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Deutsche Telekom Seeks WhatsApp Alliance Post-Facebook
Deutsche Telekom AG is considering an alliance with WhatsApp Inc., the latest European phone company to seek closer links with the mobile messaging startup that agreed to be acquired by Facebook Inc. for $19 billion.
Germany's biggest carrier is prepared to partner with WhatsApp in markets such as Romania, though not in its home country, according to Claudia Nemat, the board member in charge of the European unit and technology. Bonn-based Deutsche Telekom is at the same time pushing alternative services such as Joyn and Jibe to appeal to different groups, she said.
"We don't believe that one single model will succeed, but that we'll see a co-existence of services," Nemat said yesterday in an interview at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. "Which one you'll choose depends on your age group and how important privacy is to you."
Royal KPN NV of the Netherlands, said its German E-Plus unit agreed to introduce a WhatsApp offer this spring.
Once considered a disruption for phone companies because its free messaging service has reduced use of traditional text messaging, WhatsApp has now become an attractive partner for carriers that are looking for ways to benefit from WhatsApp's 450 million users worldwide.
Phone companies last year missed out on $32.5 billion of potential revenue from text messaging because of alternatives provided by WhatsApp, according to estimates by Ovum Ltd., which projected the figure to rise to $54 billion by 2016.
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Unlike traditional text messages, which consumers pay for through their mobile-phone plans, WhatsApp is free for the first year, and costs 99 cents a year after that. It also competes with Tencent Holdings Ltd.'s WeChat in China, KakaoTalk in Korea and Line in Japan, as well as Facebook's own application, Facebook Messenger.
Joyn, the text service promoted by Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone Group Plc and other carriers during previous editions of the Mobile World Congress, will be introduced in more European countries soon, Nemat said.
WhatsApp will introduce a voice-call function on devices running Apple Inc.'s iOS and Google Inc.'s Android operating systems in the second quarter, founder and Chief Executive Officer Jan Koum said in Barcelona today.
Timotheus Hoettges, Deutsche Telekom's new CEO, is seeking to play a leading role in European consolidation, recently adding assets and upgrading network technology in eastern Europe to become less dispensable to customers who need fast Web connections at home or on the go.
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Deutsche Telekom has acquired landline provider GTS Central Europe and has agreed to buy out minority shareholders in its Czech unit. It has also offered to buy an additional 10 percent stake in Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA from the Greek state, people familiar with the matter have said.
Shares of Deutsche Telekom rose 1 percent to close at 12.63 euros in Frankfurt for a market value of 56.2 billion euros ($77 billion).
Nemat said Deutsche Telekom aims to lift the number of households that run on all-Internet protocol technology in Europe to about 8 million by the end of the year, from about 4.8 million. The technology will make it easier to deliver and benefit from Internet services such as music streaming or messaging, she said.
Separately, Deutsche Telekom said today it plans to sell Samsung Electronics Co.'s new Galaxy S5 smartphone in 13 European markets. In Germany, it will go on sale in April.


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I am co-founder and executive director of the Stanford University Project for Education Research That Scales (PERTS). My work is focused on creating, validating, and disseminating evidence-based educational practices.
I have worked with dozens of researchers and hundreds of schools, colleges, and school support organizations to implement and rigorously evaluate educational resources. For example, PERTS produces the Mindset Kit — a free, online tool that translates research into actionable recommendations for teachers, school leaders, parents, and mentors. It is used for professional development by numerous school districts.
PERTS has received over $6 million in funding from various foundations and agencies, including the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Education Sciences, the Raikes Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Gates Foundation, and the Joyce Foundation. It has also been featured on a variety of popular media, including The Wall Street Journal, Science Magazine, Education Week, The Atlantic, EdSurge, The Scientific American, and Mind/Shift.
Okonofua, J.A., Paunesku, D., & Walton, G.M. (in press). A Brief Intervention to Encourage Empathic Discipline Cuts Suspension Rates in Half Among Adolescents. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Yeager, D.S., Walton, G.M., Brady, S.T., Akckinar, E.N., Paunesku, D., Keane, L., Kamentz, D., Ritter, G., Duckworth, A.L., Urstein, R., Gomez, E.M., Markus, H.M., Cohen, G.L., & Dweck, C.S. (in press). Improving the College Transition in Advance: Teaching a Lay Theory Before College Narrows Achievement Gaps at Scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Claro, S., Paunesku, D., & Dweck, C.S. (invited resubmission). A Growth Mindset Tempers the Effects of Poverty on Academic Achievement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Paunesku, D., Walton, G.M., Romero, C.L., Smith, E.N., Yeager, D.S., & Dweck, C.S. (2015). Mindset interventions are a scalable treatment for academic underachievement. Psychological Science, 26(6), 784-93. link
Paunesku, D. (2013). Scaled-up social psychology: Intervening wisely and broadly in education. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation.) Stanford University. link
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I love R and the R community. It seems like every time I have an obscure question about data analysis or graphing, several good Samaritans have already posted their answers on Stack Overflow, Cross Validated, or other wonderful R pages and blogs. When I can, I try to give back. In that spirit, I'm including some functions below that may prove useful to others (and to my future self).
I recently needed to determine the necessary sample size for an analysis with
a dichotomous outcome (earning credit in a math course). I soon discovered that power calculations for logistic regression models are complicated by their non-linear nature
(Hsieh, Bloch, & Larsen, 1998). Although a number of analytical solutions have been proposed for computing the power of logistic regressions, these formulae are generally bounded by certain assumptions
(Demidenko, 2007). For simplicity and to avoid the bias associated with analytical approaches, I made a few R functions to conduct Monte Carlo power simulations of logistic regression.
To use the functions below, you need to specify the expected ratio of treatment to control subjects (50% is default), the expected event prevalence in the control group (CP) and treatment group (TP), and the number of observations (n).
library(data.table) # for faster processing # specify simulation parameters # R = ratio treatment:control # CP = event prevalence in control group # TP = event prevalence in treatment group # n = observations per sample power_specifications <- list( # what's the power with n=200 or 500 # if the control prevalence (CP) is 20% # and the treatment increases prevalence by 10% or 15% # i.e., TP = .3 or .35 data.frame( R=.5, CP=.2, TP=.3, n=200 ) , data.frame( R=.5, CP=.2, TP=.35, n=200 ) , data.frame( R=.5, CP=.2, TP=.3, n=500 ) , data.frame( R=.5, CP=.2, TP=.35, n=500 ) ) # convert the specifications to a single data.table ldf <- do.call( rbind , power_specifications ) ldf$id <- 1:nrow( ldf ) ldf <- as.data.table( ldf ) # make data.frame with requested binomial parameters mdf <- function( R, CP, TP, n ){ treated_n <- floor(R*n) control_n <- n-treated_n condition <- c( rep("treated",treated_n), rep("control",control_n ) ) treated_obs <- rbinom( treated_n, 1, TP ) control_obs <- rbinom( control_n, 1, CP ) return( data.frame( cond=condition, value=c(treated_obs, control_obs) ) ) } # return p-value of treatment term logit_p <- function(df){ summary(glm( value ~ cond, data=df ))$coefficients[2,4] } # return proportion of simulations (default simulations=1000) with p < 0.05 sig_prop <- function( R, CP, TP, n, sims=1000 ){ ps <- replicate( sims, logit_p( mdf( R, CP, TP, n ) ) ) return( mean(ps < .05) ) } # run the simulations # put the power in the "power" column ldf[ j=power:=sig_prop( R, CP, TP, n), by=id ] # calculate the effect size in terms of effect on prevlance ldf$effect <- as.factor(ldf$TP - ldf$CP) # see what the power is... ldf # output # R CP TP n id power effect # 1: 0.5 0.2 0.30 200 1 0.367 0.1 # 2: 0.5 0.2 0.35 200 2 0.664 0.15 # 3: 0.5 0.2 0.30 500 3 0.738 0.1 # 4: 0.5 0.2 0.35 500 4 0.959 0.15
For example, the output above suggests that with a sample of 500, if the control group prevalence were 20% and the treatment increased prevalence by 10% or 15%, the power would be 74% or 96%, respectively.
The power would increase or decrease as the baseline prevalence got farther or closer
to 50%. See for yourself by changing the CP and TP variables and running the simulation.
Obviously, these functions would be useful for a broader range of situations if they could control for covariates of various strengths. They would also be better if they could handle nested data, i.e., mixed-effect models. Maybe I'll add those features in the future if they prove necessary. I'm also open to other suggestions.
My favorite package for graphing in R is ggplot2. Hats off to Hadley Wickham, its creator. ggplot2 provides lots of useful options that make it easy (once you know what you're doing) to make highly informative graphs. However, it's not always entirely intuitive. I often find myself looking at my notes or the documentation to remind myself how to change plot parameters. In this section, I provide a few basic use cases in the hopes that it will provide useful to others (and to my future self).
ggplot2 underwent some major revisions in version 0.9.2.1. Those broke a lot of my old ggplot2 code, but I can't complain because it made it easier to customize plots. The examples below assume you're using version 0.9.2.1 or greater.
To do some graphing, we'll need data to graph. Let's simulate some data from a hypothetical study. In this study, 2/3 of students are assigned to a treatment designed to boost math scores, and 1/3 are assigned to a control condition. Their math scores are collected before and after treatment. We want to visualize the effects of the treatment on follow-up scores.
# generate a data frame "d" with the data to graph set.seed( 1 ) # set the random seed n <- 200 # number of observations es <- .7 # effect size # oversample the treatment condition conditions <- c( rep("treatment",2) , "control" ) assigned_condition <- sample( conditions , n , replace=TRUE ) treated <- assigned_condition == "treatment" prescore <- rnorm( n ) postscore <- prescore + rnorm( n ) # create an interaction between treatment and prescore # so that treatment is more effective for initial low-performers interaction <- es - prescore[treated] postscore[treated] <- interaction + postscore[treated] d <- data.frame( prescore = prescore, postscore = postscore, condition = assigned_condition )
I love ggplot2, but I'm not crazy about some of the aesthetic defaults. Here we create a theme called horzi_theme that makes the background white and sets the background to have thin gray horizontal but not vertical lines. We'll use horzi_theme in each of the subsequent graphs.
# horzi theme makes the background white with thin, horizontal lines library( grid ) # for units horzi_theme <- theme( # remove the gray background panel.background = element_blank() , # make the major gridlines light gray and thin panel.grid.major.y = element_line( size=.1, colour="#666666" ) , # suppress the vertical grid lines panel.grid.major.x = element_blank() , # suppress the minor grid lines panel.grid.minor = element_blank() , # add axes axis.line = element_line( size=.2 , colour="#666666" ), # adjust the axis ticks axis.ticks = element_line( size=.2 , colour="#666666" ), # move the y-axis over to the left axis.title.y = element_text( angle=90, vjust=-.1, hjust=.5 ), # increase margin moved-over y-axis label fits plot.margin = unit( c(.5,.25,.25,.5) , "in") )
It's always smart to look at distributions first. Let's compare the two conditions' distributions with: 1) histograms in separate facets and 2) overlapping density curves.
Give each condition its own facet and histogram. Note that it's hard to compare the distributions by eye because there are more students in the treatment condition. That's lame, and it's where density plots come in.
ggplot( d , aes( postscore, fill=condition ) ) + # binwidth=1 groups responses along bins of 1 x-axis unit geom_histogram( binwidth=1 ) + # override the default colors for each condition scale_fill_manual( values=c("control"="red","treatment"="blue" ) ) + # include horzi_theme to change the default background etc. horzi_theme + # create separate facets for condition facet_grid( . ~ condition )
Density curves look cooler. They're also more useful when distributions are unbalanced in count: They show the percent of the given distribution instead of the absolute count.
# the scales library enables % formatting (used for y-axis below) library( scales ) ggplot( d , aes( postscore, fill=condition ) ) + # we need to make it transparent so we can see the overlap geom_density( alpha = .3 , size=0 ) + scale_y_continuous( labels=percent ) + # set the curve colors scale_fill_manual( values=c( "red","blue" ) ) + horzi_theme + # make the legend a little prettier guides( fill = guide_legend( title = "Condition" , # change font-face to remove bold title.theme = element_text( face="plain", angle=0 ) , # remove the black border around keys override.aes = list( colour="white" ) ) )
What about that venerable classic (sarcasm), the bar graph?
# make a simple graph showing postscore by condition ggplot( d , aes( condition, postscore, fill=condition ) ) + geom_bar( stat="summary", fun.y="mean", position="dodge" ) + # manually set colors and corresponding labels; no need for a legend scale_fill_manual( guide = "none", values = c( "control"="red", "treatment"="blue" ) , breaks = c( "control", "treatment" ) , labels = c( "control group", "treatment group" ) ) + # label the graph and axes ggtitle( "A totally lame bar graph" ) + # add a y-axis title scale_y_continuous( "Post-Study Math Score" ) + horzi_theme
Now let's make a bar graph with error bars. To make error bars we'll pre-compute a new data frame "g" with the condition means and error bar limits.
# compute the means and save to g g <- aggregate( postscore ~ condition, data = d , mean ) # append the standard deviation to g gsd <- aggregate( postscore ~ condition, data = d , sd ) g <- merge( g, gsd , by="condition", suffixes=c("",".sd") ) # append the n to g glen<- aggregate( postscore ~ condition, data = d , length ) g <- merge( g, glen , by="condition", suffixes=c("",".len") ) # calculate the standard error of the mean g$se <- g$postscore.sd/(g$postscore.len)^.5 # compute the error bar limits g$upper <- g$postscore + g$se g$lower <- g$postscore - g$se
And now for the actual graph code...
# now make the bar graph with error bars ggplot( g , aes( condition, postscore, fill=condition) ) + # stat="identity" because the value is already in g (no averaging needed) geom_bar( stat="identity", position="dodge" ) + # manually set colors and corresponding labels; no need for a legend scale_fill_manual( guide = "none", values = c( "control"="red", "treatment"="blue" ) , breaks = c( "control", "treatment" ) , labels = c( "control group", "treatment group" ) ) + # add the error bars geom_errorbar( aes( ymax=upper, ymin=lower ) , width =.25, position="dodge", color ="#666666" ) + # label the graph ggtitle( "A slightly more informative graph\n(because of the error bars)" ) + # adjust the title font and size, just for fun theme( title = element_text( family="Verdana", size=10 ) ) + # add a y-axis title scale_y_continuous( "Post Scores" ) + horzi_theme
Neither of the bar graphs gave us any indication that the treatment was more effective for initial low-performers. So let's make a line graph to visualize this moderation effect.
# make a line + scatter graph showing prescore and postscore by condition ggplot( d , aes( prescore, postscore, color=condition, linetype=condition) ) + # add points (scatterplot) geom_point( position="jitter" , # jitter the points to prevent overlap alpha=.3 # reduce opacity ) + # create a trendline for each condition geom_smooth( method="lm", # method="lm", use a linear model stat::lm() se=TRUE , # se=TRUE, show 95% confidence bands fullrange=TRUE # fullrange=TRUE, extend trendlines to margin ) + # manually set colors and corresponding labels scale_colour_manual( values = c( "control"="red", "treatment"="blue" ) , # define the groups breaks = c( "control", "treatment" ) , # rename the groups on the legend labels = c( "control group", "treatment group" ) , # change the legend parameters guide = guide_legend( title="Treatment Condition", title.theme = element_text( size = 13, face = "plain", color = "#333333", angle = 0 ) , label.theme = element_text( size = 12, face = "plain", color = "#333333", angle = 0 ) , ) ) + # manually set linetypes and corresponding labels scale_linetype_manual( values = c( "control"="solid", "treatment"="dashed" ) , guide="none" # suppress linetype legend ) + # adjust the zoom of the graph (not useful in this case) coord_cartesian( x=c(-2,2) , y=c(-2,2) ) + # label the graph and axes ggtitle( "A much more informative graph" ) + xlab( "Pre-Score" ) + # just for fun, we'll change the y-axis breaks scale_y_continuous( "Post-Score" , breaks=c(-1:1) ) + # change the look of the graph theme( # make the title 16 point Verdana and axis titles 12 point Verdana title = element_text( family="Verdana", size=12 ) , axis.title.x = element_text( size=12 ) , axis.title.y = element_text( size=12 ) ) + horzi_theme
Stratified randomization keeps the size of randomly-assigned experimental conditions balanced across specified sample characteristics, e.g., race, gender, previous performance. The two functions below make it easy to conduct stratified randomization in R.
When conducting experiments, it is important to ensure that the sample of individuals in each experimental condition is similar. For example, let's say that proportionally more high achievers than low achievers were randomly assigned to the treatment condition. If the treatment condition experienced greater improvement along the outcome of interest, it would be difficult to ascertain whether the improvement was due to the treatment itself or due to high achievers improving more quickly than low achievers in general. Although there are post-hoc ways to statistically control for such imbalances, failures of randomization can complicate analyses and damage researchers' ability to rigorously draw causal inferences about the effects of a given treatment.
This code has two (interdependent) functions and some example code for testing them.
# balanced_randomization # Inputs: # ids vector of unquie ids to randomize to one of the groups # groups groups to randomize ids to # Returns: # data frame with columns id and randomly assigned group # Description: # ids are randomly assigned to groups. Groups are balanced, i.e., # each group has the same # of ids. If the # of ids is not divisible # by the # of groups, the remainder is assigned randomly. balanced_randomization <- function( ids, groups = c() ) { # make sure ids are not duplicated if( TRUE %in% duplicated(ids) ){ stop("Duplicate IDs not allowed!") } # ids should be characters because factors are will match falsely ids <- as.character( ids ) # generate a data frame that will contain the group assignments sampling_df <- data.frame( id=ids, group=rep( NA, length(ids) ) , stringsAsFactors=FALSE ) # keep track of ids that have already been randomized already_sampled <- c() # how many ids should be assigned to each group? size_per_group <- floor( length(ids) / length(groups) ) # randomize ids to each group for(i in 1:length(groups) ) { # sample the ids for this group, excluding those already assigned ids_in_group <- sample( ids[ ! ids %in% already_sampled ] , size_per_group , replace=FALSE ) # update the list of already assigned ids already_sampled <- c( already_sampled, ids_in_group ) # set the group assignment sampling_df$group[ sampling_df$id %in% ids_in_group ] <- groups[i] } # if the number of ids is not evenly divisble by the number of groups, # randomly fill out the remaining, unfilled entries remainder <- length(ids) %% length(groups) if(remainder > 0){ sampling_df$group[ is.na(sampling_df$group) ] <- sample( groups , remainder, replace=FALSE) } return( sampling_df ) } # stratified_randomization # (requires the package "plyr" and the "balanced_randomization" function) # Inputs: # DF data frame containing ids to randomly assign and the # corresponding stratification characteristics for each id # id a string specifying which column of DF is the id to randomize # strata a vector of strings specifying how to stratify the data # groups groups to randomize ids to # Returns: # data frame with a "group" column appended with the randomly assigned group # Description: # For each stratum (unique combination of strata), ids are randomly assigned # to one of the passed in groups in a balanced way (using balanced_randomization). stratified_randomization <- function( DF, id, strata, groups ){ # we need plyr for its handy dlply function. Thanks, Hadley! if( ! require( plyr ) ){ stop( "You need to install plyr!" ) } # set the strata (features you want to stratify on) strata <- dlply( DF , strata ) # perform balanced randomization within each stratum for( stratum in strata ){ # the first time, create the data frame with assignment if( ! exists("strat_df") ){ strat_df <- balanced_randomization( stratum[ , id], groups) } # subsequent times append to data frame with assignments else{ strat_df <- rbind( balanced_randomization( stratum[ , id], groups) , strat_df ) } } return( merge( DF, strat_df, by=id ) ) } # BALANCED RANDOMIZATION EXAMPLES # Sample from 3 groups equally ids_to_sample <- c(1:100) groups <- c("Group 1","Group 2", "Group 3") sampled_df <- balanced_randomization( ids = ids_to_sample, groups = groups) table(sampled_df$group) # Sample from 3 groups where you weight Group 1 2x ids_to_sample <- c(1:100) groups <- c( rep( "Group 1", 2 ),"Group 2", "Group 3") sampled_df <- balanced_randomization( ids = ids_to_sample, groups = groups) table(sampled_df $group) # STRATIFIED RANDOMIZATION EXAMPLE # generate a fake dataset "d" ids_to_sample <- c(1:100) gender <- sample( c("M","F") , 100, replace=TRUE ) race <- sample( c("W","B","L") , 100, replace=TRUE ) d <- data.frame( id=ids_to_sample , gender=gender, race=race ) # define the groups to randomize to groups <- c( "Group 1","Group 2", "Group 3") # specify the data frame, the id, the stratification features, and the groups to randomize to stratified <- stratified_randomization( d , id="id", strata=c("race","gender"), groups=groups ) # confirm the conditions are balanced aggregate( id ~ group + gender + race, stratified, length )


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Khronos WebGL London Chapter meetup: An Introduction to Babylon.js and Three.js
An introduction to those most noteworthy of WebGL enablers—Babylon.js and Three.js wherein we shall endeavour to render a simple electronic Yule Tide scene for each. In keeping with the seasonal theme there will be door prizes. The last WebGL meetup was a great success, and we look forward to see you on December 16th for this meetup.
WebGL a Vital Component for VR Kickstarters
Update: The DIYVR Kickstarter projected reached its goal in just 4 days!
If you don't know what DIYVR is, hop over to this fast moving WebGL related Kickstarter and see what all the fuss is about. In short, DIYVR is open, web-based software development tools for Virtual Reality. There are two other WebGL related kickstarters now running: APEXvj TURBO is a next-gen music visualizer for your Windows and Mac computer. It analyses and animates your music in real time! Synth : Remix Audio & Video in this HTML5 WebGL Synthesizer. Hat tip to Learning WebGL for pointing out these great projects to us.
World's Leading Immersive Products, Experts, and Industry Join Forces at Immersed
Organized by The Immersive Technology Alliance, the Immersed conference features two days of sessions by worldwide virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and 3D experts. Some of the international speakers include John Gaeta (The Matrix Trilogy Academy Award winner, Lucasfilm), Mary Spio (Next Galaxy), Neil Trevett (The Khronos Group, Nvidia), Scott Broock (Jaunt), Shannon Blake Gans (New Deal Studios), Karl Krantz (Silicon Valley Virtual Reality), and more. Canada's Habib Zargarpour (Creative Director, Microsoft Studios), Gord Harris (Christie Digital), David Nalasco (AMD), James Milward (Secret Location), Ana Serrano (Canadian Film Centre Media Lab), Ray Sharma (XMG Studio), James Stewart (Geneva Film Company), and more will also be speaking. Temporary code "ImmerseMe" reduces registration by $75. Deeply discounted exhibition options available for qualified early start-ups requiring media and investment group attention. Free exhibition opens to the general public on the Sunday afternoon. Limited space! Register for free online and in advance.
TraceParts enables support for WebGL 3D rendering of millions of CAD models online
TraceParts has launched support for WebGL 3D rendering across its entire library of free downloadable CAD models. Users are now able to view and interact with live 3D models directly in any compatible web browser, without the use of plugins or other additional software, making the millions of parts on their site easier to access than ever.
Unity 5.0 beta launches with WebGL one-click deployment
Unity 5.0 beta has launched and comes with one-click WebGL deployment to compatible browsers.
The latest PowerVR SDK v3.4 supports WebGL and includes GLSL ES disassembly compiler
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Unity games in WebGL: Owlchemy Labs' conversion of Aaaaa! to asm.js
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Hip-Hop Jeweler's NBA All-Star Version of the Mattress Mack Refund Bet
Johnny Dang, impresario of the local jewelry outfit made famous through countless hip-hop records (and his association with rapper Paul Wall), is taking a page from the Mattress Mack playbook.
Dang and Wall are betting that Dwight Howard and James Harden help pull off a win over the Eastern Conference in this weekend's NBA All-Star game.
Yes, lovers, this bet comes just in time for Valentine's Day.
"Come in and get your custom watch today, if the Eastern Conference wins you get a full cash refund and you get to keep the watch," Paul Wall sounds off in an ad placed on YouTube this week.
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Where Jim "Mattress Mack" McIngvale used the Super Bowl to promote his Gallery Furniture stores and offer refunds if Seattle won the game, Dang, known as TV Johnny, will offer up his diamond-studded watch collection.
Word trickled onto Dang's Instagram account with a video announcing "Breaking News...TV Johnny Bets it All" on Tuesday -- surprisingly enough, the same day gold prices went up.
If you go to Dang's website -- and click past the Katy Perry photo -- you can see in small print "All-Star Bet" with a list of watches in Dang and Wall's signatures collection. These deluxe watches range in price from the high hundreds to more than $10,000.
McIngvale may have taken a hit when he offered refunds to customers who spent $6,000 or more ahead of the Super Bowl's kick-off earlier this month. It reportedly brought in around 1,100 customers who spent $7 million on comfy furniture. But it was all money he had to pay back.
But despite the result of that contest, Dang is ready to put his money where his gold grillz are and fired back at critics on his social media account.
"Don't talk shit when y'all don't know any thing smfh ...
Would Dang survive a large payout if the Eastern Conference, led by Lebron James and Carmelo Anthony, outplay the West? While there's no clear minimum on the merchandise you can buy under the jeweler's All-Star game deal, Dang will probably be in good shape given his history as one of Houston's best-known jewelry dealers.
While you won't be able to score a Rolex in the deal, there's plenty to make your wrist glow.
Among the most expensive options is a silver and diamond bezel CW-0109 watch -- encased in so many diamonds that you might get a seizure if it hits the sunlight the right way -- for $11,500.
If Dang can sell enough watches in that price range and the Western Conference comes out victorious, well, it will have been a move well played and maybe Mattress Mack should take some notes.
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NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. (AP) - Americans entering the military often receive Bibles, courtesy of the Gideons International.
But the Gideons have been told that while they can leave complimentary Bibles at most military induction stations, they
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The vehicle was recovered in Geneva County, Alabama with the assistance of the Geneva County Sheriff's office and Griffin has been charged with first degree theft of property. His arrest now brings this case to a close.
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The Contribution of ICT Investment to Economic Growth and Labor Productivity in Poland 1995-2000
There is large evidence on a positive impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on economic growth and productivity in a number of developed countries in the 1990's. There are however no studies, which would estimate the contribution of ICT to growth and productivity in post-communist, transition economies. Data availability, consistency, and trustworthiness have been so far the main obstacles. This paper makes a first attempt, based on an extended growth accounting framework, at estimating the contribution of investment in ICT to output growth and labor productivity in Poland, the largest post-communist economy in Central and Eastern Europe and a prospective member of the EU (2004). The paper discusses the challenges of using available data and its impact on the choice of specific methodologies. The paper shows that ICT investment contributed on average 0.47 of a percentage point or 8.9% of GDP growth and 12.7% or 0.65 of a percentage point contribution to labor productivity between 1995-2000. This relatively large impact of ICT capital is due to an extraordinary acceleration in ICT investments between 1993-2001 induced by – one the one hand – rapidly falling prices of ICT products and services and – on the other hand – large demand for ICT fueled by high economic growth in the 1990's and substantial pent-up demand due to infrastructural underinvestment in ICT.
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
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Last Modified: Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 4:04 p.m.
Emergency Notes
Henderson County fire calls
The Henderson County Fire Commission reported the following alarms between noon Wednesday and noon Thursday:
u Blue Ridge, illegal burn, 3:40 p.m.; victim down, 4:35 p.m.; victim down, 8:21 p.m.
u Dana, emergency, 11:13 a.m.
u Mills River, victim down, 3:36 a.m.
u Mountain Home, smoke investigation, 4:04 p.m.
u Valley Hill, victim down, 12:36 p.m.; victim down, 6:02 a.m.
Hendersonville fire calls
The Hendersonville Fire Department responded to the following calls from noon Wednesday to noon Thursday:
u Victim down, 12:21 p.m.
u Victim down, 1:26 p.m.
u Seizure, 7:45 p.m.
u Emergency, 12:14 a.m.
u Victim down, 4:48 a.m.
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Henderson County Sheriff
The Henderson County Sheriff's Department responded to 277 calls Wednesday. Deputies served eight warrants and provided four assists to other agencies.
Hendersonville Police
The Hendersonville Police Department reported 97 calls Wednesday. Officers made one arrest, investigated two accidents and provided two assists to other agencies.
The following crimes and incidents were reported Wednesday, according to law enforcement records:
Henderson County Sheriff's Department
u Fraud, Brightwater Drive, 2:35 p.m.
u Second-degree trespassing, Wickins Drive, 5:15 p.m.
u Assault by pointing a gun, Regency Loop, 6:28 p.m.
u Breaking and entering, Sugarloaf Road, 1:03 a.m.
u Fraud, Cedar Creek Lane, 1:11 p.m.
u Assault, Haywood Road, 2:16 p.m.
u Breaking and entering, Benton Drive, 7:51 p.m.
Hendersonville Police Department
u Larceny, Kanuga Road, 7:12 a.m.
u Larceny, Ninth Avenue West, 5:02 p.m.
u Larceny, Fifth Avenue West, 7:18 p.m.
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Tony licks Charlie's stockinged feet and legs. He then instructs Charlie to suck her toes while he spanks her. In a jail cell, David kneels at the feet of handcuffed Michelle and Spikette. Spikette orders David to "suck it good" as she forces her toe into his mouth. In the final scene, Ari, dressed in chains and leather, watches David slip on her thigh high boots.
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'A Pelican in the Wilderness': Meditations on Extreme Solitude
By FRANK KERMODE
Published: April 21, 2002
Isabel Colegate's 12 novels include ''The Shooting Party,'' which was made into an interesting movie. Her first nonfiction book is a series of meditations on solitude in its more extreme forms. The title is borrowed from the 17th-century poet Thomas Traherne, a man said to have led a ''single and devout life,'' and one who also achieved posthumous seclusion, for his writings evaded serious public notice until, in 1897, a browser at a London bookstall acquired for a few pennies a manuscript, previously unknown, of his beautiful meditations. One of them now provides Colegate with her title and a fanciful epigraph: ''A man that Studies Happiness must sit alone like a Sparrow upon the House Top, and like a Pelican in the Wilderness.''
This observation might suggest that the attainment of felicity requires one to be not merely alone but elevated, in which case the happiest of hermits were the stylites, so named because they perched on pillars in the wilderness (Greek: stylos, a pillar). The most celebrated of the stylites was Simeon, a fifth-century saint who lived for 36 years in a hut on top of a pillar 60 feet high, emerging from time to time to harangue the crowds and entertain them by performing up to a thousand consecutive genuflections, very likely still a record.
Colegate indeed does, in her own good time, deal pleasantly with St. Simeon and other stylites, incidentally pointing out that they were not true hermits, since hermits do not have crowds of fans. Still, they were in a real sense solitaries, and deserve to be counted along with solitaries of many other varieties, men and, occasionally, women who secluded themselves with more or less rigor all over the world.
The true center of ''A Pelican in the Wilderness,'' however, is her own home territory, specifically a small derelict building in a field she owns. It was the fashion for 18th-century English gentlemen to build ornamental hermitages on their estates, perhaps merely to add interest to their walks, perhaps to serve as rustic chapels when their proprietor felt a need for solitude, prayer or communion with nature. Colegate had reason to think she might find in her field the remains of just such an old ''ornamental'' hermitage, and after a good deal of trouble she did. It had long been buried, but it could be dug out and rebuilt. From this point she makes a long series of exotic and digressive excursions on the periphery. Then, when all her journeys are done, she returns contentedly to her own patch.
Her pace is civilized and leisurely, but she covers much ground and has clearly done a good deal of research and travel, some of it arduous. But the style is always well tempered, and the transitions smooth. We learn about Chinese hermits, still surviving the onset of Communism. We discover that we can track a Thai monk, a peripatetic hermit, by the orange cloak he throws over a branch when asleep or contemplating. Among the Buddhist hermits of Tibet there was an Englishwoman who wished to be the first female Buddha, and spent 12 years meditating in a cave 13,200 feet up in the mountains. And here one remembers Yeats's terrible sonnet ''Meru'': ''Hermits upon Mount Meru or Everest, / Caverned in night under the drifted snow, / Or where that snow and winter's dreadful blast / Beat down upon their naked bodies.'' You had to be serious to be a Tibetan hermit.
The beliefs, if not the lifestyles, of Indian mystics were transmitted to the West in the form of theosophy, as formulated by Madame Blavatsky, enthusiast and charlatan, to whom Colegate is fairly charitable. So she is to Somerset Maugham, whom V. S. Naipaul teases in his latest novel, ''Half a Life,'' because Maugham went to India to study the silent sanctity of Hindu hermits for his book ''The Razor's Edge.'' Some spiritualities do not travel well. The asceticism of Russian hermits and the weird behavior of Russian ''fools for Christ'' offer more examples of this failure, though Colegate treats them with her habitual consideration.
The life of the hermit is often undertaken by people who deplore the lack of spirituality in whatever culture they belong to, but this renunciation is far from guaranteeing exemption from the temptations of the flesh. The third-century St. Anthony of Egypt, ''prototype of all Christian hermits,'' retreated from city to desert, and despite his celebrated supernatural torments was joined there by many other world-haters. There are always some around, though nowadays usually in communities that favor silence. It seems that a monk or nun wishing to be a hermit now has to seek permission from higher ecclesiastic authority.
A lot of information is quietly dispensed in this book. It touches on the English medieval mystics (Richard Rolle, Juliana of Norwich) and stretches to include ''mad'' 18th-century poets like Cowper and eccentrics like William Beckford, who spent his enormous wealth on a fantastic Gothic abbey with a tower, five times as high as Simeon's pillar, that fell down. He lived (sometimes) in seclusion, surrounded by curios and works of art. Not perhaps a true hermit, but one who holds the attention. Another upper-class English eccentric was Lady Hester Stanhope, a forceful woman who was the niece of Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger and had a career as a political hostess, but at the age of 38 retired to the Lebanon, where she lived, unveiled, in Oriental splendor, with some 30 personal attendants. Again it stretches a point to call her a solitary, but she certainly fled the city for the desert.


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you FOOL ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; why throw $$$ out window ???
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Sentiment: Strong Sell
Hi Melodias,
You are certainly right about the throwing money away buying at this time. Years ago we used to watch a TV program called "Charting the Market" with Gene Morgan. His recommendations ALWAYS were to wait for a double bottom to occur. Today that is quite an art to try and spot one because the stock market, in the opinion here, is highly manipulated from Federal Reserve influence. Just enough non-bankster people broadcasting their intentions appears to be a flag for those in manipulation mode to violate that correlation as a turning point. We shouldn't want to give these blisturds (that's called censor avoidance) a dime more than we can possibly avoid.
A better indication is long term support, which has not as yet been reached, but we're getting close. For that to be violated means the banksters and their allies are going to start bleeding counterfeit fiat funny monopoly money to prevent a run-a-way market to the downside. This could kill any perception of a "recovery" and support for the socialist agenda by the ruling elite. If enough non-bankster types correctly get a good price, over time that will damage the bankster agenda. Besides, it's always very entertaining to watch them squirm, kind of like watching the country's enemy leaderships' arms and legs flying apart in mortar explosions (admittedly an extremely rare event).
Unlike many who inhabit this message board, these are sincere opinions not meant to steer people in the wrong direction for our benefit, which doesn't necessarily mean correct conclusions.
Melodias23.....got it. wrote down your name and have it in my records. As time goes by you may forget about this stupid comment but I won't and when the time's right, I'll remind you....
I make more coming in and out of this than on any of my dividend payers. I put the sell in as soon as I have it and wait. maybe I have just been lucky on timing but been doing it for quite a while. This is a very good buy from my perspective at this price
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How players with Utah ties performed in Week 10 of the NFL
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There is hardly a school district with more females than males.
Is it a demographic anomaly that we have more young males than females?
Is the dropout rate higher among females in general? Is it because of teen pregnancy, drug use, girls being forced to stay home and take care of things?
Is the dropout rate higher among females that are ethnic minority, especially Hispanic females?
This is too weird that nearly all 41 school districts have more males than females and some by a large measure. I thought the creator made males and females at about 50% each.
Maybe some investigative reporting is in order. Maybe something is going on here that meets some reporting...
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Artist Oliver Balf Remembered | My Father's Canvas
When the family of artist Oliver Balf combed through a lifetime of paintings, they discovered truths about the artist's passion, and themselves.
October 2010: I remember his being tired but relieved after a long day of international travel. The spare kibbutz "guest house" that we arrived at in advance of a family wedding amused us all: Mom and Dad bunking with their fiftysomething sons in a narrow two-room mobile home was a Seinfeld episode come to life.
The sweetheart roses were in a simple vase on a kitchen table, and Dad must have opened his sketchbook that first day in Israel. A professional artist who exhibited widely, he was 83 and slowing, especially in recent years, but he always drew quickly and with youthful urgency. Botanical color and shape absorbed his attention like few other things. He drew the petite blooms in ink but topped them with playful pink dabs; the process wouldn't have taken long. Almost as fast as the black, hardbound sketchbook was opened, it was closed—for good, as it turned out. It was his last painting. Five days later he was gone—suddenly and with little warning.
My mom had the idea for a last art show. She didn't call it the last show, but it seemed implicit.
Oliver Balf, my dad, was an artist who had lived and painted on Cape Ann for more than 60 years. He'd come to Rockport, Massachusetts, on a lark—in the postwar years it was cheap and beautiful. His college roommate at Temple's Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia figured it would cost them $37.50 to share a tent for the summer, just a stone's throw from Old Garden Beach. That same roommate, a veteran like my dad, also discovered that they could get a monthly stipend from the GI Bill as unemployed "landscape painters."
Dad returned the next four summers, honing his watercolor technique and selling frames on Tuna Wharf. In 1952 he was newly married and living in New York when he suggested that they move to Rockport year-round. My dad was a Hans Hofmann–trained painter; my mom, Nancy Miller, was a Dalton School graduate who called Cape Ann "the end of the Earth." Nowadays their plans might seem like crazy talk, but they came. And most improbably of all, they stayed. Their first place was a cozy cottage apartment on Main Street, next to the now-yellow-clapboard Rockport Art Association.
The RAA was a hub of the burgeoning Cape Ann art scene and the off-and-on focus of my dad's exhibiting life for the next half-century. It established him as a professional artist with an invitation into its prestigious ranks as a 19-year-old. It rebuffed him not many years later when his subject matter moved from characteristic seascapes to modernist still lifes. He was estranged from the RAA for a long time, but a decade ago he'd made peace. When he died on October 15, 2010, he was preparing to hold his first one-man show there in 40 years.
We went forward with the show he had planned, despite his death. It was held in a small room at the entrance to the RAA, and in our grief we found the show a helpful distraction. It was very successful—in part perhaps because of the circumstances. People wanted to pay tribute; we wanted to pay tribute. My mom went to the Art Association's curators after the show closed and asked about the possibility of a major retrospective—bigger and more ambitious, and it would say all the things about his artistic life that this hurried, small-scale show could not. The Art Association agreed and set the date for May 2013.
Now we would have plenty of time to do all the things that needed to be done. There were thousands of paintings to review and a career narrative to explore in a way none of us had really bothered to before. It seemed particularly important for me to understand him, his art, and what moved him. I wanted to unearth everything he'd left behind, from bottom-shelf canvases to old letters. In his obituary I'd described him as a sweet man of "beautifully rebellious work," but that sounded more authoritative than I felt. What did I know?
My two brothers and I hadn't had much time for his art, especially during his most productive period in the '60s and '70s. Tom and I were popular small-town athletes. My oldest brother, Mike, was engrossed in '60s-style activism. None of us was emotionally in tune with what he did or what he wanted. My mom worked. We were on one side, it often felt; my dad and his art on another. We'd all come closer as we became adults with young families—understanding, appreciating, moderating—but there was a period of time, when he was an artist and when art was all that mattered, that I didn't know a thing about.
And then there was his death. Days after my niece's wedding in Israel, a seemingly routine stomach ailment worsened rapidly. We admitted him to a hospital on the afternoon of October 14. He died hours later of congestive heart failure.
We really didn't talk about any of it. It seemed better not to explore what we all felt: that we'd collectively come up short. The strangers around us sitting shiva in Israel had said it was good that he hadn't suffered over weeks, months, or years, and although it was a consoling thought, I knew he wasn't artistically ready. I had only to look in his travel sketchbook. The last work—vividly colored petals at the end of a sturdy green stalk—was unmistakable evidence of life, not death.
A year before my dad died, he wrote me a Father's Day card. I still have it. His cards were always magnificent—whimsical drawings or cartoons that were funny and personal. Over the years many of them were plays on my passion for adventure and sport: me on top of a mountain peak; me in the jungle looking comically overmatched, wearing a Red Sox shirt (and a large, lethal snake unseen overhead). There were wry captions, like New Yorker cartoons but only for us. This card was different. An agonized self-portrait graced the cover of simple heavy stock paper. Inside he talked about how he'd outlived everyone in his family and lots of people who were in some way part of his life: "While I'm still rational I wanted you to know how proud I am of you … I want you to know how much I love you."
Fifteen months later he was gone, and I'd never written or said what he meant to me; I hadn't taken the time to connect to him as a fellow artist or a grateful son. I hadn't saved him. "He knew how much you all loved him," my mom sweetly comforted us.
Of course this show we were putting together wasn't a second chance for him—he was loved and respected by everyone who knew him—but it felt as though it was for us. For me.
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