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Credit Cards Against Fixed Deposits (FD) & Requirements

Credit Cards have become the most important part of the financial management. However, the high interest charges, plenty of documentation and civil score often come between you and your requirements. Credit Card by a bank is offered by a bank with some particular credentials keeping the financial stability of a person in mind. However, the latest trends are allowing people for something extra on Credit Cards as well. The Credit Cards against fixed deposits are becoming very popular as the Credit Card will be issued against the saving deposit on the same bank. The requirements and the benefits of the cards under this scheme are different than the normal procedure. Banks that Providing Credit Cards Against Fixed Deposits (FD) In India.

Credit Cards Against Fixed Deposits (FD) & Requirements

There are set of requirements for credit card against the deposit.

  • You need to open a deposit account on the same bank, you are consulting for a credit card.
  • The credit limit of the credit card will be 80%-85% of the deposit account.
  • The minimum amount of the deposit account is ₹
  • The minimum duration of the deposit account starts from 180 days.
  • If unable to pay the amount of credit card, money will be automatically deducted from the deposits.
  • The interest on the deposit account remains as usual irrespective of the linked credit card.

There are many benefits of the credit cards associated with credit card against deposit account. The first and foremost benefit is the easy documentation. As you already have the deposit account on the same bank not much documents are required.

Credit card falls under unsecured loan and hence the interest rate is very high. However, with the deposit account the risks get reduced and the interest rate may fall.

If you are running with very poor civil score then credit card against deposit may give you the privilege of improving it in quick time.

You do not have the extra tension of maintaining your credit bills in emergency situation. You may take high volume of loan and then you will get good 40 days at least to repay without conceding the interest.

Banks that offer Credit Cards against Deposits

The major banks in India provide the Credit Card against the Fixed Deposit. The requirements and the benefits of these banks are more or less the same. Major banks that offer Credit Card against FD are ICICI, Axis, State Bank of India, Kotak Mahindra Bank and Central Bank of India. All these banks are pitching for the Credit Cards against FD for more secure lending and better financial management. For a bank it is always considered that Credit Card is full of risks. However, with the introduction of the scheme, banks can now rely on the outcome.

In a country like India, debt management and credit card faults are the prime concerns for financial management. The Credit Card against the FD is quite useful and beneficial for the customers who have poor records of debt management. It is equally good for those who want their debt management to be under control.

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AssistantExtensions: A New Jailbreak Tweak That Pushes Siri’s Limits

By , Jan 25, 2012

If there is one good reason to get an iPhone 4S, it’s Siri, the iPhone’s witty virtual assistant that can help you do various tasks such as searching the web, scheduling appointments, send messages, etc by simply using voice commands. Siri can do many things, but there are also many things Siri can’t do.

Sure you can set up a Siri proxy and and install plugins to have Siri do things she’s not supposed to – like starting a car – but for most people, the technical hustle to get this going is not even an option. It’s just not practical.

Enters AssistantExtensions, a free MobileSubstrate tweak that aims at extending Siri’s capabilities in a very simple way…

AssistantExtensions comes with a few built-in commands, including:

  • System commands: tweet, launch applications, set brightness, etc…
  • Toggle commands: taking full advantage of SBSettings, those will allow you to list and turn on/off any SBSettings toggle installed on your iPhone
  • Chat box: have a deep conversation with Siri, beyond the scope of what Siri currently does

This is great, but it gets even better! AssistantExtensions offers a simple framework for people to create their own extensions. With some basic knowledge of Objective-C, you can come up with your own extension for virtually anything you want.

So far, and besides the built-in ones, there is only one extension available, which allows you to search YouTube and shows results with thumbnails. This is just the tip of the iceberg, though. There is no doubt these extensions are going to pop up all over Cydia within the next few days.

As I mentioned above, AssistantExtensions is currently free on Cydia, via the BigBoss repo. At this price tag, and considering what it does, I highly suggest you give it a try.

I’m sure Jeff will have a detailed video demo soon, so don’t go too far, and check back iDB later tonight for our full on walkthrough.

In the meantime, you can earn some major brownie points by coming up with an iDB extension that lets you search the site using Siri. Just saying…

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  • mattsuperman148

    This is awesome! Who else is getting this?

  • downloading

  • saw this earlier, wanted to wait for Jeff’s video for it before dl’n lol, will def check it out.

  • Downloading.

  • I downloaded it when some in the comments suggested it. Definitely worth it

  • I don’t like it. It doesn’t Announce the apps it opens and the only difference I see with this and siritoggles is that it does a inside YouTube search. And I also noticed my Siri taking a lot long to respond when I installed this. So I switched back to siritoggles

    • Siv

      Same here. It slowed down my Siri considerably. After removing it, Siri works fine.

  • Stay Frosty

    The tweak will turn Siri into a Protestant Christian. Tell it that you don’t believe in God. Looks like someone trojan horsed their religious agenda.

    • what kind of hate filed person are you

      • Personally I would’ve preferred an atheist Siri. After all, nothing happens to robots after they die.

  • I’m liking this tweak. Before I had OpenSiri, SiriToggles and Sireet. Now all I need is this. I like how you can confirm your tweet before sending it.

  • Anonymous

    Great concept but I did not like it. When they add the ability for others to chose what plug-ins the t want to use then I will try it out. Ali’s this tweak does not work well with Sireet.

  • But that’s only the tip of the iceberg!

  • jay jimenez

    Already downloaded I’m loving it

  • It’s pretty good I like it. Chat box is awesome! Now we need to find Dr. Richard S. Wallace haha!

  • Anonymous

    One of the .aiml files are labeled “IU.aiml”. Can’t tell if Purdue dev, or different acronym…

  • Anonymous

    Has anyone tried this on Spire? Doesnt seem to work for me /:

    • wa77ior

      Works with Spire for me

    • Didn’t work for me either. I have iPad 2 iOS 5.0.1, and spire version 1.0.1-1, as well as hands free control, and siri0us. I’m thinking maybe it’s incompatible with one of my other extensions. Or maybe the device.

  • Downloaded! Thanks iDownloadblog. I love this blog!

  • How did u make it say “yes” when u activate Siri? I was looking thru ifile and found the files. But can u tell me which one. Thanks in advance

  • anyone else notice with this tweak you can open apps running from the lock screen? other tweaks wouldn’t allow it…personally, I’m glad it does since I don’t use a pass code. does this by pass the pass code?

    • great, i got into the conversation mode with Siri, i asked her to ask me a question…now she is asking me question after question. :-s

      siri is definitely female. too chatty

  • Michael Jennings

    possible for siri to give you sports scores?

  • How do you change the initial load-up sound from a beep to “yes?”?

    • get the tweak “Hands-Free Control” …in settings turn on “Voice Response” this will change it to Yes from the normal annoying beeps. You should turn off the “Listening Service” the main part of the tweak really does drain your battery quite considerably.

      • Its not working with this… There must be some other way how siri say YES when launch…

      • dont forget to respring!

      • You gotta reboot!

  • Hmm it doesnt confirm tweet for me first. It just sends it right away…

  • Hey Jeff how can you get Siri to say “yes” when you first launch her? Thanks

  • wow, thats the single reason one could jailbreak their iPhone today for 🙂

    the rest is crap. only jailbreak thing worth it atm

  • Anonymous

    Strange. My download functions differently than the one demonstrated in this video. I cannot preview tweets before they are sent out. Also, Siri doesn’t say “Yes” when she is turned on?

    • I could have sworn yesterday this let me preview a tweet. Today, it just sends it automatically. I have removed SiriToggles, & VoiceUtils but no change.
      You can get Siri to respond with Yes? by changing a setting in Hands-free Control, another jailbreak tweak.

      • nevermind, an update to this package was released yesterday. in the changelog on cydia it states:
        changes in tweet commands: tweet text – tweets immediately
        show tweet text – shows tweet dialog with send button
        perhaps some settings will be placed in the future as to which of these options we’d like as default.

  • Nikita Lebedev

    Yeah this app does slow down Siri and dictation considerably… I hope that will be fixed

  • Anonymous

    will assistance extensions work if i have spire without a proxy?

  • The dev who did this will be the next one that apple hires

  • Doesn’t work with spire? Says sorry I cannot do that?

  • how do i get the youtube search?

  • i use this tweak and works great until i say search something on youtube, my iphone respring and enter safe mode. i dont know how it can be happen.

  • Hi,

    It’s saying “I Dont Know Your password” when I try to ask Siri to open twitter. How do i fix this?

  • Does it work with Sara?

  • Anonymous

    how can I get this?

  • I downloaded myassistant and assistantextensions and it is an awesome experience. They also added jokes and chuck norris facts for siri chatbot.

  • Codvisp

    Yes Assistant Extensions is the Best Siri Tweak but with a MAJOR drawback: After invoking Siri, AE messes something with the Keyboard click sound (turns it out to AK47 :P). And the only solution is to respring… Too bad… i’ve uninstalled it already…

  • anyone else having problems with this ?? whenever i use siri to send a imessage or even sms it just freezes my phone ?? only way to resolve is to hold power and home button till it reboots ?? only freezes when sending texts other than that its fine !! and it does it evrytime !!!


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CES 2008: Turning Point: Fall of Liberty Hands-On

Attaching bombs to Nazi tanks.

Turning Point: Fall of Liberty kicks off with futuristic Nazi zeppelins invading New York City. You're a meager construction worker bewildered at the assault, and decide to arm yourself and take out the nearest Nazi. It's a first-shooter with pseudo-futuristic World War II weaponry, so you'll see variations on the Thompson, Gewehr, and MP 40 (called an MP 50 in the game).

Instead of just running through various New York skyscrapers and blasting the bad guys with bullets, Turning Point gives you the option of entering into melee. And it's not simply bashing them with your gun, but a branching system that lets you, when at a close enough range, instant kill them or use them as a human shield. Depending on where you are in a level, the instant kills can range from spinning about an opponents weapon and planting a shot in their chest or tossing them from buildings.

As your character progresses through the game you'll join up with various militia squads who eventually take you out of the city to Washington D.C. and London. Linear shooting sequences are broken up by the occasional defense scenario, like one we saw that occurs early on in the game. In it friendly forces are attempting to push back waves of Nazis from their position, which sits right near the downed cap of the Chrysler building. Waves of enemies spawn in and alongside squadmates behind barricades you must use for cover. An automatic turret sat nearby, which made it easy to pick off some of the SMG wielding enemies. The rifle-toting foes were a little more difficult as their increased accuracy let them attack from farther away, meaning our own machine gun fire wasn't as effective at hitting them. Eventually zeppelins drifted in and brought more soldiers to battle and soldiers carrying triple-barreled rifles ran in, but the most entertaining part was when a tank showed up.

Since we didn't have any means of disabling it from afar, we had to scamper out into the battlefield, enter a sewer line, move underneath the tank and plant explosive charges from there. Planting the bomb was a little more involved than just hitting a button. We had to individually move each wire on the bomb, of which there were three, into position and hit another button to screw it into place. Only when all the wires were properly connected could the bomb be armed.

That's about all we saw at the show. If it sounds interesting to you, look for it in stores at the end of February for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC.


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13 Tips to Dominate in Mario Kart 8

13 Tips to Dominate in Mario Kart 8

AKA: How to make your friends hate you

Let’s take a look at basic mechanics, tips, and strategies to help you get the upper hand on your friends.

The quickest way to unlock all the kart parts and characters is to run through the 50cc Grand Prix mode with 4 players. Not only will it be simple to get gold in each circuit, 4 players will maximize the amount of coins you get.

Retroactive Awards

On the flipside of this, if you are super hardcore, getting medals and stars in 150cc will carry down so you don’t need to play though on the lower speeds if you don’t want to.

Kart Stats

Next up, you gotta find the kart that is right for you. When selecting a vehicle, you can press the + button to view its 5 stats. Speed is your overall top speed, Acceleration is how fast you reach your top speed, Weight is how how much you are affected by bumping other racers, Handling is how close you stick to a corner, and Traction is how well you handle off-roading.

Character Weights

Characters fall into one of 7 weight classes that are not displayed anywhere in game:

  • Feather: Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, Baby Daisy, Baby Peach, baby Rosalina, Lemmy, Mii (Light)
  • Light: Toad, Toadette, Wendy, Larry, Lakitu, Koopa Troopa, Shy Guy
  • Medium: Yoshi, Peach, Daisy, Mii (Medium)
  • Cruiser: Mario, Luigi, Ludwig, Iggy
  • Heavy: Donkey Kong, Roy, Waluigi, Rosalina
  • Metal: Metal Mario, Pink Gold Peach, Mii (Heavy)
  • Super Heavy: Wario, Morton, Bowser

Feather weights having higher acceleration, lower speed, and lower weight, and Super Heavy weights having lower acceleration, higher speed, and higher weight. You are gonna wanna play around with different character and kart combos until you find something that just feels right.

Rocket Start

So, now that you got your ride, it is important to master the various boost systems in the game. First off, The Rocket Start. Before the race begins, look for Lakitu’s countdown. As soon as you see the 2 drop, begin accelerating for a boost right out the gate.

Each coin you collect will give you a minuscule speed boost and each one up to 10 will slightly raise your top speed. However, don’t go out of your way to collect coins, as there are a ton of them spread across each course.

Stunt Boost

Hit Jump just as you leave any ramp to do a trick and get a small speed boost. This also works on small environment hazards, so make sure it becomes second nature to hop at every opportunity. For more on speed boosts check out our in-depth video covering them all.

Play Defense

You can no longer get a new item if you are holding one behind you.  Despite this, more often than not it will benefit you to play defensively and be protect yourself from shell attacks.

Super Horn

If you are in first and you get this guy, hold on to it just in case a blue shell comes. The Horn is the only way to combat it, and as tempting as it is to use in a crowd, that potential blue shell could be the difference between first place and swear words.

Crazy 8

A pro tip is to rapid fire the items as soon as you get it to stop other racers from stealing your star and mushroom.

A super pro tip is to steal other player’s stars and mushroom like a baller.

Shortcuts can shave seconds off your lap-time, but if you are in first, it might not be worth the risk of falling off course.  Check out our shortcuts video for more.

Air Hits

Try to hit people with items then they are in the air. That will cause the longest respawn animation, providing ultimate frustration to your opponents.

Well my job here is done for now but remember guys, this is my Best Way To Play! Got any useful tips of your own? Let me know in the comments!

Tim Gettys is a Producer at IGN. He is also a cool dude. You can follow him on Twitter.


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    November 22, 2006 - Thanksgiving is upon us and with it a gluttonous fury is about to be unleashed. As game fans, we know that eating and videogames go hand in hand, especially during the holidays. The problem with overeating is that it often brings shame. The best way to allay any qualms you may have with scarfing down a bowl of yams is to find another who can share in your guilt. That's why IGN has assembled the essential games where the main character is focused on food of some variety. Eat your weight in turducken while playing any of these games and you should be able to live with yourself in the morning. Even if you can't zip up your pants.

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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

18 May Mini-Challenge: Awesomepants Cleaning Tips!

Sticking with the cleaning spirit as we finish off the month of May, I thought I would share a bunch of super fab online reads that will offer even more cleaning tips, tricks, ideas and inspiration than you could ever imagine.

Y'all know I am a sucker for a good cleaning plan.  In fact, I swear by it as one of the ways we work together as a family to keep our home squeaky clean.  The lovely friends over at Better Homes & Gardens believe in a cleaning plan too, and offer a step by step guide for getting one started.

I have been on the hunt for a good green carpet stain remover.  Leave it up to my girl Martha to dish the recipe for stain remover, along with other natural green cleaning tips too!

If you have grout, you know it can be a pain to clean, and it can also look dirty, fast.  Check out these groovy grout tips for sparkly grout lines.

How many ways can use a dryer sheet?  Did you know they can be used to dust, to tackle soap scum and to clean pots and pans?  Get the scoop along with 17 other uses for dryer sheets here.

One of the reasons I like to clean is because the smell of a clean home is invigorating.  To take it a step further, you can naturally deodorize your home with the lovely scent of lemon, vanilla and rosemary.  Snag the scoop here and savor the smell!

Cleaning your appliances is just as important as cleaning the surfaces in your home.  Find out a super sweet dishwasher cleaning trick here, which will only cost you about ten cents!

I always chat about shopping your home for organizing supplies, but what about shopping your home for cleaning supplies?  The folks over at the nest compiled a great list of surprising household items that double as cleaners!

Under the sink is the prime spot to store cleaning goodies, but cleaning doesn't come easy when your supplies are a jumbled mess.  Learn how to take control of that spot under the sink within ten minutes or less, so it shines just as bright as the rest of your home.

I have already shared a couple of easy peasy lemon squeezy homemade cleaning recipes here, but you can find 66 more real simple all natural cleaning solutions here.

Sometimes it's all about the little things... Especially when they prevent BIG mistakes!  I love how Ashley takes note of special wash instructions in the laundry room.

All these reads inspire me to get scrubbin' and washin' and cleanin' and lovin' my home, how about you?  Where do you go to find your cleaning inspiration?  Any other sources jam packed with helpful household tips?

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  1. I would love to purchase the legal sized planner pad in image 1, if I knew where to find it.

    Thanks for the tips

    1. I too would love to purchase the legal sized planner pad.

      Thank you.

  2. Great tips, as usual! Thanks for sharing! :-) I read about the lemon/rosemary home scent over at Mini Manor Blog yesterday...I've gotta try it!
    ~Beth @Incomplete Guide to Living

  3. Melissa ComefordMay 28, 2013 at 6:49 AM

    While Tang and Cool Aid wiiiillll help, you should really use a dishwasher or washer cleaner on a regular basis. A lot of the new HE washers even have a special cleaning cycle to keep crud at bay. Whirlpool Corp. makes a really great set of cleaners, Affresh is the brand, and they are not very expensive. I use them to fill up Amazon orders to get the free shipping. They smell nice, and the dishwasher cleaner can even be used with dishes, and is great for getting the film off of glasses that have been washed in a dirty dishwasher. Keeping washers and dishwashers clean is VERY important to keeping them running efficiently.

  4. You used the word "awesomepants." Had me at hello!! Great post!

  5. Read a great tip from Heloise .... use a dry paintbrush to dust lampshades! Good to know!
    Emma @ from my little pink couch

  6. Oh thank you for this!! I'm trying to get my cleaning act together and really needed some tips like these. I'm especially excited about the green tips (so I can phase out my stinky cleaners). Thanks again!

  7. anyone (Jen Included) have tips for eliminating dog smell in your house?

    1. Living with 4 (lovely and fairly well mannered) dogs and 2 cats I'm constantly on the lookout for ways to neutralize odor. For a natural remedy the lemon/rosemary/vanilla will help in the short term. Leaving bowls of vinegar out throughout the house will eliminate odors as well. I recently started using Odoban (you can find it at Home Depot) while it's not all natural it is relatively inexpensive and it works great. That's the best solution I've found. Hope that helped! Water Damage Hemet CA

    2. I have a large (~55lb) lab in a one bedroom apartment. My sister (who would absolutely not lie to me!) came to stay last week and couldn't get over that my apartment didn't smell of dog. Here are my tricks:

      1) vacuum at least once, if not twice, a week. Including upholstery. Clean countertops etc daily - somehow my dogs hair manages to get everywhere and if I'm not on top of it the mess is obvious very quickly.
      2) open doors/windows (I have french doors that lead onto a third floor balcony) for a few hours a day
      3) give your dog good quality food. That means nothing from the grocery store. I feed Nature's Variety, but you can check out website such as www.dogfoodanalysis.com for more info. Also, make sure food is stored in an airtight container. Go to your local (preferably non chain) pet store for advice.

      I actually don't use any air scents because I believe they mask the scent rather than eliminate it and often make the smell worse rather than better. I might consider using the lemon/rosemary one Jen linked though.

  8. Great tips! Slightly off topic but I have seen that adjustable wall shelf all over Pinterest & NEED one for my little girl's room. Where can I find it? Anyone?

  9. OMG I think I love you.

  10. Jennifer - I really needed this inspiration today. I created a custom family cleaning checklist of my own in excel today and am so excited to make the natural cleaning products and get my bottles/sprayers together. We are slowly making changes to be much more "natural" in our eating, cleaning, and living. Thanks so much for this post.

  11. I like the idea for deodorizing the house with the rosemary and lemon. Since it boosts your brain's cognitive functions, I will definitely use this in my study as it should help my focus and concentration. Great advice!

  12. The fact that the word "awesomepants" is part of this post already makes it a must-read. Then you add in so many great tips, and it just screams "PIN!!!" Thank you for sharing these wonderful ideas with us! Hope you're having a great week, Jen!

    ~Abby =)

  13. Great tips! http://jessielovesjake.blogspot.co.nz/

  14. #5 is really impressive. We have given it a try and it worked out very well!

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Mexico to put itself on the map

Hosts of the Div. II Group A are seeking ways to expand

Thousands of fans celebrate in Mexico City while Mexico scared tournament winner Spain in a 4-2 loss. Photo: Ulises Gutiérrez Bonilla

MEXICO CITY – When most people think of sports in Mexico, the first images that come to mind are baseball and soccer, and then perhaps the athletic theater that is lucha libre. Although the nation has 18 rinks and 2,200 registered players, including 1,800 at the junior  level – respectable participation for a non-traditional hockey country – few people outside its small hockey community even know the sport exists in the country.

The Mexican Ice Hockey Federation and the IIHF have taken steps to increase the visibility of the Mexican program. This year, Mexico played host to two IIHF-sanctioned tournaments. At the senior level, the World Championship Division II Group A took place in Mexico City earlier this month. Last month, the city of Monterrey hosted the World U18 Championship Division III Group B tourney. In recent years, the country has also hosted the men’s World Championship Division III in 2005 and the 2008 World U18 Championship Division III Group A.

Mexico currently ranks 32nd in the IIHF World Ranking. The men’s national team won one of four games in the Division II Worlds, finishing fifth in the six-team field. While these results may seem modest, the Mexican team threw a scare into eventual gold medalist Spain before falling by a 4-2 score and also dominated cellar-dwelling Turkey by a 9-2 score. Also encouraging was the attendance. Several games drew 3,000 fans to Lomas Verdes in Mexico City. In the U18 tournament, Mexico finished second, losing only to undefeated New Zealand (5-4) in the final game of the competition.

Things did not go nearly as well as the World U20 Championship Division II Group A in Debrecen, Hungary, last December. The Mexicans finished last and were relegated to Division III after scoring just 4 goals and allowing an alarming 77 goals in five games. In the most lopsided games of the tourney, Mexico lost 28-0 to Hungary and 25-1 to Great Britain.

The Mexican hockey community has no pretensions of becoming a Division I calibre country anytime soon. Instead, the goal is to build participation by providing access to the game to more people. Apart from the ups and downs at the World Championships, the Mexican program faces ongoing challenges to continue building the sport.

On the bright side, the top junior clubs – such as the ones based out of Lomas Verdes and San Jeronimo in Mexico City – have access to quality coaches and have produced some youngsters who have gone on to play Junior B hockey in Canada. Unfortunately, club hockey in Mexico has typically been based around Mexico City with only minor participation elsewhere, primarily centred in Guadalajara, Monterrey, Toluca and Leon.  Six of the country's rinks are located in or around Mexico City.

Toward this end, the most recent Azteca Tournament and the Divison II national league featured a record number of teams (11) participating, and there were concerted efforts to increase players’ access to the Olmeca, Tolteca and Maya tournaments.

Providing youngster and interested adults widespread access to the game has been an ongoing challenge in Mexico. The costs associated with the game – ice time and equipment – have traditionally limited participation to higher-income families. While some Mexican rinks charge fees as low as $70 U.S. per month, others charge as much as $150 per month. Some leagues and rinks offer rental equipment at a nominal cost per use (less than $3), but the expense adds up fast for the lower-income population.

As a result, the majority of players in Mexico are those who can afford to buy their own equipment. In a country where hockey has to be sought out by those who want to play – and in which few private or public sponsorships exist to defray operating costs for hockey clubs – the task of increasing Mexican hockey's visibility and participation has proven quite difficult.

Moving forward, the key to building Mexican hockey will be to expand the existing infrastructure of its program. The natural inclination is to wonder if Mexico can follow a similar model to the one Spain has used to win the recent Division II tournament in Mexico City and earn a promotion to the men’s 2011 Division I level next season. IIHF Council member Frank Gonzalez of Spain said that there cannot be a direct parallel, but there are some common themes that Mexico and other non-traditional hockey countries can glean from one another.

“Each country is so unique in their way of life, traditions and their day to day activities. Even though it might sound that Spain and Mexico are very alike because of the language and our history, we are completely different from each other, our Ministries of Sport work completely different, the funding is different, our targets in the long and short run are different,” Gonzalez said. “But what makes us so similar is that we are starting from zero when it comes to the infrastructure of our Federations although we in Spain have the base, the employees, volunteers and technical staff to start the process.”

In Mexico, there have already been steps taken to get the process moving. The immediate challenge will be to follow-through on the progress that has been made over the last few years.

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A strong, well-sculpted abdomen is as delightful to behold as a Van Gogh sky. Wide lats and a narrow waist forming a classical V shape — a work of art indeed! But a warning: Such a masterpiece is just as complex to create as a Starry Night or a Cornfield with Black Crows and it is much easier to do it wrong than it is to do it right.

One big problem is that 95% of all waist exercises performed by bodybuilders are variations on the sit-up and the leg raise, which are all flexions of the abdominus rectus body — that is, drawing the legs and torso closer together. But flexion is only one of the three functions of the abdomen. The other two are bending to the side, and twisting from side to side, and these movements depend on the oblique muscles. Once you begin working on building up your obliques, then you will be well on the road to flattening your entire abdomen, not just a part of it.

The function of the obliques is to bend the torso to one side and forward, and to twist the torso at the waist from one side to the other. In fact, the obliques cover and hold in a much larger portion of the abdomen than the abdominus rectus. In addition to their main functions of lateral bending and twisting, the obliques play an assistive role in all abdominus rectus exercises, and act as a counterforce to the spinal erector muscles of the back.

Knowing exactly where the obliques are will give you a better idea of how important they are. The obliques curve inward and downward from the sides to the front of the lower abdomen, and down into the crotch. This means that the obliques are not just a side muscle, but a frontal muscle as well, particularly the internal obliques and the lower portion of the external obliques. When the human form is viewed from the front, the lats and the outer sides of the external obliques form the torso line on each side of the body.

If abdominal work is neglected, such exercises as bodybuilding, weight training and jogging tend to develop and strengthen the lower back at the expense of the abdominal wall. Traditional sit-ups and leg raises are little help on this score, for they don't work the obliques much at all, and in addition gradually force the top of the pelvis to tilt forward. This contributes to swayback.

The Oblique Controversy

Almost from the beginning of modem bodybuilding (circa 1940), the oblique muscles have been neglected by bodybuilders. In the quest for the extreme V shape created by wide lats and a narrow waist, even the slightest development of the sides has been avoided so that the frontal view of the bodybuilder would always reveal a V ending in a wasp waist.

Whenever Bodybuilders see an overweight person — and in our society, that is a minute-by minute occurrence — their fear of overdeveloping the obliques is reinforced. The "love handles" that appear on the overweight body indeed, those handles are often nearly bursting with love! are so ugly as to be a constant reminder of exactly what bodybuilders do not want. They forget, however, that such handles are not the oblique muscle at all, but pure fat! The ideal, then, is to strengthen the obliques while keeping the fat off them by way of rigorous exercise.

The obliques are quite important in a variety of sports. They come into play in all sports that involve throwing, such as baseball, tennis and field events such as the shot put, hammer throw, javelin and discus. Twisting and swinging motions, as well as all lateral movements, also involve the obliques, such as those done by wrestlers, gymnasts, soccer players, football players and boxers. Underdeveloped obliques limit ones athletic facility in dozens of subtle ways.

The ultimate argument for the bodybuilder, however, lies in basic body building theory: The ideal body is one in which all the muscles are developed in systematical harmony. Underdeveloped obliques, then, are a flaw in the eyes of the experts. Should not the perfect body that all bodybuilders strive for also have perfect obliques?

Standard Bodybuilding Oblique Exercises

1) The side bend - This exercise is generally the only oblique exercise included in a beginner's routine. However, beginners are quick to drop it after they hear from more advanced bodybuilders that it will widen the waist. This is a pity, because the dumbbell side bend is an excellent waist shaper, and works much more of the abdomen besides.

To do the side bend, take a dumbbell of about the same weight that you would use in the dumbbell press. Hold the dumbbell in one hand at the side of the thigh. Place the feet about shoulder width apart. Put your free hand at your side or behind your head. Then begin: Bend sideways to the weighted side as far as possible. Raise back up and then bend over to the unweighted side. Bend as far as possible and hold the completed position for about three seconds. Repeat the movement for 10-12 reps. Immediately transfer the dumbbell to the other hand and do another 10-12 reps for that side.

In the side bend, the obliques pull the torso to the side, but the intercostals and the abdominus rectus also do a sideways crunch. If you tense these muscles as you perform the side bend, the exercise will have a better effect. The side bend is not just an oblique exercise, but involves the whole abdomen, and is also a mild sideways contraction of the spinal erectors.

2) Twisted sit-up - This is called "twisted" rather than "twisting" because the twist position is held throughout each repetition, from start to finish. This exercise works the obliques along with the abdominus rectus and the intercostals.

To do this movement, assume the sit-up position on a Roman chair. Take a 5- or 10-pound plate and hold it either behind the neck or at the chest. Lower the body to the horizontal position. Twist the bead and chest to one side, then sit up, maintaining the twisted position. At the top, twist the torso to the opposite direction, then lower and raise for a full repetition before turning to the other side again. Do 12-20 repetitions,

3) Wasting crunch sit-up - Lie on your back. Raise the legs to the vertical position with the legs slightly bent as in the regular leg-raise position. With hands behind the head, attempt to curl up slowly and curl up again, twisting the other elbow to the knees. This will involve a very limited range of motion, but try to curl up into as much of a crunching contraction as possible, doing 10-20 reps for each side.

4) Hanging leg raise twisting - This is a tough exercise that works the lower abdomen quite well. It can be done with the knees bent at first. Then, after the abdomen gets stronger, It can be made more difficult by straightening the legs.

To do this movement, hang from a chinning bar with about a shoulder-width grip. Raise both legs together with the knees bent. Attempt to raise and twist the knees up along one side of the torso. Lower and raise the knees with a twist to the other side of the torso. As you raise the knees, also raise or curl the hips up to obtain a full contraction of the abdominals. Perform 10-20 reps for each side.

You can increase the intensity of this movement by adding ankle weights to your legs or a dumbbell between your feet, And as you become stronger, you can intensify the exercise by straightening the legs while raising them, lifting them to a maximum of 45 degrees above horizontal. Eventually you will be able to touch the bar on either side of the hands. This is a favorite exercise of gymnasts.

5) Lying side bend - It took me a while to perform it smoothly, but once I mastered it, I found it a great oblique movement and abdominal flattener. Be patient — the results are worth it.

Lie down on your side, folding your arms in front of your chest and abdomen. Now simultaneously raise the torso and the legs in a vertical direction. This should bring your shoulders and thighs off the floor. You may not be able to achieve much of a movement the first few times, but keep at it: It takes a while to get all the muscles working together, but its a great waist slimmer.

To begin with, you may want to leave your lower arm stretched out over your head and flat on the floor, and the other hand on the obliques, feeling them contract as you raise your upper body and legs, Hold for three seconds and return to starting position, repeating 15-30 times each side.

6) Kneeling cable twist - Take a cable handle in both hands, or loop a towel in the handle and grip it. Kneel on the floor under the pulley wheel. Sit on your heels and lean the torso forward. Pull the cable handle down slowly, twisting to the side. Hold the tense position of the obliques for about three seconds and return slowly to starting position. Alternate sides with each twisting pulldown. Keep the arms bent and use the curling and twisting of the torso to pull the cable down.

Pointers on Performance

  • Do each movement at a moderately slow speed.
  • Feel the muscles contracting from beginning to end.
  • Hold contracted position for 2-3 seconds, and tense.
  • No jerking, heaving movements. Don't let the obliques he overpowered by the stronger abdominal muscles.
  • Practice ISO-Tension control in the exercises.
  • Select only three exercises at a workout. Alternate exercises each workout.

There's no reason to have a midsection you're unhappy with. Whether you just want to make your waist a little narrower, or want a midsection that's as ribbed and hard as a tortoise's shell, these exercises are the answer. They're all based on sound training principles. If you perform them with determination and intensity, you will undoubtedly achieve the kind of abdominal musculature you're after.

Weightless Abdominal Routine

Aerobic exercise for about 20 minutes or more at a time is one of the best methods for shaving off a layer of ugly fat covering the obliques. Here is a weightless, aerobic abdominal routine, which works all areas of the waistline, creating a flat, muscular look. These exercises primarily work the abdominals, so they should be done in addition to the basic oblique exercises outlined in the primer. This aerobic routine is excellent when done once a day, whenever you have an extra half-hour. It should be especially attractive to the competitive bodybuilder, who must flatten his waistline as well as create the extra edge of definition prior to a contest. To do this routine, you must:

• Do all six of the exercises listed below continuously, shifting from one to another without pause.
• Start with just 6 repetitions on each exercise.
• Do the cycle of six exercises just once the first day, then twice the second through fifth days, and finally three times on the sixth day.
• Increase the repetitions from 6 up to 20 or more until you are working for 20 minutes.

1) Knee-lift crunch - From a lying position, raise one knee. Curl up to it as you place your hands on your shin. Slow pulling with the arms is okay. Alternate knee lifts each repetition.

2) Double knee-lift crunch - From a lying position, raise both legs off the floor, Place hands on the shins. Curl up and crunch,

3) Cross-legged twist-crunch - From a lying position with one leg bent at 90 degrees and the opposite ankle on the one knee, twist-curl the torso up, hands behind neck, for 6 reps, touching elbow to opposite knee. Then switch legs and do 6 more reps.

4) Bent-leg crunch - From a lying position with legs bent at 90 degrees and feet on the floor, simply curl up and crunch, lifting legs and torso toward each other.

5) Knee-lift twist-crunch - From a lying position, raise the bent legs, cross ankles and hold, hands behind neck. Curl up and twist elbows to knees, alternating on each rep.

6) Leg raise reaching crunch - From a lying position, do a regular straight-legged leg raise, at the same time curling up with your torso and reaching out and past your buttocks with your hands. Stop when straight legs reach the vertical.

Exercise tips:

  • Breathe normally during the execution of each routine.
  • Keep the movements medium to slow,
  • Hold each contraction for 2-3 seconds.

Six weeks of this excellent routine will help you shed excess pounds, and in addition will give you greater flexibility and endurance. Strong and flexible abdominals will not only improve your sports performance, but will do wonders for your appearance.

Awesome Waist-Flattening Diet

Exercise will firm shapt and flatten your waistline, hut in order to see a flat waist and its muscular definition, you have to strip fat not only from your waist, hut from your entire body. To help you hurry along the fat reduction of your waistline, diet plays a major role.

Here is a low-fat, three-day diet plan which can help trim off waistline fat while still providing energy for any high-powered workouts.

DAY 1: Breakfast

  • 1 boiled egg
  • ½ grapefruit or 1 orange
  • 1 slice whole-wheat bread
  • 1 cup nonfat milk

DAY 1: Lunch

  • 1 ½ cups sliced fresh fruit
  • ½ cup plain low-fat yogurt or cottage cheese
  • 2 rice cakes or large whole-wheat crackers
  • 1 cup nonfat milk

DAY 1: Dinner

  • Large dinner salad
  • Dressing: 2 tsp oil plus vinegar and herbs
  • 1 cup steamed rice, preferably brown
  • 2 cups steamed fresh carrot slices
  • ¼ pound lean cooked hamburger
  • Herbal tea

DAY 1: Snack

  • 3 cups popcorn (no oil or salt)
  • 2 glasses tap water or mineral water
  • 1 apple or peach

DAY 2: Breakfast

  • 1½ cups puffed cereal
  • ¾ cup nonfat milk
  • ¾ cup sliced fresh strawberries
  • Herbal tea

DAY 2: Lunch

  • 1 large salad with:
  • 3 ounces water-packed tuna
  • 2 teaspoons oil plus lemon juice and pepper
  • 1 slice whole-wheat bread
  • 1 cup nonfat milk

DAY 2: Dinner

  • 1 cup clear broth (preferably low-sodium)
  • 4 ounces cooked chicken (no skin)
  • 2 cups steamed broccoli, cauliflower or cabbage
  • 1 medium baked potato

DAY 2: Snacks

  • 1 cup nonfat milk
  • 3 cups sliced fresh vegetables with dressing made of mustard and vinegar, if desired

DAY 3: Breakfast

  • Yogurt shake made in blender with:
  • 1 cup plain nonfat yogurt
  • ¾ cup melon cubes
  • 3 ice cubes
  • 2 tablespoons frozen orange juice concentrate

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New website and comments via Watershed Media Project

Check out the new website and research blog for the Watershed Media Project, with a focus on democratization and equity in journalism funding and practice.

It’s on the baseline Word Press 2015 theme — nice minimalist design with big fonts, one big column of text and images and a simple left-rail menu.

Some new and classic postings include:

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Print clips now online

Built out my CV a bit with a bulked-up portfolio of my editing and writing clips. It’s mostly online material, but I just scanned and uploaded a bunch of newspaper print clips that aren’t available digitally — articles from the SJ Mercury News and SF Bay Guardian.

Still much more to come, but here’s a start.

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“Future of Journalism” got ya down? New Watershed post

New post over at the Watershed Media Project explores “the Future of Journalism” as a techno-industrial metaphor that perpetuates the crisis of journalism by deepening the funding drought for news production in neglected communities. Check it out:

“The crisis of journalism as metaphor: Or, why not just pay more journalists?”
Watershed Media Project, January 29, 2013

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Introducing: The Watershed Media Project

The Watershed Media Project is a new initiative to research and develop grassroots funding, production and promotional models for independent, public-interest journalism and media.

Watershed is a nonprofit, fiscally sponsored project of Independent Arts & Media; it is also a slow-media project that will eschew the frantic pace and expectations of today’s digital startup culture in favor of small, simple, incremental goals achieved over longer periods of time.

My intent is to cultivate Watershed as a venue for research, analysis and related blogging; it also will encompass and manage and as test platforms for its overarching hypothesis, to wit:

Grassroots funding and production models for journalism can more effectively serve key public-interest needs than institutional news media and monetized news products.

Call it a hypothesis-in-progress; maybe it’s a little too confrontational. We’ll be picking it apart with gusto over the coming months; meanwhile, please consider two jumping-off points.

The first iwatersheds a link to “Post -Industrial Journalism,” a crucial 2012 manifesto by Emily Bell, C.W. Anderson and Clay Shirky, in which they memorably declare that “there’s no such thing as the news industry anymore,” and call for “new forms of organization” within which to develop and drive the practice of journalism in our democracy.

The second point is this excerpt from a forthcoming essay of mine written for Planet Drum Foundation, a San Francisco-based nonprofit group that advocates for designing communities that are radically adaptive to the conditions of unique local “bioregions” and watersheds. It’s a veritable gusher of metaphor that can hardly be stemmed:

Information is like water. Our survival depends on it. It’s harmful or healthful depending on its origin, and on what people do to it before it gets in your system. Its use and availability is enormously profitable, and of the highest humanitarian and social concern.

From the community meeting hall and the local-news blog on up, the free flow of information is the water cycle of democracy, sustaining entire ecosystems of civic discourse and cultural exchange.

Just as estuaries and watersheds are vulnerable to industrial activity and unsustainable development, democratic institutions and processes are deeply influenced by commercial and financial interests. Mass media is a toxic mess, awash with false memes, fear mongering, destructive double-standards and routine ethical compromise. Media equivalents of Exxon Valdez, Deepwater Horizon and Fukushima happen all the time. Pollution accumulates in the mental environment like mercury and PCBS in the water tables.

My first significant publishing gig, back in 1992, was as editor of Planet Drum’s annual journal Raise the Stakes — issue No. 22, which in retrospect was a somewhat prescient edition. We dug deep on topics such as cultivating native food crops, seed saving for diversity, permaculture “food forests” that bear diversely all year long, community-sponsored agriculture (CSA farms), organic and least-toxic farming — topics that would in subsequent decades end up inspiring marketing and political campaigns alike.

That linkage between ecology, sustainability, culture and history has stayed with me over the years, and when Judy Goldhaft from Planet Drum asked me this past summer to write something for their print newsletter, the dots began to connect up.

Having just returned from the National Conference on Media Reform in Denver, I was impressed by how Planet Drum’s vision of sustainability had so much resonance with commonplace media-reform and future-of-journalism metaphors such as “information ecosystem” and “news ecology.”

These are easy metaphors, even seductive, and yet taking them seriously begins to compel questions. What, for example, are the funding watersheds that sustain these media-based ecosystems? How does one measure and ensure their health and sustainability?

The questions run deep, the terrain they open up is broad. Watershed Media Project will serve as home base for a few hopeful expeditions and surveys.

In the coming months you can expect a standalone home page plus regular project updates, and your comments and feedback are most welcome throughout.

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Noted: “A third kind of freedom inherent in open-source systems”

The freedom to audit. In addition to being free and forkable, open-source systems also have to be accountable:

“The open-source movement champions an approach to product development in which there is universal access to a blueprint, as well as universal ability to modify and redistribute the blueprint. Wikipedia is perhaps the best-known example of a product inspired by the movement. Open-source advocates typically emphasize two kinds of freedom that their products afford: they are available free of charge, and they can be used and manipulated free of restrictions.

“But there is a third kind of freedom inherent in open-source systems: the freedom to audit. With open-source software, independent security experts can scrutinize the code for vulnerabilities — whether accidentally or intentionally introduced. The more auditing by the programming masses, the better the security. As the open-source software advocate Eric S. Raymond has put it, ‘given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.'”

Source: “Let’s build a more secure Internet,” NYTimes, Oct. 9, 2013.

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Do Knight’s regrets inspire charity?

News of the Knight Foundation’s $20K speaker fee to exposed plagiarist Jonah Lehrer moved quickly through the media web, provoking negative press and, ultimately, an expression of regret by the foundation itself.

This alone, however, has not inspired critics of the foundation, who, in a series of comments on the Knight Foundation apology, raise pointed questions about the decision-making process that led to the payment in the first place:

  • “What most astounds me about this whole affair is that no one, not a single person at the Knight Foundation raised their hand to say, hey guys, this might be a bad idea. Such an egregious lack of judgment. Makes you wonder who’s running the show over there.”
  • “You are reacting to the negative press you received. Your apology is worse than the original ideia [sic.] to give Lehrer an Oprah-like platform.”
  • “$20,000 ‘was not unusual for a well-known author.’ Is this The Onion? I thought I was on a journalism site. This “well-known author” talks about the possibility of never being published again because his ethical breaches have alienated all his previous outlets. Would you pay $20,000 — for many in this country a year’s salary – to a ‘well-known attorney’ who’s been disbarred?”

And so on.

Self-examination is generally a good thing, and Knight’s contrition is most welcome. Yet the commentators have some important points that still must be received and processed by the foundation. My own concern is whether the incidental and bureaucratic nature of the expenditure (described as “not unusual for a well-known author to address a large conference”) represents the foundation’s systemic disassociation from the actual needs and actual struggles of working journalists.

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Noted: “Taking Stock of the State of Web Journalism”

Tom Stites, an accomplished and indeed storied news hound (and a mentor and great inspiration to me), has produced this important article about the continuing decline in civic investment and recognized value of journalism, and original reporting in particular.

Read it, share it. You already live it.

“Taking Stock of the State of Web Journalism”
By Tom Stites

It’s stocktaking time — five years since the Big March to the digital journalism future stepped off in 2006, strutting toward what was widely trumpeted as inevitable triumph. Auspicious events amplified the cheering:

  • The City University of New York launched its Graduate School of Journalism with an innovative curriculum and hired the outspoken citizen-journalism advocate Jeff Jarvis to direct a new interactive media program and teach entrepreneurship.
  • Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society widened its interest in the growing edges of news by adding to its roster of fellows Dan Gillmor, author of the seminal 2004 participatory journalism book We the Media, and the protoblogger Doc Searls.
  • In his widely followed PressThink blog, New York University journalism Prof. Jay Rosen headlined an item The People Formerly Known as the Audience; it immediately became a defining meme for journalism on the web, which empowers everyone to participate.
  • The Knight Foundation, the premier funder of journalism projects, kicked off its $5-million-a-year News Challenge grants program.

So, five years later, how’s the Big March working out for journalism — and for the democracy that’s so dependent on it?

  • As the digital march began, newspaper advertising revenue began its own march — off the cliff: five straight years of decline, verging on a 50-percent plunge. The decline is a bit less grim as it moves into its sixth year, but it shows no sign of turning around. The number of dailies has been in decline since 1973 and — no surprise — the failure trend accelerated with the ad crash. Newspapers are just starting to make some headway with metered website paywalls that show promise of generating Internet revenue that can offset more than a tiny fraction of print losses.
  • A parallel march, of laid-off reporters, editors, and producers leaving newsrooms of all kinds, has cut the nation’s salaried news personnel by almost a quarter over the same period. Despite contributions from varied web journalism efforts, the net amount of original reporting, the bedrock of journalism’s public good, is declining sharply. And so is journalism’s nourishment of civic health and democracy.
  • Two Knight-funded studies of web journalism efforts, including the comprehensive 2009 report of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities, have praised lots of interesting efforts but found no business models that are both self-sustaining and replicable from community to community. The Knight News Challenge has run its five-year course and, after strategic review, the foundation says it will shift to three 12-week rounds in 2012; the foundation says it is shifting to include more of a “social investing” venture capital strategy in its work.
  • The most prominent web journalism business model with corporate millions behind it, AOL’s Patch, is drawing wide scrutiny and little if any optimism outside AOL that it will prove sustainable.

“Even as the [Knight] Commission did its work, the situation was getting dramatically worse,” Mike Fancher, the retired editor of The Seattle Times who helped write its report, wrote recently in a follow-up white paper. “Perhaps most importantly, emerging media struggle to be sustainable businesses.”

The buzz about how bloggers and citizen journalists will save the day, once almost deafening, has died down to a murmur ….

Read the whole essay at Harvard’s Neiman Lab Dot Org.

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Delivery matters.

So you produce some top-shelf coverage, but the target population — the people who need to see it — are not connecting. Why not? More to the point: How do you solve that?

Enter California Watch, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Turns out they have an on-staff Public Engagement Manager, who made this cool thing happen:

California Watch’s stories about earthquake safety problems in schools reached hundreds of thousands of people through a statewide network of radio, TV and newspaper partnerships.

But the ones most affected by nonprofit news agency’s investigation were the ones least likely to read it — children.

That’s where Ashley Alvarado comes in. Her job as California Watch’s public engagement manager is figuring out how to deliver information to the audiences who need it most but are hardest to reach. This means that her techniques have to be as unique as the diverse communities that she’s targeting.

With the earthquake safety story, the solution was putting information in a kid-friendly format — coloring books. And not just in English, but also in Spanish, Vietnamese and both simplified and traditional Chinese, the most spoken languages in California.

California Watch had planned to print 2,000 copies, but the demand quickly exceeded that. By the time the outreach campaign ended in June, California Watch published 36,000 coloring books and distributed them for free. The site, Alvarado said by phone, is still getting requests for books from schools and organizations.

A fine example of nonprofit journalism making itself matter.

Source: “California Watch’s engagement efforts show staffers what hard-to-reach audiences want,” Poynter Online, June 23, 2011

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KUSF is dead. Long live KUSF!

The public outcry following the University of San Francisco’s secretive and unilateral shutdown of the legendary KUSF-FM was enormous. A planned public meeting staged by USF on January 20 changed location three times to accommodate the anticipated crowds.

Ultimately, the KUSF postmortem meeting/protest/public hearing was staged at USF’s Presentation Theater, on Turk Street at Masonic. With 470 seats the place was packed from the main floor to balcony. There was a large pot-banging protest stretching several blocks outside, which got the place up to capacity and left crowds milling around outside. There were SFPD inside, parked outside by the theater, and on the side streets. says 6 police cruisers and 20 officers were on the scene.

The actual meeting was contentious, with USF presenting it as a fait accompli, apparently holding all the cards with the papers signed and awaiting only the FCC’s rubber stamp. Media people who know the topic think it’s highly unlikely the FCC will derail the sale.

But the situation is definitely in motion. That was a darn big crowd of really motivated, talented, diverse and networked people. Who knows what they can pull off? They’re going after this from every angle.

Contingencies swirl … lawyers with advice are accreting around the volunteers … Doc Searles at Harvard sez the volunteers should angle for 87.7 FM, which the FCC just opened up, a frequency that merges into the low end of the TV spectrum, but still counts as FM radio …. notable public figures are being recruited, the legal angles are being dissected … And there seems to be a large, large effort coming together to shake up the FCC case — exploring apparently novel ideas around community access, as opposed to the usual, failed effort to protest a ‘format change,’ which the FCC doesn’t care about.

Independent Arts & Media was mentioned in the Bay Citizen for our official statement on the sale (the reference starts at paragraph 7).

The SF Weekly also filed a good, bloggy overview of the whole meeting yesterday, with great pix.

As for the temper and tone of USF, many, many other commentators have spoken of this, and they all seem on point. All I can add is that there are plenty of contradictions and doubtful assertions in the official line offered last night, and declarations about a lack of student involvement and a lack of other suitors which I personally know to be not at all accurate.

The volunteers are meeting again for more planning as I type this — and there will be many more meetings, and much more activity before this business is concluded.

If you are interested in this issue, one of the best places to get your data and plug in your energy is the Save KUSF Facebook page. I know Facebook sux, but it has its uses, and this one seems to be poppin’. Two days in and they already have over 4,000 fans. Pile on and let’s change the world AGAIN!

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Noted: “New F.D.A.: Transparence and Flexibility”

A NYTimes article about the changing culture of the FDA illustrates the power of quality public information and an engaged citizenry:

During the Bush administration, the Food and Drug Administration was mostly a place of black-and-white decisions. Drugs were approved for sale or they were not, and the agency’s staff was expected to publicly support those decisions.

But as Thursday’s landmark decision on the controversial diabetes medicine Avandia makes clear, things have changed under the Obama administration.

. . .

Some of the changes have been driven by people like Dr. Steven Nissen, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic whose 2007 analysis of Avandia’s heart risks stunned doctors, patients and legislators, who asked why the F.D.A. had not done anything similar. When the agency revealed it had done an almost identical analysis a year earlier and found the same result, the controversy intensified.

“You have these third-party analysts setting the agenda for the agency in ways that never happened before,” said Daniel Carpenter, an F.D.A. historian at Harvard.

For the F.D.A., the Nissen analysis presented major challenges. It demonstrated that the agency no longer had a monopoly on the information needed to make drug and device safety decisions. Data from crucial clinical trials are increasingly being posted on public Web sites. And academics are using sophisticated techniques to test whether popular medicines are safe.

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Theodore L. Gunderson (Nov 7, 1928 - July 31, 2011) was a retired American Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent In Charge and head of the Los Angeles FBI. Soon after retiring from the FBI in March of 1979, Ted began looking more deeply into cases of satanic murder activity after becoming convinced of the innocence of a Green Beret Army medical doctor, Dr. Jeffrey R. MacDonald, who was falsely convicted in August, 1979 of the murder of his wife and two young daughters (5 year old Kimberly, and 2 year old Kristen MacDonald) in a bloody and grisly satanic style murder scene that took place in their home in the early morning hours of Feb. 17, 1970 on Ft. Bragg Army base in North Carolina. The murders were in fact committed by a local satanic group of drug users (referred to as "hippies" in the newspapers at the time) which included five active duty army men who had targeted the MacDonald family because Dr. MacDonald was perceived by this group of GI drug users as a "snitch"; as MacDonald and other army doctors were adhering to the base commander's new policy (at the time) of reporting the names of Army personnel who were being admitted to the base Emergency Room for overdosing on heroin and other serious drugs .


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Thanks to everyone who bought the DVD set, mtv has agreed to produce more animated Aeon.
It will not run on mtv, so no BS&P to contend with.

My hope is to make the best version of AF yet. Closer in tone and style to the LTV shorts, but with a longer running time, a complex, character-driven story, and the relationship between Trevor and Aeon preserved from the series. Dialog will be minimal. Visual storytelling will be exploited to its fullest. (I've realized that for myself, the LTV shorts have the greatest replay value for those reasons.)

When the project starts, there is a plan is to set up a new official website dedicated to AF which will include production news and discussion.

So far, this is the plan. Everything could change tomorrow, but as I said, things are looking good for now.

Peter Chung, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 21:01 (nine years ago) Permalink

This sounds ideal!

I can only guess what BS&P stands for. Frustrating when guys who do not have anything to do with the vision end up in charge.

Barb e., Thursday, 4 October 2007 00:36 (nine years ago) Permalink

BS&P is broadcast standards and practices, if I remember correctly. I'm glad to hear there will be none of their restrictions! That must be a first for Aeon -- I wonder, will it make the content turn out all that differently? I imagine not. Still, one has to wonder if MTV won't impose its own restrictions of some sort.

Kudos to MTV to keep believing in Aeon, if only for some financial reason. Hang in there, Peter! This is like the Second Coming for us cult followers, especially after that Antichrist that was "Aeon Flux: The Motion Picture".

Matt Rebholz, Thursday, 4 October 2007 01:21 (nine years ago) Permalink

An official Aeon Flux website will be another welcome thing -- something the show's never properly had (I suppose because it mostly predated the explosion of the web, which I first discovered at the same time I discovered, or rather re-discovered, AF in '95). Considering the strength of her popularity, AF has never had a large web presence. But I wonder if this is still something better left in the hands of fans?

I have to wonder if MTV hasn't started deciding to return to its 1990's state, when it still had some strength of innovation. I stopped watching the network regularly about the time that Britney Spears appeared on scene in 1999; it seems prophetic that MTV has decided to bring Aeon back now that the network is struggling, what with the recent Video Music Awards having lost its previous luster, and Britney's bizarre downfall playing a part in that.

Matt Rebholz, Thursday, 4 October 2007 01:31 (nine years ago) Permalink

This is amazing... I might need to get MTV... or a TV at all for that matter.

Maxtheman36, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 15:50 (nine years ago) Permalink

I get the feeling it's not going to be on TV this time.

Matt Rebholz, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 02:10 (nine years ago) Permalink

Guys, if you'll notice Peter said "it will not run on mtv", so that let's out the BS&P.

Barb e., Wednesday, 10 October 2007 17:13 (nine years ago) Permalink

three weeks pass...

I hope we hear more on this, I'm really wanting to see these new episodes, man.

Barb e., Saturday, 3 November 2007 02:01 (nine years ago) Permalink

three months pass...

Any updates on this?

JuntMonkey, Saturday, 9 February 2008 23:08 (nine years ago) Permalink

There have been some new developments in the plan.

All I can say is that we are moving ahead; however, the new version will not be out this year.
These things take a long time. It took 3 years for the the half-hour series to make it to the air (1995) after the second season of LTV (1992).

Plus, I'm also working on other projects.

Peter Chung, Sunday, 10 February 2008 15:03 (nine years ago) Permalink

Great, thanks for the response!

This could probably be its own thread, but what are some recent (or not) works of animation/live-action/graphic novels/books/video games etc. that you would recommend for your fans? I've downloaded "In" and will watch it shortly.

Do you know if the Aeon Flux video game (movie-based) is worth playing for fans of the series? From what I've seen it takes a lot of elements from the animated Aeon world, and it got decent reviews. Just wondering if you had played it yourself.

JuntMonkey, Monday, 11 February 2008 02:03 (nine years ago) Permalink

I don't play video games, but...
If you're a fan of the show, I think you'll enjoy it. Many of the characters are based on the animated version more than the movie. Scaphandra, Trevor the Breen soldiers all resemble the originals, not the movie.

There's a fantastic Hungarian animated feature called Feherlofia I'd recommend to anyone looking for something totally different from the usual commercial product.

I've been posting on the anipages forum lately:

I started a thread there to discuss the film "in". Join in with your comments after you've watched it. I'm very interested in knowing what people think.
Also, the thread on Japanese animation theory generated a lot of heated discussion.

Peter Chung, Monday, 11 February 2008 05:25 (nine years ago) Permalink

Hey no fkn way dude

Mark Mars, Sunday, 17 February 2008 09:34 (nine years ago) Permalink

Haven't even read this yet - you shitting me, Chung? No way!!

Mark Mars, Sunday, 17 February 2008 09:48 (nine years ago) Permalink

Dude. I want to hit that god damn motherfkr one time put me to work on it pimp hode ub

Mark Mars, Sunday, 17 February 2008 09:52 (nine years ago) Permalink

five years pass...

So this never happened, huh?

Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 22:06 (three years ago) Permalink

one year passes...

Was there ever any work done with this? I can't imagine that there aren't at least some storyboards, something.

clouds, Sunday, 29 June 2014 01:49 (two years ago) Permalink

was this the real Peter Chung?!?

in the realm of the menses (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 04:39 (two years ago) Permalink

no reason to believe it wasn't

clouds, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 01:10 (two years ago) Permalink

...things are looking good for this to finally happen.

― Peter Chung, (6 years ago)

Hope springs eternal within the human breast.

― Alexander Pope (280 years ago)

Aimless, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 01:22 (two years ago) Permalink

i would be v surprised if you were a fan of the show, aimless.

clouds, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 01:25 (two years ago) Permalink

Traffic in this forum is so low that I never bothered to remove it from Site New Answers in my Preferences. Did you find my comment objectionable? If so, I shall withdraw it, although it seemed apt enough to me.

Aimless, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 01:29 (two years ago) Permalink

nah, just thought it kind of amusing that you had to weigh in on *this* as well

clouds, Thursday, 10 July 2014 19:00 (two years ago) Permalink

It was in another thread that Peter explained why the moving ahead with new episodes got cancelled. That's a good question though, clouds. I would bet for sure there are some pre production bits and pieces - at the very least they'll exist inside the mind of the creator :) But I imagine Peter wouldn't reveal any ideas that could still be used in future works.

Sam G, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 17:26 (two years ago) Permalink

it's also somewhat strange that chung never entered into comics/graphic novels in a larger way, as AE kind of eminently lends itself to that sort of treatment imo

clouds, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:10 (two years ago) Permalink

for AE i mean AF obv

clouds, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:32 (two years ago) Permalink

two weeks pass...

After Firebreather, I pursued chances to work on feature projects.
Some was my own development work, then storyboarding on features for Amazon, Sony and Dreamworks.
I found the creative process in the US. animated feature industry non accommodating for personal expression, unfortunately.

I've decided to get back into T.V., as that's the venue where creators have the most opportunity to make a mark. I am currently developing several series to pitch.
It's an exciting time for me and I hope to be able to announce something soon.

Peter Chung, Saturday, 2 August 2014 06:12 (two years ago) Permalink

wow! thanks for the update!!

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 2 August 2014 10:33 (two years ago) Permalink

Cheers, Peter!

Nhex, Saturday, 2 August 2014 17:43 (two years ago) Permalink

I'm looking forward to whatever you end up making, Peter. Hopefully, the ensuing success will finally give you the opportunity to make new Aeon Flux episodes or maybe even a movie, if the new project doesn't end up being either of those two!

Ikon: A Titan from Beyond Imagination, Sunday, 3 August 2014 20:39 (two years ago) Permalink

Looking forward to see what you have coming up! xps

clouds, Monday, 4 August 2014 02:45 (two years ago) Permalink

Very cool to hear!

Sam G, Sunday, 10 August 2014 11:14 (two years ago) Permalink

one year passes...

So, a year has passed with no word...

Does this mean it didn't work out?

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  • A priest, a woodcutter and another man are taking refuge from a rainstorm in the shell of a former gatehouse called Rashômon. The priest and the woodcutter are recounting the story of a murdered samurai whose body the woodcutter discovered three days earlier in a forest grove. Both were summoned to testify at the murder trial, the priest who ran into the samurai and his wife traveling through the forest just before the murder occurred. Three other people who testified at the trial are supposedly the only direct witnesses: a notorious bandit named Tajômaru, who allegedly murdered the samurai and raped his wife; the white veil cloaked wife of the samurai; and the samurai himself who testifies through the use of a medium. The three tell a similarly structured story - that Tajômaru kidnapped and bound the samurai so that he could rape the wife - but which ultimately contradict each other, the motivations and the actual killing being what differ. The woodcutter reveals at Rashômon that he knows more than he let on at the trial, thus bringing into question his own actions. But another discovery at Rashômon and the resulting actions from the discovery bring back into focus the woodcutter's own humanity or lack thereof.

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  • In 12th century Japan, a samurai and his wife are attacked by the notorious bandit Tajomaru, and the samurai ends up dead. Tajomaru is captured shortly afterward and is put on trial, but his story and the wife's are so completely different that a psychic is brought in to allow the murdered man to give his own testimony. He tells yet another completely different story. Finally, a woodcutter who found the body reveals that he saw the whole thing, and his version is again completely different from the others.

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  • Rashomon (1950) is a Japanese crime drama, that is produced with both philosophical and psychological overtones. An episode (rape and murder) in a forest is reported by four witnesses, each from their own point of view. - Who is telling the truth? What is truth?

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Season 1

18 Sep. 1989
Alien Nation
A bigoted human policeman in the L.A. of the future and his alien partner learn to live with each other's differences while attempting to solve a drug conspiracy hidden in the subculture of Los Angeles' newest immigrant population: extraterrestrials.
25 Sep. 1989
Fountain of Youth
Sikes' issues with aging are intensified when he learns that the Newcomer life-span is almost twice that of humans. The death of a police officer during surgery raises questions about the hospital.
2 Oct. 1989
Little Lost Lamb
Sikes tries to help a 16 year-old Newcomer prostitute. George deals with the intrusion of Uncle Moodri and his traditional Tenctonese values.
9 Oct. 1989
Fifteen with Wanda
Sikes and Francisco must each try to deal with their own problem children all while keeping a witness safe from a mob hit man.
16 Oct. 1989
The Takeover
While the city suffers a riot, Francisco and Sikes alone must defend their precinct house from a gang of thieves.
23 Oct. 1989
The First Cigar
Francisco comes under the scrutiny of the IRS and wrestles with the ethics of asking for a loan from an influential Newcomer that he has helped.
30 Oct. 1989
The Night of the Screams
As Halloween approaches, a series of Newcomer murders seems to follow the pattern of a Tenctonese myth.
6 Nov. 1989
The murder of an astronomer leads Sykes and Francisco to the discovery of an extra-terrestrial probe passing through the solar system. But is it friend or foe? Sikes's relations with his Newcomer neighbor, Kathy, develops. George and Susan discus having another baby.
13 Nov. 1989
Three to Tango
A series of murders of Binnaum, a rare kind of Tenctonese needed for catalyzing reproduction, raises fears that Purists are trying to stop the Tenctonese from breeding. Francisco asks Albert to be the Binnaum for his and Susan's next child.
20 Nov. 1989
The Game
The Day of Descent, anniversary of the Tenctonese freedom from slavery, finds Francisco depressed. A lethal form of gambling from The Ship may be continuing on Earth.
27 Nov. 1989
Chains of Love
Sikes and Francisco seek an elusive Newcomer woman - all of whose dates wind up dead. George worries about Susan's fidelity.
18 Dec. 1989
The Red Room
A break in at a behavioral lab and a series of execution-style murders dredges up buried memories for Francisco.
15 Jan. 1990
Spirit of '95
As Susan and Buck campaign for Tenctonese suffrage, bombings and kidnappings are linked to the anti-Newcomer "Purist" organization.
29 Jan. 1990
Generation to Generation
Several parties claim ownership of a mysterious Tenctonese box that leaves a trail of death in its wake.
5 Feb. 1990
Eyewitness News
The line between reality and fantasy blurs when a crossed video phone line lets a boardroom of executives see a sex actress attacked. George becomes swept up in celebrity when a news crew does a week-long special on him.
12 Feb. 1990
George is suspended from the force when several kilos of drugs goes missing on his watch. An old mentor of Sikes' returns. The Francisco family prepares for the Ejection, when the baby will transferred from Susan to George.
19 Feb. 1990
Real Men
Sikes and Francisco investigate possible steroid dealings at a gym. George must reconcile his and humanity's conceptions of manhood while he is pregnant.
26 Feb. 1990
Crossing the Line
Francisco worries that Sykes is hiding something when he cancels his vacation plans to help track down a killer.
12 Mar. 1990
When Sikes comes back after being pronounced dead, he becomes obsessed with finding the Newcomer he believes healed him.
9 Apr. 1990
Gimme, Gimme
George investigates the murder of the chief scientist behind a company he is heavily invested in. Buck, inspired by one of his teachers, protests that the workers at the company are being exploited. Matt sells one of his lottery tickets to Albert, only to see him win.
30 Apr. 1990
The Touch
Cathy finds a boy she knew from the ship, but suspects he has been abused.
7 May 1990
Green Eyes
Tensions between partners erupt when Francisco passes the Detective 2 exam and is promoted over Sikes. Matt becomes uncomfortable with his attraction to Cathy. The mysterious death of a Newcomer judge points to a lethal bacterium being used as a weapon.

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August 28, 1991010,343,75000GRA Repurchase (CFF)
September 13, 199101,291,66700GRA Repurchase (SBA)
September 20, 199101,840,62500GRA Repurchase (EFF)
September 23, 199101,083,33300GRA Repurchase (EA)
September 25, 199116,550,000000GRA Purchase (SBA)
October 07, 199101,603,12500GRA Repurchase (EFF)
October 07, 19910827,50000GRA Repurchase (EA)
October 22, 19910827,50000GRA Repurchase (EA)
November 27, 1991010,343,75000GRA Repurchase (CFF)
December 06, 19910827,50000GRA Repurchase (EA)
December 13, 199101,603,12500GRA Repurchase (EFF)
December 13, 19910791,66700GRA Repurchase (SBA)
December 18, 199116,550,000000GRA Purchase (SBA)
December 23, 199101,327,50000GRA Repurchase (EA)
December 30, 199101,840,62500GRA Repurchase (EFF)
Total 33,100,000 76,320,607 0 196,341

The information provided is for your convenience and is not intended to replace other official IMF reports and statements.

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