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Goals in sight, Rollins confident he'll bounce back
Longtime Phillies shortstop: 'I don't plan on putting on a different uniform'
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Jimmy Rollins looked exhausted Wednesday afternoon as he left Ashburn Field at Carpenter Complex for the air conditioned Phillies clubhouse at Bright House Field.
There were a couple of reasons for that.
First, Rollins' 21-month-old daughter has an ear infection and could not sleep through the night. Second, Phillies bench coach Larry Bowa used his fungo bat like a semi-automatic weapon to pepper him and his teammates with ground balls during a spirited workout.
Camp Sandberg is fun, Rollins said, "but it's Camp Bowa when we're on the field. He's trying to make us quick. Same old Bo. Bo and Vuke [former coach John Vukovich], always trying to make you quick. 'You had enough? You had enough?' Everybody out there is like, 'Damn, they kicked our butts today.' We're 1-1. We got them yesterday. We wore them out yesterday. Today they got us."
Rollins smiled. He enjoyed it.
Two days into camp, Rollins said he sees no reason why he will not rebound from the worst season of his career in 2013, when he hit .252 with six home runs, 39 RBIs, 65 runs scored, 22 stolen bases and a career-low .667 OPS. He ranked 12th out of 17 qualifying shortstops in OPS and 131st out of 140 qualifying players in the big leagues, which has some convinced the 35-year-old's best days have passed.
"It's only been one year," Rollins said. "2013 just wasn't it. People like to believe it's been a long time, but it was just 2013. It's just the truth of it."
Rollins said on the final day of last season, it was tough to play with nothing at stake.
Maybe a better start brings a better Rollins.
"I never stopped playing," he said. "It's just that nothing is on the line. You're never going to stop competing because as long as the pitcher is on the mound; you're not going to embarrass me. I'm not out here for my health. I'm still going to try to win."
But few outside the clubhouse and front office seem to think it can happen in Philadelphia. The Phils lost 89 games last season, finishing toward the bottom of the National League in scoring and ERA.
Rollins takes no offense.
"Honestly, a lot of it is just the way people view the organization," he said. "We were the first to lose 10,000 games. We have a long history of not winning. We just had a stretch of winning, but that's still going to be the perception. Then you have an organization like the Yankees. If they make two moves they're the best team in baseball again. But it's perception. It's always good to be favored, but when you're not …"
But it isn't that the Phillies just aren't favored. It's that some think the team is done.
"They're correct, it is done," Rollins said of the team's run of five consecutive NL East titles from 2007-11, which included two NL pennants and one World Series championship. "But so are the last two. We're onto the next chapter."
Rollins' next chapter with the Phils almost certainly includes him picking up 60 hits this season to pass Mike Schmidt for the most hits in franchise history. Rollins enters the season with 2,175. He trails only Hall of Famers Ed Delahanty (2,211), Richie Ashburn (2,217) and Schmidt (2,234).
"That's very cool," Rollins said. "It's not a new organization."
The Phillies have been around since 1883.
The Rays and Marlins they are not.
"I've worn this uniform a long time," Rollins said. "You can't not wear the same uniform for a long time and be in a position to be a leader in different categories. They're fun when they're offensive. It'll take a hell of a hitter and a hell of a power hitter to ever pass [Schmidt] in home runs. He might have that for a long, long, long time. But I have a chance to become the all-time hits leader. It's something [general manager] Ruben [Amaro Jr.] and [former manager] Charlie [Manuel] started to bring up two years ago. I had no idea."
Rollins said last July he had no plans to waive his 5-and-10 trade rights because "there are still a couple of things I'd like to be No. 1 in for this organization, so until those things are done, I'm not going anywhere."
It upset some fans that Rollins mentioned sticking around to break records.
"I don't plan on putting on a different uniform," Rollins repeated Wednesday. "That's just the way it is. I could say it that way. I could say I've got work I need to do. I could say I've got records I need to break. I could say I want to win another World Series or two. They would love that because it's said the way they want to hear it. But we weren't going to win a World Series last year, so I couldn't make that statement at that moment. It doesn't matter how it's said. I really don't plan on putting on another uniform.
"If I say something wrong, get on me. If I speak the truth, you can get on me, but it's not going to bother me. That's the thing. I'm straightforward. I'll be politically correct because I have to be at times, but I'm straightforward."
Fans loved when Rollins boldly proclaimed the Phils the team to beat in the NL East in 2007 or would win 100 games in 2008. (They did, including the postseason.) Rollins is out of the bold prognostication business, but he said he likes this team. He also likes his chances to bounce back.
"If they say we're bad, if they say we're good, it's like, 'OK,'" Rollins said. "I don't get excited until I get on the field and see it myself."


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Public access fight over Manning docs in Md. court
BALTIMORE (AP) — A government lawyer said Monday the U.S. Army has released the vast majority of court records in Pfc. Bradley Manning's case and told a civilian judge the dispute over the records had become moot.
A lawyer for a constitutional rights group said there were still problems with public access and the military should make records from the soldier's court-martial available faster.
The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights and other groups, including The Associated Press, have argued for more than a year that documents related to the Manning case were being released too slowly, if at all. The center initially petitioned an Army court for better access to the documents, but the nation's highest military court said earlier this year that it wasn't the right place for the dispute. Some of the judges suggested the dispute could be heard by a civilian court.
On Monday, a lawyer for the U.S. government, John Tyler, said the Army has now made the majority of the disputed documents accessible online and questioned whether federal court judge Ellen L. Hollander should get involved in the dispute.
"This case started because they wanted access to pretrial records. They have access to pre-trial records," Tyler said.
The Army made hundreds of pre-trial documents available online in early June as the court-martial began, and lawyers said just a few largely classified documents were not made public.
Tyler said the Army has promised to make trial records available online as well, normally within a one- to two-day time frame, as the court-martial continues at Fort Meade. That will allow classified information to be redacted before the documents are released, he said.
A lawyer for the center, Shayana Kadidal, objected to the turnaround time, saying in many instances that one to two days would be "inadequate." Providing those documents sooner so the media can use them "facilitates reporting on what actually happens in the courtroom" and allows the public to serve a "fact-checking" role, he said.
But Hollander seemed skeptical the turnaround time was too long.
"What's wrong with that?" she said.
Kadidal said neither transcripts nor audio of pre-trial proceedings have been made public and one or the other should be. Kadidal also objected to some of the redactions in currently available documents, including names of potential witnesses.
The judge and the government attorney suggested those names wouldn't be accessible in a civilian trial.
Manning's court-martial began its third week Monday. Manning has acknowledged giving a massive amount of sensitive information to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, but said it did not harm national security. He faces numerous charges, including aiding the enemy, which carries a potential life sentence.
The Center for Constitutional Rights is representing itself as well as WikiLeaks, its founder Julian Assange and several left-leaning pundits and publications that want access to the documents. More than 30 news organizations, including AP, supported the center's request for greater access.
The judge will issue a written ruling later.
Center for Constitutional Rights: https://ccrjustice.org/about
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The Role and Status of Africans in Spanish St. Augustine
Prepared by Jeannie Dunn, Gloria Ferguson, S.lun ha Garver, Esperanza Kane, Cary
Palmieri, Mary Alice Schad, and K. C. S.,ith
Intended Grade: 3rd 5th
Correlation to National or Sunshine State Standards:
SS.A.1.2. The student understands historical chronology and the historical
SS.A.4.2. The student understands US history to 1880.
LA.B.2.2. The student writes to communicate ideas and information effectively.
LA.E.2.2. The student responds critically to fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
Performance Standards: [unspecified]
The students will identify the rights of Africans in St. Augustine during the 18th
Approximate Time Required: [unspecified]
Materials Required:
KWL foldable
Chart paper
To Be a Slave by Julius Lester (Scholastic Inc., New York, 1968)
Fort Mose Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom by Kathleen Deagan
& Darcie MacMahon (University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 1995).
Sterling and Delaney Manumission Case (enough for each group)
Bag filled with even numbers of Xs and O's (enough for entire class).
Teacher Preparation:
Teachers should familiarize themselves with the texts, especially the sections
of Fort Mose dealing with Spanish laws governing slavery, laws in Florida
providing sanctuary for slaves running from the English colonies, and
provisions for manumission (legal statement of freedom).
First Activity-the nature of injustice
Students will choose at random an X or O from bag at the start of day.
Throughout the day, the students who have Xs will have to do more work and
will be treated differently than those who have O's.
For example, teacher might move the Xstudents' desks to the back of the room and the
others to the front. The Xstudents might have to clean out their desks while the O's have
free time to read.
Students then (with the aid of teacher) will create KWL foldables on the subject of
their knowledge of the rights of Africans in St. Augustine (see example and
After completion of chart, teacher will read a section of To Be a Slave by Julius
Teacher will explain to students that both enslaved and free Africans in the
Spanish St. Augustine community had rights. See in particular Fort Mose pp. 1-8
and 15-22 and p. 30.
Enslaved: ............... held against one's will as the property of a person or
Free:........ ........ not controlled by the laws or will of others; having liberty
Manumission: ......... the act of freeing a slave from bondage
Primary Source: ..... a document, artifact, or evidence that is original to the
event or time period being studied
In closing the students will complete the final parts of their KWL and then chose a
topic to write about. Some possible choices are:
Write to a slave or to a freed slave and share your feelings.
Write about a time you were treated unfairly and how that made you feel.
Evaluation and Grading:
Writing sample and teacher observation.
Petition by Juana Sterling regarding the legal status of her children
Juana Sterling was a freed slave who had two children with a white
landowner, Daniel A. Delany (her former master). They resided very close to
the Georgia border in Florida. As news arrived that Florida would be ceded to
the United States, Sterling and Delany feared their children might be turned
into slaves. They wanted written proof that the children were free, and they
wanted this proof to be included in the government files of St. Augustine.
They asked Spanish officials in Florida to draw up documents stating that
their children were free people of color, and had never been slaves.
From Senior Captain of the Post Santa Maria:
Juana Sterling a free mulatto and native of this province with due respect
presents herself and says:
That the attached document of manumission in the English language was
given to me by my owner, Don Daniel A. Delany, who is also the father of my
two children, Bertha and Thomas. And wanting to safeguard the children and
their legal status I ask your Majesty to order whoever you see fit to translate
these documents, place them in the archives of the province, and give me
proof that this has been done.
On the edge of the St. Mary River, on the 3rd day of August, 1818.
For M. Sterling
Response to Juana Sterling's Petition:
Juana Sterling received the following response to her petition to legally
declare that her children were free. The individual who wrote the response
was George J.F. Clarke, the governor's local magistrate for the section of
Florida near Georgia.
St. Mary, 10 August 1818
Let it be done as she asks and to that effect Don Francisco and Don Pedro
Pons are witnesses of assistance and Don Domingo Acosta is interpreter.
3. Hold in landscape position. 5, Inside upper right and lower right quadrant label:
Open and cut out upper left quadrant WHAT I LEARNED
6. Fold down upper right quadrant.
Label top of folded right quadrant:
1. Make hot dog fold and crease
4. Inside lower left quadrant label: 2. Make hamburger fold and crease and then reopen.
9. Turn booklet over and on back label:
7. Fold lower left quadrant over lower right quadrant. WHAT I STILL WANT TO LEARN
Label: KWL: _topic) *
B. Write your name and decorate cover.


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Raw Air 2017 was held in March 2017 in Norway at four different ski jumping hills - Oslo, Lillehammer, Trondheim and Vikersund.
Vikersund Hill is a ski flying hill, in Modum, Norway. and it is the largest in the world. Nine world records have been set on this hill, with the current one at 253.5 meters set by Stefan Kraft (Austria) on the 18th March 2017.
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Have I mentioned how much I love using Evernote? I use it almost every day to clip websites for web research and other stuff I want to save. Plus now, I'm using it to organize all my grad school info and notes. The best thing is the way it syncs and works seamlessly across all my devices. Laptop, sure. But the Kindle and Android phone apps are almost slicker. My favorite feature is related to appointments in my calendar. When I'm at the appointment and click New Note in the widget on my phone, it starts a new note with the title of the appointment—as if it knows where I'm at! The first time it did that, I was like, how did it know!?
There are things I would improve—like spell check for tags when you clip articles, and I wish it would recognize if I'd already clipped an article. Also, once in a while I'm at a strange computer and just want to look something up or print from my Evernote account: The web browser version is painfully slow, especially on older machines, and it ends up freezing a lot. Also, I miss the way I could paste text or images pretty much as is into OneNote—there are some formatting issues in Evernote. But the pros far outweigh the cons, in my opinion.
I am not affiliated with Evernote. Just having a geek moment. That is all.


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Steve Case emerged from the most maligned merger in American business history to become one of the nation's leading proponents of entrepreneurship. Backing innovation across a wide range of industries through his Revolution investment company and working tirelessly on Capitol Hill to push legislation in support of small business, this online pioneer is bringing big ideas to life--through drive, leadership and a personal touch.
Steve Case likes to talk about the transcendent joy of entrepreneurship more than just about anyone you've ever met. And he has a lot to say.
On a warm and sunny afternoon in midtown Manhattan, Case is sitting inside the Casablanca Hotel, expounding on a topic that seems to have dazzled him since he was a schoolboy in Hawaii. This morning, at Nasdaq headquarters, the guy who stewarded America Online through its halcyon days held forth on technology and business trends before an audience of 150 tech entrepreneurs at the prestigious annual gathering known as F.ounders.
"The only way to continue to have a robust economy is to out-innovate other nations." --Steve Case
When Case talks about entrepreneurship, he likes to come back to the same word: disrupt. In fact, the investment firm Case founded seven years ago, Revolution, defines its mission in part as building"disruptive" companies. That's because in Case's view, the best entrepreneur is one who throws custom to the wind, upsetting the established order of a given industry.
"It's usually a sign of kind of a big idea," he says."You're not just trying to do something marginally, incrementally better. You're doing something that is a fundamental paradigm shift, that will have exponential impact. That means it's harder to do, but ultimately, if it's successful, the impact it has is far greater."
As someone who played a leading role in turning the internet into a transformative force for good and profit, Case has a solid history as a disrupter. And he's come a long way since the dark days of the disastrous merger of AOL and Time Warner, a debacle for which Case, rightly or wrongly, received much of the blame. (The widely criticized deal, in which AOL bought Time Warner for a reported $160 billion-plus, remains the largest merger in the history of American business.) Case resigned as chairman of the board of the combined company in 2003, and two years later he started his investment firm, reaching into his personal fortune to dole out a total of roughly $200 million to early-stage companies--among them Zipcar and LivingSocial, pioneers in their respective industries of car-sharing and daily deals--that he felt had tapped into the big ideas he so covets.
Then, late last year, with former AOL colleagues Ted Leonsis and Donn Davis, Case founded a $450 million venture capital fund known as Revolution Growth. The fund is used for larger investments--typically $25 million to $50 million--in what Case calls"later-stage growth companies."
Meanwhile, over the past two years, Case has enmeshed himself in public policy issues, advising the White House and lawmakers from both parties on matters related to entrepreneurship. Given his credentials, when Case talks--particularly about the role of the entrepreneur in the resuscitation of the American economy--people tend to listen."Because he's a brand," says a longtime friend, Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia,"congressmen will take his call."
Disrupter-in-Chief: Steve Case at Revolution's Washington, D.C., headquarters. Photo © Getty Images
On Capitol Hill, Case has advocated for legislation that would help startup entrepreneurs raise more capital and make it easier for foreign-born entrepreneurs to start companies in the U.S. One bill, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, enables entrepreneurs to raise capital by issuing equity online, a newly permitted form of crowdfunding. In April, when President Obama signed the bill into law in a Rose Garden ceremony, Case stood nearby. A month later, when Warner and three other senators introduced a follow-up bill known as Startup Act 2.0 at a Capitol Hill press conference, Case was there, too.
In the first dozen years of the new millennium, in fact, Case, now 54, has emerged as perhaps the most high-profile champion of the American entrepreneur, devoted not only to the success of his own robust portfolio--Forbes has estimated his net worth at $1.7 billion--but to a cause no less noble than the enduring vitality of the American economy. Call him the Disrupter-in-Chief.
"We've had a great run as a nation," Case says."We are, as we sit here, the world's most entrepreneurial nation. But at the same time we shouldn't get cocky or complacent. We need to step up our game, because our global competitors are stepping up their game."
Revolution is Case's answer to Silicon Valley. Case is determined to make it the leading VC firm focused on consumer technology and "disruptive business models" on the East Coast, where the competition is less fierce than around Silicon Valley. As is his custom, Case has surrounded himself with the smartest people he could find. His wife, Jean, the CEO of the family foundation, says it's a habit she recognized back at AOL, where they met."He was never hesitant to have people maybe smarter than he thinks he is around him," she says."He's just figured out how to have a big vision and how to execute it."
At Revolution, which is based in Washington, D.C., Case brought on such heavy hitters as Tige Savage and Philippe Bourguignon. Savage, a former Time Warner vice president, is managing director of Revolution Ventures, which handles the firm's investments in early-stage companies. Bourguignon, a former CEO of Euro Disney, serves a dual role as vice chairman of Revolution Places, which invests in luxury real estate, and CEO of Denver-based Exclusive Resorts, which operates a stable of luxury homes around the globe and is 80 percent owned by Revolution.
Bourguignon had already accepted a position as a business school dean in Paris, where he has a home, when Case asked him to join Revolution. At Case's request, Bourguignon flew to Jamaica, where Case and other Revolution executives were meeting with Island Records founder Chris Blackwell to discuss possible expansion opportunities for Exclusive Resorts. A few days later, Bourguignon flew back to Paris, talked with his wife and changed career plans."The attraction," he says,"was fundamentally and very candidly to work with Steve."
Bourguignon says he especially enjoys that his new employer operates with minimal bureaucracy."At Revolution," he says,"we discuss with Steve, with the other partners; we analyze, we argue, we weigh pros and cons, a decision is made and off you go--no more meetings."
The experience has also allowed Bourguignon to see the human side of Case, who was widely criticized for seeming distant, even aloof, during his abbreviated tenure as chairman of AOL-Time Warner. Eighteen months after starting at Revolution, Bourguignon had to return to Paris to cope with a death in his family. Case told him to take as much time as he needed; his job would be waiting for him when he was ready to return. Case knew something about family crises: His older brother, Dan, an investment banker, was diagnosed with brain cancer a year after the merger with Time Warner was announced. Dan died in June 2002.
Steve and Jean Case, Bourguignon says,"showed they really had compassion. They work with people they like and have respect for and become close to them, so if they are in any sort of pain or trouble or sadness, they're very present, and that's very appreciated."
As investors, Case and his partners don't look for businesses that are interested only in Revolution's cash. Case wants to be an active player, particularly in long-term planning and strategy."They really want us to help them build their company," he says."If all they need is capital, or they just want to flip, we're not the right guys."
Last fall Revolution invested in a New York City company, GramercyOne, that Case describes as"OpenTable for everything except restaurants." Josh McCarter, CEO of GramercyOne, says Case and his partners have indeed been involved,"but in a supportive way." The Revolution Ventures team has advised the company on finding top talent, and McCarter says he's had the team interview all applicants for high-level executive positions. He's been happily surprised to discover how accessible Case has been as a business partner.
McCarter has even received a few weekend e-mails from Case.
"They're just very upstanding guys," McCarter says."When they say they're going to do something, they follow through on it. Their responsiveness, compared to other venture firms we met with, was just night and day. When we had questions and concerns, we'd get a response the same day or the next day at worst. They not only make introductions, their credibility and connections allowed us to capture capital and move very quickly to sew up the investment."
Revolution has invested in more than two dozen companies thus far. Revolution Growth, which has backed another three, expects to invest in roughly a dozen; its first was FedBid, which helps companies and government agencies buy goods online through a reverse-auction marketplace. Case says in five years the company could be saving the federal government more than $1 billion annually.
"I like ... what I characterize as more built-to-last ideas rather than built-to-flip ideas." --Steve Case
"Because of our involvement, they clearly have been able to attract a stronger team, a stronger board, establish stronger relationships with both buyers and sellers and expand more rapidly into new sectors," Case says."The capital was part of it, but of the top five things they were looking for, capital was probably number five."
So what attracts Case to invest in a business?"I like big ideas," he says."I don't like little ideas. The ones that captivate me are people that really are thinking big, thinking longer-term--what I characterize as more built-to-last ideas rather than built-to-flip ideas.
"If they really have a long-term view," he adds,"if they really are trying to swing for the fences and change the world, and really want some help in thinking through what to do and figuring out how to scale their company, establishing strategic partnerships or creating more visibility, that makes it more interesting and more satisfying."
Revolution Growth has given Case a higher-stakes role as a business mentor. It's a role he seems to relish, perhaps because he knows he has a lot of wisdom to impart. He says he has learned many lessons from his own mistakes, mainly having to do with staffing."I think that's the mistake most people usually make," he says."In terms of not really getting the right people, either delegating too much or delegating too little, or, if you need to make a change, not making the change soon enough.
"Even the merger with Time Warner--which obviously was frustrating--I stepped down as CEO as part of it because I believed it was the right deal to do," he adds."The reason the combined company wasn't able to execute on that idea mostly had to do with people--different philosophies, coming from different perspectives. So ultimately it really broke down over people issues."
Case says he's also learned important lessons about the fault lines that divide the business landscape. As he describes it, the business world consists of attackers and defenders."And entrepreneurs are the attackers," he says."They change the status quo, disrupt the status quo, usher in a new, better way. Large companies--Fortune 500 companies--are really defenders, trying to protect what they have.
"After America Online and Time Warner merged," he continues,"it shifted us from being an attacker to a defender. In an economy that's challenged, the incumbents, the big companies … are playing defense, not offense, which creates opportunities for entrepreneurs who are willing to play offense as long as they have the capital and the expertise to be able to successfully pursue that disruptive strategy. So I think there's going to be enormous entrepreneurial innovation over the next decade."
Case has lived in or near Washington for close to 30 years now, and his advocacy for legislative issues pertaining to the internet dates to the 1980s and his work at AOL, so he's accustomed to finding himself in the company of elected officeholders. But not until July 2010, when U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke asked him to co-chair the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, did Case take on a Capitol Hill leadership role on matters most dear to entrepreneurs.
As an entrepreneurial cheerleader, Case stays relentlessly on-message. He has appeared on a panel at the Brookings Institution, spoken to the Economic Club of Washington, authored op-eds in The Washington Post and chatted with Charlie Rose--all in an effort to boost the collective fate of entrepreneurs across the nation. He likes to cite a recent Kauffman Foundation report that says in the past three decades, startup companies have generated about 40 million jobs, accounting for all of America's net job growth during that period.
"Policy around entrepreneurship is critical," Case says."Our country is only going to be as stable as our economy, and our economy is only going to be propelled by innovation and entrepreneurship. To the extent I have the ability to have some impact there, some voice there, as long as that can continue to be the case, I'm happy to spend some amount of time on that."
One assignment led to another. Six months after Locke called, the White House tapped Case to lead the Startup America Partnership, part of the Obama administration's effort to promote entrepreneurship (the initiative receives funding from the Case Foundation and the Kauffman Foundation). At about the same time, Obama created the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, known as the Jobs Council, and asked Case to chair the subcommittee on entrepreneurship and high-growth companies. As it turns out, Case and Obama attended the same elite high school--the Punahou School in Honolulu--although Case has only fleeting memories of the future president, a freshman when Case was a senior.
American history is rife with presidential panels that meet for six or nine or 12 months only to produce a 3-inch-thick report that then gathers dust on the bookshelves of Washington bureaucrats. But Case took to his task with characteristic doggedness. The council generated a series of recommendations for improving the economic climate for entrepreneurs. Those recommendations led Case to initiate discussions with Republicans and Democrats in the House and Senate. And those discussions led, ultimately, to the JOBS Act.
Sen. Warner of Virginia is blunt when asked to assess Case's role in the success of the JOBS Act."I don't think it would have passed without Steve's efforts," he says.
The bill's passage proved to be that most rare achievement in Washington these days: a bipartisan proposal aimed at improving the economy. In his zeal to get pro-entrepreneur legislation passed, Case has insisted on working across party lines. ("You can ask," he says, when the subject of his own political affiliation is broached,"but I'm not going to tell you.") Among Democrats, Case has worked closely with Warner and Delaware Sen. Chris Coons. Among Republicans, Case has teamed with Sens. Jerry Moran of Kansas and Marco Rubio of Florida, as well as Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, who has known Case for several years.
Cantor says Case was instrumental in bridging Washington's notorious partisan divide to get the JOBS Act through both houses of Congress."It was Steve who said, 'I'll help you with the White House. I'll get you support there.' That was pivotal in pushing it through the House in a huge bipartisan vote," Cantor says."I appreciate somebody who can cut through a lot of the red tape or all the excuses for not producing results and say, 'We need to be results-oriented.' That's the way he operates."
As Case sees it, gathering support for the JOBS Act was really a matter of appealing to the best interests of lawmakers from both parties.
"Right now both Republicans and Democrats are really concerned about the economy and the unemployment rate and economic growth, and the data suggests that all the growth really happens from entrepreneurial companies," Case says."Seems like we've identified a set of things that could happen to help entrepreneurial companies and drive growth. Seems like people, if they looked at that, would believe it's the right thing from a policy standpoint. But frankly, it would also be in their self-interest from a political standpoint. Because then when they run for reelection, they can say, 'Well, I did something for entrepreneurship to help create jobs and ensure our competitiveness.'"
In advocating for entrepreneurs, Case has shown he is not afraid to take part in the often messy process of legislative sausage-making. Lawmakers who have witnessed Case's lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill say they're surprised to see someone of his stature (to say nothing of his tax bracket) toil so relentlessly on bills that many believed would go nowhere, especially in an election year."I was told this by a lot of people I respect: 'Why are you spending time on this? Nothing is going to happen. I love your optimism, but you're crazy,'" Case says.
"I would give him great credit," Warner says of Case."Maybe he was naive, but to his credit … he actually thought you could get this stuff done."
Recalling the legislative thrust and parry in which he engaged while pushing for passage of the JOBS Act, Case invokes his first lesson in entrepreneurship--persistence--and a legislative calculus that he calls"the art of the possible." He remembers when AOL was in its infancy, when only 3 percent of Americans were online as much as one hour a week."There was no evidence that people actually wanted this stuff," Case says."So first we had to explain, 'Well, here's why we think people someday will want this stuff, and someday why it will be ubiquitous.' If you can't do that, you can't attract a team, you can't attract capital, you can't attract partners. On the policy side, it's not just believing the policy is important, but believing there is some possibility of something happening."
Case is not finished trying to make things happen in Washington. These days he's pushing for passage of Startup Act 2.0, which aspires to help American companies hire foreign-born workers with skills in science, technology, engineering and mathematics--the so-called STEM fields. The bill would create two new types of visas: one that would allow foreign students who earn graduate degrees from U.S. universities in STEM fields to remain in the country; the other to offer permanent residence to immigrants who start successful companies.
Case describes the bill as an attempt to help America win the global competition for high-skilled talent."Right now," he says,"over half the people who come to our universities to get Ph.D.s and master's degrees [in STEM fields] are from other nations. We give them this education, then we kick them out and essentially force them to create companies that compete against us. It's completely insane."
The bill, of course, treads on immigration policy, and for that reason it hasn't been embraced as quickly or as widely as the JOBS Act. Case does not pretend the bill is perfect, or that it solves all of America's prickly immigration issues, but he does believe it's a good idea.
"I'd much rather have challengers of the great American industries and enterprises be new American entrepreneurs, as opposed to others in other parts of the world," he says."But there's always going to be a mix. The only way to continue to have a robust economy is to out-innovate other nations, and the only way to out-innovate other nations is to have an entrepreneurial culture and the support structure around capital and talent and regulation that enables the United States to be in the lead. Other countries are stepping up their game. They've recognized that the secret sauce that's driven the American economy for the past century is entrepreneurship."
Case considers his foray into the tumult of Washington policy and politics as the third chapter of his career, following his work at AOL and Revolution. Although he studied political science at Williams College in Massachusetts, he never had much taste for political life. Still doesn't.
"Obviously, it's not my passion," Case says."But I think it's important for the nation. I personally think my best and highest use is being an entrepreneur and being a mentor to entrepreneurs. I think I have a reputation as someone who couldn't care less about the politics of talking points and negativity and more about finding the common ground that unites us as opposed to the wedge issues that divide us. So I think that bipartisan, almost nonpartisan, bent has been helpful."
So what does the future hold for Case? In 10, or 20, or 30 years, would he like to be doing what he's doing now? The very question elicits an expression that seems to call into question the sanity of his inquisitor."I like it," Case says of his chosen vocation, and he cites as a good model--at least on the investing side--the work of his friend Warren Buffett."I'd like to do it as long as I feel like I'm having an impact. It's what I do. It's how I'm wired.
"It's not like we've solved all our global problems and everything's perfect," he adds."There's work to be done. And entrepreneurship is being part of making the world a better place."
It's really not difficult to imagine Case at 80--or 85, or 90--as engaged as ever in the business of American business, still captivated by big ideas and brimming with his own. Still investing. Still mentoring. Still advocating. Still disrupting.
Sharing the Wealth
Revolution's various units have invested in a diverse range of businesses in such fields as healthy living, education, luxury travel and web analytics. Here are some of the companies that have benefited.
BenchPrep: Test-prep courses for web, smartphone and iPad.
BrainScope: Medical neurotechnology company developing instruments for care of traumatic brain injuries.
Cacique: Luxury resort community in Costa Rica.
Echo360: On-demand lectures and collaborative learning platform for universities.
ePals: Education technology and social learning networks for elementary and high-school children.
Everyday Health: Personalized online health information.
Exclusive Resorts: Members-only luxury travel club.
Extend Health: Online resource for finding healthcare coverage.
FedBid: Online marketplace targeted to businesses and government agencies.
Gaiam: Healthful lifestyle products.
GramercyOne: Cloud-based business management and marketing software.
Grove Farm: Hawaiian land development.
HelloWallet: Online financial advice and budgeting tools.
Koofers: Online network for sharing university study materials and professor/course reviews.
LivingSocial: Daily deals.
Loosecubes: Online office-sharing network.
Miraval: Luxury spa and resort in Tucson, Ariz. (pictured above)newBrandAnalytics: Social marketing analytics for the hospitality industry.
Personal: Online and mobile platform for securely storing private data that can be shared with personal network.
RunKeeper: App for tracking workouts.
SnagFilms: Distributor of independent films.
SparkPeople: Online resources for weight loss.
UberMedia: Developer of social media products and apps.
Vinfolio: Online wine marketplace.
Zipcar: Car-sharing network. (pictured at right)
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NEW YORK (AP) — To no surprise, Adele's "25" is the best-selling album on iTunes for 2015.
Apple announced Wednesday that Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' "Uptown Funk" was the year's biggest single, while Adele's "Hello" is sixth on the songs list.
Ed Sheeran's "Thinking out Loud," Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's "See You Again," Maroon 5's "Sugar" and "Shut Up and Dance" by Walk the Moon ranked second through fifth, respectively.
Coincidently, "Uptown Funk" and "Thinking out Loud" earned Grammy nominations for record of the year on Monday, while "Thinking out Loud" and "See You Again" will compete for song of the year.
Drake's "If You're Reading This It's Too Late" was second behind "25" on the albums list. Drake's album with fellow rapper-singer Future, "What a Time to Be Alive," ranked sixth.
Taylor Swift's "1989," the "Fifth Shades of Grey" soundtrack and Justin Bieber's "Purpose" rounded out the Top 5.
The Weeknd earned three songs in the Top 20 with "Earned It" (No.9), "Can't Feel My Face" (No.11) and "The Hills" (No.15). Swift's "Blank Space" and "Style" came in at Nos. 18 and 20, respectively.


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Shares of EMC (EMC) are up 17 cents, or 0.7%, at $24.47 as several Street observers reflect on what to expect Wednesday morning when the company holds an analyst day in New York along with executives of VMware (VMW), the company in which EMC holds a majority stake.
VMware shares are up 88 cents, or 1%, at $75.44.
RBC Capital's Amit Daryanani, who has an Outperform rating on EMC shares, and a $30 price target, and a Sector Perform rating on VMware shares, and a $90 price target, writes that the meeting "hould be a key catalyst for EMC as investors gain insight into the various opportunities/threats that exist for EMC across their verticals."
Like other analysts, Daryanani is focused on something called "the Pivotal Initiative," a Big Data/analytics project including resources from the company's Greenplum and Pivotal Labs acquisitions, and from VMware, and run by EMC chief strategist Paul Maritz:
We believe this will represent a big focus point at the Analyst Day. The Pivotal Initiative will be headed by Paul Maritz and will focus on enabling developers to build applicators on top of big data platforms. Notably, this will be EMC's shift towards becoming a "platform provider". Effectively, this gives EMC/VMW a product (or platform) to compete against the likes of Amazon Web Services […] What we know is that it should revolve around joint Big Data and cloud application platform assets and will be headed by former VMW CEO and current EMC Chief Strategy Officer Paul Maritz. Assets that we expect to be a part of the initiative include vFabric (Spring and GemFire), Cloud Foundry, and Cetas from VMware and Greenplum and Pivotal Labs from EMC. All together VMware should have ~600 employees working on the project compared to ~800 from EMC.
Daryanani adds that "Our VMware revenue estimates may potentially be reduced somewhat following the event depending upon what assets VMware will be contributing to the project, how they will be compensated and the ownership of Pivotal."
And ISI Group's Brian Marshall, who has a Buy rating on EMC, and a $36 price target, writes that he expects,
EMC will likely discuss: 1) a new 3-5 year financial framework, 2) the Pivotal Initiative (led by Paul Maritz), and 3) the strategic vision for intersecting key trends (e.g., big data analytics, cloud storage, software-defined datacenters, security, etc.).
Marshall thinks the company will offer a long-term profit update that may cheer investors:
Recall EMC's "stale" financial framework (given in early 2011) called for ~$28bil in revenue in 2014 predicated on ~5-6% overall IT spending growth. Given the current global slowdown and below trend-line IT spending patterns (i.e., 2-3% growth in 2012 and 2013), we believe EMC will update its 3-5 year EPS framework on Wednesday. Specifically, ISI's 2016 EPS framework approaching ~$3.00 for EMC is based on annual revenue growth ~10% (+/- 200bps) and EPS growth of ~15% (+/- 200bps) – see figure 1 for details. In our view, this potential framework is more attractive than IBM's long-term model (i.e., ~10% EPS growth with minimal revenue growth) and could result in a "two-bagger" in EMC stock over the next several years (e.g., assuming a 13-15x P/E multiple on 2016 EPS approaching ~$3.00).
FactSet does not yet offer a a Street consensus for EMC earnings for 2016, but the year before, 2015, is at $2.32 per share.
And Mark Moerdler of Bernstein Research this morning reiterates a Market Perform rating on both EMC and VMW, writing that underperformance from VMware stock may continue to weigh on EMC:
While we believe that EMC's recent underperformance provides a more attractive entry point for investors, the question remains whether EMC can outperform in the near-to-medium term if VMW continues to lag the market. Our analysis suggests that it can, but probabilistically, it is less likely: when VMW is underperforming, EMC has outperformed the S&P just 30-40% of the time over 1, 3 and 6 month periods. By contrast, EMC has outperformed 70%-80%+ of the time when VMware is outperforming. Our analyses suggest that EMC's stock may need improved VMware performance to deliver material upside.
Note that EMC stock today also received an initiation of coverage from Longbow Research's Joe Wittine with a Buy rating and a $30 price target.


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Bull Trout
The bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) is actually a member of the char genus, a relative of the true trout and salmon. Char can be differentiated from trout and salmon by their light spots on a dark background. Trout and salmon have dark spots on a light background. In Montana, bull trout are native to rivers, streams and lakes in the Columbia (Kootenai, Clark Fork, Bitterroot, Blackfoot, Flathead, and Swan drainages) and Saskatchewan River (St. Mary and Belly drainages) basins.
The bull trout is a long-lived species, generally reaching sexual maturity at five years of age. They spawn in small streams between late August and early November, building nests, or " redds", in which they lay their eggs. The hatched fry do not emerge from the redds until the following spring. Bull trout may eventually grow greater than 3 feet in length and weigh more than 20 pounds.
Montana bull trout display various life history strategies. Some bull trout are residents, spending their entire lives in a single stream. Other bull trout have migratory life histories, either living in major rivers as sub-adults and adults and then migrating into smaller tributaries to spawn (fluvial) or living in lakes and reservoirs as sub-adult and adults and migrating into tributaries to spawn (adfluvial). Migratory bull trout can move great distances (>150 miles) in response to environmental changes and spawning cues.
Bull trout have very specific habitat needs for many of its stages, making it more vulnerable to environmental degradation than most other salmonids. Adult bull trout require cold water temperatures, clean cobble/boulder substrates, and overhead cover. Spawning redds are only constructed in stream reaches where upwelling ground water is available to aerate the buried eggs. Bull trout eggs are easily smothered by low levels of silt. Emerging fry and juveniles require clean rock stream substrates with sufficient open spaces for them to hide in as they develop into sub-adults.
The bull trout is a Montana Species of Concern and was listed as "threatened" by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1998. Declines in bull trout abundance and distribution have been caused by habitat loss and degradation from land and water management practices; population isolation and fragmentation from dams and other barriers; competition, predation and hybridization with introduced non-native fish species (lake trout, northern pike, brook trout and others); historical overharvest; and poaching. Although their numbers and distribution have declined from historical levels, bull trout populations exhibiting resident and migratory life histories can be found throughout their historic range in Montana.


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Atlantic Club Casino Seeks Bankruptcy Protection
The Atlantic Club Casino Hotel filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday, the second Atlantic City casino to do so this year.
Half the city's casinos have sought bankruptcy protection in the past six years.
The Atlantic Club, formerly known as the Atlantic City Hilton, says it will remain open as it seeks a buyer.
Michael Frawley, the casino's chief operating officer, said its strategy of offering low-priced gambling, food and entertainment has been working, but not fast enough.
"We believe in our property's positioning and the value-centric niche we committed to nearly 18 months ago," he said. "Our creative branding campaign and the tremendous efforts of our employees have resulted in property growth within a continually challenged market. Unfortunately, the market has taken longer to rebound than we had hoped."
Frawley said the bankruptcy process will be open-ended and said there is no time limit on finding a buyer in bankruptcy court. He said the casino, hotel and restaurants will remain open and operate on normal schedules.
"We have ample funding to carry us through this process, and anticipate a seamless transition for our employees and guests. It will be business as usual at The Atlantic Club."
In its bankruptcy filing, the casino did not list its assets and liabilities. It is asking the court to allow it until Dec. 20 to list them.
The casino is owned by the Los Angeles hedge fund Colony Capital.
The city's southernmost casino has struggled in Atlantic City's cutthroat gambling market. A deal to sell it to the world's largest poker website, PokerStars, fell through this year, and PokerStars allied itself with Resorts Casino Hotel to offer Internet gambling.
The Atlantic Club joins Revel Casino Hotel as casinos who sought Chapter 11 protection this year. Revel emerged from bankruptcy court in May.
Since 2007, when the Tropicana Casino and Hotel was stripped of its casino license and filed for bankruptcy, six of Atlantic City's 12 casinos have done so. The three casinos that at the time were owned by Trump Entertainment Resorts went through bankruptcy court -- for the third time -- in 2009.
Each of those casinos has emerged from bankruptcy court and continues to operate.
The rapid expansion of casino gambling in the eastern United States has put tremendous pressure on a resort that for decades was the only place outside Nevada that offered legal casino gambling. The development of casinos in neighboring Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, Maryland and Connecticut has cut deeply into Atlantic City's market.
In 2006, when the first Pennsylvania casino opened, Atlantic City's gambling revenue was $5.2 billion. It fell to just over $3 billion last year and could fall below that figure this year.
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HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? Police are looking for a gunman who burst into a TD Bank on Park Avenue in Weehawken, ordered everyone inside to the floor, and made off with an undisclosed amount of cash. The FBI in Newark said he's apparently Hispanic, in his 30s, about six feet tall, with a medium build.
They said he entered the bank at 1:50 p.m. wearing a a white T-shirt over a dark, ¾-sleeve athletic type shirt, a blue baseball cap (possibly with the word "Cadillac"), aviator sunglasses and a light green scarf.
He waved the gun, "made threatening statements," then took off on foot after grabbing the cash, the FBI said.
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Formats never truly die, but their eras always have a few painful stages of decline. First, there's the arrival of a promising new competitor, then its steady rise, which is invariably followed by a mourning period and the final purging of last-gen products from the market. The last stage of obsolescence for of the long-presumed-dead format is upon us: JVC has announced that production of their single remaining player will stop immediately.
The JVC player was probably only ever intended to service old, supplementary collections of tapes, but my romantic side hopes that at least one person will see this news and think "Aww, shucks, I guess it's finally.time to get one of those Dee-Vee-Dee players." As a comfort to those people, JVC (like others) will continue to offer a few combination players, and at least plans on selling its standalone VCRs until inventory runs out. [TradingMarkets via BBG]


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The game industry job market in Quebec gets another shot in the arm today, as THQ announces plans to open a massive development studio in Montreal, with plans to create more than 400 new jobs over the next five years.
THQ's Montreal Studio, planned to open in 2010, will represent the company's largest development facility, with a focus on developing core titles and supporting its global studio system with other projects. Heading up the new studio will be Dave Gatchel, the former general manager of THQ's Paradigm Entertainment studio, which was shuttered late last year along with several other development facilities.
Montreal once again proves it has the incentive and support system in place to lure in the major game studios.
"Montreal's outstanding pool of creative digital media talent and its highly regarded university system makes this the ideal location to support our future product and technology development needs," said Steve DeCosta, THQ senior vice president, THQ Core Games, Operations and Finance. "Moreover, government support, in the form of reimbursable tax credits and other incentives, enabled Montreal to stand out as the best combination of creative talent and favorable economics of the cities we evaluated for our new studio."
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It's the time of the year to honor the Underrated. The above gallery contains selections by me and by readers, and feel free to add to it. It's an opportunity to call attention to some good work that's not getting enough notice.
As this is a movie blog, most of the people are in film, some are in the arts in general, and a few are neither. I'd like to get the list up to a hundred by the end of the day — and to confine it to arts figures, living and dead, so keep your suggestions coming. Place your suggestions in the comments or write to me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
And if you think some of the people here AREN'T overrated, that they're good but everyone knows that already, don't hesitate to say so.
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Comparisons of 61 residential and 39 business land line telephone tariff call costs, and 350 residential and 177 business call and broadband plans charged by 60 different telecommunications operators and resellers in the United Kingdom, compiled by Magenta Systems Ltd, including direct and indirect access, CPS, VoIP and call through (two stage dialling) schemes. The comparison lists the cheapest telephone calls for both business and residential users using land lines, including bundled broadband packages.
Please note that Magenta Systems Ltd does not sell or recommend any of these tariffs, you need to contact each company specifically. Magenta Systems simply publishes this price information for comparison purposes. Nor do we take any money from these companies to list their information, it is totally impartial. Sorry, but we can not provide advice about the best tariffs for any individual or company, you must compare the prices and make your own choices.
Multiple tariff costs are shown for some operators, for others discounted tariff costs are calculated. The spreadsheet version allows the discount costs to be changed for differing spend levels. The level of detail varies between operators, some supply everything, others just the more common tariff costs. The comparison is updated at least 11 times a year, with operator tariffs being checked every three to six months, the better operators inform us of changes monthly, as they happen. Residential prices all include VAT at 20%, unless otherwise stated.
Non-Members may view the residential tariffs as web pages, but to download them in spreadsheet format or access the various code tables you need to become a paid member. The business pages look identical to the residential pages, they simply contain different companies and figures.
Access to the Business Members Site and Residential Members Site requires a logon name and password, which is emailed once the Membership Form on the secure server has been completed and payment received. Details of information available to Members and the prices is available in the Site Overview. Business members may view and print the tariffs, numbering and operator information from an Acrobat (PDF) file.
State of the Industry attempts to give an overview of recent changes, which operators are being taken over, which have ceased offering services and those in financial difficulty.
Non-Geographic Service Charges
Non-geographic Call Services (NGCS) charging changes from 1st July 2015 to make it easier to understand for consumers. Calls to 084, 087, 09 and 118 calls will comprise a published Service Charge that is the same from all operators, and an extra Access Charge that is determined by the operator that sends your phone bill, which is often similar to the cost of a national call.
The Service Charge is chosen from 100 different charge bands varying from 1p/min to £7.99/min, fixed fee from 5p to £6 per call, and a combination of fixed fee and per minute, originally up to a maximum of £15.98 for the first minute and then £7.99/min. All these prices include VAT. Each service provider has selected new Service Charges for it's existing number ranges and is responsible for advertising this cost to it's customers. Sometimes the new Service Charges are similar to the current charges, often rounded up since many old charge bands had fractional costs (due to VAT changes), but they may vary significantly.
For instance, all 0845 call used to cost the same irrespective of extra digits, but the new Service Charge varies from 1p to 7p/min depending on the next three code digits, and 0870 varies between 1p and 13p/min, both with the additional Access Charge.
Our CodeLook tool may be used to see the charges for any NGCS number for which a Service Charge has been allocated and shows the price of calls of various lengths combined with the Access Charge for each operator.Ofcom introduced a maximum directory enquires call cost from 1st April 2019. which meant many directory enquiry services moved to cheaper service charge bands, and from 1st May 2019 several service charge bands changed price to match the new Ofcom maximum price for the first 90 seconds.
Operator Access Charges
The Access Charge is always charged for each minute, even for Service Charge fixed fee calls, and for fixed line calls is often the same as national telephone calls (01/02/03). These calls will normally be charged for a minimum of one minute, but will not have a call setup cost (unless part of the Service Charge) so some short calls may even be cheaper (set-up is 20p or more) There is no change to 07 mobile and personal call costs. This new charging regime only applies to residential calling, business calling may continue to use the old charge bands, new Service Charges sometimes with extra set-up added, or choose their own prices, as TalkTalk Business has done.
Residential Tariffs - including VAT
In the past, many operators added a 10% or 20% surcharge to non-geographic calls which could add up to £1/min, so these new Access Charges reduce the difference in call costs between operators significantly. But the high access charges means the cost of most 08x calls that used to be 0.5p to 10p/min are now much higher. Ofcom originally expected some operators to include the Access Charge in free call bundles, but only EE is doing this for 0845/0870 calls only, so far. Some operators still include inclusive 0845 and/or 0870 calls without Access or Service Charge if 01/02/03 is inclusive, including BT, PlusNet, Post Office, Sky and Virgin Media.
Business Tariffs - excluding VAT
Note business tariffs don't have to follow the same Ofcom rules as residential tariffs and may continue to use the old NGSC charge bands instead of Access and Service Charges, although BT appears to be replacing all the old charge bands with Service Charge bands so there may be an issue of what old band should be used by new number ranges. Business tariffs may also be rather more creative with tariff structures. BT Business is varying the Access Charge by time of day and adding a set-up cost, which Ofcom prevents for residential operators. Those with BT Business Standard tariff, often used for credit card machines and alarm circuits that make lots of short 084x calls, are going to get a major shock on their new bills - a 30 second call that used to cost 5p has jumped to 42p to 50p depending on the Service Charge.
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