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2013 Holiday Gift Guide: Neatmo Weather Station
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Accessories, Smartphones, Smart Home, Family, Techies, Under $250, Under $500,
If you want a better handle on the indoor conditions of your home, peep our next 2013 Holiday Gift Guide entry, the Neatmo Urban Weather Station. So, just how much damage did you do to your family's lungs with that batch of really burnt holiday cookies? The Neatmo weather station doesn't just assess the temperature outside your home, it also measures indoor air quality, humidity, and carbon dioxide level. A mobile app lets you monitor your house remotely and get alerts when something is amiss. Knowledge is power.
You can pick up the Neatmo Urban Weather Station now from Amazon for $179.
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2013 Holiday Gift Guide: Pro-Ject Debut III Turntable
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Up next in our 2013 Holiday Gift Guide: the Pro-Ject Debut III Turntable. Audiophiles know that vinyl offers up a richer, more nuanced sound than those cold digital tracks (or so they say.) They also know you dont have to shell out audiophile levels of money to get a decent turntable. The Pro-Ject Debut III is outfitted with high-grade components and doesn't make your living room look like a DJ booth. Double win.
You can pick up the Pro-Ject Debut III Turntable now from Amazon for $299, a savings of 25%.
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2013 Holiday Gift Guide: Kinto Pengy Teapot Mug
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Smart Home, Women, Men, Under $100, Under $250, Under $50, Under $500,
It's the holiday season, and we know that sometimes you want to relax with a warm drink. That's why we're adding the Kinto Pengy Teapot Mug to our 2013 Holiday Gift Guide. It's a small teapot imported from Japan that is more than meets the eye. You see, the Kinto Pengy doesn't just make tea; you can remove the strainer and then use it as a mug. The lid becomes a handy place to hold your used tea leaves after brewing while you sit back and relax.
You can pick up the Kinto Pengy Teapot Mug now from Amazon for $43.
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2013 Holiday Gift Guide: Strawz Constructible Drinking Straw Kit
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Science, Toys, Kids, Under $100, Under $25, Under $250, Under $50, Under $500,
You know how kids love playing with straws, right? Our next 2013 Holiday Gift Guide entry encourages it. The Strawz Constructible Drinking Straw kit takes it to the next level. You'll blow the minds of your kids, as the set lets them drink from multiple glasses at the same time. They're durable too, and can be taken apart and reshaped by your junior scientists again and again.
You can pick up the Strawz Constructible Kit now from Amazon for $11.95.
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2013 Holiday Gift Guide: Snap Circuits Jr.
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Toys, Kids, Under $100, Under $25, Under $250, Under $50, Under $500,
We've found another fun, inexpensive geeky toy to feature in our 2013 Holiday Gift Guide. With Snap Circuits Jr., discovering the wonders of science and building cool electronics can be done in a snap. Winner of a Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products award, Snap Circuits Jr. comes with easy-to-follow directions that help you snap together a variety of intriguing experiments. Create things like a dual-speed fan, periodic doorbell, photo sensor police siren, flashing laser light, and more. Comes with over 30 easy-to-identify reusable color-coded parts and instructions. Definitely something cool to do with the little ones.
You can pick up Snap Circuits Jr. now from Amazon for $20.55, a 41% savings.
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Use ShopRunner for free shipping on all your holiday gift purchases!
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Hot Deals, Internet, Family, Women, Men, Techies, Under $100, Under $250, Under $500,
We wanted to highlight one of the services we love in our 2013 Holiday Gift Guide: ShopRunner. We're big fans of shopping at Amazon due to the benefits of Amazon Prime with free two-day shipping. However, sometimes you want to shop at another store online that may offer a better deal than Amazon, but you're used to not paying for shipping. That's where ShopRunner comes in. ShopRunner is a members-only service for online shoppers that provides unique benefits across hundreds of the best online stores.
ShopRunner's members save time and money with benefits including free 2-day shipping with no minimum order, free and easy return shipping, exclusive member offers, and easy 2-click check out. Participating stores include places like MacMall, Toys "R" Us, Brooks Brothers, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, GNC, American Eagle Outfitters, Drugstore.com, Blue Nile and hundreds of others.
You can get a ShopRunner membership and save on your holiday shopping for $79 for one year--the same price as Amazon Prime, but you can use it for hundreds of other online stores as previously mentioned.
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2013 Holiday Gift Guide: Western Digital My Passport Slim
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Accessories, USB, PC / Laptop, Storage, Techies, Under $100, Under $250, Under $500,
If you know someone who needs some fast portable storage that also compact and portable, look no further than the My Passport Slim from Western Digital, our next featured item in our 2013 Holiday Gift Guide. I have one, and it does it's job at my desk where I typically work, but when I need the storage on the go, I can easily slip it into a bag or pocket, and I've got a terabyte at USB 3.0 with me. For the data hogs in your life.
You can pick up the WD My Passport Slim now from Amazon for $86.
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2013 Holiday Gift Guide: Apple iPad Air
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Apple, Handhelds, Women, Men, Techies, Under $500,
Thanks to its vast ecosystem of apps, great performance, and a fantastic screen, the iPad Air earns a spot in our 2013 Holiday Gift Guide (see our iPad Air review.) Compared to the fourth-generation iPad, the iPad Air is nearly identical in terms of function, although it's much faster and also sports a better front camera for FaceTime chats. The big leap is in the design department, where the iPad Air just dominates on comfortability. The iPad Air is the best full-sized consumer tablet that you can get this holiday season.
You can pick up the iPad Air now from Apple--order now if you want to ensure that it's delivered before Christmas.
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2013 Holiday Gift Guide: SOL REPUBLIC Jax earbuds
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The next featured in Gear Live's 2013 Holiday Gift Guide is the SOL REPUBLIC Jax headphones. Available in multiple colors, the SOL REPUBLIC Jax were designed to put great style and sound within reach. They feature a wide, tangle-free cable with an inline microphone for answering calls. You can choose between a 1-button or 3-button remote as well. It's compatible with Apple, Android, and Windows Phone devices. You can pick up the SOL REPUBLIC Jax earbuds now for $39.99.
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2013 Holiday Gift Guide Giveaway: Rdio streaming music subscription
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They say music is the universal language, and as music lovers ourselves, we think it's one of the best gifts that you can give, and we're putting it in our 2013 Holiday Gift Guide. Rather than grabbing an iTunes gift card, or worse, a random CD from the bargain bin, we recommend hitting your loves ones up with Rdio gift subscriptions. Why? It allows the user unlimited access to the entire Rdio music streaming catalog. That means on-demand access to millions of tracks from the web, iOS and Android smartphones and tablets, and even your Sonos system. Rdio costs $9.99 per month for full access. We love it--check out Gear Live on Rdio!
We are giving away three 3-month subscriptions to Rdio to our readers as well! To enter, all you need to do is:
- Follow Gear Live on Twitter
- Tweet the following message: "Hey @GearLive - hook me up with that free @Rdio subscription! http://gear.lv/SEjTdi" (Click here to tweet this now!)
Good luck to all entrants, and be sure to look through the rest of our 2013 Holiday Gift Guide for more giveaways!
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Here are the four 8.5" square blocks I made for mikamc.
The bright fabrics were a lot of fun to work with. Doesn't that block scream "Summer!" to you?
Then I made a 12.5" square block for KnitterG in the May Moms Bee. She chose Nicey Jane fabrics in all of the colorways for her quilt. I got to make a square with the cool blues and a little green.
Once I added a few fabrics from my stash, I fell head over heels for this block in this style with these fabrics.
I now know exactly what I'll be sending out in December for my Sew Easy Being Green Bee. I want a whole quilt just like this block.

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It's tough to use a gadget in a way that's truly embarrassing. But not that tough, especially when you get caught in some...private moments.
Send your best entries to me at firstname.lastname@example.com with Retro Gadgets in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs under 800k in size, and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention using whatever name you want to be credited with. Send your work to me by next Tuesday morning, and I'll pick three top winners and show off the rest of the best in our Gallery of Champions. Get to it!
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Pizza Power 2013 State of the Industry Report
Make plans for 2013 with PMQ's report on the pizza industry—both domestic and worldwide—along with a forecast for the coming year.
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It's time again for PMQ's yearly wrap-up of the state of the industry as well as our forecast for 2013. Each year since it began in 2000, our goal has been to continually enhance this annual report. This time around, in addition to data from key industry sources such as Technomic, Mintel, the National Restaurant Association (NRA), our annual Pizza Industry Census, CHD Expert and IBISWorldwide, we've also included information about international pizza growth, thanks to Euromonitor International and the editors at FoodService Europe & Middle East.
In addition to numerical data, you'll find an overview of major food trends from and consumer opinions about the restaurant industry as a whole. Bring out this report any time you're strategizing marketing projects, planning new menus or considering franchising.
Understanding the Numbers
To determine industry figures for this report, overall sales and store counts were provided by CHD Expert, which obtains its data from more than 80 sources, including Web, government and online listings. Technomic provided sales and unit information on the Top 50 Chains.
Before we get into the data, it's important to note that last year's report covered a period from January 2010 to December 2010, while this year's report covers the year ending September 2012, providing a more current read of where the industry stands in store counts and sales.
An Industry On the Rise
Data gathered from all sources this year points to an industry that continues to grow at a rate of just about 1.6%. This is in line with the growth rate of the restaurant industry as a whole, which was projected by the NRA to rise by more than 3% in 2012 to $632 billion. This is the third consecutive year that sales have increased for the restaurant industry. The industry also continues to outpace overall U.S. job growth at a rate of two to one, according to the NRA, further suggesting a growing industry. And PMQ's recent reader census shows that more than 60% of pizzeria operators report increasing sales over the previous year. All signs point to a continuing recovery from the recession for the foreseeable future.
Sales and Store Counts
New data provided by CHD Expert shows this year's industry sales for the period ending September 2012 to be $36,786,524,044 and the total pizzeria store count for September 2012 to be 71,856.
Store Averages
For the period ending September 2012, the average per-unit sales for all U.S. pizzerias (chains and independents combined) equaled $511,948. The Top 50 chains' per-unit sales numbers decreased slightly, from $661,053 in 2010 to $653,859 in 2011.
Independent Stats
For this year's report, we're able to provide a more detailed picture of the division between chains and independents. Throughout the report, when you see the word "independent," it refers to all pizzerias with less than 10 units; any business with more than 10 outlets is referred to as a chain.
This year's numbers show that 53% of pizza outlets are independently owned and control 40% of total pizza industry sales. With total sales for independents at $14,557,100,260 and a unit count of 38,297, the average annual sales for independents for the period ending September 2012 was $380,111.
State Rankings: Independent Pizzerias Chart
Ranking the Top 50
The Top 50 Pizza Chains, courtesy of Technomic, includes total U.S. sales and store counts for pizzeria chains ranked among a larger list of the nation's Top 500 Restaurants, the result of more than four decades of sales and trend tracking research. The total 2011 combined sales from the Top 50 equaled $18,472,166,000, with total per-unit sales averaging $653,859 (among 28,251 units). In 2010, the top 50 sales equaled $18,350,160,000, with total per-unit sales averaging $661,053 (out of 27,759 units). Compared to the Top 50 performance in 2010 (a gain in sales of more than $800,000,000), the 2011 rise in sales of $122,006,000 reflects a focus on unit growth for the year. Meanwhile, store counts rose by 492 in 2011 (compared to 203 in 2010).
Newcomers to the Top 50 list this year include Gambino's Pizza; Snappy Tomato Pizza; Lou Malnati's; Nancy's Pizza; Sarpino's Pizzeria; Amato's Pizza; and Dion's Pizza. Pizza chains that were dropped from the list this year included Donato's; Wolfgang Puck Express; Zpizza; Straw Hat Pizza; RedBrick Pizza; Brixx Wood Fired Pizza; and CPK ASAP.
The Big Picture
According to Technomic's 2012 Top 500 Chain Restaurant Report, U.S. commercial chain restaurant industry sales grew to $370.2 billion in 2011, an increase of 2.5% over 2010. The number of restaurant units, however, showed a decline of 0.8% from 2010 to 2011. Technomic's chain restaurant sales forecast for 2012 was an increase of 2.9%, to $381 billion.
Looking at the restaurant industry by segment showed that limited-service grew sales 3.1% to more than $200 billion in 2011, while units declined by 0.3%. The full-service segment grew sales 1.8% to just over $169 billion and also saw a reduction in the number of units—down 1.5% from 2010.
Experts at Technomic acknowledge that, while disposable income remained low in 2011 due to high unemployment and a less-than-speedy economic recovery, restaurants weren't as affected as other sectors because their customers tend to be more affluent. While the industry is trending upward, Technomic insiders also advise that restaurateurs who want to stay ahead of the curve will do so only through brand evolution; concept freshness; attention to the needs of their customers; creativity in pricing structure; attention to social media and third-party online deals such as Groupon and LivingSocial; the offering of value beyond price (i.e., food quality); attentive service; order accuracy; and speed and convenience.
Top 50 Pizzerias Charts
Blogger Insights
PMQ caught up with Adam Kuban, founder and editor at large of pizza blog Slice, to get his opinions on current trends in the industry. Here's what he had to say:
Mobile Units: Trailer-based wood-fired-oven operations have surged in the last year, and I think they'll continue to proliferate at weekend festivals and in particular at local farmers' markets, where operators tend to top pies with produce from neighboring vendors.
The Neapolitan Surge: I'm also seeing owners of traditional wood-fired Neapolitan pizzerias spin off new concepts. Giulio Adriani tried this with La Montanara (now closed), a deep-fried-pizza offshoot of his New York City-based Forcella, and Ann Kim of Minneapolis's Pizzeria Lola (pizzerialola.com) plans to open Hello Pizza in 2013, serving New York-style, by-the-slice pizza rather than the wood-fired pies she's known for.
Amateur Success: At Slice, we've also seen a fair amount of serious-amateur-to-owner success stories. Brooklyn-based Paulie Gee's (pauliegee.com) was born of Paul Giannone's backyard pizza making passion. Caleb Schiff also went from hosting backyard-oven pizza parties to realizing his dream at Pizzicletta (pizzicletta.com) in Flagstaff, Arizona. Brooklyn's David Sheridan has a similar story; he's opening Wheated in 2013 after practicing in his self-built wood oven. And in Baltimore, word is that Pizzeria Ruby will open soon, the culmination of years of research and testing by a man who goes by the moniker of "Pizzablogger" on the online forum Pizzamaking.com.


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Research Paper Format Mla Owl Annotated
Annotated Bibliography Example
This handout provides information about annotated bibliographies in MLA, APA, and CMS.
Contributors: Geoff Stacks, Erin Karper, Dana Bisignani, Allen Brizee
Last Edited: 2018-02-09 12:16:53
Stem Cell Research: An Annotated Bibliography
Holland, Suzanne. The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy. Boston: MIT P, 2001.
This is the annotation of the above source, which is formatted according to MLA 2016 (8th ed.) guidelines for the bibliographic information listed above. If one were really writing an annotation for this source, one would offer a brief summary of what this book says about stem cell research.
After a brief summary, it would be appropriate to assess this source and offer some criticisms of it. Does it seem like a reliable and current source? Why? Is the research biased or objective? Are the facts well documented? Who is the author? Is she qualified in this subject? Is this source scholarly, popular, some of both?
The length of your annotation will depend on the assignment or on the purpose of your annotated bibliography. After summarizing and assessing, you can now reflect on this source. How does it fit into your research? Is this a helpful resource? Too scholarly? Not scholarly enough? Too general/specific? Since "stem cell research" is a very broad topic, has this source helped you to narrow your topic?
Senior, K. "Extending the Ethical Boundaries of Stem Cell Research." Trends in Molecular Medicine, vol. 7, 2001, pp. 5-6.
Not all annotations have to be the same length. For example, this source is a very short scholarly article. It may only take a sentence or two to summarize. Even if you are using a book, you should only focus on the sections that relate to your topic.
Not all annotated bibliographies assess and reflect; some merely summarize. That may not be the most helpful for you, but, if this is an assignment, you should always ask your instructor for specific guidelines.
Wallace, Kelly. "Bush Stands Pat on Stem Cell Policy." CNN. 13 Aug. 2001.
Using a variety of sources can help give you a broader picture of what is being said about your topic. You may want to investigate how scholarly sources are treating this topic differently than more popular sources. But again, if your assignment is to only use scholarly sources, then you will probably want to avoid magazines and popular web sites.
The bibliographic information above is proper MLA format (use whatever style is appropriate in your field) and the annotations are in paragraph form. Note also that the entries are alphabetized by the first word in the bibliographic entry. If you are writing an annotated bibliography with many sources, it may be helpful to divide the sources into categories. For example, if putting together an extensive annotated bibliography for stem cell research, it might be best to divide the sources into categories such as ethical concerns, scholarly analyses, and political ramifications.
For more examples, a quick search at a library or even on the Internet should produce several examples of annotated bibliographies in your area.
Writing Academic Proposals: Conferences, Articles, and Books
This resource will help undergraduate, graduate, and professional scholars write proposals for academic conferences, articles, and books.
Contributors: Martina Jauch, Allen Brizee
Last Edited: 2018-02-14 03:33:31
An important part of the work completed in academia is sharing our scholarship with others. Such communication takes place when we present at scholarly conferences, publish in peer-reviewed journals, and publish in books. This OWL resource addresses the steps in writing for a variety of academic proposals.
For samples of conference proposals, article abstracts and proposals, and book proposals, click here.
Conference proposals
Beginning the process
Make sure you read the call for papers carefully to consider the deadline and orient your topic of presentation around the buzzwords and themes listed in the document. You should take special note of the deadline and submit prior to that date, as late submissions leave a bad impression and suggest poor planning skills.
If you have previously spoken on or submitted a proposal on the same essay topic, you should carefully adjust it specifically for this conference or even completely rewrite the proposal based on your changing and evolving research.
The topic you are proposing should be one that you can cover easily within a time frame of approximately fifteen to twenty minutes. You should stick to the required word limit of the conference call, usually 250 to 300 words. The organizers have to read a large number of proposals, especially in the case of an international or interdisciplinary conference, and will appreciate your brevity.
Structure and components
A conference proposal will typically consist of an introduction to your topic, which should not amount to more than one-third of the length of your submission, followed by your thesis statement and a delineation of your approach to the problem.
You should then explain why your thesis is original and innovative as well as important and interesting to scholars who might be outside your specific area of research. As Kate Turabian states, "whether your role at a conference is to talk or only listen depends not just on the quality of your research, but on the significance of your question" (Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. Chicago, IL: U of Chicago P, 2007. p. 128). This portion takes up approximately three to five lines, whereas the rest (approximately another third of the total length) focuses on the conclusion that you will arrive at in your essay and exemplary evidence.
Important considerations for the writing process
First and foremost, you need to consider your future audience carefully in order to determine both how specific your topic can be and how much background information you need to provide in your proposal. Larger conferences, such as regional MLA meetings or the ALA (American Literature Association) will require you to direct your remarks to an audience that might not conduct research on the same time period or literary field at all.
Along those lines, you might want to check whether you are basing your research on specific prior research and terminology that requires further explanation. As a rule, always phrase your proposal clearly and specifically, avoid over-the-top phrasing and jargon, but do not negate your own personal writing style in the process.
If you would like to add a quotation to your proposal, you are not required to provide a citation or footnote of the source, although it is generally preferred to mention the author's name. Always put quotes in quotation marks and take care to limit yourself to at most one or two quotations in the entire proposal text. Furthermore, you should always proofread your proposal carefully and check whether you have integrated details, such as author's name, the correct number of words, year of publication, etc. correctly.
If you are comparing and contrasting two different authors or subjects, you should clearly outline the process at which you arrive at your conclusion, even in a short proposal. The reader needs to realize the importance and legitimacy of comparing these two themes and get a sense of cohesion.
Types of conference papers and sessions
As a scholar, you may encounter the following presentation types; they cannot be sorted into either the humanities or the sciences. On a general note, however, humanities papers are usually read aloud at a conference, sometimes with the use of audiovisual equipment, and can look at fairly specific aspects of their research area. Social scientists tend to summarize their longer projects and works in order to introduce them to a larger audience and emphasize their usefulness and practical application.
Panel presentations are the most common form of presentation you will encounter in your graduate career. You will be one of three to four participants in a panel or session (the terminology varies depending on the organizers) and be given fifteen to twenty minutes to present your paper. This is often followed by a ten-minute question-and-answer session either immediately after your presentation or after all of the speakers are finished. It is up to the panel organizer to decide upon this framework. In the course of the question-and-answer session, you may also address and query the other panelists if you have questions yourself.
Roundtables feature an average of five to six speakers, each of whom gets the floor for approximately five to ten minutes to speak on their respective topics and/or subtopics. At times, papers from the speakers might be circulated in advance among the roundtable members or even prospective attendees.
Papers with respondents are structured around a speaker who gives an approximately thirty-minute paper and a respondent who contributes his own thoughts, objections, and further questions in the following fifteen minutes. Finally, the speaker gets that same amount of time to formulate his reply to the respondent.
Poster presentations are not very common in the humanities and ask participants to visually display their ideas as either an outline of findings, an essay of several pages length, or, preferably, charts, graphs, artwork, or photographic images.
Reasons proposals fail/common pitfalls
Depending on the conference, acceptance rates of proposals might range from about 10 percent to almost 100 hundred percent of submissions. Accordingly, you will receive some rejections to your submissions in the course of your career, which, in contrast to book proposals or fellowship applications, do not come with an explanation for the rejection.
There are common pitfalls that you might need to improve on for future proposals.
The proposal does not reflect your enthusiasm and persuasiveness, which usually goes hand in hand with hastily written, simply worded proposals. Generally, the better your research has been, the more familiar you are with the subject and the more smoothly your proposal will come together.
Similarly, proposing a topic that is too broad, can harm your chances of being accepted to a conference. Be sure to have a clear focus in your proposal. Usually, this can be avoided by more advanced research to determine what has already been done, especially if the proposal is judged by an important scholar in the field. Check the names of keynote speakers and other attendees of note to avoid repeating known information or not focusing your proposal.
Your paper might simply have lacked the clear language that proposals should contain. On this linguistic level, your proposal might have sounded repetitious, have had boring wording, or simply displayed carelessness and a lack of proofreading, all of which can be remedied by more revisions.


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Just like you have to warm up your muscles before sports and training, you also need to warm up your visual thinking muscles – your mind and hand. Warm-up exercises are also a great way to trigger creativity. Be sure to make them part of your drawing routine.
Read up on them and get more ideas here.
Check out this simple exercise:
Draw several circles in different sizes over and over again and try to get them as round as possible. It is not about perfection, but about getting comfortable drawing a nice circle quickly and to warm-up your hands and your mind.
After you have done this, check out this link and try the circles again with this neat trick. But no peaking beforehand! ☺
Take your circles and fill them up with colours or simply make a new image out of them. You can get some inspiration for this here.
Upload your favorite circle or show the course a picture of your whole circle collection in the journal.
If you have more warm-up exercises, share them with the other learners in your journal.


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Talk:Internet Explorer History File Format
Planning on doing the following, any comments, ideas, objections?:
Move as DAT
I think this page should be moved as "DAT" and then let all Internet Explorer History File Format links redirect to the format DAT. Then in the DAT page, a little about how .dat is a common extention used by many programs to name their data files, and then the majority of the page about index.dat files specifically. --Kristofer 00:15, 19 June 2007 (PDT)
- Because so many other programs use .dat as an extension, I don't think it's a good idea to make the .dat page all about Internet Explorer. Instead I think the .dat page should be a list of the programs that use .dat files, including Internet Explorer. I like having a page title that holds the true meaning, not a shorthand. Jessek 05:48, 20 June 2007 (PDT)
File Locations
After moving, more of the major file locations of the index.dat should be added too. I will type out the full paths later, but quickly for example, the temp internet files, cookies, history, userdat, folders. Also the ones in the system account in the windows directory, and note other accounts exist like the all users, administrator, network account, and i386 folder doesn't count does it? Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but the History.IE6 folder should be History.IE5, regardless of IE 5, 6, or 7 being installed. --Kristofer 00:15, 19 June 2007 (PDT)
- This sounds like a great addition to the Internet Explorer History File Format page. Go for it! Jessek 05:49, 20 June 2007 (PDT)
http://www.latenighthacking.com/projects/2003/reIndexDat/ is a great link in my opinion going through the methods of discovering the format of this unofficially documented file. It would be great, through the help of everyone, to fill in the missing parts of the general format and outline it here, for future programmers needing to do forensics with these files. --Kristofer 00:15, 19 June 2007 (PDT)
Different Formats of index.dat
We can write about the differences between the temporary internet files index.dat file, history index.dat file, and cookies index.dat file, while including the file paths of the other index.dat files but not emphasising on them, like the one in UserData folders.
Speaking about the three major ones seperately is important because some things are differen't between them, like the REDR tag is not in any history index.dat files, yet we have it listed on the current page. And in the URL tag, in the temporary internet files index.dat, the file name of the local cached file is specified with the originating URL. Another difference off the top of my head, the history index.dat files include page title names, and temporary internet files index.dat doesn't. --Kristofer 00:15, 19 June 2007 (PDT)
- I think we should have a page of commonalities, but it should be separate from each of the format specific pages. That is, the Microsoft Windows Cookie Format page could have a short section on the common elements with a link to Common elements in Windows History Files. Maybe the "main" template would work well? Jessek 06:42, 20 June 2007 (PDT)


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Many iPod and iPhone owners — even the ones who don't know what a CNET is — are quick to upgrade the flat sounding earbuds that come with most devices. Apple seemed determined to leave this legacy behind when it unveiled the new EarPods to much fanfare at its iPhone 5 event last week. So this morning, I bought a pair of stock Apple headphones, on purpose. Do these EarPods live up to Apple levels of hype?
What's an EarPod, anyway?
EarPods are basically just earbuds, but fine-tuned. These actually aren't in-ear headphones, as some thought they were. There's no rubber tip, and although the shape suggests it, as the main speaker is now pointed into the ear canal. You actually don't need to push in or otherwise adjust them the way you have to with in-ear headphones. In fact, it took me a few fruitless stabs at my ear canal with these things before I tried slipping them in like my old 'buds. Once I'd figured that out, they sounded crystal clear right away, no fiddling.
First Impressions
Apple says it spent three years working on the EarPods, and its two main achievements with them are a snug, comfortable shape, and powerful bass in a small package. In those two respects, these are fantastic headphones, but that's not the whole story.
The new shape make them the most comfortable earbuds I've ever worn; even after tugging at them and running up and down a few flights of stairs, I can safely say they're much more snug-fitting than their predecessors (admittedly, those didn't set the bar very high). Usually, I need to resort to in-ear headphones for deep bass in a small form factor, and I find those uncomfortable. However, Apple added tiny vents in the buds, which allow the bass drivers to bounce with reduced resistance. Bass tones sound natural, instead of overly heavy or distorted as in other bass-boosted earbuds.
I played music from Death Cab for Cutie for my inaugural listen. Although it was subtle, I was disappointed to encounter some distortion upon my very first listen. Some instruments in the mid-range sounded tinny, and I was sure, at first, that I had been duped into downgrading my headphones. Granted, this could just be my ears, because it's hard to believe that Apple would release headphones with mid-range distortion after three years of development. But if you're like me, and listen to your music too loud, and you encounter this issue, I offer two solutions:
First, your mother did always tell you not to listen so loud. Try turning the volume down for starters (ed. note: more tips on not going deaf).
Then, I investigated the distortion in with the help of my iTunes equalizer. It didn't take much, but attenuating the 2 kHz range (where the guitar solo of The Cure's Boys Don't Cry lives) did the trick for me. So if you like your music super loud and encounter the same issue, you might try that — or, you could mess around with the equalizer of your iOS Music app (though it won't help you with third-party apps).
Though these Kenny-shaped EarPods are new, their cord and plug are identical to Apple's old earbuds. Based on my track record with Apple headphones, I can count on these to come apart at the plug by Christmas.
So are they any good?
The EarPods received red carpet treatment at this week's Apple event. They even have their own promo video (watch below), in which legendary Apple designer Jony Ives himself describes how they achieved the pinnacle of earbud engineering. However, these are not the iPhone of earbuds, as you might expect, given their $29 price and the fact that they'll be included with all iPhones and iPod Touches going forward.
In the future, new iPod owners might not be quick to throw away their comfy new EarPods, because they're a big improvement over the previous Apple earbuds. They sound pretty good, even compared to some of the nicer headphones lying around the office, and they clearly blow other $30 earbuds out of the water. So there's that.
However, Apple's choice not to upgrade the plug and cord design alone makes the EarPods a poor choice for replacement headphones, in my opinion. One day isn't much time to evaluate a product's sturdiness, but other headphone manufacturers are already leaps and bounds ahead of Apple in build quality, and I've seen what happened to the plug and cord on my previous Apple earbuds.
In short, enjoy your new EarPods if you buy a new iPod. But if you're in the market for new headphones, and you too have experienced the problem of Apple earbuds coming apart at the plug, I would recommend looking for something with a more resilient design.
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With three late-night shows -- The Tonight Show, Late Night and The Late Show -- on vacation this week, the jokes were fewer, but no less hilarious and on-point. Comedy Central's shows were not on the air Friday to welcome the sequestration, so both shows did so Monday night with different results. The Colbert Report went back to explaining the sequester, while The Daily Show took a different route.
All the shows but Colbert and The Late Late Show were on the Dennis "The Worm" Rodman story, though. Jimmy Kimmel had suggestions for how to avert war with North Korea, while Jon Stewart wondered aloud about Rodman's credentials (or lack thereof).
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Question Answering Technology? Sounds Like a Natural (Language) To Me
Who says high-performance computing is a game? Well, researchers at IBM and Carnegie Mellon University among others, at least if the game is the TV quiz show Jeopardy! . That's why in the near future an IBM research project dubbed "Watson" will challenge human quiz-show competitors in a Deep Blue vs. Garry Kasparov like match.
Watson is an outgrowth of the Open Advancement in Question Answering (OAQA) project launched by IBM and CMU, which is itself an off-shoot of an earlier Question Answering (QA) project named PIQUANT, short for "Practical Intelligent QUestion ANswering Technology". Watson is designed to answer questions that require the identification of relevant and irrelevant content, the interpretation of ambiguous expression and puns, the decomposition of questions into sub-questions, and the logical synthesis of final answers. In addition, Watson will compute a statistical confidence in the responses it provides. Watson will be designed to do all of this in a matter of seconds, which will enable it to compete against humans, who have the ability to know what they know in less than a second. To make this possible, Watson incorporates massively parallel analytical capabilities and, just like human competitors, not be connected to the Internet or have any other outside assistance.
<p>Unlike conventional computing technologies designed to return documents containing the user's keywords or semantic entities, Watson is expected to leap ahead to interpret the user's query as a true question and to determine precisely what the user is asking for. Watson uses massively parallel processing to simultaneously and instantly understand complex questions -- questions that require the system to consider huge volumes and varieties of natural language text to gather and then deeply analyze and score supporting or refuting evidence. The system then decides how confident it is in the answer. This approach marries advanced machine learning and statistical techniques with the latest in natural language processing to result in human-like precision and speed, huge breadth and accurate confidence determination.
"The challenge is to build a system that, unlike systems before it, can rival the human mind's ability to determine precise answers to natural language questions and to compute accurate confidences in the answers," said David Ferrucci, leader of the IBM Watson project team. "This confidence processing ability is key. It greatly distinguishes the IBM approach from conventional search, and is critical to implementing useful business applications of Question Answering."
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A few eclectic thoughts for your Saturday (and mine):
1) Enlightened. I've been watching "Enlightened" on HBO, and I love it. Have you watched? I'm waaaay behind – they aired the finale last week, but I've been TiVo-ing and I just watched the fourth episode. The show, about a woman (Laura Dern) rebuilding her life after a nervous-breakdown-esque incident, is touching, honest and isn't afraid of awkward or uncomfortable situations, which provide a good deal of the humor. (I know, I know, this review is coming weeks and weeks late, but if you subscribe to HBO, you can watch full episodes online here.)
In the episode I just watched, Amy realizes that her relationship with her ex-husband has forever changed, and the events that led to their splitting up can't be undone. The episode ends with Amy summing up what she's learned, in a voice-over:
"You can try to escape the story of your life, but you can't. It happened… Mine isn't the one I would have chosen in the beginning, but I'll take it. It is my story. Only mine. And it's not over. There's time. There is time. There's so much time."
I disagree in the sense that I probably wouldn't choose a different story of my life, but I connected to all the rest, especially the idea that the only direction worth facing is forward. Whether it's a relatively small infraction, like eating too many cookies at a holiday party, or a major life decision that didn't turn out the way you wanted, it's in the past, and there is time (so much time!) to keep writing your story, adding pages and chapters that will get you closer to the ending that you want and deserve. I try not to live in the past (which is often easier said than done), and "Enlightened" helped remind me, tonight, to keep that up.
2) A Little Holiday Humor. Check out this music video for a song called "Drink My Way Through Christmas." Karen Kilgariff, a friend that I used to work with a few years back, is the singer and songwriter, and the video looks awesome, and makes me laugh every time I watch it.
Hear more of Karen Kilgariff's music here.
3) Encouragement. A few days ago marked the one-year anniversary of me reaching a major weight-related goal: weighing under 250 pounds for the first time in my adult life. What's completely awesome is that I've kept off the 153 pounds that I lost to reach that goal, and since then, I've lost 13 more. I'm still 16 pounds away from my next weight-loss goal, but I'll get there.
The blog post that I wrote about reaching that goal (which you can read here) ended up being one of my all-time favorites, and I just re-read it for the first time in months. What I love about that post is that is captures an enthusiasm and energy that, to be honest, has since fizzled. My pride hasn't diminished – I'll always be nothing but proud of my weight loss and all the related successes – but my enthusiasm about it has. The moments where I get lost in my own sense of accomplishment come less frequently now, and that should probably change, and that sensation has, in the past, been a huge motivator. Starting each day with, at minimum, a celebratory glance in the mirror and pat on the back would be a good thing.
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DURANGO, Colo., March 24, 2003 -- Four teams of New Mexico Tech undergraduates recently traveled to Durango to compete in a regional computer programming contest and swept the field, returning to Socorro with the event's top four awards.
The Tech team comprised of senior computer science majors James J. Kearney, Paul R. C. Ming, and Evan Nelson correctly solved seven out of the seven problems with computer programs written on the spot, outpacing and outprogramming 12 other teams and taking top honors at the 19th Annual Fort Lewis College Computer Programming Contest.
Solving the problems at the daylong programming contest required using computer programs "written from scratch," which the participating students developed on-site with the programming languages Microsoft Visual C++ Version 6.0, Java Borland JBuilder 5, and Sun Java 2 SDK.
Some of the problems posed included finding absolute values for actual and estimated times during a ski race, keeping track of train cars on a complicated switching network as cars are added and removed, and taking proper fractions and turning them into "Egyptian fractions," which are the sums of several unique fractions that each have a numerator of one.
Another New Mexico Tech team, whose members included Clark Haskins, Alex Rand, and Manuel Schroeder, placed second overall by solving six out of the seven problems, with two penalties assessed against the team's score.
Michael Bencomo, David Catanach, and Richard Byrne also solved six out of seven problems, but were assessed three penalties and ended up with a third-place finish.
The New Mexico Tech team of Wade Brown, William Kwan, and James "Egypt" Lee rounded out the clean sweep at the regional programming contest by finishing fourth after solving five of the problems in the allotted time.


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M&T Bank Supports Clarkson University Reh Center with $25,000 Gift
Clarkson University recently received a $25,000 grant from M&T Bank to support small business and community development through programs and services provided by the Reh Center for Entrepreneurship.
A resource center located within the Clarkson University School of Business and named for principal donor and Clarkson alumnus David D. Reh `62, the Reh Center for Entrepreneurship builds upon the University's nationally recognized expertise in entrepreneurial education and long-standing commitment to boost regional economies through small business development.
"This generous grant from M&T Bank will assist the Reh Center in fulfilling the mission, which it was created for," said Clarkson University President Tony Collins. "We are grateful to M&T Bank for their continued support of Clarkson University."
The Reh Center for Entrepreneurship has raised the profile of both the University and the School of Business through programs that enhance the student experience. This has attracted national media coverage in the Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, CBS Marketplace, American Public Radio, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and in Time magazine. The Entrepreneurship Program has been ranked #15 in the nation by both the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine.
"Entrepreneurship is at the heart of the U.S. economy. Small businesses and start-ups put capital to work -- creating jobs and developing innovative products and services," said Allen Naples, Central New York regional president, M&T Bank. "The Reh Center for Entrepreneurship's focus on local small business partnerships and community development aligns with our focus as a bank. We hope that these funds will help drive entrepreneurship in central New York."
Since 2004, the center has provided guidance and training to more than 800 local businesses through its introductory course, My Small Business 101. The course is a four-part business strategy series designed to help entrepreneurs and microbusiness operators succeed.
Since its inception, the My Small Business 101 series has achieved an 85 percent two- and five-year business survival rate, compared with a 45-percent survival rate, nationally.
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An Axtell Park Middle School student went to the Juvenile Detention Center one day this week after police say she pulled the fire alarm and forced other students outdoors in frigid temperatures on Wednesday.
Officer Sam Clemens says the fire alarm was pulled around 1:00 p.m.:
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Accenture's global outsourcing practice has grown significantly in the last 20 years. Our BPO story started many years ago and in that time we have been able to evolve and perfect our BPO services. But one thing has remained the same from the beginning—Accenture has always been at the heart of client success and played an important role in driving BPO transformation.
We have added value to companies all over the world, helping to control costs, reduce risk, and increase transparency. We offer the broadest range of BPO services in the world underpinned by operational excellence and cost-effectiveness. A wide range of service offerings has made it easy for Accenture to provide end-to-end services in the horizontal as well as vertical (industry-specific) BPO.
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How Christ Sent Twenty-three Surprised Converts to Replant His Vineyard
Author: Donna Steichen
Length: 340 pages
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The twenty-three men and women who tell their conversion stories in these pages were not drawn to the Church by sound evangelization programs, beautiful buildings and liturgies, or saintly witnesses among the clergy. On the contrary, many of them were attracted to Catholicism in spite of a now decades-long stretch of deficient catechesis, mediocre Masses, and uninspiring leadership. Christ himself led these souls to his Church, concludes editor Donna Steichen, who compiled this consoling collection, and it is the Lord who set them to work replanting his devastated vineyard.
"Despite their marked differences in origin, education, and field of service," writes Steichen, "each one makes it clear that it is Christ who did the choosing. They testify that Christ touched their hearts and intervened in their lives in unexpected, sometimes even miraculous, ways."
Donna Steichen is a longtime investigative journalist who has written numerous articles in various Catholic publications. She is the author of two other books published by Ignatius Press, Ungodly Rage and Prodigal Daughters.
"These conversions in the midst of the post-Vatican II crisis of faith seem particularly pure and often entertainingly improbable, bearing testimony to the central truth…That the Church is not a man-made institution, but a divine one — a perpetual repository of truth and grace so powerful that not even the darkness of scandal can overshadow it."
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December can be a delightful month for movie lovers, because it often brings the best of both worlds — mainstream blockbuster hits that will pack multiplexes, and smaller films with outstanding performances that are arriving in time for Academy Award consideration.
Here's a look at some of the films that will be opening in Hampton Roads between now and the end of the year.
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"The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies." Peter Jackson's latest Tolkien adaptation arrives on Tuesday, and fans can whet their appetites with a nine-hour "Hobbit" marathon that will play in several local cineplexes (Hampton Towne Centre 24, Paragon City...


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Oracle Solaris 11 comes with a new set of commands that provide the ability to conduct
performance analysis in a virtualized multitenant cloud environment. Performance analysis in a
virtualized multitenant cloud environment with different users running various workloads can be a
challenging task for the following reasons:
Each virtualization software adds an abstraction layer to enable better manageability. Although this makes it much simpler to manage the virtualized resources, it is very difficult to find the physical system resources that are overloaded.
Each Oracle Solaris Zone can have different workload; it can be disk I/O, network I/O, CPU, memory, or combination of these.
In addition, a single Oracle Solaris Zone can overload the entire system resources.It is very difficult to observe the environment; you need to be able to monitor the environment from the top level to see all the virtual instances (non-global zones) in real time with the ability to drill down to specific resources.
The benefits of using Oracle Solaris 11 for virtualized performance analysis are:
• Observability. The Oracle Solaris global zone is a fully functioning operating systems, not a propriety hypervisor or a minimized operating system that lacks the ability to observe the entire environment—including the host and the VMs, at the same time. The global zone can see all the non-global zones' performance metrics.
• Integration. All the subsystems are built inside the same operating system. For example, the ZFS file system and the Oracle Solaris Zones virtualization technology are integrated together. This is preferable to mixing many vendors' technology, which causes a lack of integration between the different operating system (OS) subsystems and makes it very difficult to analyze all the different OS subsystems at the same time.
• Virtualization awareness. The built-in Oracle Solaris commands are virtualization-aware,and they can provide performance statistics for the entire system (the Oracle Solaris global zone). In addition to providing the ability to
drill down into every resource (Oracle Solaris non-global zones), these commands provide accurate results during the performance analysis process.
In this article, we are going to explore four examples that show how we can monitor virtualized environment with Oracle Solaris Zones using the built-in Oracle Solaris 11 tools. These tools provide the ability to drill down to specific resources, for example, CPU, memory, disk, and network. In addition, they provide the ability to print statistics per Oracle Solaris Zone and provide information on the running applications.


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With over 20 years at Nielsen, Karen has contributed to several functional areas including Nielsen's Finance, Marketing, Operations, Client Service and Retail Services. In 2010, she received Nielsen's Chairman Award for advancing our retail strategic growth agenda.
Karen is an International Women's Forum Fellow and mentors several female and diverse associates as a leader of Nielsen's Diversity Council. She serves as Nielsen's business lead for the Network for Executive Women and is Nielsen's executive sponsor for internal global employee resource group, Women In Nielsen (WIN).
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Ten Good Reasons To Buy
from the scarcity-plus-value deptSo I already put up my post about all the Connect with Fans + Reason to Buy (CwF+RtB) stories from last year, which kicked off with my presentation at Midem 2009 all about Trent Reznor and his business model experiments. This year, we wanted to do something a bit different at Midem and get a lot more interactive. So, we set up a brainstorming workshop to see if we could build these sorts of business models for some artists. I did a (very) short presentation to kick off the session (no video, sorry) and then we broke up the audience into groups where we could pick specific artists and (quickly) run through the process of setting up a business model. I wanted to share a basic writeup of what I presented, and sometime later I will try to do a writeup on some of what the groups discussed.
I was going under the assumption that, by now, most people understand the basics of how to "connect with fans" (though, we keep hearing stories suggesting that many still struggle with this a lot) and wanted to focus in the presentation on understanding the "reasons to buy." One of the problems is that many people assume that "value" alone is enough to get people to buy -- but as we've discussed multiple times there's a difference between value and price -- and assuming that value alone is enough to get people to buy isn't going to cut it -- especially if the product is abundantly available.
So the key is to find scarcities -- as we've said many times. But, not just any scarcities. Those scarcities must also be valuable. Value plus scarcity is the real reason to buy. And, the intersection may be different for each kind of content creator. In fact, it should be different for each content creator, because it is essential to recognize how to express the key value that a particular creator brings to the table. To help explain that, we discussed 10 key scarcities that are helpful to think through in creating reasons to buy. The list is not complete, but is a good starting point.
- Access: Access to the actual content creators is a real scarcity and one that can often be used to make money in ways that make fans quite happy. In fact, a study released at Midem claimed that, in a recent survey, 19% of respondents claimed they would pay anything to meet their favorite star. Now, obviously, that's a bit of hyperbole, but it does suggest a high degree of demand for access from top fans.
- Attention: One of the most important scarcities in the digital age. Attention is incredibly scarce, and if you've got it, you can do a lot with it.
- Authenticity: This one also includes "trust." The ability to be authentic carries tremendous weight and is quite scarce at times. But if you can provide something that is authentic and valuable, it's often a very strong reason to buy.
- Exclusivity: Many people value having something that very few (or perhaps no) others have.
- (New) Creation: The ability to create something new is a scarcity. This often confuses people, because a digital good once created is no longer scarce -- but the ability to create it is still very much a scarcity.
- Tangibility: The granddad of scarcities: physical products. Sometimes when we discuss scarcities people seem to think that we're only talking about tangible products. Nothing is further from the truth, as we often think that other non-tangible scarcities represent much larger opportunities, but that doesn't mean you should ignore the value of tangible products.
- Time (saving or making): People will pay if you can save them time (or give them extra time in some manner).
- Convenience: If you make things more convenient, many people will buy, even if free options are available. That's one reason why iTunes has done so well. Apple has made the whole process super convenient. It's also one of the top reasons why people say they buy bottled water -- even if they know the water quality is no different than tap water. They just find it more convenient.
- Belonging: Never underestimate just how important a sense of belonging to a group or a tribe is -- and being able to provide that in an authentic manner can be a true scarcity.
- Patronage: Definitely depends on the situation, but there are some people who just want to support an artist, no matter what. And that presents a scarcity.
We then looked at Moldover and Motoboy who each have offered really cool physical goods (Moldover's CD case that doubles as a virtual theremin and Moto Boy's wonderful music box). I showed off each of these products, highlighting how they clearly played up the tangibility scarcity as a reason to buy (as well as things like authenticity, exclusivity, belonging and patronage) to make this work.
As a final less well known artist, we looked at Matthew Ebel, whose experiments with giving fans a subscription service that provides new music and additional opportunities for access are working quite well. In that case, he's obviously using access, authenticity and exclusivity along with belonging and patronage.
Of course, this isn't just a model for small or up-and-coming artists. It can work quite well for big name artist, as well -- and on that front we discussed both Pearl Jam and Mariah Carey. As you may recall, Carey and her team put together a whole issue of Elle magazine, all about Carey, where Carey's team was allowed to sell the ads and keep the money. Some of the ads were for Carey-branded products, such as perfume. In this case, with a star this big, that particular aspect of the model is not about access (which is regularly used by smaller artists), but about belonging and tangibility (the magazine is tangible, as is the makeup that Carey was selling). But perhaps an even bigger point is that Carey was really selling her biggest fans' attention in selling advertising directed at them. As for Pearl Jam, they have their "Ten Club," which gives fans earlier access to the best tickets at shows (convenience, time saving, belonging, exclusivity) along with special physical goods, such as a special vinyl single, a magazine and other members' only contests and giveaways (tangibility, exclusivity).
Of course, there's a lot more that goes into building good "reasons to buy," but using these ten scarcities as a starting point is an excellent way to start a brainstorming process - as we did ourselves at the conference.
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MONTREAL - Luka Magnotta's preliminary hearing will wrap up Thursday with two witnesses from Ottawa before resuming again for a week in April.
For the second day in a row Wednesday, Magnotta cupped his hand over his mouth, wiped his eyes and glanced only occasionally at a screen on which video evidence was projected. On Tuesday, he collapsed in the prisoner's box at the end of a video.
Wearing an unbuttoned, short-sleeved plaid shirt with a white undershirt and white pants, a shackled and handcuffed Magnotta listened to testimony Wednesday from three Montreal police officers who specialize in extracting digital information from cameras, computers, cellphones and online.
Constable Nadine Paoliello wrapped up her testimony, which was interrupted Tuesday when Magnotta collapsed and the hearing was adjourned for the day. Sgt.-Det. Panagiotis Sarganis, a computer forensic specialist from the Montreal police force, also testified, as did Constable Frank Massa. Several videos were shown throughout the morning.
No details about the evidence can be reported because of a court-ordered publication ban, a normal procedure during a preliminary hearing — a process to determine whether there is enough evidence for the case to go to trial.
Magnotta, a 30-year-old Ontario native, was charged in June with the first-degree murder of Lin Jun, a 33-year-old Chinese national who was studying at Concordia University. Magnotta is also charged with producing and distributing obscene material, sending obscene material in the postal system and causing an indignity to a body.
He was arrested in an Internet café in Berlin less than two weeks after Lin's May 25 murder and dismemberment.
On Wednesday, Magnotta waved and smiled at a woman sitting in the front row of the packed courtroom, but the woman refused to identify herself to the media or say what her relationship to the accused is.
The victim's father, Lin Diran, who was emotional in court last week, has not been present this week.
Witnesses from Vancouver and Europe are to testify by video conference starting April 8, the last week of the preliminary hearing.
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Mike Nichols, original name in full Michael Igor Peschkowsky, (born November 6, 1931, Berlin, Germany—died November 19, 2014, New York, New York, U.S.), American motion-picture, television, and stage director whose productions focus on the absurdities and horrors of modern life as revealed in personal relationships.
Early life and stage work
At age seven, Nichols emigrated with his family from Germany to the United States, before the outbreak of World War II. He attended the University of Chicago (1950–53), studied acting under Lee Strasberg in New York City, and then returned to Chicago, where, with Elaine May, Shelley Berman, Barbara Harris, and Paul Sills, he formed the comic improvisational group The Compass Players. Nichols and May then traveled nationwide with their social-satire routines, and from 1960 to 1961 they performed on Broadway in An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May. The recording of their show won Nichols and May a Grammy Award for best comedy album of the year.
In 1963 Nichols directed his first Broadway show, the highly praised Neil Simon comedy Barefoot in the Park, for which he won a Tony Award. For his next two stage productions, Luv (1964–67) and Simon's The Odd Couple (1965–67), Nichols won another Tony.
Early films: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, and Carnal Knowledge
In 1966 Nichols made his film-directing debut with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), a corrosive adaptation of Edward Albee's 1962 play about two couples who reveal shocking secrets during the course of an evening. The drama was a sensation upon release, owing to its explicit language and the presence of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as a dysfunctional married couple. A box-office hit, it received an Academy Award nomination for best picture, and Nichols was also Oscar-nominated, as were Taylor (who won for best actress), Burton, George Segal, and Sandy Dennis (who won for best supporting actress); the film also earned seven other Oscar nods.
Nichols's second film made an even greater impact. The Graduate (1967), based on a novel by Charles Webb, starred a relatively unknown actor named Dustin Hoffman as a recent college graduate who has an affair with an older woman (Anne Bancroft as the seductive Mrs. Robinson) and then finds himself in love with her daughter (Katharine Ross). With its portrayal of malaise and alienation, the film spoke to the youth culture in a way that none had since Rebel Without a Cause (1955), and it became one of the highest-grossing movies of the decade. Nichols won an Academy Award for his direction—a flashy turn that borrowed from several European directors—and the picture, Hoffman, Bancroft, Ross, Robert Surtees' cinematography, and the screenplay by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham were also Oscar-nominated.
Throughout his career, Nichols continued to work on Broadway, and in 1968 he won a Tony Award for directing Simon's Plaza Suite. His next film project was an adaptation of Joseph Heller's antiwar cult classic, Catch-22. Perhaps expectations for Nichols's screen version were unrealistically high, but it did not fare well when it was released in 1970, failing to please either fans of the novel or casual moviegoers, who may have been put off by the picture's surfeit of surrealistic black humour. The eclectic cast included Alan Arkin, Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles, Art Garfunkel, Bob Newhart, Buck Henry (who wrote the screenplay), and Charles Grodin.
Carnal Knowledge (1971), however, won many critics back to Nichols's side, but it too was controversial for its frank and realistic treatment of sex. The drama presents a trenchant but painfully sad portrait of two former college friends (Jack Nicholson and Garfunkel) as they struggle in various relationships from the 1940s through the sexual revolution of the '60s. Ann-Margret, Candice Bergen, Carol Kane, and Rita Moreno portrayed the women who try to love them. The film was a success at the box office, and Nicholson's performance as an emotionally empty, predatory chauvinist helped solidify his stardom.
After earning yet another Tony Award for directing Simon's The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1971–73) on Broadway, Nichols moved on to the big-budget film The Day of the Dolphin (1973), which starred George C. Scott as a scientist whose trained talking dolphins are kidnapped by extremists, who plan to use the animals to assassinate the president. A curious addition to Nichols's filmography, it tried unsuccessfully to blend comedy, thriller, and science fiction while addressing environmental issues, and it failed to find an audience. Nichols did not fare much better with the frenetic comic caper The Fortune (1975), which featured Nicholson and Warren Beatty as a pair of 1920s con artists who first romance an heiress (Stockard Channing) and then try to steal her inheritance. Although Beatty and Nicholson demonstrated some talent for slapstick, this was not the type of showcase in which audiences wanted to see them, and only later did The Fortune come to be appreciated as an intelligent, offbeat film.
Nichols subsequently returned to the theatre, and in the late 1970s he directed several Broadway productions, earning Tony nominations for Streamers (1976–77), Comedians (1976–77), and The Gin Game (1977–78). During this time, he also coproduced Annie (1977–83), which won a Tony for best musical.
Middle years: Silkwood, Working Girl, and The Birdcage
Five years elapsed before Nichols's next film, Gilda Live (1980), made it to the screen. A recording of comedian Gilda Radner's Broadway show, it served up several of her popular skits and characters from NBC's TV show Saturday Night Live. It was Silkwood (1983), however, that marked Nichols's return to form. Meryl Streep starred as Karen Silkwood, a real-life lab worker at a nuclear plant in Oklahoma who died (1974) under mysterious circumstances while trying to expose safety violations at the facility. Streep, Cher (in a supporting role), film editor Sam O'Steen, Nichols, and the screenplay (by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen) received Academy Award nominations.
In 1984 Nichols netted a fifth Tony for directing the play The Real Thing. He then returned to the big screen with Heartburn (1986), an adaptation of Ephron's semiautobiographical novel about a pregnant woman who learns that her husband is cheating on her. Streep and Nicholson stood in for Ephron and journalist Carl Bernstein, Ephron's then husband. Biloxi Blues (1988) was Nichols's first filming of a play by his longtime stage collaborator Simon, who adapted his popular comedy into a more naturalistic period piece about a young man (Matthew Broderick) who comes of age while undergoing army basic training in the 1940s. As his cruel drill sergeant, Christopher Walken was especially notable.
Nichols next made the romantic drama Working Girl (1988), his biggest hit since The Graduate. Melanie Griffith played a rough-edged Staten Island woman who takes a job as a secretary at a New York brokerage house and survives the exploitative maneuvers of her icy boss (Sigourney Weaver) to win her dream job, landing a handsome arbitrageur (Harrison Ford) in the process. The film's six Academy Award nominations included best picture, and Nichols also received a nod for his direction. Postcards from the Edge (1990), adapted by Carrie Fisher from her acerbic semiautobiographical novel, starred Streep as an addicted actress who has to endure first drug rehabilitation and then probation with her alcoholic, domineering mother (Shirley MacLaine) before finally getting her life under control. Nichols's satiric portrait of Hollywood was keenly observed, and both Streep and MacLaine earned praise for their performances.
Nichols then directed Regarding Henry (1991), which was widely derided by critics. The sentimental drama starred Ford as a ruthless and narcissistic lawyer whose life becomes a clean slate when a gunshot wound leaves him amnesiac, childlike, and nearly helpless. Aided by the love of his family (Annette Bening and Mikki Allen), he regains his physical and intellectual competency and begins to question his previous behaviour. Many found his transformation unrealistic—unavoidable, perhaps, given J.J. Abrams's jejune screenplay—and the film had a lukewarm reception at the box office. Nichols did not fare much better with his much-hyped Wolf (1994), from the novel by Jim Harrison about a rather meek book editor who, once bitten, is fated to turn into a werewolf. Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer made an appealing romantic combo, and the early scenes keenly satirized New York's publishing world. However, Wolf suffered when it shifted to a horror film.
Much better was The Birdcage (1996), a remake of the French hit La Cage aux folles (1978). It starred Robin Williams as Armand Goldman, the owner of a drag club, and Nathan Lane as Albert Goldman, a performer and Armand's partner. Things become complicated when Armand's son gets engaged and his fiancée's conservative parents (Gene Hackman and Dianne Wiest) arrive for a visit. The cast made the most of their May-scripted lines. May also wrote the Oscar-nominated script for Nichols's Primary Colors (1998), an adaptation of the best-selling political novel by an anonymous writer (later revealed to be journalist Joe Klein). John Travolta was wholly convincing as the charismatic Bill Clintonesque presidential candidate who is always a step away from a sex scandal. Also notable were Emma Thompson as his wife and Kathy Bates as a canny adviser.
What Planet Are You From? (2000) was a critical and commercial disappointment. The uneven sci-fi comedy starred Garry Shandling (who coscripted) as an alien who travels to Earth tasked with finding a woman he can impregnate; others in the cast included Bening, Greg Kinnear, Ben Kingsley, and John Goodman.
Later projects: Wit, Angels in America, Spamalot, and Death of a Salesman
Wit (2001), made for HBO, was a likelier project for Nichols. An adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson, it starred Thompson (who coscripted with Nichols) as a cancer-stricken English professor who reflects on key moments of her life as she undergoes chemotherapy in a hopeless battle to beat the disease. Nichols won an Emmy Award for his direction, as he would for the 2003 HBO production of Tony Kushner's play about the ravages of the AIDS epidemic, Angels in America. The miniseries was both highly popular and a huge critical success, winning 10 further Emmys. The all-star cast included Streep, Thompson, Al Pacino, Mary-Louise Parker, and Jeffrey Wright.
Nichols returned to the big screen with Closer (2004). It also had its roots on Broadway, but unlike Angels in America the scope of the erotic drama was intensely intimate, focusing on the relationships of four people (Natalie Portman, Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, and Jude Law). Nichols then directed the Broadway production Monty Python's Spamalot, which earned him another Tony. His next film was Charlie Wilson's War (2007), an entertaining political drama, scripted by Aaron Sorkin and based on the true story of Texas congressman Charlie Wilson (Tom Hanks), who assisted the mujahideen in their fight against the Soviet Union during the Afghan War in the 1980s. Philip Seymour Hoffman was well cast as a CIA agent, and Roberts was amusing as a wealthy Texas socialite who encourages Wilson's efforts. Nichols subsequently returned to the stage, and in 2012 he won his seventh Tony Award (for best director) for his revival of Arthur Miller's classic drama Death of a Salesman, featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Nichols was the recipient of numerous awards, including a Kennedy Center Honor (2003) and the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award (2010). He was one of the few people to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony.
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