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Gerrit Cornelis van Kooten
- Ph.D. Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University (1982)
- M.A. (Economics), University of Alberta (1974)
- B.Sc. (with distinction), Geophysics, University of Alberta (1972) — Thesis Topic: "The Canadian Coal Industry"
G. Cornelis van Kooten teaches climate change economics at the Department of Economics at the University of Victoria, Canada. Cornelis van Kootan has previously held positions at the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Saskatchewan, School of Management at Groningen University in the Netherlands, Departments of Agricultural Economics and Forest Resources Management and Agricultural Economics at the University of British Columbia and at the Department of Applied Economics and Statistics at the University of Nevada.
As Canada Research Chair in Environmental studies, Cornelis van Kooten claims that "Climate science often ignores economic considerations, and climate models do not usually include interactive economic sectors, making it difficult to explore cost-effective policy responses to climate change and its consequences." He is described as a leader in "devising effective economic measures for analyzing various aspects of the environment." [3]
Van Kooten is a climate change skeptic affiliated with a number of groups that actively dispute the existence of man-made climate change. He has been an "Expert" at the Heartland Institute and is currently a senior fellow of both the Fraser Institute and the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation.
"It might come as a surprise to many, but there is no consensus regarding global warming. The science underpinning the view that anthropogenic emissions of CO2 are leading to runaway global warming is unsettled. There never was a consensus. Nor does science operate on the basis of consensus. If anything, the scientific evidence has sharply turned against the idea that catastrophic anthropogenic global warming is underway." [4]
Key Quotes
"[Carbon dioxide] has no relation to temperature rises."
"Using the U.S. weather rating system, only 8,000 of the 22,000 weather stations [used to document global temperature rises] are reliable.""[Gross domestic product] is a non-climactic factor that causes temperature to go up. There is no statistical relationship between CO2 and temperature.""You can't do policy without reading the other side. [… ] I'm becoming a denier more and more, the more I listen to these guys [climate scientists in agreement about global warming]. It's a religion to them." [5]
"I am more convinced that changes in solar activities (whether sunspots, various types of cycles, etc.) are a better explanation of changing temperatures and possible global warming than CO2." [6]
"If anything, it is [David] Suzuki who has abandoned science, not the scientists who question the IPCC, whether of the religious right or not. Suzuki has become post modern." [7]
Key Deeds
June 11-12, 2015
Cornelis van Kooten was a speaker on Panel 5: "Climate Program Impacts," at the Heartland Institute's Tenth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC10) in Washington, D.C., with Paul Driessen and Wolfgang Müller. [17]
View Cornelis van Kooten's Panel 5 presentation at the Heartland Institute's ICCC10, below: [18]
May 12, 2015
Gerrit Cornelis van Kooten is a signatory to an open letter to Pope Francis on climate change. The letter invites the Pope to reconsider his views on climate change before his upcoming encyclical letter on the environment, which is widely expected to call for measures to prevent climate change in the interests of the world's poor.
The open letter was coordinated and signed by Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance. According to the letter, "Good climate policy must recognize human exceptionalism, the God-given call for human persons to 'have dominion' in the natural world (Genesis 1:28), and the need to protect the poor from harm, including actions that hinder their ascent out of poverty." [15]
Another excerpt below:
"[…] the [climate] models are wrong. They therefore provide no rational basis to forecast dangerous human-induced global warming, and therefore no rational basis for efforts to reduce warming by restricting the use of fossil fuels or any other means."
Judith Curry comments on her blog Climate Etc. that "Arguably the most effective 'pushback' comes from Cal Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance, who coordinated An Open Letter to Pope Francis on Climate Change." [16]
March 27, 2013
B.C. Auditor General John Doyle released a report (PDF) damning B.C.'s carbon trading system. The only academic paper mentioned in the audit was on page 27, and was a study done by Cornelis van Kooten that related to forest carbon credits. The report pulls the following quote form van Kooten's 2012 report, titled "Rent Seek and and the Smoke and Mirrors Game in the Creation of Forest Sector Carbon Credits: An example from British Columbia" (PDF):
Because commercial exploitation was the counterfactual used to justify the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) carbon offsets, offsets were subsequently sold to non-arms-length buyers, and numbers of carbon offsets are highly sensitive to assumptions, one can only conclude that the carbon offsets generated by this (and probably many other) forest conservation projects are simply spurious. [8]
Cornelis Van Kooten's study is listed as "working paper" at research group Resource Economics and Policy Analysis (REPA) where van Kooten is Director. Van Kooten's report criticized international climate negotiators for allowing certified emissions-reduction credits. These credits were designed to maintain biodiversity and improve indigenous standard of living.
John Doyle's report examined two projects that the government had purchased to achieve carbon neutrality (the Darkwoods Forest Carbon project and the Encana Underbalanced Drilling project), and he concluded that "this claim of carbon neutrality is not accurate, as neither project provided credible offsets."
Vancouver's Georgia Straight reports how Doyle criticized Pacific Carbon Trust, a Crown corporation, for buying carbon credits and claimed that both projects would have succeeded had there been no offsets. [9]
The Government rejected Doyle's report, saying that it was not valid due to the fact that the auditor general's office is not an accredit expert in carbon offsets. [10]
August 2012/2013
Cornelis van Kooten published a book titled Climate Change, Climate Science and Economics (Springer, 2013). His book includes a chapter on "Alternative Explanations" of climate change that include cosmological origins, as well as a chapter on implementing policy ("government intervention […] worsens rather than helps the situation.") and a chapter on the possibility of "avoiding emissions reduction" by using carbon sinks.
January 28, 2011
The Martlet, An independent newspaper at the university of Victoria, reported on one of Cornelis van Kooten's regular lectures on the "Economics of Climate Change." During his lecture, van Kooten said that "CO2 has no relation to temperature rises," and also pointed to a case study of two rooftop weather stations on Victoria Elementary schools that he said were examples of the Urban Heat Island affect. In the case study, van Kooten suggested that the hot air vents and nearby woodworking shop influenced the accuracy of the weather stations. [11]
Cornelis van Kooten also claimed that "Using the U.S. weather rating system, only 8,000 of the 22,000 weather stations [used to document global temperature rises] are reliable." A similar claim has been made by climate change skeptic and founder of SurfaceStations.org Anthony Watts. These claims were recently examined and proven to be false by the Berkeley Earth project.
Near the end of van Kooten's lecture, Tom Pederson (director of the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions) interjected and challenged van Kooten's methods:
"If one is going to draw deductions based on global warming trends, one needs to be very familiar with expert literature and speak to experts, many of whom are on this campus," he said.
Rob McDonald, a student who had previously dropped out of van Kooten's Climate Economics class, also disagreed with van Kooten's teaching methods. He had this to say to The Martlet:
"An economics professor should not be trying to dispute science in an economics class. Also, he shows little academic integrity by using a book that he wrote that has not been reviewed as the textbook, and also by giving his very one-sided and narrow view of climate change without letting people know all the different things scientists are saying on the issue."
April 2006
Cornelis van Kooten was a signatory to a 2006 open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The letter, titled "Open Kyoto to Debate" was signed by "accredited experts in climate and related scientific disciplines." According to the letter, "Global climate changes all the time due to natural causes" and "allocating funds to 'stopping climate change' would be irrational."
G Cornelis van Kooten is a signatory to the "Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming," a document put forth by the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation of which he is a Senior Fellow. The declaration describes Earth as "created by God's intelligent design," and as such is "robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting" and that "Earth's climate system is no exception." [12]
Here are some key points of the declaration [emphasis added]:
- "We believe Earth and its ecosystems—created by God's intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence —are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting, admirably suited for human flourishing, and displaying His glory. Earth's climate system is no exception. Recent global warming is one of many natural cycles of warming and cooling in geologic history."
- "We believe mandatory reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, achievable mainly by greatly reduced use of fossil fuels, will greatly increase the price of energy and harm economies."
- "We deny that Earth and its ecosystems are the fragile and unstable products of chance, and particularly that Earth's climate system is vulnerable to dangerous alteration because of minuscule changes in atmospheric chemistry. Recent warming was neither abnormally large nor abnormally rapid. There is no convincing scientific evidence that human contribution to greenhouse gases is causing dangerous global warming."
- "We deny that alternative, renewable fuels can, with present or near-term technology, replace fossil and nuclear fuels, either wholly or in significant part, to provide the abundant, affordable energy necessary to sustain prosperous economies or overcome poverty."
- "We deny that carbon dioxide—essential to all plant growth—is a pollutant. "
- "Reducing greenhouse gases cannot achieve significant reductions in future global temperatures, and the costs of the policies would far exceed the benefits."
- "We deny that such policies, which amount to a regressive tax, comply with the Biblical requirement of protecting the poor from harm and oppression."
The declaration also leaves a call-to-action for Christian leaders to "embrace Biblical thinking, sound science, and careful economic analysis in creation stewardship" and for political leaders "to adopt policies that protect human liberty, make energy more affordable, and free the poor to rise out of poverty, while abandoning fruitless, indeed harmful policies to control global temperature."
Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation — Senior Fellow. [13]
Fraser Institute — Senior Fellow. [1]
Resource Economics and Policy Analysis (REPA) Research Group — Director. [14]
According to his C.V., van Kooten has published 180 peer-reviewed journal articles and 40 book chapters and is the author or co-author of four books on land and forest economics, two books on climate change, and co-editor of three books. According to a search of peer-reviewed literature, most of his peer-reviewed articles are in the area of economics (his books also appear to focus on the Economics of climate change).
A full list of his peer-reviewed literature is availabe on Google Scholar.
"Curriculum Vitae," vkooten.net. Accessed March 31, 2013.
"Curriculum Vitae: G. Cornelis van Kooten" (PDF), retrieved from the University of Victoria website.
"G. Cornelis van Kooten," Canada Research Chairs (chairs-chaires.gc.ca). Accessed March 31, 2013.
"Climate Change and Poverty," G Cornelis van Kooten, September 20, 2011.
"Prof raises eyebrows for contesting climate change," Canadian University Press, February 2, 2011.
"Climate Confusion," G Cornelis van Kooten, December 10, 2012.
"Response to David Suzuki Critique of Scientists," G Cornelis van Kooten, April 9, 2012.
"An Audit of Carbon Neutral Government" (PDF), bcauditor.com, Report 14 (March, 2013)
Charlie Smith. "Climate skeptic's research laid foundation for B.C. auditor general's report on carbon trading," The Georgia Straight, April 1, 2013.
"Auditor general delivers damning report on B.C.'s carbon trading system, Crown corporation that managed funds," Vancouver Sun, March 27, 2013.
Mark Worthing. "Professor raises eyebrows for contesting climate change," Martlet, Volume 63, Issue 21 (February 3, 2011).
"Prominent Signers of An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming," Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, January 14, 2010.
"Cornwall Alliance Scholars," Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. Accessed March 31, 2013.
"About the REPA Research Group," Resource Economics & Policy Analysis. Accessed March 31, 2013.
"An Open Letter to Pope Francis on Climate Change," Cornwall Alliance For The Stewardship of Creation. April 27, 2015. Archived with WebCite May 27, 2015.
Judith Curry. "Pope Francis, climate change, and morality," JudithCurry.com, April 29, 2015. Archived with Webite May 27, 2015.
"Speakers," Heartland Institute. Archived June 30, 2015.
"Panel 5: Climate Program Impacts with Cornelis van Kooten, Ph.D., Wolfgang Müller, and Paul Driessen," Heartland Institute, June 11, 2015. Archived July 15, 2015.


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Tang, instant mashed potatoes, TV dinners – chances are, if you were born in the 60's or early 70's, "Space Age" freeze- dried foods were the order of the day – futuristic, convenient and super cool – so much more exciting than old-fashioned, fresh, real food. Fortunately, over the last decade or so, attitudes towards food have changed, and by now most Americans understand that eating fresh, unprocessed, local and organic foods are far kinder to the earth and body than the faux foods created in the culinary labs of yesteryear. However, for those who grew up on the typical processed diet of the era, loading up on broccoli, spinach and my favorite superfood kale, can seem daunting – but actually, it's one of the most important things one can do to support health and empower the body to fight off disease.
While spinach and broccoli are excellent leafys, you can stack the nutritional deck a bit higher by adding kale, the king of the cruciferous, to your culinary mix. Extraordinarily powerful, but often overlooked, kale is the original green superfood that's so nutritionally dense, it seems silly not to pile your plate high (*). To inspire your next trip down the produce aisle, here's my 5-point topline on the mighty leaf and how to make it your new nutritional BFF:
Kale is the Superman of the veggie aisle.
When you talk superfoods, kale is top of the heap. Inside those curly, deep green leaves are such goodies as beta-carotene, calcium, folate, iron, magnesium, potassium, vitamin A, C and K – in far larger quantities than you'll find in most other vegetables. In fact, kale delivers four times more magnesium and calcium than Brussels sprouts; more Vitamin C than carrots or spinach and more folate than broccoli, according to McCance and Widdowson's 'The Composition of Foods. '
Kale's got Vitamin K to spare.
A cup of kale comes with lots of vitamin K. In fact, it's just about the largest single source of vitamin K to be had in the entire veggie kingdom, delivering about an astonishing 1,376% RDA of vitamin K per cup. And what's so important about vitamin K? Well, vitamin K helps strengthen bones, reduces cardiovascular disease and stroke risk and tamps down inflammation throughout the body.
Kale hates cancer and cataracts.
Kale has over 45 different antioxidants – great news for our bodies and bad news for certain cancers – so eat up to promote breast, ovarian, gastric and prostate health. With a nice dose of phytochemicals leutin and zeanathin in every cup, kale is also thought to offer protection against sight-stealers such as cataracts and macular degeneration.
Kale loves your gut and waistline.
Need a few more reasons to have a cup o' kale? The mighty leaf keeps your gut happy by aiding digestion and elimination, as it helps detox and promote optimal liver function. Not surprisingly, kale also has no cholesterol and is lo-cal, packing just 36 calories per cup, so it's great for those who are watching their weight.
How to make kale your nutritional BFF.
OK, so kale's is one of nature's heaviest hitters, but what to do with it? Here's a few no-brainer ways to boost your kale intake and enjoy all of its health-boosting benefits:
- Add a fist-full or two to fruit smoothies, for a refreshing green taste
- Add lightly steamed kale to omelets, tomato sauces and soups – you'll be adding extra nutrients and fiber to even the simplest dishes
- Add chopped raw kale to your usual salad greens to perk up both taste and nutrition
- Create a "bed" of shredded kale for fish, poultry or meat, or sprinkle on top of meals as a garnish – but be sure to sprinkle liberally!
- Try this delicious kale smoothie, which is my current favorite
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A quick recap of last night's (April 24, 2011) brand new episode of Desperate Housewives.
Another light and fluffy episode was aired last night on Desperate Housewives. Who is with me on the wanting the old days back when things were hot and juicy on this show? They need characters like Edie and Carl back to liven things up.
Last night on Desperate Housewives we saw Susan (Teri Hatcher) having sexy dreams about Paul Young (Mark Moses). Poor Mike, we never see him anymore and when we do, it's of non-importance. Remember when the hot thing was Mike Delfino? How the single neighborhood woman used to fight over him? The sexual tension between him and Susan? Ugh. We are a far cry from that, that's for sure. Now Susan is having sex dreams about Paul Young. Gross.
Last night's Desperate Housewives also brought us Gaby (Eva Longoria) sneaking around to still continue her friendship with Bree (Marcia Cross). We've seen these two interact one on one in the past, but to have Gaby go to the lengths that she did to be friends with Bree against her husband's wishes is ridiculous. Poor Carlos (Ricardo Chavira). First he learns that someone was at the hands of his mother's death. Then he finds out his beloved wife knew about it the whole time. Then he finds out it was a family friend who was hiding the truth. And Gaby still feels the dire need to sneak around? Maybe it's just the devious side to Gaby. Anyway, I feel the writes are really searching for good storylines and are missing the mark completely.
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◊ 2011-05-05 09:47 |
BTW: The correct chassis-code for this S-Class is W 116. Besides, there are 2 goofs in the background(Corsa & Toyota) as the movie is set 1977. Actually rather unnecessary, because in 1997 there were still enough 1970s cars around in Germany. |
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Perhaps the owners refused to move them. Or perhaps the film crew just didn't bother to ask. |
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Or they didn't have the budget to make it looks like 1977 era setting besides these vehicles |
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No idea. It was actually the only thing that bothered me about this quite remarkable movie( which is actually a "hybrid" as it's both a documentary and "conventional" movie) while I watched it back in '97 when it was broadcasted for the first time. As far as the content/plot is concerned, it was extremely well researched (the director is also a journalist), and it would be rather wrong to call it low-budget. The work of both the cast and the setbuilders was excellent as far as I recall, but in this particular scene I guess they just ran out of time as they possibly weren't allowed to cordon off this quite busy Cologne street until the cars were removed. |
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The big SUV (Landcruiser?) is an anachronism, too. |
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In original it was a 450 SE http://www.netzeitung.de/articleimages//18/18575391060764016120.jpg also in the 2008-movie about the asduction /vehicle_220741-Mercedes-Benz-450-SE-W116-1973.html |
◊ 2011-05-06 15:15 |
I actually meant the Land Cruiser. I didn't realize there was a Hiace, too. |
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I cannot make out the writing on the trunk, but it could also be a 450 SE. -- Last edit: 2011-05-06 19:28:29 |
◊ 2011-05-15 21:18 |
I think the letters say SEL. The numbers I'm guessing say 450 but it's still a guess because I can't completely make them out. |
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@G-Mann: You're correct while I was wrong. It's a 450 SEL indeed- as it was in reality: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/auto/filmautos-raf-jagd-im-youngtimer-1.687789-2 and http://www.sueddeutsche.de/auto/filmautos-raf-jagd-im-youngtimer-1.687789-3 Back in '97, W116 450 SELs were both easy and cheap to get, so I guess the film-crew took a "genuine" one instead of taking a cheaper model and putting a 450 SEL-badge on it. |
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ok my washer make a lot of noise while spininng but everything works great. i look under the washer and thats where the noise is coming from. on the bottom back right corner face the washer is a small wheel and it seems THAT WHERE THE NOISE COMING FROM or maybe not do you know and what part is it thank you:confused:
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SOHO's new catch: its first officially periodic comet
It is nothing new for the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) to discover another comet – it has already found more than 1350. But the latest is a bit different - SOHO had spotted it twice before.
For the first time, SOHO's Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment (LASCO) has found a rare type of comet called a periodic comet (which flies by the Sun at regular intervals). While many SOHO comets are believed to be periodic, this is the first one that has been conclusively proven and officially declared as such.
Astronomers have seen thousands of comets but classified only around 190 as periodic. Many more are proposed to be periodic, but they only gain this classification officially if they are seen to follow their orbits around the Sun more than twice, and have orbital periods of less than two hundred years. The most famous periodic comet is Halley's comet, returning every 76 years, with its last close pass to the Sun taking place in 1986.
SOHO's new catch has a much smaller orbit, taking approximately four years to travel once around the Sun. It was first seen in September 1999, and then again in September 2003. In 2005, German PhD student Sebastian Hoenig realised that the two comets were so similar in orbit that they might actually be the same object.
To test his theory, he calculated a combined orbit for the comet, and consequently predicted that it would return on 11 September 2007. Sebastian's prediction proved to be extremely accurate – the comet reappeared in SOHO's LASCO camera right on schedule, and has now been given the official designation of P/2007 R5 (SOHO).
There is a puzzling aspect, however, as the comet does not look exactly like a comet. It has no visible tail or coma of dust and gas. Initially, some scientists wondered if it were actually an asteroid, a chunk of space-rock rather than a chunk of space-ice. However, P/2007 R5 (SOHO) did exhibit some cometary characteristics. As it passed to within 7.9 million kilometres of the Sun, around 5% of the distance from the Earth to the Sun, they observed it brighten by a factor of around a million. This is common behaviour for a comet.
So P/2007 R5 (SOHO) seems to behave like a comet, even though it doesn't really look like one. "It is quite possibly an extinct comet nucleus of some kind," says Karl Battams, who runs SOHO's comet discovery programme. Extinct comets are those that have expelled most of their volatile ice and have little left to form a tail or coma. They are theorised to be common objects amongst the celestial bodies orbiting close to the Sun.
The comet faded as quickly as it brightened, and soon became too faint for SOHO's instruments to see it. Estimates show that P/2007 R5 (SOHO) is probably only 100-200 metres in diameter. Given how small and faint this object is, and how close it still is to the Sun, it is an extremely difficult target for observers on Earth to pick out in the sky.
Now we know for certain that P/2007 R5 (SOHO) is there, astronomers will be watching closely for it during its next return in September 2011.
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The credit for discovery and recovery of the object goes to Terry Lovejoy (Australia, 1999), Kazimieras Cernis (Lithuania, 2003) and Bo Zhou (China, 2007).
Hoenig's work is detailed in 'Identification of a new short-period comet near the Sun' by S.F. Hoenig, published in Astronomy and Astrophysics in January 2006.
The comet's properties were confirmed last week by Karl Battams.
For more information
Karl Battams, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Email: Karl.Battams @ nrl.navy.mil
Bernhard Fleck, ESA SOHO Project Scientist
Email: Bfleck @ esa.nascom.nasa.gov
- SOHO overview
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/SOHO_overview2 - SOHO prepares for comet McNaught
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/SOHO_prepares_for_comet_McNaught - 1000th Kreutz sungrazing comet discovered by SOHO
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/1000th_Kreutz_sungrazing_comet_discovered_by_SOHO - History's greatest comet hunter discovers 1000th comet
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/History_s_greatest_comet_hunter_discovers_1000th_comet - How we see the far side of the Sun
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Exploring_space/How_we_see_the_far_side_of_the_Sun - Comets: 'Sungrazer' comets
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Comets_Sungrazer_comets - What are solar flares?
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/What_are_solar_flares - Scientists weather a space storm to find its origin
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cluster/Scientists_weather_a_space_storm_to_find_its_origin - How the Sun affects us on Earth
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Space_for_you/How_the_Sun_affects_us_on_Earth - Scientific paper
http://www.aanda.org/index.php?option=article&access=bibcode&bibcode=2006A%2526A...445..759HFUL - SOHO Comets homepage
http://ares.nrl.navy.mil/sungrazer/ - SOHO hotshots
http://soho.esac.esa.int/hotshots/ - Best of SOHO - comet movies
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July 20, 2001
Those who have been keeping track of such things will recall that ten or so years ago, as the Soviet bloc was falling by the wayside, Francis Fukuyama proclaimed "the end of history" in a famous article that he later expanded into a book. There, the neo-conservative writer maintained that history as the story of large-scale, fundamental struggles between competing blocs, ideologies, or systems was over. Liberal democracy had triumphed, more or less, and was the final form of human existence. True, there were some pockets of reaction and opposition here and there, but these would only require a few mopping-up operations on the road to global happiness.
This was a depressing message depressing, at least, for those who had a hard time spotting much liberalism or democracy in the advanced welfare-warfare states of North America, western Europe, and Australasia. Indeed, the argument looked for all the world like an elaborate Hegelian rationalization for continued expansion of the world role of the US empire and its faithful sidekick, the European Union (also doing business as NATO). Certainly, the argument was Hegelian.
I do not wish to discuss the merits of Hegel as a philosopher here. There is a strong element of state-worship, potentially, in Hegel's system, though he was hardly a co-inventor of fascism or totalitarianism, as claimed, for instance, by Karl Popper. Anglo-Americans find Hegel quite murky. Even so, dialectical reasoning (a mainstay of Hegel's system) has its uses, if only or mainly in intellectual history.
Hegel, of course, thought that human history embodied the unfolding-in-time of Reason, the World Spirit a sort of totalizing distillation of all that is rational, progressive, and good. What does that mean? In practical terms, Hegel wrote that the highest possible form of freedom under law was being realized through the rational bureaucratic system of the Prussian monarchy.
Fukuyama's innovation was to replace Prussia with the United States or liberal democracy generally as the final stage of all possible historical development. Very flattering to us, no doubt, and his thesis took off into the stratosphere for a while. Actually, it wasn't that innovative, since the Hegelian-Jacksonian American historian George Bancroft was already fitting the United States in as the end-term of history as early as the 1840s. Naturally, Bancroft was a Northerner. (Southerners have their faults, but with the glaring exception of Woodrow Wilson inventing big world-healing historical trajectories is seldom one of them.)
That is the problem with secularizing eschatologies (doctrines about final things). Torn from their religious moorings, they tend to be quite misleading, like the Book of Revelation, say, with social classes substituted for good and evil. That was the point of my last column. It was not an attack on Protestantism, although one reader seems to have read it that way.
Hegel's philosophy of history seems a case in point. Just as you can try to put Cromwell into Daniel 2, so too can anyone put his favorite nation, social class, or ideology at the end of Hegel's teleology. To the extent that this is accepted, it tends to stifle debate by bringing in the notion of inevitability.
At this risk of going all dialectical myself, I think I can reconcile the claims of Hegel, Bancroft, and Fukuyama. The end-form of all human striving is in fact the Prussian monarchy and the US empire. This is true to the extent that the American leaders have, perhaps through the "cunning of reason" (a key concept of Hegel's) Prussianized their country. This may take some explaining.
In a very interesting piece written for a symposium on total war,1 Alf Lüdtke says that much writing on political violence "ignores the perpetual internal 'small war,' designed by authorities to suppress or keep at bay all those whom they considered 'dangerous.'"2 This had long been an essential part of state-building, formalized under the 17th-century concept of the well-regulated police state. This was not, I hasten to add, the sort of modern police state which breaks down peoples' doors at three in the morning and hauls them off, never to be seen again. That was a 20th-century development, for the most part.
No, the traditional police state involved a lot of policing: a lot of surveillance and record keeping, so that everything would be predictable and ordentlich. It was picky, fussy, orderly, irascible, and arbitrary, but never as effective, thorough, and occasionally ruthless as modern-day police in the much-touted American democracy. According to Lüdtke, 19th-century Prussian policing only approached modern "liberal" levels of repression when the army itself was involved in policing civil society.
There were purely civil constables in Prussia down to 1848, but the army claimed the right to do a good deal of the policing there. (This is referred to as its Supermagisterium, or "final say"). This claim was made good in normal times, but grew mightily in during emergencies. In July 1870, the Prussian King, as executive of the North German Confederation, announced a "state of siege" in frontier districts in connection with the war with France. In September, a certain General Vogel von Falckenstein detained a number of citizens (socialists) who were agitating for immediate peace, now that Napoleon III's armies had been defeated. This was back when socialists were still interested in peace.
The General, a good bureaucratic militarist, reasoned that advocacy of peace was "treason." Well, what else could it be? The "security of the state" was at stake.
Prussians had acquired in the 1850s a bill of rights. Civil institutions existed to give life to these. So it was that in early 1877 a court fined the good General for infringing the rights of the citizens detained in 1870. Otto von Bismarck, Ministerpräsident and chief advisor to the King of Prussia, was quite unhappy, but advised that the treasury should pay the fine and Falckenstein's legal costs on the grounds that the General had acted in his official capacity in 1870.
Why should Bismarck so uncharacteristically yield to a mere civilian court? He did so in part because the German Empire, founded in 1871 by the inclusion of several German states formerly not part of the North German Confederation, was not the centralized state which Anglo-Americans typically imagine it was. There were structural limits to the power of the Prussian King in his role as German Emperor.
In other words, the case had arisen in Braunschweig, one of the constituent states of the Reich, and not in Prussia. In Prussia, Bismarck could have had the case overturned. Here, the residual monarchical federalism of the Reich raised a barrier to full-scale militarization. As Lüdtke puts it, "a fundamental principle of the Reich's constitution" was "the preservation of the German states. The Reich was established not to absorb but to sustain and link these given political and monarchical entities." The drawback, from the centralizers' standpoint, was "that regulations that were valid in Prussia were not necessarily binding in other states."3 Think about this, the next time the typically conventional American historian informs you that "states rights" has always been a mere reactionary tactic in US politics and that nobody ever really believed in it.
I can't say if cases like the one summarized by Lüdtke happened very often. What is interesting is his further account of what the Prussian army (or the new, military-style gendarmerie after 1848) did, when acting in its policing role. It "often controlled speeding carriages or prohibited smoking in public places." It "patrolled more frequently" than civilian constables had. Soldiers also enforced school attendance laws, "intervened in schools as well [as] in urban neighborhoods to implement compulsory medical examinations," and "searched houses for the mentally ill."4
This is worse than Woody Allen's monster with the body of a lobster and the head of a social worker and what a lovely set of social reforms! Perhaps arguments could be made for these regulations, but to enforce them with an army raises interesting questions. In Prussia, it seems, the police were not mere agents of civil society as in English-speaking countries, but were extensions of the abstract sovereign power itself.
A Berlin police bureaucrat, Albert Ballhorn, wrote in 1852 that "it is in the nature of police to be in a permanent war with everybody in the state and society; thus it serves the common weal." Serve and protect. Ballhorn also saw a need "to train and educate every police officer in an academic and scientific way."5
It is time for us superior Anglo-Americans to wipe the silly grins off our faces. The items rehearsed above should be sounding very familiar. For all our vaunted "rule of law" and "natural rights," it appears that we have acquiesced in, or even demanded, the militarization of American police, down to the local level. Prussianization, you might call it. Old Andy of Mayberry is gone. His successors have helicopters, tanks, all manner of explosive "devices" remember the one that leveled several blocks of Philadelphia? And do they wear military-style uniforms? Just look around. Watch cop shows on TV, if you have the stomach for it. (I've quit doing so.) Further, we are witnessing the complete federalization of American police departments, which generally goes faster under the "states rights" Republicans. (Now we know who it is that treats states rights as a mere slogan.) I will merely mention in passing my refrain that much of this unhappy process is directly a spill-over effect of overseas empire.
If you give some haberdasher the power to declare war on his own motion, don't be surprised if he and his bureaucrats gain a lot of power along the way. Oh, I'm sorry, did I say war? Everyone knows that the brutal war in Korea was a police action. Let them play these games for half a century, and you should not be surprised when they wish to rule at home with the same finesse they typically display in their colonies.
In America, instead of having the army do the police work, we have militarized the police. Of course the war on drugs (nice metaphor) has created so much overlap that it is harder and harder to tell the difference. Differences still exist on paper but the 18th-century grocery list isn't doing us as much good as it once did. Still, I'm happy enough about my thesis. If you allow for all the little nuances, the World Spirit has called a halt to history in the Prussian form, but tricked us again by doing it in North America. Thanks Hegel, Bancroft, and Fukuyama. And have a nice century.
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Modeling and Analysis of TXOP Differentiation in Infrastructure-Based WLANs
The Access Point (AP) is the bottleneck of infrastructure-based Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) due to its responsibility for forwarding all the incoming and outgoing frames. As a result, the network performance is significantly deteriorated by the unbalanced traffic loads at AP and other mobile stations. A potential solution to the bottleneck problem is to assign different Transmission OPportunity (TXOP) limits to the AP and mobile stations, respectively. This paper develops a new analytical model to investigate the Quality-of-Service (QoS) performance metrics including throughput, total frame delay, and frame loss probability in infrastructure-based WLANs with TXOP differentiation under the unbalanced traffic loads.


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He Found It at the Movies
The hook for the Whitney's large retrospective of Ed Ruscha's works on paper is photography. Not the legendary Twentysix Gasoline Stations from 1963, nor the 1966 accordion strip of black-and-white photos that's a visual inventory of Every Building on the Sunset Strip, but the roadside photographs he took in 1961fresh from art school with the typical twin-lens reflex of the daywhile on a grand tour of Europe with his mother and brother in a Deux Chevaux. They're the efforts of an innocent abroad replaying, possibly without realizing it, the role of Eugene Atget. Curators Margit Rowell and Sylvia Wolf, in separate catalog essays for this exhibition and its companion show in the lobby gallery, "Ed Ruscha and Photography," credit those small European roadside pictures as the sources for Ruscha's all-American deadpan style.
So it makes sense that "Ed Ruscha and Photography," replete with Ruscha's post-grad pics of the Old World as well as his 1961 "product still lifes" of cans of Spam and Oxydol, and the subsequent deceptively modest photo books, serves as a kind of prologue or trailer for the drawing show. But the photography revelation might have been better served had the two separate shows been merged. And it would have really shaken things up if Pop photo repetitions or product motifs (or minimalist seriality) could be proved to have flowed from West Coast to East, as the photos imply. You have to wonder about this when you go upstairs to the drawing show. One of the first works is a 1961 head-on photo-collage of a vintage car repeated nine times that practically screams Warholexcept that in 1961 Warhol hadn't yet quite come up with his own deadpan photo-silkscreen replications. "At the time," says Ruscha to Wolf in an interview in the photo catalog, "I was into making pictures that happened to be photographs."
It's a fine point. Ruscha's work has always hadin the East at leastan ambivalent, blunt, yet slippery edge. Not exactly Pop, sort of minimalistic, somewhat conceptual, slightly narrative, and rather illusionistic, it slips out of every possible pigeonhole, including that of photographyeven though the serial photos have something in common with those of Bernd and Hilla Becher. Despite Ruscha's hovering words that function as objects in space, and his ribbony or folded lettering that levitates above smoggy grounds, indeterminate planes, shallow space, or its own shadow, his work always retains a flat, noirish opacitynot perspectivally but mentally.
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So while this show snags us with its insistence on the generative importance of the photographic image in Ruscha's work on paper (and, by implication, on canvas as well), it might equally have emphasized his student job as a printer in the days of movable type and opted for Popness, elevating him on the old modern terms of who did what first. It could have stressed the prescient literalness of his materialsdry pigment, particulate gunpowder, granular pastelwhich got annulled by his ability to make dryness look wet and other trompe l'oeil skills. The color that snuck in around 1969 was literal too: It came from rose petals, lettuce, coffee, blood, tobacco, ivy, or Fernet-Branca stains. And as Ruscha's work gets wordier during the '70s, and the lettering floating in the ether insists on the physicality of ideas, the show could have stressed the West Coast brand of conceptualism. The curatorial emphasis on Ruscha's photographic vision also slights an even more astonishing and obvious point: the cinematic underpinnings of his artistic mentality. In a city permeated by movie-culture zooms and fades as well as car-culture mobility, his word-as-image art was not only proto-conceptual butlike that of Allen Ruppersberg and Alexis Smithpost-literate, infused with the tradition of Raymond Chandler and evanescent filmic images made to bear the weight of words.
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Cinema spillover is pervasive in Ruscha's work. From his titles alone, a case could be made that the work of art in the age of 3-D typefaces and mechanical reproduction really came into its own at the movies: Stardust, Water Soluble Dreams, One Night Stand Forever, They Called Her Styrene, Corn-Popped Ruscha. His iconic painting of the 20th Century Fox trademark with crisscrossing spotlights offers further evidence, and a study for it on hotel stationery is in this show, along with several studies of the famous Hollywood sign. Hollywood Is a Verb, declares one work. Anotherhuge, grainy, and gravellymaps out a pavement of upside-down L.A. street names such as Sunset, Hollywood, and Vine.
In fact, Ruscha's work is littered with references to the conventions of the Hollywood film, from wide Cinemascope formats and late-night movie-title typefaces to the emulsion-side reversibility of words that leads to his recent fascination with palindromes. On the final wall, just before you exit from the exhibition, you'll find a few of his ongoing series of small drawings of the ultimate movie credit: The End. The vertical streaks across their surfaces replicate the look of movie film from a reel that's been scratched by a projector. His style may well have originated in what Rowell calls "the photographic model," but I'd say Ruscha found his laconic modus operandi at the movies. His murky, flickering, pictorialized words can veer dangerously close to shallow wordplay, but, sensitized by the banal nuances of cinematic conventions and modulated by what the artist has called "the 'huh' factor," they still touch a starstruck nerve.
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You're right. It is similar to the Pakistani symbol, which is a symbol closely related to Islam. Here I thought it looked Communist. Or a bit like the Procter and Gamble logo. When I first drew it, I was simply going with the moon and the star because the MidKnight Skavenger (a raccoon superhero character) comes out at night.
ReplyDeleteBut people might find the symbol, or the accent alone to be offensive. It doesn't take much for that to happen. This is a cool design. Does he have any special powers? Or is he more of a vigalanti like Batman, or Darkwing? What are his actual colors? He seems to always be in a cool lighting that gives him a certain color, is it kind of like that permanant siloughet that Gutierez had in the last episode of Freakazoid? (I apologise for my many spelling errors)


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Anonymeye performed at festivals, clubs and events throughout Australia and Europe including Le Placard/Club Transmediale festivals @ Maria Am Ufer (Berlin, Germany), Electrofringe/This Is Not Art festivals (Newcastle, Australia), ZXZW Festival (Tilburg, Netherlands), Fabrique @ Brisbane Powerhouse (Brisbane, Australia), Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia), Electundra festival @ LOOP (Melbourne, Australia), Extrapool (Nijmegen, The Netherlands), Instants Chavires (Paris, France), The Troubadour (Brisbane, Australia), The Zoo (Brisbane, Australia), Seymour Centre (Sydney, Australia), and Horse Bazaar (Melbourne, Australia).
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Just like the military uses badges to display rank, and scouts use them to honor accomplishments, a news site or mobile app can award digital badges to users who complete tasks or reach certain levels of engagement. The Huffington Post offers badges for connecting with other users, moderating comments and other useful behaviors. But I think it's worth it. Community building.
Enterprise 2.0: social scorecard and social media karma
Laurel Papworth
Rewarding badges and points systems on your intranet – social scorecards – could be the turning point for turning your enterprise 2.0 Daniel proposed that we set up Foursquare style badges to encourage staff to contribute and use the internet. Badges for no missed sick days would be a good start. Get to 1000 points to get a new BADGE. Get a Broadcaster badge.
Link Building Tactics for Publishers
Adam Sherk
As I covered in SEO Guidelines for Sponsored Content and Partner Links , there are SEO implications to be aware of. Since Outbrain links are paid links, its modules comply with search engine guidelines and do not pass SEO value (a good thing as this protects the participating publishers). Widgets and badges. So what link building tactics are most effective for publishers?
A Surefire Way to Get Verified on Twitter
agora pulse
The blue verified badge on Twitter (seen in this example from @americanart) lets people know that your account is authentic. First, this badge tells the Twittersphere that you've made it and your content is worthy of public interest. Second, this special badge makes it easier for users to find you. There's a set of guidelines which are applied to verified accounts.
Journalism 101, Facebook-Style
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Manager of journalism partnerships Áine Kerr wrote in a blog post that the e-learning courses will focus on the "three core pillars" of the news cycle—discovering content, creating stories and building an audience—adding that best practices and guidelines from Facebook are meshed with case studies from journalists. Journalists: Will you take advantage of these resources?
Creating Google Plus Business Pages
Janet Fouts
" and I expect they won't stand for copyright violations like using a Brand's name in your page, and any contests or promotions must fit within the Google + Pages Contest and Promotion Guidelines. Everybody's been arguing over the value of Google Plus lately. Some say it's only for geeks and others say it's a waste of time. How could we resist? Not yet.
How to Get Verified on Twitter (If I can do it, you can too!)
Buffer Social
You can apply to be Twitter verified and receive a blue checkmark badge next to your name. It does provide a bit of an ego boost and celebrity moment to see the blue badge, but here's the real kicker: There are significant business/brand advantages to being Twitter verified. In terms of the minimum guidelines, here's a bit more about how to complete each one successfully.
12 Steps to Producing a Podcast
Convince & Convert
When she sends the GoToMeeting request, Jess also sends to the guests our guest guidelines for the podcast, so they have a better feel for what's going to happen while recording. Here's our guest guidelines page for Social Pros. Send a Thank You Note and a Badge. We also send guests a digital "badge" that they can use on their personal website or blog.
How to Produce a Podcast
Convince & Convert
Explain the Show When she sends the GoToMeeting request, Jess also sends to the guests our guest guidelines for the podcast, so they have a better feel for what's going to happen while recording. Here's our guest guidelines page for Social Pros. We also send guests a digital "badge" that they can use on their personal website or blog. Because… 4.
Gamification: Much Less Scary Than What's Under the Bed
At the risk of oversimplification and pigeon-holing, knowing your definition of an engaged member is important, if as nothing more than a guideline or base level from which to measure and introduce offerings. When the term "gamification" is used, many envision a highly technical system of levels and badges and that can be done. Here's the latest post in our "INDUSTRY INSIDERS" column. All of them are smart and savvy bloggers, and we know you'll enjoy what they have to say! Pew is not the only one watching gamification. What is that frequency?
Breaking Out of Social Disclosure Jail With CMP.LY
Convince & Convert
It's been about 15 months since those crazy kids at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) passed their new disclosure guidelines to "protect the public from inappropriately cozy business relationships being companies and bloggers, tweeters, Facebookers and more. badges. The sliding scale is based on customization of badges, and API access. Probably you too.). link).
Dr. Houzz Reveals a Widget-Flawed Google Algorithm
Viper Chill
The Norton badge works totally fine (it is a pop-up with security information like most privacy badges) so there's really no need for the link. There's no badge attached, just the text "About SSL certificates" The exact phrase that Godaddy were using for a lot of their links. (I Cigna, a Global Health Insurance company. PeruRail, a luxury train service.
8 ways to deal with negative comments in online communities
Laurel Papworth
Many social media guidelines have a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to addressing negative criticism in social networks, but assessing the situation and the potential positive vs negative outcomes of responses is a skill that comes from experience. I wonder if banks will create a Skinflint Miser badge or if you can earn a Road Hog badge from the Department of Motor Vehicles?
3 Blogger Monetisation Lessons from Facebook's Branded Content Policy Update
Before we look at the policy update in a bit more detail, here's a recap on what the Facebook page guidelines were before the recent change: "Advertising on Pages: Third-party advertisements on Pages are prohibited, without our prior permission.". Branded content on Pages is only allowed from Verified Pages (with the blue badge) on Facebook and must adhere to the following policies.
The 12 Startups I've Invested In and Why
Convince & Convert
disclosure capabilities, originally developed to ensure that brands are in compliance with FCC guidelines. You'll see an example of those disclosure "badges" at the bottom of this post. I was having dinner with a friend at the National Speakers Association conference a few days ago. I mentioned that I am an investor in that company, and Chris said, "You are?
Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2011
Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg
10 Unorthodox Ideas for Local Citations & Links : If you have a local business and want high rankings, these are some creative ways to move forward to get some nice links: hosting parties at the event, selling products for sale online and offering feeds for the products, integrating badges or writing a guide of local places in Foursquare, and more. And I did. Do an audit to find out.
20+ Commonly Asked Questions About Blogging & Online Marketing
Yes, but be vigilant about guidelines. I created what I consider a rather extensive list of guest post guidelines , although I have seen sites with a more comprehensive list. Anytime someone asks to be a guest blogger, I send them those guidelines. And anytime someone sends me a post that doesn't fit, I refer them back to the guidelines. Enjoy! Blog Platform.
Create a World-Class Online Community for Your Business
Making a leader board, developing badges, or another effort to reward participation with recognition in the community will be an important component of a world-class community. Establish and Enforce Guidelines Create a policy that clearly identifies what community members can and can't do, as well as how violations of the policy will be handled. Have an account? Me neither.
9 Elements of the Perfect Post
If you have several authors for your blog, be sure to tell them how you want your sub-headers to be styled in your editorial guidelines. Use this area to show off links to your social networks, subscriptions to your RSS feed and email list, and free downloads of white papers, infographics or badges. This guest post is by Ginny Soskey of Shareaholic. Headline. Sub-header. Multimedia.
Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2010
Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg
6 Tips for Running Promotions Within Facebook's Guidelines (Inside Facebook): Given the risks of running contests on Facebook due to some unexplained terms of service, Inside Facebook clarifies what is within reason and what might not be allowed. Just Ignore Bing's/Google's Guidelines. Of course, then, today is my birthday, but it's a big one. Enjoy! Twitter.
The Carrot and Stick of Social Media Disclosure
Convince & Convert
By making the same transparent disclosures that can keep you on the good side of the FTC, FDA, FINRA, SEC and rest of the alphabet soup of agencies whose guidelines you can no longer ignore. URLs, along with our recognizable visual badges for multiple disclosure types across all digital and social media platforms. Well, relax. How can you do this? The 3 Types of Disclosers.
The Slippery Slope of Association Blogger Outreach
Disclosure --the FTC has issued guidelines regarding endorsements and testimonials by bloggers; make sure youre familiar with them. Share Posted by Maggie at 10:20 PM | Older Post Home Subscribe to: Comment Feed (RSS) Subscribe via email Subscribe in a reader Get this badge. Mom blogger drama has made its way to the association world. Score. Not so for associations. Is that fair?
7 Tips for Effective Marketing with Twitter
This will serve as a guideline on dealing with and deciding on conversations they should participate in and which ones should get escalated within your organization. #5 Another great option is the ability to add buttons, badges and widgets to sections of your other sites (articles, pages, etc.) 7 Tips for Effective Marketing with Twitter 30 With millions of people connecting through social media, advertisers and marketers are hustling to get in on the action. In the past year we've seen many companies and brands attempt to step into this new world only to fail miserably. Thanks.
Main Page - Social Patterns
patterns) Apples Human Interface Guidelines Windows Vista UX guidelines What is this site? Home About The Book Patterns Events Designing Social Interfaces Views Page Discussion View source History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main Page Community portal Current events Recent changes Random page Help Search Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Main Page From Social Patterns Jump to: navigation , search #What is this site? Whats a pattern? Contents 1 Social Patterns & Best Practices 1.1 Self 1.2.1
The Creative Plateau and Content Curation
Urban sustainability, green building, and alternative transportation Social Media Today LLC © 2010 Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Jobs | Get a Badge | Help | About & Contact. Here are three possible reasons: 1. The Innovation Adoption Curve Fans of the innovation adoption curve suggest that the hype associated with socially driven and created content is beginning to reach its zenith.
78 (of the) Best Social Media Marketing Tips, Guides, Tools and Strategies of 2010 (So Far)
Webbiquity SMM
Oli Gardner reveals key tactics for converting social media followers into buyers, from using a landing page with a clear call to action and offering "social proof through badges and widgets to optimizing post-conversion opportunities. While management can't, and shouldn't seek to, tightly control all such interactions, it is imperative to have basic guidelines in place. With the amount of helpful content about social media marketing growing faster than Facebook's user base or Lindsay Lohan's court appearances, it's tough to keep up. 5 stars.
Facebook Page Managing Updates for Admins
Saying It Social
Marketing Tab: Access useful information about promoting your Page with advertising, adding a badge, and incorporating a Like Box on your website. Policies regarding promotion guidelines can also be viewed here. Facebook Pages help brands, businesses, and public figures build a presence to connect with the people who like them on Facebook. Page Help: Having trouble with your page?
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Old-Fashioned Organic SEO Wins the Day After Google Penguin Update
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Included in the new guidelines are not only the carrot recommendations (DO) but increasingly Google is using the stick on those sites it perceives to be gaming the system (DON'T). You can't force people to add that but you can create a page and badges that encourage people to link you and give them all the code to copy and paste. and very few ever make it to a 10. Drupal).
Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009
Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg
Like last year, if your article is highlighted in this comprehensive post, there's a badge for you to proudly celebrate this achievement on your site. If you want to write a complete review of something, be sure to follow the guidelines highlighted in this post. And like last year, I have a gift for you. Every year, I read hundreds (thousands?) Here's my list for 2008.
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New for 2008: If your article is highlighted in this comprehensive post, we have badges for you! Intel Social Media Guidelines : Last month, it was discovered that Intel had pushed its social media guidelines out in the open. Follow some guidelines. Thanks again to the Portland Web Design company for their awesome badges (and to Jill for the idea). Nuff said.
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If you want some about page points, check out these posts on guidelines for writing a good about page and how to write an about page that will tell visitors why they should listen to you. Want to check-in and unlock a swarm badge? I wanted to expand upon those tips, and add a few extra ways that I am getting ready for Blog World Expo next month, my first major blogging conference.
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Physiologically-indexed and self-perceived affective empathy in conduct-disordered children high and low on callous-unemotional traits
Anastassiou-Hadjicharalambous, X. and Warden, D.A. (2008) Physiologically-indexed and self-perceived affective empathy in conduct-disordered children high and low on callous-unemotional traits. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 39 (4). pp. 503-517. ISSN 0009-398X
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Heart rate (HR) was employed to compare vicarious affective arousal across three groups of children (aged 7.6 - 11, N = 95): Conduct Disordered (CD) elevated on Callous-Unemotional traits (CD/CU), CD low on CU traits (CD-only), and 'typically-developing' controls, matched in age, gender and socioeconomic background. While watching an emotion evocative film, participants-HR was monitored. Immediately after viewing, self-reported vicarious responses were obtained. Participants also completed the Bryant Empathy Index. CD/CU children displayed lower magnitude of HR change than both CD-only and controls. Both CD groups reported fewer vicarious responses and scored lower than controls on the empathy index. These results support distinct deficits across CD subsets, suggestive of distinct mechanisms underlying their antisocial conduct.
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Keywords: | callous-unemotional traits, conduct disorder, affective empathy, psychopathy, Psychology, Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health, Psychiatry and Mental health, Developmental and Educational Psychology |
Subjects: | Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > Psychology |
Department: | Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > Psychology |
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Date Deposited: | 18 May 2010 11:13 |
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