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Donaji & the Magical Poncho
This is the story of a fearless girl and her encounter with the wicked cold wind god
4.28 / 5.00 4,899 ViewsIt's the fifth one in what now seems to be a "Quintilogy"..?
? I think you've waited long enough.
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umm yah dude i liked ur whole sries but that last one was fucked up man, i like em all but ur ending for #5 was err.... fucked up? geez i knew ur a demented person but wow, go get some help
Not ANOTHER ONE?!
Will you ever stop this horrible series of bad drawing?
Pointless. Has style, but it's wasted.
Well, I don't know what all of you guys are on, but simply put, this animation was simply pointless.
I'll break it down a little bit more:
Animation: Aside from lipsyncing, the animation was pretty poor. Everything only moves in 2 dimensions with no depth. Example: The girls' legs are facing right, when her body's facing forward, as she moves right. Also, it wouldn't kill to have the art be higher quality. Given the time the artist obviously puts in to these, he should spend some time working on his artistic skills. Colour theory and general skills can really help in conveying the right atmosphere.
Sound: It was good, and basically what made the atmosphere engaging. Obvious influence from Aphex Twins. The voice of Mr. Fingers just gets annoying though. There's a line between annoying and disturbing, and mr. Fingers dances heartily on the annoying side.
Style: The atmosphere is pretty good. If you put in an actual plot, or ideas, instead of just random stuff, you could come up with something actually good.
Overall: Despite the weak graphics, what really kills the animation is that there is NO point. The thing goes WAY too slow, and there is no payoff. Although good contrast to the other noises, it's simply too much. There is no plot to speak of, there are no funny bits, there is no entertainment value. Unlike the others eps, he doesn't do anything thats painfully disturbing (such as put a finger through a meat hook), so you don't even get those feelings of unease like the others. I think the artist should first sit down and plan a plot, idea, or theme to do before creating another mr. Fingers. For examples, look at and disect an Aphex Twin video. What makes it work, despite the seeming randomness of it all.
Wanna know what I got from the thing? You're making fun of mentally ill people. Without any attempt to make it funny.


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A fun, witty, sexy, page-turning novel written by a real-life, high-priced Manhattan call girl.
This is the diary of Nancy Chan, busy career girl, in her thirties, newly engaged and trying to balance job and romance. But Nancy is a high-class call girl, a fact her banker fiance, Matt does not know (he thinks she's a copy editor) and Nancy wants to keep it that way.
With one foot in the bedrooms of her rich and demanding clients and one in the world of her fiancé and his family, Nancy demonstrates, in her inimitable fashion, that if you know the dance, you can keep those two worlds from colliding. At least for a while.
This wonderfully intelligent, sexually frank, rollicking novel gives us fresh insight into the machinations and politics of being an expensive call girl in the modern world. Quan pulls no punches, gives no apologies, and has written one of the best and most honest books yet on the topic.
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" A high-heeled walk on the wild side, Tracy Quan' s Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl is a nifty trick of a first novel, combining sexual slapstick with luxury-goods, hotel-lobby sociology, exposing female vanity and male self-delusion with equal aplomb. Juggling cell-phone calls and quirky clients, Quan' s Nancy Chan is like a Henry Miller heroine with the meter running, bouncing from one trampoline event to another while always keeping an eye on the bottom line. What will shock many is not the explicit play-by-play action but the knockabout, offhand humor- that' s what shocked people about Henry Miller, too. No artificial sweeteners here: Quan' s adventures in the skin trade deliver a cocktail kick." - James Wolcott, author of The Catsitters " Nancy Chan is a working girl I can totally relate to, recognize- and imagine sharing my clients with. Addictive, entertaining, and fun to read, this book tells it like it is. Tracy Quan reveals trade secrets and shatters a lot of myths, while creating an accurate picture of what it' s like to be a New York call girl at the turn of the millennium." - Xaviera Hollander, author of The Happy Hooker " If you want to know the secrets of the trade, pick this one up." -- Jackie Collins " New York's latest literary sensation" -- "The Independent" " Frank, fizzy, and not for the faint-hearted." -- "Mail on Sunday" " Her sex scenes are delightful" -- "The Times" (London) " A sassy read about a sparky New Yorker trying to juggle her professional and private life...a startlingdebut." -- "The Mirror"
From the Author:Who is Nancy Chan?
Ever since Nancy Chan's diary began running in Salon.com, I've been asked by readers and relatives, by prospective and former boyfriends: "Are you Nancy Chan? How much of Nancy is really you?"
I'm unable to give a completely straight answer because, well, I'm like Nancy in some ways. Fact and fiction are often blurred in Nancy's life, and in mine. Like Nancy, I ran away from home during my teens, and I know what it's like to take pride in a job while keeping it a secret.
When the original series ended -- with Matt slyly inserting himself into Nancy's apartment to deliver a surprise marriage proposal -- I received hundreds of e-mails from readers wanting to know how Nancy would handle being a full-fledged fiancée: Could a girl like Nancy really give it all up for a guy when she's at the top of her career as a call girl? How big was that engagement ring, anyway?
My call-girl readers were especially intrigued. Contrary to the latest stereotype (that prostitution is just "sex work"), selling sex is much more than a job. Having sex for money can become a way of relating to men -- and enjoying men -- that competes with your romantic life. Successful hookers are sharp-witted, hardheaded and hardworking but many are also diehard romantics. We want our emotional fantasies to come true, perhaps because we spend so much time fulfilling other people's fantasies.
When you run your own business, you are married to your job. When this job is also a secret from your boyfriend, a proposal of marriage may represent the fulfillment of a fantasy -- but it brings real-life complications, as Nancy Chan could tell you.
As to whether I am currently guilty of leading a double life, planning to marry a guy like Matt, secretly endangered by scandal, or coming out with a sequel to the current novel, I will now resort to misquoting D.H. Lawrence: "Never trust the author. Trust the tale."
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Select a health care product to market within your organization.Note: Prefer the Veteran Healthcare Administration
Identify the consumer population of your organization, including general and business consumer.
Consider traditional and/or contemporary marketing techniques that may be appropriate for your consumer population (i.e., brochure, flyer, video commercial, audio commercial, billboard, social media, etc.). Reflect on why you might select this technique and how you might use it to market the product.
With the marketing technique you select in mind, consider how you might create an advertisement to market the health care product and what communication techniques might be appropriate for your population.
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Write a 2-page brief that addresses the following:
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Here's what my 94 GT put down with AFR 165's and a Diablo chip. I've got the std bolts on's Eldelbrock Performer,65mm TB, Shorty headers, Full Bassani exhaust with cat'd x-pipe. I need to return, and let them retune the chip. It's make about 7 hp, but it stumbles at 2200 rpms in 1st,2nd, and 3rd gear with light throttle applied. However, if you mash it good, it pulls really hard. You can tell the hp is there. On a regular dyno jet I was making 233 rwhp. With the in ground dyno it applys more real world weight to the vechicle. The tuner sez I would be making 308 rwhp if you take the 233 X 23% on hp and torque. Don't know how true that is, but I can tell there's a bunch more ponies under the hood. Sorry guys - can't seem to attach the file. However, the 1st run was 243.4 rwhp @ 5350rpm 265.9 rwtorque 2nd run was 251.0 @ 5350rmps and torque was 273.2
What kind of cam are you running? If you have some kind of aftermarket cam, you should be in the 275-285 horsepower range. You have a lot left in that motor. Do you question anything when you were putting everything back together? Double check the rocker geometry and vacuum leaks. What kind of injectors are you running? If they are the stock 19's they could be clogged (my car studdered when I had a clogged injector) or it could be running really rich in the lower RPM's making it a boggin type feel. Can you smell gasoline at all? Just trying to start you off..... Joe
Yeah do you have the stock grind in there, it seems low numbers to me, i dynoed 268/311 to the wheels with stock heads. I think that i would have made 300-310 rwhp with the AFRs
Are those numbers SAE or at some kind of high elevation?? Cause i made more than that with stock heads and cam and computer!! Maybe i read it wrong
That doesn't seem right -- I can't imagine the stock HO cam giving up that much power. With a similar setup, but with a better cam, I put down 273 rwhp and 325 rwtq. (that was with a messed up exhaust, after I put on my long tubes I got 3.5 mph in the 1/4, so I'm probably right at 300 rwhp now). Dave
Afr Sorry, I forgot to include that I left the stock cam in, and kept the 19lb injectors. We're in central fla with 78 degree humidity. The tuner reminded me that the same run on a Dyno Jet dyno would have made 308 rwhp and 300 + in rw torque. With the Diablo chip, it stumbles at 2200 rpms in 1st, 2nd and 3rd. He explained that I need hotter plugs and an ignition to get rid of the extra fuel left because I didn't upgrade to a larger cam. So which msd ignition do I need with my 5.0 ? Thanks Dewman
Sounds like a mustang dyno. I numbers will go up for sure but I dont think they will top 300. I would get some 24lbs injectors and a cam personally. At the very least try some 1.7 rockers to help take advantage of all that airflow. If you keep the stock cam you can always degree it in to help the top end.
I'm confused as to what kind of dyno this was... I dynoed at 233/298 SAE on a dyno jet and was pretty disappointed.
LOL. Your numbers are more than likely hurting from that elevation you have. Between that and the 3400lbs your trying to push down the track I can see why the ETs are high.
I dynoed the car in north carolina and got those numbers. Thats where i go to college, actually leaving really early tomorrow morning to drive back! I can't wait to get some track times in nc (300 ft) as opposed to denver (5800 ft). I'll definitely post the results, see what kind of difference a mile of altitude makes! I'm hoping for at least a full second, otherwise i'm just a horrific driver.
what do you mean by saying it will be higher with a "mustang dyno" (what is this?) vs. a dynojet dyno? my tq is the same as yours, and my motor is bone stock, on a 90* day, with very high humidity. it was on an above ground dyno. http://www.kwikkarauto.com/News/TXShoot2000/txshoot_fset.html
Was this a burnt chip? Even if it wasn't custom, he should've known your entire setup b4 doing any burning, why is there an excuse that you need to change for the chip b/c of lack of ignition or cam?? He should've known you didn't have a cam in the first place, so why did he burn the chip's fuel tables w/a cam in mind????
Chip update Here's a quick update. The dyno was a Mustang Chassis Dyno. I now understand that they normally lower numbers than the dyno jets. The original runs I made I later found out was screwed up by the tuner. He had the MAF settings all out of wack. He adjusted it with a new downloaded file. 2 weeks ago I added a Bassani O/R x-pipe and took it to another Diablo chip dealer near my house. He poped the chip, and then asked how is this thing even running ?? The original tuner had it connected to the wrong port, and had basicly turned off most of the mods. It wasn't a custom tune as the tuner originaly stated. He downloaded a new file, and woke it up, my torque was back big time, and the car ran a lot smoother . Since then I've discovered it stumbles at 2K, and the dealer is getting a new file in for me Friday. Dave - I should have similar numbers i.e 280-290 rwhp (dyno-jet) as you mentioned. I 'm not sure how much the chip will do in combo with the all the mods. But, I'm planning to get a dyno run in soon to verify the numbers. Central Fla with 75 degree temp and 40% humidity is so much better than 90 degree temp and humidity.
Hey Steve!! Green..Agree with the MINIMUM being rockers with those heads...obviously + cam = more power. On another note, you may want to consider changing out you Performer upper for the RPM or RPM II. RC
The car should run like stock, as far as the tune goes. Sounds like you have some tuning issues. Throw a decent cam on there, and get a good tune, some injectors and a maf, and you should be right up there. Did Lugo do the tuning, head install, dyno time?
That's not true. Case in point... my car with an edelbrock intake, shorty headers, offroad x pipe, pulleys, flowmasters, homemade CAI, bumper timing, FPR, etc went from running 15.2 at 90mph to 13.83 at 98.55mph with those mods. 99% of the cars here with VERY similar mods dyno in the neighborhood of 230-240RWHP. My car, on a mustang chassis dyno put down a WHOPPING 188rwhp Now, its obvious from the track times and what 99% of the people dyno with similar mods that I was no where near 188rwhp... that's what our cars will dyno stock. Now, the dyno pull was made in 3rd gear which probably didn't help much as its not a 1:1 relationship, but still ~230-240 compared to 188 is more than 1-2%. I questioned why they were dynoing in 3rd and they said that was the way it was supposed to be done and would NOT dyno my car in 4th gear, needless to say I never went back there again.
I did alot of research on aftermarket heads with stock cam and similar bolt-ons to your package. I talked to 5 guys that had either AFR-165's or Trick Flow heads who all made 270-280rwhp with the stock cam on a Dynojet. I have an old 5.0 Mustangs magazine that showed similar results with a stock cam and Edelbrock Performer package +280rwhp. Hope this helps you, PM me with any questions.


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There are so many new process and system apps, I'm sure most of them may be safely deleted, but which exactly? No one wanna find out?
2.06 search button behave like power button O_o
Open /system/usr/keylayout/Generic.kl and change "key 217 POWER" to "key 217 SEARCH"
I'm running 2.07 and I could swear that removing Wiper.apk has re-enabled the use of my Camera again (either that or the switching of the /system/lib/ folder with the 2.06 one and then back again)...
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Everything great with this rom, but sometimes i get a strange issue. I can't read a mail or a webpage because it's totally white! I get the same problem sometimes with Instagram and alway with Pulse. Is it just me? I'm using 2.06
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I read a while back that while toys are a major seller in the U.S., green toys aren't so much. In fact, the research I read said that green toy sales make up just 1% of all toy sales. That seems nuts considering all the problems with conventional toys. Still, in some ways I get it. There are totally affordable green toys out there, but also many that are way out of the average price range for most families.
If you are looking to cut back on pre-made, conventional toys (at cost), why not consider the good old cardboard box? More than just fun, turning cardboard into something new and fun is a nice way to reuse and recycle. You can always buy a cardboard toy, but actually making them helps work your creativity muscles.
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If you're not interested in messing with tape and glue, consider an easy to use Makedo Kit kit. My son has the Makedo Find & Make a Robot (shown above) and he loves it. But, you don't have to make robots. Makedo kits allow you to use makedo parts such as non-sharp cutters and connectors plus any old found materials to create just about anything. Mr. McGroovy's Box Rivets are like Makedo connectors as well. Of course, you can always use duct tape too.
Where to get boxes?
I highly suggest you read the BEST ever working with cardboard guide (really – best ever!) No joke, this mama made the beautiful and amazing cardboard Barbie house above. This house has so many sweet details, you'll have to see it to believe it. If I was this clever, I'd just sit at home all day long stewing in my own creative bliss and never get anything done.
Need more help? If your own creativity muscles need some help, check out these amazingly cool cardboard toy ideas below.
An adorable Cardboard Box Shape Sorter for your baby from Parents – LOVE that it's HUGE.
The 100% amazing and fun cardboard cafe – there are no words for how much I love this. Made by 45wall design.
Makedo, who I mention above, offers many cool cardboard box creation ideas at their website. Personally I love the wind ball for outside play and the creative Ferris wheel best.
Cool, cool, double super duper cool cardboard guitars! Made by Make It and Love It.
Sweet pink and pretty princess castle by 795 and counting.
If pretty and pink isn't your kid's deal, you can also try this cool tubed castle by the clever Creative Jewish Mom.
Tissue box car city by Eco-novice – the perfect starter cardboard project for young tots.
A great fun idea for a cardboard doll's bike seat from Origami Mommy.
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Neat cardboard sorting toy for your baby, adorable rocker and rolling toy, all from the utterly awesome mind behind Play and Grow. This blog offers the best overall collection of cardboard goodies I've ever seen – actually it was hard to leave, but it's bookmark worthy for sure.
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I don't know if it has a huge impact. You have to play these things out in the court of public opinion, and that opinion is still forming.
Why does the pro-life movement not have a great deal to show for the 2004 election?
I think they have achieved a lot since the 2000 elections. Consider the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 and the Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004the first two pieces of federal pro-life legislation to pass in years. And you have the possibility that the Supreme Court may move with these latest justices.
What more can the U.S. do to help stop ongoing genocide in Sudan?
We can get adequate funding to the African Union. We need to advocate more nato engagement for transportation and logistics. We need to be more condemning of governments' actions toward what's happening to the people of Sudan.
Late last year many Christian leaders protested government cuts to programs like Medicare and food stamps. What was your position?
I voted in favor of the budget resolution [that included the cuts]. I think we have to control our spending, and we have a moral obligation to balance our budget and not overly burden future generations. On the other hand, I'm actually encouraged that a lot of Christian groups are getting involved in issues relative to those less fortunate and the poor. I hope we can pursue solutions that help people and not just keep them in dependency.
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Silverpop, an on-demand provider of an email marketing and marketing automation platform serving the needs of sophisticated self-service B2C and B2B marketers, conducted the online survey last month. A total of 1,805 marketers responded. Six out of 10 (62 percent) had email lists of under 50,000; 14 percent had lists between 50,000 and 500,000; 24 percent had lists of more than half-a-million.
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A Randall Stross column (subscription required) in yesterday's New York Times revealed that only two, count 'em two, of the Fortune 500 chief executive officers maintain a blog. Of the two, Jonathan Schwartz of Sun Microsystems and John Mackey of Whole Foods, only Schwartz blogs with any regularity. Even though he is alone in his convictions, Schwartz could not be more adamant about the importance of blogging in a CEOs life. "My number 1 job is to be a communicator," said Schwartz. "I don't understand how a CEO would not blog if committed to open communication." In fell swoop, says Schwartz, he simultaneously reaches shareholders, software developers, and current and prospective customers. He says a single blog saves him countless hours of time that would have been spent composing individual e-mails to these very same groups. So, why don't more CEOs blog? It's not because, as some suggest, blogging is a passing fad. It's because CEOs fear the loss of control that comes with blogging. Unlike a letter in an annual report, a prepared speech to an industry trade group or a print advertisement, blogging demands open, two-way communication. And, for an authoritarian, top-down manager surrounded by sycophants, that concept is way too scary. But, as Schwartz pointed out in a Harvard Business Review article, one day all CEOs will blog. They'll wake up to its efficiencies and its ability to create new and different relationships with core constituents. It may take a few years, but I totally agree with Schwartz. Why? Because market competition and good ol' peer pressure will force the CEO to adapt or die. Once Schwartz's competitors realize how his blog pre-empts the types of traditional relationships they've been trying to nurture with the same prospective customer base, you'll see them pick up the keypad and start banging away. There was one other key point in the Stross article that I wanted to share. Schwartz says he's dead set against ghostwritten CEO blogs. I totally agree. My good friend and competitor, Ken Makovsky, has gone on record as disagreeing, saying a ghostwritten blog is no different than a ghostwritten speech. Conceptually, he may be right. But, the blogosphere has its own rules and regulations. Bloggers want to have direct, one-on-one conversations with one another, and not have to deal with a designated member of the corporation's palace guard. As a result, ghostwritten blogs get deleted faster than those unsolicited requests from Ethiopian widows looking to deposit $15mm in your bank account. So, here's a virtual tip of the hat to Mr. Schwartz for having the brains and the guts to go where no other CEO has gone. Let's hope future text books and manuals on business acknowledge his visionary act.
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To sir with love
How low has our society sunk that former NBA star "Sir" Charles Barkley is now considered a serious candidate to become Alabama's next governor? Aside from the ego gratification of it, why do actors and jocks get involved in politics? And, more importantly, why do voters take them seriously? In my mind, the Barkleys, Venturas and Arnolds of the world are taken seriously because: 1.) The current crop of "professional" politicians" may be the worst ever 2.) The best and brightest thinkers in our country avoid political careers because of the intense, pitbull tactics of mudslinging pack journalism 3.) Society seems to be rapidly going to hell in a hand basket and voters probably think a jock or actor couldn't possibly do worse than the incumbents And, so, we see the rise of a totally unqualified guy like Sir Charles, who says he is considering a run because "he wants to help people." How noble of him. Sir Charles originally said he was a Republican, but recently changed party affiliations because, he said: "…Republicans have lost their minds." How statesmanlike. Is it any wonder our country's image is as bad as it is when we elect actors, jocks and political hacks to higher office? Is there any way to ever turn back the clock and somehow convince our nation's truly gifted individuals to commit their lives to public service? Not never. Not now. The best qualified individuals simply do not want to subject themselves or their families to the intense scrutiny that accompanies any run for public office. So, instead, they choose the private sector and the country is deprived of their abilities. And we are left with Sir Charles thinking about a Alabama gubernatorial run. What's next? Derek Jeter running for mayor of New York? Peyton Manning becoming an Indiana congressman? Having just spent the past few days in San Francisco, I'm both amazed and appalled at the genuine love and support the locals have for a thug like Barry Bonds. Maybe even Barry can look forward to a political career after he breaks Aaron's home run record next season. After all, I don't think there's any mandatory drug testing for political candidates in California. Hey, he could even take on Arnold in a winner take all gubernatorial epic pitting the Terminator against the 'Roid King. This sort of insanity can only happen in America. Hat tip to Chris "Repman Jr." Cody for this idea.
Can't anybody here play this game?
A new survey released today shows that eight in 10 U.S. cities say they are unprepared for a mega 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina-type disaster. The U.S. Conference of Mayors surveyed 183 city administrators and found that 44 percent haven't created or updated their evacuation plans and nearly three-quarters say they're not prepared to deal with a flu pandemic. While the survey findings are horrific, I'm sorry to say they're not surprising. When it comes to crisis preparedness, it seems as if the prevailing mentality falls into one of several buckets: 1.) "Its' not my job, man" 2.) "It won't happen here" 3.) "We don't have enough money to create or execute a plan" By the way, this mindset is not unique to the public sector. I can distinctly remember a presentation to one Fortune 500 company in which we detailed how we'd simulate any number of potential crises, involve all of their line executives in the exercise and provide them with a report card and evaluation based upon our work with other large companies. I think we asked for $20k to handle the day-and-a-half simulation. After waiting about a week for a response, we were told this multi-billion dollar, publicly-traded corporation didn't have the budget to pay for the work! You would think the individuals who control crisis planning budgets would understand the ramifications of their penny-wise, pound-foolish avoidance behavior. And, yet, today's survey provides a reminder that, as we approach the fifth anniversary of 9/11, most of America remains woefully unprepared for the inevitable. This widespread denial reminds me of a classic Casey Stengel quote. When the late NY Mets managers became totally exasperated by his team's abysmal play, ol' Casey screamed: "Can't anyone here play this game?" Someone needs to play the role of Stengel and scream at our city's mayors and corporate risk managers and break through their lethargy. The hour is late and the crisis is approaching.
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David Carr's excellent column (subscription required) in Monday's New York Times highlighted an increasingly prevalent trend in journalism. As newspapers and magazines continue to downsize, consolidate or disappear entirely, more and more journalists have embraced "web 2.0" and created their own blogs or eBusinesses. Carr cites Fortune Magazine's Nina Munk, who has her own web company called Urban Hound, as a great example of the trend. There's also Om Malik and Rafat Ali, erstwhile journalists with Business 2.0 and the Silicon Alley Reporter, respectively, who have their own news sites/blogs. Carr believes that more and more journalists will be creating their own blogs and eBusinesses in order to compete and survive as the digital revolution continues to wreak havoc on traditional communications channels. Carr's column got me wondering why the more progressive PR firms aren't creating their own information-based eBusinesses. Why shouldn't Edelman, Weber, CRT/Tanaka or Airfoil provide "insider" perspectives on the industry in which they operate? While we are obviously client and new business focused, we could just as easily create content driven thought pieces that would rival anything published by the current trade journals. And, our eJournals would carry the first-hand "I was there" immediacy the trade journals lack. Sure, there's the question of objectivity, but, if the top management consulting firms like Bain and Accenture can do it, why can't we? And, why can't we connect directly with prospective clients in the process? Malik's gigaOM.com and Ali's paidContent.org cover technology and digital media news. Both have broken a number of stories and received funding from venture capitalists. So, why can't a public relations firm also create a separate revenue stream by creating a Web site that provides analysis, fresh content and an "insider's view of what's really what?" Hey, maybe David Carr would be interested in becoming editor?
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Gone with the .wind
Our erstwhile Controller Fran Bainbridge recently compiled a list of every client our firm has represented since its inception in 1995. Talk about a trip down memory lane. Wow! Along with the GEs, Tycos and Avayas, there was the government of Kuwait (which, to this day, hasn't paid us for managing a special event five years ago), Playboy.com (my partner, Ed, is still kidded about the advice proffered to Christie Hefner about how best to cross and uncross her legs during interviews) and Vayu Web (a technology company whose owner was found floating face down in Long Island Sound one Summer morning around the turn of the millennium). What really struck a nerve, though, were the dotcoms, all of whom thought they were the modern day equivalent of alchemists who could transform a mundane, mediocre business model into instant gold. There was FerrousExchange, which enabled online trading of precious minerals (there's a big market for you!), VisionRx, which hoped consumers would pay money to test their eyes on a desktop eye chart (er, ah, the mouse cord only extends 18 inches and patients are supposed to be 20 feet away from the eye chart) and Hypernix, whose hard-charging Israeli commando-type executives connected web visitors to people with similar interests and backgrounds. As crazy, condescending and downright confusing as some of the dotcom executives and their business models were, though, they were no match for the interactive eAgencies that arrived on the scene to charge outrageous fees for creating Web site infrastructures. These were the true masters of the dotcom universe and, boy, they let you know it in no uncertain terms. We had our fair share of these firms: Iguana Studios, Methodfive and Noblestar come to mind. The best example of the "Alice in Wonderland" mindset that prevailed in those days, though, had to be an interactive eAgency calling itself iFrame. iFrame hired us to create their positioning and publicity and, man oh man, were they ever in a hurry. Right after we began the positioning process, we literally had to stop almost immediately. That's because management didn't want us to create a unique and sustainable positioning that would set them apart from the competition. Instead, they wanted to be seen as just another Razorfish, Sapient or iXL. I remember the CEO screaming at our team and saying, "Look, all we want is for the Street to think we're just like the other web designers, give us an outrageous valuation and then take us public. This is all about us making millions. Period! If you can't get that through your minds, then leave." Needless to say, iFrame went nowhere fast with their "me too" strategy and went belly up in a few months' time. We tried to collect some of our unpaid monies only to have them counter-sue us for "poor performance." It was classic dotcom nonsense. Naturally, the business disappeared long before we could reclaim a dime. In retrospect, I'm amazed how an entire "sector" came and went in the blink of an eye. From an image and reputation standpoint, dotcoms were absolutely white hot in the late '90s. If you weren't working for, or representing , dotcoms, you were a nobody. But, by the early part of the new decade, they were gone with the wind, and many former high-flying dotcom employees were struggling to land decent jobs with the brick-and-mortar companies they had once disdained. Yes, indeed, Fran's list of former clients sure brought back some interesting memories.
Our cheating hearts
With the Barry Bonds steroid scandal continuing to lead sports headlines across the country, and everyone still reeling from convicted Enron Chairman Ken Lay's untimely demise (or was it a "timed" demise?), there now comes news of a college student survey pinpointing how our younger people justify their cheating. Conducted by three business professors at Iowa State University, the survey identified four ways in which students rationalized their unethical behavior (i.e. cheating on tests, etc.). In reviewing the four explanations provided by students, I was struck by how they mirrored what high profile figures in society use or have used to rationale their actions. To wit, according to the profs, the kids either distance themselves from the act (think Barry Bonds), blame someone else for it (our man, Ken Lay comes to mind), redefine it as a good thing (those missing weapons of mass destruction as justification for invading Iraq?), or conclude that the outcome (even a negative one) made cheating worthwhile (Gitmo torture techniques?). What does it say about a society when its next generation of leaders can rationalize cheating (and have that rationalization categorized into four, neat quadrants)? It's really not the kids who are at fault, it's us. Our current generation has allowed ethics, morals and overall deportment to slip to abysmally low levels. And, sad, to say, I see no way in which the trend can be reversed. As long as our media glamorize the Diddys and Bonds along with the Ebbers and Kozlowskis, we'll continue to see our kids take the easy, shortcuts to wealth and success. And if it means cheating to get ahead, well so be it. At least the next generation wil be able to identify what kind of cheaters they are.
The times, they are a changin'
Digital technology is having a seismic effect on media and publishing as we know it. The latest indication comes in the form of two separate studies. The first, undertaken by Forrester Research, showed that viral advertising is a much more effective way of engaging consumers than traditional advertising. At the same time, the survey of some 1,000 U.K. Internet users showed that most are "increasingly fed up with advertising as a whole."
In my opinion, viral advertising is a great example of the power of word-of-mouth in the consumer decision-making process. Forrester survey respondents said they pass viral ads along to their friends because they either found them "funny" or thought the person(s) on the receiving line would "…..find the product or service of interest." How powerful is that?
The Forrester survey also proved what many of us instinctively knew all along: consumers are becoming increasingly disenchanted with traditional advertisng. Just five percent of survey respondents believed that companies tell the truth in their ads, compared to eight percent two years ago. I sure hope marketers wake up and look at those percentages again. Talk about a poor ROI.
Digital has changed the communications model. Advertising's approach of talking "at" consumers, instead of engaging in a dialogue "with" them is the industry's Achilles Heel. Until the advertising moguls adapt to the sea changes underway, they'll continue to see their model slip sliding away.
I found another survey equally fascinating. This one was undertaken on behalf of Parade Magazine, and revealed that one-third of Americans surveyed no longer read the Sunday papers. Respondents cited time constraints, lack of home delivery, a preference for TV news (ugh), and general lack of interest, period, as reasons why they bypass the Sunday papers.
In its own way, the Parade Magazine poll should be just as much of a wake-up call for newspaper publishers as the Forrester findings should be for ad moguls.
The times, they certainly are a changing. And, it'll be fascinating to see how the advertising and traditional publishing sectors deal with the severe challenges to their previous, near monopolistic positions. In the meantime, public relations and non-traditional media continue to be the benefactors of the changing landscape.
The cruise ship industry is sailing into troubled waters from an image standpoint
Yesterday's mishap on a Princess cruise ship in which scores of people were injured, two critically, is just the latest in a series of very scary setbacks that have hit the cruise ship industry like a giant rogue wave. It seems like every month or so a new report is issued about food poisoning, collisions or, as was the case yesterday, some sort of steering malfunction that caused the giant ship to roll violently on one side and pitch passengers pell mell down staircases, slam them into walls, and also empty the swimming pools. Princess issued an apology and promised to refund the tickets of all 3,100 passengers. But, in my mind, that's not enough. I think this industry is going to suffer a major drop in business if it doesn't address the problem. Too many passengers have had too many bad experiences on too many ships to ignore it any longer. I've been on four or five cruises and have really enjoyed myself. In fact, my cruise to Alaska remains my single best vacation experience. That said, I'm really starting to have second thoughts about taking my family on a planned cruise to the Galapagos Islands next year. We'd love to go, but will I be unwittingly putting them in harm's way by doing so? If the cruise industry was a client and I was advising them on earning back the trust of people like me, I'd suggest the following: 1.) An extensive passenger/target audience survey to determine current perceptions of the industry. Is it as bad as I think? Or, are most people willing to risk life and limb for a romantic Caribbean cruise? 2.) If the survey shows the results I'd expect, I'd then commission some sort of panel headed by a travel & tourism/transportation expert. This panel would hold a series of tough investigative sessions to not only dig deep into the causes of the various problems but, like the 9/11 commission, issue a report suggesting system-wide infrastructure changes. 3.) Last, but not least, I'd counsel the industry to communicate the survey results, and the actions and recommendations of the commission throughout the entire process. FYI, I recently engaged in a podcast debate with Ted "Ludacris" Birkhahn about Israel and how difficult it must be right now to get anyone to plan a vacation to that embattled State. I never thought that, a few weeks later, I'd be venting similar concerns about cruise ships. But, yesterday's accident has prompted me to at least temporarily change course in terms of planning my next vacation. I'm not booking another cruise until I know what's going on.
First impressions can, indeed, last a lifetime
There's a great article by Sara J. Welch in today's NY Times (subscription required), entitled, "Traveling with the boss." It's chock full of useful tips from experts on what to do and not do while traveling with the one's boss. The bottom line is that a junior employee is "always on" when traveling with a boss, and should act accordingly. The article brought back a flood of memories for me, both on the sending and receiving end of things. I remember traveling with a client many years ago to attend a sales retreat. I was about 25 at the time, and made sure to ask the client in advance how I should dress for the Sunday afternoon flight to Phoenix. He responded by saying, "dress casually." I took that as an opportunity to wear jeans, t-shirts and sneakers to the airport. Imagine my surprise when, upon conecting with him, I saw the client sporting a blue blazer, blue button-down shirt, khakis and loafers. He immediately pulled me aside and said, "Steve, there's casual. And, then there's casual. Don't let this happen again. Your appearance reflects on me as well and makes me look bad in front of my management." Lesson learned. The Welch story also advises junior staff to be mindful of what they say to their superiors when traveling on business, and to not be too casual or engage in inane or inappropriate conversations. The latter admonition reminded me of a more recent incident in which I was traveling with one of our newer employees. Up until the point, I'd never really had a chance to speak with her with the exception of a few e-mails, etc. So, as we sat back and relaxed, I told her to go ahead and ask me any question about myself, the agency, or the industry. She became flustered, and was obviously at a complete loss as to what to ask. Knowing that the firm had recently rented a midtown Manhattan apartment for use by our senior executives and visiting clients, she finally blurted out, "So, what does the corporate apartment cost?" That was it. That was her sole question of me. I answered her question, she nodded her head and then dove headlong into a book she'd brought along. Needless to say, I wasn't very impressed. And, needless to say, she no longer works with us (not to imply that that comment cost her job. On the contrary, she simply didn't work out). Here's one final, more upbeat travel saga. A group of us were recently traveling to the Midwest, and had encountered endless, weather-related delays. In fact, our late afternoon flight was eventually cancelled and we were forced to stay overnight at a godforsaken Newark-airport hotel, and grab the first flight out the following morning. Beaten bedraggled and brutalized by the experience, our little quintent shuttled over to the terminal at five am. Once we checked in, we discovered that one of our group had been upgraded to first class. It wasn't me. But, guess what? The woman who had been upgraded selflessly gave me her first class seat. She'll forever be a hero to me and today, sits in my partner Ed's office (only kidding). I may, in fact, remember her in my will. Business travel, and comporting oneself in a professional manner while traveling, is a subtle, but critical, part of one's overall professional development and career path. Ms. Welch's column should be made mandatory reading in all college and university business programs.


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In this video, Toronto Wildlife Centre's rescue team helps a mallard family who nested on a on a building rooftop in downtown Toronto.
Wild animals in the city have it pretty tough. They face danger everywhere they turn—on our roads, from our pets, from our litter. Sometimes they try to make a safe home in a nice warm attic or underneath a deck, only to be trapped and released far away from home.
Four tiny short-tailed weasels were found orphaned in a parking lot under a van. Sadly only two made it through the night, but they're thriving in foster care. They have a few months ahead of them yet before they'll be ready to start their lives in the wild!
This little lady came in as a single orphan on Tuesday. Luckily she's around the same age as the 2 other orphaned male coyotes that we have in care. They're now being raised together and she'll have 2 siblings to look after her as she grows up.
Toronto Wildlife Centre's rescue team re-nested this baby great-horned owl after Saturday's windy weather blew him out his tree, nest and all. We made him a new home, and with the help of local arborists Paul and Dan, affixed it high in the tree.
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A stay at Citadines Harbourview Hong Kong places you in the heart of Hong Kong, minutes from Western Market and Hong Kong - Macau Ferry Terminal. This 4-star apartment is close to Soho and International Finance Centre.
Make yourself at home in one of the 52 individually decorated guestrooms, featuring kitchenettes with refrigerators and stovetops. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and 42-inch LCD televisions are provided for your entertainment. Conveniences include safes and desks, as well as phones with free local calls.
Enjoy recreation amenities such as a 24-hour fitness center or take in the view from a rooftop terrace. This apartment also features complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and barbecue grills.
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This is the second half of my conversation with a friend. Someone new to photography. Someone now using her iPhone to take images that are becoming more interesting and more important to her. Someone trying to figure out how to find her way in her images (compositionally speaking) and tell her story. How fun! How wonderful! However, please keep in mind, if you are already a comfortable photographer this suggestion may not be for you.
Where we left off…
Me: Okay, so I know you've had it happen where you've been walking around a city on vacation and turned a corner and something about the scene made you want to take a photo, right?
Friend: "Right."
Me: But when you looked at the image later it just didn't "feel" the same — not to you and certainly not to anyone you showed it to, right?
Friend: "Well, that's kind of mean but right — I hope this gets better."
Me: Hahahaha! (I have the best friends). It's because you didn't tell the story in your photo that you felt when you were standing there and you do that by how you compose it.
Friend: "Right, and I've already told you that I don't know how to do that."
Me: Yes, but you can get better with this easy (no-pressure) exercise.
Friend: "No pressure? I'm in."
Me: Alright, alright, alright. (I say with my best Matthew McConaughey impression — no, I don't know why I have one). Anyway…
After you take a picture, take it into an app (or even just with your phone's editing app) and start cropping the image in different ways and around different elements within the image to figure out: (a) What exactly was it that you found so interesting? And, (b) How might you show it, crop it, compose it, (or tell the story) next time so that others can experience it in the same way you did? It's free, it's easy and it's fun to see what could have been different had you thought differently about how to take the picture.
Remember, you're new at this so you need to experiment in order to help train your eyes to see differently than they have seen before. Cropping can be a quick and easy way to show yourself what could have been and helps to train your eye for the future. Do this a lot and with practice you'll start shooting differently and the need for cropping won't be as great. (Though with a phone you might find you still need to crop from time to time because you don't have the ability to zoom like other cameras but that's another post).
I have included some example images below to illustrate what I mean.
So you wandered down this street and something struck you, you felt something, saw something and so you took the photo. Now, try cropping it in different ways to figure out what it might have been that moved you. You can crop your own images as many times as you'd like — it's up to you — it's play time so have fun!
Above: Was it the table and chairs, or the stairs?
Above: Was it something low? The cobblestone street? The puddle? The people?
Or was it that there was just enough mist about this deserted entrance that it reminded you of the page of a novel and you knew
(with just a little editing) it could be this? Yeah, I think that was it.
Anyway, after you've started to take notice of how you feel, use this little trick to start to compose differently, and then you can start the fun process of learning some really helpful "rules" like the rule of thirds. But first have some fun because if you do, it makes learning the rules a lot more fun, too.
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Different organizations or organizational units are likely to store and maintain different types of information about their software architectures. This inhibits effective management of architectural knowledge. We experimented with a model of architectural knowledge to characterize the use of architectural knowledge in four different organizations. Based on… (More)
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The new Microsoft Windows blog is a Multisite Network that includes blogs that host a wide variety of Windows and Internet Explorer related topics. Multiple foreign language blogs are set up within the network, and each have region specific curated content.
One of the most vital components of the Microsoft Windows blog project was creating filtering options. These options allow readers to focus on the content that interests them most, and allows them to subscribe to custom RSS feeds based on the filters they have chosen.


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Update... it won't play any games now, not even originals..
Some help would be very much appreciated. Thanks.
Earlier today, my Wii was working just fine. I go to play a backup of a game and it firstly errors me in Backup Gamma 0.3 with Error 324. So I looked that up, reinstalled the cIOS.
Now my games load (sometimes) and whenever they boot up, the drive starts clicking persistently, failing to load and then eventually erroring out.
Any help would be appreciated. I've tried uninstalling DVDx, reinstalling cIOS's, reinstalling Backup Launcher, cleaning the disc, turning the Wii on all of its sides..
Firmware: 3.3u
Update... it won't play any games now, not even originals..
Some help would be very much appreciated. Thanks.
Doesn't error 324 also cover bad media, could it be that your discs if backups have been damaged in anyway? that would cause the drive to have problems and eventually error out. Or in the worse case it is the drive itself that is giving up. If you can access another Wii, get a disc that works on that and try it on yours, se what happens. Try both original and backup.
try burning on another type of media .. i have had great success with Sony and Maxell. It is possible it is the wii drive itself. No worries most mod shops sell new drives, and they are available on Ebay.
I have about 25 backups and they all worked without any problems whatsoever until randomly they just stopped, along with originals as well. At first, it would boot up some games, load very slowly, then die.. and now nothing works at all.
I formatted the Wii and still nothing :<
Sorry to say it but your drive is roasted toasted and burnt to a crisp. Bette start looking into buying a new optical drive for your wii, or invest in a FlatMii or USB loader and start loading from USB.. how old is this wii and how much usage have you gotten out of it?
Well unfortunately it's a launch Wii, got it forever ago.
Just wondering, is there a way to clean the lens maybe? I've opened the Wii up before so the warranty is gone..
And I thought I'd need the homebrew channel or something to get USB loader working? Since I can't do TP hack anymore (can't read the disc)..
Q-tip + alcohol would do the len cleaning. soap and wipe gentlely; not to stress the spring of len mechanism.
drive can't read, no way to TP hack, needless to say the others
if the dvd-drive really going to die, ur last resort is to trim the laser intensity. be careful, if u're not good at DIY and precaution !
Thanks.. I will attempt to clean the lens tomorrow afternoon. I suppose it isn't any harder than cleaning a PS2 lens. No, I'm not very great at DIY stuff. I initially opened it years ago to install a modchip but I got cold feet because I'd never soldered before --
so, u could get another pair of cold feet by replacing the len set..


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Are they frozen raw or frozen cooked? I've frozen steamed mussels, and was not happy with the results when thawed. I don't care for them cold (unlike shrimp), and even gently rewarmed in a steamer, the texture was rubbery.
There's a product at my local supermarket. Frozen Mussels in tomato garlic sauce..in a vac pack bag with the sauce. It heats up nicely..and the sauce is pretty good. No, it's not as good as freash ones. But for 6 dollars for two...it's a nice freezer addition.
It's not spectacular , but just fine for a weeknight defrost meal. However even with those some of them don't open when steamed..so those get discarded.
Actually, I think that's what most of the chain resturants use for their portions of mussels. Debag and heat them and serve them to the guest for a 200 percent mark up.
I'm fairly certain this product (from a Publix market) is raw muscles and the sauce is put in the bag for steaming as they weren't very rubbery (as mentioned above) when made to the box specs..but yes..a bit of texture to them, but worth the freezer item storage.
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Getting a massage is a thing that would surely be relished by most people after a long stressful week. This is the reason why many try their luck in the massaging field. However, to be able to practice your knowledge in massaging, a license is a prerequisite in most countries.
This only goes to say that you must be aware of the facts that come with the process on how to get a massage license.
Being a massage therapist can definitely be a career that will give you good rewards in the end. If you are competent enough as a massage therapist, you can opt to work for employers or you might also build your very own business. Whatever you might want to try, most of the jurisdictions actually require the massage therapists to secure a recent license so that they can continue their business in that specific area.
Is it a Requirement in All Places?
Not all town and cities actually require the therapists to have special credentials. This goes to say that in case you would like to work for a massage parlor that is already established, a gym or even a health spa, there is no need for you to get from your local jurisdiction a license on massage therapy. If this will be the case, what will be asked from you would be a license for your business in case that you would plan to set up your very own business. Majority of the towns and cities offer this for a low cost only in the city hall.
What Local Agencies Issue a License?
For you to know the things that you need for you to acquire a license, make sure that you are also aware as to what local agency issues this specific document. Contact that agency and get the information of the guidelines for your license application, exams that you have successfully pass and the kind of training which you have to take so that you will be granted with a massage therapy license. Because there are no national procedures governing creation of license in many countries, qualifications made by the local authorities can also be naturally broad or even highly specific when proficiency proof as well as training is concerned.
What are Needed for Formal Application?
The moment that you have known how to obtain a license on massage therapy and you are certain that you will be able to meet all the criteria asked for, this will be the time to make a formal application. Depending on the regulations in your locale, you might be asked to pass photocopies of your documents like training transcripts as well as completion certificate. When you have completed and also reviewed your application, you can schedule an exam date or you might be given the license when you have already paid the needed fee.
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It is important that you bear in mind that in case that you have a valid license from another area of jurisdiction, there is still a possibility that you will forego the needed requirements and get a newer licenses in a faster way. Still, you have to know that there are jurisdictions which necessitate everyone to abide similar procedures in spite of the individual holding a valid license from a different town or city.


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In a recent personal email sent to us the Oukitel, they just announced their latest smartphone with massive battery capacity that might be enough to last for several days. Dubbed as the Oukitel K6000, this impressive entry-midrange smartphone packs some nice build and specs for the price.
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It features a 5.5 Inch HD screen with 2.5D glass, 2 GB RAM, Mali T720 GPU, 13 MP rear camera, 5 MP selfie camera, LTE and 16 GB expandable ROM which are all pretty standard in this price range.
What's interesting here is Oukitel opted to use the new 1.0 GHz 64 Bit MT6735P quad core processor which happens to decently powerful, but very power efficient. Pair that with the monstrous 6,000 mAh and Oukitel stated that your phone will have an insane 40 days of standby time. It also supports a 9V / 2A flash charging technology which can give you 2 hours of talk time in just 5 mins. It also supports a reverse charging tech where you can charge other device with the use of this phone.
Oukitel K6000 Specs
Display: 5.5 Inch HD IPS 1280 x 720 resolution w/ 2.5D curved glass at 267 ppi
CPU: 1.0 GHz 64 Bit MT6735P quad core processor
GPU: Mali T720
GBROM: 16 GB expandable via microSD card slot up to 32 GB
Back Camera: 13 MP w/ dual tone flash
Selfie Camera: 5 MP
Battery: 6,000 mAh w/ 9V / 2A flash charging and 5V/1A reverse charging
OS: Android 5.1 Lollipop
Connectivity: WiFi, 3G, FDD LTE, Bluetooth, GPS, AGPS, Dual SIM (micro + nano)
Sensors: Gravity, proximity, magnetic, light
Price: USD 139.99 (6,524.21 Pesos)
It's a pretty cool phone right? It's priced at USD 139.99 which is at 6,524.21 Pesos when directly converted. I'm still confirming with them if there's a chance that this will retail here in the Philippines locally too.


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