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How to deal with a mean girl
Mean girls pop up throughout life – in the playground, on campus, at the office. Sometimes it seems as if there's no escaping their catty ways. If you're currently dealing with a mean girl of your own, we have some advice to help you deal without getting into a full blown fight.
Among other friends
Often there's a mean girl among a group of friends. She could have always hung out in your circle or maybe she was brought in by someone else. No matter where she came from, she's mean and she isn't afraid to one-up you any chance she gets. She's manipulative, catty and goes out of her way to make you feel stupid in front of your other friends. In other words, she sucks.
How to deal: This is a mean girl you can confront. We don't suggest starting a full blown fight, but do calmly tell her that her actions are not appreciated and that she isn't acting like a friend at all. If she laughs off your concerns, simply don't hang out with the group when she's around. Make plans with smaller groups of friends who you actually do want to spend time with – minus the jerk.
At work
Dealing with a mean girl at work isn't easy. She's always there, taking credit for your ideas, smiling in your presence and then saying something snarky behind your back and worst of all, angling for all the same projects, clients and promotions as you are. If this was the playground, you might have been able to fight fire with fire (or at least "accidentally" get mud on her new dress) with this mean girl, but this is the real world and you don't want to get fired.
How to deal: Do not at any point get into a verbal altercation with her. It can easily backfire and you don't want to give this mean girl any more ammunition. Instead, ensure that any ideas you have are kept to yourself and given to your boss directly so she can't take credit for them. Otherwise, simply stay out of her way, act civil and don't let her get to you.
In the family
Sister-in-law from hell? There's a mean girl in a lot of families, and if you seem to have inherited one by marriage, don't panic. We know it's tough. She mutters insults under her breath, gives you backhanded compliments and cuts you off every time you try to get a word in edgewise. She's no fun to have around the table, but calling out an in-law for offside behavior can be tricky.
How to deal: Ideally you don't have to see the family mean girl often (just on holidays and special occasions), so if that's the case, we suggest taking the nod-and-smile approach. Don't ever give her the satisfaction of knowing she's getting to you.
More about friendship
4 Fun, no-fail ways to make new friends
5 Rules for investing in your friendships
The BFF brigade: Top 4 friends every girl needs


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PE Launches AMPL - Automatic Multiple Pig Launching System
(January 23rd 2008)
PE Launches Automatic Multiple Pig Launching System
PE will be launching AMPL, our newly developed Automatic Multiple Pig Launching system at the Pipeline Pigging & Integrity Management Conference / Exhibition being held at The Marriott Westchase Hotel, Houston on the 12-14th February 2008.
AMPL has been designed to minimise the number of times a pig launcher door has to be opened to access pipelines for pigging.
AMPL is particularly beneficial for unmanned platforms, isolated launch sites, subsea pigging or high frequency pigging. It also greatly reduces the potential for accidents to personnel operating the trap. Launchers using AMPL do not normally require modifications and no external power supply is required to launch the full series of pigs.
AMPL substantially reduces the cost of launching pigs, provides Health, Safety and Environmental benefits, and allows resources to be utilised for other operational requirements, making pipeline pigging more efficient and effective.
Visit us on stand 303 to see a fully animated process demonstrating the AMPL system.
As well as AMPL, we will be promoting our full range of pipeline pigging and flow assurance products and services.
Service support is an integral part of our total capability. Project management, engineering consultancy and operational support services are provided by PE Solutions and part of the stand will focus on these activities which include:
- Production cleaning services
- Design, development and production of special cleaning pigs
- Pig prototyping and testing
- Product deployment and retrieval
- Hydrotesting
- Pipeline isolation
- Pipeline modifications
- Caliper surveys
- Pigging campaign management
Other products available from PE include:
- Utility Pigs
- Pig Signallers
- Rapid Opening Closures
- Pig Launchers and Receivers
- Bend Restrictors
- Pipeline Clamps
- Polyurethane Products
To register to attend the conference or exhibition, please contact us or the organisers at www.clarion.org and visit PE on stand 303 to discuss and find out more about any of our products or services.

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A potent cold front continues to slowly exit the area, bringing with it, the humidity, clouds, and showers. High pressure is behind it, bringing fantastic weather for the middle of the week. A few spotty showers or sprinkles are still possible east before everything clears, with sunshine gradually building in too. Areas along the western half of the region wake up to bright sunshine. Temperatures fall into the 60s, and the humidity drops through mid morning. With cool air rushing in, some clouds bubble up into the afternoon. It's still a pleasant day, with highs in the middle to upper 70s, unseasonably cool for this time of year.
High pressure stays in control, meaning the sunshine continues. Temperatures remain below average Thursday, near 80 degrees. Friday we warm into the lower to middle 80s area wide, but the clouds begin to build later. A shower or two could roll in late in the day, but most should stay dry. Expect cool and comfortable mornings too, with lows in the 50s to lower 60s!
By Saturday, the warmth and humidity returns along with our thunderstorm chances. Sunday looks unsettled too, with a better chance for showers and thunderstorms. Highs are in the lower to middle 80s through the weekend. Monday there's still a thunderstorm chance, and we warm into the middle to upper 80s. Tuesday we should finally dry out. It's seasonable, with highs in the middle 80s.
Have a great Wednesday!
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Volunteer Descriptions
Read the below descriptions to find the best positions for you!
Spread the Word
Print flyers and flyers with tear-offs for the upcoming sale and help us spread the word!!!
Drop Off / Inspecting for Quality
If you are pregnant, nursing or need to sit for long periods of time, we have a position for you. Drop-off involves: checking in consignors, issuing passes and guiding them on what to do next. During this time we will need volunteers to go through and organize everything and make sure that all of the items are in the right place and ready for the sale. We will also be checking and double checking clothes for stains and holes and toys for batteries and completeness.
This is an ideal volunteer opportunity for anyone that likes to organize, has a good eye for detail and would like to see all of the cool stuff that will be in the sale.
Sale Workers
Ahhhh, the sale workers are the volunteers at the heart of the sale that keep everything flowing as it should. Volunteer for this opportunity and you may answer customer questions, pick up dropped items, keep the aisles clear for shoppers. You may possibly need to help move tables and relocate merchandise during the sale. If you like variety, this is the opportunity for you!
Check Out
Check out volunteers also keep things flowing. These are the volunteers that scan the tags and print receipts. This opportunity is ideal for a seasoned volunteer that has a great eye for detail.
All good things must come to an end and sorting volunteers help us do just that. As you may have guessed, sorters will sort any items that are remaining at the end of the sale to be picked up by the consignors on Monday. A definite plus to volunteering for the sort is that you can take your items home when we are done. No children are allowed at the sort unless approval is received.
We can accommodate one person who needs to sit or is on limited duty from for each sorting shift. Duties will include preparing all equipment for storage (such as collecting pens, fliers, cleaning supplies, etc.)
Pick Up
Pick Up involves: checking in consignors, assisting consignors to find their unsold items, and possibly assisting in carrying items out to cars.
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Ferry fall survivor Jeni Anderson reunited with crew
Jeni Anderson spent 30 minutes screaming and begging for help after falling from a ferry into the North Sea in September 2011, thinking she was going to die. She has now been back on board the ship to meet the people who helped to save her.
"I remember at first shouting after the ferry, asking for it to come back, and at once the sheer terror of what had happened kicked in," says Miss Anderson.
"I was getting more and more hysterical - begging it to come back and find me."
Miss Anderson, from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, had been on a DFDS ferry from Newcastle to Amsterdam when she fell 60ft (18m) overboard.
Spending about half an hour in the water screaming as the ferry left her sight, she said she thought she was going to die.
Paramedics and the onboard crew said they thought all they would find would be a "dead body", but Miss Anderson defied the odds and survived.
Now, the Northumbria University graduate has returned to the ship and has been reunited with the captain and off-duty ambulance crew from Carlisle who helped saved her.
'Never gave up'
Miss Anderson was on the ferry celebrating graduating with her three friends when the incident happened off the coast of Scarborough.
"It was dark, cold and the sea was quite rough," said Miss Anderson.
"We were just stood outside on deck talking amongst ourselves.
"We were excited, having a good time. I'd had a few drinks, but I definitely wasn't anywhere near drunk. If I was I wouldn't be sat here now, I know that for a fact.
"I just remember being near the barrier looking out to sea and looking down and I don't know whether I leaned too far or the ferry moved or there was a gust of wind, but the next thing I knew I was going over the barrier and falling from the ferry," she added.
Miss Anderson said her friends saw her flip over the barrier and fall 60ft (18m) into the sea.
"That must have been pretty horrific for them," she said.
"One of them screamed really loudly and the other one said it was one of the worst things she's ever heard."
'Mission impossible'
The captain of the ferry, Andreas Kristensen, was in his office when the signal officer announced there was a man overboard.
He said: "To be honest, when I heard it I expected that it would be extremely difficult, perhaps impossible, to find anyone in the water since it was already night-time and it was quite some sea.
"You felt a huge responsibility and urge to find her, but still you know that you are looking for that needle in a haystack. It's a mission impossible."
Mr Kristensen said within minutes of getting the signal that someone was overboard he began to turn the ship around, which took about 20 minutes, and launched the rescue lifeboat.
He also called for helicopter assistance as he knew it had infrared technology to help find Miss Anderson in the water.
"After we made the announcement there were a lot of passengers and crew members on the deck all around the ship," he said.
"She was screaming from the sea so they probably heard her before they saw her.
"We didn't expect very much so when we suddenly realised that we'd found her and we got her up then it was a great feeling.
"She had been in the boat for a couple of minutes before I had a message that she was alive.
"I think we did a high five on the bridge at that time, I don't expect I will experience that again."
A spokesman for DFDS Seaways, said it was "impossible" for any passenger standing on deck to "simply fall off".
He said: "An incident of this nature is extremely rare. In this unique set of circumstances, thanks to the quick response and action of the crew involved, Jeni was safely rescued."
'I'm going to die'
Three off-duty paramedics from the North West Ambulance Service were on board when the accident happened.
One of them, Jonathan Yeates, said: "We made ourselves available because we are medics and you wouldn't be able to sit by and not doing anything in a situation where you think you could save somebody's life.
"We... said to each other we didn't think there would be much chance of finding anybody out there.
"It was dark, there [were] waves, it's not a good environment to imagine anybody coming out of alive.
"The next thing we saw actually was the boat coming back in and to our surprise we saw a body lying in the boat pretty motionless. We actually thought it was a dead body."
The paramedics got Miss Anderson off the rescue lifeboat and rolled her on to her side so she could cough up the sea water she had swallowed.
They carried out first aid until the helicopter arrived and took her to Scarborough hospital.
Miss Anderson said: "My first memory is being above the water and seeing the ferry and it was already quite a way away.
"It was the worst feeling I've ever had in my life - just being completely alone.
"After a while I genuinely had fully got to the point where I was like, 'right that's it, I'm going to die - there's no way out of this'.
"I never gave up. I did definitely come to the realisation that my time was up, but I don't think even then I ever gave up, I was always going to try for that not to happen.
"I think about it every day. I can't possibly ever express how lucky I am."
On meeting the people who saved her - including the paramedics - Mr Yeates told Miss Anderson they just did "what we do every day".
"It's the nature of the job," he said.
"I don't think we could stand by and watch anybody in trouble and not do anything."
Miss Anderson told him: "But you didn't have to do it, you weren't on duty."
She said it was "quite emotional" meeting them.
She told the group: "I'm really not sure how I did it, but I did with the help of other people of course. Thank you so much for everything you did, thank you."
Inside Out North East & Cumbria is broadcast on Monday at 19:30 BST. It is also available nationwide for seven days after on iPlayer.


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I think that it is possible to read from the servlet spec that getUserPrincipal should return the current principal for an unprotected resource. Take the following quote (servlet 2.4, section 12.10): "Being logged in to a web application corresponds precisely to there being a valid non-null value in getUserPrincipal method" There is no mention that this should apply only to protected resources. So if the user is logged in, getUserPrincipal must return non-null. Regarding your 3rd alternative (below): I don't see why you want to re-authenticate the user, including when calling getUserPrincipal during the request for at an unprotected resource. The realm has already accepted the credentials, so why check them again, with the risk of a performance degradation? I guess my underlying assumption is that the webcontainer will track the login state/credentials in a session, as suggested by the servlet spec (also section 12.10). Cheers, Jeppe Greg Wilkins wrote: >David, > >I do not believe that the servlet spec well defines the behaviour of the >getUserPrincipal() method for un-secured resources. > >I raised this with the EG during the 2.4 process and pointed out that >several containers implemented this differently. Specifically I wanted >to know that if getUserPrincipal() is called for a un-securied resource >would the return be: > > 1) Null > > 2) The principal associated with the request (by session or otherwise) > that was authenticated by a previous request, but not reauthenticated for this > request. The actual authentication of the principal may have expired or > been revoked. > > 3) The principal associated with the request (by session or otherwise) > that is re-authenticated with the realm for this request. > > >I don't believe anything in SRV 12 or the javadoc makes it clear which of these >is the correct choice (not even 12.7 as Jeppe suggests, as it is not defined >what the "security identity of a web user" is for a non secured resource. > >Note that as some authentication mechanism (eg BASIC) have paths associated >with them by the browser, it is possible to have different credentials for >different paths within the same web application. For example, if a user >first authenticates at /context/auth/something, then the browser will only >present credentials for /context/auth/* and the user will not be known for >/context/other/something or in fact, different credentials may be request >and provided by the browser! So for some mechanisms, there is not >even a concept of context wide authentication. > >At the time I raised the issue with the EG I was not able to get a clear >resolution (wonders of the JCP). I think I suggested having an explicit >lazy authentication ie specify that a request should be authenticated >with the realm IFF credentials are available in the session or request >and additional user interaction is not required. I'll have to dig >up my mail archives to see the reasons against this. > >For now, I beleive that most containers implement lazy authentication >for non-secured requests at the time that getUserPrincipal is called. >So any credentials present in the session and/or request will be >rechecked with the realm. Thus option 3) above is the defacto status. >But what credentials are available depends greatly on the auth >mechanism used. > >It also does mean that you must be careful with any filters or >interceptors that call getUserPrincipal, as that call may have >the side affect of triggering a possible expensive and remote >call to an authentication mechanism. Don't call it unless >you really need it! > >cheers > > > > > > > > > > >
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The 25th annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure is set for Saturday, June 14th in downtown Moline, but people don't need to wait until then to help out as Komen Quad Cities is Necker's Jewelers' "Gift of Giving" recipient for the month of May.
Necker's will donate a portion of all sales from its DeWitt and Davenport locations to Komen Quad Cities to help the organization help women in the Quad Cities.
"Many of the grants fund mammograms, ultrasounds and procedures for women who can't afford them," Christina McNamara-Schmidt, Komen Quad Cities PR, Marketing and Sponsorship Chair told News 8. "We also fund education and outreach efforts [with the donations]."
More information on this year's Race for the Cure can be found here.
Each month we'll feature a local charity and promote giving back through viewer purchases at Necker's Jewelers.
Watch News 8 at 5:00 p.m. for complete coverage of the charities honored through the Gift of Giving program.
If you'd like to suggest a deserving charity to possibly receive proceeds from the Gift of Giving program, contact Lisa Short by email at email@example.com.


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(Kevyn Morrow and Johnny Ramey in Center Stage's 2012 production of The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah. Photo by Richard Anderson, from the cover of Theatre Facts 2012.)
Not-for-profit theatres contributed nearly $2 billion to the U.S. economy and attracted 36.7 million attendees, according to Theatre Facts 2012, released by Theatre Communications Group (TCG). Based on the annual TCG Fiscal Survey, Theatre Facts is the only in-depth report that examines the attendance, performance and overall fiscal state of the not-for-profit professional theatre industry.
"Theatre Facts 2012 shows audiences rebounding and theatres recovering from the shock of the financial recession," said Teresa Eyring, executive director of TCG. "While working capital remains a challenge for theatres, the continued rise in attendance, coupled with positive trends in individual giving and foundation support, point towards recovery and the resilience of our field. I look forward to expanding on these findings at the November 2013 TCG Fall Forum on Governance in New York, where we'll be sharing capitalization best practices with theatre leaders and their trustees."
Theatre Facts 2012 reflects data from the fiscal year that theatres completed between October 31, 2011 and September 30, 2012. Following an Executive Summary, the report presents data in three ways:
- The Universe: a broad overview of the estimated 1,782 U.S. not-for-profit professional theatres;
- Trend Theatres: a longitudinal analysis of the 112 theatres that completed the TCG Fiscal Survey each year since 2008; and
- Profiled Theatres: a detailed examination of all 178 theatres that participated in the TCG Fiscal Survey 2012, broken out into six budget categories.
The six major findings from the Trend Theatres include (five-year percentages are adjusted for inflation):
- Attendance on the rise: Total attendance rose in each of the last two years, after a significant drop in 2009 that may be primarily attributed to the financial impact of the recession, and declined by only 1.8% between 2008 and 2012.
- Single ticket sales at a five-year high: 2012 saw five-year highs for both single ticket income and the number of single tickets sold.
- Subscriptions stabilize: While there were decreases over the five-year period in average subscription income (-13.7%), the number of subscribers (-15%) and the number of subscription tickets sold (-11%), there were increases from 2011 to 2012 of 3%, 1% and 3%, respectively. Subscriptions remain the second largest earned income generator for theatres, after single tickets.
- An overall return to pre-recession levels: Total income growth over the five-year period lagged inflation by only -0.4%, and there were increases between 2008 and 2012 in roughly half of earned income and contributed income categories. After belt-tightening in 2009 and 2010, total expenses rose in 2011 and 2012, resulting in virtually flat total expense growth vis-à-vis 2008.
- Individuals and foundations leading the way: Total contributed income increased by 6.7% over the five-year period, with individuals consistently providing the greatest support, followed by foundations. The growth in these contributed income streams helped make up for significant decreases in support over the five years from the federal government, state governments and corporations.
- Investment in theatre people: In 2012, payroll accounted for 54% of total expenses, and every payroll area was at its highest five-year average in absolute dollars and grew at a higher rate than inflation. Theatres added 3.5% more employees (full-time, part-time and jobbed-in) to their payroll from 2011. The payroll area with the strongest growth was artistic payroll, which increased 7% from 2011 to 2012 and 4.7% over the five-year period. The average number of actor employment weeks increased 3% from 2011 to 2012 and the average number of paid artists—including staff and contracted artists—grew 4.5% from 2008.
- 50% of theatres ended 2012 with breakeven or better CUNA: In 2009, more than half of theatres had negative CUNA (Change in Unrestricted Net Assets, or total unrestricted income minus total unrestricted expenses), while the majority experienced break-even or positive CUNA in 2008, 2010 and 2011. For the theatres with negative CUNA in 2012, the majority of those negative bottom lines were not severe; in fact, 72% of theatres in 2012 ended the year in the CUNA span between 10% below and 10% above break-even.
- Working capital still needs work: Average working capital (unrestricted resources available to the theatre to meet obligations and day-to-day cash needs) was negative in each of the five years, dropping significantly from 2008 to 2009, declining further in 2010, improving somewhat in 2011 and declining again in 2012. At the same time, capital campaigns continued to leave theatres with substantial growth in investments and new, improved or expanded facilities, with a 24% rise in fixed assets over the past five years.
Theatre Facts 2012 was written by Zannie Giraud Voss, Professor and Chair of Arts Management and Director of the National Center for Arts Research (NCAR) at Southern Methodist University (SMU); and Glenn B. Voss, Professor, Marketing Department, Cox School of Business, and NCAR Research Director, SMU; along with Ilana B. Rose, Associate Director of Research & Collective Action, TCG; and Laurie Baskin, Director of Research, Policy & Collective Action, TCG.
A narrative version of Theatre Facts 2012 that provides case studies and anecdotes from prominent theatre leaders will be published in American Theatre magazine in November. Theatre Facts 2012 will be featured at the 2013 TCG Fall Forum on Governance: Investing in Vitality as part of a focus on capitalization strategies to support the long-term financial health of participating theatres.


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The main differences between standard football and Walking Football are the two key rules of no running and no slide tackles.
Play the game you love but reduce the chances of injury. Walking Football is a great way to keep fit, learn skills, have fun and socialise all at the same time.
If you think your footballing days are over then think again!
Walking Football was initially designed to help get the over 50's back into football and exercise. However, we welcome all ages to our Bedford sessions, there are NO age limits.
Our Bedford sessions also include players with varying abilities and fitness levels.
So, maybe it's time you made a footballing comeback?
It's easy to get involved in Walking Football. If you live in Bedford or the surrounding areas, visit our sessions section for more information on locations, times and cost.
Alternatively, get in touch with us and we'll be happy to tell you more.
Come and give Walking Football a go and you'll soon realise how much you've missed playing the beautiful game.
We've teamed up with local businesses, many of which are associated with our players, to showcase and recommend their services.
Browse through our carefully selected businesses using the arrows and be sure to mention Walking Football Leagues if you use any of the services.
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Lazio form guide
It's been a rollercoaster ride for Lazio since our goalless draw in September - but the Rome giants are back in form ahead our meeting in Matchday Five of the Europa League on Thursday.
They lost back-to-back games in Serie A against Genoa and Napoli after that clash at White Hart Lane but followed up with four straight wins in all competitions, including a 3-2 victory against AC Milan.
That was followed by a run of five without a win in all competitions and a 4-0 loss at Catania on November 4.
If the Biancocelesti needed a kick-start to return to form, it arrived in the shape of the Rome derby against Roma on November 11 and they ran out 3-2 winners at the Stadio Olimpio.
Lazio followed that with a goalless draw against leaders Juventus in Turin last week to hold onto fifth place in Serie A.
Here are a few more stats...
- Lazio have lost just one home league match this season against Genoa in September, winning four of their five other home games.
- Miroslav Klose has scored seven league goals in 12 games this season - he's third in the Serie A top goalscoring list.
- Lazio are currently on 23 points from 13 games played in Serie A after a goalless draw at leaders Juventus this weekend. They remain fifth in the league, nine points off the summit.
- A win on Thursday will guarantee Lazio first place in Europa League, Group J.
- If we win, we will guarantee our progress - Lazio and NK Maribor meet in Matchday Six and in that scenario, both teams won't be able to topple our nine points (Lazio would go into that match on eight, Maribor on a maximum of seven).
- Spurs and Lazio drew 0-0 in their first meeting on Matchday One, with Hugo Lloris keeping a clean sheet in his first game for Spurs, though his opposite number Federico Marchetti was the busier goalkeeper on the night - we also had two goals disallowed.
- Lazio have won five of their last six European home games – including all three this season – with that run broken up by a 3-1 loss to eventual winners Atletico in last season's round of 32.
- Lazio have conceded just twice in six European games this season, and never more than once in a single match.
- Libor Kozak is their leading scorer in the Europa League this season with two goals in two games.
TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR MATCHDAY SIX - SPURS vs PANATHINAIKOS
Thursday, December 6 - 8.05pm
Tickets for our final group game in the Europa League are now on RESTRICTED GENERAL SALE - in order for supporters to be able to purchase tickets they must have an account on our ticketing database as of 31 October 2012.
Ticket prices for the Panathinaikos fixture in all areas are priced as follows:
Adults - £20.00
Seniors over 65 - £10.00
Juniors U'16 - £5.00
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Re: Prince Geo. Co., VA. Mountcastle
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Wendy Jacobs 5/04/09
Wendy-Just wondered if you have any further info on the Moore-Mountcastle pair?I believe that my GGGGG GF Joseph Phillips (proven thru DNA testing) who died in Brunswick Co., VA (formed in part from Pr. George Co.)was married to an Elizabeth Moore as a daughter named one daughter with the middle name Moore and one of Joseph?Eliz's sons also used Moore as a middle name for a sopn and another child's son had middle inti. M. whcih probalby was for Moore.Mountcastles and Phillips lived adajcent to one another in Pr. George Co in the 1750's, just south of Petersburg (would probably be within city limits today).The below would also tend to indicate that your Mountcastle was probably born in Pr. George and not England as another message indicated.
Virginia State Land office Patents 1-42reels 1-4120 September 1751
Pr. George Co.William Baugh
148 acres on the south side of Second Swamp, adj. Mountcasl, PHILLIPS & c.
VA Land Patents No. 32, 1752-56 (V.1 & 2, p. 1-715), p. 658 Reel 30
10 March 1756 Prince George Co. Francis Pace
100 Acres on the south side of the Second Swamp and adj. Mountcastle and Phillips.
I am working to prove that my Joseph descended from this Phillips line and that of the Moores who also lived nearby in Pr. George Co. so any info that you might have come up with would be appreciated.
Rex Phillips
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Watch Lee Dong Wook, Jung Ryeo Won, Lee Jong Hyuk and Park Hee Bon laugh and play behind the scenes of Bubblegum
The first two episodes of Bubblegum, staring Lee Dong Wook (Scent of a Woman), Jung Ryeo Won (History of a Salaryman), Lee Jong Hyuk (Dating Agency: Cyrano), and Park Hee Bon (The Master's Sun), are out, and if you haven't already fallen in love with this stellar cast, their adorable behind-the-scenes videos will do the trick! Be prepared to fall hard!
How cute is their idea to pass out coffee and bubblegum? I love the playful banter between Lee Jong Hyuk and Park Hee Bon and the funny rivalry between Lee Song Wook and Jung Ryeo Won! I'm not sure, but I hope the ratings broke three percent. I'll be on the lookout for coverage of them making good on their promise!
Wasn't it so adorable to see Lee Dong Wook playing with his younger self?!
It looks like the fact that Lee Dong Wook and Jung Ryeo Won have worked together before is really helping them feel comfortable working with each other, which only raises their natural chemistry and makes the set a really fun place to be!
So far, Bubblegum has proven to be a more mature, slice-of-life type of drama that you will like if you love K-dramas like It's Okay, That's Love. Catch up on the first episode below:


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Incorrect file associations could be the result of underlying issues within your PC system. As such it is highly recommended to scan your PC for invalid registry entries, unused processes and other unfavourable system settings to identify slowdown issues.
The ICD file type is primarily associated with 'File Associated with Many Games'.
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I am once again running for the Presidency in 2016. As usual, the Feds will no doubt block my campaign by refusing to allow my name on the ballot, and the twin-headed Superparty, the Demolicans, will attempt to make us believe there's a choice apart from Chief Jack. It will be up to the American public to take the lead if they really want a change by demanding their right to obtain and fill out a handwritten ballot and write in Chief Jack For President. Many people have done that over the last three presidential elections. You can help out by signing the online petition to get The Chief's name on the official ballot HERE.
The Native American Party does not only mean that I am of that descent (a member of the Mohawk tribe), it mainly looks to protect the rights and status of ALL citizens of this country, whether they were born here or are naturalized legal residents. Unfortunately, in the last several decades, this country has been undermined by residents who came here illegally and are trying to make us a carbon copy of their native land. In that same vein, the Obama administration has demonstrated a severe lack of backbone and a too laid-back attitude on many fronts, including the use of those poor school children who lost their lives last year as a political weapon to try to take our guns away from us, as well as covering up what really happened in Benghazi. Is that the type of leadership you really wanted? Are you sorry now that you re-elected the Big O? Well, 2016 is your chance to correct that mistake by voting Chief Jack For President.
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5 Reasons South Korean celebrity couples break up
Did Nichkhun and Tiffany calling it quits break your heart as much as it did mine? It seems like South Korean celebrities are announcing their relationships to the public all the time now. Fans across the globe are crying and cheering for their ultimate happiness. However, some relationships just don't work. The two stars never click, and something goes haywire.
I'm here to try to figure out why a few of our favorite stars end their love affairs too soon.
1. Their schedules hinder them from spending time together.
Actors and singers work round-the-clock to properly entertain us. However, working 12- to 16-hour days takes a huge toll on the love lives celebrities try to make for themselves.
SHINee's Jonghyun and Shin Se Kyung couldn't find enough time to be together.
2. Co-workers are hotter than their current beau.
It is impossible not to fall for sexy co-stars like Rain, Lee Min Ho, Jung Yong Hwa, Park Shin Hye, and Krystal. Kissing them on-screen may even make a faithful beau wander.
Rain's relationship isn't in any trouble, but I want to illustrate the temptation stars have with gorgeous co-stars. It's a win-win for both Rain and Krystal.
3. Their significant other is boring.
Everyone gets tired of the same thing over and over again. There is nothing wrong with their lover; they just want someone new for no obvious reason. It's kind of like wanting a new toy when you are a child because you played with your other one so many times it's not fun anymore.
School 2015 illustrates this idea well. There is never a boring moment for Eun Bi! I wonder who she will choose in the end?
4. One person in the relationship is blinded by the other being too fabulous.
Lee Min Ho and Suzy are equally fabulous, so they don't have to worry about upstaging each oter. Other couples may have to deal with one's popularity soaring, while the other's career falls flat. There could be a very fine line between love and jealousy.
5. The paparazzi hounds you.
It is probably impossible to have a romantic date when cameras are flashing everywhere and strangers are following your every move! A relationship can't last past the stalking point. They need privacy to survive.
Girls Generation's Yuri and baseball player Oh Seung Hwan need to be left alone.
What other logical reasons would you add to this list?
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Skip to comments.Will America Become A Totalitarian Country?
Posted on 12/16/2012 8:16:55 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
This is a question better asked in 1860.
Totalitarianism (or totalitarian rule) is a political system where the state holds total authority over the society and seeks to control all aspects of public and private life wherever necessary.
Not without about 150 million deaths at the hands of the willfully disarmed.
In a word...yes. And it will gain the approval of a majority as the compassionate thing to do.
Did you mean, "When did?"
Man wake up already! We have long past the point where US citizens could be considered free.
If you want to believe the "nah, ain't gonna happen here" crowd, the answer would be, no.
We may not be free but for now, we have guns.
President Obama has a plan to restrict the right of firearms owners. Just wait and see in a couple of weeks from now.
Eventually. History is revolving door of kings and serfs, with the serfs gaining control for but a fleeting moment now and then.
Look around. We already are...
It basically means that the Feds will have to get everyone to participate. Somehow I don't think that's going to happen.
Of course the third party dreamers, Ron Paul Paulshiveks, and priestly robe self-styled prophet types will hear none of that.
It will happen, after all, you do not want to be seen as the Enemy of the State.
I think we are pretty much there Dude. At this point the question is how do we get the republic back?
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An appalling misuse of the power of the federal government is unfolding in a labor dispute that pits Boeing Co. and the right-to-work state of South Carolina against union-heavy Washington state and the National Labor Relations Board.
Boeing recently opened an assembly line near Charleston, S.C., for its new 787 aircraft. That did not sit well with Big Labor in Washington state, which wanted the jobs performed by unionized workers there. So the NLRB filed a complaint against Boeing, claiming that Boeing's decision to build in South Carolina was "retaliation" against unionized workers in Washington state for past strikes.
But as Boeing has pointed out, no unionized workers in Washington lost jobs because of its decision to build in South Carolina. In fact, Boeing has still been adding other jobs in Washington alongside the new ones it is creating in South Carolina. Neither was anyone in Washington state demoted, and no one's wages were cut.
Even the liberal Washington Post noted in an editorial supporting Boeing: "The allegation that the company 'transferred' jobs out of [Washington] state is unconvincing because the jobs in South Carolina are new."
Boeing simply chose to build its new facility in right-to-work South Carolina so that it wouldn't have to pay the high, unionized labor costs it would face by putting all its new jobs in Washington.
But the Democrat-controlled NLRB wants to force Boeing to relocate the jobs to Washington state, leaving the workers in South Carolina high and dry.
That may please the Obama administration's union backers, but it is not an appropriate use of the power of the NLRB. Boeing is not "retaliating" against unions. It is trying to be cost-competitive in tough times.
Sixteen governors around the country have asked that the NLRB's unjustified complaint against Boeing be dropped and that the company be allowed to locate jobs in whatever state it wishes.
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WASHINGTON Regulators' attempt to carve out an exemption for small banks from a key part of the Volcker Rule satisfied most institutions that feared getting swallowed up in the Dodd-Frank Act provision, but left others still vulnerable to the regulation and facing significant losses.
In their interim final regulation issued this week, the regulators said it would carve out collateralized debt obligations backed by trust-preferred securities that were issued by banks with less than $15 billion of assets. By most estimates, that exclusion covers the majority of institutions seeking to avoid massive writedowns.
But it did not help all affected institutions. For example, Hardin County Bank in Savannah, Tenn., holds a $500,000 CDO that is not eligible for the regulatory exemption because the Trups backing it were issued by insurance companies, not banks.
"This was a good win for banks, but there are still going to be losses booked because of the Volcker Rule," said Ashley Dennis, the bank's chief financial officer. "Whether it was issued by a bank holding company or an insurance company, it's still the same type of security. I don't think there should be a distinction based on who issued it, especially if it is still performing."
As a result of the Volcker Rule, Dennis said the $415 million-asset bank expects to take a roughly $125,000 writedown on the security, equal to approximately 11% of the institution's quarterly net income. The hit comes despite the fact that the security continues to perform and the bank had intended to hold it until maturity, according to Dennis.
"They have never missed an interest payment," Dennis said. "It is still fully performing."
It is unclear how many other institutions may be in the same boat. Wayne Abernathy, the executive vice president for financial institutions and regulatory affairs for the American Bankers Association, said the trade group has heard from at least six other institutions facing a similar concern. But Abernathy cited figures that said there were only 20 CDOs backed by Trups issued by insurance companies.
Still, he said that even one community bank taking such a hit was a problem.
"Does the Volcker Rule intend to impose penalties on community banks that invested in insurance company-issued CDOs?" Abernathy said. "I don't see anything in the Volcker Rule that suggests that its purpose was that a community bank should take a $125,000 hit on an insurance-debt investment."
The situation may help explain why the ABA has yet to drop its lawsuit against the regulators. The trade group sued in late December, asking a court for emergency action before banks had to file their fourth-quarter earnings. It said in a statement Wednesday that it was dropping the request for emergency relief, but had yet to decide if it would stop the lawsuit entirely. The ABA said it was seeking more input from members on whether institutions may still face substantial harm from the Trups-related provisions of the Volcker Rule.
Regulators, meanwhile, appear unlikely to come to Hardin County Bank's aid. In their interim final rule addressing the Trups CDO issue, they said they were exempting bank-issued Trups that were covered by the Collins Amendment, a provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that said trust-preferred securities could no longer count as Tier 1 capital. Importantly, the measure grandfathered all Trups issued by banks with less than $15 billion of assets.
"Regulators tied their fix to the Collins amendmentthat's where they felt their legal authority lay and that's why the insurance Trups were left out," said Karen Thomas, senior executive vice president of government relations and public policy for the Independent Community Bankers of America, who said the trade group was still examining the impact of the interim final rule.
Jaret Seiberg, a policy analyst with Guggenheim Securities, agreed that "there are going to be some banks where this matters, yet it's hard to believe that regulators are going to be able to do anything about it."
"I don't think there is any real good prospects for help beyond what came out already," he said.
Some regulators privately believe their hands are tied. They were caught off guard by the backlash to the final Volcker Rule because they did not realize banks would have to recognize losses on their Trups-backed CDOs by the end of the fourth quarter. Because the Volcker Rule does not go into effect until July 2015, they thought there would be adequate transition time.
But due to accounting rules, banks could no longer hold such securities as held-to-maturity, instead reclassifying them as available-for-sale. Such a move would force them to either recognize the current market value of the CDO or sell the security off. Banks that held such CDOs effectively had to either write down the assets or sell them at a probable loss.
Although regulators wanted to correct the issue, they worried that simply exempting all Trups-backed CDOs would open them up to further legal liability. Under the Administrative Procedures Act, regulators cannot act in an "arbitrary or capricious manner" in writing a rule. Regulators worried that granting a broad exemption even if it was designed to help many banks could open them up to charges they acted in that way.
Their primary fear is how large banks and other holders of collateralized loan obligations which are also covered by the Volcker Rule will act. The agencies fear that holders of CLOs will file a lawsuit, arguing that they should have received the same exemption from the Volcker Rule that holders of CDOs did.
Institutions that hold CLOs and trade groups are already lobbying Congress for a similar exemption.
"I would note that the relief issued yesterday by the agencies is certainly welcome relief for some, but it has not resolved the very serious issues regarding collateralized loan obligations that, left unresolved, will affect the cost of credit to Main Street businesses that benefit from that market," said Ken Bentsen, president and chief executive of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, during a hearing on the Volcker Rule on Wednesday.
Collateralized loan obligations act similarly to a bond issuance and typically are made up of midsize and large commercial loans. Many see no reason why regulators should have included them under the Volcker Rule, since they are generally used to diversify risk.
"There is no rationale to punish a bank for holding a CLO," Seiberg said. "CLOs are important tools to expand credit availability."
But since most holders of CLOs are big banks unlike Trup CDOs, many of which are owned by smaller institutions the issue has not garnered the same level of political momentum.
Lawmakers may also come to the rescue when it comes to CLOs. Rep. Maxine Waters, the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, suggested that just as both political parties were able to agree CDOs needed to be addressed, the same was true for CLOs.
"Just as we were able to do that, I think that we're able to work with regulators on some of the other issues that are being identified, such as the CLO issue," she said.
Still, many observers expect that if Congress or the regulators don't act, a bank or trade group will file a lawsuit on the CLO issue at some stage. If and when they do, the interim final rule regarding Trups CDOs will be closely scrutinized to see if regulators acted arbitrarily in crafting that exemption.
By then, however, it will be far too late for Ashley Dennis and Hardin County Bank. With fourth-quarter filings due by the end of the month, her hope is that the ABA, ICBA and others will continue to press the issue with regulators.
"Don't give up," she said. "The fight's not over. I think there needs to be more work to see how many banks own the trust-preferreds not issued by a bank. I can't imagine we're the only one."
Victoria Finkle contributed to this article.


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Hillary Clinton's private email is connected to a Clinton aide and part of a wider private email network used by associates of the Clinton family, Gotnews.com has learned.
In particular we can connect Justin Cooper, a former ghostwriter for Clinton Clinton and current senior aide in the Clintons' influence peddling operation nexus.
Clinton has come under fire from the New York Times for illegally circumventing the federal records laws that require turning over emails and discourage the use of private email accounts.
Cooper traveled with Clinton extensively and helps the Clintons with their "finances, business matters, public relations, politics, the Clinton Family Foundation and the Clinton Foundation's initiatives as well as the Clinton Global Initiative," according to a fawning Wikipedia page. He is also on the board of the American University of Dubai.
Cooper also accompanied Clinton to North Korea when Clinton successfully secured the release of two American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, in August 2009. Did Clinton open his unsecured email in North Korea?
Another Clinton hand, Huma Abedin, was also involved with the consulting work on behalf of the Clintons while she worked for the State Department, according to the New York Times.
The revelation of personal and political intermixing suggests that the Clinton Inc. world is far more intertwined.
A tipster sent us this analysis earlier today.
Here are some basic details and the steps I took to find them about Hillary's email server. Also some comments/thoughts.
I initially decided to look into it when I saw Anil Dash's tweet about the MX Logic. As I mentioned on the phone, I had a client who had some issues with messages bouncing going into the MX Logic service before, so I was somewhat familiar with WHAT it was. It is a service owed and operated by McAfee that does SPAM filtering and virus/malware detection of inbound email. (I believe McAfee is now wholly owned by Intel.) In my client case, the MX Logic service front-ended a corporate Microsoft Exchange server; that got me wondering if that was in fact what was going on here (that there was an Exchange server sitting on in the internet somewhere vs using a hosted email solution like Office 365 or Google Apps). In IT circles, it is a pretty widely held belief that there are definite security downsides to running Exchange versus using a hosted solution.
So I started where Anil Dash tweeted, checking the DNS records using the dig command. It allows a user to poll the DNS zone for various records: MX (Mail eXchange), A (Address for Host), SOA (Start of Authority), etc. The initial finding showed that the zone and root record, clintonemail.com, was hosted at Network Solutions. Pretty much, you ask for hostname, any hostname, and it spits back the same IP address, 220.127.116.11…pretty common. It would NOT spit out a AXFR Zone Transfer, or the entire list of hosts.
I knew about the MX records pointing to MX Logic, so I wanted to see if there was maybe another mail server sitting out there accepting mail for the domain somewhere, similar to the setup I had seen before. So I started probing…www.clintonemail.com…f
mail.clintonemail.com. 7200 IN A 220.127.116.11
It was the only host I could dream up with a different IP address. I probed that host a bit, gently, learning it was a Windows Server and that it was running Exchange, accepting connections on 80/HTTP, 443/HTTPS, and 143/IMAP. I did NOT attempt to communicate securely with the 993/IMAPSSL port, nor did I attempt a StartTLS session with 143 (to see if it kicked an IMAP connect up to an encrypted connection).
A traceroute of that IP address has it being hosted by a company called Internap Network Services. It is difficult to tell if it is a located host (a server sitting in their datacenter) or hosted (managed by them, and perhaps virtualized).
Having those two bits of info, I did some googling and found a few interesting hits:
• the Korean article about the hacked Sid Blumenthal email exchange with Hillary from March 2013 in which an email address was exposed, firstname.lastname@example.com, that showed she pretty clearly was talking SecState stuff with the account[http://webcache.
• a WebBoar page that reflected that mail.clintonemail.com server being listed as the MX for ANOTHER interesting domain:presidentclinton.com
Lo and behold, the IP address of mail.presidentclinton.com is the same as mail.clintonemail.com. Also, the GoDaddy SSL cert on the server lists mail.clintonemail.com as its Hostname.
That WebBoar page also mentions who is listed as a registrant on the domain, Justin Cooper. Doing a bit of google fu on that I found a Wikipedia page and learned he was a pretty senior aide with both Clintons and involved pretty deeply in their stuff. The WebBoar page also says there are 6 other domains associated with "Cooper, Justin" but none of them seem related, 3 of which are "in the past".
It shows that "Justin Cooper" is associated with 110 sites, but again, nothing really pops out to me.
If you use WebBoar to dig more, you definitely find some interesting things…clintonemail.com is registered using a privacy guard…they don't want you to know who owns it. Just dumb luck, I think, that I found the record with the MX listed for presidentclinton.com.


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There is a diversity of frameworks and methodologies for enabling architecture developments. Static representation frameworks provide a standardized way to communicate the architecture to stakeholders, but do not provide means to analyze the system states and system behavior. Therefore, there is a need to convert static representation frameworks to executable models. The aim of this paper is to present Artificial Life approaches as a methodology for understanding behavior of System of Systems. For this, an Artificial Life based framework for modeling System of Systems is presented. The framework comprises cognitive architectures embedded in multi-agent models. Financial markets are selected as an analysis domain to demonstrate the framework since they are a good example of self-organizing systems that are nonproprietary and exhibit emergence on a grand scale. From the Artificial Life Framework trader-based architectures are formulated as models to analyze system level behavior. The Artificial Life based framework provides a flexible way of modeling sub-systems of System of Systems and it captures the adaptive and emergent behavior of the system.
Recommended Citation
K. Nil and C. H. Dagli, "Executable Modeling for System of Systems Architecting: An Artificial Life Framework," Proceedings of the 2nd Annual IEEE Systems Conference 2008, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Apr 2008.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSTEMS.2008.4518983
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Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
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Architecting Frameworks; Artificial Life; Executable Modeling; Financial Markets
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Adam Morrison - Scaling Synchronization in Multicore Programs
Advanced synchronization methods can boost the performance of multicore software.
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Elle is on a roll so far with their "Wardrobe Chic" series, where they give us a look into the wardrobes of handpicked NYC designers. First was Sophomore's Chrissie Miller, and their second installment is with Sophie and Lisa of Vena Cava! I'm a big Vena Cava fan, and I read their witty, inspiring blog regularly, so it was a treat to see what these ladies like to wear. I particularly relate to Lisa Mayock's style and would love to raid this girl's closet- super awesome taste in decorating too if you look behind her.
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We are having a 25th Anniversary party at the lake in a non air conditioned hall. I want to use a whipped cream icing on the cake. What do I add to stabilize the whipping cream so it doesn't melt off?
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I hope you are well. My family owns a restaurant and catering service. We always freeze the cakes with whip cream icing, make sure you have a box, preferably a cake box. Freeze it for at least a couple of days before the event.
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William Hearst:I think this panel, which is our kickoff is kind of thinking about publishing, which is one of the components of literature. In some way its the process by which a lot of writing gets to a larger public, and it is itself going through a lot of transformations and we have three practitioners of publishing, editing and reviewing with us today. So lets just start. I'm just going to go by personal curiosity and then you guys can bend it back to what you want to talk about. But Ill startlets do this thing in kind of inverse, historical order. So lets start with you Elaine since city lights kind of predates all of us. And I guess the question I want to ask is what in the hell is going on with bookstores? Elaine Katzenberger:Well, I get asked that a lot, you can imagine and especially this is the 60th anniversary of city lights this year. So weve been celebrating the 60th anniversary of the bookstore itself. I dont know if I'm just in booster mode or in denial or what but I feel like bookstores are in a thriving renaissance at this point actually. There was a time a few years back where it didnt feel that way and certainly the media wasnt leading anybody to believe that that was the case. But I think that what's happening now is that people area certain number of people are definitely understanding the value of bookstores as physical places where you can go and experience reading and experience books and experience other people who are interested in those things. So from where I sit, it looks like, not only have a certain amount of us die hard remained open and in business, but there's a whole lot of new interesting bookstores being founded by young people who are passionate about books and reading too and passionate about that physical world in which they exist and which they're shared. William Hearst:Oscar, you're the middle aged institution on this panel, because this has been around for quite a while now and-- Oscar Villalon:Yes, since 85. William Hearst:Yeah, so that counts. Let me ask you, the thing I'm curious about is, do you see new approaches in writing? What do you look for whenI mean, how can youwhat makes an author assist a prospect? Oscar Villalon:Its actuallyits very direct. Its athe answer is voice really more than anything else. ThatsI think unsurprisingly probably the same thing that makes a bookstore successfully is probably going to make youfor us, we find to be very attractive for a writer, which is someone who has a voice, one has a particular intelligence thats coming from some place you may not have either heard from before or from a place that maybe familiar but they're putting a new spin on it. I think thats above all. You know, grammars nice, being able to use a grammar thats always good. On the back end, saves us time, but really, its really that voice, its about experience. You know, we, as you know, focus a lot on west coast writers. So a lot of the things that we see particularly on this voice as a lot of a, what you might call a, you know, immigrant literature or literature from various communities throughout, you know, the state reflective of bigger communities throughout the country, these sort of things. William Hearst:So I'm kind of curious, I mean, you spend a lot of your life on the critique side of the isle-- Oscar Villalon:Oh yeah. William Hearst:--kind of telling people and evaluating writers. Now you're kind of on the publishing side. What difference in perspective do you see do you experience? Oscar Villalon:Well, you know, now instead of, you know, you having to read my criticism, you get just to get just to read what I liked, you know. It cuts off the middleman, which is really-- William Hearst:We used to read what you dont like, now were-- Interviewee:Exactly. Now the things I dont like, youll never have to know about it. Its not in [???][0:03:57.7] which is, you know, much more gratifying I think, you know, for me, to be able to, you know, actually put the spotlight on someones work you really like, you know. But its implicit that we approve this, and it also, you know, its anotheras a critique, you know, one of the things you do hopefully as a critique as you're trying to discover either new talent or trying to get people to appreciate established writers who, for one reason another have not been given their due. And its about support, it really is, its about support I think, and its also about guiding and educating readers as to what you think they should be reading because they might get a lot of pleasure out of this or a lot of enjoyment or something out of this. And you know, so this is sort of like an actual extension of that by, you know, working with Laura and finding these sort of writers and again supporting them in this way and sort of different way, except now the really big difference is that unlike anything I had to do with, you know, you have the chronicle or for KQED for the California report, we do a lot of events behind that too. So not only are you, you know, publishing writers who you enjoy, who you want people to know about but you're setting up readings or doing a variety of things either through the online to get as many eyeballs as possible to see how people know about this. William Hearst:John, lets go. So you should say a little bit about what Byliners for people that dont know. But you're really at the cutting-edge of almost a new sort of literary form. Why dont you talk about that for a split second. John Tayman:Well, Byliners two years, about two years old. So were a little younger than both of these guys and we are a digital publisher and a digital reading service. So we publish original fiction and non-fiction thats written to be read in two hours or less, a space thats known as e-short, essentially. And then we also make the writers that we work with, we make their catalog stories available through a system. So it does a lot of the things that weve all been talking about. It helps you discover emerging writers. It helps you discover similar writers whether its similar based on a regionalism or on what they're writing about, things like that. William Hearst:And does Byliners sort of adapt stories for a Byliner or do you sort of commission? Do your authors kind of author for the Byliner platform? John Tayman:They author for our originals, yes. So we commission original work and it tends to fall between 5-30,000 words. William Hearst:If I see a familiar by-lines on the Byliner list of authors-- John Tayman:Yes, and we work with authors that we aren't commissioning original material through. Were trying to find larger audiences for their existing work. We also work with publishers and publications as well. William Hearst:And were youhow multiplatform are you? Are youdo you do Apple books? Do you do mobile? Do youtell us how that landscape looks. John Tayman:Sure. The titles that we sell retail, we put them in every digital retailer, Apple, Amazon, Kobo, Google Play, all the rest. We also make them available through Byliner itself and you can access Byliner on any device with internet connection whether its your iPhone through a browser or through a native iOS app, on your desktop-- William Hearst:What do you see there? What are peoplehow are people accessing literature as you see them come across the transient Byliner? Where is the flow heavy? John Tayman:The flow? Well, discovery tends to happen on the desktop and then consumption tends to happen in what people call Lean back mode, whether its on a tablet or on their phone. You were talking earlier about some of the exciting things that are going on. One of the things that were thrilled about and that weve seen happen and everybody in this room has seen happened is essentially everybody has a book with them all the time. William Hearst:Yeah, or 20 books if you have a Kindle-- John Tayman:Or a library. William Hearst:Yeah, really. John Tayman:And so the volume of reading thats going on is never been higher and thats a wonderful thing for everybody. William Hearst:Lets jump in to their curation topics since its come up sort of organically, but maybe well go down the panel and talk about, you know, how important do you think that is? Whatis the future going to be sort of all self-publishing and this kind of fire hose of originally or is it going to be much more gate camped? Do you have a sense of that? Elaine Katzenberger:I think that there are many kinds of readers. So I think that for different readers, different kinds of curation and gatekeeping if you want to use those words are going to function differently. People who are very excited about publishing something that might be, what I would say, you know, from an editors perspective, not the most accomplished writing, these are just like, sort of hobby-writers. Lets say somebody whos really interested and has a story to tell. Now they have a way to tell it and they have a way to potentially share it with other people, that is exciting, you know. And thats exciting for a lot of people who are in that position and a lot of people who want to read other works by people in that position. I dont exactly know how they filter through all of that because there is a lot of it. So I think that for the next tier of readers who want to read a little more critically maybe, that some sort of filtering system is necessary still. You know, I think that that has been traditionally the function of critiques and magazines and bookstores and publishers and various people who kind of we know things in order to present then this array and then since you have various people doing that, you know, Oscar has his own editorial sensibility, John has his, I have mine, you know, the number of people who I know are also writers and editors all would be adding that. So its still a huge volume of very varied material that gets put out there. William Hearst:Curating is an interesting word because it sort of bridges two interpretations. Theres sort of gatekeeping interpretation where you're the goalie and you're trying to keep the hockey puck of bad writing out of the net and then there's sort of the coaching implication where you're taking something that you think has promised but the person reallymaybe the piece has structured improperly or there's something that you think you could help. How much of those kinds of editingwhich fits your mode better? Elaine Katzenberger:I mean, both always happen, you know. But the interesting part is the letter, because you know, the choice of what to publish I mean, of course there's always a choice, you cant publish everything especially a publisher the size of City Lights. But even the biggest publishers dont publish everything that they have the, you know, the chance to publish. So the choice there, but the choice there isnt made always, you know, oh this writing isnt up to snuff there for now. The choice is about what Oscar was saying I would second, its like this catches my interest for some reason. This person is doing something that makes me excited and I read a lot and so if there's something in there that catches my interest and makes me feel like its either the content or the style or the way in which both of those things come inside and line up, then already something has happened that I feel thats the curation and thats the gatekeeping and you know, its because I do sit in this sort of catbird seat where I also work at City Lights Bookstore. So I see a bookstore full of the newest things that are coming out all the time. My colleagues are, you know, always curating and passionately involved in promoting what it is that they find interesting. So its an understanding too that whatever it is that I might contribute as part of that general conversation and is it adding something new? Is it too much like something else, you know, those kinds of questions come in. So I feel like the role of publishers and editors and curators and gatekeepers is you know, thats what it is, its sort of moderating the conversation from people. William Hearst:John, same question you curationed, how much, how involved do you get in that? John Tayman:Quite a bit. I mean, thats in many ways, thats our business model. We charge for stories. We do that so that we can make the writers money, but so that we could also deliver value to our readers and-- William Hearst:And you pay your writers on like a rev share basis or do you-- John Tayman:We do. William Hearst:Okay John Tayman:Yeah, we pay a straight revenue share and you know, and weve had very successful writers making six figures from a single story. William Hearst:Wow. John Tayman:But what we try and ensure is that every experience was something that they're reading from or on Byliner satisfying and thatsits satisfying because our editorial team has helped crafted with the writer or its satisfying because our editors have decided this is something that should be in the body of work that were presenting to readers or its satisfying because the way that were opening up discovery has that technology allows work so that were putting the perfect story in front of that person at the perfect moment in their life. And we do that no only-- William Hearst:And do you do that? Is that sort of an individual? Does [???][0:13:40.3] see a different Byliner that-- John Tayman:It does and it works its slice as it cross all sorts of different ways and some of it has done algorithmically and with a very technological bit. Some of it is actual human taste making including from the writers that we work with so that you can go on and get directly from a John Crack or Amy Tan or James Elroy a recommendation on what to read next within the Byliner system. William Hearst:So its not all algorithmic? It isnt algorithmic curation? John Tayman:No, I dont, you know-- William Hearst:Human taste involved. John Tayman:Yeah exactly. I think there always has to be the human element on that-- William Hearst:Do you need tons of market research? Do you sort of molecularly know what people are reading and liking? John Tayman:Well, certainly within out system we do. We keep track of everything, what's been read through to completion, which writers are being followed, which writers are being liked the most. But it also started out doing things very early on sort of trying to decode a writer genome so that out own recommendations made more sense and some of that was very obvious, you know, what publications does this writer write for what areas, what themes, what topics. But also, you know, what form are they writing, where did they grow up, where do they live now. William Hearst:How much non-fiction do you do? I mean, if we describe a Byliner as all non-fiction, it would sound like a magazine to me. John Tayman:Yeah, no, its not, we publish-- William Hearst:A time or news week. John Tayman:We publish an equal amount fiction as non-fiction. So we think in terms of-- William Hearst:Do you have stories contributors as well as-- John Tayman:Yes, we have journalists, we have novelists, we have everything else. We want somebody to be able to come in tointo Byliner and if they're in the mood for a medical thriller, they may be as likely to settle in with a [???][0:15:24.7] story as an [???][0:15:26.0] story. William Hearst:Okay. John Tayman:It is thatits that real language kind of what kind of story am I in the mood for and our goal is to deliver the precise one. William Hearst:Everybody seems very upbeat. So lets see if we can extract some negativity here. I mean, lets start, well go this way. What are you most worried about in the future of literature? Oscar Villalon:Worried. Well, you know, I mean, justso I had this conversation a while ago with a couple of people, actually with someone from City Lights and a local author talking about reading in general and so I think the numbers came out last week. I think it showseven the board people are reading, fewer people are reading literature, I mean, this sort of thing. William Hearst:What are they reading instead? Oscar Villalon:I dont know, you know, who knows-- Oscar Villalon:Other. Interviewee:Yeah, others. But one of the things to consider is that, you know, reading takes time and there's two things that you need for reading. You need a certain level of education, you need leisure, two, both things which seemed to be diminishing in American society in general. So what worries me is that as people work more and more, as they have less time to do much of anything that one of the things is going to get sacrificed is reading, which is on a passive experience, you know, you have to invest in it to get something out of the endeavor, and then education, you know, the poorer the schools do, you know, the less reading is going to be a part of an educational experience for children or I mean they know how to emphasize as much or for whatever reason not emphasize as much. You combine those two things, you know, thats bad for everybody. You know, I really, really do and what I hear people say, People dont read, people dont I think probably the reason people dont read is because they just dont have time and its really hard to compete with that and then of course TV and everything else thats out there, you know. When you talk about competitors, were all competing against basically television and whatever is on Youtube, you know. I mean, that's really what were competing against, you know. Thats, you know, taking-- William Hearst:You're competing for attention. Oscar Villalon:Absolutely, absolutely. So for me, thats really what worries me and thats, you know, to a large extent out of our hands is the publishers, etc. but its certainly something that I think is going affect us. William Hearst:John, what about you? What's on your radar? John Tayman:I'm not pessimistic about many things. I'm mostly optimistic about everything. Obviously though--


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Cheltenham natives Young Kato have written a stunning debut record for a band whose average age is just 18. Lead single 'Drink, Dance, Play' has already been synched in some of the UK's top television shows, and the six-piece have supported the likes of Olly Murs and Pixie Lott during their short career to date. At the start of 2013 the band signed a publishing deal with BMG Chrysalis.
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