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Does Digital Drive Marketing's Need to Violate Privacy? Not Always./
The idea that advertising is wasteful is nothing new. If you asked anyone on the street to come up with a notable quote about advertising, I'd imagine most would respond with the old John Wanamaker quote – "Half of the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half."
It's that kind of thinking that leads marketers to believe that something is inherently wasteful about their advertising, and if they could just employ some sort of method that would allow them to reach only the people who are interested in buying their product, that they would be perfectly efficient with their advertising.
The perfectly-targeted ad campaign, though, is a red herring. If your advertising reached only the people who were ready to buy your product, your campaign would fail to inform others of your product and you wouldn't capitalize on mass advertising's ability to build awareness, such that people who don't yet need your product won't turn to a competitor when the need for your product does arise.
I've talked about it until I was blue in the face. Still, this idea persists that micro-targeted ads are the holy grail of advertising.
That belief, though, predates the current trend toward investing in data to target digital ads.
I've said it before and I will say it again. The foundations for digital's ability to target advertising came from the traditional direct marketing business, the practices of which would completely creep out consumers if they had the slightest inkling of what was going on. Your purchase behavior, political leanings, personal income, preferred brands and much, much more were being used to target direct mail long before digital ads. In fact, the first open consumer revolt against DM-style targeting online came when DoubleClick tried to merge with Abacus, a catalog marketing outfit. People were seemingly okay with offline DM, but didn't want digital ads to take the same approach.
Don't mistake this for yet another complaint about the double standards digital has had to endure over the course of its development. That's not where I'm going with this.
Last week, though, Doc Searls took issue with addressable cable ads. I had a couple problems with the piece he wrote. Laying blame at the feet of digital for addressable cable ads was one of them. While digital tech can help Big Cable handle the backend intricacies of inserting addressable ads, the method was an idea long before DMPs, DSPs and digital profiles.
If you feel sold out by your cable or telecom provider, know that they've been using your information in this way for a long time, and not just in digital ad applications.
It's easy to be angry with digital and want to place blame with it, though. When the aforementioned DoubleClick/Abacus merger caused controversy, digital made the assumption that people didn't like central databases of consumer information being used to target ads. So digital just created something that wasn't centralized.
But the effect is the same that a monster, centralized database of marketing information would have had. Nowadays, if a company wants to use data to target digital ads, it can simply broker a deal for the information it needs, have a third-party partner match up its own list with cookies or other unique identifiers, and – voila! – the company has its list of ad targets without having to handle any of the Personally-Identifiable Information that would trigger controversy for stepping over the arbitrary line that the industry drew for itself. I've been trying to draw attention to this practice for years, calling it a distributed violation of our collective privacy.
So, Doc asked me on Twitter where I'd place the blame for the enthusiasm for things like addressable cable ads. First, I'd place them with cable companies. Secondly, I'd place them with marketers and their agencies that continue to buy into the Church of Wanamaker, and think they'll achieve marketing nirvana by continually whittling down the size of the audience they think will be interested in what they're saying (in the interest of "efficiency"). Thirdly, I'd blame the behind-the-scenes "match partners" that do all the PII dirty work, regardless of the medium being used.


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Inverted W
This is a term used to describe the position of a pitcher's arms as he picks up the baseball during the cocking phase of a pitch.
In the Inverted W, the pitcher picks up both of his elbows above his shoulders. Each arm resembles an upside-down 'V', so it is called an inverted 'W'.
People frequently ask why it isn't just called an 'M'. This is not just a font-based issue. The key here is not the 'W,' it is the inverted position of the arm. The 'W' is just a method of describing the inversion. Simply calling this an 'M' does not do justice to the inversion of the arm in this and similar positions.
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Robin Williams' grieving daughter, Zelda Williams, has returned to Twitter after receiving far too many unkind comments online.
The 25-year-old actress posted an inspiring message on the social media site Monday afternoon.
"Thank you," she wrote with a link to her Tumblr page that features an important note on bullying.
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself," she wrote while quoting actor Harvey Fierstein.
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Shortly after the death of Robin, Zelda received thousands of thoughtful comments concerning her dad. Some, however, proved to be a bit too harsh for the grieving daughter.
"I'm sorry. I should've risen above," she wrote on Aug. 12. "Deleting this from my devices for a good long time, maybe forever. Time will tell. Goodbye."
Prior to being harassed online, Zelda thanked her followers for donating to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in memory of her father.
"I'm overwhelmed. The charity meant the world to him, as it does to me," she wrote. "Knowing that so many children will be helped in his honor is all I could've asked for. Thank you from the bottom of my heart."
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Robin was found dead Aug. 11 at his home near Marin County, California. The Oscar winner died from asphyxia due to hanging.
Fans will remember his humor and memorable roles in classics such as "Mrs. Doubtfire," "Dead Poets Society," "Aladdin" and countless others.
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Bologna crash out of Coppa Italia
Serie A club Bologna have crashed out of the Coppa Italia in a 2-1 extra-time defeat to mid-table Serie B side Siena.
Much of the game was locked in a 0-0 stalemate until Siena midfielder Francesco Valiani pounced with only twelve minutes left in the game.
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A Fishy Problem In Miami: What Do The Marlins Do With Giancarlo Stanton?
Thursday November 22nd, 2012
Jake Dal Porto: Giancarlo Stanton isn't the only human being that's furious over the Marlins recent transactions which most notably saw them deal Josh Johnson, Jose Reyes, and Mark Buehrle to the Blue Jays. Or in English, Miami just betrayed their fans and players. While the fans do matter, you would have to think that Stanton's words have a bit more meaning than any other figure or figures.
And Stanton is not pleased. He sounded off on his twitter account a little over a week ago, saying that "he's pissed off". The slugger doesn't have to say much more. Perhaps the next words out of his mouth could be a trade request. That isn't too far-fetched at this point either, and the idea is something that Miami's management should highly consider in coming weeks.
At the moment, there's no wrong choice in terms of trading Stanton or retaining him. The fans are already peeved off, and trading their cornerstone piece probably wouldn't change he fans' state of mind.
However, Miami would be wise to deal him now because his value is inordinately high. Not only is he under team control until 2017, but he is also just 23-years-old, making him one of the youngest position players in baseball. Those two things, plus his off-charts power, automatically draws interest from practically 70 percent of the 30 teams in the majors. Plus, the Marlins would presumably receive a surplus of elite prospects for Stanton. So, it's a win-win situation.
Well, losing some of the likes of Stanton isn't exactly a "win", per se. However, with their recent trades, there isn't a vivid time-table as to when they will be contenders. The only thing that's vivid is the fact that it won't be in the near future, barring any big additions, of course. A competitive Marlins team might not be formed until 2017 which would be Stanton's final year in Miami assuming that they don't trade him or he doesn't sign an extension, which also isn't likely according to multiple reports.
So, why not trade him now and begin more dreadful years instead of retaining him but continue to lose? Basically, keeping the powerful Stanton around would be a waste. Sure, he would put the remaining fans in seats, but that's about it. And from his perspective, why would he want to play in Miami? He would have minimal lineup protection, and even if he does compile some great seasons in the future, he won't get recognized on a losing team, nor will he have a chance to taste the playoffs.
Over the past two years, Stanton has been the Marlins most productive player. This season, he led the National League in at-bats per home run with 12.1 at-bats, and slugging percentage (.608). Naturally, he finished second in the N.L with 37 home runs despite suffering many minor injuries that caused him to miss games on occasion. On that note, the fact that he's injury prone might be the only blemish on his report card.
Those numbers are great and all, but whose to say that he will continue to put those types of numbers up if he is unhappy? At the moment he is already angry, but if a request to be traded comes along, Miami would be silly not to fulfill his request. Simply put, a player who is unhappy creates clubhouse drama, and with a new manager taking the hot seat this upcoming season, it would be Ozzie Guillen part two. Except, Guillen is elsewhere.
However, trading Stanton would surely be a hard task to accomplish mentally. Remember, we're talking about the future face of the MLB, potentially. Letting someone go with that tab is just hard. But it needs to be done.
Stanton is ready to move on, and the Marlins should follow his suit.
(*The views and opinions expressed in this report are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of mlbreports.com*)
Jake Dal Porto is a Baseball Writer with MLB reports and a student from the Bay Area. Jake's favorite sports moment was when the Giants won the World Series back in 2010. He loves to use sabermetrics in his work. He thinks they are the best way to show a player's real success compared to the basic stats such as ERA, RBIs, and Wins. Jake also enjoys interacting and debating with his readers. Follow him on Twitter: Follow @TheJakeMan24
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Remember that Marlins Park is a cow pasture that meets prison walls. The dimensions of the field are as psychotic as the owner, 418 ft with a 30 foot wall in center, 12 foot fences, the longest gaps in the majors, is this sane?
Loria likes a pitchers park, he's a fool. What he has is a field that beats down his own players down and instead has the joy of watching harmless fly balls drop in front of and to the sides of the outfielders. This is not a dynamic park, it's neurotic.
Stanton hits the ball harder than anyone, juiced or not that has ever played the game. There should be an air horn sounded before his at bats, I have seen his foul balls give fans concussions and break bones. The sound of the ball of of his bat is louder than a rifle shot.
Any team that ends up with this man child will be witnessing one of the greatest sluggers; as Ali would say "Of All Time…."


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Stanford takes lead at LPGA LOTTE tournament
Angela Stanford shot an 8-under-par 64 on a wind-swept course to take a one-stroke lead after the second round of the LPGA LOTTE Championship on Thursday.
Stanford took the lead early with five birdies in a row on the front nine and finished the day with eight birdies. The best round of the tournament so far left the five-time LPGA Tour winner at 8-under 136.
Stanford said she was just trying to make it through the day.
"Finally, I got comfortable on these greens and it felt great. I mean, to see the ball go in that much is a lot of fun," the 36-year-old said. "It was nice to see. I needed a round like that."
Just like the first round, the contenders played Day 2 at Ko Olina Golf Club with gusty winds — up to 18 mph, according to the National Weather Service.
"I think it's more about putting. I hate to admit this, but I don't always control my trajectory on purpose. It just kind of happens," Stanford said. "When I get into the wind, and I've talked about this with my instructor, for some reason my body just starts moving into the ball more and I tend to keep it lower."
Hawaii favorite Michelle Wie was one stroke back after a 67 that included five birdies.
Wie hit a birdie on the par-5 13th hole that helped her maintain momentum.
"That putt was really, really, really fast. It was downwind, down grain, downhill and I just barely touched it and I think the crowd rolled that one in for sure," Wie said. "I thought it lipped out for sure, and it just kind of went around then, and so it was awesome."
Christie Kerr, a 16-time tour winner, shot a 66 and was tied for third in a group of four at 138. Among them was top-ranked Inbee Park, who shot a 68.
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The days of calculating exchange rates are coming to an end: over the next year Valve is looking to introduce a range of local currencies to its Steam marketplace, including those of Australia, Canada and Japan.
Other nations listed on a slide smuggled out of the no-press Steam developers conference include the New Zealand Dollar and Mexican Peso.
If you live in one of the included countries, your first instinct may be to celebrate. Don't. You're often getting a bargain buying things in US dollars. A Steam marketplace available in your local currency may just make it easier for publishers to charge people like Australians their regular exorbitant prices.


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Tuacahn High School for the Performing Arts faculty and staff will consistently seek candid feedback from colleagues and students, ensuring fidelity to our vision and core values. "All, no matter how talented, organized, or clear of vision, become lost somewhere along the way;" (Creativity Inc. pg. 91) therefore, we will rely on systematic feedback, from all stakeholders, to keep us centered and grounded. Students and staff will ask questions to learn, and expect others to probe the quality of the reasoning. Students will engage in candid feedback throughout the learning process each day, holding each of us to a higher standard. No one has the right to harbor critical opinion without sharing their concern. We will identify obstacles, provide feedback, and implement change.
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Jersey City officer shot, killed on robbery call
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — A Jersey City police officer responding to an armed robbery call at a 24-hour drug store was shot and killed early Sunday, officials said.
Officer Melvin Santiago was shot in the head while still in his police vehicle as he and his partner responded to a call at a Walgreens Pharmacy at about 4.a.m., Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop said in a statement.
Fulop says Santiago was pronounced dead at Jersey City Medical Center. No other details about the officer were immediately released.
"Today was a horrible day for Jersey City," Fulop said.
Santiago is the first Jersey City officer killed in the line of duty since Detective Marc DiNardo was killed in July 2009 during a raid on an apartment searching for suspects in a robbery.
Fulop said officers responding to the robbery call shot and killed the man who shot Santiago. He was not immediately identified.
The mayor says an armed security guard at the store told authorities that the man struck him and took his weapon. Fulop says police believe that weapon was used in the shooting.
"It is a tragic situation when any officer is killed in the line of duty," Fulop said. "Melvin was an officer who represented everything one would want to see in a police officer. I know the entire city's thoughts and prayers are with the Santiago family during this difficult time and we mourn together."
Jean Belviso, who has been delivering newspapers for 10 years, was driving through the Walgreens parking lot when she said saw a man wearing burgundy sweatpants and a baseball cap walk out of Walgreens. A police cruiser pulled up in front of the store, and the suspect began shooting, Belviso said.
"We thought he was running, coming toward us," said Belviso, who was riding along with a friend. "He kept on shooting."
Bullets flew through the cruiser's windshield, and other police cars appeared on scene, and officers fired at him, Belviso said. The suspect was shot multiple times, and officers slapped handcuffs on him, she said.
Four hours after the shooting, the suspect's body remained on the ground, about 20 feet from Walgreens' entrance, lying next to a police cruiser that had its back window shot out. Police placed a tent over the body.
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Our experts attempt to answer what all fans of the NFL want to know: When will the lockout come to an end?
Throwing a dart at the calendarThis is a total crapshoot here. We're all just guessing, and anyone who would say otherwise is, well, just guessing.
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Here's how I see it playing out:
The "expedited" schedule with the 8th Circuit still results in a decision sometime after July 4. I'll throw a dart at a calendar and say July 11. And I'll say, based off the wording of the stay, that the court sides with the owners.
Which means we're back where we were 22-odd months ago when negotiations began. In this scenario, my best-case is a deal sometime around Aug. 15, but, honestly, all bets are off. A truncated season, in my estimation, becomes a very real probability.
Don't worry, season will start on timeThe lockout's end and the start of a new CBA will be simultaneous, because I do not anticipate a court-ordered lifting of the lockout. My expectation is, with the players unlikely to score any substantial court victories, earnest discussions toward putting a long-term CBA in place should begin during in early June, and an agreement will be reached somewhere around the Fourth of July. Coaches and general managers then are going to spend what normally is a down period navigating through what likely will be as wild and furious a free-agency/trade period as the NFL has ever seen. Although training camps might be delayed and there could be some adjustments needed to preseason schedules, the regular season should be able to start on time.
The glass is half fullOnce a ruling from the June 3 hearing comes down, I figure the owners and players will begin bargaining. There has been a lot of bluster from both sides about alienating fans and maintaining fans that dig the game, etc. We'll see if there's substance to the fans' concerns if they get to bargaining quickly or they take their time like they have better things to do. I'm projecting a deal gets done no later than July 9 and free agency starts a few days later. I don't think we'll miss preseason games. Call me an optimist.
An impossible pigskin prophecyNostradamus didn't get all of them right, did he? Here's my attempt to predict the virtually unpredictable -- Aug. 22, 2011: The lockout ends, and the CBA is signed. There, in Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Raheem Morris fashion, "I said it." We'll check back on that date for accuracy ...
Mid-July resolution is possibleMy prediction is that if the June 3 decision goes in favor of the NFL, negotiations could start soon after, and a deal would be done by July 15.


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I was inspired by this thought because of a lecture given by Sam Harris and the following discussion between him and Richard Dawkins.
Do you think science can say anything about what morality is.
I think it actually can and on the contrary Religion can't. It is an argument I hear very often by religious people. I think religious "morality" is very immoral because it is absolute. Morality has to be relative, has to be discussed and reasoned.
Furthermore I act morally because I want to. A religious person acts "morally" because he or she wants to be rewarded for it in the afterlife. I think this is very selfish and thus immoral.
You have to be moral because you want to be and not because you're told to be so because that in it self is immoral.
To act moral means to be ourselves, to be human and to be responsible for our actions.
Now the latter argument can be discussed or argued against since science has shown that there actually might not be a free will, thus it is questionable wether we can be held responsible for our actions.
What do you think? What can Religion say about morality?
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I think The Moral Animal (Wright) and The Moral Landscape (Harris) are decent books dealing with this post.
What can religion say about morality? Anything can be justified in the name of the god du jour - look at history and the middle east today.
As far as Christianity, I agree with Hitchens - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYaQpRZJl18
Thanks for all your info, everyone. I will check that stuff out. I have developed a theory of objective morality. When I'm ready I'm going to spring it on Think Atheist so that people can check it / destroy it. It came about because I needed to check the validitity of my own behaviour, independent of what I or any other asshole thought about it. It's stood up to 25 years' hard use. The "manifesto" is not quite ready for publication, but - if anyone wants to have a look, the text file is available here. Comments welcome.
Not that I would agree with her outlook, but Ayn Rand has some interesting things to say about a rational morality in http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ari_ayn_rand_the_ob...
No philosopher has given a rational, objectively demonstrable, scientific answer to the question of why man needs a code of values. So long as that question remained unanswered, no rational, scientific, objective code of ethics could be discovered or defined.
This is where she and I differ. My point entirely - over-intellectual.
I've been thinking recently about new ways to describe and define human behavior and morality.
1) Cold, "natural", survival of the fittest, lower animal behavior that comprises most of the natural world. These are our roots.
2) Naturally evolved, emotionally based feelings, caring, and behavior that depends on how our (and higher animal) brains process these feelings.
3) Mostly artificially evolved, cultural and intellectual philosophies and codifications.
We codify into civil law the most important and what our society mostly agrees on are the most universal codes of behavior, including penalties for infraction thereof. Perhaps the most obvious purpose for such laws are to protect people from the selfishness or carelessness of each other. These civil laws are the product of thousands of years of intellectual evolution.
What we try not to codify into law are various definitions of morality, using instead and resulting from social/peer pressure, where we have more choices in the friends we choose and where we give dissimilar groups of people leeway in their points of view and behavior.
Codes of morality used to be the only codes of behavior, before societies grew larger than tribes, and before we invented pen and paper, books, or libraries. These codes of behavior were communicated face to face, with nothing more than body language and physical behaviors towards each other.
Science is still just a tool available (and still evolving) to help us determine with research, statistics, cost-benefit analysis, and so on how we can improve our health and lifetimes, and allow us the time to ponder our own existence and speculate and create new approaches and set higher goals.
I think it's important to realize a major difference between our codified, civil laws, and morality. Laws are enforceable by the state, but morality is more of a choice and assumes a measure of tolerance of other morality systems. Almost by definition, there cannot be one, best, absolute set of morals.
morality is more of a choice and assumes a measure of tolerance of other morality systems.
(1) "Almost by definition, there cannot be one, best, absolute set of morals."
(1) Ah, but why not? What if we our proposed set of universal morals allows tolerance of other morality systems, where appropriate? Also, the point is not necessarily that the universal set has to consist of the best morals that exist. Rather, it has to be a basic, objectively reliable, reasonably complete standard to which we can always refer, when we doubt or wish to check our own moral knowledge. It should consist only of very simple, fundamental, axiomatic values which no morally consciencious person would ever disagree with. Building upon those, we're free to act as we see fit, and follow all our various, different, more complicated, personal moral beliefs. It is assumed that since the universal basic standard IS universal, then all higher, more complicated moral values must conform to it in some way, if they are to be called morally valid.
Here's the little list I have come up with: Love, kindness, mercy, courage, integrity and honest self-questioning. The Golden Rule. Think about your responsibilities and your obligations, and fulfill them. And:: literally anything is allowed that doesn't harm someone else.
The members of this set are intended to be applied either singly or by combining two or more.
Apologies for the frigid mathematical language. Where's the funk, when you need it?
Laws are enforceable by the state, but morality is more of a choice
Perhaps you could say that laws are a "public" affair, and morals are "personal" / "private" rules which we use all the time in our daily lives.
Sure, "public" works for me, too. Or "civil".
I believe that science is just as far from the bar as religion. As a humanist, I am completely confident in the ability, however seldom it may be applied, to make decisions for ones self. It is true that there are equations for whatever chemistry goes on while making a decision, but the awareness of the person dealing with the situation is what sets it in motion. I can fully agree that in most cases religion is responsible for more immorality than anything else, but even though it cannot give us morality, it is an example of something similar. So I guess religion has the one up on science, but the individual will always take the cake.
I think that religions set out to deliver morality, they try their best, but they are just not very good at it. In my opinion Jesus did the best job - it's hard to fault his core moral beliefs, and he did a very good job of illustrating them by example.
jesus' core moral beliefs line up quite well with buddhism, and why many believe, if he was real, he spent some time between 13 and 30 years of age in the far east... the golden rule is found in many religious texts around the globe and is not new to xianity by any stretch nor were the few good things jesus said about humanity.. most of which can be found it sacred texts around the globe.. does that make jesus some sort of syncratic saviour?
morality must be removed from religion to be truly effective at any level.. many assume incorrectly that religious based morals are good, but they are not any better than mine! the original 10 commandments did not mention rape nor the immorality of slavery, yet both are outlawed in most of the world in spite of relgious leaders spewing their faith and their book as the ultimate authority on morality... we know that is nothing but a load of bat-ass crazy talk!... just sayin!
Many ethical frameworks rely very heavily on the concept of harm. The biggest challenge for these frameworks is the definition of harm. I do believe that science can tell us a great deal about what is and is not a harm and through that could give us some very important insight into many ethical claims.


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This was the first look I did to test drive MAC's new long-wearing eyeshadows.
You will need the following…
- Eyes: NARS Smudgeproof Eyeshadow Primer (primer), MAC One to Watch Eyeshadow (peach-orange), MAC Hot Paprika Eyeshadow (burnt orange), MAC Lie Low Eyeshadow (medium-dark brown), Burberry Trench Eyeshadow (highlighter), Urban Decay Lucky 24/7 Eyeliner (copper), Lancome Doll Eyes Mascara
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For eyes, start by laying down your eyeshadow primer all over the lid and until the brow. Apply One to Watch eyeshadow on the lower two-thirds of the lid with the 239. In the crease, gently brush Hot Paprika eyeshadow with the 222. Above the crease, apply Lie Low eyeshadow and diffuse upwards.
For face, apply Matchmaster all over face with the 193. Lightly dust on illuminator with the 165 or 188 on cheek bones. Set with Les Violettes with the 134.
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This week's collectible unveilings reflect a real pastiche of offerings and source materials. NECA's recently announced Comic-Con International exclusives feature alternate look superheroes as well as a Predator from an upcoming Dark Horse comic. Meanwhile, Funko displayed mash-up DC heroes and a variety of Disney characters. "Walking Dead," "Godzilla," "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" and the Hulk also scored new pieces that fans will want to check out.
NECA CCI EXCLUSIVES | NECA revealed the last three exclusives they'll have for sale at this year's Comic-Con International. Last week it showed off a pair of Scalers 2-packs, one featuring black-and-white Batman and Joker, the other with Silver Centurion Iron Man and "Marvels" Spider-Man. Finally, the last con offering comes from the world of Predator. The latest exclusive figure is based on the upcoming Dark Horse series "Fire and Stone." Known as Ahab, the piece comes with a staff, backpack and removable mask.
THE WALKING DEAD | McFarlane Toys announced the second piece in the Walking Dead Deluxe Figure series and it's none other than series star Rick Grimes. The new piece, which has yet to be revealed, takes its cues from the third season promo image featuring actor Andrew Lincoln standing atop an overturned bus brandishing his revolver. The piece hits in November.
HULK | The Hulk has been known to mix it up when it comes to skin tone. One of the most pronounced changes came between the first and second appearances of the character when he went from gray to green and stayed the latter for years. Sideshow Collectibles celebrates that initial look with a new 20-inch tall statue. If you pick up the Sideshow exclusive version, you'll also get an orange shirt to more accurately recreate the cover to "Incredible Hulk" #1. The statue hits next January.
DC COMICS VINYL³ | Funko's got a new line of minifigures ready for collectors to snatch up and work on their mix-and-match skills. The July-shipping DC Comics Vinyl³ break down into five pieces and allow for various display options. The first wave includes blue and gray versions of Batman, Superman, Aquaman, Black Manta, Bizarro, Joker, Harley Quinn and Robin.
GODZILLA | Godzilla stomped through the box office when it debuted earlier this month leaving a path of destruction in his wake. NECA will have an action figure that lives up to its box office cousin. This July-shipping piece stands two feet tall from top of the head to tip of the tail, offers 25 points of articulation, bendy tail and roar sound effects. Head on over to NECA's site to listen to what it sounds like!
MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE | Mattel's web exclusive Mattycollector store has a variety of new Masters of the Universe collectibles ready to roll out in June. The Classics line will add growing cyborg Extendar to the Masters of the Universe Classics ranks. The figure comes with extension pieces for his arms and legs as well as a lance and fold-up shield. Meanwhile, "Robot Chicken" fans will be happy to note that Matty has a piece based on their Baby Skeletor doll. The 12-inch tall piece comes with a Havoc Staff rattle and "Born to Rule" T-shirt. Both will be available for purchase in June.
MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE | While Mattel created He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, that doesn't mean they have the market cornered on Eternia-based collectibles. Pop Culture Shock's line of MOTU statues continues with one of Skeletor's many lackeys. Trapjaw stands 17 inches tall and is limited to 500 pieces. The PCS exclusive comes with three different hands to swap out replicating the original toy. That one's limited to 200. Both ship early next year.
DISNEY | Funko continues to utilize some of their more adorable styles to bring a variety of Disney characters to collectible life. The second round of Disney Mystery Minis will include two different versions of Belle and the Beast from "Beauty and the Beast," Wall*E and Simba, Timon and Pumbaa of "Lion King" fame. Alice and the Cheshire Cat from Wonderland will each get one figure. Meanwhile, the 1988 classic mix of live action and animation "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" makes its way to the Pop Vinyl line with a quartet of figures: Roger Rabbit, Jessica Rabbit, Judge Doom and Smarty Weasel. The Mystery Minis hit in July while the Vinyls drop in August.


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German astronomer Gustav Witt discovered the asteroid Eros (image at top of post) on 13 August 1898. Eros was both the first asteroid found to orbit entirely outside of the Main Belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter and the first known planet-crosser; its path crosses the orbit of Mars. Eros orbits the Sun in a little more than 643 days. Eros and Earth pass nearest each other - about 14 million miles apart - every 81 years.
In March 1966, Eugene Smith, an engineer with Northrop Space Laboratories in Hawthorne, California, presented a paper outlining a piloted Eros flyby mission at the Third Space Congress in Cocoa, Florida. In it, he wrote that Eros exploration might help scientists to understand Main Belt asteroids and small planetary moons (for example, the martian satellites Deimos and Phobos). He noted that Eros - which he described as "brick-shaped" - would pass within 14 million miles of Earth on 23 January 1975, its closest approach of the 20th century.
At the time Smith presented his paper, NASA and its contractors devoted considerable effort to studies of piloted free-return Mars and Venus flyby missions based on Apollo and Apollo Applications Program technology. The first of these was expected to depart Earth for Mars in late 1975. Among other expected benefits, a Mars flyby would provide interplanetary flight experience ahead of 1980s piloted Mars landings. Smith noted, however, that a Mars flyby mission would likely be so heavy that placing all of its components and propellants into space would need either a Saturn V rocket with a nuclear-thermal upper stage or multiple all-chemical Saturn Vs followed by assembly through multiple dockings in Earth orbit. He called instead for a 1975 piloted Eros flyby that would provide experience applicable to Mars landings, yet could depart Earth on a single uprated Saturn V rocket.
Smith argued that "the value of the Eros mission to subsequent manned planetary flights having a higher level of difficulty and complexity is of no small consequence." He added that "interplanetary experience comes only from interplanetary missions: less difficult flights, such as that to Eros, could significantly enhance experience acquired in Earth orbital and lunar activities, and could thereby increase the probability of success for the missions to follow." Smith provided no estimate of the cost of his mission.
Smith's 527-day Eros flyby mission would begin with launch from Cape Canaveral on 3 May 1974, at the opening of a 30-day launch window. The Eros mission Saturn V and its payload, the Eros Flyby Spacecraft Vehicle (EFSV), would have have stood 21 feet taller than the 363-foot-tall Apollo Saturn V. From top to bottom, the EFSV would have comprised the Eros Launch Escape System, outwardly a duplicate of the Apollo Launch Escape System tower; the conical 10.5-foot-tall, 12.7-foot-diameter Eros Command Module (ECM), outwardly a duplicate of the Apollo Command Module (CM); the Eros Service Module (ESM), a 21.5-foot-diameter, 34.3-foot-long replacement for the 12.8-foot-diameter, 25.7-foot-long Apollo Service Module; the 21.5-foot-diameter, 30-foot-long Eros Mission Module (EMM); and a 21.7-foot-diameter Instrument Unit (IU) bolted atop a 21.7-foot-diameter, 58.4-foot-long S-IVB stage, both of which would be outwardly identical to those used on the Apollo Saturn V.
The Saturn V IU and S-IVB together measured 61.4 feet long; combined with a streamlined adapter that covered the S-IVB's single J-2 engine, they were 61.6 feet long. The adapter flared to a diameter of 33 feet to join the bottom of the S-IVB stage with the top of the 33-foot-diameter, 81.5-foot-long S-II stage, the Saturn V second stage. The S-II in turn sat atop the 33-foot-diameter, 138-foot-long Saturn V first stage, the S-IC.
Upon arrival in 100-nautical-mile-high low-Earth parking orbit, the EFSV would have comprised (from fore to aft) the 33.6-ton Eros Command Module/Eros Service Module (ECM/ESM), the 33.2-ton Eros Mission Module (EMM), and the S-IVB stage with a mass of 98.6 tons, bringing total payload mass to 165.4 tons. For comparison, the Apollo Block II Command and Service Module (CSM) weighed 33.4 tons and the Apollo Lunar Module (LM) weighed about 16.2 tons, for a total Apollo payload mass of about 49.6 tons. During Apollo missions, the Saturn V IU and S-IVB were not generally counted as payload; rather, they were treated as part of the Saturn V rocket.
When Smith presented his paper, the Apollo Saturn V was still more than a year from its maiden flight. NASA, however, expected that it would be able to launch about 130 tons into 100-nautical-mile parking orbit. Smith cited studies that proposed boosting Saturn V launch capacity to 165 tons by uprating the five J-2 engines in its S-II second stage. Alternately, the rocket's S-IC first stage could be fitted with twin 260-inch-diameter solid-propellant strap-on boosters, increasing its launch capacity to a whopping 215 tons. The latter, Smith wrote, would provide ample margin for EFSV weight growth during development. It would, of course, also constitute a more dramatic (and thus costly) change to the basic Saturn V design than would S-II engine uprating.
During Apollo missions, the S-IVB would ignite following S-II stage burn-out and separation and would burn for 2.5 minutes to place itself, the IU, a shroud housing the LM that also served to link the top of the IU to the bottom of the Apollo CSM, and the CSM into parking orbit about the Earth, about 115 nautical miles high, 11 minutes and 40 seconds after launch. About two hours and 44 minutes after launch, the S-IVB would ignite again and burn for six minutes to put the CSM and LM on course for the moon.
When used as part of Smith's EFSV, the S-IVB's first burn would occur as in Apollo missions, but the second would be different. Upon arrival in parking orbit, the six-man crew in the ECM/ESM would check out the EFSV's systems. Assuming that all appeared normal, they would then ignite the S-IVB engine at perigee to raise the ESFV's apogee and gain over 90% of the velocity needed to depart Earth orbit for Eros. S-IVB burnout would see them still orbiting Earth, but in a highly elliptical "Intermediate Departure Orbit" with a period of two days.
The astronauts would next separate the ECM/ESM from the EMM/spent S-IVB, then turn it end for end and dock the ECM's nose-mounted probe docking unit with a drogue unit mounted at the bottom of a conical recess atop the EMM. After detaching it from the spent S-IVB stage, the crew would transfer to the EMM, their main living and working space throughout the Eros flyby mission. They would deploy the EMM's eight solar panels, a steerable "sensor turret," a large dish antenna, and a "support structure" which, along with the conical recess in the top of the EMM, would shield the ECM from harsh sunlight and micrometeroids. After linking the EMM and ECM/ESM electrical and control systems, they would check out all EFSV systems a second time.
If the EFSV failed its second checkout, the astronauts could abort their mission by separating from the EMM in the ECM/ESM and firing the ESM's engines at perigee to reduce speed so that they would reenter Earth's atmosphere in the ECM. The ESM would include twin RL-10A-3 main engines that would burn high-performance liquid hydrogen (LH2) and liquid oxygen (LOX) cryogenic propellants in place of the Apollo CSM's single large Service Propulsion System engine, which would burn hypergolic (ignite-on-contact) propellants. The twin engines would provide redundancy, for the ESM would need only one engine to perform most maneuvers. If the EFSV checked out, the astronauts would fire the ESM engines at next perigee on 5 May 1974 to add enough velocity to place the EFSV on course for Eros.
Smith envisioned that his cylindrical EMM would contain near its center a spherical pressurized habitat module not very different from the one in NASA Marshall Space Flight Center's February 1965 Apollo-based Mars/Venus piloted flyby study report. In the event of solar flares, the crew would retreat to a "storm cellar" with hatches at both ends. The forward hatch would lead to the ECM and the aft hatch to the habitat sphere. A centrifuge would divide the sphere into forward (crew quarters) and aft ("mission task area") halves. Smith hoped that periodic "centrifugation" in the small centrifuge would be sufficient to maintain crew health during the 17.5-month Eros voyage, since spinning the entire EFSV to generate acceleration the crew would feel as gravity would also generate engineering problems. Smith wrote that most of these problems - for example, designing solar arrays so that they would track continuously on the Sun as the spacecraft rotated - could be solved only by increasing the spacecraft's mass so that it could no longer depart from Earth on a single uprated Saturn V.
A hatch in the aft end of the habitat sphere would lead to a pressurized equipment room, which would in turn lead to a round probe hatch. The EFSV's disk-shaped solar panels would ride to Earth orbit folded and stacked under the round aft end of the EMM. They would deploy as two arrays of four panels each. The arrays and aft end of the ELSV would point toward toward the Sun during most of the flight. This would place the ECM/ESM in shadow, which, along with heavy insulation, would prevent the liquid hydrogen fuel in the ESM from boiling away during the long voyage.
On 18 January 1975, the astronauts would begin to track Eros using radar, a five-foot-long reflecting telescope with a 30-inch primary mirror, and other instruments mounted in the EMM's sensor turret. On 23 January 1975, they would fire the ESM engines to ensure an Eros close-approach distance of about 50 miles and would begin gathering Eros science data. About eight hours before closest approach, the astronauts would "catapult" a 200-pound automated probe out the probe hatch toward the asteroid. The probe would function much as had the Block III Rangers; that is, it would image Eros until it smashed into its surface and was destroyed, yielding detailed close-up images in its final seconds. The EMM's dish antenna would relay to Earth data from the probe's TV camera and other instruments.
Closest approach to Eros would occur about 14 million miles from Earth on 28 January. The piloted spacecraft would spend about 90 seconds within 200 miles of the asteroid's sunlit side and about 30 seconds within 100 miles. On 30 January 1975, the crew would end Eros tracking and fire the ESM engines to correct course deviations imparted by the Jan. 23 maneuver, the automated probe launch, and the weak tug of Eros's gravity.
The astronauts would load the ECM with scientific data - film, mainly - and check out its systems beginning on 10 October 1975. On 12 October, they would abandon the EMM and use the ESM engines to place the ECM on course for Earth atmosphere reentry. They would then jettison the ESM, reenter Earth's atmosphere at about 40,000 feet per second - that is, about 3500 feet per second faster than Apollo lunar-return speed - and descend to the surface on parachutes.
Congress killed NASA's plans for piloted Mars and Venus flyby missions in August 1967, in the aftermath of the Apollo 1 fire, which shook confidence in NASA's capabilities. Smith's piloted Eros flyby proposal received little attention. The only U.S. piloted mission of 1975 was the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, which saw the final Apollo CSM spacecraft dock with the Soviet Soyuz 19 spacecraft in low-Earth orbit.
When NASA at last explored a near-Earth asteroid, it explored Eros. The $112-million Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission - the first mission in NASA's low-cost Discovery Program - left Earth on 17 February 1996, 22 years after the planned launch date of Smith's piloted Eros flyby.
On 20 December 1998, NEAR failed to enter Eros orbit because its computer aborted a crucial engine burn. Three days later, after some quick reprogramming, NEAR flew past the 22-mile-long, 13-mile-wide asteroid at a distance of 2375 miles, returning 222 images. They revealed that Eros is shaped like a ballet slipper or, as some would have it, a banana.
On 14 February 2000, after another revolution about the Sun, NEAR at last orbited its target. NASA renamed the spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker in March 2000 to commemorate renowned planetary geologist and asteroid and comet discoverer Eugene Shoemaker, who had died in a car crash in Australia in 1997 while looking for asteroid impact craters. During the year that followed, the spacecraft radioed to Earth more than 160,000 close-up images of Eros. New images revealed many odd smooth "ponds" of dust.
Though designed as an orbiter, NEAR Shoemaker succeeded in landing on Eros on 12 February 2001. It may have landed in a dust pond, helping to cushion its impact. It returned gamma-ray spectrometer data from the asteroid's surface until 28 February 2001.
Eros flew past Earth on 31 January 2012, at a distance of 16.6 million miles, its closest approach since 1975. The asteroid will pass slightly closer to Earth than it did in 1975 on 24 January 2056.
"A Manned Flyby Mission to Eros," Eugene A. Smith, Proceedings of the Third Space Congress, "The Challenge of Space," pp. 137-155; paper presented at the Third Space Congress in Cocoa Beach, Florida, 7-10 March 1966.


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JACKSON, Tenn. -- Cookeville native Adam Cunningham leads the Tennessee Tech men's golf team after shooting a 75+74=149 in the first two rounds of the Grover Page Classic in Jackson, Tenn. The Golden Eagles are currently in seventh place.
The freshman shot a 2.75 average on par 3's through two rounds, the best among the 75 golfers in the tournament. Cunningham currently sits in a tie for 14th place, just one stroke back of sophomore Lee Whitehead, who is competing individually this week. Fellow freshman Mitch Thomas carded a 77+75=152 to rank second-best on the squad, followed by Bryce Kendrick, Greg Kitts and Maxx Verble.
The Golden Eagles improved their team score by four strokes from the first round and lead Ohio Valley Conference rivals Tennessee State and Morehead State by two and four rounds, respectively.
Final round action is set to begin with an 8:30 start Tuesday at the Jackson Country Club. A full recap will be posted on TTUSports.com once results are in.


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The Kansas City Chiefs, the Ravens' opponent this Sunday, boast the top-ranked run offense in the NFL. But the very foundation of that ground attack could also be their area of vulnerability.
Ryan Lilja will be making his second consecutive start at center against the Ravens. A converted left guard who had never started at center until this season, Lilja replaced Rodney Hudson, who was placed on injured reserve Sept. 26 after breaking a bone in his left leg in the team's 27-24 overtime win against the New Orleans Saints.
Nose tackle Terrence Cody said the defensive line spent a considerable amount of time studying Lilja during that unit's review of the Chiefs' 37-20 loss to the San Diego Chargers last Sunday.
"As a D-line, we looked at it, and whoever lines up in front of him has to win that one-on-one matchup, and that's what we're going to do," Cody said.
Kansas City coach Romeo Crennel praised Lilja's performance, noting that the former Indianapolis Colt made the seamless transition from left guard to center.
"You had no issues with the quarterback-center exchange, shotgun snaps and all of those things, which when you have a new center, that's one of the main concerns," Crennel said Wednesday during his conference call with Baltimore reporters. "But he handled it very well. He is a pro. He is a competitor."
Ravens nose tackle Ma'ake Kemoeatu said he and his teammates would be wise not to overlook Lilja, who spent six seasons being directed by former Colts quarterback Peyton Manning,
"Obviously, they have a lot of trust in him to move him to center and have him start," Kemoeatu said. "He's a veteran player, so we're not going to take him lightly. But we're looking forward to a good matchup with him. It's hard to play against them. They have a good running game and they put up a lot of positive numbers on offense. So it'll be good."
With Lilja moving to center, Kansas City inserted rookie Jeff Allen at left guard. With second-year pro Jon Asamoah making each start at right guard, the Chiefs have some youth along the interior portion of the offensive line.
NFL Network analyst and former New York Giants center Shaun O'Hara said he expects the Ravens to unveil multiple looks to confuse the young linemen.
"The Ravens are probably one of the savviest defenses in the league," O'Hara said. "It starts with their veteran leadership in [inside linebacker] Ray Lewis and [free safety] Ed Reed and [defensive tackle] Haloti Ngata. So those guys know that when they have a young guy in there – whether it's at center or at quarterback – and their No. 1 job is to confuse the blocking scheme and try to make you think that they're blitzing when they're not and try to make you think that they're dropping when they're blitzing. So that mental aspect of it is going to be a challenge not just for the center, but for all the linemen. A lot of times, the center is the one that makes the calls, but if it's a new guy not comfortable with making the calls, then sometimes the guard can make the calls. But that brings together all new challenges because now it's the guard that has to relay it from one side to the other and it's a little easier if the center is doing it because he's in the middle. So I'm sure their defense will look to take advantage of that and try to create some different looks and confuse the center and the quarterback."
Kemoeatu, however, took the cautious approach again and said the defense will plan as if the Chiefs have prepared for whatever the Ravens throw at them.
"You never underestimate whether they're a rookie or a veteran," he said. "We will go in there and try to challenge them and see how they'll take the pressure of starting in the National Football League."


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A Berlin man was charged Thursday with conspiring to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana, as well as money laundering and tax evasion.
Eric W. Sliwa, 32, was indicted for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana, 29 counts of money laundering, filing false tax returns and corruptly endeavoring to impede the administration of the IRS.
The indictment alleges that, from 2001 to 2012, Sliwa and others distributed large quantities of marijuana. In June 2006, Sliwa set up a company, EWS Gem Corp., for the purpose of concealing his drug proceeds and making it appear as though he had legitimate income. While Sliwa filed personal tax returns for the tax years 2008 through 2010, he failed to report all of the proceeds from his drug trafficking business. During the time period of the conspiracy, Sliwa purchased several assets, including his home in Berlin, a condominium in Killington, Vt., and multiple vehicles.
Sliwa also possessed nearly $500,000 in cash as well as a coin and precious metal collection worth approximately $370,000, according to the indictment.
If convicted, Sliwa faces a minimum mandatory sentence of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life, a minimum of five years and up to a lifetime of supervised release, a fine of $500,000 or twice the value of the property involved in the money laundering transactions, and forfeiture of multiple assets including, but not limited to, his home in Berlin, multiple vehicles, nearly $500,000 in cash and his coin/precious metal collection.
U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz; John J. Arvanitis, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Boston Field Division; and John G. Collins, special agent in charge of the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation in Boston, made the announcement Thursday.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Cory Flashner of Ortiz's Worcester branch office.
The details contained in the Indictment are allegations. The defendant is presumed to be innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.


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Two Victories Against Mass Incarceration
The ruling by federal judge Shira A. Scheindlin against New York's stop-and-frisk policing is the equivalent of Brown v. Board of Education applied to unconstitutional policing. Coupled with Attorney General Eric Holder's order to end mandatory minimum sentencing for minor drug offenders, the new policies are a huge victory for critics of the mass incarceration resulting from decades of politically inspired wars on gangs and drugs.
The conflict is far from over. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg vows to carry his fight for stop-and-frisk to the higher courts, leaving his crusade up to the next New York City mayor. California Governor Jerry Brown, whose advocacy of mandatory minimum sentencing led to California's mass incarceration crisis, continues to reject the demands of hunger strikers in solitary confinement.
But official words matter. The New York judge found the New York Police Department guilty of "indirect racial profiling" on a massive and continuing scale. Holder said, "Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason."
Turning around the institutions of the law-and-order gulag will be like turning around a super-tanker, slow, monotonous and risk-filled. But the end of the old order has begun, without a consensus on what new visions will fill the vacuum.
These are historic victories for the grass roots movements who have pressed for juvenile justice, police reform and gang peace processes for thirty years. Attorneys for the Center for Constitutional Rights and the national ACLU deserve credit for the stop-and-frisk decision after many years of toiling at the margins. Funding from the Soros foundation was essential to the effort.
Stop and Frisk Continues in Los Angeles
Los Angeles has managed so far to avoid a similar stop-and-frisk controversy partly because of the federal consent decree and reform of the Los Angeles Police Department, which took place during New York's stop-and-frisk wars. As a Los Angeles Times editorial on the Scheindlin decision said, "As least one study of the reformed LAPD found higher rates of stops, frisks, arrests and searches of blacks and Latinos than whites."
That is a massive understatement. According to a 2009 Harvard analysis requested and promoted by former LAPD Chief William Bratton, stops by LAPD officers rose from 587,200 in 2002 to 875,204 in 2008. Pedestrian stops doubled and motorists stops increased by 40 percent in those years, almost entirely in inner city precincts, inflicted on young people of color. This was a deliberate policy of using arresting powers "more aggressively for less serious crimes," according to the Harvard study.
"But LA appears to be on a more constructive path" than New York, according to the Los Angeles Times, because of reforms including its gang prevention and intervention programs. More specifically, the Los Angeles consent decree negotiators chose to leave stop-and-frisk policies under LAPD management rather than a court-appointed monitor.
For more, please see also by Tom Hayden, "Stop Questionable LAPD Stop and Frisk."


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AlexandreJ wrote:Hi,
The forum you are watching is a quite old piece of software (punBB) and we need to update it to get on track with current forum technology.
During Panotour Pro 2.0 private beta testing, we were studying another forum engine (phpBB) and it appears to match what we need.
So this old forum will end at some time and will be replaced by a brand new one. During this phase, some revamp can be done as it is the good time to do them.
What we have to have:
- All users, threads, posts, images from the old forum should be transferred to the new one. The history should not be lost.
- Categories / forums / sub-forums will be same as the old one, but may be organized differently because of the language.
What need to be discussed:
- I don't like the old forum as it is too long on the page. The English, French languages are the same level. It works when you have 10 entries but not with the number of entries now.
The real question is 'language master' or 'software master' ?
In language master mode, we will have 2 languages as main entries and several sub-forum under it ( autopano, panotour, etc )
In software master mode, for each software forum, we'll have a French sub-forum. This is the illustration in attached screenshot.
- With this new forum engine, many new options are available. And I'll sure you'll populate this thread with a lot of ideas.
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Algonquin is Liberty City's equivalent to Manhattan, perhaps the most densely-populated island in the entire world. Rockstar has done a magnificent job of recreating such an environment and atmosphere in GTAIV, with endless amounts of people and cars crawling all over the island. And at the very middle of the island is their version of Central Park, aptly named Middle Park. But there's much, much more to see in Algonquin than a huge park and lots of people and their vehicles. So much more.
Let's start with the basics. An island borough as big as Algonquin is going to require some civil servants. That's why they have a staggering seven police stations and two each of hospitals and firehouses. The former statistic makes Algonquin the safest of all of the boroughs, with an incredibly high number of police cars on the streets and policemen scouring the sidewalks. Crime in Algonquin is never suggested if it can be committed elsewhere, but as you've likely guessed, you're not going to have much of a choice in the matter. In fact, with the borough's two Pay 'N Spray locations and a weapon shop (located very close to the southernmost Pay 'N Spray on Hell Gate), crimes committed can easily be eradicated with a simple fixing of your car or exacerbated with the purchase of some heavy artillery. Just some food for thought.
Manhattan is chock full of things to do, and GTAIV catches the essence of that when you're in Algonquin. Algonquin is staggering enough when you simply drive around and look at all of the skyscrapers, people and attractions, but you can entertain yourself in myriad other ways. There's plenty of places to eat, for instance—there's a Cluckin' Bell, three Burger Shots and five other assorted eateries. You can go to a comedy club, a bowling alley, and a club. There are three bars, one of which you can play darts at. An internet café and three separate clothing shops round out the money-intensive Algonquin experience.
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After breaking several international box office records, The Avengers opened in North America last weekend to become the biggest film opening of all time, handily beating out previous record holders The Dark Knight and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 while becoming the first ever film to cross the $200 million mark on its domestic debut.
In its second weekend, Earth's Mightiest continue their success story, becoming the first every film to cross $100 million in its second weekend while also crossing the $1 billion worldwide total mark, just 19 days after its first opening overseas.
Last weekend's actual haul for The Avengers was $207,438,708 and this weekend, with only a 50% drop, the estimates have Marvel Studios' latest blockbuster earning another $103.2 million in North America. With these estimates, The Avengers is expected to cross the 10-figure mark today with a total of $373.2 million at the domestic box office and $628.9 million internationally, enough to edge out The Dark Knight's total box office earnings. Needless to say, Disney CEO Bog Iger confirming The Avengers 2 is in development was a welcome given.
And with that, Disney happily points out that The Avengers is now one of their five films among the 12 movies which have earned $1 billion theatrically, the other four being Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Alice in Wonderland, Toy Story 3, and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
For comparison, here are the top five second-weekend performances (domestic) along with their opening weekends:
- The Avengers - $207,438,708 (opening), $103,163,000 (second)
- Avatar - $77,025,481 (opening), $75,617,183 (second)
- The Dark Knight - $158,411,483 (opening), $75,166,466 (second)
- Shrek 2 - $108,037,878 (opening), $72,170,363 (second)
- Spider-Man - $114,844,116 (opening), $71,417,527 (second)
Note: The sixth, seventh and eighth films on the second-weekend earnings list are all Disney films. Also note: Three of the top five and six of the top 20 are all comic book films. So, Disney acquiring Marvel for $4 billion... Good decision.
With Battleship, What to Expect When You're Expecting, and The Dictator opening this week, The Avengers has a good chance of winning next weekend as well.
If you've seen The Avengers, please refrain from talking spoilers – we have a spoilers discussion thread for that and check out our discussion on The Avengers post-credits scenes.
The Avengers stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L. Jackson, Cobie Smulders, Clark Gregg, Tom Hiddleston and Stellan Skarsgard. It is of course written and directed by Joss Whedon.
Follow Rob on Twitter @rob_keyes if you're a Marvel fan.
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Concierge Consultant - Europe (No Weekends)
- Recruiter
- Red Planet Recruitment
- Location
- London, England
- Salary
- up to £28,000 per annum + comm & excellent benefits
- Posted
- 02 Oct 2018
- Closes
- 16 Oct 2018
- Ref
- Sector
- Tour Operator
- Job function
- Sales
- Hours
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent
Concierge Consultant - Europe. This Award-Winning Luxury Tour Operator's concierge service begins the moment the enquiry is made, which is then carried throughout the whole booking process until their high-end clientele board the plane. The role will be putting together exclusive & personalised travel itineraries, covering breath-taking European city breaks & beach retreats/destinations on coastlines, where the hotels are nestled on immaculate beaches overlooking the sea. The boutique tour operator offers an exquisite choice of lavish accommodation, extensive spa treatments, and a host of other activities on sea and land, setting the stage for an unforgettable five-star holiday experience.
Now Let's Talk About The Role & You:
- This client crafts the perfect luxury holiday, which is personalised and tailored to the precise needs of their high-end clientele because every one of their travellers is seeking that very unique holiday experience
- You will consider yourself as one of the best in the travel industry, be a first-class tailor-made consultant with luxury Europe product knowledge and a proven track record of creating and selling upmarket tailor-made holidays
- The ideal candidate must have a positive 'can do' attitude, possess excellent written & verbal communication skills and must have a high command of the English language
- Outstanding mixture of service & sales skills are a must, along with excellent European geographical knowledge with the desire to work in a fast-paced service oriented environment
- Have the ability to quickly and easily build rapport with your exclusive clients while offering an efficient and professional service
- Excellent working knowledge of a GDS (Sabre, Worldspan, Galileo or Amadeus) is a must
- Possess excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build lasting relationships with high end clients ensuring repeat business
The Package:
This is a 9am-5.30pm, Monday to Friday role with No weekends. Our client offers an excellent basic salary of up to £28,000 per annum, plus benefits and commission on all holidays sold, not forgetting the opportunities to travel on overseas fam trips, experiencing the destinations and products you sell.
This is a fantastic job for those of you who wish to work for a truly high-end luxury company. If you feel this position is for you, then email us your CV or contact the Red Planet Team Today!
Important, Please Note: It is unlawful to employ a person in a UK-based role who does not have permission to live and work in the UK. You should make yourself aware of how immigration laws apply to your situation prior to applying.
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AceShowbiz - Representatives for Demi Lovato have scrapped the remainder of the singer's world tour as she continues to recover from a suspected drug overdose.
The Confident hitmaker had been due to embark on the final leg of her Tell Me You Love Me World Tour with two gigs in Mexico in September and six more across South America in November, but those shows have now been pulled as a result of Demi's health crisis.
A joint statement issued to TMZ by event organisers at Live Nation and Lotus Productions reads: "(We) wish Demi Lovato the best now and in the future and we hope to see her soon in South America."
Lovato's managers previously had to axe a concert in Atlantic City, New Jersey and her set at a charity gig in Toronto, Canada last month after she was hospitalised in Los Angeles on 24 July.
She was discharged from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center over the weekend, August 04-05, and reportedly headed straight to a rehabilitation facility outside of California to begin in-patient treatment in an effort to regain her sober status.
Demi had been clean for six years before confessing she had relapsed in the candid lyrics to her most recent single, Sober.
The 25-year-old, who had been open about her struggles with alcohol and drugs, depression, eating disorders, and self-harming in the past, addressed her health emergency for the first time in a personal statement released via Instagram on Sunday, when she vowed to "keep fighting" as she thanked family, friends, fans, and medical staff for their support during the tough time.
"I have always been transparent about my journey with addiction," Demi wrote. "What I've learned is that this illness is not something that disappears or fades with time. It is something I must continue to overcome and have not done yet."
She went on to explain that she will be taking some time to focus on her sobriety and "road to recovery", adding: "The love you have all shown me will never be forgotten and I look forward to the day where I can say I came out on the other side. I will keep fighting."


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Opportunities in Public Accounting
by GEORGE A. DEBON Principal, Seattle Office
Presented before the Accounting Club of the University of Washington, Seattle—April 1961
J HAVE been asked to "kick-off" tonight's meeting by talking to you regarding the opportunities in the accounting profession—specifically
in the field of public accounting. Although I am responsible for interviewing students for possible employment with the firm with which I am associated, my talk to you tonight is not going to be from the standpoint of opportunities with Haskins & Sells as such, but rather with the opportunities in the profession generally. I want to tell you something about what you might expect in the profession, what it is like, and what we do. Also, I would like to indicate briefly what we in the profession expect from those of you who are interested in becoming a part of it.
You are probably well aware that there is an increasing demand today for good accountants. Of all of the professions, public accounting
is one of the fastest growing. Just to give you some indication of the rapid growth our profession is experiencing, let me give you a few statistics. In 1900 there were approximately 250 certified public accountants in the United States. By 1940 the number had grown to 20,000. Today the total is more than 70,000. Most projections indicate
that this spectacular rise in the number of CPAs will not fail to continue. As our economy expands, the need for accountants expands.
As businesses become more complex, this, too, increases the demand for accountants. I am sure that you will agree that our economy is still expanding, despite temporary lapses, and that, certainly
today, business is becoming more and more complex.
What does a certified public accountant do? I think the services offered by the certified public accountant fall into four major categories.
First, there is the type of work that comprises the backbone of our practice and that is auditing. Secondly, there is tax work. Thirdly, management advisory services. And I would classify all other services under the fourth category and entitle it miscellaneous.


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What separates high-performing RIA firms from their competition? One factor: a pragmatic approach to technology, according to the 2013 Fidelity RIA Benchmarking Study.
The annual study aims to tease out the drivers of RIA outperformance, separating the top quartile of RIAs, which it calls high-performing firms, from the rest. The top firms saw 1.5 times the growth, 1.3 times the profitability and 1.5 times the productivity of other firms in 2013.
"High-performing firms are focusing on more effectively harnessing the technology they have instead of chasing the very latest innovations," David Canter, executive vice president and head of practice management and consulting at Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services, said in a statement.
According to the study, high-performing firms were focused on creating strong technology environments by investing in their current systems. Seventy-four percent of them described their tech environment as strong, not cutting edge. While nearly half considered investing in technology a strategic priority, only 12% invested in the "latest and greatest" technology. A big majority, 67%, said one of their top three tech opportunities was integrating existing systems.
Fidelity said this pragmatic approach may be rooted in high-performing firms' concern about disrupting their business and compromising client service in order to integrate the latest technology.
High performers were more likely than all other eligible firms (60% versus 43%) to say disruption to their business was their biggest challenge when integrating systems, and were less likely to cite cost or staff skill set.
They were also likelier to cite improving their clients' experience and satisfaction as a top technology goal (77% vs. 61% for all other firms).
"When it comes to smart technology adoption, it's no longer just about improving efficiency," Carter said.
He said RIAs need to ask whether adoption is helping grow their business and enhancing clients' experience. "As new technologies come to market, RIA firms that see technology as a vehicle for success — not a measure of success — will rise to the top."
The study suggested several strategies that could help advisors adopt technology in a smart and efficient way:
- Initiatives that streamline their technology environment, such as shifting to cloud-based solutions, implementing mobile technologies and creating process workflows and automation
- Overcoming staff-related barriers to technology optimization in order to get more out of their existing technology
- Utilizing more functionality of current systems
- Leveraging vendor-hosted systems in order to relieve the burden of supporting locally installed systems
- Outsourcing, particularly for key processes, such as data reconciliation and client reporting
Fidelity cautioned that these strategies may have legal and compliance considerations to take into account.
The 2013 Fidelity study, which was administered by an independent third-party research firm from May 1 to June 8, encompassed 325 RIAs.


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Citibank entertainment media analyst Jason B. Bazinet and his team wrote in a note to investors today that they are baffled by the audience ratings decline they're seeing in cable TV.
Citi downgraded CBS, Disney, Discovery, News Corp and Scripps from "Buy" to "Neutral" in the note after concluding that the ratings falloff was accompanied by a similar decline in the growth of ad dollars being spent on cable.
Citi left Time Warner and Viacom as "Buys."
Cable continues to grow revenues, up 8 percent (compound annual growth rate) since 2008, on Citi's numbers. That's more than the media sector as a whole, which only grew 2 percent.
Audience ratings, however, are in a tailspin:
Citi cited a combination of Netflix, warmer weather, job gains, lack of hit shows, and faulty Nielsen measurement as possible culprits. Bazinet et al then concluded:
...while we've tried to quantify these sources, the bottom line is that we can't explain the entire ratings shortfall. We are flummoxed.
Here's one possible solution: People aren't watching cable anymore because they're using their cable service to play on the internet instead. I've argued for month now that the TV business as a whole is now sliding down the same slope that ruined the newspaper business: People abandoning old, expensive media for cheap, new web media.


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High-Capacity microSD™ Cards Selected For Enabling New Digital Media Applications on Mobile Handsets
MILPITAS, CALIFORNIA, August 20, 2007 - SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today announced that its line of microSD™ High Capacity (microSDHC™) flash memory cards has received the 2007 Best of Show award in the Application category from the Flash Memory Summit, an annual technology conference held last week in Santa Clara, California. With growing interest by consumers to enjoy media such as music, pictures and video on advanced mobile phones, microSDHC provides higher capacity storage to help them get more out of these devices.
"Flash memory applications are currently pushing the envelope of innovation, making a real difference in solving customer challenges," said Jay Kramer, chairman of the awards program for the Flash Memory Summit, and vice president of worldwide marketing for iStor Networks Inc. "SanDisk is driving this transformation by rapidly expanding the storage capacity of flash memory cards, creating the foundation for exciting new applications such as mobile digital media."
"We're honored that our industry colleagues recognize the game-changing importance of high-capacity removable storage for cell phones," said Jeff Kost, senior vice president and general manager of the Mobile Consumer Solutions Division at SanDisk. "Consumers are learning that high-capacity storage cards like the 8-gigabyte (GB)1 SanDisk microSDHC cards are necessary to take full advantage of their multimedia phones to listen to their music, watch and record their videos, view pictures and even watch TV shows and movies. We believe this is the start of the golden age for expanded digital content use in cell phones."
SanDisk recently kicked off a global marketing campaign at the Rock The Bells Music Festival in New York, produced by Guerilla Union, to introduce its 8G SanDisk storage cards for cell phones. The objective of the campaign is to educate consumers about the need for high capacity storage cards to take full advantage of the multimedia features of their phones-to listen to music, play and record video, take and view photos and more.
SanDisk offers a complete line of microSD and microSDHC cards that range in capacity from 1GB to 8GB. An 8GB microSDHC card is capable of storing more than 2,000 digital songs, or more than 5,000 high-resolution pictures, or up to 5 hours of high-quality MPEG 4 video2.
SDHC is the designation for any SD™ or SD-based card that is larger than 2GB and adheres to the new SD 2.00 specification required for cards and hosts to support 4GB to 32GB capacities. The specification was developed by the SD Association, an industry standards board, which has also created three classes to define minimum sustained data transfer speed.
In addition to microSDHC, SanDisk offers a broad range of both embedded and removable storage solutions for mobile handset manufacturers and mobile network operators. Product lines include iNAND™ and mDOC™ embedded flash drives and microSD™, miniSD™, Memory Stick Micro™ (M2) and MegaSIM™ cards.
Hosted by Conference ConCepts, Inc., the annual Flash Memory Summit conference and exhibition is the industry's only forum for attendees to gain the latest practical information on current flash memory technology and applications.
SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world's largest supplier of flash data storage card products, using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S.
1 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes.
2 Approximations based on JPEG images on 5 MP camera with average file size of 1.5 megabytes (for pictures); 4 minute songs at 128 kbps MP3 (for songs) and 5 hours of MPEG 4 video (30 frames per second, 640x480, 3Mb/sec. for video). Actual numbers may vary.
SanDisk's web site/home page address: www.sandisk.com. SanDisk's product and executive images can be downloaded from http://www.sandisk.com/corporate/mediakit/
SanDisk and the SanDisk logo are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the United States and other countries. iNAND, mDOC and MegaSIM are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation and/or its subsidiaries. microSD, microSDHC, miniSD and SD are trademarks. Memory Stick Micro is a trademark of Sony Corporation. All brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective holder(s).
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