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My boyfriend worked for a Walmart in Boynton Beach, FL, until they fired him earlier this year. He put up with a lot of shit while he was there. And he was the one who first told me about these protest.Thanks for posting this. I'm sure it'll make him happy.
Walmart.....America's sweat shops...
you mean China's.. oh schnap
Walmart is happening to India, before its arrival it has started bribing the Govt. officials and other illegal activities, which the Indian Govt says going to investigate. It will destroy 50 million retailers livelihoods, expecting a big protest and opposition to it.
quite a lame situation imho; what w/all the modern era has to offer..
but hey; they're the bransmart on steroids to the consumer(s)
all one can do is understand who and how for the most part; maybe push fair rule changes
to the capitally intrinsic private vs. public/public working for private!?~
So is the secret to success in wally world just locations? infrastructure? direct line to gov subsidies?
or just keeping the workers' wages down and other obvious secrets~
no matter how you massage it it's bs media culture that drives the consumer to consume against his or her better judgement(s)~ I broke w/cheapest analog/digital converter box; they were 20bucks or less from gov. when the television became all digital signal. had to pay the waltons 52.oo rip off dollars pfffffft
funny they don't want taxes; nor gov; yet when the world stage private slave labor wage deals go south the veil is lifted you have these crisi$ situation#@$%....
lots of crying wolf; and modernity fatigue w/o any imagination or compassion~ read!
a piece I wrote on Walmart for greenewave:
This Black Friday, a boycott was called against that All-American sweatshop Walmart, fueled by a decades-long litany of complaints by workers unable to earn a living wage, even while working full-time.
Like many other giant corporations that seek to increase profits by relying on outsourcing production to China, Walmart also employs in its stores a large amount of part-time workers and as few full-time workers as it can get away with.
Concern over Walmart's detrimental effects on American labor and our economy has been building up for years. Back in 2005, the documentary Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price helped to educate the public about how the opening of these stores in urban areas has the effect of lowering overall wages and worker conditions, producing an annual loss of at least $4.7 billion dollars in earnings for retail workers.
In spite of pervasive anti-union propaganda from conservatives, many on the right side of the political spectrum are beginning to manifest solidarity with Walmart workers. In an opinion piece titled Why Libertarians Should Support This Movement, Lilly O'Donnell argued:
A lot of the same people who argue against striking and in favor of letting big business do whatever it takes to protect profit margins are the same people who are against monetary government assistance, and want people to fend for themselves. No strikes, no welfare. But, guess what, if Wal-Mart and other large employers of unskilled workers don't raise their wages and benefits, taxpayer money will continue to make up the difference.
In 2004, a year in which Wal-Mart reported $9.1 billion in profits; the retailer's California employees collected $86 million in public assistance, Mother Jones reported.
That's just in one state.
Although workers are supposed to be legally allowed to unionize, management is trained to participate in the company's culture of union busting and illegal retaliation against workers who sympathize with the unions. The company has faced litigation in several states for surveillance, threats and intimidation of its workers, who are so demoralized that in some parts of the country, worker turnover is nearly at 100 percent.
There company even had to pay out $50 million in Colorado to settle a legal dispute after forcing workers to labor off-the-clock: in effect, Walmart literally engaged in slavery. Steven Greenhouse, writing in 2002 for the New York Times, shared a similar case in Texas, where the company is estimated to owe $150 million in unpaid wages to its workers.
Walmart doesn't even create good American jobs indirectly, as it prefers cheaper, foreign production over American-made production.
Walmart is hell for workers. It's bad for labor. It displaces American-made products. It's bad for the surrounding businesses wherever it sets shop. It perpetuates poverty and all that comes with it, harasses its workers, and engages in slavery.
This holiday season, PLEASE make sure to buy American made products from your local shops.
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Episode 244: Joe Parsons and Katie Sicking join Mac and David for a look back at some of their favorite stuff of 2K12. Mainly movies. It wasn't supposed to be all movies, but it sort of happened. You'll just have to ask us in person about the other stuff we were gonna talk about.
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I need something simple who looks very atractive and profesional!
I need a Web page design for a "diet and nutrition seminars" We organisate workshops where we show the people how they can lose weight and have a good healt. The site is in German. I give you all the text you need. Anyway there are not a lot of text and you just have to copy theme.
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Barry University invites the community to join them for the following Founders' Week events on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012.
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Trish Stratus is much more than a wrestling diva.
Toronto\'s blond bombshell is intelligent -- before deciding wrestling was her calling, she wanted to become a doctor.
She\'s skilled in the squared circle -- she won the WWE ladies\' title for the second time two weeks ago at Wrestlemania.
And she was born with sharp wit, a sense of humour she rarely gets to display in her ring persona, but one she so wonderfully unleashed on the world in a guest appearance on a recent episode of MAD TV.
\"People that meet me find I\'m a lot different than they thought I\'d be,\" says Trish. \"I\'m quirky and I\'m silly. I\'m a real goofball.
\"I love comedies. I love Jim Carrey. I love all the Austin Powers movies. And I\'ll watch Seinfeld, Friends and Everybody Loves Raymond.
\"My image is that of a blond bombshell. But I think fans want to see the wrestlers\' real personalities. I think my character is really established, so it would be nice to try to (put some humour into her role).\"
Born and raised in Richmond Hill, Trish still manages to spend an average of three days a week in her home town. Her folks, John and Alice, still live in the area. And she also has two sisters, Melissa and Christie.
\"They\'re very supportive of what I do,\" says Trish. \"They\'re really blown away by it all. I was supposed to go to med school. But I became a wrestler instead of a doctor.
\"I\'ve been watching wrestling since I was young. My (younger) sister, me and my two cousins spent our summers wrestling. I was like one of the guys. I guess you could say those were my first tag matches.\"
As one of WWE\'s more popular performers, Trish looks forward to returning to her home country.
\"In America, all the wrestlers have their home town,\" she says. \"For me, and my fellow Canadians, we get that home-town reaction wherever we go in Canada. It\'s a thrill everywhere we go in Canada.\"
Trish made an initial splash on Michael Lansberg\'s Off the Record show on TSN. Then a fitness model, Trish extolled her love for wrestling and the rumours started circulating that she was about to sign with the then-WWF.
\"Imagine my surprise when I started reading about myself on the Internet,\" she says. \"Everything kind of snowballed. Live Audio Wrestling (a Toronto radio show) had me on as a guest and asked me about it. I said, \'God, that would be awesome, but it\'s just a rumour.\'
\"They asked me to be on the show once a week and from there the Internet rumours got crazy. I was backstage at one of the (WWF) shows and one of the agents approached me. I didn\'t hear anything for a while, but six months later, J.R. (Jim Ross) flew me to Stanford and asked me if I was prepared to get physical in the ring.\"
Trish wasted no time in accepting the offer and embarking on a journey that would bring her the women\'s title ... and a spot in the beating hearts of many men. The diva has no intention, though, of posing nude.
\"I\'ve been lucky enough to be crowned Diva of the Decade and I\'ve been a two-time Babe of the Year on the Internet.
\"But I don\'t think (Playboy\'s) an option for me. I\'ve never really been interested in that. It\'s great for Torrie (Wilson, who bared all for the most recent Playboy). It\'s something she\'s always wanted to do so it\'s a great thing for her. But I want to leave my mark in wrestling.\"
She says her Wrestlemania experience was unforgettable.
\"It was a night of realization, of how big it is,\" she says. \"I went to the press box and watched The Rock vs. Austin and Vince (McMahon) vs. (Hulk) Hogan. Hearing the crowd it really dawned on me that I had just been down there doing the same thing. It\'s a testament to the work women have done (in WWE). The feeling that we\'re equal. It\'s a great feeling.\"
A great feeling for Trish ... and a great feeling for her growing legion of fans.
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Athletics Certification Liaison (ACL). The NCAA Division I Committee on Athletics Certification requires each NCAA Division I institution to designate an individual to serve as its athletics certification liaison. The liaison shall be the individual on the institution's campus responsible for monitoring the progress of the institution's plans for improvement developed during the athletics certification process. The institution's chancellor or president has previously identified the ACL who was responsible for monitoring the progress of the institutions plans for improvement developed during the Cycle 2 athletics certification process. After the evaluation visit and before receiving the certification decision, the NCAA staff liaison will contact the chancellor or president to initiate the submission of the ACL for monitoring Cycle 3 plans for improvement developed by the institution.
Athletics Certification System (ACS). In order to increase efficiency, reduce costs and add greater consistency, the committee developed a Web-based program, ACS, for the submission and storage of institutional self-studies, committee-identified issues, peer-review team reports and committee actions. Self-study reports are required to be submitted through ACS, which is both ID and password protected.
Campus Contact. The campus contact is responsible for coordinating preparations for the evaluation visit, including lodging and travel for peer-review team members and NCAA staff, scheduling interviews and organizing any work-related needs for peer reviewers (e.g., computer resources, meeting rooms, documents to be reviewed).
Certified. An institution that has been "certified" is considered to be operating its athletics program in substantial conformity with all operating principles. This classification denotes: (1) any problems identified by the institution in its self-study or by the peer-review team during its evaluation were considered by the committee not serious enough to affect the institution's certification status, and (2) the institution demonstrated adequate follow up to concerns/improvement plans directly related to the operating principles that were identified by the institution or the committee during the institution's previous regular and/or interim self-study.
Condition. For institutions classified as "certified with conditions" or "not certified," the committee will include any corrective actions, and the timetable for completing each action, specified by the committee. These corrective actions are considered conditions. For those institutions that are certified with conditions, the institution will generally have a one-year time frame in which to report back to the committee to rectify its conditions. Once the institution responds with additional information regarding its conditions, the committee will deliberate the institution's materials at its next in-person meeting.
Conformity. The peer-review team and committee's most demanding task is to assess the extent of substantial conformity achieved by the institution with respect to the operating principles. This evaluation inevitably involves subjective judgment. In making these decisions, the peer-review team and committee make every effort to base decisions on reliable data; be sensitive to the unique characteristics and circumstances of the institution; and remain free of personal and professional bias.
Evaluation Visit (EV). The EV occurs after the institution has submitted its self-study report, after the staff and committee analyses have been completed and after the institution has had an opportunity to respond to the committee's analysis. The EV is staffed by a peer-review team who will have reached tentative conclusions about the nature of the institution's self-study process, the accuracy of the institution's written report and the operation of the athletics program in relation to the certification program's operating principles. Before leaving campus, the peer-review team is obligated to record its conclusions in a report that will be shared with the institution and committee. The institution's president/chancellor (and other institutional representatives at the discretion of the president/chancellor) is afforded an opportunity to hear the peer-review teams general impressions in an exit meeting at the conclusion of the EV. The EV may occur anytime between September 15 and November 30.
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Operating Principle (OP). The athletics certification program is made up of seven standards, OPs, which every Division I institution is required to meet. The OPs were originally adopted overwhelmingly at the 1993 NCAA Convention. They address the three basic areas of governance and commitment to rules compliance, academic integrity, gender/diversity issues and student-athlete well-being. OPs are included as a part of the athletics certification self-study instrument and appear in NCAA Bylaw 22 of the NCAA Division I Manual.
Opportunities for Enhancement. As part of its report, the peer-review team will identify any pertinent recommendations for the institution in a section titled, "Opportunities for Enhancement." Additionally, the committee may provide opportunities for enhancement with its certification status decision. The institution is not obligated to implement or respond to such recommendations; rather, these should be viewed as helpful suggestions from the institution's peers and/or committee to improve its athletics program.
Orientation Videoconference (OV). The NCAA staff liaison will conduct an OV for an institution approximately 12-14 months before the evaluation visit. The purpose of the OV is to review the purpose and format of the certification program; the institution's activities already conducted in preparation for the OV; the self-study instrument (with members of the steering committee and subcommittees); preparations for the evaluation visit; and projected dates for the evaluation visit. The OV is intended to benefit campus members who will be involved in the self-study. The OV can occur anytime between August 15 and October 31.
Peer-Review Team (PRT). An external PRT, selected and assigned by the committee, is composed of experienced institutional and athletics personnel. The PRT is responsible for verifying that the institution's self-study is accurate and complete; confirming that the self-study was developed through a broad-based process that involved campus-wide participation; and evaluating the self-study and committee-identified issues in terms of the OPs that have been approved for all Division I members. Before leaving campus, the PRT must complete its written report to the committee. Ordinarily, each member of the PRT is responsible for writing one or more sections of the report, divided generally according to those sections of the self-study members of the PRT were assigned. A typical PRT will consist of a maximum of four members. Whenever possible, a president or chancellor will serve as chair. Each PRT member will receive training, with special emphasis on training for PRT chairs.
Plans for Improvement. Written institutional plans have significant value for every Division I institution. They communicate an institution's current commitment, provide benchmarks to assess progress and also serve as enduring records that help ensure institutions' continued commitments in the future. Institutional plans must meet certain minimum requirements. Plans for improvement are required in the gender and diversity areas and in other areas when a deficiency is identified.
Report Coordinator. The report coordinator is responsible for entering information, including plans for improvement, into ACS. The report coordinator submits responses to each specific self-study item so they can be read individually, rather than as part of a general narrative. It is suggested the report coordinator be well-versed in Internet technology and/or data entry programming.
Self-Study Item (SSI). A SSI is a question contained in the self-study instrument to be researched, studied and answered by an institution during its self-study process. In evaluating the completeness and accuracy of an institution's self-study report, the peer-review team will consider whether institutional responses address each specific aspect of all SSIs identified by the committee.


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The New Normal – How Mobile Operators Can Respond
Despite phenomenal growth in mobile devices and application – and seemingly insatiable consumer demand – many key players in the mobile industry are struggling. This paradox – huge growth and customer demand, yet significant business and market challenges – is making it difficult for many companies in the mobile value chain to understand the key drivers that shaping the industry and the coming challenges and opportunities. And, most important, they are searching for strategies that will lead to success.
Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) examines this phenomenon in a new paper published on the Service Provider Thought Leadership section of the IBSG website.
Titled "The New Mobile World Order: Perspectives on the Future of the Mobile Industry", this IBSG paper provides a perspective on the key disruptors and tipping points redefining mobility, while producing two plausible scenarios for the future of the mobile industry. These provide a framework enabling mobile operators to evaluate their futures and rationally assess strategic options.
Nearly 80 percent of the world's population now enjoys access to a mobile phone. In 97 countries, there are now more mobile devices than people. Exciting new devices – including iPhones, Android-based smartphones, tablets, and eReaders – are flooding the market and creating large amounts of mobile network traffic.
Compelling video, social networking, and other innovative applications running on these latest devices are clogging mobile networks with massive new sources of data. Increasingly, people rely on wireless networks instead of wired ones.
This huge growth is causing both issues and opportunities for mobile operators. To read more, check out the paper on the IBSG site. At this site, you also will find many other interesting, provocative papers on various subjects relating to the service provider segment.
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Diyarbakir Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Diyarbakir Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Turkey View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message AdelaJoined: 30 Jul 2006Posts: 40 Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 2:57 pm Post subject: Diyarbakir Can anyone comment on good schools in Diyarbakir? I thought I saw an ad in which the school offered accommodation and complete help with the visa process. Back to top delalJoined: 04 Oct 2005Posts: 251Location: N Turkey Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 5:44 pm Post subject: previous post There have been posts on this forum about a school in Diyarbakir-you may have to go back a few pages. Might be the same one. There have also been posts about Diyarbakir and that area in general Back to top jamessmart50Joined: 14 Nov 2005Posts: 91Location: Istanbul, Turkey Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 4:28 pm Post subject: If this is the Akademi school of English in Diyarbakir you're referring to, do not, under any circumstances, work there. Pm me if you want any details. This is the only school that takes foreign teachers, at least it was when I was there a few years ago. Back to top AdelaJoined: 30 Jul 2006Posts: 40 Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 2:02 pm Post subject: akademi in Diyabakir Thanks for your reply. Yes, if you could send me your comments about your experiences with this school in Diyabakir, I would appreciate it. The post I saw disappeared, I had it bookmarked but it was gone when I went back. thanks again. Back to top adventuramustJoined: 14 Apr 2005Posts: 126 Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 2:03 am Post subject: Academy of School English, Diyarbair Is there any current information on this location and/or school. I don't like, but have dealt with plenty of staring so that wouldn't be an issue. With airfare and accommodations included, what are the negatives? It is also the only place that seem to be able to offer something concrete instead of wanting me to come to Turkey first. Back to top sixthchildJoined: 18 Apr 2012Posts: 298Location: East of Eden Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 11:42 am Post subject: If you are not aware, then you should at least consider the fact that you are very much in the heart of Kurdish speaking Turks or "turds". They are a friendly bunch as long as you don't try to teach them or their kids something that smacks of 21st century dogma like a foreign language. Certain armed groups whose name I do not need to mention on a family forum have been known to have captured teachers. Back to top SashadroogieJoined: 17 Apr 2007Posts: 11061Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 12:03 pm Post subject: The only place in Turkey which I detested. A sad, dirty place, palpable tension on the streets, replete with stone-throwing urchins. Reminiscent of Belfast in the 1970s, Grozni not so long ago, and Slough today, though without the charm! That was for a holiday, though. But I'd imagine living and working there would be even more unpleasant. Back to top QaaolchouraJoined: 10 Oct 2008Posts: 539Location: 21 miles from the Syrian border Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 2:29 pm Post subject: I sense some serious anti-Kurdish sentiment, sixthchild. Of course I've been worrying about picking up the anti-Arabism so common in my part of Turkey, it's easy to believe things if you hear them often enough. I haven't been to Diyarbakir yet, but Turks will tell you either that it's very beautiful, or monstrously ugly. Beauty in the eye of the beholder and all that. Keep in mind though that Diyarbakir is a very poor city. Together with Urfa (another Kurdish city), it's the only mid-sized city that has been largely left out of the economic boom that Anatolia has been seeing under Erdoğan. I will say that I'm in a part of Turkey with a lot of Kurds, and perhaps because they speak two languages already, they seem to be, on average better students than monolingual Turks. They're also enthusiastic and motivated, though they don't really like to talk about the fact that they're Kurdish, given the *ahem* strong anti-Kurdish bias in most of Turkey. And Kurds are certainly not opposed to English. Like the Catalans, many better educated Kurds prefer it to the language of the "oppressor" (Turkish in Turkey, Arabic in Iraq). As for the PKK, yes, they're horrible people who've set back Kurdish rights decades and a terrorist group filled with murdering thugs to boot, but I wouldn't be worried about them. As a rule, the PKK only targets the Turkish military and police (which in a country with conscription is basically the same as targeting only male civilians, but still doesn't affect you). What you'll find in the Southeast is that, as in the United States with the TSA, it's the security forces trying to stop the bad guys, rather than the PKK themselves, which make life difficult. In particular, travel times between cities in the Kurdish area can be significantly extended by checkpoints. I'm going to guess that James complaints had to do specifically with the school. If he merely objected to Diyarbakir, he would have said so on the board, but his request that you PM him indicates that he fears the school reads the board, and would identify him from the details. So I'd suggest that you PM him, if you want to know what he objects to about the school. ~Q Back to top delalJoined: 04 Oct 2005Posts: 251Location: N Turkey Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 4:58 pm Post subject: Have to agree with Sashadroogie The Belfast comparıson ıs more than faır. My mum's Northern Irısh and I spend all my chıldhood school holıdays ın NI (bombıngs,heavy mılıtary presence tensıon and all) I've travelled around the east of Turkey a fair amount (and have never had a problem, quıte the opposıte), but I certaınly wouldn't recommend Dıyarbakır as a place to start out ın. Added to the whole polıtıcal scene and socıal structure/problems, there's just too much tensıon, vergıng on outrıght aggressıon, on the streets. As for the Akademı school, I actually had an ıntervıew there and had a very bad feelıng about the place. Of course the owner may have changed-can't remember hıs name-but I certaınly dıdn't trust hım. Back to top cartagoJoined: 19 Oct 2005Posts: 282Location: Iraq Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 8:47 am Post subject: I've travelled to Diyarbakir a few times but never stayed for any length of time. I didn't think it was all that bad. Perhaps the biggest city walls I've ever seen. Teachers and schools have been targeted by terrorists but I think it's only state schools, definitely not a language school or foreign teachers. Back to top sixthchildJoined: 18 Apr 2012Posts: 298Location: East of Eden Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 9:56 am Post subject: Thank you for your perspective Q, very refreshing and as you are very much on the doorstep so to speak, probably a lot more accurate. My own insight comes from those that I have met who were from that region, never having actually set foot in that area, not sure if it would be a good idea to do that. I have no doubt in my mind that it would be an interesting place to visit, but then so is Istanbul and I can only take 3-4 days of that. Perhaps I am spoilt in Izmir, the city of the elite and so anti AK party and the PKK, my judgement is clouded by what you see and hear on the streets daily. Maybe one day, when I am mad or brave enough I may visit there, but to live and work, well thats a different proposition altogether. Back to top cartagoJoined: 19 Oct 2005Posts: 282Location: Iraq Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 10:41 am Post subject: The East is a great place to visit and really not so dangerous. Very different from the West, it's the Middle East, not Europe. The only place I think would be best to avoid is Hakkari. Maybe Cizre and Şırnak. I've travelled through those places but never really stayed there, anyway I don't think there's much at all to see there. You certainly hear a lot of bad things in the news but tourists/expats are not targeted and are rarely in a place you would be likely to go. I've mostly lived in the East in Turkey and the main sign of conflict I saw were a greater military and police presence with tanks and armored vehicles. Mardin is a fascinating place to visit, there isn't lots to see in Hasankeyf but it's very atmospheric. The area around Lake Van is really beautiful and has some really interesting sites. Really great places to visit in the East. Back to top jamessmart50Joined: 14 Nov 2005Posts: 91Location: Istanbul, Turkey Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 2:34 pm Post subject: Nice to see the Diyarbakır thread reemerge. Actually I worked at Akademi school about six or seven years ago. The city was fine, to be honest, friendly people and a cultural experience, some amazing history, although there wasn't much to do in terms of entertainment. It might be different now, from what I hear the city is a sort of eastern trading centre and there are some big fancy hotels and suchlike. I found it to be extremely safe, please don't listen to all the Kurd-bashing. Diyarbakir is definitely worth visiting anyway, I had some really interesting times there, but I'd say for most people a year would be much too long. The school on the other hand is pretty much a two-man show, that's the director, and the foreign teacher. It was a dystopian sort of place, I had to work 6 or 7 days a week making spectacularly detailed lesson plans, tests, worksheets, I had to mark all the students' workbooks, long one-to-one meetings and a very negative working environment. The director had a very flexible attitude towards telling the truth, I never got the hours I expected, and to this day he still has my celta and university original certificates. Actually, there is so much more I could tell you about this director, honestly one day I will write a book about it that nobody will believe because seriously, the guy is just ridiculous. Good luck! Back to top sixthchildJoined: 18 Apr 2012Posts: 298Location: East of Eden Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 8:10 am Post subject: I'm pretty sure most of us have a book inside us just bursting to be revealed to the world, suddenly there will be a deluge of Brit and American wanna be authors putting out their memoirs as a efl teacher in some god forsaken place such as Turkey. Is the world ready for it, what will it do for the image of this place overseas? Could the title "I was an efl teacher in Turkey" be the new "Midnight Express"? 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COLORADO SPRINGS – A second Senate debate between Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet and Republican Ken Buck has been set for Friday.
The Gazette newspaper and KOAA-TV are sponsoring the forum in Colorado Springs. Last weekend, Bennet and Buck debated for the first time in Grand Junction.
The candidates sparred over government spending. Bennet says the nation needs to invest more in infrastructure such as roads, while Buck argued that the government is spending too much.
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Playing Need For Speed 2, I noticed a very high performance on Intel P233 MMX without 3-D display card. However, playing Need For Speed 3 and writing my own Direct3D applications I had to use 320x240x16 resolutions to get *normal* frame rate.
Later, I noticed that NFS2 doesn't use Direct3D API at all. Instead, it uses it's own 3-D engine and DirectDraw to blit. NFS3 and my applications use Direct3D and so the performance is *very* low. The big question is, why did Microsoft say that Direct3D is a world-top performance??? I know that in order to get a high performance, I need a 3-D card, but not all players (and for them I develop my game) have a superb 3-D card at home! This entire topic confuses many graphics developers under Win32...
Alexander Levin.
: First of all, you heard it from Microsoft.. if their lips are moving, you know they're lying...
: DirectX, Direct3D, the Win32 API, are all, by nature, not the fasted tools the world has ever known.
: By interfacing with the Win95/98 OS and being as "User friendly" as possible, they sacrifice performance.
: As always, the best method to get great perfomance is talking to the hardware itself. Regrettably, Microsoft
: is making this more and more difficult, as Win95/98 becomes more instrusive, for example, the fact that only
: VXDs have Ring 0 access (unless you know how to set it yourself... )
: To complicate the situation, you typically have to pay $$$$ to get the SDK that details what ports to what,
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Current Programming Environment
DDJ: Tell me a little about your programming environment. What tools do you use for your day-to-day work and what languages are you programming in?
Cunningham: You know, I try not to get bound too much to anything in particular.
DDJ: I presume you must be using JavaScript if you're doing wikis and using JSON.
Cunningham: I'll tell you right now what I'm using and I'm enjoying is I write CoffeeScript, and TextMate, although I'm trying to learn Sublime Text 2, which I guess is the hot new editor. So, I switch back and forth between both of those. And it's been really nice. And of course, I love it because with one keystroke I can see the results of what I've written. I can select a paragraph and say, "run just this part." So it has this feel, that it's not very far from the engine. Of course, what engine is that? Well, there's node.js running right behind that, so I'm pounding things into node.js without hardly thinking about it.
In CoffeeScript, it feels very nice for me for doing the kind of things I'm doing now, which is programming event-driven stuff that's deeply nested, and it does that well. I will admit that I was a Smalltalk zealot, and I believed that Smalltalk could be the only language, and I knew about a dozen reasons why, and one of them was that once everybody programmed in Smalltalk, we would all communicate with objects. But that didn't happen. And the day that I gave up on that vision, I said, "You know what, we're all going to communicate with text files. We're all going to go ripping through these text files plundering them for whatever information we can infer from it."
That's when I picked up Perl. And it shocked me, just how well it worked for finding and plundering files because it had those reg exes built in and stuff like that. And it was so fast. It was fast to compile, it was fast to develop, it was fast to run. I could not believe it was so fast. And I know people like to complain about it, but I also thought it showed a tremendous amount of insight. It was insight, and I looked at it and I said, "Who would have thought of making a language like that?" That's when I realized that open source was here to stay. There is no commercial endeavor that ever would have invented Perl.
But Perl was my escape from object-oriented programming, and I still use it today. Probably a day doesn't go by that I don't just pick up Perl right at the command line just because idiomatically I can write commands. I know there's a command in UNIX but rather than go the command page and try to remember the options, I just write it from scratch in Perl. You know, I go on and finish the line. I know Perl well enough that I can do that. I think if you write big programs you know stuff that I never bothered to learn about Perl.
And of course Ruby has Perl as its father and Smalltalk as its mother, and so Ruby feels pretty good to me too. So those are the ones I like the most. And I've got a Macbook Air here, which is a pretty nice computer, especially if you commute by bicycle, it's not very heavy. I haven't bothered to update to Lion yet.
Learning As a Veteran Programmer
Cunningham: I'd say that computing is fabulous right now. It's a little complicated, but it's fabulous. And when I step back and look at my whole career, there was this time when we talked about how in the future there will be component libraries that have perfected solutions for everything that you would want to do.
DDJ: And you've had a long career to judge this.
That's the other thing: to be an old guy who's still a programmer. A lot of people think that you can't be old and be good, and that's not true. You just have to be willing to let go of the strengths that you had a year ago and get some new strengths this year. Because it does change fast, and if you're not willing to do that, then you're not really able to be a programmer.
DDJ: Well, it's not only strengths. You have to be willing to let go, just like you did with Smalltalk, of your affections for certain technologies. If you stick to Smalltalk and don't look at CoffeeScript and node.js, you become much less effective as a programmer.
Cunningham: Absolutely! And part of that is to say that there are some patterns that you've learned to put Smalltalk to work, or there are patterns that you've learned to make Perl programs work well. And when you go into the new world, some of those patterns don't come with you, and you can be really annoyed at that. You can feel insulted that you bothered to learn that and it's not good anymore. You just have to put that behind you and say, "What am I going to learn today?" And it's easier to learn good stuff, because there's great code out there. There's a lot of junky code. But there's great code, and if you find developers who really do their craft well, and read their code, that's the best way to learn a new language.
DDJ: When I look at good code, I frequently think, "I never ever thought of doing that that way." The joy of those small revelations is a wonderfully instructive thing.
Cunningham: Let me close with an example that is close to me today. I was looking to make things move on the screen and I fell upon this d3.js library. It's a nice library with a lot of examples of it doing impressive things. And then the code for those examples is 20, 30, 40 lines. And then I read the introductory material, and it says, here's our philosophy, and I agree with their philosophy. I like the picture and I like the look of the code. It's only 40 lines, but every line carried some careful thought. There was a learning curve there that surprised me because the programs looked short. The most rewarding work I've done this year is digging through that code and understanding what it does and understanding what it didn't do, and how to approach the problem.
Anybody who's willing and wants to have pictures on the screen that move, I would encourage them to do the same thing. But do it with an open mind, because you're following the footsteps of a very skillful developer.
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Implementation of the Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to HIV: A Demonstrative Project. (PrEPBrasil)
Verified October 2015 by Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
University of Sao Paulo
Centro de Referência e Treinamento DST AIDS
Information provided by (Responsible Party)
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
First received: October 30, 2013
Last updated: October 7, 2015
Last Verified: October 2015
History of Changes
A prospective, open, multicenter,demonstrative of PrEP, which aims to assess the acceptability, feasibility and safety from chemoprophylaxis co-formulated emtricitabine / tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (FTC / TDF) administered orally, once daily, to MSM and transgender women . The demonstration project aims to include 400 participants over 12 months, with 200 at IPEC-Fiocruz, 100 at CRT-SP and 100 at USP.
Drug : emtricitabine / tenofovir 200/300 mg
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|Implementation of the Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to HIV: A Demonstrative Project.
Further study details as provided by Oswaldo Cruz Foundation:
Primary Outcome Measures
Different compliance evaluations (the measure is a composite - please see description)
[ Time Frame: two years ]
Acceptance and refusal rates Correlation of socio-demographic factors of acceptance and refusal Duration of PrEP Side effects and toxicities, including elevations of creatinine Adherence to PrEP: number of tablets per day, patterns of adherence Number of male sexual partners, by serostatus and condom use, and episodes of anal sex by partner serostatus, the interviewee practices and condom use.
- Number of patients infected and relation with medication compliance (the measure is a composite - please see description)
[ Time Frame: two years ]
Knowledge about PrEP Reasons for the choice and refusal of PrEP seroconversions rate Patterns of resistance to anti-HIV among people who become infected Self-reports of deviation (selling or sharing) of PrEP medication Space needs and staff social harm Prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|June 2014
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|April 2016
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|March 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
emtricitabine / tenofovir 200/300 mg
Fixed dose combination of emtricitabine / tenofovir 200/300 mg once daily orally during one year.
emtricitabine / tenofovir 200/300 mg
Fixed dose combination of emtricitabine / tenofovir 200/300 mg once daily orally during one year
Other Name: Truvada
Detailed Description:
Subjects preliminarily eligible who choose to receive PrEP will be included after obtaining
the informed consent and confirmation of eligibility within 45 days after the screening
Once included, participants will be examined in a follow-up visit performed four weeks later and evaluated for evidence of seroconversion to HIV, medication compliance and clinical toxicity. The second follow-up visit will occur at 12th week and every 12 weeks successively (quarterly). Quarterly visits include HIV testing, serum creatinine and counseling on medication compliance and risk reduction.
The study has a total of 6 visits. In all visits will be assessed the risks, HIV testing will be performed, monitoring of renal function and dispensing of the drug Truvada [emtricitabine 1 tablet (FTC) / tenofovir (TDF) (200/300 mg) once a day orally for 12 months].
Participants who have completed 12 months of follow-up or prematurely discontinue a PrEP will be encouraged to return for a follow-up visit after discontinuation of medication for monitoring of the status and evaluation of HIV as the resolution of side effects.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Male (at birth);
- Willing and able to provide informed consent in writing;
- Age = or > 18 years;
- not infected by HIV-1, in accordance with the flowchart of testing from Brazilian Ministry of Health;
- Evidence risk for acquiring HIV-1, including any of the following:
- Anal sex without a condom with two or more men or transgender women in the last 12 months, or
- 2 or more episodes of anal sex with at least one partner HIV + in the last 12 months, or
- Sex with a man or trans woman and diagnosis of any of the following STDs in the last 12 months: syphilis, rectal gonorrhea or chlamydial infection in the rectum.
- Able to provide a residential address or contact phone itself, or two personal contacts who would know about his whereabouts during the study period demonstrative;
- Adequate renal function: Creatinine clearance > or = 60 ml / min, estimated by the formula modification of diet in renal disease (MDRD, from English 'Modification of Diet in Renal Disease') within 45 days of enrollment;
- urine Tape with negative result or showing only traces of protein within 45 days prior to enrollment;
Exclusion Criteria:
- Signs or symptoms of acute HIV infection,which is confirmed by laboratory examination in subsequent samples;
- Active and severe infections previously diagnosed, including active tuberculosis or osteomyelitis and all infections requiring parenteral antibiotics (except STD that require intramuscular injections of antibiotics);
- clinically significant active medical problems, including heart disease poorly controlled (eg, symptoms ischemia, congestive heart failure) previously diagnosed malignancy, or which will require additional treatment;
- Patients with positive tests for antigens of hepatitis B surface (HBsAg);
- History of pathological bone fractures unrelated to trauma;
- Patients using any of the following: ARV, including nucleoside inhibitors, non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, protease inhibitors and antiretroviral agents under study, treatment with interferon (alpha, beta, or gamma) or interleukin (e.g. ,IL-2), with potential significant nephrotoxic agents, other agents which may inhibit or compete for renal elimination via active tubular secretion (eg probenecid) and / or other agents under study;
- Participation in a clinical trial using concomitant agents under investigation, including placebo-controlled trials using such agents;
- Patients who have any condition at the time of inclusion in the study, according to
Contacts and LocationsChoosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision.Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below.For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01989611
Locations Show More
|Instituto de Pesquisa Clínica Evandro Chagas - IPEC / FIOCRUZ
|Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, 21040-360
|Centro de Referência e Treinamento DST/AIDS
|Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
|University of Sao Paulo - Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP
|Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Sponsors and CollaboratorsOswaldo Cruz Foundation
University of Sao Paulo
Centro de Referência e Treinamento DST AIDS
|Principal Investigator:
|Beatriz Grinsztejn, PhD
|Instituto de Pesquisa Clínica Evandro Chagas - Fiocruz
More Information
|Responsible Party:
|Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01989611 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|PrEP Brasil
|Study First Received:
|October 30, 2013
|Last Updated:
|October 7, 2015
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Emtricitabine, Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate Drug Combination
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on March 22, 2019
This information is provided by ClinicalTrials.gov.


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Stacy Lewis, Roger Chapman and Rory McIlroy voted Players of the Year, by Golf Writers Association December 21 2012
Stacy Lewis / Scott Halleran Stacy Lewis Roger Chapman and Rory McIlroy have been voted Players of the Year by the Golf Writers Association of America. Stacy won four times on the LPGA Tour this year and was the run-away winner in the women's bracket, gaining 153 votes to Na Yeon Choi who carded 31 votes and 10 for Inbee Park. Stacy's percentage was 78.8% of the total vote. Congratulations to Stacy Lewis. Stacy's record was three runner-up finishes and a third-place slot on the LPGA money list $1.87 million, and was the first American since Beth Daniel in 1994 to earn the tour's Player of the Year honors. The 27-year-old from Texas, had to battle scoliosis, since aged eleven, to make it big on the pro tour, she also becomes the first American since Juli Inkster in 1999 to earn the Golf Writers of America Player of the Year award. Roger Chapman won 116 votes beating Tom Lehman who received 44 votes and Bernhard Langer who got 33 votes. Rogers winning percentage was a healthy 60% of the votes cast. Roger, aged 53, began the year with conditional status on the Champions Tour, but won the Senior PGA Championship in his first start of the 2012 season. The Englishman then came from four shots back of the leaders to win the U.S. Senior Open. Rory McIlroy, who captured the money titles on both the PGA and European Tours, received 190 votes, a massive 97.9% Brandt Snedeker was second with 3 votes and Tiger Woods third with just one vote. Rory had already won European Tour's Golfer of the Year,cementing his season with five birdies at his last event of the year to win the World Tour Championship in Dubai. His other achievements included his second Major, the US PGA Championship, PGA Tour's Byron Nelson Award and PGA of America's Vardon Trophy for adjusted low scoring average of 68.87% and also finished the season with 10 top-tens in 16 starts. Rory is the World Number One ranked player.


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• Oct. 26 – Oct. 27 – A four-hour prayer chain at the church will be starting at 9 p.m. Friday evening through 9 p.m. Saturday. We have people praying all night. Feel free to stop by to pray or for special prayer. We are praying for our country, our church, missionaries, salvation and healing for souls, including our families and friends. We believe our faithful God will answer our prayers in the name of Jesus according to His will. The church is located in Williamstown.
Crittenden Christian Disciples of Christ
How do you feel about cancer? Do I have your attention? Seriously. What is your response to cancer? Do you have any sympathy for cancer? Would you ignore cancer in your body? Would you attempt to live with cancer? I imagine you are now yelling at your paper, "No!" Of course not! What is our response to cancer? Get rid of it! All of it! Aggressively! Now.
This month is set aside in the Christian world as Pastor Appreciation Month. From my experience as a pastor, I want to encourage you to consider what most pastors desire when it comes to the people of the church. Take the opportunity this month to show your appreciation to your pastor, but think through what he desires. From my experience, pastors certainly enjoy gifts, money, cards etc…. but pastors that I know desire something a little less obvious. There are four things you can do to show appreciation to your pastor.
Christ Community
• Mike and Ginger Behnker and daughters, missionaries to Nepal, visited last week.
• Youth Service 6 p.m. on Saturday nights. Sunday School at 10 a.m. and worship at 11 a.m.
• On Sunday evenings, time is spent sharing and praying for the needs of the community. Wednesdays at 7 p.m., features Bible fellowship and kids church for an hour.
Corinth Baptist
• Oct. 24 - Team Kid from 5 to 8 p.m.
Address: 6 Church Dr. in Williamstown
Phone number: 859-824-5381
E-mail address: firstname.lastname@example.com
Minister: Father Joshua L. Lange
Senior staff: Deacon Michael Lyman; Director of religious education is Kathy McDonough; youth director is Sarah Campbell
Number of members: 300 families registered
Year established: 1912
Service times: Sunday masses are 4:30 p.m.; Saturday evening vigil and 10:30 a.m. Sunday morning
Bethany Baptist
• Oct. 14 – 17 – Revival at 7 p.m. with Brother Scotty McDowell.
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I believe that God's will is always being done and that it is always the best way but that we as humans are constantly distorting that will just by being human really. You see, this "life" is a mixture of God's will always at work in the world and our free wills always moving this world in all kinds of ways sometimes closer to God's will and sometimes not.
When we are moving towards God's will, our spirit is alive and our hearts are steady but when we move away from it, we are wounded and experience more suffering and restlessness.
Bethany Baptist
• Oct. 7 – Homecoming at 2 p.m. at the church located on Lawrenceville Rd. in Holbrook.
• Oct. 14 – 17 – Revival at 7 p.m. with Brother Scotty McDowell.
Christ Community
• Oct. 6 – First meeting of Atomic Youth, with a cookout outside of their "Bomb Shelter" (the youth room in rear of the church) at 6 p.m.
• Oct. 4 - Mid-week Bible Study starts at 7 p.m. on Wednesday evenings. The kids will meet in their own area.
• Sunday evening services have resumed at 6 p.m.
• Oct. 6 - Cookout for the start of the Atomic Youth for grades sixth through 12th at 6 p.m. at the church.
• Note: Ice Cream Social on Sept. 21 and Marigold Day on Sept. 22. Feel free to stop by the church on Saturday. For more information, call 859-824-1824 or 859-394-2586.
If you are like me you have listened to many sermons. Some good and some not so good. (I have preached both as well.) There have been times that I have walked away from hearing a sermon and been overcome with the glory of God. Have you ever wondered what makes a good sermon? What makes us see God and his glory and power?
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When Google+ first launched, it was keeping out more people than it was letting in. The site notoriously throttled early subscriptions, creating ample hype from users clamoring to get their hands on an account. Even after Google opened up registration, there were still some restrictions on who got to be a part of the site: there were no business pages, celebrity profiles were subjected to intense scrutiny, aliases were banned, and anyone under 18 was not allowed to join.
Google has relaxed its policies to a certain degree, and this will now mean that teens will be able to use the site… sort of. Now, those between the ages of 13 and 18 can use a more restrictive version of Google+. This means warnings before sharing content publicly, profile information is only shared to Circles, safeguards against strangers joining hangouts, and other protections to keep teens from interacting with anyone outside their Circles.
Part of the effect of Google+'s limited membership is its very different atmosphere from Facebook, a site that got its start with college-age users. It's been more mature, more discriminating, and has policed content to keep the site's dialogue and experience at a certain level (translation: nothing deemed offensive allowed). But Google is slowly caving and become a little less exclusive—admittedly because teenagers are a huge factor in fueling social sites.
"Teens and young adults are the most active Internet users on the planet," Bradley Horowitz writes via G+. "And surprise, surprise: they're also human beings who enjoy spending time with friends and family. Put these two things together and it's clear that teens will increasingly connect online. Unfortunately, online sharing is still second-rate for this age group."
Horowitz says that this demographic is getting the short end of the stick with their current applications, and that the lack of options and controls is what has led to unsafe over-sharing of their information. "With Google+, we want to help teens build meaningful connections online. We also want to provide features that foster safety alongside self-expression."
Facebook has had plenty of well-documented issues with underaged users on its site, and Google+ is trying to learn from those mistakes with cautious, preemptive steps instead of by trial and error.
The Facebook Timeline and Open Graph changes have likely also had a two-fold affect. On one hand, Google+ needs to compete with this approach that is going to revolutionize consumer data and how it's used for marketing and e-commerce purposes. And on the other, G+ should be taking advantage of the backlash: a recent survey claims that negative response to the Facebook changes could see teen users jumping ship.
This generation is an important one to tap. They are more ingrained in social networks than any other, growing up with these applications constantly at their disposal means they are more attached and more active. It's a powerful group to leverage to marketers as well as one that can increase activity for Google+, an area it's struggled with.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 9 (UPI) -- Bank of America will pay $800 million in refunds to cutovers and fines to regulators to settle allegations that it deceived customers with fraudulent credit card practices.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Bank of America illegally charged customers for services, such as credit monitoring and credit reporting services, without actually providing the services. The bank will pay consumers $772 million in refunds, a $20 million fine to the CFPB and a $25 million fine to the Office of Comptroller of the Currency.
"Bank of America both deceived consumers and unfairly billed consumers for services not performed," said Richard Cordray, the director of the consumer agency. "We will not tolerate such practices and will continue to be vigilant in our pursuit of companies who wrong consumers in this market."
Bank of America spokesman Tony Allen confirmed the settlement and said that "most of the refunds have already been issued."
The bank's deceptive practices included the bank's telemarketers telling customers that certain services were free for the first 30 days, when in fact the bank charged customers. Bank of America also misled customers by telling them they were agreeing to receive additional information about add-on services, but were actually being signed up for these services.
Additionally, the bank improperly charged 1.9 million consumers for credit card identity-theft monitoring and reporting services, but the services were not fully rendered.
The CFPB has come down hard on banks selling consumers credit card products they did not want or did not know they were being signed up for. The regulator in 2012 asked Capital One to reimburse $150 million to its two million customers and has since called out American Express and JPMorgan Chase for similar wrongdoings.
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Slade never looked cool, but that wasn't the point. They were four young lads out for a good time, and they wanted you to have a good time too. You can hear it on their classic album Slade Alive, when lead singer, Noddy Holder encourages everyone to get up, get ripping and really let themselves go. And during the 1970s, that's just what their fans did.
Slade were Noddy Holder, Jimmy lea, Don Powell and the sequined Dave ("You write 'em I'll sell 'em") Hill. Between 1970 and 1975, they sold over 6.5 million records in the UK alone, chalking up 6 number ones, 3 of which went straight to the top of the charts - a feat not achieved since The Beatles - and this at a time of 3-day weeks, power cuts and food shortages.
For their energy, dynamism and 4-chord songs, Slade were more of an influence on Punk than Iggy and The Stooges. Just listen to the opening riff for "Cum on Feel the Noize", it sounds like the start of a Sex Pistols track. Or try "Mama Weer All Crazee Now". As latter-day Mod-Father and frontman for The Jam, Paul Weller noted:
"The whole punk rock thing really happened because of bands such as Slade and the like; rock bands that wouldn't back off."
Then there's Noddy Holder, who may have looked like a grown-up Artful Dodger, but had a brilliant and unmistakable voice, which inspired Joey Ramone:
"I spent most of the early 70s listening to Slade Alive thinking to myself, 'Wow - this is what I want to do. I want to make that kind of intensity for myself.' A couple of years later I found myself at CBGB's doing my best Noddy Holder."
The tags were all there: Slade's first single was produced by Kim Fowley; their manager, was ex-Animal, Chas Chandler, who had managed Jimi Hendrix; and their writing partnership of Holder and Lea was compared to the greats who'd gone before, one of which, Paul McCartney saw the future of pop divided between Slade and T.Rex, just like The Beatles and The Stones.
It should have been, but in 1973, drummer Don Powell was seriously injured in a car crash that tragically killed his girlfriend. Slade nearly split. Then, there was their film Flame, not a mop-top romp, but a long-hard look at the music business - it alienated fans though is now considered the "Citizen Kane of rock musicals". Then, in a bid to conquer America, they spent 2 years Stateside, when Slade returned to the UK, Punk had taken over, and they were "old farts", even though the Pistols' Steve Jones thought that:
"Slade never compromised. We always had the feeling that they were on our side. I don't know but I think we were right."
It's Slade is a well-deserved and refreshing reassessment of one Britain's greatly under-rated bands, with excellent archive and contributions from Slade, Ozzy Osbourne, Toyah Wilcox and Noel Gallagher.
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With the addition of Justin Turner on Wednesday, the Dodgers have extended spring training invitations to 17 non-roster players:
Infielders: Turner, Chone Figgins, Miguel Rojas, Brendan Harris, Clint Robinson
Outfielder: Joc Pederson
Catchers: JC Boscan, Griff Erickson, Chris O'Brien, Miguel Olivo
Pitchers: Sam Demel, Carlos Frias, Zach Lee, Daniel Moskos, Red Patterson, Chris Reed, Ross Stripling
Two years ago, Jamey Wright made the Dodgers' Opening Day roster out of camp as an NRI. Last year, no non-roster invitees made the roster — though you figure Kevin Gregg was close. The Dodgers' surplus of starting pitchers squeezed Gregg out of a job in Los Angeles, and he eventually became the Chicago Cubs' closer.
So recent history says that the 17 NRIs are competing for one job at most. Not all have a realistic chance of making the team. In most cases, injuries will dictate the winner of the logjam. That's particularly true for Pederson, the catchers and the pitchers.
The Dodgers are carrying four outfielders (Matt Kemp, Andre Ethier, Carl Crawford and Yasiel Puig) with large guaranteed contracts. The fifth is Scott Van Slyke, who has value as a corner outfielder/first baseman with power off the bench. Pederson, who turns 22 on April 21, can turn heads in camp if his .912 OPS in the Venezuelan Winter League was no fluke, but that might be all he can do. There's no job for him without another significant injury hitting the outfield — and remember that Kemp still isn't running on his surgically repaired ankle.
Among the catchers, all A.J. Ellis and Tim Federowicz need to do to reprise their 2013 Opening Day jobs is stay healthy. Olivo, who's played in more than 1,100 major-league games since 2002, knew that when he signed with the Dodgers on Jan. 17. He'll try to push Drew Butera for the primary catcher's job at Triple-A Albuquerque.
The pitching staff is also surprisingly stacked with veterans who are difficult to displace. Lee, Stripling, Reed, Patterson and Frias are competing to make an impression and learn the ropes in their first camp, not land an Opening Day job. Demel and Moskos have major-league experience but are slotted for roles in the Albuquerque bullpen and rotation, respectively.
So that leaves us with the infielders. Second base is an open competition until Alex Guerrero learns the position defensively. Until we see him in camp, it'll be hard to pin down Guerrero's learning curve. Other than starting third baseman Juan Uribe, and light-hitting utilityman Justin Sellers, Dee Gordon is the only player on the Dodgers' 40-man roster with experience at second base. He only learned the position last year. There's a reasonably wide opening here.
Rojas will go as far as his bat will take him — historically, he's struggled to hit at the Triple-A level.
The same goes for Figgins, whose 68 OPS+ the last three seasons isn't enough to justify a 40-man roster spot. Figgins will have to prove in camp that his bat speed at age 36 is as major-league ready as his foot speed and defensive versatility — he's played 647 career games at third base, 274 at second and 27 at shortstop. No other player in camp is quite as versatile, and the longtime leadoff hitter will help his cause if he can steal a base.
In some ways, the 33-year-old Harris is a slower version of Figgins. He's able to play third base, shortstop and second base, and carries a light bat (.695 career OPS).
Robinson is a 28-year-old first baseman whose career consists of 3,337 at-bats in the minors and four in the majors. With at least two first basemen ahead of him on the depth chart in camp, Robinson's chances of getting a major league at-bat this season range from slim to none.
Turner is an above-average fielding second baseman and has been for parts of five major-league seasons. What really makes him stand out in this group is his track record at the plate. Turner is the definition of an average hitter, as a 100 OPS+ and 0.9 oWAR last season attest. Baseball-reference.com's version of oWAR rated Turner a 1.6 in 2011, his only full major-league season.
Dodgers manager Don Mattingly and general manager Ned Colletti have agreed that second base can be a defensive position in 2014. But if they want to give the second-base job on Opening Day to an above-average fielder and an average hitter, Turner might be the only man in camp who fits that description.
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Found in 2011 in Sherman Oaks, California, NVX is relatively a new player in the market. According to the website, the company's primary goal is to maintain high product quality through technical innovation while educating consumers with essential facts. While NVX still remains largely unknown as a headphone manufacturer, as long as they stay true to their philosophy, a commercial success is inevitable.
Who says a good thing comes in small packages? XPT100 is bundled with a huge carrying case, 2 pairs of ComfortMax™ ear pads(standard + angled), and two detachable cables. Since most of "well-known" headphone manufacturers tend to reduce the number of bundled accessories in the product package to save production cost in these days, NVX's approach is the most welcomed.
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The headphone is built to last. While the housing is rock-solid, there is absolutely no joint that makes a squeaking sound, crying for better built quality. Moreover, all of the parts can easily be disassembled and put back together within a minute, except the headband's foam part. In addition, there are two acoustic vents at the sides of the housing, which opens up a chance for modification.
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WINSTON SALEM, NC - All players strive for perfection and the Blue Devil's Ryan Kelly has darn near achieved that in his past two games. Today, Kelly dropped a career high 20 points on 6 of 6 shooting, and 4 of those were three point shots in Duke's 83-59 win over Wake Forest.
This past Wednesday, a single free throw kept him from perfection at N.C. State where he was 4 of 4 from the field to go with 8 rebounds, 1 steal and 2 blocked shots. His totals for the last two games you ask? Kelly has gone 10 for 10 from the field, 8 of 8 from the three point stripe, grabbed 14 rebounds, has 3 blocks, 3 assists and 4 steals.
Senior Duke star Kyle Singler said, "He's not really an athletic guy but he's long and he's able to make plays. He just knows how to play the game and to have a guy like that on your team is a good thing and it's a big help for us of late. He plays hard and spreads the floor for us on the offensive end and if left open he can really hurt you."
Duke has needed a third player to become a consistent offensive weapon and Kelly for now fits the bill. When asked whether he could be the third option, Kelly told BDN, "I'll do whatever coach wants of me. Today, on offense, I was getting open shots and they were falling."
In the post game, Coach Krzyzewski had this to say about Kelly, "He's just been good the whole season and since ACC play, he's gotten better every game. He's a very reliable player, he doesn't get flustered and he knows where he is suppose to be on the court. He's become more aggressive with his shot in the last week or so and that's where we want him to be. He's a really good shooter and we want him to take it."
Kelly's last game was in front of his hometown folks in Raleigh and his play against a Pack team with their ears pinned back, helped Duke to a road win. The Duke sophomore was happy to see he had recognition after that game and he's never at a loss for words when the media comes his way and that's something he clearly wants more of.
"I'm just working hard before and after practice and have confidence. And my teammates are finding me when I'm open and in the last couple of games I am knocking them down and if I continue to do that everything will fall into place." stated Kelly in the Duke locker room.
His recent success is making Duke fans forget his struggles with his shot just a few weeks ago, where the three ball just wasn't falling. "It's mainly concentration and earlier this season I wasn't where I wanted to be but Coach Wojo has been working with me whether it be after practice, be it rebounding strong or going for balls and that's helped immensely."
Kelly is also starting to shoot the three ball at Duke more so than he did in high school. "In high school I was bigger than most kids I played but was skinny. Now that I have gotten to college, I've been asked to do certain things that have become a part of my skill set but I have to continue to get better. I'm confident every shot I take is going in."
When I approached Kelly in the locker room today, he was slated to do the post game show with Bob Harris which more or less means he was the player of the game. He gave a little laugh and lit up when I said, "Man, you had pretty much a perfect game." Kelly, like most kids loves his chance to be in the limelight and when you do that at Duke, a true basketball school, it's likely even more satisfying for the whole nation knows of your exploits.
With more tough games ahead in conference play and a road game at St. John's, it would be nice for Duke if Kelly stays consistent with his play on a team that needs other players not named Kyle Singler and Nolan Smith to step up. "When I have an opening on offense I know my teammates and coaches are confident in me knocking them down. I did tonight and that was always a good feeling."
You can bet that Kelly will continue to get the ball from his teammates provided he keeps nailing his shots and according to Krzyzewski, he expects even more from Kelly, stating to the media "I think you'll see shot fakes and moves to the whole for he has good balance. He's not a great jumping athlete but he's a player."
I asked Kelly how he could build on and continue his play of late and he exclaimed, "Just stay confident. I'm not going to go 6 for 6 every game but I'll come to work and stay hungry and good things will happen."


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By Jonnelle Marte
How do you get young people to care about a boring topic? You hipsterize it.
That's how tax preparer H&R Block is attempting to get twentysomethings talking about taxes. The "Hipster Tax Crisis," a spoof campaign launched earlier this month, is ramping up as the April 15 tax deadline approaches. The initiative features a series of video skits starring ESPN host Kenny Mayne, who is tasked with educating fake hipsters about the complications of the tax code. People can go on a website dedicated to the spoof to "hipsterize" photos of themselves by digitally adding mustaches and knitted caps and to vote for who they think should be the "Hipster of the Year."
They can also flip through hipster tax facts, such as "The IRS e-file system is currently incompatible with all vintage typewriters even if your coffee shop has free Wifi." And they can read about the key components of a hipster as shown in a cartoon illustration, including the horn rimmed non-prescription glasses, a vintage hat and the crusty, canvas high-top shoes.
The efforts will be wrapped up at an April 1 event in Seattle called the "Irony Games," where people will find out who was dubbed Hipster of the Year, while drinking free Pabst Blue Ribbon beer and watching a live performance by the Chicago rap group Flavor Savers singing "Hipster Tax Rap," a song about the troubles hipsters have with doing their taxes. "W-2, 1099s, all of these forms are going to blow my mind," the rappers sing during a music video for the song.
The campaign is being run by Elasticity, the digital marketing and public relations firm based in St. Louis that organized H&R Block's last hipster-minded operation, the Mustache March, a walk held in Washington, D.C., that raised $10,000 for Millions from One, a nonprofit that promotes safe drinking water. "Humor has proven to be a great medium to humanize a brand," says Aaron Perlut, founder and managing partner for Elasticity. "Particularly a brand that specializes in a topic like taxes."
H&R Block says the play is meant to keep the brand's name fresh among millennials and engage young people. Many of them likely already filed their taxes, says Jerod Laughlin, vice president of interactive marketing and media for H&R Block, but might think of H&R Block at this time next year. "Let's be honest, taxes are not one of the most stimulating subjects around," says Laughlin. "So if you want to engage with young people you've got to give them something fun to engage in the conversation with."
In one video, Mayne tells the group they may not have to file tax returns if their income is below a certain amount. "How many people think they make under that amount?" he asks. Most of the dozen or so hipsters in front of him raised their hands. "So this might be a short meeting," he responds dryly. "Good start."
Other burning topics featured in the series include a discussion on whether pets qualify as dependents and how the hipsters plan to spend their refunds. Big plans included shopping for quinoa, kale shakes and bed frames. The videos have been viewed more than 100,000 times.
It's not clear how much the hipster play will do to lift the company's brand or if the content will go viral. H&R Block declined to say what share of its customers are young enough that they might fall within the hipster demographic. Such information can be tricky to collect since tax returns filed for families can include taxpayers in several age groups, the company said. But staffers running the campaign did say the company wants to attract younger customers in order to keep the business growing. "You've got to keep revitalizing and refreshing your brands" says Laughlin. "You've got to keep getting younger customers."
But if not for the hipsters or the free beer, some people might get involved for the charity component. H&R Block is donating 50 cents for every person who shares a video, hipsterized photo or hipster tax fact with the hashtag #hipstertax to Covenant House, a charity that supports homeless children.