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The nostalgia train is making its next stop in San Francisco at the Tanner family residence with Netflix's "Fuller House." Candace Cameron Bure, Andrea Barber and Jodie Sweetin stopped by "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" Tuesday with a new trailer for the "Full House" sequel series.
In the trailer, see how DJ Tanner-Fuller (Cameron Bure) gets the help from sister Stephanie (Sweetin) and best friend Kimmy Gibbler (Barber) and how the series gets things set up. Have no fear, all the old sayings are there: "Have mercy," "Cut. It. Out," and "How rude!" all make appearances, as does Carly Rae Jepsen's new theme song.
"I love this show so much," Barber says after watching the trailer with her costars and host Ellen DeGeneres.
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"I can't believe you went away after 'Full House' ended and now you're back doing this out of nowhere," DeGeneres says.
The ladies also revealed there is an ongoing "Full House" group chat and John Stamos is desperate for his own Bitmoji.
There's a little elephant in the room about the absence of Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen as Michelle Tanner. Neither twin makes an appearance in the first season, but their absence is explained in a tongue-in-cheek manner.
"Do you think the Olsen twins will make a guest appearance?" DeGeneres asks in the clip above. "I'm sure everybody is asking that already because they're not a part of this, but do you think they'll stop in?"
"I don't know. The doors open if they want to," Cameron Bure says. "Yeah the door's always open," Barber adds. "We make reference to them on the show though so they are not forgotten," Cameron Bure explains. "We talk about them." "Yeah we definitely acknowledge Michelle, being you know. Present," Sweetin concludes.
"Fuller House" premieres Friday, Feb. 26 on Netflix.
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Watch out for ghouls, ghosts and goblins!
Watch out for ghouls, ghosts and goblins!
Gulf County will celebrate the 13th annual Ghosts on the Coast celebration at 6 p.m. ET tonight in City Commons Park.
The frightening festivities will begin with a costume contest for kids, adults, families and pets and prizes will include gift cards from local merchants.
Following the contest, police sirens sound the horn that businesses along Reid Avenue are open for trick-or-treating.
Not to be left out, businesses located off of Reid will have tables set up full of candy and goodies to pass out.
In the middle of Reid, kids will be treated to �street games� that will include hay bale bowling, ring toss and a cake walk.
Pat Nease, a storyteller from Panama City, will regale kids with spooky stories.
The South Gulf Coast Volunteer Fire Department will have a haunted fire truck on site for children to explore�if they dare.
�We want to slow kids down a little and engage them more,� said Chamber of Commerce director Paula Pickett, who organized this year�s event. �We�re amping it up this year and making it fun for the entire family.�
The cake walk is a fundraiser for the Merchant�s Association to purchase Christmas lights for the trees along Reid.
A surplus of 5,000 glow sticks left over from the Centennial Celebration in July will allow kids to build an interactive art installation.
Area restaurants will be open and ready to feed hungry attendees and will offer food and drink specials in honor of the holiday.
Other entertainment will include live music from Freddie D and Lola, who will perform near Hannon Insurance while the Boyer Band will entertain from the City Commons gazebo.
Though it was Pickett�s first time coordinating the event, she described the planning process as �fluid� and said that everyone on the event committee was easy to work with.
She also thanked everyone who made donations of candy to the Chamber. The goodies were distributed to area businesses to hand out to hungry Halloweensters.
The Reid Avenue Bunco Babes will host a fish fry fundraiser that will begin at 5 p.m. ET on the corner of Reid and State 71.
The Babes will be serving up fresh fish, tea, corn, green onion hush puppies, cheese grits and coleslaw for $7 a plate.
The event will raise money for the Friends of the Port St. Joe Public Library, a cause that the Babes have already donated nearly $10,000 the past three years.
When government cutbacks started, the library began to close on Wednesday and Saturday. The Bunco Babes will use the money to purchase books, videos and audiobooks for the facility. The goal of the Babes is to raise enough money in the future that the library can be open seven days a week.
�We feel like the library is such an important part of the community,� said Bunco Babe member Dana Boyer. �In addition to books, they give access to computers to those who may not otherwise have access.�
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Conference attendees are employees from industrial, software and service companies with their (current) focus on Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. An ever growing number of visitors from other European countries and overseas add to the flair of the event. The event is enriched by a large number of students from different countries who make first contact with their future profession. A great plus is that, in addition to the time for attending presentations, adequate time for networking and exhibition visits is available. The entire array of subject topics is offered, providing opportunities for experts in all fields to reach their audience. The Call for Papers before the event allows for presentations within the conference section.
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It's October and Apple wants to talk about the iPhone.
The invitations from 1 Infinite Loop are out and Apple will hold an event Oct. 4 to discuss the iPhone.
The event will be held at Apple's campus in a break from tradition and will be led by new CEO Tim Cook.
The invitation all but confirms the weeks of rumors about a pending iPhone announcement from Apple. It says "Let's talk iPhone."
It is still unclear whether Apple will release an all new iPhone entirely -- aptly dubbed the iPhone 5 -- or if the company will simple unveil an updated version of the iPhone 4.
There are also reports that Facebook will unveil its long-rumored iPad app at the event.
This will be Apple's first major announcement since Steve Jobs stepped down as the company's CEO. NBC Bay Area will be at the event.
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His parents hoped his name would predestine him for a successful life of consistent but hard work. Job didn't disappoint. Job worked hard his entire life and developed a thriving mega farm, situated on roughly 150 acres of very fertile land. Over 700 donkeys (mainly for export to Grand Canyon Tours Limited and Mexican Farmer Exchange Services), 535 yoke of oxen, and around 7121 sheep occupied his expansive stables. The sheep were mainly used for wool, French restaurants, and lonely Montana farmers. He also had a loving wife and three beautiful daughters; Six year old Mira, thirteen year old Sara, and twenty one year old Marylyn. Marylyn was his favorite by far. She excelled at her studies, listened to what he said and never disobeyed. She was the model daughter; the model of virtue.
Late one night Job began feeling uneasy about something. "Why aren't my younger daughters as perfect as my oldest?" he thought to himself. "Are they sinning? Are they plotting to take my farm?" Job decided to do something about it. The very next day he grabbed a chicken that strayed onto his property and burnt it alive. After it perished he ate it, hoping that his self-offering would stave off the sin of hostile takeover by his children. The next day he called his daughters into his study and asked them whether they planned on taking his farm over when they get older. They sincerely replied no. Job was satisfied.
Job began thinking about his perfect daughter. He called his wife into his study and asked her, "What do you think of Marylyn?" His wife replied," She is only so perfect because you have put a wall around her and blessed her with the best education and clothing, but if you were to take all that away she would surely turn into a bratty and disrespectful child." "Well that settles it said Job, You can try turning her into a bratty and disrespectful child. You have my permission to do whatever you wish."
His wife happily agreed…..
The next morning Job's wife, Sally, dragged his daughter out of bed and made her watch as she put all of her clothes into a bag and light them on fire in the back yard. Marylyn mercilessly cried for her mother to stop but her mother only slapped her in the face and said shaddup. The rest of Marylyn's belongings were put in the front yard, after which the neighbor's all came at night and stole everything, even her pet cat, Truffles!
Job spoke to his daughter the next day, and asked her how she was. Marylyn replied, "I'm sad and hurt father but I know you mean well." Her father reassured her and sent her to bed.
Marylyn awoke that next morning in utter agony. Her mother had cut her clothes off of her, tied her to the bed and was burning her skin with little branding irons. She had little burned circles all over her body. Her mother untied her to see what she would do. Marylyn only let out a blood curdling scream and yelled, "Naked I came out of my mother's womb and Naked I shall return. My dad gave me stuff and he took it away, but I know my dad is pretty smart and wouldn't do this to me unless he really, really loved me a whole lot." Her sisters sat on the floor opposite and stared blankly at the apparition of pain in front of them. "
Out into the yard Marylyn ran screaming. Her mother then asked her father, "May I afflict her more?" Job said patiently, "She is in your hands, but just try not to kill her."
Her mother ran into the side yard shed to grab as many fireworks as she could. With her arms full of M-80's, and other such tools of raining fire, she made her way to the back porch. "MARYLYNNNN," she called and her daughter came running. In fact she came running into an onslaught of M-80's flying through the air only to explode on her chest and seriously burn her naked skin and breasts even more. Fiery ordinance from Roman Candles began raining down on her back and legs as she ran towards the barn for cover. Gasoline had been spread over the barn earlier in preparation, and as she ran inside a well-aimed bottle rocket set the entire place ablaze. Marylyn knew the entire barn like the back of her hand and managed to escape through a side door the dog usually uses. She stood up once outside. With her hair and left leg on fire, she screamed, "Curse the day I was born!"
Her father then walked out to her side and lovingly sprayed her with the fire extinguisher he grabbed from under the kitchen sink. "I love you Marylyn", he said, " but there are things in this world you don't understand, like how ears of corn are transformed into cornflakes cereal, or how John Wayne survived with 50 pounds of undigested beef in his belly." "You have shown me why I love you so much, and why I trust you and care for you more than my other daughters."
Through the pain of moving her burnt and cracked lips, Marylyn whispered, "I love you father and I shall never speak ill of you in all my days. I'll always be your awesome little girl."
Job took his daughter to the nearest emergency room and she underwent 27 surgeries and all her injuries were healed. She underwent necessary plastic surgery and ended up even more beautiful than before her ordeal. After nine months of extensive physical therapy, Job arrived to take his daughter home. When she walked into her room she noticed she had two kitty cats waiting for her and a wardrobe full of designer clothing. She had never worn Versace or Armani, but now had more than she could ever need.
She looked up and noticed her father leaning against the door frame, smiling the most loving smile a father could smile. She ran over and jumped into his arms, "I love you father, always. Thank you so much for being good to me!"
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Three weeks later, Sally snapped at Marylyn after supper about wasting food. Job, rather than supporting his wife, criticized her and said his beloved daughter should eat only what she wanted to eat. That silenced his wife but inside it triggered something. But it wasn't just in Sally that something was triggered.
Later that night, when it was time to put Sara and Mira to bed, Sally took them both out to the new barn. She pointed out that she didn't have permission to hurt Marylyn any more but Job didn't care about them as much so she could punish them. She started with grinding their faces into the animal dung.
Back in the house, Marylyn went to her father dozing in his recliner, turned off the light and curled up in his lap, grinding against his crotch with her hip as she stroked his chest. Job woke up with just the flickering TV silhouetting the woman on his lap and thinking it was his wife he let things proceed.
After her father had taken her virginity, Marylyn knew it would be just them from then on. She went looking for her mother but not finding her, looked for her sisters. She didn't find them either. Then she noticed a light in the barn. She went out and peaked inside. It was perfect, all three were busy in the barn. She poured gasoline around the new barn and blocked all exits, even the smallest ones then set it alight. Once it was burning furiously she went back inside to sleep with her father. As she led the sleepy Job to bed, he asked what the faint screeching was.
Marylyn whispered "It is merely some sheep and Sally is taken care of."
"She's taking care of it? Okay."
In the morning Job is awoken by his daughter riding him. They are both happy.
Until the arrests, investigation, trials and sentencing.
Most definitely the logical conclusion to the story. Surely God would stop the investigation because this relationship must be God's Will. If not, then this would be the first time he's taken issue with incestuous affairs.


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There has been a lot of information what works best and various different recommendations what are the optimum viewing positions of passive 3D monitors, but still a lot of people are having hard time properly adjusting these displays for best stereoscopic 3D experience. There is also a lot of controversy going on around the half vertical resolution you get in stereo 3D mode and the end visual results you get. But with all the recommendations and suggestion what works and what not I ended up doing some testing of my own and decided to present what works best for me when viewing a passive 3D monitor and share this information so it might help others as well. I'll be using a 23-inch FPR 3D monitor to illustrate this example and that monitor is the Philips 236G3DHSB that I've recently reviewed here on the blog. What you should be well aware of is that passive 3D monitors have a very narrow vertical viewing angle when in stereoscopic 3D mode, this angle is usually 5 to 7 degrees up and down, so a total of 10-14 degrees total. Also that when 3D mode is active you get half of the vertical number of lines composing what each eye sees from the total resolution of the display, hence the half vertical resolution of the display. The fact that the the perceived sharpness of the image displayed with half horizontal resolution per eye on a passive 3D display might look better than on a full resolution per eye active 3D display when using Full HD monitors does not necessary mean that both solutions offer the same display resolution in stereoscopic 3D mode. There are many factors that affect how we perceive sharpness of display resolution, but now we are not going to debate these here.
Let us start with a quick look on what various manufacturers of passive 3D (FPR 3D) monitors are recommending as optimum viewing angles and distance for achieving the best experience when using their products in stereo 3D mode. All of the information below is taken form the user manuals of various 23-inch Full HD passive 3D monitors, these are models that the manufacturers decided to publish such information as some manuals do not contain any recommendations at all.
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Sit at a position at least 70 mm (they made a mistake and probably meant 70 cm, not mm!) away from the display unit. Keep the line of sight horizontal to the display unit as far as possible (with the upper and lower angle of view within 10 degrees).
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For optimal 3D viewing, you should be approximately 60 to 70 centimeters (24 to 28 inches) from the computer display. Depending on the viewing angle, the operational distance from the display can vary.
The optimal viewing angle of the monitor is 12° in vertical direction while 80° in horizontal direction; the optimal viewing distance is between 50 cm to 90 cm from the monitor. When you view 3D images outside the optimal viewing angle or viewing distance, the images may look overlapped or not be displayed properly in 3D.
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For an optimal 3D viewing experience, we recommend that you: Sit at a distance that is at least 55cm; Watch the monitor away from direct sunlight as it may interfere with the 3D experience.
There are no surprises about the viewing angles at all here, we already know they are quite limited and this limit is not affected by the LCD panel type used in the monitor, even an IPS panel won't help, the limit is caused by the polarizing filter applied over the LCD panel that separates the left and right eye images for stereoscopic 3D use. As for the minimum recommended distance from the 3D monitor we see different numbers from 50 centimeters to 70 centimeters (about 20-28 inches) and as for the maximum recommended distance only LG recommends up to 90 centimeters (about 35 inches). So what works best for me, neither of these recommendations are actually good for me…
A person with normal vision not wearing glasses or wearing the right diopter glasses to correct his vision achieving the same level as what is considered as normal vision would need to sit at about 90-95 centimeters away from a 23-inch passive 3D display (about 35-37 inches) or about 1.5 times the diagonal of the monitor. This minimum distance is required in order for the viewer not to be bothered by the increased distance between the vertical lines that build the image for each eye for stereo 3D content. If your vision is nt good enough to be considered "normal vision" and you wear prescription glasses with 1 diopter you might be able to reduce that minimum comfortable distance to about 75 centimeters (about 30 inches) if you are not wearing your glasses in order not to be bothered by the lines.
Moving up to about just 55 centimeters away from the 23-inch passive 3D displays you will find that this is a the about absolute minimum at which you can get into the correct vertical viewing angle limit and be able to properly perceive volume, but at that distance you will be bothered by the vertical lines building the image you will see. So manufacturers may be right that this is about the recommended minimum, but it is more like the absolute minimum distance and not the most comfortable. Actually the farther you are from the monitor the easier it is to get into the very narrow vertical angle for best results when using the display in stereo 3D mode, but there is a limit to that as well. Going to further away from the monitor will lead to the 3D image starting to look flat thus loosing the stereoscopic 3D effect and the sense of realism provided by the displayed 3D image will further diminish because of the very low FOV coverage your vision will have. Going past about 150 centimeters (about 60 inches) you will start to loose the perception of volume and the image on the screen will start to look flat, not to mention that the immersion factor won't be that good either because of the screen covering a small part of the vision, but at least it is much easier to get in the vertical viewing angle (at the cost of the reduced perception of sharpness and thus resolution).
The optimal viewing distance of a 23-inch passive 3D monitor for me personally is around 90-100 centimeters (about 35-40 inches), a distance at which I'm not bothered with the vertical lines and the image I perceive is still sharp. At that distance the stereoscopic 3D effect (the sense of volume) is still quite good for various 3D content, and the only drawback that remains is that the feeling of immersion is not that good due to smaller part of the vision covered by the display. And at that distance from the display it is easier to stay withing the optimal vertical viewing angle when you've setup the display correctly even with some normal head movements. As a reference to use for a comparison I usually use a 27-inch active 3D monitor in stereoscopic 3D mode at a distance of about 60-70 centimeters for optimal sense of immersion.
If you are using a passive 3D monitor feel welcome to share what works best for you in terms of optimum viewing distance in the comments below.


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Lightroom 3.2 e Camera Raw 6.2 RC
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Download: Lightroom 3.2, Camera Raw 6.2, including the DNG Converter 6.2
Lightroom 3.2 and Camera Raw 6.2 are now available as Release Candidates on Adobe Labs. The 'release candidate' label indicates that this update is well tested but would benefit from additional community testing before it is distributed automatically to all of our customers.
WAIT! What happened to Lightroom 3.1? Well, it never happened. In order to simplify the presentation of updates for raw file format compatibility, the Lightroom and Camera Raw "dot" version numbers have been aligned at "2″. We update the Camera Raw plug-in and Lightroom regularly to provide access to new proprietary raw file formats and have aligned the decimal place so that there's no confusion over which Lightroom update corresponds to a Camera Raw plug-in update and vice versa.
The final releases of Lightroom 3.2 and Camera Raw 6.2 may have additional corrections or camera support.
- The ability to publish directly to Facebook from within the Library module
- Casio EXILIM EX-FH100 (DNG*)
- Leica S2 (DNG*)
- Panasonic DMC-FZ100
- Panasonic DMC-FZ40 (FZ45)
- Panasonic DMC-LX5
- Pentax 645D
- Samsung NX10
- Samsung TL500 (EX1)
- Sony A290
- Sony A390
- Sony Alpha NEX-3
- Sony Alpha NEX-5
*The DNG raw file format is supported in previous versions of Lightroom and Camera Raw. This update improves the color and noise profiles for these models.
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The following bugs that were released as part of Lightroom 3.0 have been corrected. The team appreciates the very detailed feedback the community has provided on the Lightroom 3.0 release and we're excited to correct a number of issues experienced by our customers. These issues have been FIXED
- Develop: A custom aspect ratios get rounded to nearest standard ratio when adjusting crop overlay
- Develop: A history state is incorrectly added after creating a preset that includes a graduated filter or lens profile correction
- Develop: In the crop mode the X key sets a photo to reject instead of rotating the crop (Windows only)
- Develop: Lens profile corrections were synced even when they were not selected in the sync dialog.
- Develop: The escape key incorrectly applies a crop after a CTRL/CMD right arrow with the crop tool enabled
- Develop: The local adjustment brush could have a very slow first stroke when exposure is the selected adjustment
- Develop: The Live Loupe view on a second monitor could become unresponsive when switching images in the Develop module
- General: Certain menu items were missing from the Windows version of Lightroom
- Help Documentation: Inaccuracies and translation errors were corrected throughout the help documentation
- Import: Copy as DNG selection not remembered for subsequent imports
- Import: For some devices the import dialog did not allow directory browsing
- Import: Import image number sequence is not incrementing properly
- Import: Panels in the import window fail to scroll via the mouse wheel in some multiple monitor configurations
- Import: The EXIF renaming token was not available
- Import: Windows could crash when attempting to import video files
- Library: Sub-optimal preview rendering performance could impact application performance
- Library: If a directory tree is collapsed prior to closing Lightroom it will appear expanded after re-launching the application
- Library: 1:1 preview generation could appear to repeat itself for DNG files
- Library: Importing keywords causes a catalog to hang when imported keywords already exist in the catalog
- Library: Attempting to drag and drop a folder when multiple folders are selected removes a folder
- Library: Cancelling a catalog backup can require an excessive wait time before the cancellation is complete
- Library: Cancelling a catalog export process could require an excessive wait time
- Library: An internal error could occur when published smart collection conditions are updated
- Library: Choosing to apply recent keywords in a keyword set would cause the recent keywords to reorder
- Library: Clicking the metadata flag on an image in the filstrip acts incorrectly on the selected image in the grid view
- Library: Failed publish comments remain in the comment box across different images
- Library: Flickr Publish Collection publishes to a Photostream in the reverse of the expected order
- Library: Grid scrolling in a publish collection with the hand tool could fail (Windows only)
- Library: Importing from a catalog fails when both catalogs contain images from the same folder
- Library: In Smart Collections a hyphen ("-") Is now treated as a word delimiter for "contains words"
- Library: In the IPTC Date Created field the seconds could be incorrectly removed on writing to XMP
- Library: Lightroom 2 search criteria "+abc" meant "starts with abc" and "abc+" meant "ends with abc". This was reversed in Lightroom 3
- Library: Moving a stack to another folder only moves the top image and unstacks the remaining images
- Library: Panning an image at 1:1 while the image is still loading can cause Lightroom to crash (Windows only)
- Library: Ratings and Labels were not propogated to a TIFF or PSD file created for an Edit in External Application workflow
- Library: Saving metadata on a folder is inccorectly labeled as "undoable"
- Library: Scrolling or louping through many photos can cause Lightroom to start paging aggressively
- Library: Setting "Caption is Empty" in a smart collection failes for some images
- Library: Setting "Rating is Zero" incorrectly includes all images in a catalog
- Library: Setting rating "is not" in a smart collection fails to include unrated photos
- Library: Smart collection exposure time incorrectly limited to 1,000 seconds instead of 100,000 seconds.
- Library: The "metadata for this photo has changed" dialog box lacks clarity
- Library: The keyword list will fail to display properly if there are database integrity problems
- Library: The save metadata command was incorrectly available when a video file was selected
- Library: There is no warning when incorrect data types are entered into IPTC fields
- Library: Updating DNG Previews and Metadata is incorrectly labled as "undoable"
- Library: Upgrading a Lightroom 2 catalog via the import catalog function will fail if duplicate files are present
- Library: Using an exclamation point in search criteria fails to work properly
- Print: A faulty or corrupt print template could cause a "nil" error message when changing templates
- Print: Image loses "pan" position when placed in cells that are not big enough
- Print: Lightroom could crash while preparing a print
- Print: The Print to JPEG save dialog box resets for every save
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I really should update my blog more often — but, until I do….
1) If you're in the Los Angeles area, come by the next LeanLA meetup and see Jason Calacanis interview Eric Ries. All attendees also get a copy of the The Lean Startup. You should RSVP ASAP.
2) I wrote an article that kind people at Harvard Business Review blog deemed fit enough to publish. My takeaway — it doesn't really matter where your "vision" comes from (divine inspiration or customer feedback) — but you probably should check it against reality. Henry Ford's steadfast adherence vision to his vision served him well initially, when he found "Product-Market Fit" with the Model T, but when the markets changed, his vision no longer resembled reality. Read the whole thing on HBR. (Thanks to Brant Cooper, Eric Ries, Ben Yoskovitz, Sean Murphy & Steve Cheney for reading drafts and giving me their thoughts. Much appreciated.)


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Sony Re-Ups Movie, Music Boss Michael Lynton
Lots of people think Sony is looking to sell off its entertainment properties. But here's an argument against that notion: The company has re-signed Michael Lynton as head of its movie studio and music business.
Lynton had run the movie studio for some time; last year, Sony bumped him up by adding music to his responsibilities. Sony won't disclose the length of Lynton's contract, but a statement from Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai indicates that it's a multiyear term.
Hirai's press release quote also telegraphs that Sony isn't in any hurry to dump the businesses Lynton is running: "I look forward to working closely with Michael in ensuring that music and pictures remain integral parts of our global strategy."
Lynton's appearance at our D: Dive Into Media conference in February was one of my personal favorites; we had a wide-ranging conversation about everything from home video to Netflix to Facebook. You can see the whole thing here, or watch a highlight reel below:


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When Don Fertman joined Subway in 1981, the company stood as little more than an ambitious regional player. Thoughts of the brand filling the corporate heavyweight shoes it does today seemed remote and distant.
But times have changed.
For the last three decades, Fertman, Subway's chief development officer, has been an active player in spearheading the company's rocket-paced rise. His perspective is one few in the industry can possibly share. He heads development for the biggest quick serve in the world, one that now has an ever-expanding array of 35,000 stores spread across 100 countries.
Fertman's position is unusual, his enthusiasm high, and the story he shares shows the widespread possibilities restaurant brands can deliver.
From an airport in South Africa to a riverboat in Germany, a high school in Detroit to a crane at the top of the World Trade Center construction site in New York City, Subway restaurants are seemingly everywhere.
Last July, in fact, the Connecticut-based sandwich giant opened its 8,000th nontraditional location, a milestone few could have foreseen two decades ago when Subway claimed but 5,000 units and nontraditional locations were viewed as an experiment more than a realistic vehicle for growth.
Fertman only sees more possibilities.
In his own words, the veteran Subway leader details how the sandwich chain's franchise-only system, nontraditional units, and focused business model lend a hearty push to local industries, as well as the global economy.
When I started in 1981, Subway had 166 stores. In those days, when you would say, "Subway," someone would respond, "You mean the underground in New York?" After we started moving into franchising, the brand spread and reached a certain critical mass. These days, when you say, "Subway," someone says, "I just ate there." Subway's now a part of the world's consciousness and business climate.
Our average Subway store generates 8–10 jobs, which means there are about 350,000 jobs in our Subway restaurants alone. We then have 1,200 positions at our headquarters and regional offices. Combine that with our partners—the vendors who supply us goods, the farmers and meat manufacturers, food processing, and the equipment providers, and you begin to see that Subway cuts a wide swath.
You then add in that 35,000 stores have 35,000 landlords, and each store has provided work to local contractors and builders, and it's clear that Subway's a far-reaching brand that goes from Detroit to New Delhi.
As we've gone into 98 countries, we now have about one store for every 200,000 people in the world. That's how people become aware of the brand. You reach a certain threshold and critical mass, and at that point sandwiches become a part of the culture and there's a strong economic impact that grows from that.
This summer, we had our annual convention in San Francisco with nearly 4,500 people in attendance from all over the world. During the course of that forum, I got to speak with people—sandwich artists, franchisees, developers, vendors, suppliers, and various members across the Subway team. All of them were talking about their respective jobs at Subway. As I spoke with each individual, I got a deeper sense of how each person contributes to this greater whole and just how many lives Subway touches.
In our general session, Subway president and cofounder Fred DeLuca gave an address and recounted Subway history from our start in 1965 with one store to where we are today. With that, you could just see the growth, you could see the impact, the number of people that individually and collectively have been impacted by Subway and benefited from the brand's growth around the world.
I can't say making a global economic impact was ever our goal or a part of our plan. It's really about being the best possible business for the largest number of franchise owners and winning more loyal customers around the world.
We set high goals and have achieved some amazing results—none of which would have been possible without a wonderful team of franchisees and their dedicated employees working on the frontlines, as well as our local developers and all of the other folks that make this happen worldwide.
We never take our eyes off this particular ball: Keep the costs down and the profitability up. As a result, we've been able to offer a business opportunity to a lot of folks over the years who had an entrepreneurial spirit but may not have been able to afford to get into business for themselves.
At our annual convention, I ran into one man I sold a franchise to way back in the early '80s. He purchased his franchise by selling his Corvette. Then he financed the opening of his store on a bunch of credit cards. Now, I wouldn't recommend his route as a good one in terms of financing, but this was somebody who was determined and believed in the concept. He and his wife now have 18 Subway restaurants and are building two more.
Those were a lot of the early Subway entrepreneurs: people who scratched together whatever they had, took their life savings, and put it into this dream, this opportunity.
To some degree, we're still seeing that today in a lot of the new countries we're entering. People recognize the potential Subway has and have started to build their own dream. As a result, the chain builds and a greater economic impact takes root.
We take an optimistic outlook. An ongoing story in Subway folklore, but a very real one, is when DeLuca announced in 1982 that we would have 5,000 stores by 1994 at a time when we had less than 200 stores and only McDonald's had gotten anywhere near that mark.
At that time, he had the vision, but it took many of us a while to catch up. We reached the 5,000-store mark by 1990 and hit 10,000 stores by 1994. With that, we all saw what the possibilities were.
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put the screws to (someone)
To exert excessive and coercive pressure, force, or threats of violence on someone. The bank has really started putting the screws to me ever since I began missing my mortgage payments. I'll send a bit of muscle around tomorrow to put the screws to him. Then we'll see if he's still so sure he won't sign the contract.
put the screwsto/on Slang
To pressure (another) in an extreme manner.


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Cory Monteith Gossip
Cory Monteith gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Dear Gossips,
Cory Monteith recorded a video message for the 2010 SMUT Soiree in Toronto. Cory had just been named the ambassador for Virgin Unite, with specific emphasis on youth homelessness. That year, in lieu of gift bags, we decided to make a donation to Covenant House Vancouver instead. Read Full Intro
Cory & Lea at Game 1
Cory Monteith completed a month of rehab last week and came home to Vancouver with Lea Michele just in time for the start of the playoffs. Here they are at Round 1 Game 1 of the San Jose Sharks vs the Vancouver Canucks last night. They put their faces up on the big screen in the first period, both tricked out head to toe in Canucks gear. Full Story
Lea loves her celebrity crush
Wenn, FameFlynet
She is still a pose-hard on a red carpet but... Lea Michele smells a lot less Try these days, non? She smiles more than she open-mouth gapes when she's getting her picture taken. And the smile seems sweet, genuine, rather than desperate. Maybe I'm letting an assumption inform my observation. Full Story
Lea Michele's Canadian Thanksgiving
Lea Michele was photographed with Cory Monteith yesterday at Vancouver airport after the two spent the American Thanksgiving break in British Columbia. They were downtown for a couple of days and then went to Whistler for some snowboarding. Cory also tweeted a photo of Lea on the mountain. The two were heading back to work on Glee. Full Story
Pose Hard As A Couple
Wenn, Fame/Flynet, Jason Merritt/ Christopher Polk/ Getty
Lea Michele and Cory Monteith worked the carpet together at the Do Something Awards last night. As you can see, they're playing the "let me look up at you adoringly" pose. And the "whisper something funny, our inside joke, and we can laugh together" one. But while Lea's found a willing partner in the game, her dress, unfortunately, is a total bust. Full Story
The tall boyfriend and the paps
I am not a tall person. In my head I am 5 ft 5. At least. In reality I am 5 ft 3. And I can accept this. (Some people - ahem, Sasha - cannot separate their height fantasies from their height reality.) Because it's hard to keep up the illusion when you stand next to your husband and you fit neatly under his chin. Full Story
Cory, Lea, Vancouver, sushi, Audi
Lea Michele flew in to Vancouver from London yesterday to see her boyfriend Cory Monteith in his home town. He took her for sushi in Kitsilano. In his Audi R8. Which he drove all the way from LA? That's a lot mileage. And a romantic road trip on the way back! Maybe stop for a few nights on the Oregon coast? Jacek is always trying to talk me into camping there. Full Story
Lea & Cory: Summer Of Love?
Lea Michele and Cory Monteith attended the Fox Upfront presentation the other day in New York to represent Glee. They'll both be back for Season 4...as ratings have steadily declined over the year. Some are saying that next year could be the last? Must be why Kate Hudson and Sarah Jessica Parker have signed on to guest star. Full Story
Lea & Cory on Easter holiday
Lea Michele and Cory Monteith spent the weekend in Cabo by the pool. So I guess their love is, like, for real for reals now? I mean, I feel like that happiness on her face is totally for reals. I don't know that she's that great of an actor that she's faking those feelings. And, well, at the risk of getting into a fight with you all, I think I might be into it. Full Story
Lea & Cory: the look of love
Ron Asadorian/Splash
The Glee people were in New York this weekend for the GLAAD Media Awards. Lea Michele and Cory Monteith were photographed leaving NYC on Sunday presumably to get back to work in LA. The two are rumoured to be dating. She's looking at him like they're dating. They're dressed similarly too, almost like they're dating. Full Story
Cory controls the story
Cory Monteith is currently touring with Glee. He can also soon be seen in theatres with Selena Gomez and Leighton Meester in Monte Carlo. Please don't make me look up the plot of that movie. I don't think plots will matter to the people who will see that movie. Anyway, to promote all his current projects, and increase his profile of course, Cory was interviewed by Parade and decided to reveal that he was once a drug addict and went to rehab. Full Story


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The 2013 GMC Yukon rental car that North Carolina leading scorer P.J. Hairston was driving at the time of his June 5 arrest had been rented by a man named Haydn Thomas, according to the rental receipt obtained by USA TODAY Sports.
Thomas, 39, of Durham, said he rented the car for himself and that a friend, Miykael Faulcon of Durham, had borrowed the car to go to a store when the arrest occurred.
"I don't know P.J. Hairston," Thomas told USA TODAY Sports. "I know Miykael, his friend. I don't know anyone at Carolina. I don't even like the Carolina team. Look at the age disparity between me and those boys. I could be their father."
PREVIOUSLY: Hairston arrested, charged with drug possession
RELATED: Police found gun outside of Hairston's car
Thomas rented the car at 10 p.m. June 2 at the Hertz location at Raleigh Durham International Airport, and the car was returned at 10:30 p.m. June 5. Thomas was charged $1261.64, according to the receipt. The license plate number on the rental receipt matches the one listed on the Durham (N.C.) police report of Hairston's arrest, as does the year, make and model of the vehicle.
The police report revealed that a 9-millimeter handgun and a magazine with nine rounds of ammunition were seized during a traffic stop that led to Hairston's arrest on possession of marijuana charges. Three cigars and a plastic baggie that contained a half-ounce of marijuana also were seized.
Durham (N.C.) Police public information officer Kammie Michael had said by phone that the pistol, magazine and ammunition were all found outside the vehicle.
Hairston, 20, was driving Faulcon and Carlos Sanford in the silver Yukon, according to the police report. All three were arrested and charged with drug possession. Hairston also was charged with driving without a license.
Hairston, Faulcon and Sanford were each released on $1,000 unsecured bonds.
Thomas said he knew Faulcon from "partying at clubs." Thomas said he did not own the gun that was seized, and also that the marijuana found in the car was not his. He added that he is not a University of North Carolina athletic booster nor is he connected to a sports agent.
"Why am I being persecuted?" Thomas asked. "I did not rent nobody a car."
Hairston, a 6-5 rising junior, bypassed the NBA to stay at North Carolina for another season after averaging 14.6 points and 4.3 rebounds a game as a sophomore.
Last month North Carolina coach Roy Williams told USA TODAY Sports he was waiting for more information before making a decision about Hairston's status with the Tar Heels.
"The good thing is, I don't have to make a decision right now because we're in summer school, fall semester has not started, basketball has not started," Williams said. "We're going to wait and see what happens. I've got some ideas, but right now those ideas are staying in my mind.
"I am waiting until all the facts come in and then I will take care of everything that needs to be taken care of."
Eric Prisbell, a national college basketball reporter for USA TODAY Sports, is on Twitter @EricPrisbell.


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The British Veterinary Association and British Small Animal Veterinary Association have moved to reassure dog owners that getting their pet microchipped is perfectly safe.
Earlier this month, it became law for all dogs in the UK to be microchipped and registered on an approved database. But some media reports have caused concern among pet lovers by linking microchipping to health problems.
Dogs Naturally Magazine, and numerous online commentators and bloggers, have cited reports linking microchips to cancerous growths, neurological damage and complications stemming from the microchipping procedure.
But a joint statement from the BVA and BSAVA warned against scaremongering and reassured British dog owners that getting your dog 'chipped' is perfectly safe: "We'd like to reassure all dog owners that microchipping is a routine and harmless procedure that provides your pet with a form of identification that lasts a lifetime.
"For vets, your pet's welfare is their primary concern and if they think microchipping could have an adverse effect on your dog's health – for example, because of existing ill-health - they can issue an exemption certificate, but this is not a decision dog owners should be taking themselves."
The organisations admit adverse reactions to microchipping are possible, they are very unlikely: "Adverse reactions to microchipping are incredibly rare and while temporary swelling could occur or migration of the microchip might take place over time these are uncommon and harmless possibilities.
"Very few veterinary surgeons ever see an adverse outcome of microchipping, while many see heartbroken pet owners whose dog has been lost and finding them has been delayed due to lack of a microchip. Last year, 7 in 10 vets could not reunite a dog with its owners because it didn't have an identifier.
"A microchip that is implanted properly at your local veterinary practice and then checked during your pet's regular vet visits can save lives as well as emotional heartache for owners."


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Pop goes Christianity
This article shows that even the secular press has figured out how
Christians should be behaving. ""You are the salt of the earth; but if
the salt has become tasteless,
how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything,
except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men" (Matthew 5:13).
Pop Goes Christianity
The deep contradictions of Christian popular culture.
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Posted Monday, May 5, 2008, at 7:43 AM ET
One night, a couple of years ago, I walked in on a group of
evangelical college boys sitting on a bed watching The Daily Show.
I felt alarmed, and embarrassed, as if I had caught them reading Playboy
or something else they had to be shielded from. Jon Stewart, after all,
spends at least one-quarter of his show making fun of people like them.
But they eagerly invited me in. I soon learned that they watched the
show every night it was on, finals or no finals. So strong was their
devotion to Jon Stewart that I was tempted to ask: If Jesus came back
on a Tuesday night at 11, would you get off the bed?
Over time, I
came to understand this as a symptom of a larger phenomenon:
evangelicals' deeply neurotic relationship with popular culture.
Whether or not they were the butt of all of Stewart's jokes seemed
irrelevant to them. The point was that the high priest of political
comedy spent a lot of time thinking about them. Once, after I'd met Jon
Stewart, they all crowded around and asked the same question: What does
he really think of us?
At this point in history,
American evangelicals resemble the Israelites at various dangerous
moments in the Old Testament: They are blending into the surrounding
heathen culture, and having ever more trouble figuring out where it
ends and they begin. In politics, and in business, they've mostly gone
ahead and joined the existing networks. With pop culture, they've
instead created their own enormous "parallel universe," as Daniel
Radosh calls it in his rich exploration of the realm, Rapture
Ready! A
Christian can now buy books, movies, music—and anything else lowbrow to
middlebrow—tailor-made for his or her sensibilities. Worried that
American popular culture leads people—and especially teenagers—astray,
the Christian version is designed to satisfy all the same needs in a
cleaner form.
The problem is that purity boundaries are hard to
police in the Internet age. Show a kid a Christian comedian, and soon
he's likely to discover that the guy is a pale imitation of this much
funnier guy—Jon Stewart—who's not a Christian at all, and doesn't even
like Christians. Which might then lead to a whole new set of anxieties,
such as: Why are Christians so constitutionally unfunny? And, what is
the point of Christian culture, anyway?
In the '80s, Christians
were known as the boycotters, refusing to see movies or buy products
that offended them. They felt about commercial culture much the way a
Marxist might: that it was a decadent glorification of money and
meaningless human relationships. Then, sometime during the '90s, when
conservative evangelicals started coming out of their shells, they took
a different tack. The boycotters became coopters and embarked on the
curious quest to enlist America's crassest material culture in the
service of spiritual growth.
Most non-Christians are aware that
there is something called Christian rock. We've all had the slightly
unsettling experience of pausing the car radio on a pleasant,
unfamiliar ballad until we realized … Ahhh. That's not her
boyfriend she's mooning over!
But few of us have any idea of how truly extensive this so-called
subculture is. Reading Radosh's book is like coming across another
planet hidden somewhere on Earth where everything is just exactly like
it is here except blue or made out of plastic. Every American pop
phenomenon has its Christian equivalent, no matter how improbable. And
Radosh seems to have experienced them all.
At a Christian
retail show Radosh attends, there are rip-off trinkets of every kind—a
Christian version of My Little Pony and the mood ring and the boardwalk
T-shirt ("Friends don't let friends go to hell"). There is Christian
Harlequin and Christian chick lit and Bibleman, hero of spiritual
warfare. There are Christian raves and Christian rappers and Christian
techno, which is somehow more Christian even though there are no words.
There are Christian comedians who put on a Christian version of Punk'd,
called Prank 3:16.
There are Christian sex-advice sites where you can read the biblical
case for a strap-on dildo or bondage (liberation through submission).
There's a Christian planetarium, telling you the true age of
the universe, and my personal favorite—Christian professional
wrestling, where, by the last round, "Outlaw" Todd Zane sees the beauty
of salvation.
At some point, Radosh asks the obvious question:
Didn't Jesus chase the money changers out of the temple? In other
words, isn't there something wrong with so thoroughly commercializing
all aspects of faith? For this, the Christian pop-culture industry has
a ready answer. Evangelizing and commercializing have much in common.
In the "spiritual marketplace" (as it's called), Christianity is a
brand that seeks to dominate. Like Coke, it wants to hold onto its
followers and also win over new converts. As with advertisers, the most
important audience is young people and teenagers, who are generally
brand loyalists. Hence, Bibleman and Christian rock are the spiritual
equivalent of New Coke. Christian trinkets—a WWJD bracelet, a "God is
my DJ" T-shirt—function more like Coca-Cola T-shirts or those cute
stuffed polar bears. They telegraph to the community that the wearer is
a proud Christian and that this is a cool thing to be—which should, in
theory, invite eager curiosity.
Straightforward, if somewhat
crude, merchandizing so far. But there is also another level of
questions, which the creators of Christian culture have a much harder
time answering: What does commercializing do to the substance of
belief, and what does an infusion of belief do to the product? When you
make loving Christ sound just like loving your boyfriend, you can do
damage to both your faith and your ballad. That's true when you create
a sanitized version of bands like Nirvana or artists like Jay-Z, too:
You shoehorn a message that's essentially about obeying authority into
a genre that's rebellious and nihilistic, and the result can be ugly,
fake, or just limp.
The Christian rockers Radosh interviews are
always torn between the pressure not to lead their young audience
astray and the drive to make good music. Mark Allan Powell, a professor
who teaches a class on contemporary Christian music at Trinity Lutheran
Seminary, describes the predicament for Radosh: Imagine the Good Rubber
Tire Co. came out with an awesome rock song that just happened to be
about tires. Musicians wouldn't want to play it because they'd think,
"We're being used," Powell explains. Creative Christian types find
themselves in a similar bind: They want to make good, authentic music.
But they are also enlisted in a specific mission which confines their
The entertainers in Radosh's book complain about watchdog groups
that count the number of times a song mentions Jesus
or about the lockstep political agenda a Christian audience expects.
They complain about promoting an "adolescent theology" of Christian
rock, as one calls it, where they "just can't get over how darned cool
it was that Jesus sacrificed himself." In his interview with Radosh,
Powell pulled out an imitation of a 1982 New Wave pop song with the
lyrics; "You'll have to excuse us/ We're in love with Jesus." This, he
explained, was the equivalent of a black-velvet painting of Elvis. Only
it's more offensive, because it's asking the listener to base his whole
life around an insipid message and terrible quality music.
faith, the results can be dangerous. A young Christian can get the idea
that her religion is a tinny, desperate thing that can't compete with
the secular culture. A Christian friend who'd grown up totally
sheltered once wrote to me that the first time he heard a Top 40
station he was horrified, and not because of the racy lyrics:
"Suddenly, my lifelong suspicions became crystal clear," he wrote.
"Christian subculture was nothing but a commercialized rip-off of the
mainstream, done with wretched quality and an apocryphal insistence on
the sanitization of reality."
Striking a balance between
reverence and hip relevance can be a near-impossible feat. Christian
comedians, for example, border on subversive, especially when making
fun of themselves. In one episode of Prank 3:16, the
pranksters fake the Rapture and throw their victim into a panic because
she's afraid she's been left behind. With true comedic flair, they're
flirting with opposition and doubt, and even cruelty. But "the
Christian is supposed to be secure in the loving hand of the almighty
God," one of them tells Radosh. So, even if they don't sanitize,
they're afraid to step over into the brutal, dirty truth comedy thrives
The new generation of Christians is likely to be a
different kind of audience. Raised on iPods and downloadable music,
they find it difficult truly to commit to the idea of a separate
Christian pop culture. They might watch Jon Stewart or Pulp Fiction
and also listen to the Christian band Jars of Clay, assuming the next
album is any good. They are much more critical consumers and excellent
spotters of schlock. The creators of Christian pop culture may just
adapt and ease up on the Jesus-per-minute count, and artistic quality
might show some improvement. But in my experience, where young souls
are at stake, Christian creators tend to balk. It's always been a
stretch to defend Christian pop culture as the path to eternal
salvation. Now, they may have to face up to the fact that it's more
like an eternal oxymoron.


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UBS AG announces final terms of the announced rights issue
The Board of Directors of UBS AG has determined the final terms of the public offering of 760,295,181 new shares, which will be subject to the subscription rights of existing shareholders (the "rights issue"). The rights issue was fully underwritten by a syndicate of banks on 1 April 2008 and the related capital increase was authorized by the shareholders of UBS AG on 23 April 2008. Shareholders will be allotted one subscription right for each existing share held. The exercise of 20 subscription rights will entitle the holder to subscribe for 7 new shares at a subscription price of CHF 21.00 per new share.
UBS's Board of Directors approved yesterday an increase in the share capital of UBS AG through the issue of 760,295,181 fully paid-in registered shares with a par value of CHF 0.10 each. Upon completion of the transaction, 2,932,567,127 fully paid-in registered shares with a par value of CHF 0.10 each will be outstanding.
The Board of Directors has set the subscription price for the new shares at CHF 21.00 per new share, which is expected to translate into gross proceeds of approximately CHF 15.97 billion. The subscription price of CHF 21.00 compares to a closing price of the UBS shares on SWX Europe on 21 May 2008 of CHF 30.64.
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One of the things that have been sitting in my TODO list for a few years is to improve the performance of the Regex engine in Mono, both by speeding up the interpreter and by compiling the regular expressions to IL code so that the JIT could optimize it. This seemed like a good project for hack week and Zoltan joined me doing the implementation.
I worked on a new compiler/interpreter combination that uses simplified opcodes, with the aim of making their execution faster and also making the translation to IL code easier. As an example, the old interpreter used a 'Char' opcode to match a single char, but this opcode has several runtime options to ignore the case, negate the assertion and go backward in the string. Each option required decoding and conditional branching at runtime, so removing this overhead should improve performance significantly.
Zoltan made a clever observation: he could reuse the new interpreter for bytecodes that the IL engine he was working on couldn't yet handle and so he used dynamic methods with the same signature as the method in the interpreter that evaluates the regex bytecode. This design has also the nice property that compiled regular expressions will be garbage collected (as opposed to the MS runtime that, at least in the 1.1 version, will leak in this case).
IL-compiling regular expressions has several benefits: it completely removes dispatch and decoding overhead and the JIT will use very fast instructions like compare with immediate to implement the 'Char' bytecode.
I used a few microbenchmarks to test the speed of the new engines, but I'll report here just the results of running the regexdna test from the language shootout: in other cases the speedup is even bigger.
- Old interpreter: 10.1 seconds
- New interpreter: 5.4 seconds
- IL engine: 1.3 seconds.
Most of the new code is in svn, though it's not enabled since it's still incomplete. We'd need another week or so to make it usable instead of the old engine and we haven't allocated the time yet to complete this work, but it sure looks promising.


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On December 14, 2004 we told you about EA getting an exclusive NFL license. EA has done it again, this time with the AFL. The Arena Football League and Electronics Arts will be producing an AFL video games very soon. Over the next four years, EA and the AFL will be working together to properly market and inform the media of the new AFL games, the first of which will be launched at the start of the 2006 AFL season. What has happened with competition and variety? Seems like these days, its all about getting the license agreements first.
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Gene Luen Yang's breakout 2006 graphic novel, American Born Chinese, won a lot of accolades for the Oakland, California-based writer, artist and educator, including several that also marked milestones for the medium of sequential art: both the first time a graphic novel was named a finalist for the National Book Award and the first time a graphic novel earned the Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association.
Now, Yang announces his latest graphic novel project, *Boxers & Saints,*exclusively at Wired.com. Due out this September from First Second Books, the slipcased edition will contain two volumes that explore the stories of two peasants during the Boxer Rebellion in China who struggle with issues of identity during a time in Chinese history when many were asked to choose between their country and their faith. While Boxers tells the story of a peasant who joins the Rebellion, Saints follows the spiritual journey of a Chinese woman who converts to Catholicism.
Yang shared his thoughts on the upcoming release with Wired, along with a 10-page excerpt from Boxers.
Wired: The format of Boxers & Saints is rather unusual, where you're publishing two separate volumes with shared characters and thematic connections. Why approach the stories in that way?
Gene Yang: I first became interested in the Boxer Rebellion in 2000. That year, Pope John Paul II canonized 87 Chinese Catholics. This was the first time the Roman Catholic Church has recognized the Chinese in this way. I'm Catholic, and I grew up in a Chinese Catholic community in the Bay Area. My home church was really excited about the canonizations and had all sorts of celebrations.
When I looked into the lives of the Chinese saints, I discovered that many of them had died during the Boxer Rebellion, a war that occurred on Chinese soil in the year 1900. Back then, the Chinese government was incredibly weak. Western powers were able to establish concessions – pieces of land that functioned as colonies – all across China. The poor, hungry, illiterate teenagers living in the Chinese countryside felt embarrassed by their nation's weakness, so they came up with this ritual that they believed would give them mystical powers. Armed with these powers, they marched across their homeland into the major cities, killing European missionaries, merchants, soldiers, and Chinese Christians. Because their martial arts reminded the Europeans of boxing, they became known as the Boxers. John Paul II's canonized saints were among the Boxers' victims.
The more I read about the Boxer Rebellion, the more conflicted I felt. Who were the protagonists here? Who was more deserving of our sympathy? The Boxers or their Chinese Christian victims? When the Vatican announced the canonizations, the Chinese government issued a protest. They believed the Catholic Church was honoring women and men who betrayed their own culture. In many ways, the Boxer Rebellion embodies a conflict that some Asian and Asian American Christians struggle with, a conflict between our Eastern cultural heritage and our Western faith The two volume structure is meant to reflect this conflict. In one volume, the Boxers are the protagonists. In the other, the Chinese Christians are.
Wired: How necessary are the two stories to each other? Taken separately, both give complete stories, but read together, the connections between the two make both into far deeper and richer experiences. Was there ever any discussion about putting them out as separate books, or dropping one of the stories altogether?
Yang: I tried to give each volume a satisfying beginning, middle, and end so that they could be read separately. I also tried to write them so they could be read in either order. Early on, there was some debate about whether to publish the project as a single volume, but I really wanted it to be two separate volumes to reflect its dual nature. The folks at First Second Books have been incredibly generous and understanding.
Wired: Was there ever any worry about whether or not historical fiction about a Chinese Revolution and spiritual awakenings would be a hard sell to readers? Did that impact the way you wrote?
Yang: Not until you brought it up just now. Actually, my whole cartooning career has been kind of a dream. I started American Born Chinese as a mini-comic. I would write and draw a chapter, photocopy a hundred or so copies at the corner photocopy store, and then try to sell them on consignment through local comics shops. If I could sell maybe half a dozen, I'd be doing okay. When you're working on that scale, you don't really think about what does and does not impact sales. You just worry about whether or not you're telling a good story, whether or not you're making something new.
Although First Second Books operates on a different scale, I've tried to keep that same mentality. I've tried to only write and draw things I'm passionate about. I've tried to tell a story that's engaging enough to keep the reader from the first page to the last. First Second is a business – they do have folks who crunch numbers – but I think their passion, their reason for getting up in the morning, is the same as mine. They want to put out stories that are engaging enough to keep the reader from the first page to the last.
Wired: How much research went into the historical setting of the book? Has the Boxer Rebellion been an interest of yours for awhile, or did you discover it while coming up with initial ideas for the book?
Yang: This is the most research I've ever done for a project. I've been working on Boxers and Saints since American Born Chinese came out in 2006. It's been a long process. I spent a year going to a university library once a week. I visited the Jesuit Archives in Vanves, France and looked through their vast collection of photos. I read a bunch of books and watched a bunch of movies.
The thing about research is that there's no end. You constantly have this fear that an expert who knows more than you will call you out on some detail in your book. (Actually, I'm pretty sure this will happen.) At some point, you just have to call it. The way I got myself to stop researching and start writing is to realize that I'm not trying to recreate China in the late 1800's. I'm trying to create a functional, believable cartoon world that reflects China in the late 1800's.
Wired: The religious aspect of the book is closely tied to the characters' sense of self; the latter is a recurring theme in your work, but this is the first time faith plays such a defining role. Why approach religion now, and why in this way?
Yang: I have done one explicitly religious book. The Rosary Comic Book illustrates the rosary, a popular Roman Catholic devotional prayer, and was published by Pauline Books and Media. Religion also shows up in some of my other books. In American Born Chinese, I paraphrase one of the psalms from Hebrew Scriptures. Jesus appears in Loyola Chin and the San Peligran Order, a graphic novel I did for SLG Publishing.
Author Marsha Qualey says that an equation lies at the heart of all YA [young adult] lit: Power + Belonging = Identity. I think this is true. I talk about religion because it's one of the ways human beings find power and belonging. Religion is more than just that – I think faith traditions give us ways to talk about experiences of the numinous, too – but power and belonging are a big part of it.
Many of the priests who served at my home church had spent years – decades, in some cases – living in Chinese reeducation camps. Their faith gave them a sense of power and belonging even when they were powerless and alone. It affirmed their identities by reminding them that they were a part of something bigger than their immediate surroundings. And although few of us have experienced such extreme circumstances, many join faith communities searching for those same things.
Wired: Saints plays with the reader's expectations in a lot of ways, with Christianity being initially characterized as the work of devils... How much of that is playing on Vibiana's own journey of faith, and the wrong-turns and misunderstandings she makes along the way?
Yang: I hope that Vibiana's journey reflects many people's faith journeys. Taking on a new religion is like taking on a new culture, with all the inevitable misunderstandings, conflicts, and struggles. I also hope that Vibiana's journey reflects Asian Christianity. A hundred years ago, Christianity was seen as something foreign, something dangerous. Now, Christianity thrives in Asian countries like South Korea and China. How did this Western faith transition from "the work of devils" to an accepted part of Asian societies? Vibiana's story is my best guess at an answer.


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A total of 964 Ferraris, representing all eras of the 'Cavallino Rampante' (prancing horse) marque's 55 year history, descended on the Silverstone race circuit, near Northamptonshire, England for the latest edition of the 'Ferrari Racing Days' event last weekend (15 September, 2012).
Current Ferrari Formula One pilot Felipe Massa was the guest of honour, leading the parade at the wheel of a 458 Spider.


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Reg review of 2011: Jobs, floaters and 90,000 tons of radioactive water
Cue commentards going nuclear ...
A Jobsian riddle answered?
In the final analysis, Jobs took existing ideas and refined them: the GUI was already in existence at Xerox PARC, MP3 music players pre-dated the iPad, and it was Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates who was the first to really talk tablets.
Apple's CEO was a tough act: as driven inside as he was outside of Apple. He often saw a way to make existing things and other people's ideas better. With his closed systems and ecosystems, Jobs was no worse than any other tech CEO trying to make money and keep making money for his company. The ethics you can debate.
You just need to keep some perspective.
Loss-makers of the world unite: MS buys Skype, Google buys Motorola
The Skype and the Motorola deals were record-breakers for Microsoft and Google: $8.5bn and $12.5bn – the most either had paid in for anything.
The deals were groundbreaking in other ways, too.
Skype potentially turned the world's largest software-maker into a web telco – also the dream of Skype's previous owner, eBay. Such was Microsoft's belief in the promise of Skype that CEO Steve Ballmer broke Microsoft's M&A rules: the internet phone service would be run as a separate division under its CEO Tony Bates, who reports only to Ballmer. It would not be folded into an existing Microsoft product group under another president.
Ballmer and Bates announce Microsoft's move into web telecoms
For Google, the purchase of Motorola Mobility meant the world's largest web search provider had become a manufacturer of handsets. Google had dabbled in handsets with the first Nexus from HTC, but these were pulled as Google's Android handset partners didn't like the idea of competing against Google.
On the Skype acquisition, Microsoft's Ballmer spun it like this: "Together we will create the future of real-time communications so people can easily stay connected to family, friends, clients and colleagues anywhere in the world." As for Google, the company told the world that Motorola wasn't about handsets, rather it was all about patents - taking ownership of phone patents to shore up Android against the lawyers from Oracle, Apple and others.
With both deals, though, it seemed Microsoft and Google had been "had". Microsoft took off of eBay's hands a loss-making VoIP phone service with no prospect of making money under Bates. It had paid over the odds – $8.5bn instead of a mere $7bn that was being asked – to a circle of rich Silicon Valley VCs who had bought into Skype with the express aim of unloading it on to somebody else. There was no bidding war to drive up the price, either, because nobody else had been interested in buying Skype.
The VCs, who included Microsoft's one-time browser nemesis Marc Andreessen, made $6.6bn in cash – not Microsoft stock.
Ballmer and Bates appearing at joint press conference in May to announce the deal talked a lot about "optimising" and developing Skype for Microsoft's Xbox, Kinect, Outlook, Hotmail, and Lync real-time-communications server. This seemed to suggest Skyping inside Xbox or Hotmail, which was conceptually the same fluffy voice-meets-community thinking that had seen eBay buy Skype. There is the potential of Skype for business communications but Microsoft will need to invest a lot to improve Skype's QoS and do so without upsetting its carrier partners.
The best on the table is that Silicon Valley social networking myth of selling more ads. Was that worth $8.5bn? Likely not, and like so many other corporate mega deals that came with equally grand-yet-vague promises, it's likely not to move the needle on revenue or market share for the main business.
Microsoft's last big deal was the diversified ads and media shop aQuantive in 2007 for $6bn. At the time, Redmond said it would take Microsoft to the "next level" in online ads. It didn't, and after many staff exits and after being turned into Microsoft's advertising arm, Microsoft's online ads still make fraction of the money Google rakes in.
Page play: Larry's Motorola buy a bust?
In the Google deal, Motorola's management, too, managed to unload a loss maker with shrinking market share at a handsome price. And, while Google's boss Larry Page talked patents, the kinds of radio and design patents that old-school telecoms manufacturers like Motorola own are outdated in the touch-screen world of smartphones and are irrelevant in the current game among handset makers of standing in a big circle and shooting at each other to see who makes it out alive. It's extremely unlikely that what Motorola owns will help see off Oracle, the database giant which alleges Android infringes its Java copyrights, given Android's Java component originates from an Apache Software Foundation (ASF) project.
As 2011 closed, it looked like Google spent $12.5bn on a poker chip that was a dud. Microsoft had become the proud owner of somebody else's dream.
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From Balfour to Obama
Balfour was keenly aware of the presence of an indigenous Arab population, but in an era that preceded international law, the United Nations charter and the Fourth Geneva Convention, a powerful empire had no qualms about granting a land deed for territories it had no legitimate claim to.
On November 2, 1917, Lord Arthur Balfour, the then British foreign secretary, promised to create a homeland for the Jews in Palestine. Known as the Balfour Declaration, the document became the first stepping stone towards the 1948 establishment of the state of Israel.
Palestine was still under Ottoman rule when it was written. But Britain and its allies were making headway in defeating the ailing Ottoman empire and, when Palestine came under British control just a month later, the document suddenly assumed much greater significance. The Balfour Declaration was presented as equal to a land deed that conferred legitimacy on the plans of the international Zionist movement.
Balfour was keenly aware of the presence of an indigenous Arab population, but in an era that preceded international law, the United Nations charter and the Fourth Geneva Convention, a powerful empire had no qualms about granting a land deed for territories it had no legitimate claim to.
The Balfour Declaration did include a stipulation that "nothing shall be done that may prejudice the religious or civil rights of the existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine" - a clause that was not exactly heeded by the founders and rulers of Israel. But little more could have been expected as the declaration itself stripped the Arab community in Palestine of its right to land and self-determination.
But the Palestinian Arabs were the last thing on Balfour's mind, or the minds of many other British politicians. He was primarily concerned with solving 'a European problem' and not with addressing the rights of an indigenous people. He also sought to bolster a declining British empire.
Balfour saw the establishment of a homeland for the Jews in Palestine as the best solution to what was commonly referred to as Europe's 'Jewish problem' - a solution that reflected and embodied the central anti-Semitic belief that Jews were an alien body causing problems in Christian Europe.
Balfour was a known anti-Semite who as prime minister supported and pushed for the 1905 Aliens Act that sought to curb Eastern European, particularly Jewish, immigration to Britain.
Over the years, he grew convinced that Zionism - the movement that advocated the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine - offered a convenient solution to the 'Jewish problem'. Like other anti-Semites he did not believe that Jews belonged in Europe and felt that they comprised a separate race and religion that could not live in harmony within their countries of residence.
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