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Software Piracy Costs Billions in Time, Money for Consumers and Businesses

Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Software Piracy Costs Billions in Time, Money for Consumers and Businesses00:00 EST Wednesday, March 06, 2013New Microsoft-commissioned study also highlights dangers for those that use counterfeit software.REDMOND, Wash., March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Although some computer users may actively seek pirated software in hopes of saving money, the chances of infection by unexpected malware are one in three for consumers and three in 10 for businesses, according to a new study commissioned by Microsoft Corp. and conducted by IDC. As a result of these infections, the research shows that consumers will spend 1.5 billion hours and US$22 billion identifying, repairing and recovering from the impact of malware, while global enterprises will spend US$114 billion to deal with the impact of a malware-induced cyberattack. (Logo: The global study analyzed 270 websites and peer-to-peer networks, 108 software downloads, and 155 CDs or DVDs, and it interviewed 2,077 consumers and 258 IT managers or chief information officers in Brazil, China, Germany, India, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States. Researchers found that of counterfeit software that does not come with the computer, 45 percent comes from the Internet, and 78 percent of this software downloaded from websites or peer-to-peer networks included some type of spyware, while 36 percent contained Trojans and adware."The cybercrime reality is that counterfeiters are tampering with the software code and lacing it with malware," said David Finn, associate general counsel in the Microsoft Cybercrime Center. "Some of this malware records a person's every keystroke ? allowing cybercriminals to steal a victim's personal and financial information ? or remotely switches on an infected computer's microphone and video camera, giving cybercriminals eyes and ears in boardrooms and living rooms. The best way to secure yourself and your property from these malware threats when you buy a computer is to demand genuine software."The IDC study, titled "The Dangerous World of Counterfeit and Pirated Software," was released today as part of Microsoft's "Play It Safe" campaign, a global initiative to bring awareness to issues related to software piracy."Our research is unequivocal: Inherent dangers lurk for consumers and businesses that take a chance on counterfeit software," said John Gantz, chief researcher at IDC. "Some people choose counterfeit to save money, but this 'ride-along' malware ends up putting a financial and emotional strain on both the enterprise and casual computer users alike."The following are among the highlights from the consumer survey: Sixty-four percent of the people respondents knew who had used counterfeit software experienced security issues. Forty-five percent of the time, counterfeit software slowed their PCs, and the software had to be uninstalled. Forty-eight percent of respondents noted that their greatest concern with using counterfeit software was data loss. Twenty-nine percent were most concerned with identity theft.Embedding counterfeit software with dangerous malware is a new method for criminals to prey on computer users who are unaware of the potential danger.The IDC white paper also explored the surprising level of end-user software installations made on corporate computers, exposing another method for the introduction of unsecure software into the workplace ecosystem. Although 38 percent of IT managers acknowledge that it happens, 57 percent of workers admit they install personal software onto employer-owned computers. What is alarming is that respondents told IDC that only 30 percent of the software they installed on their work computers was problem-free. Sixty-five percent of IT managers agree that user-installed software increases an organization's security risks. For many in the enterprise, user-installed software may be a blind spot in ensuring a secure network. Customers are encouraged to visit to learn about malware and ensure their machines are not infected; if malware is present, the site offers tools to remove the infection. Customers shopping for new computers are encouraged to buy from a reputable source to ensure they are receiving genuine Microsoft software.More information about the IDC study is available at the Microsoft Play It Safe website,, and newsroom, Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. SOURCE Microsoft Corp.For further information: Rapid Response Team, Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, (503) 443-7070,


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Coxe Global Agribusiness Income Fund Announces Quarterly Cash Distribution08:30 EDT Tuesday, August 21, 2012TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Aug. 21, 2012) -COXE GLOBAL AGRIBUSINESS INCOME FUND (TSX:CAG.UN) announced today an advance cash distribution for the third quarter. Unitholders of record at the close of business on August 31, 2012 will receive a cash distribution of $0.0833 per unit payable on or about September 14, 2012. This distribution represents two-thirds of the amount of the quarterly distribution. An additional distribution representing the remaining one-third of the amount of the quarterly distribution (in respect of the month of September 2012) is expected to be declared later this month.Further information about Coxe Global Agribusiness Income Fund can be found at under "Closed-End Funds".This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities in the United States, nor shall there be any sale of the securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. The securities of the Fund offered have not been registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act"), or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to a U.S. person absent registration under the 1933 Act or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the 1933 Act and applicable state securities laws.FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: 1.866.864.7760BMO Capital Markets

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Battling Discouragement as a Pastor’s Wife

Several years ago, I experienced what appeared to be a fairly sudden onset of significant discouragement. It both surprised and scared me that, despite my best attempts, I couldn't shake it on my own. And it wasn't going away. A series of difficult circumstances and relationships left me feeling lost and hopeless in the church we'd worked so hard to plant. I was stuck, unable to find a way out. It was painful to admit I was quickly turning into the person I'd tried so hard not to become—a discouraged and disillusioned pastor's wife.

What followed was a humbling yet powerful season of asking God to unravel the mess in my heart.

One of the first things he showed me was my deep fear of admitting how much I was struggling with discouragement. The battle seemed like a tremendous failure I should have been able to avoid. In retrospect, I had so feared the implications of discouragement that I refused to acknowledge its tiny seeds when they first appeared years earlier. My default reaction to encountering a difficult emotion was to ignore it and keep moving. I viewed this response as perseverance and self-control, but, in reality, I was hiding and living in denial. Fear, anger, disappointment, and sadness were piling up, but I assumed acknowledging them meant I was in danger of becoming a person who wallowed around in destructive self-pity. In reality, ignoring these emotions in an attempt to prove my own maturity and strength was a primary cause of my discouragement.

Over time, I learned emotions weren't the enemy, but rather a helpful tool. Additionally, I saw that processing those emotions through the truth of Scripture alongside wise and godly people led to less self-absorption, not more.

Priorities Straight

I also learned to make rest and self-care a priority. I'd essentially spent several years living as if rest and refreshment were great ideas for others but impossible for me. I had plenty of excuses as to why I didn't take time alone or develop a consistent habit of keeping Sabbath. But the truth was I didn't want to battle through the practical difficulties of making these things happen consistently or, more importantly, of confronting my productivity and performance idols. Jesus' invitation in Matthew 11:28-30, then, was a breath of fresh air. I gained a deeper understanding of what it means to rest in his finished work for me instead of in my own effort and striving. I've been learning to view rest as a gift and to intentionally pursue health and refreshment through worship, solitude, exercise, and recreation. Today, my habits of rest and self-care are among the first things I examine when I feel discouragement creeping in.

Another key to battling through discouragement was intentionally rediscovering the good things happening inside our church. Far from a moralistic attempt to “look at the bright side,” this was an important step of gaining a more realistic and holistic viewpoint of what was actually occurring all around me. I had become overly focused on our church's weaknesses, problems, and trials; meanwhile, however, God was still rescuing and restoring people. Marriages were being transformed, the poor and marginalized in our community were being loved and served, and people were growing in their love for God's Word and understanding of the gospel. I experienced anew the tremendous encouragement that comes from hearing and rejoicing in peoples' stories of God doing the impossible.

Finally, I learned how resting in my complete security and safety in Christ allowed me to take relational risks again. To be sure, God doesn't promise relationships in the ministry context will be simple or that I won't ever get my heart broken again. But he does promise his love and grace will be enough—always. I've been beautifully surprised by the many ways he's used the body of Christ to encourage me as I've become more open to receiving love and grace from them.

Overall, I've learned that struggling with discouragement as a pastor's wife isn't something I have to fear or manage on my own. I've experienced God's faithfulness as he's carried me through the struggle of discouragement more than I ever did by trying to fearfully tiptoe around it by myself. Today, I'm confident I can take my discouraged heart straight to our gracious and merciful God. He's more than big—and good—enough to handle it.

Learn more from Amie Patrick and her husband, Darrin, on “Dealing with Discouragement in Ministry” in their workshop at The Gospel Coalition 2013 National Conference next month. Register here, and we'll see you soon in Orlando!

Amie Patrick is wife to Darrin, lead pastor of The Journey in St. Louis. Married for 20 years, Darrin and Amie have 4 children, and have served in a variety of ministry roles together. Amie holds a degree in music education and is passionate about leadership, teaching women to practically apply the gospel to all areas of their lives, and helping pastors’ and church planters’ wives thrive in their calling.

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My other life: Howard Jacobsen

A funny thing, nostalgia. Why I longed to return to Sorrento at the age of 13, why I sobbed unashamedly (but privately) for my native Naples when I was born in Manchester and had never been further than Stockport I can't explain. Other boys had pictures of Elvis on their walls; I had Caruso and Gigli - little, round-bellied men in Neapolitan fisherman shirts.

Though I believed I was destined to be a novelist, I wanted to be a lyric tenor more. When I escaped to my room, it was never to write, it was to sing. I would lock my door, draw the curtains, put out the lights, open my throat and weep musically. I knew all the tenor arias from the great Italian operas, especially loved those addressed to unfaithful women, or women who loved me but were dying of cold. "Who is this Mimì?" my father asked me once.

But the Neapolitan songs - O sole mio, Core 'ngrato, Torna a Surriento - moved me most. They combined sexual longing with the ache of exile. Alone and far from home, imagining the rapturous applause of millions, I sang and tasted happiness. Nothing I have done since holds a candle to it.

Howard Jacobson's latest book is The Act of Love (Jonathan Cape)


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AV's not perfect, but we need it for plurality

The first-past-the-post system has led to the slow death of a critical political culture. AV would at least give oxygen to debate
Nick Clegg
The vote for AV is 'far more important than punishing Nick Clegg'. Photograph: David Cheskin/PA

Parliament's numbness to the million-strong march against the Iraq war has left a legacy of profound scepticism about parliamentary politics as we know it. As widespread protest grows against the coalition's erosion of public services, could AV make our political institutions any more sensitive to outside the political class?

My starting point is Thomas Rainsborough's powerful argument for extending the franchise, irrespective of wealth and property: "The poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he ... every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent to put himself under the government ... the poorest man in England is not at all bound in a strict sense to that government that he hath not had a voice to put himself under".

Four centuries from Rainsborough's declaration, eight decades from the suffragettes winning the universal franchise, UK prime ministers govern without a mandate of the majority, and governments regularly implement policies that benefit the rich or the corporations and over which the poorest effectively have no say – the dismantling of the NHS being the latest such demonstration of contempt for the voters.

In other words, what was a democratic victory – the winning of the universal right to vote, opening a dynamic towards more radical democratic reforms – has been turned into an opaque system of elite rule.

The "winner takes all" electoral system has been a vital accomplice in this establishment hijack, giving spurious appeal to the mythologies of democratic rule that have veiled the nature of the UK's unwritten, monarchical constitution. These mystified arrangements in turn have protected the financial interests of the City that have shaped what are and aren't allowed as policy options in public debate. No wonder the financial and political establishment is now closing ranks to ensure that this guard against genuine public accountability stays in place.

Evidence of the mass disenfranchisement that is part of this electoral system is overwhelming and has been well publicised. But another, less publicised, consequence of first-past-the-post voting has been the slow death of a critical political culture. It underpins the pull of electoral competition towards the political centre. Instead of enabling representative democracy to, in the words of cultural theorist Raymond Williams, "re-present" the plurality of views held by the population, it effectively excludes or politically kettles the wide range of alternatives to the mainstream.

This has got worse under corporate globalisation, which has transformed the hidden rules of political debate. The power of the global market has meant that policies in its favour are presented as unavoidable, turning politics into a process of technical economic management. A challenge to this process requires a concerted expansion of the argument and debate that is necessary for political creativity. Instead, the New Labour leadership – whose legacy is proving difficult to dismantle – treated open debate as beyond the bounds of legitimate politics. Now, sucked into the quicksand of the centre ground, the Lib Dem leadership does the same.

So I'm viewing the referendum as an opportunity to open up a process of structural political change, an opportunity that is a result of us, the voters refusing to place our trust in existing political options. This is far more important than punishing Nick Clegg. Clegg's clinging to the coat tails of Cameron is a product of the present system and he and the Lib Dems will not be able to control the dynamic of change that even the minimal opening of AV represents.

AV is not proportional and it's not the solution. But it will force an opening up of political debate. Alternative views, previously marginalised or excluded, would become a legitimate part of the political process – perhaps in a minimal way at first, but with an angry, alienated and determined electorate there would be a real possibility of it opening up an uncertain dynamic. AV will enable voters to demonstrate their true first preferences, which currently are masked by the absence of alternatives and because many people have to vote tactically or abstain.

For example, the growing resistance to the idea that "there is no alternative" to the cuts could, through AV, make itself directly part of the political process. The kind of electoral challenge made by Richard Taylor in Worcester could become a powerful political force since such campaigns can attract support from broad stretches of the community. AV would challenge the main parties to relate to forces outside of Westminster, like the hundreds of thousands who marched through London on 26 March insisting that cutting public services is not the way to sustainable economic recovery. It could also strengthen the ability of parties such as the Greens to better identify their support at local level, and lay the foundations for new progressive electoral alliances in the future.

A no vote to electoral reform would send out all the wrong messages, and be trumpeted as evidence that the British public is broadly content with our politics. Worse still, it might derail existing commitments to see PR introduced for the second chamber. It wouldn't so much weaken the coalition as confirm our own powerlessness in the face of the interests that guide its agenda. It's not for nothing that the head of the Taxpayers Alliance has given up his time to lead the no campaign.

I will grasp the opportunity of the referendum to vote for AV as a vote for change. My hope is that it will initiate a dynamic of change driven from below, not just for genuine proportional representation at Westminster, but for a participatory constituent assembly to produce a democratic written constitution, the objectives of which could well incorporate the egalitarian spirit of Rainsborough.


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Arctic 30 told they cannot leave Russia

Greenpeace repeats call to allow activists and journalist to go home after it emerged Russia's Investigative Committee wrote to one of the 30 saying they are not allowed to leave the country
Uruguayan actress and singer Natalia Oreiro meeting Greenpeace activists Phil Ball from the UK (left) and Camila Speziale from Argentina (right)  in St. Petersburg
Uruguayan actress and singer Natalia Oreiro meeting Greenpeace activists Phil Ball from the UK (left) and Camila Speziale from Argentina (right) in St. Petersburg Photograph: DMITRI SHAROMOV/AFP/Getty Images

The Russian authorities have told a group of Greenpeace activists and freelance journalists arrested after a protest against oil drilling in the Arctic that they cannot leave the country.

The environmental group said the decision was in defiance of a ruling of an international court, and repeated its demand that the 28 activists and two journalists, including six Britons, should be allowed home.

The so-called Arctic 30 were arrested in September after the Russian authorities boarded their vessel during their protest.

They have all been granted bail by courts in St Petersburg but have remained in Russia while efforts are made to give them permission to leave.

Greenpeace revealed on Friday that Russia's Investigative Committee has written to one of the 30 – Anne Mie Jensen from Denmark – indicating that they are not free to leave the country.

Lawyers for Greenpeace said they expect all of the non-Russian defendants will be treated in the same way by the authorities, meaning they would now be forced to stay in St Petersburg for Christmas and possibly well beyond.

Lawyers have also been seeking an assurance that the investigative committee would give at least one month's notice when it wanted to interview the 30; otherwise they could break their bail conditions if they returned home.

In its letter to Anne Mie, the committee said it would not provide the requested notice.

Peter Willcox, the American-born captain of the Greenpeace vessel, the Arctic Sunrise, said: "I am ready to go home to my family. We were seized in international waters and brought to Russia against our will, then charged with a crime we didn't commit and kept in jail for two months.

"A respected international court says we should be allowed to go home, so do numerous presidents and prime ministers, but we can't get visas to leave the country, and, even if we could, there's no guarantee the investigative committee won't schedule an interview for the day I get home, forcing me to break my bail conditions.

This is either a mistake and we're caught in a vicious bureaucratic circle, or it's a deliberate snub against international law. Either way this is a farce."

A ruling in November by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, made up of 21 eminent judges, ordered Russia to allow the Arctic 30 to leave the country immediately and to release the Arctic Sunrise, as soon as a bond of 3.6 million euros (£3 million) in the form of a bank guarantee was paid.

The bond was posted by the Government of the Netherlands, where the Arctic Sunrise is registered, on 29 November, so Greenpeace said Russia was now in defiance of that order.

Greenpeace International legal counsel Daniel Simons said: "The Russian Federation is now in clear breach of a binding order of an international tribunal. As president Vladimir Putin stated in his famous open letter to the American people on Syria, 'The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not.'

"In his state of the nation speech in Moscow yesterday, he added 'We try not to lecture anyone but promote international law'. It's time for the authorities to act in that spirit and allow the Arctic 30 to go home to their families immediately."

Greenpeace added that an amnesty decree likely to be voted on by the Duma - the Russian parliament - this month could still see legal proceedings against the Arctic 30 dropped.

A draft of the decree submitted by President Putin does not include the Arctic 30, but the group said a small amendment by the Duma would see them covered by the amnesty.


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Dundee United's match in Greece goes ahead at venue still unknown

AEK Athens' ground unsuitable due to sprinkler problem
United, trailing 1-0 from first leg, to complain officially to Uefa
Panionios fans vandalised their own stadium in protest at the prospect of AEK Athens playing Dundee United there. Photograph: Petros Giannakouris/AP

Dundee United's Europa League play-off, second-leg tie against AEK Athens will take place in Greece tomorrow night, and Uefa are due to issue confirmation of exactly where the game will be held later this afternoon.

The buildup to the game has been farcical, and it was suggested this morning that AEK could even be kicked out of the competition. Their home ground, the Olympic Stadium in Athens, was deemed unsuitable for the match on Monday after a problem with sprinklers.

The Greek side then attempted to move the tie to the home of their local rivals Panionios but supporters of that team broke the goalposts and ripped up the turf last night in an apparent attempt to scupper AEK's plans. AEK were handed a deadline of 2pm today (British time) either to find another ground with adequate security guarantees, or repair the damage caused by the vandalism.

Uefa confirmed this deadline has been met and that tomorrow's game will go ahead, with the home of Olympiakos now the favourite to host the visit of the Scottish team. It may yet be the case, though, that no AEK supporters will be allowed entry to the ground, which would potentially bring its own security problems.

United, who trail 1-0 from the first leg last week, are taking around 600 fans to Greece. The club have already said they will make an official complaint to Uefa about the disruption surrounding the choice of stadium.


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Dance music gets nostalgic: the disco and rave reissue boom

From 70s disco to 90s rave, dance music is only now really starting to look back on its past glories – leading to the first big wave of dance reissues
Dance has tended not to be the most overtly nostalgic genre, but that’s begun to change. Photograph: PHIL DENT/PHIL DENT / Redferns

Dance music may be a perpetual forward-motion machine, but it has often fruitfully examined its past. Disco, for example, has undergone a number of largely kitschy revivals since the early 90s – think of the very different uses of it by acts ranging from Deee-Lite, Masters at Work and DJ Sneak to Daft Punk, Escort, and LCD Soundsystem. But dance music's deeper past tended to be the preserve of those with insider knowledge. That, though, has begun to change, as dance music undergoes its first serious wave of reissued classics and rarities.

"With house music, it's been 25, 30 years of history," says Christiaan Macdonald, Rush Hour Recordings' label manager, "and there's a new generation of kids listening to it." Based in Amsterdam, Rush Hour has become a key label in electronic dance's sudden reissue bloom. Rush Hour shines on the new-title front, thanks to sparkling singles by FaltyDL, Nebraska, and Tom Trago – but it's proven invaluable for bringing to light legendary but little-heard music from the mid-90s, an era so teeming that it is to dance music what the 60s are to rock.

Beginning with the October 2008 issue of Kenny Larkin's The Chronicles – a double-CD collection of the Detroit techno producer's privately pressed 12in singles from 1992 to 1997 – Rush Hour has concentrated on reissuing vintage Chicago house and Detroit techno. Last year, they repressed vintage 12ins such as Robert Hood Presents Floorplan's Funky Souls from 1996, and put together Anthony "Shake" Shakir's three-CD Frictionalism 1994-2009, which plays like an alternate-universe greatest hits – and in a way, it is.

This is a significant shift. For all its sourcing in earlier music, electronic dance has tended not to be the most overtly nostalgic of forms, but that's begun to change recently. There have long been retrospective series, such as the Sessions double CDs on Union Square Music, or Mastercuts' Classic series, which tend to take a broad overview that presumes everyone listening is coming to this music for the first time (not to mention that several volumes of the Sessions series are intrusively, and badly, DJ-mixed).

But thanks to everything from YouTube to the disco re-edit underground to Detroit techno and Chicago house stretching toward three decades of existence, dance fans seem to be hungering for older music more than at any time before. Jungle and 2step DJs would never have thought to mix old Chicago or Detroit tracks into their sets, but newer DJs see no impediment to doing so; if anything, it gives the music a trans-historical kick. Dance fans who came of age in the 90s are seizing their heritage, while younger newcomers are claiming their roots. And as a result, dance compilations and reissues are going deeper than ever.

That's true of disco as well. There's been a boom in books on the subject – Alice Echols's Hot Stuff and Peter Shapiro's Turn the Beat Around are just two of many. But even a box set as judiciously chosen as A Complete Introduction to Disco 1970-1980, issued by Universal last August, can't dive into the music's many strange corners. Luckily, for those of us that have always wanted to hear the Andy Williams disco record, there is the recent Disco Discharge: Mondo Disco – "23 weird & wonderful disco artefacts," as the sleevesticker promises, which contextualizes Williams's weirdly Euro Love Story ("She fills my HEEEAAAARRRRT!") with equally garish tracks by 5000 Volts, Disco Circus, and Cerrone.

Mondo Disco is just one of four volumes in the double-CD Disco Discharge series issued this spring, bringing the total to 12; it was joined by Cruising the Beats (gay-bar pickup music, featuring This Girl's Back in Town by Raquel Welch), Euro Beats (they love Giorgio Moroder), and Disco Fever USA (male and female belters dominate). These CDs are as gloriously over the top as their subject, and packaged with smart attention to detail by compiler Mr Pink – aka David Akerman – a supply chain manager at Demon Music Group, which issues the discs.

"Each set takes approximately eight months from concept to release," says Akerman. He often chooses the black-and-white art before the track lists are finalised. "Finding the owners of tracks that were released on independent labels is quite often a problem," he says. "There are tracks that are lost for ever due to the fact no one can legally confirm who owns them."

It's partly for that reason that dance history has largely been lost until recently. "This is a music that historically was disrespected by the mainstream media, mainstream compilers, mainstream attention," says Andy Zax, a veteran reissue producer in Los Angeles who has worked extensively with Rhino, for whom he helped produce the mid-00s Talking Heads reissues. "It's like how garage rock had a substantial following, but it was under the radar to a certain degree. If you were somebody on the internet fanatically trying to download B-sides, you can disagree. But in terms of serious professional attention being paid, the degree of interest from the major-label music business has been spotty and intermittent at best."

The classic example is Machine Soul. In the late 90s, New York writer and collector Johan Kugelberg put together a four-disc box for Rhino – "a pretty good overview of electronica," says Kugelberg, using the vogue US term of the time. "The sales department at Rhino decided that a two-CD set was all the marketplace could carry, so it was chopped down, and became yet another neither-here-nor-there compilation."

"Any kind of compilation – single artist or genre or scene or region or sound or what have you – is an argument," says Zax, who saw Machine Soul deflate. "It should be like a well-structured essay whose topic is why you should care about this thing under consideration. Good compilations do that; bad compilations don't do that. What they put out was one of those packages it's hard to imagine it making anyone happy at all, despite the obvious quality of most of what's on it."

The tide for dance compilations began turning around the mid-00s. Soul Jazz salted its usual jazz, funk, reggae and post-punk collections with nods to the rave diaspora, Acid: Can You Jack? and Rumble in the Jungle, while Planet Mu put out a pair of seething mid-90s compilations by the jungle producer Remarc. That's the kind of reissue that's gaining traction: period-specific, in-depth surveys aimed at hardcore fans.

In some cases, these have been coming from the original labels. The past few years have seen a number of rave-era imprints making their catalogues available on download sites such as iTunes and eMusic. The important early jungle label Reinforced, for example – which incubated the first work of scene heroes 4Hero, Goldie (then Rufige Cru), and Doc Scott – recently collected its artists' mid-90s singles under the series title The Early Plates. Kniteforce, an early happy-hardcore imprint, got noticed back in late 2008 by putting its entire back catalogue up for free download; the offer has long since been discontinued, as the music makes its way to the online stores.

The most resonant of these reclamations has been R&S Records, founded in 1984. During the early 90s, R&S was as reliable and varied a rave label as there came, issuing parameter-expanding classics by Joey Beltram, Aphex Twin, Human Resource, Jam & Spoon, Jonny L, Mescalinum United and Jaydee at a lightning clip, setting the stage for later big-tent dance enterprises such as Kompakt. R&S gradually lost steam, moseying along till the early 00s, at which point the label went on indefinite hiatus. That changed in 2006, when founder Renaat Vandepapeliere revived it, handing the reins to label manager Andy Whittaker and young A&R man Dan Foat, who now run R&S in London.

"There's been many other older dance labels relaunched which have just mined the back catalogues and updated them with new remixes," says Whittaker. "But Dan and I wouldn't have been part of it if this was how R&S was to be run. We have a remit to make the label great again." R&S did indeed reissue its classics digitally and, more selectively, on CD; the 2008 collection In Order to Dance featured a bonus disc of old warhorses newly remixed, such as Prins Thomas's version of Outlander's Vamp, and Boys Noize making over CJ Bolland's Horsepower.

But those were merely steps toward a new beginning: Improbably, R&S has become one of dance music's premier labels in the here and now, thanks to a head-turning assortment of EPs by right-now acts such as Radio Slave, Pariah, Space Dimension Controller, Untold, and – oh yes – James Blake, whose 2010 R&S 12-inch CMYK is the track that launched the hype machine into overdrive.

"The fact the label has such a great heritage for working with people like Aphex Twin and Juan Atkins definitely helps us sign new artists," says Whittaker of his label's wraparound latter-day success – using vintage classics to launch into new directions. "Although now the new artists we sign are as impressed by our current roster as the back catalogue."


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Pound drops out of ERM

Second rate rise revoked after rout in money markets

The government last night suspended Britain's membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism after a tidal wave of selling the pound on the foreign exchanges left it defenceless against international currency speculators.

Britain's decision pushed the ERM to the brink of collapse early today, with the EC monetary committee locked in crisis talks aimed at holding the system together.

The Chancellor, Norman Lamont, announced that the Government could no longer hold the line at the end of a day of desperate and futile attempts at propping up sterling, which included spending what the City estimated as £10bn from Britain's reserves and a two-stage rise in interest rates to 15 per cent.

The announcement sent sterling tumbling in New York trading last night, hitting DM2.69 - nine pfennigs below its former permitted ERM floor against the mark.

In Tokyo today, sterling dropped to DM2.6680 in hectic trading within minutes of the markets opening. Market sources said dealers were taking their lead from New York where the pound weakened substantially after the day's events in London. Investors were also switching into a strengthened dollar which saw the sterling rate against the US currency drop to as low as $1.75 - eight cents lower than the price quoted at the close in London.

The decision to suspend membership of the ERM represents a humiliating reversal for the Chancellor and the Prime Minister, who have staked enormous credibility on being able to resist devaluation. Britain joined the ERM less than two years ago, and until last night's decision, membership has been the centrepiece of the Government's anti-inflation strategy.

However, the U-turn was tacit recognition of the awesome risks of precipitating a slump by inflicting base rates of 15 per cent or higher on an economy that is already deep in recession. Treasury sources said last night the Government intended to rejoin the ERM eventually. However, it was far too early to say when.

Mr Lamont said in his statement outside the Treasury at 7.40 last night: "I have tonight called an urgent meeting of the EC's monetary committee to consider how stability might be restored to the markets over the next few days.

"In the meantime the Government has decided that Britain's best interests would be best secured by suspending our membership of the ERM with immediate effect."

Mr Lamont's dramatic statement followed an unprecedented day of financial turmoil. Massive selling of the pound forced the Bank of England to raise rates to 12 per cent then 15 per cent until the second rise was revoked and sterling suspended from the ERM after the pressure continued unabated.

The Bank's emergency measures came after record intervention in the foreign exchanges to defend sterling's parity was brushed aside by dealers scenting blood.

In total, the City believed that 40 per cent of Britain's foreign exchange reserves were spent in frenetic trading. There were reports that the morning began with senior Bank of England officials clashing with Mr Major and Mr Lamont over the Government's insistence on wasting the reserves on what the Bank expected to be a lost cause.


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Milwaukee's Fiers works eight innings in battle of division leaders.

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MILWAUKEE - Mike Fiers finished eight brilliant innings with a strikeout, pumping his arms as he walked off the mound to a standing ovation.

The right-hander's first major league start in more than a year for the Milwaukee Brewers couldn't have gone any better than the gem he threw in a 4-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night.

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It will be 12 years ago tomorrow that the United States was forced into one devastating war and suckered into a second.

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Old June 5, 2013, 12:29 PM   #7301
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I traded my Taurus 1911 for this AR (Yankee hill lower/ Black Thorn Upper) minus the eotech and horizontal ninja grip that I like looking at lol

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I think it was either a Henry .22 Mag or a Nickel M-49 bodyguard .38...they came into my life at about the same time....or was it the Glock 34, that was last year, too? Dang, I'm getting forgetful. Now I have a hold-deposit on a S&W 642, once it's in that'll be the newest of the batch....
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I bought this Colt Mod 1903 .32 ACP at a garage sale last Friday. Serial number dates it at 1926. Box of ammo, full mag and holster were included. Original finish, original mag.

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This Steyr AUG A3 CQC

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Christensen Custom 338 Lapua. 7.2#'s and 10.2#'s with the scope.
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Old June 6, 2013, 03:06 AM   #7307
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This Steyr AUG A3 CQC

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Steyr Aug. Bad ass .223 or 9mm?

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Love that 1903. Much better gun than it gets credit for these days, in my opinion.
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Old June 6, 2013, 09:03 AM   #7311
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Bought a sig 1911 C3. My favorite gun right now.
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Old June 6, 2013, 03:41 PM   #7312
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Uberti Henry 1860...purdy gun in 44-40!
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Old June 6, 2013, 10:19 PM   #7315
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Ruger SS SR9c (several months ago) and still haven't shot it because I can't find 9mm at a semi-reasonable price.
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Old June 7, 2013, 02:51 AM   #7316
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Ruger LCP. Bought it for the wife to carry but so far she hasn't got her CCW yet so I'm the only one getting any use from it. I sorta like it now. It's so light it almost feels like I'm not carrying. But I prefer a larger pistol and a larger caliber so my XDm .40 goes with me most often followed by my Taurus PT-145 .45 ACP or maybe my S&W 629 in .44 mag depending on where I'm going I guess. Lately if I go to the farm or anywhere out in the wilderness I take a gun capable of dealing with a black bear and/or wild hogs not to mention packs of feral dogs, mountain lions and two legged skunks.
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I ALMOST got a nice S&W .38 revo this week, but after a one-sided conversation with my wife I had to decline the deal.
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Old June 7, 2013, 04:31 PM   #7319
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Sorry, but only government officials can use the fifth amendment. By our new system of justice you are guilty until you can prove you are innocent (of buying a gun).
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1911. For when 911 just isn't fast enough.

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SA M1A Scout Squad with a Leupold 2.5x28 Scout scope.
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Ruger SR22 (the handgun)
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Old June 7, 2013, 08:06 PM   #7323
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Oh man I found one I might have to find the money to buy somehow. I may even have to sell some guns to get it. It's a Sako Forester Deluxe in .308. It's used so the price is better. I don't see too many Sakos in this part of the world so I might sell some ammo just to get this rifle. If I thought I could find enough ammo to determine the best off the shelf ammo for it I'd probably be selling off some stuff even now.
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Old June 7, 2013, 08:40 PM   #7324
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WASR 10/63 in its natural habitat: my workbench. It should have come with a "some assembly required" notice, but it is beginning to grow on me.

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Mardi Gras History

Mardi Gras is a celebration held in New Orleans each year. When directly translated from its French origins it means Fat Tuesday and appropriately is celebrated on that day of the week each year. This well known street party always takes place 47 days before aster Sunday. Let’s take a look at Mardi Gras history to see how it has become the popular festival that it is today.

Mardi Gras history begins in 1699, when it was brought to the United States by a French explorer named Iberville. The French had celebrated this holiday since the middle ages. The tradition of masked festivals during Mardi Gras was popular in New Orleans while it was ruled by the French. However, when the US took possession of the city the tradition was banned until 1823 when the large Creole population convinced the government to allow the masked holiday.

Mardi Gras history hit a snag again in then 1840’s and 50’s when it was banned once again due to the negative reputation that surrounded it. Then in 1857 the Comus organization was formed and Mardi Gras was once again allowed. Then in 1872 the “king of Carnival” tradition began and the colors purple, green, and gold became the official colors of the parade.

Mardi Gras history was put on hold again in 1918 and 1919 when the US was involved in World War One. The celebration was weak during the 1920’s and 30’s when the country suffered through the Great Depression and Prohibition.

Mardi Gras thrived during the 1940’s, though it was canceled during the years of war again. Since then the popularity of Mardi Gras has been on the rise. Every year thousand of tourists travel to New Orleans to take part in the celebration, involving masks, beads, parades, liquor, and music.


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Roy says he's 'coming home' as No. 33 jersey is retired at Bell Centre

Former Montreal Canadiens goalie Patrick Roy waves to the crowd during a ceremony retiring Roy's number 33 jersey before the team's NHL game against the Boston Bruins in Montreal on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

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Former Montreal Canadiens goalie Patrick Roy waves to the crowd during a ceremony retiring Roy's number 33 jersey before the team's NHL game against the Boston Bruins in Montreal on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

MONTREAL - Reconciliation was the theme as Patrick Roy was welcomed back to the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night.

The crowd of 21,273 stood and cheered for several minutes as the goaltending great who parted bitterly with the club in 1995 stepped onto the Bell Centre ice wearing a Canadiens jersey over his suit to see his No. 33 raised to the ceiling.

"I think it really turned the page on what happened in my last game here," the Quebec City native said. "I've been ready to move on for a long time.

"It was fun to say I was coming back home and I truly believed in what I said. I'm extremely happy to wear that jersey here."

Roy, who won two Stanley Cups with the Canadiens between 1984 and 1995, became the 15th player to have his jersey retired by the 24-time Stanley Cup champion team.

But this may have been the most controversial because of how he left the club - angrily demanding a trade after he was left in goal by then-coach Mario Tremblay for a shellacking by the Detroit Red Wings on Dec. 2, 1995.

He was dealt a few days later to the Colorado Avalanche, where he played eight more seasons and won two more Stanley Cups before retiring in 2002.

There was fear some fans would not want Roy back, but that was dispelled as soon as his image appeared on the Bell Centre scoreboard before the 50-minute ceremony and a deafening roar went up from the seats.

Even his entrance was symbolic, as he was filmed entering proudly by the front door of the arena and winding his way through the concessions and down some stairs to the player's bench, where the current Canadiens were waiting, all wearing No. 33 jerseys.

Roy was joined on the red carpet by his parents Michel and Barbara, his sister Alexandra and brother Stephane and his children Jonathan, Frederic and Jana. He acknowledged his estranged wife Michelle in his speech.

Roy looked to be choking back emotion as the banner went up, but there were no tears. Mostly, the sometimes hot-tempered goalie wore a satisfied smile.

"It was close," he said. "I said 'wow, I think I'm in trouble.'

"I'm a person who keeps a lot of emotion inside, but I really appreciated what happened. It was very warm welcome."

He was introduced by Pierre Lacroix, his former agent who later became general manager of the Colorado Avalanche and who made the trade to acquire him from Montreal.

Three of his former coaches, Jean Perron, Pat Burns and Jacques Demers, took the microphone, thanking him for the many games he won for them. There were video tributes from some former teammates and adversaries, such as Joe Sakic, Ray Bourque and Luc Robitaille.

His brief speech was aimed mainly at the fans, about his memories of playing before them at the old Montreal Forum. He ended by saying: "Finally, I'm back home."

"For him, it was so important that closure was made here, and I'm so proud for him, too," said Lacroix. "For hockey fans in Quebec, this is the confirmation that they love winners and this guy has been a winner his whole life.

"He got up every day and acted like it was his last day on the planet and that's what people recognize. I never doubted it would happen any differently."

Roy's father called it "a beautiful moment."

Many of Roy's teammates from the Stanley Cup teams of 1986 and 1993 were in the building, including current Canadiens coach Guy Carbonneau and assistant coach Kirk Muller, as well as Chris Nilan, Vincent Damphousse, Stephan Lebeau and Benoit Brunet.

Brunet recalls the day Roy asked to be traded as one of "complete shock.

"We knew something happened, but we thought it would all settle down the next day," said Brunet, who now works on Canadiens TV broadcasts. "In his time, he was the best.

"I'm not surprised they retired his jersey. Without him, there probably wouldn't have been a Stanley Cup in Montreal in the last 30 years."

Roy had come back to Montreal with the Avalanche before, but had mostly stayed away from his former team. But he said he had made up with them, and with Tremblay, long ago.

Upon his retirement as a player, Roy became part-owner, general manager and coach of the Quebec Remparts of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and had little time for social visits.

The ceremony was timed with a visit by the Remparts to the Verdun Juniors on Friday, although it irked the Montreal Alouettes for drawing attention from the Grey Cup game they play Sunday against the Calgary Stampeders.

He said he would have liked to attend games at the Bell Centre involving his former Remparts players Alexander Radulov and Marc-Edouard Vlasic, as well as last year's jersey retirement for former teammate and current Canadiens general manager Bob Gainey.

In 19 NHL seasons, the goaltender who perfected the butterfly style played in a record 1,029 games and set records for regular season wins (551) and playoff wins (151).

He won four Stanley Cups, two each with Montreal and Colorado, three Vezina Trophies as the league's top goaltender and three Conn Smythe trophies as MVP of the playoffs.

And Roy was an original - a goaltender who talked to his goalposts and bounced a puck on the dressing room floor in a trance-like state before games. He was among the first to have a full-time goalie coach, butterfly guru Francois Allaire.

And when Roy decided to shut the door on an opponent, the series was as good as won.

His crowning achievement was in 1993, when an underdog Canadiens team won 10 consecutive overtime games to win what turned out to be their last championship.

The ceremony had one tense moment, as many fans booed when Roy's son Jonathan went onto the ice. Jonathan Roy was involved in a controversial brawl in the Quebec Major Hockey League last spring in which he pounded Chicoutimi goaltender Bobby Nadeau, who did not fight back.

"I heard it," Jonathan Roy said with a grin. "Me and my brother, that's one of our dreams - to get booed at the Bell Centre."

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Developing on-ice chemistry at worlds is a work in progress for Team Canada

Canada's Nathan MacKinnon, flanked by Sean Monahan, left, and Mark Scheifele take part in practice at the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in Minsk, Belarus, on Sunday, May 11, 2014. Czech Republic will play Canada on Monday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot

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Canada's Nathan MacKinnon, flanked by Sean Monahan, left, and Mark Scheifele take part in practice at the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in Minsk, Belarus, on Sunday, May 11, 2014. Czech Republic will play Canada on Monday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot

MINSK, Belarus - Name tags aren't required around Team Canada's locker room at the world hockey championship. Maybe that wouldn't be such a bad idea.

"We just got together a week ago," winger Joel Ward said. "I barely know some of the trainers' names, to be honest."

That would be Mike Burnstein from the Vancouver Canucks and Gerry Townend and Shawn Markwick from the Ottawa Senators. But more to Ward's point is Canada's on-ice chemistry remains a work in progress after just two tournament games.

"That's the challenge, I think, every year with this tournament for the North American teams," goaltender Ben Scrivens said. "Obviously I've watched before and that seems to be the running commentary is how quickly teams can gel in, it seems like, every international tournament."

This tournament in particular is a challenge for Canada, given that this roster is made up of 19 players whose NHL teams missed the playoffs and four who went seven games in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Through the shootout loss to France in the opener and Saturday night's victory over Slovakia, coach Dave Tippett can notice the difference between those who had been playing and those who experienced a long layoff.

Participating in playoff games helped Brayden Schenn, Matt Read, Braydon Coburn and Nathan MacKinnon have a little more energy in their legs. But throwing them into the mix with players who had been off for a few weeks made for some uncertainty out of the gate.

"That first game we were a little unsure going into the game exactly how we were going to come together as a team, how things were going to transpire," winger Troy Brouwer said.

Team Canada wasn't yet a team, something that showed in disjointed play and passes being off the mark. Even early on against Slovakia there was hesitation about where players were going.

Consider it a feeling-out process.

"It's a team game, and sometimes it takes a while to get your team game together," Coburn said Sunday after an optional practice. "As the tournament goes on, it's natural for chemistry to build and for our team to keep getting stronger."

On the power play, especially, where Canada is 2-for-8, Tippett hopes more repetitions in games and morning skates will help build more rhythm.

At even-strength, it's a shift-by-shift learning process. Tippett changed his forward lines against Slovakia and could do so again before Canada faces the Czech Republic on Monday night.

Players are prepared for that.

"Obviously at this tournament it's going to happen all the time and things are going to change," Schenn said. "The quicker we can get chemistry and guys can find chemistry with each other, that's when we're going to be good."

Chemistry is well on its way off the ice. Even though there are some teammates here, Schenn said the group is hanging out together here and getting to know each other.

"You come here and meet guys, guys you obviously know them from playing on the ice, but it's good to get to know guys' personalities," he said. "There's a good mix and young guys and old guys that are bonding well and having fun and that's what this tournament is all about."

But before playing the first contest, captain Kevin Bieksa made it clear this tournament is also about winning games. Tippett called the 4-1 victory over Slovakia a "step forward" for his team and a much better effort than against France.

Part of the progression is not just between teammates but how Canadian players adapt to the wider ice surface with smaller offensive and defensive zones. Tippett knows it will take some time to figure out the European style, but Coburn—who is playing in his second world championships—isn't worried about that.

"It's different," Coburn said. "It's something you're obviously aware of right away and you feel when you get out there.

"But it's a lot of fun, it's different, it's a challenge. There's a lot more ice out there and a lot more room to skate. We got a lot of guys in here that can wheel, so that's a good thing for us."

A lot is different than the NHL, something Scrivens hopes is aided by having several teammates here. Bieksa, Alex Burrows and Jason Garrison are here from the Canucks, James Reimer, Morgan Rielly and Nazem Kadri from the Maple Leafs, Jonathan Huberdeau and Erik Gudbranson from the Panthers, Brouwer, Ward and Jason Chimera from the Capitals and Read, Schenn and Coburn from the Flyers.

"Hopefully ... we can use that little bit of chemistry to jump-start the rest," Scrivens said. "But there's no excuses, we've just got to go out there and get the job done."

NOTES—Tippett said early Sunday afternoon that he hadn't talked to Scrivens, Reimer or his assistant coaches about which goaltender would start Monday night against the Czech Republic. Scrivens made 23 saves against Slovakia, while Reimer stopped 26-of-28 shots in Friday's 3-2 shootout loss to France. ... Twelve skaters and all three goalies took part in Sunday's optional practice at Chizhovka-Arena. Assistant coach Paul Maurice led it on a day Tippett designated for individual work and recovery.

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T.H. Gossip knows a thing about fantasies. We wish we had the riches, fame, good looks and character of Mr. Brad Pitt, who not only wows us on the big screen, but pushes for social change in real life. He's inspiring. And on a simpler level, we wish we could see more Kristin Cavallari pictures. She's pretty.

Never have our fantasies involved either of the ladies below, however, with the exception of wishing they might disappear. To the Bahamas. Or another planet. Forever. In any case, T.H. Gossip asks you, fans, who would you rather wake up next to in bed tomorrow morning?

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Hmm. It's a really tough call. Would it be an anemic Nicole Richie, withering away to nothing before your eyes, and unable to utter the simple words "feed me" for lack of energy? Or would you choose the gold-digging waste that is Anna Nicole Smith, and her HUGE BREASTS that may soon be give their own ZIP codes?

Tough. Very tough. We know. Feel free to take a cue from Richie -- or this Lindsay Lohan jack-o-lantern -- and vomit. Hard!

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• Gary Barnidge - TE
    Posted 6/30/15 5:08pm ET

    Cleveland Browns TEs Gary Barnidge, Rob Housler and Jim Dray could all end up taking over for TE Jordan Cameron, who is now with the Miami Dolphins. Head coach Mike Pettine said the three tight ends provide some diversity and can be used in different ways.

    Huddle Up: In other words, don't expect to see a hint of a glimpse of any Cleveland TE on your fantasy radar.

  • Johnny Manziel - QB
    Posted 6/28/15 11:24pm ET

    Cleveland Browns QB Johnny Manziel just 'needs more time' to develop and learn how to play from the pocket in order to become an effective NFL quarterback, according to Cincinnati Bengals defensive coordinator Paul Guenther.

    Huddle Up: With all of two starts and 35 pass attempts so far, the first-round pick definitely would seem to deserve more live-action opportunity to sink or swim, and you have to think he'll get it unless he totally spoils his chance with additional off-the-field antics or proves to be a unredeemable disaster in practice.

  • Josh Gordon - WR
    Posted 6/25/15 3:27pm ET

    Cleveland Browns WR Josh Gordon has been in contact with an official from the team this offseason, according to a source. Gordon is serving a one-year suspension for multiple violations of the NFL's drug and alcohol policy but is allowed to be in contact with a front-office member.

    Huddle Up: It's actually surprising the troubled wideout is still with the Browns, but it remains iffy that he'll ever suit up for the franchise again.

  • Isaiah Crowell - RB
    Posted 6/19/15 1:41pm ET

    Cleveland Browns RB Isaiah Crowell could be the workhorse back if his ball security improves, according to offensive coordinator John DeFilippo.

    Huddle Up: Third-round pick Duke Johnson has been all the rage in the Browns' offseason camps, but don't forget about Crowell, the undrafted free agent who totaled 694 yards from scrimmage and finished second to Cincy's Jeremy Hill (9) among league rookies with eight rushing TDs last season. While he isn't flashy, Crowell has has the lead-back size (5-11, 225) that Johnson (5-9, 205) doesn't.

  • Duke Johnson - RB
    Posted 6/18/15 2:15pm ET

    Cleveland Browns RB Duke Johnson has been receiving repetitions at wide receiver, and offensive coordinator John DeFilippo said that's part of the plan for Johnson.

    Huddle Up: The third-round pick has definite three-down potential and the ability to fill an immediate need for one of the most playmaker-needy teams in the league. Don't be surprised if the rookie winds up leading the Browns in offensive touches this season.

  • Duke Johnson - RB
    Posted 6/13/15 1:50pm ET

    Cleveland Browns RB Duke Johnson has been performing well this offseason, showcasing his explosiveness and versatility. Johnson will compete with RBs Isaiah Crowell and Terrance West for the starting running back position. Johnson will not be an every-down back this season but will be moved around on offense so he can create matchup problems for the defense.

    Huddle Up: Sounds like another committee in Cleveland, though Johnson may be the back to have especially in performance scoring systems. Crowell and West can battle for the goal line work, which has obvious value in TD-heavy scoring systems.

  • Dwayne Bowe - WR
    Posted 6/3/15 12:39am ET

    Cleveland Browns WR Dwayne Bowe (knee) left practice Tuesday, June 2, due to a tweaked knee, but the injury is not believed to be serious. He limped off the field midway through the two-hour organized team activities (OTAs) practice. Head coach Mike Pettine said he might be sidelined until Thursday, June 4.

    Huddle Up: Bowe is coming off three straight mediocre seasons in K.C. but is currently penciled in as the Browns' top wideout and will be a key for Josh McCown and the passing game. Doesn't sound like anything serious, but we'll keep an eye on Bowe's status over the next few days.

  • Terrance West - RB
    Posted 6/3/15 3:13pm ET

    Cleveland Browns RB Terrance West had the first rep with the first-team offense in organized team activities (OTAs) Tuesday, June 2.

    Huddle Up: That puts West atop the Browns' backfield depth chart, though for fantasy purposes both Isaiah Crowell and rookie Duke Johnson are held in higher regard. Hopefully this crowded backfield will be winnowed down to at least two--preferably one--by the time fantasy drafts start happening this August.

  • Johnny Manziel - QB
    Posted 6/1/15 9:47am ET

    Cleveland Browns QB Johnny Manziel was involved in an altercation with a fan on Saturday, May 30, at a PGA event. Manziel reportedly threw an water bottle at a fan who had been harassing him for an autograph.

    Huddle Up: The punchlines just write themselves here, but right now Manziel is a backup quarterback in Cleveland, so the fantasy import of this news doesn't warrant the time you'll spend coming up with them. Though it is kinda fun.

  • Josh McCown - QB
    Posted 6/1/15 9:47am ET

    Cleveland Browns QB Josh McCown said the lack of quarterback competition helps the team overall. 'More than anything, for me, I just believe it takes away from any kind of distraction that you can have and the team can just move in one direction, regardless of who that guy is,'' McCown said. 'It's helpful to just say, 'this is our guy until something happens and he's not our guy.''

    Huddle Up: McCown has been involved in his share of quarterback competitions, so he speaks from experience. Right now he's the Browns' best option; take that as you see fit.

  • Josh McCown - QB
    Posted 5/29/15 1:19pm ET

    Cleveland Browns QB Josh McCown appears firmly entrenched as the starting quarterback as the team's goal is to control the ball on the ground and have the quarterback manage the game.

    Huddle Up: Unless turnovers become an issue -- and they kind of were last season when he finished sixth among QBs with 18 total giveaways -- McCown should be the man in Cleveland.

  • Johnny Manziel - OC
    Posted 5/15/15 2:02pm ET

    Cleveland Browns QB Johnny Manziel has turned off head coach Mike Pettine, while general manager Ray Farmer, owner Jimmy Haslam and offensive coordinator John DeFilippo believe Manziel can be salvaged, according to a source.

    Huddle Up: With the owner and GM in Johnny Football's corner, look for the QB to get another shot at starting unless newcomer Josh McCown somehow can channel his 2013 run with the Bears.

  • Josh McCown - QB
    Posted 5/12/15 6:21pm ET

    Cleveland Browns QB Josh McCown has taken control of the Cleveland offense and the locker room, according to new offensive coordinator John DeFilippo. Head coach Mike Pettine has already said that McCown's experience has given him the advantage for the starting quarterback position.

    Huddle Up: Yeah, the Browns might be able to use a little leadership as they try to snap a string of seven straight losing seasons. Some production at the position also might be nice after Cleveland finished with the second-worst team passer rating (72.8) in the league last season -- finishing ahead of only the Jags (72.0).

  • Josh McCown - QB
    Posted 5/10/15 6:38pm ET

    Cleveland Browns head coach Mike Pettine has declared that QB Josh McCown will enter the 2015 season as the No. 1 quarterback on the team's depth chart. 'We're not going to start talking competition,' Pettine said. 'Josh will more than likely be the starter going into camp, and in the foreseeable future I don't see that changing.'

    Huddle Up: Although Johnny Manziel reportedly is making some strides, the safe money has been on the veteran McCown all along opening the season as the Browns' starter. The soon-to-be 36-year-old QB, however, will have to play better than he did last season in Tampa, when threw 11 TDs and 14 interceptions in 11 games, going 1-10 as a starter.

  • Josh McCown - QB
    Posted 5/5/15 4:34pm ET

    Cleveland Browns QB Josh McCown is the favorite to start training camp as the team's starting quarterback, with head coach Mike Pettine saying 'it's fair to say.' QB Johnny Manziel struggled last year as a rookie and was in rehab for 10 weeks. McCown is the most experienced quarterback the team has on roster.

    Huddle Up: The soon-to-be 36-year-old McCown figures to be the Browns' most game-ready option when the season opener rolls around, but just be wary of expecting too much from the QB as outside of a 3-2 starting stint with the 2013 Bears in which he tossed 13 TDs and only 1 interception, McCown has a 14-30 record as a starter with a 48-to-58 TD-to-interception ratio.

  • Duke Johnson - RB
    Posted 5/3/15 4:01pm ET

    Cleveland Browns RB Duke Johnson will be used separately from RBs Isaiah Crowell and Terrance West, according to head coach Mike Pettine. Browns general manager Ray Farmer compared Johnson to Cincinnati Bengals RB Giovani Bernard and former Philadelphia Eagles RB Brian Westbrook.

    Huddle Up: At 5-9 and 207 pounds, Johnson fits the change-of-pace mold, and he's also a strong pass-catcher, logging 38 receptions for 421 yards and three TDs this past season at Miami. That said, he could be the second Browns back to own in fantasy apart from whomever wins the starting job.

  • Johnny Manziel - QB
    Posted 4/20/15 10:23pm ET

    Cleveland Browns QB Johnny Manziel reported for the first day of voluntary workouts Monday, April 20.

    Huddle Up: It's Johnny Football's first action since his stint in rehab--and Manziel's first opportunity to stake his claim to Cleveland's open QB job.

  • Johnny Manziel - QB
    Posted 4/11/15 7:46pm ET

    Cleveland Browns QB Johnny Manziel has been released from his rehab facility.

    Huddle Up: Hopefully Manziel has his personal life in order and can now focus on the business of becoming a viable NFL quarterback.

  • Rob Housler - TE
    Posted 4/10/15 7:22pm ET

    Cleveland Browns TE Rob Housler said hopes to receive a big role in the passing game next season, because he believes he can contribute on offense.

    Huddle Up: The Browns certainly need a receiving threat at the TE position with the free-agent departure of Jordan Cameron, and Housler has shown he can be a threat, recording a combined 84 catches for 871 yards over the 2012-13 seasons.

  • Rob Housler - TE
    Posted 4/9/15 1:14pm ET

    Free-agent TE Rob Housler (Cardinals) has agreed to terms with the Cleveland Browns on a one-year deal, according to a source. Financial terms were not disclosed.

    Huddle Up: Housler, who caught a combined 84 passes for 871 yards over the 2012 and '13 seasons, becomes the early favorite to start in Cleveland with Gary Barnidge and Jim Dray the only other TEs currently on the roster.

  • Johnny Manziel - QB
    Posted 4/5/15 3:37pm ET

    Cleveland Browns QB Johnny Manziel played golf with his father Saturday, April 4, and is likely to be discharged from his rehab facility soon, possibly even next week.

    Huddle Up: Whenever Johnny Football reconvenes with the Browns, he's going to have to show he's re-dedicated quickly as rumors persist that the franchise is looking to move on at the QB position.

  • Johnny Manziel - QB
    Posted 4/3/15 4:22pm ET

    Cleveland Browns QB Johnny Manziel may be out of time with the Browns, as ESPN insider Chris Mortensen indicated the team is ready to move on. 'I think about 90% that they have moved on (from Manziel) in their own minds except that they really don't know who they're going to get when Johnny leaves rehab, which has been an extended stay,' Mortensen said on ESPN's 'Mike and Mike in the Morning' Friday, April 3. 'He should be getting out sometime in the first week of April if they're satisfied that he's ready to go out and get into society and that whatever deep-rooted problems that he had has been addressed. The bottom line is that Johnny Manziel's future with the Browns has been in question. When they were putting together half of a new offensive staff, Manziel's name barely even came up in conversation.'

    Huddle Up: It's fairly hard to fathom that the Browns wouldn't be so quick to give up on the 2014 first-round pick after only two rookie-year starts, but perhaps Johnny Football's issues run deeper than have even been reported. In any case, it appears the Josh McCown Era is gathering steam.

  • Miles Austin - WR
    Posted 3/31/15 11:08am ET

    Free-agent WR Miles Austin (Browns) signed a one-year contract with the Philadelphia Eagles Monday, March 30. The deal is worth $2.3 million with $700,000 available in incentives, according to a source.

    Huddle Up: Is Austin capable of filling the Jeremy Maclin role in Chip Kelly's offense? Looks like he'll at least get a shot. If he's still holding that gig the third week in August, you can start making some fantasy noise about him; until then, he's a low-end option.

  • Dwayne Bowe - WR
    Posted 3/31/15 7:32pm ET

    Cleveland Browns WR Dwayne Bowe, who had zero touchdowns in 2014 with the Kansas City Chiefs, vows to be more productive with his new team in 2015. He said he has plans of 'going back to the Dwayne Bowe of 2010' when he scored 15 touchdowns in a breakout season. Bowe said the Browns plan to use him more downfield.

    Huddle Up: In the four years since, Bowe has caught only 13 TDs. Additionally, he hasn't topped 801 receiving yards since 2012 and has dropped 31 passes in the last four years. Depending what the Browns do in the draft, Bowe could enter the season as the team's No. 1 WR, but that certainly doesn't guarantee top-30 fantasy wideout production given his spotty track record and the Browns' QB situation.

  • Garrett Hartley - PK
    Posted 3/25/15 10:58am ET

    The Cleveland Browns may draft a kicker at the next NFL Draft in April. The kicking team currently includes K's Garrett Hartley, Travis Coons, and Carey Spear.

    Huddle Up: Hartley would be the name you might recognize of that group, though the Browns offense has some proving to do before fantasy owners trust whomever their kicker might be to be a regular contributor.

  • Johnny Manziel - QB
    Posted 3/24/15 2:39pm ET

    Cleveland Browns QB Johnny Manziel is expected back with the team for offseason workouts April 20 after completing more than two months of treatment.

    Huddle Up: Hopefully, Johnny Football can now focus on football, and he's going need to all the work, prep and reps he can get with the Browns already signing veteran Josh McCown and hinting that they'll draft another QB in a month.

  • Johnny Manziel - QB
    Posted 3/14/15 1:11am ET

    Cleveland Browns QB Johnny Manziel is still in inpatient rehab, but he is likely at the point where he can leave the facility for brief stints. Earlier reports said that he had left the facility.

    Huddle Up: We haven't seen any party tweets or Vegas Facebook photos of late from Johnny Football so he still might be busy getting his off-field act together.

  • Jordan Cameron - TE
    Posted 3/13/15 12:57am ET

    Free-agent TE Jordan Cameron (Browns) has signed with the Miami Dolphins, the team announced Thursday, March 12. Cameron signed a two-year deal worth $15 million, according to an ESPN report.

    Huddle Up: The signing capped an eventful news day for Cameron, after an earlier report had him re-signing with the Browns. Cameron exploded for an 80-917-7 season in 2013, but slipped all the way to 24-424-2 last year after missing six games with concussion and shoulder issues. The Dolphins also still have TE Charles Clay, who is signed to the one-year transition tag, but he has been receiving interest from the Bills, and ironically, the Browns.

  • Jordan Cameron - TE
    Posted 3/12/15 8:08pm ET

    Free-agent TE Jordan Cameron (Browns) re-signed with the Cleveland Browns on Thursday, March 12, for two years and $15 million, according to a source.

    Huddle Up: Fairly big surprise here as Cameron was regarded to be all but gone in Cleveland after suffering three concussions in three years. Still, the Browns also visited with free-agent TE Charles Clay, who's under a transition tag with the Dolphins, and look to have come to the conclusion that keeping Cameron was their best TE move after all.

  • Jordan Cameron - TE
    Posted 3/12/15 8:30pm ET

    Free-agent TE Jordan Cameron (Browns) is reportedly in negotiations with the Miami Dolphins. It was originally reported that Cameron had re-signed with the Cleveland Browns.

    Huddle Up: More free-agent craziness as it sounds like a false report leaked. In any case, it could essentially shape up to be a swap of TEs as Dophins' free agent Charles Clay was visiting Cleveland on Thursday. Stay tuned ...

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Dublin: 18 °C Friday 3 July, 2015

Irish folk furniture film wins top award at Sundance festival

Irish Folk Furniture won the prize for Best Animation at the festival, while another Irish film has been nominated for the Cinema Documentary Award.

Image: YouTube screengrab via YouTube

IRISH FOLK FURNITURE, the short Irish documentary made by director Tony Donoghue, has won the prize for Best Animation at the Sundance Film Festival.

The announcement was made today by the Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board (IFB), which funded the short film. The animated tale focuses on folk furniture made in rural Ireland, and features stop-motion animation. It was made after 10 years of research and interviews by Donoghue, who focused on people in his local community in Tipperary.

Speaking to TheJournal.ie before he travelled to Utah for the festival, Donoghue described how the film was shot using a €150 camera bought on EBay, and was “totally a community-based project”.

In the course of this film we take 16 items, restore them and give them back to the farmers. Older farmers tend to not want to put them into the house. But younger farmers do tend to be more interested.

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Focusing on the cultural and social history of Irish farmhouse furniture, the short documentary – which was produced by Cathal Black under the IFB ‘Frameworks’ animated short film scheme – brings the stories of everyday handmade objects alive, while displaying a humourous edge.

It was selected from over 8,000 short film applications to screen at the prestigious festival. Since the festival began, the film has also been available to view on YouTube and has reached over 130,000 views.

James Hickey, Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board Chief Executive said:

Sundance is one of the most prestigious and competitive film festivals in North America. Tony is a very talented filmmaker and we are delighted to see him receive the international recognition he deserves for his short film. We look forward to working with him in the future as he develops his career further.”

The Summit

Another Irish documentary, The Summit, was snapped up by US distributor Sundance Selects after its world premiere over the weekend and has since been sold to Australia and New Zealand.

The film details the deadliest day in modern mountain climbing history and has been nominated for the world Cinema Documentary Award, the result of which will be announced on Saturday 26 January.

The Summit was produced by Image Now Films and Pat Falvey Productions, in association with Passion Pictures, Diamond Docs and Fantastic Films and is funded by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/ the Irish Film Board, RTE, BAI and BBC.

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Dublin: 18 °C Friday 3 July, 2015

The ’100 millionth’ Filipino baby was born this morning

The little girl’s birth highlights the challenge of providing for the growing population of people in the country who are already living in poverty.

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A BABY GIRL born this morning has officially pushed the population of the Philippines to 100 million, highlighting the challenge of providing for more people in the already-impoverished nation.

The child, Jennalyn Sentino, was one of 100 babies born in state hospitals all over the archipelago who received the symbolic designation of “100,000,000th baby”.

“This is both an opportunity and a challenge… an opportunity we should take advantage of and a challenge we recognise,” Juan Antonio Perez, executive director of the official Commission on Population, told AFP.

While a growing population means a larger workforce, it also means more dependents in a country where about 25 percent of people are living in poverty, he said.

He said the Philippines had to find a way to bring services to the poorest families while also lowering the average number of children that fertile women will bear in their lifetimes.

“We’d like to push the fertility rate down to two children per (woman’s) lifetime,” from the current level of an average of three per woman, he said.

While celebrating the birth of the babies with cake and gifts of clothing and blankets, the government will also monitor each of the designated 100 children over the coming years to see if they are receiving the required health services, Perez added.

Jennalyn’s father, 45-year-old van driver Clemente Sentino, said he was grateful for the government aid, but expressed confidence he could support his child and his partner.

He and the child’s mother, Dailin Cabigayan, 27, are not yet married. “She just happened to get pregnant. But we do have plans to get married,” he told AFP.

“I make just enough to get by but at least my job pays regularly. We will find a way to make it fit,” he said.

‘Investing in people’

Efforts to control the Philippines’ population growth have long been hampered by the influence of the Roman Catholic Church, which counts about 80 percent of Filipinos as followers and which disapproves of all forms of artificial birth control.

It was only in April that the government finally overcame over a decade of Church opposition to implement a reproductive health law providing the poor with birth control services.

Perez said with the law’s implementation, about two to three million women who previously did not have access to family planning now do.

Meanwhile, Father Melvin Castro, head of the commission on family and life of the country’s Catholic bishops, was quoted by a church-run radio station as praising the ballooning population, as there would be more “young workers” to power the economy.

President Benigno Aquino’s spokesman Herminio Coloma said the milestone showed the importance of making “the right investments in people”.

The government had prepared for this by spending more on “human development”, particularly education, he told reporters.

Meanwhile, Klaus Beck, country representative of the United Nations Population Fund, endorsed the Philippines’ new focus on family planning in a statement issued to coincide with the population landmark.

“Governments that are serious about eradicating poverty should also be serious about providing the services, supplies, information that women, men and young people need to exercise their reproductive rights,” he said.

- © AFP 2014.

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