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Public Transport System Structurally Flawed
I was in the Republic of Singapore Navy when Singapore's current Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew earned his first star as a commander. He was among the friendlier commanders who you knew, beneath his poetic charm, had those balls of steel that would give him the resolve to die defending his ship.
Lui seems to be showing signs of such resolve with his current unwavering position on the structure of Singapore's public transport system (see more below). He is on a collision course with opposition party politicians. He is not going to have an easy ride, since this is something which even grassroots leaders, like my friend below, find unpalatable.
Dharmendra Yadav
I am no expert in public transport, but when I read Minister Lui's blog "Public Transport Fare Increase" written on 13 July 2011, what struck me was the statement "it is the profit incentive of commercial enterprises that spurs efficiency and productivity improvements".
While I cannot fault the statement, perhaps it might be instructive for us to consider this statement in the context of the nature of our public transport market.
SBS and SMRT are the two dominant players in our public transport sector. They presumably hold substantial market shares. Industries containing firms with substantial market shares are called "concentrated industries" because their market share is in the hands of few firms (in this case, SBS and SMRT).
Further, demand for public transport can best be described as inelastic, as many Singaporeans rely on these services for their daily needs. Who else can they turn to other than SMRT or SBS, unless they own a car or choose a taxi company that is not owned by SMRT or SBS?
Under these conditions, the profit maximising firm will constantly strive to raise prices. Demand will not be affected because it is inelastic. And because SBS and SMRT operate as a duopoly in this market, and I assume their market share is largely equal and stable, there is no real incentive for them to drop price to fight to gain market share, and thus, the only logical move would be to keep the status quo, and better still, request for price rises together. (In such a situation, it makes sense for one to follow the move of the other, why rock the boat?)
In such a duopolistic environment, I doubt there is a huge incentive for either SBS or SMRT to compete, which makes our public transport sector less competitive. Worse, such environment may stifle any need to be innovative or responsive to customers.
We are already seeing signs of such lethargy in both companies. Today, we see people packed to the brim in trains. People are unable to board buses because they are too crowded.
It is thus no surprise to me (and most Singaporeans I assume), that the "experience" of travelling in our public transport has been less than satisfactory.
I am not optimistic that the profit incentive will drive efficiency and productivity improvements designed to serve commuters better.
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"it is the profit incentive of commercial enterprises that spurs efficiency and productivity improvements"
If this statement is true, then logically, it follows that the civil service and all govt related departments are probably the most inefficient organisations in Singapore. Are the taxpayers getting the monies worth ?
Unless, of course if these organistions are also profit-oriented.
- 9:19 am
It's not even a duopoly. Given the little overlap in routes, the 2 operators are geographic monopolies. When it comes to fare increases, they collude. Private monopolies offering public services don't give a shit about public duty. That's the inherent flaw in govt policy, quite apart from the moot question of how efficient the operators have turned out to be, over the years. The proof is in the eating. Just ask the public who have no choice but to use their services. Surely the groundswell tells you something is fundamentally wrong?
- 9:56 am
Competition is what drives efficiency. Let private operators run bus routes and see if SBS wants to increase its prices. The government has no right to use the profit incentive argument when its basically running a monopoly.
- 11:30 am
All talk and no action. I hear complaints - high cost of HDB apartment, transport fares and medical costs etc, etc, etc .... all the time.
There is a simple solution to this.
Just vote in a another two dozen of credible opposition candidates into parliament will do the trick. You will see the cabinet ministers and the civil service bucking up immediately. Murky policies will get cleaner and arrogance gone.
Sound like a rash action but is better than whining unless you still enjoy it.
- 6:25 pm


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The Just-In-Time Shutout: Angels 6, Mariners 0
Pretty clearly, he figured it wasn't worth it. The M's had barely made anything happen all game; the closest they came was in the third with Ichiro and Jose Vidro on third and second respectively with two out, itself the subject of an interesting sidebar. Coming into the game having lost their last two games to Texas, and apparently getting screwed on a safe call at second earlier in the game (replays showed Gary Matthews, Jr. safe, though the radio announcers said he should have been called out), nothing was going right for the M's. The Angels were getting too many breaks and the Mariners weren't getting timely hits. More, their obvious team leader was demoralized.
Back, briefly, to the bottom of the third. The key play was Jose Vidro grounding out to Kendry Morales with men on the corners. Kendry took a fairly big chance and threw the ball to the plate to preserve the shutout. This allowed both runners to advance to second and third, but with two outs. It's not the first time I've seen Kendry take a chance on a play to improve the Angels' situation; his defense is often surprising, and by that I mean in a good way. More than once I've seen him try for a 3-6-3 or a 3-6-1 double play and make it work. Kotchman's overall package is just terrific: he's a smooth, agile defender in all aspects, but there are times when you see Kendry take a chance that you just know Kotchman wouldn't, and that play might have been one of those times.
The Angels took a lead on Garret Anderson's leadoff homer in the third and never looked back. Anderson, in fact, ended up with three RBIs in the game, two more in the third with the bases loaded on what was ultimately ruled a ground-rule double because of fan interference. (Incidentally, has anyone else noticed that GA's average with runners in scoring position has crept up to .229 over the last couple weeks?) The Angels put together a suicide squeeze off Jeff Mathis in the fourth, and scored twice in the sixth, once on Kendry's RBI single and another time on a wild pitch by Bautista.
Finally, Lackey turned the ship around in a big way following two straight losses to the Red Sox and Yankees, posting a dominant complete-game shutout, his second complete game of the year. He looked for the world like that 2.91 ERA Lackey who showed up in the first half. A great, great outing at exactly the time the Angels needed it. The Angels now sport a three-game lead in the AL West, and can do no worse than a one-game lead at the end of the series should they drop the other two games.
Update: Lackey was playing through a case of strep throat.
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Capitalist Peace Theory: A Critical Appraisal
Gerald Schneider
Capitalist peace theory (CPT) has gained considerable attention in international relations theory and the conflict literature. Its proponents maintain that a capitalist organization of an economy pacifies states internally and externally. They portray CPT either as a complement or as a substitute to other liberal explanations such as the democratic peace thesis. They, however, disagree about the facet of capitalism that is supposed to reduce the risk of political violence. Key contributions have identified three main drivers of the capitalist peace phenomenon: the fiscal constraints that a laissez-faire regimen puts on potentially aggressive governments, the mollifying norms that a capitalist organization creates; and the increased ability of capitalist governments to signal their intentions effectively in a confrontation with an adversary. Defining capitalism narrowly through the freedom entrepreneurs enjoy domestically, this article evaluates the key causal mechanisms and empirical evidence that have been advanced in support of these competing claims. The article argues that CPT needs to be based on a narrow definition of capitalism and that it should scrutinize motives and constraints of the main actors more deeply. Future contributions to the CPT literature should also pay close attention to classic theories of capitalism, which all considered individual risk taking and the dramatic changes between booms and busts to be key constitutive features of this form of economic governance. Finally, empirical tests of the proposed causal mechanism should rely on data sets in which capitalists appear as actors and not as "structures." If the literature takes these objections seriously, CPT could establish itself as central theory of peace and war in two respects. First, it could serve as an antidote to the theory of imperialism and other "critical" approaches that see in capitalism a source of conflict rather than of peace. Second, it could become an important complement to commercial liberalism that stresses the external openness rather than the internal freedoms as an economic cause of peace and that particularly sees trade and foreign direct investment as pacifying forces.
Gender Inequality and Internal Conflict
Erika Forsberg and Louise Olsson
Prior research has found robust support for a relationship between gender inequality and civil war. These results all point in the same direction; countries that display lower levels of gender equality are more likely to become involved in civil conflict, and violence is likely to be even more severe, than in countries where women have a higher status. But what does gender inequality mean in this area of research? And how does research explain why we see this effect on civil war? To explore this, we start with reviewing existing definitions and measurements of gender inequality, noting that the concept has several dimensions. We then proceed to outline several clusters of explanations of how gender inequality could be related to civil war while more equal societies are better able to prevent violent conflict, as described in previous research. It is clear that existing misconceptions that gender inequality primarily involves the role of women are clouding the fact that it clearly speaks to much broader societal developments which play central roles in civil war. We conclude by identifying some remaining lacunas and directions for future research.
Information and Civil Unrest in Dictatorships
Elizabeth Ann Stein
Considering incidents that make headline news internationally, given the modern information and communication technology revolution, the facility of citizens to rapidly mobilize represents a considerable threat to autocratic survival. While the speed with which popular movements emerge has increased exponentially, and the news of their existence spreads faster and farther, civil unrest has threatened the stability and survival of dictators for centuries. The paranoia and machinations of dictators depicted in films, such as the portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland, while sensationalized, capture the astounding array of threats with which unelected leaders must concern themselves. On the one hand, they must worry about insider threats to their standing, such as conspiratorial plots from people within the dictator's own circle or mutiny among government soldiers. On the other hand, dictators also must monitor threats originating from non-regime actors, such as new alliances forming among once-fragmented opposition groups or the possibility of sustained insurgency or a popular revolution. From force to finesse, autocratic leaders have developed a broad and evolving range of tactics and tools to diminish both internal and external domestic threats to their reign. The success of dictators' endeavors to insulate their regimes from forces that might challenge them depends on accurate and reliable information, a resource that can be as valuable to the leader as would a large armory and loyal soldiers. Dictators invest significant resources (monetary as well as human capital) to try to gather useful information about their existing and potential opponents, while also trying to control and shape information emitted by the regime before it reaches the public. New information and communication technologies (ICTs), which have drawn a great deal of scholarly attention since the beginning of the 21st century—present both risks and rewards for dictators; inversely they also create new opportunities and hazards for citizens who might utilize them to mobilize people opposed to the regime. While civil unrest could encompass the full range of domestic, nonmilitary actors, there also needs to be a specific focus on various forms of mass mobilization. Historically, more dictators have been forced from office by elite-initiated overthrows via coups d'état than have fallen to revolution or fled amid street protests. Civil unrest, in its many forms, can affect autocratic survival or precipitate regime breakdown. While mass-based revolutions have been a relatively rare phenomenon to date, the actions of many 21st-century dictators indicate that they increasingly concern themselves with the threats posed by popular protests and fear its potential for triggering broader antigovernment campaigns. The ease of access to information (or the lack thereof) help explain interactions between authoritarian regimes and citizens emphasizes. The role of information in popular antigovernment mobilization has evolved and changed how dictators gather and utilize information to prevent or counter civil unrest that might jeopardize their own survival as well as that of the regime.
Military Defection and the Arab Spring
Risa A. Brooks
The protests that began in Tunisia in December 2010, and quickly spread across the Arab world, have drawn significant attention to the impact of militaries and coercive institutions on protests and revolutionary movements. The actions of the militaries were a central determinant of the outcomes of the uprisings of 2010–2011. In Tunisia and Egypt the decision by military leaders to abstain from using force on mass protests to suppress them led to the downfall of the countries' autocrats. In Syria and Bahrain, militaries defended political leaders with brutal force. In Yemen and Libya, militaries fractured, with some units remaining allied to the leader and using force on his behalf and others defecting. In still other states, leaders and militaries were able to forestall the emergence of large, regime-threatening protests.
To explain these divergent outcomes, scholars and analysts have looked to a variety of explanatory factors. These focus on the attributes of the militaries involved, their civil-military relations, the size and social composition of the protests, the nature of the regime's institutions, and the impact of monarchical traditions. These explanations offer many useful insights, but several issues remain under-studied. These include the impact of authoritarian learning and diffusion on protest trajectory. They also include the endogeneity of the protests to the nature of a country's civil-military relations (i.e., how preexisting patterns of civil-military relations affected the possibility that incipient demonstrations would escalate to mass protests). Scholars also have been understandably captivated by the aforementioned pattern of military defection-loyalty, focusing on explaining that observed difference at the expense of studying other dependent variables. The next generation of scholarship on the uprisings therefore would benefit from efforts to conceptualize and investigate different aspects of variation in military behavior.
Overall, the first-generation literature has proved enormously useful and laid the foundation for a much richer understanding of military behavior and reactions to popular uprisings in the Arab world and beyond.
National Secession
Philip G. Roeder
National secession seeks to create a new sovereign state for a nation residing on its homeland that is currently located inside another sovereign state. This goal distinguishes national secession from regional secession, autonomy, and decolonization and shapes the strategies, operational objectives, and tactical choices of the leaders of national-secession campaigns. Explanations for the success of some campaigns—particularly, success at getting on the global agenda—have focused on the identities, grievances, or greed of their members. Explanations for why some campaigns have turned to protracted intense violence have focused on these motivations and on tactical-logistical opportunities.
The existing literature suffers from its failure to agree on theoretical and conceptual fundamentals. As a consequence, empirical studies focus on very different universes of cases and operationalize key variables in diverging ways. The existing literature frequently does not consider how the goal of national secession constrains the strategies, operations, and tactics of such campaigns. And so, it often fails to consider whether studies with another dependent variable can be extended to the study of national secession. Explanations stress indeterminate or substitutable causes and remote constraints on most national-secession campaigns—causes and constraints taken "off the shelf" from theories about conflicts operating under very different strategic and operational constraints. Missing from these explanations is the authenticity and realism of the programs for national secession in the assessments of the populations that each program presents as a nation with a right to a sovereign state of its own. Explanations and recommendations for responses by common-state governments, their allies, and the international community often fail to understand the centrality of the war of programs between national secessionists and common-state governments and the ways this constrains what compromises are possible and what responses are most likely to lead to domestic and international peace in such conflicts.
High-Value Natural Resources and Transparency: Accounting for Revenues and Governance
Levon Epremian, Päivi Lujala, and Carl Bruch
The increase in demand and prices of most high-value natural resources over the past five decades has resulted in massive income gains for resource-abundant countries. Paradoxically, many of these countries have suffered from slow economic growth, weak political institutions, and violent conflict. To combat corruption, increase accountability, and promote government effectiveness, the international community and advocacy groups have been promoting transparency as the remedy to misappropriation and mismanagement of revenues. Consequently, advocates, officials, and diplomats increasingly focus on transparency as the means to better manage revenues from high-value natural resources in developing countries.
The linkages between transparency, accountability, and management of revenues from high-value natural resources require careful examination. This article provides a review of the literature on transparency and accountability in the context of natural resource revenue management, discusses how transparency is conceptualized and understood to function in this context, and assesses the existing evidence for the proposition that increased transparency leads to more accountability and improved natural resource governance. The article concludes with a discussion on the evaluation of transparency policy initiatives.
Pro-Government Militias and Conflict
Sabine C. Carey and Neil J. Mitchell
Pro-government militias are a prominent feature of civil wars. Governments in Colombia, Syria, and Sudan recruit irregular forces in their armed struggle against insurgents. The United States collaborated with Awakening groups to counter the insurgency in Iraq, just as colonizers used local armed groups to fight rebellions in their colonies. An emerging cross-disciplinary literature on pro-government non-state armed groups generates a variety of research questions for scholars interested in conflict, political violence, and political stability: Does the presence of such groups indicate a new type of conflict? What are the dynamics that drive governments to align with informal armed groups and that make armed groups choose to side with the government? Given the risks entailed in surrendering a monopoly of violence, is there a turning point in a conflict when governments enlist these groups? How successful are these groups? Why do governments use these non-state armed actors to shape foreign conflicts whether as insurgents or counterinsurgents abroad? Are these non-state armed actors always useful to governments or perhaps even an indicator for state failure?
We examine the demand for and supply of pro-government armed groups and the legacies that shape their role in civil wars. The enduring pattern of collaboration between governments and these armed non-state actors challenges conventional theory and the idea of an evolutionary process of the modern state consolidating the means of violence. Research on these groups and their consequences began with case studies, and these continue to yield valuable insights. More recently, survey work and cross-national quantitative research contribute to our knowledge. This mix of methods is opening new lines of inquiry for research on insurgencies and the delivery of the core public good of effective security.
Transitional Justice During Armed Conflict
Cyanne E. Loyle
Armed conflict is ultimately about the violent confrontation between two or more groups; however, there is a range of behaviors, both violent and nonviolent, pursued by governments and rebel groups while conflict is ongoing that impacts the course and outcomes of that violence. The use of judicial or quasi-judicial institutions during armed conflict is one such behavior. While there is a well-developed body of literature that examines the conditions under which governments engage with the legacies of violence following armed conflict, we know comparatively little about these same institutions used while conflict is ongoing.
Similar to the use of transitional justice following armed conflict or post-conflict justice, during-conflict transitional justice (DCJ) refers to "a judicial or quasi-judicial process initiated during an armed conflict that attempts to address wrongdoings that have taken or are taking place as part of that conflict" (according to Loyle and Binningsbø). DCJ includes a variety of institutional forms pursued by both governments and rebel groups such as human rights trials, truth commissions or commissions of inquiry, amnesty offers, reparations, purges, or exiles.
As our current understanding of transitional justice has focused exclusively on these processes following a political transition or the termination of an armed conflict, we have a limited understanding of how and why these processes are used during conflict. Extant work has assumed, either implicitly or explicitly, that transitional justice is offered and put in place once violence has ended, but this is not the case. New data on this topic from the During-Conflict Justice dataset by Loyle and Binningsbø suggests that the use of transitional justice during conflict is a widespread and systematic policy across multiple actor groups. In 2017, Loyle and Binningsbø found that DCJ processes were used during over 60% of armed conflicts from 1946 through 2011; and of these processes 10% were put in place by rebel groups (i.e., the group challenging the government rather than the government in power).
Three main questions arise from this new finding: Under what conditions are justice processes implemented during conflict, why are these processes put in place, and what is the likely effect of their implementation on the conflict itself? Answering these questions has important implications for understanding patterns of government and rebel behavior while conflict is ongoing and the impacts of those behaviors. Furthermore, this work helps us to broaden our understanding of the use of judicial and quasi-judicial processes to those periods where no power shift has taken place.
Understanding Government Behavior During Armed Conflict
Cyanne E. Loyle
How and why do governments choose the strategies that they do during armed conflict? While there is a substantial body of research on the use of different tactics by governments and rebels during armed conflict, this work has rarely made an attempt to engage with scholars of different tactics in order to develop a broader understanding of how and why actors make the behavioral choices that they do and how these choices advance certain intended strategies. Furthermore, the work across tactics does not have unified findings. Understanding both the range of behaviors by conflict actors and the motivations for these behaviors is an important and necessary step for understanding the course of armed conflict more generally and for developing relevant policy aimed at changing these behaviors.
Within existing literature on belligerent tactics, important lessons about government behaviors and why these specific behaviors are selected can be distilled. Objectives, strategies, and tactics should be disaggregated in order to think through the implications of different government decisions for understanding or changing behavior. This disaggregation aids us in identifying the areas of research in which we have confirmed findings and those questions regarding government behavior that require additional investigation. Moving forward we could and should develop a systematic list of the types of factors that impact certain behavioral choices, across tactics, but this is most useful if we can then link these factors to an understanding of the broader objectives and strategies that a government is trying to pursue.


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Hawks beat Wild 5-3; points streak at 23 gamesby Brian Hedger
CHICAGO – The Chicago Blackhawks show no signs of slowing down.
The Blackhawks, who entered the NHL in 1926, won a franchise-record 10th straight game by holding off the Minnesota Wild 5-3 on Tuesday night.
Not only did the Blackhawks eclipse the previous mark of nine consecutive victories, set in December 2008, they also pushed their streak of games with at least a point to 23 games – the longest from the start of a season in NHL history.
"I didn't know that was the franchise record," forward Bryan Bickell said after earning First Star honors by scoring two of Chicago's four first-period goals. "We're just looking at every game like it's a new one. It doesn't feel like we're on a streak. I know sometimes we have ups and downs, but we've been finding ways to win … that's important."
As has often happened this season, the Hawks managed to make life interesting in the third period. They led 4-1 before goals by Ryan Suter and Kyle Brodziak cut the margin to one and left the packed house at United Center feeling a little uneasy.
But the feeling didn't last long. Patrick Kane scored at 11:33 of the third by roofing his 12th goal of the season -- just 1:01 after Brodziak cut it to 4-3.
Kane's goal was the first allowed by rookie Darcy Kuemper, who relieved starter Niklas Backstrom to start the second period. The opening period was one Backstrom would probably like to forget after allowing four goals on 17 shots.
After falling behind 1-0 on Devin Setoguchi's goal 8:22 into the game, the Blackhawks responded with a blizzard of goals on a snowy night in the Windy City. As a press box full of national media watched, Chicago upped its record to 20-0-3 and continued its journey to change National Hockey League history.
Counting last season's 3-0-3 finish, the Blackhawks have recorded at least a point in 29 straight games – moving them past the 1977-78 Montreal Canadiens into second place on the League's all-time list of longest point streaks. The 1979-80 Philadelphia Flyers ran off 35 straight games with at least a point and stand alone in Chicago's sights.
"I guess some people might think that we're playing out of our capacity, and we don't believe we're even close to that," Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews said after assisting on first-period goals by Brandon Saad and Marian Hossa. "It's all about your mindset and it's all about how you look at it. For us, we know there's always going to be challenges that we can work on overcoming, and it's good to have that confidence as a team – that we can just kind of get together in this locker room and talk about things we need to focus on and worry about."
The early goal against, for instance, continued a recent trend of falling behind early and overcoming a deficit to win. As they've done 12 other times this season, the Blackhawks bounced back after letting in the first goal – they are a League-best 10-0-3 in such situations.
"We haven't really changed our demeanor in a game, whether we're ahead or behind," coach Joel Quenneville said. "[Despite] giving up early goals here recently, whether it was [against] Columbus or tonight, the response has been almost immediate, which is good. We certainly had a nice finish to that [first] period."
That's one way to characterize it.
The Blackhawks barely blinked after Setoguchi put the Wild up 1-0 by converting Matt Cullen's rebound from just in front of the crease. Continuing a season-long trend, the Blackhawks simply washed out Setoguchi's marker by scoring four of their own in a 5:43 span.
Saad, who had his first multi-point game with a three-point night, knotted it 1-1 at 13:02 with his fourth goal. Bickell followed it up with his first of the game at 13:46 and then scored again at 17:12.
Next was the capper. Fittingly, it was scored by Hossa, who fired home his 10th goal of the season to make it 4-1 on a night that started with a pregame ceremony to honor his 1,000th NHL game, which he played this past Sunday in Detroit.
Hossa was joined on the ice by his wife and baby daughter, and was given a commemorative silver hockey stick plus a painting of him hoisting the Stanley Cup following the Blackhawks' 2010 championship.
"It took me one or two shifts to get into the game after the ceremony, but after that I was fine," Hossa said. "It was a special night for me and for my family. That was a nice, warm welcoming by the fans and I enjoyed it."
Hossa's goal developed just 1:33 after Bickell's second tally when Saad picked up a loose puck in the slot and dished it out for his second primary assist of the period. Hossa banged his stick on the ice for the pass, which he received just inside the right circle and snapped into the upper right corner of the net.
"That was nice on a special night like this to put myself on the board, definitely a special moment," Hossa said.
It was the 427th goal of Hossa's career -- and at that point the stunned pro-Blackhawks crowd was on its feet, reveling in the sounds of Chicago's now-infamous goal song, "Chelsea Dagger," by The Fratellis.
Leading up to that moment were the goals by Saad and Bickell. Saad scored on a backhander through traffic after his first attempt hit Toews in front of the blue paint. Bickell's first was also scored off a rebound, which he scooped to the right of Backstrom, wheeled and fired through Mikael Granland's legs into the net for a 2-1 lead.
Bickell then took a short pass from Saad 3:26 later in the left circle and made it 3-1 by flipping a shot over Backstrom's catching glove into the upper right corner.
Minnesota, meanwhile, found out what it's been like for most of the Western Conference. The Wild (11-9-2) came into the game as one of just three teams to have beaten the Blackhawks this season -- all in shootouts. Minnesota, which beat Chicago 3-2 in a shootout on Jan. 30 at Xcel Energy Center, also came into this game after winning five of its previous seven games.
"We just weren't good enough," Wild forward Zach Parise said. "We weren't good with the puck and that's what happens. That's what happens when you play a team like that and you make some mistakes. They'll make you pay."


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OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloom.com, a photo sharing site and mobile app for beauty is bringing the beauty inspiration experience full-circle by allowing mobile users to shop the looks they want to recreate. It's no secret, image sharing apps are becoming more and more popular, but consumers are also gravitating toward niche social sites that provide a steady stream of photos appealing to their personal interests.
"Bloom is the central source for all things beauty," says Bloom founder and CEO, Julie Mahloch. "Consumers are loving it because it brings their favorite beauty brands, trendsetters and professionals together into one powerhouse beauty source. You can be inspired by a look and then be instantly directed to purchase the products that will help you get that look."
Mahloch says the site is making the world of beauty immediately available with new looks created constantly and over 50,000 products available either on-line or from nearby local stores & salons. It has already established retail relationships with the likes of Sephora, Nordstrom, Macy's, Beauty.com, and Drugstore.com.
"Bloom is making it simple for users to find what they're looking for by organizing looks into specific subcategories. If you have a wedding coming up and want to find the perfect updo or makeup look, you can browse the latest bridal looks. We've categorized every type of style and hair length for the user's convenience. If you're looking for nail art, dramatic eye looks or every day looks, you can go directly to that specific category, find your favorites, save them to your own lookbooks and then get instant access to the products used.
"Beauty brands are also excited, because their products are coming to life on Bloom's Be Inspired pages every day," says Mahloch. "We're giving consumers their own personalized beauty magazine to create inspiring content with the products they love. They can then share those looks out to other social networks and friends who can shop the looks themselves."
Bloom's iPhone application was recently featured as Gizmodo's App of the Day and it's expected to release the Android version in late February. Both photo sharing apps put the world of beauty at the user's fingertips, allowing them to:
- DISCOVER THE HOTTEST BEAUTY TRENDSExplore inspirational photos of hairstyles, makeup, nails and skincare!
- LEARN HOW TO GET THE LOOKPhotos are tagged with how-tos and the products used to get the look
- SHOP THE PRODUCTS YOU DISCOVERBe instantly directed to the products you love – buy online at Sephora, Nordstrom, Macy's, etc. or at nearby stores and salons.
- FOLLOW TRENDSETTERSFollow people whose looks you like and stay up-to-date with their latest styles.
- SHARE YOUR STYLEAdd your own inspirational photos and tag them to trends and products used.
- FIND A PRO Find beauty professionals by the services they offer and their locations!
With more than 50% of US consumers now searching for product information on a mobile device, beauty is one of the hottest categories. Bloom's new Bloom iphone app has already been a huge hit, being downloaded by thousands of consumers who are calling it the "best place to find inspiration for makeup and hair looks."
About Bloom.com: Bloom.com was founded in 2010 by Julie Mahloch, an entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience revolutionizing ecommerce business and world renowned for co-founding HayNeedle.com, one of America's largest online home furnishing companies. Mahloch's desire to make the world of beauty easier to navigate evolved into a new passion. Realizing there was no other site like it, Mahloch is proud to provide a unique outlet to support the Bloom.com mission – inspiring consumers with the hottest trends and then instantly showing them how to create their favorite looks with access to the products and services necessary. Joining Mahloch in this endeavor is a leading team of industry experts including Nick Hudson, a veteran in the beauty industry for almost 20 years, whom she has appointed CMO of Bloom.com. He began his career in business development at The Boots Group, Europe's largest health and beauty retailer, where he was responsible for launching dozens of brands and establishing new creative retail and branding partnerships in over 40 countries across Europe, Asia and the US. Hudson went on to co-found Excelsior Beauty in 2004 where he developed new masstige beauty markets in the US and expanded distribution of international consumer brands to mainstream retailers in the US including CVS, Target and Walgreens. He is responsible for merchandise, marketing and business development at Bloom.com, which is poised to change the way in which women shop for beauty products.
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posted by Eugenia Loli on Tue 7th Mar 2006 01:37 UTC, submitted by Valour
"It's been a while since I last reviewed Gentoo Linux because there haven't been too many significant changes in the past few releases. I've been using it as my primary desktop operating system for a year and a half, though, and I've been running my main Web/email/database server on it since October of 2004. There's a reason why I've stayed with it that long, both as a desktop and server OS - and there's also a reason why I'm writing a review of the 2006.0 release after a long hiatus from Gentoo reviews." More here.


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— Dr. Arthur Eisenberg, Professor, Department of Pathology and Anatomy and Director, University of North Texas System Center for Human Identification, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth


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Setting Up Your Dream Shop Online
Jul 27, 2012 5:00 AM PT
Shana and Len Bentivegna started their online store, Organic Pet Boutique, as a result of pet food scares and their concern for the safety of their two Shih Tzus, Milo and Ceasar.
"After discovering organic and natural pet food was the only safe alternative, we decided to go online to purchase their food," Len Bentivegna told the E-Commerce Times. "We ultimately discovered there was not a one-stop shop for organic and natural pet products, so we decided to create one."
They did extensive research into the marketplace and decided to go with Volusion for their e-commerce platform. Since its launch in 2009, the business has become one of the largest online retailers of organic and natural pet products.
They understood the niche market they were serving, Bentivegna said, and they were able to provide the exact products that market demanded.
Would-be e-commerce entrepreneurs should gain a similar understanding of the marketplace before launching an online store he advised.
"Make sure to focus on a niche within your products or service offering," said Bentivegna. "Being able to focus will not only increase your odds of succeeding but will put your products or services in a position where you don't have to be the low-cost provider. People are willing to pay more for a niche product or service."
How to Do It Right
Before opening an online store, businesses need to think clearly about what they're selling and to whom. Understanding how they fit into the e-commerce ecosystem before throwing open those online doors can make all the difference in a business's success.
"Before you get too far into the specifics of design or site features, it's important to spend some time thinking about what is truly unique about your business and the products you sell," online and multichannel strategy consultant Sally McKenzie told the E-Commerce Times. "Be careful not to implement a feature or design element because "everyone else is doing it.' While there are some fundamentals needed for all sites -- such as clear navigation, quality photography and copy that accurately depicts the product, and an efficient payment and checkout process -- many design and feature decisions should be driven by the specifics of your target customer and your product offering."
The method and means of online selling depends, in large part, on a company's clientele and product.
"Sites that carry a broad product assortment may need a robust site search tool and guided navigation that gives customers the ability to drill down on a wide variety of filters and facets to make a decision," explained McKenzie.
"A boutique site with a small, specialized product assortment may not need to invest heavily in site search, but may instead need to invest in more extensive product visualization tools, product content or social sharing tools," she said.
"A retailer that operates physical stores may need to invest in cross-channel conveniences like store inventory lookup. Let the unique needs of your target customer and your business drive the prioritization when it comes to features and functionality," McKenzie advised.
Though it's easier than ever to open an online store, it can be difficult for small businesses just starting out to gain an e-commerce foothold, she acknowledged.
"The paradox of opening an online store today is that while advancements in technology and online marketing have lowered the barrier to entry, the ability for new online stores to break through the clutter and compete against larger, more established businesses can be more challenging than ever," said McKenzie. "Customer expectations for a sophisticated site experience and free shipping and returns can make profitability challenging."
Small businesses should do their research and enter the fray well aware of potential challenges and how to overcome them, she suggested.
"It's important to go into business with eyes wide open regarding the effort and investment needed to build and run the online store," said McKenzie.
"Audit your competitors. Build a plan and budget for the business, project the levels of traffic you will need to drive, and the conversion rate and average order size you will need to generate to hit your sales goals," she recommended. "It's easy to get caught up in the building of the store and lose site of what it will take to run the store successfully once it's launched."
Getting Down to the Nitty-Gritty
Once a business has a sense of the big picture, it's time to pay attention to the details of an e-commerce site in terms of design, features and product descriptions. Figuring out what works can sometimes be a matter of trial and error.
"It's an art more than a science," Craig Smith, founder and CEO of Trinity Insight told the E-Commerce Times. "Different categories respond to different types of designs."
Sites need to be free of clutter and easy to navigate, he emphasized.
"You need to have high-quality product descriptions," added Smith. "You can get a lot of ROI through rewriting product descriptions."
Pay attention to conversion rates, he recommended. Look both at products that are doing well in terms of conversion and ones that aren't, in order to determine how to increase conversion rates across the board.
"I would segment your categories by conversion rate numbers," said Smith. "Try to make the ones not doing so well do better."
Going Mobile and Social
Like everything else online, mobile selling is going mobile and social, so would-be e-commerce entrepreneurs need to build those features into their platform from the beginning.
"Mobile, tablet and social are the obvious evolutions of late," said McKenzie. "I think some of the more interesting new business models offer some sort of social component embedded in the business model, or they offer unique and differentiated service and delivery models around the products they sell."
Yes, there are the Amazons of the world out there, but with some ingenuity, smaller e-commerce businesses can compete, McKenzie said.
"Amazon has driven huge adoption of online shopping, and that's wonderful, but it also puts many new and smaller retailers at risk of becoming commoditized," she pointed out. "The need to deliver unique experiences is greater than ever, and I think we'll see a surge of new sites aimed at niche audiences that can deliver differentiated value."


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HARROGATE, TN - The King University men's and women's team fell in their season opening matches to Lincoln Memorial University on Thursday. Strong matches we played throughout the lineup, however the men fell 7-2, while the women lost 8-1.
The men's wins were provided by junior Ro Avila in a very tough 3 set match against Will Sparks, 6-7, 7-5,6-4, and a strong win by junior Pablo Vidal over Marcelo Alvim by a score of 6-4, 7-5. Senior Captain Patrick Jones battled strongly in his match with Alexi Minevisky before falling 6-4, 6-3.
On the women's side, freshman newcomer Naomi Reyes garnered her first collegiate win in her first outing, beating Alexandra Granger handily 6-2, 6-2. Reyes showed strong strokes and calm determination in her first win for the Tornado. Reyes paired with freshman Mariana Hosomi in doubles in a tough first match together battling strongly before eventually falling 8-3. Senior captain Karissa King paired with first year player sophomore Amanda Huffaker in doubles starting their match off strongly, leading 3-0 before falling to the Railsplitters by a score of 8-4.
Both teams will be on the road again next week, February 27th, in their first conference match against North Greenville.


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Groups and Organizations on AU Campus
- AU Pride Alliance (AUPA) -National Coming Out Day- October 11, 2012
The point of National Coming Out Day is to let people see who you are--people other students and faculty already like, know and respect who happen to be gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. That is your strongest tool in the movement toward full human rights. For more info on National Coming Out Day, please click on Human Rights Campaign history of National Coming Out Day.
LGBT Pride - Spring 2013- date to be announced
Since Pride is usually celebrated in June when school is out of session, AU will be celebrating a little early.
History of Pride - The June 1969 "Stonewall Rebellion" against police--led by mostly young working class, youth of color, Puerto Rican and Black Drag Queens--at the Stonewell Bar on Christopher St. in New York City is often thought of as marking the beginning of modern gay liberation in the U.S. In the 1940s, 50s and 60's, police extorted money from the owners of nightclubs that served gay people. They often raided the clubs to show their muscle, arresting the patrons, publishing their names, and sometimes beating or raping them in custody. For the first time ever, instead of passively accepting the police brutality, the patrons fought back. A year later, activists in other cities were thinking of a way to mark the anniversary. During the 1970s, various groups began observing Pride Day, on weekends in June. Today, the holiday is celebrated as the anniversary of the modern movement for the human rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.
Local Resources
Open Door Clinic - OpenDoorClinic.org or 630-264-1819 provides counseling for LGBT people and HIV Testing
PFLAG- Chicago Chapter - pflagchicago.com or 773-935-2398
Suicide Prevention Services - spsfv.org or 630-482-9696
National Resources
Advocates for Youth - advocatesforyouth.org features a link on their website just for LGBT youth youthresource.com which supports LGBT youth in their coming out process or you can call 202-419-3420
American Institute of Bisexuality - bisexual.org a resource website for bisexual men and women
Bisexual Resource Center - biresource.net or 617-424-9595 provides resources for bisexual men and women
Campus Pride - campuspride.net serves student leaders of LGBTQ and Ally campus organizations
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) - glaad.org or 323-933-2240 or 212-629-3322
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association - glma.org to find a physician referral
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender National Help Center National Hotline - glnh.org or 888-843-4564 or National Youth Talkline at 800-246-7743 or email questions to firstname.lastname@example.com
Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) - glsen.org or 212-727-0135 works to combat harrassment and discrimination against students and school personnel
Gender.Org - Gender Education & Advocacy gender.org focuses on needs, issues and concerns of transgender people
Human Rights Campaign - hrc.org or 800-777-4723 provides a voice on LGBT issues
National Association of People with AIDS - napwa.org or 866-846-9366 advocates on behalf of all people with HIV or AIDS
National Center for Lesbian Rights- nclrights.org or 415-392-6257 provides legal resources for lesbians and their families
National Consortium of Directors of LGBT Resources in Higher Education - lgbtcampus.org
OUT for Work - outforwork.org or 866-571-5428 prepares LGBT college students to transition from college to the workforce
Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) - pflag.org or 202-467-8180
Shout Out Health Blog - shoutouthealth.com blog for LGBT health information
Soulforce - soulforce.org brings together spirituality and LGBT activism
Standing Committee for LGBT Awareness (SCLGBTA) - myacpa.org is part of the American College Personnel Association to eliminate oppression of the LGBT community
Stop The Hate!- campuspride.org/stop-the-hate - Campus Hate Crime Prevention Program
The Trevor Project- thetrevorproject.org or Helpline - 866-488-7386 promotes acceptance of LGBTQ teenagers and aids in suicide prevention
Transgendered Network International (TGNI) - tgni.net provides a safe haven for all transgendered people
TransMan's Information Project - trans-man.org provides Female to Male resources
Transsexual Resources - annelawrence.com provides resources for transgendered people
The Point Foundation: The National LGBT Scholarship Fund - pointfoundation.org
LGBT Scholarship Resources - hrc.org
Financial Aid for LGBT Students - finaid.org
College Scholarships for LGBT Students - collegescholarships.org


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Review: Cabo Wabo Blanco Tequila
Posted by Arctic Wolf on May 12, 2011
Last week I received an invitation from Aligra Wine and Spirits to attend their May 5 (Cinco de Mayo) Tequila Tasting which featured 12 Tequila spirits, beginning with 3 unaged Blanco Spirits, and carrying through all the way to 2 ultra high-end extra anejo spirits. The tasting was hosted by the Owners of Aligra, Grant and Allison Schneider, and was so thoroughly enjoyable that I decided that it was time to begin to publish a few more Tequila reviews here on my website.
Cabo Wabo Tequila is made from 100 percent Blue Weber Agave grown in the lowlands of the Mexican State of Jalisco. The distinction between agave grown in the lowlands is important because lowland agave tends to carry more earthy and vegetal flavours into the final distilled Tequila than Agave grown in the highlands. Interestingly, the founder of Cabo Wabo Tequila is rock musician Sammy Hagar, and his Tequila was apparently named after the nightclub he owns in Cabo San Lucas.
When I began to publish spirit reviews, my examination of Cabo Wabo Reposado was the very first Tequila review I published (in November 2009, shortly after I opened my website). So when I was able to sample the Cabo Wabo Blanco at the recent Cinco de Mayo Tasting event, I decided that it was time to provide another review of one of Sammy Hagar's lowland tequilas.
Here is an excerpt from the review:
"…In my tasting notes I wrote down words like 'earthy garden squash', 'sweet bell peppers', and 'light peppery lime'. But these tasting notes do not do justice to how wonderfully complex the flavours are, or how nicely they mingle together…"
You may read my full review here:
Review: Cabo Wabo Blanco Tequila
As well I have provided a new cocktail called "The Deep Blue Good-bye". Please enjoy the review!
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Westhill boys record methodical win over Greenwich
STAMFORD -- They had defeated their biggest rival, prompting their fans to rush the floor, but the members of the Westhill High School boys basketball team were not in an overly celebratory mood Tuesday night.
The Vikings' five-point win over Stamford kept them undefeated in conference play and positioned them for a chance to win the city title, but the players didn't feel like they put forth their best performance.
"We beat them but we were not happy," Yveson Cassamajor said. "We knew we could play better. Our defense could have been better and we had to cut down on our turnovers. It's not that we had to take it out on someone, but we had to cut down on our mistakes."
The Vikings took care of business on Friday night, posting a methodical 64-44 win over Greenwich, the kind they have been stockpiling this season, the kind that has left them the last FCIAC team without a loss in conference play.
"We did what we had to do," Westhill coach Howard White said. "The main thing was the defense. Once we switched to a man-to-man we started to cut the lanes down."
After the Cardinals (7-8, 6-7 FCIAC) hit three 3-point shots in the first six minutes, White took his team out of the zone, both to better defend the perimeter and to energize his players.
The Vikings (13-1, 12-0) started to reap the benefits late in the second quarter, starting a 10-0 run that put them ahead, 37-23, and broke open the game. Greenwich got no closer than 12 points the rest of the way.
"We wanted to pick up the tempo," White said. "I didn't like the fact that they knocked down some 3s. Our offense is based on our defense."
Jeremiah Livingston, enjoying a sensational sophomore season, finished with a game-high 23 points for the Vikings, scoring both from outside and in transition. Cassamajor added 13 points.
"We forgot the Stamford game and moved on," Cassamajor said. "We take things one game at a time. We look at our mistakes and try to fix them."
A new member of the Vikings' ever-expanding fan club is Greenwich coach Bill Brehm.
"They have good team chemistry and play well together," Brehm said. "Everything people say about them is true. I think they are definitely beatable, but if they continue to play the way they've been playing, I haven't seen a team that plays together as well as them."
Brehm had hoped to take advantage of 6-foot-8 center Alex Wolf, his leading scorer and rebounder, to create mismatches inside. But Wolf served the first of what Brehm said would be a three-game suspension. Brehm called it a coach's decision and Wolf did not accompany the team to Westhill.
C.J. Byrd and Alex McMurray led the Cardinals with 16 points apiece.
"You've got to play defense and rebound, and we didn't play defense and rebound," Brehm said.
The Vikings officially clinched a berth in the FCIAC Tournament with the win and remained a half game ahead of Trinity Catholic for the top record in conference play.
The key statistic for Westhill, as it has been in almost every game, is turnovers forced. That number was 23 against the Cardinals.
"The kids take pride in their defense," White said. "They don't just do it in games, they do it in practice."
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Alex McMurray 6 1-2 16; Jim Djeina 0 0-0 0; Leonel Hyatt 0 0-0 0; C.J. Byrd 6 4-5 16; John Palmer 0 0-0 0; Dan Guise 2 0-0 6; Kyle Foote 0 0-0 0; Jake Tennenbaum 0 0-0 0; Sam Iatto 0 0-0 0; Tom Baietto 3 0-0 6. TOTALS: 17 5-7 44.
Jeremiah Livingston 8 5-9 23; Terrell Middleton 1 0-0 2; C.J. Donaldson 3 0-0 6; Evan Skoparantzos 2 1-2 5; Yveson Cassamajor 5 2-2 13; Guyveson Cassamajor 2 0-0 6; Ariel De La Cruz 3 1-2 7; Peter Horn 1 0-0 2. TOTALS: 25 9-15 64
3-point shots: G--McMurray 3, Guise 2; W--Livingston 2, Y. Cassamajor, G. Cassamajor 2.


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Compound and Elemental Analysis At Breitenbush Hot Springs Area (Wood, 2002)
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Exploration Activity: Compound and Elemental Analysis At Breitenbush Hot Springs Area (Wood, 2002)
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Geothermal fluids from hot springs and wells have been sampled from a number of locations, including: 1) the North Island of New Zealand (three sets of samples from three different years) and the South Island of New Zealand (1 set of samples); 2) the Cascades of Oregon; 3) the Harney, Alvord Desert and Owyhee geothermal areas of Oregon; 4) the Dixie Valley and Beowawe fields in Nevada; 5) Palinpiiion, the Philippines; 6) the Salton Sea and Heber geothermal fields of southern California; and 7) the Dieng field in Central Java, Indonesia. We have analyzed the samples from all fields for REE except the last two. Our results indicate that measurement of the REE content of geothermal fluids can result in a wealth of information about water-rock interactions in geothermal systems that we have only just begun to explore. The results also continue to hold promise that such measurements may one day be a useful, routine tool for exploration for geothermal systems. However, additional developmental work will be necessary to realize the full power of the technique.
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Click either image for the full-size "Action in Color" page from September 22, 1935 (the morning of the second game of the season):
The caption reads:
FOOTBALL ACTION PICTURES IN COLOR, never before possible, are brought to you through The Journal's new film, many times as fast as any color negative yet devised. These photographs were made as the Green Bay Packers, the state's big time professional football team, practised at the Rhinelander High school field. The picture above shows a line play, while the picture (below) shows the start of an end run. Joe Laws is taking the ball, Clark Hinkle (23) is at the right, No. 11 is Bob Monnett and No. 14 is Al Rose, an end.All errors, spelling or otherwise, per the original (Clarke Hinkle never gets his due).
The photo was taken before the season during the Packers' training camp, which was then being held in Rhinelander, 130 miles northwest of Green Bay.
Interesting that Al Rose is wearing #14. The number is most famously associated with Don Hutson, then in his rookie year. According to the team, he wore it the entire season (Johnny Blood wore #14 in 1934).
It certainly seems plausible that Rose, who wore four jersey numbers in his five seasons with Green Bay, might have worn #14 in training camp before it was issued to Hutson. But if so, what number did Don Hutson wear?


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acres mapped
sites created
Trees, flowers, rocks, compost bins, and other key habitat objects. Place these, share the species and other characteristics.
Split your site into the various habitats found there. This is some of the most important data for research.
Put in the boundaries of your site. For instance, an entire home property.
Use satellite imagery to find your site and as a reference for creating your YardMap.
Join our virtual neighborhood and talk with others interested in creating beautiful and sustainable landscapes.
Whether you're identifying native plants, learning where to put new bird feeders or wondering how best to support wildlife, Habitat Network can help you connect with a community of scientists, experts, and people around the world who can help with what you are planning to do.
Have you found a better way to improve your habitat, or encourage others to improve theirs? Then you have something to share. You have the potential to lead others and amplify what you have learned from your own experience.
Would you like to encourage others to work together for a common goal – your friends, neighbors, classmates, organization members? Use your Habitat Network tools to track progress, share successes, organize for a much greater impact!
No matter who you are, you'll find people like you and be in good company.


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Once Again: Just Because You Can Go Indie, Doesn't Mean You Need To
from the details-matter dept
The reality today is that you don't need to go that route if you don't want to. That doesn't mean that there is no need for major labels at all -- even if some will confuse those two statements. It just means if you want to be a successful musician, it's now a choice, rather than a requirement. In short: major labels can and do play a role in helping some artists. Historically, I think they've done a pretty bad job of it (mostly representing their own interests much more than the artists'), but that doesn't mean they don't do certain things well. And for artists who need those certain things -- with radio play being a big one -- it may be reasonable to do a deal with a major, though, preferably with eyes wide open and (if possible) on their own terms, rather than the labels'. The point of what I've said all along is that you can now succeed without the labels if you want to. But for those who wish to use the labels, that should be an option to. It's just that the rise of alternatives should mean that the labels become more willing to change their terms to be less artist-unfriendly. It also likely means that we'll see more overall competition and that many artists will find alternatives appealing. As such, the majors will be forced to adjust over time, even doing more reasonable deals.
I bring up all of this again, because there's a lot of attention this week over the news that Trent Reznor has signed some sort of deal with Columbia Records (owned by Sony Music) for his new(ish) band, How to Destroy Angels, leading a bunch of people to claim that he's "abandoning the DIY" market. You can see everything there is to know in the statement Reznor released last week, which doesn't go into many details, but it certainly hints at the idea that this is not a standard-issue major label deal:
Regarding our decision to sign with Columbia, we've really spent a long time thinking about things and it makes sense for a lot of reasons, including a chance to work with our old friend Mark Williams. There's a much more granular and rambling answer I could give (and likely will in an interview someplace) but it really comes down to us experimenting and trying new things to see what best serves our needs. Complete independent releasing has its great points but also comes with shortcomings.I'll be interested to hear about the details eventually, because that certainly hints to there being much more to this than just "signing with a major." And there's nothing I disagree with in what he says. Being completely independent does have its great points, but it also makes certain things much more difficult. I don't think anyone's denied that. Of course there are also well known shortcomings when working with a major label. So, it's a case of tradeoffs, and when you have someone in a position to negotiate a more favorable deal that can hopefully minimize the bad side of a label deal, and get the good part, that seems like a perfectly reasonable strategy for those who want it. I think that Reznor likely would have been fine staying indie for this release, but depending on what he's doing, there may be perfectly reasonable arguments for doing this deal.
I know that there are some people who think that everyone absolutely should go indie, but I've never said any such thing, nor do I believe it. I think that going indie is now a much more viable option than it's been in the past, but going to a major label certainly does not preclude being innovative. In many ways, I think of it similarly to the way I view startups as well. It's less and less necessary to raise venture capital to do a startup -- but that doesn't mean that raising venture capital is necessarily a bad thing. There are certain opportunities that really require it. If you go in with your eyes wide open and can negotiate a favorable deal that lets you do what you need to do, more power to you. In the long run, I think that there are much bigger opportunities in focusing on better connecting with your fans, and historically major labels have sometimes made that more difficult. But if an artist sees good reason to work with a major, there's nothing inherently wrong with it.


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Downtempo song called Dreams
It originally featured a couple of quotes from the famous Dr. Martin Luther King speech. Although I cut them out of the final version, you might be able to hear this piece is highly inspired by his words and presentation.
Tags: Keys, Organ, Jazz, jazzy, drums, brushes, sticks, downtempo, dream, dreams, love, melancholic, piano, rhodes


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Orphan Black's Dylan Bruce Shows Us Why He is Hot Paul!
Orphan Black's Dylan Bruce hits the red carpet at Entertainment Weekly's 2014 Comic-Con Celebration held during 2014 Comic-Con at Float at Hard Rock Hotel San Diego on Saturday evening (July 26) in San Diego, Calif.
The 34-year-old actor, who was joined at the party by Orphan Black co-stars like Ari Millen, showed us why his character is dubbed Hot Paul by flashing his abs in a photo booth!
The guys were joined at the party by Seth Meyers, The Walking Dead's Danai Gurira, Grimm's David Giuntoli, Bitsie Tulloch, Modern Family's Nolan Gould, Claire Coffee, and Shameless' Zach McGowan.
Also in attendance were Defiance actress Julie Benz, The 100's Eliza Taylor, and The Following's Jessica Stroup.
20+ pictures inside of Seth Meyers, Nolan Gould, and more at the EW bash…


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Carl Frampton Exclusive Interview - Talks Frank Warren, Scott Quigg and more
Carl Frampton Exclusive Interview - Talks Frank Warren, Scott Quigg and more
By Johnny Benz, Doghouse Boxing (May 31, 2013)
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With yesterday's massive news of Floyd Mayweather vs. Saul Alverez becoming official, you may have missed another big story (certainly not as big as Money vs. Canelo) of Carl Frampton jumping ship from Promoter Eddie Hearn to Frank Warren. Check out this new interview with Frampton speaking to iFilm London. Just press play on the video player embedded to the left of this text and enjoy
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Video Interview Description: Carl Frampton talks with iFilm on his switch to Frank Warren (dropped Eddie Hearn), being a 'priority' and still wanting Scott Quigg fight.
This video interview with Carl Frampton has a run time of 6 minutes and 15 seconds. Just press play on the video player (top left side of this page) and enjoy. *In most cases, You can also change up the video quality and / or audio to HD (high quality) with the option button on the bottom of the video player.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. May 10, 2012—For the third year in a row, Santa Clara University was noted as one of the most environmentally responsible colleges in the U.S. and Canada, according to the noted education-services company The Princeton Review.
The recently released comprehensive guidebook "The Princeton Review's Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2012 Edition" profiles institutions of higher learning that stand out for their commitment to sustainability in their curriculum, campus infrastructure, activities and career preparation. Princeton Review's publisher noted that nearly 7 out of 10 students in a recent survey of 7,445 college applicants said that having information about a school's commitment to the environment would influence their decision to apply to or attend the school.
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WvDial is a Point-to-Point Protocol dialer: it dials a modem and starts pppd in order to connect to the Internet.
When WvDial starts, it first loads its configuration from
/etc/wvdial.conf and
~/.wvdialrc . If
/etc/wvdial.conf is not present, the easiest way to create it is to use the provided configuration utility wvdialconf.
wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf
It helps in generating the configuration file needed by WvDial. wvdialconf detects your modem, and fills in automatically the Modem, maximum Baud rate, and a good initialization string (Init options) and generates or updates the WvDial configuration file (
/etc/wvdial.conf) based on this information.
It is safe to run wvdialconf if a configuration file already exists. In that case, only the Modem, Baud, Init, and Init2 options are changed in the [Dialer Defaults] section, and only if autodetection is successful.
/etc/wvdial.conf and specify the phone number, login name, and password of your internet account in order for WvDial to work.
After you have filled in your login information, wvdial ought to work. You can move to the next section. However for providers of USB modems that require a specific Init string and user/password combination, mkwvconf-git in AUR can help generate a wvdial configuration (based on the mobile-broadband-provider-info-git package).
A typical
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[Dialer Defaults] Init1 = ATZ Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 Modem Type = Analog Modem ISDN = 0 Modem = /dev/ttyUSB2 Baud = 9600 [Dialer thenet] Phone = *99***1# Username = thenetuser Password = thenetpw ; Username = 9180****** (If your provider use without Username) ; Password = 9180****** (If your provider use without Password) Stupid Mode = 1 Baud = 460800 Init3 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","apn.thenet.net" [Dialer mypin] Init4 = AT+CPIN=1234
Using wvdial
There are a few different ways of giving regular users the ability to use wvdial to dial a ppp connection. This document describes three different ways, each of them differ in difficulty to set up and the implication on security.
wvdial is to be run as root with the following command:
# wvdial <section>
Leave <section> blank if you have not added a section or if
/etc/wvdial.conf is auto-generated.
# wvdial
Using suid
This is arguable the easiest setup but has major impact on system security since it means that every user can run wvdial as root. Please consider using one of the other solutions instead.
As normal users cannot use wvdial to dial a ppp connection by default, change permissions:
# chmod u+s /usr/bin/wvdial
You should see the following permissions:
# ls -l /usr/bin/wvdial -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 114368 2005-12-07 19:21 /usr/bin/wvdial
Using a dialout group
Another, slightly more secure way is to set up a group called dialout (call the group as prefered) and give members of this group permission to run
wvdial as root.
First create the group and add the users to it:
# groupadd dialout # gpasswd -a username dialout
Then set the group and adjust the permissions on
# chgrp dialout /usr/bin/wvdial # chmod u+s,o= /usr/bin/wvdial
The files should have the following permissions:
$ ls -l /usr/bin/wvdial
-rwsr-x--- 1 root dialout 114368 2005-12-07 19:21 /usr/bin/wvdial
Using sudo
- See main article: sudo
sudo arguably offers the most secure option to allow regular users to establish dial-up connections using
wvdial. It can be used to give permission both on a per-user and group basis. Another benefit of using
sudo is that it is only needed to do the setup once; both previous solutions will be "undone" when a new package of
wvdial is installed.
visudo to edit the file
# visudo
To give a specific user permission to run
wvdial as root, add the following line (changing the username):
username localhost = /usr/bin/wvdial
To give all members of a group (
dialout in this case) the same permission:
%dialout localhost = /usr/bin/wvdial
ip addr shows a pppd entry, it means that the session is ready.
Tips and Tricks
The following are applicable to USB modems.
Low connection speed
Someone claims that the connection speed under linux is lower than Windows. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=111513
A short summary for possible solutions which are not fully verified. In most of conditions, the low speed is caused by bad receiver signals and too many people in cell. But you still could use the following method to try to improve the connection speed.
QoS parameter
AT+CGEQMIN and AT+CGEQREQ command could used to set the Qos command. And also it should be possible to used to decrease and limit the connect speed.
Add the following Init command in
Init6 = AT+CGEQMIN=1,4,64,640,64,640 Init7 = AT+CGEQREQ=1,4,64,640,64,640
Baud parameter
Baud parameter in
/etc/wvdial.conf could be used to increase the connection speed.
Baud = 460800
It is advisable to see the baud rate set by the official modem application under Windows.
Auto Reconnect
If wvdial randomly drops connection you can use script below.
#! /bin/bash ( while : ; do wvdial sleep 10 done ) &