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DRAMA CLUB: Temptation Episodes 1-2 (1/2)
Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Temptation Drama Club! Your membership in this club comes complete with a long-lost child, infertility, infidelity, and a new servant with no money. Well, about the servant...Sorry, but I'll have to do - I'll only work for 20 episodes, but I work for free. I even brought two of my unnis to help! You'll meet them tomorrow, though.
Anyway, I'm Pamela, and this is Kwon Sang Woo as Cha Seok Hoon.
Although I'm sure you already knew that [he has muscles].
In our first week of Temptation, we've already come across more than a modicum of makjang-i-ness. Was I expecting another drama about another affair to be sugar and rainbows? Not necessarily...
However, the drama's start did end up being better than I anticipated. Unlike Secret Love Affair, another drama about infidelity that had much more of a low-key sort of feel to it (people who disliked it may call it, "boring"), Temptation premiered with twists and surprises right from the start. In the first ten minutes, we and the characters learned that two women would become infertile. In the second ten minutes, we were treated with death, secret children, and debt.
The way that debt plays a part in the early episodes is important. The debt is what begins to pry Cha Seok Hoon and Na Hong Joo apart. It is what begins to pull Cha Seok Hoon and Yoo Se Young together. Well, it also leads to Na Hong Joo getting entwined in the secret-child struggles of Kang Min Woo, the man who'll probably become the man of multiple affairs. That's quite the (dis)honor, ahjussi...
While I like the fact that he's taking responsibility for his newfound fourth child, it may not be the best idea for him to start ogling at the broken second female lead.. One scene suggested that Na Hong Joo may be infertile, too, so if she and Kang Min Woo have an affair and he gets her pregnant as well, Miss Ex-Imperial Maid (his wife; for those of you who didn't watch Empress Ki, she was a high-ranking servant to the empress(es)) will get her own miniature revenge plot, and my computer screen will have a dent. Revenge on, wife, revenge on...as long as you let the PS4 games live in peace.
In other news, I like Yoo Se Young's smirk.
Yoo Se Young, our leader of business-turned-future mistress, has a certain energy about her that I enjoy. She's nowhere near the nicest female lead in Kdrama, but she's a meanie with morals. She can understand the plights of Cha Seok Hoon and Na Hong Joo, whatever her motivations may be. While she is intimidating in her business deals and out, Yoo Se Young is strong without being catty. I award this female lead Electronic Applause.
The first two episodes introduced the central anxieties of each main lead. Yoo Se Young is realizing the fact that she is alone and will not be able to have children. Cha Seok Hoon and Na Hong Joo are set into a position of economic and (soon-to-be) romantic chaos. And Kang Min Woo needs to get his hormones checked. Seriously, he potentially has three different love interests.
As the anxieties are set up and characters continue to meet, the characters become increasingly complex. The Cha-Na couple who seemed in love in the first hour are steadily growing apart in the next. After the business problems start to tense up this relationship, and after Cha Seok Hoon and Na Hong Joo begin to enter the lives of Yoo Se Young and Kang Min Woo, how will the lovebirds drift apart even further? How will this little deal Yoo Se Young struck with Cha Seok Hoon, although intended to be temporary, cause consequences that last for the next 18 episodes?
*shrugs* All we can do is speculate. And by "speculate," I mean memorize Kwon Sang Woo's "pecs."
I'm looking forward to the rest of this drama, and I hope you'll come along for the ride with me and my unnis!
Are you...tempted by us? If so, please check us out!
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BOSTON (AP) — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren is pressing Congress to act ahead of July 1 deadline to block a planned increase in student loan interest rates.
Rates on federal Stafford loans for low- and middle-income undergraduates are set to double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent.
Warren, who is challenging Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, said students are already struggling to pay their bills and an increase in interest rates would add to that burden.
Brown said he also supports the lower interest rates.
Congress voted in 2007 to cut the rate in half over four years. The cost of keeping the interest rates frozen could come to $6 billion a year.
Warren also released a new television ad Monday in which she blames Washington for not doing enough to help students.

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Look up in the sky and tell me what you see
The clouds, naw nigga, not me
I see opportunity, I'm a opportunist
Nigga, you heard what I said, "I'm a opportunist"
You go Janet. If I was gay, I'd do her.
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Everyday faces that say hello
Everyday faces that come and go
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Was a time when we could say goodbye
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When everything changed
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They're in pain
A policeman walked in
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I'm a disgrace
Just an everyday face
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John Cena vs. Baron Corbin and Nikki Bella vs. Natalya has been added to next Tuesday's WWE SmackDown from Baton Rouge, LA.
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Destiny's boundary is marked by 64 square miles, but its footprint is much smaller, with a compact design and a focus on preservation. Utilising only previously disturbed land, the project will preserve thousands of acres of land, protecting the space from development forever.
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You will all probably be surprised to learn that in addition to being Veterans Day, November 11th marks an important anniversary. I joined the Army on November 11, 2003. It is hard to believe my life could change so much in two years. Today is also a milestone because I received my combat patch today marking more than 30 days in a combat zone. I probably wont sew it on my uniform, however, until I return. Superstition says that it would be bad luck to do so here.
I wont go into a retrospective of the past two years. Most of you are familiar with at least some of the highs and lows. I still have a lot of Army time ahead and am trying to look forward rather than back.
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time slides faster as we get older
maybe due to reduced grey matter inside
as grey matter increases outside
the compression algorithim slices
time into pieces
so all of a sudden
we turn
and notice that the years have gone by
while we were busy trying
to plan our vacations
time ....... hat's off to veterans
for puttin in the time
in harms way
so i can plan vacations
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Incredibly versatile game. Didn't realize it was possible to completely baffle the AI with multiple Big Boss balloons lol. And rolling into a stealth stick 'em up maneuver? That was sick.
'I know I said that guy was the killdest guy, but this guy...'
If Silent Hills returned (it won't) I will cry tears of joy
It's all in the 'stache
haha "Not the guy I'm shooting....that guy..."
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Beautiful trailer. Hypnotic long take (technically not one take, there is a cut in there), travelling through a tunnel (the tunnel in itself must be a metaphor for something... tunnels in a way are like cords connecting one thing to another), beautiful lighting... very dramatic close-up of Hannibal...
It's mesmerizing but I have no idea what the game is about. Fucking Del Toro is in this teaser, which may just be a red herring.
There's a lot of hints as to what's going on but no clear overall picture.
Like the first teaser, there's a lot of dead things from the sea. In this, there's crabs, and even what looks like dolphins. Everything is connected by cords. The tank has gross organic mass around it, some of it even falling off. The tank is also connected to the soldiers behind with with a big cord. The planes have cords trailing behind them. And of course, Mads is controlling the skeleton soldiers with cords. Del Toro even connects to the baby he's protecting with a cord.
Look close enough and you can see the soldiers are skeletons.
Oily substance seems to appear when those soldiers pass by on the bridge. Black oily substance is prominent in both teasers. Black hand prints also present in both teasers.
Because I know Kojima likes horror artist Junji Ito, I think this threat that's controlling all these things comes from the sea. This oily substance can probably raise things from the dead... like WWII era soldiers. It can also take over technology, like tanks.
Whatever this universe is, everything is connected by cords. Maybe people aren't 'born' any more. Thus the fish-tank thing that Del Toro kept the baby in. The doll with the cross section on its stomach, Norman Reedus had the exact same cross scar on his stomach in the first teaser. So maybe Norman was created or made by these beings after they took over.
Other than that I dunno what the fuck is going on.
I love Kojima's style, I like that he wants to screw with people and keep things relatively close to his chest.
I think he'll try to super-ruse us, in the end, somehow. Nobody knew PT was his game until they beat it, maybe he'll do something similar again. Release some random ass demo under a different studio name that turns out to be connected to Death Stranding. Or maybe Del Toro will use his connections to have something televised or play in a movie screen that ends up connected to Death Stranding. Maybe I'm putting too many expectations on Kojima. I dunno, you never know with that sly dog.
I just clicked on to something BIG, something other people have come close to but I haven't heard ANY ONE make the connection I just made. And it's something pretty obvious once you see it.
I need a mic, damn it. Someone else is gonna catch on to it before I get the chance to do a vid.


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Théoden follows Gandalf to meet Treebeard, taking his men with him, while Merry and Pippin set out a meal for Gimli, Aragorn and Legolas. As they sit and eat, the hobbits tell their friends how they were captured, how they escaped, and of their time with the Ents.
Eventually, Merry and Pippin describe the Ents' assault on Isengard. As they approached Isengard, they watched the army leave that was being sent to Helm's Deep. However, the Huorns seemed to follow the army while the Ents waited outside Isengard. Then, when Saruman's army was gone, the Ents attacked Isengard, smashed through the surrounding wall and ran toward the tower. In fact, the attack was so successful, Pippin wonders if Saruman's might was overestimated. However, Aragorn says that Saruman was great once and still has the power to command and convince the...
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Dean Foods (DF) sold Morningstar for $1.45 Billion. "Dean Foods expects to realize $887 million in proceeds, net of taxes and expenses." It will use all the proceeds to pay down debt. "Dean Foods' management expects its net debt to EBITDA ratio to be below 3.0x at year end 2012."
I actually sold my position on DF below $17 at a loss because I got scared of the volatility of WhiteWave. Today, it is up trading at $17.55. I expected them to pay some of the proceeds to pay a special dividend, but it looks like that is not happening. This changes a bit of my valuation on the lower side because Dean gets a low multiple of FCF.
I expect the stock to trade around this price for a while. I will revisit this stock when they actually distribute the WhiteWave shares to shareholders.
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Internet Censorship Will Bring Total Mental Darkness to US
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I see with no surprise that Washington is stepping up its campaign to censor the internet. It had to come, and will succeed. It will put paid forever to America's flirtation with freedom.
The country was never really a democracy, meaning a polity in which final power rested with the people. The voters have always been too remote from the levers of power to have much influence.
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UK anti-TTIP protests reflect urgent need in both US and UK for explicit "carve outs" in FTAs to protect the full health care policy space, including single payer, an NHS system or whatever is necessary to bring about real affordable health care
From euractiv comes an article about the uproar over NHS privatization.. which is being blotted out of the UK media...
UK anti-TTIP protests to focus on NHS privatisation.
I'm quoting it here:
"Locking in liberalisation laws"
But protestors are still worried that once a service is privately owned, it will become "extremely difficult" to renationalise it.
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When Facebook Deactivates Your Account
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This Can't Be Good: Syria Cut Off from the Interwebs?
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Facebook to New Yorker: No Can Haz (Girl) Nipples!
Someone at Facebook temporarily banned New Yorker magazine for violating the "Nudity and Sex" standards. The problem: a cartoon that used two dots to represent female nipples.
The scandalous pencil dots are the subject of a follow-up blog post -- "Nipplegate" -- from the cartoon editor, a not-to-be missed gem. Read more about Facebook to New Yorker: No Can Haz (Girl) Nipples!
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GOOGLE Censors Jill Stein Ad (DOES EVIL!)
This from the examiner:
Google says Stein used "inappropriate language" in the ad and thus nixed it for placement on Google TV. SEE VIDEO HERE
The naughty word in question is a time-honored reference to a certain kind of manure, a word used so frequently among the public it has since blended into American consciousness as one of our most natural expressions – especially during the political season.
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More info on Occupy Baltimore's Schools not Jails action
Great reporting from independent local outlet Baltimore Brew:
Occupy Baltimore – and media – booted from public sidewalk near youth jail site
Youth jail opponents meet state troopers, city police and a SWAT team on Martin Luther King's birthday.
There seemed to be two "enemies of the state" yesterday at the Occupy Baltimore protest against a planned juvenile detention center in East Baltimore.
One was the 75 protesters themselves, who were met by dozens of Maryland State Police, Baltimore City Police and SWAT team members in riot gear, armed with guns and batons.
Routing around Big Internet
When the opposition to the radical Republican agenda in Wisconsin exploded over the winter, Russia Today highlighted a stark contrast in mainstream outlets: Attention and praise lavished on Arab Spring uprisings compared to an all-but-formally-declared news blackout in Madison. Read more about Routing around Big Internet
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San Francisco Shuts Down Cell Phone Service to Stop Non-Violent Protest
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) authorities jammed cell phone services at four stations Friday evening to prevent a non-violent protest for the fatal police shooting of Charles Blair Hill last month.
The protest did not take place, although it's not clear whether that was due to the lack of cell phone service. Read more about San Francisco Shuts Down Cell Phone Service to Stop Non-Violent Protest
Nice Knowing You: British Authorities May Censor Social Media
In an attempt to prevent protestors from communicating with one another, British politicians are looking at censoring BlackBerry, Twitter and Facebook.
The question, according to Prime Minister David Cameron, is whether government has the right to "stop people using social media to 'plot' further disorder."
Meanwhile, the police aren't waiting for Parliament to sort it out: Read more about Nice Knowing You: British Authorities May Censor Social Media
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FDL Update: Entries Restored, Comments Still Disappeared
My last entry at FDL, which is the last because I've been banned, has been restored to visibility. As I pointed out in my previous entry, my account and diaries were flagged as spam and hidden from view. Read more about FDL Update: Entries Restored, Comments Still Disappeared
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Now, they're coming after University professors
A Rhodes scholar, and Genius grant award winner at that:
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Shared Moment of Truth Oh One
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To Nancy Snyderman/Re:Dateline show on alternative medicine
I was surprised that on the recent Dateline show regarding Suzanne Somers, you did not query in more detail the apologist for mainstream medicine when she went on critiquing "anecdotal" experiences with alternative medicine.
The word "anecdotal" was never used by industry scientists until the anti-pesticide activists began to make some headway. Once activists helped communities see to it that pesticide bans take effect, the industry came up with this notion of "anecdotal..." Read more about Shared Moment of Truth Oh One
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Building the shadow Internet
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The rise of Internet-enabled mobile devices has had some interesting consequences. On the face of it, smart phones and tablets are a boon. They allow people to access email and web sites anywhere, not just when tethered to a desktop. Laptops, with their greater bulk and relatively short battery life, have traditionally been business devices for those who need to work remotely. Read more about Building the shadow Internet
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Author Notes: We planted cherry bushes several years ago, and this summer they really took off. Nanking cherries are the size of large peas, and bright vibrant red with a sweet tart flavor. —Kathleen D
Serves: 2
cups Nanking cherries, small stems removed
cup water
cup sugar
teaspoon almond extract
- Add the cherries, water, and sugar to a medium sauce pan over medium heat, and cook until cherries are soft and just begin to break apart.
- D.rain the cherries in a wire colander over a large bowl, and press the cherry pulp throught (the mini pits will stay behind in the colander); transfer to a small container, stir in almond extract, and place in refrigerator until completely chilled.
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U.S. News Rankings and Diversity
Posted By Kevin R. Johnson, Nov 14, 2011
On Friday, I was in New York for a conference on "Opening Doors: Making Diversity Matter in Law School Admissions" hosted by the Society of American Law Teachers at St. John's University School of Law. Co-sponsors included the Ron Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic Development, LatinoJustice PRDLEF, and the American Bar Association Council on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Educational Pipeline. The conference, which was open to law students, prospective applicants, admissions professionals, and law professors and administrators, studied the problems of diversity on law school admissions.
I was honored to be on a plenary panel on "Reforming U.S. News Rankings to Include Diversity," with, among others, Robert Morse, Director of Data Research, U.S. News & World Report. Morse is the person in charge of the U.S. News graduate and professional school ranking methodologies. My presentation contended that a racially diverse student body and faculty contribute to teaching and scholarly excellence at a law school. Consequently, I advocated the inclusion of both student and faculty diversity in the U.S. News rankings of law schools, a topic that I wrote in a recent article in the Iowa Law Review. Associate Dean Vik Amar and I wrote about the issue in two FindLaw.com columns - here are Part 1 and Part 2.
The give-and-take with Morse was fascinating. Morse expressed an incredible openness to the discussion of possible changes in the U.S. News' rankings' methodologies and stated his willingness to engage comments and to entertain suggestions. However, Morse expressed concern with using the rankings for "social engineering" and, among other matters, expressed concern with how to evaluate diversity at a law school in a state without much diversity. My responses (1) the U.S. News rankings, with a focus on LSAT scores already engages in "social engineering" at law schools by disparately – and negatively – affecting minority enrollment on law schools; and (2) if diversity contributes to excellence at a law school, the demography of a state should not be relevant to evaluating the diversity at a law school, especially among law faculty since law faculty are generally hired on a national market.
There is growing national discussion of the inclusion of a diversity index in the U.S. News rankings of law schools. Currently, U.S. News ranks schools by student diversity but includes this ranking separately from the overall law school rankings, which some view as marginalizing student diversity concerns.
The California State Bar's Council on Access and Fairness has called for U.S. News to adjust its formula so that diversity counts for 15 percent of the overall law school rankings. A 2010 Report of the Special Committee on the U.S. News rankings by the Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar concludes that, in its evaluation of law school quality, the current U.S. News "methodology tends to reduce incentives to enhance diversity of the legal profession." By focusing, for example, on median LSAT scores as an important measure of student selectivity, the U.S. News rankings arguably inhibit law schools from aggressively pursuing diversity among the student body.
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Whether you choose to just accept it, or you are drawn to finding answers on how an illusionist performs his tricks we all love a good show. Well-known illusionist/magician (call him what you will) Dynamo took to London on an iconic double decker red bus to perform his latest trick. Can you figure it out? Do you care how he does it?
This is one that we will all accept as a trick but explaining it might not be so easy. Dynamo appears to be levitating next to the bus as he grabs on for a little population. The bus ride went past some of the most iconic landmarks London has to offer and had many with their mouths gaping in amazement.
Confession time, this stunt was part of a Pepsi. Yes, yes I know! Big industry sticking its nose in where it doesn't belong and running it for everyone. Pepsi however, where not the only killjoys on this ride, thank you YouTube commentators you take that prize.
YouTube commentators were quick to explain exactly how it was done and ridicule anyone who was amazed. Unhappy people want company, I know! A little piece of advice though, if you know how they did it, keep it to yourself! Some of us enjoy a good show, regardless of the mechanics.
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However, a rigorous study has just been published in the New England Journal of Medicine that throws big doubts on the usefullness of telemonitoring. The study was led by Dr. Sarwat Chaudhry of Yale University. Chaudhry randomized 1653 patients with heart failure as they were discharged from the hospital. This was an excellent test for telemonitoring, as heart failure defines a condition for which telemonitoring should work, and the time after hospital discharge is a very high risk period as many patients decompensate shortly after they go home and need to be readmitted.
Patients randomized to telemonitorinng received a device that allowed them to report weight and heart failure symptoms on a daily basis via a toll free number. The information was transmitted to their clinicians for review. Concerning information (variances) were flagged for attention.
The benefits of the intervention? Absolutely nothing. Those who got telemonitoring had the same rate of mortality and readmission as those who got usual care.
There are many possible reasons for the ineffectiveness of telemonitoring in heart failure. It may be that collecting lots of data on patients and feeding it back to providers is not as useful as we want to believe. Perhaps what's needed is a lesser flood of information and more sophisticated thinking about how to use this information.
But the bigger question: Is all this enthusiasm for telemonitoring justified? I don't think so. This study certainly should raise major concerns in the VA, which now needs to consider the possibility that its investment in telemonitoring is not the wisest use of resources.
Is it possible that other approaches to telemonitoring might be more effective? Certainly. But the burden of proof is now on the advocates of those approaches. Medical practice should be driven by evidence, not wishful thinking.
This study is an important example of why new technologies need to be subjected to rigorous evaluation before they undergo widespread implementation.
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USFSP has its first bonafide Butterfly Garden. The Garden, which is located near the corner of 6th Avenue and Second Street, was dedicated recently by Regional Chancellor Sophia Wisniewska and Daniel McGarigal, the student lead on the project.
"The garden was designed to improve the campus entrance, promote tranquility and peace with nature, and provide a calming natural setting for everyone to enjoy," said McGarigal, an Interdisciplinary Social Sciences major. "We want to encourage the population growth of struggling bee and butterfly species, as well as promote interaction and appreciation of nature in a very urbanized setting."
McGarigal says he's particularly proud that the garden was designed and paid for by students. The garden features only native Florida plants and is certified as both a North American Butterfly Associations Butterfly Garden, and a Wildlife Habitat through the National Wildlife Foundation.


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Who are the Deviant Spirits?
Deviant Spirits Distillery was founded by three close friends in Boulder, Colorado. It started like most young businesses do; in the basement with a blowtorch. Our first operating still was a true blend of tradition and budget inspired ingenuity. For months, the sounds of saws, welding torches and copper banging against walls could be heard throughout the house. After spending a majority of twelve months in the basement, our head distiller and mad scientist Jeremy Moyers finally emerged with a vodka (and 100lbs of empty ramen containers) so smooth and unique that we all knew we would have to share it with the world.
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2) Gin! - Gin is something we are so very excited for! We want to make it amazing and have already been dabbling in different botanicals, looking to see what might be Deviant enough, but we need time and resources to do lots of test to insure a game-changing Gin. Ingredients, label design and product to use for testing will cost around $5,000
3) Another fermenter - We are currently limited by our fermenter capacity to produce about 500 bottles per month. Another fermenter will effectively double our total production and we've figured that in order for us to pay the bills and quit our day jobs we will need to be able to produce and sell about 650 bottles per month. A shiny new 2000 liter fermenter costs about $5,000
4) Cash on hand - Every business knows how important it is to have some money on hand to cover daily cash flow. The magical number for us to be able to find our legs is a minimum of $10,000
The total plus the cost of all the goodies we'd like to provide our Kickstarter funders is $25,000, and remember if we don't hit the 25k we won't receive any of your donations so help us far surpass it!!
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Where Are They Now?
Search engines we've known and loved: a scorecard.
Search engines we've known and loved: a scorecard.
AltaVista, the Google of its day, will be gobbled up by Overture. AltaVista's not the only major search player to have faded. Come along and see early search engines that died, those that transformed, the survivors, and how "new" players (not so young anymore) are doing.
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Open Text (1994-1997): Yahoo's original partner was a popular search site of its own. Open Text crawled the Web to gather listings, as Google does today. It successfully changed focus to enterprise search solutions.
Magellan (1995-2001): Magellan was an early search engine whose popularity dropped immediately after being purchased by Excite in mid-1996.
Infoseek (1995-2001): Infoseek originally hoped to charge for search. When that failed, the popular search engine depended, like others, on banner ads. Disney took a large stake in the company in 1998, going down the "portal" path other leading search engines followed. The site was renamed Go. The failure to make money caused Disney to stop Go's internal search capabilities in early 2001. Last week, Disney said Infoseek's technology and patents may finally be sold. Go continues to operate, soon to be powered by Google.
Snap (1997-2001): Launched by CNET, Snap used Infoseek, then Inktomi, then created its own directory of human-edited listings coupled with click-through technology that ranked results in part by what people clicked on. NBC acquired a majority interest, renaming it NBCi. It intended to win the "portal wars" with the site. As with Infoseek, the site's internal search technology abruptly closed. Currently, it's powered by InfoSpace meta search results.
Direct Hit (1998-2002): Direct Hit appeared at the same time as Google. It featured the ability to measure what people clicked on in search results as a way to improve them. A deal was struck with HotBot, and Direct Hit was offered as a search feature on portals such as Lycos and MSN. Purchased by Ask Jeeves in 2000, Direct Hit was neglected. It closed early last year.
Lycos (1995; reborn 1999): Lycos operated one of the Web's earliest crawler-based search engines. It stopped depending on that spider in 1999 and now outsources search results from AlltheWeb.
WebCrawler (1994; reborn 2001): WebCrawler exists as a meta search engine that gets results from other engines, not through its own efforts. Now owned by InfoSpace, WebCrawler was arguably the Web's first crawler-based search engine as we know them today. It launched as a University of Washington research project, was purchased by AOL in 1995, then sold to Excite in late 1996. WebCrawler's spider was deactivated in December 2001.
Yahoo (1994; reborn 2002): Before Google or AltaVista, there was Yahoo Despite the changes over the years, Yahoo has remained one of the Web's most popular search destinations. It stood out from early competitors by using humans to catalog the Web. Crawler-based partner results kicked in if there were no human-powered matches. Yahoo was more relevant than competitors for years, until the Google era ushered in crawler-based results that were both comprehensive and highly relevant. Yahoo caught up in 2002, when it dropped human-powered results in favor of Google's. The Yahoo Directory still exists and is leveraged by the company, but today's Yahoo is a far different creature than it once was.
Excite (1995; reborn 2001): Quickly gaining popularity after launch, Excite crawled the Web to gather listings. In 1996, the company bought rivals Magellan and WebCrawler, then was merged into Excite@Home. Excite stopped gathering its own listings in late 2001, in the wake of its parent company's bankruptcy. A new "Excite Networks" owns the Excite Web site. InfoSpace has a license to provide its meta search in perpetuity.
HotBot (1996; reborn 2002): HotBot was initially powered by Inktomi and backed by Wired. Wild colors, great results, and impressive features drew acclaim. Lycos (now Terra Lycos) bought the service as part of Wired Digital in 1998. The "other" Lycos search engine suffered from a lack of parental attention. Last December, it was revitalized as a meta-like search engine, offering access to results from Google, FAST, Teoma, and Inktomi.
Ask Jeeves (1998; reborn 2002): Hailed at its debut as the "natural language" search engine, Ask Jeeves's secret wasn't linguistic ability. Over 100 editors monitored what people searched for, then hand-selected sites that seemed to best answer those queries. The approach works for very popular queries but doesn't help requests for unusual information. Ask purchased Direct Hit in early 2000 to make the search engine more comprehensive. The company failed to capitalize on that technology but tried more successfully by purchasing Teoma in 2001. In 2002, it shifted to Teoma for nearly all its matches.
Same as They Ever Were
AltaVista (1995-): The Google of its day, AltaVista offered access to a huge index of sites at launch. It grew in popularity, but Digital, its parent, didn't know what to do with it. Digital's sale to Compaq didn't help. The situation grew worse when AltaVista was spun into a separate company, majority-owned by CMGI. It was relaunched as a portal in October 1999, entering a crowded field that took attention away from the quality of its search results. Dissatisfied users flocked to newcomer Google. Despite everything, AltaVista's crawler kept going. Overture now intends to buy the company.
LookSmart (1996-): LookSmart remains the only search company to rely heavily on humans to gather its primary listings. In 2002, LookSmart bought the WiseNut crawler to complement the human-powered results. Few people search at LookSmart's site. Instead, it provides search results to others. MSN is its major partner.
Overture (1998-): Formerly GoTo, Overture is a "paid placement" service. Sites were ranked in order of how much they were willing to pay. The Web had matured enough at this point to accept this type of commercialization. A similar plan undertaken by Open Text in 1996 was dropped in a chorus of complaints. By 2000, Overture abandoned driving consumers to its own Web site in favor of a network model that provides its paid listings to other sites. Today, Overture powers paid listings to major search engines such as MSN and Yahoo
The New Breed
Google (1998-): Ironically, Google is now the oldest of the "new" players. Launched in 1998 as a Stanford University research project, Google's ability to analyze links from across the Web produced a new generation of highly relevant, crawler-based results. By many different criteria, it's the most popular search engine in use.
AlltheWeb (1999-): A strong Google rival, AlltheWeb is nowhere near as popular with users. That is OK with parent company FAST. AlltheWeb was intended to demonstrate the company's ability to power other search engines' results by crawling the Web. AlltheWeb counts Lycos as its major partner. Overture announced in February it intends to acquire the search engine.
Teoma (2000-): Teoma is known for its own spin on analyzing links from across the Web to generate highly relevant results. Purchased by Ask Jeeves in 2001, it continues on as a site and provides results to the Ask Jeeves site.
WiseNut (2001-): This service was snapped up by LookSmart in early 2002. The company has been working to improve its technology and freshness.
The Powered-by-Others Bunch
AOL Search (1997-): AOL's search engine for members is currently powered by Google. Originally AOL NetFind, an AOL-branded search engine first appeared in 1997, powered by Excite. AOL briefly owned WebCrawler but sold it to Excite in 1996.
MSN Search (1998-): Microsoft provides a search engine to MSN site visitors and via Internet Explorer. This makes MSN Search one of the most popular search engines on the Web. Its search technology has always been outsourced, currently a combination of LookSmart and Inktomi results.


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Director - Steven Globerman
Steven Globerman is currently the Kaiser Professor of International Business and Director of the Center for International Business at Western Washington University.
Dr. Globerman has held tenured appointments at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia and at York University, Faculty of Administrative Studies in Toronto. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of California, University of British Columbia, Stockholm School of Economics, Copenhagen School of Business and the Helsinki School of Economics. Dr. Globerman has published over 150 articles and monographs dealing with a wide range of public and private sector policy issues, a textbook on international business management, and a recently published book entitled The Impacts of 9/11 on Canada-U.S. Trade. His current research is focused on the impacts of trade and investment liberalization and international comparisons of organizational governance.
He has consulted for a wide range of public and private sector organizations on economic policy issues. Public sector organizations include: the Asian Development Bank, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, Industry Canada and The World Bank. Private sector organizations include: Bell Canada, Telus, Imperial Oil, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He has also provided management seminars and lectures to government policy makers throughout North America and in several Asian countries.
In other public sector service, Dr. Globerman served on the research staffs of two Canadian government Royal Commissions on the economy. He also served as research advisor to Investment Canada on the subject of foreign direct investment and as Adjunct Scholar at The Fraser Institute in Vancouver where he was responsible for coordinating research on the North American Free Trade Agreement. He was a founding member of the Association for Cultural Economics and is currently a member of the American and Canadian Economics Associations, the Academy of International Business, and the Academy of Management.
You can find more information on Professor Globerman's research at Researchgate. Steve Globerman often writes blogs for the Fraser Institute as well as other sites, you can find Professor Globerman's posts HERE.


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ST. LOUIS, Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Laclede Group (NYSE : LG ) will webcast its 2013 annual shareholders' meeting on Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 10 a.m. CST. The webcast will be available on our website at www.TheLacledeGroup.com and will be archived on our website.
The webcast does not constitute attendance. In order to vote at the annual meeting, shareholders must either authorize a valid proxy or attend the annual meeting and vote in person.
The Laclede Group, Inc. (NYSE : LG ), headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, is a public utility holding company. Its subsidiary, Laclede Gas Company, the regulated operations of which are included in the Regulated Gas Distribution segment, serves approximately 630,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in St. Louis City and parts of 10 counties in eastern Missouri. Laclede's primary non-utility business, Laclede Energy Resources, Inc., included in the Non-Regulated Gas Marketing segment, provides non-regulated natural gas services. Laclede Group is committed to pursuing growth through 1) developing and investing in emerging technologies; 2) investing in infrastructure; 3) acquiring businesses to which the Company can apply its operating model, and 4) leveraging its current business unit competencies. For more information about Laclede and its subsidiaries, visit www.TheLacledeGroup.com.
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Most people aren't aware of how long the technology behind solar panels has actually been around. Way back in 1839, French physicist Edmund Bequerel discovered the photoelectric effect that is the basis of the modern solar panel.
However, the first real use of the photo electric effect to generate power happened over 100 years later at Bell laboratories in 1954. By 1958, solar power was being used to produce power on U.S. spacecraft. Since that time, the methods have stayed the same, but the components of today's solar cells are so much more efficient that they have become a major source of alternative energy around the globe. But how do solar panels work?
Solar Panel BasicsThe basic mechanism behind a solar panel is something you learned about in high school science, electron shells and valence bonding. Bet you never thought you'd need to know about that in your everyday life. Here is a quick refresher.
- Molecules seek to attain a balance between the number of protons and electrons in each of their atoms.
- When they are in balance, the molecule is stable.
- When the molecule is not in balance, from either gaining or losing an electron, it seeks to remedy this by returning to balance.
When sunlight hits a solar panel, photons from the light dislodge electrons from the molecules in the upper layer of the solar panel. These electrons are the source of the electricity that is generated by the panel.
Composition of the Solar Cell
The smallest unit of a solar panel is an individual solar cell. Several cells are wired together to create a module. Each module is placed within a panel and is designed to supply electricity at a particular voltage, most commonly 12 volts.
Every solar cell consists of several major components sandwiched together in a thin wafer. They can be assembled as follows:
In a traditional solar cell
- Glass panel
- N-Silicon layer
- P-Silicon layer
- Glass panel
In an organic solar cell*
- Thin film plastic or acrylic layer
- Carbon nanotube layer
- Organic electrolyte layer
- Thin film plastic or acrylic layer
Titanium dioxide dye panel
- Upper shell
- Electrical conductor
- Electrolyte layer
- Catalyst layer
- Lower shell
*in organic solar cells there can be multiple layers of organic electrolytes to absorb different portions of solar radiation.
Traditional Solar PanelsIn traditional solar panels, the shell layers were, up until quite recently, made primarily of silicon. Silicon is not a very efficient natural conductor, so it must be prepared in a process known as "doping." The two shell layers are combined with different compounds to make them more efficient. One layer is doped with phosphorous for the positively charged (N-Silicon) panel, and the other is doped with boron for the negatively charged (P-Silicon) side.
How does a solar panel work when it is made of silicon? Instead of using a dye sensitive layer, the solar cells use a direct transfer of electrons from one layer to the next. The N-Silicon top layer of the solar cell is hit by sunlight and electrons are pushed directly into the P-Silicon layer. The P-Silicon layer pushes these electrons directly out of the panel through a conductive wire at the back. The wire routes the electrons back to the top N-Silicon layer. While it is a simple cell with few parts, the maximum efficiency of these cells is about 29 percent, and the panels have a life expectancy of about 25 years.
New Organic PanelsUnderstanding how solar panels work in the traditional sense will help you understand why the new organic solar panels are getting such a buzz. Traditional solar panels are very rigid and costly to produce. New organic panels have the potential to eliminate both of these issues.
Researchers are working on organic solar cells that replace the rigid silicon with much thinner, flexible carbon based nano structures. These are expected to double or even triple the life expectancy of a single solar cell to upwards of 75 years. They are also expected to reach much higher efficiency levels than that of the silicon versions. Currently, the maximum efficiency of these organic cells is at around 12%, but this technology is still in its infancy.
The Chemistry of Titanium Dioxide Solar CellsIn one new type of cell, a small amount of sunlight is absorbed into a hardened acrylic top layer. Just beneath this layer is a dye sensitized layer of titanium dioxide. This is the molecule that the electrons are knocked off from by absorbed photons. These electrons are routed out of the cell via electrical conductive wires attached directly to the titanium dioxide layer of the cell. The electrons travel through this wire creating a direct current – this is the electricity. The electric current can be routed to a converter to power alternating current tools or to a battery bank for later use.
This is the first part of the process. The titanium dioxide which has lost electrons now needs to acquire new electrons to replace the ones that were knocked off. Here's how that happens. The electrons that were originally knocked off and created the electric current, continue past the tool or battery that they are powering and follow a wire back into the lower layer of the photovoltaic cell. These electrons displace electrons in the catalyst layer of the cell.
The electrons in the catalyst layer move toward the electrolyte layer (almost always made of Tri-iodide). In this layer, negatively charged iodine atoms are created through the infusion of the extra electrons. The electrolyte layer is filled with negatively charged iodine and the layer directly above is full of positively charged titanium dioxide trying to regain electrons. The titanium dioxide takes the extra electron from the iodine and returns to its natural state.
This reaction happens thousands of times every second, creating a steady electrical current. The beauty of this system is that there is no waste created because all that is happening is that electrons are being moved from one place to another through a series of chemical reactions started by the photons from sunlight.
Which Type Will Win Out?As solar technology continues to improve, we will see the death of the traditional silicon based solar panel. Whether activated die or organic solar panels become the industry standard will likely be determined by how efficient the organic offerings can become. They have the advantage of being thin enough to be flexible and adaptable enough to be placed on several different types of material. Only time will tell, but either way it goes, solar power is going to be a huge part of future power generation. One day, the power of the sun might be directly powering your espresso machine.


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"Our wedding was outside at a gorgeous property in the Southern part of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was simple, yet elegant, with a lot of personal touches. My husband made wooden signs out of scrap wood, my father stained the signs, while I did the painting. It truly was the perfect day! The reception took place in a rustic barn. The property belongs to Omar and Esther Smoker. Esther also provided the food for the reception and it was delicious!!!
I was worried about finding the perfect dress in such a short amount of time, but I found my Sophia Tolli dress at Country Threads by Gail in Manheim, PA. As soon as I put it on, I knew it was the one! We planned our wedding in about 5 months, while we were both working full-time, and I was also in school part-time. Needless to say, after all of the stressing and worrying if it would come together in time, it was absolutely perfect. Jeff is my best friend, my most trusted confidant, and the man of my dreams. We are both truly blessed to have found each other and to be able to spend the rest of our lives together!"
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Burger King / Up In Your Grill
This story originally appeared on Contagious I/O, our intelligence tool featuring the most creative and effective ideas in marketing from around the world
Fast food brand gives Snapchat users coupons for customised photos
Burger King has always been known for its flame-grilled burger patties. To get more people in Argentina to try them, the brand launched a campaign asking people to customise photos of burgers on Snapchat.
Snapking, created by David Buenos Ares, invited people to take a photo of any regular burger patty and use the platform's customisation tools to add grill marks. This showed the lack of flame-grilling in competitor burgers that people were eating, effectively re-enforcing Burger King's point of difference.
Users who sent their photos to the Burger King Argentina Snapchat account received a voucher for a free burger.
Results / The agency reports that 4.1 million people participated. The agency had expected for the vouchers to be claimed over a two week period, but they ran out within the first 48 hours.
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Easy win / Burger King isn't asking too much of people. Taking a picture of a burger and adding some stripes is a pretty low-effort task and well worth the reward of a free burger. The ease of the campaign will have encouraged more people to get involved.
Asking people to use Snapchats drawing tools makes the task more fun than just taking a photograph. In fact, the customisation tools on Snapchat provide a great opportunity for brands to encourage their customers' creativity. For example, Tibeca Film Festival got users to turn Snaps into short films.
Showing off the product / The campaign is a great demonstration of a product benefit. By (literally) drawing attention to the fact its patties are flame-grilled, Burger King is showing what it's got to offer over its competitors, to an audience of people who are already keen burger eaters.
By the time they receive the voucher, people will be intrigued to see what the flame-grilled patties are like in real life.
This story originally appeared on Contagious I/O, our intelligence tool featuring the most creative and effective ideas in marketing from around the world. I/O helps anyone in the world of marketing understand why brands are innovating, how they're doing it and with what success.