hewitt can't turn this team into a winner.
- Possible job-savers: A strong finish at the end of the regular season. The schedule works out nicely for the Yellow Jackets to build momentum for the ACC Tournament and beyond. After traveling to Duke on Feb. 20, Tech finishes up home against Virginia, at N.C. State, at Wake Forest and home for Miami. Hewitt needs to sweep through those final four games to make sure there's a chance for another season in Atlanta.
- Odds of keeping his job: I'd say it's 50-50. On the one hand, if A.D. Dan Radakovich was going to fire Hewitt, why didn't he pull the plug after that dismal 2009 season? Then again, it should take a winning season in Atlanta for Hewitt to stick around for another year. Not many people are high on the Yellow Jackets this season because of the loss of Favors and Gani Lawal. Either Hewitt pulls a rabbit out of his hat or he reaches in and grabs a pink slip.
Jeff Capel, Oklahoma
- Record at School: 82-51 (32-32 Big 12) in four seasons.
- Postseason Results: Two trips to the NCAA Tournament (Elite Eight in 2009).
- High point/low point: It's hard to imagine Capel on this list considering that his high point at Oklahoma came just two seasons ago. In 2009 the Sooners were a No. 2 seed in the South Region and made it all the way to the Elite Eight before getting run out of the gym by eventual the national champion, North Carolina. The year before that Capel led the Sooners to a 23-12 record and NCAA second round finish; he was a coach on the rise and his program was headed in the right direction. Then everything fell apart. As expected, Blake Griffin decided to go to the NBA, but OU still had talent in guards Willie Warren and Tommy Mason-Griffin. It didn't matter. Capel suffered his worst season in Norman, Oklahoma, on and off the court. The Sooners lost their final nine games of the season to finish under .500 for the first time since 1981. Worse, there's an ongoing investigation into NCAA violations committed by ex-assistant coach Oronde Taliaferro. Five underclassmen (including Warren and Mason-Griffin) and two assistant coaches have left the program since the end of the season. Considering all the off-court drama, the court should be a safe haven for Capel. But then again, that's where all his problems started last year.
- Reasons to stay: If the Sooners ever need a last second half court shot they have the perfect guy to draw up a play. Seriously, though, Capel seems to be committed to Oklahoma and there's no direct evidence that he had anything to do with the NCAA allegations. Capel easily could have fled the scene this offseason, but he chose to stick around.
- Reasons to leave: Was Oklahoma's two-year run a product of Capel's coaching or was it because of Blake Griffin? Capel's first year B.G. (before Griffin) ended with a 16-15 overall record and a seventh place tie in the Big 12. In the first year A.G. the Sooners went a paltry 13-18 and tied for eleventh in the conference. It could easily be that Oklahoma won 30 games in 2008-09 because of Griffin's on-court brilliance rather than anything Capel was responsible for.
- Bare minimum he needs to stay: Well first of all, Capel needs this NCAA investigation to end positively. You know what the Sooners did to Kelvin Sampson. And you have to think that the powers that be in Norman won't accept any kind of improprieties. On the court, Capel has to finish at least over .500. People shouldn't have any preconceived notions that it will be an easy return to prominence for Capel & Co. Not with nine new players on the roster. A winning record and a trip to the NIT should be enough to keep Capel from getting canned.
- Odds of keeping his job: I think that Capel doesn't have to worry about finding a new team come next spring. Capel should be able to meet the Sooners' lowered expectations, and it will be fun to see this team fly under the radar in the Big 12.
Sidney Lowe, N.C. State


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A man has been charged after an investigation revealed he fatally shot an elderly man.
Johnnie Carl Baker, 47, of Salesville, is charged with the shooting death of Dennis Franklin Chapman, 65, also of Salesville, after investigators discovered Baker had purposely shot Chapman in the face, according to a release from the Baxter County sheriff's department. Baker had initially claimed the shooting was accidental.
An investigation showed that Baker loaded the weapon, a Marlin 30/30 lever-action rifle, the day before the shooting occurred. Baker told authorities he had thrown a soda bottle at Chapman and told him he would shoot the bottle. Chapman was holding the bottle in his hand when the rifle discharged, but Baker said he had no recollection of having his finger on the trigger and claimed the rifle discharged accidentally.
Research into the rifle revealed it had to be manually discharged due to its lever and hammer capabilities. The fact that Baker knew the weapon was loaded, loaded it himself and pointed it at another individual demonstrated an "extreme indifference to the value of a human life," the department said in the release.
The prosecuting attorney has filed second-degree felony murder charges after a bench warrant was issued for Baker's arrest. Baker was taken into custody Thursday afternoon and held on $100,000 bond at the Baxter County jail. His hearing is scheduled for Dec. 13 in Baxter County Circuit Court.


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Amgen Inc. to pay New York $3.3 million for inflating prescription drug price data, causing New York and other states' Medicaid programs to overpay for those drugs
Schneiderman: "Drug companies will be held to account when they rip-off taxpayers"
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced Monday that New York, along with 35 other states, reached an $11 million settlement with the drug manufacturer Amgen Inc. The agreement resolves claims that the company inflated pricing data for six of its prescription drugs in a way that caused New York and the other settling states' Medicaid programs to overpay for those drugs.
"There are no excuses for ripping off New York state taxpayers and defrauding our Medicaid programs," Schneiderman said. "At a time when state budgets are already strained, I am committed to going after any company that rips off our taxpayers - no matter how big they are. With this settlement, the message we are sending is clear: Biotechnology giants are not above the law, and my office will continue to ensure that those who cheat the system are held accountable."
The drug pricing data at issue in this settlement concerns the "Average Wholesale Price" (AWP) and "Wholesale Acquisition Cost" (WAC), benchmarks used by most states' Medicaid programs, including New York, to set pharmacy reimbursement rates for pharmaceuticals dispensed to state Medicaid beneficiaries. New York and the 35 other states alleged that Amgen reported inflated AWP and WAC pricing data, thereby creating an artificially inflated "spread" between the price at which Medicaid providers dispensed the named drugs and the price at which the states reimbursed providers for the drugs. After creating the inflated spread, Amgen marketed that spread to Medicaid providers in order to boost Amgen's sales of Aranesp, Enbrel, Epogen, Neulasta, Neupogen and Sensipar. These drugs are used to treat kidney disease and cancer patients.
This settlement was part of a larger investigation into allegations of illegal marketing practices, which included promoting the drugs for unapproved uses, and illegal kickbacks schemes by Amgen. The investigation resulted in a misdemeanor guilty plea in federal court by Amgen for introducing a misbranded drug into interstate commerce. The company has now paid a total of more than $647 million in damages related to the investigations, with New York's Medicaid program recovering more than $19.2 million of the money.
New York's recovery pursuant to this national, multi-state settlement is $3.3 million.
In this instance, as in the previous settlements, New York lead a national team made up of state attorneys and analysts from California, Illinois, Indiana and North Carolina, and worked through the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units.


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A: MPEG-4 Part 14 or MP4 is a digital multimedia container format most commonly used to store video and audio, but can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images. Like most modern container formats, it allows streaming over the Internet. The only official filename extension for MPEG-4 Part 14 files is .mp4, but many have other extensions, most commonly .m4a and .m4p. M4A (audio only) is often compressed using AAC encoding (lossy), but can also be in Apple Lossless format. M4P is a protected format which employs DRM technology to restrict copying. MPEG-4 Part 14 (formally ISO/IEC 14496-14:2003) is a standard specified as a part of MPEG-4. While the only official filename extension defined by the standard is .mp4, various filename extensions are commonly used to indicate intended content: MPEG-4 files with audio and video generally use the standard .mp4 extension. Audio-only MPEG-4 files generally have a .m4a extension. This is especially true of non-protected content. MPEG-4 files with audio streams encrypted by FairPlay Digital Rights Management as were sold through the iTunes Store use the .m4p extension. iTunes Plus tracks, that the iTunes Store currently sells, are unencrypted and use .m4a accordingly. Audiobook and podcast files, which also contain metadata including chapter markers, images, and hyperlinks, can use the extension .m4a, but more commonly use the .m4b extension. An .m4a audio file cannot "bookmark" (remember the last listening spot), whereas .m4b extension files can. The Apple iPhone uses MPEG-4 audio for its ringtones but uses the .m4r extension rather than the .m4a extension. Raw MPEG-4 Visual bitstreams are named .m4v but this extension is also sometimes used for video in MP4 container format. Mobile phones use 3GP, an implementation of MPEG-4 Part 12 (a.k.a. MPEG-4/JPEG2000 ISO Base Media file format), similar to MP4. It uses .3gp and .3g2 extensions. These files also store non-MPEG-4 data (H.263, AMR, TX3G). M4A stands for MPEG 4 Audio and is a filename extension used to represent audio files. The existence of two different filename extensions, .MP4 and .M4A, for naming audio-only MP4 files has been a source of confusion among users and multimedia playback software. Some file managers, such as Windows Explorer, look up the media type and associated applications of a file based on its filename extension. But since MPEG-4 Part 14 is a container format, MPEG-4 files may contain any number of audio, video, and even subtitle streams, making it impossible to determine the type of streams in an MPEG-4 file based on its filename extension alone. In response, Apple Inc. started using and popularizing the .m4a filename extension, which is used for MP4 containers with audio data in the lossy Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) or its own Apple Lossless (ALAC) formats. Software capable of audio/video playback should recognize files with either .m4a or .mp4 filename extensions, as would be expected, since there are no file format differences between the two. Most software capable of creating MPEG-4 audio will allow the user to choose the filename extension of the created MPEG-4 files.
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A: MPEG-1 Audio Layer II or MPEG-2 Audio Layer II (MP2, sometimes incorrectly called Musicam or MUSICAM) is a size-compressed, lossy audio compression format defined by ISO/IEC 11172-3 alongside MPEG-1 Audio Layer I and MPEG-1 Audio Layer III (MP3). While MP3 is much more popular for PC and Internet applications, as it required a lower bit rate (and hence smaller file size) than MP2 to achieve reasonable quality, MP2 remains a dominant standard for digital radio and digital television broadcasts. However MP2 has greater error-resilience than MP3, and at higher bit rates (256 kbps and above) is often regarded as sounding better. For these reasons it is widely used in broadcasting, and includes a 384 kbps option not available in MP3. MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2 encoding was derived from the MUSICAM (Masking pattern adapted Universal Subband Integrated Coding And Multiplexing) audio codec, developed by Centre commun d'etudes de television et telecommunications (CCETT), Philips, and the Institut fur Rundfunktechnik (IRT) in 1989 as part of the EUREKA 147 pan-European inter-governmental research and development initiative for the development of a system for the broadcasting of audio and data to fixed, portable or mobile receivers (established in 1987). MP2 files are compressed with MPEG Audio Layer-2 compression to reduce the size. The standard MPEG II audio format supports 32, 44.1, and 48 kHz sampling rates and bitrates from 32 to 320 kbps/sec. One supported feature of the MP2 format is a format called intensity encoded joint stereo. This format allows for two distinct channels of sound like standard stereo, but saves disk space by looking for similarities between the two channels during the encoding process.
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Skip to comments.Millennials Are Starting To Act Like The Great Depression Generation
Posted on 02/22/2013 8:32:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Unofficial millennial spokesperson Lena Dunham, while incisive and entertaining, is not the voice of my generation.
On Dunham's buzzy dramedy Girls, self-involved twenty-somethings balk at $12 salads by day and guzzle $14 cocktails by night while parents bankroll their "groovy lifestyles."
It's an enticing narrative. But these stereotypes fail to recognize some rapidly evolving trends among young echo boomers entering adulthood.
Millennials, typically defined as anyone born after 1980, make up an enormous and diverse generation, but many of them share a common experience entering adulthood during the country's greatest economic downturn since the 1930s.
The financial duress of the Great Depression produced the Greatest Generation, a cohort of Americans known for conservative spending and saving habits, resilience, and a tireless work ethic. And believe it or not, young people who came of age during the Great Recession are beginning to mirror those habits.
Although graduates now enter an exceptionally difficult job market with an average $25,000 in student loans, they are often hired more quickly than job searchers from preceding generations, in part because they are more willing to accept jobs for which they are overqualified, according to a survey conducted by MillennialBrandingAndBeyond.com.
For instance, while many unemployed members of Gen X continue to hold out for positions that meet their criteria, echo boomers will take retail and part-time jobs in the interim.
"I hope, and I do believe that I will have a job offer when I graduate, but I think that that speaks to my work ethic and the fact that I've been working every single semester and every summer since I was a sophomore," said NYU senior Maddie Chivi.
"The reason that so many of us do put ourselves out there and are interning and our resumes are built already is because we are worried."
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Good. Perhaps there is hope for them yet.
Lena Dunham reminds me of that girl in high school that everybody is porking except for me.
Jobs that they're "overqualified" for?
And a degree in Art History over-qualifies someone for which job, exactly?
While there are some who are humble and tireless workers, I think far too many are stuck at home playing video games and endlessly chatting or texting. They don't see yet how their lack of self-reliance is hurting their family. And many who do work feel the soul-crushing pain of the service industries and the lack of paths for advancement in the current economy.
Don't get me wrong, most young adults have to go through some crappy jobs before they find their true calling but I see far more crappy jobs and fewer better-earning jobs out there thanks to the economy and our present leadership, you know the leadership that used to bemoan "burger-flipping jobs" when we were at 5% unemployment under Bush?
I drive by the student parking lots at the high schools in my small city, and I see much better cars parked there then when I went to high school. This generation isn't buying cars because their parents buy one for them.
It was a bit of a harsh reality, the college had told me for years that "I'd graduate, and employers would be waiting to shower me with work". $40K (at that time a phenomenal salary, and it's still pretty dammed good) was *expected*. From what I'm seeing today, things aren't much different.
While it's true that the economy is no great shakes right now, this article's premise is not a new concept.
And you're the only one who didn't get "the gift that keeps on giving" from her as well. . . (evil grin)
I'm hoping for a lot of creative entrepreneurs in this generation. I'm raising my kids to think like a business owner rather than an employee. They may or may not end up owning a business, but at least they'll know it's a possibility.
"And youre the only one who didnt get the gift that keeps on giving from her as well. . . (evil grin)"
Yup, My Parents, Actually my Mom (I was Lucky) Taught me well.
I'm not so sure that's a good thing. The Depression generation were the ones who embraced FDR Big Government Socialism, class warfare, and redistribution of the wealth.
Almost seems a deliberate tactic to keep them down until they arrive at the conclusion that "Capitalism Sucks! I'm Getting SCROOOOOOOOD!"
Sounds like a revamped "Sex and the City". A fantasy for women who think they can be fat, tattooed, and have a grating personality, and Mr Wonderful will still come into their lives and sweep them off their feet.
In the fantasy world, Lena Dunham, a liberal arts major and aspiring writer who works in a coffee shop
has as her boyfriend a handsome doctor, played by Patrick Wilson, who is madly in love with her.
In the real world, this is Lena's boyfriend:
And this is Patrick Wilson's real wife
I've seen pictures of her and have to ask... why would you want to?
He looks like Elvis Costello's awkward little brother.
Answer to your question:
A degree in Art History overqualifies a person to become a "community organizer"...(whatever that may be)
People accepted a job from anyone. They were not into saying no if the work was WPA. Capitalists saying 'socialism' but offering no jobs didn't make any sense, then nor now.
People accepted a job from anyone. They were not into saying no if the work was WPA. Capitalists saying 'socialism' but offering no jobs didn't make any sense, then nor now.
People accepted a job from anyone. They were not into saying no if the work was WPA. Capitalists saying 'socialism' but offering no jobs didn't make any sense, then nor now.
One thing we may find over the next few years, is that traditional middle-class democrats may find themselves becoming increasingly unwilling to impoverish themselves and their children in order to prop up the Welfare State.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Acclaimed Broadway composer Stephen Schwartz says he's hard at work on a full draft of his next endeavor, the musical "Houdini" that has actor Hugh Jackman playing the legendary illusionist.
"I'm specifically writing for Hugh in terms of what I think will sound good in his voice and what sorts of things will really help him to do the things that he does," Schwartz said in a recent interview with The Associated Press during the Dramatist Guild of America's conference in Chicago. He is the group's president.
The Academy Award- and Grammy Award-winner — famous for "Wicked," ''Godspell" and "Pippin" — said a reading of the new full show is scheduled for December and he's been "writing away on it" with a collaborator. So far, he said, they have a full first act of "Houdini."
"As soon as we finished it, of course, we immediately said, 'We have to rewrite this entire thing,'" Schwartz said. "But nevertheless we're moving on to try to get a complete draft of the show."
"Houdini" is scheduled to reach Broadway during the 2013-2014 season. Schwartz said he hopes the show will make an out-of-town debut in Chicago before it premieres on Broadway.
So far, the fun, he said, has been writing music and lyrics with Jackman in mind. Schwartz said he's considering "Where does he want to stretch himself? Where does he want to do something that he feels he has and we feel he has that he hasn't really shown before?"
In April, admirers of the composer packed Carnegie Hall in New York for a tribute marking both Schwartz's 65th birthday and the 10th anniversary of "Wicked," which is still a tough ticket. But that show's success doesn't amount to pressure, he said.
"It sort of makes you feel, 'I have this big hit running, well if this doesn't work out, it doesn't work out," Schwartz said.
Schwartz's work on "Houdini" could serve to counteract what he calls a recent "artistic slump" in commercial musical theater with shows that he says are safe and formulaic.
"I've found the last couple of Broadway seasons pretty disappointing from the point of view of musicals," Schwartz said. "Though from the point of view of plays it's been pretty exciting."
Besides "Houdini," Schwartz has been focusing on his role as president of the dramatist guild, which represents more than 6,000 playwrights, composers, lyricists and librettists. Besides Schwartz its board of directors includes Stephen Sondheim, Edward Albee, Terrence McNally and Tony Kushner.
Schwartz cited censorship at schools and theaters as one threat that is proving stifling and discouraging for playwrights. He said his own 1971 work, "Godspell," has become more controversial recently.
"It's very discouraging if you write something and then you can't get it on unless it's approved by the establishment that happens to be in power," Schwartz said, adding that he would remind theater groups and producers, "Why they went into this business in the first place? Why did they want to be a theater?"
The guild hopes to prevent that discouragement, he said.
"The whole reason that all of us became writers is that we have things we want to say and issues we want to deal with and I believe very strongly in the right to self-expression," Schwartz said.
The guild has the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund that can help writers with censorship, copyright and other issues, he said.
"Really that's what theaters should be doing, is causing audiences and people to think about things and look at things in a different way," Schwartz said. "Not flag-waving for whatever the prevailing point of view is at that point."
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