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A visit to South Louisiana is wonderful in any season, but following is a list of my favorite festivals and events. Check back often for updates, or send me your favorite festival/event that you have attended within a 3 hour drive of Abbeville.
Mardi Gras Day - Tuesday March 4, 2014 Parades in the area the weekend prior to Mardi Gras through Mardi Gras Day
Spring 2014 offeringsSounds on the SquareFall Series series on Thursdays. Free music in our downtown square beginning at 5:30 till 9:00. Beverages and food for purchase, bring your lawn chairs.Stay tuned for our fall 2014 dates!!
Festival International -April 22-26, 2015
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Open Air Farmers Market Dates TBADowntown Abbeville's Magdalen Square Time: 8:00am to 1:00pm
NovemberAbbeville's Giant Omelette Celebration - November 1 - 2, 2014 DecemberAbbeville's Christmas Stroll - First Thursday of December
For other festivals in the area visit Mostcajun.com The Vermilion Parish Tourist Commission website.
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Daktronics (NASDAQ: DAKT) dropped after announcing weak sales for fiscal 3Q 2013, but the company also announced order growth figures that look more promising. The display maker's screens show up at stadiums around the country, and its LED display technology offers cost advantages that could support sales over the long run. Daktronics' LED displays can help marketers, schools, and athletic teams put on a show while limiting their electricity bills. As a company that makes LED products and owns factories in the Midwest, Daktronics might also qualify for federal energy efficiency funds. The recent price drop might be a buying opportunity for this display maker.
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Daktronics reported 10% weaker sales for the quarter in its earnings release, which caused its share price to drop from more than $12 down to around $10 a share. Daktronics achieved better sales growth over the long term. The Motley Fool lists a one year sales growth figure of 10.8% and a three year sales growth figure of 7.7% for Daktronics. Daktronics' sales drop this quarter might not indicate lower sales in upcoming quarters.
Daktronics' major display installation projects, such as its ongoing contract with the New Jersey Turnpike Authority that has a total value of $20 million, can take more than a year to complete. Daktronics uses the percentage of completion method to determine when to book its display revenue, so the display maker normally has ongoing projects that haven't been entirely recorded as revenue yet. In 3Q fiscal 2013, Daktronics reported that its orders for the quarter rose by 25.5% to $134 million. Daktronics also reported a 14.6% rise in orders for the last nine months, compared to the first three quarters of fiscal 2012. The nine month order figure surpasses Daktronics' historical revenue growth figures.
LSI Industries (NASDAQ: LYTS) also makes LED display equipment. LSI reported sales growth of 3.4% last quarter, along with a $2.45 million loss. LSI beat Daktronics on sales growth, but Daktronics shined on earnings last quarter with a $2.7 million profit. LSI's long term performance also looks a bit dimmer than Daktronics' results. The Motley Fool site shows that LSI's sales dropped 8.6% over the last year, and the company achieved 3.9% sales growth over the last three years. LSI's recent results were dragged down by its $8.15 million Virticus acquisition in 2012. LSI does have a 3.3% forward yield that surpasses Daktronics' 1.9% yield, though.
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LED lighting manufacturers have received financial support from the Department of Energy. A 2010 article from LEDs Magazine explained that the Department of Energy provided $37.8 million to LED manufacturers, and General Electric (NYSE: GE) and Philips (NYSE: PHG) won multiple awards. The Department of Energy may provide additional support for LED lighting manufacturers in 2013. In February, the Department of Energy announced that it had $150 million in tax credits available to support manufacturers in the clean energy and the energy conservation businesses, and the criteria for distributing these awards included whether the companies employed factory workers in the United States. LSI and Daktronics might qualify for this tax credit as manufacturers that make energy efficient products because of their LED lighting displays, and both companies have factories in the Midwest. Daktronics might also qualify for future Department of Energy programs because of these factors, as well.
A November 2012 General Electric press release explains the attractions of outdoor LED lighting. General Electric explained that it installed LED lights that reduced a Lexus dealer's power bill by $49,000 annually. Daktronics has developed a niche for itself in the billboard and display business, but General Electric does look interested in outdoor LED lights right now.
Philips has also demonstrated recent interest in the outdoor LED lighting industry. On February 14, 2013, Philips announced that four of its outdoor LED products had won awards in a contest run by Next Generation Luminaire. Philips won awards for outdoor lights here, not display screens, but these products do show that Philips poses a potential competitive threat to Daktronics.
The billboard maker's dip this quarter looks temporary. Government agencies, schools, and airports, and private businesses such as auto dealerships and resorts all face cost and environmental pressures that buying or upgrading an LED display system could help address. Daktronics also mentioned that it might buy Belgian marketing firm OPEN Out of Home Solutions in its 3Q fiscal 2013 release, which could boost Daktronics' international prospects. Daktronics already reported 40% more international orders in the last nine months than it reported for the first three quarters of fiscal 2012. Daktronics looks like it still deserves its four star CAPS rating, and now investors can pick the display maker up for a lot less.
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Avenged Sevenfold's "Hail To The King" is selling by the buttload (that's arseload in metric) .
However, it hasn't gone unnoticed that the new A7X cribs quite a bit from 90's rock and metal, as Machine Head's Robb Flynn gleefully and playfully points out on Facebook:
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Congratulations to Avenged Sevenfold on their latest "covers album" coming in at #1, who knew that re-recording Metallica, Guns N Roses, and Megadeth songs could be such a worldwide hit!!?? Ba-dap Psssssss!!
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7) Eyeliner sales skyrocket as thousands of heartbroken goth girls realize "Hail To The King" is actually "that ugly AC/DC bands song 'Thunderstruck'"
6) After hearing "Heretic", Dave Mustaine flips out, blames Obama, Metallica and UFO's for the A7X stealing "Symphony Of Destruction".
5) After seeing how much success the band Bush had stealing other band names for song titles, A7X decided to steal "In Flames" for latest chorus. Future chorus lyrics include "Tr-vi-um" and "Kill-switch En-gage"
4) Upon hearing latest album, Lars Ulrich goes all gangsta, breaks bottle of Dom Perignon on M. Shadows head, while his 11ft girlfriend put Shadows in headlock, as he screams in Shadows face, "You're gonna rip off St. Anger next right, HUH? You're gonna rip off St Anger NEXT RIGHT? HUH, HUH, HUH!!"
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2) After hearing Avenged's Guns N Roses cover "Doing Time", Axl actually calls Slash, says, "Dude, What The Fuck?!"
1) And the #1 joke about the new Avenged Sevenfold album: Avenged Sevenfold release statement that they're NOT ripping off Metallica, announce side project with Lou Reed.
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I'm sure Flynn is aware that music has been cribbing from earlier works since the first cro-mag banged a stick on a rock.
That new A7X is just a bit more obvious about it is all.
It could have been worse. They could have jumped on the dubstep train.
That would have been as bad as a metal band jumping on the rap//nu/metal bandwagon back in the late 90's, right?
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Neil Wehneman has served as the Development Director of the Secular Student Alliance since early 2013.
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What is the estimated delivery time?
Sellers generally procure and ship the items within the time specified on the product page. Business days exclude public holidays and Sundays.
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Why does the delivery date not correspond to the delivery timeline of X-Y business days?
Why does the delivery date not correspond to the delivery timeline of X-Y business days?
It is possible that the Seller or our courier partners observe a holiday between the day you placed your order and the date of delivery, which is based on the timelines shown on the product page. In this case, we add a day to the estimated date. Some courier partners and Sellers do not work on Sundays and this is factored in to the delivery dates.
What do the different tags like "In Stock", "Available" mean?
What do the different tags like "In Stock", "Available" mean?
'In Stock'
For items listed as "In Stock", Sellers will mention the delivery time based on your location pincode (usually 2-3 business days, 4-5 business days or 4-6 business days in areas where standard courier service is available). For other areas, orders will be sent by Registered Post through the Indian Postal Service which may take 1-2 weeks depending on the location.
The Seller might not have the item in stock but can procure it when an order is placed. The delivery time will depend on the estimated procurement time and the estimated shipping time to your location.
'Preorder' or 'Forthcoming'
Such items are expected to be released soon and can be pre-booked for you. The item will be shipped to you on the day of it's official release launch and will reach you in 2 to 6 business days. The Preorder duration varies from item to item. Once known, release time and date is mentioned. (Eg. 5th May, August 3rd week)
'Out of Stock'
Currently, the item is not available for sale. Use the 'Notify Me' feature to know once it is available for purchase.
Sometimes, items have to be sourced by Sellers from outside India. These items are mentioned as 'Imported' on the product page and can take at least 10 days or more to be delivered to you.
'Back In Stock Soon'
The item is popular and is sold out. You can however 'book' an order for the product and it will be shipped according to the timelines mentioned by the Seller.
'Temporarily Unavailable'
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'Permanently Discontinued'
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'Out of Print'
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Why does the estimated delivery time vary for each seller?
Why does the estimated delivery time vary for each seller?
You have probably noticed varying estimated delivery times for Sellers of the product you are interested in. Delivery times are influenced by product availability, geographic location of the Seller, your shipping destination and the courier partner's time-to-deliver to your location.
Please enter your default pin code on the product page (you don't have to enter it every single time) to know more accurate delivery times on the product page itself.
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The Sony Cyber Shot Camera is a great point and shoot camera that will be handy for beginners and intermediates alike.
Sensor Technology with 14.1 MP
This camera is equipped with a powerful 14.1 MP CCD Sensor that can take amazing pictures across a wide range of lighting conditions.
Optical Zoom with 5 X
This Sony Cyber Shot Camera is able to Zoom up to a 5 X level that can let you get closer to the action without really having to move physically close to the subject. This zoom is more quality oriented than digital zoom as it involves the magnification of the image, and not the pixels as in digital zoom.
Intelligent Auto Mode
This Cyber Shot camera is also capable of the Intelligent Auto Mode where the camera is aware of the scene in front of it, and the sensor makes the necessary changes accordingly. This is also what sets the flash intensity in the auto mode, after analyzing the lighting conditions in the environment around the subject.
360 Sweep Panorama
The Cyber Shot camera is one of the few point and shoot devices that come with a 360 degree Sweep Panorama mode that can expand your creative horizons.
Power Source
This camera is powered by commonly available, conventional AA batteries that can be bought from almost any store around you. This way, you can always have a set of juiced up batteries on hand before you set off on a photographic adventure.
Say Cheese
The Smile Shutter Technology preset in the camera lets you automatically click pictures when the subject breaks into a smile.
LCD Monitor
The in-built 2.7 inch Clear LCD monitor lets you view all your pictures in the camera itself before having to get a computer just so you can view them. This monitor also doubles up as an effective viewfinder that helps you line up the perfect shot before you need to click it.
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|Rs. 550 Rs. 280
|Rs. 492 Rs. 315
|Rs. 2400 Rs. 2352
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|USB Cord, 2 Rechargeable Batteries, CD-ROM
|Point & Shoot
|Model ID
|125 g (without Battery and SD Memory Card), 172 g (with Battery and SD Memory Card)
|96.5 (W) x 62 (H) x 27.2 (D) mm
|Optical Sensor Resolution (in MegaPixel)
|14.1 Megapixels
|Other Resolution
|4:3 Aspect Ratio: 4320 x 3240 (14 M), 3648 x 2736 (10 M EZ), 2560 x 1920 (5 M EZ), 2048 x 1536 (3 M EZ), 640 x 480 (0.3 M EZ), 3:2 Aspect Ratio: 4320 x 2880 (12.5 M), 16:9 Aspect Ratio: 4320 x 2432 (10.5 M)
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|Digital Zoom
|LCD Display
|TFT Screen LCD Display
|LCD Screen Size
|2.7 inch
|Image Display Resolution
|230,000 dots
|Video Display Resolution
|1280 x 720, 30 fps
|Supported Aspect Ratio
|4:3, 3:2, 16:9
|Sensor Type
|Sensor Size
|1/2.33 inch
|Auto Focus
|TTL Contrast Detection
|Focal Length
|4.7 - 23.5 mm (35 mm Equivalent to 26 - 130 mm)
|Color Filter
|Primary (RGB) Color Filter
|Battery Type
|AA Alkaline Battery
|USB Cable
|Hi-speed USB 2.0
|Media and Software
|Upgradeable Memory
|Inbuilt Memory
|Memory Card Type
|Operating System
|Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, MAC OS X
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|4320 x 3240 (14 M)
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|Quick Time Motion JPEG
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|Face Detection
|Shooting Modes
|Intelligent Auto, Normal Picture, SCN, Motion Picture
|Flash Modes
|Auto, Auto with Red-eye Reduction, Forced On, Forced On with Red-eye Reduction, Slow Sync with Red-eye Reduction, Forced Off
|Flash Range
|0.6 - 4.6 m (W), 0.6 - 2.0 m (T) (ISO Auto)
|Built in Flash
|Shutter Speed
|Maximum Shutter Speed
|1/2000 sec
|Minimum Shutter Speed
|8 sec
|Other Features
|ISO Rating
|Auto, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, High Sensitivity Mode (ISO 1600 - 6400)
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Aperture (F 2.8 / 7.9 (W), F 6.5 / 18.4 (T)), Extra Optical Zoom (6x (4:3 / 10 M), 8.5x (4:3 / 5 M), 10.5x (4:3 / Under 3 M)), Lens Construction: 7 Elements in 5 Groups, 5 Aspherical Lenses, 8 Aspherical Surfaces, Focusing Area Normal (15 (W) cm, 60 (T) cm), Normal... Read More
|Self Timer
|Yes, 2 and 10 sec
|Face Detection
|Shooting Modes
|Intelligent Auto, Normal Picture, SCN, Motion Picture
|Delete Function
|Red Eye Reduction
|Picture Angle
|26 mm Wide-angle
|Continuous Shots
|Yes, 0.8 fps (Full Resolution Image)
|White Balancing
|Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Shade, Incandescent, White Set
|Supported Languages
|Aperture Range
|Warranty Summary
|3 year Sony India Warranty and Free Transit Insurance.
I ordered on 30th mar.'12 and received on 2nd apr.'12....
i didn't Imagine i would receive so early!!!! great job Flipkart...
Now about the camera..
Its an Awesome Cheap Rate Camera with Great Quality!! :-)
I would not say its Perfect but, a camera with such price, its absolutely Acceptable (not for Professionals)...
Great Picture Quality, the Video rec. is not too Good, but if the Lighting is Good u will get better Results...
Its a Good Choice if u use it for Home, Point n Shoot purpose !!
a good still cam for those who wanna take excellent pics.
But the images which are taken by Sweep panorama feature are not that much of quality. If u want panorama images its better to take images separately and stitch them together.. :)
except that feature... Its an awesome cam for beginners(in photography)...
Auto intelligence mode is new technology.. Of-course its working at its level.
bougt this camera, on 25th july, i was quite much impressed by its look ,,but its awesomeness ends here only!!
thougt its from sony family, must provide awesome shots, but to my surprize, its pictures are not so much fine as expected!! nigt mode shots are much grainy!! and the most important factor, the IMAGE STABLIZATION, its absent!! what the hell!!its the basic feature in most of the cameras now a days!!
and other features lyk, smile detection, trace mode etc etc etc, these are okay okay types!!if you want a good deal, go for Panasonic DMC-LS5!
HOPE itshelpfull to those who want to b... (Expand)
I liked the camera well , although I gave it as a gift to my cousin. I tested it after the seal was opened. You see that the cam is nice and also the free SD card of 4GB capacity and sony original rechargeable batteries are of great use for this product,. The down sides are the screen is not of excellent clarity, but when the picture is loaded in computer the pixel clarity is not compramised. To take a picture it is fast but to process the picture and save it takes a lot of time. I think it is a big back for this camera. Apart form these two every thing else is just fine.
this is just awesome..
i think that is the best buy for its price..
good picture quality....
bt litle bit uncomfotability to handel like this small product..
shutter speed is only thing that i love a lot this product..
dont think just buy..
I bought it because it was very cheap. Don't buy this if budget is not the problem. My charger stopped working after 8 months of purchase. (View complete review)
its pictures are good....but it has a huge problem with battery....overall it is ok.....
Low price makes it a winner...!!!!!!!!!!! (View complete review)
At this price, this product is just awesome. Picture quality is good. Recommended! (View complete review)
Dont even go for sonys lower end models ,they are made from the worst quality materials.
This camera is a childs playtoy ,worst than that.Go for NIkon - coolpix or canon etc which have a vareity of good lower end models for resonable price.But sonys higher models are good ,if your budget is high... (View complete review)
its awesome .the picture clarity is good and zoom is also good
the product is having exact color as shown and its rendy and stylish. i liked it a loot
its really money saving product.with very less cost the product is fanastic.
I got a pouch,battery charger also with the product :) (View complete review)


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Democratic Rep. Jim McDermott votes no and disagrees with the president's strategy for Syria
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, an assistant professor Epidemiology at Columbia University, weighs in
US intelligence expert Robert McFadden weighs in
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Doctors Link Gene to Childhood Asthma
The Scoop
In what looks to be a true medical breakthrough, a team of researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia believe they have pinpointed the underlying cause of most cases of childhood asthma: a defective gene that triggers the body's immune system to overreact to certain allergens.
The study, published December 23, 2009, in the New England Journal of Medicine, tested DNA samples from more than 8,000 people from North America, Europe, and Africa, some of whom had persistent childhood asthma. Allergies were involved in about 85 percent of childhood asthma cases and between 80 to 90 percent of those children had the defective gene.
"The cells that express that gene decide what happens when allergens, viruses, and foreign materials come into the body," said Dr. Hakon Hakonarson, study lead author, in an interview with ABC News. In children with the gene defect, Hakonarson speculates, immune system cells go awry and chronically produce asthmatic reactions.
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Researchers believe their finding may go a long way towards developing a better understanding of why some children develop asthma—and one day creating a gene-based treatment for the condition.
"Other asthma-related genes remain to be discovered, but finding a way to target this common gene variant could benefit large numbers of children," noted Hakonarson.
According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, about 20 million Americans have asthma—a disease of the lungs in which the airways become blocked or narrowed causing breathing difficulty.


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Dubai International Film Festival to host public conversation with leading actor Colin Farrell
Sat Dec 18,2010
Colin Farrell, the star of In Bruges, Phone Booth and Minority Report, has legions of fans across the world, and had earlier walked the red carpet at DIFF along with the cast of 'The Way Back,' including Jim Sturgess (Heartless, 21, The Other Boleyn Girl), Ed Harris (Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, Appaloosa), Saoirse Ronan (Atonement, City of Ember, The Lovely Bones), Mark Strong, Dragoş Bucur, and Gustaf Skarsgård.
The Way Back, the first film in seven years from master director Peter Weir, is an Exclusive Media Group, National Geographic Entertainment and Imagenation Abu Dhabi presentation and an Exclusive Films presentation. The gripping film tells the story of a multicultural group of prisoners who escape from a Stalinist gulag during World War II but then have to survive walking more than 5,000 miles of treacherous trails across five countries to gain their freedom.
DIFF 2010 box office locations are: Cinestar Mall of the Emirates, Madinat Souk and the CNN Building in Dubai Media City and The Walk at JBR. Tickets can also be purchased through DIFF's Dial-a-Ticket service at (04) 391 3378 and from the website www.dubaifilmfest.com.
The seventh edition of Dubai International Film Festival 2010 will be held from December 12 to 19. DIFF 2010 is held in association with Dubai Studio City. Dubai Duty Free, Dubai International Financial Centre, Dubai Pearl, Emirates Airline and Madinat Jumeirah, the home of the Dubai International Film Festival, are the principal sponsors of DIFF. The event is supported by the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority.
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So I'm going to start a rumor here: I think, before the year is out, that Google is going to try to buy Sprint.
The ties between the companies...
There's a provocative column by Joe Nocera in today's NYTimes about LinkedIn's IPO last week. Nocera thinks that the investment banks Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch -- which LinkedIn hired to take it public -- essentially stole hundreds of millions of dollars that should have gone to LinkedIn's treasury.
Here's how it works. The investment banks gauge demand for the shares, which are sold by the company's treasury, and set what they believe is a fair-market price. Proceeds of those initial sales go to the company. In LinkedIn's case, Morgan and Merrill set a price for the shares three times, the last and highest being $45. LinkedIn took in $352 million for 7.5 million shares. The investment banks get 7 percent of that.
But once the shares are out, they can be -- and are -- traded freely. On its first day, LinkedIn traded as high as $122 per share, closing at $94.25, more than twice the initial price. LinkedIn got none of that money.
Who did? The people to whom Morgan and Merrill sold the initial shares. That's usually their best customers, people with connections, or other BFFs. A 100 percent gain in one day is a nice day's work.
Nocera says it's a scam. It's the investment banks' job to know what the market sentiment is, he says, and it's their fiduciary duty to price the coming-out shares as close to what they think the market will pay. And at the end of the day (literally), the market was apparently willing to pay $90. LinkedIn should have collected not $352 million but $700 million, Nocera argues. And their investment banks should have been paid $49 million, not a mere $25 million or so.
Why would the banks leave $25 million on the table by underpricing? After all, taking a company public is hard work. Maybe they traded some of their own stock and gained more than that. Maybe they were willing to chalk up the $25 million as a cost of doing business to appeal to their best customers. Promotional expense, you know.
Is this something that should be -- or can be -- fixed? I'm not so sure. I don't know that it's an investment bank's responsibility to take into account a market gone nuts. Maybe a best effort is all that's truly called for. though how you'd judge that is a mystery for smarter minds than mine. I know I don't want the SEC putting its thumb on the IPO scale.
Maybe a Dutch auction, which is how Google went public, is the right anwer. (The Street hated it, but it doesn't seem to have hurt Google's prospects any.) Maybe there should be a rule that a percentage of all first-day sales -- say, 7 percent, same as the banks' take -- be funneled back to the company issuing the shares. It might make for a more orderly coming out, or it might just move the madness to Day 2.
This may just be one of those things that Just Isn't Fair. One thing Nocera's inarguably correct about: it looks like hell at a time when the financial business ought not to be resorting to Old Tricks of the Internet Bubble.
My first article for public consumption in quite a while, and a return to old stomping grounds: A review of the upcoming Droid X mobile phone.
Overall a nice piece of hardware. I suspect I'll like Android more as I get used to it.
I somehow missed the news that YouTube is now automatically captioning all videos in English. That's awesome news for the accessibility crowd. It's a little problematic for the content industry.
Think about it. There's about 20 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute. For every one of them, Google's now generating text. This text is not created on the fly as the video is played back; it's presumably built as part of each video's preprocessing and is made part of the video's metatext. Which means it's being indexed, which means that the videos are now competing directly with more traditional textual information.
It's true that the Google voice-to-text technology is not exactly accurate. (My Google Voice transcripts are generally pretty incomprehensible.) But this is all the more reason that serious content competitors need to be looking more than ever at using YouTube to protect their brands.
Microsoft's Bing search engine will be rolling out UI changes starting in the next few days. Since its launch about a year ago, Bing has been innovating mostly on its interface, and these changes continue that mission. The emphasis for the update will be on providing more context -- including real-time feeds -- and visual information.
What's worrisome about Bing, from a content provider's perspective, is that the search engine will provide so much context that a click-through to the originating site becomes unnecessary. (This, of course, allows Bing and not the publisher to monetize the publisher's content.) Microsoft doesn't see that as much of an issue. From Redmond Channel Partner:
One attendee of the keynote asked [Yusef] Mehdi [Microsoft's SVP of online audience business] if Microsoft's efforts to render more contextual data within Bing would result in fewer click-throughs to sites. Mehdi responded that he doesn't see cause for concern. "What we have found is there are more click-throughs when you add richer captions," he said.
There's a interesting data point, if he'd be willing to share his numbers. It would also be interesting to discover if rich-content clickthroughs convert on a publisher's site better than clicks based on less-rich content. In other words, do people who click on high-context links bounce more or less than referrals from low-context links? Or are high-context links killing the geese with the golden eggs?
I've been around the Macintosh world since about 1985, so I'm real familiar with Guy Kawasaki. Guy was the software evangelist for the Mac -- the guy who went around persuading software developers to write for this unusual and innovative computer. In the intervening years, he wrote a couple of books about what became known as guerrilla marketing; those books are still on my shelves. In certain circles, he was (and is) quite famous. In certain circles, he became sort of yesterday's news. Now, he runs a venture company and a news aggregator Alltop.com.
But there's an excellent interview with him in this past Friday's NYTimes, where he dispenses some pretty insightful advice about careers and marketing:
Sales is everything. As long as you're making sales, you're still in the game....
They should teach students how to communicate in five-sentence e-mails and with 10-slide PowerPoint presentations. If they just taught every student that, American business would be much better off... Because no one wants to read "War and Peace" e-mails. Who has the time? Ditto with 60 PowerPoint slides for a one-hour meeting. What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever. Then you get out in the real world and you think, "I have to have a minimum of 20 pages and 50 slides."
...In the end, success in business comes from the willingness to grind it out. It's not because of the brilliant idea. It's because you are willing to work hard.
Most people who graduate from college think they have to make a perfect choice.... They think that their first job is going to determine their career, if not their life. Looking back, that's absolutely incorrect. By definition you cannot make a mistake in your first job... Let's say you join a start-up, and it implodes. You would learn more about leadership inside a company that crashes than you would inside the next Google. Specifically, you will learn what not to do. You can't make a mistake as a college graduate.
Jobs for college graduates should make them gain knowledge in at least one of these three areas: how to make something, how to sell something or how to support something.
It's a quick read. Worth the time.
Film crews are not uncommon in my neighborhood. "Gossip Girl," in particular, has been coming around a few times a year. But this week, the nabe's parking will be disrupted for two productions: the CBS drama "The Good Wife" (which is set in, ummm, Chicago) and the FX show "Damages."
I spent the day yesterday in a ballroom listening to data visualization guru Edward Tufte. Given my increasingly hummingbird-like attention span, a full day of concentrated focus was as welcome as it was unusual. A good time, and well worth the money.
Perhaps the coolest things of the day were when he produced a copy of the first English translation of Euclid's Elements -- the book where he laid out the basics of geometry -- dating from 1582. And the other was his showing a first edition first printing of Galileo's 1610 observations of the moons of Jupiter and sunspots (and, oh by the way, the heliocentric model of the solar system).
But what I found most provocative...
Haven't seen this discussed anywhere else, but I've been noticing some small but significant tweaks in how Google's presenting its search results. (It's true that Google is always fixing this and changing that, but these are particularly interesting, have persisted for several days, and show signs of sticking.)
As part of its Universal Search, Google has been pushing at its users all sorts of content -- video, shopping, review snippets, blogs, "real-time" feeds - to the point that cracking the top page was becoming all but impossible. For some terms, the "top 10" had become the "top 3," with most of them below the fold. SERP pages had become pretty chaotic and less than useful.
But over the last week or so, Google has been going back to SERPs that look more like they did 10 years ago: overwhelmingly textual. (The font size is bigger, too.) If you want to see the other stuff, you still can; just navigate in the left margin.
The tradeoff is that it's harder than ever to get a "pure" search without personalization. Even if you're logged off and your detailed search history is unavailable, Google will try its hardest to customize the search by your IP address, location or cookies previously set in your browser. That all makes a search professional's job that much harder; too many of us try to justify our existence by providing clients with SERP position, as if that position proved much of anything. Worse, there's no really clear way to be sure that positions pulled using tools like AWR or WebCEO are "pure," because Google could be finding ways to "customize" those results.
Best answer is as it always has been: judge results not on SERP position but on traffic. And if you're really hardcore (which you should be), judge your results not just on traffic, but on traffic that converts. Of course, that requires clients to understand what a valid conversion is, but no one said this job was going to be easy....
Google today announced its inevitable reach into real-time search, instantly adding results from Twitter, FriendFeed and MySpace. As cool and useful as this may be, I've got a couple of questions about it.
How do they assign relevance to tweets? Google's search algorithms are based, in large measure, on the number and quality of backlinks -- relevant links to a given page. How is Google assigning relevance to tweets? By hashmarks? By the number of followers on an account? That's obviously problematic, given the triviality of manipulating it. By the number of relevant followers? Then what determines relevance?
Is more weight given to official pronouncements from known or trusted entities? How do the entities get to be known or trusted? And if "official" sites do get preference, isn't that contrary to the whole idea of Twitter?
What about a common situation where a reporter for a publication tweets about a story that's about to break on their site or in print? How is that differentiated from an unsubstantiated rumor that some celebrity has died? It's not Google's place to be judging the truth value of tweets or posts, but I worry (as often) that this will only accelerate a race to the bottom.
And one more: Tweets are 140 characters long. Google snippets are 156. By presenting tweets on SERPs, Google is preempting one possible means for Twitter to monetize: ads. Why click through to a Twitter page when you get all you need on Google's?


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A sweetly styled doll named Poppy will captivate the young and not so young. From the flower in her hair to the grosgrain ribbons on her slippers, this lovely gamine will be a cherished friend forever.
- 13.5" wide x 4.5" thick x 28" high
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Parabola Magazine
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Publisher's Description: Deep within every individual lies the urge to understand the meaning and purpose of existence. For thirty years PARABOLA Magazine has responded to this universal impulse by presenting the sacred traditions, myths, symbols, rituals, and stories that have served to guide and inspire people in all times and places.
Each thematic issue of PARABOLA offers contemporary essays and images as well as excerpts of wisdom from the great masters of years past. Past and present come together in the retellings of traditional religious, folk, and fairy tales from cultures both familiar and obscure. Issue themes have included: The Hero, Addiction, Death, Healing, Woman, The Seeker, Evil, Eros, Attention, Prayer and Meditation, and Chaos and Order. We count among our contributors: Elaine Pagels, Thomas Moore, James Hillman, Fritjof Capra, Robert Thurman, Joseph Campbell, Madeleine L'Engle, Peter Matthiessen, P.L. Travers, Thich Nhat Hanh, Wendy Doniger, Robertson Davies, N.Scott Momaday, Ursula K. LeGuin, among others. For us, the questions are as fascinating and thought-provoking as the answers, and we seek to open and sustain discussion of the oldest questions of all.
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12 U.S. Code § 2202d - Protection of borrowers who meet all loan obligations
(a) Foreclosure prohibited
A qualified lender may not foreclose on any loan because of the failure of the borrower thereof to post additional collateral, if the borrower has made all accrued payments of principal, interest, and penalties with respect to the loan.
(b) Prohibition against required principal reduction
A qualified lender may not require any borrower to reduce the outstanding principal balance of any loan made to the borrower by any amount that exceeds the regularly scheduled principal installment payment (when due and payable), unless—
(c) Nonenforcement
After a borrower has made all accrued payments of principal, interest, and penalties with respect to a loan made by a qualified lender, the lender shall not enforce acceleration of the borrower's repayment schedule due to the borrower having not timely made one or more principal or interest payments.
(d) Placing loans in nonaccrual status
(1) Notification
If a qualified lender places any loan in nonaccrual status, the lender shall document such change of status and promptly notify the borrower thereof in writing of such action and the reasons therefor.
(2) Review of denial
If the borrower was not delinquent in any principal or interest payment under the loan at the time of such action and the borrower's request to have the loan placed back into accrual status is denied, the borrower may obtain a review of such denial before the appropriate credit review committee under section 2202 of this title.
Source(Pub. L. 92–181, title IV, § 4.14D, as added Pub. L. 100–233, title I, § 107,Jan. 6, 1988, 101 Stat. 1581.)
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The Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies is one of the largest and most prestigious interdisciplinary units at Tulane University. It functions in many capacities to provide programming and degree plans to a broad range of educational constituencies. Currently, these include a Bachelor of Arts major and minor in Latin American Studies, a Master of Arts degree in Latin American Studies, a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Latin American Studies, and two joint professional degree programs with the Law and Business schools.
Prospective Graduate students wishing to apply online can do so by clicking the link to the online application system.
All applicants to Stone Center Graduate programs, including applicants to any of our joint degree programs as well as non-native English speaking applicants, must take the GRE and should direct ETS to send their official GRE score reports to the Tulane School of Liberal Arts. The ETS code for the Tulane School of Liberal Arts is: 6183. Applicants who are non-native English speakers may also take the TOEFL and should direct ETS to send their official TOEFL scores also to the School of Liberal Arts via the above-mentioned ETS code number.
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"Norm Diffusion from the Global South" a talk by Kathryn Sikkink
Kathryn Sikkink of Harvard's Kennedy School
Thursday, September 25, 5:30 pm
Caroline Richardson Building, Anna Many Lounge
Refreshments will be served.? Everyone is welcome.
About the Speaker:
Kathryn Sikkink is the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at HKS and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Sikkink works on international norms and institutions, transnational advocacy networks, the impact of human rights law and policies, and transitional justice. Her publications include The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions are Changing World Politics (awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Center Book Award, and the WOLA/Duke University Award); Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America; Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (co-authored with Margaret Keck and awarded the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas for Improving World Order, and the ISA Chadwick Alger Award for Best Book in the area of International Organizations); and The Persistent Power of Human Rights: From Commitment to Compliance, (co-edited with Thomas Risse and Stephen Ropp). She holds an MA and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Sikkink has been a Fulbright Scholar in Argentina and a Guggenheim fellow. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the editorial boards of International Studies Quarterly,International Organization, and the American Political Science Review.
Footprints in Time. 5 Generations of Mexican Artists at the Parota
The Consulate of Mexico in New Orleans is pleased to invite you to the Art Exhibition of Mexican Masters entitled "Footprints in Time. 5 Generations of Mexican Artists at the Parota." The exhibit will feature works by Mexican artists Jose Luis Cuevas, Leonora Carrington, Alberto Castro Leñero, Manuel Felguerez, Gilberto Aceves Navarro, Francisco Toledo, and Roger Von Gunten among other.
The exhibit will run from August 29th to September 26th at the Art Gallery of the Consulate of Mexico in New Orleans. An opening reception will be held on August 29th at 6 pm.
Information on La Parota:
The Fine Art Center "La Parota" was created in 1996, by the combined efforts of the Government of the State of Colima's Ministry of Culture and the National Council for Culture and the Arts. "The Parota" celebrates a long continuing artistic history, full of achievements and great national and international recognition. The participation of the most important Mexican Masters teaching production of printmaking workshops and Fine Arts have been carried out at this Centre with great success since its beginning.
"The Parota" has been an Institution for established masters and young talented artists. The exchange of knowledge, ideas and experiences given in the workshops have driven new etching techniques, while developing a new generation of Fine Art Printmakers.
With the passing of the years, the Fine Art Center of Colima "La Parota" has generated a wealth of artistic production with the most important artists of Mexico, while simultaneously producing some of the nation's most outstanding young artists.
Exploring Immigration and Identity in the K-12 Classroom with Américas Award Books
Américas Award K-12 Workshop
In celebration of the 2014 Américas Award, CLASP and Teaching for Change are hosting a K-12 teacher workshop "Exploring Immigration and Identity in the K-12 Classroom with Américas Award Books."
This hands-on workshop will explore issues of immigration and identity using children's literature. The workshop will feature the work of this year's Honorable Mention book, Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote by Duncan Tonatiuh and Commended Title Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick your Ass by Meg Medina. Both authors will be in attendance to work with teachers on activities and strategies to best engage young readers with the complexity of immigration as it relates to family, education, and identity. Teaching for Change will highlight additional resources to incorporate teaching Social Justice and Human Rights.
All participants will receive breakfast, teaching resources, and a book (a choice of one of the two featured titles, please indicate whether you'd prefer the picture book Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote or the Young Adult title, Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass). Participants are also invited to attend the Américas Award Ceremony to be held at the Library of Congress from 3:00 – 5:00 PM. Also, a month-long exhibit of the original artwork from Parrots Over Puerto Rico will be on display at the Young Readers Center in The Library of Congress.
The Américas Award is sponsored by CLASP and coordinated by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University. Additional funding is provided by Florida International University, Stanford University, The Ohio State University, University of New Mexico, University of Utah, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and Vanderbilt University.
For more information contact Denise Woltering (email@example.com) (504.865.5164)
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Day of the Dead and the Arts: A Workshop for K-12 Art Educators
The Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art are sponsoring a K-12 teacher workshop to celebrate Day of the Dead!
The workshop will focus on how to provide students with information about Day of the Dead, Day of the Dead traditions, and celebrating Day of the Dead in the classroom. The workshop will involve hands-on activities, including activities which will translate into the classroom!
All participants will receive light refreshments and teaching materials. One teacher will have the opportunity to use a Day of the Dead altar kit, provided by the Latin American Resource Center. The kit has everything you need to celebrate Day of the Dead in your classroom!
Tentative Schedule:
Introductory Remarks (Denise Woltering-Vargas, Tulane University; Ellen Balkin, Ogden Museum)
Altar Viewing and Discussion (Cynthia Ramirez, Southern University of New Orleans)
Day of the Dead in the Artist's Classroom (Denise Tullier-Holly, Southeastern University Lab School)
Day of the Dead at the Ogden – Activities (Ellen Balkin, Ogden Museum)
Celebración Latina
Join us for our annual family festival as we celebrate 10 years of the festival! Please join us at the zoo to explore and celebrate the rich diversity of Latin America. Celebración Latina at the Zoo's Capital One Stage and Field will offer a true taste of the Latin American culture with live music, children's activities and authentic Latin cuisine prepared and sold by local restaurants. Local artisans will sell hand made crafts, and local social service, health and education organizations will offer wellness, education and social service information.
Check out pictures from the 2012 and 2013 festivals!
Celebración Latina is presented by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University. Contributing sponsors include Pan-American Life Insurance Group and Jefferson Financial Credit Union.
Celebración Latina is free with Zoo admission. No outside food or beverages please!
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A whole new generation of Furby critters is about to hatch! Dust off your Furbish dictionary and get ready to party with your Furby Boom creature! Your Furby has a mind of its own, and the way you treat your Furby will shape its personality -- so the more fun you have with it, the better! It speaks more English the more you play with it. Tickle your Furby, talk to it, and feed it with your finger. Play some tunes, pull some tails, and party on with your Furby Boom creature!
You can also download a free app to have a Furby Boom adventure and translate Furbish. Take care of your Furby, get virtual eggs and hatch and raise the Furblings! The Furby app is optional and works with iPad, iPod touch and iPhone with iOS 5.0 or later. The app is not compatible with prior Furby generations. Check Furby.com for device compatibility.
- Number of Pieces: 1
- Features: Motion, Speaks Phrases, Responds to Touch
- Includes: Figure
- Articulation: No articulation
- Material: Polyester
- Textile Material: 100% Polyester
- Dimensions: 7.99 " H x 7.99 " W x 5.0 " L
- Weight: 3.53 Lb.
- Suggested Age: 6 Years and Up
- Battery: Required, not included, 2 alkaline AA
- Care and Cleaning: Spot Clean Only
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