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[16-26] Snowflake's Shadowfang Keep Guide
Shadowfang Keep Guide
The Shadowfang Keep is a level 18-21 instance which is located in Silverpine Forest. The trash monsters in this instance range from level 18-20, but the bosses are level 20-21. This instance, although in the same level range as the Wailing Caverns and Deadmines, it is significantly harder than either of those instances, and all five players need to have at least some instance experience (even if it is just one run) of what function they are playing in the group, or you will have troubles.
This instance is made for Horde. Nonetheless Paladins and Warlocks have class related quests there.
Time needed approximately for this instance: 1-2 hours
First, a couple of more advanced instancing terms. This instance is significantly harder than any of the other instances in this level range, and assumes at least a basic knowledge of group mechanics. Therefore, you should learn the following techniques, and learn whether your class is capable of performing them. This guide will not cover each of the spells each class has for performing each of the following techniques; class guides for your individual class are more than sufficient for that purpose. The new terms are:
Spell Interrupts: This is interrupting a mob's spell mid-cast, preventing them from completing it. A couple of UI (User Interface) features can be turned on to show when your target is casting something. Go to Combat, and click *show target cast bar* (or something like that), and now you can see when your target is casting a spell, and what spell they are casting. Quite handy feature. Ok, so now that you know that the boss is casting the 300 damage uber nuke, now what do you do? You interrupt it. Counterspell, Earth shock, any spell that interrupts your opponent's spell casting will do the trick. So will a stun.... kinda. While a stun will interrupt the cast of any non-boss mob in a pinch, they usually have a long cooldown, or minimum time between use (usually 1 minute cooldown), plus they don't work vs. bosses. In any instance where the bosses cast rather dangerous spells it's a good idea to bring someone that can perform that can interrupt their spells. This instance falls into that category. Note that you cannot interrupt a spell that is instant cast; that instant cast "stun the tank for 6 seconds and go beat up the healer", can't be interrupted.
Dispels: This is removing harmful debuffs (conditions that impair your character in some way) from friendly characters. Debuffs fall into one of 5 categories: Poisons (typically short, as in 15-30 seconds, and usually only deal damage, although a few have nasty side affects), Diseases (Loooooong, as in 10-30 minute duration, usually reduces some attribute by x amount), Magic (Variable length, although generally short, usually from 5-90 seconds, varied affects, ranging from damage to slowing affects), Curses (Variable length, but generally fairly long, as in 1-5 minutes, and come with a whole slew of nasty affects), and Undispellables (can only be removed by affects that render you immune to damage). Your current debuffs can be seen to the lower left hand corner of your minimap. Mousing over a debuff will show you the debuff box. The name of the debuff is in the upper left hand corner, the type of debuff is in the upper right hand corner (a debuff with no type cannot be dispelled), and the description of its affects is below. Certain debuffs can only be dispelled by certain classes; bring the right one! This instance dabs mostly in magic affects and curses.
Crowd Control: Also known as CC. Remember that acronym. It's used almost exclusively in place of the original words. Look at Jame's guilde to Ragefire Chasm if you don't know what that means.
- [27] Arugal Must Die (Elite): This is your main quest, you can get it from Dalar Dawnweaver in The Sepulcher (Silverpine Forest). The goal of this quest is to kill the main boss of Shadowfang Keep: Arugal. Rewards:
- [25] Deathstalkers in Shadowfang (Elite): You can get this quest from High Executor Hadrec in The Sepulcher (Silverpine Forest). You need to find the Deathstalkers in Shadowfang. One of the Deathstalkers is still alive and will open the door for you to the CY, the other one will be dead lying in the Courtyard. You will be able to finish this quest by turning it in to the dead Deathstalker Vincent. Rewards:
- [26] The Book of Ur (Elite): This quest is available from Keeper Bel'dugur in The Apothecarium of Undercity. You need to find the Book of Ur in Shadowfang, you will find it in a shelf after killing Fenrus the Devourer. As a reward you will be able to choose between:
- [25] The Orb of Soran'ruk (elite): Warlocks get this quest from Doan Karhan, who can be found in a tent between Camp Taurajo and Northwatch Hold in The Barrens. One part of the quest involves killing in Blackfathom Deep, the other one requires you to loot an item in Shadowfang Keep. As a reward you will be able to choose between:
Alliance Paladin
- [22] The Test of Righteousness (elite): This Paladin only quest requires the Paladin to get one part out of four ("Jordan's Smithing Hammer") from the Shadowfang Keep instance. While the quest says 22, it will be quite challenging at that level to do solo. Higher level + better gear will make it easier to do. Don't fret if you can't get it right off the bat; Verigan's Fist is still quite effective even until the lower 30's. The final reward for this quest (after 2 more steps in the quest line) is:
Horde Paladin
- [23] The Path of the Adept (elite): The horde equivalent to the quest stated above. The Crate of Bloodforged Ingots can be found in the stables. This is fairly doable solo at level 23, assuming you have at least a couple of blue items. The final reward is:
Group Composition
A few important things to keep in mind:
- A curse remover - Curse removal is almost necessary to complete this instance thanks to Baron Silverlaine and his 75% healing reducing curse. You need to be severely well geared to attempt that fight without curse removal or a spell interrupt. Either a druid that will be remaining in caster or cat form (druids in bear form can't dispel without shifting out of form, which is very mana intensive, and they have about 1/2 their bear form armor in caster form, which will result in them getting gibbed EXTREMELY quickly) or a mage can dispel curses.
- A priest is a very nice addition thanks to shackle and the ability to dispel magic, however, they are not an absolute requirement. They will, however, make the run much easier.
- A Shaman is useful for the end boss (purge) he can also support heal and interrupt casters.
- Either a Druid or a Warrior can tank this instance just fine; the little nuances between their tanking styles don't really matter this early in the game. Paladins can't tank this instance thanks to the AoE silence from the Wailing Guardsmen, and the fact that Razorclaw drains 350 mana from the tank on every hit. Silenced/OOM Paladins don't generate threat.
- Don't get too many casters as damage dealers into your group as the Shadowfang Moonwalkers cast immune magic shields and there are Wailing Guardsmen who cast silence (although if your casters are positioned properly they should never get hit by it)
If you don't understand any of the terms I just used, you should read up on some of the WoW instance terminology before entering. Keep in mind that this instance is much harder than Deadmines or Wailing Caverns, and is far less forgiving of the "reckless noob" style of play.
Opening the Door to the Courtyard
As you enter the instance your only way is to go directly right into a building. You will encounter pulls of level 18 Shadowfang Whitescalps and Bleak Wolves, nothing special about these, keep on killing them to penetrate further into the building.
Once you climb up the second pair of stairs you'll get to a platform with a door that leads to the courtyard, however you can't open it yet, that's normal, just continue killing to the left, towards position 1 of the map.
After turning left you'll see two more wolves and werewolves in front of you, kill those before moving on to Rethilgore.
Now when you look down to the prison cells where Rethilgore stands. You see that you'll have to deal with 2 wolves, one werewolf and Rethilgore himself. CC the werewolf and as many of the wolves as you can. The tank needs to pick up anything that is left. As a note, if the tank has 3+ mobs on him, wait a couple of seconds before starting DPS on the mobs, just to make sure your tank has enough aggro on the mobs. Kill all of the trash mobs that aren't CC'ed and then Rethilgore as fast as possible. Rethilgore doesn't do anything of note. After all of the mobs that weren't CC'ed are dead, kill the CC'ed mob(s) 1 by 1. Rethilgore will basically always drop these:
Now if you take a look at the cells you will see one with Sorcerer Ashcrombe inside - and one with Deathstalker Adamant. Sorcerer Ashcrombe is the NPC that will open the door to the Courtyard for Alliance characters (as Paladins and Warlocks need to do quests here too) and Adamant is the equivalent for Horde. Use the lever next to the cell that corresponds to your faction. Enter the cell and talk to the NPC.
You can ask him to open the Courtyard door for you that was looked before.
Clearing the Courtyard
After he opens the door make sure not to run down fast, stay on the top of the stairs and carefully pull to there. The Shadowfang Moonwalkers cast a magic-immunity shield on themselves; casters should hit a different target when this happens (agree which one beforehand). You will see when this happens as there is a green bubble that appears around the werewolves.
TURN IN QUEST HERE: After taking a look to the right you will notice Deathstalker Vincent lying dead on the floor. Clear around him by pulling to the stairs up until the way is safe so your group can run to the NPC and finish [25] Deathstalkers in Shadowfang (Elite).
From the place where the Deathstalker is lying you have a safe spot to pull to. Always watch out with the Haunted Servitors, those wander around like patrols and cast a nasty curse:
GENERAL INFO: Haunted Servitors cast a debuff on you that is called "Haunting Spirits". This is a 5 minute curse, which periodically and randomly will spawn ghosts called "haunting spirit" that have very low HP but hurt a lot. As you don't want those to add in fights, have your mage or your druid remove this curse asap
Now after the CY is clear you will see stables to the left with one werewolf guarding them. This is an optional target, you don't have to kill the Steeds, but if you do you have 3 times a 20% chance of receiving a 10 slot bag.
PALADIN NOTE: 'Jordan's Smithing Hammer', or 'Crate of Bloodforged Ingots' for your quest (depending on whether you are alliance or horde) is here in the stables, you can loot it after the way is clear.
If you decide to go for these you should first pull out and eliminate the Werewolf inside the stables.
Now you'll be standing in front of three horses which are not aggro yet, have your druid and/or mage crowd control one and kill off the other two. (Once you attack one of the steeds, the other two will aggro too) Make sure that your tank holds aggro on these as they hit fairly hard. After killing the horses step out of the stables. You have two ways now.
Through the Dining Room into the Fortress
One way leads upstairs and one, to the left that leads into a building. I suggest you to take the way through the building as this way includes two extra bosses that can drop nice loot. When you step into the building you need to kill two Haunted Servitors first then you can see a room with more of these servitors along with our second boss mob Razorclaw the Butcher. Stay in the room where you are and pull the Haunted servitors to you.
Now you can step into the Butchers room and kill him carefully. Be careful to kill him close or inside the room where you come from because on the other side of the Butchers room there is a werewolf patrol that sometimes enters and can aggro.
The Butcher is a fairly easy fight, the only thing to keep in mind is that when he hits he casts a spell called "Butcher Drain" which drains 350 mana. Else it's just tank, heal and dps. He can drop these items:
Bloody Apron
Butcher's Slicer
Butcher's Cleaver
After the Butcher you will be able to access the 'dining' room which is full of mobs. Werewolves as well as Haunted Servitors. The Shadowfang Gluttons drain life. Have someone carefully pull mobs from the dining room into the room before, where your group is standing. Pull out all the mobs that stand around the table until there is none left in the dining room anymore beside Baron Silverlain at the other end.
Wait until the Shadowfang Wolfguard patrol roams down into the room and eliminate this one as well before proceeding to Baron Silverlaine.
This fight is very easy if you know the trick. Baron often casts a curse that is called 'Veil of Shadows". This curse reduces all healing effects by 75%. The mage or druid need to remove the curse as fast as possible. Apart from this, the fight is pretty easy, tank heal and dps. He can drop these items:
Baron's Scepter
Silverlaine's Family Seal
Or a BoE green
Now getting up the stairs is tricky, because there are Shadowfang Darksouls patroling on top of the stairs behind walls. But as those werewolves move around a lot you can get them solo. Make your rogue hunter or warrior climb the stairs behind the Baron's spawn location and scout for the Shadowfang Darksouls. When they move away and when there is only one standing on the left pair of stairs you quickly pull them down to your group which still stands at the barons spawn location. Rinse and repeat until all three Shadowfang Darksouls are dead that roam these two sets of stairs.
NOTE FOR WARLOCKS: Shadowfang Darksouls are the mobs that drop the Large Soran Fragments that you need, be careful these are immune to shadow magic.
Commander Springvale
Now that the way is clear you can go up left or right, go left... as there is nothing particular waiting on the right, just more mobs to clear.
In front you'll find Shadowfang Darksouls. They are pretty easy, the only special thing about them is an occasional Shadow Word: Pain that can be removed if you have a priest with remove magic. Just clear the way into the next room.
Now up the little stairs in the next room waits a new type of monster:
Wailing Guardsmen. These are particularly annoying because they cast "Screams of the Past" which is an area silence. This means: have your casters and especially your priest stand back at max casting range while the melees fight the Guardsmen. Taunt them well and keep them at one spot so that the silence only hits the melees, this is vital, else you might die without even recieving a single heal.
IF your mage for example gets hit by the silence nonetheless, your priest can remove this debuff with "Remove Magic". Pull out the Wailing Guardsmen carefully one by one out of the room to empty it. It might be that at some point you get 2 or even 3 if unlucky, should this happen have your priest (if you have one, if not, ignore this) stand back far away and shackle undead one. If you have a hunter he can freeze trap one as well... etc.
Really make sure you are full mana before the second and third pull out of that room and that your casters stand back far enough. Clear everything beside Commander Springvale and his two Guardians that stand on the left side of the room on a platform. Carefully move into the room with your group.
Next fight is tough as it is three undeads. Make your priest stand in the back of the room and let your warrior charge one Wailing Guardsman. While all three are on him your party needs to CC one fast (prepare as the tank is pulling). The Commander is a lvl 20 Paladin and doeasn't hurt that much, he should be offtanked by either a druid in bear form, a hunter pet or a rogue with dodge disc - just make sure that they stay in front of the room and don't get close to your healer.
Now burn down the Guardsman as fast as possible while keeping the other one shackled, then kill the Captain, he is annoying and heals himself, or uses invulnerability disc.... just kill him, and if you have a class with spell interrupts, like a shaman's Earth Shock or a Magi's Counterspell, use them when he tries to heal..... It makes the fight shorter. Enjoy the loot:
Arced War Axe
Commander's Crest
Attention: Commander Springvale's death spawns a two mob Shadowfang Wolfguard patrol which roams from the stairs to Baron Silverlaine all the way up, past the room where you are in currently. Have your puller pull this patrol to your group and take it out before moving on.
To the Bat Tower
Now after drinking etc, move on down the stairs. At the bottom of the stairs you'll find two more Wailing Guardsman that patrol from there over the outside wall and back. Clear those safely before moving outside on the wall.
Move out over the Wall and carefully kill the Wailing Guardsmen. At the end of the wall lies the entrance to the bat tower.
In this tower you have two bats and Odo the Blindwatcher. The two bats will forcefully aggro at the same time as Odo, so CC as many as possible. If you only have either druid or mage, offtank Odo while fast killing one bat and keeping the other one sheeped/hibernated. The bats don't have any special abilities, just a minor physical damage increase debuff (which can safely be ignored). Proceed quickly to kill Odo, be very carefull as he might not hurt much at the start but while his hitpoints decrease he gains several stages of 'Howling Rage' where he grows and deals more damage - burn him down as fast as possible. Recover if needed and kill the last bat. Possible loot:
Girdle of the Blindwatcher
Odo's Ley Staff
First Level of Arugal's Tower
From the bat tower you can access the second wall. Heal up and cross that wall by carefully pulling the Tormented Officers to you. Beware, these patrol and roam, so you might want to wait in the batroom and split patrols with a puller from there. Tormented Officers randomly cast curses that decrease weapon skill, skills in general, spell damage etc. Very annoying curses but can easily be removed by a mage or a druid.
After crossing the wall you will get into a tower. At this spot you will sometimes find a rare spawn called Deathsworn Captain. Inside the tower there is a Shadowfang Ragetooth that patrols, pull that one first before stepping inside. These aren't special, they just enrage towards the end of the battle, so finish them off fast. At the bottom of the stairs you'll find another one of these, kill it and move your group to the bottom
of the stairs. Now inside the next room you will have one Son of Arugal (he is no boss mob) and a Shadowfang Ragetooth close to you, try to pull it out solo. Then pull the Son of Arugal. These hit fairly hard and cast a spell called "Arugal's Gift". This is a curse that inflicts 175 to 225 Shadow damage to an enemy every 60 sec. for 5 min. Make sure to remove that curse.
There is a Lupine Horror (a ghost wolf) on the left side of that room. Let a rogue or someone else carefully pull it. On the stairs there is another Shadowfang Ragetooth with a Lupine Horror, pull that one too if you didn't get it as add already, remember those are humanoids and can be sheeped/sapped. The horrors are undeads and can be shackled. It would be good to shackle the wolf because he spawns 'Lupine Delusions' as his guardians which are non elite level 25 mobs. They dies in one hit, make sure to hit it fast before it damages you any further, then continue hitting the wolf. Either that or kill the ghost wolf as fast as possible so he cant spawn more Delusions.
Climb up the stairs, and wait infront of the upper room for a Shadowfang Ragetooth that will roam outside. After killing this one make your Mage cast Polymorph on the Son of Arugal. Two undead Wolves will run out, shackle one and kill the other.
After finishing off this pull proceed in the same way with next pull, sheep/sap/shackle what you can and then kill off slowly. Now move onto the stairs leading to the next level of the tower you come from. You will see another Son of Arugal. At the bottom of the stairs, pull it and kill it before moving inside. On the stairs you'll find another Shadowfang Ragetooth
that you must kill.
Second Level of Arugal's Tower
Now after climbing the stairs you will be infront of Fenrus the Devourer. Make sure that you are full mana and then rush into the room to kill him. He is a pretty easy kill, only casts some poison. However after you kill him be careful as there will be 4 Voidwalkers that will spawn right after the death of Fenrus. Those are level 24 non-elite demons, just kill them by using AE skills. Fenrus drops these:
Fenrus' Hide
Black Wolf Bracers
QUEST ITEM HERE: On the left side of the door where you entered the room you can find "The book of Ur" to finish your quest, in a shelf.
Now move out of Fenrus' Room. On the stairs you'll encounter a Shadowfang Ragetooth, kill it and move up the stairs. You will find yourself directly above Fenrus room. From this platform pull the Son of Arugal that is roaming behind the door that you must pass to move on.
Third Level of Arugal's Tower
After moving through that door and running up the stairs you will be in front of Wolf Master Nandos' room.
Some info:
Bleak Worgs cast "Worg's Weavering Will" that will last 60 seconds, and reduce your attack speed by 25%, your casting speed by 20% and your movement speed will be reduced to 80%. This is magic and can be dispelled.
Upon attacking any of the wolves in the room they will all come attack you. Sheep a worg and shackle an undead wolf then kill off the rest. When these are dead, Wolf Master Nandos will rush to you and attack you. Kill him while shackling his undead wolf guardian. This is a pretty hard fight but with some organisation and eventual offtanking it can work. Some very nice loot:
After he is dead the door behind him opens and you can access Arugal's room. From the top of the stairs where you are, carefully pull the sons of Arugal one by one to you and kill them. After clearing the three sons you will have to face Arugal himself.
Some infos: he is a mage and casts 300 damage void bolts which hurt a lot. He has a big mana pool so mana drain doesn't quite work on him. Also he likes to blink around between three or four spots and nuke the heck out of you. What you have to do is keep the aggro with your warrior on Arugal. This way he will be the only target of bolts and the priest can heal him while others continue damaging him.
He also sometimes turns one of your party members into a werewolf that will attack your group (usually the tank), in this case sheep the werewolf or immobilize it, and if the tank got hit, have another high health party member (aka not the priest) eat the void bolts until the tank becomes un-werewolfed.
Arugal likes to Thundershock as well in order to stun you so he can move away and nuke you. Everything will be fine as long as your Warrior keeps the aggro well on him, if you have a support healer, he should help on healing the warrior. Also when he blinks, your warrior will most likely lose aggro and the closest person to Arugal will get it, so be sure to position yourself well so your warrior is always the closest one to Arugal. Sometimes this wont be possible (depends on where Arugal blinks to). If this should be the case just run out of his line of sight and give your Warrior time to get aggro back.This is by far the hardest fight, keep your long time abilities for this fight and burn down the mage as fast as possible.
QUEST COMPLETED: After he is dead you will have [27] Arugal Must Die (Elite): complete and one of these items can drop for you:
Robes of Arugal
Belt of Arugal
Meteor Shard
Congratulations, you have beaten this dungeon!
Original guide by Snowflake
Updated for recentness by Archerus
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Submitted by Jiyambi on Thu, 2010-10-21 02:36.
We are recently working on improving the quality of content here on WoW-Pro.com, both by limiting low ranked guides and by moving out of date guides into archives. For more information, see the full news post detailing this process.
This guide needs an update to make sure it is current with patch 4.0. However it still has enough useful information that it will be left in it's proper section as-is.
In Cataclysm, this instance is being completely re-made as a level 85 heroic, and this guide will be moved to the archive section at that time.
If someone else would like to adopt the guide, or if you have any questions about this process, feel free to comment here.
SFK and 2.3
Submitted by Archerus (not verified) on Thu, 2008-10-30 04:14.
I really like the guide, but like a lot of instance guides, it needs some updating. First off, the trash is no longer so hard that you must have a priest or it's GG. In fact, I've done this instance with nobody above level 19 and no CC and no wipes (Arugal was hard though). The instance is now perfectly doable with almost any standard group composition. Some curse dispel is still highly recommended though.
No mob is higher than lvl 21 now.
Baron Silverlain apparently can cast the curse DURING the fight now, but it has a cast time so it can be interrupted (and should be).
Arugal had his lvl reduced, but he hits just as hard as before. He's VERY hard for his level. Note that the tank is the usual target of the Mind Control; be ready for it.


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Hi, tonight there was a Samsung Meeting in Paris.
Of course I was invited there
I met 2 Korean Samsung workers who work for "Product Planning & New Business Dev."
One of them has even developped the P2, P3 and M1
That was very interesting. I had the opportunity to speak with them in english (high level of course lol). I gave them my feedback, some advices and they listened to me very carefully!
Here are some points I particularly insisted on:
-Gapless (And I really insisted on just for you guys )
-No Touch pad anymore. Real buttons/tactile controls.
-Better microSD slot gestion/Merge both internal and external memories in the database like on the Cowon D2
-"More information" feature (bitrate, file size, album year etc...)
-Solve the EmoDio problem (only Koreans can download UCI themes)
They were very interested in what I told them, they told me they will tell our requests in Korea. So if one day you see gapless in a Samsung mp3 player, you will thank me
I hope they will take my requests into account but nothing is sure for the moment. There are so many variables (marketing, communication, developping etc...)
But it seems that they really will abandon the touch pad. They get to many negative feedbacks.
The R0 and all future Samsung mp3 players (except M1) will have a standard USB connexion.
Next range (next year) will probably get Wifi.
Sorry if you had requests I didn't tell them but you know, i couldn't make a list of hundreds things, they are human beeings, and I'm so happy they came in France and listened to me, that's so nice
Anyway, I'll keep in touch with them
At the end every participant got a R1 for test and a parlour game
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(From a journal I wrote on paper about 8 months ago on an issue I was dealing with at the time. In some ways, analogous to how I'm feeling right now, but not in every way. Felt it was worth sharing, nonetheless.)
What I really need is to realize that my problem may be with myself. I think there's a difference between self-preservation and feeling sorry for oneself, but I don't know what it is.
I'm MAD at him. I'm disappointed with myself. I'm frustrated with him. I'm confused about the direction I should take. I haven't written enough about this because I'm afraid to blog about it. But I don't realize how much good writing does for me to clarify my thoguhts.
I'm finally putting my thoughts on paper and I feel more clarity than I've had in a very long time.
But for a variety of reasons, I can't ever become disciplined enough to write. Putting pen to paper on a journal every single day is the hardest thing for me to do. And yet, when I write, the orchestra stops playing in my head.
It's quiet. And in the quiet...
...in the quiet...
I'm lost. Suddenly the only thing left is me and my own thoughts. And I'm alone. Scared. Directionless. But proud that I'm standing up for myself.
I'm thinking myself in circles. I can be strong, brave, powerful, and confident. I can be the Fox I want to be. I NEED to be comfortable with myself.
How do I get there?
Peel the layers off more frequently.
Write. Feel. Drown out the orchestra.
Look. This/these issues you live with SHOULDN'T be shared publically. They're his issues. The reason I'm struggling is because I can't open up to anyone. That's where I draw my strength from most of the time. The only thing left to do is open up to myself, which doesn't fill me with power or strength.
I need to have the courage to face myself and my humanity. Once I do that, they will also feel the courage and power.
Others can draw strength from me, just as I draw strength from others.
If I can face myself, he can as well.
Use the quiet to mourn. It's okay to mourn. You haven't done that all that much yet.
Acknowledge the pain in the quiet.


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When a medical device company that was started in a garage in Minnesota buys a competitor that is run from Massachusetts so they can have an address in Ireland, you know something must be wrong with the U.S. corporate tax system.
When a medical device company that was started in a garage in Minnesota buys a competitor that is run from Massachusetts so they can have an address in Ireland, you know something must be wrong with the U.S. corporate tax system.
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary William Simon once said, "The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose." What we have today isn't even close.
Of course, the medical device company I'm talking about is Medtronic, one of the great success stories of my home state, Minnesota. They recently announced a merger with Covidien PLC, whose executives are in a suburb of Boston, but whose legal address is Ireland. Medtronic is the latest and largest U.S. company to use this technique, known as inversion.
American manufacturing, particularly in the medical device industry, is the global gold standard. Our manufacturers are the most productive in the world, surpassing worker productivity in all other major manufacturing nations. In the innovation economy, companies that were started here should have every opportunity and incentive to build their products right here.
Unfortunately, the United States has one of the world's highest corporate tax rates at 35 percent, by one study a full 14 percentage points higher than the OECD average, while Ireland's is 12.5 percent.
By changing their address, Medtronic increases their cash flexibility. The Wall Street Journal reported that Medtronic has promised to distribute to shareholders a significant amount of the $14 billion in cash they are currently holding onto, much of it from foreign operations. As an Irish company, Medtronic could pay dividends without owing U.S. corporate tax.
This transaction points to the need for significant corporate tax reform. We live and work in an interconnected world. Our tax system needs to recognize that 95 percent of global consumers live outside the U.S. and a significant amount of corporate earnings are likely to occur overseas. What exists now encourages companies to keep those funds overseas.
While not a silver bullet, allowing American corporations to bring foreign earnings back home without facing the full brunt of the highest corporate income tax rate in the world would be a step in the right direction. Congress should devise a reasonable plan that will incentivize companies to repatriate those funds and deploy them in a way that will boost manufacturing and jobs here at home.
Many argue the 2004 foreign tax holiday did little to grow jobs. With lessons learned from that exercise, policymakers should incorporate ideas that will encourage money brought back to be used in ways that will lead to job growth. There's little doubt our economy and American workers could use the jump start that would come from a share of the roughly $1.7 trillion now parked offshore.


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If nothing else, new head coach Todd Haley has proven that there are no sacred cows in Kansas City.
If nothing else, new head coach Todd Haley has proven that there are no sacred cows in Kansas City.
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jeez, it was one preseason game.. One!!
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On the plus side, he could be pushing Cassel to more greatness eventually.
In Haley we trust. This sounds like a good Sportsbook bet.
"I keep the wolf from the door, but he calls me up/
Calls me on the phone, tells me all the ways that he's gonna mess me up" - Radiohead
The media can be terribly vicious, sometimes.
We're talking about Cassell's performance in an environment where the BEST defense we've got sees the same plays again and again and can learn to anticipate the play.
We're also talking about a young QB who, without a doubt, is going to have fits with his confidence, no matter who the H-E Double hockey sticks he trained under. That's just how it goes. Sorry. He needs more real game experience under his belt.
Seriously, guys, RELAX.
Even if Cassell's a bust, we have YOUNG DEPTH at the position.
I do NOT think Cassell is a bust after watching him on Saturday, but I'm just saying; we do have options.
We still have a long long long ways to go before we can effectively determine Matt as a one hit wonder or a genuine player in this league. We weren't expecting much from this season anyway, were we?
But for god's sakes, TAKE HEART. We have THREE, yes THREE guys that have a boatload of potential to excel in this league.
If Cassell can't do it, then so what? He'll be an expensive back up. We've got cap room for that.
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FULLERTON, Calif. – For the second straight contest, senior Katie Pulliam entered the match and stopped three UC Riverside penalty kicks in a shootout to power Cal State Fullerton to the program's fourth Big West Conference Tournament Championship Sunday afternoon at Titan Stadium.
Fullerton (8-6-7) earned the league's automatic berth into the NCAA tournament field, which will be announced on Monday (Nov. 11) at 1:30 p.m. PT on NCAA.com. UC Riverside finished its season at 8-12-2 and suffered its second elimination in a Big West Tournament championship match, which was also to Fullerton in 2005 when the Titans won 4-1 at Titan Stadium.
Sunday's match ended in a 1-1 tie after 90 minutes of regulation and an additional 20 minutes of overtime before the Titans clinched the tournament title and automatic NCAA Tournament berth by way of a penalty kick shootout, 2-1.
Pulliam, named the Big West Tournament Most Valuable Player, saved the first two attempts by UC Riverside, while Erica Mazeau and Janali West buried each of their penalty kicks to give the Titans a 2-0 lead. The Grass Valley, Calif., native then blocked Sammy Arellano's shot to give the Titans a chance to end the game, however, senior Kishi Smith's attempt was stopped by Highlander keeper Elizabeth Silas, and Tyler Cunningham kept UCR's hope alive converting her shot.
Fullerton's fourth shooter, Colleen Ortega, sailed her opportunity over the crossbar as the Titans held a 2-1 advantage after four rounds. Pulliam blocked Andrea Morales' kick to the right post to clinch the tournament championship for the Titans.
Fullerton grabbed an early 1-0 lead in the 14th minute after senior Nikki McCants scored her second goal in as many matches. Freshman Jazzmin Mancilla drilled a cross in front of the goal, and Brianna Chapman redirected it, setting up McCants' header to the upper right corner.
With three minutes left in the match the Highlanders finally found the equalizer after a Mancilla foul in the box allowed Cunningham to place a penalty kick in the upper right corner.
Fullerton pressured Silas and the UC Riverside defense early in the first half, outshooting the Highlanders by a 5-0 count in the first 45 minutes, including Chapman's header attempt in the fifth minute, which was saved by Silas. McCants had another chance in the 80th minute, but Silas made another save to keep the Titan lead to one.
McCants finished with four shots to lead the Titans while Cunningham had two shots on the afternoon to lead the Highlanders. Fullerton held the advantage in shots 11-6 and corner kicks, 5-3.
Fullerton will have to wait to find out its next opponent, as the team will hear its name called during the NCAA Tournament Selection show. The selection show will air live on NCAA.com on Monday, Nov. 11 at 1:30 p.m. PT.
Notes: Cal State Fullerton holds a 6-4-3 overall record at the Big West Tournament. The Titans have been victorious twice in the championship finals (2005, 2006), and also advanced by way of a penalty kick shootout in (2007, 2013) before suffering their first championship loss, 1-0, in overtime to Cal State Northridge a year ago. Claiming four Big West Tournament titles, the Titans advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2013 following those championships. Fullerton also advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 2001 after winning the Big West regular season title…Cal State Fullerton leads the all-time series with UC Riverside by the count of 7-5-3… eight of the last nine meetings have been decided by a single goal with two draws thrown into the mix...Fullerton has a 4-2-2 advantage against UCR at Titan Stadium…the Titans are now 2-0 versus the Highlanders in Big West tournament finals…the last Titan to be named tournament MVP was Kristen Boujous in 2006 when the Titans defeated Cal Poly 2-1 at Titan Stadium.


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As the Baltimore comptroller's office was seeking bids for a multimillion-dollar upgrade of the city government's telephone system last year, the mayor's technology office was buying about $500,000 worth of equipment that could be used for the same kind of system upgrade, documents show.
The mayor's office says the purchases were part of a pilot project and that only about $55,000 was spent on equipment for the new Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system. The additional money was spent on equipment that was used for other computer-related needs, a spokesman for the mayor said.
But a purchase order from the Mayor's Office of Information Technology shows it spent $441,450 on switches that would provide the "VoIP switch infrastructure for buildings in the downtown Baltimore campus." And phone technology experts say the 124 computer switches included more expensive features primarily used for phones.
The dueling attempts to upgrade City Hall's aging telephone system have pitted two of the city's elected Democratic powerhouses — Comptroller Joan M. Pratt and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake — against one another, while stoking debate over how to best spend taxpayer money.
The mayor says her technology office is best equipped to oversee the complicated new computer-based phone system, while the comptroller says the mayor is circumventing the government procurement process by purchasing the equipment through a 2010 contract rather than engaging in a new round of competitive bidding. Pratt called that "illegal."
The battle could heat up Wednesday when the city's spending board, of which Pratt and Rawlings-Blake are members, takes up the issue.
Pratt's office wants to award a $7.4 million contract to overhaul the phone system to IBM, the winner of its lengthy competitive bidding process. The mayor's office has declined to say how she and her two appointees to the five-member board will vote, though a spokesman says Rawlings-Blake has questions about the deal.
The turf war became public when the comptroller accused the technology office of trying to circumvent the competitive bidding process by cobbling a phone system together under an existing contract. Pratt has accused Rawlings-Blake of telling "an untruth" about her knowledge of the purchases.
Rawlings-Blake has vehemently disputed Pratt's claims and demanded an apology. The mayor and her aides staunchly defend the purchases and say that buying what they characterize as small amounts of phone equipment did not violate purchasing rules.
Baltimore political observer Matthew Crenson said the failure of the comptroller's and mayor's office to work together on this issue shows a dysfunction in City Hall that should be troubling to taxpayers.
"It sounds as if the mayor's office hasn't been talking to the comptroller's office," said Crenson, professor emeritus of political science at the Johns Hopkins University. "If they had been, they could have settled this whole thing much more quietly."
At issue is who should upgrade the city's outdated phone system. Most workplaces have converted to a VoIP system that allows employees to get voice mail via email and is more cost-effective because fewer phones lines are needed.
The city's budget — drafted by Rawlings-Blake's finance office and approved by the Board of Estimates — noted for both the current and past fiscal year that Pratt's office would lead a competitive process to install a new phone system.
The mayor's technology office purchased Cisco equipment — the 124 switches, 80 VoIP phones, including some with video touch screens, and other items — on May 23 and June 13, 2011, city records show. The June purchase order listed other equipment that would be needed to complete the transition to a VoIP system, including "a small number of additional switches."
Meanwhile, bids for the phone project were due to Pratt's office on May 25, 2011.
The simultaneous efforts took place in City Hall buildings a block apart. While Pratt sought input from officials in Rawlings-Blake's technology office, she said they didn't give her the same courtesy and never informed her of their equipment purchases.
Ryan O'Doherty, a mayoral spokesman, said Rawlings-Blake believes the technology office has the knowledge and expertise to best implement a new phone system, not the comptroller's office. He and outside VoIP experts said that the new high-tech phones are usually overseen by technology workers, not phone officials. This type of phone system hooks into an existing data network.
"We've been very clear from the beginning that our technology office thought there was a pretty good chance for the city to implement this project with less outsourcing, in a faster time and with less costs," O'Doherty said.
The mayor's former chief technology officer, Rico Singleton, did approach Pratt in December — months after companies had turned in competitive bids for the phone system project — and proposed taking charge of the phone system overhaul using Cisco equipment to switch to VoIP.
After conferring with consultants, Pratt rejected the idea. O'Doherty described Singleton's plan as not a "formal proposal."
Singleton was forced to resign from the city in February after a New York state audit accused him of numerous ethical violations in a former job. He did not respond to requests for comment for this article.
Robert Minor, who has been serving as the city's acting chief technology officer, referred questions to O'Doherty, citing a pending investigation by the city's inspector general. The mayor announced last week the hiring of a new chief technology officer.
O'Doherty said the equipment purchases last year were for a pilot program and made under an existing city contract for ongoing computer-related needs. He said the city spent only about $55,000 on phones and related equipment for the pilot program, and that other items were used for other purposes. All of the 124 switches have been installed in city offices, O'Doherty said.
Replacing the city's entire phone system would require a competitive bidding process, O'Doherty said, and all of the equipment for such an endeavor could not be bought under the existing "requirements" contract with Digicon Corp.
"There is no question that you cannot buy all the equipment that is needed under existing contracts," he said.
Still, O'Doherty said, the mayor has "a number of serious questions" about the IBM deal that Pratt is recommending.
"Is this the most effective use of our tax dollars?" O'Doherty said. "Has there been enough cooperation and collaboration between the comptroller's office and the technology office?"
O'Doherty questioned why only one company — IBM — was found to be the sole responsive bidder. "Was there enough competition for this?" said O'Doherty. "You would think there would be more qualified bidders instead of just one."
Pratt said she was "appalled" that the mayor's office would question the degree to which her staff collaborated with the mayor's team and called O'Doherty's questions "ridiculous." Her office and the technology office teamed up to assess the phone needs of all city agencies, she said. Moreover, the team that reviewed the bids included four employees who answer to the mayor and only one who answers to Pratt, the comptroller said.
Pratt pointed out that it was common for only one or two companies to submit a responsive bid for a city project. She dismissed the mayor's concerns as "just another angle to try to not approve this.
"The sooner the contract is approved, we can implement VoIP and start saving money," she said. "It is not an effective use of taxpayer dollars to delay the contract."
Pratt says she believes the Municipal Telephone Exchange, the office that oversees city phone operations and reports to her, is best poised to implement the new system. The comptroller's office has supervised the phones since the 1940s.
Moreover, Pratt questions why the technology office would attempt to take over the phone system when it helped her staff write the request for proposals and evaluate the bids.
"It seems like MOIT [the Mayor's Office of Information Technology] just wants to take over and implement its own system," Pratt said in an interview.
She said that Singleton told her that his proposal would cost the city about $2.2 million. But, said Pratt, when an independent consulting company, the Battles Group, reviewed the proposal, it determined that Singleton's plan was incomplete and would make it difficult to grow and maintain the phone system.
Singleton's plan includes detailed specifications of Cisco equipment that could be used to implement the phone system. The proposal also notes the importance of adding the Power over Ethernet, or PoE, switches to prepare for the phones. Such switches allow electricity to be run through a data cable and would be primarily used for VoIP phones in an office, but also webcams and security cameras.
Pratt said that when she issued a request for proposals in March 2011, three bids arrived: Aastra USA, IBM and Telephonet. The Aastra bid was disqualified because it arrived late, Pratt said. A panel of five city employees from various agencies reviewed the remaining bids and decided that Telephonet scored too low on certain technical specifications to be further considered.
Telephonet officials say they plan to protest any award of the contract to IBM. IBM officials, through an attorney, declined to comment for this article.
A Digicon spokesman declined to say why Digicon did not bid on the current contract or whether the company would consider bidding if the city rebid the contract.
The city's normally perfunctory Board of Estimates meeting took a dramatic turn last month, the first time the contract came up for a vote. Rawlings-Blake asked to defer the decision, which prompted angry words from Pratt.
"You told an untruth and said you didn't know the equipment was installed, and you did because it was on your desk," Pratt said as Rawlings-Blake calmly sipped a cup of coffee.
Since then, Pratt has continued to criticize the deal, providing reporters with documents and, for the first time in her decade and a half in elected office, has publicly and repeatedly criticized a mayor.
Rawlings-Blake has stressed that a report issued by City Solicitor George Nilson says that her technology office did not violate the law.
In his opinion, Nilson says that the technology office was authorized to purchase the equipment under an existing contract with Digicon Corp. The city has bought computer equipment from Digicon's Rockville office since 2010 and has clearance to buy items from Cisco, among other brands, under the contract.
The high-tech phones blur the line between phones and computers, Nilson wrote in his letter. Although phones aren't specifically mentioned in the city's contract with Digicon, they could be considered computer accessories or infrastructure, which are approved, he wrote.
Nilson noted that Digicon won its city contract, and subsequent renewals, through a competitive bidding process, and that there was no need for the city to seek additional bids unless the city could get significant savings. He argued that because the purchases of phones and related equipment for a "maximum of $55,262" constituted such a small portion of the city's $3.4 million contract with Digicon, additional bids wouldn't yield such savings.
Four independent VoIP experts who reviewed the city's purchasing documents identified more than $500,000 spent on Cisco phones and other equipment that would be necessary for a VoIP system — an expense they said suggests a broader effort than a pilot program. Pratt has questioned purchases under two orders totaling $659,000.
"It's really not a pilot program," said Arthur Olshansky, who designs phone and other computer systems at Federal Hill Solutions in Baltimore. "It looks like a whole new system."
The phone experts said that if the 124 switches were intended to just support computers and other equipment, they would not need the Power over Ethernet technology, which adds as much as $800 to the cost of each switch.
"It's putting PoE throughout the whole network. The only reason you'd be doing that is you would be preparing to put phones everywhere," said Todd Bernard, co-owner of InBand Networks in Elkridge and a certified Cisco expert.
Bernard, whose company has supervised the installation of VoIP phone systems for Howard County, among other local governments, said the switches contain enough ports to hook up more than 4,000 phones. He also noted the technology office bought more than $27,000 in servers that are identified by Cisco as being part of the bundle for VoIP.
"With everything else that was purchased here, this is the only reason you'd be buying that," Bernard said.
But Minor, the acting chief information officer, said in a letter that the switches have been used for other purposes in the year since they were bought.
O'Doherty, the mayor's spokesman, said the technology office needed to purchase switches for other reasons and decided it would be cost effective to get ones that could eventually be used for a phone system. The switches can support other brands of phones, including IBM.
Nilson, who is appointed by the mayor, said officials in the mayor's technology office and the purchasing department informed him that the total cost of phones and related equipment was $55,262.
"I am relying on them," said Nilson.
Nilson said he was not familiar with the purchasing document that the purchase of $441,450 of switches was for infrastructure for the VoIP project. The document was distributed by Pratt to reporters last month.
If the purchases had constituted "a necessary element" of the phone upgrade contract, Nilson said, "I would have stopped and taken a much harder look at those numbers."
But he said he believes the information the technology office gave him is correct. "I relied on the information that was given to me, which I still think was accurate," he said.
The VoIP experts said it is common for phone and information technology departments, both in government and the private sector, to have a power struggle over the new phone technology. Many companies and governments have merged their phone and technology offices with the advent of the phones, they say.
The mayor's technology office has long sought a role in the changeover to VoIP, and Singleton touted the office's contributions to the effort. "We have also implemented VoIP telephony," he wrote in the office's winter newsletter, listing the office's successes.
The office's website listed "telecommunications" among the core services it provides as recently as March and said it "has worked hard to institute citywide VoIP services." The web page has since been taken down.
But the comptroller has steadfastly defended her turf. Pratt and Simon Etta, acting chief of the Municipal Telephone Exchange, say the contract with IBM would save the city $23 million over 12 years compared with the current system.
They say IBM plans to update the infrastructure and install 2,700 phones over the next three years. Another 5,000 phones needed by city workers would be installed over the next year at an additional cost of less than $300,000, they say.
Pratt said she hoped public opinion would sway the mayor and her appointees on the spending board to vote in favor of the contract.
"With all the awareness it's getting, people are concerned about the transparency of the procurement process," she said.
Baltimore Sun reporters Luke Broadwater and Gus Sentementes contributed to this article.


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I get in sweat sessions 5 days a week, and without them, I would go insane. Not only does exercise help keep my ass in check but—more importantly—it keeps my depression at bay. I'm completely addicted to those feel-good endorphins, and I choose to get my kicks from long runs and yoga sessions instead of hard drug binges. Unfortunately, I am also extremely uncoordinated. Think baby giraffe with a stomach full of Jaegermeister. Just last week my boyfriend termed my general composure to be "doofy." While I love to run, I am slow, and I am all knobby knees and elbows. Nobody wanted me on their team in gym class back in the 5th grade, and I'm pretty sure that would stand true today. So I stick with sports that require minimal coordination, while allowing me to focus solely on myself.
However, I tested my coordination and sportsmanship (poor, and poor) last spring when I ran a Tough Mudder with a handful of my friends. Because who wants to bond like a normal group of friends and, say, go on vacation, when you can complete a 12 mile, 26 obstacle endurance test designed by the British Special Forces? Who wants to sip fruity cocktails and attempt to sleep with townies when you can wriggle under electric shock wires? Who wants to lay out on a beach when you can swim through dumpsters filled with ice and barbed wire? Not this girl, apparently.
I know I said I like to focus solely on myself, so the Tough Mudder took me out of my comfort zone in other ways too. You have to work together to get through it. It's bonding. Bonding, I tell you!
There were seven of us all together, including my half-man, half-stallion of a boyfriend and my girl Sarah from SarahOnTheGo.com. Aside from my running and yoga addiction, and P's muscle memory from his old track days, most of us hadn't trained. Several were chain smokers. We were sort of an unlikely band of athletes…to further stress this, our team name was Booze Hounds.
I have never done anything so difficult, or so exhilarating. We trudged up a huge hill labeled the "Death March." We propelled ourselves up and over a half-pipe. We hauled logs, belly crawled under barbed wire, and wiggled through two stretches of dangling live wires. We jumped off a towering platform into a frigid, swampy pond. But none of those obstacles could compare to my Biggest Fear Ever: The Monkey Bars.
Monkey bars? Am I intimidated by something the average 5th grader can do? You betcha. The TM monkey bar obstacle is a long stretch of bars that slant up, and then down. Have you ever tried doing monkey bars at an incline? It's like doing a one handed pull-up. I can barely do a two handed pull-up. (I can't, actually.) I had been dreading this for months. I stood there in absolute horror watching brahs with toddler-sized biceps falling into waist-high frigid water below. I didn't stand a chance.
Then, I noticed some wily females around me tackling the bars differently. Using their legs, they would hold themselves horizontal and shimmy along like weird monkey-crabs. For the slowest three minutes of my life, I used my knees and—when my arms gave out—my elbows, to pull myself along. I have never been so proud of myself, ever, which sort of makes me wish I had just entered a lot of Tough Mudders instead of wrangling a degree in Creative Writing….
Despite the odds, all seven of us finished our Tough Mudder. One team-mate fell off a 15 foot wall and broke his tailbone. Channeling his inner Channing Tatum (the new Chuck Norris) he finished the course anyway.
After the event, we returned to our cozy Poconos lodge, every one of us walking like we just got nailed by an entire lacrosse team. After P worked up a victorious Jackson Pollock replica on my stomach, we settled into the hot tub to soak our battered limbs.
Mud runs are gaining in popularity, and I absolutely loved mine. I loved it so much, that I am doing another….THIS WEEKEND.
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MANCHESTER - Police have arrested a local man in connection with this month's robbery and beating of a 65-year-old pizza delivery man.
Teyvon Stillwell, 18, of 224 Spruce St., was charged Friday with conspiracy to commit robbery from the Jan. 3 incident.
Artemios Dongas said last week that when he took the $50 pizza order to 270 Lake Ave., he was attacked by two men. One snatched the food away while the other sucker punched him in the face and kicked him after he fell down.
Police said in a release that the investigation is continuing "to determine if others were involved." The release said a wallet was stolen, but Dongas said last week that only the pizza, some cash and his drivers license were taken. His license was returned by a woman the next day, he said.
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It's difficult to praise someone who's stingy with kind words and is downright cruel at times, often to fragile folks desperately needing to be let down easy.
But let's give the devil his due: love him or hate him – it's okay to hate him, it's made him rich – Simon Cowell has exerted a greater influence over television in recent years than perhaps any other media figure.
Not that's necessarily a good thing.
Word that he's planning to leave "American Idol" at the end of the coming season to bring "The X Factor" to the U.S. offers a good excuse as any to judge Cowell.
Some might blame Cowell for being the prime carrier of the Reality TV plague that's infected televisions everywhere – a rap he only partly deserves.
The success of "Idol" has helped pave the way for often-inane dancing stars, dancing non-stars, weight loss shows, nasty chefs and a certain mogul with a jones for firing. But there's a difference between competition-driven reality fare and more insidious shows that turn cameras on D-list celebrities, useless rich folks and amalgamations of wanna-bes willing to endure cramped living quarters with hostile strangers to get on TV.
Either way, the "Idol" years sadly haven't been a boom time for scripted fare, as networks seek cheap, quick fixes amid shrinking audiences and competition from the Internet. "Idol" benefits from being a very web friendly show, bursting with clips of the latest standout performer, groan-inducing delusion cases (paging William Hung) and the latest stinging Cowell put down.
Cowell also has been accused – again, only part fairly – of ruining pop music. There's an anti-Cowell backlash in Britain, where a hundreds of thousands downloaded a 1992 Rage Against the Machine song just to prevent an "X Factor" winner from notching a coveted holiday No. 1 hit in the UK. But that may be placing too much blame on Cowell, with the music business in even more flux than television.
The appeal of "Idol," perhaps the last of the mass audience TV shows, doesn't rest in its judges, but in the performers, the drama-filled competition and the viewer participation, which gives the public a chance to stick it to Cowell and make AT&T even richer with every vote.
Some talented folks with apparent staying power have arisen from "Idol" – most recently Adam Lambert. Cowell's other ventures, including "Britain's Got Talent," have produced some stars – notably Susan Boyle who caused Cowell to choke on his sarcasm.
Cowell was smart enough to recognize the dowdy Scot whose looks don't match her angelic voice was the next big thing.
He seems to be following those instincts as he prepares to leave "Idol," which remained America's highest-rated program last season, even as it shed viewers. The show also is clearly in transition: adding Kara DioGuardi last season, losing Cowell's favorite sparring partner, Paula Abdul, before this season and replacing her with Ellen DeGeneres. DeGeneres, an outsized personality, may actually serve as a substitute for Cowell in the long run.
In "The X Factor," mentors help prepare acts, which include a very non-"Idol"-like over-25 category.
Sounds like a perfect role for Cowell, one he's played on the British show, which supplanted the UK version of "Idol." It also sounds like a great part for a certain nurturing, if ditzy, choreographer and singer who just left the judge's table at a major TV talent show...
That kind of talk is designed to make for great buzz – as does Cowell's revealing his departure plans on the eve of the "Idol" ninth season debut (Tuesday night on Fox, in case you somehow missed the bazillion promos).
Let's be as blunt as Cowell: he's a great showman with an eye for both talent and cheese, who for better – and probably mostly for worse – has helped change the face of entertainment. No matter what happens after this season of "American Idol," we'll still have Simon Cowell to kick us around.
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It is the context of an activity. We can add the context of the three characteristics on to any activity. As you say "What is more important is whether there is cultivation of understanding about Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta,". I don't think Goenka teaches just to sweep without any understanding. He gives the technique a framework. a context.SamKR wrote:Any other activity?Mr Man wrote:It is no more or no less a vipassana practice than any other activitySo, as a matter of clarification, you are saying that the sweeping technique is not a vipassana practice
Well, sweeping is just a technique out of many; U Ba Khin tradition chose to use sweeping (which is only one aspect of U Ba Khin method). What is more important is whether there is cultivation of understanding about Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta, and whether there is reduction of Raga, Dosa, Moha, and if this is being achieved how is this practice no more a vipassana practice than any other activity? Do you think that Goenka teaches just to sweep without any understanding about anicca?
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CLEVELAND (AP) -- An Ohio man who had been arrested for drunken-driving has been sentenced to 17 months in prison for subsequent Facebook rants against police and judges.
The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer reports that 27-year-old William Bement was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to attempted retaliation.
The North Olmsted man was given probation on a drunken-driving conviction on Feb. 5. That's when authorities say he took to Facebook to post comments such as "stop shooting up schools and start shooting cops in courthouses."
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Consumer confidence fell to a four-month low in December as a looming budget crisis sapped what had been a growing sense of optimism about the economy, a private sector report released on Thursday showed.
The Conference Board, an industry group, said its index of consumer attitudes fell to 65.1 from a downwardly revised 71.5 in November. Economists had expected a reading of 70.0, according to a Reuters poll.
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While the present situation index rose to 62.8 from an upwardly revised 57.4, its highest in more than four years, the overall survey suggested most consumers expect things to worsen.
"Consumers' expectations retreated sharply in December resulting in a decline in the overall index," Lynn Franco, director of The Conference Board Consumer Research Center, said in a statement. "The sudden turnaround was most likely caused by uncertainty surrounding the oncoming fiscal cliff."
The fiscal cliff refers to $600 billion of automatic tax increases and spending cuts set to take effect in January unless Congress acts to stop them. President Barack Obama and Republican leaders have failed to agree to a long-term deficit reduction deal that would avert the situation.
The expectations index fell to 66.5 from a downwardly revised 80.9. December's reading was the lowest in more than a year.
Franco said a similar pullback in consumer expectations was seen in August 2011, when political bickering over raising the U.S. debt ceiling led to a sharp drop in the stock market.
Consumers' labor market outlook also turned a bit more pessimistic. The "jobs hard to get" index fell to 35.6 percent from a revised 37.4 percent the month before, but the "jobs plentiful" index also fell to 10.3 percent from 11.0 percent.
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The singer and husband Jay Z, along with Timbaland and former Destiny's Child bandmates Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams, visited Sing Sing, a karaoke bar in Miami, Us Weekly reported.
The bar's owner Kellie Pilicer said that when Beyonce joined the girls, they didn't initially recognise her.
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