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AES 2010: JBL MSC1 Control Center Software
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AES 2010: Soundcraft Si Compact Series
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AES 2010: Crown VRACK
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• As with most mobile advertising initiatives, the challenge is not to repulse customers with intrusive ads. AM and MyScreen have implemented an opt-in system so as to avoid customer backlash for the service. This approach will help AM not to undermine the good relation that it already has with its customers.
• Although MyScreen claims to have a patented technology for the service, this fact will not confer a superlative advantage to the AM. The service is not designed to bring in new customers for the operator. Rather, it is designed to exploit the operator's existing large customer base, a key enticement for advertisers.
• MyScreen could offer the service to other operators around the world. For now, MyScreen claims to have confirmed deals with operators serving over 200 million mobile customers. These deals would include AM's markets in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Also, MyScreen has already signed a deal with Turkcell in Turkey.
• The clearest opportunity for AM is to generate more revenue from its vast customer base. With 225 million subscribers, AM's customer base is a valuable resource for advertisers. Given that mobile phones have penetrated deeply into all facets of the society, the medium has added attraction to advertisers that want to use mobile phones to target a more diverse audience.
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• For an operator that already commands market leadership in many of its Latin American markets, this strategy will provide AM an opportunity to lead in the development of mobile advertising in the region. This move will show AM as an innovator, a pace setter, and a company that is prepared to break new ground to bring new products and services to Latin America.
• AM has partnered with MyScreen to implement mobile advertising solution. Originally the service is targeted to launch in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, and there are plans for expansion. In partnering with MyScreen, AM has opted to collaborate with a partner that will provide a complete solution for mobile advertising. This arrangement frees AM from the day-to-day provisioning of ads and allows it to focus on its core business of winning new mobile customers. MyScreen has developed a patent-pending technology that delivers full-screen, incentive-based ads directly to the mobile phones of subscribers. It manages the whole process, focusing on bringing together advertisers and operators. It does this by playing the role of the industry advocate, forming relationships with advertisers and operators. MyScreen also runs a mobile marketing consultancy, the MyScreen Agency, which collaborates with traditional ad agencies and brand advertisers.
• AM has a good number of advertising partners. Confirmed partners for the launch in Argentina include: Samsung Electronics, Easy, Hoytos Cinema, Unilever, Yellow Pages, General Motors, DIA%, Citibank, and MacStation.
• Collaborative innovation at play. Much of the functionality of the mobile ad solution comes from MyScreen. The company developed the proprietary technology behind the solution and is fully committed to its development. Together with AM's resources, the two players are able to demonstrate innovation to their customers and the market.
• Full-screen visual graphics. Ads are delivered on a full screen and are visually captivating. This capability enables the advertiser to convey a brand's image eloquently (see Figure 1 below).
Figure 1. Mocked-up BlackBerry and Unilever Mobile Phone Coupon
• Delivered at the end of a call. Ads are delivered at the end of a call, helping ensure that they get better visibility than SMS messages or banner ads.
• MyScreen's proprietary "ad value hot keys." This innovation is the most valuable part of MyScreen's ad design. The keys offer operators extra targeting options, enabling them to place targeted or niche ads within other ads (see Figure 1). This feature is the chief reason why MyScreen is achieving its high click-through rate (CTR).
• Individually targeted. Each subscriber opting in is asked to complete a demographic and psychographic profile. The results are then used to serve up ads relevant to the subscriber's interests and lifestyle. This approach also enhances the uniqueness of the channel, providing exclusivity to the brands.
• Incentive based. This is where AM comes in. Subscribers accumulate reward points for each ad that they view. Subscribers can then redeem rewards such as free voice and Short Message Service (SMS) services from AM. This rewards program incentivizes customers to continue using the service and acts as a kind of promotional bonus for AM. Thus AM offers what it could simply have offered as a customer bonus, but in return, has the chance to earn incremental revenue.
Success Factors/Metrics/Monetization
• AM has a sizeable incremental revenue opportunity from sharing the revenue that comes from advertisers. So far, neither AM nor MyScreen has confirmed the revenue-sharing percentages. However, MyScreen says that it has secured about US$1.5 million of advertising commitment.
• At a CTR of 20 percent and above, MyScreen's solution should appeal to advertisers and brand managers. Other ad platforms, such as Google AdWords, have an average CTR of 2 percent. Therefore, if the initial phase proves successful and the CTR rate remains high, the solution is likely to become a sought-after advertising platform in Latin America and possibly beyond.
• For AM, the partnership adds robustness to MyScreen's solution. Other non-operators, such as Blyk, have tried to set up similar mobile ad platforms independently. However, these platforms have not been very successful. If AM can bring its clout, expertise, reach, and efficiencies to MyScreen's mobile ad solution, it is sure to be a win-win for both AM and MyScreen.
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We will NOT find an alternative to energy dense, easily transportable conventional oil in time to sustain indefinate economic growth.
All alternative energies have one or more disadvantages that do not let them compete with cheap conventional oil.
Given our industrial civilization depends on massive amounts of cheap energy, the reliance on conventional oil is enormous.
The only quick solution I see is a drastic downscaling of economic activity.
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How To: Build Felt Sliding Doors
...after removing the awkward doors in your apartment
We first became enthralled with thick felt over ten years ago when we frequented the SoHo showroom of J. Morgan Puett.
A onetime fashion darling, now working out of rural Pennsylvania with her son and partner, J. Morgan used super thick industrial felt to sculpt dressing rooms and doors that hung from the ceiling. We loved how tactile, bulky and soft it was.
Only this past year did we get around to building our own felt doors, and we love them. They slide easily, baffle sound and take up no room...
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The toughest part was finding the right felt. It turns out that to get good felt you have to go to industrial suppliers who sell this stuff for aircraft engine mounts and other heavy vibration situations. Here's what we ended up with.
• 1/2 inch white wool felt from Sutherland Felt Company @ $75 a yard
• Hospital track, endcaps and rolling hooks from MedicalProductsDirect.com
• Thick brown leather from a place on Bleecker Street that charged me too much
• White spray paint
• Silicone spray
Other felt suppliers:
• Southeastern Felt
• Central Shippee
• Aetna Felt
• eXacto knife
• Drill with 1/4 drill bit
1. Measure your doorway and order your felt large enough for both panels to more than cover the opening both side to side and up and down. It comes 72" wide so you are in the best shape if you only have to buy one length and have them cut it down the middle for two 3' wide pieces.
2. Order your hospital track to all felt door to slide out to the side in both directions. It only comes in silver, but don't worry, you can paint it.
3. Mount your track on the ceiling and as tight to the door as possible so that the felt will hug the opening.
4. Insert end caps and rolling hooks. Spray with silicone to ease movement.
5. Masking off area around track, spray with white paint to blend in with ceiling.
6. Hold up felt and measure to fit.
7. Trim felt down with eXacto knife.
8. Using 1/4" drill bit, drill holes in top of felt about 1" down and 3" apart. Also drill holes for leather handles as well.
9. Stitch leather handle on with leather thong.
10. Hang felt from hooks.
If desired (We haven't done it yet, but plan to) you can use extra felt to attach at the top and hide the hooks that are poking out. We would stitch it together in the same way as the handles.
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Looks cool, but how do these hold up over time - don't they get dusty/musty?
hi maxwell,
did you buy the pressed wool felt or the polyesther sheet? i want
to use it for product dispays.
Maxwell - Jeez, I wish I had that felt source a couple of years ago! "The toughest part was finding the right felt" indeed; I was in a similar boat in 2003/04 because I wanted to make felt baskets similar to the ones David Netto has for his children's collection http://nettocollection.com/product_detail.asp?SKU=NC-2105 (we had designed our own changing table, and needed ones for our specific dimension, plus, I though doing it ourselves MUST be cheaper than his!).
I wound up buying the heaviest industrial felt I could find at Central Shippee, but it was not even close to heavy enough (I am still struggling to use it up -- hot water bottle covers, dish storage liners...?). There was a Canadian source I eventually found, but they were unresponsive -- they sell to business/industry and design their own stuff, and so were not very interested in my small one-off order.
Thanks for the source!
These are beautiful.
How does one clean felt? I have a black and white cat. I can just see the cat hair spitting out of her skin and embedding itself in the felt. She would, of course, have to sashay along side the panels and make nice with them.
I love these doors. I can also see the felt being used to upholster walls. I would think felt has great insulating properties.
Ah the Netto containers.... I'm thinking of making them for kids toys too! -Monika, how much of that stuff do you have left? Consider selling the rest? Does anyone know what grade/thickness Netto uses? And I'm wondering how the felt wears over time against a toddler?
It's so funny I was just talking to my husband about this yesterday too...
jackie, i would imagine that you can use a lint roller on the felt for cat hair purposes and spot clean it like a wool rug for actual dirt.
Gleek: thanks!
After I read your suggestion I remembered the following, which are for removing those nasty white deodorant marks women get on the nice black clothes. They also turn out to be great on cat hair. I hadn't put the two dots together in my head. So far, these have done a better job of removing cat hair from my extensive black wardrobe so I guess they'd be great on the felt. I do love that felt.
Sarah -
unfortunately, I haven't actually seen one of those Netto felt baskets in the flesh; have you? The must be in the NY showroom, as well as a half-dozen stores in NY (alas, not in Ottawa!). I think Maxwell's 1/2" might be a tad thicker than the original, so it would be worthwhile checking. If you do, I would be grateful knowing the result.
As for toddler wear, I think that they are pretty sturdy. The baskets we used instead on our lacquered changing table left scratches (I think there was something wrong with the lacquer, as it rubbed off the first day we used it just from coming in contact with our cotton clothing when changing the baby).
I would like to make the baskets too; my husband is still peeved at the load of white felt with no use though!
Maybe we could get together and find someone to make them for us at an economical cost...?
Last I saw, IKEA actually had their own version of a tracking system. In White. Ready to go. And with curved pieces (if you want to go further with having your door round a corner). Check your local IKEA, of course - I am referring to the one in Burbank, CA.
ps: pronounced icky-yah.
Hi Monika!!
Good to hear from you!
I live in NY and have been wanting to go look in person, but I just haven't gotten around to it. And the thought of purchasing such a huge qty of felt has kept this project low on the list. But I could go and check it out. What thickness of felt did you buy? By looking at the containers, I suspect it's about 1/4" thick.
As for the sewing...
I was thinking of sewing them myself. I know how to sew very well, perhaps we could make a trade? I'd make your baskets and in return get the left over felt to make mine? This of course would depend on if there was enough felt for both projects, but this could work. And if there was any felt left over after that I could send it back to you. Sound interesting? -email me and we'll discuss some more: email@example.com
Not sure if this is what you guys were looking for, but this company has white felt bins,
Hi, Maxwell-
Awesome idea. I see you used industrial felt. Can you tell me what grade of felt you used? Also was it pressed or needled?
Hi All
I have all sorts of ends and full rolls from a local industrial felt manufacturer. Some are super stiff, some are nice and soft. We have mass amounts for a show we've hosting where artists are using it to make various art pieces.
If anyone wants to participate from the design world we'd love it. Go to our website and drop us a line - www.imperialcottoncentre.com
We also have a full roll of vintage 1940s material that is 6M by 20M. If interested drop us a line.
Jeremy - Imperial Cotton Centre for the Arts
Hamilton, ON, CANADA 905-548-0111
Hi Maxwell - I was wondering are there any outlets in NYC where you can buy industrial felt? Or is ordering it really the best way to go?
Hi I love your doors and have a question:
I own 1/2" 100% wool felt and wonder what you do about MOTHS!!!
Also I'm looking for info about either durable adhesives or felting possibilities for this thickness of felt.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I live in NYC. Thanks,
Although this is late to the thread, I wanted to share a place I was able to find acrylic felt rolls in nyc since I found this post searching online for a place that carries it. Circle Visual at 225 w. 37th st. It's in the same building as Mood Fabrics on the 16th floor. They have about 15-20 shades at $6.50 per yard. You can also custom order different weights. Hope that helps someone!
this is oldddd, everybody knows you made your own felt doors maxwell BRAVO
or is there really just no good stuff to blog about?
This is a random question, but where is that picture from. I think it's a spider? Thanks.
Maxwell -
This is really late, but I have a question for you. Where do you store the old doors after you remove them? They do have to be put back up when you move after all?
We removed the gross vertical blinds from our living room, and found ourselves in the awkward position of having to store them in the bottom of the closet (to re-hang when we leave). I would like to do something about the doors ....but where to store...
wow Ralph calm down. Yes a lot of us do know maxwell made his own doors but seeing as it's DIY month this post does have relavance. Personally I was glad to see it because I have lots of open doorways that I want cover somehow and I totally forgot about this option even though I've heard of it before. I also like the instructions and the info about where he got the supplies.
A late addition but another source for 100% wool felt is FilzFelt. They have 2mm and 3mm thick felt in 19 Pantone-matched colors.
Although I love the idea of a large variety of colors, the 2 and 3 mm felt greendressgirl provided a link for is too thin for this application.
12 or 13 mm is what you want if you are shopping for felt in metric measurements.
Not sure about the felt -whether as the base fabric with something on top - however this gives me an idea for my dining room where I was going to do pocket doors. Far less construction and cost and if you get the right fabric you've got almost an art piece - the point of it is to cut down noise between LR and kitchen (DR is between LR and kitchen) when homework or office work is going on in one spot and TV etc in another, or if someone's sleeping on the fold out couch, this is perfect for privacy.
I disagree with holydita, we recently installed felt panels at the Wyly Theater in Dallas that were on a sliding track system and used 3mm thick felt. Its the density and rigidity you need, not the thickness.
tried southeastern felt, they have a new store at www.buyfeltonline.com where you can buy wholesale industrial felt by the foot
Okay, it's been four years and I'm dying to know how these have held up!
gotta LOVE sliding doors! We have sliding doors in our house and LOVE them!
I went to buyfeltonline, Southeastern Felt's online store, as suggested above, they sell it by the foot and 3 feet (a yard) is $215! That's wholesale??
If you can get it for the right price, this looks like it would make a great room divider! The wools sound absorption would greatly increase the level of privacy on both sides...


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More information on email templates?
12 February 2010 at 11:27am
So I've been working with SilverStripe for a couple of weeks now, working on migrating a static site over. One of the pages, of course, is a contact page that sends an email to the designated recipient. I followed the tutorial over on SSbits to get started with the basic form and have expanded from there. However, I've run into a few obstacles/quirks and have been unable to find any information on them.
First of all, in the email that is sent (HTML email), output from PhoneNumberField is:
array ( 'Number' => '1234567890', )
instead of simply the number (or, as one might expect when using a formatted field, something that better resembles a phone number). Is there a way to either use the PhoneNumberField and have it show the number properly, or use the standard text field and format it in the template to be more readable?
Secondly, I wanted some bits of static text to show up only if a particular field has been filled in. However, trying to add a template logic block seems to break the email (email doesn't send). Is it possible to have any kind of logic like that within the Email template?
Finally, does anyone happen know of any contact form tutorials that are more advanced? The SSbits one was great for getting started, but its scope is very limited and a more advanced tutorial (kind of like the "Extending a basic site" tutorial is a more advanced tutorial from the "Building a basic site") would be nice.
Re: More information on email templates?
12 February 2010 at 12:09pm
Welcome Dragonwolf to the forums.
The PhoneNumberField is only a form field type, its not a data type. If it was a data type then you could have methods for formatting it like $Phone.Format(US) which would format it in the US method. I don't believe there is any built in phone data types so you could either create your own data type which has formatting methods. Have alook at the Decimal for an example of a data type with methods for formatting etc.
Email should support the full range of SSViewer commands so you defiantly should be able to do ifs, controls etc.
Want specifically are you looking for in a complex contact form. The forms tutorial would have a bit more information which you could use - http://doc.silverstripe.org/doku.php?id=tutorial:3-forms
Re: More information on email templates?
13 February 2010 at 3:28am
Thanks for the information.
Whether it formats the output in the way a phone number does isn't of huge concern to me. I was mostly wondering if there was a way, as I can't really find much information on it. However, the fact that when you call the value (the same way you call other values) that was input into the field and you get back "'Number' => '1234567890'", then that is a problem, as it's not doing what one would expect, which is output only the value, like other TextFields. Also, from what I can tell, the field itself isn't formatting the numbers, anyway. So effectively, all I'm getting is a shorter text/numeric field.
As for form complexity, the form I currently have on the static site that I'm converting has the option to chose the preferred method of contact (phone or email), and bases the required field on that (so if email is selected, then an email address has to be provided), and the visual indication changes accordingly. In regards to what the tutorials would have, simply more information on what can be done with both email and forms (hence why I said contact forms, as it would have both), especially a little beyond the "101" level that builds a basic form with an equally basic email would be useful. Even the documentation for "email" doesn't have much (and "email template" is completely empty).
For email, what about other headers (such as setting the priority level)?
For forms, what about setting the size property of the text fields (which determines the width of the field itself)?
These two key things seem to be missing, or at least finding information about how to do either has proven extremely difficult (and considering I've come across a couple unanswered forum posts regarding the size property issue, I'd venture to guess that that one falls under the former).
Re: More information on email templates?
13 February 2010 at 10:01am Last edited: 13 February 2010 10:03am
For email, what about other headers (such as setting the priority level)?
Best method if you can't find something in docs is to look at the API documentation. Theres no built in setPriority function but I'm pretty sure you should be able to use $email->addCustomHeader('X-Priority', '1'); to set it (1 is high, 5 is low). Ive added a quick note the the email page about it http://doc.silverstripe.org/doku.php?id=email#setting_custom_headers
For forms, what about setting the size property of the text fields (which determines the width of the field itself)?
You should really style form fields with CSS rather than rely on the size attribute. You can set the max size of a form field by passing the max length value into the constructor - eg for text fields http://api.silverstripe.org/default/TextField.html.
simply more information on what can be done with both email and forms
Well what you do with forms is pretty endless, I guess some more examples of the various API features would be good. The email documentation is brief but so is really what you can do with it!
EDIT: fixed links, I'm going to be so happy when I get round to implementing Preview Post for this forum....
Re: More information on email templates?
13 February 2010 at 11:01am
You should really style form fields with CSS rather than rely on the size attribute. You can set the max size of a form field by passing the max length value into the constructor
Max length is not the same as the size attribute, though, and are, in fact, two completely different attributes. The size attribute in HTML form fields defines the physical size, in pixels (or in a couple of cases, in visible characters), of the field itself. It has nothing to do with the number of characters the field can hold (as is the case with "maxlength"). (On a side note, why the HTML spec uses "size" and not "width" is beyond me.) More information on the "size" attribute of HTML fields can be found at W3Schools. Now, I did happen to stumble on information that shows that the "width" CSS attribute does, in fact, work (or at least is supposed to) on the form fields, which more or less renders my current problem in that regards moot, however, it doesn't change the fundamental misunderstanding of "size" vs "maxlength" and the lack of information on the matter as a whole. As another aside, this did also bring to light that the field IDs of form fields generated from the code have really long IDs...
Well, at least now, it will be somewhere that one should use the CSS "width" style in place of the HTML "size" attribute for fields, since like I said before, there was an unanswered question about it that came up in my own search, and there will inevitably be more people looking.
Also, thank you for updating the documentation about the email thing. One of the things I have noticed is that you guys are really good about listening to people, both on and off of these forums and working to address various issues. Good customer service is, sadly, an increasingly rare thing, so keep up the good work.
I guess some more examples of the various API features would be good.
One of the pitfalls I've found in community software projects in general is that they tend to be fantastic for really basic users and powerful for advanced users, but leave the intermediate ones somewhere in Limbo. In the case of SS, as an intermediate developer, the API documentation, while certainly thorough and probably useful to those more knowledgeable than I, is a step away from Greek to me. It's basically like "I know it has $Attribute, but how do I access it to make it do what I want?" and, unfortunately, that level of example seems to be missing (and that goes for more than just SS, as I previously mentioned).
Finally, I still can't seem to get template logic working in my email templates. It works great until I try to add the following:
<% if $From != firstname.lastname@example.com %>

Text to appear only if the email isn't the default From in the event of an empty field (as set in _config).

<% end_if %>
From what I can gather of the information I've been able to find on template if blocks (which has been pretty much limited to the Template doc, other examples that use logic only have "if $property"), I think the syntax is right, but it doesn't successfully send the email. If I should be able to use such template logic in email templates, what am I doing wrong/missing (it works without the if block)?
Re: More information on email templates?
13 February 2010 at 11:23am Last edited: 13 February 2010 11:23am
<% if $From != firstname.lastname@example.com %>

Text to appear only if the email isn't the default From in the event of an empty field (as set in _config).

<% end_if %>
You don't need to use $ when your inside <% ... %> tags so you can just do..
<% if From != email@example.com %>
I think the template parser should be able to handle comparing the email (SSViewer comparisons really only work on simple strings). If removing the $ doesn't work I think you might have to move the logic to the PHP file and using populateTemplate to set a variable like FromExample = true, then in the template you can simple do <% if FromExample %>
Good points on the size tag. I guess I'm just used to how SS works - it sets the size to the max length as well as the maxlength tag.
// from TextField...
'maxlength' => ($this->maxLength) ? $this->maxLength : null,
'size' => ($this->maxLength) ? min( $this->maxLength, 30 ) : null
So I guess a suitable enhancement is to have a separate size attribute for the field type. Ticket made - http://open.silverstripe.org/ticket/5077
Re: More information on email templates?
13 February 2010 at 12:01pm Last edited: 13 February 2010 12:04pm
Still no luck with the != logic. I'll have to look into doing it in the PHP (just thought I'd update).
Once again, thank you for your help and the ticket.
On an off-topic question, since I can't quickly find an option to send a private message (and should be getting back to work), who can make updates to the documentation? I'd be more than happy/willing to contribute to filling out the documentation more, but it appears that only certain people can do actual changes (not just comments; which isn't a bad thing, just need to take an extra step, then).
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13 February 2010 at 12:11pm
Anyone can edit the documentation currently. You will need to register first (link at the bottom on the wiki page) once you register and confirm you should be able to edit pages.
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Good news, Canada! You can now legally dress up like a woman, watch Simpsons porn and have sex with a Cabbage Patch Doll hooked up to a vacuum cleaner without fear of legal persecution. Long live freedom!
About a week before season 5 ended Showtime started promoting season 6 of
"Dexter" but on October 6th we finally get some new action. In preparation of this event the Show people have released a brand spanking new promo clip and I'm not going to lie Mos Def and Colin Hanks have my sexy parts all a buzz with excitement. Not in a weird way. A completely natural way. Get your mind out of the gutter.
"Warm Bodies" is a book by Mr. Isaac Marion about a zombie in love with a living girl and it looks like good old John Malkovich has signed on to a play the role of the bad guy in the big screen adaptation. I've never read the book so that's all I got. Please note your bill does not include tip.
Oh you go to hell Hollywood. You go to hell and die! It looks like there's some rumblings in the valley that the next installment of the "Friday the 13th" series is being reworked to use found footage. Nothing's been confirmed yet and a script hasn't been sold so let's all hold hands and pray this doesn't happen. Why yes I do use moisturizer. Thank you for noticing.
I don't think anyone knows what to make of "The Thing" prequel yet but if the new clip that was just released is any indication it looks like the flick will be loaded with crappy jump scares. Well alright maybe some people know what to make of it. The rest of us are still trying to figure out how to watch a video on this stupid iPad. It's like a really expensive coaster.
Man it's been a while since we've seen a good "the devil made me do it" story and what better way to get back into the swing of things than with a guy who claims he attacked a cop with a spatula for that very reason. It really feels like all is right in the world again. Do you think they'll bring back "Deadwood" now?
And here's a man in Massachusetts who stabbed a kid with a pair of chopsticks.... yes he's Asian... you racist pricks.
Hot pockets kids! Looks like there's a film in the works based on the Matterhorn rollercoaster ride at Disneyland. Currently titled "The Hill" the film will focus on a group travelers who head to the top of a mountain and encounter a bunch of Yeti's on the way down. Then their lap bars hit them in the nuts and they walk around funny for the rest of the day. I added that part but it would make it really authentic to the ride experience so I'm pretty sure they'll include it.
Because the teat isn't completely dry the good people at Lionsgate will be putting out a special 25th anniversary edition of Sam Raimi's
"Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn". In all fairness it'll be on Blu-Ray and it'll have a boat load of new interviews and commentaries but honestly at this point what more can you say. "Oh hey I never noticed that chair in the corner of the room before. Let's talk about that".
Steven Spielberg and Stephen King are teaming up with Showtime to create a new series based on King's 2009 novel "Under the Dome". The story focuses on a group of vacationers in Maine who begin battling after a strange force field appears over their town. Wasn't that the basis of "The Simpsons Movie"? I hope this one is funny too and makes a lot of doughnut references.
Looks like Amy Adams is being eyed by Warner Bros. to take the lead in the upcoming remake of "The Orphanage". Nothing's been confirmed yet but Adams would play the role of a woman who takes over the orphanage where she was raised only to find that the imaginary friends her son is playing with are out to get her. I don't know who played that part in the original and honestly I don't care. There's no way she was as adorable as Amy Adams. Once again the USA makes things better.
You never know when love will strike. Sometimes it'll be at a book store, sometimes it'll be at Burger King and other times it'll be in a pool while looking at a sexy inflatable raft. What makes it better is that the Ohio man who is up on charges for having relations with the flotation device was arrested last year for getting it on with an inflatable pumpkin. I wonder if the pumpkin is jealous.
Some people just want to be friends. But apparently it's illegal to send a friend request to a guy who's on trial while you're sitting on the jury. Apparently you can't talk about the trial on your wall either. I think if it was Myspace this guy would have been ok. Myspace is where the deviants hang out.
A fistfull of clips from the upcoming second season of "The Walking Dead" have hit the tubes and before you go getting all excited I should tell you that all of them are about ten seconds long. Not that you can't do some really good stuff in ten seconds. Sometimes ten seconds is all you need if something is really good. Ten seconds can completely please a woman... or viewer. Whatever. What were we talking about?
Showtime looks to be working on a new series titled "The Damned" which is based on the graphic novel of the same name. For those of you who think reading is stupid even if there's a bunch of pictures the story focuses on 3 demon families who run an underground soul trafficking circuit during prohibition. Not drinking ruins everything.
Regina Hall, Anthony Anderson and Kevin Hart are rumored to all be on board for the 2012 release of "Scary movie 5". Because we all demanded there be more "Scary Movie" films. Of course now we regret it. Man Harvey Wallbangers can really mess up an evening am I right? They can also cause people to think "Scary Movie 5" is a good idea.
Lily Rabe has squinty eyes and 20 credits on her IMDB, none of which I have seen, and now she's been confirmed for the cast of FX's new wack job series "American Horror Story". The new show will focus on a family that moves into a new creepy home in the aftermath of the fathers infidelity. Then they all put on rubber suits or something. I don't know the promo frightens me.
I have no idea how this happened but here's a Kansas woman who was cleaning her yard after a storm and accidentally got a tree branch shoved into her nose, through her eye socket, then to her sinus cavity and eventually ended up touching her brain. I'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing but apparently she's alive but is most likely frightened of every tree within a 50 mile radius.
Of course here's a story about a woman who was killed after the tow truck that was trying to get her car out of the sand had it's tow thingy snap off and fly into her windshield and eventually into her face. So I guess the tree up the nose thing isn't that bad after all.
Showtime has picked up the rights to "Chew", a new series they'll be putting out based on the comic book of the same name. The show will follow a federal agent who has psychic abilities based on the food he eats. I have absolutely no idea how that works but the idea that the twenty piece McNuggets I just had could predict the lotto numbers is blowing my mind.
"The Taint", "All About Evil" and "Kidnapped" have all been selected for this year's Tromadance Film Fest that will take place from April 22-23 in Asbury Park, NJ. Bill Plympton will also be premiering some new shorts at the event and I assume there's going to be some dancing. Probably a lot of dancing actually. Giant big semi-overweight dancing... Entry is free!
In what might be the most disappointing there I've seen this year there is a new red band trailer for "Nude Nuns with Big Guns" on the tubes. I say disappointing because red band implies there's going to be awesomeness that you can't show in a regular trailer, but this contains none of that. Oh sure there's some blood and I may of even seen a nip but there nothing that lives up to the movie's name. I'm crying right now as I type this.
In response to the rumors surrounding the sequel to "Deadgirl" writer Trent Haaga has taken to his blog to set the record straight. Haaga states that the not only are the rumors that he wrote a script where a group of women find the body of a dead boy are completely false and goes on to say that if a sequel does happen he won't be involved. Truth be told I thought Haaga started these rumors so now I'm completely confused. If you can't trust a guy who writes a movie about necrophilia than who can you trust?
A 40 year old man in the UK has been arrested after he broke into a farm, covered himself in cow crap and then went to town on himself. And by that I mean he made love to himself. Although I can't imagine there was much love involved. The worst part? This isn't the first time he's been arrested for the cow doodie lovin.
Is it wrong that I find this kind of hot? Police in Pennsylvania found 50 bags of heroin and $51.22 in cash inside a 27 year old women after giving her a cavity search. The heroin is nuts but somewhat understandable, the 51$ bucks is weird but ok I get it... but 22 cents? What the hell?!
I have no idea if this is a surprise or news at all, but a sixth season of "Dexter" has been confirmed. In related news the sun will in fact rise tomorrow and I will still not have clean underthings.
If I have to explain to you what "Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus" is about then I don't think we can be friends anymore. All you need to know is it hits DVD on December 21st and there's a new trailer for it. Oh and you should probably know that I want to see other people too, but that doesn't have anything to do with the movie.
This on the other hand is very much news. September 16, 2011 will be the most magical day ever because "Piranha 3DD" will hit theaters. We should all go camp outside the theater now so we can get the first tickets.
Bill Moseley and Civil War horror movies go together like sex and peanut butter. That's a fact. So here's some new pictures of him and the rest of the gang in "Exit Humanity". Of course the movie was filmed in Toronto so maybe this is some other Civil War they had over maple syrup something. Beats me.
A Pennsylvania man has been jailed after getting all loopy on a mixture of prescription pills and alcohol and beating the crap out of his roommate. Why did he do this? Well he was so high that he thought he was a Jedi Master of course.
If you can rob a gas station with a 3 foot long tree branch you shouldn't have to face any prison time. That's a fact and I'm pretty sure it's somewhere in the constitution right next to "being awesome" is a perfectly good reason for driving drunk. I love freedom.
Coming October 25th over at Showtime's official site, animated webisodes telling stories of a young Dexter Morgan, star of their hit television show "Dexter".
Check out the trailer below. According to the video, the series is animated by four of today's "top graphic artists", and the results definitely show. I personally can't get enough of Dexter, so I'm looking forward to this as a little pre-Halloween treat. Check it out, and leave your feedback below!
If you didn't catch the premier of "Dexter" this past Sunday you missed out. Not only because we got two serious shots of John Lithgow's ass but also because things got pretty intense in the last ten minutes. I won't spoil it for those of you who didn't watch yet. Pretty awesome all around though.
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Please read the information below to assess whether you may be a candidate for minimally invasive total knee replacement surgery.
Basic Anatomy of the Knee
The knee is a hinge joint between the femur (thighbone) and the tibia (shinbone). The joint is protected in front by the patella (kneecap). Cartilage on the ends of each bone and underneath the kneecap cushions the joint. Ligaments run along the sides and front of the knee connecting the shinbone to the thighbone at the center of the knee. These components of your knee, along with the muscles of your leg, work together to manage the stress your knee receives as you walk, run and jump.
Common Knee Disorders
Over time, the cartilage that cushions the joint can deteriorate, causing pain and stiffness, when bones rub directly against each other. Knee pain originally may be only felt when a person is bending or putting pressure on the knee (such as while walking or going up and down stairs). Eventually the pain may become more frequent or nearly constant. Pain relieving medications or walking aids may work temporarily, but the only long-term solution in many cases is knee replacement surgery.
The most common type of arthritis, osteoarthritis, generally develops from "wear and tear" of the cartilage and lubricating surfaces of the bones that connect at the joint. As we age, many of us will develop degenerative arthritis of one or more of our joints. This arthritis is characterized by destruction of the natural cushioning and lubricating surfaces of the joint and may be accompanied by bony overgrowth (bone spurs). In the most severe cases, all the cartilage will have worn away and there will be bone-on-bone contact.
Avascular necrosis
Characterized by localized bone death, avascular necrosis results from disruption of blood flow to the bone. The bone death may be painful and usually causes the bone to collapse, which can lead to joint destruction and arthritis.
Rheumatoid arthritis
An autoimmune disorder characterized by chronic inflammation of the affected joints, rheumatoid arthritis may involve multiple joints and can occur at any age. The inflammatory process of rheumatoid arthritis swells the cartilage, muscles, tendons and ligaments, which can misshape the joints, erode the cartilage and eventually lead to destruction of bone.
Total Knee Replacement Surgery
Your doctor may have told you that you are a candidate for total knee replacement surgery. This surgery removes the damaged and painful areas of the thigh- and shinbones. These areas are then replaced with specially designed metal and plastic parts.
Standard surgical incision for knee replacement
The standard surgical incision is between eight to 12 inches. The incision is made through the quadriceps tendons and muscles to position the replacement parts. Patients generally have two to three months recovery time. Much of the post-operative pain a patient feels is a result of the cutting of the tissues. While tissues are healing, scar tissue forms, which may cause pain and stiffness.
New minimally invasive total knee replacement procedure
This new technique at Rush has revolutionized total knee replacement surgery (sometimes referred to as total knee arthroplasty or TKA). The short incision total knee replacement is a surgical modification using a smaller incision that requires less muscle dissection, which generally results in more rapid and less painful recovery with better early range of motion and improved function.
The procedure involves the use of modified techniques and instruments to place the same clinically proven implants used in standard surgery, but through a much smaller incision. The minimally invasive replacement surgery is performed through one small three- to four-inch incision instead of the larger eight- to 12-inch incision of the standard surgical technique. This approach has the potential for dramatically reducing pain by sparing muscles and tendons that historically have been cut during standard total knee replacement surgery.
Potential benefits of this minimally invasive technique include increased range of motion sooner after surgery, less blood loss during surgery, faster recovery and a shorter hospital stay. In fact, many patients leave the hospital the same day.
Physicians at Rush were among the pioneers of this procedure and were the first to perform the innovative minimally invasive total knee procedure as an outpatient surgery.
You may be a candidate for a minimally invasive total knee replacement procedure if:
For an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon specializing in joint replacement surgery, call (888) 352-RUSH.


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Follow up on recommendations made by the intake coordinator. Our intake coordinator may tell you about community resources, programs or providers that can help address specific areas of need, regardless of your child's ultimate diagnosis. Get started on these while you pursue a more thorough clinical evaluation.
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In addition to our clinical services, CHOP is internationally recognized as a leading research center for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Many of our active projects involve an assessment of your child's cognitive abilities and daily functioning, and an in-depth examination of characteristics related to Autism Spectrum Disorder. Oral and written feedback are provided to research participants. The assessment is tailored to the research study, but may help get you started while you pursue a clinical evaluation. Learn about current studies at the Center for Autism Research at CHOP.


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Wolves trim 2009-2010 season-ticket prices, offer "No-Risk" pledgePosted on March 3rd, 2009 – 12:59 PM
By Jerry Zgoda
Times are tough, so Wolves owner Glen Taylor announced just now at Target Center that his team is lowering prices on 95 percent of its season tickets bought by July 1 for 2009-2010 and will guarantee a refund for unused tickets for any season-ticket holders who lose their jobs by Jan. 1, 2010.
Prime courtside seats will remain the same, but most other season tickets will decrease from between $4 to $15 each per game.
You can buy a season ticket for as little as $5 a game — $215 for the season — next season. About 4,700 of those tickets will be available for the upper-deck corner sections.
Lower level tickets — corner "Player Section" areas — will be available for as little as $15 a game. Tickets behind the baskets that sold for $25 this season will be $20 under "Early Bird" pricing, which requires purchase by July 1.
The team is also introducing a no-interest nine-month payment plan. For two $5 season tickets, that's $46 a month. For two $15 lower-level season tickets, that's $71 a month.
Asked how the Wolves can afford to do so, team president Chris Wright called the new pricing a "volume play" design to boost the season-ticket base, at about 5,000 this season, and create a "home-court advantage" by filling empty seats with paying customers.
"I don't want these uncertain times to deter our fans from coming to Target Center and enjoying NBA basketball," Taylor said in a statement before he announced the new plan at a Target Center press conference.
The Wolves also are offering Courtside Club and Loge Box areas that provides such amenities as table seating, stats monitors, complimentary food and beverage and free parking in the high-end ticket ranges.
The top price for a season ticket if bought by July 1 is $1,550 each for tickets next to each team's bench.
For more information, see www.timberwolves.com/earlybird


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The investigation continued Monday into the death of a Florida City toddler found in a drainage hole hours after she went missing.
Mariah Neveah Johnson, who was a week shy of turning 2, was found in the ditch Saturday just south of Palm Drive and Ninth Avenue, near her mothers home.
She was rushed to Homestead Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Homicide detectives are investigating the death. No arrests have been made. Relatives said the girl was being watched by her mothers boyfriend when she went missing.
A frantic search for the girl was launched Saturday by neighbors before the little girl was found.
On Sunday, her mother, Shanika Robinson, told WSVN-Channel 7 she still did not know how her daughter had died.
Right now her death is under investigation until they conduct an autopsy, a tearful Robinson said.
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Summary: All good things must come to an end, Constant Reader, and not even Stephen King can make a story that goes on forever. The tale of Roland Deschain's relentless quest for the Dark Tower has, the author fears, sorely tried the patience of those who have followed it from its earliest chapters. But attend to it a while longer, if it pleases you, for this volume is the last, and often the last things are best.Roland's ka-tet remains intact, though scattered over wheres and whens. Susannah-Mia has been carried from the Dixie Pig (in the summer of 1999) to a birthing room -- really a chamber of horrors -- in Thunderclap's Fedic; Jake and Father Callahan, with Oy between them, have entered the restaurant on Lex and Sixty-first with weapons drawn, little knowing how numerous and noxious are their foes. Roland and Eddie are with John Cullum in Maine, in 1977, looking for the site on Turtleback Lane where "walk-ins" have been often seen. They want desperately to get back to the others, to Susannah especially, and yet they have come to realize that the world they need to escape is the only one that matters.Thus the book opens, like a door to the uttermost reaches of Stephen King's imagination. You've come this far. Come a little farther. Come all the way. The sound you hear may be the slamming of the door behind you. Welcome toThe Dark Tower.
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Roland Deschain
Known as the Last Gunslinger; on a quest to the Dark Tower; trying to free a group of psychics who are allowing their captives to use their telepathic abilities to break away the support beams of the tower; briefly mourns the death of Eddie, mortally injured freeing the psychics; jumps to Maine 1999 to save the life of Stephen King; heartbroken by the death of Jake who saved the writer by pushing him out of the way of a van; rescues a young man imprisoned by a vampire; attacked by Susannah's son.
Susannah Dean
Formerly Odetta Holmes; her two personalities merged forming her new identity; married to Eddie; gave birth to a son who shapeshifted into a spider-creature and started to feast on his birth-mother; she grabbed a gun and injured him, but failed to kill him; she managed to escape; left Roland to travel to the Dark Tower on his own; enters another world.


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Audio: National Security and Free Speech – From Wikileaks to the Pentagon Papers
Last week, KQED News, Berkeley Law, and the UC Berkeley School of Information held a discussion panel on National Security and Free Speech. You can listen to the first two panels below. Panel three — moderated by KQED's Scott Shafer and made up of UC Berkeley's Lowell Bergman and Robert Cole, plus Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame — will be aired on KQED radio at 1 p.m. on May 21, then archived here.


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You've seen the accidents that can occur when a motorist is distracted by texting. It's even proved fatal: back in August, 45-year-old motorcycle driver Bill Lofton was struck and killed on Raymond Road by a 16-year-old driving an SUV. Witnesses told police the girl had been texting at the time.
But the only Mississippi law against distracted driving prohibits people with their learner's permit or intermediate license from texting behind the wheel.
Now, you can take matters into your own hands.
"I look at these kids texting and driving all the time," says Ed Welsh, owner of Southern Wireless. Just this week, he began carrying Phone Guard, a cell phone app that allows parents or employers to disable texting on phones when a sensor detects a vehicle is driving 10 miles per hour or faster.
3 On Your Side tested it out. We drove off with a cell phone loaded with the software. As our speed increased, the phone's home screen changed to a red screen with a white line through it, and the words "No Texting". Texting was disabled. As we slowed to a stop, the red screen disappeared, and texting was allowed again.
When texting is disabled, the phone cannot receive texts either. "If I text a phone that has this software on it, I get a reply from that phone that says I'm driving right now, I'll call you when I reach my destination," Welsh says.
But, if the phone operator is in the passenger seat, he or she can hit a button to send a message to the phone's owner asking permission to allow texting.
The software will also send a message if the owner is driving over a speed limit pre-set by the phone's owner. "I got a text that said I'm driving 78 miles per hour, so I know that phone was traveling 78 miles per hour," Welsh explains. The phone owner will also be able to view a Google map that pinpoints via GPS the location of the other phone.
Phone Guard is currently only available for Blackberry and Android phones. It costs $29.99, and no monthly fee is incurred.
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