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Emissions standards drive automotive powertrain silicon sensors past $1 billion
The global market for automotive powertrain silicon sensors crossed the $1 billion threshold at the end of 2013, with stricter emission standards in the U.S. as well as Europe projected to drive the market forward, according to a new report from IHS Inc.
The global market for automotive powertrain silicon sensors crossed the $1 billion threshold at the end of 2013, with stricter emission standards in the U.S. as well as Europe projected to drive the market forward, according to a new report from IHS Inc.
Sensor revenue in vehicle powertrain applications is set to reach $1.03 billion by year-end measured at first-level package, up 7% from $964.5 million in 2012. Revenue will continue to grow at rates ranging from 5% to 7% during the next four years, on its way to some $1.28 billion by 2017.
"Although vehicles today produce considerably less pollution than 20 years ago, significant advancements continue to be made by car manufacturers in engine-out emissions and exhaust after-treatment technologies," said Richard Dixon, Ph.D., senior principal analyst for MEMS and sensors at IHS. "These improvements have been carried out as a result of mandated legislation in areas like the U.S., Japan and Western Europe, aimed at lowering carbon emissions in vehicles to help reduce global warming."
Such emission-reduction systems are used on all types of vehicles in mature markets. For example, established oxygen catalysts in diesel engines and three-way catalysts in gasoline engines are particularly effective at removing hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxide and carbon dioxide. But legislation is especially targeting diesel engines, which make up 50% of the European market, Dixon noted.
While the high fuel efficiency of diesel engines explains their popularity, it is also the engine type requiring the most treatment due to a combination of poisonous nitrogen oxide gases and particle matter (soot) produced during the combustion process. Methods to reduce these pollutants like cooled exhaust gas recirculation (EGR), diesel particle filters and selective catalytic reduction systems require sensors for control but also to monitor their performance, Dixon added.
Other systems exploited by vehicle manufacturers in the fight to meet future tougher emission-control standards include stop-start systems and gasoline particle filters.
In stop-start systems, the engine turns off when a car stops at a junction or stoplight. Stop-start systems use a combination of wheel-speed sensors to ascertain if the vehicle has stopped, with switches that determine if the clutch or brake has been actuated and the gear is in neutral position, while pressure sensors measure the vacuum generated in the braking system under a stopped engine condition. A current sensor is also deployed to determine if the battery condition is sufficient to handle the restart of the car. Considerable fuel—and thus, carbon dioxide savings—can be made in this fashion. Stop-start systems will grow very fast in the years ahead, with penetration in vehicle to reach well over 30% by 2017.
Meanwhile, the use of gasoline particle (GPF) filters may impact European car makers in the future. GPFs are effective at removing soot particles from a gasoline direct-injection engine in the same manner as a filter in a diesel engine. GDI engines produce higher nitrogen oxide than standard gasoline engines, and removing this poisonous gas produces the similarly dangerous soot. GPFs are being considered to meet the new targets on particle emissions in Euro 6 legislation. A pressure sensor monitoring the filter is one application for silicon, even though other sensors monitoring particle mass will also be important.
Other systems that will make use of sensors to help in the emissions-reduction effort include:
- In-cylinder pressure sensors, useful in regulating conditions in combustion. IHS sees these devices, projected to include one sensor per cylinder, as important in the future, especially for diesel vehicles. Companies like Volkswagen and Daimler are already deploying these sensors in new models.
- Oil pressure sensors, in order to monitor leakages in the crankcase—itself under pressure.
- Evaporative fuel sensors—mostly used in the United States, but European markets are utilizing systems to store and later release evaporated fuel from fuel lines and fuel tanks, to be burned in the engine.
- New SCR systems, used on high-end diesels like Mercedes- Benz E-class cars, which need pressure sensors to monitor the contents of a separate tank supplying ammonia into the exhaust system to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions.
Meanwhile EGR systems show only light growth for pressure sensors. Most of the information for EGR systems today is provided by knowledge of the valve position that bleeds in exhaust gas to mix with air and fuel in the cylinder, and temperature to show the start of EGR gas flow. Pressure sensors can provide additional value by giving details of the flow rate, but that is the exception at present.
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Allscripts is one of the biggest companies in Health IT. Glen Tullman built it from almost nowhere and then last year after one bad quarter and a power struggle in the boardroom (which he initially won), he left–and he stresses it was his decision. Along the way there were lots of interesting choices made, and he and Allscripts ended up with a sweep of all the negative awards at this years HISSIES (including his first time as "Industry figure in who's face you'd most like to throw a pie").
But despite all the abuse, what Glen did over the past 15 years is pretty remarkable given the stagnant state of the enterprise HIT market. I've interviewed him almost every year since THCB started and he was never shy in giving his opinions. Last month I got him for a long retrospective. THCB will be running that in parts over the next week or so, and he dishes on the Allscripts' record, on Epic, on the future of health IT and more.
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Nick and Tesla Explore Robotics
The science-savvy twins return in book two of the Nick and Tesla series. As their summer of intrigue and engineering continues, they find themselves in the middle of a small-town mystery and a bunch of robots. Along the way, they make their own—and you can, too!
Fun with Robotics Engineering
Like many beginning robotics engineers, Nick and Tesla build their own robots using toothbrush heads. Follow along as they design their bots, try out the DIY build from the book, and continue the exploration with bristlebot projects from Science Buddies: Racing BristleBots: On Your Mark. Get Set. Go! and Build a Light-Tracking Robot Critter.
Book 2 in the Nick and Tesla series, Nick and Tesla's Robot Army Rampage: A Mystery with Hoverbots, Bristle Bots, and Other Robots You Can Build Yourself, picks up where the first book left off. Having solved the mystery surrounding the neighborhood mansion, Nick and Tesla have settled into their summer with their scientist uncle.
As Robot Army Rampage by Bob Pflugfelder and Steve Hockensmith (Quirk Books) opens, Nick is experimenting with a homemade volcano, Tesla is working on a rocket, and Uncle Newt is tweaking a compost-fueled vacuum, which (of course) explodes, creating a smelly mess that sends them all running from the house.
The action in Robot Army Rampage moves from Uncle Newt's neighborhood to the town of Half Moon Bay. Escaping the fumes from the compost explosion, the kids and Uncle Newt head for pizza and catch their first glimpse of what turns out to be a wave of robots that have quietly taken up residence in businesses on Main Street. Inspired, the kids head to the local electronics and hobby store for parts to make their own robots.
At the Wonder Hut, a few new players enter the story, including Dr. Hiroko Sakurai (a former scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory), a store employee, and a joystick-controlled robot modeled after the Curiosity Mars rover. Unfortunately, the shelves for robotics parts at the Wonder Hut are, mysteriously, empty.
With no new parts, the twins challenge each other to build a robot from what they can salvage out of their uncle's lab, and the robot engineering begins. Their first bots are also the first projects in the book that readers can make themselves—Nick's Do-It-Yourself PC Leftovers Wander-Bot and Tesla's Do-It-Yourself Semi-Invisible Bottle Bot. With coat hangers, an empty soda bottle, a cast-off fan from an old computer, and some basic hardware and electronics parts, readers can build their own bots and put them to the test.
Building and battling robots takes the kids' minds off of their parents (who have been mysteriously whisked to Uzbekistan), but when Tesla's bot is crushed under a set of bike wheels, a new mystery rolls in, and the story takes off.
Mystery on Main Street
The father of one of the neighborhood kids from book one owns a comic book store on Main Street. When a valuable collectible comic is stolen, the kids decide to try and help solve the case.
As the kids play detective, robots continue to appear in town and be interwoven in the story. Early in their investigation, Nick and Tesla decide to use robotic bugs to distract their first suspect. Again, the siblings have different ideas about the design of the bugs. One wants to use LED eyes. The other wants to incorporate grape jelly to make a gooey mess. They argue, too, about the body (housing) of the bugs, debating the merits of cardboard or bottle caps. Ultimately, they compromise on toothbrush robots with mini vibrating motors (which are suddenly back in stock at the Wonder Hut).
From the Wonder Hut store clerk, the twins learn that Dr. Sakurai has been giving robots to the businesses in town to help promote the store. What follows is a comedy of errors and a series of misreads and half information as the kids try and sort things out.
As the mystery begins to unravel, the robots in town take on sinister overtones. But Nick and Tesla are up to the challenge. During a final showdown, Nick improvises exactly the right tool to save the day. Read the book to find out how (scientifically) his Super-soaker Bot Blaster takes down a robot army!
Making Connections
Readers of Robot Army Rampage will delight in Nick and Tesla's second summer adventure. As they follow along, they will pick up general robotics vocabulary, information, and inspiration. Servo motors, actuators, hydraulics, pneumatics, kinematic functions, micromotors... it's all here! As in book one, Robot Army Rampage contains guided versions of some of Nick and Tesla's inventions as DIY activities for readers, including Nick's Do-It-Yourself PC Leftovers Wander-Bot, Tesla's Do-It-Yourself Semi-Invisible Bottle Bot, Homemade Robo-Bug, Replacement Angel Hoverbot, and the Totally Improvised Super-Soaker Bot Blaster.
Readers can find similar hands-on science and engineering projects at Science Buddies that extend the fun and encourage students to try out additional approaches to building and designing robots and hovercraft! See the following science project ideas, blog posts, and family science activities for more information:
- How Does a Hovercraft Hover?
- How Does a Hovercraft Work?
- Hovercraft: A Multi-Terrain Vehicle
- Building Bristlebots: Basic Toothbrush Robotics
- Family Robotics: Toothbrush Bots that Follow the Light
- Art Bot: Build a Wobbly Robot Friend That Creates Art
- Racing BristleBots: On Your Mark. Get Set. Go!
- Build a Light-Tracking Robot Critter
- Dive Into Robotics with Robotics: Discover the Science and Technology of the Future
- Create a Carnival of Robot Critters this Summer
On the Nick and Tesla website, students, parents, and teachers can watch videos of projects from the book. A great educator's guide is also available for parents and teachers. The guide includes vocabulary, chapter summaries, questions for discussion, writing/research suggestions, Common Core State Standards (CCSS) notes, and more.
Don't miss our in-depth look at book 1, Nick and Tesla's High-Voltage Danger Lab: A Mystery with Electromagnets, Burglar Alarms, and Other Gadgets You Can Build Yourself and stay tuned for our review of book 3, Nick and Tesla's Secret Agent Gadget Battle: A Mystery with Spy Cameras, Code Wheels, and Other Gadgets You Can Build Yourself. Book 4, Nick and Tesla's Super-Cyborg Gadget Glove: A Mystery with a Blinking, Beeping, Voice-Recording Gadget Glove You Can Build Yourself, is scheduled for release in October (2014).
Update: See our in-depth look at book 3, Nick and Tesla's Secret Agent Gadget Battle!
If you have a favorite science-themed book—for any age—let us know!
You Might Also Enjoy These Related Posts:
- Book list for science-filled summer reading!
- New Series of Science Buddies Books
- Look Up: Bird and Astronomy Summer Reading
- Blending Science and Art with Paper Inventions
- Special Effects Fun with Nick and Tesla
- Nick and Tesla Build a Gadget Glove: Science Reading
- The Most Magnificent Thing: Science Reading
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I made a pincushion to swap! The Houston Modern Quilt Guild is swapping with the Emerald Coast Modern Quilt Guild. I should be getting mine at this month's meeting.
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I also made a sewing machine mini to swap at HMQG. I think I need to make another one for myself!


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SALISBURY, Md. – A Maryland special education teacher was arrested Tuesday, accused of dealing drugs at the same high school where she worked for 17 years.
Monica Snee, 51, faces multiple heroin-related charges, including possession and distribution on school property, according to the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office. While officials believe she used the Parkside High School grounds to sell drugs, Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis said there isn't evidence she dealt to students or teachers.
During a press conference Wednesday, Lewis called Snee's alleged crimes "the worst act of betrayal."
Lewis said deputies found 173 capsules of heroin, 340 oxycodone pills, several suboxone strips and nearly $3,000 worth of cash inside her 2016 Nissan Rogue. Deputies started investigating her in October after a recovering addict came forward to reveal his source of drugs "during a dark time in his life," Lewis said.
During the investigation, officials say they learned that Snee was dealing drugs at Parkside High and several other locations.
Snee is believed to have used a parking lot behind the school, near the bus ramp as her distribution point.
Lewis said he believes she wasn't working alone, adding that there is no evidence to suggest she was collaborating with anyone at the school.
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Donald R. Droppo Jr.
Vice President/Owner, Sales & Marketing
Curtis Packaging
With responsibility for the management and development of Curtis Packaging's marketing strategy, Droppo has focused on environmental sustainability and "greening" Curtis Packaging. Through his leadership and commitment, Curtis became one of the first printing and packaging companies in North America to be 100% carbon neutral, to power its entire operation using 100% renewable energy and to be Forest Stewardship Council certified. The majority of the clean, renewable energy mix is sourced from Green-e certified wind power. Conversion efforts offset approximately 7.1 million pounds of carbon dioxide annually. To reach this level, the company first recognized a significant industry change and then determined how it would adapt to achieve its complementary goals. Curtis Packaging believed that going beyond basic compliance with sustainable practices was in the best interest of both the environment and its business. Sustainability goals were not merely incorporated into its business model; sustainability became the business model.
Under a pledge to produce its luxury packaging in the most eco-conscious manner, Curtis Packaging has more than doubled its annual sales over the last four years to more than $40 million. "Every day at Curtis, we raise the bar to explore ways of performing a task in the most eco-friendly manner," Droppo told GCI magazine in a 2007 interview.
Danielle Kelli Fleming
Danielle and Company
The well-noted impact of fragrance on moods and memories is intriguing to certified behavior therapist Danielle Kelli Fleming. The intrigue took Fleming down a path beyond "what if" to a big conclusion and, ultimately, to a destination of creation. "Scent is very individualized, but my studies have shown that most people agree on the particular scent having the specified reaction," she told GCI magazine.
The Essential Experiences line of soaps and shower gels is grouped into five mood categories, and distribution grew from a local farmer's market to more than 65 boutiques and spas across the U.S. and Canada. "You will hear me saying in the office all the time, 'We are not selling soap, we are selling a concept.' The concept is that our products will help you get into a specific mood by simply bathing. This is not aromatherapy. It delves deeper into the science of scent stimulus and how it results in a behavioral change."
Tom Raffy
President/Technical Sales
GAR Labs Inc.
Tom Raffy is an adventurer, a man who has piloted his small aircraft through storms over the Pacific, and he brings the enthusiasm required in this sense of adventure to his business. His enthusiasm for and ability to engage others about GAR Labs has led to a successful 25 years of business—measured by both a proliferation of successfully designed product lines and through its employees.
"We are proud to say that our average employee has worked here for more than 15 years, which shows up in our finished product quality and consistency," says Raffy. "We have three tenured formulating chemists. Our primary research chemist, who has been at GAR Labs for more than 20 years, is very innovative and has the knack of being able to identify market trends and to associate new product technology with those trends."
With a primary strength in new product and new market technology, GAR Labs focuses on continual development of a series of new hair and skin care products. And the drive for the new and innovative in product offerings has also translated to how the company conducts its business, investing heavily in business technologies.
"This technological edge gives us the ability to quickly give same-day pricing as well as INCI compliant ingredient statements within minutes. This major advantage helps speed communication as well as new product development from months to days," Raffy says.
Raffy's latest adventure is converting GAR Labs to solar power. The parabolic dishes and 400–500 solar electric panels required for the 86,000-square-foot facility will make the company reasonably energy independent.
Scott-Vincent Borba
Creator and Founder
Finding success in a new segment of an ever-expanding market is not an easy undertaking. Scott-Vincent Borba, called "an entrepreneur with evolutionary merit," not only sought to carve out a place in the emerging nutraceuticals segment, he aims to change the way people think about skin care. In creating Skin Balance Water, Aqua-less Crystalline and Skin Balance Confections skin care waters, Borba melds science, beauty, fashion and lifestyle into one organic, synergistic approach. Armed with experience in developing and branding products for a number of well-known personal care companies, Borba launched his brand on QVC in May 2006, and posted approximately $5 million in sales little more than a year later through that channel alone. That success led to an investment collaboration and to a unique agreement with Anheuser-Busch in which the beverage giant gained U.S. distribution and marketing rights, which also included BORBA's Aqua-Less Crystallines, a powder form of the drinkable skin care line. The brand continues to build partnerships within the cosmetics industry, providing, for example, nutraceutical cores for lipsticks.
Michael Indursky
Chief Marketing and Strategic Officer
Burt's Bees
With more than 20 years as a strategic marketer with a strong consumer orientation, Mike Indursky began his current role leading all marketing activities at Burt's Bees in July 2005. In designing and directing the strategic development of the brand, Indursky has championed a commitment to educate consumers as the words "natural" and "organic" appear on evermore labels, while driving the expansion of Burt's Bees' natural products portfolio to maximize the company's growth.
The Greater Good is the company's response to consumer and competitive dynamics in its category, and under this business model, with strong leadership from Indursky, Burt's Bees has undertaken the responsibility toward helping consumers understand what natural is and isn't in order for them to maximize their well-being. Furthermore, the model dictates that Burt's discloses ingredients and associated risks.
Indursky's commitment to these endeavors has not been limited to within the walls of Burt's Bees. There are efforts to reach out directly to competition, to achieve a standard in defining naturals, and remain active in organizations such as the Natural Products Association, for which he chairs the personal care division.
Neil Morris
Perfumer and Founder
Neil Morris Fragrances
Enthusiasm is engaging, and Neil Morris' enthusiasm for fragrance and what inspires him to create fragrances allows him to engage potential buyers and consumers before the scent even wafts from the bottle. His is a powerful and innate style for success, and he has combined it with a fearless approach to creation. "I kept hearing that people were yearning for different fragrances, to stand out from the crowd, something different than what was offered by mass merchandised fragrances," Morris told GCI magazine. "With decades of exploration, refinement and inspiration from top perfumers, I've developed a process and approach to fragrance design that allows me to create fragrances that truly express the individuality of my clients. I love when
a perfume pushes the envelope."
Douglas Canfield
President and CEO
Canfield Scientific, Inc./Canfield Imaging Systems
Under a corporate mission to provide advanced imaging capabilities to the medical and skin care industries, Douglas Canfield has built a company that specializes in photographic documentation to demonstrate the efficacy of various skin care efforts. Canfield has leveraged the company's 20 years of expertise in medical photographic equipment, software and computer systems for patient imaging to create both new technologies—such as its RBX Technology to detect, visualize and analysis subsurface melanin and vascular conditions—and a skin analysis database of 1,000,000 images (to launch in February) that will allow the comparison of skin conditions of individuals to the general populace to form the basis of a statistical model that provides skin care professionals the expected range for important complexion features for skin type and age.
"Years of work have gone into the database's creation. The sheer scale of the database will have a dramatic impact on the understanding of skin aging across all skin types," said Canfield, who is also an adjunct clinical professor in the Department of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center and director of the World Cranialfacial Foundation in Dallas, Texas.
Pamela Bailey
President and CEO
Personal Care Products Council
Pam Bailey's career includes stints with three different presidential administrations, culminating as deputy director of the White House Office of Public Affairs, where she initiated the Office of Communications Planning.
During that phase of her career, Bailey developed what she called an appreciation for the governmental process and the importance of a strong FDA. She also gained an appreciation for the importance of advocacy and communication in building support for policy initiatives.
Since moving to the private sector, Bailey has undertaken the challenges of understanding consumers and seeking the appropriate balance of regulation so that innovation can continue, and she has brought the lessons of all this experience to the Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association (CTFA) which she joined as president and CEO in 2005.
Since then, she has worked to build a communications infrastructure that allows the organization to work with company counterparts outside the U.S. and with association counterparts in every key market.
"You combine that global impact with our innovation on product and packaging, on understanding the consumer, and I don't think there is an industry that is more focused on consumer marketing or one that I can imagine feeling better about," said Bailey.
Bailey has led the association through a process of evaluating how it can continue to best serve as a resource to consumers and a forthright champion of the industry. That process culminated with the CTFA's November 2007 name change to the Personal Care Products Council and launch of an a new, in-depth consumer information Web site (www.cosmeticsinfo.org) pertaining to cosmetic safety.
"Our new name, motto and consumer Web site are the latest expression of our shared core values of safety, quality, and innovation," said Bailey.
Robert Lee Morris
Robert Lee Morris, Inc.
Synergies are powerful in both business and in beauty. When the synergy is a well-executed design collaboration, the results are both stunning and effective.
As "artistic companions," Robert Lee Morris and Donna Karan have collaborated since her first fashion show in 1985, and Morris' jewelry has been included in many Donna Karan collections. Morris sculptures have also been featured in Donna Karan retail stores.
After 20 years of collaboration, it's not surprising that their work together continues to expand and find new avenues. It is striking, however, that the collaboration on the Donna Karan Gold fragrance, launched in late 2006, melded Karan's concept and Morris' style so completely to garner kudos from fragrance insiders and the industry in general, while also affecting consumers.
The scent is designed to capture the warmth of gold through Casablanca lily, amber, golden balsam, gold pollen, East Indian patchouli and other notes.
Morris—whose jewelry is designed to illuminate the body and takes its inspiration from nature, myth and fantasy—applied his signature technique in the hammered gold metal sleeve to represent the spirit of the scent and reflect both inner softness and outer strength.
Working to fuse the spiritual and the sensual, Morris' designs have been described as both "cerebral" and "intuitive," and his signature shapes "capture the strength and grace of liquid geometry," and this facet of the design for Gold aptly reflects the liquid within.
Furthermore, in conversations with fragrance insiders and designers, a texture motif sounds repeatedly as an effective element in both expressing a product ideal and connecting with consumers—a consumer must first be enticed to pick up a product to make a purchase and that texture is key to such enticement. The intention with Gold was that the bottle simply begged to be touched.
John P. Sottery
Enginuity PLM
Founder and CEO
Armed with a BS in chemistry from Bates College and a doctorate in analytical chemistry from Duke University, John Sottery joined P&G in 1985, where he rose to head the Skin Care Exploratory Formulation group. Sottery led the development of new sunscreen technology and played a key role in developing breakthrough formula-based consumer products. In 1992, Sottery founded Enginuity PLM, formerly IMS Inc., a software company that empowers global product development organizations to bring superior formulations to market more rapidly and at lower cost.
"Twenty years ago, you had more time to innovate. There is more and more 'busy work,' and people don't have as much time to innovate," Sottery told GCI magazine when Enginuity PLM was launched in 2006. "The demand for innovation is much higher, and in today's market, if you're the third person in the market, your chance to take a share is much lower. You're looked at a
'me too' product."
Enginuity is a formula-centric, R&D data management platform with a search engine, combined with a collaborative formulation, packaging and product launch system. The system is designed to streamline R&D work processes and accelerate product innovation by aggregating all corporate product development information in one place and providing R&D staff access to current and historical formulation and packaging work. Created to be intuitive, Enginuity captures product development information as formulators work to eliminate the need to document data in a separate system and allow the leveraging of intellectual property to avoid past mistakes and take advantage of past successes.
Cristina Samuels
Jennifer Isaac
MODE Cosmetics
Daughters of a 40-year industry veteran, Cristina Samuels and Jennifer Isaac epitomize the strengths of the beauty industry—continuity and tradition propelled by innovation and evolution.
With a drive toward entrepreneurship fueled by experience in the family business, MODE was born as the two experimented with a line of cosmetics that incorporated health, fashion and nature. "Natural products give the impression of all or nothing—all crunch and no glamour, or all glamour and no benefits," said Samuels. "I knew that there was this void in the market, and if I was interested in this idea, other women would be also."
Samuels worked in sales and marketing and Isaac focused on product development at Zela International, and through their combination of skills, a 250 SKU line influenced by ingredients and new formulations was born. The duo aimed for quality products delivered at great price points. With fashion playing heavily into the design of the line itself, color plays an important part in the overall line production.
Fundamentally, the line is built around natural ingredients to promote a healthy lifestyle, but Isaac and Samuels also recognized the limits in using all natural ingredients. "When we first began research and development, we wanted to create a color cosmetics line that was all natural, but we learned very quickly that the performance of the products were subpar—the product variety, selection and color palette would be greatly limited and the efficacy and quality of the products would be greatly compromised," said Samuels. "We knew that we could not stand behind substandard products just to claim all natural."
Bryan Durocher
Durocher Enterprises Inc.
Bryan Durocher believes that health, wellness and beauty are an organic process, and has applied this insight and his industry expertise to coach, consult and educate global audiences. Durocher specializes in working with manufacturers, professionals and consumers to develop an in-depth understanding of individual communication styles.
"The relationship between a client and a beauty wellness professional is one of the most personal and intimate relationships on the planet," said Durocher. "I started my career as an image consultant, and time after time, I witnessed the magic of physical transformation. When a person gets expert advice on their appearance, puts together a life game plan, and looks in the mirror and feels confident and attractive for the first time in their life, it becomes a catalyst for enormous change."
As an author, Durocher has also looked at global trends (from spa trends to consumer/marketer-coined product buzz words and their impact on raw materials), the synergies created and how to apply both in business. He expresses this understanding to manufacturers and beauty professionals in order for them to create tangible results.An international spa and beauty expert, Durocher serves as an expert for Health Journal TV and Life and Leisure TV, and has been featured on NBC.
Hojung Lee
Katalin Berenyi
Erborian is a skin care brand that demonstrates the unique possibilities when complementary skill sets and a global outlook merge. Hojung Lee and Katalin Berenyi are L'Oréal veterans—Lee emerged from the labs, while Berenyi worked as international marketing director for several brands. Together, they have combined Korean medicinal herbal science and modern cosmetic science to create formulas they call "adaptogenes," designed to balance the biological processes of the skin's aging and increase in efficiency and action with continued use. In addition to this blend of the ancient and modern, the validity of the Korean phytotherapy-based ingredients are put through current test methods all along the research and the manufacturing process.
Anne Sempowski Ward
President and COO
Fashion Fair Cosmetics
Not only did Anne Sempowski Ward's ascension through the marketing ranks at high-powered global corporations to a top level management position at Fashion Fair Cosmetics not follow the beaten path, it was marked by a number of firsts that illustrate that the road less traveled often makes all the difference.
Ward joined P&G in 1996 as a process engineer, and in 1998 made what the company called an unprecedented move to the marketing department. She spent more than a decade at the company, where she led several brands and categories, created the "Total You" beauty platform across P&G's largest beauty brands, and launched significant African-American marketing programs—a role she continued in as assistant vice president of African-American marketing for the Coca-Cola Company. She was also the youngest and first African-American trustee on the P&G Fund, the entity responsible for all of P&G's philanthropic giving.
"With her zealous understanding of the ever-changing marketplace, she is well-positioned to meet the challenge to help revolutionize Fashion Fair Cosmetics," said Linda Johnson Rice, president and CEO, Johnson Publishing Company, of which Fashion Fair Cosmetics is a wholly-owned subsidiary.
Lisa Hoffman
LH Skincare LLC
Simplicity in beauty and in products does not have to forsake quality, luxury or appeal. Lisa Hoffman created a brand under the notion that consumers are looking for the "simplest means to create and express beauty." Hoffman's lines of bath/shower products, fragrances and skin care have been designed to yield exceptional results while making the beauty process as simple as possible.
Lifestyles, consumers' daily habits/preferences and personal experience were also leveraged in the brand creation—as evidences in the "portable apothecary" concept of the packaging, allowing for products that render various regimens to be simple and convenient on the road. "It came to me in a dream," Hoffman told the New York Times in 2007 of the packaging concept for one product line. "How neurotic is that?
I dream about packing and packaging."
Emrah Kovacoglu
President, CEO and Founder
Emrah Kovacoglu called the work during his 10 years at P&G "groundbreaking," but he noticed a downside to the company's streak of innovation after innovation—consumers were overwhelmed and frustrated. "I remember one consumer saying, 'It's too much—it's just too much. I just bought this thing and now you're telling me to buy something else instead,'" said Kovacoglu. With so many beauty products launched each year, Kovacoglu reasoned that consumers needed a comprehensive and objective beauty resource.
"This category is so emotional to consumers, I had to help them find answers even if it meant doing some pretty unorthodox things in the beauty industry."
The site is designed to be easily accessible, offering personalized beauty solutions to meet consumers' individual needs and aspirations—featuring a product library, how-to videos, detailed user ratings and reviews, and an extensive community element.
Carlos Benaim
International Flavors & Fragrances
A classic is built on an underlying frame of artistry that stands the tests of each generation. Carlos Benaim has aced those tests. An engineering student who "accidentally discovered" a fascination with fragrance and perfumery, Benaim celebrates his 40th year as an IFF perfumer in 2008.
Benaim's chemistry internship began with a three-week detour in the company's perfumers training lab, sparking an instintaneous interest in scent. He began his career at IFF upon graduation. His first "big" success was Ralph Lauren's Polo. Calvin Klein Euphoria and other classics have since been added to his resume, and he has been witness to changing fragrance trend landscapes and adapted to each. For Elizabeth Taylor's White Diamonds, he left the lab and spent time with Taylor at her home, talking about her favorite flowers and conducting blind smell sessions.
His work earned an American Society of Perfumers' Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004, and his creations have won a number of FiFi awards. Persistence, he says, is the most important quality in the industry. "You have to have a strong ego to absorb all the rejections on a daily basis," he told Perfumer & Flavorist magazine in a 2004 interview. "Many times we are pushed into meeting a brief deadline, and that is definitely not a source of creativity for a perfumer. So, the important thing is not to get caught up in the briefs and the test, but to really explore your own creativity, your own artistic side and to come up with interesting ideas and pursue them with diligence."
Hana Zalzal
President and Founder
CARGO Cosmetics Corp.
The ecological impact of cosmetic packaging inspired seasoned entrepreneur Hana Zalzal to integrate renewable resources into every aspect of CARGO Cosmetics' PlantLove lipsticks. Zalzal, a former civil engineer who forwent careers in marketing and finance to start her own multimillion dollar business, has achieved success through word-of-mouth celebrity endorsements (rather than advertising) and pushing the green product trend to its next logical step—a completely new and encompassing application of green packaging in a previously underserved segment. The biodegradable outer cartons were created from flower paper and infused flower seeds, allowing the packaging to be moistened, planted and grown. The lipstick tube itself—housing the botanical-based product—is made from PLA.


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Not a fan of Big Government? Well this will shock you: Government agencies will add a petabyte–that's equal to one quadrillion bytes, or 1,024 terabytes over the next two years, according to a MeriTalk survey of 151 Federal government CIOs and IT managers. To put that in perspective, one petabyte of data is equal to 20 million four-drawer filing cabinets filled with text. Meanwhile, government agencies are struggling to reap the benefits of Big Data as information piles up, lacking the data storage and access, computational power, and personnel, the survey indicated.
The report, titled "The Big Data Gap," found that as agencies look to leverage big data, the technology and applications needed to successfully leverage big data are still emerging. Sixty percent of civilian agencies and 42 percent of Department of Defense/intelligence agencies say they are just now learning about big data and how it can work for their agency. Federal IT professionals say improving overall agency efficiency is the top advantage of big data (59 percent) followed by improving speed and accuracy of decisions (51 percent) and the ability to forecast (30 percent).
Whether it is an opportunity or a challenge, data continues to grow: 87 percent of IT professionals say their stored data has grown in the last two years, and 96 percent expect their data to grow in the next two years (by an average of 64 percent). Agencies reported, on average, it would take them at least 3 years to take full advantage of big data. In fact, agencies are doing very little with their data, according to survey results. Only 40 percent of those surveyed said they are making strategic decisions with the data, and just 28 percent collaborate with other agencies to analyze shared data.
There are other challenges as well: More than half (57 percent) of agencies reported a break in their system, saying at least one data set has outgrown their current management tools. While 64 percent of the IT professionals surveyed said their agency could scale to meet data growth, they estimated it would take 10 months on average to double their short- to medium-term capacity. In addition, some agencies are taking steps to improve their ability to manage and make decisions with big data. Top tactics include investing in IT infrastructure to optimize data storage (39 percent), training IT professionals to manage/analyze big data (33 percent), and improving the security of stored data (31 percent).
"Government has a gold mine of data at its fingertips," Mark Weber, president of U.S. Public Sector for NetApp, which sponsored the survey, said in a prepared statement. "The key is turning that data into high-quality information that can increase efficiencies and inform decisions. Agencies need to look at big data solutions that can help them efficiently process, analyze, manage, and access data, enabling them to more effectively execute their missions."
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ABOUT LEGACY HALL: Legacy Hall is an innovative, European-style food hall combining the best elements of a beer garden, craft brewery and live entertainment venue. You'll love the three-story, 55,000-square-foot space featuring nearly 20 curated restaurant stalls offering flavors from around the world. Plus, the Box Garden which is the Hall's expansive outdoor entertainment venue, where guests sing along to live music, watch movies, cheer on live sports broadcasts and more.
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Sunday, May 27, 2012
My Next Book: A Prospectus of a Prospectus
First: do please look again at the Wee Plea, and, if you want to continue the conversation, please join the ongoing post on activism and the academy.
How to Make a Human's epilogue explores a handful of works willing to risk all by abandoning humanism: the tradition of the15 Signs of the Last Days; a lost oxen story from Paulinus of Nola; a holy horse carcass from Folcuin of St. Bertin's portion of the Deeds of the Abbots of Saint Bertin; and a middle bit from Sir Gowther.
My next book will pick up where the first left off by concentrating on medieval works that imagine what it might mean to give up on human dominance. None of the works I'll examine in Book Two salves a nervous human conscience; all offer a way out of humanism, but at the price, not of humiliation, precisely, but of something far riskier than humbleness.
Surely there are other texts I could look at. But I'm a medievalist, so I'm writing about medieval texts. If you were to suggest that I might learn to write about something else, I'd pack my ears loosely with garlic and flee. Less glibly, I'd say that I'm interested in the outliers to a textual climate almost universally committed to human supremacy. I'm interested in texts that at least propose to leave off human supremacy, even though so much—salvation, most notably—is at stake.
Here's an outline, like the whole project, tentatively proposed. Following the introduction (duh), there will be three chapters: on pets; on feral children; and on worms and corpses. The conclusion will possibly develop the essay on fish knights I wrote with Peggy McCracken (incidentally, Peggy M. and Sharon Kinoshita have just come out with a book on Marie de France: well worth using). I hope to do Book Two in 65-80K words, that is, about 50-65K fewer words than How to Make a Human. All three chapters will have been published in some form by the time the book appears, as 2,000 words (dead pets), 7500 (feral children), and 5600 (worms). The book will allow each chapter to be the length it wants to be, likely 15-20K each, with another 20-25K words available for the intro and conclusion.
In more detail, the DEAD PETS chapter will revisit Cary Wolfe and Jonathan Elmer's old notion of the "Logic of the Pet" to see what affect and habit can do. No surprise, Haraway will be important here, but I imagine I'm going to turn up a host of other pet research once I start digging; as for affect, I barely have any idea where to begin: Fradenburg? Bersani? The chapter will start with Yvain's lion, if only because everyone's always asking me about it; then (maybe?) look at Bevis of Hampton's horse, Arondel; and conclude with a Middle English version of the canis legend (you know, the story of the dog, the baby, the snake, and an impetuous knight) in which the knight, mad with grief and guilt, drowns himself. I'll be happy to talk about other animal companions, if you have any on hand. Next day edit: rather than talk about Arondel, I think I'll do a pocket history of medieval pets and pet love, to set up the dogs story: I have material already on hand on Chaucer's Prioress; likewise Tristan's dog; and I can build on large body of already existing work on medieval hunting dogs.
The FERAL CHILD chapter will, in effect, follow humans out into the wild, by starting with another version of the canis legend in which the grieving knight does just that. If you've already read AVMEO, you know some of what I'll do here: my primary text will be the story of the Wolf Child of Hesse, from the Chronicle of the Benedictine Monastery of Saint Peter of Erfurt, although I plan to provide a pocket history of medieval and early modern feral children. Where chapter one centered on affect (how we're remapped by feeling, even to the point of suicide), chapter two will center on feeding and, in a larger sense, action, as in: what can we do when we can't let humanism guide us anymore? What might it look to eat without the confidence of doing the right thing, without the protection of a good conscience? My philosophical guides will be the ethical quandaries raised by Derrida's meditations on eating, and especially those of object-oriented philosophy and other new materialisms, for example, Ian Bogost's section on metaphorism in Alien Phenomenology and, I suspect, Karen Barad's (gigantic!) Meeting the Universe Halfway. I might even be able to squeeze in an appreciation of the brilliant (Not) Tilda Swinton twitter account. Likely I'll have to look at wilder manifestos on ethical eating.
The WORMS chapter turns from eating to being eaten. Having started with affect, and moved on to behavior, I'll be finishing with matter, with the flux of things that goes on, indifferent to our feelings or actions. I'll start by discussing a famous column from the Abbey of St. Marie in Souillac (see image above: for the whole flickr set from my visit, see here). My primary texts, however, will be medieval death art, particularly the Disputation Between the Body and Worms and its illustrations, from that well-studied Carthusian miscellany, British Library Add. 37049. Perversely, maybe, my reading of this pious material will be profane, not so much indifferent to its proper spiritual context but rather open to a more expansive sense of context than usual. I'll be conceptualizing the flux of matter as eating, and my guiding philosophical points might be the 'consumptive' element in Graham Harman's key examples, namely, the cotton and the fire and sucking tubes.
The FISH KNIGHTS strike me as a good place to leave off, because this weird episode from the Roman de Perceforest raises all the questions the book will have posed by this point: what happens when we come to love and admire the nonhuman; what happens when we're not sure we're eating the right thing; and what happens when we're no longer so sure about divisions between life and nonlife and organic and inorganic. I'll likely finish with points inspired by Eileen's AVMEO essay, viz., that in a material world, self-effacement is not an option, even if we try to do without the comfort of self-justification. We have to be somewhere; and we've already had a decision made for us to take up someone else's place, even if that place we occupy is always enmeshed in a world of other shifting agents, each with its own agenda (readers of The Ecological Thought might hear a friendly argument brewing).
My tasks are as follows: to read more deeply in ecocriticism, particularly in its more misanthropic veins. I'll want, as well, to read more versions of the canis legend (I've done 22 so far, and have about another 100 to go); to determine if more manuscripts of the Erfurt chronicle have turned up since the MGH published its edition 113 years ago; and, especially, I'll want somehow to avoid my own work's universalizing tendencies.
I'd especially like to try to pay more than lip service to gender. The canis legend tends to be terrifically misogynist; and the Disputation smugly inflicts putrefaction on a beautiful woman with as mean a spirit as we see in, say, The Testament of Cresseid. I need to do something with this, but right now I'm not seeing how to get this done in a project with such a posthuman trajectory. Even Stacy Alaimo's Bodily Natures --a great book for showing us how to do a feminist materialist criticism--mostly concerns humans, even if she conceptualizes the human in a way radically different from the traditionally bounded, denatured (neo)liberal humanist subject.
Wish me luck! And please give me suggestions or warnings. I'm not the fastest writer in our world, so there's still time for you to intervene.
If you're nice, in comments, I'll tell you want Book #3 will be about.
5 comments:
- Anne said...
Thank you for this inspiration to summer thinking and writing, Karl! I read this after reading your Bisclavret piece and had ethics in mind the whole time. I wonder if within the canis legends there'll be room for Guinefort, the Holy Greyhound, and Schmitt's longue durée analysis (which, to me, opposed a Christian ethic to a folk ethic). My students last fall were sympathetic to the folk legends of Guinefort, but then horrified right along with Stephen of Bourbon at the mothers who would leave their children alone in the dark between two trees to heal them. Discussion turned to medical ethics then. I'm also completely taken with your Souillac images - they are _glorious_! Camille has a great short piece on the somatic invitation of the trumeau: "Mouths and Meanings: Towards an Anti-Iconography of Medieval Art," in _Iconography at the Crossroads_. ed. Brendan Cassidy. Princeton University Press, 1993: 43-58. Looking forward to this book already, as your first continues to rock my syllabi.
- medievalkarl said...
Thanks Anne! The Guinefort legend is, in fact, one of the 120-odd versions of the canis legend. That's one of the things I love about it. That 'leaving their children alone' thing is something we see in some other medieval French folk medicine (or whatever the term is): leaving kids of roofs, for example, a practice, I believe, condemned in the Corrector of Burchard of Worms. For more see ""Pratiques Superstitieuses au debut du Xle siecle d'apres le "Corrector sive Medicus" de Burchard, eveque de Worms (965-1025)" by Cyrille Vogel. I think.
Thanks! Full disclosure: some of the Souillac images are by my colleague Scott Dexter, and some by my wife's steady hand. Asa Mittman sent the Camille along to me last month I think: no surprise, I'm blown away by it. So smart. I need to do some digging on what folks have said more recently.
And SO GLAD TO HEAR that the first book has a home in your syllabi! If you'd like to skype or google video chat me in to a class to chat with your students next semester, I'm more than happy to do it. - 10:51 AM
- medievalkarl said...
More clearly, I mean that YES Guinefort's going to have to be featured. Iirc, one of the odd bits about that legend is God's blighting of the knight's land. It's a real outlier in how the story normally works, where the knight normally just breaks his sword and spear, cuts the top of his shoes to turn them into sandals, and then exiles himself to the Holy Land.
- Nic D'Alessio said...
Hi Karl,
Thanks for sharing the details about a project that sounds really interesting. I especially like how you describe your interest as one focused on the "outliers of a textual climate."
I just thought I'd chime in regarding your chapter on affect, and throw out some theoretical sources in which you might be interested (or have probably already encountered). In mentioning Bersani and Fradenberg, you're obviously keying into a certain strand of queerly inflected psychoanalytic thinking. I'd also toss in Sarah Ahmed's earlier work on affect and emotions, as well as Lauren Berlant (I'm just finishing, finally, "Cruel Optimism"), Kathy Stewart (who was briefly one of my UT Austin profs), Ann Cvetkovich (also someone I worked with at UT, and who works with Stewart and Berlant on the "public feelings" project: see esp., her forthcoming book on depression but also her edited collection, "Political Emotions"), Brian Massumi (he's got a new book out too), and, of course, Sedgwick and Deleuze. I think the "Affect Theory Reader" is good court of first appeal, too.
Hope these references might be of interest/use; apologies for repeating information of which you might (probably) already aware.
Nic - 9:35 PM
- medievalkarl said...
Nic, thanks a million for your comment. I'm a HUGE fan of Ahmed's Promise of Happiness, and I feel I ought to read Berlant's C.O., though the blurb led me to believe it's primarily about our modern socio/political/economic climate? But you think it'd be relevant to my project? I'll happily dig through the rest of what you recommend: I have some big plans for my 'affect' and dead pets chapter that, knock on wood, I'll have time to realize.


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Our guild is in the process of planning a guild meetup this summer. We had originally planned on doing it last summer, but it didn't quite come together. But this year its really happening! This July we are having Clawcon/Clawfest/Clawlapalooza in Bainbridge Island, Washington.
The latest estimate is that there will be at least 8 of us there, with as many as perhaps 11 folks. I think having 8+ people come is pretty good considering that we are a 10 man raiding guild! We'll even have a couple of crazy canucks drive down from Canada! My plan is to fly out to Seattle from O'Hare, where Sam will meet me so we can begin the craziness on the flight over.
There is going to be a lot of interesting things for us to discover and learn at Clawcon, including:
* Will we call each other by our real names or toon names?
* How much salad can Shmoo really eat?
* What kind of yummies will the boys cook for us? (I have declared that the girls are doing nothing this weekend!)
* What happens when you lock Sam and Nkm together in a room overnight?
* Will we need the medical services of our personal medic Nico?
* What will happen once Shmoo finds out what the M is Nkm really stands for?
* Will Kal flirt with all the ladies in person like he does in game?
* Will K give Jess as much crap in person as she does in game? (Probable)
* What happens when you bring guildies, most of whom have never met before, under one roof with an abundance of alcohol?
Hmmm, important questions to ponder. The whole bit about wondering what happens when you bring guildies under one roof for a weekend sounds like MTV's The Real World, Left Claw style. Will there be drama?
Jess joked that if things get weird or uncomfortable, we can all bring our headsets and put them on to pretend we are just talking to each other on vent. Haha. Though somehow I don't think that will be necessary. Sure, its hard to know if people will click in person, but I have a feeling that folks will get along just fine.
I'm actually very interested to see if we'll call each other by our real names or not. Even though I know the real names of many of these folks, I just don't think I will be able to call them by their real names. Perhaps others will use real names, but for me these familiar and recognizable voices on vent are in my mind tied to their toon names.
But it will be interesting to see how folks may be different in person than they are in game, or as they are perceived by others in game. People have mentioned to me that they are much more shy or outgoing in real life. I personally am much less bitchy and opinionated in real life. Er, maybe. Though in all seriousness, I am not as talkative in real life as I may be in game.
I do think that the online vehicle of the game allows people the anonymity or space to be different than they are in real life. Or perhaps people are even different in game without realizing it themselves! How will all of this play out in our get together? Hmmm. /ponder
Then there's the whole thing of knowing what each other looks like. Jess and I did the facebook thing over a year and a half ago and a lot of other guildies have followed suit. There has recently been a rash of facebooking (Sam calls it a facebook orgy) within the guild, perhaps to prepare us for Clawcon. I have to pause here to publicly call out Nkm for still failing the rest of us on Facebook.
Anyways, I think it's very interesting when you see what someone looks like when you've had no idea for so long, which will be even more interesting when we meet face to face. I mean you've established some level of a relationship with someone over a period of time. Even within strictly platonic relationships, how do physical appearances affect perceptions or the relationship itself? Do they? Hmmm.
The last thoughts I have around Clawcon are how things will be afterwards. Will hanging out for 4 days with each other make us a stronger guild? Yes, I can see the bonds becoming stronger. But will it make it harder if someone leaves the game or the guild? Yeah, I'm sure it will. Will having somewhat of a relationship outside the game make it harder if any issues come up within the game? Perhaps.
Damn, I've been philosophical and deep today. Lots of questions. At the end of the day though, I have no doubts that things will be an absolute riot (perhaps dangerously so) and that we will have a great time. Clawcon 2010 baby!


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Some combination of deceitful advocacy, blind obtuseness and political correctness has afflicted both sides of the gay marriage debate with brain lock. Jill from Brilliant at Breakfast provides some lunchtime fare with an extended excerpt from the Supreme Court transcript illustrating two easy questions no one seemed able to answer.
First, who could possibly be harmed by gay marriage and what possible state interest could there be in not allowing it? The attorney meant to argue against gay marriage had no clear answer here. I doubt that is becasue he is stupid, and he shopuldn't be advocating in favor of gay marriage, so that leaves me thinking he was burdened by political correctness.
A reason to oppose gay marriage was offered by black ministers in Massachusetts when that state's Supreme Court opened the discussion in 2003. This is from a Feb 10 2004 article now archived, but excerpted here:
Bishop Gilbert A. Thompson Sr., who as pastor of New Covenant Christian Church in Mattapan heads the largest Protestant congregation in Massachusetts, said black ministers have many reasons for speaking out against gay marriage.
"We're weighing in on this because we're concerned with the epidemic rate of fatherlessness in America and in our community, and we don't think gay marriage helps that cause," he said.
I am reading between the lines a bit but I took that to mean that these inner-city ministers are trying very hard to persuade twenty year old gangsta wanna-bes that marriage is a great idea. Although they subsequently got help from Beyonce, who dressed like a hooker and told them to put a ring on it, these ministers seem to be concerned that if marriage is re-branded as a "gay thing" that it won't help them break through with their hyper-macho target audience.
Well; I'm not a black minister. Maybe inner city youth aren't so homophobic now (or ever), or maybe we shouldn't let the homophobia of inner city youth drive our social policy. But I don't see proud progressives saying "I understand gay marriage might further reduce marriage in the inner city, but it's a small price to pay". Instead, they are pretending there are no foreseeable consequences whatsoever. If another progressive experiment wreaks even more havoc in the inner city, well, who could have seen it coming, right?
Various judges extended the brain lock to the subject of marriage as an instrument of procreation:
JUSTICE KAGAN: Well, suppose a State said, Mr. Cooper, suppose a State
said that, Because we think that the focus of marriage really should be
on procreation, we are not going to give marriage licenses anymore to
any couple where both people are over the age of 55. Would that be
MR. COOPER: No, Your Honor, it would not be constitutional.
JUSTICE KAGAN: Because that's the same State interest, I would think,
you know. If you are over the age of 55, you don't help us serve the
Government's interest in regulating procreation through marriage. So why
is that different?
MR. COOPER: Your Honor, even with respect to couples over the age of 55,
it is very rare that both couples — both parties to the couple are
infertile, and the traditional -
JUSTICE KAGAN: No, really, because if the couple — I can just assure
you, if both the woman and the man are over the age of 55, there are not
a lot of children coming out of that marriage.
Mr. Cooper eventually makes one of two good points. He reminds the court that the man is likely to be fertile whether the womon is or not, and the woman has an interest in assuring his monogamy.
The obvious point to which he barely alludes is simple leadership by example - it is entirely possible that both of these adults have children/nieces/nephews of marriageable age, and both would want to set a positive example of the importance of marriage.
MR. COOPER: It's designed, Your Honor, to make it less likely that either party to that — to that marriage will engage in irresponsible procreative conduct outside of that marriage. Outside of that marriage. That's the marital — that's the marital norm. Society has an interest in seeing a 55-year-old couple that is — just as it has an interest of seeing any heterosexual couple that intends to engage in a prolonged period of cohabitation to reserve that until they have made a marital commitment, a marital commitment. So that, should that union produce any offspring, it would be more likely that that child or children will be raised by the mother and father who brought them into the world.
I understand the progressives who want to pretend the possible problems don't exist. I am baffled by the hired mouthpiece's reticence on these points.
Brilliant quotes Amanda Marcotte at Slate:
We've given the homophobes plenty of time to think this over. It's time to move on without them.
I'll feel a certain comfort - cold, perhaps - when prominent progressives write that yes, gay marriage may prompt homophobes including inner city black males and working class whites to be even less interested in marriage than they are now, but that is OK. Move on without them.
But to conduct a broad social experiment while insisting that there is no experiment underway at all is... well, pretty typical, but still scary.
SINCE YOU ASK: As part of the war on working class marriage, let's not forget the Unaffordable Care Act subsidies, which apply to the employee but not the spouse or kids.


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Is Yahoo building an 'interest graph'?
If you haven't noticed, the Marissa Mayer-led Yahoo has been on a bit of an acquisition roll lately, buying up a number of small start-ups as it drives toward relevance. At least, that's the plan.
The latest? Summly, a mobile news reader startup helmed by someone young enough to not know a world that Yahoo did not inhabit. Sobering.
(The others: mobile interest tracker Stamped, news clipper Snip.it, restaurant recommendation app Alike, culture recommendation app Jybe and video chat platform OnTheAir.)
What's the bigger strategy, exactly? Writing for Fast Company, Sarah Kessler takes a stab at it. Her conclusion? Mobile, sure. But it's really all about building an "interest graph" -- loosely defined as a map of all the people, places and things its various customers are interested in.
(Contrast that with a "social graph," which maps the actual relationships people foster between them. In other words, Facebook -- at least, the friends part of it.)
She writes:
In order to paint your picture based on your interests, Yahoo needs to get to know you first. "When somebody invests time with you and your products," [mobile chief Adam] Cahan explains, "they're actually creating and changing the voice of the products back to them. They're identifying the things they like." [...]
It's a loop: Increasing engagement increases personalization. Increasing personalization increases engagement. But to pull it off, Yahoo needs to focus on defining interests and providing users content that fits theirs perfectly--and that's the thread that runs through its acquisitions.
An interesting take.
The magic word Kessler doesn't mention in her post? Advertising. In public statements, Yahoo has spun its latest tale as one about customer personalization; the truth is, this has been a pillar of its not-so-successful strategy all along, starting with search.
Here's former CEO Carol Bartz in 2009:
"Relevance is really our secret sauce… to what's happening with people and things that matter to you most. That means we're either letting you personalize what you see on Yahoo! (although we know no one wants to work too hard at doing that these days) or using what we know about to surface things that match what you care about."
And here's Search Engine Roundtable's Barry Schwartz paraphrasing a Jerry Yang keynote speech back in 2005:
Jerry Yang said that the relevance of search is the main component of any search. He said its not just about algorithms anymore, like PageRank or Link Data. Its more now about personalization and tying into that preference based searching. This adds a tremendous amount of value. My Yahoo! is a piece of this but you will be seeing it more.
So, personalization? Not new for Yahoo, and certainly not a new business concept. There's a reason you like it when your local shopkeeper greets you by name, and bristle when your local Starbucks barista requests it so that she can write on your cup...every week.
In its earliest days, personalization was a way for Yahoo to provide a better, more differentiated (search) product. Later, it was a way to secure all the customers it was attracting. In the middle years, personalization was bandied about as a way to save the company from the cruft, if I may, that had built up around its cluttered portfolio of consumer products.
Today, as it always has been, personalization is necessary for Yahoo to continue to conduct business. As of its most recent fiscal earnings report -- summarizing results for the full year 2012 -- about 43 percent of Yahoo's revenues are tied up in display advertising; another 38 percent is tied up in search. When you're making money from 1.) businesses who want to target specific people, and 2.) people who want to find relevant resources using your directory, "personalization" is pretty much the fundamental connective tissue. It is what roads and bridges are to a cross-country shipping company.
What Marissa Mayer is doing here, then, is following her customers. There are two major external trends that have negatively impacted Yahoo in recent years: first, the steady move to mobile computing, where monetization (and product development) hasn't been as lucrative or pressing; second, the complete overhaul of the way people navigate the Internet. Search was popular when the average Internet user was anonymous. Now, we all fill out individual user profiles with personal information so that we are served more relevant information from the get-go.
Yahoo is still catching up to all this. Despite its enormous digital footprint -- its homepage is still a top destination in the U.S., and it has lots of users in its database -- it has done a poor job of organizing that attention into groups of like-minded individuals it can easily sell against. And there's not a lot of loyalty there, either.
For example, a casual visit to the Yahoo Sports homepage right now shows an immersive advertising environment -- leaderboard, skin, footer, MPUs, for those of you who are familiar with industry lingo -- for Leinenkugel beer. There are also tiny ads for Netflix and State Farm auto insurance. While I do enjoy a Leinenkugel brew from time to time, here's the problem: it's a Wisconsin-based brewery that distributes heavily in the American Midwest. Its wares, therefore, are fairly hard to find here in Philadelphia. Further, I'm already a Netflix customer. And I don't own a car to insure. So, despite my willingness to provide ample personal information about my preferences, nevermind my location-specific IP address, Yahoo is serving me mostly irrelevant ads. Oh, and not a single headline on this webpage has to do with a team in my area.
It is clear, then, that Yahoo needs a means to obtain this personal information -- as well as reflect it in its products -- in a fashion that doesn't make it seem like it's building the next Facebook. (That ship has sailed.) This kind of infrastructure is critical for the company's future fortunes. At a time when user targeting is finally beginning to live up to the hype, it's not optional anymore.


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Facebook pays bounties of $40,000 in first 3 weeks
$5,000 'for one really good report'
A new Facebook program that pays cash rewards to people who report security bugs on the social networking site doled out more than $40,000 in its first three weeks.
According to a post published Monday by Facebook Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan, researchers in 16 different countries have collected the bounties, which can reach as high as $5,000 for the best reports. One person has already received a total of $7,000 for flagging six different issues.
"We feel great knowing that we've launched another strong effort to help provide a secure experience on Facebook," Sullivan wrote. "A bug bounty program is a great way to engage with the security research community, and an even better way to improve security across a complex technological environment."
When Facebook announced the program last month, it joined Mozilla and Google in rewarding researchers who privately report vulnerabilities that could jeopardize the privacy or security of their users. To date, Google has paid more than $300,000 for bugs found on its various web properties – and that doesn't include bounties paid for vulnerabilities reported in Google's Chromium browsers.
At the other end of the spectrum are companies such as Microsoft and Adobe, which steadfastly refuse to pay bounties for private bug reports, even though their products greatly benefit from them. Last month, Microsoft offered a $250,000 reward leading to the conviction of the operators of the recently dismantled Rustock botnet, and earlier this month it promised more than $250,000 to researchers who develop new security defenses to protect Windows users against attacks that exploit software bugs.
In today's post, Sullivan clarified several fine points in its bug bounty program. The minimum amount paid is $500. The program has already awarded a $5,000 bounty "for one really good report." He didn't say if there was a maximum amount, and he didn't spell out the criteria for determining when one report is better than another.
The program covers bugs found only on the main Facebook website. There are no plans to extend it to third-party apps that work with the website. ®


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As the sun rose above Victoria, so did a flag outside the B.C. legislature, honouring Louis Riel Day.
Nov. 16 celebrates the contributions of both Louis Riel, a historical Métis leader who died on this day in 1885, and the Métis people.
READ MORE: Métis flag raised at B.C. legislature
"As a proud member of the Métis community, I was honoured to watch the flag rise in front of the people's house," said Carole James, Deputy Premier and Minister of Finance. "By proclaiming Nov. 16 as Louis Riel Day, we celebrate the importance of Louis Riel's personal sacrifice and Métis culture. We are committed to working together to make life better for Métis people throughout British Columbia."
Métis became a distinct nation in the late 1700s as a fusion of First Nations and European cultures. Riel himself championed Métis rights and culture, ultimately dying for the cause when he was executed by the Canadian government after a rebellion on the prairies. A 2016 census shows nearly 90,000 people living in B.C. identify as Métis. Since then, a press release said, that number has increased by nearly 30,000.
The president of Métis Nation BC (MNBC), Clara Morin-Dal Col, MNBC board members and Métis people gathered at the ceremony. Morin-Dal Col said, "As a celebration of our shared history, Louis Riel Day is an important day for all Métis people in B.C. Proclaiming this day and marking it with a flag raising in front of the legislature recognizes our distinct culture, heritage and history of Métis people throughout British Columbia."
READ MORE: Island Métis society rights long cultural misstep with Vancouver Island First Nations


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A screenwriter and producer sued Walt Disney Pictures on Tuesday claiming the studio copied his ideas to create the Oscar-winning animated film "Zootopia."
Gary L. Goldman, whose credits include work on film adaptations of "Total Recall," ''Minority Report" and "Big Trouble in Little China," filed the copyright infringement lawsuit Tuesday in a federal court in Los Angeles. His lawsuit states he pitched his "Zootopia" concept to Disney in 2000 and 2009 and there are substantial similarities between his project and last year's animated blockbuster.
Disney rejected the lawsuit's claims in a statement. "Mr. Goldman's lawsuit is riddled with patently false allegations. It is an unprincipled attempt to lay claim to a successful film he didn't create, and we will vigorously defend against it in court."
The lawsuit states Goldman pitched Disney his "Zootopia" concept as a way to explore life in America through a civilized society of animals. Disney's "Zootopia" explores prejudice through a bunny's quest to become a respected police officer in a city where predator and prey co-exist side-by-side. The film won the best animated feature at last month's Academy Awards.
"About five years ago, almost six now, oh my god, we got this crazy idea to talk about humanity with talking animals in the hopes that when the film came out, it would make the world just a slightly better place," said Byron Howard, one of the film's directors during his acceptance speech at last month's Oscars.
The lawsuit includes drawings Goldman commissioned for his pitches to Disney. He contends the ideas of his project and the animated film, as well as the style of some of its characters, are substantially similar.
"Both works explore whether the societies can live up to utopian ideals and judge and credit others fairly as individuals not as stereotypes, based on conceptions of merit not natural order, and the protagonists are challenged to strike a balance between the utopian and counter-utopian positions, optimism and pessimism, nature and individuality, and self-acceptance and self-improvement," the lawsuit states.
In Disney's film, Ginnifer Goodwin plays the bunny character, Judy Hopps, who strikes up an alliance with a sly fox played by Jason Bateman to thwart a conspiracy that threatens peace in their metropolis. Goldman's lawsuit states the two main protagonists of his pitch were a doe-eyed squirrel named Mimi and a hyena named Roscoe.
The lawsuit does not state how much damages Goldman and his company, Esplanade Productions, are seeking. He is asking a federal judge to block Disney from future "Zootopia" projects until the case is resolved.
"Zootopia" earned more than $341 million in theaters domestically according to box office analyst comScore.
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Recently, Forrester published a report, "The Future of the Social Web" where they sketched a timeline of the development of the Social Web, dividing its evolution in 5 eras. According to that report, the first era of the development of the Social Web started to explode the social relationships among users. Then, in the social functionality era, these social relationships resulted in the social functionality era where several websites started to add social functionalities in order to help users to interact with their peers. We are now in the era of Social Colonization, where technologies like Facebook Connect or Google Friend Connect have standardized social functionalities among websites and a vast majority of websites now include several social functionalities. Soon these federated identities will empower people to enter the era of social context with personalized and social content, and the development of tools for personalize social content will aim the development of the era of social commerce.
The primary goal of the proposed special issue of International Journal of Electronic Commerce is to foster research in the interplay between Social Media, Data Mining and Electronic Commerce, trying to reflect the actual developments on technologies that fit on the Social Context era.
The International Journal of Electronic Commerce is the #1-ranked journal on Electronic Commerce globally. This Special Issue will provide a significant opportunity for authors to publish important novel and original contributions in the area of Data Mining applied to Social Media. The guest editors seek papers and proposals that address various aspects of Mining Social Media, including recommender systems for social media, data mining algorithms designed to explode Social Networks, information management for Social Networks, etc.
We invite scholars and professionals from a broad range of disciplines to submit to this Special Issue. Papers may encompass any or all of the following: foundational theoretical analyses, modelling, simulation, and empirical studies. Authors may examine different aspects of mining social media in any of a variety of possible contexts. Special topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
A. Data Mining for Social Networks
• Novel Algorithms
• Association Rules
• Mining semi-structured data
• Classification and Ranking
• Clustering
• Text Mining
• Machine Learning
• Privacy Preserved Data Mining
• Statistical Methods
• Temporal and spatial data mining
• Parallel and Distributed Data Mining
• Interactive and Online Mining
• Data and Knowledge Visualization
• Multimedia mining (audio/video)
• Ensemble Methods
• Web Mining
• Graph Mining
• Link Mining
B. Information Management for Social Networks
• Recommender Systems
• Information Retrieval
• Sentiment Analysis
• Natural Language Processing
• Question Answering
• Semantic Processing
• Graph Analysis and Complex Networks
• Social Network Analysis
C. Possible applications
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• Community Detection
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• Trends discovery
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• User Reviews Ranking
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• User Profile Modelling
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Manuscripts submitted to the special issue should contain original material not published in nor submitted to other journals. Each manuscript has to have a cover page with the author information and another page with title and abstract but the author information omitted. The review process is double-blind and papers which do not meet publication quality standards will be rejected before the review process.
Interested authors are required to submit extended abstracts of no more than two pages for their planned submissions. This will give the editorial team an opportunity to determine if a given submission is appropriate for expedited handling and review.
Full papers should be sent via e-mail to Jose Carlos Cortizo <firstname.lastname@example.com> in anonymized PDF Format, not including any author names or affiliations, and should not exceed 40 pages.
- Abstracts DeadLine: 15 January 2010
- Abstracts Feedback: 30 January 2010
- Full Paper Submission: 15 April 2010
- Revision Notification: 1 June 2010
- Revised Manuscripts: 1 August 2010
- Final Decision: 1 October 2010


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Broken Link Checker for YouTube is a WordPress plugin that will automatically validate
YouTube embeds found in your published posts content using the official API.
It does this by extracting video IDs from each post and querying the YouTube
API to ensure those IDs are still valid. This is a MUST for any video
site that wants to retain their visitors and not annoy them with broken
The truth is videos are uploaded and removed frequently – either by the user
or the site itself for usage violations. If this happens to a video you have
embedded on your site, your visitors are going to see broken content instead
of the video they expected. Don't let that happen.
Quick Summary:
- Install the plugin through WordPress admin or upload the
YouTube Link
directory to the
directory - Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
- Visit
Tools -> YouTube Checker
to run a Scan.
I installed the plugin. Where is it?
You will find it under
Tools -> YouTube Checker
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What are the statuses returned for broken YouTube embed links?
- NOT FOUND – The video was not found on YouTube.
- DELETED – The video is marked as deleted, but not removed from YouTube.
- REJECTED – The video is marked as rejected for copyright violation, account
termination, etc. - NOT EMBEDDABLE – The video is marked as only playable on YouTube, and
embedding the video on other sites will not work.
Why this plugin over the other Broken Link Checker plugin?
Use this plugin for checking YouTube videos.
The other plugin only checks if the YouTube video exists or not.
On YouTube, a video still exists if its status is DELETED, REJECTED or NOT
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The plugin times out. What can I do?
The plugin will scan and verify roughly 30 videos per second. If your max
execution time for PHP is 30 seconds it will timeout after roughly 900 videos.
If you need more than that, you can change your PHP runtime configuration for
max execution
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The plugin isn't finding my videos! What now?
Verify those videos are in the post content. Some themes will store the video
in custom meta fields (Avada, Newspaper, Goodwork, Enfold, Sahifa, SimpleMag,
True Mag, Valenti, VideoTube, and Video Member to name a few). If so you can
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The plugin isn't finding some videos that are blocked. Why not?
This case happens when the person who uploaded the video chose to allow the
video to be embedded, but the legal copyright holder of some content on the
video ( usually the music ) has the legal right to restrict or block the
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You can find the Video Link
Checker at CodeCanyon.
Contributors & Developers
"Broken Link Checker for YouTube" is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
1.3 Released May 15th, 2023
- Updated YouTube ToS.
1.2 Released February 27th, 2020
- Fixed issue where YouTube API timeout or similar error would report videos as broken.
1.1.1 Released January 12th, 2015
- Check for no eligible posts found to scan.
1.1 Released November 12th, 2015
- Tweak for finding YouTube urls on their own line.
- Tweak for embed shortcode url detection.
1.0 Released November 2nd, 2015
- Initial Release