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Morgan has not played on the professional circuit for a few years but still competes below the radar on the amateur scene, where he has had success in international seniors events.
He decided not to attempt any comebacks as a pro but proved he still has the appetite for competition by completing an impressive victory over Davis from 1-0 down.
Morgan was world amateur champion in 1987 and reached eighth in the world rankings.
He never won a ranking title, losing in two finals, but triumphed 9-8 on the black over Davis in the 1996 Irish Masters.
Darren won various events which were then discontinued: the Welsh Professional Championship, original One Frame Knockout and Pontin's Professional Championship.
As owner of a snooker club, Morgan gets the chance to play regularly and although snooker has frustrated him at times, he will never lose his love for the game.
I enjoyed the tournament. It was nice to see the old stagers out there again and overall the event should be judged as a success.
The snooker wasn't always of the highest quality but the players were competitive and there was a good mix of fun too.
There was also packed house for every session, and you can't argue with that. There is clearly a market for seniors snooker.
The whole thing was slickly packaged by Sky Sports, as you would expect. It's worth recording how pioneering their early coverage of snooker was in the 1990s, which in turn had an effect on the BBC, whose coverage in those days was a little staid by comparison.
But Sky's understandable desire to make their events different has led to rules being introduced which nobody asked for.
The 30 second shot-clock added nothing to the tournament other than a stern rebuke from Cliff Thorburn and the 'beeps' putting off White at a crucial moment in the first frame of his semi-final against Morgan.
And there were farcical scenes in the other semi-final between Davis and John Parrott when Parrott was informed after two misses that a third would result in Davis being able to place the cue ball anywhere on the table during the first frame.
The two players were unaware of this rule. After a lengthy consultation with referee John Williams, who had the rules in his pocket, Davis declined to put the cue ball in a position where he could pot a red.
This was sporting of him but the incident underlined the dangers of messing around with a game which has more than proved its worth over the course of the last century.
There have been rules changes over the years – the miss rule an obvious example – but by and large the game of snooker is the same now as when Joe Davis won the first world title 84 years ago.
Snooker has had many problems and will doubtless still have them but one thing that has survived intact is the game itself.
It is the game that fascinates as the cast of characters changes over the years. And the game is bigger than any of them.
If you start messing around with it then you risk devaluing the very thing that drew everyone to snooker in the first place.
When you say this you get labelled a 'traditionalist.' Good, I take that as a compliment.
It is the traditionalists who stand up for snooker in the face of cheap, cosmetic attempts to dumb it down, which thrive despite there being no actual evidence that this is what people want.
I'm not against variant events. Just as other sports look for new audiences by providing a more 'fast food' version so can snooker.
So by all means have your Power Snookers and your Premier Leagues and your Shootouts.
But the championship game is the only true test and the only version which should be taken seriously. Once this version starts being diluted then, frankly, the sport will lose its credibility.
I recognise that World Snooker have to be alive to commercial pressures, particularly from television companies who effectively bankroll the circuit, but very much hope the established game of snooker as we know it, which has provided entertainment, drama, heartbreak and joy for so many, will outlive us all.
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Well said! It's the strong tradition that gives the game its charm. Hopefully the game won't get dumbed down or changed to the unrecognizable - which you put nicely yourself.
It's a tricky situation though because Barry has sprung new life into snooker but made some controversial changes as well. But in the end I agree with you; as long as the world championship is kept intact and hopefully the UK and the Masters as well (if hypotethically the UK's format is reverted back to the original), it's the most important thing.
- 10:43 pm
I agree with you 100% Dave. The game does not need tampering with.
The shot clock and buzzer was a pointless waste of time and probably cost Jimmy his semi.
The miss rule and play from hand was ridiculous. I suppose Sky were happy as it created controversy. But also the effect was to put an elderly and well respected referee under pressure on live TV. It says it all that John Williams had to have a copy of the rules about his person.
What's next I wonder? Three misses and you have to turn the cue around and play with the cue butt?! Now that would be a bunch of a$r$e...
- 11:03 pm
Nicely written Dave. I agree. There was little point in the new rules which could have instead just been politely asking the players not to get lost in story telling.
Regarding Barry Hearn, he has done great things in a short period of time but he has also started cutting the branch he sits on. He told us he wouldn't mess with the classics - and then butchered the UK format. His credibility took a big hit there. And also not tweaking the PTC concept when obvious problems exist and reasonable solutions have been put forward is very disappointing. And now I don't trust him not to mess with the World Championship. That's like trusting him to look after my cat after he flushed my hamsters.
Aaaaanyway, congratulations Darren Morgan. Will he now be included in the Premier League or what was it that this title granted access to?
- 12:58 am
I'd still trust him over Richard Gere to look after your hamster, Claus.
Anyway, I think what it does prove is that there is a market for nostalgia, rather than a senior tour per se. I'm sure the Welsh Open would be a sell-out if it was the only snooker tournament all year round. But it does raise a question itself: there is a lot of affection for this set of players, I wonder if there will be for the likes of Hendry, Higgins and Ronnie twenty years down the line? Maybe we will have to move on from seniors snooker to geriatric snooker? I'm glad that a non-tour player won it though, I think it defeats the purpose when you have the final being contested by a couple of tour players. It makes you wonder what happened to Darren Morgan though. He dropped off the tour at a relatively young age, and given his recent achievements looks like he could have been competitive on it over the last decade; it will be interesting to see how he fares in the Premier League next year, or indeed if he will accept the invitation to compete...
Anyway I'm pleased to see Davis kick the new miss rule into the grass. The players shot this down so they should stop trying to force it on them. Hopefully other players will follow suit in the Premier League, and play safe off ball-in hand rather than take advantage of a diabolical rule.
- 7:57 am
well said dave.
and well done darren
it takes a 'special' type of "fan" who wants snooker changed to the extremes sky go to and we all know who they are.
anyway, the tournament was very good and i enjoyed it.
i cant wait to see darren in the premier league next year. i think he will do better then jimmy has done this year.
- 8:10 am
Theres not a chance Baz will use the same format for next year. Selby, Bingham, Morgan? not a chance. Sky, and most viewers would run a mile.
- 10:06 am
Should the sponsorship money not go up now? I am sure Darren Morgan and Steve Davis are happy if they assume there was nothing else on this last weekend gone the £18k and £8k is ok and perhaps they will get a few exhibitions out of the tv exposure and/or in Morgan's case he might put his price up a wee bit. But how is it economical for tCliff Thorburn and Dene O'Kane to travel to it:- after tax and expenses they prob broke even? The sponsors are getting 2 days on TV albeit a minor station for £50k all in. Not sure who pays the behind the scenes costs- venue, officials etc
- 10:10 am
Methinks a lot of you forget why Hearn was brought in... because "traditionalism" failed.
- 11:22 am
- Dave H said...
The game didn't fail, the people running it did, particularly in not taking it to places where it is popular, such as Germany
No gimmicks there, just a proper tournament, much appreciated by capacity crowds
- 11:32 am
Really have no idea what the point of the "three miss leads to ball in hand" rule was supposed to be. The talking to players between frames was ridiculous as well. Is it not enough to have to listen to those pointless, tedious interviews with Andy Goldstein?
The shame is that if you take all that stuff away, you actually have the makings of a very good event.
There could be an argument for making the matches longer, although obviously not if that would affect Sky's willingness to show it.
The pockets did seem exceptionally generous, but I don't really have a problem with that. Some of these older guys might really struggle to produce a watchable standard if they were playing with pockets the same as regular events. It's like Seniors golf - the courses aren't on remotely the same level of difficulty as the main tours.
Overall I thought it was a really enjoyable couple of days, and who knows, it may even help get Sky interested in showing a proper tournament again.
But please get rid of the daft gimmicks. An event like this is built on nostalgia, and there was none of that gimmickry in the days when these guys were at their peak, popularising the game to the sort of people who a seniors event is aimed at.
- 11:39 am
Seniors events could be a useful tool for reintroducing the game to places like Canada and South Africa where the game was once popular.
I realise that the cost of staging tournaments there might be prohibitive but there might be a case for WS to allow these countries free access to TV packages in return for peak or near peak time viewing. It might turn out to be a good investment.
- 1:12 pm
Watching Thorburn -v- Mountjoy I was quite glad that the match was only being played over 3 frames. But for the players still capable of making big breaks a slightly longer format would probably be appropriate - maybe 3/5/9/11 from first round to final?
- 1:16 pm
The question that should be asked is how come two senior players were unaware of the rules.As far as the shot clock is concerned i think it was a good idea for this event,the incident surrounding the ball in hand rule looked a bit distasteful on tv and opened the door to the "traditional game argument" which i agree with,but its unjustified at the moment the game needs these events and all said and done are enjoyable.For me Davis and Parrott were at fault because i would expect these two too be fully aware of the rules as they are standard bearers for the game.
- 1:25 pm
Well said Dave. It's about time somebody stood up and spoke out.
The genius that was Sir Neville Chamberlain would be turning in his grave if he could see the way his beautiful game is being bastardised. It demeans the professionals who play it. Shot clocks; time-outs; ball in hand .... and all the other pathetic irrelevancies make me sick to the stomach.
Please Barry can we have our game back? The unadulterated, wonderful game that is snooker.
- 1:37 pm
Wasn't snooker the Power billiards of its day? Neville Chamberlain can hardly complain, considering he bastardised billiards by adding more balls and making them worth more points, just for the sake of entertainment. Why should a green ball be worth more than a yellow? It doesn't makes sense! There is no logic.
As for ball in hand, well if you don't want to gift your opponent then don't miss. If someone has laid a good snooker on you, why should you get half a dozen attempts to hit the ball and possibly put your opponent back in a snooker? I mean, if you sit a bad exam it's not like you can go back in and resit the same exam again is it until you get the grade you want? This is why snooker will never take off in America, because it rewards failure. Barry Hearn and Sky should be commended for trying to abolish reward for failure from snooker.
- 2:52 pm
- Dave H said...
It's certainly true that snooker was developed from other cue sports but the game in its current form has stood the test of time and is of proven popularity as it is
All these changes are just answers to questions nobody asked
- 3:04 pm
This is why snooker will never take off in America, because it rewards failure
Spot on. It rewards failure. It rewards the plodder and the safety player more than the flair attacker.
It rewards fluke pots.
It allows a player to make a mistake and, as you say, go back and just do it better next time.
It basically has way too much luck involved and is aimed more at defence rather than what it should be aimed at more... attack.
It does not allow a choice of formats.
Unfortunately getting this through to the likes of Dave Hendon, is impossible.
Over here, people think you are crazy for suggesting such improvements and they believe the rules are set in stone.
- 4:24 pm
Dear lord... the question WAS ASKED. We had to have a vote for new leadership because the sport was in financial meltdown. No sponsors. Six ranking events a year!
Do you even realise how absurd your argument is? Or realise that times have changed?
What you mean is YOU don't like the changes. But it is your train of thought that got us needing these changes in the first place.
Barry Hearn was voted in for a reason. It wasn't to listen to traditionalists with their heads STILL in the sand.
- 4:44 pm
If anything, they should have reverted to the rules that were in effect in the 80s..ie. any attempt to get out of a snooker where the white stayed on the table was a valid shot... :-)
As someone pointed out, it's the nostalgia that people come for and the chance to see a glimpse of the old boys' bygone standards. I actually watched Dene O'Kane play once live in the 80s and his standard was pretty much what we saw this weekend. Good effort!
If I may make some suggestions for improvement:
1. Change the venue back to something smaller and cosier
2. No £50 VIP lounge, the players should mingle with the fans and practice on a table where the fans can watch (this would be a unique aspect of the tournament).
3. Semi finals should be the best of 5 and the final the best of 7 frames
- 4:57 pm
Parrott knew the rule. The amateur lad he was playin in the last 8 was warned from a snookered position and as a direct result played a swerve leaving Parrot an easy pot.
Davis was out of order, The rules are the rules and he cant go changing them mid frame because he didnt like them.
- 5:59 pm
- Dave H said...
People (anonymous of course) are conflating two different issues: the way the game is run and the game itself.
There is nothing wrong with the game. There has been plenty wrong with the way the game was run.
I called for changes in the administration of snooker for years (and Snooker Scene helped make it happen) and we have them and the game is being run much better. But none of that has anything to do with changing the game.
The German Masters didn't change the game. The Australian Open didn't. They played proper snooker and were both popular with audiences.
As I say, I have no problem with the Shootout - which was a success - but the day they start introducing its rules into established events is the day snooker loses its credibility.
- 6:26 pm
someone clear this up please:
after 3 misses does the ref pick up the white and its play from anywhere?
does the player have a choice to put his opponent in for a 4th attempt?
in a game, if the player keeps missing one red and you get ball in hand, the red may not be potable and getting another snooker may be more difficult
so in that case id want it back 10 times
- 6:31 pm
424, or should i say shiefer, you forgot to leave your name.
we wont take your ludicrous points on board if you keep posting like that, even if you leave your name out.
- 6:33 pm
The game didn't fail, the people running it did, particularly in not taking it to places where it is popular, such as Germany
No gimmicks there, just a proper tournament, much appreciated by capacity crowds
yes theres this myth flying about as to why snooker found itself wanting barry hearn to come in.
the administration of snooker got complacement picking up their pay check each month without the drive to take it forward.
gimmicks gets boring hence a change to PL Rules this season and 6 reds and 10 reds disapering.
snookers popularity has always been the simplicity of the game and comfterble viewing.
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The Valeco Group, a major player in renewable energy project development in France, has sold 49% of a portfolio of nine wind and solar power projects in France totaling more than 180 MW to the Mirova-Eurofideme 3 fund, managed by Mirova, a subsidiary of Natixis Asset Management dedicated to responsible investment. These projects were developed and will be built by the Valeco Group which retains the remaining 51%.
The projects will become operational gradually between 2016 and 2018 and will generate 430 GWh of green electricity each year, the equivalent of the annual consumption of approximately 140,000 homes. The total investment is worth nearly €300 million, part of which consists of bank debt provided by a group of French banks, which also provided the Valeco Group and Mirova with an innovative financial structure, thereby facilitating the creation of an optimally timed transaction.
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Of all the words I'd like to write today the ones I'd most like to be writing are:
One of my favorites was his 50th, which he insisted that he was going to help plan. Little did he know that behind the scenes a surprise would be in the works. After weeks of secret phone calls to his daughters and to his family in Minnesota, a plan was devised to have some special guests at his party. I was so excited, I really don't know how I kept the secret from him. No, it was not a celebrity, but, rather people who much more important to him. His Mother, Sister and Brother and their spouses would fly in from Minnesota for this monumental birthday the day before the party. But, how would I feed all of them without him wondering what I was up to. Darrell made great spaghetti, so his oldest daughter and I came up with a plan. She would ask him if he would teach her how to make his special sauce and of course he wouldn't turn her down. So that afternoon the two of them made a huge batch of spaghetti, some of which he thought we would freeze. Now the next hurdle was how to get him out of the house so we could sneak his family in. So a neighbor and I came up with a plan for her to call and ask him to come over because she thought she smelled gas. As soon as I heard that they were within a few blocks I called her with a prearranged signal. Off he went and in they came – I had them sit around our dining room table, which is not visible from the front door, and we waited for his return. The excitement of this surprise was building as we watched him come from down the street. But, as usual he stopped to shoot the breeze with another neighbor. When he finally came through the door I yelled for him to come help me in the dining room. I'll never forget the look on his face. I think he thought he was having a hallucination. He fell back against the counter in shock and we all thought he was going to pass out. I don't think if he had won the lottery it would have been any better of a surprise. For his party his youngest daughter rented him a snazzy tuxedo – gosh he was so handsome and so very happy. I don't remember much about the actual party, but, I will never forget how thrilled he was to celebrate this very special birthday with his Mom.
When we visited Minnesota last summer Darrell said that he wanted to see the house he was born in again and the farm where his grandparents had lived. Sometimes I wonder in all the years we went there on vacation why this was the first time he ever mentioned going there. I'm so glad that I was able to share that with him and the memories he shared with me as we drove through the country. He talked about his grandparents, who only spoke Finnish, and how he wished he could have been able to talk to them. He spoke of summers spent at their farm and how he and his siblings would wake up and start hollering: "Grandma, pancakes." A special day and a sweet memory now.
It's funny how easily at times it is to forget that he is not here and how I still expect to find him "putzy'ng" in his shop. Yesterday, as I folded towels, it came to me that I still needed to get him something for his birthday, but as quickly as that flash came into my mind I realized that this year it would not be needed.
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The nub of Bill Keller's recent essay on why Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid must be cut is a graph – taken from a report by a group called Third Way – that compares federal "investments" with "entitlements," showing that one is in decline and the other is on the rise. As a baby boomer, former Executive Director of the Joint Economic Committee, and an economist concerned with military matters (I chair the Board of Economists for Peace and Security), my antennae went up immediately.
Note, as Keller acknowledges, that the federal budget counts weapons systems as "investments." Back in the 1960s, we were building nuclear bombers, submarines, missiles, and warheads; today we are downsizing that arsenal, happily unused. Does Mr. Keller really think that those "investments" had anything much to do with economic growth? If so, he's misinformed.
Even today, military procurement is around 40 percent of total federal "investment" – $221 billion out of about $540 billion in 2011, according to the Special Analyses in the Budget. Whatever you think of the F-35 and F- 22, it's just silly to add that number to (say) federal aid to education, another component of investment. The sum is not a gauge of anything.
On the budget, Mr. Keller then asserts that "the arithmetic simply doesn't work." He does not explain, but no matter; he's again misinformed. How do we know? Partly because the markets have full confidence in the US fiscal position – evidenced by record low long-term interest rates. And if you don't trust the markets, you can also look at the numbers, as I do here.
In reality, an older population is partly the result of the great success of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, which have since the early 1970s protected elderly Americans from destitution. Naturally, they live longer. And as the elderly become more numerous, the payout of the programs that support them must rise. There is nothing wrong with this. And it is wholly sustainable. The right measure is the share of total spending on this population in total GDP ; Social Security (OASDI) was under 4.5 percentage points in 2009 and is projected to rise to 6.5 percent over the next 75 years. By what conceivable argument is this a crisis? (For a detailed discussion of the question of "burden" see my testimony to the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board, February 25, 2009, co- authored with Warren Mosler and Randall Wray, available on request.)
Mr. Keller's proposal for a higher retirement age deserves a word. Today, a very high share of Social Security recipients take the early retirement option at 62. Raising the "retirement age" is just a benefit cut for these most vulnerable, lowest-paid workers. It's the cruelest and most dishonestly presented of all so-called Social Security "reforms."
As for health care costs: yes, they should be controlled. But to attack Medicare specifically is to target the elderly for cuts simply because they happen to have a public insurance program. Keller's proposals would (mostly) apply to Medicare and non-Medicare funded care alike, which is a step in the right direction — taking us away from the notion of "entitlement reform" in this area. But he is not careful enough to admit this.
These are simple points, whose validity I believe anyone can judge.
James K. Galbraith is the author of 'The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too'. He teaches at The University of Texas at Austin. This was originally posted on the Roosevelt Institute's Next New Deal blog.


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Here's a point of view you don't usually hear from cardiologists.
In this TEDxUSC talk, Dr. Leslie Saxon, Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine and Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Southern California, advocates for a patient's right to access the data stored in their implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs).
The modern ICD—which, according to Dr. Saxon, can cost upwards of $35,000—is a sophisticated electronic device that is implanted under the skin of patients that are at risk of sudden death due to ventricular fibrillation. It can achieve a survival rate of 99%. Without a defibrillator (implanted or external), a victim's chance of survival is reduced to 2%.
Among many other features, the ICD can record and store intracardiac electrograms and allow for the data to be remotely accessed by the physician. However, such data remains largely out of reach of patients.
Almost every time I bring this up with a doctor or EP nurse, I get the question: "But what would you do with this data if you had access to it?"
Plenty. It's about having all the tools at my disposal to have as much control over my chronic condition as possible. Knowledge is power and a patient privy to this knowledge is an empowered patient. It's only when we can access our data, share it and compare it with data from fellow ICD patients that we'll be able to know how it can benefit us individually. And it will.
Dr. Saxon predicts a future with a health care ecosystem that plays into other ecosystems already existing in the popular culture. Only then we can really liberate health care, destigmatize it and improve patient outcomes.
As Dr. Saxon puts it, it's about creating "the consumer of the future, the sophisticated health care consumer who's going to partner with their doctor in their health care."
"Patients deserve their data," says Dr. Saxon. "Patients want their data on demand. They're demanding it, and patients should have it."
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Dr. Saxon: Patients deserve their data.
Posted by Unknown at 8/26/2010
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I agree, I just has an ICD implanted Aug 3 and the devie has a patient management system to transmit data to the Doctor. I also received a userid and password from the manufacturer to access the website. I was under the impression I was going to see my data, all I got was battery life is ok. Duh, August 3rd and my battery is good, that is useless.
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One of my best and oldest friends, one of the smartest guys I know and a lifelong conservative–which makes him smarter than me!–copied me on an email he sent to RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman this morning. I'm reproducing it in full, with his permission, because I think it conveys as well as anything I've seen the depth of the anger, frustration and sense of betrayal that many dyed-in-the-wool Republicans feel over the illegal immigration issue. Here it is:
Ken, I hope you saw the Rasmussen poll…
….not too good for the team…40% support FORCIBLE deportation of illegal immigrants!!! (I doubt that is the true level of support — but it IS a proxy for support of enforcing EMPLOYMENT laws stringently — and AGAINST amnesty.)
a decent third party candidate in '08 and you guys are TOAST….of course, it cuts against the Dems, too…but do you really want to risk it, Ken?
guys like me are REALLY pissed!!…loyal conservatives, supporters of the GOP and GWB….we feel DEEPLY betrayed over the immigration issue — and INSULTED by the dishonesty and arrogance of the political and media elite…
…I, for one, am FULLY prepared to do whatever I can to punish those in the GOP responsible for this travesty…including, without limitation, McCain, Lindsey Graham, Martinez, Kyl, Frist (who may be coming around, it appears), Hagel and Specter (who doesn't care) and, if it were possible, GWB….
…better start to straighten up and fly right!!
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What critics were saying about Steve Jobs' smartphone in the months before it launched
Three years ago, when it became clear that Apple (AAPL) was about to unveil some kind of mobile phone, critics began to weigh in on its chances of success. AAPLinvestors' Terry Gregory, building on a list of skeptical quotes begun by MacDailyNews, has put together what may be the definitive collection.
A sample:
"We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in."
Palm CEO Ed Colligan, commenting on then-rumored Apple iPhone, 16 Nov 2006
"Apple is slated to come out with a new phone… And it will largely fail."
Michael Kanellos, CNET, 7 December 2006
"The only question remaining is if, when the iPod phone fails, it will take the iPod with it."
Bill Ray, The Register, 26 December 2006
"Apple will likely have a tough time convincing application vendors to build specialized clients for the iPhone until the volumes are there, and the volumes could be limited by the lack of third-party applications – a Catch 22."
Jack Gold, J. Gold Associates, 10 January 2007
"The iPhone is nothing more than a luxury bauble that will appeal to a few gadget freaks."
Matthew Lynn, Bloomberg, 15 January 2007
"Five hundred dollars? Fully subsidized, with a plan? It is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard which makes it not a very good email machine… So, I, I kinda look at that and I say, well, I like our strategy. I like it a lot."
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, 17 January 2007
I am not sure how it will stand against Sprint's Wimax (when it successfully launches) and its phones, which I am looking forward much more than over-hyped Apple iPhone."
Bhaskar Chitraju, Indews Broadcast, 18 January 2007
"iPhone may well become Apple's next Newton."
David Haskin, Computerworld, 26 February 2007
"Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone… What Apple risks here is its reputation as a hot company that can do no wrong. If it's smart it will call the iPhone a 'reference design' and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else's marketing budget. Then it can wash its hands of any marketplace failures… Otherwise I'd advise people to cover their eyes. You are not going to like what you'll see."
John C. Dvorak, 28 March 2007
"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get."
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, 30 April 2007
"How do they deal with us?"
Ed Zander, Motorola CEO/Chairman 10 May 2007
"Apple begins selling its revolutionary iPhone this summer and it will mark the end of the string of hits for the company."
Todd Sullivan, Seeking Alpha, 15 May 2007
"What does the iPhone offer that other cell phones do not already offer, or will offer soon? The answer is not very much… Apple's stated goal of selling 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008 seems ambitious."
Laura Goldman, LSG Capital, 21 May 2007
"We Predict the iPhone will bomb. Which means that when the iPhone comes, Digg will likely be full of horror stories from the poor saps who camped out at their local AT&T store, only to find their purchase was buggier than a camp cabin."
Seth Porges, The Futurist, 7 June 2007
"The forthcoming (June 29) release of the Apple iPhone is going to be a bigger marketing flop than Ishtar and Waterworld combined. Because its designers forgot Platt's First, Last, and Only Law of User Experience Design ("Know Thy User, for He Is Not Thee"), that product is going to crash in flames. Sell your Apple stock now, while the hype's still hot. You heard it here first."
David S. Platt, Suckbusters!, 21 June 2007
"God himself could not design a device that could live up to all the hype that the iPhone has gotten."
Harvard computer science professor David Platt, 25 June 2007
More than 33 million iPhones, 100,000 apps and 2 billion downloads later, the death watch continues. To see AAPLinvestors' full collection — including comparisons to such "iPhone killers" as the Palm (PALM) Pre, Research in Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry Storm and Motorola's (MOT) Droid — click here.
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US Government Target American Bloggers As Enemy PropagandistsI have kept this article as is because it's wording and structure speak volumes and it wouldn't do it any credit to change the text.
Government Targets American Bloggers As Enemy Propagandists Military, Homeland Security, Bush White House strategy sharpen knives against anyone critical of the "war on terror"
Recent scientific polls that show around 84% don't believe the
government's explanation behind 9/11 and others confirming the
fact that support for the war in Iraq is at an all time low
have led the Bush administration to sharpen their knives
against the new breed of perceived "enemy propagandists,"
bloggers, journalists and online activists who dissent against
the "war on terror."
As Raw Story reports, CENTCOM announced earlier this year
that a team of employees would be "[engaging] bloggers who
are posting inaccurate or untrue information, as well as
bloggers who are posting incomplete information."
So when you're wasting your time arguing the finer points
of the collapse of Building 7 or the quagmire in Iraq with
someone who seems unable to grasp basic principles, your foe
could well be sat behind a plush U.S. government desk in a
CENTCOM is infiltrating blogs and message boards to ensure
people, "have the opportunity to read positive stories,"presumably
about how Iraq is a wonderful liberated democracy and the war on
terror really is about protecting Americans.
The CENTCOM website features a useful section, "What Extremists
Are Saying," which provides a full catalogue and showcases the
diatribes of US government agents Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi,
Ayman al-Zawahiri and their sympathizers - rhetoric that CENTCOM
hopes surfers will seek out in order for them to grasp a true
understanding for the necessity of bombing the shit out of another
broken backed defenseless country in the name of "freedom."
The jaw-dropping hypocrisy of a regime and its military attack
arm that has engaged in the most gargantuan of deceit and
propaganda purges against the American people then pointing
the finger at inquisitive bloggers for "aiding the enemy," is
alarming to behold.
President George W. Bush looks up as he signs the Military
Commissions Act of 2006 in the East Room of the White House
in Washington. The bill effectively nullifies nine of the first
ten amendments to the U.S. constitution and ends the
"great experiment" known as The United States of America.
The White House has made it perfectly clear that it will target
American citizens for propagating information harmful to the
interests of the U.S. government and classify them as enemy
combatants. This is codified in sub-section 27 of section 950v.
of the Military Commissions Act of 2006.
Bush's own strategy document for "winning the war on terror"
identifies "conspiracy theorists," meaning anyone who exposes
government corruption and lies about major domestic and world
events, as "terrorists recruiters," and vows to eliminate their
influence in society.
In a speech given Monday, Homeland Security director Michael
Chertoff identified the web as a "terror training camp," through
which "disaffected people living in the United States" are
developing "radical ideologies and potentially violent skills."
Chertoff has pledged to dispatch Homeland Security agents to
local police departments in order to aid in the apprehension
of domestic terrorists who use the Internet as a political tool.
How long before influential online writers, bloggers and
journalists like Greg Palast, who was charged with aiding
the terrorists when filming "critical U.S. infrastructure,"
are arbitrarily gunned down on the street like in Russia or
the newly "free" Iraq?
The Bush administration's media mouthpieces have also been
mobilized to stereotype any kind of critical thinking as "giving
aid and comfort to the enemy," a recent case in point being
Fox News' Bill O'Reilly calling for the FBI to investigate
the 9/11 Scholars organization for possible ties to terrorist
Will we witness a "night of the long knives" to silence any
and all dissent as the official dictatorship is announced or
does the chilling effect of simply threatening to treat bloggers
and journalists as terrorists go far enough to intimidate enough
people to keep their mouths shut?
A combination of this chilling effect and moves to license
websites, impose "hate speech" restrictions and kill off the
old internet in favor of a government regulated, China-style
"Internet 2" are the tools in the arsenal of the neo-fascists
who wish to continue their domestic and imperial bloodletting
under the mandated consensus of total obedience.
Thanks to Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com for this article
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In a game they desperately needed to win, the Packers did just that, shaking off a double-digit halftime deficit to win 22-21 against the Falcons at Lambeau Field on Sunday.
Packers quarterback Matt Flynn connected with tight end Andrew Quarless on a two-yard touchdown with 12:01 left in regulation for the final margin of victory for Green Bay (6-6-1), which trailed 21-10 at the half. The touchdown was set up after the Packers' Mike Neal forced Matt Ryan to fumble on a sack, with defensive lineman Johnny Jolly recovering for Green Bay.
The Falcons (3-10) had their chances down the stretch, but they couldn't quite break through. First, Matt Bryant missed a 52-yard field goal with less than seven minutes left. Then, in the first play after the two-minute warning, the Falcons were stopped on a 4th-and-5 play at the Green Bay 33, as tight end Tony Gonzalez couldn't haul in a Ryan pass that wasn't quite on target.
Finally, on Atlanta's last drive in the final minute, Harry Douglas dropped a pass that would have advanced the ball into Green Bay territory. On the next play, Ryan was intercepted by Jarrett Bush, which sealed the game for Green Bay.
With the win, the Packers are just a half-game behind Detroit (7-6) in the NFC North.
Flynn completed 24-of-32 passes for 258 yards with one TD and one interception for the Packers, who snapped a five-game winless streak. In defeat, Ryan threw for 206 yards with two TDs and one pick on 20-of-35 passing for Atlanta.


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Lay 1 (7 1/2 by 4-inch) chocolate bar flat on table, short side facing you.
With melted chocolate, hold another chocolate bar lengthwise and glue against long side of flat bar. Hold until set.
Repeat this process with 2 more chocolate bars until a 4-sided box is formed. Repeat to make 2 boxes total.
Stand boxes upright.
With melted chocolate, glue another chocolate bar between the 2 boxes to form the entranceway to the house.
The chocolate bar should be flush with the back of the chocolate boxes, creating a set-in entranceway.
Carefully cut another chocolate bar in 1/2 crosswise.
Glue at an angle to form a roof peak. Repeat with 2 more bars to form a total of three roof peaks. Don't worry about these being perfect. Imperfections add to the "scary" effect.
Glue 1 roof piece on top of each standing box.
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Overlap nonpareil chocolate disks to create shingles on roof. Decorate the front eaves with candy corn and black jellybeans.
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Once dry, attach the chimney to the roof and position the gateposts in front of the house, using more melted chocolate.
Break chocolate covered wafer candy apart into long pieces.
With melted chocolate, glue together to create fencing and window shutters.
Pieces may break, adding to the scary effect.
With a spoon, smear melted chocolate onto cardboard base to create pathway to front door.
Cover with gourmet jelly beans to create stone pathway effect.
Decorate yard with marshmallow pumpkins, ghosts, bats, and cats. Uses candy bars, orange slices and jelly worms to create graveyard.


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Demi Lovato No Longer in Contact With Niall Horan
If you are a Lovatic and/or a Directioner holding out hope for Demi Lovato and One Direction's Niall Horan to upstream their under-a-microscope friendship to a romance, well, you are outta luck.
Lovato has confirmed that she and the blonde cutie are no longer in contact, since she had to deal with some mild Directioner ire, which happens anytime a starlet grows close to a boy bander. She was also fed up with near-constant media gossip and chatter over their platonic relationship.
Lovato told Heat (quote via Perez Hilton) that the twosome no longer hang. Boo! Hiss! "Not really" was her reply when asked if she and Niall bro down.
"Unfortunately, as sweet as he is, it's hard to maintain a friendship with somebody that you really can't hang out with without people automatically assuming that you're dating," the 'Heart Attack' hitmaker said. "People tweeted and either said really nice things or rude things. More nice than bad, I guess."
Well, the upside is that she had some positive comments about hanging with the 1D cutie.
Lovato has had boy band relationships before. She briefly dated Joe Jonas, who is better known for his string of hot GFs than his music at this point, before her breakdown and entry into rehab in 2011.
What a shame about her and Niall. We thought they were such a cute possible couple.


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Truckers or skiers, take your pick
Any conversation about the West's dangerous interstate highways might explore why more truckers don't use I-90 or I-70, instead of Wyoming's infamous I-80, which stretches across the southern part of the state.
Given Interstate 80's high altitude and snow-prone disposition, plus forecasts that traffic will increase to over 14,000 vehicles a day, everyone should be concerned about the safety of this highway. Now, a Wyoming legislative panel is concerned and looking for ways to finance what are certain to be enormously expensive improvements.
Meanwhile, I-80 traffic boasts more than 60 percent truck-traffic, or 6,000 semi-trailer trucks a day, and thanks to its route through the mountains, you can drive it through snow almost any month of the year. It is also no secret that a certain number of the truckers next to you are probably high on drugs, behind schedule, and willing to take a few risks.
Other drivers to fear are flatlanders who have no idea how to handle Wyoming's steep grades, high winds and black ice. Combine these amateur drivers with fast-moving trucks maneuvering through a ground blizzard, and you've got lots of fodder for nightmares. I've driven large vehicles for years and have a policy never to drive any vehicle but one with size when traveling I-80 in any season. You want as much iron wrapped around you as possible; those in a small car have little chance in a collision with these behemoths.
I have long thought there's a cheaper solution -- Interstate 90, which drops into Wyoming at Sheridan and exits east of Gillette. This road is fun to drive, scenic, and compared to I-80, virtually truckless. But it's out of the way for most California-to-Chicago traffic. Another is I-70, but despite living in the West for almost 40 years, a hurried trip last March was my first experience with this road west of Denver. It can boast of quintessentially Western hazards: runaway truck ramps, four tunnel systems, mountain passes higher than 11,000 feet, and thousands of skiers zinging along in tiny cars. What's more: Roadways so narrow through canyons that they seem more like bridges. I-70 is nothing less than a scenic marvel, though you have to wonder how Colorado's congressional delegation ever got the road built. There's no doubt it cost billions. It is easy to understand why a trucker would avoid that road like the plague.
Our journey started on a Friday afternoon but soon halted in a traffic jam in downtown Denver, thanks to I-70 entrances and exits. This was certainly not the experience a trucker would get zipping through Rock Springs or Cheyenne on I-80. But in Denver, we crawled along at five miles per hour from I-225 in the eastern part of the city, until we headed up the hill toward Evergreen. Unpleasant is too kind a word to describe the experience as this stretch of highway sometimes gets 100,000 vehicles per day, dwarfing the numbers for I-80.
Although the forecast was for dry roads, it snowed and sleeted on us as we headed into the mountains. The highway took us past major ski areas like Breckenridge and Vail, and everybody but us probably knew not to be there on a Friday during spring break on one of the last weekends of ski season. It was a mess: mind-boggling, bumper-to-bumper traffic.
So while it is easy to complain about 8,000 semi-trailer trucks, it is just as easy to complain about 50,000 Subarus going in all directions while loaded down with skis, bicycles or both. Once we got past Vail, traffic diminished, and then we had the pleasure of driving through the amazing Glenwood Canyon. It resembles a highway on stilts, with one lane seeming to sit on top of another. A blizzard might make this highway a lot less than fun.
We spent the night in Grand Junction and then headed west across the Utah desert in good weather until I-70 ends, merging with I-15 about 60 miles north of Cedar City, Utah. I would love to travel that road again, but not in a hurry and never during ski season, and only when the weather is good. Otherwise, forget it; no wonder the truckers all head north to I-80.
Bill Sniffin is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News in Paonia, Colorado (hcn.org). He is a longtime journalist in Lander, Wyoming.
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Sidney Lumet, (born June 25, 1924, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died April 9, 2011, New York, New York), American director who was noted for his psychological dramas, which typically featured characters wrestling with moral or emotional conflicts involving betrayal, corruption, or disillusionment. He was also known for eliciting strong performances from his cast members.
Early work
Lumet grew up in New York City, where his parents were both veterans of the Yiddish Art Theatre. He followed in their footsteps, making his acting debut in the theatre as a child. In 1935 he appeared in his first Broadway production, Sidney Kingsley's Dead End. Lumet was cast in other plays before making his film debut in the socially conscious …One Third of a Nation… (1939). After serving overseas in the U.S. Army during World War II, Lumet taught drama at the High School of Performing Arts in New York City, and he also started directing minor stage productions. In 1950 he became an assistant director at CBS. The following year he began helming episodes of the adventure series Danger, and he worked on various programs before graduating to the dramatic anthology series Goodyear Playhouse, Playhouse 90, Kraft Theatre, Omnibus, and Studio One in Hollywood.
In 1957 Lumet directed his first feature film, 12 Angry Men, which had originated as a live television production. Considered a courtroom classic—although it had only modest success at the box office—the drama centres on the jury deliberations in a murder trial, and its explorations of conscience and justice became common themes in Lumet's productions. The film was nominated for an Academy Award, and Lumet received an Oscar nod for best director. Stage Struck (1958) tried to capitalize on Lumet's theatrical experience, but that remake of the 1933 play Morning Glory was largely ignored, owing in part to the miscasting of Susan Strasberg as an aspiring actress who moves to New York City in the hopes of becoming a Broadway star. Not much better was That Kind of Woman (1959), a romantic comedy featuring Sophia Loren as a millionaire's mistress who falls in love with a soldier (Tab Hunter).
The 1960s: Fail Safe, The Pawnbroker, and The Hill
For his next films Lumet looked to the theatre. The Fugitive Kind (1960) was a middling adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play Orpheus Descending, starring Marlon Brando as a drifter who shakes up a Southern town. The European production Vu du pont (1962; A View from the Bridge) was a well-realized version of Arthur Miller's drama set on the Brooklyn docks, with Raf Vallone and Maureen Stapleton as an unhappily married couple.
It was Long Day's Journey into Night (1962), though, that brought Lumet his best notices to date and launched a series of films that are widely considered classics. A lengthy, deliberately theatrical adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's acclaimed play about a dysfunctional family, it offered standout performances by Katharine Hepburn (Oscar-nominated), Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell, and Ralph Richardson. Lumet moved far afield with the claustrophobic thriller Fail Safe (1964), about the United States on the brink of nuclear warfare; Henry Fonda starred as the president, and Walter Matthau portrayed a professor. Although a critical success, it was a disappointment at the box office, overshadowed by Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, which had been released earlier that year. Lumet's other film from 1964, The Pawnbroker, also became a classic. The grim but powerful drama chronicled a concentration camp survivor's efforts to sublimate his memories while running a business in Harlem; Rod Steiger was Oscar-nominated for his performance in the title role. The Pawnbroker prominently featured New York City, which was a favourite locale for Lumet, who likened locations to characters. His success continued with The Hill (1965), a shocking tale about life in a British military prison; the notable cast included Sean Connery, Ossie Davis, and Harry Andrews.
Lumet shifted gears with the melodrama The Group (1966), a highly publicized but only moderately successful adaptation of Mary McCarthy's best seller that follows eight women (Candice Bergen in her film debut, Jessica Walter, Shirley Knight, and Elizabeth Hartman, among others) after they graduate from Vassar College in 1933. It toned down some of the novel's frank discussion of sexuality. Better received was The Deadly Affair (1966), a grim spy drama based on a novel by John le Carré; the international cast was headed by James Mason, who starred as a British secret agent investigating the suicide of a government official while dealing with his own marital problems. After the uneven black comedy Bye Bye Braverman (1968), Lumet earned mixed reviews for The Sea Gull (1968), an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play, with Mason, Vanessa Redgrave, and Simone Signoret. Lumet closed out the decade with the glossy but forgettable melodrama The Appointment (1969), which starred Omar Sharif as an attorney who begins to suspect that his wife (Anouk Aimée) is a prostitute.
The 1970s: Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, and Network
Last of the Mobile Hot-Shots (1970) was an awkward rendering of Tennessee Williams's play The Seven Descents of Myrtle, with a script by Gore Vidal. Lumet then codirected (with Joseph L. Mankiewicz) the Oscar-nominated documentary King: A Filmed Record…Montgomery to Memphis (1970), about civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Lumet had a modest hit with The Anderson Tapes (1971), a well-made caper that starred Connery. Child's Play (1972), however, was a flawed version of Robert Marasco's play about evildoings at a boys' boarding school; Mason and Robert Preston starred as rival teachers. Lumet reteamed with Connery on The Offence (1972), a psychological drama about a British police officer who kills a suspected child molester and then must examine his motives. Despite an acclaimed performance by Connery, the film failed to find an audience.
In 1973 Lumet made what was then his biggest hit, Serpico, and it began the director's frequent examination of police corruption. The grim drama was adapted from the Peter Maas book about real-life undercover cop Frank Serpico (played by Al Pacino), whose life was endangered after he exposed graft and corruption in the New York Police Department. The film was a critical and commercial success, and Pacino received an Academy Award nomination for his career-defining performance.
After the romantic drama Lovin' Molly (1974), Lumet had another box-office hit with Murder on the Orient Express (1974), a clever adaptation of the Agatha Christie mystery. The all-star cast included Albert Finney (as Hercule Poirot), Lauren Bacall, John Gielgud, Anthony Perkins, and Ingrid Bergman, who won an Oscar for best supporting actress. Lumet then reteamed with Pacino on another highly acclaimed drama, Dog Day Afternoon (1975), which was also based on a true event. Pacino starred as a man who tries to rob a bank in order to finance a gender-reassignment operation for his boyfriend (Chris Sarandon). A critical and commercial success, the drama received six Academy Award nominations, including best picture, and Lumet received his second Oscar nod for best director.
Lumet's success continued with Network (1976), an enthusiastically received drama that satirized the television industry and predicted the rise of entertainment news. It centres on an unbalanced newscaster (Peter Finch), whose on-air cry of "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore" causes a sensation. Lumet, who thrived when working with a New York City locale, helped three of his actors—Finch, Faye Dunaway, and Beatrice Straight—win Oscars for their performances. Other Academy Award nominations included best picture and script (Paddy Chayefsky). In addition, Lumet received another Oscar nod for his direction. On the heels of these back-to-back hits, Lumet made Equus (1977), which Peter Shaffer adapted from his Broadway hit about a psychiatrist who is asked to treat a young man who is obsessed with horses. Some complained that the film literalized the play's highly stylized symbolism, robbing the drama of much of its impact. However, Lumet's unique rapport with the performers elicited Oscar-nominated performances by Richard Burton (as the psychiatrist) and Peter Firth (as the disturbed youth). Lumet then ventured into musicals with The Wiz (1978), an adaptation of the all-black-cast play based on The Wizard of Oz. Despite an all-star lineup—which included Diana Ross as Dorothy, Michael Jackson as the scarecrow, Lena Horne as the good witch Glinda, and Richard Pryor as the Wiz—the movie was universally panned.
The 1980s: Prince of the City, Deathtrap, and The Verdict
Lumet continued his exploration of police corruption with Prince of the City (1981). Although overlong, the drama drew praise for the fine performances, notably that of Treat Williams; the screenplay by Lumet and Jay Presson Allen was Oscar-nominated. In 1982 Lumet directed another successful adaptation of a play, Deathtrap, which was based on Ira Levin's Broadway hit. Michael Caine starred as a playwright who decides to kill another writer (Christopher Reeve) in order to claim his work.
Lumet then returned to the courtroom with The Verdict (1982), a widely acclaimed drama, with a powerful Oscar-nominated performance by Paul Newman as an alcoholic lawyer who rediscovers his pride—and his talent—when he takes on an unpopular case. Lumet and the film were also Oscar-nominated, as were David Mamet's potent screenplay and James Mason's indelible turn as the crafty opposing attorney. Lumet had less success with his next films, which included Daniel (1983); Power (1986), which starred Richard Gere as a political consultant; and The Morning After (1986), a clumsy murder mystery with Jane Fonda as an alcoholic actress who wakes up one morning to find a dead man in her bed.
Running on Empty (1988) was better, a heartfelt account of the difficulties faced by a family on the run from the FBI for radical acts the parents performed when they were college students. Judd Hirsch and Christine Lahti as the parents and River Phoenix as their eldest son excelled; Phoenix and the screenplay were nominated for Academy Awards. But Family Business (1988) was an ineffective heist picture, despite strong performances by Connery, Dustin Hoffman, and Matthew Broderick.
Later work
Lumet wrote the screenplay for Q&A (1990), adapting Edwin Torres's novel about a young assistant D.A. (Timothy Hutton) who refuses to soft-pedal his investigation of a respected police detective (Nick Nolte) accused of corruption. Lumet's erratic track record was extended with A Stranger Among Us (1992), in which Melanie Griffith was miscast as an undercover police officer who penetrates the Hasidic community of Brooklyn. Also forgettable was Guilty as Sin (1993), with Don Johnson as an accused murderer and Rebecca De Mornay as his guileless attorney.
Night Falls on Manhattan (1996; script by Lumet), however, was an effective thriller that delved into police corruption in New York City. Andy Garcia gave a strong performance as the gung ho assistant district attorney who learns that his detective father (Ian Holm) may be corrupt; the top-notch cast also featured Richard Dreyfuss, Lena Olin, Ron Leibman, and James Gandolfini. Critical Care (1997) was a semisatirical look at the modern world of hospitals, with James Spader starring as a young doctor who discovers systemic abuses while treating his patients. As with most of Lumet's productions, the film offered a remarkable cast; it included Albert Brooks, Helen Mirren, Kyra Sedgwick, Philip Bosco, and Wallace Shawn.
In 1999 Lumet directed Sharon Stone in a little-seen remake of John Cassavetes's Gloria (1980). In 2001–02 he returned to television, directing episodes of 100 Centre Street, a legal drama. He then helmed the TV movie Strip Search (2004), which examines the loss of civil liberties in the pursuit of national security. He returned to the big screen with Find Me Guilty (2006), an organized-crime drama starring Vin Diesel, Ron Silver, and Peter Dinklage. In 2007 Lumet directed his final film, the suspenseful Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. The acclaimed drama starred Philip Seymour Hoffman as a financially strapped manager who talks his brother (Ethan Hawke) into helping him rob their parents' jewelry store—a caper that does not turn out well.
Lumet's memoir, Making Movies, was published in 1995. In 2005 he was given an Academy Award for lifetime achievement.
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Gloria VanderbiltIn 1956 she married director Sidney Lumet; the pair divorced in 1963. Later in 1963 Vanderbilt married writer Wyatt Emory Cooper, to whom she remained married until his death in 1978. With him she had two of her four sons—one of whom, Anderson Cooper, became a prominent news anchor for…
Fail SafeDirector Sidney Lumet shot the black-and-white movie in a minimalist, claustrophobic, documentary style and without a musical score to heighten the tension.…
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Summon Perfect Warlord Spell
Proposed Canon
The Summon Perfect Warlord Spell is what summoned Judy Gale and Parson Gotti to Erfworld. It was originally invented by Charlie. Using unknown means, this spell has been cast by a combination of a Predictamancy, Thinkamancy, Lookamancy, and Findamancy. It grants the target warlord status. It can be dispelled by Dismiss Perfect Warlord.
In Judy Gale's case, the spell was cast by Haffaton's Thinkamancer (probably Maxwell) and Predictamancer (probably Maya Calendar), as well as El-Efbaum's Lookamancer and Findamancer in order to defeat the sides known as Easteros and Westeregg.IPTSF Text 66
In Parson's case, the scroll was created by Thinkamancer Tisha, Lookamancer Hubble, a Predictamancer (probably Marie Lavraie) and an unknown Findamancer. The original Spell package, including both spell and casting, cost 500,000 shmuckers.TBFGK 5 Stanley, finding that the spell alone would cost 350,000 shmuckers, decided to disregard the support plan consisting of a Findamancer casting worth 150,000 shmuckers; he instead ordered Wanda Firebaugh to cast the spell.Erf-b1-p013 It was cast by Wanda Firebaugh with interference by Stanley the PlaidErf-b1-p017.
It has been later revealed that the spell that summoned Parson was part of the Hippiemancers' and Predictamancers' plot to end the perpetual state of war on Erf and the Thinkamancer's plot to deal with Charlie.LIAB Text 37
The spell's results were more than unusual. After pulling Parson, the spell created a number of magical items on the following days to equip him and transform him into the true Perfect Warlord:
- A pair of 3D Glasses that gives him the Erfworlder's natural ability to see other units' stats, plus the ability (which Erfworlder's lack) to see their names;
- A strange bracer that attaches to his calculator watch, allowing computation of combat probabilities;
- And finally, a three-piece sword, with the enchantments of "Leadership", "Combat ability" and "Ruthlessness".
Judy Gale carried a set of magic items as well, which were likely a result of the same effect, including:
- A tiara.
- A broomstick that enabled flight.
Judy also had an anklet that resembles electronic curfew anklets used on Stupidworld to keep track of persons on probation. The source of this anklet is unclear--it might be Olive's doing, part of the Summon Perfect Warlord Spell used to control the summoned warlord, or something else entirely.
Parson suspects that the magic items that come with the spell are bound to their associated Perfect Warlord by Fate, and that should they somehow be lost, Fate will arrange for their return.
The majority of qualities that Stanley demanded for his Perfect Warlord may have been received:
- Big - Parson is large compared to "normal sized" ErfWorlders. This is perhaps due to Erfworld natural Signamancy reflecting his true nature in his appearance (much like royalty, et al, except instead of majestic looking as a royal, he's big as in powerful.)
- Powerful - Due to his size, Parson is capable of carrying much larger and heavier things than native men. This might also have been added through the "Combat" in the sword, which has been destroyed.
- Dashing - Energetic/spirited; Parson gets like that when he's winning.
- ...or possibly in a more literal sense on his second visit to the Magic Kingdom
- Handsome - Wanda may have an odd sense of what is good-looking, or bypasses the "dashing" and "handsome" requirements when Stanley asks to "just make him big".
- Heroic - May have been added through the "Ruthlessness" quality of the sword. He is willing to risk his own presence on the battlefield at the most vital junctures at the end where he was needed. He stands up to Erfworld itself at the end of the Battle for Gobwin Knob, declaring his opposition to what just occurred. He still has the tendency to put himself on the battlefield (not going to put others where he won't go), so this may be an innate trait.
- Inspiring - May have been added via the "Leadership" quality of his sword. Even without it, his behavior eventually inspires awe in his subordinates, especially Wanda, Jack, and Ace.
- Perfect military mind - Enhanced by the Mathamancy Bracer, if not already present.
- Strategic genius - Erfworlders are traditionalists. Parson's novel strategies tend to succeed against native Erfworld warlords due to his knowledge of (and enthusiasm for) less traditional warfare.
- Strategic genius and/or Natural Signamancer - Erfworlders are traditionalists. Parson sees the world in a way they never will due to how he views the world as a warlord and a natural signamancer.
See Parson being a Signamancer.
- Obsessed with war - Considers the military uses of everything he sees.
- Plans wars and kills his foes for fun - Parson was introduced as a long-time tabletop wargame player, an entertainment activity (for fun) in which you plan wars and kill foes.
- Eats marbits and gwiffons - Marbits are marshmallow bits in breakfast cereal. Gwiffons are shaped like peeps.Erf-b1-p017. Directly before being summoned, Parson was seen eating peeps and commenting on the ideal staleness for marbits.
- Everything should seem familiar and safe to him. No crazy surprises - There are many references to the culture of Earth (particularly American and/or geek culture, which Parson would be most familiar with) embedded in the phenomena of Erfworld.
- Wants to be summoned - Just before being summoned, Parson said he'd gladly escape into a game world, seeing it as an improvement over his boring everyday life.
Looks like they got what they paid for.
It is possible that the spell itself is made of a tri-link of a Thinkamancer with a Predictamancer and a Lookamancer. The Findamancy may only come into play during the actual casting of the spell and the Predicamancy and Lookamancy only provide the means and criteria that the Findamancer needs to perform the spell. The Thinkamancy may also play a role in "scanning" for the right type of mind that the spell is looking for, but it almost certainly casts a loyalty spell on the subject to bind him or her to the caster's ruler. This would be necessary as summoning a perfect warlord as a barbarian would negate the point and put the caster at risk of an attack or a conquer attempt.
The other possibility is that spell is somehow made in stages and, thus, isn't a true meshing of the four disciplines. Nevertheless, the power and complexity of the spell is undeniable.
Real World References
The spell caused the casting chamber to resemble that of the Master Program from Tron.
The fact that the casting that summoned Judy Gale killed Bell as an immediate effect of the spell is a reference to how in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the wicked witch of the East is crushed by Dorothy's house. This connection is further implied by the fact that the part of Dorothy Gale was played by Judy Garland in the 1939 motion picture version of The Wizard of Oz.


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Food rights experts are cautioning Africa to be wary of what may amount to land grabbing by foreign companies who want to produce bio-fuel crops and food for their home markets - writes Fredrick Nzwili.
The warning was sounded in Nairobi, where members of church groups gathered from 22-26 November 2010, to discuss challenges of food security and justice in southern and central Africa.
"Africa has to be careful with these [deals] because it is the people, the ordinary people at the ground who will suffer, and not [only] suffer now, but into the future," Susie Weldon, an official from the Britain-based Alliance of Religions and Conservation told ENInews.
"I think this is wrong. The first priority of the governments should be to feed its own people," said Weldon, whose organisation is working with faith groups to develop environmental programmes based on their beliefs, practices and teaching.
The conference in Nairobi was organised by the Geneva-headquartered Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance.
Weldon explained that corporations are using land for intensive farming, leaving it badly degraded for use by local communities when contracts end. Still, Weldon said due to huge debts, some Africa governments may be tempted to sign what look like lucrative deals.
Global food market price volatility affecting countries depending on imports is a key factor driving the rush, said delegates in Nairobi. A surging demand for bio-fuels by oil companies, the expectation of subsidies for carbon seizure through plantations and the avoidance of deforestation are the other factors.
"I think the issue is how to ensure the local communities and the people most directly affected are part of this discussion," said Peter Prove, the EAA director. "We also need to be very aware of the impact of food security in taking land out of productive agricultural use and into other uses, for example bio-fuels production, which do not feed the people."
The conference heard that the large scale deals are destroying livelihoods, increasing evictions, destroying the environment, exacerbating the climate change crisis and diverting food producing resources and labour to cash crop production.
"That's why we need to speak loudest to make sure that there is no land grabbing before Africans have adequate and sufficient land for their needs," said Thabani Maphosa, the global director of food programming for World Vision International.
[With acknowledgements to ENI. Ecumenical News International is jointly sponsored by the World Council of Churches, the Lutheran World Federation, the World Communion of Reformed Churches and the Conference of European Churches.]


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PEORIA — Dr. Paul Fishkin steps into a small room of Illinois CancerCare devoted to storage and preparation of chemotherapy drugs.
"Most of the dollar cost of oncology is here," says Fishkin, waving a hand around the room, which includes a refrigerated inventory box containing drugs that can cost as much as $20,000 a dose. "And most of the savings is here."
Illinois CancerCare focuses on the "savings" part of the equation by managing the use of expensive drug treatments to eliminate wasteful usage and keep costs as low as possible, Fishkin says.
"We pride ourselves on managing waste," says Fishkin, oncologist and president of the comprehensive cancer treatment center.
Even so, Fishkin and his fellow cancer specialists at Illinois CancerCare received more Medicare payments than any other doctors in Peoria County, according to data released for the first time by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services last week.
Advanced Medical Transport of Central Illinois, or AMT, the not-for-profit ambulance service, received the most payments from Medicare locally, at $4.5 million. Of the top 10, Center for Health Ambulatory Surgery Center took 10th place with $1,688,487 in Medicare reimbursements.
Eight of Illinois CancerCare's 17 doctors ranked second through ninth, for a total of $18.5 million in payments from the federal health insurance program mainly for people older than 65. Dr. Michael Veeder, with $3 million in Medicare payments, ranked second after AMT, making him the single doctor with the most Medicare payments.
But Medicare is a complicated system and cancer treatment can be a complicated process. It would be a mistake to draw conclusions on dollar figures alone. Illinois CancerCare's payments from Medicare say as much about the scope and volume of the practice as it doesn't say about the limitations of the data.
The CMS data comes with its own set of complexities and gaps. It's no surprise that oncologists would be among the highest-reimbursed specialties, in part, because of the high cost of cancer drugs. But some practices bill Medicare charges for multiple doctors under one supervising doctor's name. Medicare fees paid for hospital-based oncologists show up in the hospital's billing data, not the doctors. The data also does not include payments from private insurers, Medicare Part A supplemental coverage, or anything about quality measures.
In spite of the data's limitations, supporters call the unprecedented public release a victory for transparency that could root out fraud and waste in Medicare spending, promote accountability and efficiency among physicians, and highlight patterns, trends and differences in costs and procedures from provider to provider and region to region.
"I really think this is a major step forward," says Bonnie Paris of Quality Quest for Health of Illinois, a local agency whose original mission was to improve the quality of healthcare by publicizing data on physicians' and hospital's practices.
Blocked for 35 years by a court order won by the American Medical Association, the Wall Street Journal filed the lawsuit that led to the avalanche of raw data released last week. That's nine million records, 6,000 different procedures, 880,000 physicians and other providers — ranging from nurse practitioners to physical therapists and ambulance companies — for only one year, 2012, for a total of $77 billion in Medicare Part B, or fee-for-service payments.
"A lot of times the people getting the most payments are doing the most services," Paris says. "If you're looking at prices, you've got to adjust for volume or the numbers can be misleading."
With about 15,000 active patients, approximately 10,000 of them on Medicare and satellite clinics in 11 cities, Illinois CancerCare is the largest hematology and oncology practice in central Illinois.
Fishkin was not surprised by the tally of Veeder's Medicare payments. Veeder works part of the week in the Macomb and Carthage clinic, Fishkin explained, where almost all of the patients are on Medicare.
Some doctors have expressed concerns about publicizing individual physicians' records. However, Fishkin says he's in favor of government transparency. In fact, he has been on sites checking out information about former classmates and colleagues throughout the country as if it were a massive Facebook page. And he's not concerned about what the data shows about Illinois CancerCare.
"Medicare is getting value from us, we're treating Medicare patients like they're supposed to be treated."
Medicare billing data for 2012 shows $77 billion in total payments to 880,000 medical providers. Those who received the most locally:
Peoria Hospital's Mobile Medical Services (Advance Medical Transport of Central Illinois), ambulance service, $4,554,419.
Veeder, Michael, hematology/oncology, $3,029,285.
Le-Lindquister, Nguyet, hematology/oncology, $2,527,024.
Vukov, Allen, hematology/oncology, $2,226,616.*
Thomas, Sachdev, hematology/oncology, $2,212,012.
Knost, James, hematology/oncology, $2,210,347.
Fishkin, Paul, hematology/oncology, $2,192,543.
Kumar, Pankaj, hematology/oncology, $2,184,166.
Prager, Diane J., hematology/oncology, $1,870,823.
Center for Health Ambulatory Surgery Center, ambulatory surgical center, $1,688,487.
Source: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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CORNWALL — The Cornwall selectboard on Tuesday evening tabled action on a negotiated agreement with Vermont Gas Systems regarding the Phase II natural gas pipeline, following pleas from most of the approximately 25 people who turned out at the board's meeting to argue the pact was flawed.
The agreement, unveiled this week, calls for Cornwall to drop its opposition to the project in exchange for Vermont Gas making some substantial financial concessions that would collectively reduce local residents' property taxes by an estimated 4 percent.
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ADDISON COUNTY — Phase II of the Addison Rutland Natural Gas pipeline, which would involve 19 miles of steel conduit stretching underground from Middlebury to the International Paper mill in Ticonderoga, N.Y., has generated a lot of criticism and comments of concern from citizens who have weighed in on the project this year.
Editor's note: This was submitted as an open letter to Gov. Peter Shumlin.
It has become clear that the gas that will flow through the newly proposed Gaz Métro-Vermont Gas pipeline into Addison County will have an amount of fracked gas in it that is unknowable. In fact, Vermont Gas has no control and will have no way of even knowing how much of this gas is from fracked wells.
Sen. Chris Bray's brilliantly argued letter in the June 26 edition of this paper goes to the heart of the Phase II pipeline issue. This Quebec project, as he writes, is about the private use of the proposed pipeline by the International Paper Co. and therefore deserves neither a Certificate of Public Good nor the right to eminent domain.
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