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New bags in the shop! Click image for listing or here for all available Coach :)
Columbia River Gorge
The following vintage Coach bags have been washed, shaped, conditioned and are ready to find new homes! Click image for listing :)
Madison + Crescent
Two new bags listed in the shop today:
This vintage Coach Crescent Bag is actually quite rare – It was only made for a short period of time during the early 1980s and was manufactured in the original New York City Coach factory. I am totally envious of the beautiful rich cognac color that emerged after a few applications of leather conditioner …
I'm not usually one for satchels (I like to be hands-free while carrying my bag) … but I may just have to keep this Large Madison Satchel if it doesn't find a home – A great size for daily wear and can easily be dressed up or down. I think it was originally black, but has since faded to the most wonderful charcoal blue-grey over the years. Also made in NYC!
Vintage Coach (Obsession?)
So I'm not really sure what happened, but I purchased 2 vintage Coach bags (in brown and black) to match dresses for upcoming wedding events … now (only a few weeks later) I've decided to start selling rehabbed bags in my Etsy shop!
I have never been one to have a ton of handbags – I find 1 or 2 that work for me and I carry them for years. However, I have fallen in love with the thick/supple leather, classic style and incredible build quality of vintage Coach. Breathing new life into these old, dry and forgotten bags is so addictive and fun!
Two of my bags have already found new, loving homes but there are still a few available and definitely more to come!
Here are some before (top) and after (bottom) photos of a few of my favorites:
Click here to pick out one for yourself!


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SQL Server Data Encryption
SQL Server 2005 includes some new encryption capabilities that all administrators, programmers and database analyst should be aware of. Key and Certificate creation and management is now an integral part of SQL Server 2005. You have the flexibility to create your own X.509 certificates, use Windows Server 2003 CA issued certs, or use other certs purchased from a trusted certificate authority.
There are a number of levels in the key hierarchy, but you'll spend most of your time with database level certs and symmetric keys. See the SQL Server 2005 Encryption Hierarchy article for a detailed description of certificates, asymmetrical and symmetrical keys. You'll also notice at the bottom of that article is a link to the SQL Server 2005 Permissions Hierarchy. I would recommend reading and digesting both. It's a short read and will be a good use of your time as we review the following scripts and demos.
Watching the Demos
My team is now disseminating information using a variety of publishing techniques. See the following scripts
demonstrated using Windows Media Video format. That video is in full color. I had to sacrifice some colors for the video here, but it should not matter much for the demos. See the full screen launch
buttons below.
Setting Up To Use Encryption
In our first script and demo, we are going to create a number of objects. We're going to create a user id, login id, a sample database, and a sample table. Later, we'll create and use some views into the data along with a helper function that will allow
us to control access to the data. I'm going to cut a lot of the comments from the original script(s). I will however highlight or link important function calls and features in the scripts. You'll notice that this first script is fairly straight forward.
You'll also notice that the definition for CardNumber doesn't reveal anything out of the ordinary. It certainly doesn't indicate the contents of that column will be encrypted. This provides a little bit of stealth but not much. The real power is in the
encryption which you see soon.
See the entire blog post complete with full scripts at https://blogs.technet.com/keithcombs/archive/2005/11/24/415079.aspx

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Monday, February 20, 2006
Dubai Ports World
7 comments:
- GunJam said...
hi bostonmaggie! You are right on girl! -- gunjam
- 20 February, 2006 21:06
- BostonMaggie said...
I'm just glad more people are paying attention. Last week it was me and Chucky-Schmucky Schumer. And I am someone who lllooovvveees Dubai.
Thanks for visiting.
- 20 February, 2006 22:40
This may already be a done deal. There are no US companies interested in doing this work. The other choice is some Singaporean companies with ties to China. Think you'd like that better?
- 21 February, 2006 09:29
- BostonMaggie said...
True enough. I would not like the singaporeans any better. Still I want more oversight and transparency in this process. Also, I'd like some conditions put in there. Maybe a huge bond, hell, the Emiratis can afford it. Maybe looking at what these companies have control over and taking some control away. I do realize that this is going to happen. I have all along.
- 21 February, 2006 09:43
This is a perfect example of globalization!
- 21 February, 2006 10:18
Gov. Pataki has already given PONY-NJ its marching orders--look into the deal, explore all legal options and do it PDQ.
Regardless of what occurs, Dubai Ports World will *not* be running security--cold comfort, since security on the Newark docks is about on a par with Park Ranger coverage in the Appalachians.
Wonder what would happen if the Salafists pulled off a coup and Washington suddenly found itself faced with the spectre of al-Qaeda clones calling the shots on the Eastern seaboard...
- 21 February, 2006 22:20
- BostonMaggie said...
I can't believe how tone deaf W is on this issue.
- 21 February, 2006 23:11


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Welcome to Hidden Harvest
Mission Statement
Hidden Harvest strives to alleviate hunger and end food waste in the Bay, Midland and Saginaw region by providing a safe and coordinated system of rescuing surplus food and redistributing it to feed people in need.
Hidden Harvest operates upon the simple premise that good food should not go to waste when so many people are in need in our community.
Each day, Hidden Harvest rescues thousands of pounds of food from hospitals, hotels, restaurants, wholesalers, bakeries, grocery stores, and other health department or USDA approved sources. This food is immediately delivered free of charge, to soup kitchens, food pantries, shelters, and other nonprofit community programs that help many of our neighbors every day.
Commitment to Food Safety: Donated food must be prepared, served, and stored in accordance with health department guidelines. Foods that have been prepared with alcohol or that have been placed on a buffet table for self service cannot be accepted. Hidden Harvest staff and volunteers are trained in safe food handling procedures and use a refrigerated truck to pick up and deliver prepared and perishable food. Agencies that receive food must have adequate storage facilities and complete safe food handling training. State and federal Good Samaritan Laws protect good-faith donors against liability for food donated for free distribution.
How It Works: All good food can be used, however, donations of twenty pounds or more help Hidden Harvest to use funds most efficiently. Small amounts of many foods can be frozen to be picked up according to a fixed schedule or occasionally. Donors are provided with disposable, recyclable aluminum containers upon request. Soup kitchens and shelters can quickly turn unused, surplus prepared foods into meals for hundreds of people. Small amounts of leftovers can be combined into soups and casseroles. Milk, produce, bread, and packaged meats supplement nonperishable staple items and provide nutrition and variety. Hidden Harvest strengthens charitable organizations. As menu supplements are received, organizations are able to channel scarce operating dollars, used to purchase food, into other programs. Local non-profits have another way to diversify their resource base. Hidden Harvest enhances the services of existing community agencies.
Hidden Harvest's focus is on the issues of hunger and food waste in the Bay, Midland and Saginaw region by working directly with area food donors and agencies that are affected by the issues of hunger and nutrition.
Hidden Harvest provides food to agencies that serve the homeless, women and children, youth programs, afterschool-programs, senior citizens housing and social services programs. Hidden Harvest is designed to assist nonprofit, community agencies in meeting the requests for food by providing a safe and organized method of rescuing and redistributing fresh and prepared food items. We provide nutritious fresh and prepared food to soup kitchens, food pantries, shelters, after-school programs, senior sites, and other non-profit agencies serving needy residents of our community.
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Noted Scholar Is Authority on Demography and Reproductive Health Care
New York, NY, Dec. 14, 2006-- James McCarthy, Dean of the School of Health and Human Services and Professor of Health Management and Policy at the University of New Hampshire, has been named Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of Baruch College, The City University of New York. McCarthy will take up his duties at Baruch in the summer of 2007, pending confirmation by the CUNY Board of Trustees.
Announcing the appointment, Baruch President Kathleen Waldron said she was "immensely pleased by the appointment of Professor McCarthy, an eminent scholar as well as an outstanding administrator." His selection follows a nationwide search.
A widely published authority on adolescent and reproductive health care and on demography, James McCarthy is the co-author, with Nancy Riley, of Demography in the Age of the Postmodern (Cambridge University Press, 2003). Prior to assuming the deanship at the University of New Hampshire, McCarthy taught at Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, and Trinity College, Dublin.
A native of Waterbury, Connecticut, McCarthy earned an AB in sociology from the College of Holy Cross (1971), an MA in sociology from Indiana University (1972), and a PhD, also in sociology, from Princeton University (1977).
As Provost of Baruch College, McCarthy will be chief academic officer presiding over a student body of 15,500 and a full-time faculty of nearly 500. Serving under President Kathleen Waldron, Provost McCarthy will have primary responsibility for all academic programs as well as implementation of the College's strategic goals.
James McCarthy comes to Baruch College following a long and distinguished academic career. At Columbia University, he was Heilbrunn Professor of Public Health and Director of the Heilbrunn Center for Population and Family Health (1988-2001). Prior to his appointment at Columbia, McCarthy was Director of the Johns Hopkins Population Center (1984-1988). He also spent several years as Visiting Academic at the Department of Community Health and General Practice, Trinity College, Dublin.
McCarthy has served on the Board of Directors of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (2004–present) and The Alan Guttmacher Institute (1999–present). Since 2004 McCarthy has been Chair of the Guttmacher Institute Board of Directors.
About Baruch College
Baruch College has a more-than-150-year history of excellence in public higher education, with an emphasis on business. Baruch has been repeatedly named the most ethnically diverse college in the United States. Baruch students speak 110 languages and come from 120 countries. With nine applicants for every seat in the freshman class, Baruch is a top academic choice. Its "real world classroom" and diverse student body ensure that graduates head into the professional world with a thorough understanding of business and globalization.
A senior college within The City University of New York system, Baruch College offers undergraduate and graduate programs of study through its three schools: the Zicklin School of Business, the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Public Affairs. The College also offers non-degree and certificate programs through its Division of Continuing and Professional Studies (CAPS).
Contact: Carol Abram, Chief Communications Officer, (646) 660-6105, or Lara Moon, Communications & Marketing, (646) 660-6093


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The Fear Of All Flesh Lyrics
This is the fear of all flesh
Decay of the body and souls
This is the fear of all flesh
Rotting in the depths of the unknown.
The paralyzing horrors of the world
That comes to weed us out one by one
There is no stopping its coming
Sufferings the only way.
It is an affliction
It is the loss of all control
What use is decision?
Just wait until the future unfolds.
Take hold your heart, and steady your soul, stay true to what you know
For what we think is to come, is never written in stone
The day may come, when at last you will see, and find the answers that you seek
That the fear of all flesh might be what drives us to be.
The thought of the loss, or the sting of the pain
The cold of the sweat, the caress of the rain
Cries of the past that still echo in me
Blind to the path, that I just cannot see.
We all lack the vision
To look beyond what we can see
Both clouded and twisted
Your perception of what really set you free.


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It has been two-and-a-half years since famed New Republic writer Gregg Easterbook and his "Tuesday Morning Quarterback" column were fired from ESPN for supposedly anti-Semitic sentiments in a piece he wrote for TNR. (Yeah, remember, he didn't actually write it for ESPN.) Though we always thought that while Easterbrook's comment was questionable at best, it hardly warranted the knee-jerk reaction, particularly from ESPN, which was still reeling from the Rush Limbaugh-Donovan McNabb fiasco. Besides, Easterbrook's mountain of excellent work, one would think, would more than speak for itself, and for his character. But not only did ESPN can Easterbrook, it actually erased him from its Web site entirely. He eventually took his column to NFL.com, where it never really fit in.
Well guess what, folks? According to sources, Easterbook's column will return to Page 2 tomorrow with his annual NFL Draft preview. The column is always one of our favorites of his, even if he never fails to dump on the Buzzsaw That Is The Arizona Cardinals.
We think this might have something to do with a new regime over there at ESPN.com, or maybe 2 1/2 years was the initial sentence from Bristol. A bunch has changed since Easterbrook last haunted the pixels of Page 2; we're curious to see how he fits in now. But we welcome him back: We're tired of being the only site with cheerleader photos.
Tuesday Morning Quarterback [NFL.com]
The Easterbrook Kerfuffle [Opinion Journal]


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Roti Stew Pot - Black
|heat resistant ceramics
|Yokkaichi, Mie prefecture
|Yokkaichi Banko Ceramic Ware
|∅9.3" x H6.7" (∅235mm×H170mm)
This unique stew pot has both modern and traditional elements. It is produced by 4th-market and made in the city Yokkaichi, which has been home to a distinctive traditional ceramic technique, called Yokkaichi Banko, for more than 270 years. Roti Stew Pot is designed to withstand direct contact with heat and is great for use on stovetop, especially on open flame. It's perfect for slow-cooking stews and lets you cook on the stove and serve directly to the dining table. It is practical and fun and requires less cleanup.
Care Instructions:
-Stovetop, Oven and microwave safe.
-Do not heat when it's empty.
-Do not use for deep frying.
-Avoid using dishwasher. Hand-wash only. Wipe immediately with a soft cloth.
-Do not leave the product to soak in water for a long time.
-To clean, use a soft sponge or cloth. Avoid using steel wool, steel scouring pads, harsh detergents or abrasive cleansers. -Do not touch the product when it's hot. Use a kitchen glove or pot holder to avoid burning yourself.
Prior to use, it is recommended to do the following:
1. Rinse inside with water and dry well.
2. Fill with water and add 1-2 tablespoons of flour or starch and boil.
3. Once boiled, let it cool down and pour it out. Then proceed to cooking.
This needs to be done only once before the very first use.
The starch will create a seal over the surface and prevent leaking or staining.


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A guide on the general outlook of the implementation
The rise of the social enterprise
VAT in the GCC and the impact areas in the implementation cycle
Leadership perspectives from across the globe.
Learn how this new reality is coming together and what it will mean for you and your industry.
Apprehensive millennials: seeking stability and opportunities in an uncertain world.
After applying for a job in this country, you can access/update your candidate profile at any time.
Families in business in the Middle East face a number of challenges, such as cultural, economic and financial challenges, as well as dealing with the complex interplay of business and investment decisions, ownership issues and family relationships
A place for discussing the challenges and opportunities that arise when family and enterprise are mixed, with insight and commentary from experts in the Deloitte global network of member firms.
Contact us via our online form
Family Enterprise Consulting is focused on delivering a fully integrated service offering to high net worth individuals and families in business.
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US yawns at Wi-Fi enabled phones
Wake up, operators
Market watcher Ovum reckons that only one US mobile phone subscriber in 50 will have a Wi-Fi enabled phone by 2010. Dual-mode phones that support both WLAN and cellular are already a familiar sight in the Europe and Asia markets. Most of Nokia's E series, and its N80 consumer smart phone, feature both standards.
But in the US, carriers have hampered the adoption of WLAN-capable handsets. Ovum says the industry needs a "reality check" and predicts that less than 5.5 million subscribers will have onboard WLAN.
The prediction confirms fears that the USA is falling behind in mobile VoIP telephony - which we discussed here.
As for convergence: You won't get there from here, advises Ovum.
"Everyone in the telecoms industry is still too focused on dual-mode phones, even though the people working in the trenches are beginning to voice real skepticism that dual-mode services will ever take off," concludes Ovum's Jan Dawson.
"Overall, it's time for a reality check and for carriers to move on to the forms of fixed-mobile convergence which have real potential for commercial launch. Recent merger and acquisition activity has left us with three major players with a significant opportunity to combine wireline and wireless offerings, but we've yet to see any real moves in this direction. Now is the time to act."
Or, er... what? We wonder. Well, fixed-mobile convergence might not happen - which would happen to suit the three big US incumbents quite nicely. ®
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text: When reviewers and the general fashion-knowledgeable public saw Miu Miu's Fall 2014 collection walk the runway, visions of late '70s/early '80s color-blocked puffers swirled in their heads. As a teen of the late '90s with a penchant for skater boys, I saw something else entirely\u2014and I liked it immensely. This quilted light blue skirt with navy and green stripes hits all the right preppy color notes in a shape that would have done my sophomore year self proud. It's modern and nostalgic all at once. Miu Miu skirt, $835, mytheresa.com .


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ESF MEETINGS: G2: Workshops: Call Jun 2014
This call is now CLOSED: these pages are left for information purposes only
For this tenth and FINAL GREAT-ESF Workshop call, the deadline will be Friday 13th June 2014 (at 18.00 GMT) - with all supported workshops to have completed within one year from this date.
Please note that this will be the final open call for workshops in the current GREAT Research Network Programme.
A workshop will be a meeting of between one to four days and bring together between 10 and 50 people.
Please submit a brief application through the GREAT ESF science meetings call page.
The proposal should include the following information:
- Science Meeting Type = Workshop
- Title of Science Meeting:
- Location of Meeting:
- Date of meeting - start and end dates (where the end date must be before 30th June 2015)
- Estimated expenditure - total and then broken down into: Travel/ Accommodation/ Meals (lunch and dinner)/ Local administrative costs (please give costs in Euro).
- Indicate any additional co-sponsorship income.
- The form also asks for contact information of the proposer
To this you will also need to upload a single pdf file (max 5MB) containing a maximum of four pages:
- A 'Scientific Summary (max 1000 words) and an Abstract (max 70 words)
- The outline meeting programme
- Names of the organiser and provisional organising group
- A case (no more than 2 pages of the 4 total) for the workshop covering: rationale, timeliness, aims, list of topics to be discussed, key speakers and participants, venue, how it fits to the objectives of GREAT (see the programme proposal on the front page of this website), and envisaged outcomes. Note that outcomes may include suggestions for further activities within the GREAT programme such as a conference or training schools.
- A description of budget plan outlining expected costs and how these will be funded (from the GREAT support and/or other funding sources).
- Please use a font size of 11pt or greater, with margins no smaller than 15mm.
Please note that for the Workshop application "a short CV of the scientific organiser including a list of five publications" is NOT required - please ignore the ESF submission page requirement for this.
- The ESF Guidelines for organising a meeting (note these are the new guidelines - revised in September 2011) should be referred to as these describe allowable costs that can be claimed. Also note the section on 'Eligibility'.
The key objectives of GREAT can be found in detail in the Programme Proposal or as identified at previous GREAT plenary meetings.
All proposals will be evaluated by the GREAT Steering Committee with results being provided to the applicants by end July 2014.
Background Information:
The list of previously supported workshop proposals can be found at http://great.ast.cam.ac.uk/Greatwiki/GaiaScienceMeetings where you will also find the final reports of each of these meetings.
The theme of the workshop can cover any area relevant to GREAT/Gaia - see the front page for topics. Proposals covering topics not currently addressed by GREAT meetings are encouraged. In addition meetings following on, or building on, earlier GREAT supported meetings will be welcome, assuming that the need is well argued and the previous final meeting report from that earlier meeting is available.
Typically the amount of support provided by GREAT to workshops will be in the range €5,000 to €8,000 (in exceptional cases and if well justified up to €10,000)
We expect to be able to fund 2 to 3 workshops in this call.


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The Summer is flying by. With graduation, Father's Day, Fourth of July and many other planned barbecues yet to come my culinary skills have been hard at work. This week I have been working on summer season baking ideas. Have you heard of the Miette bakery in San Francisco? [click to continue…]
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Turkakbay necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 50 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
Need clean and powerful logo for (Web2.0)company.
Customized Improvements.com
makes customized Subliminal CDs.
Desired Color Scheme:
Desired Style:
Clean cut Web 2.0 look. (ABSOLUTELY NOT LIKE MSN Messenger or Windows XP's stupid blue)
Accepted File Formats:
Try not to use the name of the site on the logo.
The idea is clients use their own voice to record their own affirmations for the changes they want to make in their lives.
I like the idea of an arrow coming out of mouth and curling back to the brain, but that's just one idea. Please feel free to explore.
Ideal client is 19-40 people who are into self-help and professionals who understand the importance of mind power.
We anticipate many great entries. Although intend to give feedback for all entries we'd like to help out the people who are "closer" to what we're looking for.Please feel free to read the feedback to help you out.
The winning designer will transfer all rights to the logo to us upon full payment to the designer.
Good luck to all! We look forward to seeing your entries.
Good Luck
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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Welcome to ab Property Management, Inc., the largest property management company in the Tri-Valley area. Ab Property Management has been managing income properties in the SF Bay Area for more than 40 years. Our management experience provides a convenient means of handling your investment properties.
We are a full service property management company that specializes in single family and luxury residential homes, condominiums, townhouses, apartment communities, and homeowner associations.
Ab Property Management, Inc. is experienced with landlord and tenant relations and provides the following services:


text: There are no facades or newly constructed buildings here! Our village features completely authentic 19th and early 20th century homes and buildings that have been saved from demolition, carefully restored, and reopened to the public as a history museum. At Old Alabama Town, you will learn how early Americans of all backgrounds lived and worked in Central Alabama.


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Mark French '97, President of Mission Basketball, inventor of Court Grip
Successful businesses often result from crafting a solution to a problem.
For Mark French, the dilemma in question was one he first noticed as a kid playing basketball and as a ball boy for the New York Knicks: lack of traction. "I'd see [the players] constantly wiping the bottom of their soles to try to get rid of the dust."
Mission Athletecare launched French's solution in 2011: Court Grip, a formula NBA players and amateur athletes alike apply to their sneaker soles for enhanced grip on the court.
But getting there took years. After studying television-radio at Ithaca, French worked his way up to senior vice president at NBC's Everywhere division — where he worked with technology startups to put screens in taxis and at gas station pumps. "It gave me the courage to pursue this idea in my head," he said.
French left NBC to found sports technology company No Look Productions in 2009, pulling together a team of scientists and athletes, including NBA star Dwyane Wade, to develop and test Court Grip.
Protecting Court Grip has been French's priority. He used his own money to pursue patents on every aspect of the formula and its potential applications to thwart knockoffs, even applying for patents on future advancements such as embedding the technology directly into shoes.
"That was expensive, and it was a big risk at the time, but it was the smartest move," he says. "I want to own every aspect of where this business is going to go."
To that end, French carefully considered how the company would grow, declining an early acquisition offer. Forming Mission Athletecare through a merger with Mission Skincare, which partnered with Serena Williams for a skin care line, seemed a better pairing of expertise. "The learning was really that one plus one can equal five if you structure the merger the right way," he says.
Mission Athletecare has also carefully picked its equity investors, many of them professional athletes who serve as inspiration, testers, and promoters. "Athletes are truly developing the product with us," French says. "It becomes a passion point for them, and for us."
Read more about top-shelf entrepreneurs that have roots at IC:
Christopher Burch '76, founder and chief executive of Burch Creative Capital
Carl Daikeler '86, creator and chief executive of Beachbody.com
Jillian Gibbs '88, founder and chief executive of Advertising Production Resources
Simon Baumer '05 and Paul Canetti '05, cofounders of Maz Digital


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1 oz 2019 Canadian Maple Leaf Phonograph Privy Reverse Proof Silver Coin
Obtain your 1 oz 2019 Canadian Maple leaf Phonograph Privy Reverse proof silver coin at the lowest price from our online store!
As a continuation in the Thomas Edison series, the Royal Canadian Mint recognizes the genius inventors phonograph with this sleek privy series coin. In 1877 Thomas Alva Edison revolutionized the modern world by bringing the possibility of recorded sound to the people. This grand invention was the first in the line of a the long evolution of modern listening devices that are available to consumers today.
The reverse of this privy series coin features a vivid bold maple leaf in stunning detail. Below the maple leaf is Edison's phonograph, with detail so vivid that even the groves of the invention are apparent. Surrounding the maple leaf is the country of origin, weight and purity.
The Obverse features the stunning modernized effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, its year of issue and its five dollar face value. The Privy series coins are protected by the Royal Canadian Mint's Mint shield technology which limits the occurrence of milk spots on the coins and helps to preserve your investment.
With a limited mintage of only 50,000, this privy series coin is a wise investment. Get yours before they are gone!
In multiples of 25 these coins will be shipped in a plastic tube. In multiples of 500 these coins will be shipped in a monster box.
|Royal Canadian Mint
|Brilliant uncirculated
|Effigy of Queen Elizabeth II and the words "Elizabeth II 5 Dollars 2019"
|Maple Leaf with a privy mark of a phonograph and the words "Canada 9999 Fine Silver 1 oz Argent Pur"
|Susanna Blunt (obverse)


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Craft beer is now a $10 billion category.
As part of its annual report on the state of the U.S. craft beer industry, the Brewers Association (BA) — a trade group representing small and independent brewers — indicated that U.S. craft beer volumes reached an all-time high last year.
With 2012 production swelling past 13.2 million barrels — a 15 percent increase from 2011 — craft sales grew by 17 percent, taking total retail revenues for the category up to an estimated $10.2 billion.
"Beer is a $99 billion industry to which craft brewers are making a significant contribution, with retail sales share hitting double-digits for the first time in 2012," BA director Paul Gatza said in a press release.
Craft beer sales have been steadily increasing since 2005, when 1,394 breweries made just 6.3 million barrels. Fast forward eight years, and nearly 1,000 new breweries have opened their doors, helping to more than double the industry's total production of craft beer. In the last two years alone, 684 new breweries have launched, while only 80 have shut their doors, according to the BA.
"On average, we are seeing slightly more than one craft brewery per day opening somewhere in the U.S. and we anticipate even more in the coming year," Gatza said.
But the BA definition of "craft " only includes those brewers who produce less than 6 million barrels annually and are less than 25 percent owned by another non-craft brewer. That means production from Craft Brew Alliance (which markets the Kona, Redhook and Widmer Brothers brands), Goose Island, Magic Hat and Pyramid goes unaccounted for. The BA definition also excludes production from the independently-owned D.G. Yuengling & Son, which produced over 2.5 million barrels in 2012, and so-called "crafty" brews like Shock Top (owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev) and Blue Moon (owned by MillerCoors). Collectively, more than 6 million barrels of what many believe is better quality beer than most domestic premium offerings is left unaccounted for.
Nonetheless, the new BA figures confirm craft's upward surge across multiple retail channels, which Symphony IRI's senior vice president of beverage alcohol services, Dan Wandel, reported during last month's "Power Hour" seminar. The research company said craft dollar sales increased 18.5 percent in food, drug, club, dollar, military, multi-outlet and convenience channels.
Included below is the complete BA press release which further details the growth of craft beer in 2012.
Boulder, CO — The Brewers Association (BA), the trade association representing small and independent American brewers, today released 2012 data on U.S. craft brewing1 growth. In a year when the total U.S. beer market grew by one percent, craft brewers saw a 15 percent rise in volume2 and a 17 percent increase in dollar growth, representing a total barrel increase of almost 1.8 million.
With production at 13,235,917 barrels in 2012, craft brewers reached 6.5 percent volume of the total U.S. beer market, up from 5.7 percent the previous year. Additionally, craft dollar share of the total U.S. beer market reached 10.2 percent in 2012, as retail dollar value from craft brewers was estimated at $10.2 billion, up from $8.7 billion in 2011
"Beer is a $99 billion industry to which craft brewers are making a significant contribution, with retail sales share hitting double digits for the first time in 2012," said Paul Gatza, director, Brewers Association. "Small and independent brewers are consistently innovating and producing high quality, flavor-forward craft brewed beer. Americans are not only responding to greater access to these products, but also to the stories and people behind them."
In 2012, there was an 18 percent increase in the number of U.S. operating breweries, with the total count reaching 2,403. This count includes 409 new brewery openings and only 43 closings. Small breweries created an estimated 4,857 more jobs during the year, employing 108,440 workers, compared to 103,583 the year prior.
"On average, we are seeing slightly more than one craft brewery per day opening somewhere in the U.S. and we anticipate even more in the coming year. There is clearly a thirst in the marketplace for craft brewed beer, as indicated by the continued growth year after year," added Gatza. "These small breweries are doing great things for their local communities, the greater community of craft brewers, our food arts culture and the overall economy."
Note: Numbers are preliminary. A more extensive analysis will be released during the Craft Brewers Conference in Washington, D.C. from March 26-29. The full 2012 industry analysis will be published in the May/June 2013 issue of The New Brewer, highlighting regional trends and sales by individual breweries.
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Accuse him of thinking abstract, but you cannot accuse Anurag Kashyap of following the stereotype. In GULAAL, the storyteller attempts to tell multiple stories in one film. Student politics, a separate state for Rajputs, an intense love story that has a disastrous end… Kashyap's GULAAL is intelligent, intense, disturbing, poignant and expectedly, cerebral.
GULAAL is thought-provoking and has the power to engage you at various points of the narrative. Honestly, it takes time to get the hang of things. Actually, you don't take to the sundry characters and the relationships instantly, but the complex relationships, their motives, the culmination, each layer is peeled as the story progresses.
Yet, at the same time, a film like GULAAL isn't the type that would cut ice with every strata of moviegoers. The expletives are aplenty [not required, actually; why does Kashyap have them in film after film?], the second hour meanders at times and most importantly, the material restricts it from reaching out to a universal audience.
Dileep [Raj Singh Chaudhary] comes to Jaipur to study. Here, he comes in contact with Rananjay Singh Ransa [Abhimanyu Singh], Jadwal [Pankaj Jha], Anuja [Jesse Randhawa], Dukey Bana [Kay Kay Menon] and Kiran [Ayesha Mohan].
Dukey Bana convinces Ransa to contest the college elections on behalf of the Rajputana party; Ransa and Kiran battle it for General Secretary's post. The rivalry between the two gangs intensifies and Ransa is forced to withdraw, which he resists. Eventually, this leads to his murder by Karan [Aditya Srivastav]. Dileep is compelled to contest elections in Ransa's place and made to win.
After losing the elections, Kiran tries winning Dileep's trust, gets close to him and pretends to fall in love. As he tries to fit into the shoes of the General Secretary, an insecure Dileep gets emotionally dependent on Kiran. Dileep finds himself trapped in political manoeuvres. It dawns to him that he is being used by Dukey.
Dukey Bana is masterminding a Rajputana movement, to have a separate state ruled by Rajputs. In a gamut of red faces [gulaal is put over the faces to mask their true identity], Dileep sees the truth behind Dukey and his actions.
Kiran takes charge as the General Secretary. As soon as in power, she refuses to meet Dileep and tries to get close to Dukey using her feminine charm. A lovelorn and rejected Dileep gets more and more frustrated, abusive and violent in desperation. Blinded by his love for Kiran, Dileep goes into a frenzy, becoming a sorry and inevitable victim of circumstances.
GULAAL isn't for the faint-hearted. Nor is it for those looking for escapist cinema. Anurag Kashyap movies are dark [this one's gruesome as well] and you either take to them or you don't. There's no in between!
A few individualistic sequences leave a profound impact. Take the sequence when Raj Singh Chaudhary is stripped naked and thrown into a dark chamber. Take the sequence when Aditya Srivastav kills Abhimanyu Singh and the dialogue that precedes that sequence. Take the sequence when Ayesha Mohan does a complete somersault and refuses to meet Raj.
GULAAL has its share of shortcomings. With so many stories running parallel, the second hour takes a really long time to wind up things and reach the culmination. Besides, the confrontation in the end, between Kay Kay and Raj Singh Chaudhary, could've been shortened. Too much dialoguebaazi, even after Kay Kay has been shot.
Also, if the film talks of today's times, how come the police are shown as passive watchers to all the killings, abductions, murders, et al? Even the media, which is hungry for the smallest of story, is absent. The writing could've been tighter.
Rajeev Ravi's cinematography is first-rate. Dialogues are acidic and the expletives are difficult to absorb after a point. Piyush Mishra's lyrics are thought-provoking.
The film is embellished with supreme performances. Kay Kay is in splendid form. Raj Singh Chaudhary has the talent. Aditya Srivastav does well, but deserved more footage. Piyush Mishra is excellent. Abhimanyu Singh leaves a strong impact. Ayesha Mohan is top notch. Mahie Gill is perfect. Deepak Dobriyal is first-rate. Pankaj Jha is effective. Jesse Randhawa gets no scope.
On the whole, GULAAL is interesting in parts. The film may appeal to those looking for a change from the run-of-the-mill fares week after week. Its business will be best at multiplexes of metros.


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Some days you catch the lights and other days you don't and when you don't and have to start from a dead stop as cars are coming up behind you at 35 miles per hour and you're not being sure whether or not they'll see you and, even worse, if they'll stop or if they'll try to squeeze around you, so you grit your teeth and hope for the best and you push down on the pedals and set off and you just assume that there's no way that they won't see you because you're in the middle of the road and that it's just another average day and even though things could be bad, it's not likely because it's a fairly mundane situation and if you overthink the negative consequences of everything that could happen you'll drive yourself crazy.
Lady with a kid in a bike trailer. At each light, she'd turned around and talk to the little kid, who very much seemed to be enjoying the ride in his plastic mesh rolling cage.
Farther down Q, I was riding behind a bicyclist who was going slower than I preferred. That's why I cursed him out and smashed my bike into his, sending him tumbling to the ground, bruised and humiliated. Wait, I didn't do that at all because that's totally reprehensible. I've been thinking a lot of agression and self-control and cars as weapons as a result of today's hearing and I guess I'm still having difficulty with the idea that some people can be so callous and cruel. Sometimes you have to go slower than you'd want. Happens to people when driving, bicycling, walking, whatever. That's life To work yourself into such a lather that you're willing to potentially grievously injure a stranger in the name of perhaps arriving at your destination slightly earlier is clinical and sociopathic. Whether it's brought out by the stress of driving or the psychological distance that a windshield provides, I don't know. But it has to stop. And if we can't stop it because it's part of "human nature" or "culture" or something else, then it needs to be mitigated through better engineering and superior facilities. Culture changes and road re-design both take a really long time, so in the mean time, be safe and keep the political pressure on our elected leaders. But mostly, just keep riding your bike because it's a good idea and healthy and fun and convenient and cheap and all sorts of other things and the vast majority of experiences you have on it will be positive. Sermon over.
Bunches and bunches of cyclists on Penn and through the Capitol and out to the Hill. Including one guy on an Xtracycle, whom I made the point of complimenting when I rode past. Complimenting Xtracycle riders is like playing punchbuggy for me. When I see one, I've just got to say something. And the owners are always so appreciative, perhaps because you don't just wind up with an Xtracycle by accident, the way you might just randomly pick out a bike at an LBS or from Craig's List. No, you very deliberately get one and you know it. And I like to reward that dedication with niceties. Because I'm a great person. (At least that's what my daily in-the-mirror affirmations tell me)
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Sorry for the recent slew of comments...this is what happens when you ask your readers direct questions.ReplyDelete
Nothing wrong with ear flaps! Just watch out because they make it hard to hear...and thick hats + helmets = not always a great combination.
My ongoing winter gear battle involves gloves. I have to stick with double-lined mittens because the cold causes my fingers to hurt so badly I get nauseous (which happened this morning on the Crescent Trail)...but mittens are a damned pain to bike in.
Re: Your last entry, I've got my fingers crossed under my mittens about that law...some guy honked at me on 7th and Pennsylvania today because he wanted to turn right at the red and I was in his way. I just sat there.
I've been looking for some type of ear warmer that doesn't include an entire hat because I overheat so quickly. Despite these temps in the 30s, a hat under my helmet makes me a sweaty mess, but my ears are ~freezing~.ReplyDelete
I'll probably dig through my fabric stash and make these: http://www.instructables.com/id/Easy-Ear-Warmers-for-Bicycle-Helmet/


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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com/AP) — June was a month to savor for Los Angeles Dodgers rookie Yasiel Puig and one to forget for Philadelphia Phillies' slumping first baseman Ryan Howard.
Puig ended his sensational first month in the major leagues with his first four-hit game, Stephen Fife scattered four hits over seven scoreless innings and the Dodgers beat the Phillies 6-1 Sunday to take three of four in the series.
"Puig's definitely brought an energy and a spark to us, and his skill level, I think, is a little more than anybody anticipated it would be," Fife said. "Ever since he first got here, I've had a lot of friends and family ask me: `Hey, what's it like?' And I just say: `Keep watching, because it's going to be historic.' And as it's turned out, it's been a pretty historic start."
Puig finished June with 44 hits, surpassing the 42 by Pittsburgh's Bob Elliott in September 1939 for the second-most in a player's first full calendar month in the major leagues. Joe DiMaggio had 48 in May 1936.
"Obviously, the league is going to start to make adjustments when they start figuring out what counts and what pitches he may struggle with or have less success with," Philadelphia's Jimmy Rollins said. "And then he'll have to readjust his game. But right now, he's done everything he needs to do."
Puig also eclipsed the Los Angeles Dodgers' record for most hits in a month by a rookie, set by Steve Sax in August 1982. The Cuban-born right fielder got his first major league triple in the fifth inning and scored on Adrian Gonzalez's double for a 4-0 lead.
Puig singled his first two times up and stole second base both times. He scored the game's first run in the fourth inning on a single by Hanley Ramirez. Matt Kemp and Jerry Hairston Jr. also had RBI singles that inning.
The only reason Puig led off the fourth was because Fife was picked off first base by catcher Carlos Ruiz for the final out in the third. Puig also doubled in the seventh.
"He appears to me to be a complete package of a top-tier ballplayer," Five said. "And to see somebody do that in the big leagues for the four weeks he's been up now is very impressive. I think he's taken a lot of pressure off a lot of people in here, just because he's producing at such an unbelievable rate."
A.J. Ellis had an RBI double among his three hits and threw out two baserunners trying to steal, helping lead the Dodgers to their eighth victory in nine games. He finished the month with a .436 average, 16 RBIs and seven home runs.
Fife (3-2) had five strikeouts in his second straight win. The right-hander has a 2.21 ERA over in six starts since being inserted into the rotation on June 3.
"It was a good mix of everything," Fife said. "I tried to keep the ball down in the zone and was mixing in the changeup and the curveball throughout the whole day. My fastball command kind of went erratic in the third, so I threw the changeup and that kind of got me back on line. Then things started cruising."
Jose Dominguez, promoted from Triple-A on Saturday, pitched a perfect eighth inning in his big league debut. The righty struck out his first batter, Delmon Young, on a fastball that registered 101 mph on the Dodger Stadium speed gun.
Howard, back in the lineup after sitting out the previous two games because of left-handed starters, was 0 for 4 with three strikeouts. He is hitless in his last 20 at-bats with 11 strikeouts.
"I'm not happy about it," the 2006 NL MVP said. "Obviously, you don't go out there and say: `I want to go 0-for-this entire trip.' It's a battle and a grind, and it's a very frustrating game at times."
Kyle Kendrick (7-5) gave up four runs and 10 hits in six innings. The right-hander was saved by his batting helmet in the sixth when a pitch glanced off the back of it as he tried to duck out of the way.
Fife squatted on the front slope of the mound, showing concern for Kendrick before the Phillies pitcher went to first base. Pitching coach Rick Honeycutt came out to settle down Fife, who included Michael Young to hit into a forceout and got Chase Utley to ground into an inning-ending double play.
"He came up to bunt in the third inning and I sailed one over his head, which was completely unintentional. Then in the sixth, I actually hit him in the head," Fife said. "For me, there are rules in this game — and one of them is, never hit a pitcher. So I got a little rattled. My biggest worry is that he would leave the game with a concussion. I didn't really see the blow, but I heard the noise. I probably owe him more than an apology. It's not something I intend to do ever again."
Rollins drove in Philadelphia's run with a two-out RBI single in the ninth.
The Dodgers embark on a nine game road trip that kicks off on Tuesday in Colorado.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- New Vanderbilt coach Jerry Stackhouse has added Memphis high school coach Faragi Phillips to his staff.
Stackhouse announced Tuesday he has hired Phillips as an assistant coach.
Phillips has posted a 75-30 record the last four seasons at Whitehaven High School. Before coming to Whitehaven, Phillips coached Mitchell High School of Memphis to a 105-31 record in a four-year tenure that included two state titles (2014 and 2015) and one state runner-up finish (2012).
Phillips played collegiately at Mississippi Valley State from 1995-99.
Stackhouse's other assistant coaches are David Grace and Adam Mazarei. Grace is a former assistant coach at California, UCLA and Oregon State. Mazarei spent the last six seasons working with the Memphis Grizzlies, including three years as an assistant coach and three years as a player development assistant.


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Thomas Bouhail's historic gold medal on vault Sunday at the world championships in Rotterdam did not go unnoticed in France: President Nicolas Sarkozy sent his "warmest congratulations" to the new world champion.
"The victory brings French gymnastics to the highest level and rewards a champion with already exceptional accomplishments, whose talent is capable of bringing even greater victories," Sarkozy announced. "The Head of State extends its warmest congratulations to Thomas Bouhail and the French Gymnastics Federation."
Bouhail outscored top qualifier Anton Golotsutskov of Russia and former European champion Dmitry Kasperovich of Belarus to give France its first world title in modern gymnastics history. The previous French world champion won his gold medal nearly 100 years ago, in 1913.
"The title of world champion, the first for France in the post-war era, rewards the tremendous work of this athlete and his coaches," Prime Minister François Fillon said.
Bouhail won the vault gold at the 2009 Europeans and the silver at the 2008 Olympics. In the Beijing final, Bouhail actually tied gold medalist Leszek Blanik of Poland, but a tie-break left the French gymnast in second.
"Obviously, it's nice to leave my mark in gymnastics history," Bouhail told the French media in Rotterdam. "Today, I am world champion, and immediately [my first thought was] I want to become an Olympic champion."
Bouhail's historic moment salvaged the world championships for the fifth-placed French team, which lost Olympic all-around bronze medalist Benoit Caranobe to a torn Achilles in qualification. In Saturday's finals, Bouhail was fourth on floor exercise and Cyril Tommasone, 13th all-around, was fifth on pommel horse.
Through the years, French gymnasts have won several silver and bronze medals at world championship competition. 2004 Olympic uneven bars champion Emilie Lepennec gave France its first Olympic gold medal, but no French gymnast had matched that feat at worlds until Bouhail.
"It's an enormous result," said the 24-year-old Bouhail, who underwent shoulder surgery in early 2010.
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Michael Wu, Ph.D. is Lithium's Principal Scientist of Analytics, digging into the complex dynamics of social interaction and group behavior in online communities and social networks.
Michael was voted a 2010 Influential Leader by CRM Magazine for his work on predictive social analytics and its application to Social CRM.He's a regular blogger on the Lithosphere's Building Community blog and previously wrote in the Analytic Science blog. You can follow him on Twitter or Google+.
Little announcement before I begin today. I've been invited again to teaching the Rotman Executive CRM program at the University of Toronto, Nov 9--11. Since this is the third time I teach this course with Paul Greenberg, Ray Wang, and other CRM luminaries, I've decided to create a brand new lecture on gamification and what it means to Social CRM. It should be fun. If you are around Toronto that time, it would be great to meet if we can beat the scheduling gods.
This is the sequel to my previous post: The Gamification Backlash + Two Long Term Business Strategies. If you missed that, I recommend taking a quick read before moving forward.
Last time, we talked about the overjustification effect (or the moral hazard of game play). It is one of the biggest challenges for any gamification strategy. As Prof. Jesse Schell said, many studies have shown that "if you bribe someone to do something, they always come to hate that thing." So the use of external incentives (e.g. points, badges, perks, money, etc.) will decrease a person's intrinsic motivation and ultimately lead to the resentment of the gamified behavior (i.e. gamification backlash).
So gamification can't possibly work over the long term. However, it doesn't need to work long term to bring sustainable value. Last time, I described two strategies that can make gamification more sustainable:
Today, I will illustrate how these strategies work with some examples.
Strategy 1: The Value Mechanism
This strategy is not too difficult, because it can be implemented using extrinsic rewards. The key requirement is that the gamified behavior must have long term value to the players; otherwise, success is unlikely. I will cite three examples using this strategy, one in non-commercial setting and two in business.
In all three examples, players usually start the gamified behavior due to some aspects of gamification. Some people adopt the behavior because their friends are doing it (i.e. social facilitation, epic meaning, etc.). Others do it because they want to win and be on the leader board (i.e. social competition, badges, achievements, leader boards, etc.). Still, others do it simply because it is fun and gives them a sense of mastery (i.e. points, feedback, progression, level up, etc.). However, once the players realize the long term value, they no longer depend on gamification for motivations to perform the behavior. At that point, the value becomes the primary motivator. And gamification becomes a secondary reinforcement system that strengthens the correlation between value (effect) and behavior (cause).
I'd like to emphasize that the creation and realization of value usually don't happen immediately, but that is the point of this strategy. Gamification will keep you motivated extrinsically until you realize the values from the gamified behavior. So gamification doesn't need to work long term, it just has to work long enough for the players to realize the value. Subsequently, the reinforcement function of gamification can last indefinitely until the cause/effect cycle is interrupted. This conditioning effect of gamification may even help the players to learn to be intrinsically motivated by the gamified behavior over the long run.
Example 1: Education and learning
What is the gamified behavior(s)?
Good attendance, reading books, practice doing math, turning in homework/assignments on time, etc.
What long term values does it create?
Example 2: Nike+ sensor with Apple's iPod/iPhone
What is the gamified behavior(s)?
What long term values does it create?
Example 3: Lithium-powered communities
What is the gamified behavior(s)?
Community participations: answer questions, vote up good ideas, participate in conversations, etc.
What long term values does it create?
Strategy 2: The Motivation Mechanism
This strategy is much harder because figuring out the intrinsic motivation of players is not easy. It requires an environment that allows the players to discover what motivates them intrinsically. Moreover, the gamification system has to infer a player's intrinsic motivation through his activity data, and then focus on reinforcing his motivation with extrinsic rewards while the user is still engaged.
Returning to the examples above, we can see that this strategy won't work for the Nike+ example. Because Nike only gamifies a single behavior (e.g. running), there is no room for the players to explore and discover their intrinsic motivation. For players that are already motivated to run intrinsically, it works wonderfully, but if the players are not intrinsically motivated by running, there is not much that they can do. That is probably why they didn't try to use this strategy.
In the two remaining examples (e.g. education/learning and community participation), they gamified a large number of desirable behaviors in schools and in communities respectively. In these examples, players have the autonomy to explore among the gamified behaviors and potentially discover what motivates them intrinsically. However, it is very hard to track all the gamified activities for every single student in a school. Even if a school can pull it off, it may not have the analytics capacity to infer the intrinsic motivation of the students accurately. At best, they can give students the autonomy to self-select for their intrinsic motivation. Teachers would have to pay close attention to recognize the students' distinctive and exceptional behaviors. This is like Montessori education, where the students always have a choice of activity from within a prescribed range of options.
Although this strategy can work in school, it is not very efficient. There is also a potential for rewarding the wrong behavior, and this circumstantial reward can turn into a Skinnerian feedback loop, which will ultimately lead to overjustification. In the example of a Lithium-powered community, however, the platform automatically tracks all actions by all members. The platform also has cross community activity data for all possible actions. This enables the gamification system to estimate the distribution of behaviors for each member (e.g. his social fingerprint) and the activity distribution for each type of behavior. Subsequently, the analytics engine can infer the most probably intrinsic motivators for all members and reward them accordingly. Provided that we can collect enough data fast enough to do the inference accurately, this strategy can be applied efficiently in an online community.
Although gamification doesn't work over the long term, they can still bring sustained value via two routes:
We have seen three examples of these mechanisms at work. The value mechanism is definitely easier to implement, and most non-commercial usage of gamification tend to use this strategy (e.g. education, environment, government, health, social good, etc.).
Implementing the motivation mechanism is very challenging. It requires several ingredients that make this strategy technically feasible and practical only in an online community. Although I have yet to see this strategy use elsewhere, I believe it can be applied in mobile gamification, enterprise 2.0 systems that gamify work and collaboration, or any platform that offer a large selection of potentially motivating experiences. So despite overjustification, gamification can bring long term sustained values if done right. If done right, gamification is here to stay!
Thanks for the great post. It connects to your presentation at the Like to Love roadshow...
Hi Mike,
First of all, I'd like to express how excited I am about how seriously gamification is being taken by people such as yourself. Getting people to do things by making the more fun is certainly not a new idea, but taking the scientific rigor of psychology and neuroscience and applying it across the board, combined with the power of data analytics that is becoming available is the first step on a very important road,
I would be extremely interested in hearing more about the second strategy, specifically on how you construct the model you use to analyze user actions to come to the model of intrinsic motivation. If the task were thrown at me I would probably do something along the lines of creating a model that learns (using some machine learning algorithm) what the user prefers to do, maybe based on which activity is repeated, or what the very first thing the user looks at is upon entering the page, maybe even some sentiment analysis on posts relating to a certain activity (these could be coupled by time or maybe posts directly from within the activity, for example posting directly to one's facebook wall from farmville).
Either way I would be making some massive assumptions. Let's take each into account.
Looking at repeated behaviors
If we take this to be a measure of intrinsic motivation we would assume, at least, that intrinsic motivation is more likely to lead to repeated activities than extrinsic motivation. Is there any research on this?
First action
There are many motivations for first action. By taking this to be a metric we assume that intrinsic motivation is at least as powerful, if not more, than the next most powerful motivation.
Sentiment analysis
I think the value of this would depend heavily on the quality of the analysis. The classic pitfalls apply of course, such as interpretation of sarcasm and humor, but more importantly: how will you be able to differentiate between an intrinsically motivated post and an extrinsically motivated post? "I'm so proud of myself for doing xy - I got z points!!" Regardless, we're assuming some kind of ratio across time of the influence of extrinsic vs intrinsic motivation on posts, which may not necessarily be the case.
I understand this is the gold at the end of the rainbow, and trade secrets must be kept. These are also simply the first few metrics that spring to mind; however I can't help but think it's not the variables I would track that would cause the model to be incorrect, but my approach.
So, what's your approach to this question?
Thank you!
Hello brnomade,
Thanks for the comment. I apologize for the late response.
I'm actually teaching at the Rotman School at U of Toronto now.
Glad you like the post and see the connection between thispost and my Likes to Loves presentation.
Hope to see you next time.
Hello Zack,
Thank you for the comment and question.
Again, I'm on the road now. Actually teaching at U of Toronto now, so I apologize for the late reply.
I'm glad that you are excited about the rigor. Sometimes I feel that is not appreciated enough. So sincere thanks.
Your thinking is quite good. Those are the things that we look at initially, but then refined, iterate, and modified from analyzing tones of data. Although the precise algorithm is something that I can't go too much into detail, but I will say a few thing.
Our approach is not to only look at the user's interaction data, but we rather we should look at the distribution of all activity and interaction data across all users. This distribution is actually a power law distribution, and it turns out that only those that are at the tail of the activity distribution are intrinsically motivated to do that activity. Repeated behavior IS required, but not sufficient to infer intrinsic motivation.
Let me illustrate what I mean with an example. Suppose we want to find people who are intrinsically motivated to post messages in a community. Just because someone posted 10,000 post, it doesn't mean he's intrinsically motivated to do it. He may do it because he need to. Even if he is the top posting guy in the community that is still not enough. He may do it because he want the attention from the community. Intrinsic motivation is something that people would do for its own sake, not for any other reasons.
Second, how susceptible the user's behavior is to reward mechanism. Intrinsically motivating behavior are much more susceptible to positive reinforcement. This is actually a pretty important factor.
Last point is that first action actually is too noisy and not very predictive of their a user's intrinsic motivation. Most of the first action is driven by the goal of initial engagement. But intrinsic motivation is something that people would do just for their own sake. Not the reason that drive them to engage initially.
Alright, I hope this helps a little bit. If anything is unclear, please let me know. I'm happy to discuss further.
Thanks again for the question. And I hope to see you next time.
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I'd want a Heavenly Sword sequel to stray away from being like God of War
While the article was good, I hate ones that classify multi-platform titles as if it were a console exclusive. Like, just say "5 Games That Deserve a Sequel." Don't say "PS3 Games" unless they're exclusives.
3D dot game heroes, yes... L.A. noire? ...not so much. great game, but not something that lends itself to a sequel.
I would LOVE another 3D Dot Game Heroes. Hell, wouldn't it be cool if they did the same sort of thing for 'old school' JRPG's as well?
Loved 3d dot heroes and would definitely purchase the sequel. Heavenly sword was a good game as well, maybe they have something in mind for ps4.