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Agency-Client Relations: Partnering Points
Agencies and clients—are you looking for direction in the way you partner? A little candid advice from the other side may help you stay on course. Larry Dobrow reports
When one asks client- and agency-side people for their broad, hyper-generalized, soaring-bird's-eye-view, biggest-picture-imaginable assessment of client/agency relationships circa late-2013, one hears a lot about trust and transparency. One hears about increased expectations on both sides, fueled by the do-more-with-less mentality that pervades pharma. One hears about the frustrations that come with working within pharma's regulatory framework and about how the industry's reluctance to embrace new technologies and modes of thinking can thwart innovation.
In other words, one hears the same things one's been hearing for the last half-decade. Nobody believes that the business is static, obviously, and nobody suggests that pharma marketers haven't been responsive to the changes in and around it. But for the most part, individuals on both sides of the fence arch a skeptical eyebrow when it is proposed to them that client/agency relationships have shifted as drastically as the healthcare industry itself.
"The types of true partnerships you want and need are still there. You can still find them. That part of it hasn't changed," says Amy West, associate director, patient relationship marketing at Novo Nordisk. Adds Amy Graham, executive vice president, director of client services for specialty marketing at WPP's Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide, "In a lot of ways, I don't think that things have changed that much. We're doing more with less, but you see that across the board in every business these days."
At the same time, client- and agency-side people say that they want more—more regular back-and-forth, more candor and more professional intimacy. Each side claims to be open to new ideas and new processes—that is, if the other could overcome its historical inclination to proceed with great caution. And both are far from shy about sharing their headaches and frustrations with one another.
So, to sum up, client/agency relationships are stronger than ever, except in the numerous areas where they're not. Thus for the annual MM&M feature on the topic, we thought it'd be instructive to survey the good and the less-than-good—which, as you'll see, exist in roughly equal measure. Take it away, players on both sides of the aisle.
Good: Transparency is more than a pipe dream. Agency people have always openly lusted for greater access to product details, strategic plans/ideas and higher-up execs than clients have afforded them. Similarly, clients have yearned for more insight into agency processes, especially ones pertaining to budgetary matters. The best news is that the competitive pressures felt by every entity in the pharma food chain have prompted an unprecedented degree of transparency. Agencies report the receipt of far more brand and strategy information, and much earlier in the process than usual to boot; clients say that most of the firms with which they work have adopted what amounts to an open-door policy.
Good luck finding anyone who thinks this is a bad thing. "I've been in situations where maybe, from an operational or technical standpoint, I ended up feeling a little taken advantage of [by an agency]," West says. "Now we're getting insight into what we're being charged and why, sometimes even without asking for it." Graham agrees: "We all do our best to manage against timelines and resources, and nobody wants to be blindsided. For my team to best manage those expectations, there has to be a level of honesty and openness."
Good: That honesty and openness extends well beyond here's-how-we-spent-that-$20-bill-in-the-petty-cash-drawer. In the mind of Bill Drummy, founder and chief executive officer of Heartbeat Ideas and Heartbeat West, no degree of transparency is too extreme. But he cautions other agencies that just because a client professes to want transparency and straight-shootin' in every interaction, doesn't mean the client will respond favorably to it.
"We're having different types of conversations now than we did a few years ago, for many reasons," Drummy notes. "But we've always felt an obligation to tell clients straight up what we think they need to do differently. In the long run, that's the way to get the best result for everybody involved." So, generally speaking, are clients on board with this degree of straightforwardness? "Sometimes they say 'thank you,' sometimes they don't want to hear it and go somewhere else. But I believe this is the only way to operate, for us and for clients."
Less than good: The desire for transparency is still hamstrung by existing processes. Like many of her client-side peers, Eisai marketing director Neema Patel lacks the administrative bandwidth to triple-check every morsel of information she receives from agency partners. That's why it disappoints her when those partners drop the ball.
"Being a part of a company where I don't have a lot of people to do checks and balances, I need my agencies' processes to be spot-on. Even errors in a phone number or something as minimal as that— 'You dropped the one? Really?'—I don't know if agencies completely understand how frustrating that is," Patel explains. That's why she now insists that every agency with which she works is a "well-oiled machine in terms of process. That's one thing we can't leave to chance."
West agrees. Asked about working with agencies who experience process hiccups on even a sporadic basis, she responds bluntly, "It's not a factor. If [agencies] are not good with the project-management and process parts of the job, they're gone."
Good: Agencies have become more responsive to client needs. Whether motivated by a sense of professional accountability or by fear that the client relationship will evaporate and take with it a hefty chunk of revenue, agency execs have been more responsive to client needs, demands and whims than ever before, clients report. They make the extra phone call, monitor work email during their kids' birthday parties, you name it. "Maybe it's a generalization to say that, because none of us are going to work with an agency that we don't feel is responsive. But yeah, [the level of responsiveness] is very good," says West.
Maybe it's less that the responsiveness level has changed and more that the world around it has. "Is everybody more willing to listen? Maybe," says Tim Frank, managing partner of Triple Threat Communications. "But I don't think our responsiveness to client demands has changed all that much. I think it's that with technology speeding everything up, we're better, quicker and faster than we were five years ago."
Less than good: Sometimes, too much responsiveness can be as problematic as not enough. Patel isn't about to damn any agency-side individual who goes out of his way to shoulder a heavy load, but she has had as many challenging relationships with over-responders as with under-responders. "There are agencies out there that, regardless of their motive, take on too much," she says. "They don't have the time or energy to do certain things, but they sometimes can't bring themselves to turn something down." Patel's advice to them? "If there's even a small chance you can't deliver, please don't say that you can. That's worse than saying no in the first place."
Good: Client/agency conversations are deeper and occur with greater frequency than they did just a few years ago. Initial talks between a brand team and its new agency used to deal with the basics: What is the program about? How will it be executed? What resources are needed to execute? Now, both client and agency execs report, those conversations delve deeper. "There's a more strategic way of interacting with one another," Drummy says. "We're looking beyond promotion and marketing and getting to a more broad-spectrum view. There's a definite change in the tenor of the relationships and the conversations we're having."
Along those lines, agencies are being ushered into the loop earlier than ever—and they're responding in kind, running even the most rudimentary and preliminary ideas by those clients who are receptive to seeing works in progress. "I'm a big proponent of early concept review. From an agency standpoint, it's great to show a client some of the pieces before you've sunk all that effort into them," Graham says. "It used to be like, 'Don't waste our time until you have something.'"
Less than good: Pockets of resistance remain. For all the talk about better conversations and relationships, the days of the client-as-imperialist-entity aren't completely relegated to history's dustbin. Pharma remains slow to embrace change—and agencies who press reluctant clients to get with the new way of thinking risk annoying or alienating them. "Sometimes it takes longer for reality to hit the broader marketplace" is the way Drummy puts it. Nonetheless, he senses that "a minority, but a growing minority" of clients are willing to rethink the way they go about their business. "In general, clients are looking for [agency] people who have a broader competency and a broader understanding of the issues within healthcare. You're starting to see various agencies aligning a little bit differently. You're starting to see some restructuring in the way teams are managed."
Some losing battles are worth fighting, Graham adds. "If we push for something new but don't get there, that's not always terrible. At least we've been talking and trying. That strengthens the relationship."
Good: The silos are coming down. It used to be that pharma companies assigned distinct teams to every single possible audience. "There was the HCP team, the managed care team, the lefthanded-wallpaper-hanging team—there was a team for every possible permutation of audience," Drummy cracks. As a result, marketing coherence across larger brands was shaky at best. Happily for everyone who has to navigate this terrain, those self-imposed divisions have largely been eliminated—which is beneficial for just about everyone within the pharma marketing loop. "There are so many different conversations going on: with the patient who has the problem, with the doctor who can solve the problem, with the payer who's paying for the problem to be solved. All the pieces can't work together in harmony if organizations aren't set up in a way that makes it possible," Drummy says.
Less than good: For agencies, there are still myriad touchpoints within a client organization. Graham isn't in the business of telling anyone else how to run his business, but she voices the frustration experienced by many agencies when she notes the ever-increasing number of internal constituencies at pharma companies. "I don't just call on brand team members. I call on procurement, on global people, on so many other people," she says. "It used to be that you'd just call on the most senior person, but there are multiple clients within the client now. It's up and out and across." Still, Graham doesn't bemoan the current state of affairs: "It's not good or bad; it's just a fact of life. In any environment, you do what you have to do."
Less than good: Navigating internal client politics is a challenge for the agencies tasked with doing so. Agency execs have mostly positive things to say about brand-team leaders, especially regarding their newfound semi-willingness to embrace change. But given the range of client audiences, they worry that many of their ideas will be thwarted by individuals without a direct stake in their outcome. "You have to consider the different ways you excite and appeal to different people in [pharma] companies. Changing the incentive and review processes in those companies—that's not an easy thing to do from the agency side," says Janelle Starr, senior vice president, general manager of Heartbeat West.
Graham worries that this challenge could, at some point, serve to thwart innovation. "In the conversations we're having with clients, the brand teams are really enthusiastic about getting that new and innovative idea. But it can be scary—if not for the brand team, then maybe for the legal team or somebody else," she explains. "You'd hate to walk away from a great idea because somebody is afraid to implement it. So that becomes a part of the job: How do we chunk it out in pieces? It's on us to figure out how to sell that idea inward and upward." How do clients respond to this accusation? "Keep coming to us with your ideas! Don't make us have to keep asking you for them!," West says, mock-hysterically.
Good: Physical proximity is becoming the rule, not the exception. When agency-world veteran Tim Frank founded Triple Threat Communications in 2004, he hoped to tweak the environment in which he was reared. Having ascended to higher-up positions at two global shops, he bemoaned the lack of what he calls "high contact" with clients. "The further up you go in most agencies, the further away from clients you get," he says. In response to this, one of the defining tenets of Triple Threat's business model is embedding its staffers deeply within the client's base of operations—e.g., at a desk down the hall.
More and more clients are asking for, and getting, that heightened amount of proximity. "When I was at bigger agencies, it was always about being a 'strategic partner.' But really, you can't be a partner unless you're living in what [clients] are living in every day," Frank explains. "There's this line of thought, which we agree with, that marketing is a contact sport. When we're there right beside them, we feel their pain. Sometimes the best work gets done before and after the big meeting." One benefit of such arrangements, according to Frank, is personal: "If you're there, the relationship will become stronger and more bonded. It becomes, 'We want to provide solutions because we like these people. We really, really, really want them to do well.'"
Less than good: The wrong people are still finding their way onto clients' teams. Clients acknowledge that every agency team isn't going to be the pharma-marketing equivalent of the 1998 New York Yankees. They accept that some less experienced staffers will work on their business. They understand that, on occasion, mistakes will be made.
Or they used to. Increasingly, clients tell their agencies that they want the same people who pitched their business to be the ones they see and hear from on a day-to-day basis. And while many agencies have adjusted their staffing policies accordingly, Patel and her client-side peers remain frustrated by the composition of agency teams. "Junior-level people—I can't have them on my brands. They don't have the right level of experience to communicate with me," Patel says bluntly. "Clients are demanding more interface and engagement with senior-level people—certainly that's what I'm asking for, anyway."
West agrees, though she phrases it more delicately: "We need agency teams that can take the ball and run with it. We have a million things going on and can't be worried about somebody who's maybe a little over their head learning as he goes along. Maybe that's why there's sort of a trend to go to the smaller boutique agencies. The turnaround time is much faster and you get more of that senior-level attention."
Good: "Strategic partner" has evolved from well-meaning buzzphrase to actual thing. For years, agencies cooed about the possibility of being accepted as a true strategic partner by their clients. Alas, they did so with the long-shot hopefulness of a wallflower hoping to be asked out by the prom queen or football captain, and achieved roughly the same level of success. Agencies existed to do clients' bidding; it was a relationship defined by one party's subservience to the other.
Though an eagerness to serve still characterizes many of these relationships, agencies and clients exist on more equal footing than before. The best agencies, client-side people say, become, in essence, co-workers. "The number one thing I look for in an agency is that ability to be a real strategic partner," Patel says. "I look specifically for people who can solve problems and not just think about churning out tactics." Agencies that have advanced a client relationship to the level of strategic partner, she adds, do superior work to those that haven't: "They have skin in the game. They're more actively involved."
Less than good: The "v-word" still gets tossed around more than some parties would like. Clients, if you want to make your agency partners feel underappreciated and marginalized, there's a simple way to do so: refer to them as a "vendor." Yes, by the textbook definition of the word, all agencies are vendors. But labeling them as such degrades them. "It's just a word, but still…," sighs Starr. "We know where you're going and we're along for the ride no matter what you call us, but there's a big difference in 'we are part of your team' versus 'vendor.' 'Vendor' says, 'You're replaceable.'"
Good: More than before, agencies are willing to learn. Clients appreciate agency partners who make the effort to verse themselves in the relevant science. Patel speaks warmly of agency people eager to interact with her sales force and willing to attend conventions and congresses to expand the breadth of their medical/scientific knowledge. "They're not just living in their own little bubble," she says. "I rely on my agencies for their knowledge. 'Hey, I'm doing a senior-level presentation. I could use your help formulating a few thoughts.' Anyone who can provide that is hugely valuable to me." Frank says that this is no accident: "We're all more science-focused. We have to be."
Less than good: All that learning is, in certain corners, a secondary consideration at best. For others, even a keen grasp of the science isn't enough. West says that despite her general satisfaction with the skill level of her agencies—"the good ones are very well-versed in the science and in the competitive landscape"—her desire for agency partners who "understand the customer experience" is prompting her to look away from the type of firms she's worked with in the past.
"We aren't necessarily going to go to traditional pharma agencies anymore," she says. "Innovation is huge for us. What we want to deliver is a customized, personalized experience. Where we're going to be looking is at the Amazons, the Targets, the American Expresses. What are they doing to surprise and delight customers that we can bring to pharma?"


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PRESS RELEASE: Board of Governors will schedule tuition appeals committee meeting for Florida Gulf Coast University as requested
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—June 25, 2012
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Florida Gulf Coast University is utilizing its option and right to ask the Florida Board of Governors to reconsider its decision last week on "tuition differential" for FGCU. The Board voted to approve a 12 percent increase, instead of the 14 percent increase recommended and brought forward by FGCU's Board of Trustees this year.
The tuition differential appeals process is detailed at the end of the Tuition and Fees fact sheet located here.
In fulfilling its constitutional and statutory obligations, the Florida Board of Governors last week evaluated all 11 requests and recommendations brought from each state university's Board of Trustees for tuition differential increases, which affect undergraduate students.
The "Actions Taken" recap – with the votes from Thursday's meeting – is posted at www.flbog.edu/pressroom.
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The State University System of Florida is governed by a 17-member Board of Governors, a constitutional body and led by appointed public servants. The System has 12 universities and a total enrollment of nearly 330,000 students, making it the second-largest public university system in the nation in terms of enrollment (some states have more than one university system). The Florida Constitution (Article IX, Section 7) was amended by the state's voters in 2002 to establish a statewide system of governance for all Florida public universities. As a result, the Florida Board of Governors was created in 2003 to oversee the State University System of Florida. Responsibilities include defining the distinctive mission of each institution and ensuring the well-planned coordination and operation of the System. The Board's 17 members include 14 appointed by the Governor, with three serving by virtue of their designations (a faculty member, a Florida Student Association student representative, and the Florida Commissioner of Education). The Board of Governors appoints a Chancellor who serves as the chief executive and administrative officer of the State University System. For more, including the Board's Annual Accountability Report that reflects important measurements for the System, see www.flbog.edu. The Board of Governors also released its 2025 Strategic Plan for the System in November 2011, also available from the home page of the web site.
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CISCO, Texas — One of the most iconic and deadly fighter planes of World World II has come back to life in rural West Texas.
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Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg already have laws permitting varying forms of assisted suicide, or euthanasia.
The Swiss group EXIT said Tuesday that campaigners would be discussing recently elected French President Francois Hollande's proposal to allow assisted suicide for terminally ill patients in France.
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Dreaming of a 'White' Hanukkah
On December 10, pianist Dr. Alan Mason, a BU associate professor of music, performed at the White House for guests at President Bush's Hanukkah party.
Mason has been teaching piano, music history, and accompanying the choir at Barry University since 1996. He also has a flourishing professional career as a pianist in sacred Jewish music. He has previously performed at the Limmud Conference in Nottingham, England, which celebrates the diversity of Jewish life, and at several national conferences of the Union for Reform Judaism. His music is featured on several CDs of Jewish vocal and choral music, and he has several works published by Transcontinental Music, the world's premier publisher of Jewish music.
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Esperion To Present At 31st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
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PLYMOUTH, Mich., Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Esperion Therapeutics, the leading developer of small molecule therapies for the treatment of cardiometabolic disorders, today announced that company founder Roger Newton, Ph.D., will present at the 31st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. Dr. Newton's presentation will take place on Tuesday, January 8, at 3 PM PST in Elizabethan C/D Room 120 of the Westin St. Francis Hotel.
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EA's Dead Space 3 to Debut in E3 2012
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News of Dead Space 3's existence have been simmering for a while now thanks to a few leaked tidbits, but EA will finally be announcing the action/horror hybrid during next week's E3. While Dead Space 3 footage will be shown at EA's press conference, a few intriguing screenshots of the game have also been released. Among these are Isaac and a second character sporting blood-stained winter clothing (with glowing red-eyes to boot). It has been heavily speculated that the third installment of the Dead Space franchise will feature some form of co-op gameplay, and if these images are any indication, Isaac will indeed be fighting abominations with an ally throughout the game's frosty campaign. A teaser for the Dead Space graphic novel was also released recently, and may have a connecting storyline with Dead Space 3. Be on the lookout for the Dead Space 3 live stream on June 4, 1:00 pm PDT.


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Seattle has fallen from second in yards per carry allowed through Week 6 to 32nd in that category since Week 7, when San Francisco rolled up 175 yards rushing against the Seahawks
Our defense HAD a physical identity, it doesnt anymore. I have not seen that physicality, that nastyness, or that presence that they had at the beginging of the season.
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HARTSVILLE, SC – Junior David Green/Easley, SC finished in sixth place at the NCAA Southeast Regional Championship Saturday morning in cross country. Green only missed a trip to the National Championship meet by three seconds.
The Coker men's team placed seventh overall and Mars Hill took the team crown. Senior Katheryn Rayman/Columbia, SC and freshman Noelle Sharbono/Pembroke Pines, FL competed for the women as individuals. Sharbono finished 57th overall in a personal best time of 26:14, and Rayman completed the course in 27:25 for 73rd overall.
The top-five individuals qualified for the National Championship, held two weeks from now in Evansville, IN, but Green's 33:12 was narrowly beaten by Catawba's Ryan Willis in 33:09. Sophomore Nathan Hansen/Montgomery, AL followed in 27th place with a time of 34:42 and classmate Tyler Carroll/Birmingham, AL crossed next in 45th at 35:52.
Junior Alex Kornfeld/Greenville, SC placed 63rd in 36:40 and Jermaine Cooper/Irmo, SC ran a 37:11 to finish 72nd. The Cobras twin brothers came across next for CC, with Britt Means/Irmo, SC crossing in 37:40 (79th) and Blake Means/Irmo SC finishing in 39:11 (105).


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A Neurolinguistic Theory of Bilingualism
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- This volume is the outcome of 25 years of research into the neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism. In addition to reviewing the world literature and providing a state-of-the-art account, including a critical assessment of the bilingual neuroimaging studies, it proposes a set of hypotheses about the representation, organization and processing of two or more languages in one brain. It investigates the impact of the various manners of acquisition and use of each language on the extent of involvement of basic cerebral functional mechanisms. The effects of pathology as a means to understanding the normal functioning of verbal communication processes in the bilingual and multilingual brain are explored and compared with data from neuroimaging studies. In addition to its obvious research benefits, the clinical and social reasons for assessment of bilingual aphasia with a measuring instrument that is linguistically and culturally equivalent in each of a patient's languages are stressed. The relationship between language and thought in bilinguals is examined in the light of evidence from pathology. The proposed linguistic theory of bilingualism integrates a neurofunctional model (the components of verbal communication and their relationships: implicit linguistic competence, metalinguistic knowledge, pragmatics, and motivation) and a set of hypotheses about language processing (neurofunctional modularity, the activation threshold, the language/cognition distinction, and the direct access hypothesis).
The Aconceptual Mind
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- According to Heidegger, naturalistic thinking is naive and unable to deal with its own essence and limitations. It can only serve the veiled interests of modern Western technology in its inherent inclination to attain global dominance. But these eight thematically intertwined essays face Heidegger's critique of naturalistic thinking habits. The author develops a holistic and antirealistic version of naturalism. This 'holistic naturalism' does not approach nature as a set of entities or things which can be used for technological purposes. Instead, nature is approached as human experience which originally lacks conceptual structure and which can therefore not be fully controlled by a rational subject. (Series A)
Alignment in Communication
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- Alignment in Communication is a novel direction in communication research, which focuses on interactive adaptation processes assumed to be more or less automatic in humans. It offers an alternative to established theories of human communication and also has important implications for human-machine interaction. A collection of articles by international researchers in linguistics, psychology, artificial intelligence, and social robotics, this book provides evidence on why such alignment occurs and the role it plays in communication. Complemented by a discussion of methodologies and explanatory frameworks from dialogue theory, it presents cornerstones of an emerging new theory of communication. The ultimate purpose is to extend our knowledge about human communication, as well as creating a foundation for natural multimodal dialogue in human-machine interaction. Its cross-disciplinary nature makes the book a useful reference for cognitive scientists, linguists, psychologists, and language philosophers, as well as engineers developing conversational agents and social robots.
Analogy as Structure and Process
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- The concept of analogy is of central concern to modern cognitive scientists, whereas it has been largely neglected in linguistics in the past four decades. The goal of this thought-provoking book is (1) to introduce a cognitively and linguistically viable notion of analogy; and (2) to re-establish and build on traditional linguistic analogy-based research.
As a starting point, a general definition of analogy is offered that makes the distinction between analogy-as-structure and analogy-as-process.
 Chapter 2 deals with analogy as used in traditional linguistics. It demonstrates how phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and diachronic linguistics make use of analogy and discusses linguistic domains in which analogy does or did not work. The appendix gives a description of a computer program, which performs such instances of analogy-based syntactic analysis as have long been claimed impossible.
Chapter 3 supports the ultimate (non-modular) 'unity of the mind' and discusses the existence of pervasive analogies between language and such cognitive domains as vision, music, and logic.
The final chapter presents evidence for the view that the cosmology of every culture is based on analogy.
At a more abstract level, the role of analogy in scientific change is scrutinized, resulting in a meta-analogy between myth and science.
Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction
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- Animated interactive characters and robots that are able to function in human social environments are being developed by a large number of research groups worldwide. Emotional expression, as a key element of human social interaction and communication, is often added in an attempt to make them appear more natural to us. How can such artefacts be given emotional displays that are believable and acceptable to humans? This is the central question of Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction.
The ability to express and recognize emotions is a fundamental aspect of social interaction. Not only is it a central research question, it has been explored in animated films, dance, and other expressive arts for a much longer period. This book is unique in presenting a multi-disciplinary approach to animation in its broadest sense: from internal mechanisms to external displays, not only from a graphical perspective, but more generally examining how to give characters an "anima", so that they appear as life-like entities and social partners to humans. (Series B)
Anthropology of Color
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The field of color categorization has always been intrinsically multi- and inter-disciplinary, since its beginnings in the nineteenth century. The main contribution of this book is to foster a new level of integration among different approaches to the anthropological study of color. The editors have put great effort into bringing together research from anthropology, linguistics, psychology, semiotics, and a variety of other fields, by promoting the exploration of the different but interacting and complementary ways in which these various perspectives model the domain of color experience. By so doing, they significantly promote the emergence of a coherent field of the anthropology of color.
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Attention and Implicit Learning
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- Attention and Implicit Learning provides a comprehensive overview of the research conducted in this area. The book is conceived as a multidisciplinary forum of discussion on the question of whether implicit learning may be depicted as a process that runs independently of attention. The volume also deals with the complementary question of whether implicit learning affects the dynamics of attention, and it addresses these questions from perspectives that range from functional to neuroscientific and computational approaches. The view of implicit learning that arises from these pages is not that of a mysterious faculty, but rather that of an elementary ability of the cognitive systems to extract the structure of their environment as it appears directly through experience, and regardless of any intention to do so. Implicit learning, thus, is taken to be a process that may shape not only our behavior, but also our representations of the world, our attentional functions, and even our conscious experience. (Series B)
Awakening and Sleep–Wake Cycle Across Development
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- Sleep and wakefulness undergo important changes with age. Awakening, a crucial event in the sleep-wake rhythm, is a transition implying complex physiological mechanisms. Its involvement in sleep disturbances is also well known. This collective volume is the first attempt to systematically approach awakening across development.A methodological section considers criteria to define awakening in a developmental perspective. Theoretical considerations on development of wakefulness and on its relation to consciousness are included and provide a vigorous impulse to go beyond present criteria and classifications.
Age changes are the core of studies on development: a section of the book examines old and new data from preterm to infants up to children, underscoring the main turning points along this developmental path. As for other aspects of development, awakening and the sleep-wake cycle are also influenced by external factors, both physical and human. Several contributions deal with this topic, in particular focusing on the parent-infant interaction and the influences of culture.
Clinical contexts offer an opportunity to show both quantitative and qualitative changes of awakening and arousals in different pathological conditions. Either partial changes of one physiological variable or global and massive changes can be observed. (Series B)
Becoming Human
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- What do the pointing gesture, the imitation of new complex motor patterns, the evocation of absent objects and the grasping of others' false beliefs all have in common? Apart from being (one way or other) involved in the language, they all would share a demanding requirement – a second mental centre within the subject. This redefinition of the simulationism is extended in the present book in two directions. Firstly, mirror-neurons and, likewise, animal abilities connected with the visual field of their fellows, although they certainly constitute important landmarks, would not require this second mental centre. Secondly, others' beliefs would have given rise not only to predicative communicative function but also to pre-grammatical syntax. The inquiry about the evolutionary-historic origin of language focuses on the cognitive requirements on it as a faculty (but not to the indirect causes such as environmental changes or greater co-operation), pays attention to children, and covers other human peculiarities as well, e.g., symbolic play, protodeclaratives, self-conscious emotions, and interactional or four-hand tasks.
Being in Time
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- Given that a representational system's phenomenal experience must be intrinsic to it and must therefore arise from its own temporal dynamics, consciousness is best understood — indeed, can only be understood — as being in time. Despite that, it is still acceptable for theories of consciousness to be summarily exempted from addressing the temporality of phenomenal experience. The chapters comprising this book represent a collective attempt on the part of their authors to redress this aberration. The diverse treatments of phenomenal consciousness range in their methodology from philosophy, through surveys and synthesis of behavioral and neuroscientific findings, to computational analysis. This collection's broad scope and integrative approach, characterized by the view of the brain as a dynamical system that computes the mind's representation space, will be of interest to researchers, instructors, and students in the cognitive sciences wishing to acquaint themselves with the current thinking in consciousness research. Series B.
Beyond Dissociation
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- Analysis and dissociation have proved to be useful tools to understand the basic functions of the brain and the mind, which therefore have been decomposed to a multitude of ever smaller subsystems and pieces by most scientific approaches. However, the understanding of complex functions such as consciousness will not succeed without a more global consideration of the ways the mind-brain works. This implies that synthesis rather than analysis should be applied to the brain. The present book offers a collection of contributions ranging from sensory and motor cognitive neuroscience to mood management and thought, which all focus on the dissociation between conscious (explicit) and nonconscious (implicit) processing in different cognitive situations. The contributions in this book clearly demonstrate that conscious and nonconscious processes typically interact in complex ways. The central message of this collection of papers is: In order to understand how the brain operates as one integrated whole that generates cognition and behaviour, we need to reassemble the brain and mind and put all the conscious and nonconscious pieces back together again. (Series B)

Beyond Physicalism
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- Unlike standard attempts to address the so-called 'hard problem' of consciousness, which assume our understanding of consciousness is unproblematic, this book begins by focusing on phenomenology and is devoted to clarifying the relations between intentionality, propositional content and experience. In particular, it argues that the subjectivity of experience cannot be understood in representationalist terms. This is important, for it is because many philosophers fail to come to terms with subjectivity that they are at a loss to provide a convincing solution to the mind-body problem. In this light the metaphysical problem is revealed to be a product of the misguided attempt to incorporate consciousness within an object-based schema, inspired by physicalism. A similar problem arises in the interpretation of quantum mechanics and this gives us further reason to look beyond physicalism, in matters metaphysical. Thus the virtues of absolute idealism are re-examined, as are the wider consequences of adopting its understanding of truth within the philosophy of science.
This book complements the arguments and investigations of The Presence of Mind, which it partners. (Series A)
Bi-Directionality in the Cognitive Sciences
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- Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of the human mind. As far as the exact relationship between the cognitive sciences and other fields is concerned, however, it appears that interdisciplinary exchange often remains unrealized, possibly because of the uni-directional application of theories, concepts, and methods, which impedes the productive transfer of knowledge in both directions. In the course of the 'cognitive turn' in the humanities and social sciences, many disciplines have selectively borrowed ideas from 'core cognitive sciences' like psychology and artificial intelligence. The day-to-day practice of interdisciplinarity thus thrives on one-directional borrowings. Focusing on cognitive approaches in linguistics and literary studies, this volume explores bi-directionality, a genuine transdisciplinary interchange in which both disciplines are borrowing and lending. The contributions take different perspectives on bi-directionality: some extend uni-directional borrowing practices and point to avenues and crossroads, while others critically discuss obstacles, challenges, and limitations to bi-directional transfer.
Biological Foundations of Linguistic Communication
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- This is the second of two volumes – the first volume being Waltraud Brennenstuhl's Control and Ability (P&B III:4) – treating biocybernetical questions of language. This book starts out from an investigation of the (neuro-)biological relevancy of natural language from the point of view of grammar and the lexicon. Furthermore, the basic mechanisms of the self-organization of organisms in their environments are discussed, in so far as they lead to linguistic control and abilities.
Body Image and Body Schema
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- The body, as the common ground for objectivity and (inter)subjectivity, is a phenomenon with a perplexing plurality of registers. Therefore, this innovative volume offers an interdisciplinary approach from the fields of neuroscience, phenomenology and psychoanalysis. The concepts of body image and body schema have a firm tradition in each of these disciplines and make up the conceptual anchors of this volume.
Challenged by neuropathological phenomena, neuroscience has dealt with body image and body schema since the beginning of the twentieth century. Halfway through the twentieth century, phenomenology was inspired by child development and elaborated a specifically phenomenological account of body image and schema. Starting from the mirror stage, this source of inspiration is shared with psychoanalysis which develops the concept of body image in interaction with the clinic of the singular subject. In this volume, the creative encounter of these three perspectives on the body opens up present-day paths for conceptualisation, research and (clinical) practice. (Series B)
Brain and Being
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- This book results from a group meeting held at the Institute for Scientific Exchange in Torino, Italy. The central aim was for scientists to "think together" in new ways with those in the humanities inspired by quantum theory and especially quantum brain theory. These fields of inquiry have suffered conceptual estrangement but now are ripe for rapprochement, if academic parochialism is put aside. A prevalent theme of the book is a moving away from individual elements and individual actors acting upon each other, toward a coordinate hermeneutic dynamics that manifests as a coherent totality. Among the topics covered are image in photography and in neuroscience; language; time; brain and mathematics; quantum brain dynamics and quantum communication.
Caging the Beast
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- A major obstacle for materialist theories of the mind is the problem of sensory consciousness. How could a physical brain produce conscious sensory states that exhibit the rich and luxurious qualities of red velvet, a Mozart concerto or fresh-brewed coffee? Caging the Beast: A Theory of Sensory Consciousness offers to explain what these conscious sensory states have in common, by virtue of being conscious as opposed to unconscious states. After arguing against accounts of consciousness in terms of higher-order representation of mental states, the theory claims that sensory consciousness is a special way we have of representing the world. The book also introduces a way of thinking about subjectivity as separate and more fundamental than consciousness, and considers how this foundational notion can be developed into more elaborate varieties. An appendix reviews the connection between consciousness and attention with an eye toward providing a neuropsychological instantiation of the proposed theory. (Series A)
The Caldron of Consciousness
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These new studies by prominent neuroscientists, psychologists and philosophers work toward a coherent framework for understanding emotion and its contribution to the functioning of consciousness in general, as an aspect of self-organizing, embodied subjects. Distinguishing consciousness from unconscious information processing hinges on the role of motivating emotions in all conscious modalities, and how emotional brain processes interact with those traditionally associated with cognitive function. Computationally registering/processing sensory signals (e.g. in the occipital lobe or area V4) by itself does not result in perceptual consciousness, which requires subcortical structures such as amygdala, hypothalamus, and brain stem. This interdisciplinary anthology attempts to understand the complexity of emotional intentionality; why the role of motivation in self-organizing processes is crucial in distinguishing conscious from unconscious processes; how emotions account for 'agency'; and how an adequate approach to emotion-motivation can address the traditional mind-body problem through a holistic understanding of the conscious, behaving organism.
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Categorical versus Dimensional Models of Affect
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One of the most important theoretical and empirical issues in the scholarly study of emotion is whether there is a correct list of "basic" types of affect or whether all affective states are better modeled as a combination of locations on shared underlying dimensions. Many thinkers have written on this topic, yet the views of two scientists in particular are dominant. The first is Jaak Panksepp, the father of Affective Neuroscience. Panksepp conceptualizes affect as a set of distinct categories. The leading proponent of the dimensional approach in scientific psychology is James Russell. According to Russell all affect can be decomposed into two underlying dimensions, pleasure versus displeasure and low arousal versus high arousal.
In this volume Panksepp and Russell each articulate their positions on eleven fundamental questions about the nature of affect followed by a discussion of these target papers by noted emotion theorists and researchers. Russell and Panksepp respond both to each other and to the commentators. The discussion leads to some stark contrasts, with formidable arguments on both sides, and some interesting convergences between the two streams of work.
Cognition Distributed
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- Our species has been a maker and user of tools for over two million years, but "cognitive technology" began with language. Cognition is thinking, and thinking has been "distributed" for at least the two hundred millennia that we have been using speech to interact and collaborate, allowing us to do collectively far more than any of us could have done individually. The invention of writing six millennia ago and print six centuries ago has distributed cognition still more widely and quickly, among people as well as their texts. But in recent decades something radically new has been happening: Advanced cognitive technologies, especially computers and the Worldwide Web, are beginning to redistribute cognition in unprecedented ways, not only among people and static texts, but among people and dynamical machines. This not only makes possible new forms of human collaboration, but new forms of cognition. This book examines the nature and prospects of distributed cognition, providing a conceptual framework for understanding it, and showcasing case studies of its development. This volume was originally published as a Special Issue of Pragmatics & Cognition (14:2, 2006).


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By Patricia Maresch, Senior Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Days after the Supreme Court voted in favor of allowing same-sex couples many of the same legal rights as married couples, the Evangelical Church says it wants to have the legal right to prohibit same-sex marriage ceremonies. The Supreme Court voted ten to zero to recognize same-sex unions, which will allow gay couples in Brazil to share inheritances, pensions, and health plans, as well as the adoption of children and a legal route to divide belongings after a separation.
The ruling, however, stopped short of legalizing gay marriage, which would include public or religious ceremonies. Civil unions though, must be registered at notary offices.
Despite that, Congressman João Campos of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB) still wants to include the right to say 'no' to perform a gay wedding in the new legislation. "It would be nice to make it explicit. That way we can avoid a biased judge to impose on a pastor to perform a gay wedding."
According to Campos there have been cases of an injunction forcing the Evangelical church to perform weddings of people who did not follow the church. He fears this can also happen with homosexuals.
Brazil's first openly gay congressman Jean Wyllys of the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL), thinks Campos' proposal aims to divert the focus of discussion about Gay Civil Rights. "It's a desperate attempt to confuse public opinion," says Wyllys.
LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexuals and Transgender) activists welcomed the ruling as a "historic day" for the country. "The degree of civilization of a country can be measured by the way people in a nation treat their homosexual community," the head of Rio de Janeiro's GLBT-committee Claudio Nascimento told Brazilian press.
The main opposition of the gay rights movement in Brazil generally comes from religious conservatives, and is the strongest in the rural interior of the country. The Roman Catholic Church made various attempts to stop the ruling. It argued the only union referred to within Brazil's constitution was that between a man and a woman.
Brazil is the world's largest Catholic nation, but the country also has an astronomical growth of evangelical churches. Including gay evangelical churches, such as the Igreja Contemporânea in Lapa, in the center of Rio.
While Rio de Janeiro is often ranked as a top destination for gay tourists and Copacabana hosts a large parade each year, watchdog groups say violence and discrimination against gays is on the rise. According to a report from Grupo Gay da Bahia, 260 gays were murdered in 2010 and the groups says homophobia is an endemic problem in Brazil.
"This is a historic moment for all Brazilians, not just homosexuals," says Marcelo Cerqueira of Grupo Gay da Bahia: "This ruling will help. When a country judges a case like this in our favor, it will have an impact across the judicial and law enforcement sectors."


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EUREKA, Calif. (AP) — An orphaned Northern California bobcat that was initially deemed too friendly is back in the wild.
The Times-Standard of Eureka reports (http://bit.ly/17grZOB ) that Chips has been released along with her den mate, Sierra, in Humboldt County.
Chips had spent more than seven months in rehabilitation after she was found injured by crews battling a wildfire last August in the Plumas National Forest.
Nan Powers with the group Sierra Wildlife Rescue says Chips was ready to be released into the wild. She would spit and growl when humans came near.
But that wasn't always the case, so rescuers had to toughen up the cat because she had become too friendly. That involved forcing her to chase down her own food and stop sleeping on a soft bed.


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Yet, there is more.
They have experienced life alongside you - an authentic Christian who is fully committed to your faith and fully committed to your profession - you have compromised neither. As their mentor and professor, you have not simply arranged your life around an important profession; but instead, you have modeled the satisfaction and meaning resulting from the integration of your faith and vocation.
As a result of your life's work, they have experienced faith as an informer of their new profession, and they have experienced their new profession as an informer of their faith. Your view of your life's work as a holy calling has had an eternal impact. You have helped transform them…
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Ustad Hotel
Kareem has been managing Ustad Hotel for the last 35 years. Kareem's grandson Faizi, has been living with his rich dad Razaq and four sisters in the Gulf. As he grows up, his sisters are married off one by one. And then his father marries for a second time. Faizi hopes to be a chef, much against the aspirations of his dad. He goes to Switzerland to study hotel management and when he returns with much fanfare after the course, it is revealed that he has done a chef's course secretly and not hotel management. This shatters Razak's dream of opening a five-star hotel in his home town Kozhikode. Razaq virtually disowns Feyze and even takes away his passport and credit cards so that Faizi cannot go to London where he has already got a job. In anger, Feyze comes to Kozhikode to join his grandfather. Razaq wants him to marry a business tycoon's daughter Shahana and they meet. Faizi's stay in Kozhikode continues for a bit longer than what he had anticipated. During his stay with his grandfather, Faizi has a taste of the real world that exists beyond the sea and its shores. The film is about the bonding between Faizi and his grandfather and how a few days with his grandfather and Ustad Hotel changes his life forever.
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A lonely, aging movie star named Bob Harris (Bill Murray) and a conflicted newlywed, Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), meet in Tokyo. Bob is there to film a Japanese whiskey commercial; Charlotte is accompanying her celebrity-photographer husband. Strangers in a foreign land, the two find escape, distraction and understanding amidst the bright Tokyo lights after a chance meeting in the quiet lull of the hotel bar. They form a bond that is as unlikely as it is heartfelt and meaningful. Also starring Giovanni Ribisi & Anna Faris.
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Computational Cognitive Modeling, the Source of Power, and Other Related Issues
In computational cognitive modeling, we hypothesize internal mental processes of human cognitive activities and express such activities by computer programs. Such computational models often consist of many components and aspects. Claims are often made that certain aspects play a key role in modeling, but such claims are sometimes not well justified or explored. In this article, we first review some fundamental distinctions and issues in computational modeling. We then discuss, in principle, systematic ways of identifying the source of power in models.
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I think withdrawing support for R500 series cards is bad.. they are jus abt 2-3 years old now.. and i'm sure AMD's gr8 catalyst team is gonna continue 2 goof up wonderfully as they have been doing all along even after removing this support and "shrinking the codebase".. thank god i switched to a laptop with Nvidia 9600M graphics.. the prop. driver runs wonderfully without any hitches for me
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AMD Dropping R300-R500 Support In Catalyst Driver
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As an owner of two r400 based cards (an x800gto agp and an x700 mobility in my laptop) i am not happy with amd's decision.
The current opensource driver (xf-86-video-ati and the mesa stack) is nowhere near fglrx in terms of stability and features (at least for me).
3D using the opensource drivers (eg for playing older games like doom3 or nwn) results in lockups or graphical corruption. Features like powerplay are not supported. Using the opensource-driver on my x700 results in white-screen on modeswitch / vt-switch. Using the opensource-driver on my x700 and my x800 with kde-4.2 results in lockups when desktop-effects are enabled.
I know that this is not amd's fault, and i also know that the opensource-developers work hard to improve the situation, but current situation is not good for owners of r400 based cards. There are too few opensource-developers working on the drivers, and the current focus seems to be more on bringing new features to the driver, then fixing bugs, resulting in an total loss of stability. The modeswitch for example worked great around xf-video-ati-6.8.0, but now with everyone switching to kms i frequently get a white-screen on my laptop. 3D worked somewhat (at least i could play nwn) until mesa-7.0, but now even starting glxgears results in an hardlock on my x800.
Bad times for ati-users i think.
A disappointed user.
cheers Jon
What is so stable about fglrx.. tearing videos with compiz&Xv + slow 2D (no render acceleration) + Heavy problems with wine.. are just some of the problems.. not to mention that for about 10 releases of fglrx from oct 2006 to aug 2007.. my x1800 never worked.. it just used to blackout when X used to start.. this is fglrx for u.. i have never had problems with xf86-video-radeon on KDE 4.2 personally.. infact it has been a smooth experience with compositing enabled also
This news just sent shivers down my spine and I immediately remembered this little rant about Vista and it's adverse affects on linux in general.
specifically the section about "Denial-of-Service via Driver/Device Revocation"
As I understand it, companies such as nvidia and ati are in effect forced to abandon UDA as decribed by the atricle linked above. And I believe that also has an adverse affect on linux because we are such a small market segment. I know that it also takes alot of time and resources to support legacy hardware, and with limited resources it doesn't make financial sense for ATI/AMD to keep supporting it.
I am a happy owner of a AIW-9800Pro, and recently an XFX HD4350 (to support open source development), and if ATI would have come out with the HD4850 6 Months earlier than when i bought my 8800gt, i would have been a happy owner of a hd4850 instead.
Originally posted by karthikrg View PostWhat is so stable about fglrx.. tearing videos with compiz&Xv + slow 2D (no render acceleration) + Heavy problems with wine.. are just some of the problems.. not to mention that for about 10 releases of fglrx from oct 2006 to aug 2007.. my x1800 never worked.. it just used to blackout when X used to start.. this is fglrx for u.. i have never had problems with xf86-video-radeon on KDE 4.2 personally.. infact it has been a smooth experience with compositing enabled also
For me fglrx worked well since around 2006 (and i used it since release 3.14, golden times back then ). I dont say that the opensource-drivers are bad per se, but for my situation they are unuseable. Currently the opensource-developers are focused on 1) supporting new cards and 2) supporting new features, both good things, but stability for older cards really sucks. Too few developers i think.
cheers Jon
Angry laptop owner...!
I bought my laptop in July 2007, and it was a "latest model" Lenovo T60p with a FireGL V5250. This chip is apparently akin to a R535, and it plays World of Warcraft acceptably under Fedora 10 at 1680x1050 resolution. At least, it does now. For many months after I first bought my laptop, the fglrx driver used to lock up when playing WoW. For months after that, it needed to pretend to have a X1700 chip instead. And now I learn that the Catalyst 9.3 release will be the last release for my laptop at all.
Gee, thanks.
Does Catalyst 9.2 support the Linux 2.6.28 kernel? Will Catalyst 9.3 at least support the 2.6.29 kernel? (I'm still using the 2.6.27.x series.) I bought this laptop specifically to be a portable "World of Warcraft machine" and the Mesa 3D support simply isn't ready to replace fglrx yet. (And that includes R300 chips too!)
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Well there goes support for both ATI cards I use... I think R500 is too soon, my local store still sells R500 cards!
I hope those drivers get pretty darn good.
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AMD people want to force us to buy newer video cards, eh?.....
I got the message very clearly. A new nvidia card will be here soon .....


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First Scottsdale Bank, N.A., based in Scottsdale, Ariz., agreed to assume all of Gold Canyon's deposits and buy essentially all of the failed lender's assets.
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YORK, Pa., Jan. 7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Voith Hydro proudly celebrated the recent completion of PPL Generation's expansion of the Holtwood Hydroelectric facility on the nearby Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania. Voith supplied the turbines, generators, and automation components for the project, which more than doubled the century-old plant's electricity generating capacity. The $440 million expansion will provide power to approximately 100,000 households. The project has been noted for its environmental enhancements, including improving both upstream and downstream fish passage.
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The color of my childhood
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Skellefteå, Sweden
Based on a burda pattern.
Fell totally in love with the dress the first time a saw it and just waited and waited for a fabric to pop up and find me.
After a year it finally did and this is the result.
More pictures at my blog MbyM
(and guess what? I had to little thread and I wanted to wear it to a party so I ended up hand stitching the dress with the wrong color thread ON the party. Story of my life).
Thanks again to my dear friend, Amanda Olofsson for the pictures!
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Jul 26, 2012, 01.45 PMby lasusie
I love the details on this dress! Great job!
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Jul 27, 2012, 10.51 PMby malinfjell
Thanks! I'm going to put more peddles on it when I get the time (read: when I got the drive) for it. It's gonna make it even more lovely :)
Jul 25, 2012, 11.51 PMby max
Cute! Textured fabric makes me smile! Love the color!
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Jul 27, 2012, 10.50 PMby malinfjell
I love the color as well. Both my toe and finger nails are matching (Didn't mean for that, just a fun accident! haha!), so you could say I really got a hang-up on this mint green color! haha
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