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I have a lot of ideas for apps/websites/start-ups. No seriously - I mean a lot. Some of them aren't all that bad either. And some are too - really bad, like "waking up in the morning and thinking 'what the heck were you thinking'"-bad too. I mean really.
Alas, usually even with ones I think are awesome - I typically end up finding some fatal flaw. It could be business model or timing or ... who knows.
There's a lot of factors that make me consider an idea for more than a few minutes much less actually work on it:
1) Is it in my skillset
2) Is it the right scope - too small and its a weekend project, if its too big, am I the right guy to assemble the infrastructure (team, investors, etc) to bring it together.
3) How hard will customer acquisition be?
4) Does it have a viable business model?
There's a lot more subtle questions, but these are some of the bigger disqualifiers.
Once in awhile however I get one that sticks. One that I say "why didn't I think of that !" - and then I say "Oh. I did!". Mailinator was one. And this - this is another.
Last fall my girlfriend started a celebrity news blog. I'm not much into celebrities but she was pretty passionate about it and it was exciting to share her enthusiasm.
As with any new site, she was trying to gain traffic. So to help with that effort, I bought her $100 worth of adwords. I've bought adwords for many different companies and projects, but I was still rather surprised with the results. For $100 I got a 3-day (or so) ad campaign that yielded 100 visitors.
The interesting part was that all this time, she was running Adsense - that is, ads to make money on the site. Now, ask anyone trying to make money with Adsense why they don't "buy" ads to gain traffic and they'll tell you, it's losing proposition. And no wonder - that's the crux of how ad networks make money.
Sure, they sell ads. But for a moment, consider a website that does both - it's both an advertiser and a publisher. In that scenario, ad networks sell you ad impressions for money - and then trade you money for ad impressions. Simply put, there is an exchange rate on ad-impressions to money and just like the kiosk at the airport which changes currency, they take a "cut" in both directions.
And the cut can be pretty big. In the case of my girlfriend's site, I successfully managed to convert $100 into 15cents by changing it into ad-impressions and back again (Actually its even worse because the girlfriend gets to keep the 15cents, but we don't bring that up).
Now my assumption above is for sites that are both advertisers and publishers. Many small sites are publishers, but not so many are advertisers. So my assumption is, well, rather assumptive.
But why aren't they advertisers? They want traffic too right? Advertising is a way to get it right?
The answer is that those sites would do both, but its non-economical to do so. Buying ads to show ads makes no sense. Even just buying ads is a very expensive method of traffic acquisition - but what if ads were really (really) cheap. Then everyone would buy them wouldn't they? I mean, it would be a cheap method of traffic acquisition.
Ad networks (BTW, I don't mean to pick on Google above, I just had been using their service because they are one of the most accessible ad networks for small sites) provide a valuable service. Clearly - the ad industry is highly alive - they are bringing value to lots of people.
But it occurred to me - how do I make an ad system that brings value to smaller sites. The under-served billions of websites where buying ads makes no sense today. How about I make a system where you trade ad-impressions for ad-impressions. That simple. And, instead of making it where you give something and get a lot less back, what if we fliped that. That is, give one ad impression and get a few back?
I call it Clickochet. Like "Click Ricochet" because that's what it is.
So how do you get more back than you put in? Well, consider your normal banner text ad. In reality, its one ad impression on your website, but it contains ads for 3 different websites within. When you show one "ad", three other sites benefit.
Clickochet is built as a community. We connect it closely with social networks that encourage social interaction and membership. A Social Ad Trading Network. This is key - you're not trading money and ads with a big company, but you're trading ads with each other. Other website owners looking for traffic just like you. Of course we strictly filter out porn and malicious sites, but being a good community member becomes an important factor on how much you get out of the system.
So, in a perfect world, you'd give one banner (keep in mind smaller ad creatives have less ads inside) and get 3 ad impressions. But it became quickly apparent, the world isn't perfect. If someone puts your ad at the bottom of their page, I doubt you'd be happy giving them an ad at the top of your page in return. Or what if their ad quality was low? Or conversely, what if their website had a huge click-through profile? In other words, not all ad impressions are created equal.
All these factors matter. So instead converting ad-impressions to real currency, we convert them to virtual currency. An exchange rate exists, but its minimal and its based on a lot of things - much of it tied to people showing good ads. If you show a banner ad, you won't get 3 ad impressions for it, but that isn't a far off guess either. You'll very likely get more out than you put in.
You are the publisher - you show ads on your site and earn credits.
And you are the advertiser - you spend credits and your ads show all across the network.
You can spend your virtual "impression credits" the instant you make them. Or you could bank them and save them for your new site's impending launch 6 months later. Or take your impressions (from a site like Mailinator) and spend them on your friend's site (like my girlfriend's).
This isn't about replacing existing ad networks. There's no need for that. If you're making money running ads - don't stop.
But unlike buying an ad campaign which costs a lot and lasts a few days (which you surely can still do), you simply give up whatever amount of page real estate you want for Clickochet ads and leave them there. And every day, from here on out, all across the network your page views are giving your a multiple of ad impressions on other sites.
To "prime the pump" I'm giving this virtual economy a boost - an "economic stimulus" if you like. I'm injecting all of Mailinator's ad impressions into the economy without taking them back out. Active users (i.e. you must be earning your own credits somewhat) will get lots of free ad impressions. (note: when I say "all" ad impressions, I mean "most" as I plan to advertise Clickochet on the Clickochet network somewhat).
Of course, it's free to sign up. Free to use. We may introduce a premium service at some point, but you can count on being a member of this community staying free.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Introducing Clickochet: A (free) Ad trading community
4 comments:
- ..Chris said...
Fantastic idea, I wish I could have just one of those ideas and put it together just as you have. When are we going to see Clickochet ads on Mailnator, I'd like to see what they look like.
- May 18, 2011 at 3:26 AM
- ..Chris said...
Fantastic idea, I wish I could just have one of them and be able to put it together just as you have. When are we going to see Clickochet ads on Mailinator, I'd really like to see what they look like.
- May 18, 2011 at 3:28 AM
Great idea, thnx.
- May 22, 2011 at 1:48 AM
- Vitalie Cherpec said...
Great idea Paul, I've just signed up, inserted the code and submitted my ad for approval. It took me only 5 minutes.
- June 13, 2011 at 6:54 AM
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We are launching a contemporary, energetic and dynamic church in Australia in 2010 that will be focussed on empowering people to be an influence and success in their city, community and marketplace.
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About the Medicinal Plant Metabolomic Resources
Natural products from plants serve as rich resources for drug development with almost 100 plant-derived compounds in clinical trials in 2007. Plant derived natural products have had a profound and lasting impact on human health and include compounds successfully used for decades such as digitalis, vincristine, Taxol and morphine isolated from foxglove, periwinkle, yew, and opium poppy, respectively. The enormous structural diversity and biological activities of plant-derived compounds suggest that additional, medicinally relevant compounds remain to be discovered in plants.
Providing the metabolome for medicinally relevant plant species is one means to reveal a deeper understanding of the metabolic potential of plants and thus give investigators the opportunity to uncover sites of synthesis and accumulation of structurally diverse compounds. Determining the metabolome for a plant involves the profiling of the small molecules (chemical compounds varying in size from 100 to 2,500 atomic mass units) found throughout the plant in all the tissues and organs, and in response to a variety of growth conditions or treatments. No single analytic method is sufficient to observe all the chemical diversity within a plant, but LC-TOF (liquid chromatography-time of flight mass spectrometry) is considered a leading method to document the non-targeted profile of small molecules. Non-targeted profiling refers to a means for documenting the presence of metabolites broadly and without bias to one particular class of compounds versus another.
There are many different ways how metabolomes and metabolomics tools can be used to advance drug development. For instance, an investigator desiring to test digitoxin derivatives for a particular disease indication might like to know in what tissue of the Digitalis plant is the greatest chemical diversity of the digitoxin molecule likely to be found. The Digitalis metabolome could thus be searched for digitoxin-like compounds having a particular range of molecule mass, and those tissues having the greatest amounts and diversity of these compounds used for biological screens. Or perhaps an investigator wished to explore the prospects of introducing a new biochemical modification into an existing family of compounds. That mechanism might be described as a biochemical reaction introducing a chemical modification to a chemical scaffold. The investigator might then screen all the MPC metabolomes for this chemical transformation by looking for what plant and in what tissue a particular metabolite, defined by its molecular mass, might be found. Coupled with the associated MPC genomic resources (http://medicinalplantgenomics.msu.edu/), the investigator would then have another tool set for finding the gene encoding for this biochemical transformation and once identified, could deploy this gene into heterologous hosts to effect this biochemical modification onto the chemicals of choice. The MPC metabolomes can also be used for developing the metabolomic barcodes to qualify plant materials going into drug manufacturing. Purifying drugs from natural sources is often complicated by the complexity of the all the associated metabolites. If a purification protocol is developed for a plant tissue exhibiting a particular metabolomic profile, then subsequent batch preparations can be qualified prior to the purification work for their metabolomics profile to minimize the potential of co-purifying contaminants. Medicinal Plant Metabolomics Website is maintained and hosted by the Wurtele laboratory in the Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology at Iowa State University.
September 11, 2013
New PMR is a public database & analysis software for metabolomics and transcriptomics data for natural product discovery.
please contact Manhoi Hur (mhhur at iastate.edu) or Eve Wurtele (mash at iastate.edu)
Sept 6, 2012
The metabolomic resources for 14 medicinal plant species are now available for general access and use. If you encounter difficulties with this resource, please contact Eve Wurtele (firstname.lastname@example.com) or Joe Chappell (firstname.lastname@example.com)
November 4, 2011
The metabolomic resources for Echinacea purpurea are now available for general access and use. If you encounter difficulties with this resource, please contact Eve Wurtele (firstname.lastname@example.com) or Joe Chappell (email@example.com)
November 1, 2011
The first public metabolomics datasets have been released! For more information, please see the latest press releases
What is metabolomics?
Metabolomics is the science of determining the metabolome of a biological sample.
What is the metabolome?
The metabolome is the collection of small organic molecules in a cell.
Why is determining the metabolome important?
The metabolome of a biological sample is a snap-shot of that sample's metabolic status. This snap-shot integrates the history of the combined genetic and environmental influences on the metabolism of that sample. By comparing the metabolomes of samples, one is able to gain insights as to the genetic, environmental and developmental modulators that distinguish the samples.
How to use Medicinal Plant Metabolomics Resource
- Select a species for a view of the plant and an overview of the accumulation of key medicinal metabolites.
- Use SCATTERPLOT MATRIX to evaluate the reproducibility of biological replicates of any sample.
- Select the interactive RATIO PLOTS to obtain an interactive plot of metabolite accumulation data in any two samples.
- Select a metabolite to view details about its structural properties and its accumulation profile in that species.
- Open DETAILED EXPERIMENTAL DATA to view numerical results for all replicates.


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I'm writing this today from the Psychobabble Coffee House in Los Feliz (part of LA, just east of Hollywood). The chick who made my herbal tea is one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen in my life. Their website is weird, though. But Psychobabble has played host to way more of these postings than Angel Falls coffee shop in Highland Square, Akron. And I gave them a plug. So I s'pose Psychobabble deserves one too.
Before I get down to the Zen stuff, long-time reader Jules Agee (who may be one of the first people who wrote me regarding my old webpage a million years ago, if memory serves) is doing a run for cancer and needs your donations. So go support the guy. OK?
I've been thinking about impermanence a lot. In fact, that may be the true theme of the new book I've been working on. I realized I needed to clarify about my new book cuz even though I thought everyone knew, it seems like they don't. It is another memoir-ish philosophical type book about Zen, like Hardcore Zen and Sit Down And Shut Up. So don't worry. It's basically the harrowing story of my life this year in which, as Husker Du said it would, pretty much everything has fallen apart.
It's also related to something really profound 0DFx drummer Mickey X-Nelson said recently. They were working on transferring the new 0DFx tracks we recorded last month to (evil) ProTools and encountering all sorts of unforeseen difficulties. He said something to the effect of, "It's like in the movie The Fly, all you wanted to do was move this thing from one place to another, but..." I think life is always like that.
There's an old koan that ends with the line, "From birth until death it's just like this." I've always liked that line. It really tells you all you need to know about Buddhist philosophy. Everything important, anyway.
We're always looking for something permanent and unchanging, something reliable. Everyone is. All the things we imagine will be permanent never are -- family, friends, marriages, houses, possessions -- they'll all fall apart some day. Even if they last until we die, we still die and then all our stuff is gone all our relationships are over, all our beautiful memories blow away like smoke, everything we did falls to dust.
This year I've been faced with loads of impermanence. My mom died, I lost my job, my grandma died, important relationships in my life went sour... Lots of impermanence. It's been a lesson. That's for sure. Thank you, Jesus, for all your lessons this year! (Brad says as he secretly raises a defiant middle finger to the sky)
In the midst of impermanence, we seek for something we can count on forever but most of us never find it. The only reason we fail in our search is because we're not paying attention. That which is permanent and perfectly reliable is staring us right in the face even as we look past it searching for something else. The empty and silent present moment of which we are just a superficial manifestation is eternal and unchanging. It is the essential ground of our being. We imagine the ground of being must be far, far way, off in a distant galaxy or buried deep in some mystical place we can only reach with the proper spiritual guidance (fully paid up, of course, major credit cards accepted).
But the present moment is always right here. There's no place it can go. It's never hidden from view. When you die it will be right there beside you, just the same as it is now.
There's another Zen koan in which a student goes to his master all excited because he thinks he has The Answer. The Master asks what the answer is. The monk says, "The child of fire comes seeking for fire!"
The master says, "That's bullshit. You have no idea what you're talking about!"
The monk gets all weepy and begs his master to tell him the real truth. The Master says, "The child of fire comes seeking for fire."
Our intellectual understanding is worthless. The monk was able to present his understanding only as a superficial intellectual construct, not as a living reality. All the master did was tell him the very same thing, only for the master it was a real, living thing, not a theory.
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Free giveaways (Chance to win 2 pairs of skates from Bauer.)
Bauer Swag to participants.
Team gifting for every participant. (Usually consists of T-shirt and mini stick.)
4 game minimum- with a possibility to play up to 7 games on the weekend.
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Finalist awards
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Largest Spring tournament in the world.
12th year of existence.
Tournament has grown every year since its inception.
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OHL, AHL, NCAA and NHL games are within 30 minutes from Niagara
Teams from Europe and throughout the USA and Canada
Visit one of the 7 Wonders of the World.
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What makes a "good" job? Salary? Physical demands? Stress level? As it turns out, numerous factors enter the good job/bad job equation. JobsRated.com has released a comprehensive ranking of the best and worst careers in the country. So, what are the 10 best jobs in the country? Click ahead to find out. (Salary data is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.)
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You've Been Snapped Volume 3 does what it says - you snap - then you scrap! They are fantastic for scrapping for personal use and/or a busy CT member!
The pack includes 4 layered templates (3600 x 3600px, 12x12 inches at 300 dpi) - PSD, TIF and PNG format. The PSD and TIF templates include both a shadowed and unshadowed version for easy scrapping.
My templates are CU okay (designer can use them to create quick pages for resale) and CT friendly. Credit is always appreciated.
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Christroi necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 90 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
Blessings on Africa, Inc.
Blessings on Africa, Inc. is a US-based Christian non-profit organization dedicated to empowering and uplifting the most disadvantaged communities in West Africa from poverty through microfinance, education, health, technology, renewable energy, one village at the time.
We focus on the following areas:
Clean water for all
Women and Infants
Orphans, vulnerable children, and Widows and Widowers.
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Environmental Protection
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Sponsors and donors (corporate, small businesses, churches, schools, universities and colleges, philanthropic organizations in North America, Europe, and Africa, the African diaspora, governments)
Beneficiaries (rural communities in West Africa, women organizations, orphans and vulnerable children, schools, people with disabilities organizations, churches, village clinics)
Other stakeholders: governments, non profit organizations and businesses in North America, Europe, Africa, Churches)
We are looking for a nice, clean, bold, unique, and attractive logo and a letterhead to represent Blessings on Africa, Inc., and its mission (fighting poverty in West Africa and improving people's lives, one village at the time).
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Please feel free to experiment with colors! Be creative. Christian themes or bible-ispired logos and letterheads are welcome.
The files we will require are:
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What if someone breaks your car's window and steals gifts from the back seat?
Standard homeowners and renter's insurance policies provide coverage for the loss of the gifts, subject to the policy deductible and coverage limits. Some automobile policies also provide coverage. If this happens to you, talk with your insurance agent or company to find out under which policy you should file your claim. If you have comprehensive coverage on your automobile insurance policy, the cost to repair the window will be covered subject to the deductible.
What happens if a visitor to your home slips and falls on your icy driveway or walkway?
Standard homeowners insurance policies provide limited medical payments coverage if your visitor seeks medical attention. If the person sues you for additional damages, your standard homeowners insurance policy should provide liability coverage. Check with your insurance agent or company to be sure you have adequate liability limits. If you have purchased an umbrella policy, liability coverage may be provided by this policy as well.
What if an ice or snow storm causes a tree to fall through a window of your house?
Standard homeowners insurance policies generally provide coverage for damage to the home — as well as the cost to remove the tree, typically up to a certain amount — if the tree fell due to the weight of ice or snow, minus your deductible. Check your policy to find out what limit of coverage you have. However, your homeowners policy will likely not help you purchase a new tree.
What if your presents are stolen from your home?
Standard homeowners insurance policies provide coverage subject to the deductible and special sublimits for certain goods, such as electronics and jewelry. For example, if the wrapped package was a $300 gift card to an electronics store, there might only be $200 coverage; if the package contained $2,000 worth of jewelry, there might only be $1,500 coverage. Check your homeowners policy for specific sublimits.
What if someone steals holiday decorations from your property?
Under a standard homeowners insurance policy, decorations are generally covered, subject to your policy deductible and coverage limits. These items would also generally be covered if you have a condominium or renter's insurance policy.
What if your holiday candles cause a house fire? Under a standard homeowners insurance policy, your home and belongings will be covered if they are destroyed by a fire, subject to your deductible and policy limits. Standard policies typically provide additional living expenses if you are unable to live in your home due to damage from a fire or other disaster.
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What if a friend driving your car gets into an accident?
Auto insurance coverage either follows the vehicle or the operator, so your car will generally be covered while your friend is driving. Policy language will determine which policy if the owner or the operator's policy is primary. For example, if your friend slides off the road due to a patch of ice, and you only have liability coverage, there may not be coverage for any damage to the car itself, no matter who was driving. Check with your insurance agent or insurance company to understand which policy is primary in this type of situation. In addition, keep in mind that your premiums might increase due to the accident.
What if you borrow someone else's car (with their permission) and get into an accident?
The existing auto insurance policy on the borrowed vehicle may provide primary coverage in the event of a claim or your insurance policy may provide primary coverage. If no coverage exists on the borrowed car, your auto insurance policy might provide coverage. Talk with your insurance agent or company to find out if and how your auto insurance coverage will extend to a friend or family member's car you plan on operating.
What if you loan your car to a friend and they get pulled over for driving while intoxicated?
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MACON, Ga. (April 21, 2010) - Last weekend at the Charlotte Invitational, junior thrower Matt Baum (Frederick, Md.) set a new school record in the javelin, while senior sprinter Duronal Monal (Belle Glade, Fla.) posted a personal best in the 100m, lifting the Buccaneer athletes to a sweep in the Atlantic Sun Athlete of the Week awards on Wednesday afternoon.
Baum, who was the top collegiate competitor to place in the javelin over the weekend, etched his name into Buccaneer record books after letting one soar 190-10 (58.17m) - giving him the top spot in the conference standings by over 12 feet. Baum's mark beat Josh Artau's nine-year-old mark which was 190-03 (58.00m).
Meanwhile, on the track, Monal joined Baum as one of the four Buccaneer athletes to win gold at
This marks the first time Baum has received the weekly honor, while it's the second of the season for Monal.
ETSU returns to action this weekend when the Bucs compete at the USC Upstate Invite on Friday and Saturday.
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From Erights
When you make an eventual send to an object (referred to hereafter simply as a send, which contrasts with a call to a local object that waits for the action to complete), even though the action may not occur for a long time, you immediately get back a promise for the result of the action:
# E syntax def carVow := makeCar <- ("Mercedes") carVow <- moveTo(2,3)
In this example, we have sent the makeCar function the default "run" message. Eventually the carMaker will create the new car on the same computer where the carMaker resides; in the meantime, we get back a promise for the car.
Once we've got a promise, pipelining comes into the picture: We can immediately start making eventual sends to the promise just as if it were indeed the car. Enormous queues of operations can be shipped across the poor-latency comm network while waiting for the car to be created, confident that those operations will be executed as soon as possible.
But don't try to make an immediate call on the promise. Don't try it even if the car maker (and therefore the car it creates) actually live on the same computer with the program. To make immediate calls on the promised object, you must set up an action to occur when the promise resolves, using a when-catch construct:
# E syntax def temperatureVow := carVow <- getEngineTemperature() when (temperatureVow) -> { println(`The temperature of the car engine is: $temperatureVow`) } catch prob { println(`Could not get engine temperature: $prob`) } println("execution of the when-catch waits for resolution of the promise,") println("but the program moves on immediately to these printlns")
We can read the when-catch statement as, "when the promise for a temperature becomes done, and therefore the temperature is locally available, perform the main action block... but if something goes wrong, catch the problem in variable prob and perform the problem block". In this example, we have requested the engine temperature from the carVow. Eventually the carVow resolves to a car and receives the request for engine temperature; then eventually the temperatureVow resolves into an actual temperature. The when-catch construct waits for the temperature to resolve into an actual (integer) temperature, but only the when-catch construct waits (i.e., the when catch will execute later, out of order, when the promise resolves). The program itself does not wait: rather, it proceeds on, with methodical determination, to the next statement following the when-catch.
Inside the when-catch statement, we say that the promise has been resolved. A resolved promise is either fulfilled or broken. If the promise is fulfilled, the main body of the when-catch is activated. If the promise is broken, the catch clause is activated.
Notice that after temperatureVow resolves to temperature, the when clause treats temperature as a local object. This is always safe to do when using vows. A vow is a reference that always resolves to a local object. In the example, variable names suffixed with "vow" remind us and warn others that this reference is a vow. We can reliably make eventual sends on the vow and immediate calls on what the vow resolves to, but we cannot reliably make immediate calls to the vow itself. A more detailed discussion of these types of warnings can be found in the Naming Conventions section later.
Not all references can guarantee to resolve to a local object. A receiver is a reference that can resolve to a local or remote object. Since we cannot ascertain beforehand whether it is local or remote, we must treat it as a remote object, i.e., we must interact with it only using eventual sends. We can use either the suffix Rcvr on the variable name as a reminder, or we can use the rcvr guard when defining the variable as a reminder. If you use Rcvr as a suffix, you will be more reliably reminded not to use immediate calls, but it does produce long variable names.
# E syntax def car :rcvr := makeCarRcvr <- ("Mercedes") car <- moveTo(2,3)
In this example, makeCarRcvr is a reference to a makeCar function that we have reason to believe may be remote, and therefore can only be spoken to reliably with eventual sends. We could name the vehicle a carRcvr, since it's a reference to a car local to the makeCar function, which therefore is also probably remote to us (if makeCar is remote, so is the car). Instead, we have chosen to use the rcvr guard to remind us to only use eventual sends when interacting with this car.
When-catch, like try-catch, has an optional finally clause that always executes:
# E syntax when (tempVow) -> { #...use tempVow } catch prob { #.... report problem } finally { #....log event }


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Your flight got canceled… The airline lost your luggage… A pickpocket stole your passport. What to do when travel meets trouble.
What rights do I have if my luggage is lost or damaged?
First off, nearly all "lost" luggage is in fact not lost, but delayed. If your bag doesn't show up at the carousel, report it immediately; the airline is responsible for delivering it to you wherever you're staying—at no charge. Only 2 percent of missing or delayed luggage is lost for good, but if you're in that unfortunate group, you'll have to itemize what was in the bag and sometimes even produce receipts. On domestic flights, an airline's liability for luggage is capped at $3,300—per passenger, not per bag—and there are all sorts of loopholes: Breakable items like musical instruments and electronics that aren't packed in hard-sided cases are often not covered for damage. Neither are your suitcases themselves. (Weirdly, liability on most international flights is even less—about $1,500 per passenger.)
Which brings me to an important point: Putting anything remotely fragile or valuable in a checked bag is just asking for trouble. Stick that stuff in a carry-on. For that matter, it's best to travel with a carry-on only; that way, your luggage won't disappear, and you won't have to pay to check it. Travelers are getting the message: U.S. carriers lost 1.3 million fewer bags in 2008 than 2007, at least in part because new airline fees resulted in fewer checked bags.
If my flight is canceled while I'm at the airport, is there anything I can do other than wait around with the other passengers for the airline to rebook us?
Yes. Whip out your cell phone and call the airline—because while the two agents at the counter will be overwhelmed trying to rebook an entire plane's worth of passengers, a telephone rep may be able to help you in minutes. Put the carrier's phone number into your cell phone right after you buy your ticket. If you have an iPhone, download the free Kayak app, which has a built-in directory of carrier hotlines.
Will my health insurance cover me overseas?
As with most insurance issues, the answer's not so simple. The first step is to call your provider before your trip and ask what coverage you have in your destination. Many health plans pay for care abroad only in emergency situations. Mild cases—your basic cold, a little poison ivy, a scraped knee—probably won't be covered. But chest pains or a possibly broken wrist? Insurers should pay for you to get checked out, even if it winds up that you only had indigestion or a slight sprain. You'll most likely have to pay out of pocket for all hospital and doctors' visits overseas and then submit claims back in the U.S., so you absolutely need to keep receipts.
I get a lot of sales pitches for travel insurance. Is it ever worth the money?
If this tells you anything, I've been covering the travel industry for a decade, and I've never bought travel insurance. But I also know that there are situations in which insurance makes a lot of sense. If all you're booking is a flight and a hotel (which can usually be changed for a $100 fee or less), then insurance isn't worth it. But if you're looking at a pricey trip with strict change policies—safari, cruise, villa rental—you'd basically have to eat the money you paid up front if you canceled at the last minute. Compared to that, travel insurance, which generally adds less than 10 percent to your total vacation cost, can be a bargain. Insurance is also sensible if you're leaving the country and your only health coverage is via Medicare or Medicaid, which pay no health costs incurred by Americans beyond our borders.
If you do purchase insurance, shop around with policy-comparison sites like insuremytrip.com and squaremouth.com. Pay special attention to the plans' trip-cancellation and trip-interruption policies; they state the specific situations in which you are covered—things like illness or injury, death of a family member, and even getting laid off from your job. Every policy is a little different, and if a potential situation is not spelled out, you're probably not covered. Finally, be wary of a travel agent pushing one brand of insurance: The agent may be giving you the hard sell because that insurer pays a big commission.
Besides running for my life, what should I do if I'm caught in a natural disaster or a terrorist attack?
Let's back up. The scariest thing about disasters—at least to me—is that they're out of your control. But there are a few steps you can take to set up safeguards. First, before planning a trip to a foreign country—any foreign country—check out the State Department's warnings and advisories at travel.state.gov. Warnings tend to be about places far down on leisure travelers' agendas—Gabon, Yemen, Afghanistan—but if there is a warning, take it seriously and be ready to cancel. Of course, even if you're just going to London (or Madrid, or Mumbai, etc.), there's a chance things could go really wrong, so e-mail your itinerary to friends and family, and text or e-mail updates to them regularly. Also, register your trip with the State Department at travel.state.gov. That way, someone can find you in an emergency. And if the you-know-what really does hit the fan? Do the obvious and get out of harm's way pronto. Then contact a U.S. embassy, which will help supply safe harbor and evacuations, if necessary. Often they're not—in which case I suggest making a few friends at the hotel bar and waiting it out.
For more information:
Country-by-country updates on disease outbreaks, and suggested vaccinations
How to file a complaint against an airline—and when it's wise to do so
Forecasts and safety advice from the National Hurricane Center
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By Matthew Heimer
If financial planning had a Bill of Rights, the Cash Emergency Fund Rule would be one of the first three amendments. That's the rule that stipulates that every person and every family should strive to save six months' worth of living expenses (or nine months' worth, or 12) outside of their other savings and investments—and that, for maximum security, they should hold those reserves in cash.
Now, however, the "cash" part of that commandment is under fire. As Murray Coleman reports this week in The Wall Street Journal Wealth Adviser, some advisers now argue that you'll be better off if your emergency fund looks like the rest of your portfolio – in other words, if it includes some stocks, bonds and other potentially risky assets. The argument: The opportunity costs of tying up thousands of dollars in low-returning vehicles like money market funds or certificates of deposit are a bigger threat to your financial health than the possibility that your emergency fund might lose money during a downturn, or that you'd have to sell low.
The recent debate has been sparked in part a recent paper in the Journal of Financial Planning by Duncan Williams, a planner and professor at William Paterson University in New Jersey. Williams tested the performance of several hypothetical portfolios over the past 40 years – comparing investors who put all their savings in a single, stocks-and-bonds investment account with investors who maintained a six-month cash cushion. He found that the single-account performance consistently beat the cash-cushion approach over the longer term; more important, a cash-fund investor was actually more likely to run out of money if he had to tap his savings during a severe downturn (presumably because his overall savings hadn't grown as much when times were good).
One caveat worth noting: In recent years, due to the Federal Reserve's efforts to keep interest rates low, returns on cash savings have generally lagged behind inflation. If inflation were to surge, it's possible that the Fed would raise rates high enough so that would no longer be true, creating a climate where cash would look competitive again.
In the meantime, Coleman notes that for many investors, the traditional cash fund represents an emotional security blanket that's hard to give up. For these investors, his sources suggest, short-term bonds could make a good emergency-fund staple, since they offer a bit more upside than cash, but without much volatility. Another issue: For investors with fewer assets in general, or those close to their planned retirement dates, departing from cash is less wise. If you can't afford to absorb short-term losses of any kind, you can't afford to play the market with your emergency money.
Also in Encore:
How an IRA maneuver can lower your taxes
Schwab's 'all-ETF' 401(k) launches
12 things you should know about the myRA
Matthew Heimer covers retirement for MarketWatch and edits the Encore blog. Follow him on Twitter @MatthewHeimer.
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Eventually, they were contacted by a web developer with some space to spare, who was saddened by how a game with such great potential was dwindling, and saw an opportunity to truly breathe life back into the game. Darkling Wolf and Kevin Granade seized on the idea of spinning off a full-fledged branch project, as if they'd been waiting for the moment. The subtitle Dark Days Ahead was added to the end of the original name, a website was thrown together, and the word was sent out that, like the undead abominations that lurk it's street, Cataclysm was back on its feet and hungry for flesh blood.
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(3BL Media) Rosemont, IL - April 23, 2012 - Since the launch of the U.S. Dairy Sustainability Commitment in 2008, the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy — established under the leadership of America's dairy producers — has united the dairy value chain in a collective effort to measure and improve the environmental, social and economic sustainability of U.S. dairy from farm to table. Using a research-based approach, the Innovation Center is establishing benchmark measures of industry-level dairy sustainability, while putting tools in the hands of decision-makers to drive innovation at individual businesses.
In celebration of Earth Day, the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy announced three resources available to the industry, its partners and consumers that will help the dairy value chain measure, improve and communicate about sustainability. The 2011 U.S. Dairy Sustainability Report provides an update on progress toward the industry's sustainability goals. Two measurement Web resources — Dairy Plant Smart™ and Dairy Fleet Smart™ — provide milk processors and transporters with the tools to calculate their carbon footprints and identify opportunities to save energy and money.
In addition to these new resources, USDairy.com/Sustainability provides access to more decision-making tools like the SaveEnergy resource, which connects dairy farmers with financial assistance opportunities for farm energy audits and equipment upgrades.
"We've spent three years in the field gathering research to support our science- and practice-based approach to improving sustainability across the value chain — from growing crops to feed our dairy cows; to processing and manufacturing real, fresh, nutrient-rich dairy foods and beverages; through consumption and packaging disposal," said Barbara O'Brien, president of the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy. "The key learning we identified about dairy's impacts and opportunities for improvement made these new resources possible."
The 2011 U.S. Dairy Sustainability Report serves as a comprehensive resource on dairy sustainability for the dairy industry, as well as its partners and consumers. The 2011 report expands beyond the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and fluid milk focus of the 2010 report to include broader discussions on the environmental, social and economic aspects of U.S. dairy. Highlights of the 2011 industrywide efforts include:
- Engaging more than 830 stakeholders who invested approximately 6,700 working days, valued at more than $6.2 million, to support dairy sustainability efforts throughout the year.
- Launching a new industrywide initiative to establish the Sustainability Measurement and Reporting Framework for U.S. Dairy.
- Partnering with stakeholders in the inaugural U.S. Dairy Sustainability Awards program, which recognizes efforts that deliver outstanding benefit to business, community and the environment.
"Sustainability has become a key business strategy for the industry and its future development," O'Brien said. "In addition to industry-level work, the Innovation Center built upon the findings of the GHG Life Cycle Assessment for Fluid Milk to develop and test a suite of measurement tools, two of which we are excited to launch today. These tools help dairy farms and businesses adopt sustainable practices that improve their environmental performance and positively impact their bottom line."
Dairy Plant Smart enables fluid milk processing plants to evaluate overall energy use — including production, transport, refrigerant losses and packaging — to identify opportunities to conserve energy use. In addition to reducing GHG emissions and lowering utility bills, energy efficient practices can help milk processing plants improve system reliability, prevent maintenance and shutdown costs, increase productivity and introduce new revenue streams.
Featured video: Learn about ways processors can improve energy use
Dairy Fleet Smart helps transportation managers identify ways to more efficiently deliver milk from the production facility to storage or retail by completing a 360-degree evaluation of fuel used. Adopting fuel-efficient best practices can save trucking companies a substantial amount in fuel costs, while also reducing emissions.
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The Dairy Plant Smart and Dairy Fleet Smart tools feature case studies highlighting proven best practices and the associated cost and energy savings. The respective calculator tools also allow dairy plants and transport fleets to benchmark their energy efficiency performance against the U.S. average to identify areas for greatest improvement. As part of the U.S. Dairy Sustainability Commitment, Dairy Plant Smart and Dairy Fleet Smart aim to help the industry achieve a combined reduction of 705,457 metric tons of emissions and $108 million in annual business savings toward the voluntary industrywide reduction goal.
"Resources like Dairy Plant Smart, Dairy Fleet Smart and the 2011 U.S. Dairy Sustainability Report provide verified information, common measures and best practices to help producers, processors, manufacturers, transporters and brands improve their economic, social and environmental sustainability," said Jed Davis, director of sustainability at Cabot Creamery Cooperative.
Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy® is a forum for the dairy industry to work together pre-competitively to address barriers and opportunities to foster innovation and increase sales. The Innovation Center aligns the collective resources of the industry against common priorities to offer consumers nutritious dairy products and ingredients, and promote the health of people, communities, the planet and the industry. The Board of Directors for the Innovation Center includes dairy industry leaders representing key producer organizations, dairy cooperatives, processors, manufacturers and brands. The Innovation Center is staffed by Dairy Management Inc™. Visit USDairy.com for more information about the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy.
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NEW YORK (AP) - The buck - probably nubuck, in this case - again stops with Kenneth Cole.
NEW YORK (AP) � The buck � probably nubuck, in this case � again stops with Kenneth Cole.
Cole returns to New York Fashion Week on Thursday after a seven-year hiatus, seemingly putting his hand on everything before the runway lights go up: the clothes, the shoes, the handbags, the hashtags.
He bought his company back from investors last year, and it's once again privately owned with Cole fully in charge. He's energized, something he says he wasn't necessarily feeling when he pulled the plug on the catwalk. And there were times he wasn't so jazzed about much else at the office, either.
Cole, who comes off as a warm, thoughtful and passionate person in a recent interview, says he grew tired of a grind that was alternately about investors and editors � and getting their seal of approval � although, for the most part, they weren't his core customers.
Cole, 58, started Kenneth Cole Productions 30 years ago in a trailer outside an industry shoe show in Manhattan. He wasn't officially part of the event, so he got a film production permit � as if he were going to make a movie or a TV show � and showed the buyers going in and out his shoes instead.
The brand targeted a youthful, urban consumer and everyone else who fantasized about that life. Shoes grew into other accessories, several clothing collections and labels, and then went public, with its first offering in 1994. Over time, Cole started spending more time worrying about costs than coolness. "It all started feeling irrelevant," he acknowledges.
Cole even had a fumble with a tweet two years ago that he himself � a master of socially aware, punny advertisements � had written. It made light of the Egypt political uprisings.
It was time to get back on message, he says. "We're taking the brand to places it hasn't been in many years."
He adds: "I have felt different at every meeting I've been at since the day we went private. We're now looking at the future, not just tomorrow."
Few people can stir a call to action like Cole, whether it's to shop at his stores or donate to AIDS charities, says Kevin Frost, chief executive of amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research.
Cole has been on the organization's board for 27 years, and chairman since 2004. He is to be honored Wednesday night at the amfAR gala that is expected to draw celebrities such as Sarah Jessica Parker and Harry Belafonte and fellow honorees Janet Jackson and Heidi Klum.
"We've seen tremendous support in the fashion industry, and that's had a tremendous effect on our messaging," says Frost. "It all coalesced when Kenneth became chairman of the board. ... He had an intuitive sense of how to elevate our message, and it's been an amazing ride for us."
Cole, who is married to Maria Cuomo-Cole, the sister of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and TV journalist Chris Cuomo, speaks with pride about the progress in AIDS research without ever taking credit. It's the part of this interview that he takes his strongest stance and adopts a louder voice.
Otherwise, he seems relaxed, neither tired nor daunted by the week that lies ahead of him, with fashion week, the amfAR gala and market week for retailers all coming at the same time.
"Rest is overrated. I rested last Wednesday," he says.
Cole is capable of connecting with consumers � and he did it long before social media, largely through the ads and buzz-generating events. (He is personally active on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest. His new fascination is with Snapchat, where photos are shared and then disappear.)
He says he believes the modern business model for fashion companies isn't to worry so much about exact products. Other than quality, companies shouldn't get bogged down in delivery dates and magazine picks, he says. Shoppers aren't looking to match the exact handbag or sweater they see on the catwalk or on a cover, Cole says, they are buying a dream.
"What people are consuming is what things represent. It's people defining themselves through what they wear."
On this day, he has two jackets in his office � which boasts old-fashioned shoemaking stations. One is a slim, stylish blazer, the other a ski jacket that makes more sense on a chilly afternoon.
He goes jacketless, however, to his meeting with his men's shoe team. With his shirt sleeves rolled up and two smartphones (one an iPhone, the other a Blackberry) hanging from the pockets of his jeans, he asks about the textured treatments to the leather and the placement of the shelves in the showroom.
Cole's top-level corner space on the building where his offices are located on the far west side of Manhattan provides a view of the Hudson River. But one gets the sense that he spends a lot of time in the elevator, starting many days in the new digital photo studio in the basement and then moving upstairs to sample production rooms and then the showrooms, which are divided by brand, gender and vibe. An electric guitar and skateboard hang on the walls of the more casual Reaction room. There are more books for the Collection customer.
"We are trying to speak to the consumer by their lifestyle. We are trying to match product to their lifestyle, and that's what brings it to life now," Cole says. "Doing it this way forces you to know those people that we're trying to sell to. We all have to know this guy and we all have to like this guy."
Samantha Critchell tweets fashion at (at)AP_Fashion and can be reached at (at)Sam_Critchell.


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Quite the plot twist: Crime writer Patricia Cornwell wins $50.9m in Boston lawsuit
Award-winning crime writer Patricia Cornwell has won $50.9 million in a lawsuit in federal court in Boston.
Cornwell, a 56-year-old native of Florida who has lived in Greater Boston for the past six years, had sued her former financial management company — Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP — and its former principal, Evan H. Snapper, for negligence in the handling of her finances, contending that Snapper and his colleagues personally benefited from their dealings with Cornwell and cost her and her company tens of millions of dollars in losses or unaccounted revenue over four years.
Jury foreman John Martus said, "I think at the end of the day we came to fair decision. And hopefully Anchin learns from this. If you are performing on someone else's behalf, you have a responsibility towards them.''
"I'm very disappointed,'' Snapper said outside the courthouse after the verdict.
James Campbell, the lead attorney for the defendants, said, "In the days ahead, we will be exploring our legal options, including an appeal of today's verdict. We continue to believe the firm acted professionally and appropriately. For more than 90 years, the professionals at Anchin have built a reputation for honesty and integrity. The firm will endure in spite of today's outcome.''
The trial had begun on Jan. 7. The jury had begun deliberating on Thursday.
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Each year, we search for the quickest and fastest legit street cars in the nation by luring their owners into driving to five dragstrips over the course of five days—in a row, and without the aid of a car hauler. It's like street racing but without the death and/or handcuffs. To win, HOT ROD Drag Week™ racers must provide photographic evidence that they endured more than 1,000 miles of highways and byways in their cars to find our clever checkpoints and then set the lowest average e.t. in their class by making passes at all five tracks. The appeal of such a ridiculous event must be the really cool jackets and prizes we present to the winners in 14 different classes. It's become so big that we've limited entries to 250 cars, and we're already jammed with participants.
In fact, the bench-racing rumors are already rampant. Some of the secrets are out, but for the most part, racers are playing it close to the vest, not revealing the changes they've made to their programs. Five-time winner Larry Larson says he's riding shotgun in Doug Cline's Camaro in the Unlimited class. Jeff Lutz isn't saying if he's changed anything on his Unlimited Class '57 Chevy, but he has made a personal change—a diet—and it's worked well enough that he's coming with a new driving suit. Eric Yost claims to have sold the Dirty Bird Pontiac Firebird, which he won Pro Street Power Adder with last year, and is racing a first-gen Camaro. Jake Stelter claims to have a "special" and "epic" engine in his '66 Chevelle that will own the Street Race Small-Block Naturally Aspirated class in 2013. Rival Mike Crow is sandbagging by stating he just wants to keep up with Jake. Right. Every one of these guys is a sandbagger, and we don't believe a word they say. Here are several racers who not only gave up the goods but sent us photos of their cars as well.
We'll be keeping you up to date with the rumors in each issue until Drag Week™ happens.
"I'm hoping 2013 is my year to finish the car and drive it like the dependable, rock-solid machine I've always worked for."
— Mark Taub
"Don't believe Jake when he tells you I am building a new motor with W9 Raised Port heads. He's full of crap, and you can tell him I said that."
— Mike Crow
"The goal is to either dominate Daily Driver with a consistent 10.80 car or possibly even dethrone a certain NA small-block red '67 Chevelle!"
— Geoff Dugopolski
"The wagon probably won't be running 'til early summer, which won't give us much time to test, but we will be there for Drag Week™ ."
— Keith Lopez
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Drag Week™ runs from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. each day, with lots of flexibility based on conditions. Spectators are encouraged to come out to every track; it's $5 to get in every day except the Friday finals at Beech Bend, which is $10.
You want to race? Registration sold out 250 spots in just eight hours, but we do run a wait list, and racers often drop out. If the field is not full, then on-site registration is $325. To get on the waiting list, just email a request, including your name and contact info, to firstname.lastname@example.com. We will take entries on a first-come, first-served basis as other racers drop out.
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In a clear case of counterfeiting in the knowledge economy, New Archaeologists are employed in publicly funded Universities to teach students what they know about the things we don't have any evidence for. Sadly, anyone who claims that they know how prehistoric dead people perceived their world either is mentally ill or a fraud, and quite possibly both.
New archaeology as projection
The relevant definition of Projection;
The attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or suppositions to others:
"Even trained anthropologists have been guilty of unconscious projection of clothing the subjects of their research in theories brought with them into the field" (Alex Shoumatoff). [1].
Clearly, New Archaeologists are just projecting ideas in their own minds into the minds of the long dead - who inevitably demonstrate a remarkable unanimity and prescience in their perception of their own archaeology. To what extent, in creating a narrative of how the dead perceived themselves, their dead, the landscape, structures, and even materials like stone and wood, New Archaeologists are fooling the University authorities, funding bodies and ultimately the tax payer is an interesting question, but the crucial psychological issue is to whether they are they fooling each other and themselves.
New Archaeology; a survival guide for students
Students should remember;
- You can't interrogate the dead, but it's ok to pretend and play along, as long you remember it is just make believe.
- Who marks the exams.
- Don't ask "What was their favourite colour?"
- If you must join in, this is how it works . . .
So we now know that Bluestones were brought to Stonehenge because blue was their favourite colour, - leaving space for others to argue that it was the dead's or even a God's favourite colour, and soon we have a lot to teach students about archaeo-colour preference.
Obviously, this is a simple reductio ad absurdum, just a parody; besides, it cannot be true because I think Prof Parker-Pierson assures us that stone symbolised death in minds of builders of Stonehenge. [2].


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From the makers of the award-winning Heavy Rain comes a unique, psychological action thriller. Featuring a brand-new game engine, a compelling, original story, and a top-notch Hollywood cast; BEYOND: Two Souls promises to be one of the most immersive experiences on the PlayStation®3 system. Live the life of Jodie Holmes, a young woman who possesses extraordinary powers through a psychic link to an invisible entity. Experience the most striking moments of Jodie's life as your actions and decisions determine her fate. As she traverses the globe, Jodie will face incredible challenges against a backdrop of emotionally-charged events never before seen in a video game.
BEYOND: Two Souls features much larger and more open environments than those found in Heavy Rain, and to coincide with this, the gamer will have much more freedom to explore their surroundings and find small side bits of information. The "R2 to walk" control scheme from Heavy Rain is gone as well - now, navigation with Jodie is controlled entirely using the left analog stick. As you navigate these environments, the camera will dynamically change to more cinematic angles, and Jodie's animations will tailor themselves to her age and situation, leading to a uniquely immersive and filmic experience.
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The entire combat system has been replaced with a slow-motion (also called "bullet-time" since The Matrix) gesture mechanic based on the right analog stick. At various action points during each fight, the action on-screen will change to slow-motion and greyscale for a split second, and during that time you will need to quickly analyze the action and input a gesture with the right analog stick. This gesture will need to be the continuation of Jodie's on-screen movement. The tension runs high as Jodie's success or failure in each action sequence depends on quick and accurate reflexes.
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BOULDER, Colo. --Helicopter searches and airlifts have resumed in Colorado as the weather cleared and the sun shone over flood-damaged mountain towns.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (May 3, 2010) - After leading the ETSU baseball team to a sweep of Stetson, sophomore Bo Reeder (Cookeville, Tenn.) became the third ETSU baseball player to be named the Atlantic Sun Player of the Week this season announced the conference office on Monday.
Reeder posted a blistering .522 average (12-23) with a double, four home runs and 11 RBIs this past week. The Cookeville, Tenn. native recorded a home run in each of the Stetson games as the Bucs went on the sweep the Hatters at home and move into second place in the conference. Reeder, a sports management major, slugged 1.087 with a .556 on base percentage on the week, while scoring 11 runs including the game-winning runs in the first two games of the series.
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Learners will explore spacecraft radio communications concepts, including the speed of light and the time-delay for signals sent to and from spacecraft. Learners measure the time it takes for a radio signal to travel to a spacecraft using the speed... (View More) of light, demonstrate the delay in radio communication signals to and from a spacecraft, and devise unique solutions to the radio-signal-delay problem. In an extension, learners are asked to calculate the distance the spacecraft traveled. All NASA spacecraft missions have a telecommunications system and use radio waves to transmit signals. The context for this activity is sending a command to the New Horizons spacecraft telling it to take a picture of Pluto. Includes teacher background, adaptations, and student data sheets. (View Less)
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Financier Donald Roth sells his 11,000-square-foot home in the Georgetown area of Washington for $8.6 million; a 10,000-square-foot home on Oahu's north shore is on the market for $22 million; a Vero Beach, Fla., spec home lists for $18.75 million. Lauren Schuker Blum reports. Photo: Augie Salbosa.
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I was struck by this line Palin used in the debate the yesterday:
Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. We don't pass it to our children in the bloodstream; we have to fight for it and protect it, and then hand it to them so that they shall do the same, or we're going to find ourselves spending our sunset years telling our children and our children's children about a time in America, back in the day, when men and women were free.I did not realize at the time that she was quoting Ronald Reagan (She cited him, but I must have been typing and missed it), but the line jumped out at me as uncharacteristically eloquent for her. It didn't have a "youbetcha" attached to it, which was a dead giveaway that it was pre-scripted. So I was not terribly surprised in the postgame show to hear the origin of the quote; I could easily imagine President Reagan saying that in a State of the Union address.
Except that it wasn't President Reagan who said it. It was private citizen Reagan who said it in 1961, in a jeremiad against Medicare titled "Ronald Reagan speaks out against Socialized Medicine."
Listen to it. It's quite a blast from the past. I am always fascinated by reminders that Reagan had such a long history of political activism prior to becoming President (his election is the first one I clearly remember). Also interesting is that this was an LP commissioned and distributed by the AMA. I forget how regressive an organization it was back in the day.
It's also instructive to listen to it and see how profoundly wrong he was. He decries this "compulsory insurance" program as unwise and unnecessary, predicts that it will restrict the freedom of doctors to choose where they practice and the freedom of patients to choose their doctors. He is very clear in asserting that this is the "foot in the door" of socialism and that the inevitable consequence of enacting Medicare will be the downfall of capitalism.
Of course, it didn't quite turn out that way. Medicare isn't perfect, but forty years down the road, it's fair to say that it's the most successful government program ever. (Save perhaps Social Security.) It's wildly popular, and yes, even more efficient than private insurance. I'm not going to defend Medicare carte blanche -- it has many flaws, some inherent, some reparable, and the rate of medical inflation poses problems going forward. But in the long run, it is completely clear and inarguable that it has been a huge success and America, and American medicine, are much better off for having it. When you listen to Reagan's warnings, note how similar they are to the prophecies of doom uttered by the current opponents of universal health care. The plans on the table are considerably better than Medicare -- they are market-based and are not single-payer. So listen to Reagan, and remember that the opponents of government-adminstered health insurance were wrong in 1961, and they are wrong today.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A unit of Japan's Panasonic Corp is under investigation by U.S. authorities looking at whether the company paid bribes overseas to airline employees or government officials to help land business, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Citing company documents, the Journal said Panasonic Avionics had received a subpoena looking for communications between Panasonic Avionics, consultants and others. The subpoena also asked for documents related to payments to the airline employees and government officials, the newspaper said.
The Panasonic unit, which is headquartered in Lake Forest, California, makes in-flight entertainment and communications systems.
According to the Journal, notices were sent to executives and employees in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
The Journal said it was not clear which U.S. agency is investigating the unit. But the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is enforced by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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