
alocispepraluger102
Members-
Posts
8,199 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Donations
0.00 USD
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Blogs
Everything posted by alocispepraluger102
-
Oh, boy; another article on economics!
alocispepraluger102 replied to Jazzmoose's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
i dont disagree with the article, but, then, i know nothing about economics. thanks for this article. -
Sports: NBA 2007-2008
alocispepraluger102 replied to Guy Berger's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
check out this article in an earlier thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=36156 -
competition for cnbc
alocispepraluger102 replied to alocispepraluger102's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
cnbc is financial pornography -
http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=pr...p;categoryid=14 Posted: Tue., Sep. 18, 2007, 12:31pm PT Rupert Murdoch takes aim at CNBC Fox Business Network to launch on Oct. 15 By MICHAEL LEARMONTH Rupert Murdoch vowed that News Corp.'s upcoming Fox Business Network would take a very different approach to business news than CNBC, casting the upcoming battle as Wall Street vs. Main Street. "It's going to be different from CNBC, just as Fox News is different from CNN," Murdoch told Wall Streeters at the Goldman Sachs-sponsored conference Tuesday. "CNBC is a financial channel for Wall Street; we're for Main Street." CNBC has had little competition, short of Bloomberg TV, since CNN shuttered CNNfn in late 2004. Fox Business Network is set to launch in 34 million homes on Oct. 15. "They dwell too much on failures and scandals and politics," Murdoch said of CNBC. "We want to spend a lot of time on innovation, successes and people who are making money." Murdoch said the launch of FBN and the acquisition of Dow Jones coincide with what he believes to be "a unique point in history" where demand for financial information will increase for decades as prosperity and entrepreneurial culture spread around the globe. He said he expects News Corp.'s $5 billion acquisition of Dow Jones to be completed in December. CNBC and Dow Jones have an exclusive content agreement that runs through 2012, but Murdoch said the deal covers only business news and won't prevent Fox Business Net from using the brand or the content. "There is no reason we could not have Wall Street Journal coverage of politics, international affairs, lifestyle, travel, you name it," he said. CNBC spokesman Kevin Goldman didn't dispute Murdoch's interpretation of the agreement. "We're about providing fast, accurate, actionable and unbiased business news to people with a lot of money and those who aspire to have a lot of money," he said. News Corp. has already identified $100 million in savings at Dow Jones that Murdoch described as the "low-hanging fruit." He added that the company employs 1,600 journalists globally at Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal and that they could be better leveraged by having wire reporters "work closely with the paper itself." Murdoch said he hadn't decided whether to switch WSJ.com from a subscription to a solely advertising-supported business model. The switch would mean a short-term $30 million hit to the bottom line, eventually offset by higher ad revenue. Cost savings, he said, "are not really what we're about; we're about expanding revenues." Sensitive that Wall Street has been wary of News Corp. stock, Murdoch defended his record of acquiring and launching new businesses. "When we started Fox News, I was considered an idiot," he said. "How could I possibly do that, spend a billion dollars? It's worth $10 billion today. Two years ago you were laughing at me about (buying) MySpace. What's that worth today? Certainly more than 20 times what we paid for it." It took Fox News five years to reach full distribution in more than 90 million homes across the U.S. He said if the company produced "the channel we think we can," full distribution for FBN would come in the same time frame. Weeks from its scheduled launch, Fox Business Network has been busy lining up talent. The network named four new anchors on Tuesday: Peter Barnes, Jenna Lee, Nicole Petallides and Cody Willard. They join David Asman, Dagen McDowell, Cheryl Casone, Stuart Varney and Rebecca Gomez, who were named last week. Read the full article at: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117972202.html
-
NFL chat thread
alocispepraluger102 replied to connoisseur series500's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
Noj, I was rootin' for your guys to win that one. I heard whistles before the kick so I assume the TO was called in time, but I felt sorry for Janikowski nonetheless. What a MF mindf*ck! Definititely seemed like a home field gift for Shanahan. Janikowski should have made it the second time too. Still, a 52-yarder, that's no gimme. I don't think the defense should be given that sort of demand with time outs. Either call it early enough to stop the snap of the ball, or the refs should ignore a defensive team in that situation. I know I've seen them ignore coaches in that situation in the past, or maybe they just ignore the Raiders. But hey, it was in Denver so Shanahan gets whatever his little elvish heart desires and the ball gets spotted an extra 12 inches every time the home team runs the ball. I hate the NFL. What Shanahan did was completely within the rules. A few years ago they gave coaches the right to call timeouts from the sideline, what they usually do is call the ref over and let them know that they'll be calling a timeout "at the last second" prior to the snap. As long as they gave the ref the heads up that the timeout is coming, they are granted the timeout. What Shanahan did was the new millennium version of "icing the kicker"...and in this case it worked. I still think it's kind of shitty, but there is no cheating involved. I don't want to hear that kind of good reasoned argument, I'm trying to whine here. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll continue to wallow in the agony of Raider fandom. your raiders got hosed bigtime. -
NFL chat thread
alocispepraluger102 replied to connoisseur series500's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
enjoy it while it lasts. -
the only way this was discovered was through our data gathering devices. way back when, aloc could have issued some forgissimo cd's and no one would have noticed.
-
The Bergen County NJ library system that I belong to, allows access via ProQuest.umi.com to the complete run of the Times for free. All I need is my 14 digit library card number. I'm more interested in reading the Times from 1923-1986 than almost anything published by them in the last 20 years. One of the highlights of my scatter shot Times reading was finding my Grandfather listed in a list of debtors being taken to court by a creditor in the middle of the depression. Roots baby! digging in old old newspapers is one of life's great pleasures
-
New York Times to end paid Internet service Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:37pm EDT By Robert MacMillan NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times Co said on Monday it will end its paid TimesSelect Web service and make most of its Web site available for free in the hopes of attracting more readers and higher advertising revenue. TimesSelect will shut down on Wednesday, two years after the Times launched it, which charges subscribers $7.95 a month or $49.95 a year to read articles by columnists such as Maureen Dowd and Thomas Friedman. The trademark orange "T's" marking premium articles will begin disappearing Tuesday night, said the Web site's Vice President and General Manager Vivian Schiller. The move is an acknowledgment by The Times that making Web site visitors pay for content would not bring in as much money as making it available for free and supporting it with advertising. "We now believe by opening up all our content and unleashing what will be millions and millions of new documents, combined with phenomenal growth, that that will create a revenue stream that will more than exceed the subscription revenue," Schiller said. Figuring out how to increase online revenue is crucial to the Times and other U.S. newspaper publishers, which are struggling with a drop in advertising sales and paying subscribers as more readers move online. "Of course, everything on the Web is free, so it's understandable why they would want to do that," said Alan Mutter a former editor at the San Francisco Chronicle and proprietor of a blog about the Internet and the news business called Reflections of a Newsosaur. "The more page views you have, the more you can sell," he said. "In the immediate moment it's a perfectly good idea." The longer-term problem for publishers like the Times is that they must find ways to present content online rather than just transferring stories and pictures from the newspaper. Most U.S. news Web sites offer their contents for free, supporting themselves by selling advertising. One exception is The Wall Street Journal which runs a subscription-based Web site. TimesSelect generated about $10 million in revenue a year. Schiller declined to project how much higher the online growth rate would be without charging visitors. The company expects to record a "substantially increased number of unique users referred to and accessing the site" once TimesSelect disappears, it said in a statement. TimesSelect includes online access to 23 news and opinion columnists as well as several tools to customize the Web site. It also offers access to the Times archives back to 1851. Starting on Wednesday, access to the archives will be available for free back to 1987, and as well as stories before 1923, which are in the public domain, Schiller said. Users can buy articles between 1923 and 1986 on their own or in 10-article packages, the company said. Some stories, such as film reviews, will be free, she said. American Express will be the first sponsor of the opened areas on the site, and will have a "significant advertising presence" on the homepage and in the opinion and archives sections, the company said. Schiller declined to say what the financial impact would be on the Times. No employees would lose their jobs, she said. TimesSelect had about 227,000 paying subscribers as of August. People who receive the paper at home get access to it for free, as do students. In total, about 787,400 people have access to TimesSelect now, the company said. The number of subscribers met the paper's expectations, Schiller said. "We consider TimesSelect very successful," she said. Paying TimesSelect subscribers will receive a pro-rated refund on their credit cards, she added. © Reuters 2006. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by caching, framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world. Reuters journalists are subject to the Reuters Editorial Handbook which requires fair presentation and disclosure of relevant interests.
-
There's gotta be a bunch of 7/4s around this country. And they're named David Beardsley. Check this Secor out. Must be a very distant relative. And I plan to keep it that way. Good idea. I know a lot of microtonalists. They out do record collectors and jazz fans for strangeness. they make us free jazzers seem normal.
-
http://www.texasjim.com/NASApix/NASA%20pix.htm
-
bought it a long time ago when it was new, and it has never left my favorite vinyl stack.
-
Music University Lucerne Jazz Radio
alocispepraluger102 replied to king ubu's topic in Jazz Radio & Podcasts
Thanks! a really enjoyable listening experience. -
List of major sanctions in Formula One Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:16pm BST LONDON (Reuters) - The following is a list of previous major sanctions meted out in Formula One after championship leaders McLaren were stripped of their 2007 constructors' points on Thursday. 2007 - McLaren stripped of all their constructors' points, fined $100 million and barred from scoring any more points this year as a result of Ferrari technical information found in their possession. The team had already lost 15 constructors' points from the Hungarian Grand Prix after world champion Fernando Alonso impeded team mate Lewis Hamilton at the end of qualifying. - 2006 - Turkish Grand Prix organisers handed a $5 million fine after a podium controversy at August race. Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat presented the winner's trophy and was introduced as "President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus", recognized only by Turkey. - 2005 - BAR (now Honda) disqualified from San Marino Grand Prix and suspended for two subsequent races after being found to have an illegal secondary fuel tank. - 2002 - Champions Ferrari, Germany's Michael Schumacher and Brazilian Rubens Barrichello fined $1 million for Austrian Grand Prix podium debacle. Barrichello had dominated the race but was ordered to let Schumacher win. The German then broke podium protocol by insisting Barrichello join him on the top step. Half the fine was suspended for a year, payable only if they reoffended within 12 months. - 2000 - McLaren fined $50,000 and docked 10 points in the constructors' championship for a missing seal on an electronic control unit after Finland's Mika Hakkinen won the Austrian Grand Prix. Hakkinen kept the race win. - 1998 - Hungarian Grand Prix organisers fined $1 million after a track invasion at race won by Schumacher. Seventy five percent was suspended, payable if there was a similar incident within two years. - 1997 - Schumacher excluded from the final championship classification, but allowed to keep his race wins, after collision with Canadian Jacques Villeneuve in title-deciding European Grand Prix in Jerez. - 1994 - Schumacher handed a two-race suspension, and disqualified from British Grand Prix, for ignoring a black flag warning. - 1984 - Tyrrell excluded from competing in the second half of the championship and their results for the whole season cancelled for a technical infringement. The team, competing against turbo-charged rivals with a normally-aspirated engine, ran light for much of the race before having lead shot pumped in with the fuel at the final pitstop to bring the cars back up to the legal weight. © Reuters 2006. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by caching, framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world. Reuters journalists are subject to the Reuters Editorial Handbook which requires fair presentation and disclosure of relevant interests.
-
NFL chat thread
alocispepraluger102 replied to connoisseur series500's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3017964 -
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketba...ex_book_in.html
-
NFL chat thread
alocispepraluger102 replied to connoisseur series500's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
Very stiff penalty. What do you mean "if they don't make the playoffs?" the cool running, suave conn man is blowing steam. this happened just because the jets coach was once a pat insider. -
what are you drinking right now?
alocispepraluger102 replied to alocispepraluger102's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
a 6'er of the estimable thirsty dog siberian night -
national pasta strike day
alocispepraluger102 replied to alocispepraluger102's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
have you heard 'holiday for bones?' -
national pasta strike day
alocispepraluger102 replied to alocispepraluger102's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
this thread shows much promise.