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The logging of the Pacific Northwest's ancient forests is infamous, yet I remain enchanted by the beauty and abundance of Oregon's forestland. Equally impressive is the network of forest roads, these roads are essential to the management and enjoyment of these forests, not to mention fire control. But it appears a good number of these roads were built when timber production was seen as the primary function of the forest. I guess "every silver lining's got a touch of grey".
In September of 2009 I had done the Barlow Trail 300k that started and ended in Sandy, the date of the ride had been postponed once because of the extreme heat in the Oregon desert.
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Looks like 16 thousand feet of climbing by my instruments, though both Bikeroutetoaster and ridewithGPS peg it at 19 thousand. Looks like the return from Maupin is a little more difficult than the trip out so I would consider that in planning.
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As a part of continuing my friend, Marie's, challenge to photograph and write about the "ordinary," let me say I'm not sure anything about yesterday was ordinary. The day began in the limestone courthouse of my little town. After several hours of listening to testimony in a case James had been an integral part of, and that affects me and my neighbors and our right to enforce our deed restrictions, I had to leave to check on Goldie. My girl is on pain meds and is restricted to the smallest room of my Little House, the bathroom. For now, all I can say is there's a real possibility I may have to send my best girl to live with God, and I'm not ready, yet, to think about losing another family member.<PREVIEWEND>
After checking on Goldie, I headed into San Antonio for an appointment with the dermatologist. Because I carry the BRCA2+ breast cancer gene, which means I'm predisposed to melanoma, once a year "Dr. Humorless," cryogenic bottle in one hand, and a magnifying glass dropped down over his glasses, checks every inch of me. I think he enjoys it, but I'm not sure whether "it" is my naked body or the process of freezing off suspicious moles. If I had to guess, I'd say the freezing part gets Dr. Humorless's juices flowing, if you know what I mean. It's just the way his one, magnified Mr. Magoo eye looks up at me, as if to say, "Heh, heh, heh, little girl." Reminiscent of Hannibal Lector, he makes me wonder if my moles would go well with "some fava beans and a nice chianti."
My next stop was a television studio to shoot a spot for Cure Fur Cancer, an upcoming fur fashion show and cancer fundraiser. You would have thought I would be a pro at this, but I was terrible! When I started talking about cancer and the devastating affect it has on families, I was emotional toast! No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get the lump out of my throat. It wasn't just that I was talking about how families are pulled apart by cancer. My emotions about James, and the case he worked so hard on and the prospect of losing Goldie, were all jumbled up together with cancer families. Carol Glaze, owner of Morris Kaye & Sons Furs, was so gracious about my on camera ineptness. Thank you, Carol. Each year Carol does an amazing job of rounding up ever more awesome auction items and then making it easy for people to bid lots of money for them. If you're in the San Antonio area and would like to join us, September 15th, or donate money to Cure Fur Cancer, come on down!
By the end of the day, I'd put 150 miles on my car, but not before I stopped at a favorite place for a quick bite to eat. What could be more ordinary and basic than a simple meal of water, that when really cold, has the texture of velvet; goat cheese and basil pesto; fruit and crackers and prosciutto and fontina paninis? Considering my long, disjointed day, it was exactly what I needed. The Fonze would have said it was "Perfectamundo."
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Announcing LiveCD and LiveDVD .iso images of 4.3-release
For the last several releases, I have been crafting .iso images for OpenBSD test and familiarization. Images with a variety of graphical window management environments are available for the i386 and amd64 platforms.
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Thanks Jggimi
I will test them like before .
When there's no network cable connected, dhclient will run anyway.
You can press ^C top abort ... But it would be a bit nicer if the LiveCD detected this automaticlly.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
Very good point!
It looks like a change to my script should be doable, but the impact may have to be limited to NICs that show "status:" lines in ifconfig. Some, like ne(4), do not report status. If you have suggestions for those NICs, I'll take 'em.
(If you'd like to play with the script, it's in /etc/rc.local -- note that /etc is one of the MFS mounted directories, populated from /backups/etc.tar.gz.)
The best solution would be to fix the drivers that don't report status...
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
That's outside the scope of my LiveCDs, which are -release, with no source code modifications.
How about just run dhclient anyway when you can't get the status... only skip dhclient when you are sure that the status is reliable?
That way at least it works well for nics that report their status properly.
She sells C shells by the seashore.
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That was my intent, Sunnz.
It might also be a good idea to print a message telling the user he/she can press ^C to abort the DHCP request.
I just happen to know you can press ^C, but I don't think everyone does.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
I will endeavor to get this done over this weekend.
A test ISO is available (basic/i386/4.4-release) with your recommended changes. Carpetsmoker, I will send you a link to it via PM.
jiggimi, mate would you like a small list of apps to include to your ISOs?
You already made big ones, so it won't hurt to have the fluxbox + additions
From my FAQ:
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If you want a "portable" copy of the OS you can carry around with you, just install what you want on a USB stick. These are bootable on modern BIOSes. They behave just like a SCSI disk, as far as the OS is concerned.
Running the install script is one heck of a lot easier than adding your desired list of packages to a LiveCD. But if you really want "fluxbox plus your most favorite packages" on a LiveCD you are welcome to install them yourself. So-called "simple" Instructions are in the FAQ. Note that you will need someplace to store your apps, such as a hard drive or USB stick -- so you may as well install the OS anyway. It's easier.
A more complex rebuilding of the ISOs is possible -- start by installing the OS anyway, then mounting the ISO you want to change, replicating it into FFS disk, archiving the six to-be-mounted hierarchies, unpacking the six MFS tarballs, using chroot(8)to run the system as a virtual userland environment, adding your packages, recovering / removing files you added or changed to support chroot, rebuilding tarballs, restoring your temporary archive, remaking your bootable ISO. Note that step 1, above, is to install the OS. I'd stop there, if it were me.
From my perspective, placing a bootable BSD on CD/DVD media is nowhere near as easy as a simple OS install. At minimum, it requires a custom kernel configuration, which in and of itself isn't difficult, but it also requires modifications to /etc/rc which change every release, and a slew of ramdisk mounts and restores that make management cumbersome. Also, the ISOs are unsupported by the OpenBSD Project. It is their software, but in a custom configuration. If you have problems, there is only one support person. Me. And my best-effort support may not be sufficient. If you place the OS on a USB stick, it is a standard installation and is supported.The ISOs are for OS familiarization by prospective users, and for hardware platform testing by existing OpenBSD users.
For the new user, I offer several X window managers so that people who are using Linux, Unix, or other BSDs as workstations may choose an environment with the same look and feel they are familiar with. From an advocacy perspective, it shows new (or soon-to-be-new) users that OpenBSD can be run as a desktop workstation; the OS has a reputation that using it as a workstation is difficult.
For an OpenBSD user, the ability to test the OS on prospective hardware is another valid reason to have X available. The variety of GUIs in that case are "nice to have" but are not required -- you can check video functionality with fvwm as easily as gnome. And much more quickly.
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jggimi, I do not use OpenBSD as my main Desktop any more why ?
this link will summarize all what I have to say.
its author is a former NetBSD user and an advanced one if I can say that.
plus many more, I know one of the OpenBSD Guru's, he uses now Mac OSX.
and many more even one of the NetBSD Stars "Hubert Feyrer"
he uses OpenSUSE AND OSX! as his main Desktop.
so why should I be left alone?
I don't understand your complaint, qmemo. Is it that you don't have the skill to install the OS and fluxbox?
The author of the web page you link states his main concern with the BSDs (NetBSD, in this case) is hardware drivers. That has nothing to do with applications, qmemo.
My basic LiveCD, with no packages in it at all, may be used to test all of the chipsets in a proposed hardware platform, and without requiring an OS installation. You can also test X with the associated video card and attached monitor on your proposed hardware. 'nuff said.
Regarding hardware drivers on OpenBSD: Many hardware manufacturers keep their interfaces closed. Unlike other projects, the OpenBSD Project will never sign a non-disclosure agreement or install a vendor-supplied binary object block. Ever.
For a discussion of the impact of this position on OpenBSD's driver development, see Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors. For a discussion of the value of OpenBSD's stated postion on binary objects see Blob!
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jggimi, I did not explain my attitude so I deserver more than that!!
I have successfully ran OpenBSD as my only Desktop OS For Months before I switch to CentOS then be back to OpenBSD then Ubuntu currently, that apply also to FluXBoX and Various applications I could not work out with the configuration at the start ...ask ocicat & vermaden about it!
The Reason I asked you to add some selected apps to your Live CD's is I enjoy tell now working with a OpenBSD enviroment it's like drug addiction.
I still have the anonymous.os live cd tell now but it's as you might know based on OpenBSD 3.8.
That's the whole story with you, as for the link I posted it was just to show that BSD's are no longer an interset for Desktop usage for this momment.
hey AntiX --- meips based with fluxbox, is a great distro based on mepis-debian+fluxbox & a really nice selected apps
I guess you got my point
Thank you for explaining, qmemo. I still recommend a USB stick. It'll be faster than a CD or DVD, too.
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Thank goodness today is the final day of The Omniscient Mussel's contest. I'm feeling the need to race off to #OperaPlot 12-Step after this week (it's insanely addictive)! I want those tickets to Ireland so bad, I can smell the shamrocks.
Now, cross your fingers with me, and pray that hunkentenor (Jonas) chooses right! In my next post I'll share my favorites from ALL the entries (there are some doozies), and then follow up with the actual prize winners. But for now, here's my second round of tweets…
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The family of a woman killed 12 years ago has thanked the Gardaí for keeping her case open, and has appealed for her body to be returned to them.
Forty-eight-year-old Martin Earley from Banagher, Carrowmore Lacken in Co Mayo was today charged with the murder of Sandra Collins in December 2000.
The 29-year-old victim was last seen in the Killala area of Co Mayo 12 years ago. She left her aunt's house at about 8pm to go to the shops. About three hours later, at about 11pm, she was seen in a local chip shop where she bought two bags of chips. She was never seen again and her body has never been found.
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BMW Connected Drive Driver Assistance systems in the BMW 7 Series.
Numerous innovative technologies support you during travel in a range of different ways, guaranteeing top-class comfort and safety. This means you can focus on what really matters − carefree driving pleasure.
The Navigation system Professional features a sleek design and a superior range of services: it delivers a simple and easy-to-use navigation system that is seamlessly integrated into the BMW, incl. the iDrive operating concept with iDrive Touch Controller and Touch Display. The system comprises Voice control, radio BMW Professional with DVD drive, as well as 20 GB of memory for audio files. It also facilitates the use of Real Time Traffic Information (RTTI). The built-in 10.25" LCD colour display with split screen function (main and supplementary windows) is designed for optimal readability and overview.
The operation allows for seamless switching between input options with the iDrive Touch Controller, whose touch-sensitive surface allows destinations to be entered into the navigation system easily using handwriting, via the display with touch screen function, via Gesture Control or Voice control, as well as by means of seven bookmarks.
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Automatic map update
The latest generation of the navigation system Professional automatically updates its navigation maps up to four times yearly in conjunction with BMW ConnectedDrive. As soon as a new map for a previously selected region becomes available, the update is transmitted wirelessly via mobile phone networks to the vehicle's built-in SIM card.
There are no licensing or download fees for the automatic map updates, nor is registration necessary. Manual updates using a data storage device or through a BMW Service partner are no longer required. The navigation system remains fully functional while the update is being completed.
The Driving Assistant Plus equipment offers the comfort of partially autonomous driving thanks to Active cruise control with Stop&Go function and Steering and lane control assistant. In addition to the Driving Assistant functions, active safety is improved by Lane Departure Warning, Lane Keeping assistant with active side collision protection, approach control warning and person warning with braking function and Crossing traffic warning.
Active cruise control maintains the desired speed (up to 210 km/h) as well as the distance to the car ahead. The convenient Steering and lane control assistant is available in the same speed range. It takes over steering and automatically keeps the BMW in the middle of the lane. In slowly moving traffic and traffic jams, the vehicle maintains the selected distance to the car ahead with automatic braking and accelerating.
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Steering and lane control assistant incl. Traffic jam assistant
The Steering and lane control assistant incl. Traffic jam assistant can be activated to support the driver in monotonous traffic situations. At speeds of up to 210 km/h on all road surfaces, the system conveniently supports steering and keeps the vehicle in the centre of its lane.
Cutting-edge steering support is possible with or without Active cruise control. It uses multiple area-surveillance radar systems and a stereo camera. The system positions itself using the edge-of-lane markers and the vehicle in front, if applicable. It automatically maintains the desired distance from the vehicle ahead and regulates the car's speed down to a standstill, as well as providing active steering support. The Steering and lane control assistant represents another milestone on the path to achieving highly automated driving.
Although the system is capable of driving the vehicle independently, the driver is legally required to continue driving with both hands on the wheel. If the driver does not comply with this requirement, the system sensors in the steering wheel rim will recognise this fact and warn the driver acoustically after a certain period of time. Then it will enter stand-by mode. This is also the case if the indicator is activated for changing lanes or if the system requirements are no longer met, e.g. the lane is too narrow.
Lane Keeping assistant with active side collision protection
The Lane Keeping assistant with active side collision protection, which actively intervenes in steering to avoid leaving the lane unintentionally, or colliding with objects to the side of the vehicle. If Approach control warning is activated and a vehicle to the front brakes, the BMW reacts immediately with warnings of increasing intensity, light braking and finally full braking.
The full-colour BMW Head-Up Display projects all information relevant to the journey directly into the driver's field of vision, thereby allowing them to fully concentrate on driving. Data such as speed is displayed, along with navigation tips, Speed Limit Info including no-overtaking indicator, telephone and entertainment lists, and information and warnings from the various driver assistance systems.
The icons projected onto the windscreen are displayed in a particularly high resolution and in full colour. The image's projection appears as if it were 2.3 m in front of the vehicle. This, in combination with optimal positioning, allows the information to be read quickly, conveniently and with minimal distraction.
The brightness of the projection automatically adjusts to suit the external light conditions, with different displays for day and night, and the height of the display can also be adjusted. Furthermore, the driver can also select which information to display in addition to the current speed and warnings from the driver assistance systems.
Three functions that work together perfectly – thanks to the Parking assistant, Remote Control Parking and Active Park Distance Control manoeuvring into a parking space with the BMW 7 Series is effortless. Even narrow garages are not a problem. Simply exit and park your BMW 7 Series by remote control and at the touch of a button using your BMW display key.
Remote Control Parking
The Remote Control Parking function allows the driver to conveniently hop out of the vehicle before parking it via remote control by moving it forward into, or reversing out of, a tight parking space or garage. The driver activates the remote-controlled parking function from outside the vehicle via the BMW display key.
The entire parking procedure is monitored by Park Distance Control (PDC), the Parking assistant and the Surround View sensors. In order to use the remote-controlled parking function, the vehicle has to be straight and centered, facing the parking space or garage. During the parking procedure the driver can bring the vehicle to a controlled stop if necessary.
Once parked, the engine can be switched off via the key. And when it's time to move on, the engine can also be restarted via the key. During remote-controlled pulling out of a parking space, the vehicle automatically reverses in a straight line.
Parking assistant
The Parking assistant including linear guidance parks the vehicle completely automatically in parking spaces that are parallel or perpendicular to the street. Whether activated or not, the system measures potential spaces while driving past them at a low speed (below 35 km/h) and at a maximum distance of 1.5 m from the row of parked cars.
Once a sufficiently sized space has been found, the driver only has to turn on the indicator and the Parking assistant takes over the steering, as well as selecting the correct gear, accelerating and braking. The driver is only responsible for monitoring the parking process. The system also gives instructions in the Control Display and additional acoustic signals. The Parking assistant emits an audible signal when the parking process is over, and shifts gear into P.
When parking without Parking assistant, the Lateral parking aid uses additional sensors to monitor the areas to the sides of the car and represent obstacles on the Control Display. Active Park Distance Control (PDC) brakes automatically if a collision with an obstacle is imminent when backing into a space. So the driver can stay relaxed and enjoy greater safety while parking.
Active PDC
The braking function Active PDC supports the driver in reverse parking situations to avoid collisions and reduce the severity of an accident. So the driver can stay relaxed and enjoy greater safety while parking.
Surround View includes the camera-based functions Rear view camera, Panorama View, Top View and 3D View. Cameras at the front and back of the exterior mirrors provide a 360° view around the vehicle.
In addition to the simple depiction of the driving space to the rear, Top View offers the driver a look over the door and the lane area to the car sides for more convenient manoeuvring. In 3D View, a computer generated 3D view is shown simultaneously, for an even better overview when parking.
Panorama View makes navigating in areas with low visibility, such as driveways or confusing intersections, safer. A digital camera on the front of the car captures the traffic situation in front of the vehicle. This enables early detection of oncoming traffic so that the driver can react appropriately. The Panorama View function is automatically deactivated when the car reaches 15 km/h.
The driver can switch between the three functions Top View, Panorama View and 3D View. The last selected function will be automatically reactivated when the system is next used. The camera systems are activated when the car is put into reverse or the PDC button or Panorama View button is pressed. The images captured by the cameras are shown on the Control Display.
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Surround View.
BMW Night Vision with person recognition provides the driver with a range of vision that well exceeds the beam of light from the headlights, making it possible to identify people and large animals from a significant distance at night. They are also selectively illuminated by the Dynamic Marker Light function in the dazzle-free main headlight. An infrared camera mounted on the BMW kidney grille transmits images from the front of the vehicle onto the Control Display. This allows the driver to identify people and animals at a distance of up to about 300 metres.
While taking account of the vehicle speed and steering angle, the system also calculates whether the identified objects pose an actual risk. In the event of acute danger, a flashing red icon (animal or person) is displayed in the video image and in the BMW Head-Up Display. An acoustic alarm is also issued and the brakes are primed for optimum readiness.
This warning system is automatically activated when the vehicle is started. In the event of danger, the system therefore even emits a warning when the imaging display has not been activated. BMW Night Vision with person recognition is an innovation from BMW ConnectedDrive.


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This homemade costume for kids entered our 2011 Halloween Costume Contest.
A word from Debbie, the 'Piggly Wiggly' costume creator:
My 7 year old daughter Jessica is wearing her Piggly Wiggly grocery bag. This is one of the local food chains in our area. I took a box and cut out a face and arm holes. I painted the front and back with the identical logo from one of their paper grocery bags. I added a shelf above her head so I could glue the empty boxes from real life groceries onto it. She actually looked like a life sized bag of groceries. I do not remember where the idea came from. I just thought it would be cute and different.
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Hey guys, here's a tutorial on how to draw a white-lipped tree frog; the largest type of tree frog. This drawing made me realize that I've been neglecting amphibians and reptiles. I'll definitely be drawing more slimy and scaly creatures as the year progresses!
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The Fulton County United Way became visible to many residents last summer when the agency played a vital role in relief efforts following tornadoes.
The United Way may not be that obvious to most county residents, however, 30 local programs receive financial support from the agency, benefitting a wide range of people.
"The past few months have been challenging yet inspiring," said Gina Saaf, Fulton County executive director. "Our county has continued to struggle with tough economic challenges. A portion of our county was severely damaged by tornadoes. In spite of these challenges, we have seen people from across the area band together to help their neighbors in need. This proves what most of us already knew, we live in a great, caring community."
In addition to helping in times of a disaster, in the past year the United Way:
• Provided free tax preparation for low income families;
• Assisted cancer clients undergoing treatment;
• Obtained federal grants to assist emergency food and shelter programs, including the Fayette Food Pantry;
• Provided back packs, school supplies, and books to the children of families in need.
Hospice, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Habitat for Humanity, Serenity Haven—those are but a few of the agencies supported by the Fulton County United Way,
"The goal for our fall campaign is to fully fund the 30 programs requesting funds," Saaf said. "To do that, we must raise $305,000. This can be achieved if everyone works together and gives what they can."
Every donation, large or small, contributes toward reaching that goal–and to a Fulton County that is ready and able to meet the needs of its citizens, Saaf added.
"Please take a moment and consider what a difference you could make in our community with your donation," she said. "Together, united, we can inspire hope and create opportunities for a better tomorrow. That's what it means to Live United."


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A pattern I've noticed with trolls, snarky linkers, and even friendly dissenters who take issue with our "Don't You Realize Fat Is Unhealthy?" post is that some people really, really don't like the following statement:
Diets don't work. No, really, not even if you don't call them diets. If you want to tell me about how YOUR diet totally worked, do me a favor and wait until you've kept all the weight off for five years. Not one year, not four years, five years. And if you've kept it off for that long, congratulations. You're literally a freak of nature.
Something about this paragraph makes people's brains explode. I can't tell you how many trollish comments I've deleted or silly trackbacks I've followed that say something like Well I guess I'm just a FREAK OF NATURE then, Kate Harding! Despite the fact that, as we know, diets are designed to fail and that the vast majority of dieters put weight back on as soon as they start indulging in those fattening carrots and glasses of milk again, the dieters who are just so gosh-darned proud of their lithe bodies that they MUST come set us fat-lovers straight cannot handle being called "a freak of nature" even though they're, by any measure, statistical anomalies.
You see, successful dieters aren't the Freaks of Nature. Fatties are the Freaks of Nature! (Results not typical.)
The whole mindset of rewarding yourself for self-hatred and denying anything that might be remotely pleasurable is predicated on the attempt to escape that dreaded label, freak. Though the beauty/thinness ideal is incarnated by only a handful of people in the world, that ideal labels anyone outside the mainstream a freak, an abnormality, less than fully human. The desire to fit the beauty ideal is to erase that scarlet "F" (fatty, freak, dare I say female?) from one's body. So when we say to those few people whose diets have stuck for over five years, or whose WLS operations didn't leave them fatter and less healthy than before, hey, you guys are the real freaks, they feel like we've slapped them in the face and kicked their puppies and stripped them naked all at once.
Here's the thing, though. We like freaks. We are freaks! Publicly embracing fat in a fatphobic society means publicly declaring yourself a freak, even if your fat body actually makes you something close to "normal." We're all freaks of culture (freaks of nurture?) here.
Attention, freaks of nature: We are against the status quo. We don't believe that normal is good. We believe the division of "normal" and "abnormal" people, of default and deviant people, is profoundly harmful to individuals and to the culture at large. If you've invested your sense of self-worth in finally escaping the scarlet F, to the extent that someone pointing out your statistical unlikeliness makes you feel attacked, you've been putting all your hard work into the outer part of yourself and not enough into the inner part.
We're all freaks here. You don't need to freak the fuck out about it.


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Hi all,
My question concerns a general problem concern the Erdos-Turan conjecture on additive bases; that of finding thin subbases in a given basis. For a given $A \subset \mathbb{N}$, define $r_{A,h}(n)$ to be the number of ways to write $n$ as $h$ (not necessarily distinct) elements of $A$. We say $A$ is an additive basis if $r_{A,h}(n) > 0$ for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$. From some trivial counting arguments, one can easily deduce that $$\displaystyle N \leq \sum_{n \leq N} r_{A,h}(n) \leq | A \cap [1,N]|^h \leq \sum_{n \leq hN} r_{A,h}(n).$$ We wish to investigate "thin" bases; namely those such that the lower bound is essentially achieved... that is $|A \cap [1,N]| = O(N^{1/h + o(1)})$. Erdos showed in 1956 that such bases exist when $h=2$, and Erdos-Tetalli showed that such bases exist for all $h$ in 1990. Their argument uses the probabilistic method, and the result is essentially achieved by proving that additive bases $B$ exist with $r_{B,h}(n) = \Theta(\log n)$, which easily implies that $B$ is thin by the above inequality.
A question, then, raised by Erdos, Nathanson, and several others, is whether or not a given basis contains a thin subbasis. That is, if $A$ is an additive basis, does it necessarily contain a subset $B$ such that $B$ is an additive basis, and $r_{B,h}(n) = O(\log n)$. A partial answer was initially given by Choi, Erdos, and Nathanson who showed that the squares $\mathbb{N}^2$ contains a subbasis $B$ such that $r_{B,4}(n) = O(n^{1/3} + \epsilon)$. Relatively recently, Van Vu proved in 2000 that in fact $\mathbb{N}^k$ contains a thin subbasis for all $k \geq 2$ such that $r_{B,h}(n) = O(\log n)$. Trevor Wooley in 2003 gave that in this case, $h = O(k \log k)$.
A very natural question to ask which I have not seen any results or works in progress on, is to do this for the primes. The result seems to be highly plausible given the much stronger conjecture which asserts thin subbases exist for all additive bases, but also the fact that the primes are 'thicker' than $\mathbb{N}^k$ for any $k \geq 2$. However, the primes suffer the disadvantage of being much less structured than $\mathbb{N}^k$ and hence it is not so clear how to adopt the probabilistic method, still the only way to generate thin bases, would apply.
So the main question is this:
If $\mathcal{P}$ is the set of primes, then it is known (Goldbach-Shirnel'man) that $\mathcal{P}$ is an additive basis of order at most 6 (and hence all higher orders). Can one show, for some $h > 1$, that $\mathcal{P}$ contains a subset $B$ such that $B$ is an additive basis of order $h$ (that is, $r_{B,h}(n) > 0$ for all $n$ sufficiently large) and $|B \cap [1,N]| = O(N^{1/h + o(1)})$?
So I would greatly appreciate if anyone would shed more insight on this problem, the best would be a paper where someone has done relevant work on this topic.
Thanks in advance!


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Levy also spoke a bit about The Devil You Know, which is an adaptation of a children's book:
"It was a [Thomas] Lennon and [Ben] Garant script, they wrote Night at the Museum, [then] Mike Schur who runs and created Parks and Recreation rewrote it for us. We now have a new draft and I suppose it's kind of a VFX comedy of theNight at the Museum ilk, I don't think that would be one for me to direct just because as you can now see, I'm way over-extended. So that's one where I think I'll start by trying to cast the female lead because I think it's a really juicy moment for comedic female stars."
The book by Nathan Hale tells the story of a family who trade in a pesky devil living in their home for a mysterious tiny lady that offers to take his place. The mysterious woman soon proves to be an even bigger problem than the previous pest, as she unpacks numerous boxes filled with demons of all shapes and sizes and begins to redecorate the house with alternate necessities, like a lake of fire and brimstone in the kitchen.
The female lead that Levy is talking about is presumably the mysterious Ms. Phisto, and the story sounds like it'd translate well into an entertaining family film. I'm encouraged by Schur's involvement as I think Parks and Rec is one of the best shows currently on TV, so I'm anxious to hear more about the project. Given that Levy is taking himself out of the running as director due to over-extension, it sounds like the film might be fairly close to moving forward sometime soon.
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Deeply touching and intimate, the 25 stories in Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women, reveal the elegance and universality of love and faith. Written by American Muslim women of all ages, races and nationalities, many of them first generation Americans struggling to bridge the cultural gap, they tell of love found and love lost, of arranged marriages that work and those that do not, of coming out and staying in the closet; the full range of human experience for women of every country and religion, and no doubt shocking for more orthodox Muslims.
It is above all an honest book of love stories that transcend religion, a perfect book to upend the stereotypical Western misconceptions of veiled and abused Muslim women. These tales are filled with hope and humor and life, and I confess that I laughed and cried by turns with these brave and amazing women. Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi, who collected and edited the stories and wrote two of them, are owed a debt of gratitude, and I pray that the day will soon come when love stories by the millions of American Muslim women will be less a secret and just another part of everyday American life. I loved it!
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NL DIVISION SERIES: BREWERS v PHILLIES
October 2, 2008
Charlie Manuel
Brett Myers
Shane Victorino
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA: Game Two
Q. Shane, you're normally an aggressive hitter, very aggressive on at the plate. On the at-bat with the home run, how tough was it for you to remain patient in that situation and wait for the right pitch because you had just walked two hitters, including the guy to your left?
SHANE VICTORINO: To be honest, I stayed aggressive. I took a first pitch. He threw it for a ball. He threw the next pitch for a fastball for strike, and he threw the next pitch fastball, I followed also.
In a way I really stayed aggressive. I told myself take a strike in that situation because he had just walked Jimmy, but I didn't change my approach I tried to stay aggressive. He left me a slider up to hit.
Q. Brett, talk about that at-bat against C.C. Sabathia, you were down 0-2, just kept battling, battling. Kind of set the tone for that inning.
BRETT MYERS: I know I'm a terrible hitter, but I really can't explain it. It was like one of those freakish things that I was able to lay off some good pitches that he made and able to extend his pitch count. And it's like one of those things where baseball's weird like that to where you can have a guy that pretty much can't hit a lick to go up there and battle a guy that's as good as C.C. And it's just part of the game.
Q. Did you sense a bit of frustration in him?
BRETT MYERS: I really didn't sense anything. I was out there trying to keep battling him best I could. And like I said, I'm not a very good hitter, so it was kind of freakish basically.
Q. Question for all three of you guys. When you beat someone like C.C. -- the Brewers talked about looking forward to this game with him really giving them a lift. When you do that, not only beat them but beat him, can that have a double effect on a team at this stage of the series?
SHANE VICTORINO: I always say to myself there's always one game left. If I'm not mistaken, I heard the manager saying, you know what? They've still got an opportunity to win. And it's definitely true.
You know, I think if we take one game at a time -- and I heard him say they're taking one game at a time -- I think it's the approach both teams are taking right now. It's definitely big, nice to get that win off of him knowing that he's been great for them. So since they've got him at the trade deadline, he's been lights out.
And our goal today was to get his pitch count up. And the guy to my left, Myers, battled his pitch count in regards to I think 19 pitches or something like that for the pitcher.
So that was our goal going into the game, get his pitch count up and try to get him off -- get him out there early, and we were able to do it.
Q. Brett, you said you know you're a terrible hitter, but, I mean --
BRETT MYERS: Did I pitch tonight?
Q. You did. (Laughter) that's okay. That at-bat. We're all going to be writing about it, I think. But how do you approach that on a day-to-day batting practice basis?
BRETT MYERS: I don't. I try to hit home runs.
SHANE VICTORINO: Can you talk about pitching?
BRETT MYERS: I know. I try to hit home runs BP, just go swing. It's nothing -- I don't get paid to hit. But none of this would have been possible. You guys are talking about my hitting, so, well, if it weren't for this guy right here, it's one of those things, we're just kind of happy, glad it happened in our favor.
Q. Last question about your hitting, then we'll let you talk about your pitching. Did the crowd help pump you up or were you zoned in trying to do what you were doing because they got into it pretty good?
BRETT MYERS: Honestly, I didn't really hear them. Pay attention to it, honestly. If I would have, I probably would have swung at some of those pitches.
But I just -- I wasn't trying to be a hero in that situation. I was just trying to work him. I knew if I grounded out, I grounded out. I knew he'd thrown some pitches to me and stuff. Like Shane said, we were trying to get his pitch count up because he has been so dominant over the course of this season with the Brewers that you just try to get him out of there as quick as possible because he is so good.
Q. Charlie, you obviously flip-flopped your lineup a bit today, moved Shane up, moved Jayson. What was your thinking in that?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I moved Shane in the 2 hole because, first of all, he had good swings on lefties lately and also during the course of the year, especially guys that -- lefties that throw pretty hard and also like to keep the ball low and in on him, I think that he hits them good. And I think Jayson Werth pushed him down in the lineup because I felt he was trying too hard and he was overswinging. And I figured if I could get Shane and Rollins on base up at top we maybe could run on C.C.
Q. Brett, pitching question. So the last couple of starts before tonight were kind of rough. Did you do anything specific differently tonight or was it just baseball goes that way and you have some good outings and some bad?
BRETT MYERS: Honestly, I was working on trying to get angle on the ball. And my last two starts the ball was up in the zone. And you're going to get beat when that happens. But tonight I just tried to work down in the zone and go from there.
And I was able to do it in my past bullpens before this outing. I felt pretty confident about going out there and locating fastballs and down in the zone.
Q. Shane, talk about your confidence against hard-throwing lefties. Sabathia had a 1.65 ERA against righty hitters here, so it's not really a piece of cake for righties or lefties. Talk about your approach?
SHANE VICTORINO: It didn't change at all. The question keeps getting asked about my approach. I didn't change my approach at all. I know that we faced him last year and I've watched him on video. He stays aggressive with his fastball. But my first at-bat he threw me a lot of changeups and off-speed stuff.
I didn't change my approach. Obviously you could tell by my first at-bat. I did swing at a 1-0 ball, then I probably swung at a 2-1 ball. But I didn't change my approach. I tried to stay aggressive and I was just able to get balls up in the zone, and when he left them up there I was able to put a good swing on it.
Q. Shane, C.C. talked about how he wasn't able to finish and the key was for you guys that you didn't chase his changeup. Was that kind of talked about part of the game plan going in?
SHANE VICTORINO: To be honest, we didn't really talk about, worrying about his off-speed stuff. I think that you watch video and guys maybe have their own approach going into the game. Like I said, my first at-bat I swung at two changeups that were balls. I tried to be aggressive.
I guess as the game goes on you kind of watch how a pitcher is pitching and you get understanding. But with a guy like him, you can't look at a certain pitch. He's throwing you 97 and then he comes back with 85-mile-an-hour changeups. You can't really sit on one pitch and say I'm going to look changeup or -- kind of like Cole. You can't sit there on one pitch and say I'm going to look at fastball on this count; he's got his slider and changeup, he throws everything for strikes.
You stay aggressive and just hope that he keeps the ball up. And like today, we were able to do it.
Q. Shane, it seems pretty amazing that a night where Charlie flips the lineup around, Werth does what he does and you do what you do, he said before the game he had a feeling about you against C.C. Did you have that feeling and can you kind of step back now and look at a move like that and say it kind of worked out for us?
SHANE VICTORINO: No, no questions asked. I don't ever question what Charlie does. Obviously I don't think anybody should. (Laughter) he's done it all year long.
CHARLIE MANUEL: He knows what to say. (Laughter).
SHANE VICTORINO: I mean, the question has been brought up all year long about me going from going to 2 to the 6. I never question what he does. Obviously it works. He's not our manager for no reason, took us to two pennants for no reason. And, by the way, I'm not just kissing your behind.
Like I said, there's always people that are questioning things. I think Charlie's done a great job and maybe just be a coincidence but it worked out for us tonight.
Q. Shane, what was your feeling, what were you thinking when you were running the bases?
BRETT MYERS: Hoping you didn't step on me because I'm slow.
SHANE VICTORINO: Excitement. I know when I first hit it I said I gotta get going. When I was running I looked at Braun's stop. I said did that really just happen? That's more than anything, it was just the excitement in the air. Knowing that we got a little cushion on a guy like C.C. to get an early lead.
That was our goal and it was to, one, to get his pitch count up and, two, to get an early lead off of him. It was frustrating when they went out 1-0. Of course I'm sure that built confidence on their side knowing they've got C.C. on the mound, who's been lights out and rarely gives up runs. It's nice to come back and be able to put some runs up on the board against them.
Q. Shane, Jimmy made a point saying C.C. is beatable. He's a human being just like everybody else. I was wondering if there's talk amongst the hitters watching film during batting practice that you guys can beat him and score some runs against him, and did you guys see anything in -- you guys were running on C.C. quite a bit. Did you see something in his delivery, just slow to the plate, that made you feel like --
SHANE VICTORINO: He was probably a little slow to the plate, but that's something you study and you learn. Other than that, no, I mean, you know what, I think sometimes you guys put pressure on everybody. And I think you guys put a lot of -- I want to say pressure on him but he's been lights out.
Anybody is beatable, I think, in this game, and any given day anybody can win this game. I've always said we're two down, we've still got one big one left. We're going to their home field now. We've got to take it one game at a time.
Q. Charlie, when Brett worked the walk with the nine pitches, did you think at that point that C.C. might be very vulnerable and it might be time to go get him?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I saw both Brett's at-bats made C.C. throw, what, anywhere from 17 to 20 pitches, somewhere in there. And I thought that definitely helped run his pitch count up. The only thing I gotta say about C.C. is he threw more changeups and breaking balls than I expected him to throw. But at the same time that's all I want to say about him because he might pitch against us again. (Laughter).
Q. Charlie, he said that he took this loss and put it squarely on him. And his post-season record doesn't look like his regular season record. Do you have a comment on that? Do you know any reason for that?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I think probably post-season I saw him pitch in the playoffs last year. He pitched a big game against the Red Sox, what, when they were up 3-1 in the series when Cleveland was up 3-1 in the series, and he got -- he was a little wild that night with his fastball, and he was aggressive, but he was wild and Boston got to him. They got some big hits on him. I watched that game.
But, like I said, tonight he threw more changeups and more breaking balls than I expected him to throw.
Q. That 1st inning was a little bit rough for you, were you sweating it at all at any point and also what does it do for your confidence to get out of that and pick up the win?
BRETT MYERS: You know, first thing I had a lot of emotion and everything going through me, the crowd was definitely excitable and I kind of let that get the best of me a little bit with walking, especially after I got Cameron out. It was a little bit louder than I'm used to.
So then the next guy I walked, which you know you can't do that, and I gave them an opportunity in the 1st inning, and I was a little erratic with my pitches because I definitely had a lot of adrenalin going. But when I was able to get out of it, these guys, Shane, including the rest of the guys, came up to me and said there's still a lot of game left, keep us close and we'll get it. Sure enough in the second inning he came in with a big hit for us.
Q. Charlie, first of all, the decision to walk Fielder at that point, you know, it turned out to be kind of the crux of the game for Brett.
CHARLIE MANUEL: Yeah, actually when I was sitting there and I put him on because it also set up a double-play situation, force situation at each base and just the way I wanted to go there.
Q. Brett, at the beginning of the game we saw you take a couple of deep breaths. You slammed the ball into the glove. You were pumped up. Can you talk about what you were thinking as you approached the game and a little bit about what was really working for you today, stuff-wise?
BRETT MYERS: I just tried to relax. That's basically I was trying to just relax myself a little bit and go out there and try to make pitches and I was able to on the first hitter. But kind of got out of control there from the second hitter on.
But I just tried to go out there and tried to relax as best I can, and I was able to do it after the 1st inning, back off and try to make pitches. And the key to every game is first pitch strikes and I wasn't doing that very often in the 1st inning. So when I started getting ahead of the guys and everything, made it a little bit easier to pitch, especially after we had a 5-1 lead, it was easier to attack the zone.
Q. Charlie, you guys have a 2-0 lead in this series despite the fact Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Pat Burrell are somewhere between like a combined 2- 15, 2-16, what does that say about this team and are you concerned about you need to get these guys going in the series as well?
CHARLIE MANUEL: Any time I think -- I want us to hit every night. Like I expect our lineup to hit every night. I expect the middle of our order to hit every night, really. But at the same time, when we can put up a five runs early in the game and we can hang on and we win the game, I think that's good pitching, we played good defense and we played the game.
But also tonight we could have scored a lot more runs. We had chances, especially if we could have got some two-out hits we could have blew the game wide open. The game just kind of sat there. I was concerned about it when it sat there and nothing was happening. We're getting guys on and we keeping leaving them on base. If we got some two-out hits, we could have really scored a lot of runs. But we didn't. And the game stayed close and they stayed within striking distance.
Q. Charlie, thinking about the last two games that Brett pitched, where were you in your head on how far, if something happens and he got in more trouble, with staying with Brett?
CHARLIE MANUEL: Actually, tonight, when Brett to me started pitching, he started pitching in about I want to say about 4th or 5th inning and he started mixing his pitches. He can probably tell you better than I can he started throwing cutters and changeups and breaking balls, and he kind of -- his fastball got away from his fastball. He started throwing more cutters and actually I kept watching him because especially like two or three times around the lineup, smart hitters sometimes, especially if you start doubling up pitches on them, they'll go to school on you.
Q. 1st inning were you thinking in the 1st inning?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I was thinking in the 1st inning, like when he got in trouble, definitely he had some leeway. I wasn't planning on jerking him right there. But at the same time, like I wanted him to get out of the inning, like a run or two or whatever. But, yeah, I was concerned.
Q. Brett, you're walking out to the dugout after Shane's home run, Ryan pulls you over. What does he say?
BRETT MYERS: I don't know. I don't remember. I have no idea. I mean, I was caught up in the moment. I was happy to be able to touch home plate without him making me run. But it was -- I don't know what he said. I couldn't tell you. I totally forgot and blocked it out. I'm sure it was meaningful and I just forgot.
Q. Brett, you were almost the forgotten man in this game. Everybody's talking about C.C., C.C., seemed like they were giving them the game. Last night, going into today, did you kind of say I'm pitching here today too?
BRETT MYERS: No, I like being the underdog. I've always liked being that way. People always will put you down and say what they want to say about you. But I always like trying to fight my way back. That's something kind of how like I felt. I just wanted to go out there and match whatever he did tonight and glad I didn't have to match what he did.
I mean, I actually had some runs to work with and was able to pitch out of some jams in the 1st inning and go from there.
Q. What did Dubee say to you in that 1st inning?
BRETT MYERS: I don't know. (Laughter) when you get in that situation, your adrenalin's pumping and especially after he hit the home run, Howard said something to me. I remember he said something to me and Dubee said something to me out there. But you don't really pay attention to it. You're just trying to get to work and trying to make your pitches. I honestly couldn't tell you what either one of them said to me, just because you're caught up in the moment and the adrenalin is going and everything like that. So that's what makes it fun.
Q. Brett, the way the rotation is set up you and Cole were both able to get really about six, seven days off before the start. Do you think that helped you at this point of the year to kind of just step back for a minute, recover physically and do a little work on the side to get yourself ready?
BRETT MYERS: Yeah, it definitely helped me because I could feel myself a little bit tired towards the end of the season with throwing 90 plus innings over a 12-start span was definitely caught up to me towards the end of the season with the last two starts and everything. And I can notice that the angle on my fastball wasn't as good as it had been in the previous starts. But it's something I knew I had to work on and I was able to take a couple days off and really focus on that and in my bullpen I was able to rediscover it.
Q. Brett, piggybacking off the question about the talk of Sabathia with good reason, but you've often talked about how you don't really think about -- you're not pitching against the other pitcher, you're pitching against the hitters, did more of that keep coming back, that's who I am I'm pitching against hitters not against Sabathia?
BRETT MYERS: Absolutely. I knew I had to get those guys out the best way I knew how. And I kind of -- it's up to these guys to find out how to figure out their starting pitcher. I knew if I could keep the game close. Definitely after giving up that 1st inning run I was a little irked at myself, just for not being able to go out there and have a good, clean inning and giving these guys confidence coming in that they were going to go out there and do the job. They never lost any confidence how they were going to approach C.C. They did a great job and got us the win, basically.
THE MODERATOR: Thank you.
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Australian actress Abbie Cornish may be happily involved with boyfriend Ryan Phillippe, but she isn't sure the couple is heading for a walk down the aisle.
She told W magazine's September 2009 issue that the two, who met on the set of 2008 "Stop-Loss" while Phillippe was still married to Reese Witherspoon, are not engaged at the moment.
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When asked if the couple plans to eventually head that way, Cornish replied, "I don't know."
The actress is currently gearing up for the release of her next film, Jane Campion's "Bright Star," and while she has received praise for roles opposite stars including Russell Crowe (in 2006's "A Good Year"), publicly, she's gotten more attention for her relationship with Ryan. In fact, when she was accused in the media of breaking up his marriage, the headlines that went with it were hard to handle.
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"It was a really difficult time for me," Cornish told the mag. "It was just this world of tabloid magazines that I'd never been exposed to. In a normal successful career, someone usually learns these things bit by bit. For me, it was like night and day. I woke up one day and there was this whole new thing I had to process and deal with."
Nowadays the tabloids are less focused on the actress, and she can concentrate on enjoying work and her life in Los Angeles.
"I guess I was lucky because it was love that brought me here, not work," she said of her adopted town. "I think the city feels and looks a little bit different because of that."
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Brands must live at the intersection of Stock and Flow
At Percolate, when we're introducing people to the concept of Stock and Flow, we use the following quote:
Change is a constant conversation in the marketing industry, but the last few years have brought two tectonic shifts: From campaign-based thinking to sustained messaging and from 21-week production schedules for television commercials to 21 minutes between tweets. Ultimately, we're moving to a world where brands start to recognize their roles as content creators. Many argue (and we agree) that brands always were content creators. But clearly there is a difference between a 30-second spot that cost millions and a 4pm Facebook status update.Beautiful campaign-based assets that attract new customers, the type of content brands are great at creating -- that's stock: timeless, durable, and traditionally working off of very slow-moving trends. Tweets, pins, tumbls, and status updates represent flow -- lightweight content that brands are expected to create in real-time to engage their growing social audiences.
Brands are still struggling to make their way in flow. Like awkward teenagers with gangly arms, brands are slowly finding their way into communicating with millions and millions of fans and followers on social platforms. Consumers aren't dumb, and they can be mean: They see the awkwardness and may even mock it. (Welcome to the mean girl clique represented by the Condescending Corporate Facebook page.) At the same time, it does us no good in the marketing community, as stewards of brands, to mock these awkward teenage years when we know they are going to grow up into powerful adults.
The key is to understand this awkward transition and how brands are going to get to the next phase. We have talked a lot in the past about why brands struggle in social, how brands have to consume in order to create, how brands have to stop depending on just listening for mentions, and how they need to become a magnet with their content strategy instead of simply mirroring their audience.
We have also talked about how, as a brand becomes more adept with flow, these lightweight messages can start to inform how they create their more expensive stock. It is at this intersection of stock and flow that brands will thrive. When brands can marry what they stand for with what the consumers they are trying to reach care about, customer engagement and loyalty will follow.
Being culturally relevant in real-time will allow brands to keep social audiences engaged beyond wheeling out those manufactured 'timely' posts: "Llike us if you like Friday. RT this if you like Friday. Pin this if you like Friday. Re-Blog this if you like Friday." It might sound challenging to live at the intersection of stock and flow or to be culturally relevant in real-time, because it is. But it is a challenge worth pursuing.
The social platforms have themselves been exemplars in this area, with insightful posts from Facebook, Twitter and others explaining how brands can communicate with stock & flow strategies.
Paul Adams, in his his recent post "Six examples of brands doing great work on Facebook," showed how Oreo married its iconic stock asset, the Oreo, with an event that was culturally relevant: the Mars Rover landing. [See above image.]
Now, you might say that only fun, playful CPG brands like Oreo can do this. But witness Intel, the massive microprocessor company, and its recent Intel Man mashed up Gangnam style. Result? More 500K likes and one of its best ever Facebook posts.
Twitter has provided great examples of how you can build a real-time brand with examples from Tide, Pepsi, and Bonobos.
Tumblr's announcement of a real-time analytics partnership is also showing how brands can effectively create content on their platform, and that the passionate Tumblr community appreciates clever, relevant and interesting work. IBM with Smarter Planet and American Express with OPEN Forum are two brands doing work on Tumblr at the intersection of what their brand stands for with what is important to their communities. Stock, meet flow.
These examples together provide early suggestions for a standard that works well on these social platforms, for both brands and their audiences.
This emerging standard is very different from the digital boards of the past. The IAB did a great job of bringing together publishers and advertisers to build standards in a world where boxes were needed to complement content.
In this brave new world your content is your ad and the brand is the owner of massive audiences in social. Brands need to live and create in real-time at this intersection of stock & flow to make social platforms more engaging for everyone involved.
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Vintage Holiday Vector Clip Art and Embroidery Designs
This classic collection of vector clip art and embroidery designs is not only very low cost, it's all completely editable. So the base collection becomes a limitless collection of potential original art that you create in Adobe Illustrator or your favorite vector editing program. Okay -- the second package says it's for Machine Embroidery, but designers can easily see there's an entire collection of color palettes and inspiration there, even if you don't actually use the first file! November 29, 2013


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University Park, Pa. — A joint effort between Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering positions the University among a select group of U.S. universities to be designated a National Center of Academic Excellence for Information Assurance Research (CAE-R), a program jointly sponsored by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.
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This Scion FR-S popped up on the VWVortex forum when a poster's friend, who works in a repair shop, sent him this picture. It looks like the driver was trying to drift and hit a curb or something.
A buddy works at a local Toyota dealership, where this came in today. Trying to hard to be Ken Gushi?
Anyone here hooned a car they just purchased to death?
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