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Last week's 'Shop Contest posed the challenge of creating downloadable content well ahead of its time—like, back in the 1980s and 1990s. Could our smart shoppers take classic franchises and serve them up with virtual tchotchke's just as money-grubbing and half-assed as modern games? Find out inside!
Leading off, Halfbee (5) supplied a nice zinger. Jorvid (8) knows my feelings for Asshole Dog, and delivered nicely. BigMike McCarthy (1) delivers, as always, this time with a Nintendo/Team Fortress 2 hats mashup.
Plenty of folks had the idea to do text adventure DLC, but Captain Smurf (2) either got in first or had the best joke, I forget which. Probably both. pan1da7 (14) imagined a Nintendo virtual shop back in the NES days. the7k's Street Fighter concept is brilliant, and a timely criticism to boot. Metalive (12) did the best of the Oregon Trail entries.
Kharon (9) comes up with something I swear I've seen elsewhere. If that's not a mod, it should be. miyagiCE (13) had, by far, the most hilarious DRM joke. THE_MOOGLEKING (18) also had a good DRM gag (that "adapter" makes me snort every time) but also stacks a ton of DLC cartridges on top of it. MOOGLEKING's 'Shop was a crowd pleaser, for sure, and it was tough to turn it down for my overall No. 1. But I'm going with TEL9021 (17); while some others had the same thought, he had the best execution, both in giving Mario a bank accoubnt and for supplying some really insane prices.
Congratulations everyone! Tomorrow we'll have a new contest, for 400 Kotaku points.


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So theres a really nice dog park in Del City Ive wanted to take Arnie to (its much closer to us than the others in the OKC area), but Ive been terrified to take him there.
Despite a state law against breed specific legislation, the Del City suburb made their own little law against only dogs with 'bull' in their names (irrefutable Oklahoma logic-- 'Dar, its gosta bull in dah name so itsa mean daaawg. Daaaar.'). Its been challenged in court, and WHOOO!
DEL CITY, Okla. -- A metro city has backed off trying to enforce a law regarding pit bulls after a district judge overturned its controversial ban.Just to put this into perspective, as a 'safety issue'-- 30-50 children die every year in the US by drowning in 5 gallon buckets.
Hundreds of people in Del City have been ticketed for violating a city ban on having pit bulls. According to state law, however, the city cannot ban a specific breed of dog.
Del City officials said they disagree, saying it's a safety issue.
Residents who oppose the ban said the reversal is a victory for anybody who owns a pit bull.
~30 people are killed by *all* dogs in a given year (not just 'bully breeds', *all* breeds).
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Manufacturers can leverage the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to achieve "smart"—intelligent and connected—production processes.
The IIoT will transform manufacturing. In this point of view, we present a roadmap to help guide Industrial companies on that transformation journey.
We explore six key dimensions—Equipment, Workforce, Materials Supply Chain, Business Process, Platform and Facility & Environment—all of which are integral to achieving smart production.
Few manufacturers are yet ready for this transformation and the pace at which they progress toward smart production will vary greatly. We give guidance on how to accelerate it.
A solid business case, the ability to align Operational Technology and Information Technology, an affinity for technology change, the swift reskilling of the workforce and the agile deployment of industrial security solutions will be key to success.


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Logan County Natural Hazard Mitigation Planning Committee will meet
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Steps to prevent injuries and deaths
while maintaining vital services for Logan County residents when
floods and severe storms hit will be discussed when the Logan County
Natural Hazard Mitigation Planning Committee meets on Thursday at 4
p.m. at the Public Safety Complex, 911 Pekin St. in Lincoln.
Meetings of the committee are open to the public.
"Other emergency plans are directed at responding after a storm
or natural disaster hits. This is the first time in Logan County
that we are looking at actions that can reduce or eliminate damages
caused by specific types of storms and other natural disasters,"
said Dan Fulscher, director of the Logan County Emergency Management
Atlanta, Broadwell, Elkhart, Emden, Hartsburg, Lincoln and Mount
Pulaski are participating in this planning process.
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Building storm shelters, resolving drainage problems, and
retrofitting water supplies and other critical facilities to better
withstand natural disasters are a few examples of the kinds of
projects that might be included in the plan. Developing public
information materials and conducting drainage studies are examples
of other activities that might also be included in the Natural
Hazard Mitigation Plan.
"Developing a plan that is approved by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency will help all the participating jurisdictions
become eligible for state and federal grant money," added Terry
Storer, committee chairman.
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Kevin Ollie delivered on the promise he made last month after UConn's final home game, bringing an NCAA championship back to Gampel Pavilion.
Ollie and the Huskies, who beat Kentucky 60-54 on Monday night in Texas, arrived back on campus Tuesday for a raucous pep rally at the Huskies' home arena.
The title is the fourth for the program and the second in four years, but the first under Ollie.
The ceremony included unveiling a plaque honoring star guard Shabazz Napier on the Huskies of Honor wall.
The senior All-American led the Huskies with 22 points Monday. He finishes his career with 1,954 career points, and two NCAA championship rings.
Fans were invited back to the arena Tuesday night to watch the UConn women play for a ninth national title.
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If you're thinking of driving through downtown Philadelphia this Independence Day you may want to think again.
Thousands will flock to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Old City and other parts of Philadelphia Thursday for Independence Day festivities.
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The Party on the Parkway, Fourth of July concert featuring John Mayer, the Roots, Kevin Hart, Ne-Yo, Hunter Hayes and others and fireworks will mean plenty of closures around the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Closures began Wednesday at 9: 30 a.m. when the inner lanes (20th Street to Eakins Oval) of the Parkway were closed the length. The inner lanes will reopen for the afternoon rush (3 to 6: 30 p.m.) but then remain closed through the end of July 4th festivities.
The entire length of the Parkway from 18th Street to Eakins Oval will be closed starting at 6 a.m. July 4th through about 11:15 p.m. Other closures for most of the day include: Cherry Street from 18th to 20th Streets; 19th Street from Callowhill Street to the Parkway; 20th, 21st and 22nd Streets from Callowhill to Arch Streets; the eastbound and westbound exits of I-676 to 22nd and 23rd Streets; and the Martin Luther King Drive from the Art Museum to the Falls Bridge.
The closures and detours expand starting at 4 p.m. Closures include: Kelly Drive from South Ferry Road to Eakins Oval; Spring Garden and Callowhill Streets westbound at Broad Street and Hamilton Street westbound at 17th Street. Fairmount Avenue westbound will be diverted northbound onto Corinthian Avenue; 15th, 17th, 19th and 21st Streets south will be diverted eastbound onto Spring Garden Street; and 29th Street southbound will be diverted onto Poplar Street.
Other parts of the city will also see plenty of July 4th-related closures.
The 500 block of Chestnut Street (in front of Independence Hall -- that exact spot where the Declaration of Independence was signed) was closed to vehicles starting at 10 a.m. Wednesday to allow set up time for a free nighttime concert from Peter Nero and the Philly Pops. The closure continues until 4 p.m. Thursday to allow time to break down the stage and for the Independence Day Parade.
Chestnut and Market Streets from Front to 9th Streets will be closed July 4th from 7 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. for the patriotic parade.
Expect streets surrounding all the city events to become backed up and street parking to be sparse.
The best bet, as always during a big event, will be to take public transit downtown. After July 4th festivities: SEPTA will be running subway trains until 12:30 a.m.; SEPTA Regional Rail trains will leave Suburban Station until midnight (schedules may vary); SEPTA buses will be staged on 20th and 21st Streets and PATCO will be running on 15-minute intervals all night.
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reminds me of the remark occasionally heard about Vivaldi's music: he didn't write 600 concertos, he wrote one concerto six hundred times.
I'm currently listening to The Teaching Company's series of lectures on "The Concerto" (http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.aspx?cid=7270), and I was intrigued to hear about the degree to which that is, and is not, a fair characterization of Vivaldi.
As it happens, his job required The Red Priest to turn out 2 new concerti per month, for a very long time. So, yes, he recycled a lot of material. On the other hand, he also played a pivotal role in establishing the form of the solo concerto as we know it today, and he was rather more innovative in his composition than most people realize. Of those nearly 600 concerti, there were (at least in the opinion of Dr. Robert Greenberg, the lecturer) probably 20 or 25 genuinely original, distinct, first-rate works. For most composers, that would be a very respectable total -- it's just that they're obscured by the massive volume of more derivative work.
As an aside, I'm enjoying Dr. Greenberg quite a bit. He walks a nice line between informative and entertaining, without ever crossing the line into buffoonery. I learned a lot from the 24-lecture series on "The Symphony", which expanded both my understanding and my tastes.


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Palmer and Wareham missed the A-division top three by three points (photo courtesy Gil Talbot).
SEATTLE—Juniors Alan Palmer and Meghan Wareham placed fourth in the A division to lead the Harvard sailing team to a fifth-place finish at the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association Western Semi Finals Saturday and Sunday at Sail Sand Point, earning a berth in the ICSA Coed Dinghy National Championship.
Palmer and Wareham totaled 56 points in 10 races, while John Stokes, Quincy Bock and Michelle Konstadt registered 60 points to finish sixth in the B division. Harvard's 116 total points were four more than fourth-place Old Dominion and nine fewer than Hobart/William Smith in sixth.
"We sailed pretty well," said head coach Mike O'Connor. "We proved that we have the speed and boathandling to compete with the top teams, which is important going forward. We made some errors that prevented us from reaching the top three, and if we can eliminate those we're confident we can sail with anybody."
The top nine teams in the 18-school field advanced to the national regatta, to be held June 1-3 at Wisconsin. Yale totaled 89 points to edge St. Mary's by two and beat third-place Roger Williams by nine. Salve Regina, SUNY Maritime and Stanford claimed the final three qualifying spots.
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Yet, on the heels of reaching a major career goal I was left with a weird feeling. I jotted the following down a couple of days after reaching the goal:
Kind of floating through life right now. Is that a bad thing? Probably not a good thing. I am feeling more settled so what do I mean by "floating"? Not having control? Something like that.After I reached my goal I was missing something. I realized that almost as soon as I hit success I started looking for the next challenge. I can't help but think that this is just a cycle of hollowness. What is the point if you are never content?
The obvious solution is to just focus on being content. But this seems like an easy way out that avoids the underlying problem. I think, for me, it is almost a mental head game where I convince myself that if I am content I will not have the proper motivation and thus will be unable to succeed. In retrospect this seems illogical.
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Phnom Penh — The moment we stepped outside our hotel in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, we were greeted with this offer.
Driver: Many, many, many girls.
Dateline: Many girls?
Driver: Yes.
Dateline: How young?
Driver: Young, maybe, uh,... 12.
Twelve year olds for sale? Sounds shocking, but when we arrived in this village called Svay Pak, we met a young pimp selling even younger girls.
Po: New girls, too much for you.
How young?
Po: Eight, eight.
Along with a human rights investigator, we followed the pimp through the village alleys into a room filled with kids.
Po: New girls, new girls.
Some so young they could be in kindergarten.
At one brothel after another, there were dozens of children -- all for sale.
This girl told us she's nine.
This one ten. Both said they knew how to perform oral sex.
And they gave us a price in U.S. Dollars.
Girl: One girl, 30.
Dateline: One girl 30, and two girls?
Girl: Sixty.
We also found foreign tourists visiting Svay Pak, but most weren't eager to tell us why.
Dateline: So what do you do down here chief?
Visitor: Um, I have a friend down, here to eat.
Dateline: Uh-huh.
Visitor: Uh.
Dateline: You come down to Svay Pak to eat?
Visitor: Um, no it's nice, just a nice area.
This American doctor did admit on hidden camera he came for sex -- not with the very young girls, but with teenagers.
Jerry A: I mean, 15, 16 and older. Maybe a 14-year-old might sneak in if you can't tell the age, but you know I don't take the little, the really little ones.
We were in Cambodia with Gary Haugen, a former federal prosecutor who runs a human rights group called the International Justice Mission.
Gary Haugen: This is the kind of brutal ugliness that is sort of hard to open your eyes to. But once you do, I think as a human being, you've got to take responsibility for it.
Haugen and his team devised a plan to rescue the children in Svay Pak and put the adults exploiting them behind bars. With pressure from the U.S. government, they persuaded the Cambodian police to take action.
We went undercover inside a brothel with the human rights investigators.
Robert: This is Lam and Viet, and Dao?
When the police raided...
(girl screams)
Dateline: It's okay. Be good girl. It's okay. It's okay.
Thirty-seven girls were rescued that day. Many were under the age of 10.
A dozen suspects were arrested. Four were convicted and given prison sentences ranging from 5 to 15 years.
Our report has had a far-reaching impact, not only in Cambodia, but a continent away in Vancouver, Canada.
In January 2004, police were investigating a complaint that a man named Donald Bakker had beat up a prostitute in this park and videotaped the crime.
Ron Bieg: The whole entire incident had been taped.
Chris Hansen: Videotaped?
Ron Bieg: Yes.
Even more disturbing, Vancouver police detective Ron Bieg told us that authorities found videotapes Bakker shot of himself on a trip in Asia of having sex with very young girls.
Chris Hansen: And we're talking about seven, eight, nine year old kids?
Bieg: Yes … We were blown away by it.
These are images of Donald Bakker's child victims. Canadian authorities wanted to prosecute Bakker for those overseas sex crimes, but they didn't know who the victims were or where the crimes took place -- until Bieg tuned in to our report on Cambodia. He couldn't believe his eyes when he began to look closely at the video.
Ron Bieg: We see rooms that look eerily similar to the rooms in Bakker's videotape.
Chris Hansen: Some of the children looked to be--
Ron Bieg: Similar.
Chris Hansen: Similar. That's a pretty good break.
Ron Bieg: It was a godsend.
Bieg explained to us how he compared images from our broadcast with Bakker's tapes.
Chris Hansen: So you were able to match, for instance, this piece of furniture here to a piece seen in the tape confiscated from Bakker.
Ron Bieg: Exactly.
And an even closer look at our tapes reveals other details that matched: this window, these posters on the wall...
Chris Hansen: It turns out that some of the girls seen on Bakker's video performing sex acts on him were seen being rescued in our story.
Ron Bieg: Yes. Four of them. That was the break that we needed.
Donald Bakker pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting seven girls in Cambodia and three adult prostitutes in Vancouver.
He was sentenced to seven years in prison.
And he was not the only individual to face justice after our original story.
Possibly because of all the attention, Cambodia has begun to crack down on foreign sex offenders.
Investigator: Hey, Terry.
Like Terry Smith.
Last year he was running a bar in a beachfront town in southern Cambodia.
Bob Mosier of the International Justice Mission said his group heard that Smith was selling young girls for sex and was allegedly also raping them himself.
Bob Mosier: He would show these children pornographic videos. And when, after watching the videos, he would have these children perform these sexual acts on him. As training.
Mosier sent in undercover investigators as customers.
Smith apparently told the girls to dance for the customers, first with their clothes on and then, shockingly, with their tops off.
The human rights group took the evidence to the Cambodian authorities.
This police officer arrested Smith and his girlfriend and says he found tapes Smith made of himself in several Asian countries.
Cambodian police official [translation]: I believe that he didn't violate only these girls here. I believe he violated many other girls.
It also turned out that Smith was a convicted sex offender in the United States and was wanted in Oregon.
The Cambodians agreed to turn him over to U.S. authorities.
Last October, U.S. Marshals escorted Terry Smith home to the U.S. to finally face those charges back in Oregon.
Last month, Smith was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Since we first started reporting on this issue four years ago, the changes in Cambodia, in many ways prompted by human rights advocates like Gary Haugen, have been profound.
Gary Haugen: The difference is dramatic. And it should be a sign of hope for other countries that struggle with the problem of sex trafficking.
He's especially proud of what's happened with some of the girls his group has helped rescue.
Gary Haugen: Just a few weeks ago I was able to see for the first time some of those youngest girls that we rescued and they talked to me about how one wanted to become a lawyer. And one wanted to become a translator. And one wanted to go into computers. And this is a transformation that one can appreciate only if you've ever seen the undercover video of what was being done to these children inside these brothels. They have a future.
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Anne Hathaway and her fiancé Adam Shulman departed LA for London where Taylor Swift was photographed confiding in the swans yesterday. I didn't realise until I saw Anne...
That Taylor is there to start "becoming" Eponine, thereby turning Les Miserables into the dreaded "Les Mis", a music video for the hand-hearts generation. It's like my subconscious has refused to accept this.
Filming for Tom Hooper's follow-up to his Oscar-winning The King's Speech is set to begin first week of February. Remember when Rob Marshall's Chicago was named Best Picture and his next project, Memoirs of a Geisha, totally sucked? Am I offside for wondering if the same might happen with Taylor Swift's Les Mis? Man I would love to see that audition tape.


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NCAA wants to crack down on head-cracking hits
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The difference between a legal hit and an illegal one in football is often determined by inches and seconds.
A proposed rule change by the NCAA could make those inches and seconds even more important in college football.
A player who delivers a hit to the head of a defenseless opponent could be kicked out of the game next season under an NCAA proposal that took a step forward Wednesday.
Consider this another high-profile step in the universal effort to make football less dangerous and cut down the risk of head injuries. The future of football became a hot topic again in the lead up to the Super Bowl when President Barack Obama said if he had a son "he'd think long and hard" before letting him play the game. He also voiced concern about whether the NCAA was doing enough to help college players deal with long-term health issues that come from playing football.
The NFL has been cracking down on helmet hits in recent seasons, handing out more frequent fines and even suspensions. But those penalties are determined days later, after the play has been reviewed.
Under the NCAA Football Rules Committee proposal, video replay will be used to determine the ejection part of the penalty, but that call will be made immediately.
And that's troubling to some coaches.
New Temple coach Matt Rhule, who spent the past last year as an assistant with the New York Giants, said it might be asking too much of replay officials to conduct a thorough review of a complex play that could result in a player losing the right to participate.
"That seems a high price to pay for something that we're not sure of," Rhule said in a telephone interview Wednesday night.
The rules committee said it had unanimously approved strengthening of the penalty for intentional above-the-shoulder hits. The 15-yard penalty will now have an ejection tacked on, assuming the Playing Rules Oversight Panel approves the plan next month.
"Clearly if the guy's head is down and he's launching into a receiver with the top of his head, that should be a penalty," Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez said. "You hate for somebody to get penalized for just a good hard hit."
Player safety was the theme of the committee's three-day meeting in Indianapolis, with the ejection for targeting the most noticeable change fans will notice in 2013 across all NCAA divisions. The committee also tweaked the rule on below-the-waist blocks.
Chairman and Air Force coach Troy Calhoun said the committee wanted to address clear instances where a defender is leading with the crown of his head to hit a defenseless player above the shoulders.
"It's a real problem in the sport," he said, "and we need to eliminate it."
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Last season, Calhoun said, there were 99 targeting penalties called in the Football Bowl Subdivision that, under the proposed rule, would have called for an ejection. He said the player on the receiving end of the hit in many cases sustained a concussion or other type of injury that caused him to miss significant playing time.
"It's not a gigantic number," Calhoun said of the 99. "Ultimately, our goal is zero. Is that realistic? I don't know if zero is. But I know any time you involve an ejection, we're going to see that number go down drastically immediately."
If the penalty occurs in the first half, the player would be ejected for the remainder of the game. If the penalty occurs in the second half or overtime, the player is ejected for the remainder of the game and the first half of the next game.
The rule would allow for the ejection portion of the penalty to be reviewed through video replay. The replay official must have conclusive evidence that the penalized player didn't intentionally target a defenseless player in order to overturn the call on the field. Calhoun said the 15-yard portion of the penalty would not be reviewable.
Rhule was a college assistant from 1998-2011 before spending 2012 working for Tom Coughlin with the Giants. He returned to Temple, where he worked under Al Golden for five years, to lead the program in December.
He'd like to see college football take the NFL's approach. Throw a flag during the game, but when it comes to sitting a player down, let that decision be made later by an impartial panel, away from the pressures of a game.
The NFL also allows players to appeal suspensions and fine.
Ravens star safety Ed Reed was suspended for a game by the NFL this season for repeated hits to the head and neck area of defenseless players. On appeal, that was overturned.
"We should always err on the side of safety," he said. "But what is the mechanism for after the fact, if a penalty happens in the first half, and a young man sits out and his team loses? Then they go back and look at it and they determine it wasn't an illegal hit. There was no intent to target the head. What are they then going to do?"
Rhule said suspending a player after a thorough review accomplishes the same thing as ejecting him, but removes the uncertainty that comes with a difficult call.
"I would love to see have the same punishment," Rhule said, "but after the fact."
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Analysts are expecting strong results Tuesday from Alcoa Inc. on a combination of higher prices and improved demand, especially in the aerospace, automotive and construction sectors.
The nation's biggest aluminum maker AA, +0.00%, part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.78%, fires off the first report of a potentially pivotal earnings season after the closing bell.
The results are also expected to reflect — finally — the benefits of Alcoa's efforts to shut its least-profitable smelters, a costly program that just this past year trimmed the New Yorkj-based company's overall aluminum output capacity by 12%, or about 530,000 tons.
With the program winding down, one-time costs associated with plant closures are expected to weigh less heavily on Alcoa's bottom line.
At the same time, Alcoa is ramping up production at new facilities. Just last month, Alcoa fired up aluminum output at Ras Al Khair, its $10.8 billion joint venture with the Saudi Arabian Mining Co., tapping into Saudi Arabia's inexpensive and abundant energy supplies.
Looking ahead to 2013
Added up, analysts polled by FactSet predict the stronger market and Alcoa's greater production efficiency will leave the company with a fourth-quarter profit of 6 cents a share, excluding one-time costs. That would reverse a loss of 3 cents a share seen in the final three months of 2011.
Revenue for the quarter is seen hitting $5.58 billion, a 7% drop from $5.99 billion in the year-earlier period.
Meanwhile, investors will be closely watching Alcoa's 2013 demand forecast.
In its third-quarter report, the company cut its 2012 global aluminum demand growth forecast to 6%, down from 7% previously, extending a downward trend that went from 13% growth in 2010 to 10% in 2011. Any further flattening in the growth curve will send analysts scurrying to recalculate Alcoa's earnings prospects.
On the other hand, an upward adjustment to demand growth isn't out of the cards.
Ahead of the quarterly report, 18 analysts surveyed by FactSet are, on average, predicting Alcoa will earn 13 cents a share in the first quarter of 2013 and 64 cents for the full year, nearly three times the 24 cents they expect the company to post in its final results for 2012.
Alcoa shares, despite getting roughed up last month during the run-up to Washington's fiscal-cliff crisis, are currently trading at $9.15 — unchanged from where they stood 12 months ago.


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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amazon.com today announced the launch of the Never Before on DVD store (www.amazon.com/neverondvd), accessible from Amazon's "Movies and TV" homepage, where fans can easily browse and locate more than 2,000 titles available on DVD for the first time via Amazon's CreateSpace DVD on Demand service. The store will expand Amazon's current selection of titles with additional classics from the vaults of Disney, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment—who in addition to offering more MGM content will also introduce titles from its library.
The Never Before on DVD store also features more current content from other studios and networks including CBS Networks, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, MTV Networks, Nickelodeon and Universal Studios Home Entertainment. Many titles are also available on Amazon Instant Video and Prime Instant Video, including MTV's Mob Wives: Season 1, MTV's Teen Mom: Season 1, Nickelodeon's Rugrats: Season 1 and Universal Studios thriller The Island starring Michael Caine.
"The Never Before on DVD store is a great place for fans to discover thousands of films and television series they've been waiting for on DVD," said Brad Beale, director of digital video content acquisition for Amazon. "In addition to being available on DVD, many titles are available digitally to enjoy right away through Amazon Instant Video and Prime Instant Video. We will continue working to bring our customers even more great video content on DVD as well as digitally."
Disney is now offering more classic family titles with the continually growing Disney Generations Collection. Such titles include Child of Glass (1978), a haunting mystery complete with witchcraft, ghosts and an antebellum mansion starring Barbara Barrie; The Leftovers (1986), the story of the Middleburg Orphanage's struggle to stay together as a family, starring John Denver and Cindy Williams; The Waltz King (1963), a dramatic biography of Johann Strauss, Jr.'s rise to fame; and the never before released television pilot Beyond Witch Mountain (1982), a continuation of the Witch Mountain stories starring Eddie Albert, Tracey Gold, Efrem Zimablist, Jr. and Kirk Cameron in one of his first roles. Fans can keep watching as more "Never Before on DVD" titles are released with the Disney Generations Collection.
MGM's Limited Edition Collection, distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, will feature titles such as Cool Blue, starring Woody Harrelson and Hank Azaria; The Wonderful Country, showcasing veteran film star Robert Mitchum and directed by Academy Award-winner Robert Parrish; Summer Heat, a dramatic film that takes place on a tobacco farm in the 1930s with Kathy Bates, Anthony Edwards and Lori Singer; The Big Night, a classic 1950s drama starring John Barrymore, Jr.; and Wanda Nevada, an adventurous western that brings heralded actor Peter Fonda together onscreen with Brooke Shields.
Sony Pictures Choice Collection extends its new-to-DVD offerings with the fifth season of Rules of Engagement, a CBS comedy series starring David Spade, Patrick Warburton and Megyn Price; Bless the Beasts and the Children, the 1971 Stanley Kramer movie about a group of social misfits who band together and run away from summer camp; Grace Kelly (1983), a TV movie starring Cheryl Ladd, Lloyd Bridges and Diane Ladd; Who's Minding the Mint? (1967), a comedy with Milton Berle, Joey Bishop, Bob Denver and Jamie Farr heading the cast; Combat Hospital: Season One, (2011), an ABC series that portrays doctors and nurses saving lives in a warzone military hospital; The Three Stooges (2000), an ABC Movie with Michael Chiklis; Reunion at Fairborough, starring Robert Mitchum as a World War II vet who rekindles a romance with an old flame (Deborah Kerr); and Interlude, a 1968 movie with Oskar Werner, Barbara Ferris and Donald Sutherland.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will offer a wide variety of new content from its archives featuring some of the biggest stars of the twentieth century including Tyrone Power in the spy mystery Diplomatic Courier; Anne Bancroft in The Raid, an American Civil War film based on true events; the screwball comedy Rings On Her Fingers starring Henry Fonda and Gene Tierney; and Sweet Rosie O'Grady, a 1943 musical starring Betty Grable.
Among the highlights of the upcoming releases from Warner Archive Collection are the complete first season of the classic Tarzan television series starring Ron Ely, which originally premiered on NBC in 1966; The Sky's the Limit, the last Fred Astaire film from the Warner Library to come to DVD; the classic Rage In Heaven, starring Ingrid Bergman and Robert Montgomery; and Panama Hattie, featuring Ann Sothern and Red Skelton. Also making their DVD debut are a collection of action films starring football legend Jim Brown, including The Split and Tick..Tick..Tick as well as Hanna-Barbera television animation with the release of Season One, Part Two of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest.
All of the titles in the Never Before on DVD store are available through Amazon's CreateSpace DVD on Demand service, the perfect way for networks and studios to quickly and efficiently bring their current content and catalog titles to DVD. Releases are always available to fans and never go out-of-stock because they are manufactured only in response to customer demand. In addition, many of the titles will also be available digitally through Amazon Instant Video, a digital video service providing more than 120,000 titles, including new release movies, TV episodes the day after they air, as well as contemporary and classic videos in SD and HD; and Prime Instant Video, a benefit for paid Amazon Prime members who get unlimited, commercial-free, instant access to more than 17,000 movies and TV episodes.
For more information about Amazon's CreateSpace on Demand service, visit www.createspace.com. For more information on Amazon Instant Video or Prime Instant Video, visit www.amazon.com/aiv or www.amazon.com/piv.
About CreateSpace
CreateSpace seeks to be the world's easiest and most comprehensive independent publishing platform for writers, filmmakers and musicians. The company is the leading provider of independent publishing tools that enable content creators to produce, polish, publish and distribute their work to customers around the world. CreateSpace offers industry-leading royalty rates, broad distribution to thousands of sales channels, an engaged peer community and complete creative control while content creators continue to own the rights to their books. CreateSpace is also a leader in manufacture on-demand for Books, CDs and DVDs maintaining "in-stock" availability for titles without inventory risk. CreateSpace is a brand of On-Demand Publishing LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN).
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. The new latest generation Kindle is the lightest, most compact Kindle ever and features the same 6-inch, most advanced electronic ink display that reads like real paper even in bright sunlight. Kindle Touch is a new addition to the Kindle family with an easy-to-use touch screen that makes it easier than ever to turn pages, search, shop, and take notes – still with all the benefits of the most advanced electronic ink display. Kindle Touch 3G is the top of the line e-reader and offers the same new design and features of Kindle Touch, with the unparalleled added convenience of free 3G. Kindle Fire is the Kindle for movies, TV shows, music, books, magazines, apps, games and web browsing with all the content, free storage in the Amazon Cloud, Whispersync, Amazon Silk (Amazon's new revolutionary cloud-accelerated web browser), vibrant color touch screen, and powerful dual-core processor.
Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, www.amazon.cn, www.amazon.it, and www.amazon.es. As used herein, "Amazon.com," "we," "our" and similar terms include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to competition, management of growth, new products, services and technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption, inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.


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Why Business Architecture Now, Not Later? A Lesson from Crisis Management
The inability to track customers, partners, accounts, agreements, and policies across complex business ecosystems triggers compliance failures and crisis management challenges that degrade brand value, undermine investor confidence, and chip away at consumer loyalty. Executives have found that efforts to address these shortcomings are more time consuming, error prone, and expensive than they could have imagine. Ironically, these same executives either refuse to sponsor business architecture efforts or are forcing business architecture proponents to "prove" its value on small scale, narrowly defined initiatives. This BrightTALK discusses crisis response challenges at a major financial institution and the role business architecture should play in addressing a variety of related scenarios across a multitude of industry sectors.
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Mike Bennett, co-chair, OMG Blockchain Platform Special Interest Group
The Object Management Group is exploring potential issues and opportunities for standardization across the world of distributed ledger or Blockchain ecosystems. Many of our members have expressed concerns about the challenges in managing complex information flows that interact with different Blockchain-based technologies, for example in supply chain management. The OMG believes that some of these issues may be mitigated by the development of one or more standards in this area, and has put out a 'Request for Information' (RFI) to gather more information on the challenges people are facing, concerns and potential solutions to interoperability questions – see https://www.omg.org/news/releases/pr2019/10-28-19.htm
The date for comments to be received on this is 1 February 2020.
At this webinar we will present the insights we have gained so far and will describe what we believe are the dimensions of the interoperability problem. We believe the range of interoperability issues and potential solutions is quite broad, ranging from common semantics to technical infrastructure solutions, and we anticipate issuing at least one and possibly more 'Requests for Proposals' (RFPs) later in the year to capture best practice for solutions in this area. If you own part of the problem or any solutions in this area please come to this webinar and be prepared to share your insights and requirements.
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Claude Baudoin, cebe ITKM, Dominick Grillas, Impestra, Jyoti Chawla, IBM, Steve Woodward, Cloud Perspectives
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Karl Scott, Satori Consulting and Claude Baudoin, co-chair, Cloud Working Group
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KEYNOTE: Government of Canada commitment to enabling interoperability
Dec 20 2018
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Teresa D'Andrea, Director Enterprise Interoperability, Treasury Board of Canada
The Government of Canada has made a strong commitment to enabling interoperability, but what does that mean, and how do we make it happen? The Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) has launched several key initiatives including OneGC, the Digital Exchange Platform, and API Store which all rely on the ability to share data between programs, with provinces, and with industry. This discussion will cover how TBS is approaching interoperability by providing leadership, defining standards, and ensuring that an interoperability ecosystem is available for departments and agencies to leverage.
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Djenana Campara, CEO, KDM Analytics Co-chair, OMG System Assurance Task Force
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Simon Mettrick, BAE Systems and Matt Wilson, Simventions
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*Open Architecture Radar Interface Standard (OARIS)
*Tactical Situation (TACSIT) Specification
*Alert Management Service (ALMAS)
Recorded at the OMG TC Meeting in Ottawa, Canada
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Business Architecture and Architecture Driven Modernization
Dec 7 2018
31 mins
William Ulirch, President, Business Architecture Guild and Co-Chair, OMG Architecture-Driven Modernization Task Force
Architecture Driven Modernization involves taking a holistic approach to transforming application, data and technical architectures, which includes applying a business-driven approach through business architecture. The OMG Architecture Driven Modernization Task Force has been developing industry standards for the past 15 years for assessing, representing and measuring software systems from a variety of perspectives. The presentation will cover:
*Business-driven IT architecture transformation
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Unified Architecture Framework® (UAF®)
Dec 6 2018
55 mins
OMG UAF Co-Chairs: Matthew Hause, PTC; Graham Bleakley, IBM; Aurelijus Morkevicius, No Magic
The Unified Architecture Framework® (UAF®) specification is used for modeling systems of systems. UAF was developed by a diverse group of tool vendors, end users, academia, and government representatives at the OMG. It has the full support of the US Department of Defense (DOD) and the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD). It is a DOD mandated standard. Its foundation in UML/SysML improves the integration between architectural framework modeling and system modeling to support post-acquisition lifecycle design and implementation.
This presentation provides an overview of SysML, a brief introduction to how UAF will provide a standard means of expressing DoDAF, NAF and MODAF using SysML, an overview of the UAF views and viewpoints and language concepts, and selected sample problems to demonstrate how the language can be used.
This presentation will cover the topics of:
•UAF modeling as part of the systems engineering process
•Using capability and systems models to avoid the problems of stovepipe development
•Using strategic, acquisition and systems modeling to ensure that systems deployment is in line with capability deployment requirements
•Transitioning from a system of systems to systems development
•Integrating requirements management into architecture modeling and the development lifecycle
•The future of architecture development
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Unified Architecture Framework® (UAF®) Risk-Based Analytics
Dec 4 2018
25 mins
Dr. NIck Mansourov, KDM Analytics
The OMG® Systems Assurance (SysA) Task Force is working on Model-based Cybersecurity Assessment (MBCA). MBCA is a risk assessment paradigm that emphasizes the use of rigorous models, analytics, and automated tools and best practices for the repeatable assessments of the cybersecurity of systems. MBCA is aligned with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and emphasizes leveraging engineering models for the purposes of risk assessment. This presentation will discuss how to use MBCA with the Unified Architecture Framework (UAF) to identify, analyze, classify and understand cybersecurity threats and related risks. This assessment will help stakeholders determine where to focus mitigation efforts, budget and resources.
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FACE™ Profile for UAF®
Dec 4 2018
11 mins
Sarah Douglass, Senior Systems Engineer, MITRE
An increasing number of government and pubic sector organizations are seeking to architect systems based on the Open Group's Future Airborne Capability Environment™ (FACE™) architecture design. For this to occur, FACE modelss must be aligned to supporting DODAF and NAF views and viewpoints, and integrated into the broader set of organizational architectures and models. The C4I DTF is seeking to develop a FACE profile for the OMG® Unified Architecture Framework® (UAF®) aligning FACE concepts into the UAF's ontological foundation and subsequently into DODAF and NAF.
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Data Distribution Service™ (DDS™)
Dec 4 2018
51 mins
Dr. Gerardo Pardo-Castellote, Co-Chair OMG DDS Special Interest Group, OMG Board of Directors, and CTO, RTI
The Data Distribution Service™ (DDS™) is a middleware protocol and API standard for data-centric connectivity from the OMG®. This presentation will cover the use cases of DDS and share example implementations of the DDS standard. DDS integrates the components of a system together, providing low-latency data connectivity, extreme reliability, and a scalable architecture required by business and mission-critical Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
In a distributed system, middleware is the software layer that lies between the operating system and applications. It enables the various components of a system to more easily communicate and share data. It simplifies the development of a distributed system by letting software developers focus on the specific purpose of their applications rather than the mechanics of passing information between applications and systems.
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Ed Seidewitz, CTO, Model Driven Solutions, co-chair of OMG fUML, Alf and PSCS RTFs, and Model Interchange SIG
Software Systems, hardware systems, business systems - the mind reels at all that we are building or modernizing today. Can we possibly handle the complexity and achieve reliability? Yes, we can, by creating models. A model is a concrete representation of the often abstract, hard-to-comprehend aspects of a system. With models, we can understand requirements, analyze problems, and design solutions, whether for a system to be guilt or an existing one under study. And, crucially, we can also use models to communicate within and between teams. But clear communication requires the use of a common language backed up by a common community of practice.
This is exactly what OMG modeling language standards provide: a broad suite of industry-defined languages, with extensive tooling support, for modeling all sorts of systems: Unified Modeling Language (UML), Systems Modeling Language (SysML), Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), Case Management Model and Notation (CMMN) and Decision Management Model and Notation (DMN).
But if you are new to this richness of standards, it is sometimes hard to know where to begin! this presentation will give you a concise overview of how these standards came to be, how they are being applied today and how they are continuing to evolve to meet growing user expectations. At the end of this presentation, you should feel comfortable with the breadth of modeling languages that the OMG has to offer and be ready to explore them in a bit more depth in subsequent presentations. Recorded live in Ottawa, September 2018.
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Ed Seidewitz, CTO, Model Driven Solutions, co-chair of OMG fUML, Alf and PSCS RTFs, and Model Interchange SIG
This presentation will provide an overview of both UML (Unified Modeling Language) and SysML (Systems Modeling Language) and demonstrate how they are successfully applied in practice. You will also learn about the exciting work going on as these standards continue to evolve, including the expanding suite of standards defining precise, executable semantics for UML and SysML and the broad industry effort ongoing to develop SysML v2. Presentation recorded in Ottawa, Canada September 2018.
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Gene Deitch is best known for his work in the animation field, but he is also the author of comic strips like 'Terr'ble Thompson'. Deitch began his career at the UPA studios in 1946, where he worked on projects like 'Gerald McBoing Boing'. He later became creative art director at the company's commercial department in New York. Between 1946 and 1951 Deitch was an illustrator for the jazz magazine The Record Changer, for which he created 'The Cat on a Hot Thin Groove'.
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I will see you all there next year.
You've all been asking for it… and now you're gonna get it! The Bloggers Bash Agenda, that is. I can't believe that it's already nearly a year since the very first Bloggers Bash. When Sacha, Geoffle, Hugh and I sat down to our first Google Hangout to discuss Bloggers Bash 2016, it seemed ridiculous to even contemplate it so soon after the first one, yet here we are, only 16… yes, SIXTEEN days to go, and I can honestly say the time has flown by.
We are really looking forward to seeing all our old friends from last year again, and meeting all our new ones too. It's an extraordinary experience meeting a blogger for the first time when you have known each other for ages on WordPress. I'm so excited!
In no particular order. Please feel free to drop by the virtual homes of your fellow bloggers and say "hi", by clicking the links. Have fun!
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So that's everyone! Hope I haven't missed anyone off the list. Have fun getting to know one another before the big day, if you don't already, and see you all there very soon. Any questions? Check out the FAQ on Sacha's blog. Geoff will be posting directions to the venue on Thursday 2nd June, and if you still haven't voted for your favourite bloggers, you have until Thursday 9th June.
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Hi Tiffany! There are no tickets, the event is free to attend, but if you want food you need to let us know so that we can arrange it, and you will have to pay for that. If you could let us know asap if you are definitely coming, as we need to confirm numbers with the venue. In the post you will see a link to Sacha's Ultimate FAQ. Follow the link to find out all about it. You will find an email address there, where you can send us confirmation, if you decide to come. You still have time to vote, too, if you haven't already. Hope to see you there! 😊
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Join us at the Blogger's Bash!
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Phew! Finally visited all the links and signed-up and followed as many as poss on various platforms, then got a shock as to how many comments I needed to read, where have I been all day? A very popular post Ali, I've been clicking back and forward all afternoon, looking forward to the day.
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The Bloggerbash Agenda and Whos Who, and who's going!! How exciting, can't wait, sounds like a fair amount of bloggers are gathering for this event… !!
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And here we go with the guest list …. I cannot wait to meet so many of my blogger friends and get to know many more!
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Ali Isaac, one of the team organising this year's Annual Blogger's Bash, shares the agenda and guest list for the event to be held in London on 11th June when the winners of this year's ABBAs will be announced.
Have you cast your votes yet?
Voting Closes June 9th at 12pm.
There were over 350 nominations for the Blogger's Bash Awards this year across the 10 categories. Your favourite blogs may be amongst them! Head on over to Sacha Black's site to support the team organising the event and vote now!
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Here is the agenda for The FABBAS – Fabulous Annual Bloggers Bash Awards on June 11th in London with a long list of familiar names of authors and bloggers who will be attending.. sounds like an amazing day and only sorry cannot make as we close on our house that week.. still hopefully third time lucky next year.. great job by the FABBAS four – Ali Isaac, Sacha Black, Geoff Le Pard and Hugh Roberts…
Hi Joy. Its no secret, we've all been blogging about it since this time last year after the last one! Lol! It's on June 11th in London. Follow the link in the post to Sacha's Ultimate FAQ to find out all the details, and if you'd like to come, send us an email. You'll be very welcome. All the details are in the FAQ.
Can't say too much just yet, Joy, but we'll be letting you all know very soon.
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The Blogger's Bash is just over two weeks away, and I can't wait! Here's Ali's post about who's attending and what's going to be happening – looks like another great day out 🙂
Yes, I can see how he would be distracting, Ali. No doubt you kept him under control 😀
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WOW – Check out the List of Blogging Talent attending 😀
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Marcus Ambrose has had a strong year in Nascar despite a rich-list slide.Testing times
Former motorcycle world champion Wayne Gardner this week tweeted to his followers news that will give hope to anyone who has failed their driving test. It seems Gardner, who won the 1987 500cc world championship on two wheels and was pretty handy on four (he took pole at Bathurst in 2000), may not quite have got the hang of driving on the right-hand side of the road in his new digs on the Continent.
"Not a good start to our Christmas holidays as I just failed my first driving test in Spain. Santa please bring me a licence for Chrissy!" Gardner obviously got one of the few driving instructors in Spain who isn't nuts about Moto GP.
Creative accounting?
AUSTRALIAN Nascar driver Marcos Ambrose has either got himself a great accountant or a lousy manager since the last BRW rich list for Australian sports people was compiled. Last year, Ambrose ranked sixth on the annual list with an estimated income of $4.5 million, up from $4.2 million in 2010 and down from $5.4 million in 2009.
This year, according to BRW, he slid down the ranks to 39th, with earnings of just $1.5 million. Now we know the Aussie dollar has been strong against the greenback, but we're scratching our heads as to how he can make less money while winning the same amount of prizemoney. This year, he racked up $US4.7 million in prizemoney, with one win, three top fives and eight top-10 finishes. A quick scout around US sites suggests that he could collect as much as 45 per cent of those winnings, plus potential bonuses for top-five and top-10 finishes. Then there are personal endorsements and sponsorships to throw into the mix.
Perhaps the discrepancy has less to do with Ambrose's accountant and more to do with BRW's understanding of motor sport. They describe the Australian as "V8 Supercar Series Rookie of the Year in 2001". Would "two-time V8 Supercar champion" be a better description perhaps?
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Ever felt jealous of a Rolls-Royce owner? Well, here's a story that might even have you feeling sorry for one. Clayton Bespoke Rose Bay, a high-end car dealer in one of Sydney's poshest suburbs, has a 2010 Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupe advertised for the princely sum of $478,000. Well, princely if you're looking to buy it, but pitiful if you happened to buy it new.
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And speaking of helicopters, or rather helicopter pilot-entrepreneurs, we received an email after our recent article about electric car sales tanking in Australia. The email, from a Mr Smith, a Nissan Leaf owner, read: "I noticed your comments about the very low sales of the Nissan Leaf. I must be one of the few who purchased one. It is simply the best car I have ever had. I am presently installing some solar cells so I won't be driving around with a misleading sticker on it – it presently says "zero emissions", but of course it's plugged into a coal-powered generating station. It is incredibly quiet and quite a fantastic car. Again, it's the best I have ever had. We will have the solar power unit installed this weekend … I am now waiting for a solar-powered helicopter."
We notice Mr Smith, first name Dick, didn't float the idea of an electric helicopter – now that would take range anxiety to new heights.
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