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since the previous week, a few more sites i frequent were inaccessible. it may be tech problems. but you can't help yourself thinking other ways. it's like: the tide began to change. :)
since the previous week, a few more sites i frequent were inaccessible. it may be tech problems. but you can't help yourself thinking other ways. it's like: the tide began to change. :)
Steven Cheung 张五常在《卖橘者说》says vote by money is the best. My intuition is he is wrong. But I didn't know how to argue. A few days ago, I finally have a theory. :)
I read Karl Popper is against social science. certainly i disagree. but the argument is subtle. i remember when i first read Karl Popper quite a few years ago, i agree with him on this. i study game theory these days. in BusinessWeek, there was an editorial on this year's Nobel economics. the article blasts game theory ``not testable''. i agree. but i can make some change. :)
books by 吴思 are the best economics books i was reading so far. it's deep but it lacks mathematization. contemporary game theorists' work are good mathematics. but often bad economics. this is echoed by S Cheung and 杨小凯. it's interesting time for an economist.
i remember Knuth once said the 60s and 70s were golden times for computer scientists. it's like that for economists now.
yo! i'm back. :)
happy happy joy joy. :)
a few chinese books i'm reading:
and a few english ones
read or die. :) なんしさん is cool! :)
today's good laugh from wikipedia general equlibrium:
... Some critics of general equilibrium modeling contend that much research in these models constitutes exercises in pure matheamtics with no connection to actual economies. "There are endeavors that now pass for the most desirable kind of economic contributions although they are just plain mathematical exercises, not only without any economic substance but also without any mathematical value" (Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen 1979). Georescu-Roegen cites as an example a paper that assumed more traders than there are points on a real line.
in these days, news from the arena of programming languages only reminds me how people can easily get excited over trivial things.
empirical and theoretical. many and many big volumes of trivialities are produced. and not necessarily easy to be learnt.
life is very short. time spent to learn a new, so called, fundamental innovation in programming languages, could be better spent elsewhere.
learn chemistry. learn economics. there're many whole world unknown to me. watch another japanes anime or tv series. they teach me more than old Alan Kay or old Guy Steele.
lisp or unit testing, i'd better spent more time with my life partners.
don't take me wrong. i like collecting programming languages. to this day, i've collected some of c, of course, and scheme and forth and c++ and java and python. and a little bit of perl and ruby and ocaml and clean and erlang. and even less so with a few more bizarre ones.
i've also collected some programming practices, such as literate programming, and such.
it's a difficult thing to say. it's like you asking me if i support the death penalty. i just can't give a quick answer.
but i do dislike people give easy answers in the face of real difficult questions.
there ARE real questions in the field of programming languages research.
for a quick and conservative adoption of scons, GenerateConfigH provides excellent example.
in fact, that example could be even simplified a little bit more.
it should be noted that it's still easy to provide the user the usual interface to a source package:
$ ./configure $ make $ make install
just dump the m4 and autotools, in favour of python and scons. (i think it should be perfectly ok if one has nothing against make, especially when one's project is small.)
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In meetings across the state over the next few weeks — including meetings with inmates at the Warren and Windham prisons — Mainers will get a chance to discuss prison life with Bo Lozoff, who has "probably been in more prisons than anyone on Earth," he says — around 1100 in 34 years of directing what has become "the world's largest interfaith prison ministry."
Place the emphasis on the word "interfaith." Although Lozoff, 60, expresses a deep connection to Christ, when he fills out a form with a line for "Religion," he says, he writes "Yes!"
He calls himself a mystic and a yogi: "I'm a messenger boy of the saints and sages of all the great traditions."
The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader, has written a foreword to Lozoff's most popular book, We're All Doing Time: A Guide for Getting Free, which is sent free to inmates by his Human Kindness Foundation in Durham, North Carolina.
Lozoff is extremely critical of American prisons and the society that has created them.
The fact that the United States alone locks up a quarter of the world's prisoners in an "irresponsibly vicious" system — as he describes it on his Web site, www.humankindness.org — reflects an arrogant, brutal, selfish, depressed society "descending into open madness," he says in a telephone interview from Vermont.
In such a society, he says, "No politician can get elected by saying 'I want to be more compassionate.'"
Eighty percent of inmates shouldn't be in prison, he says. The high recidivism rate — the return to crime — shows prisons don't work. "By venting our rage and hatred [against prisoners], we make things worse," he writes on his Web site in discussing possible reforms.
So how does someone with these views persuade the authorities to let him meet with prisoners?
"My work is not prison reform," he replies. He tries to help prisoners be calmer, stronger, and more compassionate. Prison is an opportunity for individuals to be spiritual seekers, he says, because they are not surrounded by distractions like consumerism and electronic gadgetry. They can turn their cells into "ashrams," a Hindu word meaning places for religious retreats.
Although he teaches yoga and meditation, he realizes these practices are hard to follow in crowded prisons. His most significant contribution may be that some prisoners are "touched by what I've written and said," and "their hearts and minds may be changed a little bit."
Lozoff will meet with the public in Portland at 7 pm on July 24 at the First Parish Church, 425 Congress Street. He also will have public meetings in Blue Hill, Ellsworth, Bangor, and Belfast between July 27 and August 3. He will be giving "workshops" in the Maine Correctional Center in Windham, July 24-25, and the Maine State Prison in Warren, August 4-5.
He also will give a free concert in Ellsworth at 7:30 pm, July 28, at the Unitarian Universalist Church. He sings and plays the guitar and harmonica. His 36-year-old son Josh will perform magic tricks.Volunteers for Hancock Jail Residents |www.jailvolunteers.org | 207.374.2437
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Obviously no one wanted to answer the questions asked in the OP of Part 1 so will try a new tack. This is for those who are obviously smitten with class envy .Originally Posted by IRS
Which means that the middle 40% paid 27.04% of all the federal income taxes, which I would venture to guess would include most who post here.
If my AGI was only $369,691 & I was being demonized by the POTUS as rich I would be quite upset.
There is not enough money among the wealthy to cure congresses spending habit & pay off the debt. Those among the very wealthy that say they should pay more can without asking others to, their support means they expect to get a break unavailable to the other wealthy . What sucks is that many of you are falling for that line.
So I'll try to present it in a manner you understand. The attack on the wealthy is an attempt to gain the viriginity of the taxpayer, nothing less. After the deflowering everything will be much easier. & you can see from the stats that you will be on the list.
Should the R's cave I will be very disappointed, fortunately Boehner has as his two sidekicks in the negotiations, Ryan & Kantor. Hopefully they will be successful in cutting tax breaks of which the ability of the hedge funders to take ordinary income & have it taxed at CG rates would be one + the second home deduction of interest should be eliminated. There are others, including in the farm bill. Because of capital demands there will be 70,000 less farmers at the end of this decade, should we continue to subsidize those very wealthy farmers?


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Hello people.
I have a Direct3D 9.0 engine and I want to add an OpenGL renderer.
The engine uses deferred lighting with Shader model 3.0 and unfortunately isn't written in abstraction level in mind. I mean, it uses DirectX types, objects and D3DX calls all over the code.
My questions are :
1. What OpenGL version I should implement ? OpenGL 2.x , 3.x, 4.0 ? I need a smooth transition and easy port, that matches Direct3D 9.0 functionality well.
2. Should I use glew, glut, SDL , other stuff like that ? I will most probably want to port it to other platforms like Linux, Mac ? I don't want to mess with extensions so probably glew will be of help.
3. Should I use nVidia CG shader language in order to use my existing HLSL shader code directly, without rewriting them to GLSL ?
4. Is there a good sample source code, tutorials, articles that show basic deferred rendering with a modern OpenGL way ( version 3 ++) ?
5. I'm using D3DX library for common math stuff etc, is there a library for OpenGL that is to it, like D3DX is to Direct3D ?
I have a limited OpenGL experience from the past.
Thank you.
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Posted on 30 Jun 2011 by Adrian Fedkiw.
Michael Waterloo, Brenda Sepanek and Ryan Riordan joined me to talk a little baseball as they announced who should be on the All-Star team. Make sure to fast forward to the 12 minute mark, for some reason that's when the recording started. http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/110071


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Chuxter - get well soon sir.
Tycho - Congratulations!
Chaddy - Thx for the info on the MP-22 Ultra magnus price drop. (Wallet doesn't like u now. :-P ) Eh, early xmas present to myself. (I know, weak, but need some justification for this monstrous expense)
Maradona and JT - Great to catch up with you guys last night. Too bad we couldn't get more people, although it was kinda short notice. Guess i'll be down to check out Farrell's.
Haven't hunted recently, but I wouldn't mind a storm - whoops - I mean snowtrooper commander :-D


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On Land: A maximum width of 77cm and a shape at the tail which reminds us of a spoiler, a 48 race fin (tuttle box) and proper cut outs, the Futura can be seen in between the gentle free-ride boards as the Ferrari at the VW GTI meeting.
The shape: a double concave shape in the front and a planar V from the fin box to the back.
On the water:The Futura shows where it can go in the near future. Super stable while sub-planing - and definitely excellent for intermediates - and while fully planing the fastest board of the whole test group,
nbsp; F2 Vantage Air 135
You can learn to plane with the Futura and can keep the board till you race on the Slalom course. The Futura is easy to control at top speed. The board planes super stable and does not have any tendencies, to catch the water (to roll) or to get lifted in the air, despite a big sized powerful fin.
The planing position is extremely free, with the feeling being flat on the water. The board has a top average speed and when the Futura 133 turns in an upwind direction no other board can follow.
The mix of sports feeling when sailing, the performance and the control is unmatched inside this test group. Surprisingly the longer boards, which are just a bit longer than the Futura 133 (+5 - 12,5 cm), start to accelerate a little bit smoother. However if you pump with the Futura once you will be rewarded with the fastest acceleration.
Additionally the Futura and the JP Super Sport can carry the biggest sail sizes inside this group. In the jibe you feel the width of the board. The board needs definitely more pressure and does not feel that gutsy like a Lorch.
In choppy water conditions the Futura 133 stays extremely stable. If you are on the way to learn the power jibe, this board is exactly the right tool for you. The Futura 133 is the SURF tip, when you are looking for a sporty Free ride- Free race board.
Short description: The Starboard Futura 133 is exceptional because of best top speed and a lot of performance upwind- and downwind sailing. Its width and the stable planing position makes the Futura feel quite easy to sail with.
In between comfortable and direct
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i wasnt sure where to post this but i just got 2 great items off ebay for very low prices. I won an auction for a Nute gunray holo, and an auction for a luke cdrom figure. both unproduced and i have seen both go for way over $100.00.
any1 know why the scalpers wernt on ebay this week?


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Mayor Tom O'Brien has all kinds of rationale as to why a proposed new prison for the province should be located in Stephenville.
"We look forward to the consulting firm engaged by government for the design of the prison and site location coming to Stephenville and evaluating the merits of locating the institution here," O'Brien said at a council meeting Thursday.
He said there is a long history of corrections in Stephenville, including the West Coast Correctional Centre that's currently in the town. He said the facility has had success for more than 30 years and has a capacity of more than 50 inmates.
An exchange service agreement with the federal government to house federal inmates at the correctional centre in Stephenville has been effective and efficient, said O'Brien, and the facility offers some beneficial programs.
The mayor said another advantage is that a large RCMP detachment is located in the town, with more than 30 members, modern equipment and services. There is availability of provincial court, legal aid, Crown attorney and private law offices, along with the presence of the John Howard Society and support services at Westbridge House.
O'Brien listed a number of other services, including the presence of denominational churches and chaplaincy, which currently provides regular visits to the West Coast Training Centre.
He told councillors that other penal institutions in Atlantic Canada are not located in the larger centres, but rather in smaller communities.
In New Brunswick, there is one in the rural Northumberland Country community of Renous, which has a population of 1,200. The prison opened in 1987 with a capacity of 287.
Dorchester, a New Brunswick community with a population of 1,400, has a prison with a capacity of 350 inmates.
The Nova Scotia prison is located in Springhill, a town with 4,000 people.
O'Brien said when the Women's Correctional Centre was located in Stephenville its services were nearly unmatched. He said the town also has land that could be made available for the prison.
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JD ... to prevent future occurrences, one could start by holding those responsible for malfeasance & incompetence accountable.
Without the information we are getting from this congressional investigation, we would still not be aware of the extent of the lack of preparedness that existed; the fact that nobody "bothered" to call to the attention of SOS of the serious situation (remember, Hillary, by her testimony, was unaware of the Stevens' requests for additional security); that nobody seemed to remember they needed POTUS to get authorization to use Libyan air space; that they did not get permission from someone (whoever could give it) to use an armed drone to help those fellas.
If it would take our military 20 hours to get a response team to one of the hottest spots in the ME on the 9-11 anniversary, heads should be rolling at the Pentagon with replacements for those supposedly responsible for such contingency plans. The fact that the UK diplomats and the Red Cross had pulled out of Benghazi might have been a clue that if we were going to allow our diplomats to go there, it might be a very dangerous place, and there should have been preparations in place to protect those diplomats effectively. It would appear that the CIA had an idea of what was going on, didn't they pass along their info to the military? Isn't that how it's supposed to work? What good is CIA info if nobody pays attention to it? (I hope Biden answers the phone when the CIA reports that Iran has their nuclear bomb & mode of delivery for it. He's depending on that, according to the VP debates, but will he answer the phone?)
Interesting item from National Review
That "infamous" video apparently was not even the major item responsible for the US embassy attack in Cairo. Just the day before, the Blind Sheik's son threatened to burn the Cairo embassy:There had been a brief mention of the offending video on Sept. 9 at an Egyptian mosque.On September 10, 2012, the day before rioting at the U.S. embassy in Cairo, an Egyptian weekly, El Fagr, reported that several jihadist organizations, including the Blind Sheik's group (Gamaat al-Islamia, or the Islamic Group) and al-Qaeda emir Ayman al-Zawahiri's group (Egyptian Islamic Jihad), were threatening to burn the American embassy in Cairo to the ground. The promised action against the embassy was an effort to extort the release of Abdel Rahman and other jihadists jailed by the United States.
We know this thanks to the invaluable Raymond Ibrahim — who makes it his business to scour the Arabic press, where Islamic supremacists are actually covered. Ray published a post on it in the PJ Tatler. The post echoes my observation, from back in July, that the Blind Sheik's son, Abdallah Abdel Rahman, was threatening to raid the U.S. embassy in Cairo and hold our people hostage to coerce his father's release.
More significantly, as an alert Bryan Preston notices at PJ Media, Ray's post the day before the Cairo rioting and Benghazi Massacre dovetails with Stephen Hayes's latest excellent report on Benghazi. In discussing the CIA's first round of talking points — later substantially erased under pressure from the State Department and the White House — Steve points out the Agency's assertion that "on 10 September we warned of social media reports calling for a demonstration in front of the [Cairo] Embassy and that jihadists were threatening to break into the Embassy."
Note that neither the Egyptian press report outlined by Ibrahim, nor the CIA report outlined by Hayes, made any mention of the video. The fear was threatened violence from al-Qaeda affiliated jihadists.


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Beaver Creek Game Calls is currently running a sale at http://www.beavercreekgamecalls.com all of our custom turkey diaphragms are on sale for just $1.99! Visit our site to check out all of our calls. We will be releasing duck and grunt calls later this month.
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Aaron Christopher Morris
doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-07-47, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2007
|This thesis identifies operational uncertainty as a significant problem affecting reliable robot performance in real environments. Operational uncertainty represents ambiguity in a robot's self-perceived state during the execution of a task. This ambiguity is introduced into a robotic system through events such as unanticipated environmental disturbances, failing hardware and software built upon invalid assumptions. Real environments such as forests, caves, oceans and space foster operational ambiguity, which confound robot software and hinder reliable performance.
To address operational uncertainty in the general case, a robot is required to assess both the environment and itself to determine the nature of a problem and the appropriate means to react. Environmental assessment (i.e. perception) is a well-understood and highly addressed problem in robotics research. As such, this thesis focuses upon the latter topic: self assessment.
This thesis develops a framework called robotic introspection to provide a self-assessment mechanism for field-capable robots. Robotic introspection models and monitors operational state (i.e. a robot's computational state) to assist robotic decision-making. In particular, this research develops an architectural framework for observing, mapping, localizing and planning in the space of operating modes.
For this thesis, the subterranean domain is used to describe and illustrate the problem of operational uncertainty and to implement and experiment with robotic introspection. This domain is an ideal medium for conveying these concepts and generalizes well to robots op- erating in other field environments. In addition, the subterranean domain offers exceptional opportunities for highly-reliable robots. Hazardous, remote and space constrained under- ground spaces such as mines, tunnels, caves and sewers are difficult environments for people to access and labor. Information acquired from the subterranean, however, has immense civil and commercial value. Compact, sensory-tailored robotic systems provide practical solutions to subterranean information-gathering efforts by reaching spaces and collecting data on a scale that is not humanly feasible.
The work presented in this document is the first to develop robotic introspection for autonomy on a field robotic platform. This introspective framework is shown to effectively handle uncertain situations, thereby justifying its role on autonomous subterranean robots. In addition, this work provides irrefutable evidence establishing robots as capable, thorough, and efficient tools for subterranean data collection. Unique to this research, trials of robot deployment have occurred in an assortment of underground environments across a spectrum of conditions including flooded, dry, muddy, confined, open, smoke-filled, borehole entry, and portal entry. From these trials, this work has produced an unrivaled repository of subterranean data, including the largest 3-D metric models of interior underground surfaces known to date
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I - together with numerous other RTF members - am here at Vinwood Kennels for a two day handling and training seminar sponsored by Avery and Purina.
We began with a big retired bird pinched tight to a long flyer shot into a test. Followed by a long crosswind, tight keyhole road blind. There were dogs of varying ages and skill levels run by handlers of varying ages and skill levels. As each team ran, Danny and Kenny offered thoughts on training issues, handling issues, and tips for improvement.
Now we are running a long entry water blind.
I have attended many seminars, which I paid to attend (and willingly). This seminar which was every bit as good as those - was absolutely free. Hard to beat that.
Plus every attendee got a great goodie bag from Avery, and we are going to have BBQ dinner tonight. All through Avery's generosity - with help from Purina.
A big thank you to David Carrington of Avery, Karl Gunzer of Purina, and their companies for their sponsorship.
And another big thank you to Danny Farmer of Vinwood Kennels and Kenny Trott of Horsetooth Retriever Kennels for their expertise and to Marcy Wright for herding the cats


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If you're looking for an alternative to any commercial desktop email client, you may want to try Mozilla Thunderbird. Did you know that with the Lightning add-on installed in your Thunderbird, you can actually use and sync your Google Calendar painlessly? Follow these simple instructions in my blog post to integrate your Google Calendar from within Mozilla Thunderbird.… Read the rest


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First off, a reminder that the Spring 5 of 7 for this week has started today so be sure to get into a ranked arena and duke it out! This upcoming Friday (4/4/14) the Seasonal Lotto and Seasonal Packs will be returning to the shop for a limited time! This includes all alternative art from any season that is currently released on the server. The Seasonal lotto will be priced at 30 gran per card and the Seasonal pack will be priced at 280 gran (contains 5 cards, with at least 1 guaranteed 3 star or higher rarity card). The sale will end on Sunday (4/6/14) at 11:59PM EST, so don't miss this opportunity to snag some exclusive alternate art of your favorite cards! You can find the full list of the cards included in this sale here: http://alteil.apocoplay.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=14835&sid=3a586549fc28240b48d11b969a5ae6c5
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The Sith Lords are coming the Sith lords are coming!
Cool Darths, I wondered how Ogel would look as a Darth.
"Hokey packaging and ancient gimmicks are no match for good detail on your figure, kid."
"I am a Klingot from Oklahoma in human boy form."
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Howdy, and welcome.
I suggest that you ask these very same questions a bit farther down in the Bonefish, Tarpon, and Other Obsessions board. There are many anglers who frequent that area of Flytalk and should be able to help you out.
New member saying hi!
Just want to say hi to everyone and ask for some advice!
I'll be taking a holiday with my girlfriend in May to Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. It's not going to be a fishing only trip as my gitrlfriend doesn't seem to understand my obsession with waving bits of fur and feather about, but i'll be squeezing in as much fishing as i can.
I understand that bonefish would be the obvious choice and i'm hoping to maybe get in two guided trips during my 2 week stay. I'm not gonna be able to afford much more than this so any other fishing will have to D.I.Y.
Does anyone have any advice they can offer me as I have never been flats fishing before. Will there be any opportunities to fish close to my hotel in Playacar? Not just for bones but for any other species as well? I've been told that there's plenty of barracuda around and that i should also take a spinning rod. Is this correct?
Sorry if i've dragged on a bit in my first post, but i want to gather and learn as much as i can before i get out there.
Guess the missus was right about the 'obsessive' part!
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Quite a few months passed since my last diary entry. I guess "diary" is not a really good denomination for my writings :)
Things are moving nicely here at my job. I became a project coordinator, with responsabilities varying from very local products going up to the unification of the whole mail system used by Terra Lycos worldwide. Neat.
A few months ago, I finally started writing my book (the first few chapters have been rewritten quite a few times, BTW ;) ) . This book is not technical, or even SF oriented - just old & good literature.
Last month I and a few friends started planning a trip to Machu Piccu, maybe the biggest city of the Inca empire. As a result of that, (or in preparation for the trip) I have started doing gym daily. It's incredible how good for the body it is to exercise again, after a few years ;)


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Family: Anatidae, Ducks and Geese view all from this family
Description ADULT MALE Has large crest that can be flattened or fanned, presenting a large, gleaming white patch on otherwise dark head. Bill is dark and note beady yellow eye. Back is mainly dark and breast is white, marked with two black lines on sides, separating breast from otherwise orange-brown flanks. Eclipse male is similar to adult female, but with duller colors; retains bright eye. ADULT FEMALE Orange-buff head with long, shaggy crest. Plumage is otherwise mainly gray-brown, darkest on back; belly is white. Eye is dark. JUVENILE Similar to adult female.
Dimensions Length: 16-19" (41-48 cm)
Habitat In summer, found in forested wetlands; nests in tree holes. Outside breeding season, most birds move to southeast wetlands, favoring freshwater sites.
Observation Tips Typically shy during breeding season; easier to observe in winter although still has retiring habits.
Range Northwest, Florida, Eastern Canada, Alaska, Southeast, Southwest, California, Great Lakes, Rocky Mountains, Mid-Atlantic, Texas, Western Canada, Plains, New England
Voice Mostly silent.
Discussion Small, bizarrely shaped diving duck with slender bill and large head. Dives frequently in search of small fish and invertebrates. Male is unmistakable; size, proportions, and color in female are good means of identification.


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Lockheed Martin's Multi-mission Combat Ship (MCS) is a highly maneuverable, multi-role combatant with shallow draft, automation, flexible crew size, and leading edge / open technology to integrate systems, sensors, and weapons capabilities.
Built on Lockheed Martin's expertise with the US Navy's littoral shipbuilding program, MCS is a next generation surface combatant that delivers maximum firepower tailored to partner navies' requirements. There is current interest in hull lengths from 85 meters to 118 meters; the hull is proved from 67 meters to 150 meters at various displacements.
MCS' reconfigurable hull design and open integration, multi-mission capability enables the simultaneous conduct anti-air, mine countermeasures, anti-surface, anti-submarine, and electronic warfare tasks. Its large aviation flight deck and hangar for manned and unmanned platforms supports dual air vehicle operations. MCS' versatile stern ramp, launch and recovery system, and flexible / modular capacity support maritime security, unmanned systems, and special operations missions.
With proven combat management system lineage and prioritization of command and control features for smaller crews, Lockheed Martin's MCS has the interoperability necessary for today's joint and allied naval force maneuvers.


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In the Exclusive Star Wars DVD's I bought from England from the Sun & The News Of The World, it states that Jango Fett is from Concord Dawn.Originally Posted by jlw
In the Exclusive Star Wars DVD's I bought from England from the Sun & The News Of The World, it states that Jango Fett is from Concord Dawn.Originally Posted by jlw
Yeah, that's one of the famous "continuity fixes," where Jaster Mareel was Jango's commander in the Mandaloreans, and the details are getting all mixed up in the re-telling.Originally Posted by BanthaPoodoo
I can't wait for an explanation of the "Stormtrooper who killed his superior officer" origin of Boba from the Dark Empire comics.
That's my jacket!
Never read DE. Did Fett say that himself?Originally Posted by El Chuxter
If not, then they've already sorted it out (kinda). Boba Fett either spreads or doesn't mind the spreading of numerous rumors about his origin.
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Mummy of the raincoat is a gigantic trollop.
The figure is actually Orrimaarko, and Orrin Marko was the friend's name, created by WEG writer Pablo Hidalgo who has since moved on to writing for the SW Insider and sw.com, and apparently is co-authoring a new SW Chronicles Prequels book with Sansweet to be released some time later this year.Originally Posted by jlw
Yeah, Deak was originally in the film, he hangs out with Windy, both of these guys are seen hanging with Cammie and Fixer in the Anchorhead cut scenes. ("Windy" is also another unused name from the original script, Mace Windy, who was a pilot, and a name that got used another way later on).Originally Posted by BCJ
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Yeah, I knew I wasn't spelling the guys name right. I had read that story in like Toyfare or something a few years ago.
I think it would be an interesting article in the Insider to go back and ask George where he got the names from. Sorta like "Indiana"; "That was the dog's name" Classic!!
TARKAAN (Grand Moff Tarkin?): in the Chronicles of Narnia series, the Calormenes who sometimes fought against those of Narnia had either a family name or title called Tarkaan (female: Tarkheena, I think). Tarkin was a leader on the evil side in Star Wars, so the "evil" ones in the books could've been a source.
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
I really didn't want to go through 700 pages to see if this was posted or not, so if it has been smack me.
Dooku is Japanese for 'poison'.
It's a blacked-out blur but I'm pretty sure it ruled.
There's a "Search This Thread" search box that comes up when you click it at the top of every thread page, I searched yours and it appears to be unique. If accurate, pretty interesting. I could only find references to "duku" doing a quick google search, an asian-pacific fruit, which I hope wasn't the meaning behind the character's name.
Well, some online sleuthing netted me these possibilities for "Dooku."
1. Doku (pronounced "dough-koo" ) is Japanese for "poison," so CaptainSolo1138 was close.
2. Su-doku is a puzzle game from Japan (it was a puzzle or riddle as to who Dooku really was, whose side was he on, etc.)
3. A website poster thought perhaps the "Count" aspect of Dooku's name had the "poison" translation added to "duke," an honorary title, to create "Dooku."
So maybe all are true... from a certain point of view.
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
I read it in the Insider. So they're close.Originally Posted by Bel-Cam Jos
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I happen to agree with you, I just wasn't sure what exactly you meant. Personally I can think of several thousand ways that the world could be made a better place simply by people not doing something. And I strongly agree that most people need to slow down, give their heads a shake, and take a good long look around. Not just "people", but People. All of us. Collectively.
We've made an awful mess of things. What's scarier, however, is that almost no one seems to give a shit. Even on a personal level people are becoming increasingly fucked up by the sheer pace of things. Everyone with their cellphones and PDAs and laptops and pagers and microscopic attention spans and some seriously screwed drive to Do More Faster Now! And for what? I mean, really, for what? What's really being accomplished here?
Scratch that. What positive things are being accomplished? How many of our personal lives made better and more fulfilling by working 12-16 hours/day, 6-7 days/week? How is life improved by the continual acquisition of more and better electronics and communications gear? Do this many people really need cellphones? Do people really need multi-thousand-dollar home entertainment systems? Do people really need all the console gaming systems? Do people really need another new car? Do people really need to buy this many goddamned shoes?
I'm as guilty of this as anyone, although less so since I started paying attention to it. I haven't had a TV since I moved to Montreal, thus no VCR or DVD player. I don't have a PDA anymore. I have no car, and no desire to get one. I'm going to drop one of my phones (either cell or landline, haven't decided which yet). I don't wear a watch anymore. I don't check my email obsessively anymore. I unsubscribed from 9/10ths of the mailing lists I used to be on. I don't work all the time anymore. I've been reading more, writing more, walking more. Paying attention more. I've been making a fairly deliberate attempt to slow down, and I'm a much happier person for it.
This all began when I came to the realization that I had no real reason for pushing myself to Do More Faster Now. That I was caught in the classic trap of consumerism, believing that I could somehow make my life happier and more fulfilling by Buying More Stuff. It never worked. Not for years. I'd buy more stuff, play with it for a while (like a kid on Christmas morning), and nothing would change and I'd just have another "thing" to put in the box with all the other unused "things", and I'd still be generally discontent with life and, worse, I'd usually be further in debt.
"Well that's stupid", thought I. So, I've started cutting out the deadwood, cutting out the extraneous activities from my life and allowing myself to, as you (graydon) said, sit still. I'm not even halfway there yet, and things are already significantly better than they were before. Less stress. Less insomnia. Fewer headaches. And those are only some of the purely personal benefits. If everyone would do the same and just Consume Less, even by 20%, things would get better. We would still be consuming too much by a long long long shot, but it would be better. Maybe one small 10-20% reversal in consumer spending habits would be the pebble that begins a landslide.
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why the project is not going to use batteries??
How can i read the voltage of battery(battery indicator)?
can i make a voltmeter just with an arduino?
//// FILE: Voltmeter.pde// AUTHOR: Rob Tillaart// DATE: 2012-12-27//// PUPROSE: 6 channel voltmeter//int pin[] = { A0,A1,A2,A3,A4,A5 };void setup(){ Serial.begin(115200);}void loop(){ for (int i=0; i<6; i++) { analogRead(pin[i]); float voltage = analogRead(pin[i])*5.0/1023; Serial.print(voltage, 3); Serial.print("\t"); } Serial.println(); // delay(100);}
So what i have to do to move servo without 9V battery?
What do you mean with real source of power?
how do you think?
How can i put the solar panel to charge the battery and measuring. battery on my arduino uno r3?
But when i unmark the serial println the servo movement going backto normal..
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hello. I have blog since 5 months, is new, but all original content. A site bigger than mine with better PR and alexa rank took one of my post and reprint on their site with no permission. my question is if this will hurt my site? I was first so it should appear as first on me, yes? Even if there site is bigger?
It isn't so clear which content Google will favor. It would make sense in my mind that the content published online first should be the one that sticks or perhaps even the one indexed first. Believe it or not, it may not always be so easy to discern which came online first.
You may want to consider submitting a DMCA takedown to Google although I have heard varying responses to this route. There is some detailed information about that here,
There is also some information in the comments for this blog post about how google deals with these situations,
More on duplicate content in general,http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/duplicate-content
Hope that helps,
Usually, sites which post the content first is indexed by Google. I have often seen my content get indexed within 24 hours of posting.
Alexa rank is something which can be faked.
as far as page rank is concerned, it won't make much of a difference.
You should send a dmca takedown request to the website which stole your content.
You can use screenshots to show them the proof and highlight the dates the content was posted.
Thank you very much for your help and links. Very informative.
I didn't know you can fake Alexa rank. how do you do that? I don't want to do it, i don't want to do illegal things with my blog, just i don't know how. by download the bar and go to site a lot?
if someone stole my post, it won't heat your blog, because Google craws your content earlier then other's
Have you contacted the site's owner? Under no circumstances should be they allowed to steal your content like that. Tell them to either remove the content or pay up. If not, you can most definitely sue them in a small claims court.
I contact them already to ask them to remove it. so far it is still up. I am in russia and I don't know where they are, so i don't think i can do court. But I was told to send a dcma notice so i am downloading one to send, i hope i don't need lawyer for that.
You don't need a lawyer to send a DMCA. If you have already told the website to remove your content and they haven't, the next step I would take is to contact their webhost. You can find the host by checking the "whois". Different hosts have different requirements so do take the time to look up and follow those requirements. Generally, when you contact a host about plagiarism they will take the site down until the offending content is removed.
Yes, I know how to do whois. so if they are godaddy I email godaddy to say the site stole my content?
No, first you check to see what GoDaddy's requirements are. Then you follow them to the letter.
I Think if somebody stole your blog content ,so its not possible if you firstly post your article so your article must ch-roll first. So don't worry about that your blog content is unique.and its your post.
Even so, plagiarism is both unethical and illegal. Every writer has the right to be compensated for his or her own work. Sites that steal content need to learn that lesson. Even if your content is not monetized, if another site is using it without written permission, they need to heed a cease and desist. If they don't they deserve to pay the consequences no matter what they are.
And quite frankly, those who support content theft are, in my opinion suspect of belonging to the copy/paste crowd of plagiarists and have probably never put in the required effort to write unique content.
THank you, to you and everyone. I will definitely check to see how I cn stop by legal ways. My biggest concern was tht my content is not get indexed first and get pentalized.
I think, if you post your blog, then when anybody copies it, google will spam their content. So do not worry, your post is unique.
You should submit a DMCA takedown to Google, im sure your original content was indexed first , so it shouldnt be a problem. Good luck!
m sure your original content was indexed first , so it shouldn
I wouldn't bother submitting DMCA cause G. knows where that content originally appeared
I do think that it is true that who ever gets indexed first, that is king for that piece of content. However, if someone grabs your content off your site before Google lists in the index, that is an issue, as you would be deemed to be copying the content. You can simply search Google your title in quotes to see if it is indexed. We always check our content as it usually gets indexed the same day or next.
THanks. And how do you know if yours was indexed first? it won't necessary appear on first page results.
If your site was not crawled and indexed first, your subsequent site crawl "Last-Modified:" filetime() should be compared to the first indexed article and hopefully your article should be bumped to the top of the index.
OK than you. I learn a lot here, I thank you.


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Following a brief holiday respite from the ongoing sovereign debt crisis, in part due to an infusion of capital into the financial sector by the European Central Bank, the eurozone is once again facing rising borrowing costs, a fragile financial sector, and a weakening euro. On Friday, yields on ten-year Italian and Spanish government debt climbed, forcing the ECB to intervene (WSJ) in those countries' secondary bond markets. A day earlier, European bank shares--most notably, that of Italy's UniCredit--plummeted, while the euro fell to $1.28, its lowest level in over fifteen months (NYT).
Italian ten-year interest rates have again jumped above 7 percent, a level considered unsustainable by markets. Unlike Greece, Ireland, and Portugal, Italy's economy is too large for the EU and the International Monetary Fund to bail out. If Italy--which holds $2.6 trillion in public debt and is the eurozone's third-biggest economy--were to default, it would likely trigger the collapse of the single currency.
Despite low-interest, three-year loans that the ECB started providing European commercial banks at the end of December, investors have remained loathe to buy more sovereign debt in Italy, Spain, and even France. At the same time, many European banks are facing a potential liquidity crisis (Reuters). Doubts over the ability of the continent's banks to put aside funds to address bad loans, while raising billions in fresh funds to meet EU capital requirements, has pushed bank stocks lower and rattled investor confidence in Europe's financial sector--with potential knock-on effects for the U.S. and global economies.
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Italy, Spain, and other at-risk eurozone states have moved to implement strict budget cuts to try to reassure investors that they are getting their financial houses in order. At the same time, these severe austerity measures are undermining growth, just as Europe faces a likely recession (VOA) this year.
Some analysts question whether this approach will help the eurozone out of its current economic malaise. Charles Wyplosz, an economics professor at the Graduate Institute of Geneva, recommends that European leaders halt tax increases and spending cuts, and instead encourage consumer spending (NYT) to boost growth in their beleaguered economies.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are meeting in Berlin on Monday to hash out the details of a new treaty agreed on last month by most EU members to establish a fiscal union, which will require the coordination of national budgets across member states.
However, doubts remain over the legality of the agreement (DerSpiegel)--which falls outside the overarching EU Lisbon treaty--and whether it is politically bold enough to reassure markets (FP). Daniel Gros, director of the Center for European Policy Studies, says "the eurozone has enough savings to finance all of the deficits," while boosting investor confidence. But, he adds, it would require the economic and political will (Project Syndicate) of the ECB and wealthy northern states like Germany to guarantee the debt of struggling southern economies.
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Confidence in the dollar and the euro continues to falter, threatening the international monetary system, writes Barry Eichengreen Foreign Affairs.
The eurozone, once seen as a crowning achievement in the decades-long path of European integration, is buffeted by a sovereign debt crisis of nations, explains this CFR Backgrounder.
Germany should use its position as a "hegemonic" power to stabilize the eurozone, argue Matthias Matthijs and Mark Blyth in Foreign Affairs.


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The castle is not set apart from the city, but intermingles with it. This caught my attention because usually the castle is set apart, standing guard or at least standing proud. Instead this castle allows people to walk through its many arches as they venture off in various directions. The moats have been turned into homes for some bears. I am not sure if they were meant to warn off intruders, they looked pretty sleepy and cute
The castle here is different because the outside of it is painted with a fa�ade that appears to be stonework, but it really is not. Instead of holding the feeling of power and might, the outside seems as bit rundown. The town has experienced a great deal of history and impact during WW2, communism has also played a part in the ambiance. This is mostly noticed as you venture through the outer town and enter the castle area. Once you get past it, and begin to wander the streets you can see why so many people enjoy this place.
It was neat to stand in the square and think that Hitler once stood here, claiming his powerful and corrupt ideas. I looked at the castle and town and imagined all the changes it had been through. I often wish walls could tell stories. I am sure they would be much more intriguing than a tour guide. Sometimes it's fun to have no tour at all and roam through various places creating your own ideas of the way things might have been. I am sure I am often very far off, but who cares. I am seeing a new world, at least to me, and enjoying the experience immensely.
Cesky Krumlov is a hard town to describe. It is a mixture of city and quaint town, shops and history. At times it can be overwhelmed with groups of people trying to take it all in. My favorite moments were wandering through the narrow paths in the evening. It felt as if the town were asleep. Then we would step inside a little door and ask if we could get some food. They would point to the back where we would find that the town really was alive. We could have great food for almost nothing and enjoy the ambiance which surrounded us. The fire would be crackling in the background, cooking the food and scenting the air. The piano player would make the room come alive and we could stop, take a deep breath, and thank God for all that we were experiencing.


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BINGHAMTON, NY -- Binghamton University will offer area residents an opportunity to learn more about the campus and what it has to offer from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, in the Center Court of the Oakdale Mall in Johnson City.
Over 30 displays will highlight areas such as the University's research activities, academic offerings, and admissions information. The event will showcase student performing groups, as well as hands-on science and art activities for children. Drawings for a variety of prizes will be held throughout the afternoon.
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The only American witness to the 1994 genocide is back from a recent visit to Rwanda and sharing stories of the tiny country's incredible recovery.
As a humanitarian aid worker with the Adventist Church, Carl Wilkens moved his young family to Rwanda in the spring of 1990. When the genocide was launched in April 1994, Wilkens refused to leave, even when urged to do so by close friends, his church and the United States government. He was the only American to remain in the country, though thousands of expatriates evacuated and the United Nations pulled out most of their troops. Venturing out each day into streets crackling with mortars and gunfire, Wilkens worked his way through roadblocks of angry, bloodstained soldiers and civilians armed with machetes and assault rifles in order to bring food, water, and medicines to groups of orphans trapped around the city. His actions saved the lives of 100's.
In January 2008, with no end in sight to the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Wilkens left his job in Oregon to dedicate himself full time to inspiring and equipping people to stand up against hatred, prejudice and genocide. He and his wife Teresa have since formed an educational non-profit "World Outside My Shoes" to facilitate this work.
This year, Wilkens released his first book titled "I'm Not Leaving," which is based largely on tapes he made to his wife and children during the genocide, not knowing if he would ever see them again.
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Metro Detroit home sale prices up 42 percent over 2012; Macomb saw biggest boost
The metro Detroit real estate market continued its rebound last month as median home sales prices increased by almost 42 percent in the four-county region, although total sales only increased by 2 percent.
According to data released today by Farmington Hills-based Realcomp II Ltd., October sale prices in Wayne and Macomb counties increased by 43.6 percent and 46.2 percent, respectively, over October 2012.
In Wayne County, sale prices increased from $52,225 in October 2012 to $75,000 last month, while they increased from $82,000 to $119,900 in Macomb, according to Realcomp.
Oakland and Livingston counties posted more modest gains. Oakland County median sale prices increased 18.7 percent, from $147,000 in October 2012 to $174,550 last month, while in Livingston they increased from $159,000 in October 2012 to $182,000 last month (14.5 percent).
A continuing decrease in the number of homes on the market is driving the sales price increases, said Karen Kage, CEO of Realcomp. The number of listings in the metro region fell by 14.4 percent year-over-year, from 18,037 in October 2012 to 15,448 last month.
Total sales in the region increased from 4,887 in October 2012 to 4,985 last month. Oakland County outpaced the other three metro counties, with total sales increasing by 10.8 percent from 1,613 in October 2012 to 1,787 last month. Wayne County's year-over-year home sales fell by 4.6 percent, from 1,934 in October 2012 to 1,845 last month. Home sales in Macomb and Livingston counties increased by 0.9 percent and 1.1 percent, respectively.
October's figures mark another good month for the market. The median sale price of homes in metro Detroit rose by 48 percent in September over September 2012, while sales in the region increased by 7.1 percent. That followed August's 55 percent sales price increase over August 2012 figures.
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Cristina Carpinelli wrote many articles and essays on the Ussr and on the transition of the Fsu from a planned economic system to a free market one. She wrote some books published by Nuovi Autori, Franco Angeli, Achab, Sedizioni, Zambon, Mimesis, Amazon.
She is a Scientific Committee Member of CeSPI (International Problems Study Center of Sesto San Giovanni - Milan ) as an expert on CEE (Central-Eastern Europe) and South-Eastern Europe (including Russia), and a monthly contributor to noidonne Magazine for gender and family politics in CEE (including Russia). She is part of the team experts of the U.S. Site AllExperts for the categories: Sociology and Russia (News & Politics). She was part of the teaching staff for the training module Objective Russia (professional diploma for economic operators - ISPI school; module suspended from 2015) and now She is part of the teaching staff for the training module European Union and ethnic and national minorities (diploma in European Affairs - ISPI school). She is a member of the Italian Association for History Studies on Central and Eastern Europe (AISSECO - Since May 2015) and a member of the editorial staff of Mitteleuropean Social Watch (OSME - since January 2016).
La società sovietica negli anni della perestroika (Nuovi Autori, 1991); Donne e famiglia nella Russia sovietica (F. Angeli, 1998); Donne e povertà nella Russia di Elcin: l'era della transizione liberale (Franco Angeli, 2004); Identities in Transition: Fsu Countries after the Collapse of Real Socialism (CeSPI, 2004); La Russia a pezzi (Achab, 2008); Lallargamento dellEuropa ai paesi dellEst (CeSPI, 2008), paper presented at the Conference Quo vadis, Europe?, organized by Municipality of Sesto San Giovanni - Milan, November 18, 2011; Paesi Baltici tra integrazione europea e apartheid in: Ripensare lEuropa dalle fondamenta, Mimesis, 2014 (Conference proceedings Ripensare lEuropa dalle fondamenta. Conference was organized by CeSPI and Municipality of Sesto San Giovanni - Milan; November 30, 2013); Ucraina: un paese spaccato in due (CeSPI, 2014), paper prepared for the Conference Crisi Ucraina: quali possibili chiavi di lettura? (May 16, 2014) organized by the Municipality of Sesto San Giovanni (Milan) and by CeSPI; Nato, Ucraina, Russia (CeSPI, 2014); LUnione Europea e le minoranze etniche: Case Studies: Ungheria, Romania e Paesi Baltici, co-author Massimo Congiu (CreateSpace - an Amazon.com Company, May 18, 2016). Coming soon: Russia as told through the history of its mass media.
Cristina Carpinelli graduated during the academic year 1983/84 with the thesis "Alcuni aspetti del processo di invecchiamento della popolazione in Unione Sovietica: demografia, previdenza sociale, occupazione e salute" (Some aspects of the ageing process of the population in the Soviet Union: demography, social security, jobs and health) - State University of Milan, Faculty of Political Sciences (Statistics Department). The thesis of degree was elaborated in the Ussr, at the State University Lomonosov of Moscow.
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Social listening in 2015: top five opportunities
Social listening has come a long way in a short time.
We assess the year's big five opportunities for building and strengthening customer relationships and driving advocacy.
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Earned media is becoming an ever important aspect of the modern marketing mix with recent research showing blogs as one of the most trusted digital sources guiding consumer decisions.
Given that 92% of global consumers value word of mouth recommendations over all forms of advertising, it's clear that marketers and advertisers have a lot to learn before they can reliably win consumer trust.
Can commercialism ever sit comfortably in social?
Pinterest seems like it should be one of the great social media success stories of recent years.
It's got 70m users, 80% of whom are female and 35% of which use Pinterest on their mobiles.
A demographic skewed towards women with decent incomes: an advertiser's dream...surely…?
Social media audiences: the purest judge and jury?
This weekend sees the first ever YouTube Video Music Awards streamed online. In many ways, it's like a lot of other music awards: there's glitz, there's glamour, and there's Lady Gaga, One Direction and Rihanna (though Cher's invite is presumably still in the post…).
However, the YouTube awards are different in one major way. Any videos shared across Facebook, Twitter or Google+ since September 2012 contribute to deciding the winner, alongside user votes.
Just over a year ago, in August 2012, Nielsen revealed some research that revealed YouTube as the number one music discovery source for under 18s – a figure that can only have grown in the past 12 months. Arguably, this makes these awards the most relevant of all.
Has social media grown up?
In the years since the emergence of social as a separate entity for marketing purposes (roughly from around the birth of Twitter in 2006) we've figured out a lot about what social is, how it works, and what it means for marketers.
Now you could talk directly to a brand, and have them listen to you.
For consumers, this was great. For brands, it presented opportunities and challenges. It also entailed a pretty major shift in thinking.
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Has social changed corporate culture forever?
"It'll be easier if I just Dropbox you" is now a relatively familiar phrase to anyone in an office.
It used to be called 'shadow IT' but the prevalence of a BYOD culture in work environments means that with every employee working on their own device of preference; sharing documents and working socially, has become the norm.
Pitches are created in Google Docs, updated by all parties concurrently and the age of positive collaboration is upon us, right?
How web design can be used to drown out the trolls
If there's one constant in any griping discussion about the internet, it will be either the presence of trolls, or rants about trolls and trolling behaviour on just about any website you care to mention.
I should say, for the purposes of this article, that we're not talking about the appalling abuses received by women lately on Twitter - which has moved far beyond trolling and into the space of criminal threats - but about the hijacking of discussions and similar.
Yahoo and Tumblr: the dangers of speaking too soon
If there's one thing I've learnt over the years from working in digital marketing, it's that first reactions to tech news stories are rarely accurate.
The time to form an opinion, in my experience, is when the stories ending in question marks die down.
When the Tumblr news broke (Yahoo's planned acquisition @ $1.1bn) we were predictably flooded by instantaneous musings and misunderstandings around the network and its new owners.
Speculation then moved onto what Yahoo should do with its new toy, with a common concern muted as the nonsensical introduction of spammy ads.
Do brands need to care about Vine?
It launched, like no other social network before it, with instructions on how to create the perfect steak tartare and very quickly, became all about spam, pornography and regulation.
Vine is one of the raft of new launches from Twitter. It's novel, it's got some spammy teething problems and it's already had its first #fail.
But, assuming that all of this can be fixed (and this is social behemoth Twitter we're talking about, so that's a fair assumption) what does Vine mean for brands?
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Big news recently from Facebook: companies can now link their customer data, including phone numbers and email addresses to those provided by people on Facebook.
It mightn't seem like much, but this move, initially for ad targeting only, could be huge.
Social Olympics: Nike versus Adidas
At the time of writing this article, there are just 40-something days left to go until the Olympics begins. And there's been a lot of chatter so far this year about how well Nike has capitalised on the 'Summer of Sport' theme.
So we thought we would take a closer look at how Nike (not a headline Olympic sponsor) has fared compared to headline Olympic sponsor Adidas in the social stakes on some comparable key terms.
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By now, most brands realise that they can't ignore it. They will probably have seen the case studies of people getting social customer service right and feel a slight sense of panic about getting it wrong as barely a week goes past without a social customer service failure going viral.
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Bears sign Jay Cutler to seven-year contract
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The Bears announced today that Cutler, whose previous contract expired at the end of this season, will not be testing free agency. Instead, Cutler has signed a seven-year contract, keeping him in place with the Bears through the 2020 season.
Theres a very good chance that the 30-year-old Cutler will remain with the Bears for the rest of his career.
Although there was some talk that Cutler could end up leaving in free agency, he and new coach Marc Trestman appeared to mesh this season, and Trestman never wavered on his belief that Cutler is the right man to run his offense, even as backup Josh McCown put up better statistics when he filled in after Cutler got hurt.
In announcing the new contract, Bears General Manager Phil Emery called Cutler a demonstrated winner and said 2013 was his best season because of his leadership, his improvement, his display of toughness.
Now the Bears are counting on Cutler to remain the leader of their team for years to come.
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"All those things bother me: The populism, the lying and the scapegoating and the xenophobia bother me, but then theres a layer of incompetence here. I suppose, in a way, we should be thankful: If he had a coherent ideology, hed probably be more dangerous." P J O'Rourke
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Of course, we'll take this shizz with a grain of salt until Aaron is comfortable commenting on it either way, but here's what one insider had to say: "Aaron has attended numerous sports award shows with Kevin, always color coordinated and without any double female dates, including the ESPY's. Kevin was also the first person Aaron embraced when the Packers won the Super-bowl in 2011. I just find it really strange that as of late there has been many bitter subliminal tweets on Kevin Lanflisi's twitter alluding to a relationship much deeper than a friendship he had, with who I perceive to be Aaron Rodgers, because Kevin has NEVER once tweeted about having a girlfriend, just mainly about the Green Bay Packers, Aaron Rodgers, and Justin Bieber's music and sitting front row at Bieber's concert. There has been speculation for years here in Wisconsin that Aaron is gay."
The natty attire and first row seats for a Bieber concerts, a dead give a way!
Could be that "wrist mobility" is why he is so accurate passing
Anyway, that's coming from a reliable Bears fan, so I've heard.
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"James Madison and the Spirit of Republicanism" is the subject of a lecture scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 26, in 104 Computer Science.
The lecture will be delivered by Colleen Sheehan, an associate professor of political science at Villanova University and visiting professor in Princeton's Department of Politics. It is the final talk in the series of Alpheus T. Mason Lectures in Constitutional Law and Political Thought on the "Quest for Freedom," sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.
Sheehan will examine Madison's vision for America and explore his concern for forming and keeping alive the spirit of a free, republican people. She currently is working on a book on Madison's political thought and is teaching a course at Princeton on American statesmanship, focusing on Madison and other Founding Fathers.
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1 pound light brown sugar
1 (5-ounce) can evaporated milk
Dash of salt
2 cups pecan halves
Combine sugar, milk and salt in a heavy-bottomed saucepan. Turn heat to high. When mixture starts to bubble, add the pecans and stir constantly with a wooden spoon, about 10 minutes. When you can make a swath through the mixture with a spoon and see the bottom of the pan, remove the pan from heat. Quickly spoon pralines onto a greased pan and let cool.
Makes about 2 dozen.
Note: Tony Mason keeps a kettle of boiling water ready on the stove while he makes his pralines. If the mixture gets too thick to stir, add a little water to it.
Chicken and Dumplings
2 cups all-purpose flour
1⁄2 cup Crisco shortening
1 cup milk
1 whole chicken
Salted water
1 stick butter
2 cups half-and-half
Combine flour, shortening and milk and mix until a dough forms. Spray a square of wax paper with cooking spray and wrap it around the ball of dough. Refrigerate dough overnight.
The next morning, divide the dough in half and, working with one piece at a time, roll it out thinly to about 1⁄8 of an inch. Cut the dough into strips about 11⁄2-inches wide. Place a piece of wax paper on a cookie sheet and lay the strips of dough on it. When the sheet is full, put another piece of wax paper on top and fill it with strips of dough. Continue until you've used all the dough. Cover with wax paper and refrigerate until ready to use.
Boil the chicken in salted water until tender. Remove the chicken and reserve the broth. Remove skin and bones from chicken and chop the meat into bite-size pieces. Set aside.
Add butter and half-and-half to broth and bring to a rolling boil. Break each strip of dough into 3 pieces and drop them into the boiling mixture, one piece at a time. After they're all in the broth, cook for 7 minutes on a low boil. Fold the chicken into the mixture and shake the pot, don't stir. Cover and cook 7 more minutes at a low simmer.
Pound Cake
2 sticks butter
1⁄2 cup Crisco shortening
3 cups sugar
6 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1⁄4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon lemon flavoring
1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring
Cream butter, shortening and sugar. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift together flour, salt and baking powder. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture alternately with the milk. Add the flavorings. Pour batter into a greased and floured Bundt pan (leave about an inch at the top) and pour remaining batter into a greased and floured 9-inch loaf pan. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Peanut Brittle
1⁄2 cup water
2 cups sugar
1⁄4 teaspoon salt
1 cup light corn syrup
2 cups raw peanuts
2 tablespoons baking soda
1 tablespoon vanilla flavoring
1⁄2 stick melted butter
Combine water, sugar, salt and syrup in a heavy-bottomed pot. Heat mixture until it spins a thread – don't stir it. Add peanuts a few at the time and shake the pot real well. Cook until mixture turns an amber color, about 11 to 12 minutes. Remove pan from heat. Add baking soda and vanilla, stir well and pour it out onto a hard greased surface. Take a spatula and go up under it and lift it to a piece of greased aluminum foil. Brush with melted butter. After it's cooled, break it into pieces.
Baked Fish
12 to 15 small crappie fillets
Caesar salad dressing
Salt and pepper
Grated Cheddar cheese
Crushed potato chips or cornflakes
Place fish in a large greased baking dish. Coat both sides of fish with Caesar dressing. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and cheese. Sprinkle crushed chips or cornflakes over all. Bake at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes, depending on the size of the fish. If the fish are larger, cook them longer. Give your friends plenty of room to eat.
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