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A comparison of the major monitoring & engagement services: Radian6, Lithium, Attensity360 & 17 more
Target audience: Brands, corporations, mid-size to large businesses. See Socialbrite's series on social media monitoring:
• Guide to monitoring social media conversations
• 20 free, awesome social media monitoring tools
• 10 paid social media monitoring services for nonprofits
By J.D. Lasica and Kim Bale
The online landscape is saturated with more than 200 tools and platforms claiming to be able to help you track and assess mentions of your business or brand in social media channels. While there remains a lot of churn in the field, a number of listening platforms have evolved to help you go beyond basic monitoring into an integrated approach that helps inform multiple parts of your business: product development, customer support, public outreach, lead generation, market research and campaign measurement.
Born as a way to respond to crises and manage brand reputation, social media monitoring, or brand monitoring — which ties into social media measurement and analysis — is finally maturing into a business process that helps the bottom line.
A comparison of pricing, features & clients you rarely see on the open Web.Today we'll turn the tables on these companies and offer some business intelligence that you rarely see available on the open Web: a comparison of social media monitoring vendors, with descriptions of their strengths, clients and pricing. Many offer end-to-end solutions, providing not just tracking capabilities but a rich set of analytics and response tools to help you grow your business and engage with individuals who influence broad swaths of the market.
Social media monitoring vendors come in all shapes and flavors. Some cater to small business with modest budgets that want to handle monitoring analysis internally. Others service global corporations that want access to expert analysts as well as a robust suite of social tools that plug into business processes. So this roundup is admittedly mixing apples and oranges. (See our discussion of social CRM below.)
To draw some distinctions, we've broken this package into two groupings:
• 20+ social media monitoring & engagement vendors for business (below)
• 10 lower-priced monitoring services for nonprofits & organizations (on our sister site, Sociabrite.org)
Monitoring should plug into your business processes
Companies that will succeed in the 21st century will be social businesses, committed to forging deep and meaningful relationships with their customers. So use the new year as a fresh impetus to create a Social Media Plan (insidesocialmedia.com can help with that), begin monitoring and consider evaluating an outside vendor by signing up for a free trial.
Keep in mind: Listening to conversations and gathering data is only one phase of a multi-step process that also involves engagement, metrics and acting on what you learn. As Jeff Nolan writes, "In its most pure form, social media monitoring is both listening and responding to social channels."
Here is our guide to the Top 20 Social Media Monitoring Vendors for Business. Have your own favorites? Please add them in the comments below! And if you have any corrections or updates to the information here, please share that as well.
Radian6/Salesforce Cloud: A proven solution for big brands
1Radian 6, purchased by Salesforce in 2011, works with brands to help them listen more intelligently to your consumers, competitors and influencers with the goal of growing your business via detailed, real-time insights. Beyond their monitoring dashboard, which tracks mentions on more than 100 million social media sites, they offer an engagement console that allows you to coordinate your internal responses to external activity by immediately updating your blog and Twitter and Facebook accounts all in one spot. Fully automated. Cost: The dashboard starts at $600/month, though registered nonprofits can apply for two free uses per year under the company's Giving Back program. They also offer free trials to students and educators for research and project purposes. Radian6 uses a monthly subscription based pricing model, with the monthly fee varying depending on the number of topics monitored each month. Clients: Red Cross, Adobe, AAA, Cirque du Soleil, H&R Block, March of Dimes, Microsoft, Pepsi, Southwest Airlines — a wide range of clients. Owner: Independent. Also: See our interview with the CEO of Radian6.
Collective Intellect: Social media intelligence gathering
2Boulder, Colo.-based Collective Intellect, which started out by providing monitoring to financial firms, has evolved into a top-tier player in the marketplace of social media intelligence gathering. Using a combination of self-serve client dashboards and human analysis, Collective Intellect offers a robust monitoring and measurement tool suited to mid-size to large companies with its Social CRM Insights platform. It applies spam management techniques and text analysis to clean data sets, delivering customers rich intelligence.Cost: Pricing starts at $300/month and scales based on specific client needs, according to published reports. Clients: General Mills, NBC Universal, Pepsi, Walmart, Unilever, Advertising Age, CBS, Dole, MTV Networks, MillerCoors, Paramount, Verizon Wireless, Viacom, Hasbro, Siemens. Owner: Independent.
Lithium: Adjust your campaign on the fly
3Lithium monitors your search-specific mentions and sentiment in social media outlets and outputs them into easy-to-read graphs and numbers resembling the stock market. Lithium will aggregate information from a variety of platforms including blog posts and comments, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and many others, and it'll assess emotions surrounding your brand pre-, mid- and post campaign so you can adjust your strategies accordingly. We miss ScoutLabs, which is now part of Lithium. Cost: Base plan of $249/month for five users and five searches. Free 14-day trial. Clients: Best Buy, BT, Barnes & Noble, FICO, Disney Online, Stubhub, Motorola, Coca Cola, Focus Features, Netflix. Owner: Independent. Lithium bought ScoutLabs in May 2010.
Sysomos: Manage conversations in real time
4Sysomos's Heartbeat is a real-time monitoring and measurement tool that provides constantly updated snapshots of social media conversations delivered using a variety of user-friendly graphics. Heartbeat organizes conversations, manages workflow, facilitates collaboration and provides ways to engage with key influencers. For more, see ReadWrite review. Sysomos also offers a Media Analysis Platform. Cost: Entry-level price of $500/month. Clients: IBM, HSBC, Roche, Ketchum, Sony Ericsson, Philips, ConAgra, Edelman, Shell Oil, Nokia, Sapient, Citi, Interbrand. Owner: Marketwire.
Attensity360: Actionable insights
5Attensity360 operates on four key principles: listen, analyze, relate, act. Attensity360 will help monitor trending topics, influencers and the reach of your brand while recommending ways to join the conversation. Attensity Analyze applies text analytics to unstructured text to extract meaning and uncover trends. Attensity Respond helps automate the routing of incoming social media mentions into user-defined queues. Cost: $399/month for one license. Discounts for longer subscriptions. Free 15-day trial. Clients: Whirlpool, Vodofone, Versatel, TMobile, Oracle, Wiley. Owner: Independent. Attensity bought Biz360 in spring 2010.
Alterian SM2: Providing daily brand sentiment
6UK-based Alterian SM2 tracks mentions on blogs, forums, social networks like Facebook, microblogs like Twitter, wikis, video and photo sharing sites, Craigslist and ePinions. SM2 monitors the daily volume, demographics, location, tone and emotion of conversations surrounding a brand and aggregates results into positive and negative categories for quick review by anyone on staff. Cost: Pricing is based on volume of results and ranges from $500/month to $15,000/month. "Freemium" trial plan allows for five keyword or phrase searches and a total of 1,000 results. Alterian also provides additional custom solutions. Clients: Rosetta, MDAnderson, Pursuit, YouCast. Owner: Independent. Alterian bought Techrigy in July 2009.
Crimson Hexagon: Actionable data for your business
7Cambridge, Mass.-based Crimson Hexagon taps into billions of conversations taking place in online media and turns them into actionable data for better brand understanding and improvement. Based on a technology licensed from Harvard, its VoxTrot Opinion is able to analyze vast amounts of qualitative information and determine quantitative proportion of opinion. Cost: Pricing based on number of seats or number of searches. Clients: CNN, Hanes, AT&T, HP, Johnson & Johnson, Mashable, Microsoft, Monster, AdWeek, Thomson Reuters, Rubbermaid, Sybase, the Huffington Post, A&E, the Wall Street Journal. Owner: Independent.
Spiral16: Flexible pricing, competitive analysis
8Spiral16 takes an in-depth look at who is saying what about a brand and compares results with those of top competitors. The goal is to help you monitor the effectiveness of your social media strategy, understand the sentiment behind conversations online and mine large amounts of data. It uses impressive 3D displays and a standard dashboard. Cost: Pricing starts at $500 for five queries or Internet searches, though there is no solid pricing model and Spiral16 will work with companies to tailor plans that fit their budget. Online demo available. Clients: Toyota, Lee, Cadbury. Owner: Independent.
Webtrends: Mobile & social analytics
9Webtrends offers services geared toward monitoring, measuring, analyzing, profiling and targeting audiences for a brand. The partner-based platform allows for crowd-sourced improvements and problem solving, creating transparency of their products and services. Cost: Pricing varies depending on packages and services chosen, but Webtrends is geared to big players. Social Accelerator packages start at $15,000/year, app packages start at $1,500 to $12,000/year. Clients: CBS, NBC Universal, 20th Century Fox, AOL, Electronic Arts, Lifetime, AA, Glam, Nestle, the City of Calgary. Owner: Independent.
Spredfast: Campaign & social media management
10We weren't sure whether to include Spredfast in this Top 20 roundup because of its versatility. it's not only a monitoring service but a social media management, measurement and campaign tool — in other words, a full-on social media dashboard and integrated communications client (Threadsy is another). In the end, Spredfast made the cut because you can pull relevant conversations from multiple networks into your dashboard, track referrals and conversions, summon up analytics and jump straight to analysis and reports. See our recent full review. Cost: Pricing begins at $250/month for businesses. Clients: AOL, Nokia, IBM, Sierra Club. Owner: Independent start-up.
NM Incite: Going for depth
11Global brands look to NM Incite's expertise across marketing, sales, product development, customer service, business strategy development and in deep verticals for monitoring and social media intelligence. This is a service geared to multinationals rather than nonprofits or mid-size companies. Cost: Five figures is typical. Clients: Toyota, ConAgra, Intel, Sony, Nokia, AOL, HBO, Barclays, Whirlpool, GE, Discovery, Coca-Cola. Owner: NM Incite is a joint venture of the Nielson Co. and McKinsey & Co. Nielsen Buzzmetrics was spun off into NM Incite as part of its launch in June 2010.
Converseon: Tech + human analysts
12New York-based social-media consulting firm Converseon, named a leader in the social media monitoring sector by Forrester Research, builds tailored dashboards for its enterprise installations and offers professional services around every step of the social business intelligence process. Converseon starts with the technology and adds human analysis, resulting in high-quality data and impressive functionality. Cost: Pricey. Cost varies according to which suite is used. Clients: Dow, Amway, Graco, other major brands. Converseon has more than 200,000 customers and 10,000 channel partners in 100 countries. Owner: Independent.
dna13: An emphasis on simplicity
13Ottawa-based dna13's MediaVantage will monitor all of your media coverage and present it in an easy-to-read format allowing you to respond from one platform. dna13 provides on-demand software solutions for brand and reputation management, including a PR and corporate communications software suite and a monitoring service for real-time insight into brand, reputation, competitors and industry issues. Cost: Packages start at $560/month. Initial $500 set-up fee. Clients: Wachovia, Miami Heat. Owner: CNW Group Co.
Attentio: Track global conversations
14Belgium-based Attentio tracks global conversations taking place across social media (blogs, forums, social networks, Twitter, YouTube) and online news sites. The multilingual service offers brand reputation management, campaign/product release impact, sales opportunity tracking and sentiment analysis along with a dashboard to track media in real time. Cost: Pricing starts at £500 ($775 US) per month for a one-year subscription; costs for tailored reports begin at £5,000 ($7,750) . Clients: Johnson & Johnson, Skype, Microsoft, Disney. Owner: Independent.
Visible Technologies: High-end monitoring & analysis
15In the fall 2010 Visible Technologies replaced its truCAST technology with Visible Intelligence, its new enterprise social intelligence platform and services. The new platform helps clients monitor, analyze and participate in social media conversations as well as protect their executive and corporate brands online. Visible adds analyst support to their client servicing to help you understand the landscape and determine which intelligence to act on. Arrange a demo via @Visible_Tech on Twitter. Cost: Typically $25,000 to $45,000, according to press reports. Clients: Microsoft, Vail Resorts, Xerox, Boost. Owner: Independent.
Cymfony: Enterprise-class monitoring platform
16Cymfony provides market influence analytics by scanning and interpreting the millions of voices at the intersection of social and traditional media. It offers a listening and influence platform, Maestro, that integrates distinctive technology with input from expert analysts to identify the people, issues and trends impacting a business. All the standard metrics are included: posts/conversations, tonality, influencers, share of voice and so on. Cost: Pricey but competitive with other deep monitoring and analytics firms. Clients: Fortune 2000 clients. (A lack of transparency may be telling.) Owner: A unit of Kantar Media.
Buzzcapture: Insights into market buzz
17Amsterdam-based Buzzcapture provides insight to organizations on the buzz in their market. Buzzcapture can track companies, products, product families, business lines, difficult or complex brands, topics, competitors, influencers, evangelists, critics and campaigns. All the information collected is analyzed and presented into understandable reports and entered into your dashboard. Cost: Typical price range is EU10,000 to EU70,000 ($13,000 to $91,000 US) for each research topic or group of products, with a standard license costing €30,000 ($39,000 US). Clients: TNT, Vodofone, ING, Nissan, BMW, Microsoft, AstraZeneca. Owner: Independent.
BuzzLogic: Tied to ad buy
18BuzzLogic uses its technology platform to identify and organize the conversation universe, combining both conversation topic and audience to help brands reach audiences who are passionate on everything from the latest tech craze and cloud computing to parenthood and politics. However, the social media monitoring tool is no longer available as a standalone product. It now comes as part of BuzzLogic's ad platform, requiring a media buy to connect to unique audiences through BuzzLogic. Cost: Unknown. Clients: Starbucks, American Express, HBO, HP, Microsoft. Focus on advertisers. Owner: Independent.
Meltwater Buzz: Overseas strength
19Released in April 2009, Meltwater Buzz monitors, tracks and analyzes user-generated content on more than 200 million social media sites to help a brand understand its user sentiment and gauge competition. All data is stored in one intuitive, easy-to-use dashboard and a customer support representative is provided for the duration of the subscription. Meltwater, founded in Norway in 2001, now has 50 offices around the globe. It's worth mentioning that they come from a traditional media tracking background, and with purchase of BuzzGain in February 2010, they added many more social media monitoring capabilities. BuzzGain is now baked into Meltwater Buzz. Cost: Standard subscription of one year for $13,000 gets you access for three to five users. Clients: Porsche Automotive North America, Vita-Mix, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Bausch & Lomb, Pabst Blue Ribbon and other corporations, nonprofits, government agencies. Owner: Meltwater Group.
Brandwatch: A focus on brand mentions
20UK-based Brandwatch trawls the Internet looking at news, blogs, forums, wikis and social networking sites and finding mentions of brands, companies, products and people. Clients define keywords (brands, topics, people names, products) and receive reports and brand summaries that they can take action on. Cost: Pricing, based on a monthly subscription, starts at about $300/month. It operates on a per keyword pricing model. Clients: Aviva, Activision, CheapFlights, The Body Shop. Owner: Independent.
Note: BuzzGain, which was originally listed at No. 19, has been absorbed into Meltwater.
Social CRM or simply monitoring services?
In this overview I sought to avoid the insidery, wonky discussion around social CRM (customer relationship management), but it's worth a quick mention. Paul Greenberg, organizer of the first Social CRM Summit last year, explains SCRM this way:
Social CRM is a philosophy and a business strategy, supported by a technology platform, business rules, processes and social characteristics, designed to engage the customer in a collaborative conversation in order to provide mutually beneficial value in a trusted and transparent business environment. It's the company's response to the customer's ownership of the conversation.
Jacob Morgan, principal of Chess Media Group, points out that social CRM means different things to different people. While the vendors listed above offer robust social media monitoring and listening tools, they plug into their clients' business and social CRM processes in different ways (see Chess Media's chart above and its free Guide to Understanding Social CRM).
"Two years ago, all the vendors you mentioned called themselves social media vendors," Morgan said. "Now that social CRM is the hot term, all of the vendors simply changed the name from social media to social CRM. Everything else is the same."
Other paid social media monitoring solutions
There are literally dozens of social media monitoring services in the marketplace, so this roundup is meant as a guide to the top-tier vendors rather than a comprehensive list. If you've had success with other vendors, please mention them in the comments below.
Disclaimer: We have worked with some, but not all, of the companies above; in such cases, we've based our assessment on recommendations from colleagues, pricing and perceived value. Please note that many of the other monitoring vendors listed outside the Top 20 also deserve consideration, based on your company's specific needs, costs, features and if you find a good cultural and personality fit.
Our accompanying piece in this package on Socialbrite, 10 paid monitoring services for nonprofits and organizations, offers short capsule reviews of Trackur, Thrive, eCairn, Hootsuite, BuzzStream and other monitoring services.
You may have good results with some of these additional services:
• Amplified Analytics: This tool is geared chiefly toward product reviews and marketers interested in tracking reviews across multiple sites.
• Appinions: "Automatically filters and aggregates thoughts, feelings and statements from traditional and social media."
• Atlassian: Australian-based software company with global reach, offers tools to track, test and collaborate on the social Web.
• Bit.ly Pro: The Pro version offers custom short links like pep.si (for Pepsi) and 4sq.com (for Foursquare), a dashboard that lets you monitor the real-time aggregate traffic of your shared content across the bit.ly universe, and easy integration with tools like Tweetdeck and CoTweet.
• Cision: Cision (formerly Bacon's Information) monitors social, print, broadcast and online media outlets, then organizes the information, which a dedicated analyst delivers to a company's in-box every day via an executive news briefing. Cision searches more than 100 million sources to assess conversations about a brand. Clients include UCLA, Gerber and R&R Partners.
• CustomScoop: BuzzPerception: A veteran in the media monitoring space, CustomScoop monitors traditional and social media, calling themselves the "leading application for online news clipping." BuzzPerception includes a phase of human filtering to generate the most relevant results for a brand. Pricing starts at $299/month. Jen Zingsheim, a representative, provides this update: "While we started out as a traditional media 'clipping service,' we've been including blog content for years and also monitor Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and more. We can tailor reporting to fit client needs, and have a robust suite of analytical tools, too — along with a free, 2-week trial to see if we fit your needs."
• Digimind: Digimind designs and develops Digimind Evolution, a Competitive Intelligence Management software platform that enables companies to deploy and to manage competitive intelligence units and projects.
• Dow Jones Insight, owned by News Corporation, touts a wide array of languages and geographies, a global footprint and a less-than-stellar dashboard. Its hefty $5,000/month pricetag is based on the fact that it's heavily based on analysts' involvement.
• Evolve24 is a competitive listening platform that specializes in reputation management. Evolve24 is a smaller player in the market with only about 20 customers but its customer base consists of large enterprise-level installations.
• FindAgent: Founded in 2002, UK-based FindAgent specializes in digital media monitoring and media analysis. Focusing purely on online content, the company, owned by OpenAmplify, has developed technologies to find, analyze and manage mentions in social media and traditional media. More than 500 companies use FindAgent's semantic text analysis technology.
• iCrossing is a global digital marketing agency that combines talent and technology to help world-class brands find and connect with their customers.
• Jive: Jive Software, which acquired Filtrbox in 2010, offers a host of social media monitoring options.
• Moreover Technologies: Moreover and its Newsdesk 4 offer tools for media monitoring, reputation management, market and competitive intelligence and content sharing from 1.8 million sources.
• MotiveQuest: At the high end of monitoring services, MotiveQuest typically charges $70,000 per project, according to published reports. CEO David Rabjohns says MotiveQuest provides a full range of services. "You don't have to use a dashboard. Just come to us with a business problem and we will help you find relevant insights. The core of our approach is digging beneath the buzz and the sentiment to identify primal human motivations. We have identified that these most strongly affect sales and share." Clients include Microsoft, Nike, Citi, Audi and Kraft. MotiveQuest is positioned in the Strong Performer category in a 2006 Forrester report and it has a Slideshare presentation on leveraging motivations in social media.
• MutualMind: A relative newcomer, MutualMind helps marketers, agencies and PR firms track discussions, understand sentiment, identify influencers and use the resulting insights to improve positioning and marketing strategy. Pricing ranges from $500 to several thousand dollars per month.
• NetBase offers social media analysis tools that help marketing and sales professionals to understand consumer opinion, emotion and behavior online.
• Nimble is an LA-based start-up due to come out of private beta soon with a promising set of monitoring capabilities across multiple networks. Says Nimble's Maria Ogneva: "We tie monitoring to the customer record. The real beauty is that you can monitor based on a keyword, respond as you need and even create a task right from the social media mention — whether it happens to be a tweet, FB message, LI message — which can be edited, calendared, delegated and commented on for team workflow that ties back to the record — the key ingredient here."
• Optify is a real time marketing applications suite that offers several features to help you track, monitor and measure the success of your social media activities.
• ReputationDefender: The company offers four suites of online reputation management and privacy controls.
• RepuMetrix specializes in tracking online mentions that are perceived to be harmful to a brand's reputation. Pricing starts at $350/month for one user.
• RepuTrack: RepuTrack is a reputation monitoring service that tracks and analyzes the conversation around a brand and delivers it in an actionable way.
• SAS Sentiment Analysis Manager: Part of SAS Text Analytics program, the Sentiment Analysis Manager "crawls content sources, including mainstream Web sites and social media outlets, as well as internal organizational text sources [and] creates reports that describe the expressed feelings of consumers, customers and competitors in real time."
• Sentiment Metrics: United Kingdom-based company provides tools to listen to consumer conversations across more than 20 million blogs, 5 million forum posts and 30,000 online news sources, social networks and microblogs, including Twitter. Clients include Sony, Subaru and HSBC.
• Trendrr: Mostly focused on the entertainment community, Trendrr lets you track the popularity and awareness of trends across a variety of channels, ranging from social networks to blog buzz and video views downloads, all in real time. You can also have Trendrr do a Social Media Audit, providing an analysis of your social media presence, dissecting volume of mentions, sentiment, links, influencers, demographics and more. Pricing: $499 and $999/month, with enterprise package beginning at $2,499/month. NBC Universal's Oxygen TV show "Bad Girls Club" is a client. Owner: Wiredset LLC.
Look for a shakeout in the field very soon. Other monitoring services include Attensa, Beevolve, blueReport, BrandsEye, Buzzient, CustomScoop, CyberAlert, Memery's Dialogix (from Australia), Filtrbox, Imooty, Infegy Social Radar, InfoNgen, Ingage Networks, Jungle Torch, Lexalytics, ListenLogic, Looxii, Market Sentinel, MediaMiser, MutualMind, Networked Insights, Noteca, Position2 Brand Monitor, Press Army, ReputationHQ, Scup, Silverbakk, Social Report, Sprinklr, StrategyEye, Synthesio, Trendrr, Viralheat and Whitevector.
— Maria Ogneva, who heads up social media for Nimble, provided input for this article. Updated and revised on Jan. 13, 2011.
• Radian6 and the Yellow Brick Road for Brands — our interview with the CEO of Radian6 (insidesocialmedia.com)
• Spredfast: A tool to organize your conversations (insidesocialmedia.com)
• Biz360 (now Attensity360): Tracking business intelligence (insidesocialmedia.com)
• Top 10 social media dashboard tools (Socialbrite)
• 14 free tools to measure your social influence (Socialbrite)
• Social media monitoring: Articles (Socialbrite)
• Social media metrics: Articles (Socialbrite)
• The Forrester Wave: Listening Platforms, Q3 2010 (PDF)
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.


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German anti-trust officials received complaint against Intel
But organisation won't say who made it
Intel may end up under investigation by German anti-cartel officials after all. The Federal Cartel Office (FCO) last week received a formal complaint regarding the chip giant's alleged business practices. However, no probe has yet begun, it seems.
What a difference a week makes. Just over seven days ago, the FCO denied a newspaper report it was examining the relationship between Intel and German retail company Metro Group, owner of the Media Markt and Saturn store chains. The Financial Times claimed the FCO has in its possession a letter from a Saturn employee that implied Intel gave the retailer financial incentives not to stock AMD-based PCs.
Intel has always maintained that its business practices around the world are legitimate and above board.
The FCO didn't say who filed the complaint, only that it was made by an Intel competitor. Nor would the organisation reveal what the complaint alleges. However, it's hard not to assume that the grumble relates to the Metro claims.
AMD isn't saying whether it was behind the complaint or not, but not only is it the most obvious protagonist but also it has admitted to IDG to having spoken with the FCO as part of its broader drive against what it claims are anti-competitive action taken by its arch-rival. Certainly, the allegations surrounding Intel's relationship with Metro's subsidiaries is not so very different from claims made by AMD regarding its rival's dealings with other companies, retailers and computer vendors included. ®


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Clay Walker, 'Jesse James' – Song Review
Fans of Clay Walker know him as a lot of great things, but 'outlaw' is not one of them. It's a fair question for people to ask if his new single, 'Jesse James,' is sung with tongue loosely planted in cheek. One leans towards yes after checking out the cover art. The hat is a little big, the pants a little too pressed. He's a cowboy if cowboys shopped at Banana Republic.
As a pure outlaw cowboy country song, 'Jesse James' works pretty well, but it's hardly a revolution. It's only when you've followed Walker for years that lines like "You hear that Law Dog / The law don't go around here" induce chuckles. From top top bottom it's a good song — it's just going to be interpreted two different ways by two different groups of people.
"I wanna line 'em up and drink 'em / I wanna love 'em and leave 'em / Sometimes I wanna just rob a train," James sings during the chorus before adding, "Be the first draw in that high noon sun / And feel the kick of my six gun / I want wanted above my name / Sometimes I wanna be like Jesus / Sometimes I wanna be Jesse James."
There is implied feeling of good guy with rowdy dreams with Walker's lyric. However, he doesn't establish the base emotion well enough early on to allow fans to revel in the catharsis of the story. While it's sung with great emotion and brilliant range, 'Jesse James' sounds mostly like a song about robbing trains. That's cool, but not often hit material.
"I was raised knowing right from wrong / Baptized under that old rugged cross / I try to be a good man / I always give it my best / But truth be told some days I wanna go to the wild, wild west," Walker sings during the verse first.
This single — Walker's fourth from 'She Won't Be Lonely Long' — is an adventure that's fun and unique. However it might have been best left as an album cut — a quirky spike between two more traditional moments on the singer's 2010 record. One thing 'Jesse James' does is prove that the singer still has plenty air left in his lungs. This is the sort of vocal performance one could imagine hearing from the back row of a theater after Walker's microphone has been turned off.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Williams College dealt a crushing blow to MIT by sweeping Saturday's jumping events en route to a five-point victory over the Engineers at Shobrys and Aronson Track. Tech dropped a 202-197.5 decision against the Ephs, but easily outpaced RPI (145.5) and Westfield State (53) to finish second overall.
Uzoma Orji remained undefeated on the season after crusing to easy wins in the shot put and weight throw. Yet to be tested, Orji threw 54'4" in the shot put before setting a season-best with a three-foot victory in the weight (57'11.5").
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The Engineersthoroughly dominated the distance events, andshowcased a one-two finish in the 5000. Freshman Chris Wong enjoyed the breakout race of the day en route to his first collegiate victory. Wong split 15:49.4 to slip past sophomore teammate Kevin DiGenova, who closed in a very respectable 15:57.44.
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Crews pump thousands of gallons of corn syrup from partially submerged tankers Friday. The corn syrup had to be removed before a derailment company could pull the tankers from the river. The trestle bridge collapsed and sent six cars into the river Monday.
Crews work to pump thousands of gallons of corn syrup from a partially submerged tanker car Friday.
Sunpro, of Elkhart, Ind., had to remove the syrup before R.J. Corman Derailment Services, LLC of Nicholasville, K.Y., could pull the cars from the Spoon River. It appeared that two of the six fallen cars had already been drained and removed, however.
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- Introduction and review
- Ultrashort pulse generation techniques
- Mode-locking: overview
- Active mode locking
- Passive mode locking
- Measurement techniques
- Correlation techniques
- Time-frequency methods
- Noise and jitter
- Dispersion and its compensation
- Material dispersion
- Angular dispersion devices
- Dispersion of mirror structures
- Ultrafast nonlinear optics
- Nonlinear propagation equation
- Self-phase modulation
- Pulse compression
- Solitons
- Higher order effects
- Further topics in mode-locked lasers
- Soliton effects in lasers
- Frequency combs
- Ultrashort pulse manipulation
- Amplification
- Pulse shaping
- Chirp processing
- Ultrafast Spectroscopy
Text: Ultrafast Optics (Wiley, 2009), ISBN 978-0-471-41539-8
Andrew M. Weiner graduated from M.I.T. in 1984 with an Sc.D. in electrical engineering. Upon graduation he joined Bellcore, first as Member of Technical Staff and later as Manager of Ultrafast Optics and Optical Signal Processing Research. Prof. Weiner moved to Purdue University in 1992 and is currently the Scifres Family Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research focuses on ultrafast optics signal processing and applications to high-speed optical communications and ultrawideband wireless. He is especially well known for his pioneering work on programmable femtosecond pulse shaping using liquid crystal modulator arrays.
Prof. Weiner is author of a textbook entitled Ultrafast Optics (Wiley, 2009), has published six book chapters and approximately 250 journal articles, and is inventor of 13 U.S. patents. Prof. Weiner is a Fellow both of the Optical Society of America and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He has won numerous awards for his research, including the Hertz Foundation Doctoral Thesis Prize (1984), the Adolph Lomb Medal of the Optical Society of America (1990), the Curtis McGraw Research Award of the American Society of Engineering Education (1997), the International Commission on Optics Prize (1997), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists (2000), and the IEEE Photonics Society Quantum Electronics Award (2011). He is joint recipient, with J.P. Heritage, of the IEEE LEOS William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award (1999) and the OSA R.W. Wood Prize (2008) and has been recognized by Purdue University with the inaugural Research Excellence Award from the Schools of Engineering (2003) and with the Provost's Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award (2008). In 2009 Prof. Weiner was named a U.S. Dept. of Defense National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow. Additionally, a number of Prof. Weiner's 27 graduated Ph.D. students have been selected for graduate student awards & fellowships from the IEEE Photonics Society and Optical Society of America.
Prof. Weiner has served as Co-Chair of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics and the International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena, as Secretary/Treasurer of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-optics Society (LEOS), and as a Vice-President of the International Commission on Optics (ICO). He has also served as Associate or Topical Editor for Optics Letters, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, and IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. Prof. Weiner is currently serving as Chair of the National Academy of Engineering's U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Meeting.
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Harvey Hawks released from prison
Since his release from prison last week in Southern California, former pro skateboarder Harvey Hawks, who spent more than a quarter-century behind bars for second-degree murder, says he feels like he's floating.
"I'm in the ocean, my head is just above the water, and I'm rising and falling with the waves," Hawks, 53, told ESPN.com over the phone. "Sometimes I get a toe in the sand to gain a purchase. I feel grounded for a moment, and I feel a happiness I haven't had since I was a pro skater."
A prodigy from the Badlands -- a region roughly comprised of eastern Los Angeles County and southwest San Bernardino County -- Hawks rode for Bones Wheels and the Powell Corporation during the late-1970s heyday.
"Harvey was definitely part of the crew [including Tay Hunt, Curt Kimble, Charlie Ransom, et al.] that had a big influence on me," Badlander Steve Alba, 49, told ESPN.com. "He was a major player at that time and one of those guys that did really well. I was just a little grom, like the only little kid that they allowed to ride with them. I'm very fond of my memories of hanging out with those guys. When we rode pools, they used to always tell me, 'If you don't grind, never mind.' I still live by that motto to this day."
As the industry collapsed at the end of that decade, Hawks' hard partying started to greatly outpace his skateboarding, he said, and by the mid-80s, in the throes of a failed marriage, his drinking problem was out of control.
On August 22, 1986, a deadly case of road rage unfolded on the 91 Freeway in Corona, Calif., where "Hawks [26 at the time] was cut off, run off the road, and had objects thrown at his car by the driver of another vehicle," according to a letter to then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from Hawks' attorney, Steve Defilippis. "Mr. Hawks was intoxicated, and overreacted to the driver's conduct, clearly failing to handle the situation properly. He reached behind his seat to where the shotgun he was to use the next day for skeet shooting was located, intending to fire a warning shot to frighten the other driver. However, rather than getting a round of skeet load, he accidentally [chambered] a round containing a slug, and instead of tiny pellets that would have bounced harmlessly off the van, the round penetrated the... [van] and struck and killed the victim, exiting her body and wounding another backseat passenger."
A Los Angeles Times article from the time of the shooting holds that Hawks initially cut off the van and made an obscene gesture at its driver. The article does not mention the ammunition mixup described by Defilippis.
Either way, somebody died.
The victim was 45-year-old Patricia Faye Dwyer, an off-duty Corona Police officer and mother of three.
"A person's life is filleted wide open during a murder trial," an incarcerated Hawks is quoted as saying in the Summer 2004 issue of Concrete Wave magazine. "It is intense and adverse to be on the wrong side of the law and to realize that you have killed a good person, wounded another... and ruined their families' lives and your own."
Hawks was found guilty of second-degree murder and sentenced to 17 years-to-life. On July 2, 1987, Hawks was taken in at the California Institution for Men, in Chino, Calif. He was transferred to Folsom State Prison about a month later. In 1989, he was moved to the Correctional Training Facility, in Soledad, were he remained until his release.
"In prison, you can go one of two ways," Hawks told ESPN.com earlier this week. "I could have continued down the path of self-destruction. Or I could go the other route, which is what I did. If I had continued down that path of self-destruction, it would have been so disrespectful to the victim and her family."
Hawks earned an Associate Arts degree in 1992 from a Hartnell College program for prisoners. In 1995, he completed a Bachelor of General Studies degree from Indiana University. And through a program offered by California State University Dominguez Hills, he earned a Master of the Arts and Humanities degree in 1998.
Hawks remained clean and sober throughout his time behind bars, he said, and headed up a counseling program for juvenile offenders. He also got paralegal training and took computer-related vocational classes.
"I'm not proud about anything I did in prison," he said a week after his release, having served 26 years, four months, one week, and six days behind bars. "It was my duty and my responsibility to change my life in there, and that's what I did."
Hawks was also a good influence on fellow inmate Josh Swindell, a former pro skateboarder released last September after serving 19 years for second-degree murder.
"We were in the same wing at Soledad around 2000, 2001," Swindell remembers. "Harvey would see me doing the knucklehead [stuff] and just say to me, 'You'll get it, eventually. You'll change, eventually.' He'd tell me that day in and day out. And he'd be an example of who you could be in there. Instead of preaching to me, he'd just show me by example. I love that about that dude."
Hawks was paroled to San Diego on January 8, and when he's not floating in the ocean of elation and unfamiliarity of being a free man, he's testing for a drivers license, reconnecting with friends and family, and rebuilding his life far away from his victim's next of kin.
"I deserved to be punished for what I did that night," he says. "I made the wrong decisions and caused them lot of grief, pain and suffering. And I've done all the right things I know of to show them the respect they deserve."
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Thank you to Antique Mommy for serving as the judge for this month's contest--I owe her big time for this--how about dropping by her place and telling her thanks? Not only did she have an eye for good writing (she happened to pick my favorite entry as well) she did a great job of mentioning the contest and encouraging entries. I think this is the most the Write-Away Contest has seen yet.
And my thanks to our 58 entrants. I appreciate every one of you too--I hope each of you have a wonderful Mother's Day!
The Happy Geek with Derrick's Mom
The Chickadee Feeder with Sunday Nap
Mommy Snark with To My Fourth Child
Experience Imagination with Clothes Make the Mom
Here are a list of the entries in the order they were received:
1. Babysteps with It's Official
I am raising science geeks, and thanks to a 50 cent thrift store box of science experiments, I've got the photographic proof.
2. Glacier Racing with What They Hear
I love you. You can't be hungry again. Winnie the Pooh goes on the front, unless he's on the INside. USE YOUR INSIDE VOICE.
3. Experience Imagination with Clothes Make the Mom
Our neighbors are having a tree taken down in their yard today. If I lean my head forward until it's almost touching the monitor, I can watch the workmen outside my window. They are all decked out in hard hats and safety goggles and workboots that probably have steel reinforced toes.
4. Experience Imagination with Unexpected Grief
I didn't think I'd feel this way. It's like I'm losing a baby. As if I really have been pregnant these past several days and now I no longer am. I never considered that losing a dream can seem just as traumatic as losing a child—even when it's only a temporary loss.
5. Experience Imagination with Losing and Letting Go
Dear Mother, I don't know if every mother is like this or if I'm especially morbid. Ever since my daughter was born, I've had visions of losing her to an accident or sudden illness. Maybe everybody has these fears, but if we all share them, we certainly don't talk much about it.
6. Experience Imagination with Daughter of Laughter
Today would have been my mom's 66th birthday. She died just three months after her 49th. Her first grandchild was born a month later. When I think of my mom, I think of big dangley clip-on earrings. I think of painted fingernails and tea with honey. I remember homemade birthday cakes that she and my dad painstakingly decorated with their Wilton decorator set.
7. Semantically Driven with Missing My Son
Just about whenever I go out for the evening I end up talking to whoever will listen about my son. I don't go out that often without him and you'd think that one night off without all thought of him wouldn't be that hard but it usually doesn't happen.
8. Momma Mindy's Moments with How to Torture a Teenager
One day I had to run errands with all the kids still living at home. Had to. I had to take the older kids because they were the ones that needed to go to the bank. I had to take the younger kids because I had no babysitter.
9. Just Mom's Musings with My Peter Pan
"Where are you taking me?" I ask my son as he grabs my hand and enthusiastically leads me to an unknown destination. "To Neverland," he says. "You be Wendy, and I'll be Peter Pan." Peter Pan. The boy who wouldn't grow up.
10. Our Moments Our Memories with Chasing Bubbles, Chasing Dreams
There is chicken thawing on the counter, and laundry in the dryer. Floors to be vacuumed. Blogs to be read. "Mama! Can we blow bubbles? Come outside!" I sigh. Interrupted.
11. Sara in Vermont with A Day at Your Mother's House
You see that the new dog beds you had shipped for Christmas are sitting on top of the dog crates, instead of in them. I was waiting until I cleaned the crates, says your mother. You know this is never going to happen, so you clean the crates and wash the old dog bed covers, and put the new beds within.
12. Mommy Snark with To My Fourth Child
I wouldn't call you an accident. I understand the workings of basic biology... cause, and effect. But then, I didn't really put you there on purpose either. One day, you just were. A part of me, growing, consuming, becoming.
13. The Sojourner with The Things My Momma Taught Me
Today would have been my mother's 69th birthday. That is, if she had not died 20 years ago. My mom was an amazing woman and left us all too soon, but I have so many wonderful memories of her. I also have a lot of unanswered questions, but those will have to remain unanswered for now because there is no one left to answer them.
14. The Chickadee Feeder with Sunday Nap
I have been doing this for a long time. I had been raised to know that the only reason for being in bed in the daytime would be because you're sick. Besides, I would miss all the action (so-to-speak) if I were in another room. So the living room couch is the place to be when taking a Sunday nap.
15. Finding La Dolce Vita with The Mopine
All mothers have a virtual treasure box they employ for the formidable task of raising a child. Some tools inside the box are visible, like rainbow colored crayons, a special and well loved stuffed animal, or a book that's tattered and bent from being read more times than she dares to count. There are magical mommy kisses that heal the boo-boo.
16. The Mommylogues with It's Possible!
Ok. I must confess one of my many horrible mother moments to tell this story. At the Christmas program for Sunday School, my children were the ones running up part way through the first song. Of two songs. Completely my fault. Although in my partial defense, they started a little early.
17. Chocolate and Garlic with I Am the Velveteen Rabbit
I am the Velveteen Rabbit. Today, Kate was ill. She threw up on me at least five times. I did a lot of laundry. I didn't have time to shower. The few presentable items of clothing I own (due to my body's odyssey through pregnancy and nursing) are now distinctly unpresentable.
18. Seeds from My Garden with Lifetime Warranty
When my children were little, it was just natural for me to be there and meet all their needs. It was normal to honor the "warranty". But as they grew up and moved out, I realized that the warranty became a lifetime commitment. Naturally, as a mother I never want them to need anything, yet I have come to realize that I cannot BE everything to them anymore.
19. Blog o' Beth with Okay Mom, You Were Right
Mom, I'm sorry.You were right. One of the most surprising things about becoming a mother is realizing in a lightning-bolt-flash of a moment that your mother had been right. Indeed, she was right about so many things. I want to take a moment and let my mom wallow in her "rightness".
20. It's Always a Production with An Anniversary
Wednesday was an anniversary (of sorts) for me. June 28th 2003, a sunny Saturday afernoon, my mom lost her battle with cancer. Three years....yet I can still remember the day as though it were yesterday. I was with her on that day. The day my precious precious mom slipped slowly out of my life and into the arms of Jesus.
21. One Thing with Perfektion
When I used to daydream about becoming a mother, I wasn't completely naive. I knew there was more to it than the highly-romantic Similac commercials made it out to be. After all, I had a mother myself, and although she made the job look like just about the Best Thing Going, I knew it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. I knew it could be trying. I knew it could even be, at times, A Challenge.
22. Divergent Pathways with A Mother's Reach
One summer I learned the extent of my mother's reach: It spanned exactly one continent, one ocean, and one channel, traversing halfway up the UK to a little farming community so small even the buses don't travel there.
23. Divergent Pathways with --And Don't Tell Anyone You're My Mother (She Said Sweetly)
That's not the worst thing anyone's said to me. But it's what my teenage daughter, The Princess, said as she reminded me about volunteering at her school today. Only it's better than that. Because the sentence actually began, "Remember, try to look pretty–and don't tell anyone you're my mom, okay?"
24. Divergent Pathways with Mother of All Weeks
It's my mom's birthday today. She'd be turning 71, if she were still alive. This is always a loaded time for me: Mom's birthday and Mother's Day, both crammed into one emotionally-charged week.
25. Welcome to Married Life with Mother's Day
Mother's Day is one month from today. I am a mother. This will be my third Mother's Day with my little guy. He is a blessing and a treasure. Every day he surprises me with the things he says and does. He brings me hugs and smiles and sticky treasures. I read to him and play with him and dance with him.
26. Green Green Grass of Home with Parenting 101
On the day my first child was born, I said to myself that I would be the best parent ever! I would make all the right decisions and my child would grow up to be the most amazing adult that ever walked the earth- all b/c I was so good at raising her.
27. Summer's Nook with Being a Mother
School would be out in 15 minutes. I had arrived early and pulled into a space facing my sons classroom. Only a moment later the school doors swung open and thirty or so kindergartners swarmed out onto the playground to savor a bit of the warm day, the first we'd had in a week.
28. Becoming Me with The Ledge
He measures 14 inches shorter and weighs 12 pounds less than his sister who drew her first breath more than three years before air brushed against his round face. Those facts hold little significance in Z-man's toddler-sized mind. He is not easily daunted by his limitations...he rarely recognizes their existence.
29. Tara's World with A Gentle Reminder
Every spring I remember a bit of advice passed on from a wiser older woman to my mother. I remember this bit of advice every time my little boys bring me dandelion bouquets with grubby little hands. Little eyes light up when I express my gratitude over a simple love offering.
30. Jewelz Sightings with It's Not My Mother's Voice
Sometimes the regrets of my life, overwhelm me. I wish I could go back to the beginning with what I now know. I ache when I see how the enemy has used my actions to speak to those I love.
31. Mom of 3 Girls with Broken
There once was a little girl. Who lived in a typical house in a nice neighborhood. She had a mother and a father, two sisters and a brother.
32. Drifting Divergence with Totally Full and Yet Half Empty
Tonite 14 and I were working the volleyball concession stand at 15's High School game. I have been able to send him to private school (the right move for him~his sister has NO interest in his school) and people from his middle school kept coming by to say hi.
33. TJ Hirst.com with Why Being a Mom Isn't Hard
No one would argue that a mom's work is hard. Other moms know how it is. Fathers wouldn't dare to disagree. Recently, I took time away with a friend, and what did we do? We chatted over parenting struggles. I found myself saying things like, "that sounds hard" or "that is a hard stage". I said it over and over again, almost without even thinking, until I stopped and heard myself.
34. Dancing with the Daffodils with A Steel Magnolia
My Mom was a steel magnolia long before the popular movie acquainted the masses with the term that describes a southern woman who is strong and independent yet very feminine. In fact, she comes from a long line of steel magnolias that weave a colorful history.
35. Rebecca's Writing Practices with "I Can" Versus "I Can't"
I've never had incredible self confidence, and I always second guess my abilities. Taking on the role of mother is still incredibly daunting to me, even eighteen months after my son's birth. But the process of giving birth has so much to do with how I still approach motherhood.
36. Beanish and Other Languages I'm Learning with A Beanish Birthday
Today, is an auspicious day. Three years ago today, T and I waited in the hospital for The Bean to enter this world so much earlier than she should have. She changed us from the moment we began yearning for her, from our first knowledge of her, from that first breath that she drew, from the first time we held her.
37. I'm So Funny with One Word
There is one word that is always appropriate. This word is there no matter what the circumstance. Joy and pain. Trials and triumphs. Ups and downs. Sickness and health. Obstacles and open roads. Wonder and boredom. Love and annoyance. Hopefully more love. As unbelievable as it may sound, this one word can bring incredible comfort and total terror all in the same utterance.
38. Ceaseless Praises with Who's Grown More?
I have been a mom for 16 months now. Well, 25 months, technically, but when that baby's BORN, that's when everything changes. And do you know who has changed the most in the last sixteen months??? I have.
39. A Look into My World with Nobody Told Me
In the few short weeks since I became a mother, I have wondered why nobody told me what I was in for. While I was pregnant, other mothers advised that I should sleep while I had the chance, and warned that labor and delivery would be the easy part. But nobody really prepared me for what to expect once the journey began.
40. The Happy Geek with Derrick's Mom
We run into each other every week. Her son is in the swimming class after my son. But this week was different. This week I saw her. She was easy to miss. Her son commands attention. He is big, loud and talks all the blessed time. He is a wonderful, loving boy who is profoundly delayed. She is as quiet as he is loud and usually blends into the background.
41. My Neurotic Spot with My Unanswered Prayer
I stood there in my bathroom before leaving for the hospital, looking down at my hands on my stomach and scared in a way I'd never been before. I didn't care if it was normal or not to talk to your stomach, I did it anyway. "Stay put, you just stay right there. Please, little one, just stay in there."
42. Life . . . Exaggerated with Getting over Being Stoic
My mom did an amazing job raising me, if I do say so myself. She has always been thoughtful and caring. From the beginning, she wanted me to grow up right and proper. She taught me right from wrong. She has dozens of close friends and tirelessly keeps up with all of them.
43. My Brown Baby with A Love Letter to My Unborn Child
My dear, sweet first baby, this is the only letter I've written to someone who isn't even alive yet. I wonder what it's like for you where you are now. I wonder if you're getting impatient with me and anxious at the same time to come down to this world. I imagine you may be a little nervous too; it's a scary place sometimes. But don't worry—I'll take good care of you.
44. Perspicacity with I'm Regretting Letting You Fly
I don't remember who answered the phone that night. I suspect it was initially my father, who sleeps closer to the phone and has killer reflexes when woken abruptly at 3am. But it's my mom's voice I remember, calm, sleepy but alert. She told me they were praying. She told me to call in the morning. She told me she loved me, and she asked if I wanted her to come.
45. My Back Door with We Put the "Special" in Special Needs
I don't know about your high school, but in mine we would have these inspirational speakers come once or twice a year to encourage us to avoid the trifecta of stupid mistakes you could make in your teenage years: prison, drugs and pregnancy. I only remember one speaker who specialized in avoiding the pitfalls on the road to prison.
46. My Back Door with Cooking Class
Have you ever wondered why there are never any small children helping on cooking shows like Rachel Ray and Emeril? I have seen some children helping but never under the age of nine. It is because the shows would have to be taped from a padded room--you would have to be clinically insane to attempt measuring, stirring and any -ing with the little guys.
47. Eat Your Veggies! with Empty Nesters
College Girl and The Wild One leave for college today. They'll spend about 14 hours on the road in a 2001 Honda Civic, en route to Larry U. The car is packed to the gills, of course! CG's gonna be a Big Bad Senior, while her younger sister will be a Tiny Little Froshie.
48. Whee! All the Way Home with Who Is a Mom?
I wonder if it stops for others, the turning their heads in the direction of the voice of an appropriately aged child of indiscriminate gender. As their children age and leave early childhood and then childhood itself, do they stop spinning in response to the word shouted across the aisles? I don't recall noticing older women doing it, so I imagine the reaction is less instinctive and more learned.
49. Refresh Moments with A Pregnant Pause
I have two boys--one born under the influence of an epidural, and one born drug-free. I know, you're expecting me to say that I asked the anesthesiologist to marry me, or go on about how you don't really "forget all the pain" in a drug-free birth, but none of that's true. I actually preferred the drug-free birth.
50. The Scholastic Scribe with Happy Mom's Day!
Several of my memories of Mom center around birthday parties and cakes. Having the entire 2nd grade (including the teacher) over for a fete under the crabapple trees in our suburban NY yard; later, after we'd moved to Big D, staying up 'til all hours waiting for Her Eldest (moi) to arrive home from college and greeting me with a Sara Lee Banana Cake (at the time my very fave, but apparently discontinued), candles and all.
51. Morning Mist and Scattered Clouds with Strength for the "Do-Not-Die" Program
Strength. That is a word that epitomizes my Grandmother. She needed it. Little did she know the amount of strength she would need to run her race.
52.On Ruby's Hill with Real Mom
"Mom...when is M going back to his real mom?" At the kitchen counter, back towards the boys, I stop breathing for a split second, compose, compose. Big M is quiet all of the sudden. A rare quiet moment because, Big M is rarely quiet. "I am the real mom". Please let that be the end. I turn around and compose my face to show a calm reaction.
53. BeeMusing with A Mother's Arms
It's one of her earliest childhood memories - she and her two little sisters standing in the middle of the tiny living room holding tightly to each other. She doesn't remember what their pajamas looked like, or whether or not they had messy bed hair.
54. Alaska Mom with The Influence of a Mom
"I am just a Mom", she said timidly as she introduced herself. She had been asked by her son to attend a banquet in his honor. One of his professors had asked her what she did for a living. I'm just a mom she said again. Little did that professor know what she had done for her son. She had helped him overcome great obstacles in his life.
55. Inkling Writes with Because That Grin Is for Me
I got a new name on January 7, 2009. My name is Mama, sometimes Mommy, or just that woman who has a reason for getting up in the morning with a smile.
56. Our Own Private Idaho with Little Blue Sleeper
Our neighbor delivered a son about a month ago, and a surprising amount of Alli's pretending revolves around Baby Jack. She calls her brothers Baby Jack, she pretends to be Baby Jack, and all of her dolls have gone from names like Pink Baby and Sareesa to--you guessed it---Baby Jack.
57. Diapers and Divinity with My Life Was an Inspirational Movie
Life as a mother of young children usually bounces back and forth between chaotic and monotonous, but there are occasionally profound moments that remind you of the power and importance behind what you're doing, and without sounding overdramatic, your place in the universe.
58. My Thoughts on That with Not the Worst Day
This past Thursday was an important day here. It was the day the boy was going to compete in the Math Olympics. He won this honor by getting one of the highest scores on a test the class took. He would be representing his school in the area of third grade computation.
Congratulations to Rory of Bayport, Minnesota won the sterling silver mini medallion from The Fine Art of Family this weekend--just in time for a lovely Mother's Day gift!
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Jobless Claims Inch Higher
WSJ's John Shipman reports on initial jobless claims news and January's consumer price index. Also, the Fed's minutes do not sit well with Asian markets. Photo: Getty Images.
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The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) was initiated in 1999 as a joint venture of Babson College and the London Business School.
Starting with 10 participating countries, the project, now in its 14th year of operations, has expanded to include 69+ countries. GEM is the largest and most developed research program on entrepreneurship in the world. GEM is unique because, unlike most entrepreneurship data sets that measure newer and smaller firms, GEM studies the behavior of individuals with respect to starting and managing a business. GEM nations are members of an exclusive research project which provides access to the collective knowledge of some of the world's most renowned researchers and institutions involved in entrepreneurship research. At a time in history when individual entrepreneurial activity may hold the key to transforming the globaleconomy and discouraging ingrained economic disparity in countries with minimal economic opportunity, GEM data has influenced national economic policies and continues to expand its collaborative role.
In 2012, the Price's Trust supported GEM research in several Sub-Saharan African countries—this will result in a report on youth entrepreneurship to be published in September 2013.


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But let's look at some anyway, just for fun (and maybe, for action).
1. I will talk less. ("Where words are many, sin is not wanting; but those who restrain their lips do well" (Prv 10:19). Let's face it, most of us like to talk; we get asked to do it often and we oblige readily. For those of us who also teach regularly in a school setting, it's an even greater temptation. Every once in a while, I will shut up.
2. I will listen more. Psalm 34 reminds us that the Lord hears and sees the cries of the poor, however "poor" is described: poor in mind, body, spirit. If the Lord hears and acts on behalf of the poor, how can I do a better of job of that in my own ministry this year?
3. I will forgive more. No comment necessary.
4. I will confess more. How faithful have we been to seeking reconciliation, especially through the sacrament of Reconciliation itself? If we offer reconciliation to others, how often do we seek our own reconciliation with God and others?
5. I will use the power I have for the good of others. The late, great canonist, Father Jim Provost, included this in his own advice for canon lawyers. It seems appropriate for all of us who exercise ministry in the name of the Church. We may not associate our ministry with "power" (understood negatively), but if we remember that power, used correctly, is what enables us to act on behalf of others, then we can view and exercise it properly. We are ordained to act on behalf of the People of God, not for our own personal ends.
6. I will avoid hurtful speech. Consider Proverbs 12:18: "Rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing." How often when we gather do we slip into sarcasm? How often do our "jokes" carry a pointed jab at another?
7. I will love with action even more than with words. To love is a verb more than a noun. I will try to love more and not simply talk about it. One auxiliary bishop years ago would simply go alone to a prison outside of town as a volunteer on Sundays. He never went as "the Bishop," but simply as "Father John"; I doubt if any of the inmates ever new he was a bishop. How could I simply go, as an "anonymous Christian" to serve others?
8. I will remember the ancient adage of leadership: to praise in public and censure in private. My staff would appreciate it, I'm sure!
9. I will learn from the Good Samaritan: to be "moved with compassion." Do the needs of others still move us, or do we simply act superficially?
10. I will learn from the Good Samaritan: to offer practical assistance. How can I provide more direct, practical assistance in binding up the wounds of others?
11. I will learn from the Good Samaritan: to return to the inn. He followed through to make sure the victim was being treated properly; how can we do the same?
12. I recommit myself to the enthusiastic proclamation of the Good News to all. Paul VI used to speak of the need for evangelists to be people of joy and enthusiasm; the U.S. bishops said the same thing in their own document and national plan on evangelization. Am I a joy-filled evangelist? Do I still believe what I proclaim, teach what I believe, and practice what I teach?
Happy New Year to all!
DEACON DITEWIG, Ph.D., former executive director of the Secretariat for the Diaconate at the USCCB, now teaches and ministers in the Diocese of Monterey, Calif. He writes and consults extensively on the subject of the diaconate and contemporary ministry.
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Java Media Framework
From Sun JMF site: "The Java Media Framework API (JMF) enables audio, video and other time-based media to be added to applications and applets built on Java technology. This optional package, which can capture, playback, stream, and transcode multiple media formats, extends the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) for multimedia developers by providing a powerful toolkit to develop scalable, cross-platform technology."
- 1 Installation
- 2 Configuration
- 3 Adding audio/video codecs support to JMF
- 4 Testing JMF capabilities
- 5 Adding media support to OpenOffice.org
The JMF PKGBUILD can be downloaded from AUR JMF Package Run makepkg and install the package
In order to setup JMF for the first time (to recognize audio and capture devices) you'll need to run as root:
(An active X11 session is needed)
Bypassing Java libxcb-xlib bug
Running jmfinit with sudo may fail because of Java libxcb-xlib bug [1].Run it as ROOT , patch your Java Installation like this or run it as:
sudo LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK=true jmfinit
You can manually setup JMF (GUI) running as root:
Adding audio/video codecs support to JMF
Sun MP3 Plugin
Sun MP3 Plugin is included in the JMF package and installed by default with it.
If there is any trouble you can reinstall the MP3Plugin running as root:
"Jffmpeg is a plugin that allows the playback of a number of common audio and video formats. It is based around a Java port of parts of the FFMPEG project, supporting a number of codecs in pure Java code. Where codecs have not yet been ported, a JNI wrapper allows calls directly into the full FFMPEG code."
The JFFMpeg PKGBUILD can be downloaded from AUR JFFMpeg Package
Run makepkg and install the package.
The install script will register the plugins and associate the mimetypes in the JMF registry
The uninstall script will unregister the plugins from the JMF registry
Reinstalling JMF and JffMpeg
If you reinstall JMF you'll have to run as root:
in order to register again all the jffmpeg plugins in the JMF registry
Testing JMF capabilities
A demo player is available to test JMF audio/video playback capabilities.
java JMStudio
You can also check if JMF is properly installed in: http://ku-prism.org/virtualprism/explorations/JavaTest/javatestpage.html (it currently works on Firefox2/3 and Opera)
If your JMF installation is OK you should get something like:
JMF Version... 2.1.1e All Java Build Native Libraries Found
Adding media support to OpenOffice.org
If you want to be able to use sound and video in OpenOffice.org documents and presentations, you must:
- Start OpenOffice.org
- Go to Tools/Options - Java Section
- Make sure Java support in OpenOffice.org is enabled
- Select "Class Path"
- Select "Add Folder"
- Add "/opt/java/jre/lib/ext/" (without quotes)
- Select "Add Folder"
- Add "/opt/java/jre/lib/" (without quotes)
- Save changes
- Restart OpenOffice.org
Testing media capabilities in OpenOffice.org
- Start OpenOffice.org
- Go to Tools/Gallery
- Select "Sounds"
- Double click any sound file - A media player will open and the sound will be played


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The Hardest Word
As an Australian, I want to add to Margaret Silf's "Sorry Business" (4/21): The apology given by our prime minister was extremely significant because it was delivered on behalf of the government to the indigenous peoples wronged by government policy. Because the wrong was a collective one (i.e., a social sin), it needed a response from no less than our national leader. The country had been waiting for many years for the apology to be given, and the feeling was one of great relief as well as understanding by many who had previously failed to understand the hurt.
Julie Purdey
Kyabram, Vic., Australia
Mobilize the Troops
Your observations about Zimbabwe (Current Comment, 4/21) present a tragic situation in which a proud and prosperous nation has been brought to its knees by a corrupt thug who maintains his power by rigging elections, torturing and killing those who oppose him, starving children as a political tactic and laughing at the halfhearted protests of ineffectual international agencies. If only there were a way to remove such a tyrant and establish a freely elected government that would willingly cooperate with the international community to create a civil society! Wait: we did that in Iraq, and America considered it a crime.
James Belna
Claremont, Calif.
Northern Exposure
I read and reread "Northern Light," by Sheryl Frances Chen, O.C.S.O. (4/21), and delighted in the way she experiences her monastery and its surrounding environs. The photos are lovely and the prose sheer poetry. It reinforced for me the notion that deep prayer is a sinking into oneself, deeper and deeper until one reaches the place of organic unity with God and all of creation.
Patricia Melesco
Rockingham, Vt.
From the Pews
"Lessons from an Extraordinary Era," by Roger Haight, S.J. (3/17), brings up a disturbing paradox in the Catholic Church today. While Catholic academic theology has flourished over the past 40 years in ways unheard of before the Second Vatican Council, the church is also experiencing a startling demographic decline in Europe. It is also losing members to other denominations in South and Central America; and in the United States, its youngest generation is for all intents and purposes non-practicing.
This is not to imply a causal relationship between the flourishing of theology as an academic subject and the loss of popular faith. But most religious people are only vaguely interested in academic theology, and religions that flourish are those that offer their faithful some kind of affective connection with the transcendent, the heavenly and the otherworldly. Catholicism once had a rich tradition of popular devotions and piety, and many Catholics in a former era were drawn to our high level of ritualism in worship. Academics may scoff, but can we really afford to allow these dimensions of our faith to wither away?
James Quigley
Montclair, N.J.
Aiding and Abetting
One has to marvel at the chutzpah of America in running full-page ads recruiting military chaplains, paid for by the U.S. Army. Your commentary on your centennial year (Of Many Things, 4/21) notes that "America begins its 100th year of publication, rounding out service to Catholic intellectual life in the United States." It might accurately also have stated that you are "aiding and abetting the most criminal enterprise in the history of mankind."
Anthony F. Flaherty
Boston, Mass.
Lukewarm Faith
Your editorial "Abuse of Office" (4/28), could not be more correct. Unfortunately, it falls on deaf ears in the United States. Part of the problem was illustrated by Pope Benedict XVI's visit: he had a lovely time with George W. Bush and never publicly criticized him for Iraq. He went to the United Nations to tout human rights, but never mentioned the use of torture by the United States. Where is a statement from the U.S. bishops to Catholics and Christians calling for a national response to these issues in the name of Christ? In what church on Sundays is there a Christian witness to the victims of our war in Iraq? Because such actions would "divide the church," we all go along to get along. This was not the path of Christ, who did not come to bring a wishy-washy, lukewarm faith.
Patrick Hughes
St. Augustine, Fla.
Quantity, Not Quality
Re "Abuse of Office": Despite what the critics may say or believe, there was nothing "benign" about the way previous presidents used signing statements on legislation, including Bill Clinton. Under Clinton, the Justice Department went on record twice defending the president's obligation to use signing statements to refuse to enforce constitutionally repugnant provisions of new laws. The only difference between George W. Bush's use of signing statements and Clinton's is quantity; Bush has issued nearly 1,200 challenges since 2001—a record, to be sure.
You rightly note that the real culprit in the president's use (or abuse) of power is Congress, and to a lesser extent the courts. From 2001 to 2006, the Republican-controlled Congress gave the president whatever he desired, essentially declaring itself a junior partner to the president. We must continue to support Democrats in Congress, who have increased the number of oversight hearings and issued direct challenges to the Bush administration.
Christopher Kelley
Cincinnati, Ohio
The Blame Game
In "Bishop Encourages Catholic Educators" (Signs of the Times, 4/14), the problems of the church community are blamed on "a lack of knowledge about the faith," a cheap shot at catechetics. Talk about "Round up the usual suspects"! Sometimes I think the only reason bishops keep catechists around at all is to have people to blame for their failures.
The causes of the current membership loss in the church are varied and complex, and call for further in-depth study. To the extent that catechetics may be partly at fault, the bishops (our chief catechists) need to examine their own lack of ecclesial leadership and support for catechetics. I'm tired of business as usual except when there's an opportunity to place blame.
Kristeen Bruun
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Virgina Tech University students party on their balcony at a resort in Panama City Beach, Fla. Frank Guglielmi, the father of a college student who died from a balcony fall joined the nation's doctors Thursday, March 7, 2002, to decry alcohol-soaked Spring Break promotions such as all-you-can drink specials and "booze cruises." The American Medical Association issued a Spring Break alert accusing the tourism and alcohol industries of fostering binge and underage drinking through such enticements.
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PLYMOUTH, N.H. – Sophomore quarterback George Busharis completed 25-of-40 passes for 463 yards and two touchdowns Saturday afternoon at Currier Field but Castleton needed a defensive stop in the final minute of the game to pull out a 35-31 victory over Plymouth State in the non-conference football season opener for both schools.
Castleton used a strong aerial attack to take a 14-0 lead just six minutes into the game, but PSU responded with 28 unanswered points over the next two quarters, taking a 28-14 lead by utilizing a strong running game and capitalizing on a first-quarter on-side kick.
Castleton came back to tie the game at 28-all by the end of the third quarter on the arm of Busharis, who was making his first career start.
PSU pulled back ahead 31-28 early in the final quarter on a 30-yard field goal, but Elias LaCount scored the eventual game-winning touchdown on a four-yard run with nine minutes to play, taking a 35-31 lead. The Panther had two possessions in an attempt for another comeback, but a 12-play drive stalled just inside the Spartan 20-yard line with 2:34 remaining, and after the PSU defense forced a punt, PSU's Hail Mary pass was intercepted near the goal line by Boyle as time expired.
The Panthers got a strong rushing performance from senior Andrew Foglia, who carried the ball 29 times for 173 yards (6.0 avg.) and two touchdowns. Senior quarterback Jake Tyler completed 12-of-16 passes for 194 yards but was sacked three times.
Castleton senior wide receivers Brandon Boyle and Mark Comstock each had big days against the Panther defense; Comstock caught eight passes for 164 yards and a touchdown while Boyle also hauled in eight passes for 156 yards and a score. The 463 passing yards by Busharis is the second most in program history.
The teams combined for 944 yards of offense, the visitors mostly through the air and the home team on the ground. Castleton gained 463 of its 493 yards on passing plays, while PSU got 257 of its 451 yards on running plays. Plymouth State kept the ball away from the Spartans' power passing game by controlling the ball for nearly 45 minutes of the contest.
Castleton scored on its first two possessions. LaCount ran one into the end zone from eight yards out after a 34-yard pass play from Busharis to Boyle set up the score. Then Boyle found the end zone on a 49-yard pass play from Busharis to put the visitors ahead 14-0 just 6:21 into the game.
PSU got on the board on its next possession on a nine-yard rush by junior Mark Hennessy, as PSU ran the ball on eight of its nine plays on the drive. The Panthers executed an on-side kick on the ensuing kickoff, recovering the ball at the Castleton 42-yard line. Eight plays later, Foglia ran it in from a yard out to tie the score at 14-all early in the second quarter.
There were only three more possessions the rest of the second quarter. An 11-play Castleton drive ended at the Panther six-yard line when Busharis' pass went incomplete on fourth-and-goal. PSU responded with a 14-play, 94-yard drive that elapsed nearly nine minutes, capped by Foglia's six-yard burst to put the home team up, 21-14. Castleton got the ball back with a minute to play in the half and went 63 yards on nine plays, but Busharis' pass on fourth down at the PSU 17 was incomplete, and PSU led 21-14 at the break.
Plymouth State extended its lead 28-14 in the third quarter when sophomore Bobby Whelan scored on a two-yard run. Castleton came right back on the second play of its next drive with a 72-yard strike from Busharis to Comstock down the left sideline for a touchdown. The Spartans tied the game at 28-all a couple minutes later when LaCount scored on a two-yard run after Busharis had completed four straight passes.
Junior Rob Giles booted a 30-yard field goal for PSU to put the home team ahead with 10:53 remaining in the fourth quarter, but Castleton came right back with the winning score, going 71 yards and LaCount going over the goal line from four yards out for the eventual game-winner.
Senior linebacker Mick Wong led the Spartan defense with 13 tackles (11 solo) and a sack, while classmate Andrew Pursell made 11 stops. Sophomore Jay Morgan was a force inside with nine tackles and 1.5 sacks.
Both teams are back in action with non-conference games next Saturday at 1:00 p.m. as PSU visits Mount Ida College and Castleton hosts Endicott College in its home opener.