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SAN DIEGO -- The place Perfect Game All-American Brady Aiken calls home could only be located in one place in the United States, and simply pegging the location as "Southern California" doesn't narrow it down enough. No, Cardiff-by-the-Sea could only be in San Diego County, the home of perfect year-around weather and fish taco restaurants on every corner.
But San Diego County and all its magically named seaside and beach communities like Cardiff-by-the-Sea are also well-known for showcasing great ballplayers, of which Aiken is only one of the latest to grab both local and national headlines.
Whether these players go to work every day for Major League Baseball's San Diego Padres, or play at the University of San Diego, San Diego State University or one of dozens of top high school and travel ball programs that flourish in the area, there is no shortage of great players.
"It's a great baseball community and a great environment to play in, great atmosphere; you can't get any better than San Diego," Aiken said Thursday from the Marriott San Diego Mission Valley Hotel. "The high school competition is great and the travel competition out here is always good, too. Basically the competition throughout all of baseball here is just really good."
Aiken, a 6-foot-4, 205-pound left-handed pitcher who is entering his senior year at Cathedral Catholic High School, was hanging out at the Marriott as a member of the West Team for this year's 11th annual Perfect Game All-American Classic presented by Rawlings.
The Classic's first pitch is scheduled for shortly after 5 p.m. (PDT) on Sunday at the Padres' Petco Park and will be televised live on the MLB Network for the first time. This is the fifth straight year Petco has hosted the event. It is also the seventh time in eight years this beautiful city has hosted the Classic -- it was held at Tony Gwynn Stadium on the San Diego State campus in 2006 and 2007.
"It's definitely cool being able to do this in my hometown; my family and friends are all going to be coming," Aiken said of his participation in the Classic. "I've played (at Petco Park) once already (with his high school team) and it's a great park, and I just can't wait until Sunday.
"It's the best competition out here and this atmosphere is great. There's a lot of fun activities that we get to do and all the players are great; it's going to be fun."
In keeping with the pride and affection he feels for the San Diego area, Aiken is already giving back to his hometown. In the months leading up to the Classic, Aiken joined fellow San Diego-area All-Americans Sean Bouchard -- a classmate of Aiken's at Cathedral Classic from San Diego -- and Alex Jackson from Escondido, as this year's Classic "Miracle Makers".
The trio -- all three play for the San Diego Show -- worked closely with San Diego Hall of Champions head of public relations Jesse Lovejoy and personnel from Rady's on the project and started with the stated goal of raising $10,000 to be donated to the Peckham Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Rady Children's Hospital; as of this weekend, they had raised $12,500. The All-Americans will accept donations right up until game time on Sunday.
The money came largely from the players' family and friends in donations large and small.
"They basically told us they were going to give us a certain amount of time to raise as much money as we can for Rady Children's hospital and all the money is going to go straight the cancer foundation there," Aiken said. "We had a little bet with Jesse that we got to go dinner at Benihana (restaurant) and we got to go there (Wednesday) night. That was really cool."
All 51 of the PG All-Americans made a visit to Rady on Friday, but Aiken, Bouchard and Jackson had already made several advance visits.
"It was definitely a humbling experience," Aiken said of the early visits. "We got to meet the kids who we were donating to, so it was really cool knowing where out money is going and that is was going straight to those kids. It was only me, Alex and Sean before and now it's going to be the whole team, so everyone's going to get to experience the whole atmosphere out there."
The Perfect Game All-American Classic presented by Rawlings is the 15th PG event Aiken has attended, starting with the 2011 14u/15u Perfect Game-East Cobb Invitational in Marietta, Ga., when he was playing for the East Cobb Astros 14u. He played in one more event for the Astros in 2011 and then decided to stay closer to home and play for Brian Cain and the San Diego Show.
He has been a regular at PG showcase events, beginning with the 2011 PG National Games-Class of 2013 (keeping in mind he is in the class of 2014) in San Diego before moving on to the 2012 Junior National Showcase in Minneapolis. His showcase experience reached its pinnacle in June when he was invited to the Perfect Game National Showcase, also at the Metrodome in Minneapolis.
Aiken's progression on the mound has been steady-as-she-goes, at least velocity-wise. His fastball topped out 85 mph in that first event in early June 2011, reached 88 at the Junior National a year later and touched 92 at the PG National. He is the No. 16-ranked 2014 national prospect and the No. 1 left-handed pitching prospect in California.
"They are definitely all great experiences," Aiken said of his participation in the PG events that helped earn him his high rankings. "The Junior National and National were both great out there in Minnesota; great atmosphere, great players. Now I just can't wait for Sunday and the big game."
Which will give Aiken -- who has committed to 2013 NCAA Division I College World Series national champion UCLA -- another opportunity to get in front of hundreds of MLB scouts, scouting directors and general managers. Not that he will necessarily even notice.
"You kind of get use to it after awhile," Aiken said. "When you go out there you know that every time someone is going to be watching you, so you just have to go out there and do what you do best and good things will come."
Good things certainly came to Aiken at three high-profile national events over the last two months. He threw two hitless innings and struck out five at the PG National Showcase; threw three more hitless innings and struck out seven at the Tournament of Stars in Cary, N.C.; and earlier this week at the Area Code Games up in Long Beach, Calif., he allowed only one hit in three innings of work and struck out another eight batters. The final line reads: eight innings pitched, one hit and 20 strikeouts in three events in which only the best hitters are invited to attend.
Growing up in San Diego County, Aiken has certainly been surrounded by baseball greatness, the Padres' recent struggles aside. Just this past spring he had a front-row seat for the University of San Diego's Kris Bryant's record breaking season.
Bryant hit .329/.493/.820 with 31 home runs, 62 RBI and 80 runs en route winning USA Baseball's Golden Spikes Award, given annually to the best amateur baseball player in the country. The Chicago Cubs made Bryant the No. 2 overall pick in the first round of June's MLB amateur draft.
But as a young fan, Aiken's loyalties went a little further back in time.
"In baseball, I always loved Tony Gwinn," he said of the Padres' Hall-of-Famer. "I always loved him and watching him play; he was great. He would always get pitchers annoyed easily, so he was one of my favorites, for sure."
But as a pitcher, where does former Padres' closer and PG All-American Classic Honorary Chairman Trevor Hoffman rank? Don't be alarmed, he's right there in Aiken's pecking order.
"I'm actually good friends with his kids; they go to my school," Aiken said with a smile. "I've met Trevor a couple of times and he's a great guy. You've got to love him -- a San Diego guy who was one of the best closers in the game. It's great knowing him because he's just a great guy."
When it comes to the weather, fish tacos and baseball, greatness is not in short supply in San Diego County.


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WORCESTER, Mass.—Four different players—including a pair of sisters—scored goals as the Harvard field hockey team opened the 2011 season with a 4-0 win against Holy Cross on the Hart Turf Field.
Georgia McGillivray, Rachael Rosenfeld, Sydney Jenkins and Bridget McGillivray scored for the Crimson (1-0), which oushot the Crusaders (0-2) by an 18-6 margin and held a 13-4 edge in penalty corners. Cynthia Tassopoulos logged the shutout with four saves.
After controlling much of the first half without putting the ball in the cage, the Crimson broke through on Georgia McGillivray's goal off a penalty corner 25:30 into the game, with Noel Painter inserting and Mariah Pewarski stopping. Another penalty corner led to the second Harvard tally. Carly Dickson sent a shot toward the right post, and Rosenfeld redirected it past HC goalie Kat Matchett at 31:45 of the first half.
It took less than two minutes for Jenkins to make it 3-0 with her first collegiate tally. She ripped a high shot into the top left corner of the goal from the right side of the circle after dribbling in from close to midfield. Harvard held an 11-3 edge in shots and an 8-3 advantage in corners in the opening half.
Bridget McGillivray added a fourth Crimson goal 16 minutes into the second half. Matchett stopped Dickson's shot off a corner, but McGillivray collected the rebound and roofed a reverse flick into the top right corner for her first collegiate score.
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In what is the tech community's quad-annual moment of awe (and jealousy), Apple posted its quarterly earnings.
The Cupertino company posted quarterly revenue, ending Sept. 29, of $36.0 billion and quarterly net profit of $8.2 billion, or $8.67 per diluted share. That represents a miss on Wall Street — analysts' predictions had called for profits of $8.3 billion, or $8.75 a share. Apple's stock tumbled sharply in after-hours trading after the announcement, briefly dipping below the $600 a share mark before settling in around $602.
As far as actual products, Apple sold 26.9 million iPhones in a quarter that saw the launch of the fifth-generation iPhone. This was a 58 percent jump over last year's quarter.
iPhone sales were $17.1 billion, 47.5 percent of company revenue — lower than many analysts had expected.
Analysts try to predict how a company will do in a quarter based on factors like earnings history, "forward looking statements" by executives and numerous signals within the hardware supply chain. Matt Yglesias, Slate's business and economics writer, notes that "performance relative to expectations is ultimately more a question of analyst performance than of corporate performance." (emphasis his) Regardless, analysts' predictions still have a large impact on the company's share price.
Earlier this week Apple announced the iPad mini, a shrunken version of its flagship tablet. Those have not hit stores yet, but the company did move 14 million iPads over the last quarter, a 26 percent jump over the previous year. CEO Tim Cook said on Tuesday that the company had just eclipsed the 100 million mark of total iPads sold since the product launched.
Microsoft launched its Surface tablet launched today, which will compete directly with the iPad. Though Cook had not "played" with the new device, that didn't stop him from following in Steve Jobs' footsteps and taking a shot at Microsoft, calling the new device a "compromised, confused product."
The base price for the iPad Mini is $329. With Google's Nexus 7 starting at $199 — the tablet Apple chose to highlight for comparison reasons at the iPad Mini release earlier this week — many, including an analyst on the earnings call, expressed concerns that it was too high.
"We're beginning at the top of the cost curve, but we're going to work at getting more efficient at manufacturing," said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's CFO, noting that Apple was counting on customers realizing that this was a shrunken iPad and that would carry sales. He also noted that it does have a great deal of functionality, like two cameras, that other tablets don't.
One analyst asked — without specifying — about Google's strategy of selling devices like the Nexus 7 for low costs and then deriving revenue from services built into the device, especially search.
Cook responded that Apple produces hardware people enjoy. "We're confident that our focus on making the best product will win," Cook said.
Additionally, in the last quarter, Apple sold 4.9 million Macs and 5.3 million iPods.
Outside the hardware market, the company promised an overhaul and simplification of iTunes, the company's cumbersome desktop music player.
As usual, the company also set investor expectations for the coming three months. "Looking ahead to the first fiscal quarter of 2013, we expect revenue of about $52 billion and diluted earnings per share of about $11.75," said Oppenheimer.
[This post was updated during and after a conference call with Apple executives at 2:00 PM PST]


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Neo soul is a genre of popular music. The term was coined by music industry entrepreneur Kedar Massenburg during the late 1990s to market and describe a style of music that emerged from soul and contemporary R&B. Heavily based in soul music, neo soul is distinguished by a less conventional sound than its contemporary R&B counterpart, with incorporated elements ranging from jazz, funk, hip hop and electronic to pop, fusion, and African music. It has been noted by music writers for its traditional R&B influences, conscious-driven lyrics, and strong female presence.
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Neo soul developed during the 1980s and early 1990s, in the United States and United Kingdom, as a soul revival movement. It earned mainstream success during the 1990s, with the commercial and critical breakthroughs of several artists, including D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, and Maxwell. Their music was marketed as an alternative to the producer-driven, digitally approached R&B of the time.
Since its initial mainstream popularity and impact on the sound of contemporary R&B, neo soul has been expanded and diversified musically through the works of both American and international artists. Its mainstream presence declined during the 2000s, although newer artists emerged through more independent means of marketing their music. According to music journalist Mark Anthony Neal, "neo-soul and its various incarnations has helped to redefine the boundaries and contours of black pop."[1]
As a term, neo soul was coined by Kedar Massenburg of Motown Records in the late 1990s as a marketing category following the commercial breakthroughs of artists such as D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, and Maxwell.[3] The success of D'Angelo's 1995 debut album Brown Sugar has been regarded by several writers and music critics as inspiration behind the term's origin.[3][4][5] While some artists have ignored the label, others have received the designation with controversy because it may seem contrived to music audiences and imply that soul music had ended at some point in time.[5] In a 2002 interview for Billboard, Massenburg said that genre classifications are often unpopular because they may be suggestive of a short-lived trend. However, although he said neo soul is still essentially soul music, Massenburg felt there was a need to market artists of the genre for listeners to have an understanding of what they were buying.[5]
In a 2010 article for PopMatters, music writer Tyler Lewis said that neo soul has been received with much controversy: "Given the way black music has been named by (usually) outsiders ever since the blues, the reaction to the name by artists who ostensibly fit into the 'neo-soul' category represents a wonderful example of black self-determination in an industry that is still defiantly wedded to narrow definitions and images of black folks."[6] Jason Anderson of CBC News compares the etymology of neo soul to that of "new wave" and comments: "As imperfect as the term may be, neo-soul is still an effective tag to describe the mix of chic modernity and time-honoured tradition that distinguished the genre's best examples. Neo-soul artists tried to look both backward and forward, acting in the belief that a continuum might exist."[7]
Despite some ambivalence from artists, the term received widespread use by music critics and writers who wrote about artists and albums associated with the musical style.[5][8] African American studies professor Mark Anthony Neal has described neo soul as "everything from avant-garde R&B to organic soul ... a product of trying to develop something outside of the norm in R&B".[9] According to music writers, the genre's works are mostly album-oriented and distinguished by its musicianship and production, incorporating "organic" elements of classic soul music with the use of live instrumentation, in contrast to the more single-oriented, hip hop-based, and producer-driven sampling approach of contemporary R&B.[5][10][11] They also infuse jazz, funk, and African musical elements into R&B.[12] In her book Musical Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction, music author Anne Danielsen wrote that neo soul toward the end of the 1990s exhibited a musical development that was part of "a remarkable increase in musicians' experimentation with and manipulation of grooves at the microrhythmic level – that is, the level in played music that is usually understood in terms of phrasing and timing."[13]
Noting that most of the genre's artists are singer-songwriters, writers have viewed their lyrical content as more "conscious-driven" and having a broader range than most other R&B artists.[2][5][11] AllMusic calls it "roughly analogous to contemporary R&B".[16] Dimitri Ehrlich of Vibe said that they "emphasize a mix of elegant, jazz-tinged R&B and subdued hip hop, with a highly idiosyncratic, deeply personal approach to love and politics".[2] Music writers have noted that neo soul artists are predominantly female, which contrasts the marginalized presence of women in mainstream hip hop and R&B.[17] Jason Anderson of CBC News called neo soul a "sinuous, sly yet unabashedly earnest" alternative and "kind of haven for listeners turned off by the hedonism of mainstream hip-hop and club jams."[7] Neo soul artists are often associated with alternative lifestyles and fashions, including organic food, incense, and knit caps.[18]
According to music writer Peter Shapiro, the term itself refers to a musical style that obtains its influence from older R&B styles, and bohemian musicians seeking a soul revival, while setting themselves apart from the more contemporary sounds of their mainstream R&B counterparts.[3] In a 1998 article on neo soul, Time journalist Christopher John Farley wrote that singers such as Hill, D'Angelo, and Maxwell "share a willingness to challenge musical orthodoxy".[11] Miles Marshall Lewis commented that 1990s neo soul "owed its raison d'être to '70s soul superstars like Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder", adding that "in concert, Erykah Badu and D'Angelo regularly covered Chaka Khan, the Ohio Players, and Al Green, to make the lineage crystal clear."[19] In citing Tony! Toni! Tone! as progenitors of the genre, Tony Green of Vibe viewed that the group pioneered the "digital-analog hybrid sound" of neo soul and "dramatically refreshed the digitalized wasteland that was R&B in the late '80s".[20] Neo soul artists during the 1990s were heavily inspired by the eclectic sound and mellow instrumentation of Gil Scott-Heron's and Brian Jackson's collaborative work in the 1970s.[21] All About Jazz cited Jackson as "one of the early architects" of the sound and his early work with Scott-Heron as "an inspirational and musical Rosetta stone for the neo-soul movement".[22]
1980s–early 1990s: OriginsEdit
Neo soul originated in the 1980s and early 1990s, with the work of musical acts such as Prince, Tony! Toni! Toné!, Terence Trent D'Arby, Joi,[23] and Mint Condition, whose music deviated from the conventions of most contemporary R&B at the time.[2][5][11][20] Tony! Toni! Toné!-member Raphael Saadiq later embarked on a solo career and produced various works of other neo soul artists.[24] Influential to neo soul, UK act Sade achieved success in the 1980s with music that featured a sophisti-pop style, incorporating elements of soul, pop, smooth jazz, and quiet storm.[25][26] The band was part of a new wave of British R&B-oriented artists during the late-1980s and early 1990s that also included Soul II Soul, Caron Wheeler, The Brand New Heavies, Jamiroquai, and Lisa Stansfield.[27] AllMusic's Alex Henderson writes that, "Many of the British artists who emerged during that period had a neo-soul outlook and were able to blend influences from different eras".[27] Other British progenitors of the neo soul movement at the time included Young Disciples and Omar Lye-Fook,[28] the latter of whom has been cited as "the father of British neo-soul" and an influence on many future artists.[29]
According to Christopher John Farley, Prince had been "carrying a torch for neo soul for decades, refusing to make R&B that played by the rules or fit into comfortable formats. In the mid-'90s, he was suddenly joined by a host of other soul artists who also wanted to break boundaries".[30] American artists during the early 1990s included Zhané, Groove Theory, Joi, Tony Rich, and Me'Shell NdegéOcello.[8][31][32][33]
NdegéOcello's 1993 debut album Plantation Lullabies was later credited as the beginning of neo soul;[34] according to Renee Graham of The Boston Globe, it was "arguably the first shot in the so-called 'neo-soul' movement",[35] The success of Tony! Toni! Toné!'s 1993 album Sons of Soul was also viewed as a precursor to the soul music revival in the mid-1990s.[36][37] Cheo Hodari Coker said in 1997 that the album "largely sparked the soul music revival that has opened the door for a new generation of singers who build on the tradition of Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder".[36] Allmusic editor Leo Stanley wrote that by the release of Tony! Toni! Toné!'s follow-up album House of Music in 1996, "their influence was beginning to be apparent, as younger soul singer-songwriters like Tony Rich and Maxwell began reaching the R&B charts. Like Tony! Toni! Toné!, Rich and Maxwell relied on traditional soul and R&B values of songwriting and live performances, discarding the synth-heavy productions of the late '80s and early '90s".[37] Malcolm Venable of Vibe cited the early work of hip hop group The Roots, who used live instrumentation, as a precursor to neo soul's commercial breakthrough in the mid-1990s.[38] Kierna Mayo, former editor-in-chief of Ebony, said that alternative hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest's early 1990s albums The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders "gave birth to neo-everything ... That entire class of D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Maxwell, and Lauryn Hill".[39]
Mid–late 1990s: Mainstream breakthroughEdit
Music journalists have credited the successes of D'Angelo's Brown Sugar (1995), Badu's Baduizm (1997), Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite (1996), and Hill's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998) with shaping and raising the neo soul movement to commercial visibility into the late 1990s.[3][8][16][44][45][46] According to Farley, D'Angelo's album "gives a nod to the past, ... mints his own sound, with golden humming keyboards and sensual vocals and unhurried melodies ... His songs were polished without being slick and smart without being pretentious", while Badu "brought an iconoclastic spirit to soul music, with her towering Afrocentric headwraps, incense candles, and quirky lyrics".[30] Baduizm sold nearly three million copies and won Badu two Grammy Awards.[43] Hill's debut featured her singing and rapping, with deeply personal lyrics,[30] and was one of neo soul's primary successes,[8] achieving massive sales, critical acclaim, and five Grammy Awards.[47] Subsequently, other female artists broke through with their debut albums, including Macy Gray, Angie Stone, and Jill Scott.[16][24] The 1997 film Love Jones capitalized on neo soul's success at the time with its soundtrack album, which impacted the Billboard charts and featured artists such as Hill, Maxwell, The Brand New Heavies, Me'Shell NdegéOcello, Groove Theory, and Dionne Farris.[48][49]
According to Greg Kot, the musical collective Soulquarians—consisting of such artists as D'Angelo, The Roots, Erykah Badu, Bilal, Mos Def, Common, James Poyser, and Q-Tip—contributed significantly to the neo soul movement during the late 1990s to the early 2000s with its members' "organic soul, natural R&B, boho-rap".[50] The collective developed through the production work of The Roots' drummer and producer Questlove.[38] Following a minor decline in its hype, neo soul's mainstream popularity increased in the late 1990s with the successes of Hill, Maxwell, Eric Benét, Saadiq, and Les Nubians.[8] It impacted more mainstream-oriented R&B radio, while influencing contemporary R&B acts, such as R. Kelly and Aaliyah,[30] to incorporate some of its textural and lyrical elements.[8] In his song "When a Woman's Fed Up" (1998), Kelly incorporated a more soul-based sound and referenced Erykah Badu's 1997 song "Tyrone" in the lyrics.[8]
2000s: Apex and mainstream declineEdit
With the success of albums by Hill, Badu, and Maxwell, D'Angelo's second album Voodoo served as a further alternative to excesses of late 1990s R&B and hip hop, as neo soul reached its apex in 2000.[51] A production of the Soulquarians,[50] it was an exemplary creative milestone of neo soul.[7][52] Ben Ratliff of The New York Times called the album "the succes d'estime that proves the force of this new music: it is a largely unslick, stubbornly idiosyncratic and genuinely great album that has already produced two hit singles".[10] By the time of her second album Mama's Gun (2000), Erykah Badu had been dubbed by writers as "the queen of neo-soul".[43] She said of the honorific title, "I hated that because what if I don't do that anymore? What if I change? Then that puts me in a penitentiary."[43] Subsequently, other artists attained success in the early 2000s, including Bilal, Musiq Soulchild, India.Arie, and Alicia Keys, who broke through to broader popularity with her debut album Songs in A Minor (2001).[2][16][53] Hip hop artists such as The Roots and Common, associated with the Soulquarians,[50] released albums that incorporated neo soul: Phrenology (2002) and Electric Circus (2003).[24]
However, the decade later featured a decline in output by neo soul artists,[6][54] with many of them failing to make a commercial impact after previous successes or not releasing a follow-up album.[48] Badu's commercial viability decreased as each of her releases following her debut Baduizm departed further from that album's music.[7] Hill followed-up her 1998 debut, considered the best-selling neo soul album, with the 2002 live album MTV Unplugged No. 2.0, a combative, confessional work in which she expresses her misgivings about fame.[7] Melena Ryzik of The New York Times wrote in a retrospect of that "era of left-of-center black singer-songwriters", stating "many of them struggled to keep their creative momentum, conflicted about their early mainstream success."[43] Producer and Soulquarians member Questlove elaborated on the artists' regression from the mainstream, saying "I think most of us went through our psychosomatic, quasi-self-saboteur stage. Once we got that first taste of success, I think just the pressure of reacting got to all of us. Some of us released some of the craziest records of our career."[43] Other artists such as D'Angelo and Hill went on indefinite hiatus from the music scene.[7][43] Tyler Lewis from PopMatters attributed the decline to "the downside of [the] rejection of the term ['neo soul']".
|The industry, which already has a hard time with unapologetic and complicated black artists, had no idea what to do with all these enormously talented individuals who rejected entire marketing campaigns designed to 'break' them to the record-buying public. As such, albums were shelved or delayed or retooled and artists were dropped from major labels and forced to go it alone, making the first decade of the 21st century the least 'soulful'—however you define it—decade for the industry itself in ... well, decades.[6]
The Boston Globe's Renée Graham wrote of the artists' ambivalence towards the term in a 2003 article on neo soul's standing, "Despite its critical success, if neo-soul had an initial failing, it was the media-created label itself – a term that the artists, whom it was meant to represent, generally rejected".[48] In a 2003 interview, music publicist John Constanza said that "The neo-soul movement is still there, but it's been underground, and it's trying to get the attention of the mainstream again".[48] Mark Edward Nero of About.com stated, "In general, neo-soul has remained almost exclusive to R&B outlets such as urban radio and Black Entertainment Television ... the majority of neo-soul artists have yet to crossover to mainstream American music listeners, partially because the music's sound generally focuses on artist expression, rather than popular appeal".[55]
During the mid-2000s, emerging artists such as Heather Headley, Anthony David, J Davey, Eric Roberson, and Ledisi signed to independent soul labels and received exposure through independent retailers, neo soul-oriented web sites, college and public radio stations, city club venues, cable networks such as Music Choice and BET J, and publishing deals as writers and producers for major label-recording artists.[56] Erykah Badu and Maxwell returned from their respective hiatuses and released well-received albums, her New Amerykah albums and his 2009 album BLACKsummers'night, and they subsequently toured together.[7][57][58] VH1 Soul's series Soulstage, which began in 2007, showcased new music by artists such as Badu, Jill Scott, India.Arie, Q-Tip, and Saadiq.[59][60]
2010s: Late periodEdit
Since its original popularity, neo soul has been expanded and diversified musically through the works of both American and international artists.[10] The more popular neo soul artists of the 2010s included John Legend, Anthony Hamilton, Jill Scott, Maxwell, Amy Winehouse, Chrisette Michele, Leela James, and Raheem DeVaughn.[24][55] DeVaughn has described himself as an "R&B Hippy Neo-Soul Rock Star", viewing it as a reference to his eclectic musical style.[61] In its 2010 issue on critical moments in popular music, Spin cited D'Angelo's Voodoo and its success as a turning point for neo soul: "D'Angelo's pastiche of funk, carnal ache, and high-minded, Afrocentric rhetoric stands as neo-soul's crowning achievement. So unsurpassable that it'd be eight years before we'd hear from Erykah Badu and Maxwell again, while Hill and D'Angelo remain missing. But Alicia Keys, John Legend, and Cee-Lo picked up D's mantle and ran with it".[54] Evan Rytlewski of The A.V. Club discerns "a line of revelatory, late-period neo-soul albums" with the releases of Maxwell's BLACKsummers'night (2009), Badu's New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh) (2010), Bilal's Airtight's Revenge (2010), and Frank Ocean's Channel Orange (2012).[63] In the 2010s, other neo soul acts included Fitz and The Tantrums,[64] Mayer Hawthorne,[65] Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats,[66] and Amos Lee.[67]
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Further readingEdit
- Laird, Roland (August 25, 2009). "Maxwell and the Soul of Neo Soul". PopMatters.
- McKnight, Mario David (December 22, 2007). "Afrofuturism and post-soul possibility in black popular music". African American Review. St. Louis.
- Ofori-Atta, Akoto (June 27, 2012). "Is It a Wrap for Neo-Soul?". The Root. Washington, D.C. Archived from the original on July 19, 2012.


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No, this post isn't about that Wolfgang Peterson & George Clooney movie but it does borrow from the concept in a business sense.
This week we skirted close to disaster but the rest of the business was completely oblivious to the danger.
I wasn't worried, it was all under control but my boss said to me later, "we nearly had the perfect storm today". I thought about his words and realised that he was right.
I was wondering just how many times we, and other businesses nearly have the perfect storm and don't even realise.
What is a Perfect Storm?
In the book and movie of "The Perfect Storm", the storm wasn't a cyclone or any kind of normal severe storm event. It was just a normal storm in which several other conditions were perfect. It's simply the combination of several unlikely events which results in disaster.
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Factor 1: Backup
This week we've struggled a bit with backup. We had a faulty tape which meant that we missed out on our backup job for one night. I replaced the tape for the next night and tried to run the backup again. It failed again - this time because the previous night's tape had left a bit of gunk in the drive. I cleaned the drive but although the system was ready for backup, we now had two days worth of "unsaved work".
Factor 2: Backup ISP and Server
Like many critial businesses, we have offsite redundancy. In our case, we have an offsite domino server which is part of our cluster. Our offsite provider had told us a little while ago that they needed to switch ISPs and re-run our infrastructure. We were told a month ago that there was no pressing urgency. Of course last week, on the night of our last successful backup, we were told that it was starting to become urgent.
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I work at one of those lucky companies who don't have board members in attendance every day. In fact they're usually only around on monthly basis. Guess what.... the day of the storm was a board day.
A Lucky Escape
We were careful, we took precautions. Earlier in the week we'd had some work done on our main production databases but on that day, they were out of bounds.
Like I mentioned earlier, nothing happened. The production servers all stayed up, we eventually got our offsite server back and we got a backup that night. All was well but you have to think...
If anything had gone wrong on the day, we had no backup and no offsite server. We were hosting one of the most critical meetings of the year and the most important people in our company were all onsite watching.
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Are Oil Futures Markets Being Manipulated?
A few weeks ago President Barack Obama announced the creation of a Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, a working group under the Department of Justice that will be charged with rooting out manipulation in oil futures markets (a job, by the way, that's long been the charge of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, but no matter). At a town hall meeting in Reno, Nev., the president promised that "We are going to make sure that no one is taking advantage of the American people for their own short-term gain." We'll save the working group some time; there is nothing untoward going on.
First some basics. All futures contracts involve two parties: one who thinks future prices will be higher (a buyer who takes the "long" position) and another who thinks future prices will be lower (the seller, who takes the "short" position). The daily future price for a commodity is that price which exactly balances the number of longs and shorts so that each pair can sign a contract.
It is the imbalance of longs and shorts that changes daily futures prices. If ten participants think the future price will increase (relative to the previous settlement price) for every one participant who thinks the future price will decrease, then the price of the futures contract has to rise until there are equal numbers of longs and shorts.
Thus large changes in futures prices result from large imbalances in the number of participants who believe future prices will go one way rather than the other. Prices change until there are an equal number of participants on both sides of the bet. Exactly half the participants make money and the other half lose, regardless of whether subsequent actual prices go up or down.
If large changes in futures prices arise from a large collective imbalance of participant beliefs, what is the origin of the imbalance in beliefs? There are two possibilities. In the first, the participants determine their beliefs independently and seek to act on them independently. The result sometimes just happens to be a collective imbalance necessitating a price change to equate the number of longs and shorts. In the second, participants collude to create the imbalance.
Much commentary on oil markets since 2000 has focused on the development of financial products that allowed ordinary investors to invest in commodities prices. In particular, attention has been focused on the influx on long positions held by large investors who are passively buying futures contracts for crude oil for delivery no more than a few months out and then rolling those contracts into new contracts as the old ones are settled and cashed-out. Their investments are primarily through commodity funds heavily weighted toward crude oil, the two most important of which are marketed by Goldman Sachs (the GSCI) and JPMorgan (the DJ-UBS). These are not the scalpers (who hold futures contracts for no more than a few seconds to a few minutes) or day traders (who open and close contracts within the same trading day) that make up the bulk of the speculator population. It's hard to imagine these passive investors conspiring to rig anything.
One would think, given all the political caterwauling, that the longs were making a killing in oil futures markets. Economist Philip Verleger, however, calculates that average monthly returns for the Goldman Sachs commodity fund (that largest of such funds) were only 0.5% from 2000 through May 2009. Consistent bets for higher oil prices in futures markets have not been particularly lucrative.
If an imbalance in beliefs and the resulting large change in prices were the result of collusion, why is it occurring only in one direction? Wouldn't it make sense for the speculators to collude to short oil, drive prices down, and make the same amount of money as they're allegedly making at present but without all the governmental investigations and threats of new regulation that inevitably follow when futures prices go up?
Regardless, futures markets don't operate in a vacuum. Eventually, futures prices have to reconcile with "market fundamentals" (the term of art for the real supply and demand for crude in physical markets). If futures prices rise even though no underlying shortage exists to justify higher future prices, the shorts (along with everyone else) will be offered a golden opportunity to buy oil in spot markets (so-called because oil can be bought "on the spot"), put it into storage, and sell that crude forward into the futures market — at the inflated, "manipulated" price — and realize a very real and totally risk-free profit. Because our economy is full of people who are smart enough — and motivated enough — to know a risk-free profit opportunity when they see one, any significant divergence between spot and futures price will trigger so much of this sort of thing that futures prices will fall (more futures are being sold into the market, and futures prices — like the price of everything else — is established by the supply of and demand for futures) and spot prices will rise (because of the reduced supply from oil being placed in storage) eliminating the difference between the futures and spot price.
It is this arbitrage (the making of risk-free profits) between futures and spot markets through changes in inventory that provides the only plausible mechanism by which bets about the future price of oil have any impact on the actual price of oil. It has happened before, but we see no evidence (yet) that unusual inventory buildup is happening now. In fact, gasoline inventories have been declining all spring and are below last year's levels.
So we wish the president well in this political snipe hunt. Don't hold your breath waiting for the hunters to return with a trophy.


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"One of the things I kid the students about is that as long as I'm happy, everybody should be happy—that it is all about Gary. But in truth, it's the opposite. I may be at the center because I'm the teacher, but it really is all about them. That's why I love teaching."
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Texts such as novels by cultural critic Kurt Vonnegut and Neil Postman for the Foundations of the Liberal Arts courses he teaches. And the New York Times for the Rhetoric and Elections he co-teaches with WRC colleague Scott Whiddon. In many of his classes, Deaton starts with a question—one he comes up with or one he has a student design—and lets the conversation flow from there.
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Inserting a little comedy into his everyday teaching routine also provides some entertainment value. Deaton is even working on a course that would be centered on comedy called Communicating Humor.
"I'll talk about standup, improvisational, sketch comedy, situation comedies. When does comedy work and when does it fail; when is it good for culture and when is it bad for culture. Why are things funny and why they're not. I think that will be a lot of fun," he says.
Deaton also spends much time coaching Transylvania's award-winning speech and debate team "The everyday interaction with students is the best thing about being at Transylvania, especially the kind of students we have and the kind of students who choose our major or choose to register for our classes," he adds. "It's just a really great place to be."


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TIGERVILLE, S.C. – Nathan Wilson (Milliken, Colo.) had a pair of hits and Brinley Griffin (Port St. John, Fla.) drove in a run for the Cobra baseball team in their 10-1 loss to North Greenville University on Monday.
Andrew Goot (Oldsmar, Fla.) (6-3) suffered the loss in the final game of the three-game Conference Carolinas series between the Cobras and the Crusaders. He allowed eight runs on seven hits with three strikeouts in 5.2 innings of work.
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It's the time of year for taking stock, making resolutions and then looking ahead to the next 12 months. Before turning the page on 2012 for good, we took a look back at our most popular stories of the year. Most were published within the past 12 months, although a few are enduring favorites from years past Some were profiles of industry leaders; others offered practical advice and trading tips. But they all have one thing in common: They sparked interest and, in many cases, discussion among readers.
10. William Eckhardt: The man who launched 1,000 systems (March 2011)
In the 1980s, Bill Eckhardt gained fame as one half of the duo that launched the turtle trading experiment. If the popularity of this profile is any indication, his influence hasn't waned over the years. In this wide-ranging interview, Eckhardt revisited his famous experiment, talked trend-following and offered three simple truths for trading.
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The past few years have been tough ones for futures commission merchants, between the collapse of MF Global and the revelation of Russ Wasendorf Sr.'s long-running embezzlement scheme at Peregrine Financial. In this broker roundtable, Futures convened six industry leaders to share their perspectives on declining futures volumes, the transition to over-the-counter products, new regulatory measures and more.3. Pimco's Gross says cult of equities dying (August 2012)
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Pupils reveal internet 'addiction'
Many young people believe they could be addicted to using the internet, according to research.
A new study reveals that high numbers of youngsters take gadgets such as laptops, tablets and smartphones, to bed with them, using them to talk to friends, browse websites and play games.
The findings come as a new charter drawn up by the Tablets for Schools charity was published to encourage children to use the internet wisely.
It suggests that young people should resist the temptation to take their device to bed and not use them as alarm clocks, set time limits on how long they use devices and "unplug" themselves at set points in the day or week.
The charity's survey, which questioned more than 2,000 11 to 17-year-olds, found that around two-fifths (39.2%) of those questioned said they "sometimes think they are addicted to the internet".
Older pupils were more likely to say they were sometimes addicted than young pupils.
And nearly two-thirds of pupils (64%) said they took their gadget to bed with them.
Of these, around two-thirds (65.8%) said they used their device at night to talk to friends, with others saying they used it to look at film and picture websites (63.4%), play a game on their own (47.1%), read (32.4%) and do their homework (30.3%).
One 11-year-old girl told researchers: "I can never get off it, and at night I stay up for like two to three hours after I'm meant to be asleep."
Another youngster, a 12-year-old girl, said: "The internet nearly always controls my actions.
"I have been told that I am addicted to the internet, and prefer its company rather than being with other people.
"I feel lost without the internet."
And a third pupil said: "If I had no wi-fi I would have no life."
The poll found that girls were more likely to say they sometimes felt they were addicted to the internet (46% compared to 36% of boys).
It suggested that girls spent more time on social networks while boys said they spent more time playing games, with each gender finding their activity addictive.
The new charter lists five "tips" for students.
These include "switch off and sleep" and "set time limits".
"Resist the temptation to take your device to bed," it said.
"Don't use your device as a clock, invest in a real alarm clock."
The charter also said that students should protect their study time, find new "boredom busters" - activities they enjoy away from using the internet - and dedicate certain times of the day or week to being "unplugged".
Tablets for Schools chair and chief executive of Carphone Warehouse, Andrew Harrison, said: "Previous Tablets for Schools research shows 81% of teachers said they saw a dramatic and positive change in the pedagogical learning of pupils.
"So we know about the incredible force for good tablets are.
"But this Charter of guidance from pupils themselves is invaluable.
"Boundaries can help maintain a healthy relationship with the internet."
:: The survey questioned 2,228 pupils aged 11 to 17 between January 13 and 22.
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I'm already 20 years active in the IT world but now I want to take another path in my career and I chose Java ! Why ? Well I listened to friends and I like the OO approach.
Next year I'm starting studies to obtain a certificate and so access a new job.
Hear you,


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