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I spend quite a bit of my time in my shop doing different things that need to be done. I don't think I have ever shown any pictures of where I do so much. I had run to the hardware store to get a few things I thought I would be using Saturday. When I came back my attention was drawn to my driveway. I wondered to myself when it started looking so bad. Why it looks so bad I can answer because I drive allot of heavy stuff across it on a regular basis. I never thought I would be needing to re-do the driveway anytime soon. I have had repairs to it done earlier this year because my truck was wider than the drive in spots. I made the mistake of getting by with what I needed versus spending the money and getting what I wanted. Why do we do that? I actually took the picture to send to my wife to let her know I was going to get quotes to have the drive redone. She replied with whatever I want to do is fine with her and she doesn't see any problem with the way it is. But, when it was a gravel road she hated it and now that the asphalt is getting tore up she is fine with it. This is an area where we always disagree and probably always will. Sadly I let this conversation with my wife distract me from what I was actually on my way to do. It happens on occasion, I see things I want to get done, they get put on the "list" and sooner or later might get done. I try to keep my list in check but there are times it gets blown out of proportion. The purpose of this particular weekend was to just relax, stay off my foot, and continue to recover. But, eventhough my wife and kids were out-of-town I just couldn't sit still and do absolutely nothing, it's not who I am and it's pretty much impossible for me to be still.
When I got out to my shop I was reminded again that I need some kind of pad around the building because it gets a little messy getting in and out at times. Trust me, it's on the list. This weekend was no different, we got a fair share of rain. Luckily for me, the ground around the building drains pretty well and really fast. Maybe that is why it is always on the back burner. I figure I will probably take the time to grade it out and do it all in gravel sometime this winter. I could do it now but my clutch foot is still full of stitches. I found it was sort of a mistake to drive something with a clutch when I took my truck in for an oil change before running errands to get what I needed. I never knew how much I depended on being able to use my left foot. It's a challenge to drive but also a challenge to walk. Forget picking anything up heavier than a pillow as I found out. Maybe I should have just planted my but on the couch in front of the television this weekend. There's time for that later. I'm here now. I've returned from the hardware store. I have what I need now and it is time to focus and get it done.
At the beginning of the summer I was given some re-claimed cypress planks from an old house that was torn down a few miles from here. I accepted the wood as payment for helping out doing a bit of tractor work for the guy doing the demolition. He got his truck stuck and he had walked to the back of my property and noticed I was down by the creek and asked me to help him out. There wasn't much of the cypress wood to salvage but there was enough, I found, after cleaning it all up, to make two doors. This picture does no justice to the size of them since each one of them are 36″ x 84″. They were actually purpose-built, I had the full intention of using them here on my building to replace both of the single person entrance doors which are metal. However, as I get them done I wonder if it is what I really want to do with them. Do they deserve to be more than just shop entrance doors? I took the picture and sent it to my wife for her opinion and she asked me what in the hell I was doing working and why I wasn't resting. That wasn't the answer I was looking for but it was the answer I received. So, there they sat for the remainder of the day, staring at me in a way that I could feel the doors asking me if I wasn't sure of what I wanted to do then why did I do it. Valid question I guess, even if it was from the doors. Perhaps the fumes were getting to me. They aren't finished yet anyway because I don't want to completely finish them until I know what they will be used for. Maybe I can just cut my losses of indecision and just sell them, I've done it before, made things for the house and decided that it wasn't what I was looking for. I have began to ask myself why I do it in the first place. Still waiting on the answer by the way.
I spent the rest of the day straightening up my shop, putting things away, and sweeping the floor for the most part. I tried not to move anything because I really don't want to muck up my foot after 2 1/2 weeks of nursing it back to health. All I know is the sutures come out Wednesday morning if the surgeon "feels" they are ready to come out. Anyway, I happened across some boxes I had put out in the shop over a year ago that should have made it into the attic but ended up in the corner instead. It goes to show I get sidetracked very easily. There was no need to look into the boxes because I knew what was in them. Fortunately they weigh about 100 pounds a piece so they get to stay where I found them. I piddled around in the shop for the remainder of the day. Around dark-thirty I get a text from my wife letting me know they where home and that the gate was stuck open again. So, I closed up shop, jumped on my ATV, and headed up to the gate to see what was up. As I suspected, the linkage had become undone again. I guess it is time to go ahead and replace it this time instead of the band-aid repairs I have been giving it over the last year. Quite honestly I had completely forgot about having it fixed since I personally haven't had problems with it. But, I had to do another band-aid fix this time and will mess with taking it off tomorrow to have a new one made at the place I bought it from originally. On my trek back up to the house I decided to skip going down to the shop to put my tools up. As I rode up the asphalt drive it hit me again that I didn't put on my list to get a quote for the replacement of it. Pretty soon I think I need to chuck the list in a bucket and set it on fire. I don't know why I do lists anymore because I don't follow what I can't keep up with. Well, I figure that sooner or later it will all be done. When I get to the house I was informed that I need to light the grill, which was good because I was beginning to wonder what was dinner.
And, by the way, I have decided to sell the doors. I decided this while I was cooking and thinking I was not looking forward to doing a swap out. I will put them up on craigslist later. Meanwhile, if anyone is interested just shoot me an e-mail. Price? the price will completely be based on who is wanting to buy them. Amazing how a little smoke can clear the clouded mind!


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Easy monitoring of wastewater pumping stations by Grundfos
Grundfos Remote Management (GRM) offers simple and cost effective monitoring of waste water pumping stations.
Kuldīga is a town in Western Latvia. It is the centre of Kuldīga municipality with a population of approximately 13,500. Kuldīga was first mentioned in 1242. It joined the Hanseatic League in 1368.
The problem
Kuldīgas Ūdens SIA is a company, which is responsible for local wastewater treatment. Wastewater treatment is a sophisticated procedure and sometimes requires a complex system. The newest system at Kuldīgas Ūdens SIA must ensure a steady flow from the main pumping station to the sewage treatment plant in order not to destroy any bacteria, and full and reliable monitoring is a critical point.
In 2010 local authorities decided to upgrade the existing main wastewater pumping station with a remote monitoring system. Furthermore newly built wastewater stations should also be equipped with such a solution.
The customer Kuldīgas Ūdens SIA looked for a simple and cost effective monitoring system. The technical director, Mr. Agris Alkšņuzars, already had some experiences with the previously set up system, but he was not satisfied with the service provided by the company, which installed this system.
Grundfos took this opportunity and presented GRM (Grundfos Remote Management), which fully convinced Mr. Agris Alkšņuzars and his team by its simplicity and cost effectiveness.
The solution
The existing system included an operation of three wastewater pumps on the basis of a constant level in the intake well. For achieving this, these pumps were equipped with one frequency converter and controller, which enabled alternating operation every 24 hours and a possible operation of all three pumps – if needed. This solution was very complex and caused a lot of problems.
Grundfos offered a replacement of the existing controller for the three main sewage pumps by Grundfos Dedicated Controls with integrated GRM module CIM 270 for data monitoring.
At stage no. 1 Grundfos' solution offers frequency converters for each pump instead of one frequency converter for three pumps, resulting in easy operation by Grundfos Dedicated Controls.
Unfortunately the installed controller was not able to support this idea, so it was decided to connect only one frequency converter, which controlled only one wastewater pump whereas the second pump was kept in reserve and the third pump switched off due to low flow rate. This solution did not include alternating operation.
At the end of 2010 Grundfos and Kuldīgas Ūdens SIA entered the second stage of this project. The plan included also equipping the second pump with a frequency converter and to upgrade the existing Dedicated Controls with a new version.
So the technical director Mr. Agris Alkšņuzars was able to operate with many frequency converters. Also stage 3 was entered at the end of 2010. At this stage it was decided to equip three new wastewater pumping stations with Grundfos SEV pumps, Dedicated Controls and CIM 270 modules and two new plants with Grundfos SLV-E AutoAdapt CIU 271 pumps and modules. All stations were connected to the Grundfos GRM (Grundfos Remote Management) system.
The outcome
The installed system (Grundfos Dedicated Controls and Grundfos GRM) provides a safe and secure solution. The customer's main request – getting an overview of operation processes of the wastewater treatment plant from its offices – was completely fulfilled. Thanks to Grundfos GRM Kuldīgas Ūdens SIA gets information about the operation conditions via email and SMS.
Andris Klavins, Kuldīga's water director, states: "Grundfos GRM solution has proven it's efficiency and safe operation. The decision to install Grundfos GRM system at our plants is – to some extent – based on the simplicity of the system and our previous relations with the Grundfos company. Besides, we see perspective for Grundfos GRM to be used with other pumps, pump systems which are under our supervision."
Grundfos Remote Management (GRM)
With this secure and reliable remote management system, you can monitor and manage your pump systems from an Internet PC at a very low price.
Grundfos Remote Management is a cost-effective and straightforward way to monitor and manage pump installations in commercial buildings and in water supply and wastewater infrastructure. It reduces the need for onsite inspections, and in the event of an alarm or warning, the relevant people are notified directly. Compared to mobile phone based monitoring, the system offers a wider range of benefits and functionalities. For those who do not require remote process automation, Grundfos Remote Management is the ideal solution for monitoring and remote control as opposed to traditional SCADA systems.
Initial investment is minimal, and a fixed low fee covers data traffic, hosting costs and system support, including back-up of all data.
The CIU271 communication interface enables data transmission via GPRS/SMS from your Grundfos pumps and controllers. The built-in multi-purpose I/O board allows you to connect sensors and switches.
The Grundfos Remote Management (GRM) connects pumps and people. It's an internet based system to monitor pumps in wastewater, water treatment, mining and construction, irrigation and building services applications.
Kuldīga, Latvia
Kuldīgas Ūdens SIA
GRM advantages at a glance
Grundfos Remote Management (GRM):
- Low installation and service costs
- Opportunity to review the operation of the systems from anywhere you have internet connection
- High level of system security, since its activity is maintained from IT professionals
- Saving trips and service visits to installations - able to maintain the system from any computer with internet connections (e.g. system re-start and basic configuration)
- Schedule graphs helps to understand and optimize system performance
- In parallel the system is being monitored by Grundfos – a professional pump company
If you need a similar solution, please contact us for further information.
If you need a similar solution, please contact us for further information.

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Cubs to host reception on Clemente Day at Wrigley
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. She writes a blog, Muskat Ramblings, and you can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat.
PITTSBURGH -- The Cubs will host a reception for Hispanic business, civic and community leaders and invite more than 1,000 youth to the Sept. 23 game to celebrate Roberto Clemente Day, part of Hispanic Heritage Month, which begins Sunday.
The youth invited to the game against the Pirates at Wrigley Field will be from Hispanic community groups.
Omar Duque, president of the Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, will throw out a ceremonial first pitch before the game as well.
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Given the power packed in today's smartphones, it's no surprise that app usage is exploding. Whether we're looking for the nearest café or paying our bills, mobile is revolutionizing how we live. But the current technology is just the start of something much bigger.
A second-generation wave of "contextual" apps are destined to change the mobile landscape. These will be apps that can determine where we are and what we're looking at and present us with a veritable library of pictures and information about that spot. Other apps that know what we like — say, a brand of shoes or a sport — will indicate where we can find them based on our co-ordinates, time of day and any other factor that might come into play.
Whether it's all about business or just for fun, the true test of any mobile app is its usefulness over time. According to a May 2012 report The Mobile Application Life Cycle by Thomas Husson, analyst with Forrester Research in Paris, the Apple App Store and Google Play recently passed the 40 billion threshold for cumulative apps downloaded. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the five dominant categories in the field are weather, navigation/mapping, social networking, games and music.
Flash forward and the numbers will just keep getting bigger, researchers say. An IDC report on mobile applications and storefronts predicts that global downloads will reach 76.9 billion in 2014.
But cumulative downloads do not an app success story make. "Just because you download an app, it doesn't mean you use it," says Eddie Hold, vice-president of NPD's Connected Intelligence Group in New York.
A 2010 Nielsen report shows that on average, American smartphone users have 22 apps; iPhone users have the most, with 37. But Mr. Hold estimates users typically use just five to 10 apps on a regular basis. "The rest you might download and try, but a week later you're not using them anymore."
It is the contextual, personalized content in the next-gen apps that their creators hope will gain not just our attention but our long-term loyalty.
"Apps will be able to take into account where you are, and the world around you, including weather conditions or time of day," Mr. Husson says. "We'll see more sensors embedded into devices, such as barometers, pressure sensors, 3-D cameras and anything around biometrics."
He cites a number of developments that are bringing this into the mainstream. "Augmented reality, QR [quick response] coding, and NFC [near-field communications] are the types of technologies that are enabling consumers [to use their devices] to interact with the world around them."
The ability to contextualize content bodes well for technologies like augmented reality, Mr. Hold says. "Nokia has a great little app where you can hold up the phone like it's a camera and it will show you what's ahead. If you hold it flat, the image turns into a map showing your destination. This type of thing has huge potential moving forward — once someone works out how to get beyond the cool factor and make it into something useful."


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The Latest: Germany to curtail arms exports to Turkey
AKCAKALE, Turkey (AP) — The Latest on Turkey's military offensive into northeastern Syria against Syrian Kurdish fighters (all times local):
10:05 p.m.
Germany's foreign minister has announced that the country will curtail its arms exports to Turkey, which has started a military offensive into northeastern Syria against Syrian Kurdish fighters.
Heiko Maas on Saturday told weekly Bild am Sonntag that, "against the background of the Turkish military offensive in northeastern Syria, the government will not issue any new permissions for any weapons that can be used by Turkey in Syria."
Maas' remarks came as thousands of Kurdish immigrants rallied against the Turkish military offensive in cities across Germany. Germany is home to one of the biggest Kurdish communities in Europe.
Austria, Switzerland and Greece also saw Kurdish demonstrations against Turkey's offensive in Syria.
9:25 p.m.
About 1,000 Kurds and a contingent of left-wing activists have protested in the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest, against the Turkish military offensive in northern Syria.
The protesters carried banners, including one saying, "Where is the UN?" and burned pictures of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. They repeated the photo burning and slogans outside the Turkish consulate. Both premises were guarded by police forces.
In the capital Athens, police said close to 2,000 Kurds and other activists marched to the Turkish Embassy in the city center but police prevented them from getting too close. They dispersed after a peaceful protest. A small contingent of 150 protesters also marched to the U.S. Embassy.
7:10 p.m.
The Arab League is calling for the United Nations Security Council to take measures to force Turkey to halt its military offensive in Syria and "immediately" withdraw its forces from the Arab country.
A communique after the meeting of Arab foreign ministers on Saturday also urged the Security Council to suspend military and intelligence support that could help Turkey's offensive.
The communique says Arab countries reject Turkey's attempts to impose "demographic changes" in Syria by a so-called "safe zone."
It says Arab countries should consider taking "diplomatic, economic, investment, cultural measures ... to confront the Turkish aggression."
Two countries, Qatar and Somalia, expressed reservations about the communique. Qatar has backed Turkey's offensive.
The Arab League's meeting came as Turkey's offensive against Syrian Kurdish fighters entered its fourth day.
6:20 p.m.
Thousands of people have demonstrated in Paris in support of Kurds being targeted by Turkish forces in Syria.
Protesters warned that the offensive could allow Islamic State group extremists to resurge. Kurdish forces being targeted by Turkey this week were crucial to the international campaign against IS fighters, who orchestrated several deadly attacks against France.
Demonstrators from various activist groups slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with one carrying a sign reading "Erdogan=IS." They also criticized U.S. President Donald Trump for his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria, which helped pave the way for the Turkish offensive.
The rally Saturday at Republique plaza in eastern Paris ended peacefully.
Turkey's military, which calls the Kurdish forces a security threat, said it captured a key Syrian border town Saturday. French President Emmanuel Macron urged an end to the fighting, as international criticism of the offensive mounted.
6:05 p.m.
The main Kurdish-led group in northern Syria is calling on the United States to carry out its "moral responsibilities" and close northern Syrian airspace to Turkish warplanes.
Reydour Khalil, a spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces, read the group's statement, which did not directly name the U.S. but referred to them as "our allies."
Saturday's statement said "we don't want them to send their soldiers to the front lines and put their lives in danger."
It said "what we want is for them" to close the airspace for Turkish warplanes and "this is something they can do easily."
The statement said the SDF has lost 45 fighters since Turkey began an invasion of northeast Syria four days ago.
6 p.m.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin says that all foreign forces in Syria that lack its government's invitation should leave the country.
Putin, speaking in an interview with journalists from the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia ahead of his visits to the countries, said Moscow has talked to Turkey, Iran, the United States and others about the need to restore Syria's territorial integrity and end foreign military presence.
Putin didn't talk about Turkey's military operation in northern Syria in parts of the interview that were broadcast by Russian television Saturday. Russia has taken a soft stance on Turkey's move, noting Ankara's need to secure its border.
He added that if the Syrian leadership decides in the future that the country no longer needs Russian troops, they will also leave.
4:30 p.m.
Iraq's foreign minister says Turkey's military offensive in northern Syria "reinforces terrorists' capabilities" to reorganize and undermines world efforts to fight the Islamic State group.
Mohamed Alhakim says the Turkish incursion is a "blatant aggression" against Syria's sovereignty and integrity.
Alhakim spoke Saturday at an Arab League meeting called by Egypt following Turkey's invasion of northern Syria, which was launched on Wednesday.
He says the military assault also threatens to fuel other conflicts in Syria and will have "negative repercussions," especially in Iraq, which is still suffering from the war against IS.
3:55 p.m.
Lebanon's top diplomat is calling on the Arab League to restore Syria's membership amid Turkey's military offensive in northern Syria.
Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil says that readmitting Syria into the pan-Arab organization should be "the first response from the League to the Turkish aggression." He spoke to the league on Saturday in Cairo.
He says: "We can no longer allow any Israeli or Turkish aggression or (aggression) from any party against an Arab state or an Arab people."
Syria's membership in the 22-member Arab League was suspended in 2011 after the Syrian government's military crackdown on protesters calling for reforms.
Bassil spoke Saturday at an Arab League meeting called by Egypt on Turkey's invasion of northern Syria.
3:10 p.m.
The head of the Arab League is calling for Turkey to halt its military offensive in Syria and pull out its forces from the war-torn country.
Ahmed Aboul Gheit said Saturday that Turkey's military operation in northern Syria has resulted in a new wave of displacement and jeopardizes "achievements" made in fighting the Islamic State group.
Turkey says it aims to push back Syrian Kurdish forces, which it considers a threat for their links to a decades-long Kurdish insurgency within its own borders.
Aboul Gheit spoke at an emergency Arab League summit called by Egypt on Turkey's invasion of northern Syria.
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, after meeting with a Syrian Kurdish representative earlier in the day, said he supported Kurdish "legitimate resistance" against the Turkish operation.
1:50 p.m.
A Kurdish police force in northern Syria says a car bomb has exploded outside a prison where members of the Islamic State group are being held, but there was no word on casualties.
The police force known as Asayesh said the blast occurred early Saturday outside the central prison in the northeastern city of Hassakeh, much of which is controlled by Kurdish forces.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said after the blast, Kurdish fighters brought reinforcements to prevent prisoners from escaping.
No one claimed responsibility but IS sleeper cells have carried out such bombings.
Kurdish fighters are holding about 10,000 IS fighters including some 2,000 foreigners.
There have been concerns that as Kurdish fighters try to repel Turkey's invasion, some IS detainees might try to flee.
12:45 p.m.
Turkey says its military offensive has taken central Ras al-Ayn, a key border town in northeastern Syria, and its most significant gain since its cross-border operation began against Syrian Kurdish fighters.
The Turkish Defense Ministry tweeted: "Ras al-Ayn's residential center has been taken under control through the successful operations in the east of the Euphrates (River)."
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, confirmed that Turkish troops have entered the town adding that fighting is still ongoing.
The Turkish military and allied Syrian opposition forces have been advancing in villages around Tal Abyad and Ras al-Ayn, under the cover of Turkish artillery and some airstrikes.
Turkey is fighting the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, which it considers a threat for its links to a decades-long Kurdish insurgency within its own borders.
The YPG forms the backbone of the U.S.-backed ground forces fighting the Islamic State group.
12:20 p.m.
Arab foreign ministers are meeting to discuss Turkey's invasion of northern Syria, as the Arab League holds an emergency session at its headquarters in Cairo.
Saturday's meetings in Egypt's capital came as the Turkish offensive against Syrian Kurdish fighters enters its fourth day.
Egypt called the emergency meeting to discuss what it called Turkey's "blatant aggression" against Syria's sovereignty.
Turkey says it aims to push back Syrian Kurdish forces, which it considers terrorists for its links to a decades-long Kurdish insurgency within its own borders.
But the military action and violence in northern Syria has raised concerns about a possible resurgence of Islamic State activity.
Syria's membership in the 22-member Arab League was suspended in 2011 after the Syrian government's military crackdown on protesters calling for reforms.
10:20 a.m.
France's president has discussed the Turkish offensive in Syria with U.S. President Donald Trump, and warned about a possible resurgence of Islamic State activity as a result of the military action.
President Macron's office said in a statement Saturday that in the call, the French leader "reiterated the need to make the Turkish offensive stop immediately."
The statement didn't say whether Macron urged U.S. forces to intervene. Trump's decision to pull out of the region cleared the way for this week's Turkish offensive against Kurds in northeast Syria it sees as a threat.
Macron stressed "above all else the need to avoid any resurgence of IS in the region," and to support the Kurdish forces who helped the U.S.-led military coalition retake Syrian and Iraqi territory from IS extremists.
France has suffered multiple deadly attacks by IS-linked radicals.
The statement said France and the U.S. "share common concerns" and will coordinate closely on the issue in the coming days.
10:10 a.m.
Turkey's official news agency says Turkey-backed Syrian opposition forces have reached a strategic highway in northeastern Syria as Turkey's offensive against Syrian Kurdish fighters enters its fourth day.
Anadolu news agency said Saturday the forces have arrived at the M-4 highway that connects the Syrian towns of Manbij and Qamishli. The road is about 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of the Turkish border.
Turkey has said it aims to push back Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, which it considers terrorists for its links to a decades-long Kurdish insurgency within its own borders.
Erdogan said Friday Turkey won't stop until the YPG, who forms the backbone of the U.S.-backed ground force against the Islamic State, withdraws below a 32 kilometer (20 miles) deep line.


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La. schools aim for digital future
Schools in Louisiana are upgrading and making them digitally ready by 2014-2015, when all state tests will be delivered online.
A recent report by the Louisiana Department of Education shows schools are making strides to meet the demands of the digital era.
Plaquemines Parish is one of five parishes in the state that's technology-ready.
All 8 schools in Plaquemines are equipped with smart boards, internet-connected computers and other high-tech learning devices.
In Ms. Kathy Campbells' fourth-grade class, at Belle Chase Primary, there is no need for students to get up and "hand in" their work. The students are using a little pad called the "Neo" which allows them to email their essays and beam information to each other, and with the touch of a button, scores are digitally tabulated.
"They know technology in their homes so much better than I do so it gives them a way to give me the answers faster," said Campbell.
Other parishes that are "technology ready" include Concordia, City of Monroe, East Baton Rouge Parish and Calcasieu Parish.
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I had very limited internet time for the last few days. It meant just checking my emails, that's about it. We travelled daily for an hour or so, one way, since Saturday to be at Tatay's wake. By the time we would get home, I was too tired to even turn Santino on. We also left Klaire at home 3 out of six times, so it was QT with her before bedtime. We'd get home really late and she would still be up waiting for me, poor baby.
I missed a lot of things and I am having a hard time getting back on track. I'll try my best to post those backlog stories.


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Less than a year ago, when we moved into our new house, I made a wish. I walked my daughter to the hallway of our house and made a wish: I wished for this house to be warm, to be caring and to always see people lined around the kitchen table. I wanted this house to bring old and new friends together. I wanted this house to be filled with laughter, love, couscous and mint tea. I wanted this house to feed us. To feed people; and to feed our hearts.
Our wishes came true. Our wishes come true every single day. And for that, we are thankful to be looked after and to have a warm shelter above our heads.
Our kitchen brought old friends and new friends together around the table a couple of weeks ago, when celebrating Earth Day with some local bloggers. Blushing cheeks and awkward silence (especially me) quickly faded away with espresso beans stories and some crostinis. The picnic table was set. The sun was out. The couscoussier was steaming its last batch of couscous. Cameras were clicking (thanks again Christine for these lovely photos). Plastic wraps, banana leaves, and paper bags were unwrapped to reveal Uruguayan savory rolls, a refreshing mix of greens with fennel and orange segments, luscious mango and pastry cream tart, and an olive loaf.
The couscous was mixed with steamed raisins and served in my mothers' wooden "gassaa", to which I added a lamb and vegetable broth made with green peas, zucchinis, carrots, and a dollop of sweet and deep, spicy and delicious glazed pearl onions. The couscous was good, spicy and sweet, although I would have liked the broth to be thicker. But a mysterious sous-chef turned off the burner without my knowledge and without my permission.
These glazed pearl onions are just what you would expect from any caramelized onions and so much more. The bath of chicken broth, butter and warm spices, like cinnamon, ginger and turmeric, turned these babies into an exotic delicacy that I didn't see possible in an onion. I can olnly imagine how scrumptious they must be with roasted vegetables, winter squashes, stews, rice, pasta, grains, sandwiches, as a side dish to roast chicken, lamb, braised veal shanks, and how they will take mashed potatoes to another level of sophistication.
After lunch, we headed back to the kitchen to share a cup of mint tea, talk about life and family and feast on Christine's Mango tart. We feasted indeed. Just before my last sip of mint tea, I raised, secretly, my cup and made another wish: I wished for this life to always be as sweet and warm as friends and home sweet home are.
Spicy Glazed Pearl Onions
Recipe: Adapted from here
- 10 ounces pearl onions, peeled
- 2 cups chicken broth
- ½ cup black raisins
- ½ tsp ground turmeric
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 3 tbsp butter
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- A pinch of sea salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
Put all the ingredients in a saucepan, and cook over a medium-low heat, covered, 1 hour, then remove cover and continues cooking, stirring from time to time, until liquid thickens to a syrupy consistency and the onions have a glazed appearance, about 30 minutes. Serve hot.
Oignons Grelots Confits aux Epices
In Français Please: adaptée d'ici
- 280g de petits oignons grelots
- 500ml de bouillon de volaille
- 100g de raisins noirs
- ½ c.c de curcuma
- ½ c.c de gingembre en poudre
- 25g de sucre en poudre
- 25g de beurre
- 1 c.c de cannelle en poudre
- Une pincée de sel marin
- Du poivre noir fraichement moulu
Mettre tous les ingredients dans une casserole et faire cuire sur feu doux, couvert, pendant 1 heure, puis découvrir et laisser réduire jusqu'a ce que le jus ait la consistence d'un sirop, en remuant de temps en temps, et que les oignons aient une apparence caramélisé, pendant 30 minutes. Servir chaud.


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Dress up Paris Hilton
이름: Paris Whitney Hilton
직업: celeb
생일: february 17, 1981
Sister of Nicky Hilton, Barron Nicholas Hilton and Conrad Hughes Hilton. Announced she would live on a farm for a new fish-out-of-water "reality" show called "The Simple Life" (2003). Daughter of Rick Hilton and Kathy Richards. For her 21st birthday, she threw five parties for herself in New York, Las Vegas, London, Hollywood and Tokyo. Has two younger brothers, Barron Nicholas Hilton & Conrad Hughes Hilton.


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Regents Park, Inner Circle; York BridgeChat Laps – Beginners
Keep the week going strong with chat laps. You will be joined by a Clubhouse ride leader, ride for about 45 minutes before finishing at Rapha Soho for coffee and breakfast at 8am. This ride is a fantastic opportunity for women and men to learn group riding skills and meet new riders.Ride with us


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If music were about pictures, the music of percussionist Poncho Sanchez would best be described as a kaleidoscopic swirl of some of the hottest colors and brightest lights to emerge from either side of the border. At any given show, on any given record, fragments of Latin jazz, swing, bebop, salsa and other infectious grooves collide and churn in a fiery swirl, with results that are no less than dazzling.
All of these sounds and more come together in Psychedelic Blues, Sanchez's twenty-fourth recording on Concord Records. "The last couple records have gone a little heavy on the soul music, which has gone over really well in our live shows, but we wanted to do more of a straightahead Latin jazz record this time - something in the tradition of our earlier Concord records that we made back in the '80s."
With that strategy in mind, Sanchez enlisted guitarist Andrew Synowiec to change up the sound on a few tracks. Synowiec, a regular member of the L.A.-based Gordon Goodwin Big Phat Band, landed the gig about five minutes into his audition. "He came through the door with just a guitar and an amplifier," says Sanchez. "No effects pedals or other gadgets. He plugged and started to play, and I said, 'No more auditions. We're using this guy.'"
Along with Synowiec is the same lineup that has backed Sanchez on several records and countless live shows: keyboardist/arranger David Torres; saxophonist Javíer Vergara; trumpeter/flugelhornist Ron Blake; trombonist/arranger Francisco Torres; bassist/vocalist Tony Banda; timbalero George Ortiz; and percussionist/vocalist Joey De León. Even a couple alumni from earlier configurations of Sanchez's band - baritone saxophonist Scott Martin and percussionist Alfredo Ortiz - step back in to lend a hand on Psychedelic Blues. A few of these seasoned players go back more than 30 years with Sanchez, back to some of his earliest gigs as a local fixture in the Los Angeles club circuit.
Although born in Laredo, Texas, in 1951 to a large Mexican-American family, Sanchez grew up in a suburb of L.A., where he was raised on an unusual cross section of sounds that included straightahead jazz, Latin jazz and American soul. By his teen years, his musical consciousness had been solidified by the likes of John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Cal Tjader, Mongo Santamaria, Wilson Pickett and James Brown. Along the way, he taught himself to play guitar, flute, drums and timbales, but eventually settled on the congas.
At 24, after working his way around the local club scene for several years, he landed a permanent spot in Cal Tjader's band in 1975. "I learned a great deal from Cal," says Sanchez, "but it wasn't as though he sat me down and taught me lessons like a schoolteacher. Mostly it was just a matter of being around such a great guy. It was the way he conducted himself, the way he talked to people, the way he presented himself onstage. He was very elegant, very dignified, and when he played, he played beautifully. The touch that he had on the vibes - nobody has that sound. To me, he was - and is, and always will be - the world's greatest vibe player."
Sanchez remained with Tjader until the bandleader's death in 1982. That same year, he signed with Concord for the release of Sonando!, an album that marked the beginning of a prolific musical partnership that has spanned more than 25 years and has yielded two dozen recordings.
Psychedelic Blues, the latest product of that partnership, opens with the simmering "Cantaloupe Island," a Herbie Hancock composition recast in a Latin jazz groove. A number of soloists step forward here, most notably Torres on trombone and Synowiec on guitar - all weaving effortlessly above a firmly anchored rhythm section.
Premier Latin trumpeter Arturo Sandoval - Sanchez's friend since their first gig together at a festival in Sardinia, Italy, some twenty years ago - makes a guest appearance via a rendition of Freddie Hubbard's "Crisis." The track showcases Sandoval's respect and reverence for the American bebop maestro who had passed away just a few months before the Psychedelic Blues sessions.
The title track is a fast-moving mambo, originally written by Sonny Henry and arranged here by Francisco Torres, who attaches a surprise at the end of the track. "Francisco really souped it up," says Sanchez. "The song has some nice horn lines, and some great jazz riffs, and then it ends in a bolero. So the song burns almost all the way through, and then at the end it shifts into a ballad."
The intriguing centerpiece to the album is a Willie Bobo medley featuring "I Don't Know" (a Sonny Henry piece commonly associated with Bobo), the laid back "Fried Neckbones and Some Homefries" and the slightly more urgent "Spanish Grease." All three of these songs merge effortlessly to create a nostalgic nod to the revered Latin and Afro-Cuban jazz percussionist of the '60s and '70.
Further into the set, Sanchez and the band turn "Silver's Serenade" - originally a swing tune by Horace Silver - into a mambo with personality to burn, thanks in large part to solo work by Francisco Torres. When Poncho himself steps forward to deliver some syncopated conga lines, the net result is an infectious groove.
The salsa-flavored closer, "Con Sabor Latino," is an old song by Rene Touzet, a native of Cuba who became a well known Latin bandleader in Los Angeles in the '50s and '60s. In many ways, the song is Sanchez's tribute to some of the musical memories of his childhood. "My older brothers and sisters used to see Touzet play at the Hollywood Paladium," he says. "Back then, Chico Sesma was the only Latin disc jockey on the radio in southern California, and 'Con Sabor Latino' was his theme song.
Whether it's salsa, straightahead jazz, Latin jazz, or even elements of soul and blues, the mesmerizing array of sounds and colors from Poncho Sanchez's youth have telegraphed across the decades and continue to inform his creative sensibilities to this day. "There's room for a lot of different sounds in our music," he says. "I think people have come to know that that's what Poncho Sanchez is all about. We put it all together in a pot, boil it together and come out with a big stew. This isn't some marketing strategy to sell records. These are the sounds I grew up with. So when I play this music, I'm not telling a lie. I'm telling my story. This is the real thing."
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1. Cantaloupe Island (5:08)
2. Crisis (4:33)
3. Psychedelic Blues (5:16)
4. Willie Bobo Medley (6:39)
5. Grand Central (4:48)
6. Slowly But Surely (4:09)
7. Silver's Serenade (6:17)
8. The One Ways (4:49)
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text: Can the Concert Industry Survive After Mick Jagger and Madonna Retire? 5:00 AM PST 2/7/2013 by Dean Budnick FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Illustration by: Kyle Hilton Madonna Lighter Illustration - H 2013 More than half of 2012's top 10 highest-grossing acts qualified for AARP membership. This story first appeared in the Feb. 15 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Pop quiz: What do The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, Aerosmith and Metallica have in common? Each of them has been enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, each has announced or is expected to announce major tours for 2013 and each was among the 10 highest-grossing acts in the U.S. -- in 2003. This critical mass of such "legacy acts" might push 2013's totals beyond 2012's record sales numbers, estimated at $4.7 billion. That figure was boosted by sold-out tours from very familiar faces, with the three top-grossing performers -- Madonna, Roger Waters and Springsteen -- all card-carrying members of the Rock Hall and long since qualified for AARP membership as well. In fact, six of the top 10 touring acts in 2012 were age 54 or older, and they took in 67 percent of the box office among the industry's leaders. But here's the rub. While North American grosses hit an all-time high in 2012, fewer seats were filled. The total number of tickets purchased by concertgoers -- 36.7 million -- was down 9 percent from the industry's banner year of 2009. So what's at work here? You guessed it: Ticket prices are reaching new heights, thanks largely to legacy acts, whose average ticket cost more than $100 in 2012. Paul McCartney, Van Halen, Rod Stewart, Aerosmith, Waters and Madonna were in this company last year, headed by The Rolling Stones, whose stupefying average ticket price exceeded $500 (a back-of-the-house, obstructed-view seat at Brooklyn's Barclays Center fetched $176). PHOTOS: THR's Hitmakers 2013: The Creative Minds Behind Katy Perry, Bruno Mars and Flo Rida's Biggest Hits Given the fact that revenues are padded by these long-established artists -- even as attendance drops -- should the live entertainment industry be concerned that some of these groups will retire in the not-too-distant future, taking with them their deep-pocketed supporters? These music fans have grown comfortable paying hundreds of dollars for a chance to watch their favorite rockers give it one more go. Will their children do the same? How about their grandchildren? We're at a fascinating crossroads. The modern touring rock industry emerged in the late '60s, during the heyday of such venues as Bill Graham's Fillmore East and West in New York and San Francisco, respectively, Jack Boyle's The Cellar Door in Washington, D.C., and Don Law's Tea Party in Boston. Rock music didn't move into arenas until the early '70s, a development that prompted Graham to close his clubs, announcing his decision via a letter to the Village Voice that decried "the unreasonable and totally destructive inflation of the live concert scene." So how are the smartest people in the industry preparing for the next big shift? "We need fresh acts to appeal to new generations," says Michael Rapino, president and CEO of Live Nation, the world's dominant tour promoter. "The Rolling Stones was an epic tour, but it's not a long-term business." Rapino suggests that this process already is in motion, as six of the top 10 Live Nation tours of 2012 were by artists whose first hit was in the 2000s, including Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Jason Aldean, Drake, Rascal Flatts and Nickelback. "The beauty of this industry is there are always new acts to win our hearts." STORY: Jack White Fronts THR's 2nd Annual Music Issue Chip Hooper, worldwide head of music at Paradigm, echoes this sentiment: "Today you're talking about one group of bands, but what is contemporary and what is heritage just keeps changing as time goes marching on. If you took a snapshot of today, yeah, there'll be some older artists who won't be touring in a couple years, but then there'll be new older artists because younger artists are getting older." [pagebreak] Still, it remains an open question as to whether today's concertgoers will continue to follow a singles artist like Rihanna into her dotage and whether they will pony up for the ever-escalating price for a live-concert experience. "As concertgoers age and inflation increases the price of nearly everything, ticket prices will rise in conjunction," says industry analyst Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist at BTIG. "When Coldplay play Madison Square Garden with a crowd averaging 50 years old rather than 30 years old, the higher-income-earning crowd will part with more money. The transition from The Eagles and CSN to Bon Jovi and U2 to Coldplay and Foo Fighters might be difficult for some interested parties -- but the transition will occur." The answer might be to think smaller, says Tom Windish of The Windish Agency, which reps more than 500 acts including Foster the People, Gotye and 20 of the performers at the 2012 Coachella festival. "If I was a promoter, I would be analyzing which markets could use a 2,000- to 5,000-capacity venue and what obstacles are in the way to creating one," Windish says. "As an agent, there are many cities where there is just not a suitable venue for a band who can sell this number of tickets. It takes time to open a venue of this size for many cities, and it can't happen soon enough." STORY: Why Music Biopics Are a Nightmare to Make Andrew Dreskin, co-founder and CEO of Ticketfly, one of the nation's largest independent ticket companies, also suggests smaller is better. "We are experiencing what I call the democratization of music," he says. "Today there are fewer arena and stadium acts, but there are more midsize artists, thanks to social media. Today we find out about new artists via what our friends are sharing on Facebook and listening to on Spotify. This is creating a very healthy middle market in the music business -- more midsize bands, clubs, theaters, amphitheaters, festivals, etc. Some of these acts will percolate up and become the arena acts of tomorrow; Arcade Fire, Radiohead, The Black Keys and Muse are good examples." In search of free-spending music fans, the industry also is expanding into foreign markets. In December, Rapino announced the opening of Live Nation's Moscow office. "Russia and nearby markets have become an important part of our global tours in recent years," he says, "and by establishing a local presence, we can rapidly scale our concerts for over 200 million fans." South America also has become a prominent destination. Lollapalooza Chile and Lollapalooza Brazil debuted during the past two years, while McCartney, U2, Madonna, Lady Gaga and Waters toured through the region. The Internet has mapped out the new territory, says Jay Marciano, president and CEO of AEG Europe. "Digital exposure has made it easier for new artists to build global fan bases, and it is my belief that mature markets will benefit from new artists who originate from outside the U.S. and Europe. Niche artists actually create more opportunities for promoters." These niche artists won't headline arenas, like legacy acts do. So there will likely be an increased emphasis on the early mainstays of the touring industry: theaters and large concert halls. As if to underscore this point, Live Nation has built and rebranded clubs named after Graham's Fillmores in Charlotte, Detroit, Denver, Miami Beach and Silver Spring, Md. STORY: THR Names Music's 35 Top Hitmakers In an effort to engage Gen Y music fans, promoters have placed a newfound emphasis on music festivals, which continue to energize the nation's younger concertgoers (with ticket prices upward of $200). Bonnaroo consistently sells out in advance, Coachella has expanded to two weekends, and the Electric Daisy Carnival drew 300,000 attendees over three days to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway last year. "Festivals have become the ultimate real-life community of fans with similar tastes and shared experiences," says Randy Phillips, president and CEO of AEG Live, which owns Coachella and other festivals. "They are also tastemaker filters, like radio used to be, for the discovery of new talent. They have become more profitable for our company and more hospitable for the fan." The success of Electric Daisy Carnival -- which has evolved from a single-day SoCal rave into a three-day core event in Vegas, with 2013 satellite installments confirmed for Chicago, New York, Puerto Rico and Orlando -- demonstrates that a younger audience still is hungering for an offline, collective musical experience and has highlighted the power and appeal of electric dance music (EDM). Is it a fad, as critics claim? Absolutely not, say industry experts like Rapino: "When rap, hip-hop, even rock were introduced, people were certain they were short-lived, but as the fan base grows and talent becomes even better, there becomes a lasting space." One who agrees with this assessment is former SFX owner Robert F.X. Sillerman, who announced in June that he would spend $1 billion to acquire the producers of EDM events. Meanwhile, promoters are trying just about any new strategy to supplement revenues while they can, including taking a piece of the so-called secondary market. The proliferation of online ticket resale platforms such as StubHub and TicketsNow has demonstrated that the true market value of tickets often is higher than the initial face value. Some artists have directly reaped the spoils of resale by directing their own inventory to brokers and online platforms. The bar coding of tickets also allows the possibility for promoters and acts to receive a percentage of resales. Live Nation's Ticketmaster site has the ability to track sales through its secondary platform TicketsNow, and as of January, AEG Live's AXS Ticketing can do the same through an integration with StubHub. PHOTOS: A-Listers Angle to Play Music's Biggest Icons Another increasingly utilized income source comes from selling credit card companies the right to presales. In the case of Justin Bieber's Jan. 18 show at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena, over 40 percent of the tickets were allocated to American Express cardholders. Indeed, so many seats to that performance had been directed to various revenue-building propositions that only 1,000 of a potential 14,000 seats were available for the general public. In response, AEG Live's Phillips acknowledges, "I am not sure why we even have public onsales anymore, since most tickets are now sold in credit card, fan club, venue, sponsor and radio presales." Not to be outdone, legacy acts offer special "experiential packages," which carry a hefty price tag, pairing choice seats with backstage tours, soundchecks and/or meet-and-greets. Live Nation owns SLO VIP Services, which it purchased from Shelley Lazar, who founded the concept in the '80s as an outgrowth of her years coordinating backstage credentials and comp tickets for Graham and Ron Delsener. Lazar's flagship clients included McCartney, Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand, The Eagles and The Who. A $750 VIP package for an Allman Brothers Band show during their upcoming Beacon Theatre run includes a front-row-center ticket, preshow reception, merchandise and a collectible laminate. So will all this work? Perhaps a more pointed question is: Can the live music industry survive the coming generational shift? Will young people show the same passion for live music as their elders -- and do they have the income to support their habit? Tentative signs point to yes, based on festival attendance as well as the rising popularity of such performers as Mumford & Sons, Zac Brown Band, Bassnectar, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals and Vampire Weekend. At its core, the live entertainment industry is built on a certain ineffable, unquantifiable connection between fan and band, which is also why those legacy acts might not be leaving the stage anytime soon. "In my 43 years of attending concerts and 37 working in it, I find the excitement of live music to be a wonderful constant," explains Michael Marion, general manager of Little Rock's Verizon Arena. "The bubble of the baby boomers continues to roll through our population, and they still want to see the artists of their youth. During their younger years, they came to value the live experience. It was quite often the only time to actually see an artist. There was no MTV, YouTube, TMZ or any other media by which to experience an artist. That sentiment lives on and will continue to play a part in the concert business. Also, we see the younger generation becoming fans of these so-called legacy acts. Artists like Journey, Tom Petty and many others have made a connection with the young people of today. Trust me on this, I have a 16-year-old." Dean Budnick, executive editor of Relix, is co-author of Ticket Masters, a history of the concert industry. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Dean Budnick email@example.com @thr


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A proposal by Michael Powell, the head of the Federal Communication Commission, could have serious consequences for New York's local news, threatening small and independently-owned news operations here.
The new rules would allow large media companies to buy more TV stations in each market, and would eliminate the law that prevents a company from owning a TV station and a newspaper in the same city. The result of the changes is likely to be a buying frenzy by large media conglomerates, which already own an astonishing proportion of news outlets. For example, according to NYC IndyMedia, just three companies, AOL-Time Warner, General Electric, and News Corp, own the majority of cable news networks in the country.
The media will become even more consolidated if the proposal is passed on June 2 when FCC commissioners are expected to vote on the issue. The FCC currently includes two Democrat commissioners, both of whom oppose the new measures and are pushing for increased public input.
However, TV station owners support the measures, saying that they cannot afford to compete with new sources of news such as cable news networks and the Internet, nor upgrade to digital transmission of their broadcasting signal, without future mergers. Media companies have been aggressively lobbying the FCC to rule in their favor.
In early May, 300 academics specializing in media and communications wrote to the FCC to demand that the proposal be released for public comment prior to the June 2 deadline. On April 28th, Queens College Professor Mara Einstein wrote: "The FCC has taken a step in the wrong direction in trying to use strictly quantitative measures in assessing the needs for media-ownership caps. The FCC says it will decide by June 2. That's simply too soon, given the lack of broad public debate."
On May 15, Powell rebuffed attempts by his critics to make the full details of the proposal public or extend the June 2 deadline. The current deadline for pubic comment is May 30.
MoveOn.org is encouraging citizens to file public comments with the FCC. To date, 219 such comments (pro and con) have been filed by New Yorkers or New York media outlets.
According to a New York-based media arts professional, "The limits on ownership help to preserve the few outlets left for media unencumbered by corporate interests, and which truly serves the democratic principles of an open and informed exchange of ideas."
For a snapshot of what the New York media might look like (and sound like) post-media mergers, just turn on the radio. According to NYC IndyMedia, 60 percent of top radio stations are owned by Clear Channel or one of two other corporations.
In New York, any TV company would be allowed to own a total of three TV stations. "This is giving control of the news and flow of information to a handful of media giants," said Aidan White, International Federation of Journalists General Secretary. "It is a process that will diminish the diversity of ideas and opinions and will marginalize minority opinions and dissent."
Evidence of the possible negative impacts of media consolidation on the media is not hard to find. For example, at Fox-owned TV stations WWOR and WNYW in New York City, one news director oversees both newscasts according to the New York Observer. In addition, job cuts are likely as a result of mergers according to New York Newsday. Other impacts include what some have called "the death of local news" and the extinction of the small ethnic media outlets.
However, a study by Columbia Business School Professor Eli Noam, which was posted as a public comment to the FCC, shows that the effects of media ownership deregulation may be neither strongly negative nor positive. He shows that while the concentration of ownership has increased since 1996, overall, the market is still relatively unconcentrated. In addition, Noam observes that over the past twenty years regulated industries (such as the mass media under current media ownership rules) have gone through cycles of high and low concentration.
According to a Consumers Union report (in pdf format) which criticizes the FCC's proposal, New York may be a large and diverse enough market to withstand some consolidation. While TV-newspaper mergers should not be allowed in the majority of cities in the United States because they are one- or two-newspaper towns, there are many more news sources in New York. Thus, Consumers Union concludes that TV-newspaper mergers could be allowed without significant damage to the diversity of local news.
For a brief background on the issue, go to MediaChannel's issue guide. In addition, MediaChannel has a map of who owns the media.
Laura Forlano is a doctoral student studying communication technology policy at Columbia University.


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PSLS: While Sony's acquisition of Gaikai was a huge move in the games industry, no one knew just how much support the cloud gaming platform would get from their new parent company, and when. Now, we've spotted a bunch of teases by the company at the level of games they'll be streaming – and some pretty big names are included.
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This could be really awesome if we can play these games on the vita.
that would be glorious. I hope that along with running from some giant server they can set it up where you can use your own ps3 in an improved remote play so the lag is reduced by being closer to your location. That is for games you already bought, there maybe a fee for just stream streaming games idk. Will be interesting to see how its implemented.
WOWOWOWOW let me get this straight... When Onlive was announced back in 2009 it was SLAMMED by almost everybody here that it will be the biigest flop EVER.... (Fast forward to today) Everybody applauds Sony for announcing the same concept... WTF DID I MISS?!?!?!?!
Im starting to hate gamers in general. If Company X does it first its all BAD news.. But if company Z does it then its considered to be just as good as the second coming of Jesus would be.
Streaming PS3 games? I... uh, also do want it as well.
Seriously, my HDD is busting thanks to all these free PS+ games.
streaming games with even better quality than current gen games would be possible too so for those that don't want to jump in to next gen so soon they could enjoy some PS4 tittles on the PS3!
I highly doubt we'll see PS4 titles available for streaming on older consoles. it makes absolutely ZERO sense from a business perspective to do this
@ torchic
If consoles are initially sold at a loss so the company can profit from software sales and licensing fees, what exactly is the downside to making those profits and licensing fees without taking the initial loss?
Please elaborate on how this makes 'absolutely ZERO sense from a business perspective'.
It makes no sense because why would anyone buy the PS4 if their PS3 can play PS4 games?
If you have good enough internet speeds then you would not need to ever buy a PS4, so allowing PS4 games to stream to the PS3 would be a terrible business decision.
Let's try again.
It was reported it cost Sony over $800.00 to manufacture the 60GB PS3 that I purchased for $600.00. They lost over $200.00 for every 60GB PS3 sold. With me so far? Sony lost over $200.00 on every 60GB sold. Why would they do this? Are they insane? No, they bank on making more profit on games sold and licensing fees than they lose on consoles sold.
Google Razor-Razorblade business model to better educate yourself on and further your understanding of the practice.
Now again I ask, what is the downside to NOT TAKING THE LOSS on the razors (consoles), but MAKING THE PROFITS on the razorblades (games)?
You don't think you'll be able to stream those PS4 games to your PS3 for free, do you?
Now if you still think I'm wrong, and I'm open to the possibility, please provide me with specifics based on the business model as to where my argument falls short.
Answer this. Does Netflix not make a profit streaming movies because you didn't buy the PC, SmartTV, tablet, or whatever device you're watching on from them? Is this a terrible business decision to not sell you the viewing device?
I don't need to google the razor/blade model, I'm well aware of how it works.
You seem to be forgetting something though - Sony want to be in the console hardware business. If they didn't they would just be a multi-platform software company like Sega now is. Following your logic, that would be the best thing for them as it completely eliminates any loss on hardware and provides them with the maximum possible audience for sales.
Making hardware does a few things that you are completely discounting.
1. It establishes a brand and instills that brand name into the public. Playstation would not be what it is today had they not released consoles. If they stop making hardware, there is no "Playstation", just games.
2. It enables them to push their proprietary formats, something Sony are notorious for doing. By streaming games to any and every device you can't make people be forced to buy your format like UMD, Blu-Ray or Vita proprietary memory cards.
3. Video game consoles do not follow the Razor/Blade model as their are significant reductions in the manufacturing costs of the console within a few years, allowing them to sell at a profit. The PS3 is selling at a profit now, and has been for about 18 months if I remember correctly. The 360 has been selling at a profit for 3-4 years. The Wii has been selling at a profit since its release.
Your Netflix example is pointless because Netflix do not offer a hardware unit for sale. Sony do. They WILL release a Playstation 4, no doubt about it. If they were to offer a PS4 but then say "You can play all the PS4 games on your PS3 if you want to though", noone would buy the PS4. Netflix don't have that problem - there is no physical Netflix box that they could be driving sales away from. If you want Netflix there is only 1 way to get it, which is streaming. If you want PS3 games, currently there is only 1 way to get them - buy a PS3. This would completely eliminate that "obstacle" for the PS4 games, giving people no reason to buy one.
It is a terrible business decision IF Sony wish to remain in the video game console business. If they want to just stick with the PS3 forever and pin all their hopes on streaming games then sure, it makes sense. Something tells me that they aren't quite *that* confident in streaming though.
Some things you haven't considered:
Wanting to be in a particular business alone does not make it a sound business decision.
A lot of people, myself included, would buy a PS4 as we prefer physical copies of our games.
Brand establishment is unaffected by what is sold. Don't Capcom and Activision have recognizable branding as a publisher and Call of Duty as a game?
Propriety formats are great, but I would bet Sony has made far more money licensing Bluray for movies than the sale of those formats through gaming.
When profit on a console is calculated it's basically sale price minus production cost and doesn't take into account R&D. Chips don't become smaller themselves, cases don't redesign themselves. It also doesn't take into account warranty costs. MS spent a billion due to RRoD. When production costs are lowered, it's often accompanied by a retail price drop. If profit on consoles was the main focus it would make more sense to hold the retail price so the margin would increase. But it's not. Lowering production costs allows consoles to be sold at a lower price to increase the consumer base to whom content can be sold, which is where the real profitability lies.
Netflix is a prime example to show that it is the content that drives profits. Otherwise they would try to push a proprietary device for viewing.
Did MS, a well established brand, jump into the console business because of the profitability of hardware, or the increased profits of software sales and licensing?
I never said Sony should stop selling consoles, or would want them to, I just challenged torchic's assertion that it made zero sense from a business perspective. So far neither of you have been able to prove it would negatively affect the profitability of Sony.
Gaikai would be an excellent move as long as SONY doesn't try something over-ambitious with this. Backwards compatability is the easiest to stream and does not need the bandwidth required than an HD era games. When the market is ready for such bandwidth it can adjust to inflation the better online connection gets per generation.
Anything from the previous generation shouldn't put a strain on streaming requirements. Their max resolution was 480p. Now current gen and beyond might suffer from compression.
Hence the statement:
"Backwards compatability is the easiest to stream and does not need the bandwidth required than an HD era (based) games."
So.....Onlive plus exclusives?
RIP Onlive.
I wonder if Sony would bring this app to xbox in future? They would make money and people can play uncharted with a better controller
You think MS would allow this ? Xbox users buying/renting PS3 games direct from Sony
"and people can play uncharted with a better controller"
NOTHING wrong with my PS3 Controller thank you very much
Certainly some interesting pictures in there. With the recent updates there has to be something coming soon.
Agreed. This may have been exactly what Sony needed.
I find the LBP images the most interesting. Given that you won't have to own the game to play it, that suggests that 'perhaps' people will be able to play user created levels through their phones and laptops, giving the community a huge market to aim at...
It also shows that PS4 demos will be no problem to stream through the PS3 or Vita. This is why I believe that the PS4 will be the last console Sony ever make. There will be revisions, yes, but there's absolutely no reason to sell a more powerful console. All they'd have to do is upgrade server side
Agree with all of you. I truly think Sony is gonna own the online arena on Next-Gen consoles.
next gen consoles? the point of cloud gaming is that you don't need a powerful local machine. you can have a roku player stream PS4 games.
Theoretically the PS4 could be a fully updated OS that works with Gaikai and runs on the PS3... The PS3 runs the Operating System and the games run on Gaikai!
Its not going to happen obviously but yeah it "would" be possible to get the same graphics as the PS4 this way main difference would be that instead of selling you a PS4 they would sell you a cheap PS3 and invest the rest of the money to upgrade their servers then rent out the service to you via a subscription.
Big news. Can't wait to see how it's implemented.
i cannot wait to hear official reports from sony stating when exactly its coming and any updates ect.
SONY really is the Only One pushing it!
Actually no they aren't the only one's pushing cloud gaming. Many other have already doing it like apple and google and MS. But while everyone is building theirs from the ground up. Sony is the only one that had to buy a already established company to get their foot in the door
But yes they are the ones to have theirs running first, since they put little efforts in creating it.
Awesome can't wait to hear more on this sounds great
would be interesting to see if they make these games look better than on PS3, because PS3 is not the limitation here anymore, they can look like PC games.
Uncharted in 1080p, omg.
sounds just like onlive (which no one liked because of the lag) but with PS3 games.
im sorry for being a out of the loop guy but whats is this?
Gaikai is a cloud gaming company, that means you can stream games - almost like Netflix, but for games - onto your PS3, PC, iPad or whatever and instantly access the title with no download.
Sony bought Gaikai in August for $380 million, SCE's largest acquisition.
yea , but will it take a lots of my network ?. is it like watching a video in youtube , i really can't understand what it do...
The claim is 5mb+, although the more the better.
Can someone explain how cloud gaming works exactly? It sounds like an awesome idea
Try it for yourself. Go to the Gaikai site and stream a couple of demos.
I just wanted to know from the technical aspects how it worked exactly. I don't see a demos section anywhere on the site. I guess it must be a new layout for this announcement
Wouldn't PS3 need Wireless-N for this to work properly?
Lots of people stream Netflix in hd and play onlive without wireless N.
Wireless G is 54 megs. So, unless your internet connection is faster than that, it won't be a limitation. Wireless N would be best for local 100 meg connections on your network.
While normal wireless G can top out at 54mb, it's actual throughput is usually around 38mb or less due to overhead. (security, crosstalk ect)
Am I the only one here stuck with dsl?
Comcast cost too much in my area for only internet (i shun cable)
Thanks for the responses, was not sure as streaming Vidzone does go occasionally slow for me. (Only got a 10mb connection)
uh oh... a positive sony article...
brace yourselves, sony doom articles are coming.
Coming soon...
5 reasons why Sony's Gaikai service will fail...
So this means uncharted on android and pc? I think sony is taking over the globe and playstation is bigger than just a box. It's a service. But of course disks will still be available.
I hope they have fast internet on mars. So everyone can enjoy.
well done sony...well done...clap clap clap
Great news for Sony and gamers worldwide.
I wonder how long before the "Sony's Gakai will fail" articles come out in droves. The media can't have too many positive Sony articles after all.
And I wonder how long before the media make it seem like Microsoft are the ones pushing cloud gaming? lol
I must admit I'm confused a bit, most people agree that digital only content is a bad thing, they are against it. People on this very site have bashed things like OnLive from the beginning.
OnLive was sold for less than 6 million dollars, that is a huge flop. It looks like Sony is pushing for more and more digital content, they tried with PSP GO, they try to entice people to buy digital on Vita and PS3, now they are trying to eliminate actually owning a game, you wouldn't even have the game saved on a HDD. Streaming games is not owning games, licenses expire and issues will abound.
I have also seen a lot of comments saying this is Sony's answer to backwards compatibility, which I have to disagree with, backwards compatibility is putting in a disk that you bought in a previous generation and when you put it in a next gen console the game works. Making you buy the game over again and streaming it isn't backwards compatibility.
I'm surprised so many people here are happy about an obvious attempt to get rid of physical media as a whole
Agree but I don't see cloud gaming replacing physical media anytime soon.
Most Xbox Fanboys are actually bashing Sony because they say MS and Apple both were talking about doing this for years...
Apple is toying with it now as we know, but as far as gaming goes it looks like Sony is the only one making this a worthy atempt!
I don't remember Xbox Fanboys doing this but I do remember when the rumor of the 720 going completely digital, N4G went nuts saying how this was a stupid move by MS and it wouldn't work.
Not to mention most who said they would never give up physical media.
OnLive was sold for that amount because the state that business was in. It hadn't been run well and had a lot of debt.
OnLive was valued at one point at about $1.5 Billion by some analysts but when a business gets into the kind of trouble OnLive did then it's bargaining power with buyers is basically nullified.
thanks but no thanks... I LIKE TO OWN MY GAMES!
PS4 Cloud Gaming here we go. BUT Yes, the PS4 will support physical media
Cloud gaming = garbage.
Good thing 4G is coming to UK soon then :)
I think a subscription service with an annual fee (or monthly) for older games, and the option to also buy new games would work great.
Nothing has been announced yet so why all the negative posts here. Just cause you need a physical copy? Great thing about cloud service is that you can play anywhere ( bandwidth permitting ) and on multiple devices. Had this been an MS announcement those physical media needs would be greatly reduced. Funny how this website works...
"Had this been an MS announcement those physical media needs would be greatly reduced. Funny how this website works..."
No, I'm pretty sure if MS did this we would see a lot more hate. For the longest a lot of N4G members dreaded going digital and always supported physical media. The arguement was that they wanted to actually own the disc.
Another complaint was that MS having their exclusives on PC's but now a lot of people can't wait to play PS3 exclusives on other platforms.
So the the views I guess has shifted away from just being tied to one platform and ownage of actual copies. It seems a lot of people do want to play games on their mobile device through streaming.
"I think a subscription service with an annual fee (or monthly) for older games, and the option to also buy new games would work great."
There is alot of potential here.
PS3, PS4, Vita and Sony Mobile games all available to play across any Sony device.
That would be the killer blow.
To me this looks like the Playstation consoles will be an "always on", constantly connected to the cloud for streaming, game saves, game content etc. etc.
Interesting indeed...
what will be coming to PS3, that is what I wanna know. Just tell me what I have to pay. As for this news, just bring it to Vita and you have yourself a hit.
I don't think cloud gaming will be feasible in the long run. I'd rather have a physical copy on hand in case my internet connection goes down or if I want to bring my system to a location without reliable high speed.


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