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Europe's highest court ruling Tuesday that people have the "right to be forgotten" and can ask Google to remove some sensitive information from Internet search results is "huge," privacy experts say.
The ruling is "groundbreaking," said Trevor Hughes, president and CEO of the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
"Individuals now have the ability to essentially go in with a virtual black marker and redact their names," Hughes said.
It will "fundamentally change the landscape not only in the field of privacy, but also in the information economy generally," Hughes said.
The judgment was handed down by the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union in a development that highlights ongoing battles between supporters of privacy rights and those who advocate for freedom of expression.
The court ruled that Google, if asked to do so, must amend links to information shown to be outdated or information deemed to be irrelevant.
"An Internet search engine operator is responsible for the processing that it carries out of personal data which appear on Web pages published by third parties," the judges added.
The case followed complaints from a man in Spain who argued that when Google's search results revealed details published in a local newspaper about an auction of his repossessed home, that infringed on his privacy rights.
"It's a very powerful statement in support of privacy," said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C.
"It's going to create additional burdens for Google and other companies," he said. "But that's the cost of doing business if your business involves disseminating information," he said.
The ruling stated that the individual's fundamental rights override "the economic interest of the operator of the search engine but also the interest of the general public" in having access to that information.
Google expressed disappointment with the decision.
"This is a disappointing ruling for search engines and online publishers in general," the search-engine giant said in a statement. "We now need to take time to analyze the implications."
The technology firm had argued that it doesn't control personal data, it just offers links to information already freely and legally available on the internet.
The European high court effectively said that any company that gathers or indexes information about European citizens is subject to its laws, even if the company has no physical presence in that nation, because the information is being presented in that country via the internet, said Hughes.
Dealing with these kinds of requests will cost money, but Google and other search companies already perform similar operations.
"For example, in the matter of copyright infringement, they routinely take down YouTube videos. They don't like the burden of having to do it, but if you're going to offer videos, you've got to," said Rotenberg.
Viviane Reding, the EU's justice commissioner, who is on leave from her post while she campaigns for re-election to the European Parliament, said, "Today's court judgment is a clear victory for the protection of personal data of Europeans." The comments were posted on Reding's Facebook page.
Ruth Collard, an expert on media law at London-based legal firm Carter Ruck, said, "the ruling might have particular relevance to young people, who find that something embarrassing posted in their school or student days has continuing repercussions as they grow older."
"Any company that indexes or aggregates information, any company that provides chat rooms or discussion services or review sites — they should be having discussions today about how they might implement scrubbing services if they get one of these 'take down' notices," Hughes said.
The court did not set up exact requirements for how this must take place. What it's going to look like still remains unclear.
Some find its breadth disturbing.
"The decision is staggering," said Fred Cate, who directs the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind.
It gives Europeans the right to demand removal of a link even if it is an "accurate publications of newsworthy events," that is "true, concerns a matter of public interest, and does not otherwise violate any national law," he said.
Fordham law professor Joel Reidenberg, an expert on information law and privacy, says a U.S. court would likely treat search results differently, citing a section of the Telecommunications Act that would give a company such as Google immunity from being responsible for content on their service.


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How Not To Respond To A Review…Friday, May 18, 2007
Posted in: Anne Rice, Batshit Crazy, reviews
I was reading the comments over at the SB's site, when I came across a link that lead me to a snarky take of Anne Rice's Amazon Meltdown.
I didn't know anything about it, so reading it was a real treat.
This is definitely how NOT to respond to a review:
"Seldom do I really answer those who criticize my work. In fact, the entire development of my career has been fueled by my ability to ignore denigrating and trivializing criticism as I realize my dreams and my goals. However there is something compelling about Amazon's willingness to publish just about anything, and the sheer outrageous stupidity of many things you've said here that actually touches my proletarian and Democratic soul.
Also I use and enjoy Amazon and I do read the reviews of other people's books in many fields. In sum, I believe in what happens here. And so, I speak. First off, let me say that this is addressed only to some of you, who have posted outrageously negative comments here, and not to all. You are interrogating this text from the wrong perspective. Indeed, you aren't even reading it. You are projecting your own limitations on it. And you are giving a whole new meaning to the words "wide readership." And you have strained my Dickensean principles to the max.
I'm justifiably proud of being read by intellectual giants and waitresses in trailer parks,in fact, I love it, but who in the world are you? Now to the book. Allow me to point out: nowhere in this text are you told that this is the last of the chronicles, nowhere are you promised curtain calls or a finale, nowhere are you told there will be a wrap-up of all the earlier material.
The text tells you exactly what to expect. And it warns you specifically that if you did not enjoy Memnoch the Devil, you may not enjoy this book. This book is by and about a hero whom many of you have already rejected. And he tells you that you are likely to reject him again. And this book is most certainly written — every word of it — by me. If and when I can't write a book on my own, you'll know about it. And no, I have no intention of allowing any editor ever to distort, cut, or otherwise mutilate sentences that I have edited and re-edited, and organized and polished myself.
I fought a great battle to achieve a status where I did not have to put up with editors making demands on me, and I will never relinquish that status. For me, novel writing is a virtuoso performance. It is not a collaborative art. Back to the novel itself: the character who tells the tale is my Lestat. I was with him more closely than I have ever been in this novel; his voice was as powerful for me as I've ever heard it. I experienced break through after break through as I walked with him, moved with him, saw through his eyes. What I ask of Lestat, Lestat unfailingly gives.
For me, three hunting scenes, two which take place in hotels — the lone woman waiting for the hit man, the slaughter at the pimp's party — and the late night foray into the slums –stand with any similar scenes in all of the chronicles. They can be read aloud without a single hitch. Every word is in perfect place. The short chapter in which Lestat describes his love for Rowan Mayfair was for me a totally realized poem. There are other such scenes in this book. You don't get all this? Fine. But I experienced an intimacy with the character in those scenes that shattered all prior restraints, and when one is writing one does have to continuously and courageously fight a destructive tendency to inhibition and restraint. Getting really close to the subject matter is the achievement of only great art.
Now, if it doesn't appeal to you, fine. You don't enjoy it? Read somebody else. But your stupid arrogant assumptions about me and what I am doing are slander. And you have used this site as if it were a public urinal to publish falsehood and lies. I'll never challenge your democratic freedom to do so, and yes, I'm answering you, but for what it's worth, be assured of the utter contempt I feel for you, especially those of you who post anonymously (and perhaps repeatedly?) and how glad I am that this book is the last one in a series that has invited your hateful and ugly responses.
Now, to return to the narrative in question: Lestat's wanting to be a saint is a vision larded through and through with his characteristic vanity. It connects perfectly with his earlier ambitions to be an actor in Paris, a rock star in the modern age. If you can't see that, you aren't reading my work. In his conversation with the Pope he makes observations on the times which are in continuity with his observations on the late twentieth century in The Vampire Lestat, and in continuity with Marius' observations in that book and later in Queen of the Damned.
The state of the world has always been an important theme in the chronicles. Lestat's comments matter. Every word he speaks is part of the achievement of this book. That Lestat renounced this saintly ambition within a matter of pages is plain enough for you to see. That he reverts to his old self is obvious, and that he intends to complete the tale of Blackwood Farm is also quite clear.
There are many other themes and patterns in this work that I might mention — the interplay between St.Juan Diago and Lestat, the invisible creature who doesn't "exist" in the eyes of the world is a case in point. There is also the theme of the snare of Blackwood Farm, the place where a human existence becomes so beguiling that Lestat relinquishes his power as if to a spell. The entire relationship between Lestat and Uncle Julien is carefully worked out. But I leave it to readers to discover how this complex and intricate novel establishes itself within a unique, if not unrivalled series of book. There are things to be said. And there is pleasure to be had. And readers will say wonderful things about Blood Canticle and they already are.
There are readers out there and plenty of them who cherish the individuality of each of the chronicles which you so flippantly condemn. They can and do talk circles around you. And I am warmed by their response. Their letters, the papers they write in school, our face to face exchanges on the road — these things sustain me when I read the utter trash that you post. But I feel I have said enough.
If this reaches one reader who is curious about my work and shocked by the ugly reviews here, I've served my goals. And Yo, you dude, the slang police! Lestat talks like I do. He always has and he always will. You really wouldn't much like being around either one of us. And you don't have to be. If any of you want to say anything about all this by all means Email me at firstname.lastname@example.com. And if you want your money back for the book, send it to 1239 First Street, New Orleans, La, 70130. I'm not a coward about my real name or where I live. And yes, the Chronicles are no more! Thank God!"
Classic. I wish I'd been around when she went batshit crazy. I would have had a field day reading the ten million blogs that would have taken the piss out of her.
Talk about Abilify withdrawal.
Ahhh, the good old days, they sure don't make authors like they used to. Oh wait, LKH is still carrying the flag isn't she, so all is right with the world.


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Official tries to keep bargaining ban
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's attorney general said yesterday that he would seek court permission to keep enforcing a state law that effectively ended collective bargaining for public employees while his office appeals a judge's ruling that struck it down.
A Dane County judge issued a ruling Friday overturning almost all of the law that has been a hallmark of Republican Gov. Scott Walker's tenure and helped turn him into a national conservative hero.
Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, also a Republican, said in a statement that he believes the law "is constitutional in all respects" and should remain in effect while he appeals the judge's decision.
Walker's office also has vowed to appeal, while the public worker unions that vigorously opposed the law have hailed the decision as a victory.
As has been the case since Walker proposed the law shortly after taking office in 2011, the latest developments have been highly political.
The judge who overturned the law, Dane County Circuit Court Judge Juan Colas, was appointed to the bench by Walker's predecessor, former Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle. In a statement issued after the ruling, Walker criticized Colas as a "liberal activist judge."
Meanwhile, the governor's appeal is likely to end up before the conservative-dominated Wisconsin Supreme Court.
In a 27-page ruling, Colas said the law violates the state and federal constitutions. He wrote that sections "single out and encumber the rights of those employees who choose union membership and representation solely because of that association and therefore infringe upon the rights of free speech and association guaranteed by both the Wisconsin and United States Constitutions."
Colas also said the law violates the equal protection clause by creating separate classes of workers who are treated differently and unequally.
The ruling throws into question changes that have been made in pay, benefits and other work conditions for city, county and school district workers. The law only allowed collective bargaining for wage increases no greater than the rate of inflation.


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Monday 11/11/2013
The time has been set for the Clemson vs. The Citadel football game to be played on Saturday, November 23 at Memorial Stadium in Clemson, SC. The game, which is designated as Military Appreciation Day, is set to kick off at Noon and will be broadcast on ESPN3.
Tickets are still available for the game, and can be purchased online at ClemsonTigers.com or by phone by calling 1-800-CLEMSON.
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Looking to the Future in a New Newark ParkSeptember 2, 2009
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Nets ahead by five in the fourth
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Other unseeded players advancing to the second round included Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine and Daniel Gimeno-Traver of Spain. Trevor Linden Jersey .The other side of the Bruins special teams unit delivered in the end.Gregory Campbell netted the game-winner with less than 10 minutes remaining and the Bruins fended off a late four-minute San Jose power play to earn a wild 5-3 win over the Sharks. Brock Boeser Jersey . The Detroit Tigers closer blew a three-run lead in the ninth inning Wednesday night against the Dodgers.NEW YORK -- They were bloodied and eventually beaten, though not before delivering the type of effort Gregg Popovich always expects of his San Antonio Spurs. Even when his team is so banged-up that it had two guys in protective facemasks on the court at the same time -- and one of them broke his nose again, anyway. "I know we didnt look pretty," Popovich said. "Im more interested in results than how we look. So I thought they performed well." The short-handed Spurs hung in, but Alan Anderson scored 19 of his 22 points in the second half to lead the Brooklyn Nets to a 103-89 victory Thursday night. Despite playing without Tony Parker, Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili and Kawhi Leonard, their top four scorers, the Spurs were still within five points early in the fourth quarter before the Nets pulled away for good. Deron Williams added 16 points and eight assists as Brooklyn ended a six-game losing streak to San Antonio with its first victory since March 29, 2010. The Spurs overcame all their challenges to pull out a 125-118 double-overtime victory at Washington on Wednesday, but didnt have enough to beat an improving Brooklyn team and fell to 2-1 on their nine-game rodeo trip. "Im disappointed we didnt win," Popovich said, shrugging off the injuries. "Im thinking we make a couple of 3s in the second half and we hang right in there, and thats the way youve got to look at it." Nando De Colo started for Parker, but had to rush off the court bleeding from the nose after he was whacked while trying to defend Andrei Kirilenko. He returned in the second half wearing a mask, as Matt Bonner already was. Bonner took another hit later and said he broke another bone in his nose. Cory Joseph scored 18 for the Spurs, Danny Green had 17 and Patty Mills 16. Paul Pierce had 12 points for the Nets, who have turned things around since the Spurs outclassed them 112-93 in San Antonio on New Years Eve, leaving Brooklyn at 10-21. They are 12-4 in 2014 and have won two straight since dropping three in a row, all against division leaders. "Weve got the pieces," Anderson said. "Were finally starting to turn the corner a lot more lately. I just want to win no matter how much Im pplaying. Kirk Mclean Jersey. " The Spurs trotted out Green, Marco Belinelli, Tiago Splitter, Joseph and De Colo to start, an unheralded lineup similar to the one Popovich used when he sent Duncan, Parker, Ginobili and Green home before another Thursday night nationally televised game at Miami early last season. That decision cost the Spurs a $250,000 fine from former Commissioner David Stern, but Popovich didnt have much of a choice who he played this time. Ginobili (left hamstring) and Leonard (broken bone in right hand) were already out, and Popovich noticed Parker labouring with a back injury during the first half Wednesday. Parker then sat the remainder of the game, and Duncan played a season-high 40 minutes, well more than Popovich prefers to use the 37-year-old forward and essentially mandating a night off Thursday. Making matters worse, Boris Diaw then was vomiting during the day at the team hotel because of food poisoning and couldnt play. "Really wishing that some of those guys were healthy right now," said Green, who played 35 minutes after logging 46 Wednesday. "Its always good to play a lot of minutes, but at the same time it would have been nice to have some of those guys healthy tonight." The guys that were left raced to a 20-8 lead and were ahead the whole first quarter, settling for a 24-17 advantage. The Nets took a 40-39 lead into halftime when Williams made a jumper with 38 seconds remaining. With the Nets leading by two late in the third, Anderson converted a three-point play, his first of seven straight Brooklyn points to end the quarter and give the Nets a 75-68 lead. He another three-point play with the Nets ahead by five in the fourth, and his 3-pointer made it 87-77 and the Nets were comfortably ahead from there. "I thought he was taking wide-open shots. He was also being aggressive, driving the ball knowing that they didnt have any shot blocking," Nets coach Jason Kidd said. Notes: The Nets Joe Johnson and the Belinelli were announced Thursday as competitors in the 3-point contest at All-Star Saturday night. ... Parker and Ginobili also missed the Nets previous victory in the series. The Nets havent beaten the Spurs when those two played since Nov. 13, 2002, according to STATS. ' ' '
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Knights, Falcons net HOIC wins
Fieldcrest raced to a 22-point halftime lead and on to a 60-28 victory over Lexington in a Heart of Illinois Conference girls' basketball game at FHS Monday.
The Knights built a 15-7 lead after one period and pushed the margin to 38-16 by halftime and 55-20 through three quarters.
Haley Ruestman guided the Knights with 20 points. Tessa Holland collected 12 points and 13 rebounds. Taylor Tjaden added 6 points and Julia Jochums tallied 5 markers.
Erica Davis had 6 points for the Minutemen. Tessa Walcott added 5.
FCW 41, Ridgeview 32
COLFAX — Flanagan-Cornell-Woodland's defense held Ridgeview leading scorer Paige Jones in check all night in a 41-32 HOIC victory.
Jones finished the game with 8 points for the Mustangs. Dani Washington had 9 points to lead the RHS offense.
FCW led 12-7 after the first quarter and was able to maintain a lead the rest of the way.
Sydney Walker had 12 points in leading the Falcons' attack. Josie Walker and Sara Spaniol each chipped in 8 points and Emily Russow scored 6. Jessica Ulrich added 5 points.


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Historical Apollo 11 space capsule is going on another mission
The tour celebrates the mission's 50th anniversary
The tour celebrates the mission's 50th anniversary
The tour celebrates the mission's 50th anniversary
The historical space capsule that took the very first moonwalkers to space is gearing up for another trip -- a tour of the United States.
The tour, which is the capsule's first tour in more than 40 years, is taking the history of the spacecraft out of its home at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington and into four American cities to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the achievement.
The cities include:
- Space Center Houston — Oct. 14, 2017–March 18, 2018
- St. Louis Science Center — April 14–Sept. 3, 2018
- Senator John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh — Sept. 29, 2018–Feb. 18, 2019
- The Museum of Flight, Seattle — March 16–Sept. 2, 2019
The Apollo 11 command module, called Columbia, is the spacecraft that took Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins to the moon and back in 1969.
It's the first time since 1976 that the capsule has left the museum.
The traveling exhibit will also include objects such as the helmet and gloves that Aldrin wore during his moonwalk, a "rock box" that astronauts used to take back some of the first ever samples from a "heavenly body" and the watch that Collins wore during his time orbiting the moon while Aldrin and Armstrong explored the lunar surface.
"This is the spacecraft that brought the three astronauts home from the first landing on the moon, so it's one of the Smithsonian's most important artifacts," Michael Neufeld, a senior curator at the museum told NPR.
The selected museums had to submit engineering documentation to make sure that the floor could not only support the heavy Columbia, but also the artifacts from the rest of the exhibit.
Columbia, on its traveling ring, weighs over 13,600 pounds.
Upon returning to the D.C. museum, Columbia will be the centerpiece of the brand new
"Destination Moon" exhibit focusing on lunar exploration from ancient times to today. The exhibit will open in 2021.


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15-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Sunday, February 26, 1911: I went to Sunday school this afternoon and staid for church and catechize. The walking was extremely bad, but still I went. We had chocolate ice cream for supper. We all rather like it, so we have it occasionally which is about once in a week.
Her middle-aged granddaughter's comments 100 years later:
I'm amazing how often the Muffly family had ice cream. This is the fifth time they've made it since the diary began on January 1–ice cream was previously mentioned on January 22, February 8 (and it was banana ice cream on the 8th! I'm amazed that bananas were available in rural Pennsylvania), February 12, and February 23.
A century ago ice cream freezers were the new-fangled thing—and with the ready availability of ice during the winter months, ice cream made the perfect dainty winter dessert. (A hundred years ago, young people preferred lighter foods which they called dainty foods.)
I found directions for making ice cream in an old cookbook that was published in 1911.
Chocolate Ice Cream—Use the vanilla recipe, adding four ounces of grated chocolate to the milk before scalding and using a couple ounces more sugar than for the vanilla cream.
Vanilla Ice Cream—Add to one egg slightly beaten one sup of sugar, one tablespoon of flour, and a speck of salt. Pour on one pint of scalding milk and cook for twenty-five minutes in a double boiler. When cool, add vanilla and one pint of thin cream.
Fresh Fruit Ice Creams—Prepare fruit by sprinkling sugar. Let it stand one hour, press through a sieve, and stir into ice cream when the cream is frozen to a mush. All fruit ice creams are made in substantially the same way, but where seed fruits, such as currants, are used, the carefully strained juice only must be added. This can be put in the freezer with the cream and not reserved until later, as in the case of the mashed fruits. Grated pineapple, with the addition of a little lemon juice, makes a particularly fine fruit cream.
The Butterick Cook Book (1911)
For detailed directions from the 1911 cookbook see the Vanilla Ice Cream posting.


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As the weather gets better so does our need to get out of the kitchen and into the garden. Kevin has some great barbeque ideas.
- 1kg minced lamb
- 1 red onion (finely chopped)
- 1 tblsp vegetable oil
- 1 heaped teaspoon ground coriander
- 1 heaped teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 egg
- a good handful of parmesan cheese (freshly grated)
- dollop of dijon mustard
- 2 slices of french baguette toasted
- for the relish (optional)
- 200 g tomatoes (chopped)
- 100 ml white wine
- 50g white sugar
- chopped chilli (to taste)
- 3-4 allspice berries (crushed)
- Heat the vegetable oil in a small frying pan. Add in the red onion and fry gently until softened, stirring often, around 5 minutes.
- In a large bowl, mix together the minced lamb, fried onion, cumin, coriander and cinnamon with your hands.
- Break in the egg and mix in, adding in the Parmesan and the Dijon mustard and mixing well.
- Shape the mince mixture into 6 even-sized patties using a cling film-lined jar lid or dish to get the shape.
- Chill the burgers until firm, around 2-3 hours. The burgers won't keep chilled for longer than 12 hours but can be frozen.
- While the burgers are chilling, make the relish. Place the tomatoes, white wine, vinegar, sugar, chilli and allspice in a heavy-based saucepan.
- Bring to the boil, and then reduce the heat and simmer, stirring now and then, until reduced and thickened to a jam-like consistency, around 20 minutes.
- Set aside to cool.
- Grill or fry the chilled burgers until cooked to taste.
- Serve the burgers in lightly toasted white buns, with layers of lettuce, tomato and sliced gherkin, with the tomato relish.


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Lost Hitchcock film discovered in New Zealand
From: http://www.ctv.ca/
In this July 26, 1971 file photo, British film producer and director Alfred Hitchcock, right, discusses filming with actress Anna Massey, one of the stars of 'Frenzy', in Covent Garden Market, London. (AP / Leonard Brown, file)
The Associated Press
Date: Wednesday Aug. 3, 2011 7:35 PM ET
LOS ANGELES — Alfred Hitchcock is still surprising his fans.
Film preservationists said Wednesday they've found the first half of the earliest known surviving feature film on which Hitchcock has a credit: a silent melodrama called "The White Shadow."
The first three reels of the six-reel film, made in 1923, were discovered by the National Film Preservation Foundation at the New Zealand Film Archive.
"The White Shadow" was directed by Graham Cutts, and the 24-year-old Hitchcock was credited as writer, assistant director, editor and art director.
Hitchcock made his own directing debut two years later with the chorus-girl melodrama "The Pleasure Garden." He went on to direct such suspense classics as "Psycho," ''The Birds," ''Rear Window" and "Vertigo."
"The White Shadow" is a "missing link, one of those few productions where we are able to bridge that gap of Hitchcock, the young guy with all these ideas, and Hitchcock the filmmaker," said David Sterritt, author of "The Films of Alfred Hitchcock."
"Even though he didn't direct it, he was all over it."
Foundation Director Annette Melville said the three "White Shadow" reels — about 30 minutes — were found among films donated to the archive by the family of New Zealand projectionist and collector Jack Murtagh.
No other copy of "The White Shadow" is known to exist.
The film stars Betty Compson in a dual role as twin sisters, one angelic and the other "without a soul," according to Melville.
"At the time, people said the plot was improbable. I'm putting a polite spin on it. Many said it was ridiculous," Melville said. "It's a totally crazy, zany plot with soul migration back and forth and all these improbable meetings."
A restored print of "The White Shadow" will be shown Sept. 22 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater at Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences headquarters in Beverly Hills. The program also will feature two recently rediscovered short films, including one directed by and starring silent-era superstar Mabel Normand.
"White Shadow" director Cutts was a workmanlike director concerned with delivering movies on schedule and "making sure the camera was in focus," said Hitchcock expert Sterritt.
The influence of Hitchcock, a meticulous planner and control freak once he began directing himself, can be seen throughout the images that have been released from "The White Shadow," Sterritt said.
"The images are just awfully expressive and terrifically interesting to look at," Sterritt said. "It has a look -- I don't want to call it a Hitchcock look -- but I'd call it a more atmospheric and nuanced and effective look than Graham Cutts probably could have injected into a film."
Hitchcock, who died in 1980, broke into filmmaking in his native London in 1920, working as a title-card designer and working up through the ranks as a writer and assistant director.
His own directing output during his British years, before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s, included "The 39 Steps," ''The Lady Vanishes" and "The Man Who Knew Too Much," a film he remade in the 1950s.
Hitchcock's first Hollywood film was 1940's "Rebecca," the best-picture Academy Award winner that he made for producer David O. Selznick. Lewis J. Selznick Enterprises, run by Selznick's father, had released "The White Shadow" in the United States 16 years earlier.
"The White Shadow" was found during the second of two searches by the U.S.-based film foundation, which received grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to send an archivist to sift through American films preserved in the New Zealand archive.
The previous search turned up 1927's "Upstream," a previously lost feature-length film directed by John Ford ("The Searchers," ''The Quiet Man").
Other finds in the New Zealand collection included an early feature with silent star Clara Bow, but film foundation researchers are not expecting to uncover any other gems there.
"We've gone through every foot of American film there, and I can tell you, there's nothing more in the American collection," Melville said.


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Top 10 New Jersey Diners with Funny Names
It's hard to live in New Jersey and not develop a love of local diners. After all, New Jersey is the Diner Capital of the World! There's one in almost every town serving any type of dish your taste buds desire. NJ Diners are quite extraordinary from their menus to their appearances and their…names!
We all know the typical names ranging from "Silver", "Golden" and "Galaxy" to those that take the names of their owners, but many have very interesting names. Some have names so unique that they certainly make you wonder their origin. We took a look at some of the most notable NJ Diners to list the Top 10 New Jersey Diners with Funny Names!
1. Golden Touch Diner
Route 10, East Hanover
( Morris County)
2. Egg Platter Diner
159 Crooks Road, Paterson
(Passaic County)
3. Mustache Bill's Diner
8th Street, Barnegat Light
(Ocean County)
4. Dimples Diner & Family Restaurant
Lacey Road, Whiting
(Ocean County)
5. Jackson Hole Diner
362 Grand Avenue, Englewood
(Bergen County)
6. Nothing Fancy Restaurant
Harrison Avenue, Harrison
(Hudson County)
7. Mama's Dream International Diner
State Street, Perth Amboy
(Middlesex County)
8. Golden Pigeon Diner
Landis Avenue, Bridgeton
(Cumberland County)
9. Lamp Post Diner
Weeks Avenue, N. Wildwood
(Cape May County)
10. Horseshoe Diner
Boyle Plaza, Jersey City
(Hudson County)
Don't miss the Dennis & Judi Diner Tour coming to a town near you starting April 20th!
Whether or not they still exist today, what are some of the best names that you've seen for New Jersey Diners?


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Jon Huntsman tweeted yesterday:
To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.
Um. These scientists you trust, some of them at least, are accused of data manipulation and standing the peer-review process on its head. Call me crazy, but I don't trust them.
In related news, The Guardian brings us:
Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilisations, say scientists
The referenced scientists are a meteorologist and a geographer from Penn State and another researcher from NASA's Planetary Science Division. Their paper (.pdf link) is a "scenario analysis" of what might happen should the Earth experience an encounter with an Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (ETI). Among their conclusions:
Another recommendation is that humanity should avoid giving off the appearance of being a rapidly expansive civilization. If an ETI perceives humanity as such, then it may be inclined to attempt a preemptive strike against us so as to prevent us from growing into a threat to the ETI or others in the galaxy. Similarly, ecosystem-valuing universalist ETI may observe humanity's ecological destructive tendencies and wipe humanity out in order to preserve the Earth system as a whole. These scenarios give us reason to limit our growth and reduce our impact on global ecosystems. It would be particularly important for us to limit our emissions of greenhouse gases, since atmospheric composition can be observed from other planets. …
Suppose we say that an alien civilization has been observing our planet's atmosphere over the last 50 years. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased from 0.032% to 0.038% in that time; would a highly advanced alien intelligence see that as an existential threat to the Universe?
Our scientists are alarmed. Our politicians are alarmed. If we let them have their way, I am certain their designs on controlling greenhouse gases will destroy us.
Thanks, but I'd rather take my chances with the aliens.
Cross-posted at RedState.com.


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The founder of the Vose Law Firm, Gretchen R. H. "Becky" Vose, graduated as valedictorian from her law school class at University of Florida in 1973, where she was Chairperson of the Council of Ten, President of the senior class, member of Order of the Coif, and on the board of the University of Florida Law Review.
Ms. Vose began her legal career as an Assistant City Attorney for the City of Orlando, representing that city in litigation, land use, election law and eminent domain jury trial matters. After leaving city employment, Ms. Vose began representing numerous local and international individual and corporate clients as well as numerous local governmental entities.
Ms. Vose's legal services were much in demand, and she was requested in 1980 by Shutts & Bowen, the oldest law firm in Miami, and a firm with over 100 lawyers, to open the Orlando branch of that law firm. After practicing law as a full equity partner with Shutts & Bowen for ten years, and growing the Orlando branch office to approximately 25 attorneys, Ms. Vose chose to leave the firm in 1990 and open up her own firm at the corner of I-4 and Fairbanks Avenue in Winter Park. The firm she founded is the predecessor firm to the Vose Law Firm.
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- Combination creates the largest 3D printing personalized surgery and medical device service and product capability
- Delivers the only integrated 3D modeling-to-printing capability available in both direct metals and biocompatible plastics, a system pr
- Combination creates the largest 3D printing personalized surgery and medical device service and product capability
ROCK HILL, South Carolina – April 2, 2014 – 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) announced that it acquired Medical Modeling Inc., a leading provider of personalized surgical treatments and patient specific medical devices, including virtual surgical planning and clinical transfer tools, using 3D modeling and printing that is rapidly changing how reconstructive surgery is done today. The company expects this acquisition to be immediately accretive to its net income.
Based in Golden, Colorado, Medical Modeling pioneered the field of 3D printing-centric personalized surgery and patient-specific medical device solutions with FDA-cleared manufacturing processes and world-class expertise, providing help on tens of thousands of patient cases for surgical planning tools, implants and other design services. 3DS also announced today that it plans to consolidate all of its healthcare activities into a single unit under the leadership of former Medical Modeling President, Andy Christensen, who was named 3DS' Vice President, Personalized Surgery and Medical Devices.
"We are thrilled to become part of 3DS," said Andy Christensen, President, Medical Modeling. "We already use most of 3DS' leading professional design-to-manufacturing tools including its Geomagic® Freeform® modeling software and haptic tools and advanced manufacturing Stereolithography and ColorJet Printing professional-grade 3D printers," continued Christensen. "Working with surgeons around the world on tens of thousands of patient cases gives us a unique perspective on surgical planning opportunities that, together with 3DS technology platform and resources, could accelerate our global growth and enhance overall patient outcomes."
Medical Modeling delivers Virtual Surgical Planning (VSP®), a service-based approach to personalized surgery that combines expertise in medical imaging, surgical simulation and additive manufacturing. This allows surgeons access to the most up-to-date toolbox for today's most challenging head and neck surgical procedures. VSP combines a detailed virtual surgical plan with custom-engineered instrumentation to ensure surgical success. Patented and clinically tested technology is available to aid surgeries ranging from trauma reconstruction of the facial skeleton to guidance of fibula-free grafts to more routine orthognathic surgeries.
Dr. Oren Tepper, at the Montefiore Medical Center, used Medical Modeling's VSP to perform a surgery on a small child who would normally have to wait 6 years until she was big enough for the operation. When she was born, Jayla Varga's jaw was no bigger than her mother's thumb, so small it pushed her tongue against her throat, preventing her from breathing or swallowing properly.
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"The combination of our rapidly growing healthcare business with Medical Modeling's expanding range of products and services creates the largest 3D printing based personalized surgery and patient specific medical device service capabilities available today," said Avi Reichental, 3DS President and CEO. "By leveraging our collective expertise, technologies and channels under the capable leadership of Andy Christensen, we plan to deliver an expanding range of direct metal and plastic medical devices designed to address this rapidly expanding opportunity."
Watch Avi Reichental and Andy Christensen discussing personalized surgery and patient specific medical devices and the acquisition here.
About 3D Systems Corporation
3D Systems is a leading provider of 3D printing centric design-to-manufacturing solutions including 3D printers, print materials and cloud sourced on-demand custom parts for professionals and consumers alike in materials including plastics, metals, ceramics and edibles. The company also provides integrated 3D scan-based design, freeform modeling and inspection tools. Its products and services replace and complement traditional methods and reduce the time and cost of designing new products by printing real parts directly from digital input. These solutions are used to rapidly design, create, communicate, prototype or produce real parts, empowering customers to manufacture the future.
Leadership Through Innovation and Technology
- 3DS invented 3D printing with its Stereolithography (SLA) printer and was the first to commercialize it in 1989.
- 3DS invented Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) printing and was the first to commercialize it in 1992.
- 3DS invented the Color-Jet-Printing (CJP) class of 3D printers and was the first to commercialize 3D powder-based systems in 1994.
- 3DS invented Multi-Jet-Printing (MJP) printers and was the first to commercialize it in 1996.
Today its comprehensive range of 3D printers is the industry's benchmark for production-grade manufacturing in aerospace, automotive, patient specific medical device and a variety of consumer, electronic and fashion accessories.
More information on the company is available at www.3DSystems.com.
About Medical Modeling
Medical Modeling was founded on the idea that medical imaging studies should not only be used for diagnosis but that they should drive clinical treatment. This principle has propelled development of world-leading surgical planning and clinical transfer tools, which guide how reconstructive surgery is done today. The company has worked with surgeons around the world on tens of thousands of patient cases, giving it a unique perspective on surgical planning and common challenges faced by surgical teams every day. The company has used that knowledge to further its product line into new and exciting areas, including VSP® (Virtual Surgical Planning) and creation of additively manufactured implant constructs.


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For the current Vanity Fair cover, the young actress Emma Stone has been outfitted as an overgrown Lolita—bikini, blond hair, flaming-red lips. But in "Crazy, Stupid, Love," a genial, messy comedy of marital discord and mismatched lovers, Stone has auburn hair and a slightly downturned mouth; she looks like a woman, and she has a direct, clearheaded way about her that suggests the confidence of a potential star. She's the strongest thing in the movie, though she isn't part of the main line of the story, which is also the least interesting. It seems that, after twenty-five years, the marriage of Cal (Steve Carell) and Emily (Julianne Moore) is breaking up. Emily has been sleeping with a dull guy in her office (Kevin Bacon, in an unwritten part), and Cal, hearing this news from Emily as she drives them through Los Angeles (the movie's geography is a little vague), opens the car door and drops to the street like a misplaced bag of groceries. That, I'm afraid, is the highlight of Cal and Emily's scenes together.
Cal, distraught, airs his troubles in a sleek bar, with amber glass walls and white stonework and a lot of lacquered players—a sort of can-I-buy-you-a-drink store for the always available. Jacob (Ryan Gosling), the king of the bar, a mover in Simon Spurr, Gossuin, and designer stubble, takes pity on the cuckold and teaches him how to pick up women. The king's own personal closer is "Let's get out of here," a line that, unaccountably, seems to work with every woman in the place except one: Hannah (Stone), a law-school graduate, who nimbly dismisses him. At least, at first. She changes her mind, though, and, arriving at his wraparound-glass bachelor pad, demands that he remove his shirt, which he does, revealing a chest and abs so perfectly sculpted that she's revolted. She says, "Seriously? It's like you're Photoshopped!" Men in the audience may be relieved to hear that at least some women find the perfection of a gym body too close to narcissism to be a turn-on, and Stone gives the line, and many others, a quick, precise, tart delivery.
"Crazy, Stupid, Love," which was directed by the team of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, mixes a comedy-of-remarriage plot with a midsummer-night's serial follies. Cal loves his wife; Jacob is fascinated by Hannah; Cal's thirteen-year-old son, Robbie (Jonah Bobo), loves the teen-ager Jessica (Analeigh Tipton), who babysits for Robbie's little sister; and Jessica loves, of all people, Cal. Written by Dan Fogelman, the script has many parts in motion, and a fair amount of it works delicately and well. Young Robbie boldly and persistently declares himself to Jessica (he doesn't know that he's not even in uniform, much less out of his league), and Analeigh Tipton, a tall, slender stalk with huge pouty lips, receives his declarations so sweetly that the scenes don't humiliate the actors or us. Robbie's quest is the overstrained hope of adolescence. The subsidiary plotlines are touching and often funny, but Cal and Emily provide the frame for all the goings on (there are a lot more). And who really cares if these nice, ordinary people remain separated or get back together? They met when they were in high school, and, apart from reminiscing about that time, they don't have much to say to each other. In the remarriage classics ("The Awful Truth," "The Philadelphia Story," "His Girl Friday"), the former partners have a way of talking and being with each other that they don't have—and couldn't possibly have—with anyone else. That sophisticated metaphor for sexual compatibility made for uniquely satisfying romantic comedy. But "Crazy, Stupid, Love" holds to the boring modern convention that good people are inarticulate, and Cal and Emily mainly stumble around trying to fill the silence.
Julianne Moore may be too earnest an actress for rigidly structured commercial comedy. She tries to find some hard truths in the role, and she makes Emily angry, vague, and even a little dim. The character is parched and not very likable. Steve Carell has his ordinary-guy's affect: straight, parted brown hair, elongated, almost-Cyrano nose, slightly rabbity fear of everything. Even in masochistic roles ("The 40 Year Old Virgin," "Date Night") in which he plays a guy one-upped sexually by other men, he always conveys the sense that he's a rational man trying to keep his integrity, no matter how bullied and miserable he feels. It's not clear to us that Cal, who works at something or other in an office, is good at anything in particular except moping around the back yard of the family house at night after he has moved out. Carell, trying to keep up with Jacob's smarmy patter in the bar, seems more comfortable acting with Ryan Gosling than with Moore. Gosling, a serious fellow who usually plays alcoholics or drug addicts or murderers, refuses to distance himself from Jacob by parodying the role. His Jacob is not an ironist. He really thinks he's God's gift to women—apparently, no one before Hannah has told him otherwise—and he wants to spread the glory, slapping Cal to get his attention, and then leading him through a makeover, dressing him in Canali and Zegna, and teaching him such startlingly original moves as not to talk about himself when he meets a woman in a bar. Applying his superlative new techniques, Cal has his mishaps and his successes, but the filmmakers believe in soul mates forever, and that kind of thing, and the audience may not want to think about the aftermath of the movie, in which Cal and Emily discuss, again and again, that magical year they met in high school.
"Friends with Benefits" is another of those movies in which a man and a woman—in this case, Justin Timberlake as Dylan, a Los Angeles Web designer who takes a magazine job in New York, and Mila Kunis as Jamie, the head-hunter who recruits him—spend hours debating Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre before committing themselves to serious talk of omelettes. No, wait. That's in French movies. In "Friends with Benefits," Dylan and Jamie hop into bed and make very particular demands on each other, but agree not to indulge in anything so dirty or squalid as emotion. The rule is: you may do anything you like as long as you don't feel anything for the other person. James Thurber and E. B. White asked, "Is sex necessary?" The new trend in romantic comedy is to ask, "Is love necessary?" This movie is incomparably better than the pathetic Ashton Kutcher–Natalie Portman picture from earlier this year, "No Strings Attached," in which the man and the woman, also friends with benefits, go at it in hospital supply closets and hybrid cars. At least Timberlake and Kunis stay in bed. And at least they talk—a great deal, in fact, and often very cleverly. "Friends with Benefits" is fast, allusive, urban, glamorous—clearly the Zeitgeist winner of the summer (the couple take the no-emotion pledge by laying their hands on a tablet Bible app). The writers, Keith Merryman, David A. Newman, and Will Gluck, who also directed, keep the characters racing ahead, each trying to outsmart the other, in and out of bed.
This mini-genre of shag-buddy pictures is rather coy (there's only one way, in American movies, that these stories can end). And, from the beginning, its titillations are mildly delusional: can you really have sex with the same person, again and again, without experiencing any emotion at all? I know it doesn't sound unpleasant, but can you really? Despite the mild daring of the concept, what keeps these plots going is that old screenwriting standby, the fear of commitment. Both Dylan and Jamie are supposed to be emotionally damaged. That is, unlike the rest of the world, they come from families with problems. But they don't look the least bit damaged; they look and sound terrific, and it's their healthy sparring that makes the movie fun. Justin Timberlake, as he demonstrated playing Sean Parker in "The Social Network," is a shrewd actor who knows how to swing his body through a scene. His glib, talented Dylan, though, isn't overly impressed with himself. Timberlake is charming, and he's a dynamo when he begins imitating old pop groups (except his own). Mila Kunis, of the almond-shaped eyes and the dusky skin, is all teasing mischief and easily hurt feelings. Woody Harrelson, trying to play a gay sports editor at Dylan's magazine, twists himself into knots. His performance is ridiculous—half the time, you don't know what he's saying—but you enjoy Harrelson enjoying himself. Patricia Clarkson has a comic turn as Jamie's alcoholic, sex-addicted mom, and Richard Jenkins, as Dylan's dad, does what he always does, which is to make his part of the movie the best part of the movie. A smart man with Alzheimer's, painfully aware that he's losing it, he lays down, for Dylan's sake, some elementary life lessons. His advice, as written, is obvious, but Jenkins speaks the words with such passionate conviction that he makes them seem like ultimate wisdom. ♦


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Editor's note: If you'd like to help Erika cover the cost of some of her medical bills, her friends have established the Erika Brannock Fund to collect donations.
Erika Brannock, a survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing, anxiously purses her lips.
Her eyes jump and she is quick to smile and laugh.
This is what someone looks like waiting to meet the person, a stranger, who she believes saved her life.
"I told my cousin last night that it's kind of like the night before Christmas, where you're so excited, but nervous at the same time and you can't sleep," Brannock told CNN's AC360 on Wednesday.
Brannock is about to meet Amanda North, a woman who took her hand and did not let go.
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Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a new 10-part PBS series that explores race, culture and identity through genealogy and genetics, premieres Sunday, March 25, 2012 at 8 pm
Finding Your Rootsbuilds on the success of African American Lives 1 and 2 and Faces of America, journeying deep into the ancestry of remarkable individuals
Harry Connick, Jr., Robert Downey, Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, John Legend, Branford Marsalis, Condoleezza Rice, Michelle Rodriguez, Barbara Walters, and many other well-known names learn long-lost secrets from their family histories.
The basic drive to discover who we are and where we come from is at the core of the new 10-part PBS series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the 12th series from Professor Gates, the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. Filmed on location across the United States, the series premieres nationally Sunday, March 25, 2012 at 8 pm ET on PBS(check local listings). (Note: program one and two are scheduled on Sunday, March 25 from 8-9 pm and 9-10 pm respectively.)
Continuing on the quest begun in his previous projects, African American Lives (2006), African American Lives 2(2008) and Faces of America (2010), Gates finds new ways to, as he says, "get into the DNA of American culture." In each hour-long episode, he takes viewers along for the journey with one celebrity group bound together by an intimate, sometimes hidden link, treks through layers of ancestral history, uncovers secrets and surprises of their family trees and shares life-altering discoveries.
"Finding Your Roots will be a moving, uplifting, entertaining and enlightening experience for viewers," says Gates. "Genealogy is more popular than ever, but it's far more than a solitary pastime. It's a fascinating endeavor that can drastically alter both history and the way we think of ourselves."
Guest groupings include: award-winning husband-and-wife actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, who both descend from prominent American families that have been in this country since inception; New Orleans jazz masters and close friends Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis, whose European immigrant ancestors made very different choices in the slave-era South; spiritual leaders Angela Buchdahl, Yasir Qadhi and Rick Warren, whose ancestors' paths to America were shaped by religious convictions; and education superstar Geoffrey Canada and media legend Barbara Walters, who both rediscover family histories long obscured by forgotten name changes.
In other episodes, public servants Condoleezza Rice and Congressman John Lewis, featured in different hours, trace their contemporary-day strength to enslaved ancestors, actor Robert Downey, Jr. marvels at the vastness of his family tree dating back to the 13th century, and Michelle Rodriguez discovers family secrets and heroes that her parents left behind when they came to the United States as immigrants. Gates travels with his guests throughout the series, sharing the details of ancestral stories and helping process what they've learned. He accompanies musicianJohn Legend to a rock concert, goes backstage on Broadway with Samuel L. Jackson, joins Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker as he reveals the root-seeking results to his parents, and trails CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Geoffrey Canada to memorable family reunions.
Working closely with leading U.S. genealogists (including staff of the New England Genealogical Historical Society and Johni Cerny, co-author of the acclaimed The Source: Guidebook for American Genealogy) and ancestry experts from around the world, Gates and his production team comb through family stories to discover unknown histories and relatives the guests never knew existed. When paper trails end for each story, the team turns to top geneticists and DNA diagnosticians (such as the genetic testing service 23 & Me) to analyze each participant's genetic code, tracing their bloodlines and occasionally debunking their long-held notions and beliefs.
Reaching beyond celebrity stories, Gates also seeks out everyday individuals (on-air and online) who are wrestling with questions of identity. He visits with employees at his favorite barber shop, and engages Harlem students who are curious about their genetics.
A far-reaching educational and community outreach initiative will accompany the broadcast, including: locally produced short excerpts to be shown on partner stations in conjunction with Finding Your Roots; a set of standards-based lesson plans for upper elementary and middle school classrooms that use segments from the series; live webinars; and a multimedia guide for educators to encourage use of the series and its additional resources with students. A Finding Your Roots companion website (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots), will present video from the series, profiles of featured guests and an ongoing blog from executive producer, writer and presenter Henry Louis Gates, Jr. In addition to his blog, the website will include material from the production team and the scientists who conducted research for the series. With a heavy focus on online engagement, the website will allow fans to submit stories about their own family histories, and browse those others have uploaded. The website also will offer a comprehensive list of resources that viewers can use to learn more about their own genealogy.
A Finding Your Roots Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/FindingYourRootsPBS) will foster conversation among users fascinated by genealogy, as well as showcase user-submitted photos, videos and stories related to their genetic lineages and family histories.
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a production of Kunhardt McGee Productions, Inkwell Films and WNET in association with Ark Media. WNET is the parent company of THIRTEEN and WLIW21, New York's public television stations and operator of NJTV. For nearly 50 years, WNET has been producing and broadcasting national and local documentaries and other programs for the New York community.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Stephen Segaller, Peter Kunhardt, and Dyllan McGee are executive producers of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Rachel Dretzin is senior producer. Leslie Asako Gladsjo is senior story editor.
Corporate funding is provided by The Coca-Cola Company, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald's and American Express. Additional funding is provided by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Atlantic Philanthropies, Ford Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Support is also provided by The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and PBS.
About WNET
New York's WNET is America's flagship public media outlet, bringing quality arts, education and public affairs programming to over 5 million viewers each week. The parent company of public television stations THIRTEEN andWLIW21 and operator of NJTV, WNET produces and presents such acclaimed PBS series as Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, Need to Know, Charlie Rose, Tavis Smiley and a range of documentaries, children's programs, and local news and cultural offerings available on air and online. Pioneers in educational programming, WNET has created such groundbreaking series as Get the Math, Noah Comprende and Cyberchase and provides tools for educators that bring compelling content to life in the classroom and at home. WNET highlights the tri-state's unique culture and diverse communities through NYC-ARTS, Reel 13, NJ Today and the new online newsmagazine MetroFocus.
About Kunhardt McGee Productions
For 24 years Kunhardt McGee Productions led by Peter Kunhardt and Dyllan McGee has been making documentary films about the people and ideas that have shaped our history. Most recently, the company co-produced Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2010), Looking for Lincoln (2009), Oprah's Roots (2007) and African American Lives 1 and 2 (2006 & 2008) for PBS. For HBO, Kunhardt McGee Productions produced Gloria: In Her Own Words(2011) and Emmy award-winning Teddy: In His Own Words (2010). Other notable works include This Emotional Life, Looking for Lincoln, In Memoriam, PT Barnum, The American President, Bobby Kennedy: In His Own Words, andJFK: In His Own Words. More information can be found at: www.kunhardtmcgee.com
About Inkwell Films
Inkwell Films was founded by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to produce sophisticated documentary films about the African and African-American experience for a broad audience. Currently in production, Finding Your Roots, a 10-hour series for PBS. Most recently Inkwell Films has co-produced Black in Latin America (2011), Faces of America (2010),Looking for Lincoln (2009), African American Lives 2 (2008), Oprah's Roots (2007), and African American Lives(2006), Inkwell Films is currently developing Many Rivers to Cross: The History of the African American People, a six-part series for PBS.
About Ark Media
Ark Media is a documentary film company founded in 1997 by the producing team of Barak Goodman and Rachel Dretzin. Ark's mission is to produce documentary films characterized by rigorous reporting, careful craft, and imaginative filmmaking. Ark partnered with Kunhardt-McGee Productions on the Henry Louis Gates Jr. series, Faces of America, (2010) and also with Kunhardt-McGee, produced Looking for Lincoln (2009) and the upcoming Makersproject for PBS. For the last decade and a half, Ark has produced films primarily for the PBS series Frontline andAmerican Experience, winning nearly every major broadcast award: the Emmy, DuPont-Columbia, Robert F. Kennedy, Writers Guild and Peabody Awards, as well as earning an Academy Award nomination and official selection to the Sundance Film Festival. Ark has also produced documentaries for the New York Times, American Movie Classics, ABC, and the History Channel. For more information, visit www.ark-media.net.


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Who says that having multiple wireless carriers forces network operators to compete on price? Canada's top three mobile operators, Rogers, Telus, and Bell Mobility, have all raised prices for certain plans by an identical amount over a short period of time.
Canada's big three wireless carriers have hiked the base prices for new plans by $5 in most markets over the past two months.
Rogers, Telus, and Bell Mobility now all charge $80 per month for new smartphone plans with a new contract, $5 more than what many of those same plans cost when they were introduced last year. The prices for other smartphone plans with more data cost upwards of $145.
The price hikes affect every province except Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The $80 a month plan includes 500MB of data, unlimited nationwide calling, unlimited messaging, voicemail and call display. Existing plans are unaffected.
Starting prices are lower for plans that don't have unlimited voice, but they are still the same across the three carriers. Bell charges $50 a month for 150 minutes, 200MB of data, and unlimited texting; and $60 a month for 1,000 minutes, 500MB of data, and unlimited texting. Rogers offers the same exact plans and pricing, and Telus does as well. Those prices remained unchanged.
The price increases this year and identical prices in the unchanged plans could be a classic case of price signaling, in which carriers don't collude to keep prices high but nonetheless follow each other's lead. Marketing and management consultant Rags Srinivasan, writing in GigaOm in July 2012, noted similar activity from Verizon Wireless and AT&T. "Price signaling has always existed between the number one and number two players in any market," he wrote. "Agreeing to not engage in a price war is truly a win-win for the market leaders. Since outright price fixing is illegal, market leaders resorted to signaling to tell the other company their intentions or send a threat about their cost advantages."
Rogers spokesperson Jennifer Kett today denied any such maneuvering. She noted that Telus raised its prices in January, well before Rogers and Bell made the same move. Bell was reportedly the last of the three to change its prices. Kett's statement to Ars said:
Pricing decisions are made completely independently and any suggestion otherwise is absolutely false. We regularly adjust our plans and pricing to reflect changes in how customers are using their devices and changes in the services and features we offer to customers.
On Thursday of last week we made changes to some of our wireless plans and prices. Not all plans were changed—many of our plans including our talk and text plans, our Smart Picks plans and our popular 1GB Share Everything plan remain at the same price. Our Smart picks at plans still start at $60/month for 500MB of data.
With respect to our recent changes, the needs of our customers are shifting and they're using more data than ever before. The majority of our customers use between 1GB and 2GB of data per month. That's why we did not change the price of our popular 1GB plan ($85/month) and why we introduced a new 2GB plan for only $5 more.
We've also added an extra 1GB of data to our 3GB plan for only $5 more, which is a great new option for couples or families sharing data between users. All our plans are shareable and allow customers to add an additional device for as little as $10 per month.
Telus spokesperson Donna Ramirez noted that while the company "increased our SharePlus plan rates by $5 in January... last week we actually dropped the rate of our most popular data buckets (500MB and 1GB) by $5, so the cost of getting a SharePlus plan with a data bucket is essentially the same now as when we launched SharePlus last summer. Based on customer demand last week, we also introduced two new data buckets—a $30 2GB data plan and a $50 4GB data bucket."
Still, Telus's unlimited voice and text plan with 500MB of data is $80 a month after all the recent price changes, just like Rogers and Bell.
We also contacted Bell this morning but haven't heard back yet. Bell did not respond to CBC, either.
Rogers and Telus both pointed out that CBC was forced to correct its story because it initially claimed that Telus, Bell, and Rogers all raised their rates on the same weekend. In fact, as CBC's updated story says, the increases happened over the course of two months.
CBC also wrote that "[t]he three companies came under fire by the federal government last year, which is pushing for a fourth wireless competitor in all four markets."
The US has four major nationwide carriers, of course, but that could drop to three if Sprint is able to buy T-Mobile. Although T-Mobile has made aggressive moves to lure customers away from its bigger rivals, including paying off early termination fees, the company two weeks ago raised the price of its unlimited plan by $10 to $80 a month. On the plus side, T-Mobile doubled the unlimited smartphone data plan's tethering allowance from 2.5GB to 5GB.
While the Canadian government wants four major carriers, the CEO of Sprint owner SoftBank says dropping to three carriers is the proper solution for the US market. SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son, arguing on behalf of a Sprint purchase of T-Mobile, vowed that the extra scale provided by a merger will allow him to start a "massive price war."


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Long Island Winterfest provides a boon to local businesses
It's that time of year again when visitors from across the Northeast flock to Long Island Wine Country for Winterfest Jazz on the Vine.
The six-weekend jazz-and-wine celebration kicked off Jan. 25 with a media event and party at Hotel Indigo in Riverhead, with shows booked at select winery tasting rooms Feb. 9 and 10. The festival runs through the weekend of March 16 and 17.
Now in its sixth year, Winterfest has helped the local wine region evolve from a seasonal tourist attraction to a year-round getaway, boosting business at local hotels, restaurants and B&Bs, area businesspeople say.
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In addition to attracting visitors to tasting rooms during traditionally slow months, Winterfest has proved a factor in the North Fork's recognition as a top wine destination, said Rob Salvatico of the Hotel Indigo. "It used to be that roughly after Thanksgiving you could shut your doors until mid- to late April or May," Mr. Salvatico said. "Now the weekends are rocking from Valentine's straight through Saint Patrick's Day. There's a lull during Passover and Easter, but then it starts to pick right back up again."
Mr. Salvatico said from a revenue perspective the numbers Winterfest brings to the region are enough to transform a winter Saturday to a summer Saturday, and last year's event brought nearly 10,000 visitors to the North Fork over the six weeks.
"Jazz on the Vine is the theme of Long Island Winterfest," he said, "I don't think they intended for it to always be jazz, but it was so popular that it's become a fixture. If you're a jazz enthusiast, this is going to become a destination for your yearly jazz jaunts."
He said the popularity of Winterfest hit a new high in 2012 for it's fifth year anniversary, when Hotel Indigo held a kickoff showcase event for the first time in their ballroom, and supper-style events throughout the six weeks.
"On Saturday nights the musicians would come back to the Hotel Indigo and have jazz jam sessions in our bistro and it was so popular we had to turn people away," he said. "Every weekend was just wild."
This year's event shows no signs of slowing down, according to the president of the Long Island Wine Council trade group, Ron Goerler.
"We have the most acts ever this year," Mr. Goerler said. "We chose 72 acts to perform at 30 wineries over six weeks. We had 250 people apply to play during Jazz on the Vine this year, so that shows just how much it's growing."
Mr. Goerler said the region used to get money from Suffolk County and New York State to fund the festival, but wineries had to charge cover fees for events after grants began drying up.
But that didn't stop people from visiting, he said.
"Last year we had a record 7,500 people come out for the event and with the region being named [by Wine Enthusiast magazine] one of the top four wine regions in the world to visit in 2013, I'm looking forward to seeing how many people come out this year," Mr. Goerler said.
The event brought people from as far south as Philadelphia and as far north as upper Westchester and Connecticut, along with folks from New York City and New Jersey, according to Mr. Salvatico, who said Winterfest has "without question" been part of Hotel Indigo's success through 2012.
"Winterfest actually gave birth to our having live music on Fridays and Saturdays," he said. "We do that throughout the year now. Anyone can play Muzak all day, but having live music a couple times a week adds an air of elegance and style to the facility. It's an amenity for our guests and a draw for people locally to come have dinner with us."


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On Friday, May 4, 2012, the Obama Administration issued "New Rules!" for frackers on federal lands. According to John M. Broder in New Proposal on Fracking Gives Ground to Industry in The New York Times, Team Obama made "a significant concession to the oil industry, companies will have to reveal the composition of fluids only after they have completed drilling — a sharp change from the government's original proposal, which would have required disclosure of the chemicals 30 days before a well could be started."
In a statement on the US Department of the Interior website, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar comments, "This administration's energy strategy is an all-out effort to boost American production of every available source of energy. As we continue to offer millions of acres of America's public lands for oil and gas development, it is critical that the public have full confidence that the right safety and environmental protections are in place."
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Normally, the Ultrafast Grid renders its images using Headless Chrome. There are cases where the behavior of Headless Chrome is different from that of regular Chrome browser, and if the baseline was created with a regular Chrome browser, the differences will be found. Set this option to a value of false to instruct the Ultrafast Grid to use a regular Chrome browser instead of the Headless Chrome browser, so as to eliminate differences that arise because of the different types of Chrome browser.
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Adopted Stylesheets are a way to create and distribute reusable styles when using a Shadow DOM. Adopted Stylesheets are not supported by all browsers, so their use may cause mismatches when doing cross-browser validation. By default, when the Ultrafast Grid detects that a page being checked uses Adopted Stylesheets, it will not render that checkpoint, the check will fail, and the test will be aborted. In the Test Manager, the test results for that run will have an Aborted status, and the step that failed will have a Missing status.
To enable rendering of checkpoints that include Adopted Stylesheets, and to ensure that the test can complete successfully, you need to explicitly set the Ultrafast Grid option polyfillAdoptedStyleSheets to a value of true or false:
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Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. As the treaty's anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high. Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides. An unusually gifted musician, she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murdered—in suspiciously draconian fashion. Seraphina is drawn into the investigation, partnering with the captain of the Queen's Guard, the dangerously perceptive Prince Lucian Kiggs. While they begin to uncover hints of a sinister plot to destroy the peace, Seraphina struggles to protect her own secret, the secret behind her musical gift, one so terrible that its discovery could mean her very life.
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I have never heard of this before. It sounds interesting. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
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OOooh that looks great! Great pick!ReplyDelete
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Awesome, I hadn't seen either cover yet, thanks for posting them Lea! I love the sound of this one, it's definitely going on my list of must-haves! I agree with you on the title color though, a gold foil or metallic ink to make it pop would be really nice:)ReplyDelete
Never heard of this one before! But I do love the cover, and the plot sound super exciting. Cool choice!ReplyDelete
O wow. I love both of these covers!ReplyDelete
This looks good.
Side note (off subject): I considered "Serafina" as a name for my daughter.
- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2012 at 11:37 AM
I like the sound of this as well. Good choice!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2012 at 11:38 AM
I hope you're enjoying Half-Blood. I know I did.ReplyDelete
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Sounds good! Its my first time hearing about this one.ReplyDelete
I always look forward to high fantasy sorts of books, and I haven't heard of this one until now. Thanks for the headsup! I might have to check it out. Like you, I like the US cover. The drawing is so pretty and gives off that fantastical feel!ReplyDelete
Sounds and looks amazing, perfect for me! Thank you for sharing it!ReplyDelete
Seems like an great book ;D I hope you will enjoy it :)ReplyDelete
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Great choice!! This book sounds amazing :)ReplyDelete
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Looks good! The drawing cover is unique and beautiful, although I'm a little iffy too. It seems more MG. I also like the UK cover which is more conventional and has a YA look. Great choice!ReplyDelete
This sounds good. I hope it is because it's hard to find a good YA high fantasy novel these days.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2012 at 4:07 PM
Ooo I really like the UK cover not so keen on the drawing one though. Sounds amazing though.ReplyDelete
Ooh, this one sounds AWESOME! I love stories about Dragons- there definitely should be more of them in YA. Also, I love how different the cover is from the usual YA. Great pick! :)ReplyDelete
I love dragon stories and this one is definitely on my TBR!ReplyDelete
Oh wow this one sounds great!! Thanks for putting it on my radar. =)ReplyDelete
Amazing art on the US cover! I am so insanely excited to read this. Every high fantasy book I've read thus far has been incredible, even though I don't read them as often as I'd like. I cannot wait for release!ReplyDelete
i like the cover but i gotta say i like the uk cover better.ReplyDelete
I remember reading about this at GR. I love the sound of this, and it's HIGH FANTASY!! There simply is not enough out there. The US cover looks like one of those fairytale olden books, which is super cool.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2012 at 3:16 AM
The cover art is gorgeous and the book sounds really good!ReplyDelete
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did not know the cover was revealed
fantasy fantastical
Oh, now that's a really cool cover! I think I'm in love with it. And the story itself sounds GREAT! I'm adding it to my wishlist right now.ReplyDelete
Oooo I love the cover! I like the old-timey feel! Its been on my TBR for a while and I just received it via Netgalley so I hope to read it soon!ReplyDelete


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This article is a reprint of Wise Bread's contribution to OPEN Forum from American Express -- where small business owners can get advice from experts and share tips with each other.
It took some time, but the art and science of search engine marketing eventually emerged from the shadows and shed its "snake oil" image.
That's mostly because entrepreneurs came to demand accountability from search campaigns and the companies behind them. And like SEO, social media initiatives aren't some magical, ethereal wizardry that can't be tracked, analyzed and adapted.
Small business owners have to bring that same spirit of accountability to bear when it comes to utilizing social media tools, whether they've hired an outside firm or are handling things in-house. Finding concrete ways to assess the efficacy of social media strategies and initiatives is crucial.
Entrepreneurs can't tweak strategies or double down on successful ones if they're unable to track performance and payoff. There are scores of ways to make that happen. Here's a look at just a few, for starters.
Dig Inside Facebook
Creating an engaging Facebook presence and consistent, high-quality content for fans is imperative for businesses seeking a foothold in the social networking realm. But entrepreneurs can get their hands dirty and really dig into the metrics surrounding user growth, content consumption, referrals, and traffic.
The key is to get the most from Facebook Insights, the network's back-end data hub for business owners and web developers. Insights allows entrepreneurs get an accurate look at how effective individual posts are and what kind of sharing, if any, follows publication.
You can track statistics by the hour and use the findings to shape not just the type of postings you release, but when to release them. Being able to see who shares your content and when can help business owners more narrowly tailor their Facebook presence and focus on boosting conversions.
Track Traffic and Mentions
Setting up Google alerts for your company name and other key terms is an important part of any online reputation management strategy. But these simple notifications can also help business owners track the ripples of social media initiatives.
You can also go a step further and utilize new, free tools that are more geared toward social media. Social Mention is a great site that provides real-time social media search and also allows businesses to create social media alerts, which are in essence more nuanced Google alerts.
Entrepreneurs can also purchase services like Vocus, which offers more traditional public relations and media management software along with social media tracking.
The focus is finding and capitalizing on tools that can help track brand mentions and social chatter across the web. Some of it may wind up being more anecdotal, but casting a wider net allows you to get a sense of how consumers are responding. It can also help you identify needs, communities and online influencers that can help you shape future social media strategies.
Shares, Tweets and Links
Sometimes the less complicated the better.
Likes, Retweets and links are all important metrics that don't require a big budget or exhaustive research to track.
Simple things like tracking shares, direct traffic and conversions can help when it comes to social media efficacy. You can use site traffic tools from Google Analytics, WebTrends, Bit.ly and others to get a better handle on who's consuming your content, who's visiting your site and how they're getting there. SEOmoz and others have excellent tools that allow you to track a specific piece of content at a given time.
There are scores of ways to drill down. Personal branding blogger Ryan Rancatore calculates a "retweets per page view" metric for his content, which is basically a ratio of eyeballs to shares. If a content piece has 500 views and 50 retweets, that's a rate of one retweet per ten page views. You can track these numbers in a spreadsheet, search for patterns and seize on the key topics, phrases, headline choices, and other elements that seem to spur greater engagement.
"We have recently increased our social media efforts by frequently commenting on Facebook posts and retweeting content on Twitter," said Nikki Lyman, marketing communications manager for Solar Power.org, which provides news and resources regarding renewable energy. "Engaging with others in the solar industry using social media platforms has allowed us to see a 15 percent increase in website traffic and knowledge of our service."
Link growth and search trends are also important. Keeping tabs on your links and standing in the search results is simply a part of daily business living. Or it should be. Pay close attention to how those results ebb and flow in relation to specific social media campaigns.
Make a Commitment
It's easy to set up a Facebook page or Twitter account for your business and jump into the fray. It's much more difficult to carry the same fervor and ferocity day in, day out for months and months.
One of the best ways to keep accountability at the forefront is to embrace the power of social media, which gives entrepreneurs an interactive platform to build and strengthen brand, generate leads and lower the barrier to conversion. Committing to social media as an integral part of your holistic marketing vision is a great place to start.
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The Relationship Between Library Use and Work Performance of Senior Non-Academic Staff in Private Universities in South Western Nigeria
Key words: Library use; Work performance; Senior non-academic staff; Private universities; South Western Nigeria
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