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The Music Industry's New Gatekeepers
Playlist professionals have replaced radio DJs as the new power brokers, as streaming services' ready-made song lists become hitmakers
Neil ShahNov. 15, 2017 11:00 a.m. ET
In the streaming era, a new gatekeeper stands between record labels and listeners: the playlist professional.
These music geeks, some of whom are former journalists and radio programmers, are employed by the biggest streaming-music services to decide which pop, hip-hop and rock songs appear on their playlists—the digital age's version of the mixtape. With streaming driving more than 60% of U.S. record-industry revenue, they—not radio DJs—now have the power to control music's hit-making machine.
Over the past four decades, music executives have grappled with one middleman after another—radio broadcasters, MTV, big retailers like Target and Wal-Mart Stores , Apple's iTunes Store. But the clout wielded by this new group of tastemakers from Spotify and Apple Music, along with Amazon Music, Google Play Music and Tidal, represents a sea change. After years of decline, America's recorded-music business is rising again, thanks to streaming's rapid growth.
Streaming playlists, excluding fan-created ones, are used by nearly 60% of U.S. music streamers, according to Nielsen Music. And Top 40 commercial radio programmers today often play what's popping on Spotify and Apple Music, instead of breaking new songs themselves, experts say.
"It's a brave new world," says David Jacobs, a music-industry lawyer whose clients include the rapper Aminé, DJ Martin Garrix and Colombian-American singer Kali Uchis. "We're consolidating 60 years of regional tastemakers, spread around dozens of markets around the country and the world, into one system. Basically, three or four people."
The most influential is Tuma Basa, according to several music-industry experts. The global head of hip-hop at Spotify curates RapCaviar. With around 8.3 million followers, the playlist sets the agenda for hip-hop the way New York radio station HOT 97 once did, says Larry Miller, who heads the music-business program at New York University's Steinhardt School. "He's the most important gatekeeper in the music business right now," says Mr. Miller.
Working for MTV in Atlanta in the early 2010s, Mr. Basa watched many of today's rap stars—Future, 2 Chainz, producer Mike Will Made-It —hit stardom. As hip-hop became the driving force behind global pop culture, his RapCaviar and other streaming playlists have helped the genre rule the music charts.
"Kids used to have to go through [music-industry] filters to get rap. Now, they're getting it directly," says Mr. Basa, who earned his M.B.A. from NYU's Stern School of Business. "Things don't have to 'cross over.' " Critics note that unlike, say, MC Hammer's ubiquitous 1990 hit "U Can't Touch This," No. 1 songs this year, like "Bad and Boujee," by Atlanta trio Migos, and "Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)," by Cardi B, haven't been watered down to accommodate mainstream pop tastes.
Other prominent Spotify playlist curators include Mike Biggane (pop) and Allison Hagendorf (rock), industry watchers say. Spotify, which is by far the most popular streaming service, with roughly double the number of users as No. 2 Apple Music, employs 150 playlist curators and has 4,500 company-owned playlists.
Carl Chery helped Apple Music get exclusive rights to the premiere of Chance the Rapper's album 'Coloring Book.' The musician, above, performs at Austin City Limits music festival in October. Photo: Amy Harris/Invision/AP
Apple Music's biggest influencer, observers say, is Carl Chery, a former journalist at hip-hop magazine XXL, who helped Apple get exclusive rights to the premiere of Chance the Rapper's recent album, "Coloring Book." Among other things, he oversees The A-List: Hip-Hop, one of Apple Music's most prominent playlists.
Playlist editors use a combination of instinct and data to create their tracklists. They want to highlight new talent and surprise fans, but also provide listeners with a guide to what's hot. Curators closely track a playlist's performance metrics: the number of times a song is played, skipped, completed, saved by users.
"If I love it, I want to give it a shot. But I don't want to force-feed the listener," says Mr. Chery. "I curate objectively."
Deciding which music to include in a playlist, however, is getting more difficult. Major streaming services receive a deluge of new music every week and lack official channels for artists' managers and record labels to lobby, prompting industry insiders—and outsiders—to find new ways to get their music favorable placement, observers say.
The biggest labels update streaming services regularly about upcoming albums by email. The top three—Universal, Sony and Warner—are investors in Spotify. Superstar artists, meanwhile, often tour companies' offices and take one-on-one meetings with playlist curators.
"It's kind of the Wild West," says Mr. Jacobs, the music-industry lawyer.
Critics say this has led to playlists being overwhelmed by the promotional machinery of major labels. On Spotify, for example, labels can buy a so-called "home page takeover," which blankets the service's free, ad-supported version with promotional materials.
And some fear the system also creates a way for playlists to be bought or gamed through complex deals between artists and streaming services—a new version of "payola," the illegal exchange of payments for airplay.
Under U.S. regulations, radio broadcasters must disclose payments or valuable quid-pro-quos for airtime. But those rules don't apply to streaming services.
Spotify and Apple Music say that nothing resembling "payola" is occurring on their services. "There is absolutely no 'payola' happening on Apple Music or iTunes at all," an Apple spokesperson says.
If playlists were industry-dominated, they'd be dull and easy to duplicate, Spotify's Mr. Basa says. Payola is "unethical," he adds. "Neutrality is in our business interests."
Five of the Music Industry's Most Influential Playlist Professionals
Tuma Basa Illustration: Robert Hunt
TUMA BASA
Title: Global head of hip-hop, Spotify
Influential because: Curates RapCaviar, considered the most powerful playlist today
As a young boy, Tuma Basa listened to his father's reggae, Congolese rumba and R&B records, along with pop-rock radio. (Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar On Me" was a favorite.) When he moved to Zimbabwe at age 13, from Iowa City, Iowa, his father's boxes of records came along.
"He's the reason I'm into music," says Mr. Basa. "On my 10th birthday, he gave me The Eagles' greatest hits album, and I knew it wasn't for me—it was for him."
In Zimbabwe, Mr. Basa dived headfirst into hip-hop, a genre that differentiated him from his parents. Soon, he was networking with record traders and traveling to Swaziland to dub and buy cassettes.
Two and a half years ago, Mr. Basa joined Spotify; his father now makes his own Spotify playlists of the music Mr. Basa grew up with.
Carl Chery Illustration: Robert Hunt
CARL CHERY
Title: Head of artist curation, Apple Music
Influential because: Works closely with hip-hop/R&B artists such as Chance the Rapper and Bryson Tiller
When he was a journalist, Carl Chery conducted one of rap's most famous interviews. In 2007, he spoke to the rapper 50 Cent, who told him that he would stop making solo albums if his new record didn't sell more than Kanye West's album—fueling one of hip-hop's most storied rivalries.
Years later, Mr. Chery worked on hip-hop magazine XXL's annual Freshman Issue, a widely watched guide to rising rap talent.
Now, as a music curator, Mr. Chery says, he still feels like a journalist in many ways, unearthing new talent. He always starts from the gut; he will support an artist that catches his ear whether they have "a million followers [on social media] or two." While he's mindful of data, he doesn't let it determine his playlists. "It's a balancing act," he says.
Allison Hagendorf Illustration: Robert Hunt
ALLISON HAGENDORF
Title: Global head of rock, Spotify
Influential because: The most important tastemaker for young rock bands looking to get traction online
Rock music may not be the driving force on Spotify that hip-hop is. But it's alive and well on the live-music scene, says Allison Hagendorf. "That's where rock 'n' roll culture lives—at the venues," she says.
A former music executive and television personality, Ms. Hagendorf previously helped shepherd albums by artists such as Coheed and Cambria as an A&R executive at Columbia Records. "I've always wanted to be the liaison between artists and their fans," she says.
When it comes to new rock acts, she recommends Royal Blood, Tash Sultana, Ron Gallo and Greta Van Fleet, a young Michigan act she's already seen five times in concert.
"It's refreshing—and almost an anomaly—for young kids to be playing their own instruments and writing the songs themselves," she says.
Getting rock fans to stream, she says, is "a work in progress." "I'm on a mission to help evolve the genre."
Mike Biggane Illustration: Robert Hunt
MIKE BIGGANE
Title: Head of pop, Spotify
Influential because: Oversees "Today's Top Hits," which has 18 million followers, among other playlists.
Like many people in the music business, Mike Biggane got his start playing in a band and trying to get signed. It didn't work out.
But his fascination with pop's hit-making machinery led him to a job at HitPredictor, a research firm that studies how songs perform on the radio. In late 2014, Mr. Biggane joined Spotify.
In radio, information about listeners takes weeks to gather. In streaming, it's instantaneous, which helps curators like Mr. Biggane know when tracks are going viral or burning out.
"Hopefully I'm good at listening to the audience," he says, "hearing what they like, and guiding them to more."
Alex Luke Illustration: Robert Hunt
ALEX LUKE
Title: Global head of programming and content strategy, Amazon Music
Influential Because: Amazon Music is considered the sleeping giant of streaming services
Amazon's two streaming-music services don't get the media attention that Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal do, but they could bring the rapidly growing format to a broader audience of mainstream customers, industry watchers say.
A big reason is Amazon's Alexa-enabled voice-assistance devices, which let users request, say, a playlist of '80s pop tunes from their kitchen counter.
"We're entering a new era with 'voice,' " says Alex Luke, who manages content strategy and artist relations, and leads the programming and playlist teams at Amazon Music. "It changes the way customers are going to engage with music."
For the past two decades, Mr. Luke has worked at the intersection of tech and pop: After a formative stint in the 1990s as an alternative-rock radio programmer, he held positions at Napster, Apple, EMI Music and a venture-capital firm, The Valley Fund, before joining Amazon earlier this year.
Five more leading playlist professionals to know:
Rocío Guerrero (Latin and global music, Spotify), whose Baila Reggaeton playlist has over 6 million followers and helped the Spanish-language song "Despacito" hit No. 1
Elliott Wilson (hip-hop, Tidal)
Arjan Timmermans (pop, Apple Music)
Tony Gervino (Tidal)
Jerry Pullés (Latin, Apple Music) Corrections & Amplifications Elliott Wilson's first name was incorrectly spelled Elliot in an earlier version of this article. (Nov. 15, 2017)
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What is the UCSC Interfaith Council?
ISI's ministry at UCSC campus for 22 years, and all the religious/faith groups at UCSC, are supported by the great work of the University Interfaith Council.
NOTE: The council does NOT try to merge our beliefs! Quite the opposite, actually. We want to be representatives of the diversity of religious and faith beliefs on campus, not one belief system. In fact, the more disagreement the better, in my opinion!
UIC is a monthly meeting of representatives from all faith/religious groups on campus. so enables the government funded university to support the diversity of all our faiths with our SEPARATE beliefs without "sponsoring" any one of them, ensuring Separation of Church and State policy, a win-win for us and UCSC!
UIC is all-volunteer run, so only exists with the hard and faithful work of Herb Schmidt and many others, including myself as new President for 2014-15.
We have been blessed for 50 years by the legacy of Rev. Schmidt in the work of the UCSC Interfaith Council, enabling not only ISI, but all faith groups on campus to operate legally and fairly with the campus's highest levels of administrative support.
Happy 50th Anniversary to UCSC's University Interfaith Council!!!
and to Founding Pastor, our Banquet honoree, Rev. Herb Schmidt -- still strong in ministry at age 85.
Herb was also last year's UIC President, in which role I have now succeeded him as President this year -- at his insistence!
I have been blessed and delighted to serve alongside Herb in UCSC's spiritual leadership community for the past 20 of his 50 years at UCSC. Although our politics may differ slightly, he has been a true pleasure to work with. His kindness, love and unflagging zeal invigorates the spiritual life of our special UCSC community, while promoting his blazing vision for international peace and justice.
Herb is an icon of campus, and integral in the history of the University. He was invited by UCSC founding Chancellor Dean McHenry to start a Religious Council on campus at the very inception of the university. Herb has also been campus pastor at Stanford University, pastor of Messiah Lutheran Church and interim pastor in many other churches, including in Bali (someone has to suffer for Christ there! haha!).
We are honored and blessed to have Herb share more at our banquet about his 50 year history with the University Interfaith Council.


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Interview: Pascale Petit
Pascale Petit's latest collection is What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo (Seren, 2010), which was shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize, Wales Book of the Year, and was a book of the year in the Observer. She trained at the Royal College of Art and spent the first part of her life as a visual artist before deciding to concentrate on poetry. She has published five collections, two others of which, The Huntress and The Zoo Father, were also shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and were books of the year in the Times Literary Supplement and the Independent. In 2004 the Poetry Book Society selected her as one of the Next Generation Poets. Petit is widely travelled, including in Mexico, the Venezuelan Amazon, China and Nepal. She currently tutors for Tate Modern and is the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Interview carried out by email in April 2013 by Jack Little. Published in Issue 29 of The Ofi Press.
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1. To what extent does your dual heritage impact upon your work?
At the moment I'm writing my sixth collection of poems My Father's City, about Paris where I was born. It's a follow-up to my second collection The Zoo Father, which was also about Paris, though the city didn't feature much in that book, since in it I transplanted my father and myself to the Amazon rainforest. I think that this transplanting is my natural state as a citizen of nowhere. However, I've fallen in love with Paris (though I hated it as a child) and at least in this new book I can pretend that I belong, and try to make it mine. Just as in The Zoo Father I tried to transform my father into a book, I'm trying to transform the alien-to-me Paris into my Paris.
Although I am French, I've lived in the UK all my adult life and when I return to France for holidays or research I feel like a tourist. I don't speak fluent French. So I see my country through the eyes of an outsider. I don't have British nationality so I don't belong anywhere. On the Welsh side of my family there's also some Asian Indian heritage, and Irish, so like many writers in London now, I'm quite a mixture.
2. What is it about Frida Kahlo that makes her work and spirit so enduring in Mexico and around the whole world? In what ways has she been inspiring to you personally in your own life?
I wrote What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo so I could both escape from myself and be more myself. The whole book attempts to be in Kahlo's voice and each poem has the title of one of her paintings. I started writing about her accident first – that bus crash she suffered when she was eighteen. A handrail from the bus that crashed into her tram went through her pelvis and exited her vagina. It was a rape of sorts. This felt a safe way to write about that subject, and about illness and injury. What interested me was the combination of that traumatic subject matter and her vibrancy, her joie de vivre. She was inspiring to me because I could write about things I didn't dare write about as myself, without embarrassment, since I was not disclosing anything personal but telling the story of her life. The important thing was how she turned all that pain into art, that's what I focused on and try to do myself.
3. You translated several poems from Chinese to English for the Yellow Mountain festival. To what extent do you think that translation is an act of "creation"?
I've been to China three times, and worked on five translation projects with Chinese poets. I don't speak Chinese, so the method of translation was to talk through every line of our poems, word by word, for context, meaning, sound, image, and so on. Although I aimed to be as faithful to the original as the poet explained it, my main aim was to recreate the poem in my imagination. It had to read as a poem that might have been written in English. It is an act of recreation as you suggest.
4. A bilingual collection of your collection, The Zoo Father, was published in Mexico before being distributed all over Latin America. Do you think the content of the book is especially relevant for the Latin audience?
El Padre Zoológico/The Zoo Father was published by Victor Manuel Mendiola's press El Tucán de Virginia in 2004. I read from it in schools in Mexico City and was told that the theme of a father's abandonment of his children and sexual abuse of them and his wife was relevant to the experience of a high proportion of the kids in the audience. I hope that's not true but if it is that they found it helpful hearing how such taboo subjects can be made into art and changed just a little, made manageable and bearable by the imagination.
5. You were a sculptor before you became a poet. What are the similarities and differences in the creative process in forming both poems and sculptures?
I made sculptures from mixed media, glass, resin and fibreglass, incorporating many natural materials and found objects such as stuffed hummingbirds from Victorian times, thorns and insects. I tend to use the same materials in poems, and this is one of the reasons I loved writing about Frida Kahlo so much, because she used thorns and hummingbirds in her paintings, also lots of colour as I did. I write about transparency – glass, ice, which is also similar to the materials I used as a sculptor. In my poems I try to create installations or objects to make the imagery clear and physical. I feel as if I'm still making sculptures, but with words. Poems have a time component though, and I love that I can make them move fast, or slow. In that way they can be more alive than the sculptures I made. They can move through time and across space.
6. Travel has played an important role in your life. To what extent do you think your poetry can be considered as "exploration"?
Writing poems is exploration for me. I will never forget the first time I went to a far country. I was 21 and went to Morocco on my own which was scary. I had no money so I stayed in the medina and got bitten all over by bedbugs, and gnats, so much so that I had a fever. Then I took a bus and went inland. That feeling – on that bus, sitting in the front seat, a bit feverish but not knowing where I was going or what to expect, but being so excited about the adventure and the landscape that unrolled – that's what writing is like. I never know the end of my poems as I'm writing them, and that means the end is not always good because there's the risk that it won't surprise, but it's worth that not-knowing for the possibility of finding myself somewhere totally unexpected.
7. Do you have any plans for a trip to Mexico City soon? We would be delighted to host you at one of our monthly readings here in Mexico City!
I don't have any plans unfortunately, but thank you! I wish I did because I'd love to see that exhibition of Frida Kahlo's clothes in the Casa Azul, and of her bathroom. But if I do I will be sure to let you know, and thanks for your invitation. I have been to Mexico three times and loved it.
Pascale Petit /Frida Kahlo Event: Darlington (UK), July 6th
Poems After Frida: a celebration of Frida Kahlo with acclaimed poet Pascale Petit and music from sound artist Michael Hann. Pascale's What The Water Gave Me, written in Frida's voice with astonishing insight, bring to life the work and suffering of this amazing artist.
The event will take place in Darlington's award winning Mexican restaurant, the Voodoo Cafe, on July 6th. We are currently raising funds for the event - if you would like to contribute, please go to http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/investment/poems-after-frida-1823
Come and celebrate with magical words and images, out of this world sounds and a perfect Margherita.

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The Cultural Village Foundation – Katara announced the opening of registration for the pearl diving and fishing contests within the 8th edition of Senyar Festival.
The registration begins February 3 until March 15 organised by the Katara Beach Management from 9:00am to 2:00pm.
The conditions for registration include having a wooden boat (traditional dhow) equipped with navigation systems and safety facilities with a valid license. Participating teams should be from 10 – 13 participants for the fishing and 8-12 for the pearl diving contest.
Participants must be Qatari nationals and only four participants per team can be of different nationalities.
The Senyar festival is organised by Katara and aims to revive the maritime cultural heritage of the ancestors in Qatar.


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Things I thought I'd never see: Egyptians supporting Israel against Hamas
Seal of the Muslim Brotherhood.
What's next, lambs lying down with lions? Obama embracing the writings of Thomas Sowell?
While Egypt is a land rife with antisemitism (for example), it seems many Egyptians have found someone to hate even more than the Israelis — Hamas:
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi has thus far turned down appeals from Palestinians and other Arabs to work toward achieving a new ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Palestinian Authority [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas telephoned Sisi and urged him to intervene to achieve an "immediate ceasefire" between Israel and Hamas. Abbas later admitted that his appeal to Sisi and (other Arab leaders) had fallen on deaf ears.
Sisi's decision not to intervene in the current crisis did not come as a surprise. In fact, Sisi and many Egyptians seem to be delighted that Hamas is being badly hurt.
Some Egyptians are even openly expressing hope that Israel will completely destroy Hamas, which they regard as the "armed branch of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization."
Sisi's Egypt has not forgiven Hamas for its alliance with Muslim Brotherhood and its involvement in terrorist attacks against Egyptian civilians and soldiers over the past year.
Egyptian ex-general Hamdi Bakhit was quoted as expressing hope that Israel would re-occupy the Gaza Strip. "This would be better than the Hamas rule," he said.
[Egyptian TV presenter Amany al-Khayat's] colleague, Azza Sami of the newspaper Al-Ahram, went as far as thanking Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for ordering the attack on Hamas. "Thank you Netanyahu and may God give us more [people] like you to destroy Hamas," she wrote.
Emphases added. This is pretty amazing stuff, akin to us rooting for the Russians in a confrontation with the UK. But, on further thought, it's not as surprising as one might think. Egyptians experienced a year or so under the thumb of the Muslim Brotherhood, which spawned Hamas, after Muhammad Morsi replaced Hosni Mubarak as president. To say it was a miserable year for Egypt would be an understatement. The economic mismanagement and social disorder finally resulted in a coup d'etat by the army, an act that had massive support from the people. After the coup, the Brotherhood did nothing to redeem itself with Egyptians, attacking the army, a popular institution in Egypt, in a guerrilla war that continues to this day, especially in Sinai. And Hamas supported their fellow Brothers in this.
In addition Egypt has been an economic basket case for years, unable to feed itself without massive and expensive imports. (Skip down to "Wheat prices 101.") The situation is only getting worse. With such problems, many Egyptians are understandably reluctant to give aid to a Brotherhood offshoot. As the Egyptian paper El-Bayasher wrote:
"The standard of living for a Gazan citizen is much higher than that of an Egyptian citizen. The poor in Egypt are more in need than the poor in the Gaza Strip. Let Qatar spend as much as it wants on the Gaza Strip. We should not send anything that Egyptians are in need of."
I doubt a majority of Egyptians feel this way, but that so many feel free to speak publicly what would have been unthinkable just a few years ago is a remarkable change. Egypt is Hamas' lifeline in the region; this is indicative of how thoroughly they've screwed up.
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Hamas: "We aren't trying to get our people killed! We just want them dead!"
I'm sure that makes a lot of difference to people being used as human shields:
I suppose this makes some twisted sense among jihadis, who proudly proclaim that they love death as we love life.
via Jim Geraghty
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(Video) Hamas TV: children's show encourages killing Jews
He's back! Nahoul the antisemitic killer bee, whom we last heard was killed by those evil Jews, is alive! And, not only that, but he's returned to Palestinian television, encouraging children to do the right thing.
Kill Jews.
Here's an excerpt from the transcript, via MEMRI:
Nahoul (talking to girl TV host Rawan) : Rawan, I want to tell him to pick up a stone, and when the Jews come, to take it and throw it.
Rawan: That's right, if the neighbors are Jewish…
Nahoul: He should beat them up.
Rawan: If his neighbors are Jewish or Zionist, that goes without saying.
Rawan (to Tulin, a little girl in the studio) : Tulin, why do you want to become a policewoman? Like who?
Tulin: Like my uncle.
Rawan: Who is your uncle?
Tulin: His name is Ahmad.
Rawan: He's a policeman? What do the police do?
Nahoul: They catch thieves and troublemakers.
Rawan: And they shoot Jews, right?
Tulin: Right.
Rawan: You want to be like him? Allah willing, when you grow up.
Tulin: I will shoot the Jews.
Rawan: All of them?
Tulin: Yes.
Rawan: Good.
In fact, it's even a little more evil, when you think about it; not only are they using a cute animal figure (something kids love) to teach a message of hate, but they've co-opted an older girl, essentially a "big sister" to the little ones, to make the murderous teaching explicit. "It's okay."
If Dante were around, he'd add another circle in Hell to his Inferno, just for the rats who who program this garbage.
Think about it: these are the people the Israelis are supposed to negotiate with. These are the people to whom our Secretary of State (and, in fairness, almost every Secretary before him for the last 40 years) is trying to be an honest broker, to reach a good-faith settlement between them and the Israelis. And it's not just the Islamo-fascists of Hamas; the supposedly secular Palestinian Authority regularly pumps Jew hatred through its media, too.
How is one supposed to negotiate with someone who not only wants you dead, but teaches their children that killing you is a divinely-ordained duty?
RELATED: We've met other cute antisemitic animals before on Arab television. Here's another: Assud, the Jew-eating rabbit. Also check out my "Teach the Children" category. And, for the adults, an important message: Muslims should humiliate Christians to make them convert to Islam.
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Chuck Hagel, nominee for Secretary of Defense, took money from Hamas supporters?
As Allahpundit would say, "Dude?"
On Thursday, Senate sources told Breitbart News exclusively that they have been informed that one of the reasons that President Barack Obama's nominee for Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, has not turned over requested documents on his sources of foreign funding is that one of the names listed is a group purportedly called "Friends of Hamas."
Yesterday, 25 senators sent a letter to Hagel demanding information on his foreign funding. Hagel has refused all such requests, prompting the senators to state, "in the judgment of the undersigned, a Committee vote on your nomination should not occur unless and until you provide the requested information."
To quote from Article VII of Hamas' charter:
The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him! This will not apply to the Gharqad, which is a Jewish tree
And their motto in Article VIII:
Allah is its goal, the Prophet its model, the Qur'an its Constitution, Jihad its path and death for the case of Allah its most sublime belief.
Yeah, I can kind of see where taking money from an organization that calls itself friends of these Jew-hating goons might throw a bit of a monkey wrench into the nomination process… As in, it may be time to start the final countdown on the Hagel nomination death watch.
Do they ever vet their nominees in this administration, or do they just not care?
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A Mideast crisis by September?
And it's not the one you're probably thinking of, a unilateral declaration of statehood by the Fatah-Hamas Palestinian administration. Rather, analyst Barry Rubin has in mind the Egyptian elections scheduled for that month, elections that will very likely bring to power an anti-American, anti-Israeli, Islamist government — a situation made much worse thanks to Obama administration ineptitude and a failure to recognize even now what the dangers are.
Rubin's articles are worth reading "cover to cover," but let me cite a portion in which he asks what our "leaders" will say when the near-inevitable happens and Obama's Mideast policy collapses:
Imagine the day after that election. What will the mass media say? What will the American politicians say?
–That they were wrong about the Egyptian revolution and the Muslim Brotherhood?
–That by helping to bring down the old regime, U.S. policy foisted a disaster on the region and on its own interests?
–That by celebrating how great the "Arab Spring" is and refusing to acknowledge the real threats and problems, Obama made catastrophic errors.
–That his policy has led to many advances for America's enemies?
–That Israel is in a far worse strategic situation and certainly can't and shouldn't make any more concessions?
–That the Islamists are emboldened and thus both Hamas and the radicals who run Fatah are taking an even harder line?
–That the loss of faith in America by its Arab allies is now undeniably clear and they are scrambling to make their own deals with Iran and other extremists?
–That there is a real possibility of a war in which Egypt either joins directly or backs Hamas? Imagine, Egypt stays "neutral" but nobody stops thousands of Egyptian volunteers from crossing into Gaza to fight or even across the Egypt-Israel border to launch terror attacks?
–What will the Obama Administration do if in practice Egypt tears up the Israel-Egypt peace treaty even if it pretends that it isn't doing so?
–People are insisting that if Hamas in practice becomes part of the Palestinian Authority that the United States, and certainly Congress, will cut off aid. But what will happen when the Obama Administration does everything possible to prevent an aid cut-off and nothing possible to pressure the PA into changing its policy or behavior?
These are not speculations. These things WILL happen. Nobody in the United States or Europe is seriously discussing these scenarios and what should be done about them.
As I said, that's not the half of it; Lebanon is increasingly under Hizbullah's dominance (and thus becoming a satrapy of Syria and Iran), Assad is showing he will kill however many it takes to stay in power in Syria, and Iran marches on to nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them. And all of this has been made worse by bumbling US policies since Obama took over.
Yet he and his administration (and his defenders in the media) show no sign that they understand what is happening, continuing instead to pretend that territorial concessions will solve anything.
The Hippocratic Oath is often paraphrased by "First do no harm." Someone should whisper those words to President Obama before it's too late.
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Oh, so that's why the Jews are in Israel! Now I get it!
They're there so the Muslims can massacre them and rid the world of their evil, just as Allah wishes! Isn't that wonderful?
Hey, don't take my word for it. Just ask Hamas MP and Islamic cleric(1) Yunis al-Astal:
The transcript:
Yunis Al-Astal: The [Jews] are brought in droves to Palestine so that the Palestinians – and the Islamic nation behind them – will have the honor of annihilating the evil of this gang.
All the predators, all the birds of prey, all the dangerous reptiles and insects, and all the lethal bacteria are far less dangerous than the Jews.
In just a few years, all the Zionists and the settlers will realize that their arrival in Palestine was for the purpose of the great massacre, by means of which Allah wants to relieve humanity of their evil.
When Palestine is liberated and its people return to it, and the entire region, with the grace of Allah, will have turned into the United States of Islam, the land of Palestine will become the capital of the Islamic Caliphate, and all these countries will turn into states within the Caliphate. When this happens, any Palestinian will be able to live anywhere, because the land of Islam is the property of all Muslims.
Until this happens, we must reject all the resettlement plans, naturalization, or even reparations prior to the return of the refugees.
(Emphases added)
Remember, this is the organization the Left would have us and Israel treat as legitimate "partners for peace." The same group that regularly and indiscriminately rockets Israeli towns and cities — even school buses. And the same group that praised bin Laden on his death.
It's all part of the divine plan, don't you see? Just as kindly Mr. al-Astal explained.
(1) Which means he's well-schooled in Islamic theology and law. Keep that in mind.
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Friends and enemies, and how to tell the difference
Consider this a bookend to yesterday's post about Hamas eulogizing bin Laden and thus declaring itself an enemy of the United States. Here's what a friend, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, had to say:
This is an historic day for the United States of America and for all the countries engaged in the battle against terrorism. I want to congratulate President Obama and the American people. I want to congratulate America's soldiers, and its intelligence personnel for a truly outstanding achievement. It took ten years to track Osama bin Laden down. It took ten years to bring a measure of justice to his victims.
But the battle against terrorism is long and relentless and resolute. This is a day of victory – a victory for justice, for freedom and for our common civilization.
And here's the video:
Friends and enemies. It's not hard to tell them apart at all.
via Power Line
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Automotive News is reporting that both Porsche and Audi are following BMW's lead in buying time on your TiVo's Showcase. First, Porsche's showcase will run from March 13-27, followed by Acura's showcase April 7-21.
The newsitem is in Dutch. It mentions that the new diesel engine developed by Honda will debut in the (euro) Accord. The engine will be shown in Geneva and then debut in the Accord on the motorshow in Frankfurt (in September).


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"Coach Haverty taught the players under his guidance that football is more than a game, it is an opportunity to join a family, learn hard work and discipline, and get the most out of themselves." said Lauder "We wish Pat and his family the very best."
Haverty posted a career coaching record of 62-59 (.512) over his 12 seasons (2002-2007, 2011-2018) at the helm of the Falcons football program. With those 62 career coaching victories, Pat ranks first among all Fitchburg State football head coaches in wins. The Green and Gold finished with a 3-7 record last season, including a 2-6 record in the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC).
Pat led the Falcons to a pair of NEFC Bogan Division titles in 2004 and 2005 and to three ECAC Division III Bowl bids in 2004, 2005 and 2015.
"I talked to my staff and players and notified them that I have decided to resign as Fitchburg State University head football coach," Haverty said "It was a very difficult decision for me to make, I have devoted my life to coaching this game and it has been a great journey. I'd like to thank the entire FSU community for the support I have received over the years."
McGuire, assistant coach for running backs and special teams, has been part of the Falcons' staff for twelve seasons. He will assume all responsibilities of head coach until the position is filled.


Among small lodging properties it has been common to refer to TripAdvisor ("TA") as "the 600 pound gorilla." While this term recognizes the enormous influence of the review site with prospective guests, it is not usually intended as a compliment. Instead it is meant critically, implying some measure of unfair treatment by TripAdvisor (B&B's have historically been difficult to find on the site) and sometimes by reviewers (differences of opinion, sometimes remarkably so, can be readily seen by scanning the reviews of many properties). As a result of the distaste innkeepers have for the negative side of this, many refuse to pay for TA's Business Listings, or participate in its booking program, TripConnect.
But is distaste for the site a good business reason not to work with TripAdvisor?
Certainly without data to back it up, any answer is inadequate. While a few years ago we were very critical of TripAdvisor's own business practices toward its paying customers (lodging properties), TA has made many changes since then. It has a dedicated fraud unit to enforce anti-fraud policies, and has significantly increased its support capabilities for paid properties. While undoubtedly far from perfect, the improvements are significant.
The chart at right is WIHP's 2014 study of booking sources (these are direct bookings to the propetry website, so where bookings mention OTA's — online travel agencies, such as Expedia, Booking.com, etc. – this is only an indication that the guest found the property on the OTA, not that they booked through them). For 2013 this study showed TripAdvisor (in green) to be the number one source of bookings. For all other years it has been in second place, behind only family and friends.
That information, alone, should be enough to convince a business-minded innkeeper that maximizing effectiveness on TA is a good business decision. Your property is on TA whether you want it to be there or not. Reviews are not within your control (though responses to the reviews, are within your control, and you should be taking advantage of this great opportunity). Having your contact info and a link to your website, the ability to offer specials that pop up for viewers, and statistics on your reviews, rank, and placement, all come with a Business Listing. While not inexpensive, the value of a Business Listing should be based on its Return on Investment (ROI), not on whether or not you like the actions of the directory (unless you are engaging in a form of social protest).
However, only a few of the booking engines generally used by B&B's support Ecommerce tracking. This is appalling! About five years ago booking engines were saying that Ecommerce tracking was "coming soon." For most of them, it still isn't here. If you have a booking engine that does not support Ecommerce tracking, we strongly recommend that you change to one that does support it.
The most effective way to determine the value of the Business Listing is to try it and measure the results. The results can be measured most accurately by using Google Analytics' Ecommerce Tracking. Discussed in more detail here, Ecommerce tracking will show all bookings by source, and the correct value of the bookings. You can then compare the income derived against the cost to determine ROI. When we used this method at the B&B we previously owned, we found the Business Listing paid for itself many times over.
Many reviewers post because they are saying 'thank you' to the community whose reviews helped them find a place they enjoyed.
TA now hosts one of the largest user-generated collections of travel photos anywhere.
For every percentage point a property improves its online reputation, its "RevPAR" (revenue per available room) goes up by 1.4 percent.
For every point its reputation improves on a five-point scale, a hotel can raise prices by 11 percent without seeing bookings fall off.
When properties react to reviews, both by responding to the reviews and by acting on things that caused negative comments, the ratings for the property improved.
Properties who respond frequently to comments – especially with a plan for fixing negatives – are 20% more likely to get booking inquiries.
Did you hear that? Responding to reviews (especially negative reviews) in a meaningful way increases the interest of prospective guests! And while none of these items specifically deals with Business Listings (so you can take advantage of them, even if you are not willing to pay for the Business Listing), there is a further takeaway here: If you do not have a business listing, the prospective guest must jump a hurdle to find you. They have to paste (or type) your property into a search engine to try to find you to see what your rooms are like and perhaps your real rates and availability.
Business Listing properties have the edge! The user need only click on the link under your name to go to your website and see what is available.
So, you do, indeed, ignore the gorilla at your own risk. TripAdvisor is an enormous source of business, whether you are tracking the sources properly or not. Why not make it as easy as possible for the guest to get to your website and book?
Oh, and by the way, do not overlook the other takeaways listed above – there are lots of things there that will enhance your rating on TA, and that should, in itself, yield more business.


Pediatrics. 1992 May;89(5 Pt 1):834-8.
Preschool vision screening in pediatric practice: a study from the Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS) Network. American Academy of Pediatrics.
Wasserman RC1, Croft CA, Brotherton SE.
PROS Network, American Academy of Pediatrics, Elk Grove Village, IL 60009-0927.
In this cross-sectional study, the vision-screening process is described for 8417 children aged 3 to 5 seen for health supervision in a group of 102 pediatric practices in 23 states and Puerto Rico. Three hundred forty children who failed screening (63% of those who failed) were followed up 2 months after initial screening. The sample was 52% male, 86% white, 9% black, 3% Hispanic, and 1% Asian. Vision screening was attempted on 66% of children overall. Pediatricians' reasons for not screening were "not routine" (44%), "too young" (40%), and "screening done previously" (17%). Younger children were less likely to be screened than older children (39% of those aged 3), and Hispanics were less likely to be screened than other ethnic groups (P less than .001). Thirty-three percent of children received no screening for latent strabismus. Two months later, 50% of parents whose child had failed a vision test were unaware of this fact on questionnaire follow-up. Eighty-five percent of children referred to an eye specialist had made or kept an appointment. It is concluded that pediatricians need to increase vision screening among younger preschool children and communicate more effectively to parents the results of screening failure.


John's guest this week is Jim Wall, educator, playwright and novelist. They talk about the difference between writing a novel and a play. More Jim talks of the differences among the performances of his own plays by different casts and production. The humor, the embarrassment, and the joy of seeing his work acted out in different ways; the horrors of Auschwitz that moved him to write a play with it as a base.


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By Adam Markovitz Updated January 08, 2014 at 05:00 AM EST
'POP' AND LOCK Lady Gaga's hits some familiar but enjoyable notes in her latest release
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What's a trailblazer to do when her path becomes the road most traveled? Back in 2008, The Fame introduced us to Lady Gaga as a wickedly funny pop parodist and crack songwriter with a fresh take on celebrity — one that involved brazen publicity stunts, surreal costumes, and daily look-changing (plus the occasional beef blouse).
Five years later, outrageous is the new ordinary and instant reinvention is the status quo. (What Madonna was to Gaga, Gaga is to Miley, or at least to Miley's half-drunk teddy bears.) Which lately seems like a burden for Gaga herself, who's been flitting through disposable personae — there are no fewer than nine in the video for ARTPOP's lead single, "Applause" — without finding any that stick. The irony of her latest album is that while Gaga is shape-shifting faster than ever, her music hasn't evolved much.
With their Hollywood-gothic imagery and rousing beats, most of the songs here would fit right in on The Fame or Born This Way. They hit enjoyable but well-worn sonic marks, from the synth-swaddled choruses of "Aura" and "Sexxx Dreams" to the barroom ivory-tickling of "Gypsy." And they deal in tropes and metaphors that have become standbys in Gaga's canon: Love is a drug ("Dope"), artifice is truth ("Fashion!"), and fame is a religion in which shamelessness is next to godliness ("Applause"). Retro may be white-hot right now (see: Miley, Bruno, Daft Punk, et al.), but ARTPOP doesn't reach back far enough. In music, as in fashion, there's a critical gap between vintage and last season.
Familiarity isn't necessarily bad, though. As always, Gaga is a whiz at strong melodic lines, like the swooping hook on "Gypsy." She's a clever comic who's delightfully willing to be the butt of her own jokes. ("I know that Mom and Dad think I'm a mess/But it's all right because I am rich as piss," she cracks on the pot ode "Mary Jane Holland.") As pop, the album is a well-executed and entertaining tour of Gaga's tried-and-true tricks. But as art, it falls short when it comes to one basic function: making an impression. B
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A suicide. A stillborn baby. A woman holding the latter as she leaves the former to show her husband and the now widower father the results of the harrowing night thus far kept off-screen. We hear the wind blowing as the camera pushes in towards Lizzy Macklin's (Caitlin Gerard) haunted face in silent shock. Only after she washes the blood from her body and sees Isaac (Ashley Zukerman) place her rifle against the table does she speak and only after mother and child are buried do we finally start to receive some answers. Isaac is taking Gideon (Dylan McTee) back to the city so he can settle his affairs and let his wife Emma's (Julia Goldani Telles) family know what occurred. This leaves Lizzy alone to remember everything.
Director Emma Tammi therefore ensures we understand her western horror's pacing and the winding psychological road through Lizzy's mind that screenwriter Teresa Sutherland follows. The quiet isn't a fluke, but an attribute of living on the American frontier during the 19th century. Its deafening silence is what confronted her upon settling down and what she must now combat post-tragedy. Where it used to be representative of the isolation she and Isaac chose for their future by being the ones who left, that silence is currently a byproduct of sound's absence dictated by those she's lost and those who've left in response. It's here in the turmoil of grief and fear that she recalls her past demons. And it's in the gaps of those recollections that new ones appear.
As a result, The Wind moves back and forth through time in accordance with what Sutherland and Tammi choose to let us know. First we witness the events of that stillbirth from the womb of a corpse and then it's time to meet Emma and Gideon less than a year prior before going back further to experience Lizzy's own embattled pregnancy. Talk of malicious forces arises once the two women find themselves struggling to fend off feelings of loneliness and perhaps panic as far as what it will mean to raise a child so far from civilization. Maybe these instances of evil are a manifestation sowed by a handmade pamphlet listing the numerous demons this prairie has to offer or maybe they're nothing more than a terrorizing breeze.
The shifting is easy to discern as Lizzy's hardened gaze is softened with a smile via flashback. Her present finds her alone and fearful of what she cannot see while the past portrays a sense of hope until her new neighbors begin to bring back the dread she had thought disappeared long ago. The wind transforms into violent wolves and eventually black-eyed human vessels that shape-shift to infiltrate her home while Isaac is gone. So rather than tag along with the men as they ride off to some adventure like a prototypical western, we're tethered to the homestead with the women lost upon their personal islands and deprived of human interaction. It's enough to make anyone go crazy and also the perfect scenario for crazy to become reality.
Which is happening is in the eye of the beholder and his/her interpretation of a kindly reverend (Miles Anderson) passing through. It can be difficult to discern what we're shown is authentic and what's hallucinatory subterfuge, but I do believe the difference stems from the when of each action. These characters don't arrive at their destination with a severed grip on reality—that's something learned with time and/or thrust upon them by malignant beings outside of the realm of possibility. With death comes a question of faith and with that uncertainty arrives a door inviting all sorts of nefarious creatures in to fill the void. So is the lamb dead and eviscerated? Or has it been standing there alive the whole time? Can Lizzy and Emma trust either?
The answer is of course "no" because there's no time. If something is coming for them, they must do whatever is in their power to protect their unborn children. The men don't understand because they're free to come and go as they please, each sojourn to the city a chance to meet with people that aren't their wives. So Lizzy and Emma's cries of demons knocking on the door at night have more meaning than simply the nightmares of mothers. The response they receive is no different than those they've received their whole lives as subservient housemaids fulfilling duties towards their husbands alone. Their pleas to escape these vast plains with nowhere to hide fall on deaf ears because the men refuse to empathize with their unique plight.
So don't dismiss The Wind as some retread concerning isolation as a theme when who these women are and the era in which they live allow it to represent a lot more. It's yet another example of why we need more women writers and directors to tell stories from their perspective and not a skewed second-hand interpretation of what it means to be a woman in a historically oppressive America. That doesn't mean it also isn't an effective horror on the surface with supernatural antagonists growing more vicious as our heroine progresses through the torment of living amongst uncharted land holding secrets no one can pretend to know. Sutherland's script is working on multiple levels while Tammi's formal aesthetics reveal an artist in complete control of her vision.
The Wind opens in limited release on April 5.


This past weekend we asked /Film readers to tell us what they thought of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. We got over 2025 votes on our poll and 266 comments. While the majority of readers who voted in the poll Loved the film (41%, while 18% voted "It Sucked"), the comments on the post were largely negative. I decided since you guys put the work in, I'd dig through the comments and bring you a best of – a compilation of the funniest or most interesting comments left about Indy 4. Enjoy!


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Directed by Bruce Hendricks / Frank Marshall
Genres - Adventure | Sub-Genres - Adventure Drama, Family-Oriented Adventure | Release Date - Feb 17, 2006 (USA), Feb 17, 2006 (USA - Unknown) | Run Time - 120 min. | Countries - United States | MPAA Rating - PG
Synopsis by Mark Deming
Eight brave sled dogs search for the master who is looking for a way to rescue them in this adventure drama. An American geologist (Bruce Greenwood) flies to Antarctica to participate in a project at the United States Research Base, where he teams up with arctic guide Jerry Shepard (Paul Walker) and his best friend, Cooper (Jason Biggs). The scientist soon discovers that Shepard also has eight other valuable friends -- a pack of sled dogs he's worked with for years, who have rescued him from a number of tight spots. As the three men explore a frozen mountain region, an unexpected accident coupled with a massive storm front forces them to fly to safety, leaving the dogs behind. Shepard is determined to rescue his canine friends, but he has to wait until the weather will allow him to travel back to the mountain, while the dogs struggle against the elements to survive as they attempt to make their way back home. Eight Below was inspired by a true story involving Japanese researchers exploring the Antarctic in 1957; the story was made into the film Nankyoku Monogatari.
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Man's Best Friend | Daring Rescues | Race Against Time | Survival in the Wilderness | Forces of Nature
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Interested in implementing a POS System for your small business? If you are interested and you are looking for a Point of Sale system, it is super important to understand what kinds of tools you need to run your business. A reliable POS system for small business allows you to process every sale safely and securely and has the right software tools to help you maintain the administrative tasks successfully.
The tasks you need help with and the kind of sales you make depend on your business. A clothing boutique might have different needs than a busy cafe and a small business POS system that works for an electrician might not make sense for a bar.
For any small business Point of Sale system, PCI compliance, security, cost, and usability should be the most important factors when choosing the POS system.
The right Point of Sale solution can ensure that you take advantage of every sale and help you simplify time-consuming administrative tasks.
If you want to accept credit card payments and have a simple system for tracking sales and completing transactions, it is a good idea to invest in a POS system designed for small business. Even startups can benefit from a good Point of Sale system.
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Deep dig: Indians face familiar 2-0 hole in ALDS vs. Astros
By Daniel | October 8, 2018 | 0
By TOM WITHERS, AP Sports Writer
CLEVELAND (AP) — The Indians are very familiar with the postseason hole they're currently stuck in. They saw one just like it last October — from above.
At least they know it can be scaled.
But Cleveland's climb in this AL Division Series seems much steeper than just the 2-0 deficit they're facing after dropping the first two games in Houston. The defending World Series champion Astros have shown their exceptional pitching and extraordinary depth while outplaying the swing-and-miss Indians in every facet of the game.
"They've played pretty much perfect baseball to this point," Indians third baseman Josh Donaldson said following Saturday's 3-1 loss. "We have had a couple mistakes the first couple games, and now, it's our time to respond."
Or another Cleveland baseball season will end before the leaves change colors.
Houston's in complete control heading into Monday's Game 3.
Astros aces Justin Verlander and Gerrit Cole dominated Cleveland's hitters in Games 1 and 2 as Houston's pitchers combined on consecutive three-hitters. The Astros piled up 24 strikeouts against one of the league's most balanced lineups, which is batting a combined .100 in this ALDS. The Indians' offense was so anemic Saturday that they didn't have a single at-bat with a runner in scoring position.
If not for Francisco Lindor's solo homer, Cleveland would have been blanked.
The Indians returned to Progressive Field on Sunday for an optional workout, and Cleveland's players seemed relaxed despite their perilous postseason predicament.
"We're OK," manager Terry Francona said. "I'd rather be up 2-0 than down 2-0. But it's still the first one to get to three. And I'd rather have a chance than no chance. I mean, I understand that the odds start to go not in your favor. But been on both sides of this, and come back and had people come back on us.
"So rather than spend a ton of time thinking about all that, we need to figure out a way to beat them, because the first two games, they've really kind of had their way with us. We need to change that."
Francona will tweak his lineup for Game 3. With left-hander Dallas Keuchel starting for Houston, Francona will add two right-handed hitters: right fielder Brandon Guyer and Yandy Diaz, who will replace Edwin Encarnacion as the DH. Encarnacion will move to first base, replacing Yonder Alonso.
As bleak as things appear for the three-time AL Central champions, who will give Mike Clevinger his first postseason start with the season on the line, only have to look back to last October for inspiration. As painful as that might be.
The Indians jumped out to what appeared to be a commanding 2-0 lead in the ALDS before New York stormed back and won three straight to advance, denying Cleveland a return trip to the World Series and extending the club's title drought to 70 years.
The Yankees paved the comeback trail. It's up to the Indians to follow it.
"It might be a little unfortunate that we know it can be done," said usually reliable reliever Andrew Miller, who replaced starter Carlos Carrasco in the sixth inning and gave up Marwin Gonzalez's go-ahead, two-run double in Game 2. "We certainly have a day to regroup. That's how I'm looking at it. I have a day to regroup, and then, I'll be in. Ready to succeed in the same spot. We aren't giving up just yet."
History isn't on Cleveland's side, either. Of the teams to take a 2-0 lead at home in 2-2-1 format, 24 of 27 have gone on to win the series.
The Astros, though, are Cleveland's biggest problem.
Despite trailing 1-0 in Game 2 and having little success against Carrasco, Houston put together a rally that began innocently with star second baseman Jose Altuve reaching on an infield dribbler after he nearly fell on his face trying to exit the batter's box. Carrasco then walked Alex Bregman before getting Yuli Gurriel on a fly to left.
That's when Terry Francona turned to Miller, an October supernova two years ago when he nearly carried Cleveland to a World Series title. But the left-hander's second pitch was pounded into the right-field corner, where Melky Cabrera struggled to corral it as Altuve scored easily and Bregman slid home just ahead of a relay throw.
The Astros' lead was just 2-1, but with Cleveland's bats dormant, it felt like 12-1.
Francona didn't second-guess his decision to bring in Miller, but the left-hander's struggles this season might make him re-consider using him again. Cleveland has no margin for error, and Francona, who guided Boston to a 3-0 comeback in the 2004 ALCS, knows the Astros have few flaws.
"Part of why they're good is, obviously, their pitching, but they always push," he said. "They continue to push. And they put heat on you all the time. They've got a very good ball club, and part of — like we've been talking about it since the day before the series — they continue to push, and they either run you in the mistake or hit the ball out of the ballpark. They have a lot of ways to beat you."
The Astros would have every reason to feel confident, but they're not looking past the Indians.
"With the lineup that they have over there, the staff that they have, a lot can happen and a lot can happen quick," Astros leadoff man George Springer said. "We saw it before when New York was down two and they came back on us there and won all three in New York and all that stuff. So it's never over till it is. But for us, it's just go out, play our game, and just stay in our dugout."
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Prince William and Kate Middleton Royal visit: Live updates as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit Burnley and Clitheroe
Charity ball will honour dedicated and well known Burnley nurse who battled cancer for five years
The daughter of a Burnley nurse, whose pioneering ideas for the treatment of children with diabetes were taken on board by the hospital where she worked, is organising a charity ball to celebrate her mum's life.
By Susan Plunkett
Monday, 27th January 2020, 3:14 pm
Updated Tuesday, 28th January 2020, 9:42 am
All the proceeds from the ball will be donated to Pendleside Hospice in memory of Karen Archer who had hoped to stage the event herself before she died in November last year at the age of 61 after a five year battle against cancer.
So Karen's daughter, Vickie Wilson, decided to honour her mum's wishes and the ball will be held on Friday, March 6th, in the James Hargreaves suite at Burnley Football Club.
And althought it is billed as a red carpet event, there is no formal dress code and a hot buffet will be served.
Karen Archer, who died last year at the age of 61 after a five year cancer battle, with her son and daughter Wayne and Vickie.
Vickie said: "I want it to be the type of party my my mum would have really enjoyed with people dancing and having fun.
"People can wear that they want, the important thing is for them to come."
Vocalist Gavin Young will entertain guests and there will also be a disco, raffle and auction.
And Vickie has created a special memory board for people to post photographs of their family members and friends who they have lost to cancer.
Vickie (left) is planning to do a sky dive with her friend Kelly Johnson.
She said: "This night is not just about my mum, it is about all the families who have lost someone and how cancer can affect so many lives.
"We want to recognise them and what they have gone through and how lives are changed forever."
To boost the funds Vickie and her two friends, Padiham hairdresser and beauty therapist Kelly Garnett and Liam Murray of Burnley, will be attempting a sky dive in two weeks.
During her career Karen worked as a diabetic specialist at Burnley General Hospital before she became a paediatric sister at Nuffield Private Hospital in Leeds. Karen was lauded for her dedication to her role and still features on posters promoting the hospital.
Karen with her son Wayne and her little grandson Henry who is now five.
Vickie said: "My mum came up with a lot of new ideas to help children manage their diabetes that the hospital took on board."
One of Karen's ideas was to create her own series of stories based around the iconic Mr Men series and she was given permission to use the original characters by the franchise that owns the books written by Roger Hargreaves.
Karen, who was a student at the former St Hilda's RC High School in Burnley, still continued to work even after her cancer diagnosis and subsequent rounds of chemotherapy. She remained cheerful, positive and upbeat and was given a new lease of life when her grandson Henry was born on Christmas Eve in 2014.
Vickie said: "Mum was in the next bed to me in the hospital waiting for her second round of chemotherapy.
"When Henry was born she was absolutely delighted, she adored him."
Karen, who received therapy at Pendleside Hospice, threw a massive party at Burnley Football Club to mark her 60th birthday in 2018 and just days before she died she attended a fireworks display with her family, including her son, Wayne Lord, at Greenbrook Church in Burnley.
Vickie said: "In the five years we had together after her diagnosis we did so much and ticked a lot off her bucket list including going to Disneyland and Jamaica.
"Nothing was left unsaid between us and I still feel like she is guiding me now in spirit."
Tickets for the ball are £25 a head and anyone who would like to buy them is asked to contact Vickie by email on [email protected]
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By Amboy Manalo
No smartphone is immune to software issues, even one as advanced as the Galaxy S9 and S9+. Bugs can be caused by a multitude of issues, such as third-party apps that just refuse to play well with your device's OS. Thankfully, there's a simple way for you to check if your S9's bugs are due to uncooperative apps.
How To: Remove Any Status Bar Icon on Your Galaxy S8, S9, or Note 8
Samsung reintroduced its well regarded Good Lock app, so now you can tweak parts of your Galaxy's interface without the need for root or other labor-intensive mods. Thanks to an awesome add-on, you can even tidy up you phone's status bar — so if you've always wanted to get rid of that pesky NFC "N" icon or any other indicator at the top of your display, you're now just a few taps away.
How To: Enable Full-Screen Camera Shots on Your Galaxy S9
The Galaxy S9 and S9+ have terrific cameras that are packed with awesome features. But if you've grown tired of taking and viewing photos on only a part of your screen, Samsung has built in settings to let you take full advantage of their flagships' Infinity Display.
How To: Use Your Galaxy S9 & Bixby to Translate Languages in Real Time
By Brian Lang
The idea of translating in real-time has become quite popular recently, with Google's Pixel Buds integrating the feature. However, their implementation is audio-only. Until recently, you needed to download a frequently-unreliable third party app to translate text using your camera — but that all changes with the Galaxy S9 and Bixby Vision.
How To: Make an AR Emoji with the Galaxy S9
By Jake Peterson
Apple's Animoji on the iPhone X might allow you to use your own facial movements to control your favorite emoji, but Samsung is looking to make you the focus of the interactive icon with the introduction of AR Emoji. Instead of a dragon or an alien, Samsung wants your unique look to define your avatar.
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How To: Force Restart Your Galaxy S9 or S9+ When It's Acting Up
As advanced as the Galaxy S9 is, it can still be susceptible to the occasional hiccup. Several factors can cause your smartphone to behave erratically or become unresponsive, such as buggy apps or updates that didn't properly install. Luckily, most of these issues can be easily resolved with a press of a button — or two, to be exact.
How To: You Should Know How to Turn Off Built-in Apps on Your Galaxy S9
The Galaxy S9 is a great phone powered by the Android ecosystem. This includes Google's family of apps — many of which overlap with Samsung's in functionality. This can lead to redundant apps that siphon resources from your phone, but fortunately, there's a way to dull some of the noise and disable built-in apps.
As informative as they can be, the new app icon badges and unread counts on the Galaxy S9's home screen are a little redundant since Android already has a notification center. If you'd rather not have these little dots overlaid on your home screen icons, there's an easy way to disable and hide them.
Samsung's Android 10 update goes by the name of One UI 2, as it's the sequel to last year's Android 9-backed One UI. After their early 2019 update finally shook the stigma of TouchWiz, it's important that Samsung follow it up with an equally impactful update for 2020.
Smartphones have put an end to camcorders. If you want to capture memorable moments in high quality, look no further than that technological marvel in your pocket. Recent Galaxy phones are shining examples of how far we've come — but the more capable a camera gets, the more complicated things can be.
By Jeff Springer
Many Samsung fans were excited when the Galaxy S9 kept the 3.5 mm headphone jack. While this is a rare delight in 2018, you also have the option for high quality audio playback over Bluetooth. When used with compatible headphones, the S9's new Bluetooth audio codecs can greatly improve audio quality.
Smartphones are like high tech buckets that collect our personal information through constant use. This has some obvious benefits, like getting a more personalized experience with our devices. On the other hand, this data is a tempting target for bad actors looking to make a buck at the expense of your privacy.
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How To: Disable Those Annoying 'Displaying Over Other Apps' Notifications on Your Galaxy S9
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How To: Switch Your Galaxy S9's Navigation Bar to Black
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How To: Your Galaxy Has a Hidden QR Code Reader You Should Know About
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So long, TechCrunch
Ned Desmond
20 July 2020, 1:21 pm ·7-min read
Let me lead with the news: After more than eight years as TechCrunch's COO, I am leaving on August 21. My decision is as much about my appetite for a green field as it is a recognition that TechCrunch's team is ready to put a fresh stamp on our remarkable brand.
TechCrunch's leadership is now in the hands of Matthew Panzarino, our editor-in-chief, and Joey Hinson, our director of business operations. They are seasoned TechCrunchers and deeply respected by the team. I am confident that they will make brilliant progress on all that TechCrunch means to the startup world and beyond.
Ready as I am to move on, I have to say I will really miss this place and my wonderful colleagues. I came to TechCrunch back in 2012 thinking I had a lot to offer; what I discovered was that TechCrunch had far more to offer me.
It's rare to work on a brand that has such a clear and purposeful reason for being. At TechCrunch, the mission is to help startup founders make sense of their perilous journey by providing breaking news and analysis, startup data and in-person events - all with a sense of fun and endless curiosity.
That mission has a huge impact. Personally, I have lost count of the founders who told me that TechCrunch inspired them to start a company. TechCrunch has over 20 million readers in a hot month, which I take as a good sign for the future of entrepreneurship. And to date, the 902 companies that participated in Battlefield, our signature startup competition, have raised $9 billion and produced 115 exits, most recent among those being Postmates. In that way and many others, TechCrunch delivers.
It's no secret that media, especially the journalistic variety, is a tough business. I came to TechCrunch firm in the view that a strong editorial mission and editorial integrity are the twin foundations of any journalist-driven business success. It's easy for short-term business considerations to chip away at those principles, but one of my key roles has been to hold the line. Editorial crews are at their best when they have the brand's lead and their business colleagues have their back, even as they dance through the ever-shifting media revenue game. That is how we rolled for the past eight years.
Matthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino (Photo: Steve Jennings / Getty Images for TechCrunch)
As a result, the editorial team is TechCrunch's crown jewel. Under Matthew Panzarino, they have become a globally respected journalistic force as well as one of the most multi-talented and productive teams anywhere in media. Jaws drop to hear that our 30-member editorial crew not only writes 30-40 stories a day but programs events around the world, produces podcasts and videos, and as of last year started a new membership-based editorial operation, Extra Crunch. Then of course there is The List, which launched last week. That astonishing productivity is a credit to Matthew's gradual work to fine-grit away the rough spots at TechCrunch and brush in new coats of talent, process, and mentorship.
If any media business and product team deserved a byline, it would be TechCrunch's. You probably don't know their names but they make it possible for the editors to lead the brand. I knew when I came to TechCrunch that the product, sales, and marketing and event staffing would never be anything but small, sometimes even just "teams" of one. Today, they number no more than our editorial group, and that means every person has to take responsibility not only for their own work but what's happening to their left and right. It works. As a colleague once remarked, "the ball never hits the floor at TechCrunch." That's a credit to a shirt-sleeves-up leadership that is highly inventive, pivots quickly, and has lots of laughs.
Joey Hinson
Joey Hinson (Photo: Max Morse for TechCrunch)
I saw the first glimmers of all that back at Disrupt SF in 2012, when Joey Hinson, our director of business operations, managed in a matter of hours to find two giant HVACs we urgently needed to cool the stage in the venue. Why? Because it was really hot (as in 90 degrees hot) and Mark Zuckerberg might have bailed on his marquee interview if we did not cool things off. Reputation disaster averted. Joey and I have been close partners ever since, and we've successfully kept abreast of the ever-shifting revenue game across digital media, events and as of last year subscriptions. Thanks in part to Joey, TechCrunch is a significantly bigger business than it was eight years ago, and our corporate owners (AOL, Oath, and Verizon Media) have taken many cues from TechCrunch innovations.
Alexandra Ames
Many have been brain storms from Alexandra Ames, who runs event marketing and epitomizes the high-return on collaborative work at TechCrunch. In 2018, Alexandra's top objective was to move 10,000 passes for TechCrunch's flagship Disrupt SF event. That was 2x prior years. With just one person on her team, Alex relied on her mastery of the TechCrunch organization and its audience -- as well as our corporate colleagues -- to marshal the editorial posts, social posting, search engine marketing, partnerships and PR to hit the number. I was proud to write marketing posts for Alexandra. She hit the number and Tim Armstrong, then CEO of Oath, told his management team, "So damn awesome to see TC at a scale very few ever thought it could get to...amazing."
I could go on, and I will, for one more very important thing. It's doubly rewarding when a brand has a moral compass, when it stands for something more than a feed of stories. It took an idiotic, sexist 60-second hackathon demo at TechCrunch Disrupt SF in 2013 to help TechCrunch find its bearings. We woke up to our responsibilities around diversity and inclusion as a result of that blow-up, and we gradually figured out what TechCrunch should do about it. The key insight was that TechCrunch itself - our powerful editorial, events, and data (Crunchbase) platform - was the core superpower we could use to help Silicon Valley make progress. Back in 2014, we launched Include, a series of projects aimed at helping under-represented groups gain visibility in Silicon Valley and break down the barriers to their participation.
We knew at the outset that Include would take a lot of extra effort and focus from a very busy team. The fact that this year we will launch Include 3.0 shows our team's conviction that we can always do better. At the same time, it's worth pointing out that the Include framework has successfully built new norms at TechCrunch, such as diversity in casting for event speakers and selection of founders for the Startup Battlefield competition. Since 2016, we have set the pace in the tech event world by publishing an annual report that shows how we've done as far as choosing speakers and founders from outside the legacy pale of Silicon Valley as well as report cards on various initiatives. It also does the important job of keeping us accountable to ourselves, our attendees and our readers.
If you asked TechCrunchers what they are most proud of, many would point to the Include effort. I would, too. It represents the best of TechCrunch's dynamism as a brand as well as the team's capacity and teamwork.
As for me, in the short term I am working on a pro bono event focused on how many rapidly advancing technologies, especially various shades of AI, will influence the next generation of accessibility and assistive tech for people who are blind or visually impaired. You'll be reading more about that soon on TechCrunch.
I wish my TechCrunch and Verizon Media colleagues all the best on the road ahead.
And for all the wonderful founders, VCs and others I've met over the course of my watch at TechCrunch, the pleasure has been all mine. Thank you for everything.