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Student Eligibility Requirements & Responsibilities for Credit-Bearing Internships
- An Emerson student is free to pursue an internship of his/her choosing. However, a credit-bearing internship must be approved by the Departmental Internship Coordinator within the student's academic department (not the Career Development Center).
- An undergraduate student must meet basic eligibility requirements (64 credit hours and 2.7 GPA) to pursue an internship for either 4 or 8 credits.
- The student is responsible for knowing and ensuring the completion of all course prerequisites in order to register for a credit-bearing internship.
- Varying by department, graduate students can earn 2, 4 or 8 units of credit for an internship. However, students must petition to take more than 4 credits of internship in one semester. Petitions are available in the Office of Graduate Studies.
- A 4-credit internship requires an intern to complete 16-24 hours per week for a minimum of 192 clock hours over a 12- week period within the semester.
- An 8-credit internship requires an intern to complete 32-38 hours per week for a minimum of 384 clock hours over a 12-week period within the semester.
- A 2-credit internship (only available to some graduate students) requires an intern to complete clock hours as deemed appropriate by the Departmental Internship Coordinator over a 12-week period within the semester.
- A spring or fall internship must begin within the first 2 weeks of the semester. A summer internship must begin within the first week of the semester.
- There is an academic course associated with taking a credit-bearing internship, and each student receives a letter grade for his/her work. Each academic department has a Departmental Internship Coordinator who instructs the course.
- Each student who intends to complete an internship for credit must register for the internship course no later than the internship registration deadline. Please refer to the College's academic calendar for specific dates.
- The student must register for an internship within his/her academic department. Internships cannot be done within a student's minor.
- The student is not required to report his/her host organization choice when registering for the internship course.
- The student must complete an Internship Experience Proposal through the Career Development Center. Once complete, his/her host organization supervisor and Departmental Internship Coordinator must review it for approval by the internship registration deadline. Please refer to the College's academic calendar for specific dates. Note: A student cannot begin his/her internship until the experience proposal has been completed.
- Undergraduate students can apply a maximum of 12 internship credits, with the exception of student teaching, and no more than 12 credits of any combination of internship, directed project and directed study to the total graduation requirements. The Los Angeles Program and Washington Semester internships count against the 12-credit limit.
- The student intern is expected to comply with the Emerson College Code of Conduct in all interactions with their host organization. Please see the Student Handbook.
- During Thanksgiving, Spring Break, and various holidays, Emerson College is closed. The student intern is not required to complete internship hours with his/her host organization during these times. However, if a student chooses to complete internship hours during a break or holiday, he/she should not exceed the weekly limits stated above.
- A student may not take an internship as a directed study or directed project.
- A graduate student cannot transfer credits from another school or program. An undergraduate student needs approval from the Department Chair in order to transfer internship credits from another school or program. If the credits are approved, then they count against the 12-credit limit.
- A student may not use Emerson College as a host organization for a credit bearing internship.
- A student completing an internship in Los Angeles, CA, must be enrolled in the Emerson College LA Program.
- An international student who pursues a PAID internship must be earning credit and follow the Curricular Practical Training (CPT) guidelines. Note: The authorizing process can take up to 3-4 weeks and the student cannot begin an internship until the process has been completed. Please see the Office of International Student Affairs for CPT guidelines and authorization.
We recommend that students waive their rights under the Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act (FERPA) to permit the College to communicate with the Internship Site about the student's progress. Whether or not a student waives his or her FERPA rights will have no impact on the College's decision whether to approve this program.
Host Organization Responsibilities for Credit-Bearing Internships
- A student intern cannot complete a credit-bearing internship with an organization that is his/her current employer.
- Organizations that host an Emerson College student intern must provide one identified, on-site intern supervisor who has knowledge and an educational and/or professional background in the industry of the internship.
- The host organization is expected to comply with the Emerson College Anti-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment policies in all interactions with the student intern.
- The host organization supervisor is responsible for ensuring that the intern is provided with a safe workspace. The workspace must be in a professional office and cannot be located in a private residence or non-commercial setting.
- The host organization supervisor is responsible for ensuring that no more than 25% of the intern's duties involve clerical work.
- The host organization supervisor is responsible for ensuring that the student intern does not perform inappropriate tasks, such as maintenance duties or personal errands for host organization employees.
- The host organization supervisor is responsible for ensuring that the student intern is not required to use their personal automobiles for duties at or related to the internship/intern site.
- Organizations may offer to host an undergraduate student intern for a second semester. If the student accepts this offer, he/she is responsible for obtaining academic department approval from their Departmental Internship Coordinator. The approval process requires the student to prove that the second internship will provide a new academic challenge (i.e. new department, project, or supervisor). Graduate students are not permitted to complete additional credit- bearing internships with the host organization.
- Liability Insurance: Emerson College's liability insurance includes student interns under limited circumstances. It covers Emerson student interns while they are serving in a supervised (i.e. credit bearing) internship program in satisfaction of course requirements, as long as they are acting within the scope of their duties or obligations as interns. The insurance, underwritten by Lexington Insurance Company Reciprocal Risk Retention Group, a well-known higher education insurer, contains the limitations and exclusions common to such policies.
- Organizations who host an international student who is not being paid should be aware that there are particular rules which preclude them from receiving any compensation, including gifts in kind or "freebies" unless they are authorized for such in advance. (CPT)
- The host organization supervisor is responsible for submitting two performance evaluations to the student intern's Departmental Internship Coordinator during the course of the semester. Evaluations are used in determining the student's course grade.


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MaxHandle necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 89 diseños de 45 diseñadores freelance.
I need a logo for my site http://www.marketingwithmiles.com I will eventually be redoing the header for the site and will incorporate the logo into the new header, but I need a kick-butt logo that I can use on templates, emails, t-shirts, stationary, etc. Also, I don't want my picture in the logo. Logo should read Marketing With Miles the .com is not on the logo.
Marketing With Miles
Desired Color Scheme:
blue, or dark blue perhaps, maybe some green
Desired Style:
Something slick, kind of a web 2.0 look but without the reflection. I want to be able to use it on templates, business cards, and the top of my website http://www.marketingwithmiles.com so perhaps something a bit wider than tall.
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A logo for my site http://www.marketingwithmiles.com
I will eventually be redoing the header of the site to incorporate the logo but would like it if the logo matches the colors and feel of the site but also can stand on its own for other uses like t-shirts, stationary, business card, etc.
Something web 2.0, slick, eye-catching perhaps. Needs to be in vector format.
I would also like to avoid dollar signs or money, but perhaps use of graphs or something, not sure, surprise me.
Logo should include Marketing With Miles but NOT .com
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Welcome to Shamrocks & Shenanigans!
We hope you join us for Shamrocks & Shenanigans in downtown Ann Arbor, March 15, 2020!!
Save A Heart is an organization that raises funds to benefit patients and their families who come to the Michigan Congenital Heart Center at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital. Highly experienced cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, intensive care specialists, nurses, social workers, anesthesiologists and radiologists provide comprehensive care for infants, children and young adults with congenital heart disease.
Funds raised by Save A Heart support families with travel, lodging and other expenses. These funds also support clinical research. In a time when more medical costs are being shifted to the patient, one of the goals is to relieve the families' financial burdens during a very stressful period in their lives.Click here for more information about "Save A Heart"


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Top 10 Anticipated Motorcycles of 2015
This is truly going to be an exciting year of riding
1. Yamaha R1/R1M
Yamaha played the hype machine just right with the R1 and R1M, letting the bike's features and specifications speak for itself. So much so, it's the 2015 model we at Motorcycle.com are most anxious to ride. Where do we even begin when discussing the reasons why? We can start with the 998cc inline-Four, its crossplane crankshaft, and the nearly 200 hp it's claimed to put out at its crankshaft.
2015 Literbike Spec Chart Comparo
And then there's the nearly endless amounts of MotoGP technology littered throughout the R1, like magnesium wheels, titanium fracture-split con rods, aluminum fuel tank and a plethora of top-tech electronic rider aids built around a six-axis Inertial Measuring Unit. The multi-axis IMU senses pitch, roll and yaw data 125 times per second to mitigate wheelies and stoppies while providing sophisticated traction control and MotoGP-derived slide control. And on the up-spec R1M, there's GPS telemetry and Ohlins electronic suspension. Yamaha's latest R1s, at least on paper, have the markings to be a real game changer in the liter-class superbike field.


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Date and time format variables
This topic lists the variables that you can use to define time formats in the evaluation functions strftime() and strptime(). You can also use these variables to describe timestamps in event data.
Additionally, you can use the
relative_time() and
now() time functions as arguments.
For more information about working with dates and time, see Time modifiers for search and About searching with time in the Search Manual.
Refer to the list of tz database time zones for all permissible time zone values. For more information about how the Splunk software determines a time zone and the tz database, see Specify time zones for timestamps in Getting Data In.
Date and time variables
|The date and time in the current locale's format as defined by the server's operating system. For example,
Mon Jul 13 09:30:00 2017 for US English on Linux.
|The date and time with time zone in the current locale's format as defined by the server's operating system. For example,
Mon Jul 13 09:30:00 PDT 2017 for US English on Linux.
Time variables
|Splunk-specific, timezone in minutes.
|Hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number. Hours are represented by the values 00 to 23. Leading zeros are accepted but not required.
|Hour (12-hour clock) with the hours represented by the values 01 to 12. Leading zeros are accepted but not required.
|Like %H, the hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number. Leading zeros are replaced by a space, for example 0 to 23.
|Minute as a decimal number. Minutes are represented by the values 00 to 59. Leading zeros are accepted but not required.
|Subseconds with width. (%3N = milliseconds, %6N = microseconds, %9N = nanoseconds)
|AM or PM.
|The subsecond component of 2017-11-30 23:59:59.999 UTC.
%3Q = milliseconds, with values of 000-999. %6Q = microseconds, with values of 000000-999999. %9Q = nanoseconds, with values of 000000000-999999999.
|Second as a decimal number, for example 00 to 59.
|The Unix Epoch Time timestamp, or the number of seconds since the Epoch: 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC). (1484993700 is Sat Jan 21 10:15:00 2017)
|The time in 24-hour notation (%H:%M:%S). For example 23:59:59.
|The time in the format for the current locale. For US English the format for 9:30 AM is
|The timezone abbreviation. For example
EST for US Eastern Standard Time.
|The timezone offset from UTC, in hour and minute: +hhmm or -hhmm. For example, for 5 hours before UTC the values is
-0500 which is US Eastern Standard Time.
|A literal "%" character.
Date variables
|Equivalent to %Y-%m-%d (the ISO 8601 date format).
|The date in the format of the current locale. For example, 7/13/2017 for US English.
Specifying days and weeks
|Full weekday name. (Sunday, ..., Saturday)
|Abbreviated weekday name. (Sun, ... ,Sat)
|Day of the month as a decimal number, includes a leading zero. (01 to 31)
|Like %d, the day of the month as a decimal number, but a leading zero is replaced by a space. (1 to 31)
|Day of year as a decimal number, includes a leading zero. (001 to 366)
|Week of the year. (1 to 52)
|Weekday as a decimal number. (0 = Sunday, ..., 6 = Saturday)
Specifying months
|Abbreviated month name. (Jan, Feb, etc.)
|Full month name. (January, February, etc.)
|Month as a decimal number. (01 to 12). Leading zeros are accepted but not required.
Specifying year
|Year as a decimal number, without the century. (00 to 99). Leading zeros are accepted but not required.
|Year as a decimal number with century. For example, 2017.
|Time format string
|%b %d, %Y
|Feb 11, 2017
|q|%d%b '%y = %Y-%m-%d|
|q|23 Apr '17 = 2017-04-23|
|Returns the week number values in the WeekNo field.
Statistical and charting functions
Time modifiers
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.4, 6.0.5, 6.0.6, 6.0.7, 6.0.8, 6.0.9, 6.0.10, 6.0.11, 6.0.12, 6.0.13, 6.0.14, 6.0.15, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.1.2, 6.1.3, 6.1.4, 6.1.5, 6.1.6, 6.1.7, 6.1.8, 6.1.9, 6.1.10, 6.1.11, 6.1.12, 6.1.13, 6.1.14, 6.2.0, 6.2.1, 6.2.2, 6.2.3, 6.2.4, 6.2.5, 6.2.7, 6.2.8, 6.2.9, 6.2.10, 6.2.11, 6.2.12, 6.2.13, 6.2.14, 6.2.15, 6.3.0, 6.3.1, 6.3.2, 6.3.3, 6.3.4, 6.3.5, 6.3.6, 6.3.7, 6.3.8, 6.3.9, 6.3.10, 6.3.11, 6.3.12, 6.3.13, 6.3.14, 6.4.0, 6.4.1, 6.4.2, 6.4.3, 6.4.4, 6.4.5, 6.4.6, 6.4.7, 6.4.8, 6.4.9, 6.4.10, 6.4.11, 6.5.0, 6.5.1, 6.5.1612 (Splunk Cloud only), 6.5.2, 6.5.3, 6.5.4, 6.5.5, 6.5.6, 6.5.7, 6.5.8, 6.5.9, 6.5.10, 6.2.6
Hello jlks
You would use the strftime function. Since your times include nanoseconds, you must convert them to seconds using the pow function. See the Usage section in the strftime function for an example of how to do that. Here is the link to that documentation: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.2.4/SearchReference/DateandTimeFunctions#strftime.28X.2CY.29
Hi All,
How do i convert epoch time to readable time?
my formats are in:
How do you audit the Domain Controller if that is what is generating the time? Is there a script to use to get those results? Our policy is it must be within 1 minute of accuracy to protect the integrity of all the audits. So how can I audit the internal system clocks that generate the time stamps?
Thanks Masonmorales!
TIME_FORMAT for rfc3339 date format (example: 2018-11-03T16:47:28.254283-04:00)
Hope this helps others!
Thanks for the correction. I added the %V variable to the list of day and week variables and included it in the Examples section. I also added an example to the strftime(X) function.
Correction to the code in my previous [below] comment:
The following should work:
| makeresults 1
| eval WeekNo = strftime(_time, "%V"), timestamp = strftime(_time, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%N")
Please mention the %V variable. It extracts the "Week No. of Year" from the epoch timestamp.
Ex.: | eval Week = strftime(strptime(_time, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%N"), "%V")
I have USER IDs and TIME_ELAPSED with 100 rows. Time Elapsed is in string format. Now i want to take total time elapsed per user id and want to display it in a graphical view.
Please help and provide your input.
It appears that splunk supports modifier flavs after the "%", but I do not see any mention of this on this page. For example:
- (hyphen) Do not pad the field
_ (underscore) Pad with spaces
0 (zero) Pad with zeroes
^ Upper case (where possible)
# Opposite case (where possible)
Hi Adam
Thank you for your feedback on the time format variables. The only difference between %Q and %N is how many digits they default to if you don't include a field width.
Suppose you specify this:
… |stats count| eval _raw=strftime(12345.123456789,"%N %q %Q")
It would return this:
123456000 123456 123
Note that even though %N defaults to 9 digits, currently only 6 get real values (the others are the zeros) because of the range of UNIX's "struct timeval"
If you specify an explicit field width, these 2 format variables return the same values.
If you specify 5 as the explicit field width for each of the variables, this search:
…|stats count| eval _raw=strftime(12345.123456789,"%5N %5q %5Q")
Returns this:
12345 12345 12345
Can some more clarification be made with regards to the difference between %N and %Q?
You can always use the where command to filter out events in a certain time range and the relative_time function.
| where _time<relative_time(now(),"-30m")
_time > relative_time(now(),"-15m")
These would filter out events between 15 and 30 minutes ago.
is there a way to parse long and short year format in one sourcetype? e.g. we have 01-Nov-16 and 01-Nov-2016 in the log and only one could be recognised properly.
Is there a way to exclude a time range from a scheduled report? Please provide example if so, thanks.
Thank you for the examples!
I have added them to the documentation.
For reference on alternate timezone formats:
%z - hour and minute (e.g. +0500)
%:z - hour and minute separated with a colon (e.g. +05:00)
%::z - hour minute and second separated with colons (e.g. +05:00:00)
%:::z - hour only (e.g. +05)
It seems that we also can "extract" tab characters as %t, if a tab appears in your event data.
Hello Splunk team !

What about the dates before the 1970/1/1 ?

Greg


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Most family history researchers focus their early work on census records. Census records do contain a wealth of information and cover rural areas, small towns and cities.
However, if your ancestors lived in one of America's cities, there is another resource that deserves your equal attention, namely city directories. Here is a lively example of how they can help you fill in your family's story and answer puzzling questions.
I recently sent a cousin the family history that I had discovered — building on the great work my sister did when she and and her husband lived in Madison, Wisconsin, and their son was a baby. The cousin emailed a question I too had wondered about:
"Why was Beatrice Jane Bruce born in Cambridge, Massachusetts?'
I never thought I could find the answer — until Ancestry.com put hundreds and hundreds of city directories from the 1880s and 1890s onto its Web site. The directories help fill the gap caused by the loss of the 1890 census records in a major fire.
In those days, before people had telephone numbers, city directories included name, address — and occupation. So I wondered, would there be one for Cambridge, Mass., for 1896 and would Bea's father Martin P. Bruce be in it? Voila! Yes! The entry reads as follows:
Bruce, Martin P., Salesman, Fish Bros. Wagon Co., h. 56 Baldwin.
Fish Bros. Wagon Company was a very large Racine, Wisconsin, firm that sold their wooden wagons nationwide and overseas. It was controlled by J.I Case of Racine. Fish Bros. made both work wagons and fancy wagons such as phaetons and trotting buggies. You can read more about the firm and see a sketch of the Racine plant online.
So it seems that Martin, newly married in 1895, took a position that promised better opportunities than his occupation as a clerk or accountant — which he had pursued since 1887 when he was 17 years old. Even if that meant Martin Bruce and his wife Grace Booth Bruce having to move east across the country to a new city.
They were there just one year, with daughter Beatrice Jane Bruce born 22 May 1896. Perhaps Martin did not like the life of a salesman. [He likely was a sales agent for Fish Bros., calling on businesses that sold the wagons to customers]. Or, with a new baby, Martin and Grace wanted to be back in Milwaukee among their families.
In any case, by the time the 1897 Milwaukee Directory was published, Martin, Grace and Bea were back in Milwaukee. Martin was listed that year as:
Bruce Martin P., bkpr. 205 Wells, h 465 Hanover
What company did he work for as a bookkeeper? Based on the address at 205 Wells, it was J. Dorsch & Sons, a company that sold agricultural implements and carriages. Its directory listing says:
J. DORSCH & SONS, agric. Implts and carriages, 195 2d and 205-211 Wells.
Martin had worked there as early as 1892, according to city directories. We surmise that he got to know the sales representatives of Fish Bros. Wagon Company. And there is the likely link to the sales job in Cambridge.
So there is why Bea was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, courtesy of city directories for Cambridge and Milwaukee.
You can find city directories in your local libraries or on microfilm through LDS Family History Centers or via Interlibrary Loan, all at a very low cost. Check them out soon!
This is one in a series of genealogy and family history research articles to help you find your family and ancestors, often for modest or no cost.


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Thursday, August 18, 2011
Going Wako for Fried Pork: Wako Donkasu
Wako Donkasu, on Olympic a few blocks east of Normandie, is a mostly Japanese style donkatsu. The only trace of Korean cuisine are two very small but very good panchan: a tangy radish kimchi and a wonderfully garlicky dish of sliced, pickled jalapeños.
The pork is tender and juicy with a light, crispy crust. For the sauce, you are initially given a bowl of freshly roasted sesame seeds with a wooden pestle to pulverize them with. The waiter then dumps the sauce on top and you mix the sesame seeds throughout, which gives the sweet and fruity (but not overly gloppy) sauce a nice nutty fragrance.
We also tried the fried New York strip which was also excellent. It was fried just as carefully as the pork but packed in even more flavor and had better contrast when combined with the sauce.
The combo comes with a fried protein (pork, beef or chicken), a pile of cabbage salad, soba noodles, a fried shrimp and a fried potato ball (think fried mashed potatoes). The soba was fine, but nothing special. The things to get here are the fried meats.
This place is dangerously close to where I work and live. I see lots of fried pork in my future.
Wako Donkasu
2904 W. Olympic Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90006
(213) 387-9256
3 comments:
Hi SKU,
This is the Tony Bourdain/Ozersky of Korean and World cuisine. Be sure to hit the yahoo translate button.
Maybe you'll come visit Korea.
Also, the Buffalo Trace Single Oak Project is at Green Jug and K&L now. Do you have any suggestions to which ones are good? JHansell likes the odd #'s 67 and 99 I believe.
- August 19, 2011 at 9:40 PM
- sku said...
Thanks for the link Anon. I hadn't seen that. I would love to visit Korea someday.
I won't be trying the first release of the Single Oak until next month, but I hope to post something once I sample it. Unfortunately, you probably need to grab it as soon as it's available if you want it. I had thought most places are selling it only by the case.
- August 19, 2011 at 10:33 PM
Thanks SKU!
Green Jug has them for sale individually for $99.99 which is a rip off. I might as well just order and ship from The Party Source in Louisville.
igundown received Yahoo's blog of the year award. Great photos and fair, unbiased reviews.
- August 20, 2011 at 7:56 PM


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Well look who it is, its a pony version of my favorite Walking Dead character, Rick Grimes. Today I will be showing you "how to draw Rick Grimes pony", step by step. This guy is so cool, he deserves to have a pony made in his image. This was a random drawing that I began as a rough sketch while I was Live the other night. I didn't realize how many people would later ask me if I was going to turn this pony of Rick Grimes a tutorial. Now because there are so many Walking Dead fans, I figured why not. Plus, this lesson will keep us occupied while we wait till February 10 for the new episode. I can't wait to see what happens to Merle and Daryl. Anyways, have fun people and be sure leave comments, and ratings. This helps others know what other people think of the tut. Adios amigos!
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Lagos, Nigeria, August 30, 2012--Authorities in Guinea closed a private radio station on Sunday, preventing the outlet from reporting on the next day's protests, according to news reports. Liberté FM has been targeted in the past, the reports said.
Authorities in Guinea's southeastern N'Zérékoré forested region summarily shut Liberté FM in the evening without providing an explanation to the station's staff, according to news reports. Local journalists told CPJ they believed the station had been closed to prevent it from broadcasting protests in Conakry, the capital, news reports said. Opposition leaders had called for protests on Monday to demand free and transparent parliamentary elections, which have been repeatedly postponed since 2010, the reports said. The journalists also said the outlet had been targeted because it had allowed opposition leaders to call for protests over the August 3 massacre by security forces of villagers in the Zogota district in the N'Zérékoré region.
The station was unable to broadcast live coverage of the protests, news reports said. It was allowed to resume broadcasting on Monday afternoon only after rights groups, press unions, and opposition leaders condemned the closure publicly, according to news reports.
Liberté FM's director, Alpha Saliou Diallo, told CPJ that the regional governor, Lance Condé (no relation to the president), had told him that the station had been shut down on the orders of the "highest authorities" in Conakry, the capital. But presidential spokesman Mohamed Lamin Soumah told CPJ that the decision to close Liberté FM had been made by the regional governor as a result of the station's coverage of the killings in Zogota. Soumah called the governor's decision an "abuse of authority," and said that it had prompted the government to reverse the order, news reports said.
Liberté FM has been targeted in the past. Diallo told CPJ that police had shut the outlet in 2010 during a live broadcast and detained two journalists for criticizing President Alpha Condé. In early 2007, military officers vandalized the station's offices in Conakry and arrested several journalists, news reports said.
"By censoring news outlets like Liberté FM and intimidating journalists, Guinean authorities continue to undercut democracy," said CPJ Africa Advocacy Mohamed Keita from New York. "President Alpha Condé's government should stop this trend and allow the press to do its job."
Several journalists were harassed and their vehicle damaged during Monday's protests in Conakry, local journalists told CPJ. Abdourahamane Diallo, a journalist for the local Espace FM, reported that the attacks occurred in the presence of police officers, who did nothing to help the journalists.
Soumah told CPJ that opposition supporters had attacked the journalists. "It was opposition militants who attacked the journalists because they were unhappy that security blocked the demonstration."
- For more data and analysis on Guinea, visit CPJ's Guinea page here.


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who would u want to win if u not an indian or pakistani
who would u want to win if u not an indian or pakistani
beware of ''THE-AFRIDI'' factor
''If this kid was in America he could have made millions playing base ball '' BOYCOTT
definately pakistan. i can't stand india's arrogant attitude towards cricket and find the pakies a top group of guys... especially that shoaib guy... he's a real showman and entertainer
WCC - Manager of Warwickshire
I want to see really good cricket and the best team to win.
R.I.P Fardin Qayyumi (Cricket Player)
'Last one on drugs is a queer,' yells portillo..
Hope is a good thing, maybe even the best of things. And no good thing ever dies......
Self appointed president of the KPPAS
AmenOriginally Posted by twctopcat
Pakistan for mine... though I dont expect them to win
Jesus brings life eternal
LOOK WHOZ TALKING, what a pathetic replyOriginally Posted by Slats4ever
He must have been referring to Ganguly who can sometimes come across as a tad aloof and arrogant IMO.Originally Posted by Slats4ever
if u're refering to me as an individual i very rarely post in cricket chat...Originally Posted by Sehwag309
if u're refering to me as an australian, we have a right to be arrogant. we're by far the best.
Ur reply was arrogant.Originally Posted by Slats4ever
U have the right to be anything u like (as individual or country)
But by being arrogant (as u say), u bring ur country down, not promote it
No such thing as a right to be arrogant.Originally Posted by Slats4ever
I hope he meant only cricket when he said we are by far the bestOriginally Posted by Dasa
we're in cricket chat here. not status of country chat... so of course i mean cricket!!!Originally Posted by Sehwag309
Everybody body gives it to other people when their teams on top... it's human nature! it's hardly a blemish on one's character... it just depends what u mean by arrogance... but there's no need to tarnish a topic like this one.
oh and ps make the poll public so we can see that it's only non indians and pakies voting
I am not even Voting coz I assume the Poll was for Others
I know you only meant Cricket, was just playing with words. I know its human nature, but just the way one becomes arrogant when their teams are on top, others dislike them for the same reason and like to reply in kind whenever possible. ALL in FUN though
yeah definately. there's too much anger here on cricketweb these days... everyone getting so uptight when they read something they don't like hearing... i mean i disagree with all of u but still think u're all cool and entitled to ur opinions...
and if u're saying i don't do it "ALL in FUN" then maybe i don't like u Sehwag
India by far. Very little better than watching Sehwag, Laxman etc in form. Should be a top series.
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What happened after Victoria Woodhull's threat of exposure to the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, minutes before she was to begin her lecture to a hall jammed with spectators lured there in hopes of a candid exposition of free love, was probably a surprise to all. When Victoria and her supporters, her sister Tennie included, marched out onto the platform, Theodore Tilton was at the head of the group. Stepping to the front of the platform, he raised his hands to quiet the crowd, then explained that he had come to hear what his friend had to say on a great question of much importance to her, and since various gentlemen had declined to introduce her because of objections to her character, he would do so himself. He then vouched warmly for her character and said that it was with great pride that he presented Victoria Woodhull, who would speak on the subject of social freedom.
What had prompted this sudden act by Tilton? Perhaps he wanted to deflect her threat to expose Beecher, which would also compromise his wife's reputation. Perhaps he was yielding to a generous quixotic impulse, as he was known to do. And perhaps it was out of gallantry. The tone of his words was that of a lover. He may well have been one of her many inamorati, which complicates even more the complexities of the Beecher-Tilton relationship.
Following the outlines of a speech prepared by one of her male associates, Victoria began with an account of changing attitudes toward the freedom of the individual. But when she got to the present, she registered more passion and emphasis, and excitement began to mount in the audience, then hissing countered by applause.
"Are you a free lover?"someone shouted.
"Yes!" she replied. "I am a free lover!" And as cheers, hoots, and howls redoubled, she persisted with fervor, ignoring her prepared text completely: "I have an inalienable, constitutional, and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as a short a period as I can, to change that love every day if I please!"
Pandemonium ensued. Some hissed and booed; others cheered and tossed their hats in the air. She continued speaking for another ten minutes, decrying the false modesty that silences discussions of sex, and the evils attending such modesty's abuses, while insisting that she would have her fellow beings think well of her, that she was telling them her vision of the future because she loved them well. No one present was likely to forget her impassioned finale.
The speech was fully reported in the Herald, and dire consequences followed. Victoria and her household were soon forced to leave their mansion for a boardinghouse on 23rd Street, and business fell off dramatically at their Broad Street office. Commodore Vanderbilt's family were doubtlessly thanking their lucky stars -- or perhaps the Beneficent Creator -- that he had long since severed ties with this wanton and her sister, whose names would now be inexorably linked to free love. But if Americans didn't share the firebrand's opinions, they were eager to hear about them; lecture invitations poured in from all over the country.
A cartoon by Thomas Nast, 1872.
BE SAVED BY FREE LOVE offers Woodhull, in the garb of the Devil,
as a respectable housewife toils in the opposite direction, burdened with
children and an alcoholic spouse: "I'd rather follow the
hardest path of matrimony than follow in your footsteps."
In December 1871 the undaunted sisters marched up Broadway in solidarity with the International Workingmen's Association, in memory of martyred Communards executed by the bourgeois government of France after the brutal repression of the French Commune. And at the annual winter convention of the National Suffrage Association in Washington, Victoria appeared on the platform with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton, who were not yet ready to break with the firebrand whom some were now calling Mrs. Satan. Rumors of scandal plagued her campaign for the presidency on the ticket of the newly formed Equal Rights Party, and lack of funds forced her from the Broad Street office and caused the Weekly to suspend publication. Things didn't look good for Mrs. Satan.
But Victoria wasn't done yet. In September, when a delegate to the National Spiritualists' Association in Boston accused her of obtaining money under false pretenses, she took the stand and, furious, gave the details of the Rev. Beecher's affair with Libby Tilton. How dare he preach the sanctity of marriage while practicing free love clandestinely? Impressed, the spiritualists reelected her president of the association. So the cat was out of the bag at last.
Back in New York, using funds from a still unknown source, she revived Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly with a bang. The first new issue, dated November 2, 1872 (though published earlier), gave a lengthy account of the Beecher-Tilton scandal. She claimed to speak reluctantly, out of a sense of duty, so as to support her campaign against the outworn institution of marriage. She was nothing if not candid, mentioning Beecher's "demanding physical nature" and "immense physical potency." With the intimacy of Mrs. Tilton and the minister she had no quarrel, only with Beecher's hypocrisy. As for Tilton, his conduct had been no better than Beecher's; she deplored his displays of wounded feelings and pride. (Whatever intimacy they may once have shared by now had obviously soured.)
Word spread quickly; issues flew off the stands. By evening, they were said to be going for forty dollars a copy. The scandal of the century had finally burst into full view of the public.
On November 2, several days after the issue actually appeared, the sisters were arrested while riding in a carriage on Broad Street. Arraigned before a packed courtroom, they learned that they were charged with sending obscene matter through the mail, the matter involved being "an atrocious, abominable and untrue libel on a gentleman whom the whole country reveres." Who had brought the charges? None other than Anthony Comstock (see post #37), using a federal law of 1872, since the famous and infamous Comstock law had yet to be lobbied for and passed. The sisters were in full bloom, according to the press, which described Victoria as "sedate," and Tennie as "bright" and "animated," with sparkling blue eyes, and "splendid teeth" that she took care to display. And who was there to defend them? Another giant of the day whom we have seen already (post #29): William Howe, the bejeweled elephant. The sisters were a magnet for the eminences of the time.
Choosing not to put up bail, the sisters were confined to Ludlow Street Jail, where they vividly denounced the American Bastille to the journalists who flocked to interview them. (In point of fact, their durance was not so vile, since the staff there gave them courteous attention and by their own account never, during their sojourn, uttered a word unmentionable to ears polite.) Meanwhile Counselor Howe protested this attack on free speech, and insisted that the Bible, Lord Byron, and Shakespeare could be similarly suppressed. As the trial was endlessly delayed, the press made a good show of the lovely captives, their grim accuser, their diamond-bedecked defender, and others related to the case. Finally, after four weeks in the Bastille, the sisters consented to put up bail and were released. Their month's incarceration had won them sympathy, and garnered Comstock criticism and more than a touch of mockery.
| Poster for a lecture by the sisters following their incarceration.
From the collections of the Museum of the City of New York.
The whole affair dragged on, with further legal complications, and ever fuller measures of mockery for Comstock from the ungodly, until a ruling came at last on June 27, 1873, when the presiding judge ruled that the 1872 law did not apply to newspapers. By then the stricter Comstock law had been passed, but for this case it was irrelevant. The sisters were gloriously free on a technicality, and their accuser must once again ponder the mysteries of the Master's will, before consoling himself by arresting a local bookdealer for the third time. Victoria meanwhile referred to the YMCA in the Weekly as the American Inquisition, but added that there was no more similarity between the inquisitor Torquemada and Comstock than between a dead lion and a living skunk.
The ensuing scandal took a heavy toll on all concerned. Plymouth Church was stricken, but at Beecher's urging held a board of inquiry that, in spite of the misgivings of some, exonerated Beecher; Tilton was then expelled from the church. Tilton's wife was badgered by Beecher into retracting her confession, and then badgered by Tilton into retracting the retraction; she finally left Tilton because of the publicity. Then in 1875 Tilton sued Beecher for "criminal intimacy" with his wife; the long trial riveted the nation's attention, but after six days of deliberation it ended in a hung jury. The troubled church held a second board of inquiry that also exonerated their beloved minister, but Libby Tilton confessed again to the affair and was also excommunicated. Unable to find employment in this country because of the scandal, Tilton moved to Paris and spent the rest of his life there. Beecher's popularity continued, but he never again enjoyed the uncritical adulation of before.
|Henry Ward Beecher
A statue by John Quincy Ward, ca. 1888-89,
at Amherst College, Massachusetts,
the reverend's alma mater.
The heroic pose shows that, for some,
he is best remembered as a stalwart abolitionist.
Life for Victoria and her sister was not triumphant either. They were shunned on Wall Street, no longer had the support of the leading suffragists of the time, and had mounting financial problems that made the continued publication of the Weekly difficult. Victoria now divorced her current husband, who had supplied many of the articles for their publication. In 1877, in a move that must have surprised all, the two sisters left this country for England, probably financed by William Vanderbilt, the Commodore's heir, so they wouldn't testify in court when some of the Commodore's offspring challenged his will. In England Victoria continued to give controversial lectures, but ended up marrying a wealthy banker. Tennie did even better, marrying a wealthy widower who became a baronet; so the rebel who had once scorned what squeamish people said of her, and who had graced the lap of the richest man in America, was now known as Lady Cook, Viscountess of Montserrat, and lived at times in her husband's castle in Portugal. Needless to say, a curious ending for two flaming female radicals. Their rise in English society may have inspired Henry James's delicious story "The Siege of London," in which an American woman with a shady past (multiple marriages) manages to hook a most respectable young baronet. Tennie died in 1923, and Victoria in 1927. Though the feminists of their time came to shun them, they have since been reclaimed with enthusiasm by the women's rights movement of today.
Historical footnote: When newly moneyed Americans began hitting Europe after the Civil War, in England the upper classes asked a crucial question: Does one marry Americans? When Lord Randolph Churchill of illustrious lineage married Jenny Jerome, the eldest daughter of Wall Street speculator Leonard Jerome, the answer was a resounding Yes! What was good enough for Lord Randolph had to be good enough for the rest of society. (The result, by the way, was Winston Churchill.) Usually these unions involved new American money bonding with impoverished foreign titles. In the case of the Claflin sisters, however, the money was all on the side of the husbands; the sisters provided spark and charm. After World War I impoverished foreign titles were much less enticing to American heiresses; they looked a bit shopworn (the titles, not the heiresses). Henry James treats this theme beautifully in many novels and short stories. He is my favorite American novelist; I highly recommend his works.
Thought for the day: Existence is ecstasy. (A Buddhist idea that has always intrigued me; it prompts reflection.)
(c) 2012 Clifford Browder
Historical footnote: When newly moneyed Americans began hitting Europe after the Civil War, in England the upper classes asked a crucial question: Does one marry Americans? When Lord Randolph Churchill of illustrious lineage married Jenny Jerome, the eldest daughter of Wall Street speculator Leonard Jerome, the answer was a resounding Yes! What was good enough for Lord Randolph had to be good enough for the rest of society. (The result, by the way, was Winston Churchill.) Usually these unions involved new American money bonding with impoverished foreign titles. In the case of the Claflin sisters, however, the money was all on the side of the husbands; the sisters provided spark and charm. After World War I impoverished foreign titles were much less enticing to American heiresses; they looked a bit shopworn (the titles, not the heiresses). Henry James treats this theme beautifully in many novels and short stories. He is my favorite American novelist; I highly recommend his works.
Thought for the day: Existence is ecstasy. (A Buddhist idea that has always intrigued me; it prompts reflection.)
(c) 2012 Clifford Browder


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Simutrans, a free and popular transport simulation game (think SimCity and Transport Tycoon Deluxe) that has graced the PC, Linux and Mac has just made its way onto the iPhone/iPod Touch. Thanks to ZodTTD, the master homebrow dev responsible for bringing SNES and Playstation 1 emulators to jailbroken iDevices (among other projects), the port of Simutrans can now be enjoyed gratis at the palm of your hand:
Your goal is to establish a successful transport company. Transport passengers, mail and goods by rail, road, ship, and even air. Interconnect districts, cities, public buildings, industries and tourist attractions by buiding a transport network you always dreamed of.
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The protopunk madman isn't so mad anymore. He's making money and avoiding AARP.
PLAYBOY: These days the Stooges are revered for having created a template for punk rock. You reunited the band in 2003 and four years ago entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. When you came out of Michigan in the late 1960s, were people as enthusiastic as they are now?
POP: Oh hell no. There were times when the people in the front row were slobbering or just staring at us, mesmerized, and that was about as good as it got. Then it would go downhill. There would be an angry front row, a puzzled front row, an indifferent front row.
One show in particular was painful but hilarious in retrospect. It was when I was solo in the early 1980s, in one of my crazed periods before my last big cleanup. I was a little bored with the backup band, so I took two hits of Orange Sunshine before I hit the stage. The band started to play the first song, and as I listened to it I thought, This sounds like shit. So I said, "Stop! Stop! Try another one." We went through everything in our repertoire, but I wasn't satisfied with any of them, so I walked off the stage. My tour manager, Henry, grabbed me in the wings and said, "We have no money to get to the next town. Go back out there right now!" I busted a Jack Daniel's bottle all over my bathroom that night. I was pretty upset. But you know, a year later people were saying, "I was at that show. It was the most
amazing thing I ever saw!" I had periods when I would decide to tour without any front teeth, thinking, That'll blow their minds! But I maintained a high level of craft and preparation behind the freak show. I didn't perform bad concerts.
PLAYBOY: You've said the Stooges were "not once affected by total rejection and utter poverty." It seems as if you knew it was a great band, no matter how many times people said you sucked.
POP: Yes, I did. That was what tore me up. Not only that I thought we were so much better than other bands who were having an easy time of it but that I thought—and still think, with apologies—that they're all utter shit. [laughs] Almost all of the fucking rock business is an utter sack of dirty old filth, and should civilization fall, it will be their fault, not mine.
PLAYBOY: Which bands are utter shit? Do you want to name names?
POP: No, I can't do that. When I sit with you, I bring the politician with me so I don't have to go through the utter poverty and rejection again. We're here together, the politician and I. Part of me thinks, Just tell the truth, that they're shit, and say exactly how you feel. And I have to push that voice down sometimes.
PLAYBOY: Given the faith you had in the Stooges, do you feel vindicated now when people recognize the group's importance?
POP: This has been the most secure and relaxed decade of my life. I see people really interested when we do shows. They're happy—more now than even three years ago. Of course, if you play the Austin City Limits Music Festival at five in the afternoon and somebody's mom brought them to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers, then they'll be tweeting, "This old band is stupid! Get them off the stage!"
PLAYBOY: Who is the best live performer you've ever seen?
POP: James Brown is fantastic. Tina Turner was amazing at a certain point. I was lucky enough to see Nirvana twice, in tiny clubs—fewer than 200 people. The second time, Kurt Cobain said, "You're a jinx. Every time you come to our show, we play like shit." He called me one night, well past my bedtime, and left a message on my phone: "Let's get together in the studio." I called him back to be polite. I was not dying to record with him. I don't ever want to do a Muddy Waters supersession, you know?
PLAYBOY: When you were growing up in Michigan as James Osterberg, your family lived in a trailer. Is that fact relevant to the kind of music you make?
POP: In certain ways. It was a little trailer camp out in the boonies, by U.S. Highway 23, a two-lane blacktop. It was beautiful, surrounded by a stone quarry where you could go swimming and some deep forest where there were animals, and also bean, corn and wheat fields. I always felt different because I lived in a trailer and the other kids lived in houses. I went to junior high in Ann Arbor, and my close friend there was Kenny Miller, whose dad, Arjay Miller, was running Ford Motor Company at the time. Kenny would take my workbook during class and write, "Osterberg blows dead dogs," then give it back to me. A few of the meaner kids came out one day to visit and shook my trailer up a little. It caused a sort of anger that I keep. The strange thing was, people who didn't know me would later say to guys in my band, "That guy's a rich kid, right? Because he walks around like he owns the place."
PLAYBOY: Just so there's no lingering doubt, did you blow dead dogs?
POP: [Laughs] No, I never did. I've never blown anybody.
PLAYBOY: Was there any privacy when you lived with your parents in a trailer?
POP: No. Much later I realized that the big advantage of living in a trailer was that I learned to be civilized. Three people, day and night, in a 500-square-foot trailer—and that was the biggest one we ever had. Before that it was 400 square feet. My parents were very restrained people. There was no alcohol in the house. In fifth or sixth grade I got into music. If that hadn't happened, I'd probably be a fundamentalist preacher right now, a Jimmy Swaggart. "Send your dollars to me!"
PLAYBOY: After people meet you, they often say, "Oh, he was nothing like I expected." Do they expect a drooling, screaming zombie?
POP: Some people do. When you're younger, you're coming at everybody because you've got to show them who you are, and prove it. Later, if you get anywhere, it flips; they're all coming at you. You get crazy people coming at you. There's always some weirdness. The classic one is, I don't get a limo driver; he's a conga player. I don't get a plumber; he's a playwright. Long ago, during my different bachelor periods, some sexual partners didn't understand. They'd say, "Come on, you're Iggy Pop. Whip me! Beat me! Hurt me, hurt me."
PLAYBOY: So what is your taste in sex?
POP: It runs dark. [laughs] I like darker tones. Skin tones and all the stuff that goes with the skin tone. But I'm not going to do a rundown. Sorry. I am more private now than I formerly was.
PLAYBOY: Here's another thing that goes against type: You have an art collection, right?
POP: When I was living in New York in the 1990s, the Broadway dancer Geoffrey Holder had a great Haitian art collection. He auctioned it off in Sotheby's basement, and I'd loved that art all my life. I was newly separated and felt like spending my money on something I liked. "I'm not going to have any 'family discussions' about this!" I went to Sotheby's and got quite a few things Geoffrey had. Hector Hyppolite is the most financially valuable of all Haitian artists, and I have one of his pieces through Geoffrey. I got a couple of Edouard Duval-Carriés, some Andre Pierres and George Liautauds. I can sit with a painting or sculpture for hours the way someone else watches a favorite TV show. I don't need things to move.
PLAYBOY: You probably don't take Orange Sunshine before shows these days. Are you done with booze and drugs?
POP: I drink red wine now. I'm partial to Bordeaux and Barolos. But I'm stone-cold sober on the job. Always. For the first five years of this century, I used—Zantac? Xanax? No, that's different. It's on TV; you get it at Walgreens for ladies to help them do their housework faster. Legal speed. I'd take one of those when I was doing the Stooges. Before that I was drinking three Red Bulls before a show, and I'd be burping and sloshing around. I've been on the natch now, onstage, for about eight years. I have two or three big espressos in the afternoon in the hotel before work. That gets me awake enough to care. The person I am now couldn't write "I'm Sick of You" and record it with the same authority I had in 1977. If I did, people would be embarrassed for me.
PLAYBOY: What award would you like to win?
POP: I have an assistant, and when we haven't spoken for a few days, I call him and ask, "Hey, Spencer, did I get the Nobel Prize yet?" And he says, "Nope." That would be good. Think of all the peace that has been caused by me and the Stooges, running around the world and calming things down by acting out all this violent stuff.
PLAYBOY: You've written a lot of songs about death, and last year's Stooges album was called Ready to Die. What will the first sentence of your obituary say?
POP: Oh dear. They'll probably call me "inventor of the stage dive." I have a beach house in the Cayman Islands, where there are sharks. When I go swimming I think, Boy, a shark attack would solve a lot of problems. I seriously do notwant to go into assisted living or a nursing home, so I'm hoping for a shark attack. That would be good.
PLAYBOY: You appeared recently in a Chrysler ad, which surprised some people. You also licensed "Lust for Life" to the Royal Caribbean cruise line. How do you feel about doing commercials?
POP: I've done quite a few, including for car insurance and perfume. Here's the way I feel about it: I was angry all through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, because I had to suffer through music that was pretending to be art but was corrupt. It was a commercial clothed as art by a businessman with a guitar, presented by some fat fuck in suspenders with a baseball cap at some goddamn horrible radio station that picks what crap people hear. I never did any of that with my music. None of it. When I do a commercial, you're going to know it's a commercial. Most people who like what I do are aware of what I went through and are happy I can finally get a roof over my head and get paid—in some way, that I get justice.
PLAYBOY: When did your financial situation start to improve?
POP: I started getting organized in the mid-1980s, after David Bowie recorded our song "China Girl." It's still a very good earner. That was the beginning of my having any sort of success. I bought a place on Bleecker Street, and then I bought a house in Miami in 1998, and I've been there ever since. I lived in New York for 20 years. It's a tough town. I won.
PLAYBOY: Bowie put out a very good album last year, and there have been rumors that he has cancer. Can you tell us anything about that?
POP: I can't tell you anything about him whatsoever. We last spoke about 10 years ago. He called me to do a couple of things when he was curating the Meltdown arts festival in 2002, but I had a schedule conflict. We had a nice chat, and that was that.
PLAYBOY: People on Twitter were incredulous when you turned 66 last year. What surprises you most about getting older?
POP: It's not so great! [laughs] Listen, I don't recommend getting older as a happiness strategy. Most of my life I've been indifferent to what other people feel. Now I'm softening up a bit. That's surprising. Other than that, I miss my parents. I feel I didn't do well enough for them. If I'd had a different career it would've been better for them. That bothers me. Especially my mother. She passed away in the mid-1990s, when I was still one of those obscure American figures. I'd show up on some TV show and go, "Motherfucker! Motherfucker!" She'd say to my dad, "Oh, I wish Jimmy wouldn't say 'motherfucker.'" [laughs] I wish she could have seen some of my worldly success.
PLAYBOY: Do you collect Social Security?
POP: No. I was told to wait—apparently the amount you get goes up if you wait. I had a gut instinct not to depend on the government. I have three union pensions and my own pension. I'm not sure Social Security's going to be there for me. Eric Cantor might say, "No money for you, Iggy Pop!"
PLAYBOY: Do you take advantage of the discounted movie tickets?
POP: No, but my business manager has been trying for 16 years to get me to join AARP. Every year, he sends me a pamphlet with a little note: "Jim, you should really look into this. You get some great discounts." And it goes straight in the trash, every year. AARP? I don't want to hear about the fucking AARP!
Photography by Gavin Bond


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"Remains Identified
Testimony was taken at the court house in Jamestown in the identification of the remains of August Tromer. Mrs. Tromer was on the witness stand most of the time, and positively identified the body, or what remained of it, as that of her late husband. She did so by a handkerchief found tied around his neck which she said was tied by herself, and a missing tooth in the upper jaw and the clothing that still remained in a fair state of preservation. Several other witnesses remained to be examined. There seems to be no doubt whatever of the identification of the body as that of Tromer.
While the identification of the body appears to have beeen satisfactorily established, it is stated that it will be a more difficult matter to fasten the crime upon Villers by evidence which will warrant a conviction. It simply appears that Tromer was last seen with Villers, and surrounding circumstances point to the latter's knowledge of Tromer's death. The fractured skull wound indicates that death was caused by a blow, and probably after a struggle. in this connection, Mrs Tromer tells of a dream she had soon after his disappearance, in which her husband appeared with a great hole in his head, bleeding, and said he had escaped from a grave in the plowed ground. She had a similar dream only a few weeks ago."
OK, now this is where I start becoming irritated with the reporting if not the investigation. Does Mrs. Tromer's dream really have anything whatsoever to do with this investigation? Knowing (or at least supposing) the science and beliefs of people at the time are a bit backward compared to modern times, how much of an impact did her "dream" have on the trial? I hope not much. That's not to say that I'm convinced of his innocence. Despite what they say in this article about the challenges of pinning this crime on Martin Joseph Villers, they do a pretty darn convincing job of it. They had some pretty damning evidence (that I will post in the future) and some extremely circumstantial and ridiculous evidence (will also post in future). The overall impression I get is that they found their man and it was all about getting evidence to support that. Perhaps that's how it works. I just hope that the judge and jury were a bit more "innocent until proven guilty" driven!


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It's been more than 40 years since Gatorade challenged water as the beverage of choice among athletes. Since then several competitors have tried to grab a share of the lucrative sports drink market, worth $3.9 billion, according to a 2011 report by SymphonyIRI Group report, a market-research company.
The newest kid vying for a position in this ever-growing market is chocolate milk. An admittedly late entry to the mix, nutritionists have been singing its praises for years. But it's only recently that milk retailers have been aggressively marketing their product as a healthier alternative to other commercial sports drinks.
The interesting thing about chocolate milk is that it didn't have to change a thing to be considered a market threat. Its original recipe matches the recommended ratio for the perfect post-exercise recovery drink — three parts carbohydrate to one part protein.
The carbohydrate (the chocolate part of the drink) is used to refuel muscles drained of glycogen, the energy source needed to fuel muscle activity. Protein (the milk part of the drink) is instrumental in rebuilding muscle damaged from a tough workout. Combined, they create a one-two punch that tops up energy stores in anticipation of the next game or practice.
But there's more than just theory behind the magic of chocolate milk. Laboratory testing has demonstrated several times over that athletes were able to ward off fatigue longer in ensuing workouts if they consumed chocolate milk immediately after exercise.
Interestingly, the majority of the research used elite male cyclists as their test sample. And despite the fact that most of the studies found chocolate milk to be at par or better than plain sports drinks at promoting recovery, there remains the question whether recreational athletes and women will derive the same muscle-building, glycogen replenishing benefits as their male counterparts.
A team of researchers from Kean University in Union, New Jersey, decided to compare not just chocolate milk to traditional carbohydrate based sports drinks but also their effect on women as compared with men. Twenty-six Division III soccer athletes (11 women, 15 men) were chosen to test the effects of chocolate milk and a traditional carbohydrate based sports drink (Gatorade) on recovery. And they did it under normal pre-season training conditions while the athletes were following their regular diet.
Each athlete had either low-fat chocolate milk or Gatorade immediately after morning practice and again two hours later. After the afternoon practice, they performed a 20-metre shuttle run to fatigue alternating between 55 and 95 per cent of their VO2 max.
When the results from men and women were combined, chocolate milk and Gatorade produced a similar time to fatigue. But when separated by gender, the men were able to sustain their shuttle run for 1.5 to 2 minutes longer after drinking chocolate milk vs. Gatorade. The women demonstrated no difference in performance between the two beverages, for which the researchers had no answers but suggested it worthy of future study.
"Practitioners can suggest drinking low-fat chocolate milk immediately after exercise and throughout the recovery period in a volume that will help athletes obtain about 1 g carbohydrate per kilogram body weight per hour," said the Keane University researchers. "They can encourage their athletes to substitute low-fat chocolate milk for full-fat dairy products and suggest foods such as fruit smoothies or cereal made with chocolate milk to improve diet quality while promoting recovery."
The results of the Keane study combine with several others validating the use of chocolate milk as a post-workout recovery drink. And because chocolate milk contains nutrients that Gatorade doesn't, like protein and calcium, it's a good opportunity to top off your stores of both.
That said, athletes need to be careful of something chocolate milk has more of than Gatorade and that's calories. Those extra calories may not be of concern to elite athletes who train several hours a day. But they can add up quickly for the recreational exerciser who burns 300 calories a couple times a week during moderate-intensity activities.
So when is the best time to consume a recovery drink? Right after a tough workout or game, especially if you're going back to the gym or playing field later the same day or the following day. As for deciding between chocolate milk and other sports drinks, the choice is yours. Just make sure it stays true to recommended recovery recipe of three parts carbohydrate to one part protein.
If you want good bounceback energy, but without extra calories, Gatorade (look for its recovery drink in the G series) will do fine. But if a hit of chocolate is more to your liking, then chocolate milk does a great job at getting you back to game speed in time for your next workout.
Nutritional comparison
Gatorade vs. Low-Fat Chocolate Milk (240 grams or 1 cup)
Chocolate Milk
Calories: 158
Carbohydrates: 26.1
Fat: 2.5 g
Protein: 8.1 g
Sodium 152.5 mg
Potassium: 425.mg
Cholesterol: 7.5 mg
Vitamin A: 490 IU
Vitamin C: 2.25 mg
Calcium: 287.5 mg
Iron: 0.6 mg
Calories: 50
Sodium: 110 mg
Potassium: 30 mg
Carbohydrates: 14 g


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Thanks for the timely review! I have been looking at buying this unit this past week but I have no place to go and audition it. Your review really helped!
Count me in as one who does not want to see the death of the CD. Long live the silver disc!
Marantz CD5004 CD player
The CD5004 offers a lot of technology and features for $349.99. It incorporates "SACD-quality" Cirrus Logic CS4392 D/A converters, which Marantz claims are very linear, producing none of the distortion caused by errors in resistor matching, no performance drift over time or with temperature, and low jitter. The signal paths for the two channels are symmetrical, which Marantz claims should improve the specificity of stereo imaging. Marantz's proprietary Hyper Dynamic Amplifier Modules, used for the analog circuitry, have been trickled down from their Reference Series components, for which the HDAMs were developed. The company claims that these outperform conventional op-amps in speed and low levels of noise. The front panel's aluminum central section electrically shields the circuits inside and the parts of the front panel made of rigid, glass-reinforced resin resist impact and help isolate the CD5004 from vibrations and heat.
The CD5004 plays CDs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs, and discs containing MP3 and WMA files. With the latter, it will display the file metadata, to help identify the disc and its contents. Also included is a buffered headphone amplifier and jack, variable pitch control (designed for musician play-along), a Q Replay button on the remote control that repeats the last 10 seconds played of the current track, and an IR Flasher input to provide connectivity to other components. Coaxial and optical digital outputs are provided.
Early in my listening sessions, I decided that the CD5004's reproduction of tonal balances was beyond reproach. The player's ability to provide rich, delicate, holographic, uncolored midrange textures was clearly evident with the vocal group Sequentia's performance of Hildegard von Bingen's Canticles of Ecstasy (CD, German Harmonia Mundi 0547277320 2). The Marantz's reproduction of the high frequencies of all the CDs I played was clear, clean, and extended, with no trace of brittleness or blunting. I particularly noticed this in the sounds of the shimmering Fender Jazzmaster guitars of Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo in "Becuz," from Sonic Youth's Washing Machine (CD, Geffen DGCD-24825). At the other end of the timbral spectrum, the bass-synth blasts in "Man/Machine," from Kraftwerk's Minimum/Maximum (CD, EMI ASW 60611), were powerful and kick-ass, with no loss of timbre, detail, or speed. The CD5004's expertise in high-level dynamics also made it a good match for hard rock. The aptly named "In Your Face," from Mountain's Man's World (CD, Viceroy VIA8033-2), put Leslie West's burning shred guitar front and center.
The Marantz's ability to render transients with lightning speed made it a good match for well-recorded percussion instruments. My acid test in this regard are the rapid-fire snare pyrotechnics of drummer Chris Tomson in "Cousins," from Vampire Weekend's Contra (CD, XL XLCD429), which the Marantz reproduced without a trace of smear. Speaking of drummers, the CD5004's powers of articulating low-level dynamics made listening to Jack DeJohnette's delicate opening percussion in the title track of his Dancing with Nature Spirits (CD, ECM 1558) an enjoyable and involving experience. The player's dynamic strengths enabled me to enjoy all jazz recordings I tried, especially the "breathing" quality of the ensemble in the title track of Wynton Marsalis's Low Levee Moan (CD, Columbia CK 47975). And Jimmy Smith's Hammond B-3 in "Midnight Special," from Fourmost (CD, Milestone MCD-9484-2), had the requisite growl in the lower middle register.
Although I wouldn't expect a budget CD player to be the last word in retrieving ambience from well-recorded classical discs, the Marantz CD5004 surprised me. The sense of space, air, and decay in Aki Takahashi's performance of Morton Feldman's Illusions, from Aki Takahashi Plays Morton Feldman (CD, Mode 54), gave her solo piano a sense of immediacy and delicacy I normally would expect only from more expensive players. This went hand in hand with the Marantz's ability to unravel detail. Listening to "Top of the Hill," from Tom Waits's brilliant Real Gone (CD, Anti- 86678-2), I was able to follow every instrument buried in this track's intentionally muddy mix. The CD5004 wasn't the last word in unraveling all the detail it retrieved, however. With more expensive players, I have been able to more easily follow the individual instruments on "How Am I Different," from Aimee Mann's Bachelor No.2 or The Last Remains of the Dodo (CD, Super Ego SE002). I had a similar experience in trying to follow the individual orchestral instruments in the recording of Penderecki's Credo by Helmut Rilling and the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra and Choir (CD, HÑnssler CD 98.311).
It wasn't really fair to compare the CD5004 ($350) with Creek's Destiny CD player ($2495), but I thought it would be at least interesting. The Creek sounded more delicate and airy, with pristine highs. It was easier to follow subtle vocal phrasings and articulations of sibilants. The music also seemed more relaxed through the Creek, with more holographically presented bodies to voices and faster, more natural transient attacks on strings, both electric and acoustic. Being able to follow individual instrument lines was also much easier. Finally, the sound of the Marantz had a bit more of a mechanical quality, and its reproduction of percussion was at times a bit more forward and splatty.
That said, the CD5004 was nearly as uncolored as the Destiny, and with recordings containing no sustained high-level passages, such as solo piano recordings, the Marantz sounded rich and silky, with good resolution of detail and an ability to articulate low-level dynamics that were damn close to the Creek'swhich costs more than seven times as much.
A kilobuck starter system
I hooked up the CD5004 to Marantz's PM5004 integrated amplifier and Paradigm's Atom v5 loudspeakers, and was taken by this inexpensive system's overall liquid and coherent balance. The sound wasn't the last word in high-frequency or bass extension, but what was there was relatively uncolored and involving, with realistic dynamic contrasts, convincing transient articulation, and decent amounts of air and ambience for such a low-cost system.
The Payoff
Even as Mikey Fremer and Stephen Mejias salivate over the resurgence of vinyl, others are hearing, or calling for, the death knell of the Compact Disc. I'm not one of themalthough I own 12,000 LPs, I listen to CDs much more often than to vinyl or my iPod, and I don't think I'll ever get on the digital-server bandwagon. Young folks who want to put together an entry-level system should find the Marantz CD5004 an excellent way to start, and a gorgeous cosmetic and sonic match for the companion PM5004 integrated amplifier With components like this, we can survive the recent financial meltdown while listening to good music, and might still have some money left over for food. Well done, Marantz.
Thanks for the timely review! I have been looking at buying this unit this past week but I have no place to go and audition it. Your review really helped!
There are two typos in the URL here for the Follup Up between the two amps. The working URL=http://www.stereophile.com/content/pm5003-ivsi-pm5004 --- however, even that URL shouldn't really have "ivsi" in it, just "vs"---an attempt to italicize what appears in the page's Title tag didn't work.
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I recently purchased this amplifier, and a Rega RP1 to build a new stereo system. I currently have a set of polk speakers that are a few years old and I plan on replacing. Any thoughts on speakers other than the Atom's or the PSB alphas?
I purchased this cd player in February of this year and was just blown away by how amazing it made my music sound. It started me on my audiophile baby steps, which knowing me...will lead down a path of musical bliss. Oh and a piece of equipment here or there (so far twice a month since Feb.) I bought it without auditioning it, but I got from Best Buy, so it made it easy with their return policy, I like the ability to change pitch with it. Also, the setting where it turns just about everything off to give it extra playing power, when its not in that setting...its pretty noticeable. Wonderful cd player.
I got a 5004 today and I'm returning it tomorrow.
Was replacing an Arcam DV88 that has started to shut itself off at regular moments. The Arcam is extraordinarily transparent, with a good, solid low end. I put the 5004 into my system and noted the holographic midrange (Paul Simon's Dazzling Blue), but also a metallic harshness that was quite wearying. More distressingly, the low end just wasn't there. Reverberant booms replaced the solid lows I was used to in James Taylor's September Grass on the October Sky disc.
Classical faired better, particularly chamber music. But listening to Claudio Arrau play Beethoven Sonatas there was something missing from Phillips' warmth in the recording. Older recordings (Bernstein/NYP) sounded harsher than I used to hear through the Arcam as well. This wasn't a case of, "well am I really hearing that?". This was: "The unit is going back into the box and is getting shipped back now - I can't live with this sound".
Maybe it was the unit I got - but I don't think so. Think I'll have the Arcam repaired.
Any one else have this experience?
Can you tell me about the headphones output quality.
I want to buy this player to listen with sennheiser hd 598.
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This month I replaced a 15 year old Sony CD player with the Marantz CD5004 and so far I am very happy with it. I feed it into a home made passive attenuator, which then goes to my Hafler XL-280 power amp and Magnepan MMG speakers. I live in Tokyo and was able to get the 5004 for $250 which is a pretty sweet deal! The passive attenuator volume control cost me about $125 in parts.
I use the marantz CD5004, and have owned it now for about a year and a half, and it's just such an amazing CD player....if used with the right equipment, it will give you true audio nirvana! This CD player also brings out such details, specifically the low level dynamics!. But when paired with very nice equipment, then you'll hear things in the recording's you were previously unable to notice!
Equipment used.
Marantz CD5004
Sennheiser HD650
Moon Audio Blue Dragon V3 headphone cable
Little dot MK3 tube amp


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Sources tells us that all of the following things are true, unless they turn out not to be:
* Colorado will join the Pac-10
* Oklahoma State will join the Pac 10
* Nebraska will join the Big Ten
* Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, and Oklahoma will join the Pac-10
* Texas and Texas A&M will join the Big Ten
* Oklahoma will join the SEC
* Texas A&M will join the SEC (!)
* Virginia Tech will join the SEC (!!)
* Missouri will sink into the Mississippi River
* Tom Izzo will join the Cleveland Cavaliers
* Tom Izzo will stay at Michigan State
* Byron Scott will join the Cleveland Cavaliers
* Didier Drogba will join his team for the World Cup
All of these things (almost) were reported as possibly true facts within the last 24 hours. Some have already come to pass. Some will never come to pass. The only thing we know for certain is that if you're a college student who likes to take sports-themed road trips, you better have a pretty dependable car and a giant bladder, because I see a lot of highways in your future.
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"We have saved the cost of an expensive electrical motor."
Peter Hansen, Technical Director, Tide Sjø AS
Ferry operator Tide Sjø AS decided to introduce condition-based maintenance (CBM) on four of its ferries to improve the reliability of machinery, extend inspection intervals and reduce costs of maintenance. They turned to SKF.
Tide Sjø AS is one of the biggest passenger and car ferry operators in Norway. The company has been in operation since 1880 and today runs 50 car ferries and 35 passenger ships, transporting some 12,5 million passengers every year.
The challenge
With so many people reliant on its services, the company needs to meet strict timetables and key connections to buses and other transport that also serve its traffic area. Consequently, reliability and regularity of services are vital, and maintenance is a key factor for success.
Until 2008, maintenance at Tide Sjø was mostly planned by number of operating hours. This time-based maintenance approach is typical and has been adopted by ship owners and operators in the marine industry for many years. However, many companies are waking up to the opportunities afforded by condition-based maintenance (CBM) to extend inspection intervals and reduce costs of maintenance.
The solution
In the CBM program developed for Tide Sjø, SKF engineers board the particular vessel at an agreed frequency. On board, they collect data from critical machinery such as thrusters, generators, gears and support bearings.
The data is then uploaded in an SKF @ptitude Analyst database, located in-house at SKF to ensure that the analyzing software is kept up to date, and a report is generated and sent to the customer. In essence, SKF carries out monitoring of rotating equipment, such as electrical machinery, in particular generator sets and propulsion engines at intervals of one to three months.
Peter Hansen, technical director at Tide Sjø, explains that these are comprehensive reports that come with a narrative that highlights results, machine evaluations, trends and proposed corrective actions, if needed. "We react speedily," he says. "If something is really urgent, SKF calls us and advises us how to apply the appropriate corrective actions."
Customer value
Since the CBM program was introduced in 2008, Tide Sjø has experienced fewer breakdowns. Monitoring and vibration data analysis on the Tide Sjø ferry, Folgefonn, for example, highlighted problems with the shaft support bearings in two thrusters.
"After implementing the recommendations stated in the SKF report, we have saved the cost of an expensive electrical motor," says Hansen. "It is too early to document savings from better maintenance schedules, but if we can extend the services to reschedule thruster overhauls, the savings will be very good."
Overall, the company has been able to reduce downtime by detecting incipient equipment problems at a very early stage. In addition, the company has learnt how to better overcome issues that decrease vessel availability.
"SKF provides good, self-supported services to our engineers on shore and also to our on-board crews," concludes Hansen.
Tide Sjø AS challenged us. Now it's your turn.
Take a closer look at the results of our customers working together with SKF Solution Factory.
"By improving performance and efficiency, we've reduced costs by more than SEK 5,3 million."
A series of proven solutions from SKF Solution Factory such as a complete maintenance strategy and condition monitoring resulted in increased machine uptime and energy savings.
"This new bearing system reduces energy consumption by up to 10 percent."
Working together with SKF, Argex has improved the reliability of its rotary kiln for enhanced safety, while significantly reducing energy consumption and costs.
"Now the aim is to maintain at our leisure."
SKF encouraged Allied Mills engineers to sit down as a team to discuss maintenance for its 5,000 assets and to view this process as an integral, value-added part of the business.