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This piece is from the Calligraphic Squares collection by Arthur Baker.
These Square shaped designs were an exercise in creating calligraphic elements inside 1 inch squares, resulting in a series of hundreds of interesting design elements. Perhaps best defined as an experiment in positive/negative spaces, the open white space is as interesting as the black solid areas. What is amazing is how much can be done inside a 1 inch square and how well they convert to beautiful pendants and earrings whether enlarged to the 1 ½" square size of the large pendants or the original 1" square size of the earrings or small pendant. Included here are a few of the original designs to begin with, and many more to come!
Measuring approximately 1 1/2" in the large or 1" in the smaller size – the same size as the earrings – this design would be comfortable as a substantial pendant or a spectacular choker as well. You can also choose to have it made as a pin - just remember to let me know all of your preferences when ordering or when I contact you after purchase.
Please note that these are custom created to your specifications and therefore may take about 14 days domestically or 21 days internationally for delivery, if not in stock.
If your order is urgent, please contact me before ordering and paying to see if I have all of the parts in stock.
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Nov 1st Update: we have updated the framework folder across all of our WordPress Themes for security and new functionality! Read more about the Changes at the bottom of the Page. Updating is highly recommended!
Broadscope is a Wordpress Theme for wordpress beginners and developers alike. The built in options panel, the visual shortcode editor and the content importer help, to set up a new site in no time.
It offers the ability to convert your main menu into a mega dropdown menu which shows all its options at once.
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- Style switching with color picker and multiple layout and font options.
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The reasons I have chosen to use my own forum are quite simple:
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Second Reason: people can't respond to each other at themeforest to help each other out, while I am busy with other tasks.
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Update: 2014 August 27
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A few months ago I shared with you Jen + Eric's engagement shoot by the super talented Micah Dahlberg, and now I'm to share their wedding! Jen gives all the details below…
US: Our story is a little like a classic Romantic Comedy, which is seemingly appropriate considering our addiction to film. We met in college, I was studying Musical Theater and he Acting. We saw each other in the Green Room quite often and while we were there became good friends. Each of us was harboring a crush on the other, but we both graduated without a date night ever taking place. After college we went our separate ways, but came into contact a year later via that old classic MySpace. We began chatting again and finally went on that first date…..a month before he was leaving to live in England. We were as you say, "hooked on each other" by that point and spoke everyday for the next 5 ½ months. I flew out to England the week of Valentine's Day and we spent 2 weeks romping through London and the English countryside. Eric decided to move back to California and 4 months after we returned we moved in together. The rest as they say…is history.
The Wedding: It all seems like a blur now, but when we first started planning we both agreed that we were NOT having an over-blown wedding. So imagine our excitement when his family offered us their gorgeous backyard for our big day! We wanted a simple, relaxed and classy garden wedding….but it's funny how all those tiny details conspire together to make a giant mess. Some ideas fell by the wayside, but in the end we had a gorgeous wedding, with perfect weather and all our family and friends there to share our happiest moment.
The Attire: They say once you find the dress the rest falls into place. When I put my dress on for the first time I knew the hunt was over. It was just so free flowing, not puffy or pretentious, it suited who I was perfectly. The wedding party attire followed in the same vein, we wanted our attendants to be comfy and not over-dressed. I absolutely love the way the suspenders and Chuck Taylor's looked with the clean lines of the girl's dresses. Eric looked so handsome in his classic suit, it was as if he walked right out of a Cary Grant movie.
Food and Flowers: A good party for us means delicious food, great drinks and fantastic music. BBQ is one of Eric's favorite foods so once we tasted Wood Ranch we knew we had found our caterer. Playing off of the old-time theme, we ordered old-fashioned sodas and put them in hand-painted painted tubs and wheelbarrows.
Luckily the backyard already had so many gorgeous and vibrant flowerbeds we didn't have to use too many extra flowers. My favorite flower, the hydrangea, inspired the blue that was used throughout the wedding. It also served as the flower of choice for my bouquet. I chose Gerber daises to accompany the hydrangeas and as the primary flower for the bridesmaid's bouquets and the centerpieces. The fantastic St. Germain's flower shop did all of our stunning floral arrangements.
Neither of us have ever been a big fan of wedding cake; therefore we opted to have a dessert table instead. This way people could have a choice and it gave us an opportunity to use our favorite bakery, Crumbs. My wonderful mom also baked her famous Cheesecakes. The cake topper was completed the night before when my first idea fell through, Eric's Aunt helped me with the idea. Glad I had so many childhood photos of us lying around!
Tables and Toys: I am a very crafty person and even though I told myself I wouldn't get over my head with projects… I did. 😉 I further incorporated the old-time feeling by layering paisley and hydrangea blue cardstock with hand-stamped numbers, finished off with a raffia bow. Raffia was also used for the bows on the centerpieces, place cards, hand-painted signs and to tie the bouquets. The kid's toys were made to satisfy my crocheting addiction. Once I learned how to make these little animals I wanted everyone to have one, but I limited it to the children, although I would have made 100 of them if I'd had the time.
Lights: The evening light was very important to us, we wanted the kind of light you would see on an old Main Street at night. We cleared stores shelves of twinkle lights and lanterns. Our parents and siblings hung lights for what seemed like days, but the final effect still remains so beautiful in my mind and in photos.
Our wedding was everything we could have dreamed of and more. It was full of love, laughter and beautiful memories thanks to all the help of our family and friends. We are so thankful we had the amazingly talented Micah and Megan Dahlberg there to capture every second with their cameras. We hope you enjoy the photos as much as we do!
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Musix To My Ears
As I strive to create the perfect multimedia office setup, I've had the chance to look at software, tools and Linux distros that will bring their own features to the table. This is a look at the Linux distribution Musix and how it applies to my multimedia focused office.
Musix is a Live CD/DVD Linux operating system that is based on the popular Debian distro. Musix focuses on the x86 processor and contains many audio production, graphic design, and general applications. One detail about Musix that's worth mentioning from the start is that this distro uses one hundred percent free software. Musix provides a wide variety of tools making a great addition to any music studio. a few things you can do with Musix that may benefit your setup are master CDs, publish musical scores, print musical scores, create MIDI instruments, record and reproduce audio and MIDI, edit/mix audio tracks, recover audio with noise reduction tools, and create audio effects in real time. These are just a few things Musix can do for you. Musix is also supported by languages like Spanish, Galician, Catalan, Basque, English, Portuguese and French. On May 19th, 2009 Musix 2.0 Beta 1 was released based on Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Lenny to provide a testing system for the Musix 2.0 release. A few other changes included Linux-libre Kernels 2.6.27-1 and 2.6.29-1revised to improve mount actions. As a big time fan of the GNOME desktop environment I was thrilled to see that GNOME was added to the already present KDE, LXDE and Icewm+Rox.
Musix is one of the few Linux distros that can compete with expensive audio software and tools. My prospective to my own setup has been any tool I can get for free is worth getting, using and supporting. Free and open-source Linux applications that don't offer all of the features of expensive Windows software won't stay that way for long.
A good example of this is the GNU Image Editor, GIMP. If you used Gimp in 2000, which is when I first used GIMP version 1.2, like me you may have felt GIMP had inferior features, filters, and plugins compared to Photoshop. I invested some of my time into learning how to use GIMP because it was free. GIMP has been developed and refined over time and now GIMP isn't just free, it's customizable, packed with features and matches Photoshop step for step while offering a few unique tricks of its own.
Musix may include free audio tools that are missing a feature here and there but don't underestimate the power of free software whether it's audio, video, graphic design or any other applications. Give Musix a try and you may just find a few tools that belong in your studio.
Here's a look at the default LXDE desktop displayed while running Musix 2.0 beta Live DVD.
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Some depression. Bizarre dreams. Abdominal cramps and sporadic swelling in the legs.
Doctors who work every day with people who starve their bodies say Attawapiskat chief Theresa Spence could be experiencing symptoms such as these as she enters day 32 of a liquid diet Friday.
What she isn't doing is a traditional hunger strike, they say.
It is not known just how many calories Spence is ingesting, subsisting on fish broth and medicinal teas (a true hunger striker drinks only water). But when the human body is malnourished long enough and fat stores depleted entirely, it begins to go after the major organs for fuel.
"What you die from in complete starvation is catastrophic multi-organ failure," says Dr. Blake Woodside, medical director of the program for eating disorders at Toronto General Hospital. People become so protein depleted, "your organs start to shut down — usually liver, kidneys and then heart, in that order."
Woodside and other physicians say it's impossible to predict how long Spence could survive on fish broth, tea, water and vitamins, her reported diet. Woodside said that most existing data come from "gruesome things" such as the starvation deaths of Bobby Sands and nine other Irish republican prisoners in 1981. Sands, who took only water and salt, lasted 66 days.
By contrast, when people reduce their caloric intake, their body compensates by slowing its metabolic rate. Since Spence is walking and talking, Woodside suspects Spence is getting more than a few hundred calories a day from the broth; otherwise by now she would be bedridden and not moving, he said.
Others say Spence may be ingesting as few as 50 calories a day. "We call that fasting," says Dr. Laird Birmingham, a professor of psychiatry at the University of British Columbia and medical director of the Woodstone Residence for the treatment of eating disorders on Galiano Island.
"There's no way that what she's eating is adequate to be healthy."
Generally people can survive between 40 and 50 days on water alone; people who refuse water usually die within five to seven days.
Prolonged and severe calorie restriction can also lead to serious complications.
Psychologically, Spence could be feeling disassociated, "a little separate from things," said Birmingham. "She could be getting palpitations, she could be fainting."
If the liquid diet continues, "she'll feel more and more fatigued, she'll become confused" as the weeks progress, he added. She could experience problems with her memory and judgment. Her kidneys could stop functionally normally.
Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett visited Spence this week in her teepee on Victoria Island. "I was more worried Monday because she was lying down. She was having some trouble with her stomach," Bennett said.
But on Tuesday, "she seemed very good," Bennett, a doctor, said. By Wednesday, "she was sitting the whole time, but you could see the resolve … You worry that people's eyes lose their sparkle or that they lose their brightness and she's pretty impressive, to still look that strong, and with such determination, this many days without solid food."
If Spence is consuming 800 or 1,000 calories a day in fish broth, "her body will slow itself down," Woodside said. "She'll get cooler; her heart rate will slow down. She won't feel like moving around much and that will reduce her caloric needs for the day." Her body will shed excess muscle as it essentially chews up muscle for energy, "and that will lengthen out the period she can survive on whatever caloric intake she's taking."
Jean Sock, a 57-year-old Aboriginal, has been subsisting on water and broth since he travelled from New Brunswick to join Spence 23 days ago.
He says his waist size has dropped from 42 to 34 inches, and that he feels dizzy all the time. He's spending most of his time lying down in a tent, drinking water and the occasional sip of broth.
"I feel weak, hungry … there are a lot of emotions going through me all the time," he said on Thursday. "It's a hard thing."
A third person, Raymond Robinson, an elder from Cross Lake, Man., started fasting soon after Spence, and travelled to Ottawa Dec. 31 to join her in person.
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Geek Chic: Augmented Reality Google Glasses To Go On Sale This Year
The mystery of Google's stealth consumer product has apparently been conclusively solved. The NY Times is confirming earlier reports that Google is going to release "heads up display glasses" by the end of the year. The glasses — or literal Google Goggles in this case — will utilize a range of Google technologies and databases to deliver a real-time stream of information to the wearer:
The people familiar with the Google glasses said they would be Android-based, and will include a small screen that will sit a few inches from someone's eye. They will also have a 3G or 4G data connection and a number of sensors including motion and GPS…
The glasses will have a low-resolution built-in camera that will be able to monitor the world in real time and overlay information about locations, surrounding buildings and friends who might be nearby, according to the Google employees . . .
The image above right is of Oakley THUMP glasses, which the new Google AR glasses are said to resemble. Japan's NTT DoCoMo has already developed a somewhat less ambitious augmented reality set of glasses called the "AR Walker."
According to the NY Times' report, the glasses will cost between $250 and $600. Without seeing the actual product it's very difficult to predict whether it will succeed or fail. Pricing and the quality of the user experience will determine the product's fate.
I could imagine scenarios where the goggles become a huge hit (with mostly males) and a necessary piece of "Geek Chic." But I can equally imagine that they'd be ridiculed and satirized in an "SNL" skit.
Regardless the idea is very provocative and, succeed or fail, these glasses may help pave the way for more common, wearable computing devices. It goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway, that with these glasses Google is taking "visual search" to an entirely new level (sorry).
THUMP glasses Image via Oakley
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Zynga's fourth-quarter earnings are out.
The headline numbers:
- Q4 revenue of $311 million, flat year-over-year, and bookings of $261 million, down 15% year-over-year
- Q4 net loss of $48.6 million, down 89% year-over-year, adjusted EBITDA of $45 million, down 34% year-over-year
- Q4 GAAP EPS of ($0.06) and non-GAAP EPS of $0.01
The stock closed up 7.4% at $2.75, and it rose further to $2.92 in after-hours trading.
Revenues beat expectations of around $250 million, Barron's notes.
That appears to be because Zynga did a better job in the fourth quarter of getting the small fraction of users who spend money in its games to pony up.
While the number of monthly active users contracted from 311 million users in the third quarter to 298 million in the fourth quarter, and daily users shrank from 60 million to 54 million, the number of monthly unique payers—paying customers—only shrank 2 percent quarter-over-quarter to 2.9 million.
The average Zynga user spent $0.051 a day on its games in the fourth quarter, up 8 percent from $0.047 in the third quarter but down from the year-ago figure of $0.061.
That's a crucial metric to watch, a number which has taken a beating as players have migrated to mobile, where Zynga has a harder time figuring out how to get players to spend money in games than it did through social games on Facebook.
The key questions Zynga CEO Mark Pincus will need to address on the earnings call:
- How is Zynga doing on mobile games, as well as multiplatform titles that bridge the Web and mobile devices?
- Now that Zynga's renegotiated its relationship with Facebook, how is it planning to get new users on non-Facebook platforms?
- When will newly released games restart Zynga's growth engine?
Here are highlights from the earnings call:
- Advertising performed better in the fourth quarter, accounting for some of the expectation-beating performance in revenues.
- Pincus didn't address recent executive departures, but highlighted promotions and called Zynga's team "the best bench in the industry." Zynga has "more talent against this opportunity than any other company."
- $100 million in gross bookings from FarmVille franchise in the fourth quarter—sixth consecutive quarter at that level.
- Zynga Poker monthly audience grew 8 percent.
- Zynga players send more than 1 billion gifts, in-game help, and other messages a day.
- Words With Friends grew 13 percent in daily active users in the fourth quarter.
- CityVille 2 was a flop, as was The Friend Game, an experimental social game. Zynga is shuttering both. COO David Ko said the company is trying to get more disciplined about shutting games that don't catch on.
- Zynga "remains on track" to deliver online betting games in the UK in the first half of 2013 through a partnership with Bwin.party.
- Older social games like FarmVille, CityVille, and FrontierVille account for most of the decline in bookings. FarmVille 2 launch compensated for that decline, said CFO Mark Vranesh.
- Cash at $1.65 billion, up $4 million from the third quarter even with the commencement of a share buyback.
- Question about whether CityVille 2 was launched too soon after FarmVille 2. "Hard to say," says Ko. "We are learning."
- Third-party mobile games published by Zynga, like Phosphor's Horn and Fat Pebble's Clay Jam, will not contribute materially to revenues in 2013, says Vranesh.
- "Lighter slate of games to launch in Q1." Trying to focus on launching games that can become franchises.
- Slight decline in mobile paying customers in the quarter, mostly due to Draw Something.
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Artistic outdoor photographer Richard Neuman's style and techniques are the reasons he has been defined as a purist of photography. While capturing the beauty and splendor of the great outdoors, he has mastered the basic forms of photography and turned them into an art form. While admiring the beauty he has captured, it becomes clear that mere photography becomes true art at the hands of Richard Neuman.
As a child growing up on a farm, in northwest Ohio, he was drawn to the beauty of nature and the great outdoors. At age nine his interest in photography began and from then on the camera became a natural part of him. As an adult he became more aware that the serenity of nature is so often overlooked. From close-up views of mammals and birds to wide majestic mountain views, his photographic adventures have led him throughout the country creating artistic outdoor photography which adorns walls in homes and large corporate offices. Regional and national publishers have published an overwhelming number of these high quality images as well.
Now, through his artistic photography and educational workshops/seminars he strives to pass on the same appreciation and techniques acquired from his years of photography. Please explore the great outdoors through Richard Neuman's photography by visiting his website at: www.rlnphotography.com


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Fresh from the most successful season in franchise history, the best-case scenario for the Dallas Mavericks in 2011-12 would have been to repeat as NBA champions.
Plan B — breaking up that team for flexibility and salary-cap space, in what proved to be a futile attempt to lure Dwight Howard, Deron Williams or some other in-his-prime, flag-planting free agent — didn't go so well. The Mavs went 36-30 in the post-lockout season, finishing 14 games back in the Southwest Division and, in the playoffs' first round, got swept by new West finalists, Oklahoma City.
On to Plan C, the re-stocking of the roster with solid supporting players — center Chris Kaman, forward Elton Brand, guards Darren Collison and O.J. Mayo among them — who don't qualify as franchise guys or even as that dream sidekick to All-Star Dirk Nowitzki. The idea again seems to be, do the best they can and add a big name in the summer of 2013.
But Nowitzki, in an email interview with Eddie Sefko of the Dallas Morning News, sounded more upbeat — and competitive — than that:
This year, the Mavericks again have maintained financial flexibility with a lot of short-term contracts. That doesn't deter Nowitzki.
"I think we have a good team again," Nowitzki said. "I like all the new additions. I think we got younger on the perimeter, more athletic and that was always our goal. … The month of October is important to get everyone adjusted, but I think we got a lot of potential."
It makes sense that Nowitzki would see the Mavs' glass as half-full; he has all sorts of reason to be in a good mood. He got married in the offseason. With labor peace this fall, he knows when training camp and the 2012-13 season is going to start. And he feels healthy, eager to get going without the yapping of his knees that turned last season into the worst (21.6 ppg, 6.8 rpg, 45.7 FG pct.) since his second year.
Having Dirk enthused and on board, at age 34, is vital for Dallas because of his timeline. On a team built around short contracts, he's no longer a lifer, with just two years left on his four-year, $80 million deal. Short horizons proved to be a problem for the Mavs last season and now their superstar has one as well.
If this season were all about waiting for 2013-14, Nowitzki would be giving up 50 percent of what could be his remaining NBA time. Nowitzki makes it sound as if his ambitions for the Mavs are much higher.
As he typed to Sefko: "We are all professionals, and I expect everyone to play at a high level and give it their best no matter what their contract situation is."


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High School Teacher Loses Job Over Sexy Bikini Photos [POLL]
High school teacher Olivia Sprauer was asked to resign from her full-time teaching job after photos from her part-time modeling job were sent to the school's principal. Sprauer worked under the alias name, Victoria Valentine James, while modeling bikinis along with lingerie.
On April 29, Sprauer was called to the principal's office and shown a photo, in which she admitted that it was her in the photo, and expressed that it was from her modeling job. She was then asked to resign and immediately escorted off campus.
Although she's not angry about the situation, Sprauer expresses how much she will miss her students.
The 26-year-old Florida teacher claims that she had planned to leave her job as a teacher to pursue modeling while going back to return to graduate school.
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Barry sez: Well, James Patterson is at it again, issuing alarums from the sumptuous grounds of his bazillion-dollar mansion about how Amazon Must Be Stopped lest Jeff Bezos fulfill his evil plan to usher in The End of Days and yada yada yada. Joe's been doing yeoman's work for a long time in keeping up with these Pattersonian pontifications -- see here and here and here and here and here, so naturally I asked him to join me in tackling Patterson's latest, a video interview with The Telegraph.
In a weird way, this interview is probably Patterson's most interesting outing to date because he actually goes full circle through the stupid and winds up demonstrating that he's for everything he's been saying he's against. We've transcribed what he said so we can comment on it. Joe and I in normal font; Patterson in italicized crazy.
James Patterson: This thing of comparing his company to cheetahs, and pouncing on wounded gazelles, and those are publishers, I don't think that's a great idea. And you have to say if it looks like a cheetah and it bites like a cheetah it's probably a cheetah. I'm not sure if that's the optimum for companies in this country.
Joe sez: So never play a game of Parker Brother's Monopoly with Amazon... because they're cheetahs.
Bad pun aside, let's talk about making money as a retailer. Bezos famously said, "Your margin is my opportunity." There is so much waste in legacy publishing that it was low-hanging fruit for a smart upstart to come in and feast on the giant margins.
Publishers are middlemen. They can be disintermediated. They may not like this--I can't think of any prey animal that enjoys predation--but that's the law of the jungle, folks. For decades, writers were the ones preyed upon. Now the Big 5 have gotten a taste of what it's like to be on the losing end of a power dynamic, and their top authors don't like it. So they've begun an ingenious media campaign that revolves around calling Amazon a meanie.
Newsflash: It isn't a company's job to bolster competition, or prop-up suppliers.
Authors United seems convinced that Amazon needs the Big 5, and their books. But Amazon has shown it can get 500,000 titles in Kindle Unlimited without major publisher support.
When big shots like Patterson keep spouting off in the media, they're showing how scared they really are. Patterson's interview here is akin to a pufferfish, inflating itself and trying to act intimidating so it doesn't get eaten. Look at me! I'm fearsome and powerful!
Patterson: In that respect (Amazon/Hachette) I think Jeff has done a bad thing to hurt writers. I'm fine, obviously. But a lot of writers really depend on those, you know, the back list.
Joe sez: Only the ones that earn out their advance depend on their back list to make royalties. But how many actually earn out?
It occurs to me that some Hachette authors may not be hurting financially right at this moment. They aren't making royalties anyway. So how are they losing money?
Mike Shatzkin likes to argue that big advances actually mean authors are earning royalties higher than 25% of net, because their books never earn out. If that's true, should it matter to the writer if sales are down? The writer pockets the advance, the book isn't supposed to earn out according to Shatzkin, then the writers sells another book and makes another advance that won't earn out.
To quote the Shatz:
"Only authors who sell their books to publishers without competitive bids (which indicates either "no agent" or "limited appeal generated by the proposal") are living on that 25% royalty."
So who's right? Shatzkin or Patterson?
Neither. Only a few writers can live off their advances, and many never earn royalties above those advances, even when the advances are meager.
However, this is just me playing devil's advocate, because some writers do depend on those twice-a-year royalty checks. But Jeff Bezos isn't the one preventing those writers from making money. Amazon has no contracts with Hachette writers. Amazon doesn't have a contract with Hachette, either, but continues to sell Hachette titles.
Writers signed a contract with Hachette because they valued Hachette as a business partner, and one of Hachette's most valuable attributes is its ability to distribute books. When Hachette isn't able to come to terms with the largest bookseller on the planet, and sales are falling as a result, Hachette is failing its authors.
In a previous comment on my blog, former attorney John Ellsworth said:
"Implied in the publishing contract is the requirement of acting in good faith. Right now, it could be argued that publishers appear to be hurting their own authors by representing their own interests (higher profits) ahead of authors' interests (sales platform) by failing to contract with Amazon. This could support a claim for bad faith by author v. publisher, which could result in damages and could result in a breach being declared such that the author can then take steps to acquire what is called "cover" for oneself, which is law talk for mitigation of damages. Mitigation could take the form of self-publishing."
It seems obvious the guilty party here is Hachette. And I hope some Hachette authors hire an attorney and pursue a bad faith claim.
But rather than address that very real issue, Patterson et al keep flapping their gums about the evils of Amazon. They use fear words. Absurd arguments. Propaganda. Nonsensical appeals to emotion. Ineffectively use the media. They avoid the actual problem, and its possible solutions. But their whining isn't working. In fact, many are calling it out as the nonsense it is.
Amazon needs to be stopped? Check out this Washington Post article by David Post which shows otherwise. (It's literally a post in the Post by Post).
Amazon is a monopoly? No, it isn't, writes Maxwell S. Kennerley, Esquire, on the Litigation & Trial website.
Amazon plays rough? So what? writes Joe Nocera in a New York Times op-ed piece.
Amazon is what's wrong with American capitalism? Actually, it's what's right, writes Reihan Salam in Slate.
Is Jeff Bezos really the bad guy in this dispute? Alex Beam of the Boston Globe says no.
The media coverage of Amazon/Hachetter is fairly balanced? Margaret Sullivan, Public Editor of the New York times, thinks not.
This isn't only bloggers like me and Barry and Hugh Howey and Courtney Milan calling out the bullshit we see. Even the establishment media is reporting what's really going on.
Patterson: It can put them out of business or ruin their families… I understand the strategy, although it hasn't worked, that they would put pressure on the publishers… attacking writers…
Joe sez: First of all, for the eyerollingeth time, Amazon isn't attacking writers.
It has tried, three times, to compensate writers so they aren't caught in the negotiations.
How is Amazon supposed to negotiate with a supplier--one it currently doesn't have a contract with--unless it applies some pressure? Hachette sells books on Amazon.com, and wants fast shipping and pre-order pages and discounting on paperbacks. Amazon wants the ability to discount ebooks, which is normal; almost all retailers set the prices of the things they sell. Hachette doesn't want Amazon to discount their ebooks, because it will accelerate the downfall of their paper distribution oligopoly.
That's what's happening. No authors are being attacked, boycotted, disappeared, censored, banned, or sanctioned.
Second, the reason publishers aren't feeling pressured is because super-rich bestsellers like Patterson keep flapping their gums in the media, emboldening Hachette to hold out.
Maybe if Patterson and Preston and the rest of Authors United and the Authors Guild actually tried to pressure Hachette, this would all be over.
But Patterson and Preston want the paper cartel to continue, because it makes them assloads of money.
Patterson: Throughout the history of the world, getting into religious wars by powerful countries or organizations does not seem to work. It didn't work in Iraq, it didn't work in Afghanistan, it's not working in Syria, it didn't work in Ireland. Amazon in attacking writers has created a religious war. Writers are religious about books, and they'll take the punches, they'll take the blows, and they'll use whatever they have to do. They are not going to let books get hurt in this country.
Barry sez: I don't want to make too much of Patterson's analogy, but I will say it's a little odd that he's comparing writers (or the ones at Authors United, at any rate) to jihadis, mujahadeen, the IRA, and others the USG calls terrorists. But I guess one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter and all that.
Joe sez: So Patterson thinks this is an actual ideological movement? For whom? The .001% of wealthy writers, and those with Bookholm Syndrome who want to join that exclusive club?
Barry sez: I know it's weird, but at least there's some humor here. Because it's typically the self-published writers who are accused of being ideological. Meanwhile it's always the establishment writers who bring in the religious references.
So, shorter James Patterson: "Publishing. It's not just a business. It's a religion."
Joe sez: I want to see Patterson really prove that this is a religious war for him, since he brought up the analogy. If Patterson demanded that Hachette remove his books from Amazon, it could function as the equivalent of a suicide bombing; hurting the enemy while killing yourself in the process.
Do you have the stones to do that, Mr. Patterson?
Actually, that doesn't take any courage. Patterson is financially set for life. He could never sell another book, and still be rich.
But how many of the other Authors United signatories could say the same? How many need to fall on their swords to prove…
What exactly are they proving? That Hachette should be able to keep the prices of ebooks high?
Patterson: So Amazon has attacked a group, that, it's small and I don't think writers have really turned up the heat yet, but we could… one of the things we could do is literally come out and ask for a ban.
Barry sez: Holy "Writers Literally Calling For Book Bans," Batman!
Okay, okay, just giving Patterson a hard time. I don't think he really means what he says. What he seems to be threatening isn't so much a ban as it is a boycott. Or call it a "direct targeting," or "sanctioning," or "disappearing" books and authors, or any of the other nonsense terms Authors United and their media enablers throw around as though English were a second language they tried to learn while focusing most of their energies on sniffing glue.
Joe sez: I'm unclear if he's suggesting customers boycott Amazon, or authors boycott Amazon. I don't think either would work.
Patterson: It's come up with a lot of writers. One, we could all take our books off Amazon… if myself and all the Hachette authors and then all the authors who are sympathetic, which range from Stephen King and John Grisham to Philip Roth… if everybody's saying they're doing a wrong thing here, you would think that would mean something.
Joe sez: It does mean something. It means rich authors don't want the gravy train to end, so obviously Amazon is bad.
Barry sez: Can anyone explain what Patterson is doing other than suggesting books be made harder to find until a troublesome distributor capitulates?
Hmmm… now why does that sort of thing sound familiar?
Oh, that's right, because it's exactly what Authors United, within which Patterson is a prominent voice, purports to decry. As the organization so eloquently puts it:
"Our point is simple: we believe it is unacceptable for Amazon to impede or block the sale of any books as a negotiating tactic."
"We appeal to you [Amazon board of directors], with hope and goodwill, to exercise your governance and put an end to the sanctioning of books, which are the very foundation of our culture and democracy."
And this:
"As writers--most of us not published by Hachette--we feel strongly that no bookseller should block the sale of books or otherwise prevent or discourage customers from ordering or receiving the books they want."
"None of us, neither readers nor authors, benefit when books are taken hostage."
"We call on Amazon to resolve its dispute with Hachette without further hurting authors and without blocking or otherwise delaying the sale of books to its customers."
"Currently, Amazon is making it difficult to order many books from Little, Brown and Grand Central, which affects readers of authors such as Malcolm Gladwell, Nicholas Sparks, Michael Connelly, me, and hundreds of others whose living depends on book sales. What I don't understand about this particular battle tactic is how it is in the best interest of Amazon customers.
I haven't seen something this hypocritically self-indulgent since Stephen Colbert urged Amazon customers to stop buying other authors' books until Amazon agreed to ship his more quickly.
Yes, I recognize the easy rejoinder: "But Barry, it's different when authors voluntarily remove their books from a retail channel as opposed to the retailer not offering preorder buttons, reducing its inventory, and otherwise not making it as easy as possible for readers to find the title in question at that retailer."
I'd call that a distinction without a difference. Either way, aren't books being "suppressed" and "sanctioned" and "disappeared" and all that? Aren't readers inconvenienced either way? Aren't the very foundations of western culture threatened either way?
Actually, there is a distinction. Every one of Patterson's and all other Hachette authors' books are available on Amazon. Yes, some of them aren't as easy to order there without preorder buttons etc, but charges of a "boycott" etc are a massacre of plain English. But what Patterson is proposing would be a real boycott, with books being outright unavailable through Amazon. Wouldn't that be worse than anything Amazon is charged with doing?
Joe sez: Hint: yes.
Barry sez: Now personally, I find the Pattersonian and Authors United arguments to be bullshit. Joe and I have repeatedly asked Authors United what they propose a retailer do -- beyond outright capitulation -- when it can't come to terms with a supplier. No one from the organization has ever responded. And that's because there is no response. When a retailer and supplier can't come to terms, the retailer typically stops selling the supplier's wares (in this sense, Amazon is being extraordinarily kind to Hachette; after all, it's still selling Hachette's goods even though the parties' contract has expired). That's the way of the world, and you'd have to be neurotically narcissistic to imagine you're so special you're somehow immune from it.
But what interests me, as always, is when truth bleeds through the bullshit. What Patterson unintentionally demonstrated in his interview is that he and Authors United don't particularly care about whether readers are inconvenienced by books being harder to find on Amazon. They don't even particularly care whether books are available through Amazon at all. If they believe making books unavailable to readers might gain them leverage, they're more than happy to do it.
Given the incoherence of their underlying position, the hypocrisy doesn't surprise me so much. What surprises me is that anyone is still taking these bozos remotely seriously.
Joe sez: So, in essence, Patterson finds the death penalty to be inhumane and reprehensible, so he's going to hang everyone who supports the death penalty.
Am I right? He whines that his books aren't available on Amazon, so his solution is to make his books unavailable on Amazon?
It's a pufferfish bluff.
Barry sez: I wouldn't even call it that. Did you see how fast he backpedaled when the interviewer said, "If you were take your books off Amazon, that could change something"?
Joe sez: As a thought experiment, let's say he's serious. Let's imagine his titles no longer appear on Amazon.
Will Kindle owners and Amazon shoppers, en masse, abandon their ebook reading devices and favorite online bookstore so they can find Patterson's latest release elsewhere?
Or will they not bother and instead one-click some other thriller?
I suggest Mr. Patterson perform an experiment. Are you reading this, Jim? Remove just one of your titles from Amazon, and then see if your sales go up proportionately on other platforms. If they do, it shows readers will follow you.
Stop the chest thumping and do it. Actually make a stand, since this is so important to you.
And be sure to let us know how that turns out.
P.S. Did you know that in 2010, during negotiations over digital pricing, Penguin withheld digital books from Amazon? Those unconscionable, bullying, boycotting, sanctioning, disappearing, directly-targeting, culture-killing, monopolistic monsters! Oh, the humanity...


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It was almost a Full House when the cast of the beloved, long-running sitcom got together to celebrate the show's 25th anniversary.
Costars Bob Saget (Danny), Dave Coulier (Joey), John Stamos (Jesse), Candace Cameron Bure (D.J.), Jodie Sweetin (Stephanie), Lori Loughlin (Becky), Scott Weinger (Steve) and Andrea Barber (Kimmy) reunited over the weekend to honor the series' milestone together, two and a half decades after its 1987 premiere. Noticeably absent from the happy gathering? Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who became household names thanks to their shared role as the youngest Tanner daughter, Michelle.
Though the Olsens, 26, couldn't make it, the rest of the cast enjoyed cake, photo ops, and plenty of early '90s nostalgia (Barber and Cameron Bure, both 36, documented the day on their respective Twitter accounts.)
"Love my Full House family. Full heart," Barber shared, adding later, "I just danced to three NKOTB songs in a row with @candacecbure and @JohnStamos. Life is complete!"
The gathering lasted on well into the evening — Barber tweeted around 7:30 pm that she and Cameron Bure had plans to head to a Sound of Music sing-a-long.
"Full House rocks!" she wrote. "Also, I may have had a couple drinks."
The cast's youngest members have all come a long way since their days as youngsters on the San Francisco-based show.
With high-end lines like The Row and Elizabeth and James to their name, the Olsens are now mega-successful designers. Cameron Bure has three children with her husband, hockey star Valeri Bure; her TV sis Sweetin overcame a serious methamphetamine addiction, and now has two kids (one with ex-husband Cody Herpin, and one with current fiance Morty Coyle). As for Gibbler? Barber has two kids with hubby Jeremy Rytky, completed a Masters in Women's Studies at the University of York in England, and now works in an administrative position at Whittier College.
Or, as she sums up on her Twitter account: "Mother. Wife. Runner. Ex-Gibbler. The neon tights are officially retired, people! But my love for NKOTB still prevails . . ."
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One of our readers suggests a simple solution to fixing pit-crew shoes: Shoe Goo
Editor's Note: We've been getting some great Readers' Tech Tips from you guys and gals, so keep up the good work. But this month we got a longer one from a reader up in North Carolina that we wanted to share. We think you'll find it particularly helpful if you race in a series where pit crews go over the wall.
Dear Circle Track,
I am the strength and conditioning coach for the Nextel Cup teams of Roush Racing. Over the last three years of working with our pit crews, I've noticed that the pit-crew shoes, as good as they are, get destroyed in a matter of weeks. I sent a pair to the manufacturer, who returned them to me stating that the condition of the shoes was due to fair wear and tear. But it's nave to believe that the manufacturer would rather sell shoes than fix the problem.
The problem is in the shoe toe cap and instep area of the foot. The toe cap and side structure of the shoe keeps the foot stable while in motion. More importantly, when in good condition, the form-fitting shoe prevents the foot from shifting excessively and ensures that the bone structure of the foot doesn't separate at the instep. I have tire changers who I have had to treat for pain of the instep and toes. Anyway, the shoe is also supposed to absorb and dissipate the impact of the feet striking the ground and jumping from the wall. Plus, when tire changers hit the lug nuts, they continually scuff the instep and the toe cap. All of this leads to the shoes prematurely wearing out.
The quick solution that I have come up with is to use Shoe Goo, a three-dollar item sold at Wal-Mart and sport stores everywhere. It is a tube of clear, pliable adhesive that dries like rubber. Squeeze it over the entire toe area for the toe cap and on the inside of the shoe or wherever else desired. Once dry, it will form a clear, rubbery layer of protective covering. It can be applied as thick as needed; the rubber will wear and take abuse rather than the shoe's material. All that is left is to use a permanent marker to return the shoe color. A tube will double the life of the shoes until the manufacturers come up with a better idea.
Although some team members may get pit shoes at no charge, there are many having to pay out of pocket for the shoe. Nevertheless, money being spent is money being spent, and saving a little here goes a long way there.
Robert Johnson
Roush Fenway Racing
Concord, NC
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The days of worrying about minutes ticking away on your cell phone plan are nearly gone.
As of today, AT&T is dropping the availability of its old plans for new smartphone subscribers, and all of the remaining plans include unlimited calling and texting with the exception of one. The three other major U.S. carriers -- Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile -- now only offer unlimited voice and messaging to new customers.
The era of the minute was a long one. Back in 1984, cellular service was operating in only 21 metro areas and minutes were costly: US West Inc. (now part of CenturyLink) offered service in Denver and Seattle for about $200 per month (about $450 in today's dollars after inflation), including 300 minutes of calling but not including long-distance charges, according to a WSJ article at the time.
Now, new customers with smartphones have no option to get limited minutes other than a plan from AT&T that offers 450 monthly minutes for about $40, with texts and data costing extra. (Verizon Wireless does offer a plan with 200 voice minutes for people over 65 years old.)
The carriers aren't making this change because they think customers should just have unlimited calls for free. It is because voice traffic is falling and data use is skyrocketing.
Focusing on data and giving everything else away seemingly as a freebie actually centers the companies on their main source of revenue growth.
This week AT&T reported total third-quarter revenue growth of 2.2% from the previous year, while wireless revenue rose 5.1% and data revenue was up 17.6%. Revenue from voice, texts and other services dropped 2.6%.
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Former Gay Congressman Barney Frank Wants Interim Mass. Senate Seat
Former Rep. Barney Frank may have retired from the House of Representatives, but now he wants to be appointed to the U.S. Senate if Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is confirmed as the next secretary of state.
Kerry, who has served in the Senate since 1985, has been nominated by President Obama to replace the retiring Hillary Clinton for the nation's top diplomatic post. In order to take the position the full Senate must first confirm him.
Frank, known for being one of the first openly homosexual members of Congress, retired from his House seat on Wednesday after representing a Massachusetts district for over 32 years.
Now Frank has let it be known that he wants the interim appointment that Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick will make prior to the seat being filled by a special election later this year.
"A few weeks ago, in fact, I said I wasn't interested," Frank said when asked by MSNBC "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough if he would accept an appointment.
Part of Frank's desire to take the temporary appointment involves the recent fiscal cliff bill and the upcoming debate on the whether to increase the nation's debt ceiling that will take place in the next few weeks and the former Congressman believes his input would be valuable.
"That deal now means that February, March and April are going to be among the most important months in American financial and economic history," Frank said.
However, Frank, who is now 72 and recently married his same-sex partner, says he is not interested in running for a partial or full Senate term.
"I'm not going to be coy ... I've told the governor that I would now like, frankly, to do that because I would like to be a part of that," Frank said. "It's only a three-month period. I wouldn't want to do anything more. I don't want to run again ... It's almost, to be honest, a little arrogant, 'Coach, put me in.'"
One of Frank's most controversial pieces of legislation is known as the Dodd-Frank bill, which in 2010 brought about sweeping changes in the financial services industry.


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European Commission - Press release
Delivering savings for Europe: moving to full e-procurement for all public purchases by 2016
Brussels, 20 April 2012 - Electronic procurement (e-procurement) refers to the use of electronic communication by public sector organisations when buying supplies and services or tendering public works. Increasing the use of e-procurement in Europe can generate significant savings for European taxpayers. Public entities that have already implemented e-procurement report savings of between 5% and 20% of their procurement expenditure. The total size of the EU's procurement market is estimated to be more than 2 trillion euro, so each 5% saved could result in about 100 billion euro of savings per year – which is equivalent to building more than 150 large size hospitals. These savings would maximise the efficiency of public spending in the current context of fiscal constraints.
E-procurement can also participate in providing new sources of economic growth and jobs. E-procurement can significantly simplify the life of companies, especially SMEs, by increasing the transparency of and access to tender opportunities and by reducing the costs of participating in a tender (reduced mail costs, less printing, etc.). Experience in the EU and beyond shows that the use of e-procurement has increased the participation of SMEs in public procurement procedures.
Despite these undisputable benefits, the EU is lagging behind both its own targets and internationally. E-procurement is still used in only 5-10% of procurement procedures carried out across the EU despite ambitious political targets.
The Digital Agenda for Europe and the eGovernment Action Plan 2011– 2015 highlighted the importance of connecting e-procurement capacities across the Single Market. In the context of the modernisation of the European Public procurement Directives, adopted in December 2011, the Commission has proposed to make e-procurement the rule rather than the exception, by making it the standard method of procurement in the EU by mid-2016.
Commissioner Barnier said: "It's time to act. E-procurement represents a significant untapped potential for the EU economy. It can simplify the way procurement is conducted, reduce burdens and costs, increase the participation of SMEs and deliver better quality and lower prices. The sooner the transition is initiated, the sooner we will reap the benefits offered by e-procurement."
Today's Communication sets out a strategy to achieve this ambitious transition. It proposes a series of flanking measures meant to support all stakeholders, including SMEs, in completing the transition on time. These measures include:
The Communication also announces that the European Commission itself will move towards full e-procurement by mid-2015 – a full year ahead of the deadline for Member States – and that the Commission will make its e-procurement solutions available to Member States.
The legislative proposals to modernise European public procurement adopted by the European Commission in December 2011 (IP/11/1580) proposed a gradual but ambitious transition towards e-procurement in the EU:
Next steps
The Commission will organise a Conference on e-procurement where the benefits and the implementation challenges of e-procurement will be discussed. The Conference, entitled "Electronic Procurement- Challenges and opportunities" will take place on the 26 June 2012.
See also MEMO/12/265
For further information on EU e-procurement policy including today's communication:
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NATAL, Brazil — The country's federation said that at least 15,000 Mexicans bought tickets for its World Cup opener against Cameroon. That number probably was too low.
The Arena das Dunas looked like a branch of Azteca stadium with all of its chants and peculiar fans Friday. Many wore the traditional Mexican sombreros, which got a different use this time in a downpour.
"My sombrero was my umbrella today," said Humberto Garcia, who traveled to Brazil from Mexico City along with his two friends. "I did not expect this kind of weather, so I did not have anything for the rain, so the sombrero kind of helped with that."
The new trend among Mexicans is to wear the Lucha libre (wrestling) mask. The most common one had red on one side and green on the other, similar to that used by Rey Misterio Jr.
Five Mexicans used their shirts to spell O R I B E, the first name of striker Peralta, a fan favorite over Javier Hernandez.


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Eagles rookie Michael Bamiro dodged the draft, but he couldn't dodge The Turk.
According to Jeff McLane of the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Eagles have released the offensive tackle, though he said the team has expressed interest in keeping him on the practice squad.
Bamiro was an object of interest primarily because of his timing. He wasn't eligible for the supplemental draft, and wasn't in the regular draft because he was petitioning for another year of eligibility at Stony Brook. Multiple teams were at his pro day workout, and there might be interest in him on the waiver wire.
The Eagles guaranteed part of his salary when he was signed, so that might steer him back their way if he's unclaimed.


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For the 2013 Transpac, the first, and smallest, boats got underway promptly at 1300 hours on Monday, while the medium boats began on Thursday and the largest boats begin Saturday.
This year's Transpac has some really interesting boats and perennial favorites entered. Scratch boats include Ragamuffin 100 – a massive custon100-foot Elliot with a canting keel that's up from Australia. Lending Club, a custom 73-foot trimaran, will also be out gunning for line honors and the course record.
Some of the best known "70's" will again be racing, including the well-known Pyewacket, raced by Roy P. Disney. The 2011 winner, Grand Illusion (aka "GI"), will also be back to try to repeat her win. Other interesting boats include the RP 74 Wizard out of Newport, R.I., and Maserati, a recent generation Volvo 70.
Local favorites include Jack Taylor's SC50 Horizon out of Dana Point; Chris Heman's 46-foot Rogers Varuna (Balboa YC); Ross Pearlman's Jeanneau 52-foot Between the Sheets (BYC); and Bob Lane's Andrews 62 Medicine Man – (with local designer Alan Andrews on board). A sentimental favorite has to be Matt Brooks' restored S&S 52 Dorade, a past Transpac race winner and arguably the most famous classic racing yacht in the world.
Wind and weather forecast for the next 10 days is open and variable. The first boats that started on July 1 got to Catalina in relatively steady westerly breezes, but they are looking at a high pressure system that is sitting out in front of them as they turn toward Hawaii.
Winds have been unusually variable this summer, and the jet stream that drives surface winds has been all over the place in recent weeks. Look for somewhat more promising conditions for the bigger boats starting later in the week.
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Saturday, September 16, 2006
Happy Birthday Hank Williams
Hank Williams was born in Mount Olive Alabama on 17th September 1923. He died just 29 years later. Had he lived he would have been 83 today. Imagine him sitting politely through yet another birthday special, coming to you live from Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium with, say, The Dixie Chicks presenting a ghastly parade of contemporary country luminaries paying insincere tribute to the Grand Old Man of The Grand Ole Opry, (all that earlier sacking business and other unpleasantness conveniently forgotten)? Actually it IS quite easy to imagine, country audiences love bad boys and the country music establishment, with whom Hank had fallen out shortly before his untimely demise, were quick to claim him after his death. But I prefer to believe Hank would have remained too ornery for any cheesy all star tribute.
Your Cheatin' Heart is my favourite Hank Williams song. In fact Your Cheatin' Heart is quite possibly my favourite song of all time. I can't think of a version of it I don't like. Presley's 1965 version with The Jordanaires isn't great.Elvis refused to overdub it, deeming it unfit for release and in truth the King turns in a performance that borders on self parody. A missed opportunity but the song survived it.
Your Cheatin' Heart was recorded at Hank's last ever recording session on 23rd September 1952. Williams' second wife claimed that he wrote the song about his first wife, Audrey, from whom he had split in January 1952 after a passionate, and sometimes torturous, relationship.
'Hank started telling me about his problems with his ex-wife, Audrey. He said that one day her cheatin' heart would pay. Then he said, "Hey, that'd make a good song! Get out my tablet, Baby; me and you are gonna write us a song!" Just about as fast as I could write, Hank quoted the words to me in a matter of minutes.' (Sing Your Heart Out,Country Boy Dorothy Horstman)
In August of 1952, Hank had been fired from The Grand Ole Opry having been deemed unreliable. In October of that year he wed his second wife, Billie Jean Jones, not once but three times (twice before a paying audience at a sold out Municipal Auditorium in New Orleans).Sometime on 31st December 1952/1st January 1953, Hank Williams passed away in the back of his Cadillac. His funeral was held in Montgomery, Alabama on 4th January 1953. The following month MGM issued Kaw Liga with Your Cheatin' Heart on the flipside. Both sides became number 1 hits.
On 7th January 1953 Joni James recorded Your Cheatin' Heart for MGM. The next day Frankie Laine recorded the song for Columbia Records. Laine's version was released in the wake of James', which hit number 2 in the Billboard pop charts, but nevertheless it reached a respectable number 18.
This was the version of Your Cheatin' Heart I first heard. I think it was some time in the mid- seventies, on The Best of Frankie Laine (Hallmark Records HM 515) an album my parents had bought on cassette tape to play in the car. Laine's robust singing style didn't much appeal to me then but Your Cheatin' Heart struck an immediate chord, though it confused as much as it delighted me.
Your Cheatin' Heart is a confusing song. The confusion starts right with the opening three words: "Your cheating heart…" Hank himself seems to weigh each word more or less equally but others have greater difficulty. Frankie Laine requires an enormous whooshing breath before he can bring himself to sing these words, Gene Vincent stutters, singing "Your cheat, cheatin' heart…" whilst in his 1962 version Nat 'King' Cole, perhaps uncomfortable with the words accusatory tone, opts out altogether leaving the opening lines to a bland chorus of girl singers before finally joining in at line three, "But sleep won't come the whole night through...".
Once one gets inside this song it becomes apparent what a strange, clever and frankly quite nasty piece of work it is. Initially it seems a fairly standard exercise in self pity but, in fact, Your Cheatin' Heart is a cuckold's feverish revenge fantasy. The singer wishes pain and heartache upon their former lover but in so doing only confirms their own misery and loneliness: "You'll walk the floor the way I do…" It is impossible to escape the feeling that the sufferings detailed in the song are actually those of the narrator not their subject. These are future events, wished for rather than actual: "Your cheatin' heart will pine some day", it says though in the songs present it does not seem as if the faithless ex suffers at all.
Incredibly Hank's career really lasted only five short years but in that time he enriched The Great American Songbook with songs as breathtaking as Cold Cold Heart , I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry and, of course, Your Cheatin' Heart.
Hear Hank's timeless version here .
I'm not Sure Hank Would've Done It This Way but I love this 1969 version by James Brown.
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Bluefish watch: PRP treatment may help Mather resume career
ON THE MEND: Outfielder Joe Mather thought that he might have played the final game of his career. He suffered a tear in the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow.
It's an injury that is often remedied by Tommy John surgery, which would have sidelined Mather for seven to 12 months. At the age of 32, he knew there was no guarantee that he could have returned for a 15th season.
However, that is not a decision Mather will have to make right now. He received a platelet-rich plasma injection in early July, and again finds himself on the active roster with the Bluefish.
"It was scary at first," Mather said. "I thought it was going to be (Tommy John surgery). So I was pretty pleased that they had an alternative. That kind of took some weight off my shoulders. It's still a little tentative just because I don't know if this is going to stick, but so far it's been good."
PRP treatment consists of blood that has been extracted from the patient, spun at a high speed so that the blood cells are separated and then injected into the injured area.
Mather, who played in a combined 229 games in the big leagues with the St. Louis Cardinals (2008, 2010), Atlanta Braves (2011) and Chicago Cubs (2012), was activated Aug. 31. He again took batting practice Tuesday and also made 30 throws at about 45 feet.
"Now I'm starting to throw, starting to hit," Mather said. "This was probably my third or fourth BP. So everything seems to be coming back strong. We'll see in another week or so once I start letting it go harder and harder to see if it's healed up."
Entering Tuesday's series opener against the York Revolution, Mather was hitting .261 with four doubles, one home run and 10 RBIs in 29 games. He has not appeared in a game since serving as a pinch runner in the ninth inning at Long Island July 2. He has not had an at-bat since finishing 1-for-4 at Somerset June 24.
"He's eligible to play," Bluefish manager Willie Upshaw said. "I just have concerns about his elbow hitting and he's not able to throw yet. That's my concern as the manager. He can DH. I'm just leery about playing him."
Mather said he hopes to play the final week to 10 days of the season.
"I know Willie wants to make sure I'm healthy, which is understandable," Mather said. "I've come back from injuries too soon before and it never works for you the way you hope it does. So that's fine."
SLEEP-IN: The Bluefish announced Tuesday that they will honor general manager Ken Shepard by having one member of the front office sleep in the press box at Harbor Yard until the club snaps their current losing streak. They had lost a season-high 13 straight games following Monday's 13-4 loss to the Sugar Land Skeeters.
Shepard made national news as the general manager of the Class A Geneva Cubs in 1988 when he slept in the press box for 12 straight nights until the Cubs snapped their 18-game losing streak. The promotion helped increase attendance by 36 percent over the previous season.
"We have been looking for several different ways to break this losing streak," Bluefish assistant general manager Jamie Toole said. "So we want to honor Ken Shepard by bringing back one of his most famous promotions while working in baseball by sleeping in the press box until the team wins a game."
Shepard is fighting stage 4 kidney cancer. Earlier this season, he announced that 2014 would be his last as GM.
Director of Business Operations & Merchandise Greg Hodges was scheduled to sleep in the press box Tuesday night.
UP NEXT: Tonight vs. York, 7:05. RHP Corey Thurman (7-6, 3.94) vs. RHP Kyle McMillen (0-6, 7.87).


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4-Channel ±10 V, 100 mA, Precision PXI Source Measure Unit—The PXIe‑4141 is a high‑channel‑count, high-speed source measure unit (SMU) with four identical SMU channels. It is ideal for high‑pin‑count applications. It offers 4-quadrant operation, and each channel has integrated remote (4‑wire) sensing for accurate measurements. The fast sample rate of the PXIe‑4141 can help reduce measurement times, capture transient device characteristics, and allow quick I‑V characterization of devices under test (DUTs). With a high-speed sequencing engine, you can synchronize all of these SMUs with each other or with other instruments such as switches or high-speed digital test modules. You can custom-tune the PXIe‑4141 response to any load to achieve optimum responses with maximum stability and minimum transients.
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Arguably the only real news in the ballet world during the last decade came from the Kirov Ballet's reconstruction of authentic choreography by the 19th century master Marius Petipa. Many companies present works originally created by Petipa and still credited to him: "The Sleeping Beauty," "Raymonda," "La Bayadère" and "Swan Lake" (Acts 1 and 3). But their versions are almost always considerably shortened, drastically reduced in scale and extensively re-choreographed.
Beginning with "The Sleeping Beauty" in 1999, the Kirov (Petipa's home company) began using dance notation and other sources to show us exactly what Petipa wanted and who he was as a choreographer. The result was unforgettable and the experiment soon spread to other companies in Europe and North America. Unfortunately, these productions are extraordinarily expensive and none made it to Southern California, although they can be glimpsed, piecemeal, on YouTube and on bootleg videos available in the ballet underground.
The decade began with the Great Hope for classicism, a young Brit named Christopher Wheeldon, resident choreographer at New York City Ballet from 2001 until he formed his own company, Morphoses. That honor (or albatross) eventually passed to Alexei Ratmansky, briefly the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet and now resident choreographer at American Ballet Theatre. But keep your eye on Trey McIntyre, who creates brilliant works in what you might call the contemporary, semi-classical Jerome Robbins tradition.
Modern dance in this era saw the death of Merce Cunningham and Pina Bausch, groundbreaking choreographers still at the height of their powers. No one has yet replaced them, although Paul Taylor remains as powerful as ever and Bill T. Jones has gained new prominence as a dance-maker partly due to his success on Broadway.
Mark Morris' star has fallen recently and Twyla Tharp has contributed nothing noteworthy since her catalog musical "Movin' Out" in 2002. But the international scene has been immeasurably enriched by the unclassifiable Akram Khan, still in his 20s at the beginning of the century and a dancer-choreographer who crosses creative frontiers with every new project.
If ballet and modern dance kept dancing in place, street dance evolved in exciting new ways in the last 10 years, with Southern California becoming ground zero for such speed-of-light forms as krumping and jerking. TV dance too had its innings, for while concert dance virtually disappeared from the tube -- even on PBS -- such net- work shows as "Dancing With the Stars" and "So You Think You Can Dance" achieved a revolution in dance for camera.
At the beginning of the century, dance in films and on TV was almost always reduced to fragmentary glimpses of motion: editing mosaics. But "Dancing With the Stars" and "So You Think You Can Dance" restored shot-to-shot continuity of movement. The style soon spread to the "High School Musical" franchise, "Glee" and other projects. So there's hope for dance literacy on screen as a new decade begins.
Obviously there were many terrible dance films during this period, perhaps more than ever. But there's hope that the Wayans' uneven but wickedly satiric "Dance Flick" made the worst clichés obsolete once and for all and we can begin the 21st century teens ready to invent new clichés.
Formerly The Times' staff dance critic, Segal is a freelance arts writer based in Hollywood and Barcelona.


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Unique device has contact rings with high conductivity and high contact force.
Many facilities have dozens, possibly hundreds, of motors, some driving a variety of equipment or even continuous-operation machines and systems. Because downtime on many processes is so costly, a fast changeout of a faulted motor is an important advantage. At the Ponderay Newsprint Co., Usk, Wash., some connectors and boots simplify and speed motor changeouts. With motor maintenance and troubleshooting maximized, modern quick disconnects and insulating boots save time and money.
Motors, motor controllers, and related equipment should receive regular preventive maintenance and testing. Usually, we perform these tests with test instrument probes connected at the motor controller. If necessary, you can quickly isolate the controller from a motor with the quick-disconnect arrangement.
Plant electricians at the Ponderay facility find quick disconnects install much more quickly than the wire connector/tape method. This is because you can easily assemble the quick-disconnect terminating components, permitting much more space in the motor terminal box. The insulating boots provide a fast, clean insulation, because you can apply or remove them with such ease.
Five years ago, Charles Green, manager of electrical service, chose the disconnects to speed installation of more than 800 460V motors. Since the project's completion, there have been no termination failures or reports of "hot" connections. And because high motor reliability is essential, infrared tests of all mill motor connections, which are done every nine months, reveal only normal, reliable terminations. The selection of the quick disconnects proves to be the best choice.
Quick-disconnect system. This system consists of two- and three-part connectors (see Photo 1, original article). These connectors snap and unsnap easily, yet form a highly reliable connection; even after numerous connect and disconnect operations.
The quick-disconnect motor connectors come in sets that accommodate one line to one load (two wires); or one line to two loads (three wire). Four "body sizes" allow matching of different wire sizes, because line supply cables are often larger than the motor leads. For example, you can properly connect a No.12 motor lead wire to a No. 1 supply line cable with one particular body size, or a No. 2 motor lead to a 4/0-supply cable with another body size.
These connectors offer numerous advantages over conventional motor lead connectors. They eliminate nuts, bolts, washers, torquing procedures, and the danger of mismatching bolt-holes on-line and load cable lugs. They save a great deal of labor time.
Contact ring improves conductivity. The quick connector is dependable because of a high-amperage capability of an interface ring or band. This band, which occupies the female portion of the connector, has raised louvered edges, tin-plated for low contact resistance. (See Photo 2, on page 50 of original article). The band is made of beryllium copper, which creates its high conductivity. It also has excellent spring characteristics, aiding the reliability of the termination.
When you insert the male pin into the female socket containing the contact band, all the raised edges of the louvered band are deflected, producing a multitude of high-force contact points. Each contact point is typically in the force range of 8000 psi to 10,000 psi. High currents, caused by short circuits or sudden surges, tend to make the interface even more efficient by increasing the contact pressure.
Multiple high-force contacts are more efficient electrically than two flat surfaces bolted together. For example, two lugs bolted together generally produce good contact only in the immediate area of the bolt-holes. You can install the connectors using a mechanical crimping tool, creating a larger area of high-pressure contact between the cable, motor lead, and connector. This assures low resistance and high pullout strength.
Boots add reliability. Insulating boots protect the connectors. This eliminates taping and "knuckle-busting" work in tight spaces. The boot and connector are also more compactthan two lugs bolted together and taped. Installing the boot takes only seconds, versus up to 10 min for taping. Unlike tape, the insulating boot is reusable. It slips on and off quickly and easily.
In cases where dirt, corrosion, condensation, and humidity are a problem, you can add a tape sealant over the connectors before you install the boot. Supplied in 10-ft rolls, the tape sealant is removable and reusable.
The insulating boot, (see Photo 3, original article) also eliminates an installation variable: the skill of the installer assigned to tape the connection. Moreover, there is less chance of failure due to insulation breakdown from heat and vibration. When disconnecting the leads, the boot also eliminates cutting away of insulator tape. Since a knife isn't used, motor leads can't be damaged.