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Android, Economic Moats, And How Zero Marginal Cost Defenses Can Also Be Great Offenses
from the ain't-just-defensive deptVenture capitalist Bill Gurley has another excellent economic analysis of how powerful Android is and what it really means for Google. I have one (somewhat serious) quibble with it, in that I actually think Gurley misses the key economic point that would have made his argument even more convincing, but I'll get to that later on. The key points he makes are dead on, and should be recognizable to regular readers of this blog on our economic analysis of zero marginal cost products.
He kicks it off with a general business observation from Warren Buffet:
One of Warren Buffet's most famous quotes is that "In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'." An "economic castle" is a great business, and the "unbreachable moat" is the strategy or market dynamic that heightens the barriers-to-entry and makes it difficult or ideally impossible to compete with, or gain access to, the economic castle....From there, Gurley points out that pretty much all of Google's other products are effectively that "moat." They're the things that keep bringing you back to Google's search and ad products. And that's where Android fits in:
For Google, the economic castle is clearly the search business, augmented by its amazing AdWords monetization framework. Because of its clear network effect, and amazing price optimization (though the customer bidding process), this machine is a monster. Also, because of its far-reaching usage both on and off of Google, AdWords has a volume advantage as well. Perhaps the most telling map with regards to the location of the castle can be found in Jonathan Rosenberg's "Meaning of Open" blog post. In this open manifesto, Jonathan opines over and over again that open systems unquestionably result in the very best solutions for end customers. That is with one exception. "In many cases, most notably our search and ads products, opening up the code would not contribute to these goals and would actually hurt users." As Rodney Dangerfield said in Caddyshack, "It looks good on you, though."
So here is the kicker. Android, as well as Chrome and Chrome OS for that matter, are not "products" in the classic business sense. They have no plan to become their own "economic castles." Rather they are very expensive and very aggressive "moats," funded by the height and magnitude of Google's castle. Google's aim is defensive not offensive. They are not trying to make a profit on Android or Chrome. They want to take any layer that lives between themselves and the consumer and make it free (or even less than free). Because these layers are basically software products with no variable costs, this is a very viable defensive strategy. In essence, they are not just building a moat; Google is also scorching the earth for 250 miles around the outside of the castle to ensure no one can approach it. And best I can tell, they are doing a damn good job of it.From there, he points out, that this makes it difficult for anyone else "trying to extract economic rent for a competitive product in the same market." Indeed. And while that may raise some antitrust alarm bells, Gurley later points out why it should not:
One might yearn to suggest that there is a market unjust here that should be investigated by some government entity, but let us not forget that the consumer is not harmed here -- in fact far from it. The consumer is getting great software at the cheapest price possible. Free. The consumer might be harmed if this activity were prevented. And as we just suggested above, the market is finally driving towards software pricing that represents "perfect competition."I actually think there's a decent retort to this, which is that someone could say that this moat situation means that others cannot get into the market at all, and thus consumers could be hurt in the decrease of competition, which could mean that certain innovations don't make the market and/or that Google begins to stagnate on innovation as it faces no serious competition in those areas. To date, however, I don't believe there's much evidence that this is happening with Google (though, it is an area worth watching carefully).
But, really, what Gurley is describing is the same stuff that we've been talking about for over a decade: it's the natural economics of digital goods. Over time, someone will figure out a way to price those goods at the marginal cost of zero, and use that to support some other business. So, if you're sitting around hoping to charge for those goods, you're going to be left out in the cold. We know that argument and live that argument, though it's always nice to see it being validated yet again in real life.
But here's the key point that I think Gurley is missing, and which would have made his argument even stronger. Above, I bolded the line in his writeup that said that "Google's aim is defensive not offensive," with these products. I think he's actually underestimating Google here. These moves are both defensive and offensive (the best offense is a good defense, right?), though not in the traditional way of trying to directly monetize those offerings. It's that those "free" or abundant goods don't just act as a defensive shield, but they can also make the scarce "castle" good much more valuable. If we're sticking with the moat analogy, it's a situation where the moat not only acts as a defense, but it also serves to float the castle to even higher levels.
We've described this in other fields many times. For example, in a simplistic example, with music, freeing up the music makes it easier to spread the music, build a bigger fan base, and then increase the value of the scarcities around the musician (so they can make more on tour or through merch or more creative business models).
And I think that's certainly true with Android as well. It doesn't just build a "moat" around Google search/AdWords that protects that business, but it actually enhances those businesses and makes them more valuable directly. It does those things by extending the availability and usage of such businesses (I do searches on the go from my phone all the time these days), but also opens up those businesses to scenarios where they never would have been useful before at all.
So I agree with Gurley's basic premise, that making use of such zero marginal cost infinitely available goods by embracing their free nature acts as a very powerful moat, but I think he underestimates how much of an offensive play it is in not just protecting the castle, but vastly enhancing the castle's offensive power as well.
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The Next Level. NP 704.
Signposts passed:
295 out of 354 pages
305 out of 355 pages
BlitzGirl wrote:Quest progress: 305 out of 355 pages.
The Observation/Observed Platform. NP 560.BlitzGirl wrote:Quest progress: 223 out of 303 pages.
The Architect Age. NP 342.Foarm wrote:BlitzGirl wrote:Alas, I came to this thread hundreds of newpix after the Beginning of Time. As penitence for my lateness and as a demonstration of my devotion I have set out on a quest to read every page of the One True Thread, like the noble Beidah long before me.
Quest progress: 77 out of 223 pages.
The Populated Period of Expansion. NP 156.
I send forth this message now in the fervent hope that I shall encounter it again on my journey, tangled in the thread of Time.
All congratulations to BlitzGirl, for reading another 146 pages and reaching this point. Success on the remaining pages.
At last! I have spotted the initial signpost I left for myself, when I first began my travels. And an encouraging message from Foarm, for which I am grateful. There are still many newpages to go, looming ahead like strange structures on the sand. But now I have passed the first marker. Henceforth, I follow my own breadcrumbs forward into the future, though they were left by myself in the past. The thread of Time is a strange and wonderful place, my friends. I would say that Time has no meaning here, were not the exact opposite true.
At last! I have spotted the signpost that spotted the initial signpost I left for myself when first I began my travels. Which means all signposts I hereafter encounter shall be 2 layers deep. Wish me luck, compatriots in Time!
At last! I have spotted the signpost that spotted the signpost that spotted the initial signpost I left for myself when first I began my travels. Which means all signposts I hereafter encounter shall be 3 layers deep. And my current travels constitute a fourth layer of signposts, though I have abandoned direct signpost-quotes (for the most part).
As Megan and Cueball use their bukkit-system to deliver new construction material to the Next Level of the Sandcastle, the thread of Time meanders along. More brief panic, it seems, when the fora were inaccessible (the horror!) and I also squelched through some rot13. Apparently someone tried to make me part of the Temporal Illuminati, but I believe reading it ALL lends me some kind of exempt-status when it comes to translation traps (I have no choice but to translate, after all). Plus I have the Whistle of Temporal Harmony right now, so I don't think it's technically possible to be at temporal secret-war with myself.
Awesome sigcouragement from XonqNopp:
XonqNopp wrote:Official supporter of BlitzGirl
Some pastposts I perused:
Eternal Density wrote:Hi BlitzGirl! I just discovered that my first post in the thead only barely preceded yours, and your latest progress update followed very soon after this news. I find it amusing that your posts are recursing as you catch up to your own posts, like unto the manner of the <material>castles. So I figured I should say 'hi' and 'hang in there!'
I hope you found my Towering Pillar of Hats amusing (and the fact that I was appointed temporary Pope because of it - a station which may or may not be over by the time I finish writing this post).
If I remember correctly, the hats involved are: blue wool knitted beanie (grandma-knitted), headcrab hat from the valve store, leather hat from Byron Bay Tasmania (BC brand), Stark Industries beanie from Iron Man 2, black FAIL cap from failblog, tour company cap from Israel (I can't actually see that one, the brim must be on the other side), 2015 lenticular rainbow cap from BTTF online store, and graduation cap.
Hi! *stares in awe at the Towering Pillar of Hats* *tilts head* But why is it upside down? Isn't that more like a Dangling Stalactite of Hats?
Valiant Cookie, April 19th edit wrote:EDIT: AHA! I return to read the NewPages and find that some forum sorcery bumped me into Pope For A Page! Alas the time to abuse my power has past for those in the present present. I content myself with a message for the future presents of Blitzgirl and others who traverse this needle pulled thingy. As Pope I bestow unto anyone that reads these words as they follow the flow of time towards the future, the position of Archbishop of the Past. You may accept this title and use it's power with a message to your current future, however you must relinquish this title as soon as you reach the most future present, or as soon as you see a post from someone else accepting the title that is after your post accepting the title.
Okay, I'm saying right here in this signpost that I'm accepting this title in the hope that I can give it up when I read this signpost in the thread. If not before! *adds title to list*
KarMann wrote:BlitzGirl wrote:KarMann wrote:Well, BlitzGirl is experiencing a bit of a title wave.
You can say that again! *dutifully adds more titles*
Well, BlitzGirl is experiencing a bit of a title wave.
You can say that again! I'm still getting them!
Bytes wrote:BlitzGirl wrote:And away I go into the future!
I think that should be 'And away I go, forward into the past!'
Keep going Blitz girl, you're definitely catching up!
And away I go, forward into your past, which is my future!


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Microsoft's official Windows Phone Twitter account began a hashtag campaign yesterday asking people to use #droidrage to complain about malware on Android devices.
(It's often a complaint that Android devices are more susceptible to malware than other phones. However, Google has done a good job at cracking down on malicious apps in its Google Play app store, so it hasn't really been a problem for most people lately.)
As one would expect, the campaign is blowing up in Microsoft's face.
Android fans used the hashtag to blast Microsoft's new Windows Phone 8 operating system. We searched the hashtag and picked out a few good ones. Thanks to DroidLife for picking up on this.
Now check out our review of HTC's Windows Phone 8x >
Whoops. Just activated another million devices today. Sorry bout that, @windowsphone. #DroidRage— Android Central (@androidcentral) December 5, 2012
My wireless mouse wasn't compatible with Win8 so I downloaded an app on my Nexus phone to act as a mouse for my PC #DroidRage— Mayur (@mayur24) December 5, 2012
You are as vulnerable to malware on Android as you are on a desktop computer. Be smart. Think then press. #droidrage— Jeanie Lam (@jeanielam) December 5, 2012
I hate how everyones windows phone looks the same and everyones android looks customized and personal! #DroidRage— James Anthony (@_JamesAnthony) December 5, 2012
Get the latest Microsoft stock price here.
Get the latest Google stock price here.


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Mini-Review: Wubi - Painless, partion-free WindowsXP/Ubuntu dual booting
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Wubi - Painless, partion-free WindowsXP/Ubuntu dual booting
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App NameWubiApp URLhttp://cutlersoftware.com/ubuntusetupApp Version ReviewedWubi 7.04 minefield2Test System Specs866 mhz PIII
512 mb ram
32 mb Ge-Force 2-MX
Windows XP SP2
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Supported OSesWindows XP, Windows 2000. Vista is NOT supported at this time.Support MethodsWubi Guide at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide
Wubi FAQ at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=396526
Wubi forums at http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=234PricingGPLUpgrade PolicyGPLTrial Version Available?GPLAuthor Donation LinkUnknownReviewer Donation LinkcthorpeRelationship btwn. Reviewer and Product REVIEWER: I have no relationship whatsoever with the project and developers of Wubi or Ubuntu.
Mini-Review: Wubi - Painless, partion-free WindowsXP/Ubuntu dual booting Mini-Review: Wubi - Painless, partion-free WindowsXP/Ubuntu dual booting
Wubi is an Ubuntu installer that you run from inside Windows. It installs Ubuntu to a virtual disk file without making any changes to your partitions or doing any formats. As such, it should be completely safe to install. Since it is utilizing a virtual disk file on your hard drive, it has the advantage over live cds of retaining changes, installations, etc through rebooting of the system and allowing you to install as much as you want as long as you have the hard drive space to spare. It also boots considerably faster than a live cd, and is almost as fast as a regular installation. Unlike live cds, however, it does take up hard drive space and obviously leaves traces behind.
The Wubi program is a mere 9.9mb, but you will need the most recent ubuntu alternate iso. You can either download it youself and put it in the same directory as Wubi before you run it, or you can have the program download it for you. I chose to download it myself from a close mirror rather than letting the program download it.
The Wubi program will ask you for a usename and password for the initial Ubuntu account (the usename field will prefill with your Windows usename). At this point, the program will extract the iso into three virtual disk files in C:\wubi, which are mounted using a loopback when you boot into Ubuntu. These three disks took +7gigs on my computer. It will also modify your boot.ini file and drop some grub files into C:\.
At this point, Wubi is done with the Windows part of the job, so you need to reboot to let linux take care of the rest. Reboot the computer, and get ready for the magic. You will see the Microsoft bootloader come up with Windows and Ubuntu listed (and anything else you have in your boot.ni). Select Ubuntu and sit back as Grub takes over and boots. The text-based installer will kick in and install your linux system. Once it is done installing, you have a working Ubuntu that you can boot to whenever you want.
Everything is just like it would be with a standard install. Straight away, you will have read access to all of your data on your NTFS partitions, and the Wubi Guide gives instructions for enabling write access. All changes made to the linux installation are retained in the virtual disk files that Wubi created. The Wubi Guide gives instructions for adding more virtual space.
Mini-Review: Wubi - Painless, partion-free WindowsXP/Ubuntu dual booting Mini-Review: Wubi - Painless, partion-free WindowsXP/Ubuntu dual booting
My PC is pretty old, so it's no surprise that all my hardware worked right away (your milage may vary). Gnome is a little slow on my old clunker, so I fired up the package manager and installed xfce. Also, I was getting Opera withdrawal within minutes, so I installed that as well.
Mini-Review: Wubi - Painless, partion-free WindowsXP/Ubuntu dual booting
At this point, everything seems to be just like a standard Ubuntu install. From here, you would refer to your friendly neighborhood linux guru for assistance.
Just to check, I rebooted my computer, and after selecting Windows on the initial boot menu, I was right back into XP without a hitch. Finally, I booted back into Ubuntu, and found xfce, Opera, and everything else just as I had left it.
Who is this app designed for:
This application is for people who want to dual-boot Ubuntu and Windows without the messy repartitioning and without booting from a CD all the time.
The Good
It works as advertised, Ubuntu is a highly regarded linux distro, and this gives you the most recent version with all the bells and whistles.
No need to repartition your hard drive.
Works much faster than booting from a live cd.
Changes persist through reboots, booting into Windows, etc unlike many live cds.
The needs improvement section
The only version available from the website is called a "minefield" build. The Wubi forum states
Minefields are experimental builds to test new prerelease features, if you want something that is supposed to work then forget about minefield builds and use the latest official wubi version. If you do not mind a bumpy ride and want to help us debugging, by all means try the latest minefield build (you will see it announced in a dedicated thread).
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Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a non-minefield build in an easily found location. To be fair, the minefield build is what allows the final version of Ubuntu 7.04 to work.
According to the website, you can install Xubuntu or Kubuntu using Wubi (and it even has screenshots showing that), but the minefield release doesn't give those options when installing. I don't know if it would work if you manually downloaded the isos.
When installing, Wubi asks you for a usename and password for the initial Ubuntu account. The field is automatically filled with your Windows username (and according to the bug list below, it doesn't matter if you try to change it). My username is my first and last name (Carl Thorpe). When Ubuntu had booted and was installing, it told me that Carl Thorpe was not a valid usename. It would be better if the installer caught that and asked me for a different usename.
The Wubi FAQ lists 4 known bugs, but the FAQ was last modified a month ago, so I don't know if they are still issues with the "minefield" release
* If you change the username in Wubi, it has no effect, and the current Windows username is always used (fixed will be up in next releases)
* USB drives are not supported
* Some SATA Hard Disks are not supported (you will experience an extremely slow installation and it may look like the installation is stalled)
* Wubi does not work with MS Vista (yet)
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Why I think you should use this product
If you want to try out linux without having to make major system modifications or boot from a cd, it is a great option. Also, uninstalling it is a simple matter of using Add/Remove in the control panel or manually deleting the directory, grub loader, and making a minor edit to the boot.ini file.
How does it compare to similar apps
I think the closest approximations to this program are the many live cds that are available. I haven't really spent a lot of time with them, but I can say that the Ubuntu live cd is much slower than this method of booting linux on my computer.
It does what it says it does, and it works better than a live cd on my computer. While I still maintain that XP is my OS of choice, Wubi will let me spend a little more time with Ubuntu. I love that there was little to no risk of trashing my XP installation in the process of setting up the Ubuntu dual-boot. I built a Ubuntu print server some time ago with a spare PC, and I spend quite a bit of time ssh'ing (or whatever the verb of ssh would be) into a 'nix environment on my webhost, so I can see the benefits of being able to boot into a similar OS for testing and the like. There are a few little issues that keep it from being perfect. I haven't had a chance to really put Ubuntu through its paces to see if there are any issues to be found later, but at this point it seems identical to normal installation methods. I'll give it a 4 out of 5.
Links to other reviews of this application
A mention of Wubi and some user comments on FreewareWiki http://freewarewiki.pbwiki.com/WubiLinux
A forum post reviewing Wubi http://www.mpcforum.com/showpost.php?p=1775556&postcount=1
pretty cool mini-review :up:
Thanks Carl! This looks really cool - nice find and thanks for sharing it with us.
Really thorough review, Carl - thank you! :)
I think I'll give it a try!
Everything is just like it would be with a standard install. Straight away, you will have read access to all of your data on your NTFS partitions, and the Wubi Guide gives instructions for enabling write access.
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Humm, how well does it work, then, when your boot partition is NTFS (as it should be)? Will no changes persist by default until you enabled NTFS write?
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Rose gets Bury up and running
Danny Rose marked his second Bury debut with a goal as Hartlepool succumbed to a 2-0 League Two defeat.
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Danny Rose marked his second Bury debut with a goal as Hartlepool succumbed to a 2-0 League Two defeat.
Rose, who netted three goals in six games during a spell with the Shakers last season, was recruited on an emergency loan from Barnsley on Friday.
He did not disappoint, coming off the bench to help Bury to a first win of the campaign after Daniel Nardiello had put his side in front.
The visitors enjoyed the better of the early exchanges and took an 18th-minute lead when Nardiello nodded Ryan Lowe's dinked pass beyond Scott Flinders.
Both sides had chances either side of the break, Marlon Harewood blazing over for Hartlepool before Lowe's fine effort was tipped on to the crossbar by Flinders.
The sparked Colin Cooper's men into life and they were unfortunate not to level when Harewood, in an offside position, farcically chested in a Jonathan Franks header that seemed destined for the net.
The home crowd's misery was then compounded by Rose, who rounded Flinders to score in the 73rd minute after Matthew Bates' dreadful back-pass came up woefully short.


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Joe Foss
Joe Foss is one of the top-two deadliest Marines to ever sit in the cockpit of a fighter aircraft and blast the living shit out of the enemies of America and Democracy and Freedom, and all those other things that Marines generally tend to blow the shit out of people for opposing. He's a 26-kill World War II fighter ace, an amateur boxer, a former Director of the Air Force Academy, and a revolver-packing badass who once had his own TV show where he went around the world looking for wild game and capping them in the face with a six-shooter. Oh, and he was also the first commissioner of the football league that eventually became the AFC.
He did other stuff too, but those are the bullet points.
Foss was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in a tiny, crappy little farmhouse that didn't have super important life-altering shit like electricity or cable or a microwave or a wireless Internet connection. Since this was back in the Dark Ages when you could not have stuff like that and still somehow manage to survive, Foss worked on his family farm, pumped gas for minimum wage, and went to school all day every day, generally doing that sort of walk a hundred miles uphill both ways Greatest Generation manual labor bullshit nobody appreciates anymore but that still makes Tom Brokaw and your grumpy old grandpa pop giant raging tandem work-boners every time they talk about it. When Joe was 17 his father was accidentally electrocuted to death (oh the irony), so Foss took over the family farm. When this human ball of congealed energy wasn't running the farm, helping his mother, taking care of his siblings, going to school, or working at the gas station he still somehow found a way to get his pilot's license and log over a hundred hours of flight time, and once his brother was old enough to take over the farm, Joe went out to the University of South Dakota, where he boxed, ran track, played football, bussed tables, logged more flight time, got his degree in Business Administration, and served as a Private in the South Dakota National Guard. So, the next time you ask yourself what the hell you would do if you didn't have the Internet, there's your answer.
After he got out of college, Joe Foss hitchhiked and/or sprinted from South Dakota to Minnesota and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, telling them he wanted more than anything to fly fighter aircraft. The Corps decided that at 26 Foss was too fucking old and decrepit to be a fighter pilot (a detail that makes me really feel super totally awesome about myself), so instead of putting him in the cockpit of a slick attack craft they assigned Foss to a photo reconnaissance squadron instead. But Joe Foss was a man who went after what he wanted, regardless of what assholes told him he should do, so in addition to his normal duties Foss also spent his first deployment in Pensacola logging 150 hours in a USMC F4F Wildcat fighter (despite not technically being authorized to do so). So in June 1942, when he reapplied for fighter service, he was reassigned to fighter squadron VMF-121 and deployed via aircraft carrier to a tiny, obscure island in the middle of the Pacific known as Guadalcanal.
Hatefully described as "the only place in the world where you can be standing in mud to your knees and still get dust in your eyes", in October 1942 Guadalcanal was a torturous hellhole of morale-obliterating misery that devoured the souls of all who set foot on or around it in a horrific tidal wave of mud and machine guns and malaria-infected mosquitoes. While this jungle-covered death-rock off the coast of Papua New Guinea is technically situated very close to some pretty-amazingly-beautiful babe-overloaded tropical resort islands, in terms of happy fun-ness Guadalcanal in '42 was about as close to Fiji as a gauntleted fist to the dick is to a handjob. The first stopping point in the American attack on the Japanese-controlled islands of the Pacific, Guadalcanal was home to a 2,400-foot long strip of brown sludge known as Henderson Field – the closest thing to an airfield the island had, and the place Joe Foss and the men of the "Cactus Air Force" called home for almost five months. Foss and his crews had to work in miserable conditions – dust and mud got all up into the aircraft, rendering many of them inoperable, and the "runway" was so jacked up you couldn't get heavy equipment on there, meaning that ground crews had to refuel and rearm the aircraft by hand, loading bullets into the feeding mechanisms the old-fashioned way. With all this bullshit going on, the U.S. pilots never had all of their fighters and interceptors operational at the same time, which was pretty bad considering that they already badly outnumbered by the enemy and were being bombed almost constantly by vast flights of Japanese bombers and attack aircraft day and night. Combine that with the fact that the First Marine Division was holding a tenuous battle line against hundreds of thousands of rabid Japanese infantrymen just a few hundred yards from the airfield and the runway was constantly being shelled by Japanese naval artillery, and you've got a recipe for some relatively-sleepless nights.
Henderson Field today.
But Joe Foss didn't give a crap. He sucked it up, took it like a man, and got out there to start wasting enemy aircraft any place he could catch them. His balls-out fighting style was probably best summed up with his first combat mission: This guy was flying patrol above Henderson with one other craft when he and his wingmen came across a formation of 30 Japanese A6M Zeroes – badass, battle-hardened pilots in super-deadly fighters that outclassed Foss' Wildcat in terms of both speed and maneuverability. Foss cracked his knuckles, bit down on his cigar, and charged straight into the middle of them, machine guns blazing a hole in the universe in front of him. He waxed the first Zeke, sending it plummeting to the jungle in a gigantic awesome-looking ball of fire, took some potshots at a couple others, then got nailed from three directions and once and hauled ass back to base leaking oil from his wings and being chased hard by four enemy fighters.
You'd think almost being blown up would have discouraged Foss from being totally fucking insane, but this was not the case. This cigar-chomping hardass just kept getting out there, fighting the enemy with ultra-aggressive, high-risk high-reward death charges that were designed to get in so close to the enemy that it would "leave power burns on their fuselage". A dead-on marksman who seemingly couldn't miss his targets (it's hard to miss a guy when you're so close to him that his entire plane fills up your windshield), this psycho daredevil would open his throttle to 300 miles an hour, close to within 50 yards of the enemy, then smoke him and try to peel out of there before he crashed into the flaming wreckage that once used to be an enemy fighter plane. Fighting in daily combats against impossible numbers, Foss ran escort missions for recon aircraft that were looking for the Japanese navy, scrambled to fight off incoming bomber raids, and flew cover to make sure no jackasses swooped in and dropped torpedoes on the landing craft that were ferrying Marine reinforcements on the island. When that got boring, Foss and his men would perform balls-out high-speed strafing runs on Japanese ships, infantry bases, and anything else they could find that didn't know all the words to America the Beautiful.
It took Joe Foss nine days on Guadalcanal to become a fighter ace. In addition to two victories early on (including the one on his first mission), this plane-smashing badass scored kills three through five on a particularly-awesome mission where he dove straight into a vastly-superior enemy formation of bombers, then turned quickly and battled the fighter screen right as it dove down out of the sun on top of him. A couple days later he was hit by a machine gun and took a shrapnel wound to the head, but not even this slowed Joe Foss down – three days after taking a piece of metal to the dome he was back in the cockpit, becoming the Marine Corps' first Ace in a Day on October 25, 1942 when he shot down three Zeroes before 10am, landed, had some lunch, then went back out and killed three more.
"Smokey Joe" Foss was finally shot down on November 7th, during an attack on a Japanese destroyer formation off the coast of the island. He was hit by a sea-landing-equipped biplane of all things, taking a few rounds from the rear-facing machine gunner Last Crusade style while he was in the process of reducing it to a smoking heap of melted canvas and burning wood. Foss finished killing the seaplane that had hit him, then ditched his burning aircraft in the water, almost drowned when his parachute got stuck while he was trying to punch his way out through the cockpit, and proceeded to survive five hours in shark-infested waters before finally being fished out of the drink. He was back in action the next day.
Between October and November, 1942, Joe Foss shot down 23 enemy aircraft, mostly Zeroes (no small feat considering those were the deadliest aircraft Japan had to offer), with an additional 16 kills listed as "probable", whatever that means. He commanded a badass unit known simply as "Foss' Flying Circus", an 8-plane killteam that routinely dove propellers-first into formations five- and ten-times their own size, blasted everything that moved, and left behind nothing but charred airspace and burning enemy fuselages everywhere they went. When Foss wasn't leading these guys on hundreds of combat sorties in the air, he would give them rifles and send them into the jungle to fight Japanese infantry units that got a little too close to the airfield for comfort – a practice that he only stopped after his commanding officer gave him explicit orders never to go into the fucking jungle with a rifle like some kind of lunatic again. In just four months his Flying Circus ratcheted up 60 kills during the battle for Guadalcanal, and five of the 8-man crew would become aces while only two would be killed in action. Foss himself racked up 23 kills, took a month or two off when he got malaria, then came right back out in January and led a 12-man squadron straight-on to intercept a 100-craft Japanese bomber raid aimed at leveling Henderson Field into a giant festering crater. The initial attack badly damaged the Japanese formation (Foss killed three Zeroes by himself, bringing his total up to 26), and sending the surviving 90 enemy aircraft running the hell out of there without ever even opening their bomb bay doors. For being the first American since WWI ace Eddie Richenbacher to net 26 kills, Foss was awarded the Medal of Honor. Today those 26 kills are good enough to be second all-time among USMC aviators, and some people claim that when you go back and really look at everything he should probably be first.
After the war Foss' story gets somehow even more ridiculous. First he opened a flight instruction school, and then, while he was doing that, he not only commanded the South Dakota Air National Guard as a Brigadier-General but also served on their P-51 Mustang Demonstration Team and performed air shows across the state. He worked in Air Training Command during the Korea War, became the youngest governor in South Dakota history (serving two terms), once appeared on a TV game show, had drinks with John Wayne, Charles Lindbergh, and Tom Brokaw, and spent three years hosting his own television show where he traveled around to luxurious exotic locations and had people film him hunting and fishing and killing dangerous and/or awesome-looking things. In 1959, Foss became the first commissioner of the American Football League, helped them get a sweet TV deal, then resigned two months before the AFL merged into the NFL and basically became the AFC. He also wrote three books on dogfighting, was a consultant on a couple early air combat simulation video games, was the Director of the Air Force Academy, and was the president of both the National Rifle Association and the National Society of Crippled Children and Adults. Oh, and one time he was also detained by the TSA for trying to bring his Medal of Honor on an airplane with him – they thought about taking it away until he convinced them that thing wasn't a weapon, HE was the weapon. He died in 2003 at the age of 87, a true legend of the Marine Corps.
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The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) is one of the more frequently sought after designations for investment professionals.
However, becoming a CFA charter holder is not for the faint-hearted nor the uninterested. The journey to becoming a CFA charter holder is long, and it tests not only your knowledge of the subject, but also your endurance, diligence and will.SEE: So, You Want To Earn Your CFA? According to the CFA Institute, the current program is best described as a self-study, distance-learning program that takes a generalist approach to investment analysis, valuation and portfolio management, and emphasizes the highest ethical and professional standards. The CFA program consists of three exams: CFA Level I, Level II and Level III. As a CFA candidate, you are required to pass each of these six-hour exams and you must meet certain work requirements as set out by the CFA Institute. The curriculum for each of these three levels is designed to provide you a broad array of skills considered to be most relevant for the investment profession. In this article we will focus on the CFA Level I exam.
Exam StructureThe exam is a six-hour exam and consists of 240 multiple-choice questions, 120 questions in the morning session and 120 questions in the afternoon session. The duration of each session is three hours. All of the multiple-choice questions are free standing (i.e., they are not dependent on each other). For each question, there are three possible choices provided. The questions are crafted intelligently, such that the incorrect choices reflect common mistakes in calculation or logic. So, you have to be very careful while selecting the right choice. Exam CurriculumThe exam focuses on basic knowledge and comprehension of tools and concepts of investment valuation and portfolio management. The curriculum consists of 10 topics that are grouped into four areas, specifically: ethical and professional standards, investment tools, asset valuation, portfolio management and wealth planning. The following table provides weightages of these topics and broad areas for the Level I exam.Topic Area Level IEthical and Professional Standards (total) 15Investment Tools (total) 50 Corporate Finance 8 Economics 10 Financial Reporting and Analysis 20 Quantitative Methods 12Asset Classes (total) 30 Alternative Investments 3 Derivatives 5 Equity Investments 10 Fixed Income 12Portfolio Management and Wealth Planning (total) 5 Total 100
Ethics and Professional Standards is considered very important in all the three levels. Apart from that, the exam has maximum focus on investment tools. It also tests your basic knowledge of asset classes and portfolio management.
Let's take a brief look at each of these 10 topics.
Ethics and Professional StandardsThis section covers the code of ethics, professional standards and the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS). This is a very important section and you will be asked approximately 36 questions on the subject. The Institute itself takes this section very seriously. If you score low or close to the minimum passing score on all other topics, then your score on ethics could determine whether you pass or fail. One advantage with studying ethics well is that it also helps with your Level II and III exam preparation. Quantitative MethodsWhile ethics is more scenario-oriented and easy to follow, this section could be intimidating for some students. You don't need a Ph.D. in mathematics to do well in quants, but having a stats background will certainly be helpful. You can expect around 28 to 30 questions related to quants. The topics covered are geared toward providing you the knowledge of analytical tools that are essential for material on fixed income, equities and portfolio management. The key topics covered are: time value of money, performance measurement, statistics and probability basics, sampling and hypothesis testing and correlation and linear regression analysis. EconomicsThe economics section tests your knowledge on basic micro and macroeconomic concepts.If you studied economics in college, then you will find this material very familiar. Without a background in economics, this material can be challenging, especially macroeconomics, which employs the use of graphs and x and y curves to illustrate concepts related to the economy. Economics comprises 10% of the syllabus. Financial Reporting and AnalysisThis is probably the largest section on the exam, with 20% of the questions being on this topic. Reporting and analysis are also weighted about the same for the Level II course, so it's important to spend enough time studying this area to build a solid foundation for subsequent exams. You will be asked to interpret the three financial statements ( balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement), know the ratios and many other advanced concepts such as revenue recognition, inventory analysis, long-term assets and taxes. Since the exam is a global exam, it does not cover local accounting practices. The focus is more on widely accepted standards such as U.S. GAAP and IFRS. Corporate FinanceAfter financial reporting and analysis comes corporate finance. This is a short section with only an 8% weightage. The key topics include agency problems related to agency-principal relationship, capital budgeting, cost of capital, leverage and working capital management. Portfolio Management The Level I exam only introduces you to the basics of portfolio management. The important concepts are Modern Portfolio Theory and the Capital Asset Pricing Model. There will be about 12 questions in this section. This section acts as a preparation for Levels II and III, where the focus is more on the application of all your knowledge on portfolio management. Equity InvestmentsYou can expect about 10% of questions to be on equities. The curriculum for equities covers equity markets and instruments, and tools and techniques for valuing companies. The majority of the questions will be focused on valuing and analyzing companies.
Fixed IncomeAfter equities, the exam deals with fixed income markets and its instruments. You are required to understand the characteristics of various fixed income securities and how to price them. Some important concepts are the yield measures and duration and convexity. This section also discusses structured products such as mortgage-backed securities and collateralized mortgage obligations, among others. Fixed Income comprises 12% of the exam. DerivativesSimilar to portfolio management, derivatives are only introduced in Level I. You will be tested on the basics of futures, forwards, swaps, options and hedging techniques using these derivatives. This section only has a 5% weightage, that's about 12 questions. Alternative InvestmentsThis section focuses on alternative investments including real estate, private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, closely held companies, distressed securities and commodities. There will be about seven to eight questions from this section and will be more conceptual in nature. There is special consideration to commodity investments, so get familiar with concepts such as backwardation and contango. The Bottom LineOverall, the CFP Level I exam is well-balanced, with a wide spectrum of topics. Some topics may require proportionally more time to study than others.; however, what's important is to plan your studies and stay with the plan. Best of luck for the exam!
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Using vga=normal by default
New version of Slax is almost done. While testing the new kernel 3.8 I noticed it has some "improved" support for DRM, that is Direct Rendering Management, do not confuse with Digital Rights management :)
The thing is, it blocks console output on some devices, making it effectively impossible to start Slax on console only (without X). To fix this, one has to use vga=normal instead of vga=773 boot parameter which is used to start 1024x768 framebuffer on Slax on boot. I got several notices from users with 1024x600 screens that they see an error when starting Slax since it tries to setup a bigger framebuffer than their screen supports, so I finally decided to use vga=normal as a default parameter for Slax.
User comments
@Tomas Your posts are very informational. It would be great if you implemented pagination on this blog. Right now I have to get clever with google to get to the older content.
@Tomas, I was reading the Slackware Changelog and there is an update that Pat posted on Tue Mar 12 06:59:27 UTC 2013. He gives some tips on how to fix the issue with USB sticks being recognized as /dev/sda and also he mentions that there are some broken drivers in the 3.8 kernel series.
I don know if this is the right place to ask this question, but I found the Requests page is still under development. My question is about an error I got when I try make an executable of a simple program with gfortran Slax module. The error I got is "gfortran fatal error: -fuse-linker-plugin, but liblto_plugin.so not found".
Any help with this issue will be appreciated. Cheers
Hi Tomas,
>> I finally decided to use vga=normal as a default parameter for Slax.
Imho you should set vga=785 for 640x480 with 65K colors as default.
It is working even for Asus EeePC 701 since ages.
The output of vga=normal is pretty big and extremely ugly ;)
This is how I solve my problem with gfortran:
cp 306-gcc-gfortran.sb /mnt/live/memory
cd /mnt/live/memory
mkdir gfortran
sb2dir 306-gcc-gfortran.sb gfortran
cd gfortran/usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux
mv 4.7.1/ 4.7.2
ln -s 4.7.2/ 4.7.1
cd ../../../libexec/gcc/i486-slackware-linux
mv 4.7.1/ 4.7.2
ln -s 4.7.2/ 4.7.1
cd /mnt/live/memory
dir2sb gfortran gfortran-edited.sb
Hi Viktor,
Thank you so much. It works really nice !!!
Now I need to use BLAS and LAPACK modules who aren't available yet, I'll learn how to add them.
Best regards,


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Bledsoe trade that almost didn't happen changes future of Suns franchise
It was just the second day of free agency this past summer, and in the Suns front office, there was nervousness. The organization was well into its post-Steve Nash rebuilding session, having hired a new coach (Jeff Hornacek) and general manager (Ryan McDonough) to oversee the project.
One player both felt could be vital toward kickstarting the rebuild was known to be available - Clippers guard Eric Bledsoe. And the Suns were devising a way to get him.
Not everything was going smoothly. In order to land Bledsoe, the Suns had come up with a three-way trade that would give the Clippers a pair of veteran shooters, Milwaukee free agent J.J. Redick and the Suns' Jared Dudley, with the Bucks getting second-round draft picks and Bledsoe landing in Phoenix. But Redick had been offered a hefty four-year deal by the Timberwolves, and was close to signing it, which would have torpedoed the entire Bledsoe package.
So Suns president Lon Babby - himself a former agent - got on the phone with Arn Tellem, the agent for Redick, and urged him to hold off on signing with Minnesota. McDonough contacted Doc Rivers, the former Celtics coach with whom McDonough had worked in Boston, selling him on the proposal. By that afternoon, all sides had come to an agreement.
"It was close," Babby said. "But Eric is someone we had long pined for here, and we saw the opportunity. When we saw that we could formulate a scenario that would work for everyone, we really felt like we had to keep pushing for it and fortunately, it all worked out."
It sure has. In fact, of all the major transactions that went down in the offseason - Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett to the Nets, Dwight Howard signing with the Rockets, Tyreke Evans to the Pelicans - none has had more of an impact than the deal that brought Bledsoe to Phoenix. And that's just in the short term. Over the long term, as the Suns continue to build their roster around the backcourt of Bledsoe and point guard Goran Dragic, the acquisition of Bledsoe figures to loom bigger and bigger.
"We are very pleased of course," Babby said. "As far as our evaluation of the player, we were not unique in our interest in Eric, he is an exciting player that we hoped we could get. A lot of teams did. But with him there and with Goran, the two of them together make a little bit of an unconventional backcourt, but in the modern NBA, we feel like they can play together and be very, very successful. It is a dynamic backcourt."
Bledsoe has been the key cog for the Suns' surprising 16-10 start, which includes seven wins in their last eight games. After spending the first three years of his career mostly coming off the bench for the Clippers, Bledsoe has been set free in Phoenix, and the numbers are impressive: 19.1 points, 6.3 assists, 4.2 rebounds, with 49.4 percent shooting and 35.1 percent from the 3-point line.
There have been a number of reasons behind the Suns' surge - Hornacek will be a leading candidate for Coach of the Year, getting Channing Frye back and healthy has been important and the play of the Morris twins off the bench has been outstanding - but the addition of Bledsoe has been the most crucial. The Suns are back to playing a high-tempo, up-and-down style, and they have done it with efficiency not expected from such a young group (they rank fifth in the NBA in offensive efficiency rating).
For a team that entered the season looking like it would need to wait until next June's draft to finally land a franchise player to replace Nash, Bledsoe's speedy maturation has been a godsend. He only turned 24 this month and is almost a shoo-in to earn an All-Star spot. Now the Suns, rather than collecting draft picks, are considering shopping picks in order to solidify the roster immediately. They're not quite a title contender, of course, but they're ahead of schedule and currently would hold the No. 6 seed in the West playoffs.
That has been the biggest and most pleasant surprise in the NBA this season. It all goes back to that July afternoon, a trade that forever changed the franchise - and one that nearly did not happen.
"It was a great opportunity for us," Babby said. "Sometimes you have to find ways to make things like that happen, even if they are complicated."


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LeTourneau University will feature Dr. Carrie Burns, U.S. educational programs director for International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, to speak on the past and present challenges of Israel during a special chapel service at 10:50 a.m., Monday, March 25, in the S.E. Belcher Jr. Chapel and Performance Center, 2100 S. Mobberly Ave., in Longview. The event is free and open to the public.
Established in 1980, ICEJ is headquartered in Jerusalem with branches in countries around the world. The organization seeks to show Christian support for the nation of Israel by informing international communities of the land's biblical significance and modern-day struggles. In addition to spreading information, ICEJ provides financial aid to Israel and encourages participation in practical socioeconomic relief efforts. Burns teaches people about Israel's culture and history, particularly the issues of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, through trips to Jerusalem and a number of speaking engagements across the United States.
She earned a doctorate in education from the University of Illinois. Burns has also received a scholarship to study the International School for Holocaust Educators at Yad Vashem, an eminent museum dedicated to the remembrance of the Holocaust. In 1995, she founded Great News Radio, an Urbana, Illinois station that broadcasts the Christian message and promotes biblical understanding. Burns is also director of creative services at Great News, managing the station's goals in current and future endeavors.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. --- The Tennessee Tech baseball team opened their 2012 home schedule with a 9-4 loss to the Illinois State Redbirds.
Despite the final score, the game remained very competitive through the first six innings, as junior Tristan Archer gave the Golden Eagles another great pitching performance.
Using 105 pitches, Archer managed to quell any would-be Redbird rallies as he threw six innings and struck out four batters, while allowing three runs, two of which were earned.
The Golden Eagle offense heated up in the bottom of the third as they put up a three spot, with all of the runs coming with two outs. Evan Frazier, James Abraham and Michael Morris each notched an RBI, with Frazier and Morris each posting a double.
Tied at three in the bottom of the sixth the Golden Eagles managed to get the go-ahead run across the plate to take the lead at 4-3, but the Redbirds rallied in the top of the seventh as they scored six runs on three hits and two Tech errors to go ahead 9-4. ISU managed to keep the Golden Eagles off the scoreboard through the final three innings to secure the victory.
Ryan Camp earned the win for the Redbirds, while senior Matthew Shepherd took the loss. ISU starter Chris Razo was chased by the TTU batters, after surrendering four runs in five innings.
At the plate, Abraham, Morris and Zephan Guyear each posted a pair of hits, while Austin Wulf extended his hitting streak to five with a leadoff single in the bottom of the third.
Kyle Stanton led the Redbird offense as he drove in four runs on two hits. Matt Mirabal and Kevin Tokarski each scored two runs as well.
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'The Showtune Mosh Pit' for February 6th, 2013
by Paul W. Thompson
Overheard last weekend under the showtune
video screens at Sidetrack and The Call:
Welcome to the big Midwinter Round-Up! We're going to catch up on all the shows currently on the boards at our most important musical theater venues, as there's been a lot of opening night activity lately. Have you got your tickets to see these shows? Hop to it, peeps!
Did you know that Cathy Rigby is "Peter Pan?" As of now, the 60 year old former Olympic gymnast is the character, the show, and the embodiment of someone who, for whatever reason, just hasn't grown up! The national tour of the musical with songs by two writing teams and no credited bookwriter (that's Jule Styne-Betty Comden-Adolph Green, Moose Charlap-Carolyn Leigh and Sir James M. Barrie, respectively) is halfway through its two-week appearance at the Cadillac Palace Theatre on Randolph Street, and "Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan" is both the show's advertising tagline and its web address. Broadway's Brent Barrett is Captain Hook, and he spent some time at Sidetrack on Monday night, enjoying the new screen in the Glass Bar, and watching himself in the "Grand Hotel" video. Rigby was apparently drinking from the fountain of youth somewhere. She's been appearing in self-produced versions of the show, on Broadway, on tour, on television, even in Branson, Missouri, for almost 25 years. You really do need to see her.
A few blocks over, on Monroe Street, is T-BOM, "The Book Of Mormon" for those new to the Mosh Pit. Sellling tickets like gangbusters until September 8th (at least), the nine-time Tony winning production has replicated itself pretty well for its long stint at the Bank Of America Theatre. They do have a day-of-show lottery (put your name in, spend all day muttering "I Believe!," and then come back later for the drawing), but tickets are otherwise scarce for months to come. It was loved by all the critics, and has an ad budget the size of a small country. I hope you have your tickets!
The other current offering from Broadway In Chicago is "I Love Lucy Live On Stage," the 95-minute offering at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place that has recently extended for a few more weeks (until March 17, 2013). Cast members appeared on "Monday Night Live" at Petterino's this past Monday, advertising the extension. It's short, it's funny, it's cheap--insert the joke of your choice here. Save for an extended holiday break, during which they had to vacate the theater for "Potted Potter," this Los Angeles product has been here since September. Good for them!
The biggest news out of our resident theaters these days is the remarkably success achieved by Marc Robin and the Marriott Theatre with "Now And Forever: The Music Of Andrew Lloyd Webber." For the first time, the ALW powers-that-be authorized a theater to create an original revue using whatever material it wanted, and the result is, surprisingly, a dance spectacular that nevertheless has a half-dozen bona fide singing stars delivering the music and lyrics. Meanwhile, the dance troupe, utilizing three choreographers (Robin, Harrison McEldowney and Matt Raftery), shows mastery of the variety of styles demanded by Lloyd Webber's varied output (yes, his music always sounds like him, but he has always used a lot of different types of music, and doing both is perhaps the surest sign of his genius). There's a lot of video out there concerning this production, and I encourage you to seek it out. The spectacular show runs in Lincolnshire through March 17.
The other very-well-reviewed new show in town at the moment is also a songbook review, although not an original one. It's "A Grand Night For Singing," the first subscription offering from the Mercury Theater. As directed by Kevin Bellie, this Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway revue utilizes a cast of five (Marya Grandy, Robert Hunt, Leah Morrow, Stephen Schellhardt and Heather Townsend) to cast the essential mid-century writing team's songs in a new light, and our critics loved the result. Love is in the air, apparently! It runs through March 10, over on Southport Avenue in the Lakeview neighborhood.
Also in Lakeview, at Stage 773, is another show that's just opening this week. It's sort of a revue, but not really, and it's sort of a one-woman show, but not really. It may not even be a musical! Maybe it's a play with music. I don't know! It's "Lady Day At Emerson's Bar And Grill," from Porchlight Music Theatre, bringing the life and music of Billie Holiday front and center once again. Alexis J. Rogers, one of Chicago's most important African-American singing actresses of the new generation, stars as Billie, through March 10. Rob Lindley directs.
Just opened last week, in the northern suburb of Glencoe, is an intimate staging of a big musical with a little of the same jazz club vibe as "Lady Day." It's Michael Halberstam's staging of Cy Coleman's "Sweet Charity," with new jazz combo arrangements by Doug Peck and featuring Tiffany Topol as the innocent and hopeful title character. And apparently there's a lot of dance (choreography by Jessica Redish) in the Writers' Theatre production. Hey, big spender! If I could see you now, you'd be buying a ticket for this show....
Writers' Theatre's SWEET CHARITY
Redish's company, The Music Theater Company (she's the Founding Artistic Director), has one more weekend left in its concert staging of "The Baker's Wife," the Stephen Schwartz musical that gave the world "Meadowlark," and all those stories about how much original producer David Merrick hated the song. You can judge for yourself this weekend in Highland Park. Dominic Missimi, Redish's teacher when she was at Northwestern University, directed the show while she was down Green Bay Road in Glencoe. But there's more on the front burner at TMTC than just "The Baker's Wife." On Monday night, February 11th, Chicago leading lady Heidi Kettenring ("Wicked," "Hero," "My Fair Lady") will appear in concert there, with the aforementioned Doug Peck on piano. It's the first in a string of cabaret appearances in the Highland Park theater that continues with Jess Godwin on Saturday, February 23rd and Christine Mild on Friday, March 1st.
A-way out west in Oakbrook Terrace is a show that has people talking for sure. It's "Sunset Boulevard," the major but tricky Andrew Lloyd Webber star tuner that isn't as good as the movie that inspired it, and isn't as good as many of his earlier shows, though it's probably better than everything he's written since. Apparently William Osetek's production at his Drury Lane Theatre (through March 24, 2013) features a set (by Scott Davis) that takes the show in a new direction from the floating mansion of the West End original, and Christine Sherrill as a youngish Norma Desmond belts the hit tunes out of the park, as one would certainly hope. It sounds like most people like most of it well enough, but wish they liked it more. But they feel that way for different reasons! This show is hard to pull off, and if you are of a mind to see it, I think you'd better.
Lastly, let's touch upon a show that hasn't opened yet, but will be the next offering from a major northside theater company. It's "From Doo Wop To Hip Hop," the world premiere of a new version of their previous hit, "Doo Wop Shoo Bop." I'm talking about Black Ensemble Theater, of course, on Clark Street in west Uptown, serving up the hits to its loyal audiences for nearly four decades now. Jackie Taylor and Rueben Echoles have fashioned a story (they also direct and choreograph) about whites and blacks, young and old, living in the same neighborhood where a racial tragedy begins to unfold. Against this backdrop, songs from groups like The Platters and The Chiffons, and from artists like Ludacris and Jay-Z, will be performed by a cast of sixteen, including the remarkable Kevin Roston, Jr. As always, BroadwayWorld Award-winning musical director Robert Reddrick will be at the helm of what I'm sure will be a smoking orchestra. The show is slated from February 15-April 14.
So that's the Mosh Pit! You have no excuse for me to find you wandering the streets of the city, wondering whether the Groundhog was right or wrong. Get thee to the theater! I bet I see you there very soon, and of course, I'll see you under the video screens.....-PWT
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Let $G$ be a connected algebraic group (over alg. closed field in char. 0), $Lie(G)$ its Lie algebra, $M$ a $G$-module. I don't assume that $G$ is affine, but if there is a nice simple reference with $G$ affine, then I'll like it too.
If $v \in M$ is a vector killed by $Lie(G)$, then it is fixed by $G$.
This will establish that $G-mod \to Lie(G)-mod$ is fully faithful (by the usual method of interpreting a morphism as an element of the inner $Hom$).
For tori, solvable, nilpotent, semi-simple groups, the expected characterizations of the essential image of $G-mod \to Lie(G)-mod$.
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I was raised Roman Catholic, but I have early memories of skepticism. I can remember thinking in elementary school how silly religion seemed to me. But I went along with it since that was what was expected of me. I even went as far as to be confirmed, in order to please my parents. I've only really identified with the label atheist in the last few years and have been asking many questions of myself as to what that means to me. I don't have all the answers and that is a very satisfying feeling. The day I think I know it all is the day I've lost it.
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Hello, welcome to think Atheist, I have been a member for about a week and to date have found it to be a very nice forum for free thought.
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@Kate - Welcome! RE: "I've...been asking many questions of myself."
Always question - that's what separates the rational from the religious.
"Philosophy consists of questions that may never be answered.
Religion consists of answers that may never be questioned."
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Hi Kate, welcome to TA. What is written on your wrists in your profile picture? At first I thought it was just cuts but not it looks like words.
Welcome again,
It says "Don't Panic", taken from my favorite book, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy :)
It's not the best picture since it was taken directly after the tattoo was finished.
Kate - I do hope you didn't leave home without your towel!
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Hi Kate welcome to the best open minded community on the web! And so long and thanks for the fish! lmao Love that book hon:)
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