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Leader Reid rules out Senate vote on 'Plan B'
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House Republicans Cut Food Stamps, Obamacare, And Wall Street Oversight In Ill-Fated 'Plan B'
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House set to vote on Boehner's Plan B
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Richard Trumka On Fiscal Cliff: Not Ready To Blow Up Deal Over Obama's Social Security Concession
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Obama in focus, yet all over the map
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Liberal Democrats say chained CPI is a deficit deal breaker - almost
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San Rafael, CA (PRWEB) May 24, 2012
Nike Golf Schools & Junior Camps has now teamed up with its third prominent Big Ten golf program with the addition of University of Minnesota. The Golden Gophers' coaching staff joins long-time Nike Golf Camp programs University of Illinois and Indiana University (home of the Hoosier Golf Camp) to provide top-notch junior golf instruction in the Midwest region.
"We've fostered excellent relationships with University of Illinois Head Coach, Mike Small, and Indiana University Head Coach, Mike Mayer, over the years," explains Nick Brunner, Manager of Nike Golf Schools & Junior Camps. "We are excited about adding University of Minnesota to our family, especially given our success at Illinois and Indiana."
The Nike Junior Golf Camps at University of Minnesota are scheduled for June 24 – 28 and August 12 – 16, 2012. The programs are coed for junior golfers of all ability levels, ages 10 – 18. Golden Gophers head men's and women's golf coaches, John Carlson and Michelle Redman, will serve as camp co-directors with support from their assistant coaches, Tyler Stith and John Cleary. Overnight and commuter options are available for both camp weeks.
"University of Minnesota golf is proud to partner with Nike Golf Schools to offer 2 great weeks of instruction and fun in a great college camp atmosphere in the summer of 2012," says Head Men's Golf Coach, John Carlson. "Nike has been a very generous sponsor of our golf program and we are excited to continue this relationship by giving campers the ultimate golf camp in Minnesota experience."
Nike Junior Golf Camps at University of Illinois are set for June 10 – 14 and July 8 – 12, 2012. Mike Small has guided the Fighting Illini to four consecutive Big Ten championships and has been consistently ranked in the top 10 in the country. Nike Junior Golf Camp, Hoosier Golf Camp is scheduled for July 22 – 26, 2012. Mike Mayer has been at the helm of the IU men's team for 14 years and finished second in the 2012 Big Ten Championships. Mayer's Hoosiers fought neck-and-neck with Small's Fighting Illini in the conference tournament, ultimately falling to Illinois by three strokes.
About Nike Golf Schools & Junior Camps
Nike Golf Schools & Junior Camps is a division of US Sports Camps, Inc., America's largest sports summer camp network. NGJC offers junior overnight and day camps, and advanced player schools at over 80 locations nationwide. Since 1994, more than 140,000 junior golfers have participated in the camps.

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Introduction to Dynamic Macroeconomic Theory: An Overlapping Generations Approach
Harvard University Press, 1991 - Business & Economics - 372 pages
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Note: Superheroing is a family business, and artist Luca Pizzari has reunited one of comics most under-rated and disfunctional families in his revamp of the mutant family the Cassidys. With the X-Man Banshee leading the way, his black sheep brother Black Tom and hisdaughter Siryn are given new duds that brings their Irish roots back to the forefront. – Chris A.
Luca's thoughts on the group:
In the current Marvel Universe, Sean Cassidy is dead. Let's imagine that for some mysterious reason, as often in comics these days, now he's better ;)
Since he came back from the dead, though, he hasn't quite been the same, avoiding the X-community and retiring back to his native Ireland, where he owns an old family castle. Here his cousin Black Tom approaches him asking his assistance in a quest that involves their family history and his estranged daughter Siryn gets involved too, flying all the way from the US… basically the idea is to turn Banshee into the Marvel Comics Indiana Jones, living all sorts of adventures that delve into the supernatural/folkloristic while giving him the "Scooby-Doo" treatment: as he fights trolls, fairies or evil druids, these are revealed to be actually mutants or other supervillains.
The first thing to consider when designing his costume was for me that Banshee doesn't really fly, but glides thanks to his sonic scream. For this reason his costume is basically a functional paragliding suit with ornaments and lateral protective platings that carry the medieval lore of my concept. The color scheme is basically his classic one, that to me always screamed (pun completely intended) "Ireland" like nothing else.
Since Theresa even assumed her father's namesake while he was presumed dead, it made sense to give them more or less matching outfits, with subtle changes in the pattern of the plating and color schemes. She basically wears a two-piece version of Banshee's suit, with the hooded cape and boots added to reinforce the fantasy/folklore concept. I also tried to make her look more Irish, so yeah, she's curly and freckled now ;)
If Banshee is the King Arthur of my story, his cousin is our Merlin. His powers always had an Earth-based nature that to me linked him perfectly to Celtic spirituality, and that is exactly what I tried to reflect in his costume: part Druid, part hermit, part hobo, since his new-found mysticism leaves little or no interest in his wardrobe. The idea is that he probably once had a superhero outfit but stopped caring and now wears a monk-like robe plus whatever he can find over it. He always carries around an irish shillelagh, a fighting stick, and wears on his chest the Celtic rune for the Earth.


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Hello, there! Welcome to my About page. Here you will find a little bit more about me, this Website and my Blog. So let's get going…
My name is Heena Rathore Pardeshi and I'm a fiction writer, EIC at a publishing house and a manuscript critic. I'm a book aficionado, music enthusiast and love blogging. I have three blogs – Author Blog, The Reading Bud and The Baking Bud.
I am an introvert by nature, a thinker, a neat freak and an animal lover. I love watching racy thrillers and slasher movies. I am a huge admirer of Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, Sidney Sheldon, Robert McCammon and Dean Koontz.
In spite of being a full-time editor, I work from home, the only condition I put forth when I was offered the position of EIC at the publishing I work for. After my teenage years, I developed mild autism and therefore, now, prefer staying at home, where I am most productive. This is a concept that very few people have an understanding of, hence I prefer not meeting new people, especially extroverts. I've come a long way in the process of overcoming chronic-depression, with the godly-help of my husband, and try to stay away from potentially stressful situations (for me that means interacting with as fewer people as possible in real life.) I also have bipolar disorder and it doesn't help much when I'm surrounded by many people at one time.
On the personal front, I'm a wife to a very kind, chivalrous and thoughtful businessman, Vishal, who adores me and is the biggest source of my inspiration. I am also a cat-mommy to two very beautiful, capricious and the most adorable cats on the planet – Eva and Katie, who have taught me a lot of things, including how to hunt mosquitoes, flies and any other unfortunate creature that dares to enter our home.
PS: I love photography and if you want to check out tons and tons of amazing and somewhat goofy pictures of Eva, you can follow my Instagram here – @heenarathorep
About my debut novel:
How well do you really know your loved ones?
A girl struggling to cope with the murders of her mother and five-year-old brother.
A journalist chasing the ghost of a potential serial killer.
A thirteen-year-old girl who slaughtered her parents.
And a revenge-driven psychopath who is about to destroy everyone's life.
After 9 years, a young writer is still coping with the brutal murders of her mother and five-year-old brother, as she moves into a house of horrors, to start a new life with her lover. Will friends and family be able to redeem Ally out of the impending doom in time? Will her infallible love become the key to the destruction of her already fragile world? Will madness prevail over love; true love over revenge?
Deceived is a gripping psychological thriller that mazes through the deepest, darkest emotions of human mind through the story of a vulnerable girl who treads in the mist of deception bred from a long unforgiven betrayal.
AMAZON or add it to your GOODREADS shelf.
Check out what readers are saying about Deceived here: PRAISE
About the Blog:
I started this website, essentially a blog, in late 2014 with the intention of setting up a place where I could try writing about… stuff. I had no specific education in creative writing, so it was a big decision for to me start a writing blog as an ameture writer, but well, fear is something I've learned to conquer from a very young age, so I went ahead and set up this little blog. And I had no idea at that time that one day it'll in fact turn into my author blog.
Now, keeping up with my old habit, I post my short writing pieces, writing updates, life updates and about anything and everything I do in my simple and very peaceful life.
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As someone who's been reading fiction from last (20 years) from the age of 10 if not before, and due to my very opinionated nature, critiquing comes very inherently to me. Adtionally, being a writer and a fiction author myself, I've spent last quite a few years in learning the technicalities of fiction writing.
I critique fiction manuscripts (both long and short prose) and create a detailed critique report listing (in detail) the faults and chinks in them. These include all the structural and technical writing errors as well as plot holes and other inconsistencies.
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L'Esprit de Noel Holiday Home Tour runs today, Saturday
It's freezing cold today and the streets are icy, but that's not stopping the crowds flocking to L'Esprit de Noel, the annual holiday home tour benefiting the Central City Opera.
Six homes in Denver's Old Crestmoor neighborhood have been decorated for the occasion and are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and Saturday; a holiday boutique featuring one-of-a-kind gift items runs simultaneously at Christ United Methodist Church, 690 Colorado Blvd.
Tickets, $25, are available at House No. 1, 7 Crestmoor Drive. All houses are within easy walking distance of each other.
Kathleen Meyers is chairing the tour; participating designers are Swank Stems, Wild Flowers, Compleat Gourmet, The Twisted Tulip, The Lark, Flower Power, Hutch & Fig, Bouquets, Celebrated Gatherings, and City Floral.
We'd loved to have shown you pictures from the gorgeous interiors, but no photography is allowed inside the homes. Nor are strollers.
Coldwell Banker Devonshire and the Central City Opera Guild are L'Esprit's presenting sponsors.
The 26-member planning committee is made up of Margaret Baker, Pam Bansbach, Liz Clarke, Suzie Erzinger, Pam Gatz, Peggy Hanson, Irene Heckel, Lili Hilton, Annette Jewell, Lisen Kintzele, Brooke Maloy, Vicki Curtiss McFarlane, Anne McGonagle, Kathleen Ness, Suzanne Pacetti, Melissa Rick, Lorraine Salazar, Denise Sanderson, Antonette Smith, Jan Spomer, Edie Taylor, Colleen Thumm, Nona Warburton, Kathy Wells, Kelly Westergren and Sandy Wischmeyer.
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Small in size but rich in offerings, this Somerset town is a centre of New Age culture, rumoured to be the final resting place of King Arthur and most famously, home to the legendary Glastonbury festival.
Glastonbury, Somerset, England
- Established in 1970, 'Glasto' as it's affectingly known, is a world-famous 5-day festival celebrating the best music, arts and culture from around the world.
- Glastonbury is a joy to visit any time of year with its incense-scented mix of English charm, alternative culture and eye-opening spiritual history. Explore the offbeat, independent shops selling everything from healing crystals to organic beauty products.
- Make sure you climb Glastonbury Tor to take in the views and feel the good vibrations, then visit the holy Chalice Well, which is surrounded by peaceful gardens.
- Did you know? Glastonbury Abbey is one of the earliest Christian sites in England.
- VisitSomerset has lots of information on Glastonbury as well as day-trips you can take to see the beautiful countryside beyond.
- From London, Glastonbury is around a 3 hour 30 minute journey. You'll need to catch a train to Bristol, followed by a bus to the West Country town.


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Chassis Alignment - Advanced Chassis Alignment
The How And Why Of Chassis Alignment
Of all the setup parameters, including moment center location, alignment ranks at the very top of the list. Why? Because when your alignment is off, no other setup parameter changes will compensate for it. The alignment package has a tremendous influence on the way a race car handles.
For example, I recently talked with a Florida asphalt Modified team that I worked with some years ago. This is a winning team that cannot get the car to work the way past cars have worked. I reviewed the moment center design and the setup: The car should have been a rocket ship.
The last question I asked, last only because I thought they would know better, was if they had any Ackermann in the car's steering system. The answer was shocking. On the turn plates it showed about 2 degrees in the amount the wheel is usually turned to get through the turns at their local track. That is a huge amount of Ackermann and added toe-out, as we will explain.
Another example involves an ASA car at Lakeland that absolutely could not get into the corner because it was so loose. The driver/crew chief swore that the car was aligned. The problem was a misaligned rear end, with the right-rear wheel back 3/4 inch too far.
Alignment is a first priority in setting up any race car. It really doesn't take long, and the benefits are as great, or greater, than any other setup task you will perform. If you have not checked the alignment of your car, do it now. Follow along as we explain race car alignment and why it is necessary.
The Elements Of Proper AlignmentA. Toe Settings Proper toe settings at the front and the rear are very important. A set of tires that is not toed correctly will create a lot of drag, much like applying the brakes, and sometimes more efficiently than the actual brakes. The standard of the circle track industry is to toe the front out 11/416 to 11/48 inch. The rear wheels are to be straight-ahead and parallel to each other, having no toe at all.
Some teams desire some amount of toe-out or toe-in at the rear, whether it is desirable or not. Some formula cars are designed to work best with a small amount of toe-in at the rear. These cars are mostly rear double A-arm suspension cars, not straight-axle cars.
One theory claims that the tire contact patch deflection dictates the toeing of one or more of the rear wheels to compensate for that deflection. But it is hard to justify and can probably be best defined as a crutch used to help solve some other setup miscue.
B. Front-to-Rear Tracking The tire contact patches must track straight-ahead from front to rear, and in most cases, we need to line up the right-side tire contact patches. Our final alignment will show the right-side patches are in line with one another, along with the rear end being perpendicular to that line.
C. Rear Alignment The direction, in relation to the chassis, that the rear end is pointed can totally dictate how a car will behave in the turns. For example, on turn entry, if the rear end is pointed to the right of the chassis centerline, no amount of setup tuning will prevent the car from being loose. That looseness will stay with the car throughout the turns, especially ruining the turn exit. If the rear end is pointed to the left of the centerline of the chassis, the car will be tight through the middle and off the corner.
There should never be any reason to misalign the rear end. It should always be perpendicular to the centerline of the chassis and to the right-side tire contact patches, which are themselves inline.
D. Ackermann Adjusted The last alignment priority, and one of the most important, is making sure you have very little Ackermann, which is the creation of additional front toe as the wheels are turned. On most 1/4- to 1/2-mile racetracks, we need very little Ackermann to make sure the wheels are tracking inline with the radius of the turn for each wheel.
Calculations show that for circle tracks with fairly large radii (much more than was used to design our passenger cars to turn the corner at the stop sign), a very small amount of added toe is needed to properly align the front wheels to their individual radii.
The true amount of Ackermann needed for a 1/2-mile racetrack is 1/64 inch of added toe, or about 0.015 inch. We usually set 1/8 inch of static toe, or 0.125 inch, so there is plenty of existing toe-out to compensate for the Ackermann needed.
On a tighter 1/4-mile track, we will need a whopping 1/16 inch, or 0.063 inch, of added toe in order for the wheels to track correctly. This is still well within the initial 0.125 inch of static toe-out we set in our cars.
For your information, 1 degree of Ackermann is equal to 1/2 inch of additional toe-out. Some teams have run 2 degrees or more of Ackermann, expecting the car to turn better. Would you set your car up with 1 inch of static toe-out? I seriously doubt it. But this issue of Ackermann keeps rearing its ugly head, even after we have explained it several times in the past.
Steps to Take in Aligning the CarThere used to be only one reliable way to align a race car and that was by using a string and either measuring to the tires at hub height or at the floor by measuring from right triangles that were created on the floor. That is still a viable way to do it and necessary for the lower budget race teams.
A quicker and more accurate way to align the car in all areas is to use a laser system. The key to maintaining accuracy in a laser system is to check the tool to make sure the beam is truly tracking at right angles to the mounting device. The units we have used in the past are the True Laser Track and the Real Square(tm) Laser Wheel Alignment System. Both of these systems allow for checking the accuracy of the laser beams. This must be done each and every time we use the tool to check alignment.
The laser systems attach to the wheel hubs (Wide-5 or 5-on-5 hubs) and are pointed at targets or measuring scales. For the "analog" method, we used a nylon string from the local hardware store. We will go through the process using both methods so you can see how to perform each step.
Step 1: Wheel Runout Check Check both the front wheels and the rear wheels for runout. This means that as the wheel rotates, the outer edge of the tire wobbles slightly. We must compensate for this slight distortion by finding the extreme high spot at a point equal in height to the hub height. We can simply use a jackstand to hold the tape steady and rotate the tire, noting the distance from the stand. Once we locate the high point, we mark it with an arrow and then rotate the tire (be it front or rear) so the arrow is at the top, pointing straight up.
Now, check the toe at the rear end. Use toe plates or toe bars for the analog method and the laser systems for a more accurate assessment. Even small amounts of toe-in or toe-out are not acceptable. Each person must hold the plates steady so that the measurements are consistent. Measure several times to ensure accuracy.
When using the laser systems, attach the laser to the hubs, remembering to thoroughly clean the surface of the hub. Make sure there are no protruding threads from the bolt holes. It is recommended that you go over the hub surface with a flat file to eliminate any bulges or protruding edges of metal that would cause the laser to not be aligned properly.
Follow the manufacturer's recommendations for setting up the laser systems. Remember that the accuracy of the measurements is directly related to how closely you follow the directions and how carefully you read the system. There is a logical progression to alignment, and each company has put a lot of thought into the methods. The results, if properly applied, will be the same.
Step 2: System-to-Frame Setup Once the rear wheels have been toed straight-ahead, square the laser system to the frame. Most car builders will align at least one framerail parallel to the intended centerline of the chassis. It may be located on the right side or as the weight box on the left side, next to the driver. You can also align the laser system to the centers between the front and rear clip rails closest to the main framerails.
This setup can also be done using strings. We will set up a "box" with strings on each side and at the front and rear. We use plumb bobs to make marks on the floor off the outside of the framerails or the front and rear clip rails. For perimeter cars, or cars with no offset in the chassis, we can split the measurement between the clip rails to find the centerline of the chassis.
For offset chassis, we could use a straight rail or we could split the clip rails. Measuring between the marks, we can split the distance in half and place a mark at the halfway point, or at the centerline of the car.
Step 3: Center the Steering Box Center the front steering rack by turning the steering wheel lock-to-lock and back half the number of turns from full lock in either direction. Once mid-rack (or mid-box with drag link steering) is found, lock the steering shaft with two vise-grip pliers.
We want to make sure the steering is centered and the wheels are pointed straight-ahead. Once the steering box has been set to center, adjust each tie rod so that the right and left wheels are pointing straight-ahead. With the laser systems, this is done quickly and accurately.
With the string method, run a string down each side of the car at hub height and parallel to the centerline you have established. Then, simply measure to the sidewalls of each front tire with the tape measure, and make both front and rear sidewall measurements of each front tire equal by adjusting the tie-rod length. We can set our race toe after we have aligned the car.
Step 4: Right-Side Tire Contact Patch Alignment Once the front wheels have been adjusted to point straight-ahead and parallel to the centerline, we need to align the right-side tire contact patches. We do this by using our laser systems as described in their user manuals.
Adjust the Panhard or J-bar length so that the right-side tire contact patches are in line, or if your desire is to offset these, set the desired amount. This means that we either have both right-side tires lined up or at least know what our offset is.
When using the string method, we need to compensate for the camber of the wheels, which moves the tire contact patches out. At the hub height, if we line up the tire sidewall, the RF tire contact patch will be outside that line due to the negative camber present in the RF wheel. The rear wheel may also have camber set into it. Look at the chart to estimate how much to compensate for the cambers. Subtract the compensation amount from the offset read at the wheels to find how far from the string the wheels need to be in order to line up the right-side tire contact patches.
As we adjust the rear end side to side, there is a possibility that the rear-end alignment will change as the rear end moves laterally. That is why we do the right-side alignment first. We will now need to check to make sure the rear end is perpendicular to the chassis centerline and if not, adjust it.
Step 5: Rear-end Alignment Once the right-side tire contact patch alignment has been completed, we can then square the rear end. The rear end should always be set perpendicular to the centerline of the car as well as to the right-side tire contact patches.
We do this by creating a line that is perpendicular to the centerline we have already established. Using a simple 3-4-5 right triangle with the lengths doubled, we can measure off the centerline to establish our line to measure to the rear end.
Step 6: Setting Front Toe It's time to set the static toe at the front wheels. We can use toe plates to do this. Remember to be careful and accurate, and measure several times to be sure of the numbers. Adjust the left-side tie rod to set your toe. Leave the right side alone.
Roll the car and recheck the toe setting. Remember that for toe-out, the front measurement will always be more than the rear measurement. If you are using a string or laser, as opposed to toe plates, to check your toe-out, the opposite is true. The front measurement from the laser/string would be less than the rear measurement. I know a crew chief who got this backward too many times.
Step 7: Ackermann Measurement It is now time to measure for the amount of Ackermann in the steering system. This is best done accurately with the laser system. However, the analog method would use strings and can also tell us whether we have unwanted Ackermann or not.
If using a laser system, follow the manufacturer's suggestions and recommendations for measuring for Ackermann. If you do not have a laser system, you can use strings. Here is how you do it.
Start by pointing the front wheels straight-ahead. Pull a string along the outside of the tires at the tire bulge at about the spindle pin height. Go 10 feet in front of the car and make a mark on the floor, with the string aligned with the sidewall (I use a piece of wide masking tape and a permanent marker). Do this for each front tire.
Then, turn the steering wheel about the same amount it is turned on the track when you're going through the turns. Again, string the front tires and make marks at 10 feet out in front of the car. The distance between the two marks for each wheel should be the same for the left-front wheel and the right-front wheel if there is no Ackermann present. If those distances are different, there is some amount of Ackermann or reverse Ackermann present.
A greater measurement on the left indicates Ackermann (gain in toe-out), and a greater measurement on the right indicates reverse Ackermann (loss of toe-out). A 1-inch difference equals about 1/4 inch of Ackermann, or added/loss of toe. So, if you can get your differences to around 1/4 inch (where the left side is more), you should be good to go. A recent car we checked had a 3-inch difference, or almost 3/4 inch of added toe in the turns. That's way too much.
Conclusion This whole process of aligning your car should take only about an hour or two if there are several team members helping. That is very little effort expended to make sure your car will track correctly and that misalignment will not interfere with your car's performance.
Repeat this entire process often, especially after kissing the wall or being involved in a crash. Once you are convinced that your car is aligned, you can then concentrate on the other important aspects of your chassis setup.
Here, we see the layout for the process of setting up to square the rear end. Note that the lines formed by the intersecting marks are right triangles. Take your time and measure very accurately. Remeasure if you feel that everything is not right once you pull the rear string line across the outer points of the triangles.
Laser systems are the best tools to use to check for the presence of Ackermann. If you do not have one of those, you can use strings to project the alignment of each wheel out in front of the car.


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Government officials have given in principle approval for the location of a new international airport in Pune in the Chakan-Rajgurunagar region of India.
Ralph Bauer reports on the challenges architects and planners face by the rising cost of airport construction materials.
Incheon Airport has signed a three-year contract worth $9.03 million to project manage the construction of a new Duhok Airport in Kurdistan.
Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) has been given the go-ahead to start work on the new Midfield Terminal Complex (MTC) at Abu Dhabi International Airport.
Construction work is underway on an $800 million runway expansion at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
After more than a decade of delays, Salt Lake City International Airport is to get its long awaited $1.8 billion "massive" reconstruction.
Brisbane Airport is due to open its new $186 million car park tomorrow (January 17), as part of the gateway's multi-million dollar upgrade plans.
A third international airport capable of handling up to 3.5mppa has opened in Myanmar, in the country's new capital of Naypyitaw.


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Reporting on the first leg of a three-part French and Belgian European Football Weekend, Andy Hudson of Gannin' Away...
The coach turned onto Buckingham Palace Road. "Thank fuck we're here" came the mackem accent from behind me, "I'm never doing that again" it continued before morphing into a yawn. Six hours previously that same voice was locked into a shrieking cacophony of laughing, the owner having got on at Durham amongst a group and spent the first stage of the journey to London disturbing the sleep of those around them. This was the first horrific stage of the Les EFW, the first major event of the 2011/12 football season.
Ideas had been floated for months. Flights checked, fixtures referenced, maps pawed over. The plan had formed to leave from London in the car and do a loop from Calais with as many games as possible sandwiched in. Disaster had struck a few weeks ago when the Lens versus Troyes game was moved to Saturday afternoon leaving us with a frantic search for a replacement game. "Amiens are at home and that isn't far", Danny Last had text me. "Aye" I replied, "and it's a cracking night out apparently" I offered, not quite remembering where I had heard that bit of information.
With time to kill while I awaited Messrs Last and Fuller, I wired myself on coffee at Victoria Station before getting over to London Bridge, the start point of the trip. A pint down in All Bar One opposite the entrance and we were off. Before long, the southern English countryside was replaced by the English Channel and we were queuing for the ferry. Entertainment came via head-scratching as we tried to work out how to correctly apply the stickers on the car head-lamps. With Stuart off in search of a car that was already sorted so that he could copy, Danny and I stood like a couple of spare pricks in a ferry queue. Not to worry, minutes later and we were ordering the first beer in the bar of what is a four-pint-journey.
"Drive on the right; drive on the right" focused Stuart as we rolled off the ferry ramp. French countryside appeared and disappeared as we covered the miles south to Amiens; the toll road, fairly empty, was used as we sped towards our destination. Cash paid, we pulled off the road and over to the right was the Stade de la Licorne, rising up like a space craft. We parked up, noticed that the ticket office was still shut and so decided to go and check-in at our hotel, a few miles away.
With bags dumped in the room we hit the bar. Sickly, sweet Kronenbourg necked and we retraced the journey back to the stadium, passing a coach of Le Havre fans singing next to the toll road payment machine. After handing over our 10 Euros for a ticket, we wandered around the ground before queuing for some food. Weighed down with a mountain of chips, we headed up the stairs and took our position standing at the back just as the teams came out. The small section of Le Havre fans waved their flags; the Amiens fans in the VIP tent to our right afforded a polite ripple of support and the 12 year old at the front of our stand led the home fans in the middle section into generous singing; the football at Les EFW was underway.
Neither team attacked with purpose; as such it was no surprise that a cagey first half finished goalless. The atmosphere was muted, the downside of the stadium design being that noise isn't retained inside the stands, merely it floats upwards and out over the night sky.
"I reckon we could get a beer in that main stand" said Danny, just as the referee signalled for the end of the half. With the main stand being posher seats and a few Euros more expensive, we made our way to the back of the stand, talked as we passed security and headed straight up the stairs at the back of the main stand. Passing the back of the VIP tent, situated just next to the bar, we passed a couple of chaps drinking a beer. "Your beer, does it have alcohol in?" asked Danny, slightly affecting a French accent. "Oui" shot back the reply. "We'll double up on this round then. Quattro beers s'il vous plait".
Taking seats at the bottom of the main stand we took a gulp of the beer. "This is bloody non-alcoholic" we all cried out at once. With no alcohol to mess with our memory, we took to the football again. The Amiens 'keeper sported an awful football strip with a pink top topped off by some logo of a cow or something on the front. As a result of this fashion disaster, it was no surprise that the visitors took the lead after 62 minutes. Football has a simple rule: wear a disgusting top and you will get beat.
Le Havre broke away down the left and a cross that initially appeared to be hit too deep as it dropped over the run of the forward coming in to the near post area, turned out to be delivered to perfection as it landed perfectly at the edge of the box for Ryan Mendes to volley home. That was the only goal that the crowd of 8,862 witnessed as the game soon reverted back to both defences dealing with attacks with ease.
Having heard that Amiens was a good place to have a beer, I was looking forward to sampling the bars. We headed back to the hotel, dropped the car, called a taxi and were soon in amongst it. We had been told that there was a street of bars; the street turned out to be rather small. The street was actually a corner. We started off in one bar and after wandering over the bridge we scanned the menu while we sat at a table. "The beer's almost 7 Euros a pint here!" "Shall we vote with our feet?" came the reply as all three of us got to our feet. "Is that a pub over there?" "Na, it's a hairdressers".
The pub decision was an easy one to make in the end. One bar seemed popular and with a spare seat outside. As Stephen Hawking rocked out on the dance floor inside, we chatted over beers outside. A table of local youngsters sipped their way through cokes and beers while a very drunk lady wearing a sailor hat and with huge holes in her tights bounced around from table to table.
With the night getting late and with an early start to Lens the following morning, we started to finish off our beers. We had been left by a few people who had joined our table to chat, when eventually she got round to our table. "Where are you from?" a voice slurred. We looked up and noticed a sailor hat. "Are you fuckin' bullshitting me? You are from England? Do you think I'm pretty? Shake it baby – yeah!".


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Acting CIA director Michael Morell said that Zero Dark Thirty, the Hollywood take on the US' hunt for Osama bin Laden, exaggerates the importance of information obtained by harsh interrogations.
The movie by Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow tells the story of the decade-long search after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the US that climaxed in last year's dramatic and deadly raid in May on the al-Qaeda leader's hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
The film shows US personnel using harsh interrogation techniques like waterboarding — a method widely seen as torture — to force captives to speak. The information obtained was crucial in piecing together the trail that eventually led to bin Laden, the movie shows.
Not so, Morell said in a message to CIA employees released to reporters on Saturday.
The movie "creates the strong impression that the enhanced interrogation techniques that were part of our former detention and interrogation program were the key to finding bin Laden. That impression is false," the message read.
Morell's message, sent on Friday, states that "multiple streams of intelligence" led CIA analysts to conclude that bin Laden was hiding in Abbottabad.
He acknowledged that "some" of the information "came from detainees subjected to enhanced techniques, but there were many other sources as well."
The controversial techniques were banned in 2009 by US President Barack Obama.
"Whether enhanced interrogation techniques were the only timely and effective way to obtain information from those detainees, as the film suggests, is a matter of debate that cannot and never will be definitively resolved," Morell said.
Morell is widely believed to be a top candidate for the job of CIA director after the resignation of the agency's former director, David Petreaus. Petreaus stepped down last month after admitting to an extra-marital affair with his biographer.
Morell's message echoes a statement decrying the Zero Dark Thirty interrogation scenes signed by three US senators, including Senator John McCain, himself a prisoner of war and torture victim during the Vietnam War.
In a letter to the head of Sony Pictures, McCain and Democratic senators Diane Feinstein and Carl Levin wrote that the movie "clearly implies that the CIA's coercive interrogation techniques were effective" in obtaining information that would lead to bin Laden.
"We have reviewed CIA records and know that this is incorrect," the senators wrote. "We believe that you have an obligation to state that the role of torture in the hunt for [bin Laden] is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative."
However, two CIA officials on active duty when suspects were tortured disputed those assertions.
Jose Rodriguez, who oversaw the CIA's counterterrorism operations when "harsh interrogation" methods were in use, wrote in the Washington Post in April that the path leading to bin Laden "started in a CIA black site ... and stemmed from information obtained from hardened terrorists who agreed to tell us some [but not all] of what they knew after undergoing harsh, but legal, interrogation methods."
Former CIA director Michael Hayden wrote in the Wall Street Journal in June last year that a "crucial component" of information that eventually led to bin Laden came from three CIA prisoners, "all of whom had been subjected to some form of enhanced interrogation."


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Take Gotye's catchy song, Somebody I Used To Know. Change the lyrics so that they're about characters in the first season of Game of Thrones. What do you get? This delightfully funny video by notliterally commemorating some of the characters we 'used to know,' that's what.
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(13) Obtain options to acquire real property, or any interest therein, by purchase, lease or otherwise, which is found by the board to be suitable as a site, or part of a site, for the construction of a project;
(14) Pledge funds generated by assessments in a district or proceeds from the sale of assessment bonds to payment of debt service on tax increment financing obligations issued under article eleven-b, chapter seven of this code for the period of time determined by the community enhancement board; and
(15) Take any and all other actions consistent with the purpose of this article and not in violation of the constitution of this state as may be necessary or incident to the construction and completion of a project.
(c) The powers of each community enhancement district shall be vested in and exercised by a community enhancement board which shall be composed of five members, four of whom shall be appointed by the governing body of the county or municipality in which the community enhancement district is located and one of whom shall be the sheriff or his or her designee of the county or the treasurer or his or her designee of the municipality (or such other person serving in an equivalent capacity if there is no treasurer), as the case may be, in which the community enhancement district is located. At least three members of the board shall be residents of the assessment district: Provided, That should less than three persons reside within the boundaries of the community enhancement district, then at least three members of the board shall be residents of the county or municipality, as the case may be: Provided, however, That if no persons reside within the boundaries of the community enhancement district then at least three members must be approved by the owner or owners of the land. No more than three initial members of the board may be from the same political party.
(d) The four members appointed by the governing body shall be appointed for overlapping terms of four years each and thereafter until their respective successors have been appointed and have qualified. For the purpose of initial appointments, one member shall be appointed for a term of four years; one member shall be appointed for a term of three years; one member shall be appointed for a term of two years; and one member shall be appointed for a term of one year. Members may be reappointed for any number of terms. Before entering upon the performance of his or her duties, each member shall take and subscribe to the oath required by section five, article IV of the constitution of this state. Vacancies shall be filled by appointment by the governing body of the county or municipality creating the assessment district for the unexpired term of the member whose office shall be vacant and such appointment shall be made within thirty days of the occurrence of such vacancy. Any such member may be removed by the governing body which appointed such member in case of incompetency, neglect of duty, gross immorality or malfeasance in office. Members shall be entitled to no more than fifty dollars per meeting and reasonable expenses associated with their services.
(e) The board shall organize within thirty days following the first appointments and annually thereafter at its first meeting after the first day of January of each year by selecting one of its members to serve as chairman, one to serve as treasurer and one to serve as secretary. The secretary, or his or her designee, shall keep a record of all proceedings of the board which shall be available for inspection as other public records and the treasurer, or his or her designee, shall maintain records of all financial matters relating to the community enhancement district, which shall also be available for inspection as other public records. Duplicate records shall be filed with the clerk or recorder, as the case may be, of the county or municipality which created the community enhancement district and shall include the minutes of all board meetings. The secretary and treasurer shall perform such other duties pertaining to the affairs of the community enhancement district as shall be prescribed by the board.
(f) The members of the board, and the chairman, secretary and treasurer thereof, shall make available to the governing body responsible for appointing the board, at all times, all of its books and records pertaining to the community enhancement district's operation, finances and affairs for inspection and audit. The board shall meet at least semiannually.
(g) A majority of the members of the board constitutes a quorum and meetings shall be held at the call of the chairman.
(h) Staff, office facilities and costs of operation of the board may be provided by the county or municipality which created the community enhancement district or by contract and said costs of operations shall be funded from assessments collected within the district.
(i) The chairman shall preside at all meetings of the board and shall vote as any other members of the board, but if he or she should be absent from any meeting the remaining members may select a temporary chairman, and if the member selected as chairman resigns as such or ceases for any reason to be a member of the board, the board shall select one of its members as chairman to serve until the next annual organizational meeting.
(j) The board shall, by resolution, determine its own rules of procedure, fix the time and place of its meetings and the manner in which special meetings may be called. The members of the board shall not be personally liable or responsible for any obligations of the assessment district or the board but are answerable only for willful misconduct in the performance of their duties.
(k) The official name of a community enhancement district created under the provisions of this article may contain the name of the county or municipality, as the case may be, in which it is located.
(l) Notwithstanding any provision in this code to the contrary, the power and authority hereby conferred on community enhancement districts may extend within the territory of a public service district created under section two, article thirteen-a of this chapter.


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Hike Date: August 20, 2009
Distance: ~ 23 miles
Trail(s): Mt. Hoffman Trail, High Sierra Loop, Pacific Crest Trail
Where's it at? Tuolumne Meadows Northeast of Yosemite Valley
This was a breathtaking trip that I'd love to do again with more time. Me and a buddy started the hike parking near Lembert Dome in Tuolumne Meadows where we parked the car. We hadn't intended to take this hike but the first-come-first-serve wilderness permit attempt to Vogelsang didn't go as planned. Because of the drive to get there from the bay, we stayed (free) at the Tuolumne Meadows Backpacking Camp the evening prior and met a few cool people who shared their "site" with us due to the place being packed.
The first leg was to Glen Aulin where we stayed near the High Sierra Camp the first night. The weather was great and the trail was very scenic and fairly easy hiking. Along the trail to Glen Aulin is the awe-inspiring Tuolumne River. The very beginning was mostly a flat meadow around Soda Springs. The first real treat were the few falls around 2/3 of the way to Glen Aulin, which includes the picturesque Tuolumne Falls. This place is like a paradise, a fairly tall fall spilling into an emerald green pool that is swimmable. Took a number of photos here and wished it were our final destination.
From Tuolumne Falls onward was the more challenging part of this leg, though still not too hard. The river helps lead the way. Finally after acending for a while we began the rapid descent to Glen Aulin and White Cascades. Due to the time of year (late summer) the water wasn't TOO rushed but it was still a very nice waterfall. You could swim around in the large pool at the bottom including swimming underneath the cascade. We did a little fishing here and relaxed after setting up camp.
The camp at Glen Aulin is nice, we went all the way up to one of the farthest sites though there are some very close to White Cascades. One thing that wasn't so great was that while you have to stay in an assigned campsite, you cannot have campfires at every campsite. There were shared firepits serving about 10-15 campsites each. We had to walk a little ways to the one nearest our site.
An early rise and breakfast and we were on the trail again, this time to May Lake recommended to me by my ranger buddy Andy. He was right, it's very scenic. What he didn't mention is what a hike it is to get there.
8-9 miles really isn't too much, unless it's plenty of uphill in high altitude with a very heavy backpack on! That's ok, you should expect excersion while backpacking in the high country.
The first picturesque milestone was arrival at McGee Lake which was absolutely gorgeous. The water was amazingly still. I took a great picture here that has ultimately served as a dekstop and mobile device wallpaper for me ever since. We didn't really linger here, in fact we didn't linger anywhere for long on this leg. The buddy Dylan is relentless about not resting. (in fact, as I'll mention later, he didn't even want to go home at the end of our trip)
About 1/3 of the way to May Lake Cathedral Creek crosses the trail. The next highlight was the numerous Poly Dome Lakes at the base of the ascent to Mount Hoffman. Gorgeous. I found myself already getting a little tired here when I was warned that the rest of the way was a fairly steep switchback trail. The climb was brutal requiring a number of stops to catch a breath and rest the legs. I always pack too much stuff but the was one rare occasion where I seriously considered leaving some on the mountain to lighten the load. But I trekked onward.
Finally we reached May Lake and it's alpine beauty. What a great view across the lake and up to Mt. Hoffman. May Lake is pretty large and on this day it appeared to be much warmer than the surrounding air causing a light fog to rise from it's surface for added effect. As of today the background for my blog is a picture of this phenomenon. There's a better version in the "outdoor wallpaper?" section.
After sleeping like a baby we had planned to continue the journey to Hidden Lake on the way back, but the weather was not cooperating. it rained for several hours and soaked everything so I voted for sleeping in and sticking around May lake for a day with a hike around it without the packs. Onward to the top of Mt. Hoffman (10,850 ft. elevation) we went. There's a great meadow on the way up which we explored and at the top of Mt. Hoffman you are treated to a very broad view of Yosemite and Tuolumne Meadows.
We ended up sleeping nicely and the following morning it was off to home, for me. My friend Dylan took his chances by staying in Tuolumne to hitch or train a ride home… He did eventually come back to the bay area.


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We provide Home/commercial Automation, AV, Security and lifestyle solutions for people building modern residential properties. We require an elegant and stylish new website to portray our company's services.
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This device is listed by Wikipedia as having "optional" IR support. If anybody has one of these and a suitable remote control (A415; the 45-key "snowboard" one), could you confirm that the driver's IR support works with it? ‒ D.s 03:01, 19 August 2007 (CEST)
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ROCHESTER — At Thursday's Finance Committee meeting, the Rochester school district announced it must place a freeze on spending to balance the budget with additional special education students coming to the Lilac City.
School Business Administrator Linda Casey said since the district initially put a spending freeze for incoming special education students earlier this school year, 10 more students have come to the district and it has significantly hurt the budget. The special education department now requires an extra $400,000 to account for the new students. The announcement evoked several gasps from Rochester School Board members seated at the table, who seemed shock by the rise in students.
"We are definitely still in a deficit situation," Casey told them.
Casey added there are no additional revenues coming in to alleviate the deficit for this year, so she must put a halt on all spending, with the exception of some orders processed for repair, maintenance and school athletics.
"Other than that, we're probably processing one purchase order a week," Casey said. "Some of the requests do come in for approval but at this point, we're probably going to deny most of (those) coming in."
Figures reviewed by the board indicate the School Department has already spent 52.6 percent of its total appropriation for the year — approximately $55.2 million — with only half of the year under way. Board member Dan Harkinson pointed out that's not including the additional $400,000 required for the 10 new students.
Superintendent Michael Hopkins said he has observed more families with special needs students moving into the district who already have costly Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) in place. The district has to honor those IEPs, no matter what the cost.
"If a student comes into a program that is already $100,000, it really hits the budget hard," Hopkins said.
Board member Anthony Pastelis asked why Rochester has become such a "magnet" for special education families, joking the Lilac City "isn't the Taj Mahal."
Hopkins responded he believes affordable housing makes Rochester a more desirable location for some families already struggling.
"I think in most cases, its affordable housing in Rochester that draws the families here versus some of the other Seacoast areas," he said, "but that's just an estimate."
Board member Karen Stokes asked about what state-level relief may be available to a district like Rochester, but Hopkins replied the district only receives a portion of their costs back if they qualify for certain programs, and that all depends on what the Legislature sets beforehand.
Hopkins added he will work on compiling a report to show to the board with a record of last year's students compared to this year's, indicating new students and how many are placed out of district on IEPs once they're placed into the city. He hopes the summary will shed some light on the issue at hand.
Board member James Gray pointed out Wednesday night's Police Commission meeting touched on the issue of funding for School Resource Officers (SROs) and crossing guards, which may also negatively affect the school district. With the commission's budget seemingly in dire straits for the future, Gray warned the board to be aware of upcoming changes.
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Sister Marie Vincent Brothers, a member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame who spent nearly three decades as a teacher and graphics designer at Notre Dame of Maryland University and was once described as one of the "swingingest" nuns, died June 8 at Maria Health Care Center in Baltimore County of lymphoma. She was 86.
"She had a lovely gift of integrating art into just about everything," said Sister Miriam Jansen, who knew Sister Marie Vincent for at least 40 years. "Her creativity was just remarkable. She could bring out the most beautiful parts of life."
Sister Marie Vincent was born Rose Marie Brothers in Chillicothe, Mo., the second of five children of Ellen and William Brothers. Her father was a paper salesman for an Illinois-based company, a job that required the family to move several times before settling in Hannibal, Mo.
She joined the School Sisters of Notre Dame in 1945, assuming a religious name in recognition of her youngest brother, and took her final vows in 1954, according to the SSND congregation. She majored in secondary education, receiving a bachelor's degree from Quincy College in Illinois in 1952 and a master's degree eight years later from DePaul University in Chicago. She studied design at the School of Visual Arts and Parsons School of Design in New York.
"She was a young woman in a day where there were a lot of boundaries and barriers for women," said Sister Ann Scholz in Baltimore County. "She pushed those boundaries. She was an artist. She was a professional woman in the days when women were not professionals."
Before coming to Maryland, Sister Marie Vincent taught art, English and business in high schools in Missouri and California for more than three decades.
In 1964, she met Sister Gerold Mobley while both were studying art and English at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Several years later, the two began teaching art at Rosati-Kain High School in St. Louis, the beginning of a decades-long collaboration in the arts that included the design and sale of greeting cards.
"They became very well known across St. Louis city for their art," Sister Miriam Jansen said.
In 1981, Sister Marie Vincent and Sister Gerold began spending their summers teaching art to children in Kennebunk, Maine, an activity they continued for three decades. In 1983, they joined what was then called the College of Notre Dame in Baltimore, where the pair was often referred to as G & V.
At Notre Dame, Sister Marie Vincent instructed education students how to teach art. And for the first decade at Notre Dame, she and Sister Gerold lived in a student residence hall and served as residence directors.
Sister Marie Vincent in those days was often seen riding a bicycle on campus. She dressed with an artistic flair, wearing colorful outfits, Birkenstocks, and stylish scarves and jewelry, colleagues said.
"Sister Marie Vincent was peaceful and calm and had this wonderful smile," said Dr. Joan Sattler, an associate professor at the school of education. "She had a sense of humor."
The sisters created cards that bore one of Sister Marie Vincent's favorite passages in the Bible. But Dr. Sattler said Sister Marie Vincent tweaked the wording, inserting "she" so the card read: "She will see God face to face, there will be no need of sunlight or lamplight, for the Lord God will be shining on her."
When it was brought to her attention that the bible doesn't refer to "she," Dr. Sattler said, Sister Marie Vincent responded, "God wants shes to be in heaven, too."
Sister Marie Vincent gave up teaching about a dozen years ago, Dr. Sattler said. She then focused on creating in-house graphics for Notre Dame and on the design business she had launched with Sister Gerold, called Gerold and Vincent Designs, Dr. Sattler said.
Both studied under artist Edward Benguiat, who called them the "swingingest nuns around" — a description they relished, according to a 2009 Baltimore Style magazine article about the pair. The two frequently played extras in movies being filmed in Baltimore, including "Ladder 49." Sometimes they would play nuns.
Sister Marie Vincent retired to Villa Assumpta in early 2011. The next year, she was awarded the Notre Dame President's Medal for long-standing service to the students and community.
Sister Marie Vincent leaves no immediate survivors, the congregation said.
A funeral service was held Friday in St. Louis. A memorial mass will be held at 11:45 a.m. Thursday at the chapel at Villa Assumpta, 6401 N. Charles St.


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Gene Simmons Says Sue Your Fans, Take Their Homes; So Why Hasn't He?
from the put-up-or-shut-up deptKiss' Gene Simmons apparently was bored of not getting enough coverage in the blogworld lately, and so he's cooked up another "controversy." He does this every year or so, making a big stink about "piracy" or new business models, and I'm pretty sure at this point that he only says this stuff because he knows people will write about it. In 2008 he claimed that Radiohead was destroying the music industry with its "pay what you want" experiment -- even though it made the band more money than all their previous releases. In 2007, he told Billboard Magazine that the labels should be suing more people:
The record industry doesn't have a f*cking clue how to make money. It's only their fault for letting foxes get into the henhouse and then wondering why there's no eggs or chickens. Every little college kid, every freshly-scrubbed little kid's face should have been sued off the face of the earth. They should have taken their houses and cars and nipped it right there in the beginning. Those kids are putting 100,000 to a million people out of work."Of course, the evidence suggests Simmons is totally wrong, but apparently he hasn't learned anything in the past three years or he doesn't care. Kiss keeps selling concert tickets at an amazing clip, so he can say whatever ridiculous thing he wants and he still makes more money. So he's basically repeated those claims from 2007 (found via Hypebot), by saying that fans should be sued until they lose their homes:
"It is a business. You have a fiduciary duty to your own butt to make sure you maximise any potential and minimise any exposure,"He's right about that, but perhaps confused about long-term vs. short-term maximization. You can maximize revenue in the short term at the expense of long-term revenue, and one good way to do that is to smack around your fans. But that didn't stop Simmons:
Make sure your brand is protected, be litigious, sue anybody -- take their homes, their cars, DON'T LET ANYBODY CROSS THAT LINE.These are his fans he's talking about. While he's got fans to spare, he may discover one day that suggesting bands sue their fans isn't actually a good long-term strategy.
"The music industry was asleep at the wheel and didn't have the balls to go and sue every fresh-faced, freckle-faced college kid who downloaded a clip," Simmons roared, "so now we're left with hundreds of people without jobs. I have a record company."Not quite sure where that final non-sequitur came from (sounds sort of like "I'm on a horse.") Either way, he's confusing the record industry with the music industry. The recording industry did, in fact, try to sue every college kid who downloaded stuff. And it ended up costing them a ton of money, educating many more people about file sharing, and driving people and systems further underground. And, while all that was happening the music industry (not the recording industry) continued to grow at a pretty massive rate, despite his claims. I'm on a horse.
He illustrated these already-colourful points with a handful of stories: one about a captain who's told he has a small hole in his ship (will he cork it now, or sink before arrival to the New World?), and another about a farmer who lets a cute fox run away with an egg. The fox tells all the other foxes, who come to ravage and steal and kill all the chickens, after which point the farmer's wife divorces her witless husband and the children all hate him.Um. Okay. Story time from Gene Simmons. I can tell stories too, except mine are actually about real people who figured out that attacking or suing your fans was a bad idea, and actually putting in place smarter business models made sense.
But here's the reason why I think Simmons is making all this up for the attention and the press. He notes that he has a record company, and he screams about the industry not having the balls to sue people. So... um... Gene... where are your thousands of lawsuits against file sharers? After all, I would imagine that KISS songs are downloaded all the time. What's with all the talk and no action? Where are all the lawsuits that drove kids out of their homes and cars? Oh right. They didn't happen.
And, in the meantime, as mentioned, Simmons is making a ton of money selling concert tickets. The article notes $400 million in concert tickets sold in the last 8 years, and that's only a tiny fraction of the KISS business behemoth, which sells all sorts of scarcities that people want to buy. In other words, Simmons (who wastes no opportunity to talk about what a brilliant business man he is) has actually figured out how to thrive in a world where free copying is rampant, by selling stuff that can't be copied for free. He should be one of the poster children for showing how you build a business that "competes with free." It's just sad that he either doesn't realize why his business worked, or he wants to mislead everyone about it.
Anyway, you can watch the video below of this talk. The whole talk is about 40 min but I've queued up to the parts quoted here:
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