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The FInal Shot of the Day #365
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So, this was quite the experiment and quite the year to do it.
Honestly, it's with mixed emotions that I close out this little public online "installation" of sorts with a shot fittingly similar to the first shot taken around this time exactly last year. 2009 was truly a year of major highs and lows and I think the photos I took, cryptic or blatant as they may have been, hopefully reflected those peaks and valleys and everywhere in between. Looking back at them, which I've put into an easy-to-swallow page based on the day HERE (and some days, more than one), I clearly loved food this year, and the paunch under this laptop is proof that it's time to hit the gym with furious anger again in '10...that we took a LOT of walks, either with Banzai and/or with the newest edition to the family, Remy, who amazed me every day and I believe will continue to do so for years and years to come....that it was easier to capture an obscure moment to reflect the day rather than try to find the image that "perfectly" insinuated the day's events or a particular moment in time....oh, did I mention I enjoyed shooting food and my kid?
Originally I started this S.O.T.D. to be a prelude to my shooting of KNIGHTS OF BADASSDOM, which is (hopefully) my next feature, so that I would have a log of every production day from a more personal standpoint, not the usual PR offerings. I only write "hopefully" because till I'm on set with a helmet and a sword screaming "Action!!" I can't trust shit. I'll probably still do it when we get to shooting in the spring, but it is a bit dissapointing that it wasn't part of this, aside from some fits and spurts of pre-pro action (lord knows we've done a LOT of work on it already and all I can say is...it's gonna fucking RAWK) and stay tuned on this blog for a lot more K.O.B. action. But it did capture moments from my directing two music videos for a band I love (a dream come true, although fraught with red tape bullshit that allowed me to learn a valuable lesson), work on some amazing projects both big and small, prep a major motion picture, be part of some HUGE events, meet a LOT of great people, peers and my heroes and most importantly, live through two of the most signifigant events in my life; the loss of my father and becoming one too with Remy being my greatest ongoing production yet, all in the span of a month. All this, and still have the undying love of a beautiful, caring, funny-and most importantly-PATIENT woman in my life?
Sure, it's easy to say "2009 SUCKED" but when you look at the glass half full, it could have been worse, and there were some really shining moments. It almost felt like 2009 was a "test year", to see if I could endure some major life choices, challenges and hardships and try to make it through to the other side, and well....here I am. More importantly, here WE are. Thinking about how many people I admired died in 09, it makes one reflect a little more on how short we have on this earth, and that Im still in love with my wife and now with our son, well...I'm a lucky man indeed.
Will I continue this experiment? Nah, been there, done that. Am I proud that I saw it through? Hell yes! It forced me to keep a discipline, to stay with the plan at hand, and while I might not keep this particular project up, I've now vowed to transfer the same energy I've used to spew images and words on another project, one that has been banging in my head, dying to come out, and I think it's time to unleash it. To that, I thank the S.O.T.D. for showing I can see something through on my own terms, and will attack this full force.
Oh, did you know it was a Blue Moon tonight? Now, I sees that as a sign...
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To this I give my final thought out to you, Constant Viewer (a play on Unkie Steve's usual name for his "Constant Readers")...what do YOU think is the SHOT OF THE YEAR? If you have a favorite, please feel free to hit me up on the comments below as Im going to think about it for a day and probably pick tomorrow, the dawn of a new year, and then look forward to what I am already professing will be an even better, if not one of the best, years of my life. The cards are already stacked in favor for it, so with a positive attitude (and 10 pounds of hair off my head), it's time to raise up my sword and say....
Thanks to everyone for being part of this, I really appreciate all the love and support you all have given me and I promise to stay up with this, even if it isn't a daily effort. Who knows? Maybe Ill still keep it going if the shots prove blog-worthy. Most of all, thanks to my family, including my dearest friends (you know who you are), my parents from both sides of the bloodline and of course, the ever-lovely Briana and the most amazing new person in my life...Remy P. Here's to you kid...The Old Man is gonna make you proud.
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Judge Sentences Mitchell Man to Prison in Child Porn Case
MITCHELL - A South Dakota man accused in a child pornography case was sentenced to 10 years in prison after a judge ignored a plea agreement that called for less time behind bars.
Fifty-five-year-old Mark Johnson, of Mitchell, pleaded guilty earlier to two counts of attempted possession of child pornography. The plea deal called for Johnson to serve a total of five years in prison.
The Daily Republic of Mitchell reports that Judge Tim Bjorkman cited Johnson's lengthy history of sex-related crimes before handing down the sentence. Johnson has twice been convicted of sexual contact with a minor.
The judge said he would have given the defendant more time in prison if he could.
The judge recommended that Johnson have access to treatment, which was requested by defense attorney Donna Bucher.
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Rebels convincingly defeat Bombers
It has been a long time since the Moose Lake-Willow River girls basketball team defeated the Barnum Bombers. The Rebels did so — convincingly — with a big 50-33 win in Barnum on Monday, December 10. The Rebels worked the press and shot well to take a 34-20 lead at the break and coasted to the win, out-scoring Barnum just 16-13 in the second half.
Neither team handled the ball all that well overall, but the Rebels' press did create 13 first half turnovers by the Bombers while ML-WR kept its miscues to nine in the first half. By game's end, the turnovers found Barnum with six more mistakes at 19 compared to 13 lost possessions for the Rebels.
Barnum shot just 1-for-7 from three-point land in the first half and only 1-for-5 from the arc in the second half for a total of just 2-for-12 (17 percent). The Rebels' outside shooting was hot in the first half at 4-for-6, but cooled off in the second half for a decent 4-for-8 (50 percent) for the game. Barnum's overall field goal rate was not all that bad at 13-for-33 (39 percent).
The biggest difference came on the inside. ML-WR was a smoking 10-for-16 (63 percent) in the first half and a solid 8-for-18 (44 percent) in the second half for a game total on the inside of 18-for-34 (53 percent) which could beat many teams. Overall, the Rebels shot the twos and the threes at a combined 22-for-42 (52 percent).
Free throws were not much of a factor as Barnum went 5-for-9 for the game and ML-WR went 2-for-6 for the game.
Rebounding though was one determining factor. The Rebels out-rebounded the Bombers 19-10 for the game. Steals and assists were nearly split at 6-5 in the Bombers' favor. Assists were in ML-WR's favor at 6-4.
The individual statistics for the Rebels for points (including three-pointers), rebounds, steals and assists are as follows: Shaelyn Halverson: 14 (3), 0, 0, 0; Adri Jusczak: 8, 7, 0, 0; Taylor Miller: 8 (1), 3, 2, 2; Hayley Johnson: 6, 1, 1, 2; Kayla Radel: 6, 2, 0, 1; Holly Mattison 6, 0, 1, 0; Tayler Dixon: 2, 1, 0, 1; Dana Olson: 0, 1, 0, 0; Jodi Michalski: 0, 2, 0, 0; and Hannah Race: 0, 1, 0, 0.
The stats for the Bombers were as follows: Daron Mainville: 8, 2, 1, 2 and two blocked shots; Cheyanne Johnson: 7, 2, 1, 1; Lissa Warpula; 6 (1), 2, 4, 0; Jaelyn Bushey: 5, 0, 0, 1; Emily Miletich: 5 (1), 1, 0, 0; Megan Nelson: 2,1, 0, 0; Emma Casey: 0, 1, 0, 0; Lauren Hultgren: 0, 1, 0, 0.
The Rebels travel to Cromwell on Thursday, December 13 for a 7:15 p.m. game. Next, the Rebels host the Wrenshall Wrens in Willow River at 7:15 p.m. on Monday, December 17 and they have Rush City in Willow River on Thursday, December 20. Note: Tip time is 15 minutes later, at 7:30 p.m., for the Rush City game. ML-WR has a Hibbing Tournament over the Christmas break. That Invitational is set for December 27, 28 and 29.
The Bombers travel to Silver Bay on Friday, December 14 for an early 4:45 p.m. match. They will have an early home game with Cook County on Tuesday, December 18 at 4:45 p.m. with the boys game to follow at approximately 6:30 p.m. Then, Barnum will have their hands full as they host a ranked Braham Bombers team in Barnum on Friday, December 21 at 7:15 p.m.


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Agencies Model Newsrooms for Real-Time Marketing
Madison Avenue has long been home to creative gurus who had months to produce an advertising campaign. But an explosion of social media has pushed ad firms to work at faster paces and to even hire folks who are used to working on tight deadlines: reporters.
Take Caitlin Francke, a former reporter for the Baltimore Sun and the Philadelphia Inquirer. After a stint in marketing at Conde Nast and work at various agencies, she's now senior vice president and director of social strategy at Publicis Kaplan Thaler.
"We know as journalists that we can teach to the advertising agencies the need to move that much faster," Ms. Francke said.
Her job includes running Publicis's so called "Newsdesk" operations, a department of 50 people that includes social strategists, creative staffers and others. The newsdesk, formed two years ago, monitors social media for eight clients and looks for opportunities for a marketer to jump in on a conversation in real-time. A morning meeting for the newsdesk may include a rundown of the important news of the day, a discussion of what major events to prepare for and a review of the conversations that are unfolding on social media. For big events, like the Olympics, Publicis will set up a pop-up 24/7 newsdesk for its client.
If they spot an opportunity, they post something quickly on social media channels like Facebook or Twitter that links the brand to what's going on.
Finding the right opportunity isn't easy – a brand doesn't want to tie itself to bad news. One opportunity that worked: Mondelez International's Oreo famous tweet "You Can Still Dunk in the Dark," minutes after the power unexpectedly went out in the Superdome during last year's Super Bowl. The tweet earned 525 million impressions, according to Oreo's digital agency 360i.
Similar newsrooms are cropping up at ad agencies all over Madison Avenue. It's a far cry from 10 years ago or more, when marketers would launch an ad campaign maybe once a year. Creating the campaign on that timeline meant months of research, figuring out what TV and print ads would look like; having lawyers approve the ads; testing of ads and figuring out where the promotions would run. It wasn't unrealistic for the development of a campaign to take six months, ad executives say.
"In the advertising agency world before in that kind of industrial economy we used to have, they would spend months strategizing about one TV commercial one and then boom it goes live and then you're done for the year," Ms. Francke said. "Now we have to do all that in an hour."
Real time marketing efforts are not always online. Charmin donated roughly 70,000 rolls of toilet paper to the Detroit fire department after Publicis's newsdesk heard that the city's firefighters had to bring in their own toilet paper to work because the city couldn't afford to provide them with it. Large-scale brand responses like that help elevate a brand and catch people's attention and even generate press coverage, Ms. Francke said.
Real-time marketing campaigns can also be used as a testing ground for ads on more traditional media, allowing agencies to figure out in seconds how well a piece of content is doing on social media, Ms. Francke noted. A series of Facebook posts for the sleep aid ZzzQuil, about funny things people do when they don't get enough sleep, got a 5% engagement rate. That means 5% of the people who saw the post liked, shared or commented on it. The response prompted the brand to use the concept for a new print ad, Ms. Francke said.
Amy Hoover, president of recruiting firm Talent Zoo, said "content marketer" or "content manager" -- those often filled by journalists -- are the trendiest titles in the advertising industry right now. Ms Hoover estimates that job postings for content-marketing roles have doubled from two years ago.
The need for journalism-like skills is so great that digital agency 360i started holding journalism classes for employees without a background in the field, according to Sarah Hofstetter, chief executive of digital agency 360i, herself a former reporter. Starting last fall, the classes were held once a week for a semester, aimed at helping employees hone storytelling and editing principles, such as how to craft a lead sentence and to write succinctly. One class exercise had students answer the prompt, "Most people don't realize that I…" to describe a little known fact about themselves in 150 words.
Demand for 360i's journalism class was so great for the class (85 employees signed up for just 35 spots), that 360i offered the class again in the spring. Ms. Hofstetter said there was a noticeable difference in the work of these employees after participating in the journalism bootcamp.


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NASHVILLE SKYLINE: Big Summer Sounds Coming From Alan Jackson
NASHVILLE SKYLINE: Big Summer Sounds Coming From Alan Jackson
And From Don Williams and Marty Stuart
NASHVILLE SKYLINE is a column by CMT/CMT.com Editorial Director Chet Flippo
Im looking forward this summer to some solid music from some of countrys sluggers, some true long-ball hitters. Not coincidentally, none of these artists has ever felt the need to tell you about just how country they are. About how mind-blowingly, back-road, beer-drinking, Jones-worshipping, hot-chick-loving, Jack Daniel's-chugging, awesomely-country they are. I suspect it has never occurred to them -- which is a big reason they are who they are. Plus, we have a surplus of other real and wannabe singers who cant wait to tell you just how dad-blame country they are.
Alan Jackson fans and friends will, I am certain, be very pleased with his forthcoming Thirty Miles West album. Its his 14th studio album and his first recorded project since leaving Arista Nashville for his own record label, ACR Records (in conjunction with EMI Nashville). Jackson followers are well aware of his growing penchant for self-penned introspective songs about his life and family. And Thirty Miles West will not disappoint his fans of his own written compositions.
The album is due for a June 5 release, and Im not going to spoil the fun of waiting by telling you all about all the music. Just know there are seven co-written songs here, but none include Jackson as co-writer. Instead, there are writers along the lines of Guy Clark, Terry McBride, Shawn Camp and Al Anderson. And thats some really good stuff, songs such as Talk Is Cheap and Life Keeps Bringin Me Down.
But its the original Jackson works that will most reach out to you. Dixie Highway is a nostalgia-laden look back at his childhood growing up near that famous road. (The album title refers to the fact that his hometown of Newnan, Ga., is actually 30 miles west of the actual Dixie Highway. But it sounds better in a song if you say you grew up on the Dixie Highway. Especially if you have Zac Brown dueting with you, as Jackson does.) There are some particularly sweet A.J. originals here. About Everything but the Wings Jackson says, Its a song about a sweet person, and somehow I end up writing a song like this every now and then. Another one, Her Lifes a Song, is a charming tale inspired by his daughters.
But the standout song here is Jacksons When I Saw You Leaving (For Nisey). He wrote it for his wife Denise when she discovered she had cancer, and the song traces her route through chemo and her eventual recovery. Of the song, he says, It just came out. I felt like I needed to write it, but I never told her I did. Im glad we recorded it, and its on there, not only for Denise, but once you go through something like that, you run into so many people that have had the same thing happen. I feel this song will say a lot to them and theyll be able to connect with those emotions that are in there. Maybe itll be good for some people to hear that.
The song begins with, Aint it funny how one minute/Your whole lifes lookin fine/And a few short words later/It just comes untied.
He previews some of the new cuts on the May 8 Grand Ole Opry show. Jackson has also been working on a duet with John Fogerty of a Creedence Clearwater Revival song for Fogertys upcoming duets album, Wrote a Song for Everyone.
Don Williams' fans, who have long been chomping at the bits for new Williams music -- eight years worth of chomping, in fact -- get some relief on June 19 with the release of his new album. And So It Goes. Devoted fans of the Gentle Giant will be relieved to know he and longtime producer Garth Fundis have not tampered -- after all this time -- with what works for Williams. He has the same mellow, reassuring and familiar voice and delivery and the same tight band and some songs that sound like only Don Williams should sing them. He co-wrote two of the cuts, and hes got such great songwriters as Leslie Satcher, Anthony Smith, Jamie OHara and Kieran Kane. Several of his admirers, including Alison Krauss, Vince Gill and Keith Urban, drop in and add their talents. But some things in the music world dont need tinkering with. Don Williams is one of those. Long may he rule.
Marty Stuart has long been both the memory and the conscience of country music. He came to Nashville from rural Mississippi 40 years ago deeply steeped in the worlds of Southern gothic and bluegrass and Johnny Cash and Memphis rock n roll and traditional Nashville country. All of that is weaved together in Nashville, Vol. 1: Tear the Woodpile Down.
It ends very fittingly with Marty dueting with Hank Williams III on the latters grandfathers haunting Picture From Lifes Other Side.
When I first came to Nashville the most outlaw thing you could possibly do around here, says Stuart, was to take country music and blow it up into rock 'n' roll. Mission accomplished! Today, the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tenn., is play country music.


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NEWPORT Gwent Dragons' former Wales lock Adam Jones has announced his retirement.
The 34-year-old, who was capped against England and Scotland in the 2006 Six Nations, was out of contract at the end of the season.
Jones underwent an operation on his foot yesterday has opted to concentrate on a burgeoning fitness business rather than attempting to find a new club upon his recovery.
He signed for the Dragons from the Scarlets in 2007 as a replacement for Ian Gough and went on to make 127 appearances for the region, the last of which came in the home LV= Cup defeat to Northampton in January.
"I would like to thank everyone at Rodney Parade who has made my time such an enjoyable experience and helped me to further my rugby career," said Jones.
"I have been with the Dragons since 2007 and have been playing professionally for about 16 years. I have definitely watched the squad grow throughout the years and have their ups and downs, season to season.
"But with the likes of (director of rugby) Lyn Jones here I can see the club becoming one of the best in Wales and am disappointed to be leaving at this time."
Jones fell behind Andrew Coombs, Robert Sidoli, Cory Hill and Matthew Screech in the pecking order this season.
The Dragons are closing in on another seasoned lock for next season while both the management team and academy bosses are extremely excited by the potential of 18-year-old Joe Davies.
The Newport High School pupil made his regional debut alongside Jones in the LV= Cup clash against the Scarlets at the age of just 17 last November and was selected ahead of his age-grade by Wales Under-20s in the Six Nations.
Jones, meanwhile, will now be able to devote all his time to Revolution Runs, a business that will hold obstacle course running events.


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But now fans of the group have been left aghast by allegations that the seven-piece group which has sold 15 million albums over a 30-year career did not play their own instruments on their CDs.
Walter Widemair, the band's former producer, has rocked the world of German folk by claiming that group's members never played in the studio while cutting their 40 albums. Far from being lovable characters bedecked in traditional costumes and promoting the musician culture of the Tyrol, the band members, he says, have built their careers on the back of session musicians and a huge con.
"The success of this band is based on a giant fraud," the ex-producer told the German newspaper Bild, saying that the only authentic element on the albums was the voice of lead singer Norbert Rier. He also called for the "band of fakes" to hand back their 13 Echo music awards, the German equivalent of a Grammy.
The allegations have prompted some to compare Kastelruther Spatzen with 1990s pop duo Milli Vanilli. The group, also German, scored a series of hits before it was revealed that they had not only not sung on their albums but had also mimed during their live concerts to hide the scam.
Far from being cowed by the allegations Kastelruther Spatzen has come out fighting.
In a vitriolic statement posted on the band's website, Helmut Brossmann, the group's manager, called Mr Widemair a "Judas", accusing him of sticking the knife into the group's back after profiting from them for decades.
He explained that the band had made no secret of its use of session musicians in the studio, and that their names had always been clearly printed on album covers.
"And you know that Kastelruther Spatzen have toured for 30 years and when on tour everything was played live," he added. "They are not one of these groups who appear on stage but you hear unseen instruments being played in the background."
Mr Brossmann also suggested Mr Widemair's had an ulterior motive to claim fraud. A book written by the ex-producer is soon to hit the bookshops, and the furore surrounding the allegations provide, says Mr Brossmann, timely publicity.
"I only hope he sells a lot of books so he can pay the damages," added Mr Brossmann. "We've passed the case onto our lawyers.
Despite the scandal fans of the group appear ready to stand by their heroes.
"When we heard about the allegations we sat down and talked about but ended up just laughing,"
Tina Lederman, a dedicated Spatzen fan and member of the Augsburg fan club, told the newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung. "There was no fraud and Widemair is just trying to attract attention.
"Besides, it's not as if every show was a 'playback show'," she continued. "They are talented musicians."


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Conan O'Brien has refused to play along with NBC's plan to move "The Tonight Show" and return Jay Leno to late-night, abruptly derailing the network's effort to resolve its scheduling mess.
O'Brien said in a statement Tuesday that shifting "Tonight" will "seriously damage what I consider to be the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting," and he expressed disappointment that NBC had given him less than a year to establish himself as host at 11:35 p.m. EST.
O'Brien is in line to make approximately $30 million from NBC if he is replaced on "The Tonight Show" or if the show is canceled, said a source close to the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak about it publicly. However, the source said the sum would not apply just for moving O'Brien to a later time slot.
O'Brien said he doesn't have an offer in hand from another network. Fox, which lacks a network late-night show, has expressed its appreciation for him but said this week that no negotiations have been held.
In his statement, wryly addressed to "People of Earth," the comic knocked his network's prime-time ratings woes, which stem in part from the poor performance of Leno's new prime-time show. "The Jay Leno Show" debuted in the fall after Leno surrendered his 17-year stake in the "Tonight" last spring to O'Brien.
"It was my mistaken belief that, like my predecessor, I would have the benefit of some time and, just as important, some degree of ratings support from the prime-time schedule. Building a lasting audience at 11:30 is impossible without both," O'Brien said.
"But sadly, we were never given that chance. After only seven months, with my 'Tonight Show' in its infancy, NBC has decided to react to their terrible difficulties in prime-time by making a change in their long-established late night schedule.
Growing up watching "Tonight" host Johnny Carson and getting the chance to "one day sit in that chair has meant everything to me," and was an opportunity he worked long and hard to obtain, O'Brien said.
"Tonight" has long been the dominant late-night program on television, with O'Brien following in a line of hosts that included Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson and Leno. For many of those years, an appearance on "Tonight," particularly for comics, could make or break a career.
NBC wants to move Leno out of prime-time and to the 11:35 p.m. slot with a half-hour show, bumping "Tonight" to 12:05 a.m. — the latest it's ever regularly aired. The network was under pressure to make a change from its affiliate stations, who found Leno's show an inadequate ratings lead-in for their lucrative local newscasts.
Online, many took to O'Brien's defense and applauded the host's stand against NBC. "Team Conan" was one of the most popular Twitter topics Tuesday afternoon, as young viewers pledged their allegiance to O'Brien.
An O'Brien portrait also circulated as a badge of support. Referring to the "Tonight" show host's playful nickname, it read, "I'm with Coco," and featured a black-and-white picture of a regal-looking O'Brien standing in front of an American flag. The only color: his shock of orange hair.
It doesn't make sense for NBC to try and hold him to a contract, said John Rash, a media analyst for the Chicago advertising firm Campbell & Mithun.
"An unhappy comedian is not a good premise for a program," Rash said.
Jody Simon, an entertainment lawyer with Peter Rubin & Simon, said it's very likely that O'Brien and NBC will reach some sort of settlement that might require him to refrain from working at another late-night show for a certain time.
He expected O'Brien will not boycott his show, despite the expressed desire to quit.
"Until this is settled, I would be surprised if he said he wasn't going to show up for work," Simon said. "It would be unprofessional and would expose him to liability."
The late-night shuffle has played out amid wide speculation that O'Brien might bolt for Fox. And the network's top entertainment executive, Kevin Reilly, said on Monday, "I love Conan personally and professionally."
Fox has had trouble launching late-night shows in the past, with Chevy Chase and Joan Rivers as notable failures. O'Brien offers the advantage of being a proven performer with a team experienced in putting on a show.
"Certainly Conan has a loyal audience and he's been able to effectively position himself as a victim of NBC's schedule shuffle," said Rash, who added that the tone of O'Brien's show seems to fit Fox's brand better than it does NBC's.
ABC's top entertainment executive, Stephen McPherson, said his network had no interest in O'Brien. ABC would have sought Leno if he hit the open market, but its executives believe that O'Brien's show is so close in tone to Letterman's that it wouldn't be good competition.
Fox declined comment Tuesday on O'Brien's statement, but it is taking action that would indicate the network is seriously considering bringing him to late-night, a period now largely filled by a variety of syndicated fare that includes network reruns.
Fox is asking some of its stations to study and report back on how much money is made with current late-night programming, according to a person familiar with the request. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to publicly discuss the request.
The syndication agreements that are in place are a costly sticking point if Fox wants to put in a late-night show across the network, the person said.
It might not be easy for affiliate stations to break profitable syndication agreements, said analyst Rash.
NBC announced the "Tonight Show" succession plan in 2004, well before Leno's departure, to try to avoid the Leno-David Letterman battle that ensued when Carson retired. (On his CBS "Late Show" Tuesday, Letterman joked that he received a call from NBC with the message, "Look, look, we still don't want you back.'") But it didn't count on Leno remaining atop the late-night ratings when he was pushed out of "Tonight."
To keep Leno from becoming a late-night competitor to O'Brien at another network, NBC offered him the daily 10 p.m. EST prime-time series. The network also saw it as an opportunity for cost-cutting, with a talk show considerably cheaper to produce than the scripted dramas that typically fill the final hour of prime-time.
"Tonight" with O'Brien is averaging 2.5 million nightly viewers, compared with 4.2 for Letterman's "Late Show," according to Nielsen figures. And the younger audience that O'Brien was expected to woo has been largely unimpressed; O'Brien and Letterman tie among advertiser-favored viewers ages 18 to 49.
Leno was drawing around 5 million viewers to "Tonight," about the same number now watching his new show.
O'Brien said he hoped that he and NBC could resolve the issue quickly so he could do a show of which he and his crew could be proud — "for a company that values our work" — raising the possibility he might go to another network.
NBC declined comment Tuesday, adding that O'Brien was scheduled to do his show Tuesday night. Leno also declined comment.
For O'Brien, it's been a stark contrast to early in his career, when he was an unknown replacing David Letterman in the 12:30 a.m. slot. He suffered brutal reviews, tough ratings and was working on a week-to-week contract. But NBC's management then stuck with him, and he blossomed into a proven performer.
The network had been counting on O'Brien's cooperation, and wanted an answer quickly, so it could get the revamped schedule ready to begin airing after NBC broadcasts the Winter Olympics, which will dominate NBC's schedule from Feb. 12-28.
O'Brien noted in his statement that he'd received sympathy calls and added that no one should feel sorry for him because he's been "absurdly lucky" to do what he loves most in a world with real problems.
He ended the statement with a punch line: "Have a great day and, for the record, I am truly sorry about my hair; it's always been that way."
Bill Lawrence, executive producer of ABC's "Scrubs" and "Cougar Town," said he was impressed by O'Brien's letter.
"I'm sure it's going to lead to good things for him," he said.
AP Television Writer David Bauder in Pasadena, Calif., AP Business Writer Ryan Nakashima in Los Angeles, and Television Writer Frazier Moore, Associated Press Writer Alicia Rancilio and Entertainment Writer Jake Coyle in New York contributed to this report.
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16 January 2010
VA - The Thriller Memorandum
Now for some great grooves to get rid of the f* winter !
01 - Ken Woodman - Mexican Flyer
02 - John Schroeder - The Main Chance
03 - Des Champ - Yes And No
04 - Nicos Mamanqakis - The Party
05 - Brian Marshall Orchestra - Fly By Night
06 - Tony Hatch Orchestra - Ghost Squad
07 - Pattie Seymour - The Silencers
08 - John Shakespear Orchestra - Fade Out
09 - Jacques Denjean - Le Train Fou
10 - David Lloyd & His London Orchestra - Live And Let Die
11 - Sounds Orchestral - Kissy Suzuki
12 - Ken Woodmen & His Piccadilly Brass - Twelve By Two
13 - Brian Marshall Orchestra - A Night With Nuki
14 - Edwin Astley - The Saint
15 - Ingfried Hoffman - Sharp Sharks
16 - Mike Hurst Orchestra - Mission Impossible
17 - Mark Wirtz Orchestra - Adventure
18 - Mike Hurst Orchestra - Wednesday's Child
19 - Basil Kirchen - The Hustle
20 - Des Champ - Big 'M'
21 - David Whittaker Orchestra - Interception
22 - Johnny Hawksworth - Penthouse (Main Title)-Dace
23 - Edwin Astley - Danger Man
24 - Alexander Stone - Man In A Suitcase
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15 comments:
Thank you for another primo offering. This is such an awesome blog.
- January 17, 2010
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- January 17, 2010
- raremarc said...
awesome mixes Paul, have a nice year!
- January 17, 2010
- sweetbeats said...
Looking forward to this...gorgeous sleeve too,
cheers Jason
- January 20, 2010
- sweetbeats said...
Here's Mood Mosaic 8
Funky in a Minor Mode
01. Connell Dantzler- Bo Gha
02. Little Ed- Petite Soul
03. Kenneth Wells- Contagious
04. Tony Newman- Soul Thing
05. Elaine Delmar- Sneaking Up On You
06. Mohawks- Studio 69
07. Ian Langley- Chicano Chaser
08. Janko Nilovic- Chorus For Leslie
09. Shifters- Ghost, The
10. Dave Grusin- Gasoline Alley
11. Michel Legrand- Un Homme De Mort
12. Hbp Mix- Light My Fire
13. Roger Hamilton Spotts- Mind Blow
14. African Pop Session- Africa Voodoo
15. Attitudes- If We Want To
16. Touch- Pick And Stovel, The
17. People Choice- I Like To Do Ii
18. La Clave- Move Your Hand
19. Har- You Percussion Group- Feel Me Good
20. Invaders- It's Your Thing
- January 20, 2010
- sweetbeats said...
Lovin' this so much...had it looped on my itunes for at least 3 hrs.
Is it robots who spam these blogs or just complete pricks?
- January 22, 2010
- Paul Durango said...
That's a pb.. like 5 comments/day..
anyway, gald you enjoy the stuff.
- January 22, 2010
- sweetbeats said...
Yeah I thought so haha Bleep Bleep !
Downloaded a ton of your stuff Paul over the last 12 months and have about 800 of your tracks ripped so far on my mac...it's like a library juke box : )
The mediafire KPM,Chappell,Bruton rips you have done is amazing and I really appreciate the hard work.
Keep 'em coming Jason
- January 22, 2010
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- phantom of the radio said...
hello Paul! On Bazounga blog, Africadelics vol.1 and vol.2 are exactly the same ... can you help in anyway?
- January 24, 2010
- Electric Looser said...
Nice post.
Keep The good Music Alive
- February 12, 2010
- Bluecandy said...
Love this blog, thank you very much Paul!
I have a few requests, if you may be able to track these down that would be a wonderful x-mas surprise!
The soundtrack of Vampyros Lesbos and the original Addams Family soundtrack with the individual tracks for each family member.
Thanks again!
- December 17, 2010
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- January 21, 2011
- Il Idioto said...
Thanks, Paul. I hope that you are well. I haven't heard from you in awhile. I tried to contact you awhile back to let you know that the Breaking Bad - Season 4 [Bootleg] is up.
- November 23, 2011
- laidbackinbethlehem said...
Fantastic. Thankyou for posting this gem. :-)
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Repository : core

Repository : core
Name : nano
Name : nano
Version : 2.0
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URL : http://www.nano-editor.org
URL : http://www.nano-editor.org
Licenses : GPL
Licenses : GPL
Revision as of 02:22, 9 December 2009
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Package Installation
- 3 Configuration
- 4 nano Usage
- 5 Tips & Tricks
- 5.1 Replacing vi with nano
- 6 Additional Resources
Nano (or nano) is a text editor which aims to introduce a simple interface and intuitive command options to console based text editing. nano is the default console editor in distributions such as Ubuntu and supports features including colorized syntax highlighting, DOS/Mac file type conversions, spellchecking and UTF-8 encoding. nano opened with an empty buffer typically occupies under 1.5 MB of resident memory. nano Screenshot.
Package Installation
nano is part of the official Arch Linux (core) repositories.
$ pacman -Si nano
Repository : core Name : nano Version : 2.2.0-1 URL : http://www.nano-editor.org Licenses : GPL Groups : base Provides : None Depends On : glibc ncurses texinfo Optional Deps : None Conflicts With : None Replaces : None Download Size : 391.35 K Installed Size : 1144.00 K Packager : Andreas Radke <email@example.com> Architecture : i686 Build Date : Mon 22 Sep 2008 10:20:00 AM PDT MD5 Sum : fa5017796de45d0e7baed3ba019dc6dd Description : Pico editor clone with enhancements
Install the latest version of nano:
# pacman -Sy nano
Creating ~/.nanorc
The look, feel and function of nano is typically controlled by way of either command-line arguments, or configuration commands within the file ~/.nanorc.
A sample configuration file is installed upon program installation and is located at /etc/nanorc.The file ~/.nanorc must be first created by the user:
$ cd ~ $ touch .nanorc
$ cp /etc/nanorc ~/.nanorc
Proceed to establish the nano console environment by setting and/or unsetting commands within .nanorc file.
Nano syntax highlight for PKGBUILD
This is an updated version of the nanorc found here.
## Arch PKGBUILD files ## syntax "pkgbuild" "^.*PKGBUILD$" color green start="^" end="$" color cyan "^.*(pkgbase|pkgname|pkgver|pkgrel|pkgdesc|arch|url|license).*=.*$" color brightcyan "\<(pkgbase|pkgname|pkgver|pkgrel|pkgdesc|arch|url|license)\>" color brightcyan "(\$|\$\{|\$\()(pkgbase|pkgname|pkgver|pkgrel|pkgdesc|arch|url|license)(|\}|\))" color cyan "^.*(depends|makedepends|optdepends|conflicts|provides|replaces).*=.*$" color brightcyan "\<(depends|makedepends|optdepends|conflicts|provides|replaces)\>" color brightcyan "(\$|\$\{|\$\()(depends|makedepends|optdepends|conflicts|provides|replaces)(|\}|\))" color cyan "^.*(groups|backup|noextract|options).*=.*$" color brightcyan "\<(groups|backup|noextract|options)\>" color brightcyan "(\$|\$\{|\$\()(groups|backup|noextract|options)(|\}|\))" color cyan "^.*(install|source|md5sums|sha1sums|sha256sums|sha384sums|sha512sums).*=.*$" color brightcyan "\<(install|source|md5sums|sha1sums|sha256sums|sha384sums|sha512sums)\>" color brightcyan "(\$|\$\{|\$\()(install|source|md5sums|sha1sums|sha256sums|sha384sums|sha512sums)(|\}|\))" color brightcyan "\<(startdir|srcdir|pkgdir)\>" color cyan "\.install" color brightwhite "=" "'" "\(" "\)" "\"" "#.*$" "\," "\{" "\}" color brightred "build\(\)" color brightred "package_.*.*$" color brightred "\<(configure|make|cmake|scons)\>" color red "\<(DESTDIR|PREFIX|prefix|sysconfdir|datadir|libdir|includedir|mandir|infodir)\>"
To use, save as /usr/share/nano/pkgbuild.nanorc and add:
include "/usr/share/nano/pkgbuild.nanorc"
to your ~/.nanorc
Suggested Configuration
Unlike most interactive programs, suspension is not enabled by default. To change this, uncomment the 'set suspend' line in '/etc/nanorc'. This will allow you to use the keys ctrl+z to send nano to the background.
nano Usage
Special Functions
- Ctrl key modified shortcuts (^) respresenting commonly used functions are listed along the bottom two lines of the nano screen.
- Additional functions can be interactively toggled by way of Meta (typically Alt) and/or Esc key modified sequences.
Shortcut Lists Overview
- ^G Get Help (F1)
- Displays the online help files within the session window. A suggested read for nano users of all levels
- ^O WriteOut (F3)
- Save the contents of the current file buffer to a file on the disk
- ^R Read File (F5)
- Inserts another file into the current one at the cursor location
- ^Y Prev Page (F7)
- Display the previous buffered screen
- ^K Cut Text (F9)
- Cut and store the current line from the beginning of the line to the end of the line
- ^C Cur Pos (F11)
- Display line, column and character position information at the current location of the cursor
- ^X Exit (F2)
- Close and exit nano
- ^J Justify (F4)
- Aligns text according to the geometry of the console window
- ^W Where (F6)
- Perform a case-insensitive string, or regular expression search
- ^V Next Page (F8)
- Display the next buffered screen
- ^U UnCut Text (F10)
- Paste the contents of the cut buffer to the current cursor location
- ^T To Spell (F12)
- Spellcheck the contents of the buffer with the built-in spell, if available
Ctrl+g within nano and the nano Command Manual for complete descriptions and additional support.
Selected Toggle Functions
- Meta+c (or Esc+c)
- Toggles support for line, column and character position information.
- Meta+i (or Esc+i)
- Toggles support for the auto indentation of lines
- Meta+k (or Esc+k)
- Toggles support for cutting text from the current cursor position to the end of the line
- Meta+m (or Esc+m)
- Toggles mouse support for cursor placement, marking and shortcut execution
- Meta+x (or Esc+x)
- Toggles the display of the shortcut list at the bottom of the nano screen for additional screen space
Tips & Tricks
Replacing vi with nano
Casual users may prefer the use of nano over vi for its simplicity and ease of use and may opt to replace vi with nano as the default text editor for commands such as
Method One
sudo from the core repository is compiled with
--with-env-editor by default and honors the use of the VISUAL and EDITOR variables. To establish nano as the
visudo editor for the duration of the current shell session, set and export the EDITOR variable before calling
export EDITOR=nano
Example Usage
export EDITOR=nano && sudo visudo
Method Two
The EDITOR variable can also be set within the following files for persistent use:
- ~/.bash_profile (login shell)
- ~/.bashrc (interactive, non-login shell)
- /etc/profile (global settings for all system users except root)
Example .bash_profile
. $HOME/.bashrc export EDITOR=nano export GREP_COLOR="1;33" if [[ -z "$DISPLAY" ]] && [[ $(tty) = /dev/vc/1 ]]; then startx logout fi
Method Three
Symbolic Linking
As root, or with
su -
mv /usr/bin/vi /usr/bin/vi.old ln -s /usr/bin/nano /usr/bin/vi
Assuming sudo is installed and properly configured
sudo mv /usr/bin/vi /usr/bin/vi.old sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nano /usr/bin/vi
Overview of Commands
mv /usr/bin/vi /usr/bin/vi.old
- Rename the vi executable to vi.old for ease of restoration
ln -s /usr/bin/nano /usr/bin/vi
- Create a symbolic link from /usr/bin/nano to /usr/bin/vi
Restoration of vi
unlink /usr/bin/vi
- Remove the /usr/bin/vi symbolic link
mv /usr/bin/vi.old /usr/bin/vi
- Rename the vi.old executable back to vi
Method Four
Removal & Symbolic Linking
pacman -Rns vi ln -s /usr/bin/nano /usr/bin/vi
Overview of Commands
pacman -Rns vi
- Use pacman to remove the vi package, its configuration, and all unneeded dependencies
ln -s /usr/bin/nano /usr/bin/vi
- Create a symbolic link from /usr/bin/nano to /usr/bin/vi
Restoration of vi
unlink /usr/bin/vi
- Remove the /usr/bin/vi symbolic link
pacman -S vi
- Use pacman to install the previously deinstallled vi package
Additional Resources
- nano (text editor) - Wikipedia Entry
- GNU nano Homepage - Official Site
- GNU nano Bugs Bug Reporting


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TV sports analysts need not worry that using cliches or faulty grammar or cursing or even being nonsensical could cost them their jobs.
But as ESPN ponders whether to use Rob Parker for his next scheduled on-air appearance Thursday or extend his suspension -- or fire him -- for his comments about NFL rookie star Robert Griffin III, the episode raises TV sportscasting's most basic job requirement: Avoid overt racial or ethnic stereotypes -- or even talking about race unless your points are well thought out and carefully worded.
Which is smart. (Although it's somewhat ironic that nobody gets in trouble for mentioning Griffin's team -- the Washington Redskins.)
ESPN had no comment Tuesday and Parker has yet to comment publicly on his suspension, which started last week.
However Parker might feel now, he can't use the standard mea culpa -- that he didn't even know that he was referring to race -- that has saved some announcers. Parker, an African-American, was explicitly talking about race on ESPN's First Take show last week when he asked whether Griffin was a "cornball brother," and said Griffin is "black" but "not really down with the cause. He's not one of us."
In 2006, Fox dropped MLB analyst Steve Lyons after he suggested on-air a convoluted connection between Hispanics and stealing wallets, which he told USA TODAY at the time was "a joke that had nothing to do with race. ... I'm happy to apologize to anybody who took it that way. But it seems a little stretch to lose your job over. It's hard to understand."
MORE: Parker suspended after comments about Griffin
DAD RESPONDS: Robert Griffin II defends son's ethics
OPINION: Rob Parker misses the point
On-air references to ethnicity can be job-killers even when it's unclear which group is being stereotyped. Just weeks into a much-hyped gig at ESPN in 2003, Rush Limbaugh was dropped after theorizing that the media "is very desirous that a black quarterback do well."
And sometimes it might take star power, which Parker doesn't have at this point in his career, to survive. Howard Cosell, in 1983, and Billy Packer, in 1996, each stayed on-air after calling an African-American athlete "a monkey," partly because they were believable in wondering what all the fuss was about.
Golf Channel host Kelly Tilghman survived her suggestion in 2008 that Tiger Woods' competitors could "lynch him" to slow him down when she said in apologizing that "while I didn't mean to offend anyone, I realize those words were hurtful." Fox didn't punish Terry Bradshaw this fall after he said that an African-American player, in a game highlight, was "chasing a bucket of chicken" after he seemed convincing in saying it was part of a running joke with Fox's Jimmy Johnson and could have fit in "with a highlight about anybody."
Neal Pilson, an ex-CBS Sports president, in 1988 oversaw one of the highest-profile sports announcer firings for race-related comments after Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder suggested athletic prowess among African-Americans was somehow related to how they were "bred" during slavery. "He volunteered his genealogical comments when we weren't paying him for that," Pilson says.
What's changed since then, says Pilson, is that while broadcast networks have remained largely focused on major sporting events with just a bit of surrounding sports patter, cable TV channels have hours to fill. That includes predictably low-rated weekday morning shows -- such as First Take -- that can be produced relatively cheaply and provide lots of yak. "That means there'll be lots of personality-driven shows and inevitably people will say inappropriate things," says Pilson. "And some people will argue, 'Aren't you paying them to do that?' ''
But, Pilson says, this hasn't changed: "There are certain things, certainly race, that are still sensitive and out-of-bounds."
TV sports has plenty of weaknesses, like forcing networks to at least pretend to be objective about sports they pay billions to cover. But the TV genre has a strength in that, even on a little-watched show such as First Take, everybody has to be thoughtful when they talk about race and ethnicity.
Parker wasn't. But ESPN should give him another chance. Because, putting specifics aside, Parker was like the others who survived on-air after making comments about race: His mistake was not taking the subject seriously enough.
Spice rack: For its five NBA games on Christmas Day, ESPN/ABC will debut a new and bigger Los Angeles studio show set. The most unique thing about it, says studio show coordinating producer Amina Hussein, is that it will have four large video screens: "I'd like to get the guys up and moving around a bit more." ... Monday Night Football announcer Mike Tirico pronounced the New York Jets fumbling away a chance for a last-minute comeback against Tennessee as "ugly." So was MNF's rating: It drew 6.6% of U.S. households -- down 34% from comparable coverage of a Pittsburgh-San Francisco game last year. ... After last year debuting live-streaming of the Saturday wild card playoff games, the Super Bowl and the Pro Bowl, NFL spokesman Dan Masonson says the league will announce Wednesday that it will stream TV coverage of those events this season. Last year, the Super Bowl drew 2.1 million digital users while drawing 111.3 million viewers on TV. ... After debuting its "Broadcast Boot Camp" in 2007, meant to help players get broadcasting jobs, the league will debut four new so-called boot camps this off-season -- for sports journalism, business franchising, entrepreneurship and the culinary arts. ... Billy Crystal will be a guest anchor on ESPN's 6 p.m. SportsCenter Wednesday. That's got to be up there with hosting the Oscars.


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KISS Your MetadataPosted: November 7, 2006 | Author: Jason A. Clark | Filed under: metadata | Leave a comment
So, I've been doing some work with a group outside the library – TERRA: the nature of our world. I was invited in on the redesign project primarily as a web developer, but my foot in the door gives me a chance to introduce metadata standards, digital archiving and other traditional digital library stuff. It's been a nice opportunity to put emerging library services where the rubber meets the road.
Anyway, working with the TERRA group has given me a whole new perspective on metadata standards. Selling metadata in the library is pretty much a no-brainer. Cataloging and description of resources is widely respected (for better and worse) within the library community. Making the case to other communities can be something else. Early in the TERRA project, I started talking about OAI and MODS markup. About 2 minutes in I looked around the room: blank stares. At one point, I think I heard crickets. Time to shift gears…
It wasn't that what I was saying was off the wall. It was all about presentation. You've gotta recognize what resonates for the group. In the TERRA case, it was selling the idea of standard data to query and distribute. TERRA is a group intimately knowledgeable about RSS; it's what they use to distribute their podcasts. Couching my argument with the example of RSS as a data standard opened the door.
A couple of strategies for finding the metadata sweet spots for the groups you work with:
- Assess lowest common denominator of metadata
- People don't want complex; they want simple. Lower the cost of entry by deciding what is the easiest standard to adopt that still works with your larger digital library collection metadata standards.
- Hide your metadata behind the scenes
- Many metadata standards have fields that can be hardcoded (e.g., DC Language). Take advantage of these prescriptive fields by creating as many default values in your web form or database structure.
- Find a data standard that your group has experience with
- NIH Researchers can grasp the metadata concepts behind PubMed. Engineers understand the role of ASTM standards. Pick a familiar data standard concept and explain how metadata follows this model for search and retrieval.
- Play the "increased access through metadata" card
- Point to repositories that will get research or data into user's hands. Talk about how metadata can be harvested by diverse groups and repurposed in new search settings.
Groups don't want to hear how the 15 base elements of Dublin Core make your life easier. Standards and normalized data are going to help you out in the long run, but what's in it for your working group? Learn to find the common ground and give your groups a KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) when it comes to metadata.


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It's got bikini clad 1960's babes. It's got a monster that eats surfers. Yep. It's that good.
Beach Girls and the Monster (1965)
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Wow! I saw this at "The Torch" drive-in in Reynoldsburg, Ohio when I was a teenager. i spent most of the time making out with my GF so this is the first time I watched it all the way through. It is as bad as I remember it but the nostalgia factor made watching it worthwhile. For a few moments I was 17 again! Thanks.
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Preface (by C. Tompkins)
I asked Dr. Bernstein to collect this set of existence theorems during the parlous times just after the war when it was apparent to a large and vociferous set of engineers that the electronic digital calculating machines they were then developing would replace all mathematicians and, indeed, all thinkers except the engineers building more machines.
At that time many navy activities faced problems of great computational extent, and they naturally examined the power of these machines to solve their problems. The Office of Naval Research had an obligation to advise these activities, and I had an obligation to advise the office of Naval Research under the terms of contract N6 onr-240 between the Office of Naval Research and Engineering Research Associates, Incorporated. In effect, much of my advice was directly to the activities desiring the equipment.
Since these elementary facts seemed to be surprisingly generally unknown, and since neither time nor energy nor budget nor knowledge permitted me to give to each of the navy's partial differential equations the attention that would be required to apply most of the knowledge already published, this list of existence theorems collected with an eye to computing was obviously desirable to present to the proprietors of problems involving partial differential equations.
In the compilation, Professor Bernstein guided herself by considering the possibility of application to calculation; however, she did not limit herself to theorems that had been proved to be reliable for use on digital computers. This consideration led straightforwardly to the constructive existence theorems contained in the literature which is reasonably easily available. They have been assembled with judgment and analysis; in particular Professor Bernstein believes that the listed theorems have been correctly proved and that they may be applicable or there is some considerable probability that they can be modified so as to be applicable to numerical methods of calculation.
The mission outlined above was not a routine one of copying theorems. The material was drawn from many sources, and not all authors were uniform or careful in defining the problems they attacked. Dr. Bernstein tried to furnish this uniformity by stating what is meant by a solution and by a concise formulation of the various boundary problems encountered. She clarified the hypotheses under which solutions are established, and she carefully defined the regions in which the solutions are valid. She formulated the lemmas connecting various problems and indicated transformations which permit the application of the solution of a given problem to solve related problems. Finally, she included a few definitions which should add greatly to the convenience of most users by eliminating the need for reference to other works.Table of Contents
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North Dakota Sen. Kent Conrad came up three votes short in his latest attempt to persuade the Senate to consider disaster assistance legislation for farmers and ranchers hurt by drought, floods or hurricanes in 2005.
The Senate voted 57-37 Tuesday (Dec. 5) on a point of order raised by New Hampshire's Judd Gregg, the chairman of the Budget Committee, who complained that Conrad's amendment to the agricultural appropriations bill would add $4.9 billion to the federal deficit. Sixty votes were needed to override the parliamentary maneuver.
Conrad, who has now introduced three disaster bills in the last 12 months, vowed he would not give up his fight to try to win help for farmers and ranchers in North Dakota and other states to natural disasters.
"We intend to bring this up until we prevail," he said. "We have enough votes to pass this bill. Our farm and ranch families really face a desperate situation, but with the added strength from the elections, the next Congress will pass this bill."
Conrad was referring to Democrats winning control of Congress in the Nov. 7 elections. The shift in power will make Conrad chairman of the Senate Budget Committee and Gregg, the current chairman, the ranking minority member.
Although the vote on the proposed amendment was largely symbolic since Congress is not expected to pass an agricultural appropriations bill before it adjourns for the Christmas holidays, Conrad said his side could just as easily have won the budget point of order fight.
"We had three senators who had announced their support for the amendment who could not be here today," he noted. "If they had been here, we would have won." (The three, who were not named, reportedly were campaigning for the presidency.)
Sen. Gregg, who was joined by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., in his opposition to the bill, said it was the wrong bill for a time when the federal deficit is at record levels due to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the federal tax cuts that Congress has passed in recent years.
"I cannot believe we are here today considering legislation that would add $4.9 billion to the federal debt," said Gregg. The Bush administration and Republican lawmakers have argued that any spending for disaster assistance should be offset by cuts in spending in other areas.
Conrad said Congress must pass the emergency relief to help farmers who have experienced losses not only from natural disasters but also from the high fuel and fertilizer prices that occurred after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.
"A lot of my neighbors are going to be gone because we have had such an extraordinarily unusual weather cycle in North Dakota," he said. "If we do not pass this, then tens of thousands of farm families are going to be at their bankers in coming weeks, and they're going to be given the grim news that they're done, that they're finished."
Congress has agreed to provide disaster assistance for farmers who suffered losses due to Katrina and Rita, but has ignored the pleas of farmers who have experienced reduced crop yields from droughts, flooding and freezes, the North Dakota senator said.
"Farmers outside the areas hit by the hurricanes have not received anything," he said. "Those farmers have suffered losses every bit as severe as those sustained following the hurricanes along the Gulf Coast.
The Conrad bill drew support from several Republicans including a co-sponsor, Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, and from Sens. Thad Cochran of Mississippi and Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, the chairmen of the Senate Appropriations and Agriculture Committees.
But Chambliss told reporters the bill did not go far enough because it had been scaled down to cover disasters that only occurred in 2005.
"In August 2006, 155 of 159 counties in Georgia were designated by the secretary of agriculture as primary natural disaster areas due to losses caused by drought and excessive temperatures," said Chambliss. "At the current time, we may not know the full extent of the 2006 crop damage, but it is evident in looking across the country that crop and livestock assistance is needed."
The National Farmers Union, American Farm Bureau, American Soybean Association and 29 other farm and farm-related organizations sent a letter to the Senate urging its members to vote for the Conrad amendment.
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I think Nathan Cummings has the best of the both worlds. It's a family foundation where the values and strategy are set by the family, but at the same time the execution of the grant-making is done by a professional staff working on behalf of the family and that works extremely well. I've been a board member for more than 6 years now. I've been on other boards and no fair number of foundations and organizations and I actually think that Nathan Cummings Foundation is sort of a high performing institution. It has creative tension, but it's supposed to have creative tension and the commitment to taking smart risks, not just any risk, but smart risk in grant-making and you think of the things we've done in the environmental area. When you think of areas where people first scratched their head and said, "arts and social justice, well what's that?" In fact, when I came on the board, I would say that people were probably scratching their heads about why focus on arts and social justice? As we know now, many years later, it's an established field and you can see universities creating programs around it and you can see exhibitions at museums. Now it's sort of established and that, to me, is an example of the way the Nathan Cummings Foundation has affected the way we think about different kinds of issues. We get there early, we define the field and over time people see the wisdom of it and begin to adopt what we've defined. One of the satisfactions of being a member of the Nathan Cummings Foundation that we know that there is this DNA, both in family members and in the kind of staff recruited to sort of identify tough issues, identify how to frame those issues, get out there and not be afraid when people don't understand it at first, because after a while, whether it's contemplative practice or arts and social justice, the rest of the country and other parts of the world will come along and sort of see the value of why we struck off in that direction. I think that's one of the things that everyone at the Nathan Cummings Foundation can take a great deal of pride in.


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Rwanda – 30 January – 5 February 2010
By Brita Fernandez Schmidt
I am on my way to Rwanda for the first time, to see the work Women for Women International does there and to join a meeting of all the country directors from the countries where Women for Women International has programmes. When we arrive, I am immediately struck by the friendliness of everyone, from the passport control to the taxi driver. My first impression is that Rwanda is an absolutely beautiful country. Rwanda is apparently the country of a thousand hills, and it looks really hilly and is very green. It must be the cleanest and nicest place I have ever been. Apparently every month the president and everyone has a cleanup operation where they clean the streets and that is what it looks like, not a single piece of rubbish anywhere. You are not allowed to bring plastic bags into the country – one of my colleagues was carrying one and had to empty it, before leaving the airport. So I think to myself: it can be done – how amazing. There is a lot we could learn from this.
Right now I cannot imagine that Rwanda is also the site of one of the worst genocides in history – there are no signs of it at first sight. Later in the evening a few of us go for walk and I wonder about security, but I am assured that Kigali is one of the safest cities in the world, and from what I could see this is true. I am wondering how this is possible? My colleague from the DRC explains that she thinks it is because Rwanda is very small country with 8 million inhabitants. Effective control is therefore easier. It is still something that baffles me.
The following day we start our meeting with all the country directors, the Global Leadership Team and Zainab. Our director from Sudan was unable to come, because the security situation in Southern Sudan is really tense – we have a security level coding system (green yellow red) for our programmes and Sudan right now is level red. This is largely due to the fact that Southern Sudan is trying to be independent and this is causing tension. Our country director from Afghanistan is also not here but that is due to visa issues.
But security is a big concern for many of our programmes. One of our offices in Northern Nigeria in Jos had to be closed because of security concerns. The house of one of our staff there was burnt down and she is now living in barracks. The South, where we also have offices are also dealing with security issues, mainly related to kidnapping and robbery – one of our director's friend's son is still being held hostage. Our country director from Iraq said that she never gives out her business card for fear what might happen if it ends up in the wrong hands and her name and address get known. The reality of what our country staff have to face on a daily basis is really overwhelming. Zainab puts it very clearly when she says that everything they do is against the odds, fighting against the system, it is swimming against the stream or running against the wind. It seems so important to me for all of us to always remember this. What Women for Women International does is very special, we do development in contexts where many other organisation will only do humanitarian work – but this comes at a huge risk and price that our country offices are willing to take. I am so impressed by the courage, determination and passion of the women who are leading our work in-country.
The next day we all go to the offices where women receive their Life-Skills training and we are allowed to attend one of the classes. I am in a class on reproductive health. There are about 15 women – a few are missing because they had to go to Open Day at school with their children. A few are pregnant, a few are there with their small babies. I estimate the age range to be between 18-55. When we go round and introduce each other, the majority of the women have a minimum of 4 children each. I cannot believe how young some of them are. It also really strikes me how many of them are single mothers, some have lost their husbands and others are separated. The lesson starts by going over the previous lesson, which covered the anatomy of the reproductive organs. The Life-Skills trainer has a fantastic plastic sheet with a very good and clear drawing. The women remember the last lesson well and participate actively. The content of this lessons focuses on pregnancy. Questions such as: How do you know when you are pregnant, what can you do to space your pregnancies and what contraceptive methods are available are discussed. There is a lot of giggling when the trainer shows them how a female condom works. But underneath there is a serious interest and concern. Concern about preventing HIV and AIDS, as well as having too many children. The women discuss amongst each other how to negotiate with their partners around safe sex. They share what contraception they use. The support they are giving to each other is tangible. I am really impressed by the clarity of the lesson and hope that my daughters, when they grow up, will have access to such information to keep them healthy and safe.
The trainers and staff at the office are all very friendly and committed to the work they are doing. They have created a safe haven for women, that is green and beautiful. Our country director in Rwanda talks about 'enjoying the beauty of security'. This has stuck with me as something we simply take for granted, but security is the number one concern when you ask women in Afghanistan, Congo and Iraq. Therefore to gain security after conflict is consciously treasured.
The next day, our highlight is a visit to the newly acquired farm land in Karongi, where we run an organic commercially integrated farming initiative. The farm we are visiting is 24 hectares, which are shared among 1000 women, who graduated from our programme in 2009. We get there at lunch time and it is extremely hot. Many of the women are waiting for us. They normally work the land early in the morning and would not be there at this time. But they are excited to welcome us and show us the land that they are in the process of turning into their livelihood.
The land has never been farmed before and there is a lot of hard work getting it ready. We see a few seedling beds of chilli, which will be one of the five key crops that will be grown. Each crop has already got a market partner, so the women who will be growing the crop know that they will be able to sell them and make a living. There are two other farms in Rwanda and also one in Sudan. We are piloting this initiative to explore the potential of farming as a sustainable form of income. It is hard work, the tools the women have are simple, the conditions are basic, but in the context of their lives, this is progress. But I think to myself how important it is to always remember how hard women have to work to stand on their own feet. And yet, even here, in the sweltering heat, in the middle of green farmland, we dance. All the women are overwhelmed to be meeting Zainab, and talk about how Women for Women International has changed their lives.
The next day we visit the genocide memorial museum in Kigali. I had been waiting for this moment. I wanted to understand more about what had happened here, see it with my own eyes, understand the tragedy and the legacy it has left. No one I had met till now had talked about the genocide. No one talks about ethnicity, it is now forbidden by law to distinguish between Hutus and Tutsis.
The museum takes you on a journey, from the early days where the people of Rwanda lived peacefully together to the Belgian rule, which favoured the minority Tutsi tribe and suppressed the Hutus. When the Belgian left, this turned around and the Hutus started to rule and in turn oppress the Tutsis. Of course the history is much more complex than that. In the genocide that unfolded in 1994, 1 million people died, that is something like one in every eight people of the population. 37,000 children were left orphans. There are so many photos of children, women and men who were slaughtered – it is simply unbearable. It is difficult to understand – the mass graves in the museum grounds, the deep trauma and sadness of the place are in direct juxtaposition to the beauty and order of the surroundings. I wonder whether this is perhaps the way to overcome such horror and find reconciliation? What I ask myself is how and when will we know? Someone I met on the plane, who had lived in Kigali for the past 6 years and worked on the memorial, said that the peace and control was more fragile than it seemed and that much depended on Kigame's (the current president) re-election this year. I don't know, but I hope, I hope that Rwanda is making history as a country that has been able to introduce such significant changes that will provide the basis for lasting peace – the people deserve this.
And on my last day we attend a graduation ceremony of 120 women who have finished their year long training. The ceremony starts with a moving speech by one of the participants. She summarises what they have achieved over the past year. 99% of the women now sleep with mosquito nets – a live saving practice in a country that suffers from malaria. Over half the women have registered their marriages – hugely important for the protection of their rights. Many women marry under communal law and do not realise that their rights are not protected in the event of separation. By formally registering their marriages, this changes. Two thirds of the women have had an HIV/AIDS test, which can be life-saving in a country where the prevalence rate of 18-30 year olds is 20%. 54% of the women have received business skills training and the majority will now form cooperatives. Several women then introduce themselves and give their testimony.
There is Christine, who is part of a group of about 20 who have called themselves 'Advising Eachother'. She says that before she started in the Women for Women programme she was in a bad condition. She had lost her parents during the genocide and her husband passed away after the genocide and she was left on her own with her very young children. The sponsorship funds she received through the Women for Women International sponsor helped her to set up her own business and earn enough money to send her children to school.
Rebecca talks about how she was left to look after her 3 children whilst her husband was in prison. She got very sick and everyone thought it was AIDS. She had little hope until she joint Women for Women International. The first sponsorship funds she received, she used to purchase her health insurance (2000 Rwandan Franc = $2) which allows her to access hospital care. Through the health awareness training she receives, she realises that she does not have AIDS, but that she had been suffering from malaria. Since using mosquito nets, she is no longer ill.
She holds a pack of letters in her hands and shows them to us – 'these are the letters my sister Beth has sent to me' – every month one letter. The letters are long and have photos. Rebecca tells us, how kind these letters are and how much they mean to her. She says: 'My older sister and brothers were killed in the genocide, my sister was called Beth and now I have my sponsor sister, and she is called Beth also, Beth has become my sister, my family, she mean everything to me.' The connection and the importance of this relationship beyond the money she receives is clearly a huge support and motivation to her. In my heart I make a promise to my sponsor sister in Bosnia to write to her every month. Rebecca says: 'I will always keep these letters where there is no rain.' I am so moved, it is hard to speak. The translator, who is one of the Life Skills trainers, sums it up when she says 'They don't want to feel it's just a matter of money.'
That for me is the strength of Women for Women International's mission and vision, the connections across huge distances and divides that bring women together to create better and more peaceful societies.
I leave Rwanda with my heart filled with hope, hope that Rwanda will surprise the world as a country that managed to overcome its horrible history, hope that Rwanda will be able to continue to develop itself as a country where everyone can live together peacefully and where sustainable development for women and men becomes a reality – I know that Women for Women International's team in Rwanda will do their utmost best to make it happen.


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Foolishness: Judge In Connecticut Arrested For DUI! "Stop Treating Me Like A Negro From The Hood"
AP reports "(AP) Connecticut's Judicial Review Council says it will pursue misconduct charges against a judge charged with drunken driving. Four charges stem from disparaging comments that Judge E. Curtissa Cofield allegedly made to police who arrested her in October in Glastonbury. The fifth addresses the DUI charge. The review council reached its decision Monday and plans a Feb. 9 hearing. Cofield allegedly told police she was "sick of being treated like a Negro from the 'hood," and referred to state police Sgt. Dwight Washington as "Mister Negro Washington." The 60-year-old judge was arrested after allegedly sideswiping a parked state police cruiser in a construction zone on Route 2 on Oct. 9. She later apologized in Manchester Superior Court and was accepted into an alcohol education program. The charges against her will be dismissed if she successfully completes the program."
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A top official at the Securities and Exchange Commission is leaving the agency to become chief compliance officer of Prudential Financial Inc's mutual fund arm, the SEC and Prudential announced on Thursday.
Bruce Karpati, who has led the asset management unit within the SEC's enforcement division, will lead compliance for Prudential's registered investment advisory company and serve as chief compliance officer for its mutual funds, the company said.
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The asset management unit is one of the SEC's specialized enforcement units, and focuses on investment advisors and private funds.
As head of the unit, Karpati has led the SEC's efforts to examine hedge fund performance data to uncover investment fraud.
"Bruce has been a pioneer in the use of complex data analysis to detect securities fraud," George Canellos, who co-heads the SEC's enforcement division said in a statement.
Cases the SEC has brought during Karpati's tenure include charging hedge fund star Philip Falcone with market manipulation and charging a former $1 billion hedge fund advisory firm and two executives with scheming to overvalue assets under management.
Earlier on Thursday Falcone's Harbinger Group Inc disclosed Falcone and his hedge fund, Harbinger Capital Partners, have reached a preliminary agreement to pay $18 million to settle the SEC's charges.
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February is Black History Month. It is a time when we remember among other things the accomplishments and the contributions of the many African Americans who have earned their place as leaders in business, entertainment, education and research.
There have been many stories of successful African American business men and women. People who started or managed successful companies, employed hundreds of thousands of people, supported their local economies and contributed to their communities. It was difficult to decide which stories to tell.
Madam C.J. Walker deserves to be on any list of successful business leaders, but she probably would have described herself as a civil rights leader. She was born Sarah Breedlove in Louisiana on Dec. 23, 1867. Her parents were freed slaves.
By the age of 20 she was widowed, a mother and working as a washerwomen earning $1.50 per day.
A scalp ailment led her to invent a line of hair products for African Americans. She took her products on the road giving demonstrations. They were a huge hit. In 12 years she became the first female self-made millionaire. And back then a million dollars really meant something!
Sarah's success wasn't just about making money. It was about how she used her newly found position. She donated a large amount toward the construction of the Indianapolis YMCA. She funded an anti-lynching campaign and was part of a delegation that petitioned President Woodrow Wilson to make lynching a federal crime. She funded education.
Fast forward to another outstanding business women — Ursula Burns, chairman and CEO of Xerox. Ursula joined Xerox in 1980 as a mechanical engineering summer intern and 20 years later she was named senior vice president of corporate strategic services. She became the chairman and CEO in July 2009.
It wasn't an easy climb to success. She was raised in the housing projects of New York City. Today, Ursula Burns is ranked as the 14th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes Magazine.
She is the founding director of Change the Equation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving education for science, technology, engineering and math. She provides leadership for many other nonprofit organizations, including the National Academy Foundation and the U.S. Olympic Committee. She was recently appointed as vice chair of the President's Export Council.
There are many other stories. African American men and women who have earned their places in the center of business. Whose hard work and dedication has not only helped shape our economy but influenced the world.
Black History Month is important for all Americans. It is our American story.
Cynthia Kurtz is president and CEO of the San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership. She can be reached at www.facebook.com/SGVEP.