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| January 13, 2013 | 3 Comments

Content is QueenWelcome to the antithesis.

Recently I jumped on a webinar hosted by Maneesh Sethi and Derek Halpern, both highly respected and innovative entrepreneurs.

During the presentation, they made a crucial point about where most bloggers “go wrong” in their attempts to grow a following and ultimately monetize their content.

The problem?

“We spend 80% of our time creating content, and only 20% of our time promoting it” says Derek. “We should do the opposite — 80% promotion, 20% creation.”

Since that webinar, I’ve started two blogs (including this one), and as I monitor my Google Analytics dashboard I’ve realized Derek couldn’t have been more right.

You see, it doesn’t matter if I cure cancer. What matters is distributing that cure to the right people so the healing process can begin.

Another angle.

Robert Kiyosaki is an ultra-famous personal finance guru whose book “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” shook the world. His simple advice changed how millions of people feel about money, and more importantly how to make it.

In one section of Rich Dad, he talks about an interview he had with a journalist in Singapore. She is intelligent, beautiful, and articulate. She writes for a local publication to pay the bills, but dreams of becoming an author. She’s even been writing a novel.

She asks Robert his advice for becoming famous and successful like him. As the story goes, he pulls out a copy of his book and notes the “best-selling author” credential on the bottom of the front cover. She looks back at him, puzzled. He then reminds her that he is a best selling author, not the bestwriting. Confused and upset, she ends the interview.

Personal experience.

I’m a Redditor. In case you don’t already know, is a huge social platform that allows visitors to post content either from around the web or in a personal statement with a blog-like blurb. That content then gets voted ‘up’ or ‘down’ based on the relevance and discussion it compels from other users. There are thousands of discussions and categories, ranging from/entrepreneur (my favorite) to /pettyrevenge and /talesfromthepizzaguy.

Sometimes, after I blog, I post the permalink on Reddit. As a result I’ve received thousands of extra unique visitors, garnered hundreds of comment discussions, and even seen a boost in my book sales. Heck, I even sold a business on Reddit thanks to the viral exposure its user base provides.

But guess what? It wasn’t just my content that reeled in all those visitors. If anything, my content was the least important aspect of the traffic and sales success. Ranking higher on the list were promotional tactics such as what time of day I posted each link, the wittiness of the headline (IE: Stop Calling Yourself a CEO), and my Reddit account’s built-in influence which is based on both internal algorithms and also user familiarity with my user handle. Seems complicated, right? Wrong.

We are all salesmen in some way. We all promote relentlessly for our own reasons.  We sell ourselves at interviews, sell our children to day cares, and sell our sweaters to best friends. The new book by Dan PinkTo Sell is Human, actually details this sentiment in-depth.

But we are not all content curators. Curating great content will forever be a specialized skill shared by the few and the proud. Even still, those same curators have to relentlessly innovate new ways to provide content visibility.

So no, content isn’t king. Promotion is.

Build it, and they might* come.

Ryan Kulp is a twentysomething entrepreneur living in NYC who does marketing for ShuttleCloud, a TechStars startup. Ryan recently published his first book, Professionalism in Flip Flops

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  • Leon Davis

    “Content may be king, but context is queen, and that bitch runs the castle.” Gary Vaynerchuk

  • Salim Awad

    Great Article and very true fact, promotion plays a great role not only with blogging or sites well everything. I normally use Hacker News and Reddit for such promotion along with twitter, Facebook and other social media sites and a lot of traffic and interaction happens. Any other recommendations on where to share and when?

  • A1exander

    i think it depends much on what goals you have for your blog or page. content is king when it comes to seo… and that´s what brings you automation on the long run!
    for short effects content is queen, clearly. Nobody knows you, nobody sees you… oh you have a page…. nice.

    i think you have to find a good mix of both.


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Big Data, Big Business

New Engineering Certificate at the University of Utah

Feb. 7, 2014 – The University of Utah’s College of Engineering received approval this week for its new graduate certificate program in big data.

This emerging field – which addresses large sets of data too complex, diverse or rapidly changing for one computer to handle – affects everything from studying traffic patterns to managing sensitive information online. Big data is also big business – for example, using big data to improve efficiency and quality in the health care sector is estimated to be worth more than $300 billion each year.

“We’re seeing a revolution in the availability of data. It’s easy to collect information, but processing and analyzing large stores of data is becoming increasingly difficult. We are at the point where the traditional analytical tools for attacking this problem are breaking down,” says Jeff Phillips, assistant professor of computer science and coordinator of the new program.

“Our program capitalizes on University of Utah’s strengths in computer science and big-data processing, and will provide students with the technical training needed to succeed in high-tech jobs in data analysis and management.”

Drawing on existing courses in computer science, the university’s new certificate program will provide graduate students and professional computer scientists with the skills needed to process, analyze and manage sets of large, complex data. The certificate consists of five courses (15 credit hours) in data mining, machine learning, database systems, visualization and advanced algorithms. These courses already are taught at the U, and will include options for distance education such as online video, internet-video office hours and classes late in the day.

Although use of big data is a national trend, the skills needed to manage big data are especially critical in Utah, where companies such as Adobe and Goldman Sachs, as well as the National Security Agency, store vast reserves of data. The program also will include training on ethical issues associated with data management and analysis.

The University of Utah Academic Senate approved the new big data certificate program Feb. 3. The certificate will be coordinated through the university’s School of Computing and will officially begin in fall semester 2014.

To learn more about the data center engineering program, click here.

A video with Phillips explaining data mining can be seen here.

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WEST HARTFORD, CONN. – Candace Williams (Norfolk, Mass.) led the University of New Hampshire women’s basketball team with 15 points, but it was not enough as the Wildcats fell to the University of Hartford, 57-37, on Saturday afternoon as Chase Arena.

With the loss the Wildcats conclude the regular season with a record of 8-22, including 6-10 in the America East, while the Hawks improved to 19-10, 14-2 in the conference. The Wildcats will be seeded sixth at the America East tournament and will face No. 3 Vermont at the 2009 America East Women’s Basketball Championships.

Williams, who was selected as the America East Player of the Game for the Wildcats, also pulled down a team-high eight rebounds in the game. Lauren Wells (West Chester, Pa.) and Amy Simpson (Waterford, Conn.) chipped in with nine and six points, respectively, for the Wildcats.

With the score 14-5 in favor of the Hawks with 15:31 to play in the first half, the Wildcats put together a 7-1 run to cut the deficit to just three (15-12) with just under 11 minutes to go. The Wildcats, who held the Hawks without a field goal for almost four minutes of action, were led by Williams with four points and Wells with three points during the run.

The Hawks, however, ended their draught on a jumper by Jackie Smith at 11:40 and went on a 10-0 run to garner a 25-12 lead with just under nine minutes to go in the half. On the next possession, Chrissy Hall (Northbridge, Mass.) hit a trey to make it 25-15 with 8:25 remaining, but five straight points by the Hawks gave them a 15-point lead (30-15) with 7:35 to play.

New Hampshire chipped away at the deficit, scoring four straight to make it 30-19 with 6:26 to play, but Hartford countered with four points to make it 34-19 with just under three minutes to go in the half. Williams and Diana Delva hit one free throw down the stretch to make it 35-20 at the half. Williams finished the half with nine points and four rebounds. Hartford, led by Lisa Etienne with seven points, shot 51 percent (15-29) from the floor during the opening frame.

Despite dropping to 37.5 percent (9-24) from the field in the second half, the Hawks were able to hold onto the lead. Led by Jackie Smith and Delva, who each had five points in the second half, the Hawks led by more than 20 points for the majority of the final frame and took a 23-point lead (56-33) with over four minutes to play in the game.

Delva was the only Hawks player to post in double figures as she led the squad with 10 points. She added five rebounds in the game and was chosen as the America East Player of the Game for the Hawks.

The Wildcats will face Vermont on Friday, March 13 in a quarterfinal match up. The 8 p.m. tip off will take place at the University of Hartford’s Chase Arena. For America East Championship ticket information please click HERE.

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Please I try to filter a file for example when I do "cat filename.txt | awk ' /hola/ {print $0}" maybe it show me the coincidence lines but I would like to print 10 lines after the coincidence or using grep.
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You can do something similar with awk:
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5 Notably Funny Comedians Whose Movies Aren’t Funny Anymore

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about this subject lately and I’m  gonna go ahead and say that from all the trends I’ve seen it would appear that a superstar comedy career really only lasts about 10 years, even less.  I argue that the truly funny movies all took place in a 5-10 year period and after that the movies got less and less funny.

When you think about it, it’s really tough to keep up the humor.  I think a number of factors come into play.  One.  Age.  These guys get older and just don’t care anymore.  Two.  Money.  When you’re making $20 Million a movie sometimes you sell out a little bit whether or not the script is good.  And Three.  Parenthood.  Becoming a father changes a man.

Here are five funny guys who used to have amazing comedies and now I can’t even remember the last time they made a funny movie….

Eddie Murphy

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His last funny movie was The Distinguished Gentleman back in 1992.  If any of you think that Metro was funny then please stop reading this article.  Remember how amazing Murphy was back in the 80s?  I mean come on.  48 HoursBeverly Hills Cop?  When you thought “funny” it didn’t get much better than Eddie Murphy.  Now it’s all child movies and crap humor.  I mean I guess The Nutty Professor was OK but come on.  That’s got nothing on his 80s stuff.

Jim Carrey

Dumb and Dumber

I think his last legitimately funny movie was Liar Liar which was in 1997.  Some might argue that Bruce Almighty was good but personally I thought the movie was too commercial.  And then there’s Yes Man which is a feel good movie but by no means the kind of humor this guy produced in the mid 90s.  When you talk about Ace Ventura and Dumb and Dumber you’re talking two of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen.  Hell even the sequel to Ace Ventura was awesome.   I guess 20 million a picture will make you do stuff.  Plus he’s getting older now and probably doesn’t care.

Adam Sandler

I just don’t think Sandler cares at all anymore.  He had his time.  It’s evident he’s a family man now and probably has no interest in ever making a Billy Madison or Happy Gilmore type movie ever again.  He knows he can make a $40-50 million film and gross over 100 off of it without even blinking.   But man his early 90s stuff…those were the days.   Wedding Singer was great.  Even Big Daddy was funny.   But then Little Nicky came along and I think it was all downhill.  He happens to be a good actor actor so maybe that has something to do with it.

Chevy Chase

You gotta go pretty far back to remember the last time Chase was funny in a movie.  If you really want to stretch it one can argue that Nothing But Trouble (1991) was decent but I think the last funny one was Christmas Vacation (1989) which I loved.  It’s like a switch went off and he just stopped.  I think Community sucks and his cameos are brutal.

David Spade

Is it the super long hair that did it?  I’m trying to figure out when it all went bust for Spade.  It’s not that he was a big time movie star like these other guys but Spade was really funny at one point.   From ’93-’96 he had some great roles in PCU, Tommy Boy,  and Coneheads.  I think as soon as he got on TV again his movies just began to suck ass.

  • Cheryl

    I vote for Will Smith, that kid was hilarious on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air but I haven’t found any of his past few movies funny at all…

  • Parker Jammstein

    You dislike Community? I agree that while Chase isn’t at his best in it, the other characters (McHale and Glover’s in particular) bolster the show and make it decent. The paintball episode is baller. AND BETTY WHITE’S GONNA BE IN IT!!!

    I thought the Number 23 was pretty hilarious… albeit unintentionally.

    • Nattyb

      I do like McHale but I’m just not big on sitcoms these days. I miss Seinfeld and Cheers. Shows like that.

  • KnowItAll

    Ooh, Community is hilarious. And while Chevy is easily outshone by Abed and Troy, he’s still a great character. Also I only think of David Spade as a TV actor. Yes, Tommy Boy was great, but I think of SNL and Just Shoot Me first.

    I was really surprised to see Steve Martin and Robin Williams missing from this list.

  • Matt

    Really surprised to hear that you think “Community” sucks. Most Entertainment writers and critics enjoy the show, even if the viewing public hasn’t fully embraced it yet.

    Granted, Chevy Chase is the least funny member of the cast. But I’m surprised to hear you think the show itself sucks.

    Still, for my money, American TV in the past 3 years hasn’t seen episodes as well done as “Modern Warfare” and “Contemporary American Poultry.”

    Care to elaborate on your opinion?

  • Matt

    Oops, looks like I was a bit late on the Community question, haha.

  • Madison

    I thought Sandler was pretty funny in Funny People, actually.

  • Kevin

    Bowfinger was great.

  • Guy Incognito

    @Cheryl: That’s because he doesn’t make comedies.

  • chrystani

    Sandler was a dry funny in Funny People… Like hey guys I know Im old and this is what you get.

    Not a crackin’ the hell up every minute for some random funny shit funny.

    Now, Eddie Murphy. Coming to America.
    Best. Comedy. EVER!

  • Luke

    I don’t think you can talk about David Spade comedies without at least mentioning Joe Dirt…

  • Korky

    You seriously think Adam Sandler was ever funny? DISQUALIFIED!

  • kerimcan

    I never liked David Spade. Bowfinger was a really good late-90’s comedy by Eddie Murphy. Community rules and Chevy Chase is good in it.

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  • Janson

    Robin Williams should be up there too. He got too serious and family oriented. Adam Sandler is just following in his footsteps.

  • Billdog

    I would add Mike Myers, I’m totally Shreked out!

  • Henrik

    Eddie Murphy’s last funny movie was Bowfinger from 1999. That movie is hilarious. Also where is Mike Myers, Steve Martin and Will Ferrell?

  • Jbo

    Yeah, you’re a turd for thinking Community isn’t funny. With crap like Modern Family getting praised, it’s offensive.

  • Lagrange

    Well however you stand to community, you have to watch the paintball episode.

    I was amazed!

  • Lagrange

    “Season 1, Episode 23: Modern Warfare”

  • David

    You’re totally wrong about David Spade. He was never funny.

  • HarveyStewart

    Eddie Murphy’s last funny movie was Bowfinger, Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler are far better in dramatic roles anyway, and David Spade was never funny. Chevy Chase is before my time. In conclusion, I disagree.

  • Lynnie

    I think its also a matter of people’s taste in comedy fluctuating.

  • Matt Chi

    I’ll agree with your general assessment. But despite these actors losing their sheer hilarity in older movies, I can find several counter examples that you failed to mention of recent roles for these actors. Many of the counter examples have been listed above already.

    Saying community sucks basically discredited your oppinon, on all of this, for a lot of people.

  • Ellie

    It depends on what episode you watched. I think you just watched one of their “meh” episodes. As everyone has already said, “Modern Warfare” is the one of the best episodes of television I’ve ever seen.

  • Al Mann-Dude

    Disqualified on the grounds of “Nothing But Trouble was decent”. There aren’t enough drugs in the world to make that movie anything more than a putrid pile of puppy poop. The rest of the article was a haze of zeros and ones.

  • Gregs

    ace ventura needs a sequel. maybe he can go against BP, hell yeah

  • OTWarrior

    Adam Sandler fairly recently did “Zohan” which I thought was hilarious. how has that been missed?

  • Spencer

    Look at Careys performance in A Series of unfortunate Events. Even in a kids film the guy managed to get his rubberface on, and could easily match his older stuff

  • C

    Sorry OTWarrior Zohan was bad, epically bad. Mike Myers does need to be on this list. Love Guru? Cat in the Hat? I’m also on hte Community is an awesome show bandwagon. The pool show, when McHale went full Monty, are you kidding me, I almost passed out.

  • Sol

    Jim Carrey was pretty funny in I Love You Phillip Morris

  • MetFanMac

    I actually remembered an article from 4 years ago after reading this:

  • Dan

    David Spade stopped being funny the minute Chris Farley died.

  • Bryan

    This wasn’t a problem in the past when new comedians took over the older comedians place as the funny man/woman. Now we have George Lopez, Ray Romano, whoever else is on a sitcom. (Charlie Sheen still have a show?)

    Don’t know why, but the days of Murphy, Belushi, Akroyd, etc. are gone. Really, who’s funny anymore?

  • Aaron Movie man

    “The other guys” is totally hilarious, I couldn’t watch any 15 seconds of that movie without laughing.

    Community sucks. The Office sucks. The Simpsons suck. Game shows suck.

    Grandma’s boy was adam sandlers best movie and he wasn’t even in it.

    There needs to be more hot nerdy assertive girls in movies. There are very few indeed.

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  • Stacy

    I stopped reading & caring about your opinions when you said Community sucks.

    • Nattyb

      Thanks for playing.

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  • Chanandler

    I already started to ignore almost everything you say when I saw that you like Lady Gogó (Gaga for you), one of the most ridiculous singers out there, but now you say Community sucks? One of the few humor shows that’s worth to watch lately? Dude, you’re mental. Ray Romano should be here, he was half decent in Everybody Loves Raymond (which was an mediocre show in my opinion) and is even worse in Men of a certain age. Community rocks, it’s one of the most inspired shows airing right now, with great acting, even Chevy Chase is alright. Go watch Lady Gaga clips and leave good shows alone.

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  • Terarded

    Little Nicky was an amazingly hilarious movie and i saw you put it down in not only this article but another one and i have to say i simply feel sorry for you, its easily up there with billy madison and happy gilmore


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‘Dying Light’ Sprints Through Some New Gameplay Footage

By 08.16.13

Dying Light is essentially Mirror’s Edge meets Dead Island. But it’s also got some pretty interesting aspects to it that make it look unique, if nothing else.

Here’s twelve minutes of gameplay footage. In it you’ll find gameplay switches when the sun sets, free-running, and plenty of short-range melee combat.

There’s a lot of Dead Rising going on in this game, and it seems that, even if you do run across a boss-type enemy, you don’t have to fight it, just run away. The big concern here is… will there be a third-person camera mode? The main problem with platforming in first-person video games is the fact that you can’t see your feet, so you’ve got no idea of how close you are to the edge or whether or not you can make a jump. It looks like you’ve got a lot of neat moves (using zombies as climbing posts is particularly clever) but you still need to be able to use them effectively.

Also, it’d be nice for there to be some clarity about why, exactly, you can’t just hide on a rooftop until the zombies get debuffed by daylight. It looks like they can climb fences and the like, but how far does that go?

Still, the game itself is something different for the zombie genre, and the fact that Techland is making a real effort to do something different is highly appreciated. We’ll see how that works out in 2014.

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Rob Lowe Has Discovered That Drinking Is The Best Strategy To Deal With His Kids Going Off To College

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Rob Lowe left behind Parks And Recreation earlier in the season and I believe we literally wept openly for a good moment. Luckily he’s not finished on television with a new pilot and he is now releasing a memoir that he stopped by the Late Show to promote. That’s how Lowe got on the topic of his kids leaving to go away to college and how he was devastated when his oldest left to go away.

So this time he’s decided to use an alternate method in order to keep from becoming a blubbering mess: Getting tore up on grandpa’s cough medicine. And I can’t blame him because drinking really does help sprinkle a little sunshine on those dark moments. At least it makes you think it does. Elsewhere in your body, things aren’t all biscuits and gravy when you go a drinkin’.

But who pays attention to that kind of stuff? Life is hard. Crack a beer or open a bottle and just relax a bit.

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8 Quick Reasons To Listen To Petty’s ‘Short But Sweet’ Mixtape

By 02.26.13

It feels great to be back here again. “Here” being the arrival of a new tape from Petty. His previous project Petty Presley got passed around our Crew something heavy so the expectations were high for his latest, titled Short But Sweet. And with the pressure and focus on him, the emerging East Nashville MC hit another homerun.

Using soulful, stirring production by Brooklyn’s The Stuyvesants, Petty does exactly what the title implies by keeping each song trimmed down to a verse but he packs so much energy and entertainment into each. The format works in today’s climate where we’re given clipped information and clogged down with musical content. An artist like Petty knows that he only holds listeners attention for a small moment, therefore he maximizes it.

Following his lead, I’ve decided to adopt his approach and summarize the project in a succinct manner.

1. The “Morning Prayer” sees Petty displaying sense of a spiritual foundation without betraying his street savvy ways.

2. The Hallmark, lyrics of love he spits on “Get Over You” and the intro are the kind of things you have to listen to with a pen and pad handy to take notes and then implement that shit into your own spit game.

3. Quotable: “You got that run in the family kind of ass” from “Short But Cool.” Have you ever seen a derriere like that before? Who hasn’t been to their girl’s family reunion and realized that every lady in her family got a donk?

4. His voice. We’re talking the authoritative tone of James Earl Jones mixed with the warmness of Ted “Golden Voice” Williams. If Petty’s voice were clothes, it would be a purple crushed velvet shirt. If it were food, it would be cripsy, golden fried chicken. If it were an animal, it’d be cool as tiger casually roaming the open plains but ready to break out and fuck shit up at the flip of a switch.

5. Using a one take approach, “Hustlers” finds Petty doing double duty, jabbing at the industry while dapping up his fans as those who “…think outside they radio box, that’s playing yo’ Top 40, hourly, daily tho’, Maybe no-body wants to hear it when it’s lyrics for the spirit, But that shit they take serious, I make music nowhere near it, period…”

6. Quotable: “If time will tell, time done seen it before you knew that it happened, Like barbeque and a napkin, we were put here for each other, me and music, see us do it…,” found on “Run On,” which sounds like an elaborate string of thoughts linked together.

7. The assorted ism he kicks on tracks (“Love Good Morning,” “Let Your Hair Down”) show that Petty Presley’s most comfortable when women (“But I’m the one that fuck you how you want to be fucked, They might put it down on you, but you want it beat up”) are the focus of his attention.

8. The finger-pointing that goes on during “Drinking With The Old Heads” finds P questioning not only other rappers but himself and it’s situational irony at its best.

In short (no pun), Short But Sweet deserves at least one listen. Since it is an easy handful of songs to handle, one listen will lead to another, then another. After that, it’d be wise to catch up on the rest of Petty’s growing discog here.

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Spice Debuts Male Alter Ego Splice

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Spice says she will be taking her new male alter ego Splice on the road with her.

According to the dancehall diva, females are not getting the respect they deserve in a male dominated dancehall. So she thinks if she was a male she would be a much bigger force in the genre.

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“Spice has a lot of quality dancehall singles and has been in the business longer than a lot of the current set of artists,” a rep for Spice told Urban Islandz.

“So obviously if she was a man she would garner a lot more ratings in this music industry,” the rep told us.

Spice has also indicated that she will be taking her alter ego on tour with her due to the overwhelming positive response she has been getting from her fans.

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Tomorrow is Father’s Day.  Which means in kitchens all across Canada, wives, mothers, and daughters will be cooking meals for husbands, fathers, and sons.
Personally speaking, I have the privilege of showing my step-father (or Dad, as I’ve called and felt about him for the last 30 years) how much I love him by making him brunch.  But what do you make for the man who’s eaten everything?  And by that, I mean a man who as a football player in the 50′s and 60′s, thought that “healthy eating” meant consuming the largest, fattiest steak you could find before and after each game.
While Dad’s football days are long gone, sadly, his love of steak dinners is not.  Along with all of the other unhealthiest foods he can find.  Luckily, I have this AWESOME recipe for a healthy Caesar salad that I picked up years ago while watching my first cooking show: What’s For Dinner with the late, great Ken Kostic. The good news? My Dad loves it…along with all of my other family members who have raved about it for years.
What I love about this salad isn’t just how delicious it is, but also how versatile it is.  It is healthy enough to serve to those who care and hearty enough to satisfy those who don’t.  It is perfect with steak (for Dad), brunch, or even my son’s favourite, chicken Caesar wraps.
Healthy (Sort-of) Caesar Salad
(aka Caesar Salad for those of us who have moved past our “steakhouse in the ’70s” days)
1/4 cup low fat plain yogurt (not Greek…its too thick for this recipe)
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1 tsp fresh lemon juice
2 tsp chopped garlic
1 tsp balsamic vinegar
1 tsp anchovy paste
1 tbsp worcestershire sauce
a couple good turns of the fresh pepper mill & salt to taste
1. Blend all of the above.  Seriously.  That’s it.
2. In a large bowl, toss with one head of washed and dried romaine lettuce, torn into bite-size pieces.  I also like to add in arugula and baby spinach.  Feel free to make it your own with your favourite veggies.
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Thursday August 14, 2003
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Bricolage at the Forge

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Linux Journal "Toolbox at the Forge" columnist Reuven Lerner has published the first in a series of articles about Bricolage. This is a good, technically-oriented article that gets into the guts of Bricolage's data model and really shows off what a great database PostgreSQL is, too. So go read it!

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  • Once again the old chestnut about hard to install perl applications comes up.

    Have you thought about making Bric installable via PAR? I hear there's a Mason PAR module being worked on, so it should be possible.

    Same argument goes for RT too.
    • Tuits. I gots ta have da tuits! Screw oil, we need to find new sources of tuits to handle the shortfall going forward into the future!

      Actually, sky [] has threatened to write a simpler installer for Bricolage, but I don't know how far he got or what is plan is/was. Also, Gerfried Fuchs (alfie at users dot sourceforge dot net) has said he'll create a Debian package, but I think that tuits are in short suppy in Austria, too!


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Agent Zhang (章亦春) is a happy Yahoo! China guy who loves Perl more than anything else.

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Tuesday October 17, 2006
08:42 AM

Notes for this fortnight (2006-10-01 ~ 2006-10-16)

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Oct 1 (to Sun Xin~)

Please check out your mailbox. i sent one journal and 107 slides to you for proofreading yesterday. remember that i've said i would try my best to keep you relatively busy? :)

Oct 4 (to Sal Zhang~)

I've rewritten your Win32::xul2ppt_mec module using Win32::OLE and stevan's excellent Moose module. Now it's named XUL::Image::PPT and the xul2ppt utility has been divided into two separate tools, and Please check out for the source code. :)

Regarding the new xul2img utility, the --count and --title options are required. use --help to see the usage. because the XUL => image part is still based on Win32::GuiTest, the user interface is somewhat fragile and cannot be as nice as that of img2ppt. it's still the user's responsibility to open .xul with firefox and not to enter the full view mode (via F11) before running the xul2img tool.

Delay settings like 0.5 sec should also work now since i've switched to Time::HiRes's sleep function. btw, Moose is so cool that writing perl 5 OO code has been exceedingly enjoyable. you know, perl 5's OO was ever a weak or even boring part in the past. Moose has brought me the feeling of using Perl 6 *today*. So don't hesitate and give it a shot! Enjoy~

(agentzh mooses.)

Oct 5 (to Sun Xin~)

Currently i am making slides for my XML talk. the topic is ``XML in the real world''. will send the slides to you for review once they're ready. :)

Oct 6 (to Cherry Chu~)

I will send you a message when i get up tomorrow morning. please keep your phone on, OK? if you get up earlier than i, would you please inform me via a message? thank you. :)

Oct 6 (to Jack Shen~)

The slides for my XML talk are ready now. please check out your mailbox for details. the slides contain a lot of pretty pictures. i've covered hot topics like RSS and AJAX using Google Reader, the Qzone site, and my GetQzone utility as study cases. these topics are extremely exciting! comments on my slides will be appreciated. :) i hope miss zheng will be kind enough to give me more time to explain everything in my slides...hehe.

Oct 7 (to Cherry Chu~)

cherry: moose. :)

cherry: elk! :D

I'm now heading out. :) 7:15 AM. don't be late, cherry.

...yay! cherry++ i'm already waiting for you. :)

...i am home now, cherry! yay! ...I was walking pretty fast. hehe. have a good rest. hopefully you will regain your strength soon. :)

Take care and sleep early, cherry. gotta run to shower and sleep myself. G'night &

Oct 8 (to Sun Xin~)

Cherry and i rode to the yangzhou city yesterday. we favored small roads in the fields over big ones. as a result, we were often followed by barking dogs and blocked by rivers and fields in our way. it was frustrating but also fun. she was amazingly vigorous and charming yesterday...we talked very happily and laughed a lot. you know, it was quite amusing to see she also talked and laughed very loudly, just like me! yay! hooray for cherry's beauty and the enormous parallels between us! hehe.

we've decided to ride to other cities in the next few times. but it's still undecided which city to go first. what's your opinion, man? ;-)

Oct 8 (to Cherry Chu~)

how are you today? i am still a bit tired. sigh., nice to hear that. btw, i'm happy to see my friend laye has replied to your journal. he's a talented programmer and now studying in the Fudan university. :) And your ``journal of 70 kilometers'' post reads very well! :)

...nod nod. he was in ujs when he was an undergraduate student. sadly we have never met in person. :(

Oct 9 (to Sal Zhang and Jack Shen~)

Yay! now i can do Java Swing programming in pure perl 5! furthermore, my perl interpreter can now learn new Java libraries all by itself. so i can manipulate *any* Java classes and objects as if they were implemented directly in perl 5. thanks to Inline::Java and Java::Swing. now i'm trying to get them work with pugs (i.e. perl 6). unfortunately, pugs doesn't do auto-importing for perl 5 modules. sigh. maybe i need to write some perl 5 wrappers and glue code there. oh, well...

Oct 9 (to Sal Zhong~)

huh! google++

i will definitely look into its shiny source code search engine the other day. thanks for the info. :)

Oct 9 (to Sun Xin~)

man, i'll (selectively) translate these notes myself because i don't want to occupy too much of your spare time. anyway, i can do the translation work more easily and more accurately. would you please proofread both my english and chinese transcripts for me? i'll be very grateful to your review! ;)

Oct 10 (to Jack Shen~)

I've nailed down the basic syntax of the SXML language. it looks pretty neat. i'll implement converters for XML <=> SXML and HTML <=> SXML. i believe it's important enough for both XML's human reading and human writing.

Oct 10 (to Cherry Chu~)

Moose. will you come to my class this friday evening? :)

Oct 16 (to Sal Zhong~)

jerry gay (the guy also known as particle) is rewriting my using Moose . it's really wonderful! he will commit the code to the parrot repos. He said he would introduce smartlinks to the parrot test suite and link the tests to both the Perl 6 Spec and the parrot PDDs. not sure if he still has the crazy plan to port to PIR. anyway, as christopher said, the idea of smartlinking has inspired several add-on hacks. hooray!

btw, pugs 6.2.13 is going to release tomorrow. larry is using pugs for his $work! sweet...

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Tuesday August 17, 2004
09:24 AM

How to get rid of ants

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Feed them!!

I know it sounds absurd, but trust me on this one! (I actually discovered this inadvertently...)

I still have to make some more experimenting, but here's how it goes:

If you're having trouble with ants, you know there's the trouble of having scouts all around your house and the trouble of having them eating your things, right?

So now, suppose you get something for them to eat and place it somewhere it doesn't bother you... they will find it and attack it! You'll see the scouts (most of them, anyway) will join the main crowd, and leave your home in peace for a while...

One or two last things:

1) Consider well where you place the "bait"... it should be someplace where the path they'll take won't bother you, but the longer it is, the longer they'll take :-)

2) Remember this is probably cheaper then buying chemicals, and it doesn't smell :-)

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Wednesday November 15, 2006
11:26 AM

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I spent my early evening gagging on some vile code and accompanying text. Instead of emailing my complaints to my work account I'm writing them here. Why not.

Don't use magic (BEGIN + sub()) to avoid saying `use constant'.

Use non-capturing groups (?:...) vs (...) when not capturing.

Use /x and comments in regular expressions.

Use delimiters other than // when the '/' character appears in regexps.

Don't use /o without being able to explain exactly what it does to the optree.

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  • Always document a regex with an example line of text it matches. That makes it sooo much easier for the maintenance programmer to follow along with how the regex is intended to match stuff.
  • You had me up till this one. If knowledge of the optree is required and the docs aren't sufficient to understand - you should submit patches to the docs.

    From perlop:
    PATTERN may contain variables, which will be interpolated (and the pattern recompiled) every time the pattern search is evaluated, except for when the delimiter is a single quote. (Note that $( , $) , and $| are not interpolated because they look like end-of-string tests.) If you want such a pattern to be compiled only once, add a /o aft

    • Well... ok... but I think only wizards should be using /o. If you aren't at that level then use qr// like everyone else. Ignoring that /o existed prior to qr//, for today's perl /o is just a minor optimization over qr//.

      It's like symbolic references. You shouldn't be allowed to use them until you can explain why you're not supposed to use them.
      • Actually, I think noone should use /o. At least not on a Perl that has been released in a year that starts with a 2. The magic /o is useful for is now already be done by Perl by default. If the value of your variable won't change, the regexp won't be recompiled anyway.

        The only difference you will notice when using /o is when the variable inside the regexp does change. But IMO, you really don't want a regexp that doesn't recompile when the variable does change.

        • /o vs re-using a qr// value saves dispatching one opcode.
          • And that matters when exactly? :-)

            • In areas you think are tight loops. I've also replaced if(not ...) with unless(...) just to avoid dispatching another opcode.

              I'm sure it's wasted effort since I know humans are bad at guessing what'll need optimization. I still wish to be slightly deluded that the opcode I saved by using /o was good. Only *slightly* though.
          • That of course depends on how often you reuse. Storing a qr means you have to assign to a variable, which means the variable has to be created, removed (presuming you're using a lexical variable with a small scope) and assigned to. Surely that takes a few opcodes as well?

            Not that I really care about a single saved opcode.

  • I’ve been kinda leaning away from it. Although I don’t know why one would put one’s constant subs in a BEGIN block; I just list them at the top of my code. I see little point in loading such minor syntactic sugar as, particularly as many people don’t realise how “constants” work.

    • What I'd just read went somewhat as follows. It was clearly an attempt to replicate's work but badly.
      BEGIN {
          *{ __PACKAGE__ . '::DEBUG' } = sub () {
      • Ugh. That is awful, no argument. Would’ve been entirely sufficient to write

        sub DEBUG () { 1 }


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Monday March 08, 2004
05:06 PM

Sony Clie TH55

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I haven't had any new technology in a
while, and my Palm m505 was feeling kinda stale. Excellent
form-factor, but dim, fuzzy color screen.

I'm a long-time Palm user (going way back to the US Robotics days) and
a Mac user, to going Sony was a bit of a stretch. But I liked the big
screen and the third-party 'The Missing Sync' software plays well with
Chronos' Personal Organizer.

It's got 802.11b, voice recording (don't need that), less than 1
mega-pixel camera (sort of useful), mp3 player (fun), and supports the
larger Memory Stick (I got the 256 MB).

Sony Electronics is a pure Windows-only device maker, so I've got this
useless install CD, but I'm making do. I went into this with open
eyes, especially after struggling with the Windows-only NetMD minidisc

There is some satisfaction making Sony bend to my will - forcing it
co-exist in a Mac OS X environment.

I thought about the Zaurus . . . but didn't like the form-factor and
the mechanical pop-out keyboard. Too impatient to wait for Palm to
come out with something new.

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Sunday November 25, 2001
02:48 AM

@#$@##$ typos

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"NEW! MSN Explorer! Tap the wrong key, and watch things that took you 20 minutes to type vanish into NOWHERE!"

As they say up north, God Damma.

Okay, quick. I really wanna go work on the friggin' script.

I was a damn doofus. I attempted to access a hash value as an array, and managed to break a bunch of code by doing it, and didn't think to pay more attention to the error message that I got about it.

I had a bunch of extremely yummy pizza tonight; really, homemade pizza has spoiled me for Tombstones and the like. Every once in a while I get one and I regret it immediately; I suspect, like McDonald's, the generic frozen pizzas as a whole will be gone from my diet. Shopping every day (nearly every day, anyway) is kind of fun. :)

I have some coffee left; I have some nighttime left; I have my candles a-burnin' and my fingers a-tappin'. Time to get more work in.

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    I find "irrelevency" an interesting word. It is used so freely.

    By: Truman Angell, Tuesday 18 October 2011

    I find "irrelevency" an interesting word. It is used so freely.

    Posted By: Truman Angell
    Date: 2011-10-18 11:56:39

    There is no need to delve very far into this again. It has been spun so many times. We know byU didn't start winning championships until ASU and Arizona left the WAC for the PAC. It gave a false sense of power to those lovely people down south. Once Utah awoke from its 20yr dark ages, roughly between '70-'90, byU suddenly faded back to their past ways of irrelevancy. 24 championships for the Utes. 7 undefeated seasons. 2 BCS titles. Quite relevant.

    Football in the state of Utah has a funny way of balancing itself. Once byU graduated from being a high school up until 1922, it began its years of irrelevancy in football. It wasn't until 1978 (coincidentally when ASU/Arizona left) before there was a consistent winning streak. Quite interesting. Wow, 1922-1978, those were some great years. Then post 1992, they seemed to go back to those early days. From 1992-the end of the WAC days, there was only a single outright championship. I'm only using outright, because that was your criteria. Then in 2001 there was one more but that was debunked by the impressive showing at Hawaii to end the season. Finally, there were two more titles in '06 +'07 with a couple of Vegas bowls, and that's it. No sniffing of BCS. Just lots of sand to pound.

    Talk about irrelevant. Only one single undefeated season in history? And, it came in a year when not a single team faced ended up ranked. Plus, the bowl game was against a team that finished 6-6.

    This is what most find hilarious. So much pride built on sand. You should know that primary song by now. But, I guess that is all a mid-major can stand on.

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In Memoriam - Sidney F. Thurston

The recent death of my beloved brother, firefighter Sidney F. Thurston, prompted me to write a dedication poem for the 50-plus years of firefighting service he dedicated his life to serving. As a firefighter, founder and past chief of the Waterbury Center Fire Department, past president of the NE Association of Fire Chiefs and member of the Capital West Mutual Aid, he served the fire service with dedication, honesty, integrity and compassion for over 50 years. To that I would like to dedicate the poem I wrote for him, as well as to all the other firefighters within the fire service. Their dedication and loyalty for such an honorable profession makes me proud to know that my brother was such a well-respected fireman and person in this noble profession. To that I would like to have you print my article, Legacy of a Firefighter.

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Legacy of a Firefighter

The fire service is a noble calling

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Between its firefighters and citizens

The highest standard code of ethics

They pave a path from obstacles

With character defined by decisions

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To project integrity, and yet compassion

He shares the responsibility of honesty

Professionalism, loyalty, and culture

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To foster safety and welfare of others

He stands at the crossroads with valor

From many years of pride and service

The courage comes within his heart

For a firefighter does not hesitate

Though his heart was weakened

And his body tired, hands shaking

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For his love of firefighting

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Twitter Will Officially Go Public

In the not too distant future you'll be able to buy a share of TWTR—the company has confidentially filed for a secret IPO in the hopes of dodging the Facebook's IPO expectation disaster. Start getting your pension ready, bubble fans!

Good luck avoiding the hype train. Could this have something to do with Twitter's recent favor for JP Morgan Chase?

In case you're wondering what a "secret IPO" is, because really, what the hell is a secret IPO, QZ has a terrific explanation here—but basically, this is Twitter's way of putting off revealing its financial cards for as long as legally possible. Still, to be eligible for a secret IPO, Twitter has to have under $1 billion in annual revenue—compared to Facebook's nearly $2 billion.

Update: The Wall Street Journal hears Goldman will underwrite the IPO.

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I Watched This Game: Canucks at Columbus Blue Jackets, March 12, 2013

After the Canucks put in a disastrous effort against the Minnesota Wild on Sunday, panic gripped the streets of Vancouver. Also, hyperbole gripped the streets of Abbotsford. The Canucks entered Columbus on a four-game losing streak. The Blue Jackets came into the game on a five-game winning streak. They were streaking in opposite directions — if they looked over their shoulders, they would see each other’s naked butts.

Thankfully, the Canucks ended both streaks by winning the game in a shootout, so I didn’t have to see any naked hockey players when I watched this game.

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Pros and cons of Alain Vigneault: a way better list than the lame one that other blog did

Some called the Canucks’ visit to Minnesota the biggest game of the season. I guess it was, although it seems silly to call a game where the worst-case scenario was a tie for first place with 24 games remaining all that big. But you can understand how Vancouver fans, who aren’t used to the Canucks even being in a game for first place in the division, might make it out to be a bigger deal than it was. At the halfway point in the season, a dogfight for first in the Northwest is like seeing a shooting star. You want to make a wish on it.

For many, that wish was for the Canucks to put in a dominating performance, which they haven’t done in a while now, and really re-assert their superiority over the Wild. But instead, they hardly showed up.

Who is to blame for this no-show? Alain Vigneault, says the chorus that’s been calling for Vigneault’s head ever since he lost the Stanley Cup Final he coached the team to in 2011 like a sap. He’s bad at his job, they say, which is why he’s yet to win one of those championships he always has his team contending for.

So is it time for a breakup? On Monday, Thomas Drance tackled this question the same way Ross tried to decide between Julie and Rachel in Friends episode “The one with the list”: he made a list, examining Alain Vigneault’s pros and cons. The problem, unfortunately, is that Drance’s list was woefully incomplete. So we’ve decided to make our own:

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Roberto Luongo has outplayed Cory Schneider: should he be getting the bulk of the starts?

Last season, Cory Schneider wasn’t just good — he was phenomenal. He finished second in the NHL in save percentage, third in goals against average, and second in winning percentage. Combine that with his previous season, when he finished third in save percentage, fourth in goals against average, and first in winning percentage, along with his solid performance coming into a difficult situation in last year’s playoffs, and it becomes pretty easy to see why everyone thought he was ready to take over the number one job from Roberto Luongo.

So far this season, Schneider has certainly proven that he’s ready to be a starting goaltender, but he’s fallen short of proving that he’s one of the best goaltenders in the league. As we reach the halfway point of the season, it’s clear that Luongo has outplayed Schneider, raising the question of who will get the bulk of the starts over the second half.

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Distribution unit scores video company

In a notable trans-Atlantic pact, burgeoning U.K. digital distribution firm Arts Alliance Media has acquired Gotham-based Hart Sharp Video, the distrib best known for “Super Size Me.”

Neither party would disclose financial details of the deal, which closed Tuesday.

Hart Sharp had been due for a transformation for several months after the dissolution of the producing partnership between John Hart and Jeffrey Sharp. It will now be called Arts Alliance America.

Hart and Sharp have divested of their video stakes and are not involved in the new entity. Hart launched film and legit production shingle Evamere this year.

Joe Amodei, Hart Sharp Video’s chief, will continue as prexy and report to Arts Alliance CEO Howard Kiedaisch.

“I had taken Hart Sharp about as far as I could with what I had to work with,” Amodei said. “Arts Alliance will recapitalize the business, and we’ll be able to release some bigger films and co-productions.”

Since arriving at the London-based company two years ago after stints at Universal Pictures Intl., Polygram and Orion, Kiedaisch has spearheaded an aggressive push into several digital arenas. Arts Alliance is the largest shareholder in Lovefilm, a popular Netflix-like service it owned until a 2006 merger with Video Island.

Arts Alliance also won a bid to operate the U.K. Film Council’s 240-screen digital exhibition network, said to be Europe’s largest.

Thomas Hoegh, scion of a wealthy Norwegian shipping family, founded Arts Alliance and also sat on the board of Hart Sharp, in which he was a major investor. While discussions about a partnership or acquisition were held with other companies over the past six months, Amodei said the relationships played a role.

Amodei has 20-plus years of homevid experience. He founded Hart Sharp Video in 2003 and has also worked at USA, Turner and Live Entertainment. He also got to know Kiedaisch when both worked at Polygram in the mid-1990s.

The new distrib’s day-to-day business will remain the same, mainly DVD releases. About 50% of its sell-through revenue comes from sports titles such as “Faith Rewarded — The Historic Season of the 2004 Red Sox.”

By leveraging relationships with filmmakers such as Morgan Spurlock, whose “Super Size Me” shipped millions of units, Arts Alliance America hopes to continue making headway in theatricals. Under a joint producing venture with Spurlock, the company will release “Chalk,” a mockumentary about teaching, on Friday at L.A.’s Nuart. Pic will bow at the Landmark Sunshine in Gotham on June 8.

The digital emphasis of Arts Alliance will energize its new American unit, Amodei said. Many titles, for example, are already available for download through existing U.S. services such as Movielink, but a company-run download site is in the testing phase.

Arts Alliance has gained some traction online by offering downloads of films from Universal, Sony, Warner Bros., Fox and other major outfits.

(Leo Barraclough in London contributed to this report.)

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Screen time, not ego, determines chances

The Academy Awards are the most wagered-upon nonsporting event in the world, so it’s safe to say that more than a few fortunes have probably been lost when the Academy ventures away from the expected script. But few prizes have rattled the oddsmakers more consistently than the supporting categories, where unknowns can come out of nowhere to either establish a lasting career or flame out dramatically, downplayed leading men find their way and grizzled veterans finally get their dues, and even Mira Sorvino can pick up an acting honor.

At first glance, the supporting actress category seems the most unwieldy of the two, having given us Oscar’s youngest acting winner (10-year-old Tatum O’Neal in “Paper Moon”), oldest acting nominee (Gloria Stuart, 87 at the time of her “Titanic” nomination) and the two shortest Oscar-winning performances (take a bathroom break and you’ll miss Beatrice Straight in “Network” and Judi Dench in “Shakespeare in Love”). In recent years, however, it helps to have the Maxim demographic on your side.

“It’s become rather axiomatic to say that in the supporting actress category they tend to go for ingenues or hot women in general, and I think it’s a recent development,” says Damien Bona, Oscar historian and author of “Inside Oscar.” “Over the last several years, when you have Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rachel Weisz, Renee Zellweger, Jennifer Connelly, Kim Basinger and Angelina Jolie, it’s happened enough that it’s fair to call it a trend.”

Bona notes that this is an about-face from the early history of the award, when young starlets were rarely seen on the ballot.

“Over the first 50 years or so, the category was dominated by middle-aged or older character actresses,” Bona observes.

Indeed, while the last decade’s supporting actress winners constitute a veritable who’s-who of A-list actresses, mentioning the names of past winners such as Lila Kedrova, Peggy Ashcroft and Mercedes Ruehl would likely draw blank stares from anyone raised on TMZ (then again, most things would).

Bona sees this as a reflection of the Academy’s increasingly more practical approach.

“By going with young actresses, it’s a way of promoting the future of the industry. They think in a much more business-oriented context than they used to,” he says.

Then again, a number of young actresses have parlayed an early supporting honor into a long career, which should give some hope to last year’s winner, Jennifer Hudson, who won for her first film role, in “Dreamgirls.” This puts her in such good company as Anna Paquin, Lee Grant and Goldie Hawn (who won for her first speaking role in 1969’s “Cactus Flower,” although technically, she did manage a few giggles in her turn as “Giggly Girl” in the previous year’s “The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band”).

And, going way back, Gale Sondergaard won the first ever supporting actress Oscar in 1936 for her bigscreen debut, “Anthony Adverse.”

As for the supporting actor category, the Academy’s tastes are a bit harder to discern. They’ve certainly shown a sentimental fondness for beloved older veterans (Alan Arkin, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Martin Landau, Jack Palance) as well as a tendency to honor up-and-comers, or at least those who seem to be headed in that direction (Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding Jr.).

But Bona also sees a growing tendency to honor lead actors in the supporting category, which creates problems of its own.

“It’s become a place where stars go slumming,” he observes. “Tim Robbins, George Clooney, Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman — these are all bona fide leading men. I think it’s unfortunate. It’s great when Chris Cooper or Jim Broadbent win, because they’re exactly the kind of actors for whom this award was designed.”

In the old days, “leading actors would be mortified if they were put into the supporting category,” Bona says. “During the early years, the supporting categories were almost exclusively the province of character actors. In 1943 there was controversy when Paulette Goddard was nominated for supporting actress for ‘So Proudly We Hail,’ and people took umbrage that an actual movie star was slumming in the supporting category. Likewise with Anne Baxter, who was already a young movie star when she won for ‘The Razor’s Edge.'”

Of course, in recent years these already nebulous lines between lead and supporting parts have blurred even further, with arguable lead roles relegated to the supporting categories for no apparent reason other than increasing their chances of winning.

But perhaps that’s fitting, as the winners of Oscar’s most unpredictable categories often tend to be quite unpredictable themselves — from Jack (“I crap bigger than Billy Crystal”) Palance’s one-handed push-ups to “Hannah and Her Sisters” winner Michael Caine ditching the ceremony to finish filming his masterwork “Jaws: The Revenge.” And then of course, there’s Vanessa (“Zionist thugs”) Redgrave, who is in contention again this year for her supporting work in “Atonement,” poised to defy the oddsmakers and the tastemakers once again.

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When: Oct. 10-19

Where: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Festival dir.: Nashwa Al-Ruwaini

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Abu Dhabi’s Middle East Intl. Film Festival launched with a bang last year with an inaugural edition that promised the richest prize money offered on the fest circuit. A year on, fest organizers know they have a big job on their hands to live up to expectations.

This year’s total prize kitty for the Black Pearl awards will be more than $1 million — up from last year’s $675,000. The unlimited production grant for the best feature film remains in place; however, the competition has now been expanded to any filmmaker from around the world. This time round, the grant will be awarded to the producer, rather than the helmer, of the winning project.

Other highlights at this year’s festival include a retrospective of 60 years of films made about the Arab-Israeli conflict, and a research group looking at the industry trends across the Arab world, which aims to produce the most extensive contemporary study of Arab cinema across North Africa, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and the Gulf ever conducted.

“We want to build on the success of the first year, so we’ve doubled everything,” says fest exec director Nashwa Al-Ruwaini. “It is very challenging, especially now that the festival has expanded to 10 days. We’re still moving to establish a proper film industry in the U.A.E.”

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A touching, soft-spoken portrait of two adults fighting to contain their carnal passions from spilling over into a full-blown affair.

Thoughtful and endearing, though not entirely new, Gallic drama “Mademoiselle Chambon” offers a touching, soft-spoken portrait of two adults fighting to contain their carnal passions from spilling over into a full-blown affair. Following in the delicate footsteps of his previous “Not Here to Be Loved” and “Between Adults,” scribe-helmer Stephane Brize’s adaptation of Eric Holder’s novel is hands-off, both aesthetically and literally, allowing near-wordless scenes to play out with the slightest of gestures and virtually zero sex. Pic has performed modestly at home and reps a strong fourth feature from a filmmaker who deserves recognition outside France.

Starring former real-life couple Vincent Lindon and Sandrine Kiberlain, and set among the working- and middle-class denizens of an unnamed provincial French town, the film is largely a realistic enterprise that depicts an ordinary event with little fanfare or embellishment.

Initially, Jean (Lindon), a burly, laconic mason who lives with his factory-worker wife (Aure Atika) and son (Arthur Le Houerou) in a quiet suburban home, seems interested in little beyond the daily grind. But when he meets his son’s teacher, ex-violinist Veronique (Kiberlain), the attraction is almost immediate. He soon offers to fix one of her windows as a means to get closer.

Taking the notion that opposites attract a tad too bluntly, Brize and regular co-writer Florence Vignon show Jean the ruffian easily falling for Veronique’s love of classical music and otherwise delicate ways. He slowly succumbs to her charms during the various work sessions but, like a frightened animal, keeps a guarded distance and refuses to close the deal.

Much of the film’s tension rests on whether the two will finally let their passions run wild, and how the act of doing so would weigh all too heavily on their consciences. Though the issue is resolved somewhat surprisingly in a suspenseful closing reel, Jean’s efforts at self-restraint, combined with a deep and heavy longing, remain the central focus of the narrative.

Lindon’s portrayal of a blue-collar type smitten by Veronique’s culture and class is remarkably subtle and moving, and he just barely lets emotions penetrate his coarse exterior. Less compelling is Kiberlain’s Veronique, who, despite a superior intellectual level, seems to have little visible depth and all too easily becomes a victim of her own desires.

Mademoiselle Chambon

A Rezo Films release of a TS Prods., F Comme Film, Arte France Cinema production, in association with Rezo Films, La Sofica Soficinema 4, with participation of Canal Plus, TPS Star, CNC. (International sales: Rezo World Sales, Paris.) Produced by Milena Poylo, Gilles Sacuto. Directed by Stephane Brize. Screenplay, Brize, Florence Vignon, based on the novel by Eric Holder.

Camera (color, Panavision widescreen), Antoine Heberle; editor, Anne Klotz; music, Ange Ghinozzi; production designer, Valerie Saradjian; costume designer, Anne Dunsford; sound (DTS), Frederic de Ravignan, Herve Guyader, Thierry Delor; assistant director, Emile Louis; casting, Brigitte Moidon. Reviewed at UGC Cine Cite Les Halles 23, Paris, Oct. 22, 2009. (Also in Pusan Film Festival -- World Cinema.) Running time: 100 MIN.

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Director wins feature prize at international film event

The Monaco Charity Film Festival, which ran May 5 through 11, selected a total of 98 films from 31 countries this year. Nearly one third of the selections made their world premiere at the festival.

The fest’s first prize for a feature was awarded to Kazakhstan director Ermek Tursunov and writers E . T . and Aktan Arym Kubat for their film “Kelin” ; best feature performance nods went to actor Taner Bissel who starred in the Turkish film “The Shadowless” and actress Maria Clara Spinelli whose perf in Brazil’s “Paulista” impressed the fest’s jury. Best screenplay was a tie achieved by Martin Freidmann-Petrasek and Jan Novak , who co-wrote “Broken Promise.” The jury’s special grand prize went to the film “John Rabe,” and Aleksander Buravsky was crowned best director for his work helming Russia’s “Lemingrad.”

The Monaco Charity Film Festival is a charitable organization which raises money for children, and this year their beneficiaries were Virlanie and the Nest Foundation where funds helped to house, clothe and feed impoverished and homeless children in the Philippines.

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Talent-finder 'Superstar' finishes with low ratings on ITV1

The July 25 finale of “Superstar,” Andrew Lloyd Webber’s U.K. primetime TV star-search for a rock singer to play Jesus in an arena tour of “Jesus Christ Superstar,” proved one thing: The composer-producer may be losing his Midas touch.

Back in 2006, Lloyd Webber invented the idea of casting legit tuner leads live on TV. He took the format to the BBC and, together with stage producer David Ian, came up with ratings hit “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria,” a Saturday night show on BBC1 that climaxed with the public voting to cast hitherto unknown Connie Fisher in the lead role of “The Sound of Music.” Fisher immediately went into rehearsals for Lloyd Webber’s production, which ratcheted up a spectacular box office advance, won strong reviews and did stellar business.

The TV show made Lloyd Webber, previously not noted for his smallscreen work, an instantly recognizable media presence not only for musical theater but also for TV producing.

Further casting-shows aped “Maria’s” success. Ian took the format to rival U.K. broadcaster ITV to cast a production of his property “Grease” (the TV show flopped), but Lloyd Webber stayed with the BBC for successive hit shows for “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” “Oliver!” and, in 2010, “Over the Rainbow,” casting Dorothy for his production of “The Wizard of Oz.” The last of these averaged 5.45 million viewers.

His 12-part series “Superstar” for ITV1, however, has been both a critical and ratings disaster.

It debuted July 7 with just 3.2 million viewers; compare that with ITV1’s most recent run of “Britain’s Got Talent,” which averaged 10.01 million. Worse still, the numbers kept dropping. Following four introductory episodes screened over nine days, the channel chose to broadcast the show five nights a week, with the contestants being eliminated one by one at 9 p.m. Monday through Friday. The first elimination show managed 2.9 million viewers, the second just 2.37 million. Overall, the series averaged 2.7 million — considerably lower than ITV1’s advertisers had hoped.

Critics and viewers using social media and online forums were quick to try to diagnose the show’s problems. Airing nightly meant that rehearsal time was restricted, thus putting pressure on the show’s host, Amanda Holden. She’s immensely popular as a “Britain’s Got Talent” judge, but had little or no experience as a presenter anchoring a live show as complex as “Superstar.”

And then there were the three judges sitting alongside Lloyd Webber. Ex-Spice Girl Mel C (Mary Magdalene in the forthcoming arena tour) earned solid marks, but ex-pop star Jason Donovan proved, at best, platitudinous, while the presence of writer and comedienne Dawn French, of TV comedy favorites “French and Saunders,” added laughs but no expertise, according to pundits and the public.

The ratings slide induced a degree of panic at ITV. The program itself and its voting format was changed throughout the first week to try to increase the show’s tension. As online message-boards showed, that caused confusion among viewers over exactly when they could and couldn’t vote for their favorite performers.

Maybe the series’ producers should have listened to “Jesus Christ Superstar” lyricist Tim Rice. When the idea of a competition show to find the musical’s star was first raised, Rice said that casting Jesus on TV was “tasteless.” Hearing the show’s innumerable references to “salvation night,” “tomorrow is judgement day” and, most often, descriptions of Lloyd Webber as “The good Lord” (a reference to the title conferred on him by the Queen in 1997), it’s hard not to agree with Rice.

The combination of critical and public disfavor suggests that although “Superstar” may yet yield audiences for the 13-date U.K. tour, the chances of Lloyd Webber ever being able to do another TV casting-show seem slim.

The failure of “Superstar” to catch on, plus the early demises of much-trumpeted “Phantom” sequel “Love Never Dies” in London and “Jesus Christ Superstar” on Broadway, as well as the upcoming shuttering of his “The Wizard of Oz” after 18 months of less-than-boffo biz, it’s hard not to conclude that brand Lloyd Webber is beginning to look tarnished.

But with “Phantom” still afloat and Ricky Martin keeping “Evita” in Broadway’s millionaire’s club, he can yet thank heavens for a few things.

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Benchmark Capital closes $425M seventh fund

Investor in Twitter, Yelp and Quora closes a new "oversubscribed" fund that nears size of last

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Benchmark CapitalVeteran venture capital firm Benchmark Capital has closed $425 million for its “oversubscribed” seventh fund, peHUB reports. The fund could end up being as large as $505 million.

The sixth fund raised by Benchmark Capital was closed in 2008 with $500 million and its fifth was closed in 2004 with $400 million.

Benchmark’s biggest hit was eBay, a little online marketplace that the group injected with $6.7 million in 1997 and one that survived well beyond the bursting of the dot-com-bubble. eBay went public in 1998 and today, over a decade later, boasts a market cap of $37.43 billion--one of the biggest in the technology industry.

The venture capital firm could have another impressive win on its hands with Twitter, which Benchmark invested in for the company’s fall 2009 funding round. In spite of the fact that social sites have yet to really prove they're worth the weight of their server space in gold (unless you’re a social gaming company), Twitter and Facebook have wowed the financial world with their epic valuations.

Other investments include Quora, Yelp and Zendesk. (Scroll down to see the complete current portfolio.)
Here are a few other startups from Benchmark’s portfolio that we’ve covered:

  • Zuora, a subscription billing service, closed a $20 million Series C round with repeat participation from Benchmark. (November 2010)
  • Mobile payments startup Boku, which was in acquisition discussions with both Apple and Google, has raised $38 million from several high-profile firms, including Benchmark. (November 2010)
  • ResearchGATE, a social network for scientists, raised an undisclosed Series A round with participation from Benchmark partner Matt Cohler. (September 2010)

Benchmark invests in all kinds of companies at various stages of life.

Early-stage investment firm Avalon Ventures also closed a new fund this week, Avalon Ventures IX LP, the firm’s ninth and largest at $200 million. Avalon funds Kaltura, Scoopler and Zynga.

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Super Mario Bros. 2 Wii U

It’s been a big day for gamers as Nintendo presented the launch lineup for its upcoming Wii U console. In case you missed the unveiling, here are the trailers — of both launch games and those confirmed for the platform — available to watch online via Nintendo’s YouTube channel. We’ve also included some past videos.

Platinum Games announced the sequel to Bayonetta, Project P-100 became The Wonderful 101, and we got glimpses of the Nintendo TVii and games like Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. What are you looking forward to the most?


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With a love of history, and strong ties to the place, Nathan Martin, 72, has a deep respect for the land and its creatures, and believes in living as simply as possible. His cabin outside of Bell, Fla. does have electricity, but no running water. It has heat, but only through a wood-burning stove that he also uses to cook on, and no air conditioning. He doesn't believe in using credit to pay for anything, or having many wants outside of a new library book to read each week, and an occasional can of beer in the evening. He also leaves the woods on the weekends to see his wife of 14 years, Vida. (March 2, 2014) MELISSA LYTTLE | Times

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Coon Rock Farm

  • Aired: 06/18/2011
  • 26:47
  • Rating: NR
In this episode we visit a 55-acre sustainable family farm near Hillsborough and try out some great recipes using heirloom tomatoes. With host Lisa Prince.
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Get to know Hillsborough's Coon Rock Farm & tickle your tastebuds with heirloom tomatoes.
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Sunday, December 02, 2007

On my drive to the beach this morning I couldn't help notice the parking lot at the Variety Store -- only one lonely car.

I walked over the ramp at the lifeguard beach (of course, there are no lifeguards this time of year), and walked about a mile. Not a single person was in evidence. When I turned around I did see four people near the ramp, but three of them soon disappeared back over the dunes. I only passed the one other person as I made my way back. The tide was high, broken shells were washed up on the beach, and there were a few other footprints. But other than that it was quiet and peaceful. Walking north I had my lightweight sweatshirt pulled tight around my neck (the cool wind was blowing into my face), but after I turned around I took off the sweatshirt, rolled up my sleeves, and removed my hat. At a brisk pace, and without the breeze it felt rather warm.

Winter at the beach can sometimes be dreary and lonely, but it is often a great time for reflection and contemplation.

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