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SINGAPORE, March 14, 2017 — Stakeholders of the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore aim to build on its early growth momentum to elevate supercomputing in Singapore into the next phase. This includes dovetailing NSCC's future plans into the S$19 billion national RIE2020 masterplan, said Peter Ho, Chairman of NSCC Steering Committee.
Giving the opening address at the third edition of the Supercomputing Frontiers (SCF) Conference yesterday, Mr Ho observed that "Singapore is only at the start of developing and implementing a HPC strategic roadmap".
"For the NSCC to realise the vision of catalysing supercomputing in Singapore, its team will have to bootstrap on the knowledge and experience of others," he added.
The key stakeholders of the NSCC Singapore are the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), National University of Singapore (NUS), and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).
Singapore enters the petascale supercomputing league, first in Southeast Asia
Addressing the objectives of the four-day Conference, Mr Ho said that he hoped that the conference would produce "rich discussions". "It is through such discussions that I hope we will all learn something about what the future holds for supercomputing, and how we can position ourselves, not just in Singapore, but also in our respective countries, to exploit the power of supercomputing to improve competitiveness and the lives of our people.", Mr Ho added.
One key highlight of the SCF2017 opening ceremony is the launch of the inaugural SCF/NSCC Awards, which aim to promote excellence in High Performance Computing (HPC), networking, storage and visualisation in the areas of Singapore's research, innovation, education and enterprise. This award also aims to give recognition to research and commercial efforts that tap on ASPIRE 1's computational power to drive innovation, raise productivity and improve lives.
Notable winners of the inaugural awards are:
- Supercomputing Frontiers Singapore Distinguished Service Award
– Mr. Lim Chuan Poh, Chairman, A*STAR
- Supercomputing Frontiers Singapore Visionary Award
– Dr. Raj Thampuran, Managing Director, A*STAR
- NSCC Outstanding HPC Scientific Award
– Data Storage Institute, A*STAR
- NSCC Outstanding HPC Industry Application Award
– Keppel Offshore and Marine Technology Centre (KOMtech)
– Global Gene Corp Pte Ltd (Honourable Mention)
- NSCC Outstanding HPC Innovation Award
– Institute of High Performance Computing
– GenomeAsia 100K (Honourable Mention)
The winners were carefully handpicked through a rigorous process by a seven-member judging panel and received the respective awards from Mr Ho. Other notable award submissions include:
- Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre (KOMtech)'s winning project, which made extensive use of NSCC's HPC resources to optimise the designs of rigs and vessels in the product development process.
- Tan Tock Seng Hospital's use of HPC technology combined with whole-genome-sequencing to provide useful information for on-the-ground infection control, by determining the transmission routes of bacteria that are invisible to the human eye.
The SCF 2017 is held at the [email protected] and is attended by more than 450 participants from 12 countries. The focus on this year's conference is on global trends and innovations in high performance computing.
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When I say seminal, I do not use the term lightly. Philip Glass is widely accepted as a composer who has changed the face of music for our time. Now in his seventies, the evidence of his influence is that young people hear nothing unusual in his music. Having composed more than 20 operas, 50 film scores, 8 symphonies and several concertos, he has certainly made his mark – his work is pervasive, not to mention regularly imitated.
Minimal music is a form of art music that employs limited or minimal musical materials. Minimalism began in post–World War II Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s
Movements (original instrumentation):
I. Opening (piano, hn) 6′
II. Floe (2fl, 2 ssx, 2 tsx, 2hn, syn) 7′
III. Islands (2fl, 2 ssx, tsx, bcl, 2hn, vla, vc) 8′
IV. Rubric (fl, ssx, tsx, 2hn, org) 6′
V. Façades (2ssx, syn, vla, vc)
VI. Closing – a reprise (fl, cl, bcl, hn, vla, vc, pno) 6′
Interpretation by Branka Parlic in 2005

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Tonight Andrew and I are going over to his uncle's house for dinner with his family in Willow Glen/Cambria area of San Jose. The only other time I've met them was when Andrew's grandmother died, so this will hopefully be a much better time. They asked that we make a dessert to bring over. I was feeling something autumnal, maybe with apples or pumpkin. I decided on apples because well, pumpkins are a pain in the ass and I didn't feel like a pie.
There was a delicious sounding apple caramel bread pudding in Martha Stewart's cookbook The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook.
Salted Vanilla Caramel Sauce
- 2 cups organic, evaporated cane juice sugar (I know I went all fancy and shit)
- 1 cup organic half and half
- 1 tsp. kosher salt
- 2 tsps. vanilla extract (original recipe called for a vanilla bean, but I ain't that fancy)
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 tbsp. salted butter (you can use unsalted as well)
1. Pour water and sugar into a small/medium sized sauce pan. Do NOT mix together. Heat on medium and gently swirl the pan (occasionally) for twenty minutes until your sauce has reached a deep amber color. I thought mine had reached this stage but apparently it didn't and was a little thin but still delicious.
This is what it looks like when you first put it on the stove.
Note: making anything that boils and has sugar scares the crap out of me. I'm always afraid it's going to explode every where. It seriously looks like lava when its cooking.
This is what it looks like before you add the heavy cream, butter, vanilla and salt.
2. Turn the temperature down to low. Slowly add the cup of heavy cream and mix with a wooden spoon. Yes, it is imperative that you use a wooden spoon. This will make you feel superior to people who use metal or plastic spoons. Then add the two tablespoons of butter, vanilla, and salt. Mix and keep on low until you are ready to assemble the pudding.
This is what it looks like when you are done. Note the essential wooden spoon.
Now, while this was cooking I was also cutting apples into "matchsticks". My cutting skills are similar to a pre-schooler's drawing skills: they've got the concept but they still can't put it together the right way.
Caramel Apple Bread Pudding
- 1 8 oz. loaf of brioche (you can use white bread with the crusts removed, but remember you're trying to be fancy)
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 tsps. vanilla
- 3 large eggs
- 1 1/4 cup almond milk (the recipe called for heavy cream, but I wasn't about to use THAT much heavy cream in one dessert)
- 2 granny smith apples cut into match sticks
- the juice of one lemon
- 1/2 tsp. kosher salt
- 1 tbsp. salted, room temperature butter (this is for rubbing on your ramekins).
1. Cut your two granny smith apples into matchsticks. Use the time that you're sauce is cooking to do this. This is time consuming if you have shitty knife skills like me or don't own a mandolin. Doesn't really matter, none of us are trying out for Top Chef or anything.
My beautiful matchstick apples. I think I'm failing Martha with my knife skills.
2. Pre-heat the oven to 325 degrees F. Place apples in a bowl; toss with lemon juice; set aside. Butter two large ramekins (you can also do six individual ramekins if you want to make it extra special). Cut brioche into 8 slices, quarter each slice, and set aside.
3. In a bowl, whisk together almond milk, eggs, sugar, salt, and vanilla. Add brioche and toss to coat.
4. To assemble, coat the bottom of each of your ramekins with a thin layer of sauce. Then add a quarter of the apple mixture to each ramekin, then add a quarter of the bread mixture, then sauce, and repeat for a second layer.
This is what it looks like before you cook it.
5. Cook for forty minutes until puddings are set. Martha goes into all this crap about using a water bath, but it's not necessary and its an extra step. I hate extra steps.
6. Serve warm with sauce. Yum!
It was a little sweet for me and I think next time I would reduce the sugar so that I don't feel like I'm going into a diabetic coma. The salt added a nice touch to the caramel and it went deliciously with the apples.


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March 28, 2010
My Journey So Far With A Classic Harley Davidson
Well, to start it's been less than a year since I joined this forum and had the pleasure of getting my Dad's KH out on the road again (Damn I wish he could see it out there on the road now…). This might not be much for you older guys on the forum that grew up with these bike and know them like the back of your hand, but for somebody getting into a bike that is from 1955 at the age of 35 I must say today was a pretty good day.
I wasn't a virgin with a wrench in my hand before I started working on this bike, but for some reason it made me a little nervous working on a motorcycle when I first started. Growing up my Dad was a good teacher, but mostly on cars. We had bikes too, but I will admit openly, he did most of the maintenance on them because he liked to do it and had the time…
Few months ago I rebuilt the carb with a kit from Into the Wilderness and replaced the plugs and wires, those were the first step for me. Over the winter I read and gathered some of the books that I needed to learn more (Thanks to people like Rubone for the book, Sarge for the CD just so I could read some other old stuff unrelated to the K model). Also I asked quite a few 'basic' questions that helped out a lot too. Couple of weeks ago I tackled changing out the handlebars – this was an experience and led me to a couple of others. Last weekend I took off the front and rear wheels for the first time to check the brakes and just to 'have a look' at things. Cleaned up some dust, realized I needed some rear brakes (still need to get these) and figured out how to adjust everything so stopping was in order. Also prepped up the battery that I bought last fall – added some acid and set it on the charger to zap it up for the first time.
Filed under Black KH's Blog by Black KH
March 6, 2010
New Handlebars for a Vintage Motorcycle
Yesterday I ordered the first parts for my 1955 Harley Davidson KH project. I ordered a new set of "Speedster" handlebars from Faber Cycles. These bars will replace the 'buckhorn' style that are currently on the motorcycle.
One reason I am replacing them is that the current bars are for a later model, they have the holes on the right side bar for a button. The other reason is that I am hoping it will keep me from feeling so cramped when riding. Next week, I'll have a picture with them in my hands, but for the time being I'll put up the image they provided me when I was communicating with Faber over e-mail. BTW – questions over email were answered very promptly and I've been really happy with the customer service thus far.
The next step of the project is going to be a rewire that I posted earlier on this blog. I plan on ordering those wires next week. After the rewire, I will charge up and install the battery I ordered last Fall. Hopefully I'll have everything done in the next couple of weeks as the weather is starting to warm up some around these parts!
Filed under Black KH's Blog, Restoration by Black KH
January 26, 2010
Harley-Davidson Museum Visit By Arthur H. Davidson
I picked up on this story and thought it would be good to share here on Classic American Iron.
Talk about history! The blog over at the Harley Davidson Museum has a short story about the son of Arther Davidson taking tour around the facility.
Shortly before the Museum opened in the summer of 2008, I received a call from Arthur H. Davidson (the H stands for Harley). I recognized his name as the sole surviving son of one of the original founders of Harley-Davidson, Arthur Davidson. He said he had some "junk" to donate to the Museum. I drove out to his house on a beautiful summer day and met him and his wife Gertrude. The "junk" turned out to be the original passports his father used in the 1910s and 20s to travel overseas and build the foreign dealer network. Had he not recruited so many dealers around the world, Harley-Davidson is not the company it is today… if it's here at all.
Since then, he and I kept in contact about getting him here to the Museum. Just over a week ago, it finally happened. Arthur is now 95 years old and an absolute joy to talk to. During his visit, he shared knowledge of company history and items on exhibit that weren't recorded anywhere. For example, the company disbursed its first More on Harley-Davidson Museum Visit By Arthur H. Davidson
Filed under Black KH's Blog, Events, History, Motorcycle Places by Black KH


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Lake Forest, Illinois, February 9, 2018 – Tenneco (NYSE: TEN) reported fourth quarter net income of $68 million, or $1.33 per diluted share. Fourth quarter 2016 net income* was $38 million, or $0.69 per diluted share. Adjusted net income rose to a record $97 million, or $1.89 per diluted share, versus $90 million or $1.63 per diluted share last year*.
Fourth Quarter Results
Total revenue in the fourth quarter was a record $2.391 billion, up 11% year-over-year, with increases in both the Clean Air and Ride Performance product lines. On a constant currency basis, total revenue increased 7% driven by higher volumes and incremental content on light vehicle, commercial truck and off-highway applications.
In constant currency, value-add revenue grew 7% versus last year to $1.748 billion, with Ride Performance increasing 9% and Clean Air up 5%. Tenneco's value-add revenue growth outpaced underlying industry production growth in all OE applications. Global aftermarket revenue was slightly higher versus a year ago.
"We delivered a quarter of strong organic growth with gains in both product lines and double-digit growth in commercial truck and off-highway revenue," said Brian Kesseler, Tenneco CEO. "We continue to focus on converting top-line growth into higher earnings. This drove a strong increase in earnings, as well as record cash flow from operations in the quarter."
Adjusted fourth quarter 2017 and 2016 results
EBIT and EBIT Margin*
Fourth quarter EBIT (earnings before interest, taxes and noncontrolling interests) was $135 million, versus $71 million a year ago. Adjusted EBIT increased 10% to $168 million compared with $153 million last year, driven by revenue gains in all end-market applications.
In the fourth quarter 2017, Tenneco EBIT as a percent of revenue was 5.6%, and adjusted EBIT as a percent of value-add revenue was 9.3%, in line with prior year.
Fourth quarter EBIT margin
Cash generated by operations in the quarter was $466 million, up 86% versus $251 million last year. The cash performance in the quarter was driven by higher earnings and improved working capital management and included $107 million from an additional accounts receivable securitization program established in the fourth quarter.
During the quarter, the company returned $51 million to shareholders, including the repurchase of approximately 627,000 shares of common stock for $38 million, and a dividend payment of 25-cents per share, for $13 million.
Full-Year Results
Adjusted full year 2017 and 2016 results
For the full year, total revenue was a record high $9.274 billion. In constant currency, total revenue and value-add revenue each increased 7% to $9.188 billion and $7.018 billion, respectively, significantly outpacing industry production growth. Tenneco's revenue growth was driven by stronger volumes and higher content on light vehicle, commercial truck and off-highway applications in all regions.
EBIT and EBIT margin*
Full-year EBIT was $417 million, versus $516 million a year ago. Adjusted EBIT rose 4% to $647 million.
EBIT as a percent of revenue was 4.5%. Adjusted EBIT as a percent of value-add revenue was 9.1%.
EBIT was impacted primarily by charges for restructuring and related costs and an antitrust settlement accrual.
Cash generated by operations for the full year improved 30% to $629 million, compared with $484 million last year.
In 2017, Tenneco returned $222 million to shareholders, including the repurchase of approximately 2.9 million shares of common stock for $169 million, and dividend payments of $53 million.
First quarter 2018
Tenneco expects constant dollar total revenue growth of 3% in the first quarter 2018, outpacing a flat** light vehicle industry production growth forecast. The company expects organic growth to outpace the industry with revenues driven by the ramp up of recently launched programs and Tenneco's strong position on light vehicle platforms globally, double-digit year-over-year growth in commercial truck and off-highway revenues and a solid contribution from the global aftermarket.
Full year 2018 and Mid-Term Revenue Outlook
In 2018, the company expects 5% organic growth, outpacing industry production by 3 percentage points, with increases in both the Ride Performance and Clean Air product lines. The company expects organic growth to be driven by:
2018 Revenue Outlook (in 2017 constant currency)
Assumptions for the 2018 revenue outlook include:
In 2019 and 2020, Tenneco expects revenue growth will continue to outpace industry production. In those years, the company expects organic growth of 6% - 8% in 2019, and 5% - 7% in 2020, including the current forecasted global light vehicle production growth of 2% in each year.
2019 - 2020 Revenue Outlook
"Tenneco is well-positioned to accelerate our proven track record of growth," said Kesseler. "We expect our diverse business portfolio and multiple, sustainable growth drivers will continue to drive results that support investments in future growth and enhance returns to shareholders."
In 2018, Tenneco expects:
*Year-over-year earnings comparisons reflect revisions to prior period financial results for certain immaterial adjustments as described in Tenneco's form 10K/A for the year ended December 31, 2016.
** Industry production estimates based on IHS Automotive January 2018 global light vehicle production forecast, Power Systems Research (PSR) January 2018 global commercial truck and bus production report and customer production schedules and Tenneco estimates for off-highway engine production in North America and Europe.
Click here to download the earnings release and all the schedules listed below.
Attachment 1
Statements of Income – 3 Months
Statements of Income – 12 Months
Balance Sheets
Statements of Cash Flows – 3 Months
Statements of Cash Flows – 12 Months
Attachment 2
Reconciliation of GAAP Net Income to EBITDA including noncontrolling interests – 3 Months
Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Earnings Measures – 3 Months
Reconciliation of GAAP Net Income to EBITDA including noncontrolling interests – 12 Months
Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Earnings Measures – 12 Months
Reconciliation of GAAP Revenue to Non-GAAP Revenue Measures – 3 Months
Reconciliation of GAAP Revenue to Non-GAAP Revenue Measures – 12 Months
Reconciliation of GAAP Revenue to Non-GAAP Revenue Measures – 3 Months and 12 Months
Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures – Debt Net of Cash/Adjusted LTM EBITDA including noncontrolling interests
Reconciliation of GAAP Revenue to Non-GAAP Revenue Measures – Original Equipment and Aftermarket Revenue – 3 Months and 12 Months
Reconciliation of GAAP Revenue and Earnings to Non-GAAP Revenue and Earnings Measures – 3 Months
Reconciliation of GAAP Revenue and Earnings to Non-GAAP Revenue and Earnings Measures – 12 Months
Reconciliation of GAAP Revenue to Non-GAAP Revenue Measures – Original Equipment Commercial Truck, Off-Highway and other revenues – 3 Months and 12 Months
The company will host a conference call on Friday, February 9, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. ET. The dial-in number is 866-807-9684 (domestic) or 412-317-5415 (international). The passcode is Tenneco Inc. Call. The call and accompanying slides will be available on the financial section of the Tenneco web site at www.investors.tenneco.com. A recording of the call will be available one hour following completion of the call on February 9, 2018 through February 16, 2018. To access this recording, dial 877-344-7529 (domestic) or 412-317-0088 (international) or (855) 669-9658 (Canada). The replay access code is 10115986. The purpose of the call is to discuss the company's operations for the last fiscal quarter and year ending 2017, as well as provide updated information regarding matters impacting the company's outlook. A copy of the press release is available on the financial and news sections of the Tenneco web site.
The Tenneco Board of Directors has scheduled the corporation's annual meeting of shareholders for Wednesday, May 16, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. CT. The meeting will be held at the corporate headquarters, 500 North Field Drive, Lake Forest, Illinois. The record date for shareholders eligible to vote at the meeting is March 19, 2018.
Tenneco is a $9.3 billion global manufacturing company with headquarters in Lake Forest, Illinois and approximately 32,000 employees worldwide. Tenneco is one of the world's largest designers, manufacturers and marketers of ride performance and clean air products and systems for automotive and commercial vehicle original equipment markets and the aftermarket. Tenneco's principal brand names are Monroe®, Walker®, XNOx™ and Clevite®Elastomer.
Revenue estimates in this release are based on OE manufacturers' programs that have been formally awarded to the company; programs where Tenneco is highly confident that it will be awarded business based on informal customer indications consistent with past practices; and Tenneco's status as supplier for the existing program and its relationship with the customer. These revenue estimates are also based on anticipated vehicle production levels and pricing, including precious metals pricing and the impact of material cost changes. Unless otherwise indicated, our revenue estimate methodology does not attempt to forecast currency fluctuations, and accordingly, reflects constant currency. For certain additional assumptions upon which these estimates are based, see the slides accompanying the February 9, 2018 webcast, which will be available on the financial section of the Tenneco website at www.investors.tenneco.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements. Words such as "may," "expects," "anticipate," "projects," "will," "outlook" and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations of the company (including its subsidiaries). Because these forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, the company's plans, actions and actual results could differ materially. Among the factors that could cause these plans, actions and results to differ materially from current expectations are:
(i) general economic, business and market conditions;
(ii) the company's ability to source and procure needed materials, components and other products and services in accordance with customer demand and at competitive prices;
(iii) the cost and outcome of existing and any future claims, legal proceedings, or investigations, including, but not limited to, any of the foregoing arising in connection with the ongoing global antitrust investigation, product performance, product safety or intellectual property rights;
(iv) changes in capital availability or costs, including increases in the company's costs of borrowing (i.e., interest rate increases), the amount of the company's debt, the ability of the company to access capital markets at favorable rates, and the credit ratings of the company's debt;
(v) changes in consumer demand, prices and the company's ability to have our products included on top selling vehicles, including any shifts in consumer preferences to lower margin vehicles, for which we may or may not have supply arrangements;
(vi) changes in automotive and commercial vehicle manufacturers' production rates and their actual and forecasted requirements for the company's products such as the significant production cuts during recent years by automotive manufacturers in response to difficult economic conditions;
(vii) the overall highly competitive nature of the automobile and commercial vehicle parts industries, and any resultant inability to realize the sales represented by the company's awarded book of business which is based on anticipated pricing and volumes over the life of the applicable program;
(viii) the loss of any of our large original equipment manufacturer ("OEM") customers (on whom we depend for a substantial portion of our revenues), or the loss of market shares by these customers if we are unable to achieve increased sales to other OEMs or any change in customer demand due to delays in the adoption or enforcement of worldwide emissions regulations;
(ix) the company's continued success in cost reduction and cash management programs and its ability to execute restructuring and other cost reduction plans, including our current cost reduction initiatives, and to realize anticipated benefits from these plans;
(x) risk inherent in operating a multi-national company, including economic conditions, such as currency exchange and inflation rates, and political environments in the countries where we operate or sell our products, adverse changes in trade agreements, tariffs, immigration policies, political stability, and tax and other laws, and potential disruption of production and/or supply;
(xi) workforce factors such as strikes or labor interruptions;
(xii) increases in the costs of raw materials, including the company's ability to successfully reduce the impact of any such cost increases through materials substitutions, cost reduction initiatives, customer recovery and other methods;
(xiii) the negative impact of fuel price volatility on transportation and logistics costs, raw material costs, discretionary purchases of vehicles or aftermarket products, and demand for off-highway equipment;
(xiv) the cyclical nature of the global vehicular industry, including the performance of the global aftermarket sector and longer product lives of automobile parts;
(xv) product warranty costs;
(xvi) the failure or breach of our information technology systems and the consequences that such failure or breach may have to our business;
(xvii) the company's ability to develop and profitably commercialize new products and technologies, and the acceptance of such new products and technologies by the company's customers and the market;
(xviii) changes by the Financial Accounting Standards Board or other accounting regulatory bodies to authoritative generally accepted accounting principles or policies;
(xix) changes in accounting estimates and assumptions, including changes based on additional information;
(xx) the impact of the extensive, increasing and changing laws and regulations to which we are subject, including environmental laws and regulations, which may result in our incurrence of environmental liabilities in excess of the amount reserved;
(xxi) natural disasters, acts of war and/or terrorism and the impact of these occurrences or acts on economic, financial, industrial and social condition, including, without limitation, with respect to supply chains and customer demand in the countries where the company operates; and
(xxii) the timing and occurrence (or non-occurrence) of transactions and events which may be subject to circumstances beyond the control of the company and its subsidiaries.
The company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release. Additional information regarding these risk factors and uncertainties is detailed from time to time in the company's SEC filings, including but not limited to its annual report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2016, and its quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2017.
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On the songs chart, Combs was second with "She Got the Best of Me," Dan + Shay third with "Tequila" and fourth with "Speechless." Kane Brown was up three to fifth with "Lose It." Jimmie Allen went from 9 to 6 with "Best Shot." Mitchell Tenpenny also moved up three, to seventh, with "Drunk Me."
Jason Aldean stood at 14 with "Drowns the Whiskey," featuring Miranda Lambert, up 3. Dierks Bentley also was up 3, to 15, with "Burning Man," featuring Brothers Osborne. Brown debuted at 17 with "Good As You." Kip Moore was at 19 with "Last Shot," up 3. Stapleton's "Millionaire" was up 4 to 20. So was Dustin Lynch's "Good Girl" at 21.
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Maren Morris' was 30th with "Hero," up 4. Keith Urban's "Ripcord" was up 3 to 34. Mitchell Tenpenny's self-titled EP jumped from 43 to 36. Luke Bryan stood at 45 with "Kill the Lights," up 4.
Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit were first on the Americana/Folk Albums chart. Stapleton was second with "Traveller," Elle King debuted in third with "Shake the Spirit," Stapleton fourth with "From A Room: Volume 1" and Hozier fifth with his self-titled debut.
On the Bluegrass Albums chart, Dailey & Vincent were first with "The Sounds of Christmas." Rhonda Vincent & The Rage were second with "Live at the Ryman," Punch Brothers third with "All Ashore," Molly Tuttle fourth with "Rise" and Trampled by Turtles fifth with "Life is Good on the Open Road."
On the overall top 200, Combs was 24th, Aldean 27th, Isbell 38th, Church 41st and Dan + Shay 41st.


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I have been trying to eat better at work and avoid unnecessary snack trips for unhealthy and expensive snacks during the day, so while pursuing the web looking at different recipes for granola type bars I could make I ran into the 4 Ingredient Banana Nut Bars from The Kitchn. I liked how simple the recipe was so I went to work making some with what I happened to have on hand in my kitchen on that particular day, which happened to be Oats, bananas, Coconut Flakes, and dried blueberries. While the original recipe did not include any egg my mix seemed a bit dry so I threw one in to help bind everything together and add a bit of extra protein into the mix. From that first round of bars I have started to experiment with different additions and subtractions to switch it up and find what I like best.
Regardless if you follow the orignal inspiration recipe or my version below these snack bars are quick to make and great as a quick, healthy and filling breakfast, snack during the day, or as a pre gym energy snack.
Makes about 16 1 1/2″ squares
This Recipe makes a particularly dense bar which is why I suggest cutting them into such small pieces. You can make them less dense by adding some chopped dried fruit to the mix. Either way they are filling, healthy and tasty. I used powdered peanut butter because it has less fat than regular peanut butter but feel free to substitute the normal stuff in its place. This recipe is very forgiving so feel free to experiment and substitute ingredients as you see fit for your tastes and pantry contents.
8oz Old Fashioned Rolled Oats
1 Ripe Yellow Plantain (about 5oz)
2 Ripe Bananas (about 6oz)
1 Large egg
2oz Chopped Almonds
1 Tbsp + 1 Tsp Sesame Seeds
1 Tsp Blue Agave
1 Tsp + 1/2 Tsp of Ground Cinnamon
1/2 Tsp Kosher Salt
2 Tsp Powdered Peanut Butter (available at Health Food Stores)
Preheat your oven to 350°F
In a large bowl mash together the Bananas and Plantain making sure there are no large chunks in the mix. (When I made mine the Bananas and the Plantain were still a bit hard so I sliced them into pieces before mashing to help incorporate, by nature the plantain is less soft than the banana but the mix comes together with enough man power)
Once the Banana and Plantain are mashed up add the egg, powdered peanut butter, 1 tsp of the Cinnamon (save the rest for the top of the bars), Blue Agave, and Salt. Mix well until all ingredients are incorporated.
Add in the Oats, Chopped Almonds, and 1tsp of the Sesame (save the rest for the top of the bars) and mix well.
Once everything is incorporated turn out the mix into a non stick or grease 7×7 (or 6×6) baking pan.
Sprinkle the top of the bars with the remaining sesame seeds and cinnamon.
Bake for about 30 minutes until the mix is solid and has browned.Let cool for about 10 minutes in the pan on a cooling rack then turn the bars out of the pan on to the rack and allow them to cool completely.
Cut into 16 pieces and enjoy!


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NASHVILLE — A perfect 10 takeaways from the Patriots' 22-17 victory in Nashville, a perfect 10 city . . .
1. It was interesting to see Patrick Chung, who has yet to play as he's still rehabbing from offseason rotator cuff surgery, taking a role on the sideline, appearing to call in plays with outside linebackers coach DeMarcus Covington. Bill Belichick didn't give a clear answer when asked Sunday during a conference call how that came about for the veteran safety, but said all players are put in position to take mental reps even when they're not playing.
"I think hopefully all the players are involved in it when their unit's on the field, so we try to make sure that everybody gets the calls," Belichick said. "They should be able to identify the situation themselves — the down and distance, field position and end-of-the-half type situations, two-minute and things like that. But, we try to give them the call we made, whatever it is we're running on offense, defense, special teams, so that they can watch their position, watch the play and hopefully they're mentally reacting the way that they would want to react in a game, if they were actually in there playing."
2. With Isaiah Wynn finally ready to get the start at left tackle, Dan Skipper functioned as a swing tackle Saturday night. Skipper started at right tackle, then moved back to left tackle once Wynn's night was over after three series. The Patriots lost backup LaAdrian Waddle, who could play both sides, to the Buffalo Bills during the offseason and need someone like Skipper to fill that role.
3. Based on reactions from many fans and some media members around the league, Belichick's terse statement regarding Josh Gordon's reinstatement was taken in some parts as an effort to throw water on the idea that Gordon will be a major player for the Patriots. Not so, in this view. Belichick released the statement so he could refer to it as a means to add nothing further when questioned. Nothing more, nothing less. See his halftime interview with WBZ's Steve Burton from Saturday for evidence. Asked if he had anything to add to the statement, Belichick gave a one-word answer: "Nope."
Belichick doesn't need the preseason he's ready for the postseason.— Chad Amaral (@Chad_Amaral) August 18, 2019
Question: You put out a statement earlier today (on Josh Gordon) anything you would like to add to that?
Bill: Nope
Question: Not at all?
Bill: No, that's why I put out the statement #Patriots pic.twitter.com/2KvXYsxKsH
4. It's strange to watch the Patriots offense function without a strong presence at tight end. Without Rob Gronkowski, the Patriots offense was always going to be less tight end-centric this season than it has been in years past. Right now, though, with Matt LaCosse out with a leg injury, the degree to which that's the case is alarming.
5. Apple's Autocorrect function has it wrong with Byron Cowart, whose last name it always tries to change to "Coward." The Patriots' fifth-round pick is a fearless player who has showed off some pass-rush moves. He put Titans starting left guard Rodger Saffold flat on his back easily and steamrolled into the backfield for a sack of quarterback Marcus Mariota early on Saturday night. Nick Caserio, the Patriots director of player personnel, called Cowart "more of a run player" on his draft night, but Belichick said Sunday that that was more of a reflection of his past production and the situations he was in than his overall potential.
"In the college scheme that he played in at Maryland, I wouldn't say there were a lot of pass-rush situations," Belichick said. "It was a little hard to evaluate that, so again, you can only go on what you see, and probably 75 percent of the plays — maybe more — that he played were either running plays or running situations."
6. A dining tip learned after a few Patriots-related trips to Nashville in the last year: The South knows what to do with its vegetables. The "Plate of Southern Vegetables" at critically acclaimed Husk and "Wood Roasted Summer Vegetables" at Henrietta Red were exceptional and totally satisfying. Added bonus: The ability to walk, not roll, out of the dining room after a meal.
7. Jonathan Jones has had an excellent training camp so far. Because of the Patriots' depth at cornerback, it's been posited that he could be trade bait. Everyone has a price, but if he were being actively shopped, wouldn't the Patriots have played him a little in the first or second preseason game as a showcase to drive up interest?
8. This reporter's English teacher mother made it known that she disagreed with a recent Globe headline describing an Instagram comment from Tom Brady as "snarky."
The comment in question was from Brady to rookie Chase Winovich, who posted a photo with a caption from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar." "Study your playbook," Brady responded.
Mom's take, as texted Sunday morning: "I thought it was a fun pun and also supportive. Chase was quoting the best playbook of all. But maybe the Pats playbook is right up there! That's the pun TB was making whether he knew it or not!"
9. Danny Etling is a quarterback again. Falcons coach Dan Quinn told reporters in Atlanta Sunday that the former Patriots QB-turned-WR will go back to his old position. That's a good thing for Etling, who was claimed off waivers by Atlanta after the Patriots waived him last week.
10. After watching two weeks of joint practices and two preseason games, one takeaway is that the joint practices are far and away a better product for spectators than the preseason games.
They're competitive, the starters actually play. and there are great, close-up vantage points to be had.
. . .
Wide receiver Dontrelle Inman requested and was granted his release from the Patriots, per a league source.
Inman, who was signed by New England in May as a free agent, had been stuck at the bottom of the depth chart this offseason.
According to a league source, Inman was prompted to request his release when he saw his situation grow more complicated by the league's reinstatement of Josh Gordon from an indefinite suspension late last week, and by the emergence of rookie Jakobi Meyers, who has made strides throughout training camp.
Inman, 30, has played five seasons in the league. Last year, the 6-foot-3-inch, 205-pounder caught 28 passes for 304 yards and three touchdowns for the Colts.
Christoper Price of the Globe Staff contributed to this report. Nora Princiotti can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter at @NoraPrinciotti.


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People would love to turn the Internet into their own cash cow. They may be tired of commuting daily and fighting traffic. They wish they could remain home to make money. You can do this in your own life. These suggestions are a great place to begin earning money on the Internet.
Be sure to create a firm daily schedule. Online income is something that you will need to do consistently. You can't make a million overnight. You've got to put in the hard work. Determine a time frame in which you work each and every day. Even devoting only an hour or two a day will make a huge difference over time.
Surveys are a great option. There are a multitude of surveys for you to complete. You can make some decent money taking surveys online. Sometimes, their pay isn't that great. But the great thing about them is that you can do them while watching TV or during other free time. Put the money in savings and you will see it grow over time.
Make sure that you prove your identity if you plan to make cash online. You will need to provide identification in some places. Make sure to get some digital copies that you can supply during application process. This will speed things up.
Tutoring is a field that is currently growing. Therefore, e-teaching is a viable option for those looking to work from home. If you have experience and education in a certain niche, you might be able to tutor for websites such as TutorVista or SmartThinking. You'll be surprised at how well you can do.
Search Google to learn about making money online. This will give you a huge variety of ideas and options. Once you have found a good looking opportunity, research the company reputation and reviews. Always be wary, and you won't get scammed.
Use your time well. There are tasks you can do to earn extra change that are super easy. Sites such as Mechanical Turk allow you to work on little tasks. Do these while watching TV if you like. You will not make a lot of money by doing this, but you'll spend less time wasting your time and you'll make a little bit of money as well.
When it comes to online money making ventures, never pay money to begin. No reputable source of Internet income needs money from you to work for them. It is probably a scam and you will be out of money. Try not to get tangled with these companies.
Watch out for the scams when trying to make money online. Therefore, it is necessary to thoroughly vet potential enterprises before signing on. The Better Business Bureau is a good way on how to check on a company's legitimacy.
When it comes to online income, hard work is what you should expect. You have just learned about several potential sources of income. Just like anything, you'll need to put some effort into making money this way, but it will be well worth it.


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Texas congresswoman Barbara Jordan (1936-1996) rose to the national stage from Houston's largely African-American Fifth Ward, becoming a public defender of the U.S. Constitution and a leading presence in Democratic Party politics for two decades. She was the first black woman elected to the Texas state senate and the first black Texan in Congress. As a member of the House Judiciary Committee, she gave the influential opening speech of Richard Nixon's 1974 impeachment hearings.
Born February 21, 1936 in Houston, Texas, Jordan attended the segregated Phyllis Wheatley High School, where a career day speech by Edith Sampson, a black lawyer, inspired her to become an attorney. Jordan was a member of the inaugural class at Texas Southern University, a black college hastily created by the Texas legislature to avoid having to integrate the University of Texas. There Jordan joined the debate team and helped lead it to national renown. The team famously tied Harvard's debaters when they came to Houston.
In 1956 she graduated magna cum laude and was accepted into Boston University's law school. Three years later, she graduated with her law degree. She was only one of two African American women in her class. After passing the bar in Massachusetts and Texas she moved backed to Houston to open her law office.
Jordan won a seat in the Texas State Senate in 1966. During her last year in the state senate she was elected president pro tem by her colleagues. It allowed her to serve as governor for a day.
In 1979 Jordan retired from Congress. She became a professor and a public speaker.
In 1994 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton.
Jordan died in 1996 of leukemia-related pneumonia, leaving behind a legacy for women and African Americans.


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They are the Studers and Sherlock Holmes watchmen of the digital age: after attacks, IT forensic experts collect evidence and try to find out what the attackers are up to.
IT forensics article in Computerworld by Jens Stark, based on an interview with Tobias Ellenberger, Chief Operating Officer at Oneconsult. The article has also been published by com! magazine.
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Ahh – today's blog post is inspired by the class on postpartum we just taught and two of our sweet students who are going through some sleepless nights with their daughters. Warm thoughts and wishes for the sandman are being sent for them.
A common suggestion when babies are sleepless is to let them cry it out, also known as CIO. I cringe when I see those words. I believe that babies are meant to be with their mamas for the first nine months of their lives – you can read more about why I believe that
HERE, and the babies that inspired this post are still under nine months of age.
As part of that MotherBaby dynamic, I believe babies cry because they want comfort - not to manipulate. Adults in relationships like to sleep next to their partners. It is incredible to me that children and babies are expected to be okay sleeping alone. They are less emotionally mature and we ask them to do things that their adult parents (assuming they all live together), supposedly fully functioning and emotionally intact, do not do.
I want to remind sleepless parents and readers of how amazing their infant child is. When they are first born, literally EVERYTHING is new.
So this little person, who has so much change thrown at them in the split second that they are born, is in the process of learning about the world around them. They crave the warmth of their mother's body, or another comforting body, since they cannot regulate their body temperature on their own yet. They are soothed by the rhythm of a beating heart, a sound that was a permanent part of their environment since the day they could hear in utero.
A baby who is crying is a baby who has a need that has not been met. We are all familiar with the common ones: Are they wet? Hungry? Tired?
Then there are the reasons that we seem to have forgotten about as a culture…could they be lonely? Scared? Seeking reassurance? Craving safety in a parent's arms? Growing? Teething? These are no less important than the common reasons.
It is easy to be seduced by all the toys, sleep aids and gadgets that promise a child will sleep through the night. News flash: babies are wired to cry when they need help…HERE are some great links to reasons from a developmental standpoint as to why babies *should not* sleep through the night.
So just how long does it take that little bundle of newness to be independent? I am sure we will all have a different answer. And along the path to independence, there is the discomfort of teething, growth spurts, psychological expansion from the mama as the center of the universe, to the rest of the family and then the realization that the world really is a very BIG place.
It works for some families to co-sleep, and for other families it is better to have the baby/child sleep in their crib/bed. Or, you can do a little of both, which happens to be our choice. Or...the list could go on and on. There are always lots of options for a family to explore as they find the right path for them.
Here are my beliefs:
I implore you to examine your paradigm. I suggest that our task as a parent is not to get our child to sleep through the night from the earliest moment possible. Our task, our gift, is to respond to a child's needs as they need to be met so that we create confident, loving and independent adults who are ready to meet the challenges they face in the world and leave their world a better place.
TO BE VERY CLEAR: I am not saying that all children who CIO cannot grow to be wonderful people. To be wonderful is a choice that we can all make. Andeach family has to choose what is RIGHT FOR THEM.
What I am suggesting is that we examine our parenting choices and make the best choice putting our child's developmental needs first. You will sleep again. This season shall pass and you will wonder where your baby went, and what that rambunctious (toddler)(child)(adolescent)(adult) did with your sweet baby.
Dare I ask…
How did you make it through sleepless nights with your baby?
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It's time for a little Five on Friday, Friday the 13th edition.
I am starting this post at 10:00 AM. So far this morning, I have been covered in spit-up twice. Once was a freebie. The second time was just rude {and occurred immediately after the cleanup of incident one}. Then I noticed a brown substance smeared all over my leg, the chair, and the carpet. I did not taste it, but I assure you it was not chocolate. Let's just say it was definitely not newborn poop. Thanks a lot, buddy.
Therefore, as I sit at my computer and listen to one disgusting load of laundry bounce around in the washing machine, it's time to take a breath and remember why I love Fridays - bad luck and all! This week's countdown shall be known as Jessica's Friday Favorites.
ONE: Pajamas. Even though I've changed T-shirts a couple of times this morning, there is nothing stopping me from going to the closet for a fresh one. Friday is the one weekday I don't make my commute to the office and I do my best to make the most of it. Despite the fact that 2/3 of my children often prevent me from lounging in my lounge wear {or exercising in my exercise shorts, but that's another story}, pajamas are the official uniform. Even in the car line. Ask around.
TWO: This. If I were at work I'd miss a few of these moments interspersed between the screaming and puking:
THREE: Leisurely Breakfasts. Each Friday morning after we race to get Nathan shipped off to the first grade, we slow the pace and head to McDonald's. Owen gets a hash brown and his favorite sausage patty and I get an extra large shot of vanilla-flavored fuel. Nora typically likes to ride in the car so it's a nice way to spend the first few minutes of the day. Then I make my way home to enjoy a breakfast date with the smaller Bauer boy as the Bauer girl naps in her car seat. I know chaos will soon come knocking, but those few moments are bliss.
FOUR: Cleaning. If you've ever known me at any point in my life, you know good and well that every thing has a place and if it's not there, I'm crazy. My life is a little busier than normal these days and you have no idea the knife in my heart it is to rush through the door on work days, leaving dirty clothes mountains and crushed-in-the-carpet Cheerios. Although the rare relaxation of a weekday off is incredible, so is an empty hamper, a lemony fresh toilet bowl, and a sink I can see myself in. Y'all. It's the little things.
FIVE: Twelve. Thirty. This is the time that Nora's bottles have been washed, what's left of Owen's lunch has been cleared and both have {hopefully} given in to an afternoon nap. As Owen's last pleas for help are heard from behind his bedroom door, I can settle into the couch with a lunch of either half-eaten grilled cheese, microwave popcorn, or a Lean Cuisine if I'm feeling fancy. I can watch something that involves real human beings on the television or lose myself in the laptop. Inevitably this will end too quickly so right now I'm going to savor it. If you'll excuse me, I've got a date with Zack Morris and the recliner.


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Fellow Film Club Members & Movie Buffs: Well, we are now heart-deep in the David O. Russell perspective, as we have our opportunity to view on of his best films, SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (2012). It is based on a novel by Matthew Quick, & it was slated for Russell to direct from the … Continue reading SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK @ CSL
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Evelyn Greenslade (Judy Dench), a romantic optimist in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: "The only real failure is the failure to try and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment as we always must. We came here and we tried; all of us in our different ways. Can we be blamed for … Continue reading Silver Linings Playbook: Dramatic-comedy, Comi-tragedy or Tragi-comedy? Does it matter? Questioning the Contaminated Modern Comedy.
[NOTE: For those who care about such things, be aware that this commentary might contain spoilers] I led a discussion of Silver Linings Playbook at The Grand Cinema Theater yesterday afternoon. In the course of preparing for that discussion I watched the film twice, once at a screening earlier in the week and a second … Continue reading Silver Linings Playbook Playback


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Sunday, March 27, 2005
Rise Of The Tube Moguls
Brad Grey Toasts Jeff Bewkes
A common thread runs through the appointments of Robert Iger as CEO at Disney, Sir Howard Stringer as Chairman of Sony, Tom Freston as Co-President of Viacom, Brad Grey as CEO od Paramount, Gail Berman as President of Paramount, Jeffrey Bewkes as President of the Time Warner Entertainment & Networks Group , and Peter Chernin as President of the Fox Entertainment Group. They are all former top TV executives.
The ascendency of the tube moguls should not come as a surprise– at least not to readers of The Big Picture. What used to be the movie business, centered in "movie houses," has been transformed into the home-entertainment business, centered around TV sets. Old Hollywood studios–prior to 1948– owned or controlled movie houses; New Hollywood studios– or their corporate parents– own or control television outlets. In fact, they own all six broadcast networks in America, almost all the principal cable networks in America, and most of the Pay-TV channels in America.
Underlying this transformation is a singular reality: most of the adult population no longer goes to the movies on a regular basis. As late as 1948, over two-thirds of Americans went to the movies weekly. Now barely 10 percent of Americans go in an average week (and, even in this sliver of the population, most of the frequent movie-goers are teenagers.) Where did the audience go? On any given night, over 90 percent of the American population is at home watching something on a television set. Naturally, Hollywood followed that mass audience home.
The numbers, which I reveal in Table 1 of The Big Picture, tell the story: ticket sales from theaters, which had provided all the studio revenues in 1948, provided less than 20 percent of the studios' revenues in 2003 . Instead, home entertainment– including television, Pay-TV, DVD, and videos– provided more than 82 percent of the studios' revenues . Further, whereas as the high costs of print and advertising eat away most, if not all, of theatrical revenues, the studios retain the lion's share of the home entertainment revenues.
These lucrative home entertainment earnings have transformed the way Hollywood operates. Theatrical releases, despite the blinding allure they hold for the media, now serve essentially as launching platforms for its products for the home market, much like the runways at money-losing fashion shows establish brands for downstream consumer markets.
With New Hollywood's takeover of the television now all but complete-- see my X-Ray of the 6 major studios' media holdings-- the line of succession now runs to the gatekeepers of its El Dorado: the tube executives
Monday, March 21, 2005
Send In The Aliens
Milla Jovovich
Furthering the Midas formula for New Hollywood, Twentieth Century Fox arranged in 1996 for the then governor of Nevada, Bob Miller, to dedicate Nevada's Highway 375 as an "Extraterrestrial Highway" on which aliens would be granted safe haven when they landed their UFOs. The studio then unveiled a beacon on it near the town of Rachel, Nevada. This monument, according to the Fox news release, pointed to "Area 51"–where the U.S. military operates "a top secret alien study project." In fact, there is no such military base or "Area 51", but Fox assumed it had license to stretch the boundaries of reality for the opening of Independence Day– a Fox movie that, not unlike the news release, depicted "Area 51" as the U.S. government base for alien spacecraft. So while its beacon had only problematic navigational utility to any visitors from alien heavens searching for "Area 51," it had great value in luring entertainment journalists by the busload along the now official Extraterrestrial Highway to the putative periphery of the non-existing "Area 51." These investigative junkets (helped along with the usual studio-provided terrestrial gift bags) resulted in hundreds of news stories about the alien sanctuary.
The reason that Fox went to such lengths to establish Area 51 is that the mining of the paranoid fantasy about government machination to conceal space invaders from the public produces gold in the form of licensing rights for the New Hollywood. Steven Spielberg deserves much credit for developing the mother lode of this El Dorado. In his enormously-successful Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), the US government is so deeply involved in concealing the alien abductions that it stages a fake nerve-gas attack to hide its transactions with extraterrestrials. The deception pays off when, in an inspired ending, the aliens exchange the humans they have been abducting for experimental purposes for a busload of American astronauts. Spielberg expanded on the theme with E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), which not only broke box-office records around the world, but opened up the universe of merchandise licensing which heretofore largely been the preserve of Disney. He also produced the franchise, Men in Black (in which the government not only shelters ETs but systematically erases the memories of civilians exposed to alien visitors) and the miniseries Taken about alien abductions (its tag line: "Some secrets we keep. Some are kept from us.")
These Spielbergesque fantasies neatly fit the requisite in New Hollywood for movies that could serve as launching pads for the raft of other products– including videos, games, toys, TV spinoffs and rides– that now kept it afloat. So others followed suit. Fox, for example, used The X-Files television series to help establish the Fox network.
Ironically, in promoting a view of governments as paternalistic institutions that create elaborate illusions to shield citizens from developments with which they cannot cope, studios may be extrapolating from the strategies they themselves use to dupe the public. What else is the Extraterrestrial Highway but a brilliant con job? The political logic of Hollywood may seem other-worldly, but, as The Big Picture explains, there is a decided method in its madness .
Sunday, March 13, 2005
The Money Shot
William Safire
The lucidity prize for summing up my entire 396-page book in a succinct sentence goes to master wordsmith William Safire. In his column in today's New York Times Magazine, he writes: "In The Big Picture: The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood, the investigative author Edward Jay Epstein holds that what used to be the movie business, centered in "movie houses," has been transformed into the home-entertainment business." That transformation, in a nutshell, is the key to understanding the New Hollywood.
Even though today's Hollywood studios may have the same names, logos and back lots as their Old Hollywood counterparts, they are radically different creatures. The Old Hollywood studios owned movie houses; the New Hollywood studios– or their corporate parents– own television conduits, including all six broadcast networks, all the principal cable networks (including ESPN), and most of the pay-TV channels. The Old Hollywood studios made virtually all their money from the sale of tickets at box-office; the new Hollywood studios make most of their money from licensing products, including movies, TV shows, and videos, for home entertainment. For the extent of the TV windfall alone, see the answer to my Question of the Day.
Underlying this transformation is the reality that most of the adult population no longer goes to the movies weekly. Consider: as late as 1948, over two-thirds of Americans went to the movies weekly. Nowadays barely 10 percent of Americans go in an average week (and most of today's frequent-goers are teens). Today's mass audience-- over 90 percent of the population-- is at home watching something on a television set.
The ineluctable metamorphosis of Hollywood into a provider of home entertainment brought with it a new global logic. For one thing, unlike the movie business, the television business is licensed, franchised, and regulated by government authorities.
If this sea change has remained elusive to the outside world, that is not accidental. The owners of the new Hollywood go to considerable lengths to conceal the breakdown of their cash flows they garner from home entertainment. Once the numbers are known– and I provide the breakdowns in The Big Picture– it becomes clear that all that remains of the Old Hollywood is institutionalized nostalgia, self-generated myths, and an outdated vocabulary.
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Willful Blindness
"Willful blindness involves the conscious avoidance of the truth"
-- Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Law
In Hollywood reporting willful blindness can be found in the media's avoidance of any performance measures for moguls that might get undercut "gotcha" personality stories. This eyes-wide-shut practice serves a truly gawkeresque purpose: it allows entertainment journalists to focus on juicy tidbits about the bad manners of moguls while ignoring, or at least holding in abeyance, readily-available facts that might distract their audience from them.
Consider, for example, the field day. or, more precisely, field decade, that the media has enjoyed in its disparagement of Disney's Michael Eisner. The stories about Eisner's bad behavior began soon after Jeffrey Katzenberg, Disney's talented studio chief, left in 1994, intensified after Eisner's clumsy firing of Michael Ovitz in 1996, and became a veritable feeding frenzy after Eisner got rid of Roy Disney, Walt Disney's nephew, in 2003. The rehash of items about Eisner's insensitive language (eg. describing Katzenberg as a "midget"), nepotistic decisions (eg. hiring his friend Ovitz), back-stabbing (eg. firing Ovitz) and rich payoffs (eg., honoring the compensation committee's negotiated $140 million settlement with Ovitz) gradually coalesced into a media morality play: how Eisner's "dark side" led to Disney's near downfall. To keep the story plausible, entertainment journalists kept their eyes wide shut to the numbers that showed that Eisner, even with the "dark side" that their moral compasses located, had transformed Disney into a huge financial success.
Willful blindness conveniently allowed these journalists to miss the most obvious measure of performance: the valuation of Disney by the stock market. Here are the actual figures: in 1984, when Eisner took over Disney, the (split corrected) Disney share price $1.20, giving Disney a market value of only $1.7 billion; in 1994, when Katzenberg left, the share price was $12.90, Disney had a market value of $18.6 billion; today the share price is $28.5, giving the company a market value of $55.8 billion. So under Eisner, his bad manners and questionable pay offs not withstanding, Disney's market value has increased $54 billion. Even taking inflation into account between 1984 and 2005, the company increased 18 times in value under Eisner. In view of this enormous business success, it is not surprising that Fortune's 2005 poll of 10,000 business executives rated Disney as the most admired company in the entertainment industry. These executives evidently valued good performance over bad manners.
Eisner achieved the $54 billion increase in the company's value not because of his "dark side" but because he recognized that Disney's future would be in home entertainment– not movie theaters– and, to move Disney in this direction, boldly bought Capital Cities/ABC in 1996 for $19 billion. Disney acquired not only 10 ABC television stations in the biggest advertising markets and the ABC network, but 80 percent of ESPN which turned out to be a huge money-machine. With this coup, Disney moved to the forefront of home entertainment, which is now the heart (if not the soul) of the new Hollywood. As I demonstrate in my book The Big Picture, the logic of money and power behind the new Hollywood is not always transparent. For a closer look at why Disney makes record profits even when its movies bombed at the box-office, see the answer to my Question of the Day on my web site.
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Saturday, August 16, 2008
NAMBLA, Just Another Filthy Jew Operation
"NAMBLA's goal is to end the extreme oppression of men and boys in mutually consensual relationships by:
# building understanding and support for such relationships;
# educating the general public on the benevolent nature of man/boy love;
# cooperating with lesbian, gay, feminist, and other liberation movements;
# supporting the liberation of persons of all ages from sexual prejudice and oppression.
In other words it is once again a bunch of Jews who do more disgusting things and want their 'rights' to do so. They also note that they are a "political, civil rights, and educational organization". We hear this from many types of Jew-run groups such as the veterans groups (Vets please look at JEWS who get you nowhere!), anti-war groups, 9/11 "truth" groups, homosexual groups, which all happen to be dominated by........JEWS. The JEW-run/created ACLU (McCarthy was right about this being a 'communist' organization) has also defended NAMBLA on the grounds that "NAMBLA's materials are protected by the Constitution". It shouldn't be any surprise that this popped up about the ACLU:
So they got a large group of the public convinced to chop off little boy's weiners for a lie and now after mutilating them they want to have intercourse and relationships with LITTLE BOYS!!!
Notice another disgusting thing in this video where the Rabbi, after lobbing off the boy's penis, sucks the excess blood off the penis and wipes his mouth on the cloth(I couldn't make this stuff up!):
If you'd like to contact NAMBLA and make a donation (lol, j/k), here is their contact info:
Write to us!
P O Box 174 Midtown Station
Jew York, NY 10018
537 Jones St., No. 8418
San Francisco, CA 94102
Click to Send your message to: email@example.com
We have voice-mail services in New York:
Jew York voice-mail: (212) 631-1194
(What are we going to do about these people?)
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Cool! Kosher flesh.
And the song is from ...? (Also very nice)
- August 16, 2008 at 7:48 PM
- Byrd said...
sick shit but once again no surprise.
- August 16, 2008 at 10:16 PM
- Gyrene said...
Rat faced fucks!
- August 17, 2008 at 3:49 AM
If the shit hits the fan. NAMBLA gets it first!
- August 17, 2008 at 5:59 AM
- Orion said...
Incredible. The jewish media's best kept secret of the year. I wonder who the people are behind the child pornography ring. Would they be the same "Russians" that were busted in the late nineties? If I were a betting man, I'd put odds on it.
- August 17, 2008 at 6:37 AM
The bible passage, Samuel 18:25-27 comes to mind when I saw some of what you posted.
- August 17, 2008 at 2:32 PM
The fact that Jews have made circumcision the norm in the United States should be another tool for us in the fight against them. It has no benefits, it is simply a form of mutilation. The problem is most men that are circumcised will not address the issue because they see it as an attack on their own masculinity.
- August 18, 2008 at 5:34 AM
- Uncharted Thoughts said...
Let's not forget to mention that despite the fact that many of those babies contract herpes from the guy sucking on the wound, this is still legal. Look it up, there was a string of babies dying because the chopper sucked on it and gave them herpes.
God I hope Putin puts these criminals in jail.
- August 19, 2008 at 10:52 PM
A couple years back I pointed out that Mike Enoch of TRS admitted himself that he was a jew. The firestorm (damage control at the time) wa...
We have finally come public about the incident between the leadership of WeAreChange NYC and Prothink.org Click here to download: Audio File
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Life flows
Type of wine: dry red wine that aged for 12 months in barrels made of French and American oak
Grape variety: 50% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc, 20% Frankish
In the scent are expressed aromas of ripe cherry and forest fruits, which are complemented withdiscreet touch of vanilla and dark chocolate. Sophisticated and elegant wine of intense ruby red color, delicate texture and pleasant fruity finish.
- Decanter World Wine Awards 2017 - bronze medal
- AWC Vienna 2014 - gold medal
- Prague Wine Trophy 2014 - gold medal
- Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 2013 - gold medal
- San Francisco International Wine Competition 2013 - silver medal
- Japan Wine challenge 2012 - bronze medal
- Decanter World Wine Awards 2012 - bronze medal
Serving temperature: 14-16 °C.
Recommended with
Steak tartare, duck breasts with mashed celery, grilled tuna, veal under the bell, cabbage rolls.


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Welcome to Kleemann Funerals – Funeral Directors Adelaide
Welcome to Kleemann Funerals in the Adelaide Hills. We are a family owned business that has been providing funeral care to South Australians for five generations. With over 150 years of experience in the funeral industry, we pride ourselves on providing our clients with a dignified and respectful service.
We understand that dealing with the loss of a loved one is one of the hardest times in your life. It is an emotional and traumatic time where you require guidance and complete care. The Kleemann Family and our professional staff have the knowledge and experience to guide you through the grieving process and assist with reducing your anxiety and stress. We can help you with all funeral arrangements and also provide our all-important aftercare service.
We strive to arrange a memorable and moving funeral service experience that befittingly pays respect to your loved one. Our services celebrate the life of your loved one and cater for individual needs and requests. For your convenience, funeral arrangements can be made in your own home or at our office. In the case of financial difficulty, we offer a no interest payment process, where you can pay the funeral expenses over a period of several months.
For your peace of mind, our professional staff is available all hours of the day and night, seven days a week. Allow us to guide you through the grieving process and support you in your time of need.
Our services:
- At need; pre-arrange and pre-paid funeral services.
- Burial and cremation services including natural burials.
- We offer a full range of funerals from low cost to elaborate.
- Bereavement resources.
- Personal and professional attention to detail to reach your needs, whether religious, non-religious or culture requirements.
- Fully trained funeral consultants from the Kleemann family and staff.
- Up-to-date facilities to care for your loved one, along with funeral chapels and lounges for funeral services and refreshments.
- Up-to-date equipment and vehicles to care for your loved one, along with travelling to locations for church funeral services or other venues, including the availability of our horse drawn hearse.
Our History:
Kleemann Family Funerals is proudly a family business, having served the South Australian community for five generations. Kleemann Funeral's history dates back to the 1860s and today Kevin, his wife Jan and their sons, Andrew and Richard, continue the Kleemann family tradition.
The Carr family dates back to 1848 in the Mount Barker district, having also spanned five generations. In an effort to recognize and maintain these strong family traditions our Mount Barker chapel is known as Carr and Kleemann Chapel.
Our Strathalbyn business also dates back to the 1800s when it was started by the Caldwell family. The Hahndorf Funerals segment of our business was previously started and run by two generations of the Faehrmann family.


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Promotion: Advancement, Increase, and Acceleration
The Church of Jesus Christ is under Leadership Construction. In a time of unprecedented advancement and increase with promotions on the horizon, God is positioning His people to receive the greatest harvest ever seen! Psalm 75: 6-7 states that promotion doesn't come from the east or west, but from the Lord. As we take position, elevation will follow.
In this revolutionary teaching, Tony Brazelton shares principles to ready the Servant-Leader to pass the test and carry the things God has custom-designed for each of us. Be released into the promises of God and partake in the greatest time of History; where we will see and declare together, "Eye has not seen, ear has not heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man the things God has prepared for those who love Him!
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EXIN enables Achmea through e-competence analytics
Utrecht, 21 February 2017 – After a successful pilot Achmea has decided to adopt EXIN's e-CF® Competence Solutions for its entire IT workforce. The solution offered by EXIN provides a combination of e-competence profile reports for IT professionals and an analytics dashboard for management to give strategic e-competence insights. Through the use of the tool Achmea is able to align their training and education program with the current standard of e-competences and the matching role requirements.
EXIN enables Achmea in generating actionable insights to respond to the fast changes in the market and by bringing to light the IT skills gap. Thousands of Achmea employees will now be assessed and dozens of job profiles will be mapped to generate a skill gap analysis.
As part of the 3-month pilot, individual employee reports were generated and different IT job roles were mapped against the e-Competence Framework using EXIN's e CF® Role Profiler. This will enable Achmea to make data-driven HR decisions like personalizing learning programs.
Achmea is convinced that competence-based development will make them more responsive to the fast changes in the market. Yvo Verbeek, the Program Manager Business School IT at Achmea, in reflection on working with EXIN and the e-CF® Competence Solutions: "One of the biggest challenges was comparing different IT roles and learning programs to identify the right developments paths. To address this challenge EXIN provided an innovative solution consisting of a competence-based talent development approach with actionable insights. It's definitely a solution for the long-term and will help us quickly respond to changes in the market."
"The e-CF® Competence Solutions helps large organizations better anticipate to fast-paced market changes caused by global digitalization," Anouk Willems, the Manager e-CF® Competence Solutions at EXIN says. "By helping to analyze the gap between the current skills of employees and the future requirements of the business EXIN offers the insight needed to create a relevant development path for the IT professional."
Interested to know more about e-competence analytics? For more information send an email to Anouk Willems (email@example.com).
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Risk Adjustment is a system-wide method among health insurers that is intended to level the playing field and ensure that everyone has access to health insurance. The US and many European countries balance the cost of insuring high risk patients with the social concerns of adequate health care coverage for all. This Risk Adjustment method works by assessing the cost of covering high risk patients and having the insurers who have less costs contribute to a shared funding system. In the US, the Treasury does not currently have a funding role in risk adjustment.
There are several methods of measurement used for risk adjustment, including ICD-9 and 10 diagnosis codes and actual costs. Some medical conditions are short-term and high cost, such as an ER visit for an accident, others are low cost but long-term, such as chronic diabetes care. For people who have medical conditions that are long term, maybe life-long, and high cost, their health insurance provider could be negatively impacted by costs. The highest risk group for long term, high cost health care is children born with significant medical conditions including congenital disabilities.
As a country, we have enough resources to make sure everyone has health care. One of the ways we do this is through risk adjustment. There are both federal and state regulatory standards, and private insurers take their guidance from these agencies. Some of the current practices that allow for the level playing field is the pre-existing conditions inclusion and the Essential Health Benefits coverage.
Before the Affordable Care Act, people with pre-existing conditions could be turned down for health insurance. If, for example, a family moved jobs and changed insurance, an insurer could decide to not insure a child with a congenital heart defect or a parent with a history of substance abuse. At this time, the standard that says pre-existing conditions will be covered by a new health insurance plan still stands. Risk adjustment means that everyone can get coverage, and the insurance companies know that they do not have to engage in ethically questionable methods of enrolling only select healthy people in order to keep their heads above water.
Essential Health Benefits (EHB) means that insurance companies are required to offer both expensive and less expensive types of coverage. Currently, the EHB standards have not been impacted by the Trump administration's halt to subsidies. These standards mean, for example, that maternity and newborn care has to be offered, as well as mental health and substance abuse treatment, prescription drug coverage, pediatrics, and other standards. Private insurers cannot decide to only offer services that healthier people might choose, or enroll select providers, skipping specialists such as oncologists.
There are several methods insurance companies can use to improve the overall health of their clients, while establishing safety nets for clients with high risk conditions. A collaborative relationship between network providers and medical management staff within the insurance company can use non-traditional methods to improve health care, such as case management and chronic care management by nurses. Administrative efficiency can reduce overhead. Prevention, however, remains the gold standard. The cost of prenatal vitamins and prenatal care cannot compare with the life-times costs to both an insurance company, a family, and a community, of a child born with a congenital disability. Balance assessments and chair yoga classes do not compare to the costs of falls in the frail elder. Early detection of cancer through screenings can provide measurable cost savings, compared to treatment costs of late stage diagnosis.
One method that has been very successful is in targeting chronic conditions, with an eye to preventing their progression to more significant health conditions. An example would be preventing the progression of diabetes and hypertension to end stage renal disease. ESRD care relies on expensive dialysis and kidney transplant, and can impact both families and communities significantly. A program that involves the prevention of ESRD by case management and medical management of diabetes and hypertension by nurses, using new technologies such as telemedicine and home monitoring, is going to be a very cost-effective way to keep costs down.
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If You Want Something Done Right…
(…just change your name to Yovani.)
By: Big Rygg
This just in: Yovani Gallardo is good.
What a game! As I've made clear before, I love me a pitchers duel. Today was one of those days that garnered just that.
Gallardo won his second game for the Milwaukee Brewers today. You can say "single-handedly", but his defense did still have to catch and throw (once in a while…Gallardo did strike out 11). Even still, nobody touched home plate to score a run in the entire 8.5 inning, 3-hour affair except for Gallardo after he laced a home run over the left-centerfield wall.
Gallardo's final line was 8.0 IP, 2 H, 1 BB (1 hit batter), 11 K.
That 9th inning? It wasn't Trevor Time today for the third day in a row at Miller Park. Carlos Villanueva entered the ballgame and pitched a perfect inning including a strikeout of his own against Pirate slugger Adam LaRoche.
(Before anybody worries or goes crazy, Trevor Hoffman basically had a scheduled day off. He just got back from an injury that had him on the DL for nearly a month and really needs to be handled with a modicum of care for a little bit here as he eases into the swing of the regular season.)
The Brewers tallied six hits total, including the one big fly from Gallardo which was all the difference that was needed.
Milwaukee and Pittsburgh now have equal records after 21 games played of 11-10. Milwaukee is over .500 for the first time this season. They have now won six out of their last seven games. The one loss was the 2-3 game in Houston where we just couldn't break through very much in the run column despite racking up seven hits and seven walks in that game.
Also of note? Pittsburgh opened the day in 2nd place in the National League Central. The Brewers have a chance to catapult from 4th to 2nd in today if other games result in certain ways. Both the Cubs and Reds have to lose and we instantly find ourselves in 2nd. Not a bad couple of weeks.
For now, though, another fantastic day for a team that is really in a groove right now.
Let's keep it going here on the homestand. We've got four against the Arizona Diamondbacks starting tomorrow with veteran Jeff Suppan (1-2, 7.32 ERA) taking on rookie Max Scherzer (0-2, 4.91 ERA).
Suppan has, admittedly, pitched a lot better in his past two starts. I haven't looked into Scherzer yet, but I will do that soon and post anything pertinent that I find out.
Come on out to Miller Park tomorrow and see the Brewers chalk up another one!


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Conference Announcement & Call for Proposals:
Culturally Responsive Teaching in Libraries
MILEX 2019 Spring Conference
Thursday, April 25, 2019, 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Loyola Graduate Center, 8890 McGaw Rd, Columbia, MD
(Registration forthcoming)
The Maryland Information Literacy Exchange (MILEX) is a collaborative of Maryland academic librarians to promote information literacy in higher education.
Join us at this year's MILEX Spring Conference featuring presentations on the role of libraries in culturally responsive teaching. A keynote will be given by Ashleigh D. Coren, Special Collections Librarian for Teaching and Learning at University of Maryland Libraries, whose teaching focuses on diverse students and finding stories in the collection. Coren is co-developer of the LGBTQ Oral History Project at UMD, and was recognized as an Emerging Leader by ALA in 2018.
Registration fees (light breakfast and hot lunch included):
MILEX member $45
Non-member $75
Membership + Registration $65
Student $20
For more information, visit the MILEX website: www.milexmd.org.
Call for Proposals! (Due March 4th)
We're looking for presentations that demonstrate how librarians are engaging in culturally responsive teaching. Submit proposals to the chair of the conference committee, Jordan Sly, at firstname.lastname@example.com by Monday, March 4, 2019.
Include the following in your proposal:
1. In a paragraph or two, what your presentation will entail; a general outline is fine.
2. Student learning outcomes (what will students learn/develop as a result of the activity)
3. Optimal amount of time that should be allotted for your presentation
4. Any resources you will need
5. Short biographical statement
Registration will open on March 12 at the MILEX website:www.milexmd.org/events.html.
Register early, as space will be limited.
Please don't hesitate to contact Jordan Sly with your questions and concerns: 301-405-9290.
Funds raised will be administered by the University System of Maryland Foundation, Inc. for the benefit of MILEX – Maryland Information Literacy Exchange.


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Monday, April 13, 2015
Rainbow Steps
The following pictures are from this morning's run in Istanbul, Turkey. I spied a long set of rainbow-painted steps in last night's exploratory walk of the city. I returned this morning for a better view. The steps are about 2.75 miles from the hotel, so it was a good run to get there.
Photo by Patrick Jones. Istanbul, 13 Apr 2015.
Photo by Patrick Jones. Rainbow Steps, Istanbul.
Photo by Patrick Jones. Istanbul, 13 Apr 2015.
At the top of the stairs I was greeted by seven cats. Surely some sign of good luck for the day.
Photo by Patrick Jones. Cats on the rainbow steps.
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MY LIFE by Silke Ledlow
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Thank You
I was just playing around with the "Spring Solitude Wheel " that comes with the Level II Hostess Set.
I was also trying to keep it simple and fun...So I choose a bright color -
"Pixi Pink".
And since I like to add a little "bling" to my cards I finished the flowers of with the small & big "clear" gemstones from "Hero Arts".
The picture I took does not do the card justice so I'll see if I can come up with a better one.....
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I like "pink" always and the bling is great! This is so nice. tfs
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As the saying goes, April showers bring May flowers, and boy am I feeling floral! For years I've resisted flowery patterns mostly due to my hubby who prefers things not to be quite so uber feminine. Over the years however, I've been inserting more of my girl power into decorating and he's been more open to it as well. Maybe it's all the home cooking I use as bribes. I make sure the smell of freshly baked cookies fills the air when showing him fabric swatches, ha! Mostly it's been on items like a throw pillow or tablecloth. But lately I'm itching to get flower happy on a reading chair or loveseat.
What do you think? Are floral patterns best on accessories or do you like rocking them on larger furniture too?


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