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Audio Interviews from aKademy 2006
The landmark event of the KDE calendar, the KDE World Conference, continues to surprise even its most excitable fans with the emergence of six audio interviews recorded at aKademy 2006, in Dublin, Ireland. The interviews all feature prominent current contributors, and cover a diverse and interesting mix of topics relevant to the present and future of the KDE project. To get future audio features automatically, subscribe to one of the KDE://radio RSS feeds: Ogg, MP3. Read on for a summary of the interviews.
In related news Daniel Molkentin did an interview on RadioTux in German, talking about Phonon, Plasma and KDE-PIM.
Don't want to seem a nag...
and I know there's a lot of work involved, but will we be seeing the session videos any time soon? I some sessions I really want to see, like David Faure's KDE4 developer how-to.
By odysseus at Tue, 2006/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: Don't want to seem a nag...
I'm afraid that I'm also going to have to nag ;) Please tell me that have they haven't been lost - I was really looking forward to pretty much all of them :(
By anon at Tue, 2006/10/24 - 5:00am
Nice interviews, nice insights into current KDE topics, nice entertainment on my way to work today, thanks! KDE://radio, RadioTux, Linux Action Show... quite a lot podcast stuff about KDE at the moment, great.
And I'd like to know what the creepy background sounds in the interview with Pradeepto were. :)
By Ascay at Tue, 2006/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: Nice!
Would you believe Halloween music? Were you terrified?
In all the interviews, finding a consistently quiet place to do interviews was not trivial. Room were taken or locked, hallways busy, computers labs were meant to be silent, etc.
All of the doors in the buildings were notoriously squeaky - so what you're hearing are doors being opened and closed. Joseph Gaffney who did a great job minimizing the external noises during mastering, made the PETA-unfriendly comment in asking "Was a whale getting beaten with a dying seal?" Send a can of oil to Trinity college; future podcasters will thank you for it.
I tried to kidnap developers and drag them to dark, silent, remote locations - but most were too busy drinking, coding, fraternizing, or just used glowing Trolltech pens to find their way back.
By Wade Olson at Tue, 2006/10/24 - 5:00am


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One of the biggest software companies in the fitness club industry will have a new name at this week's International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) conference and trade show in Las Vegas.
Club Solutions from Fiserv Inc., Brookfield, WI, was acquired last week by Jonas Software, Toronto. The Club Solutions from Fiserv business assets are now part of a new company called Jonas Fitness Inc.
Adam Zeitsiff, who also serves as the business unit manager for the fitness, sports and leisure division of Jonas Software in North America, is the president of Jonas Fitness Inc. and will be responsible for executing all aspects of the company's future growth and expansion. Zeitsiff declined to disclose the terms of the deal, but he did say that negotiations took place over the past two quarters.
"Jonas Fitness has a buy and hold forever strategy," Zeitsiff tells Club Industry. "You won't be interviewing somebody in four years saying Jonas Fitness is now blank. We're a software company first. We're going to mold this company's products into even better software over the next few years."
Zeitsiff says the booth at the IHRSA show will have joint branding to reflect the change in the company's name. The name change also will be present Thursday night at the Bash for Augie's Quest. The lanyards for exhibitor and attendee badges will still have the Fiserv name on them, Zeitsiff adds.
"It was important to get [the deal] done prior [to the IHRSA show]," Zeitsiff says. "It's a very important show for us."
Jonas Fitness, which will continue to serve the mid- to large-club market, has a new website, www.jonasfitness.com, which will be enhanced over the next few weeks, Zeitsiff says. Jonas Fitness employees are in Houston, Ohio and New York, he adds.
Another company in the fitness, sports and leisure division of Jonas Software is EZ Facility, Bethpage, NY, which Jonas acquired in 2009. Other industries Jonas works with include golf and private clubs, food service, construction management and attractions. Jonas has more than 25,000 customers in 15 countries.
"Club Solutions from Fiserv has established itself as a leader in providing fully integrated enterprise software and payment solutions in the fitness, sports and leisure industry," Barry Symons, CEO of Jonas, said in a statement. "Adding Club Solutions to our rapidly growing fitness, sports and leisure business unit further strengthens our place in this important market, and we are very excited to welcome the Club Solutions customers and employees to our organization."
Fiserv acquired what was then known as CheckFree in 2007 for $4.4 billion and changed the name of the company to Club Solutions in 2009. CheckFree was founded in 1981 in Columbus, OH.
"Club Solutions pioneered management software for the health club industry, and has a talented team of associates who are committed to the success of club clients," Jardon Bouska, division president of biller solutions at Fiserv, said in a statement. "We believe the clients and associates of Club Solutions will be well-served by Jonas Software's focus on the health and fitness industry."


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Bright colours and patterns look sophisticated when paired with on-trend neutrals.
Yellow drapes with a box-pleat valance and patterned wallpaper combine for a polished tone-on-tone effect in Victoria Webster's living room. The sofa, carpet and trim in pale grey balance the graphic impact of the yellow wallpaper without stealing its thunder.
See more sunny spaces in our photo gallery of 26 Happy Yellow Rooms.
Multiple windows with shutters and high mouldings add light and charm to this space.
Recovered in grey wool, the sofas in this Federal-style home are a crisp foil to the living room's unique collection of accessories, like a bold zebra rug, framed 18th-century room sketches and a $45 junk shop metal table. Assorted curios, like the woman's shoes on the side table and the small sculptures found throughout the room, speak to the homeowner's interests and personality.
Watch a video tour of this restored home, and see other luxurious country houses in our Grand Country Houses photo gallery.
Original 1914 doors and reclaimed elm flooring are lovely accompaniments to century-old bookshelves lining the hallway.
Thanks to designer Kate Zeidler and architect Bill Dewson, this light-filled and contemporary condo — a former Catholic high school dormitory — balances the best of new and old. The playful Paul Smith rug and contemporary art, lined salon-style along the walls, provide a playful, modern touch to the space.
Lynda Reeves used industrial elements and dark-grey kitchen cabinets to update country style.
The kitchen of the 2009 Princess Margaret Welcome Home Sweepstakes Showhome in Oakville was inspired by Lynda's travels and the farmhouses of Belgium and France. "They're fascinating because they have the warmth associated with our farmhouses, but with a sparer, architectural discipline," she says. The stunning, unfitted kitchen includes traditional country elements like an apron sink and open storage, mixed with modern charcoal grey cabinets, stainless steel accents and honed CaesarStone countertops.
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A neutral colour scheme keeps this room bright.
Painting interiors a crisp white or soft neutral enhances the amount of light coming in from large windows. Here, views of Georgian Bay can be taken in from a comfortable window seat. Pale bedding and open side tables also keep the room fresh and airy.
For more inspiration, see our Traditional Cottages photo gallery, Cottages & Country Houses photo gallery, more Melody Duron Interiors, and Bedside Table Styling Tricks.
Add interest to small spaces with colour and pattern.
Wallpaper and a large silver pouf are not usual fare for a principal bathroom, but here they prove that sophistication and fun can easily coexist. The juicy purple hue and oversized fruit pattern on the wallpaper provide a graphic punch.
Colourful pillows and organic textures brighten an outdoor living room.
A mid-century modern sofa and chairs by British designer T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings anchor this airy screened porch. Multiple seating areas provide places to converse or escape, all with slightly different vistas. Sophisticated lighting and side tables elevate the outdoor space.
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A gutsy reno adds European sensibility to a family cottage.
Before she updated her family's 70-year-old cottage, designer Colette van den Thillart's mother advised her to tear the building down. But Colette was determined to maintain the original structure: "I'm not terribly sentimental, but Canadians understand how deep into your system family cottages get." The result is a cottage that is a scrapbook of her family's history. At times dark and moody, then airy and Scandinavian, the home is fresh, calm and welcoming.
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Dark countertops, corbels and grey floor tiles balance the otherwise white space.
Modern conveniences, like the wall-mounted spigot tap over the stove for filling pots, update the country-style kitchen in this home. Massive stone corbels support the range hood, adding interest and a sense of history to the new-build house.
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Plush bedding and carpet in watery hues create a soothing atmosphere.
A palette of pale blues and creamy whites plays into this principal bedroom's atmosphere of calm. The homeowners had the cypress ceiling pickled to accentuate the height, and to tone down the orange. French doors flood the room with light and lead to private gardens.
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Christmas at Sarah's idyllic country retreat is stylish yet casual.
The 12-foot tree in designer and HGTV host Sarah Richardson's farmhouse living room was cut down on their property by Sarah's husband. Loaded with ornaments, both old and new, the tree stands between the dining room and living room, allowing it to be seen from many vantage points. The warm colour scheme of red, orange and cream in the space creates a cosy feeling, perfect for a country home.
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The person in this position is responsible for maintaining the grounds, curb appeal, clubhouse, amenities, and other common areas at one or more properties in order to assist preserving the asset and to provide a quality living environment for the residents. This position reports to the Maintenance Supervisor and/or Community Manager.
Key responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to the following:
- Performs daily property walks of tour route, pending move-in units and target units ensuring all areas are considered "market ready"
- Completes basic maintenance tasks including turnover cleaning, light landscaping, and painting with minimal supervision consistent with Company policy and direction from the Maintenance Supervisor, Community Manager and/or CMS
- Assists with administration of maintenance functions, e.g., tracking of inventory, maintaining updated records in relation to Pool Log, etc.
- Maintains the highest level of customer service for prospects, residents, vendors, and corporate departments
- Compliance with company standards as defined in the Human Resources Policy Manual, Operations Playbook and applicable laws, e.g., Fair Housing, Landlord Tenant, Local Building Codes, OSHA, and EEOC
RequirementsPHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- May be exposed to constant activity that requires intermittent standing, bending, crouching, pushing/pulling, lifting/moving/carrying (light to heavy weight material/appliances/ equipment), climbing ladders/stairs, and walking on rooftops
- Requires manual dexterity sufficient to operate small-motorized equipment (i.e., repetitive hand/wrist, gripping and elbow motion)
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Sorajin Edit
The Sorajin are a rare race of shapechanging demons. They live under a feudal government, and are the progenitors of any humanoid with the "Demonic Heritage" feat.
|Average Height:
|Average Weight:
|110–170 lb.
|Ability Scores:
|+2 Constitution, +2 Charisma or +2 Strength
|6 squares
|Abyssal, Common
|Skill Bonuses:
|+2 Diplomacy, +2 Endurance, +2 Insight
|Demon Blood:
|You are treated as having the "Demonic Heritage" feat and "Demonic Sight" feat for the purposes of aquiring feats, paragon paths, and epic destinies.
|Demonic Origin:
|Your ancestors are native to the Abyss, and your origin is "Elemental (Demon)", and you are treated as a demon for the purpose of effects that relate to creature origin.
|Resist Energy:
|You gain resist fire, cold, or lightning 5 + one-half your character level.
|Fire Adaptation (Fire element only):
|You automatically succeed when making Endurance checks due to breathing in smoke or ash.
|Water Adaptation (Cold element only):
|You gain the ability to breathe normally underwater and cannot drown.
|Altitude Adaptation (Lightning element only):
|You automatically succeed when making Endurance checks due to breathing at high altitudes and extremely high altitudes.
|Change Shape
|Sorajin Racial Power
|You alter your form to look like another person.
|Usage::At-Will ✦ Polymorph
|Action Type::Minor Action
| Effect: You alter your physical form to take on the appearance of any Medium humanoid. You retain your statistics in your new form, and your clothing, armor, and possessions do not change. The new form lasts until you change form again.
|Once, we were as other demons. We were brutal, barbaric, chaotic creatures. Then Lord Daichi and his daughters came, and everything changed forever...
The Sorajin were once Chaotic Evil beings much like any other demons. Then a demon named Daichi found a mysterious artifact that fused with him, changing him into the Unaligned demon he is now. His power now rivals that of a deity, and he is worshipped as a deity by the Sorajin. Upon his return to the three layers of the abyss, that comprise the home of the Sorajin, he began to change the three layers into what would become known as Vasidan. His daughter, Sora, concentrated on transforming the layers' inhabitants into the sorajin. They became less violent and started to band together into a feudal society.
Play an Sorajin if you want...
- To play a beautiful race that loves to fight.
- To play a type of Demon.
- To be a member of a race that favors the Ardent, Barbarian, Bard, Battlemind, and Warlock classes.
Physical Qualities Edit
The sorajin are a race of shapeshifting demons. In their true form, they look similar to half-elves. Their skin color covers the whole human range. Their hair, thick and luxurious, is more likely to be light blue, pink, or purple than more common human colors, although human hair colors are possible.
Due to their propensity for travelling the world, it is more than likely that when you find a person who has begun to show signs of a demonic heritage, a sorajin is either a parent or an ancestor.
The sorajin favor light armor, such as cloth and leather. Until they reach maturity, sorajin age much as humans do. Upon reaching maturity, their aging slows. A few years after reaching maturity, they cease to age altogether. Sorajin cannot die from old age or natural causes. However, due to the perilous nature of the Abyss, an individual sorajin would be considered lucky to survive past 500 years.
Playing a SorajinEdit
Sorajin that choose to leave their home planes usually become traveling adventurers and mercenaries. They are highly sought after for their ability to change their shape and covertly gather information. When abroad in the world, most Sorajin try to keep their true identities hidden.
Although sorajin can adopt any persona, they usually rely on a few established disguises.
The Sorajin have formed a feudal society, one which seems to work rather well. Although they're less violent than their demonic brethren, sorajin love to fight. They view combat as an enjoyable test of skill.
Sorajin Characteristics: Adaptable, Charming, Confident, Courageous, Insightful, Noble.
Male Names: Kouhei, Satoru, Shinichi, Shinta.
Female Names: Megumi, Midori, Minami, Natsumi
Sorajin Adventurers Edit
Three Sample sorajin adventurers are described below:
Shinichi is a sorajin Battlemind. From a young age, he has pushed to the limits of his mind and his body. He is now a fully-fledged battlemind, nearly invincible in batte.
Midori is a sorajin Warlock. She has never been strong, so she formed a pact with a sorajin demon lord in order to achieve the power to finally realize her destiny.
Kouhei is a sorajin Bard, and a respected loremaster. Kouhei was taken into a monastery from an early age, where he studied histories and music for as much time as he could. In time, Kouhei determined that he needed to leave his beloved library so he could gain first-hand knowledge of the world beyond.
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About bankruptcy fraud
To see all the Court docket record links documenting Obstruction of Justice to benefit the MNAT law firm, Paul Traub's law firm(s) and their clients of Bain and Goldman Sachs
Please see the DOJ Cover Up page
The biggest issue is not only the 100 felony violations that the DE DEpt of Justice personnel are trying to prevent from any Official/Proper investigation.
Why was the central CA Public Corruption Unit shut down and career prosecutors Threatened?
Unlike everyone else's endeavors out there we do not claim to be the best, nor the premiere or most detailed web or blog site. It remains our goal to halt Fraud on the Court by those who would steal from any person by pretense or "color of law".
While this site began with the issue of eToys and the fraud perpetrated upon public equity holders, creditors and other good faith parties. We welcome everyone to discuss fraud in the American bankruptcy court realm. We do not care if the case is small, Chptr 7, 11 or 13. If you know of a fraud situation please put a concise statement about it here.
We will do our best to refrain from being high handed in our monitoring of the issues at hand. Personal attacks are forbidden and we caution you. Do not make allegations lightly. Placing them on the web, in the national public, brings in a federal standpoint on all issues.
Americans are losing their homes, cars, careers, retirement funds, public stock and, in some case, their life savings, by those that believe they are justified as legal or other professional sharks under the misnomer of the word Trustee.
Money does corrupt, absolute power corrupts and those lawyers, accountants and judges who would dare abuse their esteemed position of trust are unworthy of the words honorable or trustee.
As American Citizens it is OUR fiduciary duty to monitor our fields. If we do not watch the crop of justice, weeds, slugs and all other pests and vermen will devoure our soul and prosperity with glee.
The Truth remains an inflexible entity that can only be assaulted by apathy and corrupt attempts to silence.
Let the Truth be known, let us be a united America and truly allow freedom to reign!
WARNING – there is an Organized Criminal element that has illicit influence over the DE Federal Bankruptcy Court !
Please take the time to review the facts documented below – For Your Sake!
The US Trustee was replaced, the Asst US Trustee made a Motion to Disgorge for $1.6 million – then 9 days later the DOJ Trial Attorney voided the Motion to Disgorge and gave the perpetrators immunity – despite the fact that they Confessed to 34 false affidavits in order to Deliberately Deceive the Federal Court in $200 million in fraud.
Then the perpetrators tested their impunity level and committed another $100 million fraud and the same DOJ Trial Attorney petitioned the Courts to Strike & Expunge the proof of Perjury and Fraud on the Court.
Resultantly the Director of the Exec Office of United States Trustee's in Washington DC RESIGNED (here) and the Asst US Trustee stepped down as well.
We informed the FBI, OIG, Public Integrity Section, OSC, OPR, OGE, Pres Bush Corp Fraud Task Force, the SEC and many more.
All of whom referred us to the local US Attorney and the General Counsel of the EOUST.
Unfortunately the removed Region 3 Trustee was quietly and speciously promoted to the post of Acting General Counsel of the EOUST. The quiet part is the fact that there was no press release on the high level promotion until years later when we discovered the issue – the specious part is her office was in charge of investigating her case
and NOW – she has been placed back within to clean up her own mess (see belated DOJ UST press release (here))
We all find it rather Odd that there are no other US Trustee press releases since Oct 2008!
We also discovered the fact that the Local US Attorney in DE, whose office refused to investigate or prosecute the Perjury & Fraud failed to disclose the fact that he was a partner with the MNAT law firm in 2001 – the very year that MNAT confessed to failure to inform the Court of the Non Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest.
You normally could see the USDOJ Office of Legal Policy copy of his Resume (here) – but they have yanked it down – we kept a Print Screen Copy for anyone who wants it.
Then we reported those Ethics Violations and Model Rule of Conduct issues to the US Attorney in CA – who never responded.
The Los Angeles Times reported on a story "Shake-up roils federal prosecutors" – where the central CA USA walked into a weekly staff meeting and summarily disbanded the Public Corruption Unit (here)
If you read the entire LA Times story – you will see that it reports that DOJ personnel were Threatened to remain silent OR ELSE!
The party that was given immunity was Paul Traub's firm of Traub Bonacquist & Fox.
The relevance outside of the previous eToys.com fraud is the basic fact that Traub as Creditors counsel placed his partner (Barry Gold) within eToys as President/CEO – and MNAT helped draft the Hiring Letter that stayed hidden until we documented the Perjury – it contains a clause that allows Barry Gold to choose – whether or not – to apply to the Court per Section 327(a).
Barry Gold committed on the stand Perjury denying his connections to Traub when an eToys shareholder questioned him in 2002 after he supplied a Plan Administrator's Declaration – Under Penalty of Perjury – stating that the Plan involved "extensive" "arms length" and good faith negotiations between Debtor and Creditor.
That is between Barry Gold and his partner Paul Traub.
The DE Bankruptcy Court warned this whistle blower to back off – as did Paul Traub's firm – where Susan Balaschak and the whistle blowers own Attorney emailed a Threat that if Laser Haas did not Back Off – not only would he and the Court approved company (CLI) that he owned – they would not get paid – Laser's career would be destroyed and they would come after him for previous earnings.
When the WSJ released an article the day after the Threat was made July 25, 2005 (here)
It is Our Federal System of Justice that has become an Organized Criminal Enterprise and the fact that this whistle-blower failed English and was spanked by the Houligans should not by the basis for apathy or lack of introspect.
The EOUST replaced the Region 3 Trustee Dec 22, 2004. The US Trustee press release stated the new party is experienced in Fraud matters (here)
Making the crimes extensively egregious and heinous is the fact that the US Trustee testified it forewarned the parties NOT to replace key personnel of eToys with anyone connected to the retained professionals (as such is against the Law Section(s) 101(14), 327(a) and Affidavit Rules 2014,2016) (see Disgorge Motion parts 19 & 35 (here))
The Disgorge Motion concluded, when it did not know of the 100 other crimes that transpired – that the acts of deception were deliberate, rather than inadvertent and Traub's firm had perpetrated Fraud on the Court.
So it remains inexplicable – that the US Trustee's website Tout's its fiduciary responsibility to monitor and Police Fraud (see UST website right hand top corner (here)) – yet the DE DOJ Trial Attorney gave Paul Traub's firm Unlawful immunity and the promise of the US Trustee to refrain from its fiduciary duty as is testified in PDF pages 8 & 9 (here) as the Stipulation to Settle the Disgorge Motion that is Proffered by the US Trustee states;
"WHEREAS the United States Trustee shall not seek to compel TBF to make additional disclosures"
Researching what would prompt the DOJ to offer future willful blindness – led us to the discovery of additional crimes.
Seems MNAT, Barry Gold and Traub all have a working relationship with Bain and Goldman Sachs.
eToys sold the bulk of their assets to Bain/ KB for discounts in the hundreds of millions and MNAT, Traub and his partner Barry Gold negotiated the deals.
This is Collusion.
KB filed two bankruptcies, in the one DE Bankr 04-10120 – Michael Glazer as CEO of KB paid himself, others and BAIN $100 million – prior to the Bankruptcy Filing.
The party representing BAIN is MNAT
Michael Glazer was a director and shareholder of Stage Stores – and Barry Gold / Traub's firm worked for Stage Stores and their Directors (Stage Stores is mostly owned by Bain associated parties)
Then Paul Traub petitioned the KB Toys Court to be the one to prosecute the $100 million dollar preferential that MNAT was defending.
Akin to Capone asking Frank Nitti to be the one to prosecute him.
When we pointed out those crimes to the Court – the same DOJ Trial Attorney (Mark Kenney) petitioned the Court to Strike and Expunge the proofs of Perjury and Fraud (here)
This was not the only time Mark Kenney and his associates Obstructed Justice – he also asked the SEC to back off from initiating an official investigation and Mark Kenney, Roberta DeAngelis (as Acting GC of the EOUST) among others petitioned the 3rd Circuit Court to Expunge the case.
They were defending their brief that offered immunity to Traub that the DE Bankruptcy Court approved when the whistle blower appealed the DE Bankruptcy Court's decision to honor Paul Traub's threat.
Paul Traub, MNAT and Barry Gold told the DE Bankruptcy Court that whistle blower generoursly waived its $3,7 million in commissions and fees. For eToys was selling all their assets to Bain/KB for $5.4 million. When Laser Haas and his company CLI helped get back over $45 million to eToys bank accounts he had no idea that the reason those parties were making it so HARD to sell – was they were selling eToys to themselves.
When Laser Haas told the DE Court that the Affidavit was a forgery and pointed out to the Court that the very document the parties claim is a Waiver – states that CLI can seek success fees';
The Court said that the whistle blower does not have standing as a person aggrieved – seems you need the court's permission to point out criminality!
Does not matter much – as Stage Stores was Co-Debtor with Liquidity Solutions.
Right after Paul Traub and MNAT secretly planted Barry Gold within eToys as President/ CEO – Liquidity Solutions and related companies began buying up the eToys claims.
Barry Gold has thus far paid out over $10 million in fees to Traub, MNAT and others that participated in the Cover Up's.
Where the other $30 million plus has gone and how much to the Liquidity Solutions accounts – despite the fact that they are Collusions – will never be known.
Currently eToys (for the shareholders sake and creditors) is suing Goldman Sachs in the NY Supreme Court.
Being that MNAT represents Goldman Sachs in DE – MNAT nominated Traub's firm to do the work and the Court approved Traub's Supplemental Affidavit – that he confessed was false.
It is also learned that Traub's NY co-counsel of Wachtel helped with Barry Gold's Director & Officers (D&O) insurance in eToys.
Traub and his cohorts know that he was caught red-handed by Laser Haas due to mistakes forgotten in Court docket records – this may explain why half the NY Sup Ct case 601805/2002 is Under SEAL.
At the same time one of the very first eToys documents that the DE Court approved of – at the behest of MNAT – was the Destruction of eToys Books n Records.
Despite that Destruction – the whistle blower found $2 million in cash deposits hidden overseas that David Haddad was trying to keep hidden.
Whistle blower Haas also discovered that Foothill Capital loaned eToys $40 million in November 2000 and transacted over $100 million that was paid to Wells Fargo prior to the March 7, 2001 bankruptcy filing of eToys.
Barry Gold, Xroads LLC and Paul Traub all having a working relationship with Wells Fargo.
This is a crime of Collusion to Defraud an Estate as is well established in the on point case of In re Bucyrus 94-20786 (E D Wish 1994) The book written by Milton C Regan of "Eat What You Kill" the fall of a Wall Street attorney – documents how a $35 million dollar loan (by a former Goldman Sachs guy) was never reviewed and Gellene went to Jail as Milbank Disgorged it's entire $1.9 million and lost a $20 million dollar + litigation.
If the reader here does not understand the harm that was being done by the duplicity of the DOJ giving Paul Traub immunity, then I guess it does not matter either that both of Paul Traub's other partners – Marc Dreier and Tom Petters – committed $700 million and $3 Billion in Fraud!


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Jennifer Hudson is beaming about her new son David Daniel Otunga Jr.
"He's the cutest thing in the world!" the Grammy winner told People on Tuesday when asked about her first son with fiance David Otunga, who was born on August 10.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Jennifer Hudson, Jordin Sparks, Kelly Clarkson & More At 'VH1 Divas' 2009
"There are no words for it. He's the best. It's just amazing – us discovering each other, me becoming a mom."
According to singer, who was in New York City for "The Wizard of Oz" Netflix concert at Central Park's Rumsey Playfield on Tuesday, little David is already following in mom's footsteps.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Hollywood's Hottest Moms & Their Loveable Little Ones
"He seems like he's very interested in music already. The other night he was having a fit screaming, and someone turns on the music and he just stops and calms down. And I was exactly the same way as a baby," she continued. "Sometimes when he cries, I try to harmonize!"
And the proud mom said he's also displaying some amazing abilities at a very young age.
"He's a very rare newborn," Jennifer explained. "He tries a lot – he's turning over, he's lifting up his own head, he tries to hold his own bottle, sometimes I swear he's talking to me, or at least trying to. The other day he said, 'Hi!' – I swear, I'm not crazy. David was there too, and he was like, 'He just said, "Hi!" ' He's very aware."
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Jennifer Hudson
When asked about her own mother, who tragically killed in October 2008, along with her brother, the Oscar winner explained that her mom is influential when it comes to how she parents.
"I think she was a great example of being a mother, so when [my son] first got home, I was like, 'Everything I do will be out of love,'" she said. "That's what drives me in the middle of the night when I'm knocked out sleeping and he wakes up."
But looking ahead, Jennifer said she's excited to spend the upcoming holidays with her newborn. "It's going to be ridiculous. I can't wait," the proud mom told the mag. "His dad went and bought him some Halloween stuff the other night. I wish he was older so he could remember it, but this is the first one, so I have to go all out. It's going to be great."
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I suspect that the problem Yahtzee has with the Wii is the same problem that I have with it, the DS and the iPod Touch. I've yet to see any game which I felt was improved by the Wiimote controls, other than sporting games where the motion was a direct analogue of what you're actually doing. When it's doing stuff like Wii Sports or Wii Fit, the Wii is in a class of its own. But a classic-style actioner like Madworld is always going to work better with the precision of button and pad controls, and once you take the Wiimote out of the equation you're left with a console with markedly less horsepower than its competitors. I accept completely that this is due to my being an older gamer- I don't want to play games by drawing on the screen with a pen, tilting the display all over the place or putting my fingers on the game screen. I want controls that do the job of control and then get out of the way and let me play the game, and that doesn't seem to be what the Wii is about.
Ok, this, finally, is the episode where I say: Bloody hell, I want the old titles back.
Nice episode, and nice Alex DeLarge costume for Rick.
Resident Evil 4 and Metroid Prime 3 IMO were greatly enhanced by the Wii's motion control scheme, to the point where it's hard to go back to the old "regular" style of playing with a basic controller in your hands. The problem is that these games are few and far in-between, or rather, GOOD uses of them.
Glad as hell I looked at this I was thinking about getting this so my wii was more then a dust collector. Thanks for another useful review.
Knowing the old style, I doubt he would have used "Mad World" for the theme. The only time the opening theme was the same as the game title was "No More Heroes" and Yahtzee stopped it in mid-song and said, "No No, that's a little too obvious."
No, I wanna know when will Yahtzee by shoved in a box and dropped of a cliff on some jagged rocks. Seriously, enough is enough. Alright we get it, he hates the Wii, he hates the games that get on it. Can we move on? He drove this topic to the ground faster, than thoes Wii-mote jokes lost their wit (even if they didn' have wit to begin with.) I don't like the Wii myselfe, but this is just fucking annoying to no end.
Truth. Even 1/10 second of delay can kill you in certain games. Actually, all games should strive for no longer than 1/60 second.
He's right about the commentators' habit of repeating themselves, but other than that... I find that the graphics on this game are actually pretty good, and I never had any problem with the Wii's reactions to my movements. Perhaps Yahtzee is just waggling his wand instead of actually doing what the screen tells him to do - my brother has the same problem, and he also complains frequently about it "not responding well" to his franctic shaking.
You are wrong. Instead of intuitive Wii Remote movements, you'd have to blandly press buttons in the QTE - it would be much like pressing Play every few seconds to continue watching your movie. On the Wii, it actually feels like you're contributing something to the power struggles, which is something that could not be achieved on any other console. I dare claim that if this game had been released on the 360, it would not be half as much fun.
Metroid Prime 3; Corruption. I assume you get the point, yes?
Pretentious Gears of War trailer--AMEN!
I very good reveiw as always but one question has been bothering me with all Yahtzee reveiws who is the picture of the guy you use to show people, the one with red hair?
He wouldn't have had to try to adapt to a control scheme that doesn't fit his brain despite him liking it originally?
Oh wait, I forgot who the primary crowd on the escapist is and who he's pandering to.
And yet we rip into turbine for stuff like this.
Very funny review, one of the few that have made me laugh out loud lately. I think I have grown to used to Yatzee
Where I come from, we call that being "Tomb Raidered"
*drum sound*
I've never posted here before, I don't ever intend to again, but I had to respond to this.
The criticisms about MadWorld are by and large funny and on the whole very fair -- it's a good, short game that's entirely crippled by a frustrating camera and somewhat iffy controls -- but what I don't get is this bent against the Wii. Do you people get all excited and bothered if there's an E rated game on 360 or PS3? Should a game not be released for PC, as an example, if it contains drug or gambling references? What's with the arbitrary fucking restrictions on what should or not should be released on hardware, not based on control or graphic capabilities, but on content? What the hell is that?
Was the Blu-Ray/HD DVD race decided because studios decided violent movies should be put out on HD DVD? You people are the problem. Some idiots on the internet decide the Wii is for kids because there are no games with a mature bent to them. Developers come out with mature games and then the internet jackoffs demand that they stop.
People will want to buy these games or not. Let the market decide. If they sell, they sell. If they don't, they don't. In the mean time instead of slagging the Wii, why don't you go outside and maybe try getting laid or something?
I have to agree with Yahtzee on the fact that this game should not be on the Wii. As Yahtzee said the Wii should be left go casual gamers and leave it at that. Developers should realise this and when they get the concept for a new game that gamers may actually like, they should look into developing it on the 360 or PS3 if not both.
"WE" don't rip into Turbine at all. Some people may have but I told Turbine (and every other developer) they could do it.
You know, I really understand what he means about the Wii. If I had all 3 consoles of this generation, I think I can safely say that the Wii would probably be my least used console. Yeah, there are some good games for the Wii that work well with the motion controls (Such as Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition), but I used to look at the rack of potential rentals for the Gamecube at my local Blockbuster and I would have at least heard of the games on the shelves. Now I look at the Wii's line up and find myself asking "Wait, what the heck are these?" I haven't heard anything about any big Wii releases for a long time now (However I admit that I don't keep up to speed as much as I should). I haven't heard a thing about Mario or Metroid for the longest time and all I know is that Zelda is aiming its guns at the DS again.
Its sad to say, but the Wii for me has been reduced to nothing but something to use to go down memory lane and play things like Super Metroid, Star Fox 64, and other old titles I loved.
Apparently Metroid Prime 3, RE4, NMH, HotD, etc., don't exist.
Ok, I had to register just so I could say this. The part where it says "Oh Frabjous Day" above the TV and Yahtzee is saying "Calloo Callay" is AWESOME.
Made me laugh out loud for real.
My friend bought a wii, then sold it, then bought another one, then sold that one.
I wasn't really listening to the details of why my friend did this because I don't care about other people or what they do. But it seemed to me that every so often the console held up something shiny that made people want to buy said shiny thing and the console to play it on, but after a short while the charm had gone and the console neglected. That is not the establishment of anything worthwhile so I won't ever get a wii.
I liked Madworld. Denigrating a game for the required platform is just childish, especially when the required platform is so cheap compared to the competing platforms.
Well, nowadays cheap compared to ONE other platform...
I can't wait for some good games to come out for him to review
I think Yahtzee's starting to sound just a little like the tiresome-yet-amusing "hardcore" gamers who complain that for once the biggest console out there is not targeted directly at them. Sure, the Wii is not perfect, and it's got a lot of shovelware, but resenting a console because of its focus on casual and "kiddy" games is kind of ludicrous- do only 18-34 year old men deserve marketing attention? Be grateful someone's mixing it up finally!
Interestingly enough, though this review is somewhat negative it does give enough information that I actually think I'd enjoy this game. In that sense I think Yahtzee did a good job, because a good review isn't one that makes you agree with the author so much as it is one that gives you enough information to make your own decision. I think he needs to come to terms with the fact that the Wii isn't so much bad as it is not for him, but other than that, good show.
For a moment there, I thought Yahtzee made a reference to Evil Dead 2/Army of Darkness when he mentioned having chainsaw in the place of your hand. But then again...
The points system is what got to me the most (aside from the controls, but that's obvious, isn't it?), Yahtzee pointed its flaws out as well. It would need proper fixing, but not taking away. Because if it was taken away, well... the game would lose a lot of meaning to playing it. Or not, if you are in it just for violence (don't know many who would pick Mad World over, say, Manhunt or any similar game).
And the Wii controls don't work with these kinds of games, it's also why I play games on the Wii that don't require the waving around of the Wiimote, making you look like the ADHD village idiot blathering about pink winged men in the sky, just to do jump, punch, or any action necessary for going through the game. It was fun for the Wii Sports (and that fun didn't last long) but that's just it.
As for what Yahtzee gave us, it was a quality review. Sort of a blow to the gut, since I still hold some hope for the Wii (eventually this will prove out to be a bad idea and a waste of time, I know) but what with having experienced all the flaws there are, I see that he is making sense.
Just picture that for a moment, doing up your fly with a chainsaw for an arm...
who is that one picture that yahtzee uses all the time, its at 2:15 in this one but he uses it in a lot of other ones too. ive seen that man before but i cant seem to remember where
O_o that was very weird. Also in most cases during this I'm going "snap!" o_O
i loved the solynt green reference
great movie btw
Great as always
lol, or not :)
I may buy a Wii for this....
My Dad now has a Wii. He's the kind of person who wouldn't touch a serious games console unless it held the key to immortality, so this goes to show what a pile of crap the Wii must be.
"He's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Game Critic."
Got that right. You can also shove fanboy on there since he keeps badmouthing the Wii more than the other consoles. I know the thing isn't perfect but c'mon, blatantly pointing it out isn't going to make more games with actual effort put into them get made any faster. Well maybe it will but not to the degree you're doing it, Yahtzee.
And how are the controls bad? There was barely any moment in MadWorld that moves didn't register for me. I call bullshit on that.
The only points Yahtzee made that I can agree on are this: A) Okay so yes commentators Howard and Kreese do repeat themselves waaaaaay too much. That seems to be a problem with games with commentary as a whole. And B) sure the final boss is easier than he should be since he's y'know the final boss. Especially when you consider who the final boss is being pretty unexpected when you think about it. I wouldn't call that battle piss-poor but I wouldn't say it met the required challenge quotient for a final boss battle.
Couldn't agree more with that statement. The fact that Yahtzee dropped so many damn "stop making games, especially M-Rated ones, for the Wii" comments pissed me off more than his negativity towards the game itself. Look, I'd like for less shovelware and more "hardcore" stuff on Wii myself but that doesn't mean you shouldn't out and out condemn anyone who makes games for the system that actually took some effort just because it's on the Wii of all things.
Great review Yahtzee! Now as much as I like Madworld, I HAVE to agree that it is repetitive. Two hours in, and I stopped at the dungeon level.
Also I HATE it when the wii remote doesn't respond at times. Everytime I execute a horizontal attack, I execute a vertical attack. Just tedious to keep on reconnecting the remote.
I'm going to finish it but I bet I'll trade it in a few months later.
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Crossing Broad brings us another highlight to add to the already lengthy reel of sports broadcasters talking about bulging dicks.
In this case, it's Roy Oswalt's bulging disc, explained by former Phillies fireman Ricky Bottalico. Bottalico saved 78 games over two stints with Philadelphia, from 1994-98 and again from 2001-02, and did all that despite being Ricky Bottalico, by the way, which is something. He earned his Baseball-Reference comparables of Heathcliff Slocumb, Mike Fetters, Mark Wohlers, and Mel Rojas. It ain't easy being in the company of luminaries like that.
Anyway, we applaud Bottalico for acknowledging his error and laughing it off. They might not do that within the ESPN family of companies, we're told.
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Charlotte burglary suspect found covered in tar: police
All that was missing for an accused burglar was feathers, because when Charlotte-Mecklenburg police found him inside a medical office, he was already covered in tar.
The Charlotte Observer reports police investigators think 34-year-old Richard Rivera left a trail of tar and was covered with it because he tried entering the Northcross Medical Center through the roof.
Officers answering an alarm Thursday found someone had cut a hole from an examination room into the pharmacy. Police discovered a bag containing burglary tools, along with several types of prescription medications that apparently had been taken from the pharmacy. A further check led to a man hiding in a bathroom.
Rivera is in the Mecklenburg County jail under $47,500 bond. It's not known if he has an attorney.


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Unless you're among the best of the best in the game of golf, let's be honest -- while we'd like to think all 14 clubs in the bag are our go-to club, that's probably not the truth.
For a lot of us, however, there is at least one go-to club.
This week we asked our PGA.com Facebook fans to tell us: What's the one golf club that has impressed you most this year and why?
Nearly 200 of you responded. Below are the best answers we received.
Did you get jealous reading some of the responses? If so, be sure to check out the PGA.com Value Guide. It will tell you how much your current clubs are worth. You can then turn that value into cash or credit to put toward new clubs.
9. The 1 iron. This club came in at the No. 9 spot mainly because it would top one of those funny lists of, "stuff no one says," that people put together.
Facebook fan quote:
"And the winner again this year is... my 1975 Wilson Staff 'tour blade,' 1 iron, simply because the golf ball still travels far enough, to occasionally holler... Fore!"
8. The 7 wood. Right off the bat that's two clubs you don't see a lot of anymore.
Facebook fan quote:
"My 7 wood... Don't know why, but every time I hit it, it goes exactly where I want it to!" -- Jamie Lee Fiscus
7. The 5 wood.
Facebook fan quote:
"My 5-wood, because I have yet to miss with it." -- Cleveland de Jesus
6. The hybrid. In recent years, these clubs have been spreading like wildfire, replacing fairway woods. They're much easier to hit from a variety of lies.
Facebook fan quotes:
"Nike Slingshot Hybrid." -- Steve Dodrill
"The RBZ 3 hybrid -- 200 to 215 easily and straight. All other hybrid I was only getting 200 at the most with a slight fade." -- Ron Chaney
"My fairway hybrid." -- Danny Gamache
"Nickent 3 Hybrid." -- Nancy Gray Hubler
"My Taylor Made 4-iron Rescue, get out of jail free, pass go and collect the $200, hybrid." -- Eric Bronsveld
5. The 3 wood. While the hybrid war on fairway woods has been alive and well, the 3 wood seems to be that one fairway wood that a lot of golfers just don't want to let go. Maybe it's that go-to club off the tee when the driver is going sideways.
Facebook fan quotes:
"Rocketballz 3 wood. Amazingly long and straight." -- Jeff Raver
"Rocketballz 13 degree 3 wood! Most solid fairway wood I've EVER hit!" -- Walter Schmitz
"RBZ 3 Wood, Tour Model. Amazing Club. Almost has replaced my driver." -- Raymond Walters
"Adams XTD 14.5-degree fairway metal... boom-stick. The speed slot technology is legit." -- JJ Gosh
"Adams Fast 10 3-wood more confidence to hit from the deck on par 5s and tight fairway lies on the tee box." -- Nicholas Hadley
"Rbz 3 wood. Seriously has given me 30 extra yards. I can almost hit it farther than I hit my driver." -- Randy Williams
4. A set of irons. New sets come out every year and this is probably the least updated piece(s) of equipment in our bags. If you haven't been fit for a proper set, you should be. And, if it's been a few years since your last set, you definitely want to see what the new technology is like. It'll blow your mind (and most likely improve your game -- they're longer and far more forgiving now).
Facebook fan quotes:
"Taylor Made RBZ irons very long." -- Brad Taylor
"Mizuno MP-59 irons. So smooth off the face." -- Eric Geraci
"Titleist 712 CB Irons. Unbelievable feel, terrific workability. They are the dream players iron. Must have." -- Sammy Wammy Russell
"Cobra AMP Irons with the Rickie Fowler inspired orange colored heads and grips." -- Brett Davis
"The Titleist AP2 irons. I have been able to hit the ball further and straighter with these irons and with this I have lowered my score by 7 to 8 strokes." -- Nicholas Bingle
"Cobra Amp iron set." -- Jerry Duchene Jr.
"My new RocketBallz iron set with steel shafts. Every iron gives me 10-15 yards longer than my old iron set (Callaway Big Berthas w/graphite shafts)." -- Dana Mullady McKinney
3. A driver. We've said it in this space before -- shopping for a new driver is like shopping for a new car. It's the one club in the bag that if you have the shiny, pretty new one, all your friends will be jealous.
Facebook fan quotes:
"My new Ping G20 driver has returned my 'baby draw' that I thought was in the witness protection program!" -- Brian Wetzel
"Titleist 909, can't go wrong with Titleist." -- Stephen Giuseppe
"Razr X Black driver. Long, straight and affordable." -- John Todman
"My Titleist 910 D3 Driver with the Aldila Rip Shaft cut down a quarter of an inch. It's set to C3. Awesome club that really launches the golf ball! With my Rip shaft and the C3 setting I crush the ball and it a perfect draw!" -- Anthony Canarie
"My brand new Taylor Made R11S TP driver. Had the R11 driver and I just want to throw it away after I hit the R11S!" -- Michael Bentz
"The new Taylor Made Rocketballz driver. I hit my friends and it went almost 30 yards further. Great product and looks awesome, if only I could afford them." -- Neil Vyas
"My 4-year-old Burner Driver has been consistently putting me in the fairway all year. You will begin to notice a significant drop in your score when you start hitting more fairways. After thinking about it, it really is and should be the easiest shot in golf, you have a nearly perfect lie and manicured grass every time to tee from!" -- John Trivett
2. A putter. Blade? Mallet? Long? Belly? There are so many options when it comes to putters these days and everyone has a preference. It's the most important club in your bag too, because throughout the course of your round it's the club you're going to use most.
Facebook fan quotes:
"The California Style Scotty Cameron!!! I love the FEEL OF IT!" -- Nidra Nelson
"The new Scotty Camerons are so much softer yet more solid feeling than the old ones." -- Trebor Mangum
"Taylor Made Ghost Spyder putter. In one round alone I hit (3) 20+ foot putts and did not 3 putt in the last 5 rounds." -- Derek LaVigne
"I've made more putts with my Scotty Cameron Bullseye this year than ever! It was the last model they made. It's a keeper!" -- Gary Reed
"My White Ice Two-Ball putter." -- Darrell Blalock
"My new Odyssey Teron White Hot putter, so smooth!" -- John Gordon Hicks
"David Edel custom fit putters ENOUGH SAID!" -- Zackary John F
1. A wedge or wedges. It's refreshing to see that the putters and the wedges were Nos. 2 and 1, respectively, on this week's list. Let's face it, most of the shots on your scorecard are recorded from 100 yards and in. These are the clubs you're using for those shots.
Facebook fan quotes:
"Wedge, because I just can't seem to hit those greens every time but I am really handy with my wedge and can save par almost every time. I just love it." -- Patrick Belk
"Cleveland 588 forged wedges. Best wedges out right now. New Callaway Razr fit would be a close second." -- Sean Alvarez
"Old, custom sand wedge is my secret weapon." -- Doug Sandstad
"My 52-degree Vokey." -- Andrew Kiely
"Cobra Trusty Rusty wedge. Great action." -- Kurt Buckholz
"My new Vokey wedges." -- Patrick Zimmerman
"Wedge... sometimes, it just saves me from embarrassing myself." -- Mark Anthony Viray
"Sand wedge -- I have always been a bump and run type of golfer around the green. This year though, I have started playing the flop shot with my 56-degree and I have so much confidence now! There are a few things that I need to work on, like... when the ball checks up 15 ft-20 ft short of the hole... I get quite frustrated because it usually turns into a two putt. But when I land it with in 10-ft and one putt it's the best feeling of the day and what keeps me coming back to play more golf!" -- Austin Brown
"Taylor Made ATV wedges." -- Tyler Sweet
"My Titleist 735 CM pitching wedge because I holed out twice in a row during a round!" -- Chris Squires
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And, most importantly, the world's first BIONIC BUTTOCKS!
Thank you, SMOD!
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
When I was a kid, I envisioned a future with flying cars and jetpacks. Little did I realize it would be even better.
Ass-tonishing! Thanks Grumpy!
Maybe I can get them a couple of test pilots from the Hotel.
At last, this millennium gets its own Big Mouth Billy Bass.
Oh, my.
Oh my dear.
Oh my dear god in heaven!!!!!!!!
But where are the bionic rats? I've been waiting for them since 1977!
The next generation of sex dolls in development.
Really? Really?! All the technology this encompasses and the creator chose the anatomy of a buttocks?!
You would think the Japanese would have better (more important)things to do.
Thanks Dr G
As I was staring at a screen image of a fake butt doing...? I thought is this an action I want to defend if my job depended on it? Somedays Doc, you are the weird side of youtube.
As a long-time fan of Anime, I can tell you this has been considered. (Yes, my dweeb credebntials are out.)
Think of the sex-bots in the "Ghost in the Shell" movies. On second thought, ECCHI! (Look that up.)
Anyway, it is a nice advance in robotics. Yes, it's a little (make that a lot) yuck-provoking, but take what they got there. (Stop laughing, Grumpy!)
How can that help us limited humans? Perhaps a better, less-limited robot? How else can this help? Maybe a step toward helping people who have lost sensation in a limb or parts of the body?
Just asking.
Ok, so maybe this is a start to something even better. But why the ass first? Oh yeah, because human FACES freak people out.
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Google Local PPC Ads: Box Out Your "OneBox" CompetitorsBlog Post: June 19, 2007
Linda- User behavior studies would be great ... can someone round up a couple thousand users for us? haha. I'm writing a post, prompted by this one for tomorrow on our blog so check that out.
I'm tempted to think that most users would NOT click on the "more local results" ... but I'm also amazed at the physical real estate and the layout Google is giving to the local results box. I'm not a Google conspiricy guy, but it really makes me feel like they are trying to push people to use the Biz Center to submit and manage their biz info ... a big winner for them in the long run (more accurate info, results, GOOG-411 service info, coupons and so forth).
I'm also going to be documenting some experiments on gaining the top 3 spots as I have a few customers sitting at G or H and crying to crack A,B or C. We'll see what happens!
Linda - Matt McGee had some thoughts on the local results from Google. We have played with it a bit with getting ourselves (Prime Advertising) into the top 3 for web design in our city (view). Some of Matt's items are proving true, but the biggest and the first step is making sure all things are correct in the Google Local Business Center ... Matt's #1. I would say that most do not have #1 squared away.
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Needle in Haystack Key in Sea
Countless stories are told about Jews who miraculously recovered lost items as a result of making a pledge to give charity. One such story publicized by a charity organization called "Kupat Ha'ihr Bnei Brak" tells of a Jerusalem family that took a trip to the beach in Ashdod.
In order to save time on a Friday afternoon the head of the family decided to avoid public transportation and instead made an arrangement with a friend who owned a large van. When they reached the beach he suggested to the driver to lock up the van and join them in the refreshing water.
Everyone enjoyed the outing; adults swimming and the youngsters building castles in the sand. When it came to make the trip back to Jerusalem in time to prepare for Shabbat, the driver suddenly realized that the key to the van that he wore around his neck upon entering the water had been lost in the sea. Despair descended on the family but the father dramatically announced that he would make a donation to the Kupat Ha'ihr if the key was found. His hope of finding a key in the sea struck everyone as remote as finding a needle in a haystack. One of the youngsters took the initiative of asking the lifeguard on duty whether someone had brought him a lost key. He said that one minute before he had gotten to the lifeguard's station a swimmer had brought the key from the sea.


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Djembe and dumbek: Mustafa Waiz/ Drums: Scott Petersen/ Oboe: Roger Weismeyer/ Pedal steel guitar: Bernie Wilkens
Heart of Asia, Heart of Africa and Symphony of Voices samples by Spectrasonics.
Recorded by Scott Petersen and Matt Uelmen.
Produced, composed, and performed by Matt Uelmen.
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Baddest: This award, for the pumpkin that exemplifies the spirit of Shaft or Johnny Rotten (as opposed to Lex Luthor, or rotten meat), goes to Rob Cohee. His Inventor Pumpkin terrifies and thrills, while being an entirely quantifiable solid. Follow this link to see Rob's process (amplified by Drowning Pool).
Goodest: This award, for the pumpkin that gets to the wholesome essence of Jack O' Lanterns, goes to David Light. Made in Revit, this is the pumpkin the Code hath made. It is true to the premises of it's platform, free from hacks and workarounds, and pleasingly reconfigurable. See David's dissection here
Mostest Parametric: This award, for the pumpkin that is shaped by rules and variables, that is definite yet infinitely flexible, goes to William Lopez Campo. William didn't submit any geometry per se, but a Grasshopper definition, a series of rules and operations that boil the complexity of the ancient arch of sculpting a vegetable into 26 slider controls. The core of his submission was this pile of spaghetti:
Fantastic work Rob, David, and William! Because all of our winning contestants have well formed solids, they will each receive a 3d print of their entries.
In addition to these submissions, I'd like to give a shout out to several other awesome pumpkins that stood out from the crowd:
Robert Manna, who pimped my journaled pumpkin with a series of parametric voids for a variety of expressions.
Robert Manna, who pimped my journaled pumpkin with a series of parametric voids for a variety of expressions.
Chico Membreno, who submitted the most livable Jack O' Lantern
Joe Kendersky, for his classic sensibility.
Arman Chowdry, whose World Halloween Centre just defies description. Really, I mean, holy crap Man. I think this is the stadium where the Intergalactic world Series of Shaving Cream and Toilet Papering Vandalism takes place.
Thanks to all who submitted pumpkins. Additional images and files are available to download from here.
Happy Halloween!


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Content switching is known by a number of different names but essentially we are talking the content switch feature which is specifically intended to offer better load balancing performance for website content, because the various requests can be routed more effectively to the servers that can respond to them in an efficient manner. All Kemp Technologies LoadMaster load balancers offer industry leading web content switching capabilities
Alternative names for content switches
Content switches are also known as:
- Web switch
- URL switch
- URL ReWrite
LoadMaster load balancer content switches operate at either layer 7 or layer 4 of the OSI model. Streaming video and audio need a long life "sticky" connection to provide a more satisfactory user experience so we support this. For this reason servers that are geographically located nearer to users are preferred to provide the content delivery service.
On the other hand static server requests can be handled from the LoadMaster cache for faster performance, at the same time dynamic requests will be directed to go round the cache server by the load balancer.
Key content switching processes supported by Kemp LoadMasters
- Content switching refers to the ability to distribute (or load balance) user requests to servers based on Layer 7 payload.
- Generally, this is done by examining page content (such as a URL) and "switching" the requests to the appropriate server or group of servers.
- A Layer 7-capable ADC can switch users based on cookie values, which achieves server persistence.


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Last week, Facebook shares rose to its initial public offering price of $38 and has been slowly climbing to a peak of $41.94 on Monday -- making the social network now worth $100.6 billion.
Shares dropped to $41.34 at the close Monday in New York, according to Bloomberg News, but after a year of plummeting stock prices, this all seems like good news to investors. Facebook had their IPO in May of 2012 when its stock was valued at $38 a share. Since then, the price has halved and left many stockholders scrambling to unload stock, including Facebook's own insiders and executives. Facebook's stock price hit its apex, $45, on its first day of trading on May 18, 2012.
However, it hasn't been all bad for Facebook. It recently reported that it's gaining in mobile ad revenue and Mark Zuckerberg's philanthropy project to wire the developing world, Internet.org, could lead to billions of new users. That's definitely a lot of growth for the social network.
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Arrayed before us today is an assemblage of scholars decked out in all their glory. The regalia and ceremonial symbols will be recognizable throughout the world of scholarship and higher education. The completion of degree programs and courses of study deserves recognition. The investment of time -- even blood, sweat, toil, and tears -- is worthy of celebration. Furthermore, there is the very real sense that this institution of learning is setting loose a new generation to go out into the world. The least we can do is to organize an orderly launch.
Of course, there is actually far more here than meets the eye. Even as the regalia and ceremony will be recognizable throughout the world of education, this is no mere commencement ceremony. Then again, this institution is no mere school. This ceremony is a service of Christian worship and this institution serves no less than the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Our calling is to educate and prepare a new generation of Christian pastors, missionaries, evangelists, and ministers in order that the church may be faithfully fed and competently led.
The process of education is more than the transmission of knowledge from one mind to another. This is especially true in a Christian institution, where teachers and students are learners together, where committed teachers invest not only their minds but their hearts in the inculcation of Christian conviction and knowledge, and where bonds of friendship and affection inevitably arise. In other words, we have come to love these students and it is no easy thing to let them go.
At such a moment, it seems appropriate that we consider this commencement event in light of Christian wisdom drawn from the Word of God -- a wisdom that is, more often than not, counter-intuitive and distinctively different from that wisdom shaped by secular presuppositions. Indeed, a correct understanding of the Christian ministry will often require us to reject what the world is absolutely certain is true. And this applies even to the wisdom gained from the most trustworthy of human sources -- even our grandmothers.
As a boy, I recall hearing my maternal grandmother's admonishment that I should always be certain to finish whatever I start. In most dimensions of life, this remains good advice; the kind of advice a good and godly grandmother would pass along to her grandson. It is the sort of wisdom that passes the test of conventional acceptance. We should not be satisfied to leave our work unfinished.
In some cases, an unfinished project is a matter of mild embarrassment. Projects begin with great energy and intentionality -- to trace a genealogy, restore a vintage automobile, renovate a room, write the Great American novel, or simply clean the attic. Nevertheless, so many of these aims are never accomplished.
In other cases, an unfinished project appears more tragic than embarrassing. Mozart did not live to complete his famed Requiem. Franklin Delano Roosevelt did not live to see final victory in World War II. The landscape of Europe is dotted with both castles and cathedrals begun but not finished. Each of these has become a monument to the frailty of humankind and the fragility of human plans.
Nevertheless, the biblical conception of the Christian ministry is, as we should not be surprised to find, radically at odds with worldly wisdom. According to the New Testament, one of the most important insights about the Christian ministry is this: We will not finish what we begin. This is not to say that we will never set goals and reach them or that we will never complete plans and programs. It does mean that the Christian ministry must be seen in the context of faithfulness extended from generation to generation until Christ returns to claim his Bride.
This truth is made clear in this well-known passage from First Corinthians, chapter 3:
But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not being merely human?
What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.
According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
The background of this passage is Paul's utter frustration brought about by the fact that the Corinthian church was so deeply divided into factions. Repeatedly, Paul expresses his grief, frustration, and heartbreaking concern over the tendency of the Corinthians to insult the Gospel and to divide the church by factionalism and a party spirit. As this passage begins, Paul admonishes the Corinthians for their spiritual immaturity. Spiritually, they are satisfied to be nursing infants rather than to grow into the fullness of Christ. They should be eating meat, but they must be fed with milk. When one claims to follow Paul and the other to follow Apollos, they demonstrate their mutual immaturity and fleshly ambitions.
The exasperated apostle sets the record straight by making clear that both he and Apollos are merely servants of Christ who have been assigned by the Lord to be agents of bringing the Gospel and feeding the flock of the Church at Corinth. Using an agricultural metaphor, Paul simply states: "I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth." Paul was commissioned to bring the gospel to Corinth and he planted the good seed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He was followed by Apollos, a man of eloquence, who taught the Word of God and watered what Paul had planted.
Shifting to an architectural metaphor, Paul speaks of his role, by the grace of God, to act as a skilled master builder laying a foundation. He understands that others will come to build on that foundation. Ultimately the true foundation of the Church is none other than Jesus Christ.
In framing his admonitions, Paul reminded the Corinthians that "he who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor." Ministers of the Gospel are "God's fellow workers." The congregation is God's field and God's building. Every minister must take care to build faithfully upon the foundation. The one who plants and the one who waters are nothing in themselves. The agent of all true Gospel ministry is God himself. As the remainder of chapter three makes clear, the worthiness of our work will be fully disclosed on the day of judgment and tested by fire.
A commencement ceremony takes a quick view backward in order to aim at the long view of the future. This day is far more about beginnings than endings. The completion of these monumentally important programs of study is appropriately marked and celebrated, but our hearts are drawn to the future as we imagine what God will do by his grace and for his glory in these graduates arrayed before us. And so our focus is on the start of new ministries, missionary journeys, and opportunities to serve the church for whom Christ died.
But, in light of Paul's words to the Corinthians, it seems necessary for us to set loose these graduates with the exhortation that they must start what they will themselves never finish. As a matter of fact, we really do not start what is altogether new. We will all build on the foundation someone else has laid. Even as the Lord grants opportunity to sow seed, we will spend much of our lives and ministries watering. The Christian ministry is not a career. It is a calling that originates in the sovereign majesty of God and is concluded only by the coming of the kingdom of the Lord, and of his Christ.
In the church age, ministry is handed from generation to generation. Our humble determination and our heart's desire must be to receive this charge and to serve faithfully --- planting and watering in the fields of ministry and taking care how we build upon the foundation laid before us.
The Lord God spoke through his prophet Joel to promise that older men will dream dreams and young men shall see visions. Powerful, faithful, and compelling dreams and visions animate these graduates. They were brought here to this seminary as they were called to ministry, these visions and dreams have kept them here through years of dedicated study, and these dreams and visions propel them onward as they go out into a world of ministry and mission.
But as they go, they join a line of faithfulness that reaches back to Moses and Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, John the Baptist and John the evangelist, Peter and Philip, Paul and Apollos. It extends through generations punctuated by names such as Athanasius and Augustine, Luther and Calvin, Whitfield and Wesley, Owens and Edwards, Spurgeon and Moody . . . and so it goes.
Graduates of the Southern Seminary class of December 2009, if you aim to finish what you start in ministry, you will aim too low or finish what is not Christ's. Go out to plant, but also to water. Sow the good seed of the Gospel, even as you cultivate and irrigate. Build faithfully upon the foundation laid by Christ and the apostles. Receive the stewardship of ministry that is passed on to you and give your all to this calling so long as you live. Then, pass this ministry to a generation yet unseen and unborn to continue this ministry and extend the reach of the Gospel until Jesus comes.
Start something you cannot finish and give yourself to it for the length of your days, with the strength of your life, to the glory of God. Dream dreams and see visions, and take up this calling as you plant and water in the fields of Christ. Build carefully upon the foundation laid for you. The hopes and prayers of God's faithful people go with you.
This is a commencement address and charge to graduates of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, delivered December 11, 2009 by R. Albert Mohler, Jr., President.


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Who: Jennifer Lopez
Where: Arriving at the Civic Center for the American Idol's Hollywood Week auditions this week
Wearing: Flared white Milly trousers, a black top, with a divine mustard Hamilton wool-crepe The Row coat from the autumn/winter 2011 collection, teamed with Charlotte Olympia Dolly platforms and over-sized sunglasses. Finishing off this sophisticated daytime look is a very glamorous Giambattista Valli leopard-print clutch, which works perfectly against that bright coat.
Verdict: I am loving Jennifer Lopez since she started on American Idol and I was excited to see her wearing the Olsen twins The Row recently in Hollywood, especially this perfect mustard yellow. I loved the 70s vibe of the whole look from the white flared trousers to her Charlie's Angels bouncy hair and those huge sunglasses – she works this look to perfection and I adore it.
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IDEO's Bill Moggridge made a comment last week after a screening of Objectified that hit close to home. To paraphrase, he said interaction design has become pervasive, that anyone and everyone can be an interaction designer, and so the role of professional interaction designer is (or is becoming) unnecessary.
So, is Interaction Design a dead-end job?
As an expertise, no. But as a discrete service offering or a career path, I say absolutely.
This position has not made me any new friends around the office, but to be clear, I'm not suggesting our profession is akin to flipping burgers at the mall. Instead, it's that interaction design has reached a point of maturity where growth is constrained. I see three major factors behind this and hope that by acknowledging them we can find a way forward.
1: Developers get it
The practice of "interaction design" grew from the need to present software experiences to users in a way that makes sense, meets their needs, is consistent and coherent and "usable" and ultimately desirable. Other actors in the creation of software, from senior management to product managers to developers, had little exposure to these values nor the abilities to deliver on them.
The landscape is much different today. Developers have a much stronger sense of "good" and "appropriate" interactions. Entire development methodologies revolve around delivering value to users by understanding their needs. There are many developers and development-driven organizations with little or no professional Interaction Design involvement making good software.
Modern development frameworks provide a strong baseline for producing interfaces and interactions that in the past required a skilled interaction designer to realize. On iPhone, for example, while it's certainly hard to produce great experiences, it's just as difficult to produce bad UI. On the Web, AJAX libraries offer very usable UI patterns right out of the box and greatly reduce the custom design and coding efforts required to build good online applications.
So from the software side, as the level of interaction design awareness and quality continues to improve throughout development organizations, Interaction Designers are no longer as frequently or as heavily needed to bring a successful product to market.
2: Interaction is not an on-screen activity
Another factor is the emergence of more direct input and feedback mechanisms in today's software-enabled devices. Interaction designers are vital to help translate between human and computer when interfaces are composed of virtual abstractions with no corresponding physical affordances to aid comprehension. As software manipulation becomes more "natural," the work of designing appropriate interactions moves from the screen out to the device as a whole.
Design of physical devices has traditionally been the purview of industrial designers, a profession with its own long history of considering context and user needs to design products driven by and responding to user interaction. And industrial design education today can include much of the same user-centered design training familiar to interaction designers.
So from the hardware side, Interaction Designers are encroaching upon an established discipline with deeper roots and a better understanding of physical materials and human ergonomics.
3: Experience is a brand attribute
Risen from the ashes of the advertising industry's digital agencies is a new type of creative agency that sees as its mission defining a product's overall experience. They strive to enable "engagement" and to develop the "brand experience." These agencies typically forge a more strategic relationship with clients and manage a product's entire 'interface' with its users, including physical objects, packaging and supporting materials, online service offerings, personal touchpoints, advertising and marketing campaigns.
So from the marketing side, Interaction Designers are brushing up against savvy brand management professionals with more creative control and the executive buy-in necessary to execute their ideas.
A way forward
But all is not lost. The acknowledgment and appreciation of good interaction design has allowed the practice to evolve to include a broader mandate encompassing product and service strategy throughout the customer relationship lifecycle. We've adopted terms like "user experience" or simply "experience design" to express our attention beyond individual interactions with screen-based interfaces. Strategic 'interaction design' today considers the total experience a person has with your products, your service, your entire organization, and your brand.
We can build on that as all of these practices converge along with the products and services we're creating. What's important to recognize is that in doing so we are not entering virgin territory but treading on ground that is already occupied and whose occupants are blazing similar trails in their quests to understand how it all fits together.
The challenge we face is to determine and capitalize on that part of our expertise that is uniquely valuable while working with other disciplines towards a greater whole.


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Let's squelch a rumor here. Jeff Foxworthy, the "'you might be a redneck" fellow, did not name Peckerwood Lake in Arkansas.
Industrialist Edgar M. Queeny named it a long time ago. It was his lake. He had it built.
Once upon a time, Peckerwood was the largest man-made lake in Arkansas. But because it is privately owned, it's not familiar to many Arkansas fishermen.
Privately owned, yes. However, anyone can go fishing there with payment of a $7.50 daily fee. Quite a few people do, and they catch fish.
Peckerwood Lake is in Prairie County between Hazen and Stuttgart. It is an impoundment on Lagrue Bayou, and it was built in 1943 for irrigation.
Crappie, catfish, bream and largemouth bass are the sport fish in Peckerwood, and all are catchable nine months out of the year. The lake is closed to fishing after Oct. 21 until Feb. 1. That is the duck hunting time of the year, and Peckerwood is a major duck wintering area.
Sprawling across 4,000 acres in the Grand Prairie, Peckerwood has an assortment of fish habitat. It is generally shallow in comparison to many large Arkansas lakes, and trees, stickups, brush and other vegetation help make it fish friendly.
What is the best fishing on Peckerwood? This depends on who you ask.
Crappie often comes up as an answer. So does catfish. Bream are caught on the lake in large numbers. A few days ago, a visitor to the Bottoms, a DeValls fishing and hunting store, was told about a fishermen bringing in "an ice chest full of big bass from Peckerwood."
Big bass, the visitor asked Ashley Wood at The Bottoms. She answered, "Yes, big bass. Really big bass," and she held her hands more than 20 inches apart. "He caught them on lure he bought here at our store, and he came back for more of them."
The lures were Booyah spinner baits with white shirts. Bass have also been hitting Strike King KVD lures, Wood and fellow worker Hunter Adams said.
But summer is hitting Peckerwood hard. Jack Hartley, who operates Herman's Landing with his wife Frances, said crappie action has been below par most of the year. Bream have slowed from earlier good catches because of the hot weather, and catfish are coming in. Some bass are being landed too.
"My grandson caught some nice catfish the other day," Harley said, "and he used bologna for bait."
Hartley said fishing improvement may be near.
"The lake is falling, and pretty soon the stumps will be showing up. People ought to get crappie then when they can see the stumps," he said.
Peckerwood's history begins with Queeny, the St. Louis resident whose middle name was Monsanto, like the chemical company. His family founded the giant enterprise, and he headed it for many years.
Queeny visited the Stuttgart area, fell in love with its duck hunting and developed a large farming operation called Wingmead. It covered 11,000 acres. For a dependable source of water for growing rice and other crops, Queeny built Peckerwood.
Supposedly, the name came from abundant woodpeckers around the lake, not from the derogatory term for a country bumpkin.
Queeny built a lodge — his term — at Wingmead. Mansion most of us would call it. Guests were from all over, and dinners at Wingmead required formal attire for both men and women.
He never lost that passion for Arkansas ducks, and he wrote a book, Prairie Wings, called a conservation classic, that is a collector's item today. Queeny died in 1968.
Wingmead, including Peckerwood Lake, was bought from his estate by Frank Lyon Sr. and Frank Lyon Jr. of Little Rock.
Peckerwood is reached by Arkansas 86 off U.S. 63 on the west or Arkansas 33 on the east.
Joe Mosby is the retired news editor of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and Arkansas' best known outdoor writer. His work is distributed by the Arkansas News Bureau in Little Rock. He can be reached by e-mail at
by JOE MOSBY
Special to the Press Argus-Couier


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DAVOS, Switzerland, November 13, 2012
DAVOS, Switzerland, November 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Attracted by the executive managements of major sporting and business organizations, Davos Sports Forum event committee want the 2013 Forum - which will be held March 8-10 at the Davos Convention Center- to be a initiator for the future development of sports events and organizations around the world.
The mission of the Davos Sports Forum - committed to improving the state of sport - has driven the design and development of the World Meeting programme. The World Meeting remains the foremost creative force for engaging leaders in collaborative activities focused on shaping the global, regional and industry agendas.
Sport, like all sectors, is having to contend with a business world that has rapidly changed beyond recognition. The advent of unfamiliar and demanding issues is challenging the preconceptions of current business practice and how the industry reacts has become a crucial factor to future success. The Davos Sports Forum - World Meeting recognizes this evolution and consequently the programme for Forum was drawn together with a focus on helping your business negotiate these challenging times.
The Davos Sports Forum - World Meeting is a "must-attend event" for anyone in the sports industry. This event offers the ideal setting to do business, source new contacts, catch up with existing ones, discover the latest innovations in the industry and above all, meet your business objectives. As one of the pivotal events in the sports industry calendar, the Davos Sports Forum offers delegates a number of unique platforms to meet their fellow attendees and an unsurpassed line-up of panellists that includes the highest level of decision-makers.
With a speaker list comprising of some of the biggest names in both business and sports, the Davos Sports Forum provided delegates with clear advice on how to meet the many and varied challenges of this new business climate head on.
HRH Princess Haya Al Hussein, President, FEI
Wilfried Lemke, UN Secretary-General Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace
Dr. Thomas Bach, President, Deutschen Olympischen Sportbundes
Lamine Diack, President, IAAF
Ary Graca, President, FIVB
Sir Philip Craven, President, International Paralympic Committee
Bernard Lapasset, Chairman, IRB - International Rugby Board
Javier Perez, President, MasterCard Europe, MasterCard Worldwide
Hugh Robertson, UK Minister for Sport and the Olympics
Carlos Arthur Nuzman, President, Brazilian Olympic Committee
David Grevemberg, Chief Executive Officer, Glasgow 2014
José Maria Marin, President, FIFA World Cup 2014
Jin Sun Kim, President, PyeongChang 2018
Riccardo Silva, President and Founder, MP & Silva
Frédéric Donzé, Director, European Regional Office, WADA
Michel D'Hooghe, Chairman, FIFA Medical Committee
Corinne Schmidhauser, President, Swiss Anti-Doping Foundation
David Hill, Chairman and CEO, FOX Sports
Laurent-Eric Le Lay, Chairman and CEO, Eurosport
Alexander Atamanenko, General Director, Donbass Arena
Henk Markerink, Chief Executive Officer, Amsterdam Arena
Mutuma Ruteere, Special Rapporteur on Racism, United Nations
Dan Meis, Chief Executive MEIS Architects
John Barrow, Senior Principal, Populous
Dr. Jeno Kamuti, President, Fair Play International
J. Parrish, Principal Global Sports, AECOM
Stefan Kürten, Director, Sports & Business Department, EBU
Steve Byrd, Executive Vice President, STATS
Dimitri Huygen, General Secretary, ESSMA
Paul Radford, Global Sports Editor, Reuters
Simon Chadwick, Director, Centre for the International Business of Sport
Dan Rosenheck, Sports Editor, The Economist
… etc.
A series of conferences are notably organized: Activating / Mega Events and their Legacies / Get racism out of Stadiums and Courts / Who controls sports? / Media Rights / Venue Experience / Platforms that Make the Most Sense / Fight Against Doping in Sport!
We look forward to meet you in Davos!
For additional informations, please, visit: http://sportsforum.eu
About Davos Sports Forum
The Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the sport by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and sport industry agendas.
Bringing together businesspeople, policy makers and journalists, it provides a forum for business talks, discussing business and legal issues.
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