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Enough about you: My explanation of narcissismPosted March 15th, 2009
Every year at Christmas my mother would buy me an expensive piece of clothing that I would never wear. Or, if luck was smiling on me, it might be several pieces of clothing meant to be worn together. I describe the clothing as expensive because when my mother gave me these gifts she would make a point of telling me how much everything cost, and how much effort she had expended. Unfortunately, every year, she would miss the mark of predicting my taste by such a wide margin that I thought she might know an alternate universe version of me who dressed in ethnic print skirts with gathered waists and blouses with Peter Pan collars festooned with applique ducks holding umbrellas. I began to dread getting these gifts because from December 26 on they hung in my closet unworn, causing me shame for having selfishly squandered my mother's time and money.
Then one year, as our annual holiday gloom rituals were kicking in, the light went on. At age 35 I had finally conceived of a brilliant solution: I suggested that she and I go out shopping for my gift together. And I was truly thrilled when she agreed. I knew just what I wanted: A black, fitted blazer that I could wear with everything. Not only would it be stylish and versatile, it would herald the end to my guilt about unworn presents. On the appointed day, my mother and I walked around crowded department stores for hours on end as she waved hangers full of ethnic print skirts with gathered waists and blouses with Peter Pan collars at me in a flag-like manner, reminiscent of Napoleon on the bridge of Arcola. Not wanting to be the one to fire the first shot, I made sure to say, 'Yes, that's really lovely. ' Or, 'Wow! Great choice!!' in reaction to each new outfit she displayed. But I held firm. After the third time I said, 'I could really use a new black blazer' my mother made a grim face as only my mother could make, an expression lifted from a George Romero movie. She let loose with her patented lip curling Yicccch, insisting that I at least try on the clothes she picked out. Respectfully, I played along, thinking to myself as I looked in the dressing room mirror, that if my goal was to look 15 years older and 30 pounds heavier, this is definitely the outfit I would buy. At the end of the day, when closing time was requiring us to wrap this party up, I said, 'Mom, as much as I love all those things you showed me, you know what? I really need this black blazer. I can wear it to work, for casual stuff, over pajamas, its a bulls eye on every front,' She sighed, rolled her eyes, and exhaled an exasperated gust of air that caused all the clothing on all the racks in the Women's Sportswear Department to sway. Then she muttered bitterly, as she handed over her Visa to the cashier, 'This is the last time I am doing anything like this. I get no pleasure from buying you something I don't happen to like.' As I followed her out of the store, carrying my present in a garment bag, she shook her head silently and pursed her lips. She could barely look at me.
I was shocked. Somehow I had gone and done it again: ruined Christmas for my mother. This incident puzzled me endlessly. How had I miscalculated so badly? Here I had thought I was not only saving my mother time and money, but I was ensuring her future happiness by being able to show up for family functions wearing a present she bought for me.
This was just one of many bafflingly similar incidents that cluttered my life for many years. By then I had begun to notice that my parents and boyfriends seemed to have the same complaints about me. I was combative and contrarian, according to one boyfriend who would become furious if I stayed up to watch a late movie by myself instead of going to bed at the same time he did. Other paramours would accuse me of caring about no one but myself, of always insisting on having things my own way.
This certainly didn't sound like what was going on from my perspective, but because these complaints were coming from people I cared about in two separate arenas of my life, I figured I had better make a sincere and concerted effort to identify and repair my shortcomings. It seemed to behoove me to learn how to stop endangering my relationships with inflammatory behavior such as having my own taste in clothing and picking my own bed time.
So, I signed up for therapy hoping to discover what steps I needed to take to remedy the situation. But what I learned was not what I expected. I learned that I was the child of two law-abiding, middle-class narcissists, a man and a woman bound together by their twin passions of criticizing their offspring and picking fights in restaurants. And because of this legacy, I was also attracted to narcissists as lovers and friends.
I finally had a reasonable explanation for why my brother and I always seemed to be wearing and doing and saying the wrong thing whenever we attended family gatherings, even when we armed with perky outfits, tidy haircuts, and carefully selected topics of conversation. At last I had insight in to what was behind three decades of embarrassing restaurant incidents in which my parents behaved like aristocracy and treated the stammering wait staff with utter contempt. I can only marvel now at how well I survived the number of dinners I probably consumed in my youth that were drenched in the spit of revenge seeking restaurant employees.
What is a narcissist? Any time you find yourself living inside that classic New Yorker cartoon in which two people are dining together and one says to the other, 'Well, enough about me. Let's hear what you have to say about me, your narcissism alert bells should be ringing. A friend of mine explained the credo of the narcissist as follows: I'm the piece of shit the world revolves around.'
Narcissists are people who cover up feelings of shame and worthlessness inflicted during their own screwy childhoods by doing whatever it takes to maintain a false sense that they are very special and therefore not bound by ordinary rules. This requires them to surround themselves with people who will constantly pump them up by agreeing with them about everything. In narcissism talk this is called feeding their grandiosity.
Here is the short explanation for why they act like this: Narcissists essentially live in a world that is one person big because they never fully outgrow a phase of infantile behavioral development in which baby thinks he and Mommy are the same person. Therefore, when a brilliant, charming, elegant and grand narcissist honors you by allowing you entry into his or her very elite cadre, it is kind of like being annexed by an imperialist country. Your borders have now been erased. The subtext of all future interactions will be: What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine. Welcome to a world where there is no you! When you are with a narcissist, their needs must become your needs. Its not enough for a narcissist to be the center of his own world, he must also be the center of yours. Your job is to serve as admiring audience or vent for his anger, Fan Club President or Incompetent Maid. If you are not mirroring him or praising him, you are proving you are a separate person and thus a threat.
Once I understood this, I could finally solve The Mysterious Case of My Mother and The Christmas Present. My mother became peevish and aggressive about my desire to select my own present, because I was not paying homage to her excellent taste in clothes. Buying a present for me, in her mind, was not about getting me something I might like but about pumping up her own self-esteem. In her rigid and fragile world view, when I demonstrated that I had my own ideas about what was best for me, I had humiliated her.
At first, having my new knowledge was a mixed blessing. People I once regarded simply as family and friends were transformed before my eyes into strangely predictable robots whose limitations would always be greater than their capabilities. It was freeing to know that my behavior wasn't causing the narcissism outbreak, no matter how much they like to assign blame. But it was certainly not good news to learn I had to give up on any of these people ever behaving with any real degree of empathy or interest in me.
As any book on this subject explains (in CAPS, italics, and underlined with bold exclamation marks!!!), the only method for coping with narcissists is to change your expectations. Maintain emotional distance. Stop trying to please un-pleasable people.
That was the sad part of it all. Because the death of expectations also meant the death of hope. Gone forever was the dream that by treating my mother with kid gloves, or even talking honestly, I was going to transform her in to someone more enlightened. Instead I had to face the depressing fact that to interact unguardedly with her (or any narcissist) was to set myself up as a sounding board in one-sided conversations that could easily morph in to petty personal attacks.
From that point on when she provoked me, I didn't bite. My mother could sense that a certain familiar degree of push and pull in the dance between us had been modified. She knew things were different, that I was more aloof. And it confused her. But it would have done no good to explain any of it. There was nothing I could do or say to make things any better. By the end of her life, I was tip-toeing around her trying not to get into fights- or getting into fights but knowing what the outcome would be.
The good news is that learning about narcissism has protected me from wasting a lot of energy. Now when I find myself unexpectedly under attack and thinking How did I get in to the middle of this stupid fight when I'm not even angry, the new smarter me knows that the answer is not to look within and figure out what I did wrong. The answer comes from without: I am probably hanging out with a narcissist.
And once that piece is in place, I also know I have only two sane options: Either agree with everything they say, or pick up and go elsewhere. To stay and fight is to confront an irrational, wounded animal. Knowing how all this works also helps me when I find myself being magnetized by the considerable charisma of some factory-fresh narcissist seeking my worshipful love. I rely on my sonar-like, early-warning detection abilities, fine tuned from years of static and misread signals.
I still think back proudly to a flirtation at a party with a guy who set off all my alarm bells: sad-eyed, brooding, artistic, articulate, hilarious and utterly self-absorbed. I knew instinctively to draw him out of his shell by asking many flattering questions, then listening to his answers with rapt attention and appreciation bordering on awe. I knew that if I greeted his every anecdote with extreme empathy and selfless offers of support, he would be mine. But despite the fact that every microbe in my body begged to do these things,(old habits die hard), I watched myself with amazement as the voice coming out of my face said instead, Well, you seem like a smart guy. I'm sure you'll figure it all out. And then instead of allowing myself to get sucked in to his turmoil, I turned and went off to talk to someone else.
I'm happy to report that these days I no longer have to defend my opinions on trivial matters, such as what lightbulb to buy, or apologize for things that make no sense. It's a relief not to feel guilty for failing to read a persons mind or fan the flames of someone whether or not I think he has any flames to fan. In short, I'm not being batted like a cat toy by narcissists anymore. And in a way that is the greatest life lesson I received from my mother.
PS. If you enjoyed this piece, an updated version of it will be printed in my new book, out Nov 1, called "Cool Calm and Contentious." Here is a promo I made for it: (Or you can just click over to my blog page, where it is sitting.) The book is available for pre-order on Amazon and Barnes and Noble and contains a few pieces about narcissism in it. HOWEVER, if you'd like to submerge yourself in some fiction about narcissism, read my fictionalized magnum opus on this topic: The Psycho Ex Game. It is told from 2 points of view, a man's and a woman's. And it is a carefully detailed dissection of narcissistic love gone bad in a couple of awful relationships. If you are in a narcissistic relationship, I think you'll recognize yourself in this book.


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Hey everyone! I am a Catholic so yes, I believe in God! He is a big part of my life!
I'm the youngest of twelve. Yes, I know. I have a big family but I love it! I am an Auntie to 18!
I love basically every kind of music except most rap and screamo metal lol. At the moment I could say that Daughtry is my favorite band. If you don't know him, you should definitely look him up! Some more of my favorite bands include: NF(the only rapper I love), Three Days Grace, Bad Wolves, Chestersee, Brett Young, HRVY, Our Lady Peace, Paul Brandt, Tim McGraw and million more!
I love movies and TV shows. Especially : Criminal Minds, Lord of the Rings, Gladiator, Brooklyn 99, all the Marvel series and once again, a million more!
Some of my favorite books include:
The Innkeeper Chronicles - Ilona Andrews
The Advent Mage Cycle - Honor Raconteur
Throne of Glass series - Sarah J. Maas
The Hob's Bargain - Patricia Briggs
Also, if anyone wants to add me on Snapchat, let me know!!
I love writing(obviously), reading, riding horses, drawing, listening to music and hanging out with friends or family. I absolutely adore kids too! 😊
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Hasselblad reworks medium-format cameras with H5D
A new camera body from the high-end camera specialist will be easier to use and better protected against the elements. Also: a new 24mm lens and a macro converter.
Hasselblad, which so far has survived the culling of the medium-format herd, announced a new high-end camera, the H5D.
Members of the H5D series will come in 40-, 50- and 60-megapixel models, and Hasselblad will show them off next week at the Photokina trade show in Cologne, Germany.
As before, it'll also have a 50-megapixel Multi-Shot version that can take 200-megapixel images of stationary subjects using Hasselblad's sensor-shifting multiple exposure technique. The new line will start shipping in December, the company said.
The new model generally resembles Hasselblad's earlier H4D but adds a number of new features, including a new True Focus II autofocus system, a new focus confirmation option, an ability to capture print-ready JPEG files, bigger buttons, better sealing against difficult weather, and a safety lock to make sure the image sensor isn't removed from the camera back when it shouldn't be.
Medium-format cameras have larger, very expensive image sensors that sometimes can be removed so photographers can upgrade to newer models. The cameras and sensor backs can be very costly, with price tags reaching tens of thousands of dollars; they're geared for pros, who often rent them. Typical subjects include high-quality images of fashion models, cars, watches, and jewelry.
For these latter subjects, Hasselblad also announced a new macro converter that can bring close-focus abilities to the company's HC 50, HCD 28 and HC 35 lenses.
And the Swedish company also announced a new lens, the HCD 4.8/24, a 24mm lens that's equivalent to a 17mm lens on ordinary 35mm SLR cameras.
Hasselblad didn't announce pricing. Included with the camera is the company's own Phocus 2.7 software and Adobe Systems' Lightroom.


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In the wake of the financial crisis that the U.S. is still clawing its way out of, a handful of ideas have begun to surface that might actually shore up our still-floundering economy and, potentially, avert future devastation. (No, not the eminently gutless Dodd-Frank bill.) Rather, public banks — also known as state banks or partnership banks — provide a path for the people to harness some economic power of their own in order to build a broad-based, ground-level prosperity which is rooted in their community.
John David, of the Public Banking Institute, recently outlined the basic public banking model for Shareable in great and accessible detail. As evidence of the almost 100 years of success of the Bank of North Dakota (BND), David writes, "Currently, North Dakota ― in part due to the BND's beneficent influence ― has the lowest unemployment rate in the nation (just over 4%), has no debt to service, has a $1.1 billion surplus, has experienced no bank failures in the state, and is the only state in the last two years to avoid a budget deficit." Basically, while so many other states were capsizing on the waves of job loss and crashing on the rocks of failed mortgages, North Dakota maintained a smooth and steady course.
Thanks to BND's impressive and indisputable history, the legwork has already been done, the game plan all mapped out. Other states simply need the political will to move their own economies out of the turbulent waters ruled by the pirates of Wall Street. Thankfully, we're starting to see just that sort of action.
In California, AB 750 "would establish the investment trust blue ribbon task force to consider the viability of establishing the California Investment Trust, which would be a state bank receiving deposits of state funds." The bill, having passed through various committee vetting and approvals, goes to a vote on June 1. With its efforts, California joins Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, Arizona, Maryland, New Mexico, Maine, Illinois, Virginia, Hawaii, and Louisiana in pursuit of a public bank.
Demos, a non-partisan public policy organization, in conjunction with the Center for State Innovation, recently issued a studied look at the potential for partnership banks across the country, including an eye toward the 11 states already considering such legislation. These various proposals would "move general revenue deposits out of the Wall Street banks that dominate the banking business today, and use them to capitalize a new local public structure with a mission to grow the local economy."
In essence, Main Streets and state capitols alike would flourish, if given the chance and the resources. Local economies and state budgets would both be bolstered by a "bankers' bank" system — one that increases revenues (partially through dividends earned on loans to small businesses and community banks) without raising taxes.
The study found that, using the BND model, public banks would:
- Create new jobs and spur economic growth. Partnership banks are participation lenders, meaning they partner — never compete — with local banks to drive lending through local banks to small businesses. If Washington state had a fully operational partnership bank capitalized at $100 million during the Great Recession, it would have supported $2.6 billion in new lending and helped to create 8,212 new small business jobs. A proposed Oregon bank could help community banks expand lending by $1.3 billion and help small business create 5,391 new Oregon jobs in its first three to five years. All of this would be accomplished at a profit, which partnership banks should share with the state.
- Generate new revenues for states directly, through annual bank dividend payments, and indirectly by creating jobs and spurring local economic growth. The table above shows projected dividends for established partnership banks in the states considering such proposals, based on BND's 2009 dividend payment to North Dakota's General Fund.
- Lower debt costs for local governments. Like the Bank of North Dakota, partnership banks can get access to low-cost funds from the regional Federal Home Loan Banks. The banks can pass savings on to local governments when they buy debt for infrastructure investments. The banks can also provide Letters of Credit for tax-exempt bonds at lower interest rates.
- Strengthen local banks, even out credit cycles, and preserve real competition in local credit markets. There have been no bank failures in North Dakota during the financial crisis. BND's charter is clear that its goal is to "be helpful to and to assist in the development of [North Dakota banks]… and not, in any manner, to destroy or to be harmful to existing financial institutions." By purchasing local bank stock, partnering with them on large loans, and providing other support, partnership banks would strengthen small banks in an era when federal policy encourages bank consolidation.
- Build up small businesses. Surveys by the Main Street Alliance in Oregon and Washington show at least 75% support among small business owners. In markets increasingly dominated by large corporations and the banks that fund them, partnership banks would increase lending capabilities at the smaller banks that provide the majority of small business loans in America.
A stop sign on Main Street. Photo credit: Jason Anfinsen. Used under Creative Commons license.
In his Shareable piece, John David took the possibilities even further, suggesting that public banks might:
- Stimulate the economy by prioritizing the creation of essential jobs;
- Cut investment costs in half or more with low-interest financing for homeowners and businesses;
- Make health care affordable;
- Issue import-replacement loans to develop in-state versions of products that are currently imported;
- Issue credit cards at affordable interest, say 6%;
- Tie a portion of the increase in state revenues from the bank to tax reduction;
- Offer zero-interest loans as community equity loans for public infrastructure/benefit;
- As the Ithaca Hours Bank does, offer such loans to individuals for home improvements, etc.
He also imagines a network of these institutions that would, essentially, create a shareable banking system, inasmuch as there ever can be such a thing: "Sister public banks could align and strengthen their efforts, exchanging exposures among themselves so as to self-insure. Through networking them, we will create a national community credit-generating system, a large source of investment dollars that has been sorely lacking. That would transform the ongoing race to the bottom into prosperity for all."


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In her latest column, advice columnist Amy Dickinson says she hopes a letter from one of her readers "will be posted on college bulletin boards everywhere." After reading Dickinson's advice for said reader, I sincerely hope this isn't the case.
A reader named "Victim? In Virginia" recently wrote into Dickinson's "Ask Amy" column looking for clarification on an event that happened during a frat party she attended, noting that she was intoxicated and agreed to go to a room with a man who promised he would not do anything inappropriate with her.
"Many times, I clearly said I didn't want to have sex, and he promised to my face that he wouldn't," the reader writes, "Then he quickly proceeded to go against what he "promised." I was shocked, and maybe being intoxicated made my reaction time a bit slow in realizing what was happening." Looking for clarification that she had indeed been raped, the reader later asks, "if I wasn't kicking and fighting him off, is it still rape? I feel like calling it that is a bit extreme, but I haven't felt the same since it happened. Am I a victim?"
Here is Dickinson's charming response:
Dear Victim?: First of all, thank you. I hope your letter will be posted on college bulletin boards everywhere.
Were you a victim? Yes.
First, you were a victim of your own awful judgment. Getting drunk at a frat house is a hazardous choice for anyone to make because of the risk (some might say a likelihood) that you will engage in unwise or unwanted sexual contact.
You don't say whether the guy was also drunk. If so, his judgment was also impaired.
No matter what — no means no. If you say no beforehand, then the sex shouldn't happen. If you say no while its happening, then the sex should stop.
She then goes on to quote a passage from RAINN's website regarding drinking and rape and encourages the girl to get tested for STDs and pregnancy, and to "see a counselor to determine how you want to approach this. You must involve the guy in question in order to determine what happened and because he absolutely must take responsibility and face the consequences for his actions, just as you are prepared to do. He may have done this before."
It's incredibly alarming that Dickinson feels the first thing an obvious rape victim needs to hear is "well, you were drunk, so you were asking for it." Closing her advice with a bit about facing the consequences of her actions, as if getting drunk at a frat party is equivalent to RAPE, is also quite disturbing; the language Dickinson uses seems to evenly place the blame on both parties and make light of an incredibly dark situation, as if the girl should just go up to her rapist and ask him to fess up at the counselor's office so that both of them can move on and he can finally stop, you know, raping people, just as she can stop drinking too much at frat parties.
Dickinson may want this letter posted at colleges across the country as a means to scare young women out of drinking at parties; after all, it's their fault if they get raped, right? It's not about a larger rape culture, or a modern masculinity that promotes the notion of "no means yes," or the incredibly tired parade of victim blamers who still insist that rape is the fault of any woman who dares to drink at a party or wear a skirt or walk down a street at night or go into a room with a man she trusts or dance a certain way at the club or, you know, be born with a vagina.
Perhaps Dickinson is right after all. Her advice should be plastered around college campuses. They could even build an entire course around it: Rape Culture And You: Victim Blaming 101.
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Greg Beaver takes a unique perspective on filtering out some of the noise that the PHP community can generate by comparing it to a chamber music rehearsal.
Why am I talking about string quartet rehearsal in a post about moderated programmer mailing lists? I come from a profession (professional chamber music) where "karma" is a fluid object, and unlike the programming world tends to break down when we attempt to nail it down.
He talks more about karma and gives an example of how he thinks it should all be handled (and how "bike shedding" comes into the picture).


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Pagina 157 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Pagina 222 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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June 24, 2009
Former Georgia State University Facilities Manager Indicted For P-Card Theft
Attorney General Thurbert Baker announced today that William Dillard was indicted by the Fulton County Grand Jury on fourteen counts of theft by taking. Nine of the theft counts are felonies, and five of the theft counts are misdemeanors. Dillard was employed by the facilities management department of Georgia State University, and he was issued a state-issued purchasing card (P-card) to make purchases for business purposes. The indictment alleges that during November 2007, Dillard used his P-card to make personal purchases at Home Depot, Wal-Mart and Best Buy totaling $4,757.68.
Members of the public should keep in mind that indictments contain only allegations against the individual(s) against whom the indictment is sought. A defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty, and it will be the government's burden at trial to prove the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the allegations contained in the indictment.
Assistant Attorney General Laura Pfister is prosecuting the case for the state, and Investigator Hammond of the Georgia State University Police Department handled the investigation of the case.


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Researchers at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT have been chosen to receive a six-year, $86M grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to identify and develop molecular tools known as "small molecules," which can probe the proteins, signaling pathways and cellular processes that are crucial to human health and disease.
The Broad Institute is among nine institutions to receive funding under the Molecular Libraries and
Imaging Initiative, one of the NIH Roadmap Initiatives for Medical Research. These institutions together comprise a collaborative research network that will conduct high-throughput biological studies and chemical optimization of a diverse collection of small molecules, and openly share their data with the scientific community, yielding knowledge that may bolster the search for novel disease therapies.
"Small-molecule probe and drug discovery enables basic research to impact on human health, and the advances of chemical biology are transforming this discovery process," said principal investigator Stuart Schreiber, director of the Chemical Biology Program at the Broad Institute. "Integrating chemical biology with genome biology, which is a founding principle of the Broad Institute, accelerates the march to new medicines in a magical way."
The molecules of life come in a variety of shapes and sizes. At one end of the spectrum are large macromolecules such as DNA, RNA, and proteins. At the other end are a plethora of chemical compounds that exert effects
on human biology by virtue of their relatively small size and their ability to interact directly with biological macromolecules. These so-called small molecules are readily transported through the body and include endogenous substances, such as hormones and neurotransmitters, as well as medicines like aspirin and penicillin.
The six-year NIH grant designates the Broad Institute as one of four Comprehensive Screening Centers in the Molecular Libraries Probe Production Centers Network (MLPCN), where vast collections or "libraries" of small molecules will be screened using high-throughput methods to identify compounds with interesting biological functions.
The NIH award reflects a new chapter in an already rich history of chemical biology and small-molecule screening at the Broad Institute, one that first began at the Harvard Institute of Chemistry and Chemical
Biology (ICCB) in 1997. The ICCB, which became a founding asset of the Broad Institute when it was launched in 2003, created the first large-scale, public, small-molecule screening center and served as a model for future initiatives. "At the Broad, we are truly fortunate to have a group of individuals with world-class expertise in nearly all facets of professional, high-throughput, small-molecule science," said Schreiber. "Indeed, we couldn't undertake this work without them."
The development of small molecule probes is an intensive effort that involves more than high-throughput screening of molecular libraries. Before screens can be carried out, months of meticulous work are needed
to lay the necessary scientific groundwork. Will chemicals be tested in test tubes or cells? How will the biological effects of small molecules be measured? At the Broad Institute, many of these questions can be addressed by leveraging the power of large-scale approaches such as global gene expression-based screening and high-content cellular imaging.
Once the preliminary work is complete and a screen begins, Broad researchers ensure that all of the data are captured digitally and deposited in public databases. The ICCB and the Broad Institute pioneered this type of public data sharing through their creation of ChemBank, and more recently researchers at the Broad have
been contributing to a second public database, PubChem, which is associated with the Molecular Libraries and Imaging Initiative. Follow-up work, including further biological testing and small-molecule optimization, is then required to develop promising small molecules into bona fide molecular probes of human biology. This requires modern organic synthesis, a scientific endeavor that is an underpinning of the Broad Institute.
"The Molecular Libraries Program has cultivated an extremely high-quality collection of small molecules that are wonderfully complementary to the unique collection established at the Broad Institute," said Schreiber. "We are eager to begin exploring the biomedical potential of these chemical compounds, in addition to our own, and to share our results with the global scientific community."


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A deadly hurricane hit the densely populated northeastern United States on October 29, affecting tens of millions of people and posing a grave threat to the region's transit and power infrastructure.
The storm, Hurricane Sandy, made landfall in southern New Jersey, only about 100 miles from the New York metropolitan area, on Monday evening. Wind gusts of up to 75 miles per hour were accompanied by steady rain and storm surges of 6 to 11 feet that led to widespread flooding.
As of Monday evening, there were reports of thousands of people stranded in flooded homes, and reports of fatalities, including some caused by fallen trees, had also begun to come in. Whole communities were cut off by the storm on the coast of Connecticut, and the Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy told a news conference of a "Katrina-like" situation.
The entire area from Virginia to Massachusetts was battered by hurricane or gale force winds. Governors in nine states declared states of emergency, and 2 million homes lost electricity in the tri-state region of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut alone. In Connecticut 37 percent of utility customers, some 460,000, reported no power as of Monday evening. In New York state the number without power had reached 1 million and in New Jersey it was 500,000.
Unheard of scenes of massive flooding in lower Manhattan were reported, with 2-3 feet of water damaging countless street level businesses in the area. Battery Park, the well-known tourist destination from which ferries to Staten Island and the Statue of Liberty depart, was totally flooded. Electric power in this area was almost completely gone, with many skyscrapers in the business district totally dark. Some subway stations were flooded, but the extent of the damage to the transit system was not clear and would not be clear for some time as the storm surge and flooding continued.
The destructive power of the storm in the New York area was primarily the product of wind and storm surges, with relatively little rain, at least up to Monday night. Wind gusts of 50 miles per hour were forecast until at least 12 noon on Tuesday.
On Sunday afternoon, New York Mayor Bloomberg had ordered the evacuation of 370,000 people living in the low-lying areas of the city's five boroughs, including the Rockaways in Queens, Coney Island and Red Hook in Brooklyn, Battery Park City in Manhattan and City Island in the Bronx.
Bloomberg, insisting that 45,000 residents of buildings managed by the city's Housing Authority leave, ordered the shutdown of power to building elevators, along with heat and hot water. Some residents pointed out that residents of luxury apartment buildings in low-lying areas, such as Battery Park City, were not pressured similarly to leave their homes.
The city's subways were shut down at 7 p.m. on Sunday, and transit officials predicted they might not reopen until Wednesday at the earliest, and then only in part. The public schools were shut for at least Monday and Tuesday, along with government offices and most of the city's business and commerce. The New York Stock Exchange was also closed for Monday and Tuesday, the first time it had been shut for two consecutive days for weather-related reasons since the 19th century.
The storm, developing toward the end of the August-October season in which the great majority of hurricanes and tropical storms hit the eastern US, packed an especially life-threatening punch because of its unusually wide path and also its westward track.
Most hurricanes weaken and turn out to the Atlantic as they approach the northeast, but this one was being drawn to the west by a huge trough of high pressure. As a result of this, it was expected to turn into a winter storm, dumping up to two feet of snow in parts of Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio before weakening in the Ohio Valley.
What made the storm especially destructive was its enormous size, at least 1,000 miles in diameter. The prolonged high winds and storm surges, coupled with the full moon on Monday night that increased high tides, all contributed to the massive, almost unprecedented flooding over such a wide area.
The wind, high tides and storm surges were expected to pose a grave threat of flooding to the New York City subway system. As of Sunday night, a maximum water level of 11.7 feet was forecast for the Battery in lower Manhattan, breaking the record of 10.5 feet that was set by Hurricane Donna in 1960. One meteorologist on the Weather Underground web site warned of "a 50 percent chance that Sandy's storm surge will end up flooding a portion of the New York City subway system." The lower Manhattan areas of the system would be flooded at levels of 10.5 feet "unless efforts to sandbag the entrances are successful."
The destructive potential of the storm surge was put at a record high of 5.8 on a scale of 0 to 6, according to Weather Underground. This is a higher potential than any recent hurricane, including Hurricane Katrina. As of Monday night the extent of the flooding of the New York subways that would be taking place over the next six to 12 hours was not yet clear.
If the subway's electrical system becomes saturated with salt water, parts of the system could be out of operation for a month or more, at an economic cost of some $55 billion. In addition, underground electrical infrastructure used by Con Edison and other utilities could also be badly damaged by salt water.
According to Klaus Jacob, a climate scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Tropical Storm Irene, only 14 months ago, came, on average, just one foot short of paralyzing transportation into and out of Manhattan. If the surge had been just that much higher, Dr. Jacob told the New York Times last month, subway tunnels would have flooded, segments of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive and roads along the Hudson River [the two north-south highways serving Manhattan] would have turned into rivers, and sections of the commuter rail system would have been impassable or without of power.
Climate scientists have warned with increasing urgency of the dangers posed by extreme weather, particularly under conditions in which the infrastructure has been allowed to decay. The surge of the current storm was at least a foot higher than that of Irene. In the period following that major storm, however, nothing has been done about the threats to New York's transit and electrical distribution systems.


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Treasure Chest Thursday - Uncle back from Japan
I came across this clipping from about 1947, I think it was. All I could think about was the cardboard model Jeep that Uncle Buzz brought back for me. I sure wish I still had it. I wonder what happened to it?? I was a Jeep driver, for officers in the intelligence service, right after the end of the war. At least, that is what he told us he did! What memories! ;-) I do treasure them. ;-)
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Big Mystery: Jupiter Loses a Stripe
Lost: A giant belt of brown clouds big enough to swallow Earth twenty times over. If found, please return to Jupiter.
May 20, 2010: In a development that has transformed the appearance of the solar system's largest planet, one of Jupiter's two main cloud belts has completely disappeared.
"This is a big event," says planetary scientist Glenn Orton of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. "We're monitoring the situation closely and do not yet fully understand what's going on."
Known as the South Equatorial Belt (SEB), the brown cloudy band is twice as wide as Earth and more than twenty times as long. The loss of such an enormous "stripe" can be seen with ease halfway across the solar system.
"In any size telescope, or even in large binoculars, Jupiter's signature appearance has always included two broad equatorial belts," says amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley of Australia. "I remember as a child seeing them through my small backyard refractor and it was unmistakable. Anyone who turns their telescope on Jupiter at the moment, however, will see a planet with only one belt--a very strange sight."
Wesley is a veteran observer of Jupiter, famous for his discovery of a comet hitting the planet in 2009. Like many other astronomers, he noticed the belt fading late last year, "but I certainly didn't expect to see it completely disappear," he says. "Jupiter continues to surprise."
Orton thinks the belt is not actually gone, but may be just hiding underneath some higher clouds.
"It's possible," he hypothesizes, "that some 'ammonia cirrus' has formed on top of the SEB, hiding the SEB from view." On Earth, white wispy cirrus clouds are made of ice crystals. On Jupiter, the same sort of clouds can form, but the crystals are made of ammonia (NH3) instead of water (H20).
What would trigger such a broad outbreak of "ammonia cirrus"? Orton suspects that changes in global wind patterns have brought ammonia-rich material into the clear, cold zone above the SEB, setting the stage for formation of the high-altitude, icy clouds.
"I'd love to send a probe in there to find out what's really going on."
Indeed, Jupiter's atmosphere is a mysterious place which would benefit from exploration. No one knows, for instance, why the Great Red Spot is red—or what has sustained the raging storm for so many years. Neither does theory explain why the twin equatorial belts are brown, nor why one should vanish while the other remains. "We have a long list of questions," says Orton.
This isn't the first time the SEB has faded out.
"The SEB fades at irregular intervals, most recently in 1973-75, 1989-90, 1993, 2007, 2010," says John Rogers, director of the British Astronomical Association's Jupiter Section. "The 2007 fading was terminated rather early, but in the other years the SEB was almost absent, as at present."
The return of the SEB can be dramatic.
"We can look forward to a spectacular outburst of storms and vortices when the 'SEB Revival' begins," says Rogers. "It always begins at a single point, and a disturbance spreads out rapidly around the planet from there, often becoming spectacular even for amateurs eyeballing the planet through medium-sized telescopes. However we can't predict when or where it will start. On historical precedent it could be any time in the next 2 years. We hope it will be in the next few months so that everyone can get a good view.
"I'll be watching every chance I get," says Wesley. "The revival will likely be sudden and dramatic, with planet-circling groups of storms appearing over the space of just a week or so."
Indeed, says Orton, "anyone could be the first to spot the return of the SEB."
Jupiter shines in the eastern sky before dawn:
. Point your optics at the "morning star" and … is that really Jupiter? Happy hunting!
Author: Dr. Tony Phillips | Credit: Science@NASA
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Anthony Wesley's images of Jupiter show the evolution of the SEB in recent months
What Hit Jupiter? -- (Science@NASA)
Juno -- NASA's next mission to Jupiter is scheduled for launch in 2011.


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Best Flowers 2016
Russian Sage
If you are a flower enthusiast, you may wonder why this is on our list, especially with it's tendency to flop and fall over in gardens. There are two new varieties of the perennial, "Peek-a-Blue" and "Rocket man" that will not flop like traditional Russian Sage. These new varieties are slightly shorter and more compact than traditional Russian Sage, which helps prevent flopping. They both will give lavender flowers for a long time, they take to all types of soils, and the deer will not eat them. If you have stayed away from sage in the past, Peek-a-Blue and Rocketman are two very good reasons to look at sage again.
Enchinacea Sombrero
The Enchinacea Sombrero is a popular family of coneflowers, and is also a very hearty perennial. The new color, Baja Burgundy has a very rich and vibrant color, that will be hard to miss among the other flowers in your garden. Baja Burgundy should grow to about 20 inches in height, does best in full sun and will bloom for weeks in July and August. As a nice little bonus, the spent blooms' seed heads will help feed songbirds.
If you are not familiar with the Lantana family of annuals, look for the new Luscious Pinkberry Blend variety. The abundance of trailing stems will produce bunches of yellow, pink, and cream flowers that should attract butterflies and bees throughout the summer. The Lantana family is also very hardy and will tough it out if we have a hot, dry summer.
Dianthus Jolt
If you are looking for a great annual to place on your front porch, check out our large selection of planters, and then look for one of the always popular Dianthus plants. Both cherry and pink colors go well when planted together and should grow to around 16 inches tall. The Dianthus family does well in full sun. They can sometimes have a few disease or pest issues, so ask for our recommended solutions to make sure your newest addition stays big and bright through the summer.
Hibiscus Hollywood Series
For a stunning new annual, check out the Hibiscus Hollywood series. It has 9 new shades of tropical colors and will easily brighten up any garden, patio or front porch. All of the varieties will produce large, ruffled blooms, growing up to 5 feet in size. This would be a great addition for a quick, bold, pop of color.
There are two more new varieties in this deer resistant perennial family. "Peachy Keen" and "Rosie Posie" both range in the 18 inch to two feet size category and produce fragrant blooms that will attract butterflies. As their names suggest, blooms will be of an apricot-peach and purple-magenta color. Both are long flowering types, and start producing blooms mid-summer. Agastache is part of the mint family and may spread a bit, but not invasively so.
Electric Lights Double Pink Azalea
From the azalea breeding program at the University of Minnesota, this is the first double flowered form and it is a beauty! In early spring, the double pink flowers smother the plant in color. It forms an upright mound in the landscape and will tolerate full sun to part shade. Flower buds are hardy to -30*F.
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Tropical Hibiscus…
The most beautiful of all tropical flowering plants is the Hibiscus. They love full sun and are the perfect plant for your patio. They like moist well-drained soil and prefer an acidic fertilizer like Miracle-Gro Miracid. They're perfect in a pot or even planted in your landscape for the season. However, they are not winter hardy here except for the 'zone 4' perennial hibiscus we carry. We have a wonderful assortment of colors and sizes right now and they range from $9.99 to $26.99.


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Thanks for stopping by this week. I have a very easy, cheap, and cute tutorial.
It is nothing original, I have seen a lot of different variations, but I just love it!
Isn't it super cute?
Paper Mache Letters-lots of different sizes at Joanns
Scrapbook Paper
Paint-I used regular paint, spray paint would have been better if it wasn't 10* outside
Hot Glue
Spray Adhesive
Start out by painting the edges of your letters. Make sure you paint a little bit on the front around the edges in case your paper doesn't fit perfect...am I the only one who can't cut straight?
Let them dry, I actually did two coats. While drying, go work on another project!
OK they are dry...next step. Lay your scrapbook paper face down, you don't want the pencil on the good side. Also lay your letter face down as well, don't want the shape to turn out backwards. You can now trace the shape. Try to line it up with an edge, less to cut, and it leaves more room in case you need to do it twice...again am I the only one who can't cut straight?
Once your letter is cut out spray your letter AND paper letter and lay them together. I decided not to use Mod Podge as it gets very wet and the paper tends to wrinkle. I am sorry but I don't have a picture of this step. I was too scared to have evidence of using spray glue on my kitchen table!
The glue dries fairly quickly but to ensure it is dry and not going to move on you, go work on another project!
Everything all dry? Great! Time to assemble the letters. You can do it however you want, just remember you need the bottom letters to be flat and even on the bottom so it can stand up. There aren't too many variations but here are the two I was debating between:
And here it is, in Eliza's bedroom. This is the space we put her holiday decorations. Santa came down and LOVE went up!!
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New theoretical physics research reveals rare materials that possess both controllable magnetic and electric polarization properties at near-room temperatures.
The discovery could lead to longer battery life and increased memory storage for electronic devices, said Yurong Yang, a research assistant professor at the University of Arkansas.
An international team of physicists published its findings on May 28 in Nature Communications, an online journal published by the journal Nature, in a paper titled "Near room-temperature multiferroic materials with tunable ferromagnetic and electrical properties."
A rare class of materials known as multiferroics can change their electrical polarization when under a magnetic field or magnetic properties when under an electric field. But multiferroics usually exhibit these properties at temperatures far below room temperature, which makes them useless for every-day applications.
As a result, the materials used to power today's memory devices do so through electricity or magnetism, but not both.
The research team included Yang and Laurent Bellaiche, Distinguished Professor of physics at the University of Arkansas. Yang, a theoretical physicist, used computer modeling to perform extremely accurate calculations on a specific class of materials to find combinations that would display these properties.
The researchers found that a specific class of multiferroics, when periodically alternating along a specific direction to make what is called a superlattice, should exhibit both controllable magnetic and electrical polarization properties at near-room temperature, Yang said.
Superlattices are like multi-layered cakes, where the cake layers are only nanometers thick and are made of different materials such as the multiferroics studied in this paper. The next step will be experimental confirmation of their calculations.
Yang and Bellaiche both conduct research in the University of Arkansas' Institute for Nanoscience and Engineering and the department of physics. Bellaiche holds the Twenty-First Century Endowed Professorship in Nanotechnology and Science Education.
The results were obtained through a collaborative effort with Hong Jian Zhao, a former visiting graduate student at the University of Arkansas who is now completing his doctorate in the department of materials science and engineering at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. Also collaborating on the study were Xiang Ming Chen, Zhao's adviser at Zhejiang University; Wei Ren at Shanghai University in China and Jorge Iniguez at the Materials Science Institute of Barcelona in Spain.
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Third pic, love em.ReplyDelete
Haha.. Italians... it looks like 10 pics of the same two dudes. Classic.ReplyDelete
What the hell man, didn't want to include the overalls?ReplyDelete
Jake- That dude looked ridiculous! I can't endorse shit like that haha.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 17, 2010 at 5:51 PM
this is kinda faggyReplyDelete
Anon @5:51- That very sentiment is why America is filled with dudes who dress like shit. I'm not implying you do or anything like that, I just think the men of this country need to learn to better articulate and understand style.ReplyDelete
And if you're not American then, well, disregard and maybe pick a better word next time.
- AnonymousJune 17, 2010 at 6:54 PM
The last pic is some sick shit! I can't believe I don't dress like these guys. Although clothes are a priority in my life. I don't like spending money on cheap or poor quality stuff. Lotto ticket anyone?ReplyDelete
Anon @5:51ReplyDelete
Please excuse Lawrence and his Southern, gentlemanly ways. What LAS meant to say, was to go fuck yourself.
You know I jest good sir.ReplyDelete
Those dudes are hard with theirs. Thanks for sharingReplyDelete
It's all about the double breasted coats! And these two gents are the shit (3rd pic down from the top).ReplyDelete
@ L.A.S LOL I feel you on the picture of the gentleman with the overalls. I saw it earlier and I was like NO NO NO NO NOReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 18, 2010 at 2:50 AM
that denim patch on the khakis blew my mindReplyDelete
Yeah that denim patch is wicked! I wonder if it was manufactured like that or if the dude tweaked it.
- AnonymousJune 18, 2010 at 5:56 PM
That denim patch is such a good touch.ReplyDelete
I can image people cutting holes in their khakis as I type this...


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COMPOSERS: JS Bach
ALBUM TITLE: Bach: Cello Suites
WORKS: Cello Suites Nos 1, 3 and 5 (played on viola), BWV 1007, 1009 & 1011
PERFORMER: Antoine Tamestit (viola)
Bach's solo Cello Suites transfer painlessly to the viola, emerging simply an octave higher. While the smaller instrument may lack the cello's gravitas, it imparts a refreshing transparency to the sound and a light-footed quality to the dances. Antoine Tamestit plays on a Stradivarius instrument from 1672, with a beautifully even and rich tone. Intonation is excellent, his musical intuition profound, and he resists any temptation to trespass on the tonal qualities of modern instruments.
The first and third Preludes are straightforward, allowing Bach to speak for himself. Tamestit opens the fifth with a striking sense of mystery, in contrast to the delicate filigree of the following fugue.
In the dances, Tamestit is relatively free with Allemandes, aptly viewed as 'concert pieces', as they were outmoded as dances by Bach's time. The other movements never lose touch with their functional origins. So, paired dances continue without a break and at a constant tempo, matching the imaginary dancers' requirement to keep the music going.
In the primary manuscript source of these Suites, Anna Magdalena Bach's slurs, though hastily written and seemingly erratic, usually make the best sense of the musical detail. Tamestit observes them carefully, and effectively draws the implied harmony out of the texture.
These are an enchanting 'take' on the Suites, and well recorded. I'll look forward to hearing the other three Suites soon, please.
George Pratt


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Microsoft eyes making desktop apps free
Documents show some insiders are questioning whether existing software should be supported by ads, CNET News.com has learned.
Although no specific plans have been made, executives within Microsoft are examining whether it makes sense to release ad-supported versions of products such as Works, Money, or even the Windows operating system itself, according to internal documents seen by CNET News.com.
"As Web advertising grows and consumer revenues shrink, we need to consider creating ad-supported versions of our software," two Microsoft researchers and an MSN employee wrote in a paper presented to company executives earlier this year. The document was prepared for one of Microsoft's twice-yearly Thinkweek exercises, in which Chairman Bill Gates and other top executives gather to consider potential new avenues for the company to follow.
Microsoft officials confirmed the authenticity of the paper, dated Winter 2005, but declined to comment on its contents. However, a Microsoft source characterized the paper as an internal brainstorming exercise.
"It is simply an exploration of different models of delivering software to customers," the source said. "It is not policy, it is not a plan, and no decisions have been made--it's just some thoughts from our research and business units."
In recent weeks, Microsoft has identified a number of ways to increase its online advertising business as it seeks to fend off rivals such as Google. A move to bring ads into its desktop software, though risky, would offer the company an ability to move the battle on to its home turf.
The document also sheds light on Microsoft's concerns over the erosion of revenue from shrink-wrapped software, particularly in the consumer market.
Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie and Chairman Bill Gates outlined some of the opportunities and the challenges Microsoft faces in a series of October memos. In the more blunt of the two missives, Ozzie said Microsoft had an obligation to act on the shift to ad-supported software.
"It's clear that if we fail to do so, our business as we know it is at risk," Ozzie wrote. "We must respond quickly and decisively."
Already, the company has announced plans for Office Live and Windows Live, two products that are ad-supported complements to its existing desktop software. But in the internal documents, Microsoft workers maintain that the software maker may be forced to go further if rivals launch ad-supported versions of popular programs such as PowerPoint.
"If our competitors release free, advertising-supported versions of these programs, we may need to do the same," the two researchers and John Skovron, who works in MSN's Money unit, wrote in the winter 2005 paper.
Microsoft has been mulling a shift to ad-supported software for some time. A paper prepared for a summer 2004 Thinkweek gathering noted the decline in consumer software and suggested Microsoft's MSN online business might benefit from moving from a subscription model to one paid for through advertising.
The more recent paper outlines a number of factors for identifying which desktop software could be ripe for moving to an ad-based model. Such factors include whether the software is frequently used online, whether it contains good data for targeting ads and whether it is likely to face ad-supported competition. Among the products it identifies as meeting some of those criteria are Works, Money and OneNote.
But others both inside and outside Microsoft have called on the company to go beyond the types of services offered by MSN. An online version of Office is one of the products most often talked about. The company has in the past mulled such a move. But a commercial product never materialized, due to internal political battles and fears of cannibalizing revenue from Office, which is among the company's most profitable products.
Plan extends to Windows
The company's exploration of ad-supported software extends even to Windows, its most important product. An ad-supported version of the operating system could make some sense, the Microsoft researchers argue in their Thinkweek piece, noting that the product reportedly earns $9 per year per user.
"It seems possible that we could match that revenue via ads, but there are difficult UI (user interface) issues to solve, since the OS does not have a natural way to display ads that does not annoy users," the Microsoft workers said in the paper. One suggestion is a low-end version of the operating system that comes bundled with other ad-supported programs, such as Works, Outlook Express and Windows Media Player. However, the writers point out that "it's not clear how to prevent these elements from being replaced."The key is creating a robust enough advertising business to pay for more expensive content than what has been traditionally offered for free on the Internet. At the center of Microsoft's efforts here is a product called AdCenter. Its initial role is to offer the same kinds of text-based keyword ads as Google serves up though its AdWords, but Microsoft's ambitions for AdCenter go much further.
Executives see AdCenter, which has been known internally by the code name Moonshot, as a way to offer all manner of ads, text, display and video for use both online and offline on a PC, and on other devices, such as the Xbox gaming console or mobile phones.
"It's not just about (ads that run) in your PC with your browser open," Joanne Bradford, Microsoft chief media revenue officer, said in an interview last week. "Today, it's keyword...We believe in the future it will be about display (ads), video and all that is advertising."
Microsoft is clearly looking to forge new ground with AdCenter, said Matt Rosoff, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft. "It's pretty clear that AdCenter is going to be more than a traditional paid search platform," he said. "They are taking the idea of contextual advertising and applying it fairly broadly."
Rosoff said it makes sense for Microsoft to explore which types of products might be supported by ads.
"It doesn't surprise me at all that they are looking at all possibilities, especially given that a lot of people feel Google is going to go this direction," Rosoff said. He notes that Money, for example, is already a hybrid product that has both a desktop software and an online component.
However, he is not convinced that consumers will accept a vast quantity of ads rather than pay for software.
"Are people willing to pay $100 every three or four years not to get bombarded with ads?" Rosoff said. "I think a lot of people will."
Finite market
He also notes that however promising the ad market, it is a finite one that can only support so many products. Today, online advertising is growing as businesses shift from things like yellow pages, print and TV ads, but, Rosoff said: "Eventually that tops out."
Microsoft faces other challenges as well. One problem with inserting ads served over an Internet connection into desktop software is that while broadband access has grown, many computers spend a significant amount of time offline. Also, to pay off, such advertising must be targeted and relevant enough to both generate higher revenue and avoid annoying users.
"It's definitely an idea to pursue, but it's fraught with perils," said Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li.
Li said the move could open up new markets for Microsoft, but notes that it is also a move into largely uncharted waters. "The challenge becomes users aren't necessarily used to having ads on desktop applications."
These concerns could explain why Microsoft held discussions to buy controversial adware maker Claria this summer, though ultimately no deal was announced.
Privacy is another major issue Microsoft expects to face. The paper suggests some options such as offering paid, ad-free upgrades; allowing users to turn off some of the personalization options in favor of more generic ads; and choosing applications to be ad-based in which users are already sharing private data. Even those moves may not be enough, the paper suggests. "Unfortunately, even where consumers are willing to make this trade, privacy advocate and perhaps European regulators are not," the authors wrote.
Li notes that some users might feel comfortable, say, writing a letter about their trip to Costa Rica in a free, ad-sponsored word-processing program and seeing ads for Costa Rica travel, while others may find that crosses a line.
"Everyone has different thresholds for how much their privacy is worth," Li said.
Despite the concerns, though, the researchers argue that Microsoft needs to act.
"As online advertising increases our competitors will enter many markets with free, ad-supported products," they wrote. "We must have free, ad-supported entries in these same areas."


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Sample some of the new wines from The Vineyards & Winery at Lost Creek, recently purchased by Aimee and Todd Henkle, whose renovations have included updates to the plantation style home (Harvest House) and the new Vineyard Banquet Hall. The tasting room, meanwhile, features a fireplace and exhibits of regional art. Afterward, soak in the amazing views of the Blue Ridge Mountains at Hillsborough Vineyards, where the Baki family has built a beautiful stone tasting room with indoor and outdoor fireplaces!
Choose your closest pick up location and relax on your way to two fabulous wineries in picturesque Loudoun County.
Catered boxed lunches are available to purchase for $15. Your lunch will contain a choice of sandwich or salad served with chips, a pickle spear and a fresh-baked cookie. All sandwiches come with lettuce, tomato, red onion and provolone cheese.
Depart: 10:00 AM, East Falls Church Metro
Depart: 10:30 AM, Dulles Town Center — Lower Level, between Lord & Taylor and JCPenney
Stop: 11:15 AM, First Winery
Stop: 1:30 PM, Second Winery
Arrive: 3:45 PM, Dulles Town Center
Arrive: 4:15 PM, East Falls Church Metro
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WATCH: Nicki Minaj releases music video for 'Pills N Potions'
Nicki Minaj has finally unveiled the music video to her latest single "Pills N Potions."
As shown in the quick preview she shared last week, the video features rapper The Game as her love interest. And going along with her cover art, the clip also shows a few bunny references, including Nicki with some bunny ears, a bunny PEZ dispenser, and a photo of a bunny drumming to the beat of the song - not to mention some very furry fashion choices!
There are plenty of pills and potions also. Check it out below:
Nicki Minaj - Pills N Potions (Official)