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Pop-up stores have become popular with retailers seeking to capitalize on a shopping season, such as Christmas and back-to-school, or simply to enhance their brand.
But pop-up, or temporary, newsrooms are spaces virtually unheard of in journalism…at least until this week.
Bedford + Bowery, an online news site produced by NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute in collaboration with New York magazine, launched a pop-up newsroom in Williamsburg this week. It will offer a temporary base of operations in Brooklyn as well as a venue for events—panel discussions, readings, workshops, and shows of local artists.
"Our mission is to open our work to the community by inviting neighbors to sit in on the interviews and discussions that would otherwise be conducted in private—between journalist and subject," says Daniel Maurer, editor of Bedford + Bowery. "At The Newsroom, we'll show our subjects rather than just tell about them, while also documenting all events for publication online."
The Newsroom will be open through the month of October; after that, Bedford + Bowery will continue to cover north Brooklyn out of the Carter Journalism Institute's 20 Cooper Square location.
"We hope to enrich our stories in ways that can only be done in the physical realm, through live interaction," adds Maurer. "It's one thing to read a Q & A with an author online and quite another thing to see that Q & A conducted live, in person, followed by a reading from the author's book and the opportunity to speak to them yourself."
The Newsroom, located at 155 Grand St., near Bedford Avenue, has already planned a speakers' series that will include: Lower East Side documentarian, gallerist, artist, and historian Clayton Patterson; punk-era chroniclers Emily Armstrong and Pat Ivers of Nightclubbing; legendary Brooklyn street artist Rostarr; Williamsburg novelist Bradley Spinelli; East Village musician and memoirist Rayya Elias; Lower East Side DJ and memoirist Brendan Jay Sullivan; new Village Voice editor Tom Finkel; and Bushwick novelist and publisher Maggie Craig.
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BELLAIRE - A car flipped onto its top in front of the Indian Run Learning Center in the village just after 8 a.m. on Thursday.
The driver of the car, a female, had just filled up with gas at the Circle K and was dropping her two grandchildren off at the preschool. Both of her grandchildren were in buckled into car seats in the back seat, said Bellaire Police Chief Mike Kovalyk.
The preliminary investigation shows that the driver headed northbound and lost control, striking a tree stump at the edge of the sidewalk with the right side wheels going up on the tree stump causing the vehicle to roll over on its top.
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Hello all, the $\Delta$ operator on functions $\mathcal{N} \to \mathbb{R}$ (where $\mathcal N$ denotes $\lbrace 1,2, \ldots , \rbrace$ )defined by $\Delta(f)(n)=f(n+1)-f(n)$ is well-known and it is not very hard to show by induction that $f$ is a polynomial of degree $\leq k$ iff $\Delta^{k+1}(f)$ is identically zero, where $\Delta^{k+1}$ denotes $\Delta$ iterated $k+1$ times. Now I say that a function $f : \mathcal{N} \to \mathbb{R}$ is "almost polynomial" iff $\Delta^{k}(f)$ is a bounded function for some $k$.
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The decade after 9/11 was marked by crowds gathering near Ground Zero to protest plans to build an Islamic cultural center, a Florida minister promising to burn the Koran, and the labeling of then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama as a Muslim as a way to derail his presidential candidacy. At the same time, Sheikh Hamza Yusuf and Imam Zaid Shakir were working to establish what may have seemed to many as unviable—the first Muslim liberal arts college in the United States.
In Light without Fire: The Making of America's First Muslim College (Beacon Press), Scott Korb chronicles the 2010-11 year at the Berkeley, Calif. institution, Zaytuna College, which employs a single, unified curriculum based on the Great Books model of Columbia University and St. John's College.
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Consider a global field $F$ and the group $\Gamma =GL(2,F)$. An element $\gamma \in \Gamma$ is called elliptic, if its eigenvalues do not lie in $F$. Now consider a completion $F_v$ of $F$ and $G_v = GL(2,F_v)$. Now the eigenvalues of $\gamma$ may or may not lie in $F_v$. What is the centralizer $$ C_{G_v}(\gamma) = \{ g \in G_v : g\gamma = \gamma g \}?$$
The centralizer of $\gamma$ is a torus of the form $E^\times$, where $E/F$ is a quadratic field extension. Assume moreover that $\gamma$ is regular (so that $E/F$ is separable). The centralizer of $\gamma$ in $G_v$ is $(E\otimes_F F_v )^\times$. The algebra $E\otimes F_v$ is either a field (in that case $\gamma$ is elliptic in $G_v)$) or a sum of two fields isomorphic to $F_v$, according to whether the prime $v$ splits in $E$ or not. In the latter case $\gamma$ is a regular element lying in a split torus of $G_v$.


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As the wait continues for the BlackBerry Bold 9900, it seems UK retailers are pretty much set to roll this thing out even before RIM is. We've seen Vodafone UK give us a walk-through, Amazon UK list a white BlackBerry Bold 9900 and now Play has the device listed for £519.99 sim-free (no contract) on pre-order. The date listed for release is August 12, but Play has been known to change launch dates on the fly -- sometimes, without letting those who have pre-ordered know. So, it's a wait and see scenario if you're planning on placing a pre-order. Thanks, Dave!
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But I don't blame them for taking advantage of all the hype for this phone. Good timing to start the preorders since no other carrier/ retailer has started doing the same. Smart but it all comes down to how much the customer would pay for this phone or wait a bit more till other vendors start selling it at a cheaper price.
despite rim being a canadian company... basically everyone is just waiting on US carriers to approve.. (not to ruin carrier relations).... as you can see from bell./telus/uk telcom company leaks.. its obvious they are not the problem, they are more than eager to get them out the door... just waiting for that damn at&t....
Haha! Just recently watched that film XD
It ALWAYS looks like 19.99 when you look at it quickly lol!
It's definately better than the usual 3 or so month delay we have before new phones are released in the UK after elsewhere, e.g. 9700
i might as well ask this question while im here, i posted on in the forum this morning but there is no way im notified when someone replies to my post and its very hard for me to track it down and read the replies.
my question is, can i use the AT&T OS on my unlocked phone with Bell or do i need the bell one?
i have a Bell sim card and apps on my phone but when i load up my phone it says "AT&T"
the reason for this is ever since i loaded the latest 9700 os6 on my 9700 (Duh) my notification sounds are not working only the vibration so my phone is on vibrate on every profile, even my alarm which is the most important thing at this moment.
i have deleted the os and went to the precious os but nothing happened and im currently downloading the latest os to try it again
Can we please get this is the US buy the end of July if that's the case?
Can't wait for this phone to be released in the U.S. by T-mo. Hopefully RIM will learn from Apple's model of releasing devices shortly after they have been unveiled. This phone has been roaming around on video reviews for months and still no clear sign of an official release date. "This summer" to me is just as good as "sometime in the future" give us a clearly defined release date dammit :o)
I think the only reason why the Bold was announced so early was because of BBW. They couldnt announce all the new phones months before they were ready, on the other hand they couldnt have gone through BBW and not shown a single new phone.
The rest of the OS7 phones probably wont get announced till the carriers are ready to release them.
RIM's next reporting date is September 15th, 2011... aka "Dark Thursday" if they don't get this device in people's hands by then!
Come on, RIM. Sure, the 9900/9930 is a huge step forward for BlackBerry, but the price is just insane… and I thought the iPhone 4 was expensive at £519! £419 seems a bit more reasonable, though it's still expensive, considering the price of other devices out there.
"huge step forward for BlackBerry"
Isn't that a bit of an exaggeration? RIM isn't stepping forward, it's being dragged along by the competition.
wow here in holland o na 2 year contract ,about every phone you get is free. Except for the iphone, you pay about 200 euro
My first BlackBerry was a Pearl 8130 on a three year contract. Next, bought Curve 8330 at full retail price. After that, the Tour 9630 at full price. And, yet again, I paid full price for my 9700 last August. I thought I would do the same for the 9900, but not if it's $700. It's not THAT awesome. I also need to consider the extras - the case I'd want, screen protectors, extra battery w/external charger, charging pod (all of the things I have for my 9700.)
If the 9900 had a built-in laser pointer, that would be awesome.
£120.00 too much in my opinion - £399.99 would be the high reasonable sim-free price when RIM would like to attract new BB users. Undoubtedly, there're many mobiles on the market with better features. This price seems to be made for draining the wallets of old-school-bb-fans while launching. The only hope's in fact that play.com always have bigger prices than many other retailers. And they release new devices much later than others.
US $ 831. Like someone said earlier, it better not cost more than $199 with 2 year contract or else no one would buy it. With so many choices at the $199 or lower level, why would anyone pay through their nose just to get a Blackberry? I'm with Sprint and those cheap bastards offer only $150 off at 22 months which means I would have to pay $681 for the Bold 9930 which will not happen when for around $250 I could get a HTC EVO or the MOTO ATIX that will be released this month. Hope RIM is going to price this device sensitively and take into account competition and other factors which won't happen because they are incompetents when it comes to marketing (see the Playbook release fiasco, the Bold 9900/9930, 9850, Torch2).
@Dada - The high price on Play's website is because it is an unlocked, non-contracted phone. I'm guessing the US carriers will start somewhere between $199 and $299 for a on-contract 9900/9930. Hopefully RIM considers their decline in market share when setting a price for this phone....because overpricing it won't help in regaining that market share back.
This wait its gona take 4ever !! my 9780 its so old and slow beside this babyy!!!
I need it now to be happy !!
I paid £360 for my white 9780 and I am not paying no more than £420 sim free.
Have a contract which is due to run out so will probably pick it up as an upgrade. £400 would be a great price but anything above that most people will look at other phones on the market.


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6 Endangered Species That Aren't Endangered Enough
#3. Corpse Flower
Let's get the obvious question out of the way: Why is it called the corpse flower? Because it smells like rotting dead bodies. Why does it smell of rotting dead bodies? To attract the armies of flesh eating beetles that pollinate it. Why does it exist? Because Satan is real, and He hates us very much.
To further cement its status as "genuine product of human nightmares," it looks like a giant 12-foot penis. Really. Originally named the Amorphophallus (Latin for "Weird Dick"), it was given the name "Titan Arum" by David Attenborough, who point-blank refused to spend a documentary talking about the majestic StrangeCock plant. When Mr. Nature himself refuses to even utter a plant's name, that's more strong evidence for the "Satanflower" pile.
Until 2000, the Arum was the official flower of the Bronx. It's one thing to accept that you have a crime problem, but when even your chosen flower smells of dead bodies you may be taking "truth in advertising" too far. It was replaced by the day lily. To summarize: It stinks, it's disturbing looking and it's been fired from a day job in the Bronx--this species is already dead, it just doesn't know it yet.
So how do we finish them off?
Despite being critically endangered in the wild, the amorphophallus is kept around by museums which not only grow them, but bill their occasional flowerings as "fascinating and educational."
Armed guards protect onlookers from the corpse flower
#2. Red-Headed Vulture
Vultures are one of the most unwelcome animals in the world, what with the whole "we're just waiting here until you die" thing. Add the curse of red-headedness and they're one shelf of hentai from being the most socially repellent creature on the planet. On the upside, it does look exactly like Darth Maul would if he was a bird:
It hangs around cattle country in Northern India, letting struggling farmers know when they're one dead farm animal closer to starving to death. The farmers, rather unsportingly, try to keep the cattle alive. Bastards. One of veterinary drugs used on the cattle (NSAID Diclofenac) has the side effect of killing vultures who then eat the cow via renal failure, which is just the painful icing on the lifestyle cake after being born as a ginger corpse-eater. Some over-keen animal rights activists are demanding that farmers stop using this treatment, preferring that the vultures stay alive while the farm animals die--so not only is the carrion feeder alive, it's well fed. Bonus: When the farmers family starve to death, the vulture gets seconds!
So how do we finish them off?
This one's already in progress--farmers are strangely unwilling to work as "Vulture Buffet Chefs." There is a safer replacement for Diclofenac, Meloxicam, but it's more expensive and for some reason the farmers can't work up enough sympathy to fork over the extra cash to save the carcass-eating bastards.
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A slightly more compelling reason is the creation of armies of feral rabies-ridden dogs, as the festering corpses that go uneaten by dead vultures are going to be eaten by something. Still, we believe that when the only good thing you can say about a species is "At least it's better than armies of rabid dogs," it's probably one we can do without.
This problem has become so severe that the Indian government has pledged to prevent the use of Diclonofec, though that seems a short-sighted solution. We have to play to our strengths, Indian government! We're humans, extinction is our business. If the dogs become a problem, make them extinct. If the hippies start to complain--well, we think we understand each other.
#1. Panda
"Not the cuddly, wuddly panda!" you exclaim, possibly chewing on a gender-neutral flax-soy bar. Well guess what? The panda is nature's loser, an animal so far gone that it won't even have sex without the aid of several Chinese zookeepers. When a species' sole responsibility is to "get busy" and it still doesn't bother, then we, as people who have to go to goddamn work every day, lose sympathy.
Speaking as men, we can tell you--when an animal has lost interest in its own penis, it wants to die. Scientists are considering cloning the species, but when you've got a room full of super-biologists stuck photocopying an animal that was too stupid to exist the first time, it isn't going to be long before they start thinking: "We could build a far better panda--with four arms! And laser vision! And neon pink! And isn't mystified by its own genitals!"
So how do we finish them off?
Pandas might be doing it themselves (by not doing it themselves), but as long as they have the "awww big teddy weddy bear!" appeal people are going to keep them around. But we know the secret that will truly encourage their extinction: they're carnivores. The cute color scheme blinds people to the fact that it's still a couple hundred pounds of goddamned bear.
Another panda gets stuck in a tree, and has to be rescued by the fire department.
Bamboo is their depression comfort food since they've become too slow and fat to hunt anything but firmly rooted plants, but they'll still eat any small animals they get their paws on. We have a plan to stop all the panda-pandering. We can't get into it now, but it involves a zoo, a basket of puppies and a YouTube account.
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DOWELL, Alvin S."Big Al" Sr., 62, of Rush Run, OH, passed away Saturday February 9, 2013, in Wheeling Medical Park Hospital.
He was born January 24, 1951, in Steubenville, OH, a son of the late Linzie and Dorothea "Bonnie" Lavon Morris Dowell.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Harold L. "Linnie" Dowell.
Big Al was a truck driver for Rush Run Trucking. He was Methodist by faith, and a big fan of the 700 Club. He enjoyed spending time with his children and grandchildren.
Surviving are his wife, Karen J. (Brown) Dowell, whom he married August 9, 1975; a son, Alvin S. (Jessica) Dowell Jr. of Brilliant, Ohio; a daughter, Tami (Steven) Wade of Barnesville, Ohio; and five grandchildren, Calvin and Maisie Dowell and Alexis, Willow and Eddy Wade.
Friends will be received on Wednesday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m., and also on Thursday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at the Wheeler Funeral Home, 712 Third St., Brilliant, where funeral services will be held on Friday at 11 a.m. with Pastor Jeff Seigler, officiating.
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Let $G$ be a locally compact group and $H$ be a closed subgroup of $G$. Is there any way to define a reasonable orthonormal basis for $L^2(G/H)$? By "reasonable" I mean elements of the orthonormal basis should be continuous and whose supports are compact and of bounded measure (i.e. there is a large number $M$ such that $\mu(supp f)\leq M$ for all $f$ in the basis).
At least, do you know any reference to learn about concrete orthonormal bases on $L^2(G)$, where $G$ is a locally compact group?


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I have multiple bodies in my game world in andengine. All the bodies affected by gravity but in that I want my specific body does not affected by the gravity.
For that solution after research I found that I have to use
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But in my andengine extension I don't found that method so please provide guidance about how get access about that method.
Also for the above problem any other guidance will be acceptable. Thank You!
I apply following code for reverse gravity
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Bake for 30—40 minutes in round tins until golden.
Create two-tiered weight bearing structure to support cake. For reference, use the P=W/(dxb) W=Static Load to ensure maximum stability.
Mold flamingo sculptures separately, actual flamingos work best for modeling, but cranes can be substituted.
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My device is a Samsung Galaxy Ace / Cooper. It's running on Froyo. I want to auto arrange icons in the app menu. Is there a way to do this? Like auto arrange alphabetically? Is there a built-in function for doing this? Or an app on the market for the same purpose?
Some versions of the Touchwiz launcher already have the ability to sort alphabetically. Open the app drawer, press Menu, View type, and choose Alphabetical grid or Alphabetical list.
Since you're on a Samsung, I believe you have TouchWiz (I believe the Ace does, anyway). You can try the TouchWiz AppSorter app from the Market. It requires your phone to be rooted in order for it to work.
If you don't have root, one option is to wipe the data for the launcher application, which will force it to re-sort the apps. You do this by going into
Another alternative would be to install a different launcher. Most third-party launcher applications seem sort alphabetically by default from what I've seen. ADW.Launcher and Launcher Pro are fairly popular choices.
Here is a related XDA thread with some discussion (aimed at the Galaxy S I9000, but essentially the same). Some of your options do depend on what version of TouchWiz you have.


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Published: Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 12:01 a.m.
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We Americans mourn the deaths of Americans (and others) in 9/11, Iraq and Afghanistan, and right we should.
But what about the 30,296 people that we Americans killed with automobiles and 31,672 we killed with guns (2010 statistics — I am sure the number is higher when we look at all killings).
This is not a lobby for or against guns. This is a reality check on the people we Americans kill in our own country and it goes on year after year.
Who, besides the immediate family, mourns for them?
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I've thought for years that when you are upset, it means "you've just heard some unexpected news or something shocking, and as a result, you're not calm and probably you can't judge as correctly as usual." (I think it's a common translation found for the word "慌てた" in Japanese-English dictionaries.)
But I find in many English dictionaries, in paper, or online, it's said to mean "be irritated" or "be angry". Was I wrong, or is my explanation not wrong but a rarer usage?
If it means "be angry", let me ask two more questions.
- Has the meaning changed? Older English dictionaries don't tend to explain much in this regards. They only say "disturbing" = "vomitting" or so.
- Are there any English word that corresponds to my "old" meaning? "lost calmness" or so?


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What do people think about having a tag called something like 'basic'? This tag would encompass questions that can be answered quickly/simply by someone familiar with the language/technology. Perhaps the nature of the tag itself means it would be a big fail as it's so subjective....but it might allow responders to quickly identify those questions that can be answered quickly and clearly. It could also encourage more people to contribute, even if they're not experts. I saw the question on 'Beginner' tags, but the wording of 'basic' suggests something a little bit different, and might be attractive to people not enamored of the loaded word 'beginner'. Just a thought....
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I don't think this is beneficial.
We already have a basic tag for a language called BASIC, if this means anything.
But seriously, for the purposes you propose it'd be too much of a meta tag to be useful enough to the question. A beginner question is as deserving of answers as a more advanced question is. And who's to say whether a question is easy enough or not?
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There is a programming language called Basic, this would lead to confusion
As @Mr.Wizard says it is not beneficial to say it is a basic question, if it is a basic question it will be answered quickly anyway.
The entire concept is deeply flawed. Presumably, the person asking the question isn't familiar enough with the subject matter to answer it, so how are they familiar enough with the subject matter to know whether it's a basic question?
If the person asking a question knows enough to consider it "basic", they should probably be able to find the answer out for themselves.


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Let's consider $$\Bbb N=\{0,1,2,3,\ldots\},$$ and, for each $k\in\{1,2,3,\ldots,\}$, let $$o_k=2k-1$$ be the sequence of odd natural numbers.
Given that for each $m\in\Bbb N$, if $a$ is odd, the number $$m(m+a)$$ is even, it is easy to see that $$\begin{align*} (x+y)^2 + y + 3x &= x^2 + 2xy + y^2 + y + 3x\\ &= x(x+3) + y(y+1) + 2xy \end{align*}$$ is even.
Assuming that for arbitrary $x_1,\ldots, x_k\in\Bbb N$, the number $$(x_1+\cdots + x_k)^2+x_k+3x_{k-1}+\cdots +o_kx_1$$ is even, we have that $$\begin{align*} & (x_1+\cdots + x_{k+1})^2+x_{k+1}+3x_k+\cdots +o_kx_1\\ &\qquad = (x_1+\cdots + x_{k})^2 +2(x_1+\cdots + x_{k})x_{k+1}+ x_{k+1}^2 + x_{k+1} + (x_k+\cdots + o_kx_{1}) +2(x_1+\cdots + x_{k}) \\ &\qquad = (x_1+\cdots + x_{k})^2 + (x_k+\cdots + o_kx_{1}) + x_{k+1}(x_{k+1}+1) + 2(x_1+\cdots + x_{k})(x_{k+1}+1) \end{align*}$$ is even.
Therefore by induction, for each $k\geq 2$ we have that $$\frac1{2}\left[(x_1+\cdots + x_k)^2+x_k+3x_{k-1}+\cdots +o_kx_1\right]$$ is indeed a natural number.
But, does this describes all natural numbers?
I mean, for a given $n\in\Bbb N$, does the equation $$(x_1+\cdots + x_k)^2+x_k+3x_{k-1}+\cdots +o_kx_1=2n$$ have exactly one solution $(x_1,\ldots,x_k)\in\Bbb N^k$?


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Keith over at Literature & Latte has revealed Scrivener 2.0 and… I just don't know how to talk about it without getting misinterpreted, misquoted, misunderstood. All I want to say is "congrats", really, as this must have been one hell of a job to pull off.
So all the best, Keith. And welcome to 2.0, he. :)


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I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about the spaces we inhabit as teachers. In my classroom practice as well as my university classes, I keep coming back to the idea of intentional space and how we create it in our lives. Especially with younger students, teachers know there must be a place for everything and everything in its place. There are bins for picking up this kind of paper, boxes for returning that kind of paper, cups for creative materials, and so on and so forth. As teachers, I want us to start asking about our professional spaces within the school. Where do we have PD? Where do we plan? Where do we meet with colleagues to blow off steam or chat?
While possibly seeming pedestrian or even passive on their surface, each of these questions requires us to imagine our daily routines and habits. That shared starting point of "where do I go to do the things I do?" is one that prepares us for learning and practicing new things. In my experience, it is likely that the discussion about where we do things is swept aside rather quickly in conversation in favor of seemingly more pragmatic ones like "what are we doing?". This is a mistake, I think. Creating a physical space (or a digital one) is the first step to creating mental space for ideas. If my colleagues and I want to expose ourselves to new ideas about teaching more regularly, than we must collaborate to make a place to house those ideas. Once we know where we can go together, be it a bulletin board or a blog, to post those ideas and questions, we will start to accept that we are permitted to improve and discuss those things.
When schools fail to create or identify these kinds of professional spaces, innovation can cease, and practices will begin to stagnate. To share one example, my school recently implemented a new early morning collaboration time each week. Every department was given a day of the week and 30 minutes (it's better than nothing) before and during our homerooms to work on shared issues. When my department's day finally came, we were excited and a little bit stressed. We knew carving out the time was an important step for administration to take, but there were new stresses to be concerned with that come any time you leave your classroom.
We made an agenda and made our way to the meeting room on our Thursday morning, excited to get some adult space to ourselves. We passed out some questions to discuss and dug right in. Not a minute later than we got comfortable with our coffee and notes, the announcements started. Our precious time and space was now polluted, put on pause, and our lips all pursed in frustration.
You can get a fair amount done in 30 minutes of time, and it offers the option of members coming to school a bit earlier if needed. However, when that's interrupted by announcements that can't be stopped, nearly everything gained by the space created is lost.The next week we found a new space to convene and the meeting moved forward with only muffled interference in the distance.
Learning to make new spaces is only the first step. Such spaces will bring challenges needing mitigation. The process is never fully complete either; that needs to be understood. Schools, teachers, and principals must all become adept at mastering the use of intentional space in the school and in time. The cycle of improvement must be continuous. Manipulating digital space needs to be added to that list also, as it is something many are not equipped to do. Start by recognizing and evaluating existing spaces: where are certain types of work done? Where are formal and informal conversations really taking place? And what is perceived by the staff as effective among each of those areas?
Starting there, educators can move forward with the knowledge that changes to the spaces around them will facilitate more positive change and allow for the free exchange of more information and inquiry.
So, what kinds of spaces do you see in use? What kinds of spaces are being created in your school?


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Math Activities from A to Z
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Math Activities A to Z is presented as detailed lesson plans for a wealth of hands-on math activities for young children ages one to five. Its focus is on math concepts that preschoolers can understand and with which they can grow. Number concepts, one-to-one correspondence, spatial concepts and patterning activities will provide enjoyment for children, parents and teachers alike. Each section of the book will help educators in finding math activities for a theme-based curriculum, for incorporating a letter of the week or as a last-minute filler activity.


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I was reading this question link text and can't seem to see why, if $\pi: P \to B$ is a principle $G$-bundle and $$\rho:G \to GL_n(\mathbb{C})$$ is a representation of $G$, then the total space $P \times_{\rho} \mathbb{C}^n$ is locally trivial.
A principal G-bundle $\pi: P \to B$ is locally equivalent to a product. Depending on who you ask, this is either part of the definition, or a short lemma. It means that there is a cover of B by open sets U, together with bundle isomorphisms $\alpha_U: \pi^{-1}U \to G \times U$ that are both G-equivariant, and induce transition sections in G: see Wikipedia.
The associated bundle construction is a quotient of $P \times \mathbb{C}^n$ by an equivalence relation given by the actions of G on the left and right factors. Since $\alpha_U$ is G-equivariant, the map $\alpha_u \times id: \pi^{-1}U \times \mathbb{C}^n \to G \times U \times \mathbb{C}^n$ is also a G-equivariant bundle map, so you get bundle isomorphisms on the quotient bundles: $\alpha_u \times_\rho id: \pi^{-1}U \times_\rho \mathbb{C}^n \to U \times \mathbb{C}^n$.
You can trivialize that bundle over the same open sets on which $\pi$ is trivial with essentially the same trivialization---up to composing with $\rho$.
Later: The easiest way to see this is, I think the following. If your initial principal $G$-bundle is trivial, then it is more or less evident that $P\times_\rho\mathbb C^n$ is also trivial. Now if $\pi$ is not trivial but its restriction $\pi|\_U:\pi^{-1}(U)\to U$ is trivial over an open subset $U\subseteq B$, then by the previous observation and a little unravelling of the notation, we have that $P\times_\rho\mathbb C^n$ is trivial over $U$.
@Scott: I'm going to add this as an answer because it a bit long for a comment: Sorry, but I'm a bit slow and want to be certain that I understand exactly what you're saying: If $(p,v) \in P \times_{\rho} \mathbb{C}^n$, then $$(\alpha_u \times id)(p,v) = (\pi(p),g_p,v) \in U \times G \times \mathbb{C}^n,$$ for some $g_p \in G$, depending on the choice of $\alpha_U$. This is not in $U \times \mathbb{C}^n$ as we would want, moreover it's not even well defined. So by $\alpha_U \times_{\rho} id$ do you mean the composition $$ (id \times m) \circ (id \times \rho \times id)\circ (\alpha_U \times id), $$ that maps $$ (p,v) \mapsto (\pi(p), \rho(g_p)v)? $$
I've never worked this out carefully, but in my usual backwards "I prefer vector bundles" approach, I would do the following: First, assume that the representation of $G$ is faithful. Then you can view any local trivialization of the principal bundle as giving all possible $G$-frames of a trivialization of a vector bundle (i.e., the columns of each matrix representing an element in $G$ form a basis of the fiber of the vector bundle). Using this perspective, you can infer from the gluing maps for the principal bundle how to glue together the trivializations of the vector bundle.


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5 Movie Fan Theories That Make More Sense Than the Movie
At some point, we've all seen the finale of a TV show or movie and thought, "I could have written a better ending than that." (We're still bitter about 24 not ending with Jack Bauer exploding from all the accumulated urine in his body, like our write-in campaign suggested.) That's why there is a thriving culture of fan theories that flood the Internet in anticipation of every show, movie or book.
Though these theories turn out to be wrong approximately 100% of the time, we like to point out the ones that really do seem to improve on what the actual writers came up with. Tell us the below movies or series wouldn't be improved if it turned out...
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#5. Harry Potter Isn't the Chosen One; His Inept Classmate Is
In the world of Harry Potter, Neville Longbottom is the resident doofus. He's not really good at magic, he constantly forgets stuff -- even Rowling hates him, as evidenced by the fact that she included a synonym for "ass" in his name. Neville only seems to be there so that readers who aren't smart, capable or attractive will have someone to identify with.
Also to make Harry Potter look like less of a dork in comparison.
However, just like that shy kid from your school who went on to become a porn actor, later books seem to hint that there might be something more to Neville than meets the eye ...
The Awesome Fan Theory:
Basically, that Harry Potter dude was just a distraction. The "chosen one" was Neville all along.
See, the plot of all seven books revolves around the idea that Harry's life fulfills this prophecy:
"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord [Voldemort] approaches ... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies ... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not ... ".
"Also, he'll have a goddamn sword."
The thing is, all that stuff applies to Neville, too. His parents had thrice defied Voldemort, and he was born on July 30, one day before Harry. So what power does Neville know that Voldemort doesn't? According to the theory, that could be either "the power of love" (as in Harry's case) or "herbology."
Or both, considering the way he looks at those plants.
The "Voldemort will mark him as his equal" part was a little trickier, but then again it wasn't clear how it related to Harry, either. Neville had a messed up relationship with his parents, mainly due to the fact that Voldemort had them tortured into insanity. Voldemort had some serious mommy issues, too, so in that sense Voldemort made him his equal.
But the best part of the theory, the part that makes it all come together, is the idea that Dumbledore, the principal of Wizard High, was intentionally allowing Voldemort to think Harry was the chosen one just to protect Neville. While we're not saying they should have just ditched Harry in the last book and turned the other kid into the protagonist, it would have been pretty cool to have Harry find out he wasn't the center of the universe after all, if only because it would have made the character slightly less insufferable.
"Now that I know I'm not the chosen one, I can finally get my dick tattooed."
The later books do flirt with the idea, however briefly. And it would have fit right in with Rowling's habit of pillaging the first three books to turn all the one-off magic items and half-serious gags into game-changing MacGuffins.
What We Got Instead:
Potter fans of the world were treated to a stunning twist ending in which (spoiler!) Harry kills Voldemort, and then a bunch of random stuff happens because ... you know ... wizards. But even before the last book came out, Rowling actually went on the record specifically shooting the fan theory down, perhaps realizing the ending she had already written wasn't as awesome as the one fans imagined and trying to keep them from getting their hopes up.
#4. The Matrix: Neo is a Machine
You probably remember the end of the first Matrix movie, in which Keanu Reeves learns that he can change reality with his mind because he's actually living in a giant computer simulation. Later, in The Matrix Reloaded, he kills several sentinel robots with his new mental god-powers --- but he's not inside the Matrix anymore. He's in the real world.
More specifically, in the land of oddly elaborate hairdos and rave sex.
So what gives? Also at the end of Matrix Reloaded, one of the evil computer programs makes its way into the real world by "possessing" the body of a human, which ... doesn't make a lot of sense, when you think about it. What's going on?
The Awesome Fan Theory:
We've previously told you about a popular interpretation which holds that the "real" world of Zion is still part of the Matrix; Keanu had just moved up to another level of simulation, like in Inception. But before the third movie was released, when Matrix fans were still in the denial stage of sequel grief, there was another, more elaborate theory: Zion is a Matrix-like simulation, but one made by humans for the purpose of creating better machines.
The previous generation left something to be desired.
In this scenario, Neo and his "enlightened" fellow humans were actually machines all along, and the baffling, recursive fight scenes they experienced in Matrix Reloaded were software implanted by the humans designed to teach them to understand human pain.
"I understand now ... it sucks ass!"
These dreaming machines would presumably be discouraged from ever declaring war and killing humans in the real world, and everyone would finally be free of the conflict that has plagued futuristic mankind since they decided that a personality was an important thing to have in their coffee machines.
The reason we like this theory is that it would have been a clever play on the old "machines revolt " trope -- instead of humans letting robots take over the world again (apparently nobody in this universe paid any attention to the Terminator movies), the fact that they actually took steps to prevent that sort of shit from happening would have turned the cliche on its head and provided a Matrix-like twist ending for the trilogy.
In addition to giving an in-story excuse for Keanu's acting.
What We Got Instead:
As anyone who watched The Matrix Revolutions knows, the official explanation was that Neo had powers in the real world because fuck you, dear viewer, that's why. At one point someone says something about Neo's powers coming from "The Source," without actually bothering to explain what "The Source" is, which is probably the result of the Wachowskis saying "Don't worry, we'll figure something out in the next movie" while forgetting that this was the final film.
Above: The "Source."
#3. Twilight's Bella Is Part Werewolf
Toward the end of the Twilight series, several pressing questions remain in the mind of the reader, the foremost being, "How can I introduce a constitutional amendment to stop the phrase 'sculpted, incandescent chest' from ever being used again?" But there are others: Why can't Edward, a vampire mind-reader, read the thoughts of Bella, a regular human girl? Also, how on earth is Bella pregnant with his half-vampire baby, when vampires can't father children?
What time of the day was this picture taken, and why isn't he engulfed in flames?
The fact that Bella's baby is mysteriously invisible to any kind of scan and even another vampire's precognitive powers (apparently, in Twilight vampires are basically like the X-Men) seems to suggest that something is definitely up with that particular fetus. What could the author possibly be hinting at with all these clues? What amazing plot twist could possibly justify all this drivel?
Bella is revealed to be a T-1000?
The Awesome Fan Theory:
Simple: Bella, the completely uninteresting teenage protagonist, is actually part werewolf. You thought you were reading about a boring, cliched emo girl stereotype, but that's exactly what the author wanted you to think.
The Twilight books tell us repeatedly that vampire powers go haywire when it comes to their ancient enemies, the werewolves. If Bella possessed a weird combination of human and werewolf DNA, it would explain why Edward couldn't read her mind, why the vampires couldn't see her baby's future and possibly how the hell she got pregnant in the first place.
Everyone knows a werewolf uterus is more resistant than a regular one.
Think about it: That whole "vampire powers go crazy" stuff could easily include making their sperm count go up while inside a werewolf -- sure, why not? They just never found out about it because vampires and werewolves hate each other so much. This could also explain why Jacob, the most eligible werewolf bachelor, has the hots for dull Bella: it's just genetics. Also, Jacob didn't find out he had werewolf blood until the second book, so there's a precedent for this stuff.
Awful tattoos are an early warning sign of lycanthropy.
More importantly, making Bella and Jacob long-lost first cousins would have utilized the time-tested Star Wars Incest Love Triangle Escape Clause. Finally, Bella's human/werewolf/vampire hybrid baby could have ended the vampire vs. werewolf conflict by linking them to a common bloodline, like a significantly more sparkly version of a medieval dynastic marriage.
What We Got Instead:
We sure did get an explanation for Bella's special powers: She is an incredibly unique and beautiful snowflake, and everybody loves her. Seriously -- that's it. It turned out that the vampires couldn't see the baby's future because the fetus was "wrapped in something."
"There it is. Miss, your son is covered in bullshit plot twists."
As for the mysterious impregnation, the author fixed that plot hole by having some guy walk in and tell everyone that male vampires can in fact impregnate human females, but that it happens so rarely that everyone sort of forgot about it. Apparently, vampires throughout history have been very strict about always using contraceptives and never, ever raping people.
Seriously, why is he not on fire now?
Oh, and the Jacob/Bella/Edward triangle is "solved" when Jacob falls deeply in love with Bella's recently born baby ... but the less said about that the better.


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The following is a homework question for which I am asking guidance.
Let $A$, $B$, $C$ be independent random variables uniformly distributed between $(0,1)$. What is the probability that the polynomial $Ax^2 + Bx + C$ has real roots?
That means I need $P(B^2 -4AC \geq 0$). I've tried calling $X=B^2 -4AC$ and finding $1-F_X(0)$, where $F$ is the cumulative distribution function.
I have two problems with this approach. First, I'm having trouble determining the product of two uniform random variables. We haven't been taught anything like this in class, and couldn't find anything like it on Sheldon Ross' Introduction to Probability Models.
Second, this strategy just seems wrong, because it involves so many steps and subjects we haven't seen in class. Even if I calculate the product of $A$ and $C$, I'll still have to square $B$, multiply $AC$ by four and then subtract those results. It's too much for a homework question. I'm hoping there might be an easier way.


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Airport hotels
There are a number of hotels at Milan Malpensa Airport. These incude the Crowne Plaza Milan-Malpensa, which is situated between the two terminals, the First Hotel Malpensa Airport, the Hotel Villa Malpensa, and the Holiday Inn Express. Most hotels offer free courtesy shuttles to and from the terminals.
The 4-star Crowne Plaza Milan-Malpensa Airport is located between terminals 1 and 2 at the airport. Hotel facilities include in-room Wi-Fi Internet access, a restaurant, bar, and conference facilities for up to 140 delegates. 21019 Case Nuove 7 Via Ferrarin Somma Lombardo (Varese) Italy Tel: 0331 21161. Web: www.crowneplazamalpensa.com
Holiday Inn Express Milan Malpensa Airport is located just 1km (0.8 miles) from Terminal 2 and is linked by a free shuttle bus service. The 121-room hotel has a bar, parking spaces, and conference/meeting space for up to 40 delegates. 21019 Case Nuove Via Francesco De Pinedo Ang. Via G. Oldrini Somma Lombardo (VA) Italy Tel: 0331 18330. Web: www.hiexpress.com
Airport Motel is a five-minute drive from Milan Malpensa Airport. The hotel provides car parking facilities, a small meeting room, bar and TV room. 21010 Lonate Pozzolo Tornavento (VA) Italy Tel: 0331 302 111. Web: www.airportmotel.it
Best Western Jet Hotel is a five-minute drive from Milan Malpensa Airport and provides a shuttle bus service to/from the terminals. The hotel offers car parking, meeting space and has an on-site swimming pool and bar. Via Tiro a Segno 22-21013 Gallarate (VA) Italy Tel: 0331 772 100. Web: www.jethotel.com
First Hotel Malpensa is located just 1km (0.6 miles) from Milan Malpensa Airport and provides a shuttle bus service to/from the terminals. The hotel has an on-site restaurant, conference/meeting space, and is close to a number of golf courses. 21019 Case Nuove 34 Via Baracca Somma Lombardo Italy Tel: 0331 717 045. Web: www.firsthotel.it
Hotel Villa Malpensa is located just 800m (0.5 miles) from Milan Malpensa Airport and provides a free shuttle bus service. The hotel has its own swimming pool, restaurant and bar, and offers meeting/conference space for up to 90 delegates. Via Don A Sacconago 1-21010 Vizzola Ticino (VA) Italy Tel: 0331 230 944. Web: www.hotelvillamalpensa.com


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New York Mets Ticket For This Sunday, April 8th for $0
No twitter account required! When it asks for your "Twitter handle" simply enter random letters.
Get a FREE New York Mets Ticket For This Sunday, April 8th. The game is Braves at Mets Sunday, 4/8/12 at 1:10PM EST!
As an @Mets & @SNYtv Twitter follower you will receive a complimentary Mets ticket in the Promenade Level of Citi Field, courtesy of SNY, to this Sunday's home game as the Mets host the Braves at 1:10pm. Act now, tickets are limited!
**To redeem your complimentary Promenade seat you must enter a credit card number, but you will not be charged.
For 2 or more tickets together: click on "bring a friend", all prices are 1/2 off.
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That's awesome! Great post. I'm in Los Angeles, so I'm unable to enjoy this. I'm surprised the hateful couch trolls haven't started in with the "Mets suck" jokes yet. The Mets may suck, but going to a ballgame opening weekend to such a beautiful, brand spanking new stadium on the free? Awesome !!!
Works. Would be worthwhile if you could get two seats next to each other. Definitely in the nose bleed sections, but to see Atlanta it would be cool.
@boredmaster: It's not a brand new stadium anymore.. Still, I hated Shea, worst stadium ever in the history of baseball. So it would be nice to see it's replacement, at least once.
@mschauber: You can clink "Bring a friend" to get seats next to eachother... Prices are then 1/2 off, so BOGO free.
@falcondeal: I JUST realized that.. Thanks. Now trying to decipher the color codes for the different sections. Not a good way to display seating for the colorblind population, like myself, lol..
@mschauber: I have the same problem! (color blindness) If you select a section then click next, if will highlight just that section (when they have tickets selected for you). Then just hit back if you want different seats.
This is worth it just to get into the stadium. Citi field is awesome, there really isn't a bad seat in the house. The food & beer is great. There are a plethora of options.I suggest going and getting a burger over at the shake shack and you won't be disappointed.
Also the craft beer selections are top notch.
Oh, you can watch some baseball team play there as well, as matter of fact, they are currently tied for first place!
One game in and it's already come to this?
God help the Mets!
Had to post this.
Free tickets? Not bad! Although I hear in Kansas THEY actually pay YOU to go to see the Royals...
Not that much of a Mets fan (Go Phils!) but for free when I don't have anything else planned? Decent beer, good food and a baseball game? I'm in!
As a lifelong Met's fan this would be a great deal if I still lived in NY. With that said, I just purchased 4 tickets to a Mets-Orioles game in Citi field in June for $50.45 delivered through stub hub. Rooting for a sucky team can have its advantages.
Get on this deal now, before Theo turns the franchise around like he did here!!! 1 world series championship... who am I kidding, a series worthy roster and Mets tickets will start costing money... pretty soon you'll be shelling out $50-650 per seat like we do in Fenway! (well, maybe not this year with Bobby V., and no Papelbon...and only 3 decent starting pitchers...and no decent catchers....)
@rroberto: You read my mind! (Except, I thought Theo went to the Cubs?)


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I have encountered a problem that I suspect has been thoroughly studied but I have not been able to find references. Can anyone point me to a published reference dealing with this or a closely related problem?
Here is the problem:
Let $A$ and $B$ be disjoint $k$-subsets of $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$. Consider $S(A,B)=\sum_{x\in A}x - \sum_{y\in B}y$. As $(A,B)$ ranges over all possible ordered pairs of disjoint $k$-subsets of $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$, how are the sums $S(A,B)$ distributed over the elements of $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$? More precisely, for how many of the $\binom{n}{k}\binom{n-k}{k}$ choices of $(A,B)$ is $S(A,B)$ equal to each of the elements of $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$?
Again I am just looking for references. I actually have a solution in the case that n is prime, but I assume the result is known for more general n. I would be interested in any leads.


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I'm new to Ubuntu and while browsing over forums I saw goto System > Administration and so on. So I wanna know how I can actually goto System, means where can I find System then Administration and so on?
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As of 12.10: see the Additional Drivers tab in the Software Sources menu.
In case of AMD you will see different drivers here.
You can get there from the normal places like Ubuntu Software Center (it is in the options at the top left)
Click on the home/start button of your keyboard or on the icon on the side called as "dash home". It will present you with what is called as dash. It is like a search option. Type what ever you want to search in your system here. In your case type "System" in the search bar. It will show you all the applications documents etc having a word "system" in them. Select the required application and there you go.
PS : This solution works only you are in Unity. Not in a fallback/old version of gnome shell that is available through gnome-panel for 11.04 and above.
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The 5 Biggest Disasters in the History of Marketing (Pt. 4)
Marketing is vital to businesses, but it can be risky. If you misjudge your audience, that million-dollar advertising campaign can wind up costing you a billion after court fees and cleanup from the resulting riots. We've shown you here, here, and here where marketing efforts have gone disastrously wrong, but some companies still haven't gotten the memo ...
#5. Nike Unintentionally Sponsors Murder
At the 2012 Olympics, South African runner Oscar Pistorius inspired the whole world by becoming the first double amputee in Olympic history to compete. Although he didn't medal there, he still won tons of gold medals in the Paralympics, as well as our hearts. Pistorius managed to join the elite few athletes who were good enough to become spokesmen for Nike. A shoe company. Even though, you know, he doesn't wear shoes (on account of having nowhere to put them). But there was a bigger problem Nike failed to take into account -- Pistorius was as crazy as a shithouse rat.
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"Hey, at least we're open about being full of crap."
Pistorius started exhibiting some strange behavior. He nursed a mild stimulant addiction, chugging energy drinks and downing caffeine pills like they were going out of style (which, this being the early 2010s, they were). He began collecting guns, which isn't a problem in itself, so long as you don't go firing them in public areas like cars or restaurants. Which he did. Multiple times. He was called out for domestic violence by two former girlfriends. He also managed to drunkenly crash-beach a boat -- a crime pretty much reserved for crazy people/Miami Vice.
But Nike took a chance on this troubled man and welcomed him with a new flagship advertisement:
"Shit ... This is our OJ 'I am the stab in the knife' ad all over again."
This was riiiiight before Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend in Pretoria, South Africa.
Moving so fast, they surely left little adman-shaped smoke clouds behind, Nike pulled the campaign, lost millions of dollars, and gained a reputation for being more tragically prophetic than a Greek oracle.
#4. Blockbuster "Ends" Late Fees; Begins "Late Fees"
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By 2004, it became apparent that the future of film viewing was a world of instant streaming, torrents, and depraved pornography. In short: The Internet was here, and it had no use for the video store.
Netflix afforded its customers a few perks over the traditional brick-and-mortar store: more selection (sure, it was mostly obscure '90s direct-to-video action flicks, but there were still technically more of them), instant access, lower prices, and best of all, no late fees! Blockbuster understood the appeal and decided to abolish their long-hated "late fees" for good. This, they hoped, would finally get people excited to visit Blockbuster and its inexplicably sticky carpets again.
Unfortunately for anyone who decided to take Blockbuster up on this offer, they didn't so much "abolish" late fees as "rename" them while "significantly increasing" them. Anyone who kept their movie longer than a week after the due date noticed that costly unauthorized charges were being made to their credit card, because Blockbuster had charged them a "restocking fee," which just happened to be the full cost of the movie.
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So like two bucks, right?
What the company had failed to mention in the ads was that movies over a week late were to be deemed lost, and the cost of their replacement was significantly more than the late fees would ever have been. To be fair, this fee would be cancelled if the customer subsequently returned the movie within a certain window, but at best it was replaced by a $1.25 administrative cost. It almost sounds like some kind of charge, and all for being less than timely in returning the film. If only we had a term for that ...
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After a few major lawsuits for misleading advertising, Blockbuster had to cough up around $630,000 to the government, on top of refunding the public all of their "less than timely" charges. They then resumed what they had been doing before this whole mess started, which was digging a small hole in the sand, sticking their heads in there, and humming loud enough to drown out the ever-approaching ax of technological advancement.
#3. Reebok Blows Pretty Much All of the '90s
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Reebok's first mistakes began with the lead up to the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Before the games, a rivalry was brewing between American athletes Dave Johnson and Dan O'Brien (no relation to our own DOB ... or is there? Did somebody need to start a new life after an embarrassing incident?). Both were heavy favorites to win the gold at the games' most grueling event, the decathlon, even before the qualifying competition. Reebok had the bright idea of bringing both of them on board to hock shoes, doubling their odds at calling dibs on the champion. Sounds like a plan, right? So for the next eight months, the company put out "Dan and Dave" ads, culminating in a Super Bowl commercial that cost millions of dollars, knowing that no matter which of them won the event, the real winners would be Reebok (and fashion-conscious ankles everywhere).
Nobody considered what might happen if both Dan and Dave failed to live up to their lofty expectations. Far from ending with the expected epic showdown at the Olympic Games, the plan began to fall apart when Dan failed to even qualify for the American team, while Dave barely made it into the event.
Reebok, in full panic mode, quickly produced some more ads where Dan cheered on Dave, but that proved less than effective when Dave only narrowly got the bronze medal in the competition. It's still a great accomplishment for any athlete, to be sure, but you don't sell a lot of shoes with "Reebok: Barely Make the Podium."
How sad is it when Sinbad isn't the most disappointing thing in your ads?
That wasn't the end of Reebok's '90s blunders. Later they signed on for a massive product placement deal with the movie Jerry Maguire, which obviously went on to become a classic. Score one for Reebok! Almost! See, a significant plot point in Jerry Maguire involved Cuba Gooding Jr.'s character clashing with a shoe company over sponsorship. Reebok wanted to be that company, and part of the deal was that the film would culminate in a full-on commercial produced by Reebok.
The only problem is that, for the first half of the movie, Reebok acted like jerks toward Gooding's character. The commercial at the end of the film was supposed to redeem the company and make them look like the good guys, but when Reebok repeatedly failed to turn in a reel that director Cameron Crowe was happy with, that whole redemption scene was left on the cutting room floor. So now Reebok is the closest thing the film has to a villain: Cuba Gooding Jr. literally yells "Fuck Reebok!" and the end. Reebok lost $1.5 million from the movie alone. Even though they sued TriStar Pictures and won for an undisclosed amount (they were seeking around $110 million), how much does the abstract sense of betrayal truly cost? Oh, only $23 million? Sweet! Net profit.


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