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As Gothic opens up, you take on control of a nameless convict who has just been thrust through the magical barrier. (The barrier works like a Roach Motel: convicts go in but they don't come back out.) The first people you meet beat you up, and so it doesn't take long to discover that the colony isn't exactly a friendly place. But there is at least some order in the place. The convicts have divided themselves into three camps -- the overbearing Old Camp, the more laissez-faire New Camp, and the religious Swamp Camp -- and your first order of business is to decide which camp to join. From there you'll have to prove yourself to your camp so you can rise in its ranks, and then discover that something evil is brewing in the colony, and then, maybe, even find a way to escape.
Since you play a specific (although amorphous) character, there isn't any sort of character creation system in the game. You don't get to pick the character's name or gender or race -- you're just stuck being a nameless twenty-something male -- and there aren't any classes to choose from. Each time you gain a level, you simply receive some "skill points," and you can spend those points on things like ability scores, weapon proficiencies, and skills. I tend to enjoy classless systems like the one used by Gothic (or Fallout or Arcanum), since they allow you to modify your character in any way you want, but Piranha Bytes made a game balance mistake here. There isn't a level cap, and it's too easy to gain levels, and so you can eventually make your character the master of everything, even if you don't strive to gain as much experience as possible. That hurts replayability, and it makes the game too easy by the time you get to the end.
But while character development has some problems, the game itself is a lot of fun to play. Gothic is an action-oriented role-playing game, meaning that you don't just click on opponents and then watch your character fight. You actually have to attack or parry on your own, but the system isn't so complicated that you come to dread combat. My advanced "flail wildly" technique did pretty well, and there are enough different types of creatures to kill that things never get boring. Plus, you have the option of leaving human opponents unconscious (while still getting experience, and still being able to loot them), and there is a minimal amount of gore, so Gothic could even be considered family friendly.
Plus, Piranha Bytes did a nice job with the game's quests. They're integrated well with the story, they're (usually) more advanced than the simple "fetch" quests used by most other role-playing games, and a few even have adventure style puzzles to them. What's more, Piranha Bytes actually made a nice quest log so you can keep track of what you're supposed to do. Quests are divided into current, completed and botched, and every time you do something related to a quest or hear something related to a quest, the information is added to the quest entry, and so the information is always easy to find. I wish Black Isle Studios would figure out how to create a log like this, instead of the crappy journal systems they've used in the past.
And if that weren't enough, Gothic's world is wonderfully interactive. You can jump and climb and swim -- even underwater -- but these skills aren't there just to support some annoying action sequences. They're there because the world has mountains and streams and ladders, and you can move along them just like you'd be able to in the real world. Plus, you can do things like cook raw meat (from killed creatures) over a fire, and take steel bars and forge them into swords.
It's a wonder then how Piranha Bytes could make so many good decisions in terms of gameplay, but then make so many bad ones for the game's interface. To put it bluntly, Gothic has the worst interface I've ever seen. For starters, it's almost entirely controlled through the keyboard. Gothic is one of those 3D games where the camera follows along behind the main character, and so a mouse isn't very useful for movement or combat, but for some reason Piranha Bytes didn't include support for gamepads or joysticks, and the only thing the mouse does is move the camera. Plus, the interface is terribly drab, the inventory and trade windows are a mess, the magic system is clunky, and combat requires that an enemy be targeted. Why is that last one a problem? Because only targeted creatures can be hit by melee attacks, and so fighting multiple enemies can be a disaster (it's hard to tell which creature you have targeted, and that's only one of the problems). But, luckily, most combat in Gothic is one-on-one, and so it remains fun despite the interface.
The graphics, in an odd way, are also fun. Gothic doesn't have the best graphics in the world, but it has interesting graphics. For example, the game's world is a little blockier than I would have liked, and the textures aren't the greatest, but it's still fun to explore. There are underground passages, towers on high hills, and even caves behind waterfalls. Plus, there is lots of nice detail. As far as I could tell, every tree is unique, the three camps are modeled realistically (so every NPC has a place to sleep), and the sky is amazing, from the moving clouds to the shooting stars to the rising and setting sun. Plus, the characters look pretty good for how close they are to the camera, the hundred or so types of weapons and armor are individually modeled, and the spell effects are impressive.
The sound can't keep up with the graphics, but at least it's not bad or anything. In fact, the background music and ambient sounds are rather nice. It's the voice actors who have problems. They sound like they were just given lines to read without being told how the lines fit into conversations. And so while the actors read their lines cleanly, they often put the emphasis on the wrong words, or otherwise act them badly.
Overall, Gothic has its ups and downs, but it's mostly fun to play. It takes 50-100 hours to go through the game once, and I could see playing a second or third time since the quests change slightly depending on the camp you choose to join. And while the interface is bad, and there are more than a few crash bugs, they're not things that kill the experience, and so Gothic is a nice enough game to play while you're waiting for Dungeon Siege to arrive. Rating: 78% Written By: Westlake Game Over Online - http://www.game-over.com
Gothic, from German developer Piranha Bytes Software, is a 3D action-oriented role-playing game. It takes place in a world where orcs have started a war against the humans, and where the human king is so desperate for ore, he turns a mining facility into a penal colony, and forces every convict to become a miner. To prevent the miners / convicts from escaping, twelve wizards get together to create a magical barrier around the area -- but then things start going wrong. The barrier expands to include the wizards within its shell, trapping them inside, and the convicts take advantage of the confusion to turn on the prison guards and take over the colony. And so the king has to barter with the convicts, supplying them with goods and even women, to get the ore he needs.
Overall, Gothic has its ups and downs, but it's mostly fun to play. It takes 50-100 hours to go through the game once, and I could see playing a second or third time since the quests change slightly depending on the camp you choose to join. And while the interface is bad, and there are more than a few crash bugs, they're not things that kill the experience, and so Gothic is a nice enough game to play while you're waiting for Dungeon Siege to arrive.
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Valuing Solutions Over Problems, Explanations Over Mysteries
March 30, 2010
I recently visited a blog that mentioned me (not in the most favorable of lights), and the author had read an interview I'd done.He wrote:
Something Radford said jumped out at me: "I am less interested in mysteries than explanations; mysteries are dime a dozen, and it is explanations that are valuable."He admits that mysteries are prevalent and oddly he concludes that mysteries are uninteresting because there are so many of them. Jeez! I'd say its quite interesting that mysteries are dime a dozen. Doesn't he find it amazing that explanations are so rare? I'm all for explanations, but how much jaded cynicism does it take to lose one's wonder and curiosity in the face of ineffable mystery?
I'm always happy to discuss my work and investigation, but this seemed like a very odd statement to challenge. I gamely replied:
I think you misunderstood my point… I did not conclude that mysteries were "uninteresting"—in fact I've spent a decade investigating just such mysteries. I merely meant that solutions to mysteries are more important.
As for the question,"Doesn't he find it amazing that explanations are so rare?":
No, I don't find it amazing at all, I find it obvious. Unknown things are all around us: what caused a loved one's cancer, why our car is making that odd noise, where Osama bin Laden is, what will happen in Iraq and Iran, and so on. You could almost say that mysteries are the default state of being for humans, we will never know as much as we could know—that's why science is ongoing. Creating a mystery takes little or no effort; if I tell someone I saw a strange light in the night sky, I have automatically created a mystery.
Solving mysteries and understanding the world around us takes time and effort and investigation. Therefore, solutions to mysteries and problems will always be more important and more valuable, for the same reason that knowledge is more valuable than ignorance.
#1 Josh Meyer (Guest) on Saturday April 03, 2010 at 3:36pm
Seems to me the quoted blogger is straying pretty close to intentionally quote-mining and misinterpreting you. I agree with your position, and can't really see how anyone would have read your original remark any different.


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Allah is Dead
by Rebecca Bynum (Sept. 2006)
Perhaps never before in the history of the world has there been such a need to dissever living spiritual realities from the dead forms, doctrine and dogmas in which they are now imprisoned, dogmas which may indeed have smothered whatever original spiritual thought they might have contained, dogmas which mistake conformity for righteousness, and faith for consent to belief. Personally, I do not believe "God's will" can ever be contained within a book, holy or otherwise, or within a code, honorable or not, or even within Reason itself, for God's will is a living spirit reality. It is dynamic and adaptive. His will is living truth, sought, but never fully captured, felt, but never completely known. And faith is living assurance, a certain peace that passes understanding. Modern man makes a grave error in mistaking creed for faith and further compounds this error by forcing uniformity in thought and action and, in the case of Islamic dogma, censoring and seeking to erase personality itself, the very focal point of divine contact with humanity, the source of individuality.
Spirit is living truth, the bread of life, the bridge between time and eternity, the door to life everlasting. That is why men fear it so; for it cannot be humanly controlled. Those who attempt to control faith by enclosing it in form and ritual, only succeed in stifling or killing it, sometimes quickly, sometimes very slowly. I believe this to have been the case with Judaism which had become moribund and enslaved to tradition during the life of Jesus, as he repeatedly pointed out. Islam, however, is in much worse shape than that, for as a religion, it is entirely regressive and in fact is steeped in fetishism and taboo, the oldest religious archetypes, as well as being dominated by materialism and fear.
There is no doubt in my mind the Qur'an is a fetish book. It is revered not so much for any inspiration it may or may not contain, intended to ennoble the human heart; rather it is fetishized as an object. Its verses are sacred not on the basis of their power in leading men to God, but simply because they are part of a collective fetish: thus the notion of desecration becomes a sure cause for violence in its defense. While any expressed doubt concerning its veracity quickly rises to the notion of blasphemy, an offense punishable by death. Hope for reform of Islam in this situation of course is slim to non-existent, because it involves the destruction of the fetish, which is the heart of this religion. Consider also the black fetish stone located in the Ka'aba in
Islam is set in squarely in opposition to living, changing, growing spiritual reality and so is overwhelmingly hostile to natural human affections, for at bottom, it denies the value of Love. For Muslims, Islam itself is the highest value, Love is hardly considered; and much less consideration is given to the concepts of Truth, Beauty and Goodness which are quite simply absent from the Islamic theological scene. By Islam, these values are either ignored or explicitly denied. Though, when pressed, Muslims will tell you all truth is contained within the Qu'an and there is no truth outside it. Therefore, it is accurate to say, Islam is a religion that denies the reality of Spirit for Islam recognizes no value higher than itself.
The focus of Islam is entirely on the material world. It's notions of pure and impure are expressly material as is its concept of religious sovereignty. Islamic sovereignty is territorial sovereignty, not the sovereignty of the spirit over the hearts of men; rather Islam is totally tied to territorial expansion – the spread of Sharia law – "God's law" over God's land and over the people inhabiting that land who are forced to submit to Islam in a purely material way. Islam is concerned only with the bodies, not the souls of human beings, with literal not spiritual bread. By controlling the minds of men, Islam gains control over their bodies and it does this in order to create the "perfect" society. Human souls are left to languish in this prison of mental bars. Skeptical inquiry is dampened because Islam surrounds and impinges on all subjects, thus, freedom of thought is gradually extinguished in order for Islamic righteousness, conformity to Islam, to prevail. Individual self-expression, self-realization and self-awareness is bounded on every side.
True righteousness, on the other hand, righteousness that is not coerced, naturally results from loving one's neighbors, "as oneself" as in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Here, the pre-eminence is on the individual not the group, and the will of the individual to love God with all his heart and mind as prerequisite, makes the individual will, not a set of codes of conduct, the determining factor in what is considered as righteousness. Furthermore, individual acceptance of God's love reorients the person as God's "child" and thus he becomes obligated to love other men as his "brothers" in the spiritual sense. But always the onus is on the individual who is free to discover God's will for himself; and this must be understood as true, even if that will contradicts the teachings of religious authority of the day. The supreme relationship is between the individual and a living and dynamic Spirit. Thus, sin should possibly be redefined as the deliberate rebellion against that divine inner leading, and may therefore be committed even by following the religious authority of day, which may not be in accordance with God's will for that individual at that time.
God is not material and thus his will cannot be encased within a set of codes, or lists of "thou shalt nots." This is a truth liberals extol, but conservatives instinctively resort to tradition and authority, fearing the death of religion and the dissolution of society as a result of this "free thinking." Nonetheless, God, his living will, and his "kingdom" of eternal life is free to be discovered within each individual person. And this discovery holds the purpose and essence of life. True religion is not a material matter of certain works obtaining certain rewards. God's will is unique to each one of us, and in fact, this concept of individual communion with this good spirit effectively precludes the concept of doctrinal finality, no matter what the religious authorities of our own day may claim or seek to claim.
On the other hand, Islam denies individual spiritual communion in favor of communal doctrinal adherence. The Islamic doctrine has completely usurped the divine prerogative, so Islam has effectively replaced God. For all intents and purposes, for Muslims, Islam is God.
At the root of Islam I suspect is a denial of the purpose of suffering as evidenced by the effort to make society into one smooth running machine, where no one grates against anyone else because "sin" has been outlawed. Piety is ensured by the police (religious, thought and otherwise) and stiff punishments are meted out in the event virtue, in the form of conformity, is not upheld. Persons are not allowed to suffer the natural consequences of their sins; adulteresses, blasphemers, and so forth are eliminated in order that the group should be uncontaminated. In the case of blasphemy (impure speech) and apostasy (impure thought) the individual must be permanently expunged; for purity of the group as evidenced in the thought, word, and deed of the individuals comprising the group (ummah) must be upheld to ensure group cohesion. Like a hive of bees, the group must be protected by the sacrifice of the individual. Islam is the queen for which all individuals sacrifice, indeed they sacrifice the essence of life itself, its joys and happiness, including the supreme satisfaction of knowing God and doing his will (because it is right); all of it becomes a sacrifice.
We should remember the riverbed not the river. The form and tradition, ritual and doctrine of a religion, may hold and transmit the water of life, but they are not the water itself. Too many people mistake religion for the dogmatic tradition in which it is held. If Jonah couldn't have been literally swallowed by a whale, if the Red Sea couldn't have parted for Moses, because these events so described defy the known laws of nature physics, then modern man is tempted to disregard all religion as simply a mass of superstition, to be dismissed as easily as throwing out the trash. But then, moderns are left with no outlet for their natural inborn religious impulse and so religion soon reverts back to magic and charms as we see so prominently in the so-called "New Age" movement, or continues to revert even further to fetish and taboo as in Islam.
Islam describes itself as the original religion to which people revert rather than convert and in this I believe Muslims are correct. Society is on a downhill slide and Islam is waiting there at the bottom.


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Haskell is a top-scoring gamer recruited into the U.S. Air Force as a predator drone pilot. But after a mission goes terribly wrong, the system he trusted begins to unravel before his eyes.
Starring Dennis Kozee, Arik Beatty, and Joe Thomas.
Original music and sound design by Tommy Kraft.
Director | Harrison Heller |
Released | May 2011 |
Runtime | 17 minutes and 30 seconds |
Platform | Garry's Mod |
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the best video ever made, keep it up
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Hi Harrison
This is superb work, very powerful, prophetic even. I posted it over at Salon.com in Glenn Greenwald's comments section. I hope everyone watches this.
Amazing work, you're going places!
*watch the skies!
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Hi Harrison
I wish you could have read the article I link to below prior to making the vid. Apparently when a kill is made with a drone, the term used to describe it is, "bug splat". Bug splat? Have we fallen that far? Yes. Yes we have.


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A couple of fungi photos - I think I have improved a bit taking photos of fungi:
I prefer the subtle colors in the very beige one. I think that the B&W could use a bit of contrast to push the blacks a bit darker. Also, not a big fan of the out of focus one filling the middle of the frame. All those leading lines in the gills plus the curve of the cap on the in focus one to the immediate left of it draw the eye to the softness.
Some interesting comments kgosden. I did try increasing the blacks on the grey one but I thought it was to dark; personaly I like the out of focus effect but my eye is drawn to the in focus one. This is a better perspective than the ones I took last year from the side and above; I like the first one as well - there is a bit of chaos with the fungi pushing against each other and I like the the sharpness of the gills.
Lets see if I can kick start this topic.... Portikus Portikus is an exhibition hall for contemporary art in Frankfurt am Main originally founded in 1987 that relocated to a tiny island on river Main right off Alte Brücke (Old Bridge). Its an curious looking building thanks to the red exterior paint that stands out beautifully among the surrounding trees.
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Faisal, good to see you still around. Nice graphic shot. The siding pattern is creating moire all over my screen. Notice any in your source?
Originally Posted by kgosden Faisal, good to see you still around. Nice graphic shot. The siding pattern is creating moire all over my screen. Notice any in your source? Only shows up when I resize the picture... Spring cleaning
Only shows up when I resize the picture... You might be able to use a different resizing filter: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fil...pling_examples
Originally Posted by Anthony You might be able to use a different resizing filter: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fil...pling_examples That did not make sense in the first read. I'll have to pay attention and read it a couple of more time. -_- Thanks though... Crossing over : Shot on our way to Ella on the Colombo - Ratnapura highway om Sri Lanka last year.
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Gintaras, There are still about a dozen of us posting and reading on a semi-regular basis. Not sure, but I guess most folks at least monitor the dpreview forums where Jeff is now a reviewer. Those boards seem a bit less close knit and certainly get into bigger flame wars than ever took place here.
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NEW YORK, Friday—I started my morning yesterday by receiving a delegation from the Joint Committee for Trade Union Rights. I always feel that when people want to see me, if it is possible, I should see them. However, I confess to a feeling of futility when the subject under discussion is something about which I know absolutely nothing.
There followed a long meeting of the United States Committee for the Care of European Children. Mr. Eric Biddle is still in London and his efforts to see people and talk over questions of transportation for children must be somewhat impeded by the conditions now existing in that city.
I hope he will be back before long and able to tell the Committee how many children we should really plan to care for in the next month or so. Beyond that I do not think any of us can hope to see into the future.
We had a short but pleasant luncheon at the Biltmore Hotel yesterday. Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Miss Mary Dewson, Mrs. Henry Leach, all of whom are working at Democratic Headquarters, and Miss Fannie Hurst and Mrs. Grenville Emmet, who are anxious to be at work, were there.
Two charming young girls greeted me as they were going out laden with literature. They remarked that they were Republicans for Roosevelt, and had come in to find out how they could be useful.
Late in the afternoon, I took the train with my cousin, Mr. Henry Parish, for Orange, New Jersey. We drove into the quiet and peace of Llewellyn Park and I felt as though I was stepping into a diferent world. None of the turmoil of New York City streets, or the crowds of the tube in which I had travelled, none of the excitement and tension of the groups of people which I have been seeing.
Here, in my cousin's home, there is quiet and decorous living. Life moves along settled paths and there is a charm about it which does not come my way so often these days. I am always happy to spend a little time with Mr. and Mrs. Parish, but it makes me reluctant to plunge into the maelstromagain early this morning.
I came to the city with Mr. Parish and am taking the 11:00 o'clock train to Philadelphia, where I shall meet the President, who is coming up from Washington to inspect some defenses and receive, this afternoon, a degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
It is incredible to look at the pictures in the papers which show the destruction going on in London. Because of the long defense of Madrid, we all know that people can stand up under such terrific bombardment, but I cannot help wondering what it will do to us all in the future. I believe that it must have some effect on our nerves and general physical and mental condition.


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Hilary Swank to Star in and Produce Adaptation of 'Shrapnel' Comic
by Ethan Anderton
July 21, 2011
Radical Publishing already has their high concept sci-fi comic book Oblivion set up as a feature film at Universal under the title of Horizons with Tom Cruise signed to star and Tron Legacy director Joe Kosinski set to direct the film. Now the comic book company has just announced yet another adaptation of one of their properties as Variety reports their film production banner Radical Pictures has set Hilary Swank to star in and produce a feature film version of Nick Sagan and M. Zachary Sherman's comic book trilogy Shrapnel. The futuristic story follows a former military officer who organizes a revolt on the planet Venus.
The project initially started as a graphic novel trilogy but has also expanded into mobile gaming with an iPhone game in the Apple App Store and another multiplayer game on the way soon. As for the film, Radical head Barry Levine says, "Hilary came to Radical excited to find a project with a strong female protagonist that could show off her abilities to do action films. With Hilary being an actor's actor, Shrapnel will give a whole new definition to that type of role." This will be the first major, high concept action film for Swank and could turn her into a real action star. The Mummy producer Sean Daniel is equally excited about the prospect saying, "Shrapnel takes core elements of classic Westerns and brings them into a futuristic epic. We are excited to be working with Hilary to create a cutting edge heroine for a new generation."
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Directed by Robert Mugge in 1980. Contains performance footage as well as Ra talking about history and "Mythocracy."
This hour-long documentary from cinematographer Robert Mugge features the avant-garde and free jazz of Sun Ra and his Arkestra at various locations throughout their native Philadelphia. The film not only examines their public performance persona, but also the bandmembers' respective roles as private citizens and community leaders throughout the Germantown section of Philly. Viewers uninitiated to Sun Ra's decidedly unique free-form approach to music or his deeply spiritual presence may fail to fully comprehend the highly advanced nature of Ra's work. As longtime Arkestra member John Gilmore (tenor sax) relates, "[Ra] was the first to introduce me to the higher forms of music...past what Bird [aka Charlie Parker] or Monk were doing." The extreme difficulty inherent in the arrangements attracted a very highly stylized coterie of musicianship within the context of the band's open-door personnel policy. Another interview segment features a laid-back discussion between Eloe Omoe (woodwind/percussion), Danny Thompson (baritone sax/percussion), and James Jacson (oboe/drums/bassoon/percussion/flute) as they elucidate on the Arkestra's unusual communal living quarters at 5626 Morton Street in the City of Brotherly Love. They unanimously agree that by fully immersing themselves in their craft, they have become exceedingly skilled and disciplined enough to be able to perform such advanced music. This is further demonstrated by several clips of rehearsals as Ra teaches each section their respective parts to a new arrangement. The performances come from a variety of locales, including high atop the roof of the Philadelphia International Center, as well as the Baltimore, MD-based Famous Ballroom and Left Bank Jazz Society Inc.. There is also footage of a special gig at Danny's Hollywood Palace in Philly. This show featured a "Requiem for Trevor Johnson," a former Arkestra member who had recently passed. Among the notable inclusions are "Astro Black," "Along Came Ra," and "We Travel the Spaceways" featuring vocalist June Tyson, as well as a profound rendering of "'Round Midnight." As explained by Ra during the video's waning moments, the title A Joyful Noise is derived directly from Sun Ra's core philosophy that the sounds he and his Arkestracreate fulfill the Old Testament scripture (Psalm 100) to "make a joyful noise unto the Lord." ~ Lindsay Planer
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Title: | Spectroscopy in Sculpted Fields |
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Citation: | Yang, Nan, Yiqiao Tang, and Adam E. Cohen. 2009. Spectroscopy in sculpted fields. Nano Today 4(3): 269-279. |
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Abstract: | Metallic and magnetic nanostructures set electromagnetic boundary conditions which can lead to highly contorted fields in their immediate vicinity. While much attention has been devoted to enhancements in electric field strength, we argue that equally interesting phenomena arise from enhancements in magnetic and electric field gradients. Nonuniform fields near nanostructures can induce molecular transitions that are forbidden by electric dipole selection rules. We illustrate this claim with two examples. ''Superhelical'' electromagnetic fields are predicted to show enhanced asymmetry in their interaction with chiral molecules, far greater than that due to circularly polarized light. Such fields could be used to induce chiral photochemistry with large enantiomeric excess. Steeply varying DC magnetic fields are predicted to enhance the rate of intersystem crossing in molecular bi-radicals. Such fields could provide a route to new nanomagnetic catalysts and to magnetic control of chemical reactions. |
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Message boards : Technical News : Balance of the 19 (Aug 04 2011)
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Matt Lebofsky Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1441 Credit: 215,374 RAC: 44 |
Not that it's all bright and shiny, but how about I just report some good news? Looks like we got beyond the issues with the mysql replica on jocelyn. Basically we swapped in a bunch of different qlogic cards (which we had laying around) and one of them seems to be working. We're also using a new fibre cable (this new card had a different style jack so I was forced to do so). So far, so good - it recovered from the backup dump taken this past Tuesday, and currently as I type this sentence only 21K seconds behind (and still catching up best I can tell). Of course, we need to wait and see - chances are still good it may hiccup like before. And also finally there's some non-zero hope in the HE connection issues front: one tech there may have a clue about a router configuration we may need to add/update on our end, though I'm still unsure what changed in the world to break this. I sent them some test results, now I'm just waiting to hear back. You may have noticed some of our backend services going down today. This was planned. The short story is we just plucked 48GB of memory out of synergy (back-end compute server) and added it to oscar (the main science database server). So now oscar has 144GB of RAM to play with - the greater plan being to see if this actually helps informix performance, or are we (a) hopelessly blocked by bad disk i/o, and/or (b) dealing with a database so big that even maxing out memory in oscar at 192GB won't help. In any case, testing on this front moves forward. The more we understand, the more we learn *exactly* what hardware improvements we need. - Matt -- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person -- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude |
Claggy Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4653 Credit: 46,927,748 RAC: 9,674 |
Thanks for the update Matt, Claggy |
mole Send message Joined: 19 Jan 02 Posts: 5 Credit: 27,218,928 RAC: 8,426 |
Cool Matt, thanks for the update and no so bad news this time. Your efforts and those of others on this project are appreciated. |
Jim_S Send message Joined: 23 Feb 00 Posts: 4635 Credit: 40,093,514 RAC: 28,136 |
Thanks SO Much for the Good News Update Matt...Also Thanks for the HE update. We (I) Appreciate the Hard WORK that you guys put into Our mutual Hobby/Work. And the updates are nice too... ;-)) I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott (Mod-Ret.) |
soft^spirit Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 6438 Credit: 32,377,688 RAC: 3,194 |
That is the kind of science I can understand. Regarding Oscars overload, one question comes to mind: Can the database be split in two.. Science East/Science West for example? May your test work well Matt. Janice |
Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 3651 Credit: 15,093,734 RAC: 9,704 |
Thanks for the update Matt and thanks to the SETI@home crew for all your long hours of hard work ... Best Wishes Byron. |
Gary Charpentier Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 19525 Credit: 23,993,032 RAC: 33,327 |
Thanks for the update Matt and i hope the tests are successful. Nice to know where the bottleneck is so we can open up the pipe. |
Jeff Mercer Send message Joined: 14 Aug 08 Posts: 90 Credit: 162,139 RAC: 0 |
Thanks Matt ! Good news at last !! Glad that things are looking better. All my best to you and the crew ! |
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Thank you for all the news bits, Matt. Hope your RAM tests on Oscar are positive, and hope that your info from HE is correct and there may be a fix on the horizon for some unhappy users. Meow! Always remember.....kitties are all Angels with fur. 'Cat lives matter.' Have made friends in this life. Most were cats. |
James Butler Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 26 Jul 11 Posts: 139 Credit: 6,266 RAC: 0 |
thanks for the good news matt fingers crossed they all go well :D:D |
Chris S Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Nov 00 Posts: 38804 Credit: 25,213,960 RAC: 43,289 |
The short story is we just plucked 48GB of memory out of synergy (back-end compute server) and added it to oscar (the main science database server). So now oscar has 144GB of RAM to play with - the greater plan being to see if this actually helps informix performance, or are we (a) hopelessly blocked by bad disk i/o, and/or (b) dealing with a database so big that even maxing out memory in oscar at 192GB won't help. You may remember Matt that some time ago, I did query the size of your Informix database, and whether for practical purposes it was managable. It's all very well for Informix to give theoretical maximum sizes. You are finding out first hand what actually works in practice. |
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Friday, November 16, 2012
Out of the closet
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- Always On Watch said...
You had the summer from hell with your family -- the freeloading side.
I know a lot of people of the Christian faith who are NOT freeloaders -- and quite a few who are.
I think they'd be freeloaders with or without faith. - 2:08:00 PM
- beakerkin said...
I am not so certain that this is the case. We have whole religious orders
pretty much dedicated to sloth.
The Christians with the hands out are working to help poor people. Monks in orders do back breaking work in between studies.
What is most upsetting is the last second nature and then staying for ten weeks. Imposing your nuttiness on others is a bit much.
When a Christian comes you don't have to alter your menu or daily routine much. Also assuming people
(bachelors) don't have plans and popping in at the last second is not religious nuttiness it is general boorish behavior.
You are 50% correct. - 7:58:00 PM


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1. jen8112 (Posts: 1; Member since: 14 Jul 2010)
No, it will be a captive touch screen like the iPhone. It does not "click or move" when you press it like the Storm.
posted on 31 Dec 2010, 17:15
2. Anthony1C1 (unregistered)
So does anyone know when it is coming to sprint
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3. iT (unregistered)
for the "slider" its rumored to come out oct of this yr '11 just saw another post of antoher bb on 4g calld 'triton' dec '11 so we'll see
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4. BBTany (Posts: 2; Member since: 10 Feb 2011)
really? 'til oct? man that sucks, i've been waiting for some new BB smartphones to be released on sprint. I feel like a cave-woman unable to communicate since I haven't bought a phone :S
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5. armando (unregistered)
blackberry w/sprint!omg! better buy another type of cell phone,was waiting for a touch scree fpr verizon and this is what they come up .fire the president of RIMM.


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Thursday, February 03, 2011
For FPL Bigwig Jeff Bartel, corporate responsibility is whatever he wants ... by gimleteye
Here is a specific demonstration how FPL executives act like royalty. Last week, FPL Vice President for Compliance and Corporate Responsibility Jeff Bartel strong-armed local city commissioners in Coral Gables to approve, on appeal, a variance for his home in Hammock Lakes. The affluent area has site-specific zoning, but Mr. Compliance got his variance from compliance and approval to double square footage. Most people never have a chance at any variance in the Gables. For me, I'd just like to walk my dog off leash once and a while.
So how did Bartel demonstrate his "responsibility"? He did it by putting five well-known attorneys/lobbyists in the front row at the city commission, facing two city commissioners who are up for re-election, including Greenberg Traurig's black hat land use lobbyist, Lucia Dougherty. Compliance is not in the eye of the beholder: it is in the eye of owner of the beholder. The oligarchy is alive and well in Florida.
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I heard that Tucker Gibbs was there. Tucker why would you take this case? I thought you were a good guy. Lawyers make me ill.
- February 03, 2011
Look. It is hard making a living these days. We use the tools we are given.
- February 03, 2011
- Geniusofdespair said...
Gimleteye, I think we should take a closer look at the candidates in these races in Coral Gables...What do you think? People in Coral Gables, what is your take on those running?
- February 03, 2011
The little guys can't get variances, but just throw at money at it and poof, its magic. And don't get me started on the attorneys. Wasn't Tucker once friend of the neighbors? Guess not. You need to see who voted for this and hold them accountable.
- February 03, 2011
- Geniusofdespair said...
Bartel gave to two County Commissioners I checked:
Dorrin Rolle 2010
Natacha Seijas 2008
He was called a 'corporate exec.' on his $500 donation to Rolle. - February 03, 2011
So does anyone know which Gables Commissioners voted for this and maybe check their election reports for contributions?
- February 03, 2011
I think Jeff recently left FPL.. Just FYI
- February 03, 2011
I built my house 5 yes ago in that neighbors and tried to get more than 15 0/0 lot coverage. I'm calling my neighbors! Hammock Lakes too
- February 03, 2011
Thanks Hammock Lakes Too for the 411 on this. For us regular folks who don't have the mega bucks, does this variance devalue our properties? Like you, I only have 15% lot coverage, so it is going to be harder to sell my home in this tough economy? Thanks for nothing Jeff Bartel and Coral Gables Commission!
- February 03, 2011
And why shouldn't FPL charge us till they strangle us? I haven't seen one single Miamian propose anything. Anyone, in this town, can do anything because this population of imbeciles won't move a finger, and when they do, they move it in the wrong direction! It's downright repulsive!
- February 03, 2011
Kerdyk, Slesnick and Withers voted for it. I thought Slesnick wanted to protect neighborhoods??? Where was the hardship? He hardly even met one Mr. Slesnick.
While I am at it, in the mayors race the selection is awful. - February 03, 2011
Bartell just resigned to focus on his wife'sgrowing family business...he also refused to move to stuart as the big wigs demande.
More importantly, Jeff was not comfortable in some of the things he was being asked to do for the firm. He is not a bad person, but he was a faithful employee. - February 04, 2011
"He is not a bad person, but he was a faithful employee" -- that is not the issue here...Big bucks, a variance that no in their right mind would grant, 5 top gun attorneys, do I need to go on, or do you get the picture? The request was obscene and the granting of it was even even worse. What message does that send to us little guys?
- February 04, 2011
I don't think there's a smoking gun here. I met Bartel four years ago when he spoke at the Chamber of Commerce. He was great, appeared decent, and honest as the day is long. He's got a sterling reputation in town. I just called the City and they told me they granted the same variance four years ago but staff denied it this time, so he appealed to the Commission and took no chances by hiring the best because he was ready to take the city to court. At least that's what they said in Building & Zoning. That's his right, isn't it? BTW, someone blogged he announced last month he was leaving FPL to work with his wife in her business. Folks, I want to pick on someone else.
- February 04, 2011
The Gables voters are all watching the commissioners' votes on the massive charter school that is being proposed. The Charter School people are throwing big bucks and intimidation around so stay tuned.
- February 04, 2011
I work at the City of Coral Gables. Bartel got screwed by city staff so he did what any of us would do for the most personal of things, our home. He hired the best attorneys to represent him. Is the blogger here upset he had the means and ability to hire attorneys, or is the blogger resentful and upset he won? Down at the city we cheered him on for actually having the courage to take on city staff and win on the merits before the city commission. We'd never seen him down here at City hall before so he's not a city insider. We saw him as a resident who exercised his right to appeal. I hear he was ready to go to court to fight this if he lost. Do we have the same skepticism about the impartiality of judges as some of us do with politicians? Enough with the conspiracy theories and cynicism.
- February 04, 2011
So money can buy you what the little guys can't get -- I'm a resident too and I live in the area and would not get the variance because I don't have the means to get 5 attorneys...a little overkill don't you think?
- February 04, 2011
To the anonymous poster above who "says" he lives in the neighborhood, you're lying...because the applicant had letters of support from EVERY neighbor who lives in his neighborhood supporting his variance requests, so it wasn't just "money speaks." The will of the residents was clear, and you, who just wrote, are not telling the truth about living in the neighborhood. You're being mean-spirited against Bartel and ALL his neighbors now. Let's give it up We at the city did. Bartel was right.
- February 05, 2011
I don't know who YOU are, but I am most definitely a resident of Hammock Lakes. I was NEVER notified of this hearing. I've lived in the neighborhood for over 15 years. In 1995, I was contacted by the City of Coral Gables, encouraging us to be annexed into Coral Gables instead of Pinecrest. In hindsight, WHAT A MISTAKE! A group of us, went to the Coral Gables Planning and Zoning Board when Slesnick was a member (you can confirm this). We asked if our County "estate zoning" would be enforced and were told unequivocally, YES! (You can also confirm this in the record.) Only then were the majority swayed enough to vote us into CG, many of my neighbors have since regretted that vote. The Coral Gables Commission needs to be held accountable for granting a variance to our long-established estate zoning with illogical reasoning. This variance affects us ALL!
- February 05, 2011
What happens now that the contractor won their foreclosure lawsuit against this guy, and now the contractor owns the half-built house?
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When you live in a place over twenty years, and you come to know people who've lived there even longer than you, now and then you stumble over something in what we might call the local archives. Much of both the material and intellectual culture of Mormonism – indeed, of any group through which a thread of commonality can be drawn – never makes it into a formal archival collection. This is true even for old things, which have had more time to make their way out of private trunks, attics, and boxes into museums and historical societies and libraries. Just this week I saw someone on Twitter threatening to make a list of things offered for sale on eBay that, by rights, should belong in a public records office. But I daresay it's even more true for things from recent history. For starters, no one fully knows which items of the endless detritus of the 20th century deserves preserving, and for seconds, a lot of it is still counted among living people's prized possessions.
One of those possessions was recently lent to me by a friend. The provenance of this object is probably convoluted, but suffice it to say, it's from the local archives, and there's more where this came from. It's uncatalogued. But it's a gem, nonetheless.
The object in question is a revised 1973 edition of a book that was first published in 1966. Its author, whose name no doubt is familiar to all our readers, has just released a new book, which arrived crisp and thick in my mailbox this very week. But this is her very first book.


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the portable provision: scotch eggs--hard-boiled eggs wrapped in sausage meat, rolled in bread crumbs, then deep-fried. a traditional scottish breakfast item, ideal picnic item, and plastic-packed staple of petrol stations around the UK. for those of us who won't be cruising down the M1 motorway anytime soon, these are easy enough to make, they store in your fridge quite well and are very suitable for your bento or lunch box. unless you've got one like this one which pieman so thoughtfully rolled out for me....probably with a forklift.
i'm assuming that back in the day these were made with small or medium-sized eggs, which are near impossible to find in your average supermarket; if you use large-sized eggs, be careful with the amount of sausage meat you use, as you can end up with a brobdingnagian baseball of meat. also, try and find organic eggs for this, as they are tastier than your average cold-storage egg. you can use store-bought sausage meat, seasoned to your preference, or you can do what i did and make your own--i just bought ground turkey meat, seasoned it with dried sage, white pepper, salt, and the tiniest bit of maple syrup, and let it sit in the fridge overnight. although these eggs are quite delicious once fried up, oddly, they are almost irresistible at room temperature or even cold. hm. sounds like a scotsman i once dated. but that, nenes, is not for public consumption :P
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6 large or 8 small/medium hard-boiled eggs, well chilled (i try to cook them to just past soft boiled stage, then stick them in the coldest part of the fridge to firm up)
1 pound good quality sausage meat, homemade or store bought
1/2 cup AP flour
1 to 2 eggs, beaten
1 cup panko-style bread crumbs
Vegetable oil for frying
peel eggs. divide sausage into 6 portions for large eggs, 8 for small/medium eggs. roll each egg in flour then shape a portion of the sausage by pressing it gently but firmly around each egg. dip sausage-wrapped eggs into beaten egg and roll in panko. at this point you can refrigerate them to make them easier to handle or to fry at another time (up to 24 hours ahead of time). heat oil to 350˚F . cook each egg for 4-5 minutes (4-5 min on each side if shallow frying) or until sausage is cooked and browned.
scotch eggs
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Sounds yummy, but like many food items from the British Isles, also like the recipe for early death by heart attack. :P
Does it come with gravy? and where's the rice? ;)
I've always wanted to try one of these but thought I might keel over. Now that you've eaten one and survived, I guess it's safe for me to have one;)
Anonymous said...
reminds me of morcon/ embutido with the eggy. or meatloaf with eggy.
I've never heard of this before...thank you for featuring it. The Indonesians have something similar they call bakso.
Gravy would be nice...as would some (unfortunately named) brown sauce.
Oh, scotch eggs! They look delicious.
I love them, but I've only ever eaten them in the UK. I like to put ketchup on them. -
Oh my god I have not commented in your blog in A MILLION YEARS, WHYY!?!?
I've never had a scotch egg. I think I'm too lazy to make one though. Or 6 rather. But your's looks and sounds damn tasty.
Mm, scotch egg.
michelle, i don't know, it seems positively healthy compared to a deep-fried mars bar!
acornbud, there's always gravy! i'll have to make a bento just for you.
tokyoastrogirl, try one! but a good one, first. a bad one really might make you keel over.
ana, it totally looks like a mini-embutido to me, too.
mita, do you know how the bakso is made?
michelle, HP rules!
shukumei, you should try HP sauce, very tasty.
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wow, look at those! very cool :) i bet their delish cold, mmmm
hi aria! they are weirdly better cold, i think. don't know why that is. i guess it's like the whole fried chicken on picnics thing--it's just so much better cold.
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They're perfect like the ones I used to eat in Edinburgh!
i'll take that accolade, thankyewverrrrramuch!
ah saffy, the ones i remembered from edinburgh were dry and shrivelly. oh, i hope i'm remembering the scotch eggs :P -
While commuting between Edinburgh and Stirling I used to eat mini Scotch eggs on the train. As I'm now back home, I better learn how to make the proper thing myself!
Santos! I have risen from the dead... actually, just been trying to get settled in Schwingalingapore, meeting up with Chubby Hubby & Kuidaore, and eating too much. In other words no good excuse. Oh yeah and I'm lazy. Must start back on my blog. Anyhoo, love the new look and love the Scotch eggs, one of my favourite snack foods from the UK. The shrivelly ones you remember hopefully came from a petrol station and not some nice young Scot ;-)! You've got me remembering, may have to attempt them myself.
I love scotch eggs, I live in the south, in Texas, so we deep fry everything anyway. The're also very salty. I never made them though. I buy them at the Houston Highland Games each year. Most Celtic festivals in the U.S. have booths selling Scotch eggs, haggis, and meat pies. I'll have to try this recipe.
This is it! The recipe i have been looking for. I've tasted this kind of food which we bought from a fastfood chain. It tastes so Yummy!! Now, i can make our very own Scotch Egg. I can't wait till my next cooking...Thank you for featuring this stuff. It goes well with sweet chili sauce...Try it!
Those Scotch Eggs look pretty good.
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September 30th, 2009
JUST IN: Maria Parker Attempts 12-Hour Recumbent Record…
September 30th, 2009 | Category: Races
This just in from the folks at Recumbent-gallery.eu/:
"On October 10th, Maria Parker will be riding a Cruzbike recumbent bicycle for 12 hours in a race against the clock. Her goal is to ride over 220 miles on a 20-mile loop course on public roads near White Oak, NC. She is attempting to set the world record, which will be observed by Ultramarathon Cycling Association (UMCA) officials. This is the first attempt at the women's record. The men's record is 241.5 miles. No drafting is allowed."
There is more… get the full story at Recumbent-gallery.eu/ →
*** This just in – a very nice email from Jim Parker***
Hi Rob,
I'm Maria Parker's husband, and lately, her press agent. I thought your readers at the recumbentblog would want to see her. On Saturday, October 10th, she will begin a 12-hour recumbent world record attempt. I'm sure recumbent riders everywhere will want to keep her in their thoughts that day. This photo hasn't been published anywhere else. I took it just a few days ago and you are welcome to use it. She will be riding her tried-and-true Cruzbike Silvio. John's new Time Trial bike won't be ready in time.
Our official press release is here: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/09/prweb2952704.htm
Best regards,
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Google Algorithm Busts Chinese Car Theft Ring Entirely by Accident
Source: http://gizmodo.com/google-algorithm-busts-chinese-car-theft-ring-entirely-895334541
Every sci-fi movie about inventions rising up to take over the world is built upon one unchangeable seed crystal: the moment when the technology does something its inventors never predicted. As The Verge reports, that's exactly what happened to Google engineers in 2010, with a truth-and-justice twist — Google's AdWords software exposed a Chinese car theft scam.
10 valuable Google Analytics custom reports
Source: http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/62271-10-valuable-google-analytics-custom-reports-2
Track the effect of (not provided)
Google's decision to encrypt search referral data means that many sites now have a lot less to work with when tracking SEO keywords, and Econsultancy is no different.
In fact, as with other IT and tech related sites, we have been hit harder than others, to the extent that more than 40% of our organic search referrals are (not provided).
The rise of (not provided) on Econsultancy.
With this encryption spreading to Firefox and iOS6, this trend is set to continue.
Thanks to Avinash Kaushik's custom report, you can moan about the impact to other marketers, backed up by accurate data.
Google https Change Impact
Time of day report
This one comes from Dan Barker, who answered my Twitter question about tracking posts by publish time with a fully formed custom report, thus saving me loads of time.
Using this you can see which days of the week are most popular, and use the data to experiment with your publishing schedule:
GA time of day report
Time of day report for ecommerce
This one also comes from Dan Barker, and does much the same as the previous custom report, but is aimed at ecommerce sites.
It shows transaction metrics on top of the traffic stats by time of day and day of week.
Time and ecommerce report
Better AdWords
This report was suggested by Brian Clifton in the Google+ discussion on this post. I've added this to replace the Google Images traffic report, which doesn't work.
This combines Adwords acquisition data with revenue data under one roof, and saves you going back and forth between different reports.
Better Adwords report
Keyword analysis
This report looks at your most popular keywords (minus the ones that Google isn't telling you about) and shows visitor metrics, conversion rates, goal completions and page load time.
Other tabs also show engagement and revenue metrics.
Keyword analysis report
Non-branded keywords
This report strips out the branded keywords and shows visits, goal completions and revenue.
You'll need to go in and edit the report to exclude your own branded keywords. In this case, I've excluded 'econsultancy' but I should also remove the various spellings and hyphenated versions:
Non-branded keyword report
Browser report
This report shows how different browsers are working for your site in terms of visits, revenue, bounce rates and purchases.
It's also a good way of picking up potential problems. If bounce rates are especially high for one kind of browser there may be an issue with the way your site looks in Internet Explorer, Safari etc.
Browser report
Should I go mobile?
This one is from Lens 10, and aims to answer the question above.
You can judge from metrics such as pages per visit and goal completion rate and decide whether a mobile site is ready. The answer is very probably yes for most sites.
Should I go mobile? report
Referring sites report
Thanks to Anna Lewis from Koozai for this one, which shows referring sites alongside goal completions and conversion rates.
Referring sites report
Link analysis report
This one, from SEObook, helps you to see which of your inbound links are sending the most valuable traffic, showing visits, goal completions and more.
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Do you have any other useful custom reports to share? Please let us know below…
This is why Google's profit margins are going down
Google Just Created A Gigantic New Mobile Ad Marketplace (GOOG)
Google has integrated AdMob, its mobile advertising service, into AdWords so that anyone buying web ads through AdWords can now also buy them on mobile devices served by AdMob, according to Jonathan Alferness, Google's director of product management/mobile ads.
The move essentially turns the web and mobile ad markets into the same, massive market. It adds 350 million mobile devices and 300,000 mobile apps to the AdWords universe, on all types of devices. Previously, AdWords reached 2 million web sites accessible by computers.
The move comes hours after Facebook did something similar—providing turnkey access to mobile and desktop, display and news feeds ads through its ads API. Taken together, it appears that Google and Facebook envision the web and mobile ad marketplaces eventually fusing into a relatively seamless whole.
Jason Spero, head of global mobile sales and strategy at Google, told Ad Age he believes that the AdWords/AdMob conjunction will scale up the mobile market dramatically by applying Google's main ad revenue engine to handheld device platforms.
On mobile, available inventory has thus far outmatched the demand for ads against it, depressing prices dramatically (especially at Google). A new influx of mobile advertisers from AdMob might raise mobile prices, but by directly pitting web ad inventory against mobile inventory it could also lead to lower average prices across the board.
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On your mark, get set, GOMC!
Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/on-your-mark-get-set-gomc.html
Professor registration for the 2012 Google Online Marketing Challenge (GOMC) is now open.
GOMC is a global online marketing competition open to professors and their students in any higher education institution. Professors sign up for the contest and then serve as guides and mentors to their student participants throughout the competition. Over the course of three weeks, student teams are tasked with developing and running a successful online advertising campaign for real businesses or nonprofit organizations using Google AdWords. In the process, they sharpen their advertising, consulting and data analysis skills. (Note: student registration will open on January 31, 2012 and students can only enter if their professors have signed up already and must sign up under their own professors).
After running their online advertising campaign for three weeks, students summarize their experiences in campaign reports, which they submit online. Based on the performance of the campaigns and the quality of the reports, Googlers on the GOMC team and a panel of independent academics select the winning teams.
The global winners and their professor will receive a trip to Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. The regional winners (and their professor) will win a trip to local Google offices, and the social impact award winners will be able to make donations to nonprofit organizations that were part of the GOMC competition.
Last year's challenge had 50,000 participants representing 100 countries, and this year we expect even more. For more information, visit www.google.com/onlinechallenge. Professors, here is a chance to help your students sharpen their marketing skills and make a global impact!
Posted by AJ Pascua, GOMC Team
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CCA – cost of customer acquisition
how do we judge the relative merit and effectiveness of different types of advertising? By finding a common parameter that can be used to compare "apples to apples." We argue that cost of customer acquisition is a great candidate for such a parameter.
For example, if television advertising cost $50 million to produce and air, and 1,000 people came to the acquisition website, and 10 people applied for and received credit cards then the CCA — cost of customer acquisition would be $5 million ($50 million / 10 people who got the credit card). Of course television advertisers would claim that the "impressions" from TV would have "branded" millions more people and they would eventually get a credit card from the company. That's possible. But for the purposes of this exercise, if there is no absolute end-to-end tracking, we don't count it. Because, for example, many other possible scenarios can also occur, like the person saw this ad for a credit card but ended up getting a card from a different bank, they saw and remembered the ad but they already had several credit cards from the company, etc.
With "online" we can easily see lift in search activity around the time that brand/awareness advertising is in-flight. This is one of the best indicators of interest — the person saw the TV ad, and was inspired enough to go online to do more research to inform their own purchase decision. Modern consumers will typically search and then click through. In rare instances, they will type the URL, but it is usually the domain name, not the special URL — domain_name.com/special_url — just because of pure laziness or simply because they forgot the /special_url portion.
Now let's look at a print example: a print ad cost $5 million to produce and traffic in targeted magazines. About 1,000 people came to the website and 10 people ended up purchasing the advertised product. So the CCA is $500,000 per customer acquired. There may be more people who saw the ad and eventually came in to buy a product. But again, there is a problem of attribution.
Now a final example from "online" marketing. Search ads were run using Google Adwords and a $1 CPC (cost per click) was paid. Of those people who clicked through 1 in 20 purchased a product. So it took 20 clicks at $1 each to achieve 1 sale – so the cost of customer acquisition is $20.
OK, so what about prodycts not sold online? We can use a proxy which has a known conversion to sales. For example, once a coupon is printed from the website, from historic data the advertiser knows that 30% end up using the coupon – i.e. redeeming with a purchase. So, again, if we used a $1 CPC and 1 in 20 ended up printing the coupon and 30% of those "converted" to an offline sale, the CCA would be $66.67 ($20/0.30).
So to recap
Television – $5 million CCA
Print – $500,000 CCA
Paid Search – $20 CCA
Paid Search + Offline Sale – $67 CCA
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"EXCUSE ME YOUNG MAN do you have a sec? I'm running a survey. It won't be long, I swear."
"Hmm? Sure, I don't mind…"
Kaito trailed off when he saw who had called out. He might not remember every random person he met, but someone who'd said he would be able to figure out who Kid is wasn't the type he'd forget… But it did make him wonder if they really would be able to.
He smiled at the other, putting his hands in his pockets as he completely turned to face them.
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Annina: A Summer Fantasy
G-cup German delight Annina hits the beach in The Bahamas wearing a swimsuit it must have taken a mechanical engineer to design. It looks like a monokini but it's not. The very tiny booty shorts are not part of the bikini itself. They come off. A girl needs a tight, smooth ass to wear them. The thong bottom is attached to two ribbons that run up the sides of Annina's tits and wind around her shoulders, down her back to the crack of her butt where it completes the loop back at the thong triangle. The top is tied around her back with one set of string and another behind her back. Then a kind of dicky runs up from in front of the bikini top to around her neck. It serves two purposes. To pull up her top a bit which pulls her tits up and supports them and to create a visual separation of each breast.


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Crisis management and social media
It may not always be possible to avoid a crisis, but damage limitation is feasible once you have two elements in place: awareness of the problem, and a willingness to make a rapid response.
Crisis management has always been a part of the PR remit, but it has become a lot more complex with the introduction of social media to the established marketing mix. Where once brands were set to only transmit, companies who go online are now expected to respond, interact and even entertain their customers.
If some kind of PR fumble occurs, the word will spread online faster than you can say 'free cheese'. Minor incidents can quickly develop into a full-blown media frenzy; escalating from a few people sharing opinions online to headline-making television news within a few short hours. (More on this later.)
Choosing to ignore social media is no solution; it's better to be part of the conversation than to be on the outside looking in or, worse, oblivious to what others are saying about you.
When it comes to crisis management, timing is crucial. Being aware there is a potential problem with your brand is a good start. How to achieve that? By listening, and monitoring what people are saying online about your company. Then, if a crisis does occur, dealing with the problem head on, in a timely manner, will go a long way to putting you back in control of the situation.
A couple of years ago at a Measure It! event in Dublin — an informal gathering to discuss social media — Stephen O'Leary from O'Leary Analytics presented a timeline of the development of the biggest news story of the day: the now-infamous 'is he drunk?' interview with Taoiseach Brian Cowen on RTE's Morning Ireland radio show.
O'Leary traced how 'traditional' media quickly seized hold of a story that first sprang to life on online forums and then found its legs on Twitter (you can see stats on the story's progress on olearyanalytics.com). The news then went global as 'Cowengate' started hitting headlines on this side of the Atlantic just as the US media was waking up and looking for a nice light story to go with its cornflakes.
Why did the story get so big, so fast? O'Leary put it down to the lack of immediate response from the Irish government on the issue, which showed, he said, that Fianna Fail were not monitoring social media and therefore were not aware of the simmering brouhaha that was about to boil over. A delay in satisfactorily addressing the accusations allowed speculation to build and the story just ran and ran.
Turning a negative into a positive
Sometimes a slip-up is an opportunity to show your willingness to engage with customers.
Earlier the same year, Vodafone UK suffered a minor PR incident on Twitter that could have easily escalated to a full-on disaster. Catastrophe was avoided and the story soon became a non-story, as Vodafone moved swiftly to acknowledge the problem, admit it messed up, and announce what action was being taken.
The company spoke to users directly on Twitter, spending hours replying to everyone who got in touch to ask if their account had been hacked. By that evening the Twitterati, having got to the bottom of the issue, shrugged their collective shoulders and moved on to hashtags new, satisfied with Vodafone's transparency and contrition, and almost keen to forgive what turned out to be all-too-human error.
Full disclosure, coupled with fast action, were key in turning the situation around.
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MN Department of Health Cover Your Cough Campaign (Nov. 1st, 2008)
Stop the spread of germs that make you and others sick: Cover Your Cough
Why should I cover my cough?
Serious respiratory illnesses like influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), whooping cough and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) are spread by:
Coughing or sneezing.
Unclean hands.
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'Vampire Diaries' Pays Tribute to 'Midnight Rider' Camera Assistant Sarah Jones
UPDATED: The CW series began Thursday's episode by remembering the 27-year-old who was a crewmember on the show.
The Vampire Diaries paid tribute to Sarah Jones on Thursday by dedicating the evening's episode to her memory.
The 27-year-old camera assistant, who died on the Georgia set of Midnight Rider on Feb. 20 when she was hit by a train while shooting on the tracks, had worked on the CW series in 2012.
In the goodbye, which aired on the CW affiliate in Savannah, Ga., prior to the episode, a photograph of Sarah was displayed as music played and a farewell message scrolled on the screen, reported WSAV.
"This memorial is dedicated to Sarah Jones who tragically lost her life. The film industry will forever mourn her death. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends. IN LOVING MEMORY OF SARAH JONES. 1986-2014."
STORY: Oscars: Petition Launched to Add 'Midnight Rider' Crewmember to 'In Memoriam' Segment
Following the episode, a special tribute card displayed following The Vampire Diaries' end title with a simple message: "In Loving Memory. Sarah Jones. 1986-2014."
Stars of the bloodsucking drama have been vocal about their remorse over the death of the crewmember, who many described as part of their family.
Earlier on Thursday, Ian Somerhalder tweeted his own dedication to the girl he called his sister on the TVD set.
Tonights episode of the Vampire Diaries is dedicated in loving memory of our Cosmic Sister Sarah Jones whom we lost last week-pls watch2nite
— ian somerhalder (@iansomerhalder) February 27, 2014
The TVD family celebrates Sarah Jones!
— ian somerhalder (@iansomerhalder) February 26, 2014
Jones, who grew up in West Columbia, S.C., began her career interning on the TV show Army Wives, and its cast and crew has also expressed their affection for her over the past week.


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Don't Buy Exxon's Fable Of The Drunken Captain
Monday, March 29, 1999
By Gregory Palast for The Guardian UK
Thirty years ago this month, Alaskan natives sold Exxon and its partners an astronomically valuable patch of land -- the oil terminal at Valdez – for a single dollar.
The Chugach Natives of the Prince William Sound refused cash. Rather, in 1969, they asked only that the oil companies promise to protect their fishing and seal hunting grounds from oil.
In 1971, Exxon and partners agreed to place the Natives' specific list of safeguards into federal law. These commitment to safety reassured enough Congressmen for the oil group to win, by one vote, the right to ship oil from Valdez.
On Wednesday, March 24, the Tenth Anniversary of the Exxon Valdez disaster was commemorated with the re-telling of lies. The official story is, "Drunken Skipper Hits Reef." Don't believe it.
This story remains untold: the true cause of the Exxon Valdez catastrophe was the oil giants' breaking their promises to the Natives and Congress, cynically and disastrously, in the fifteen years leading up to the spill. As to Captain Joe Hazelwood, he was below decks, sleeping off his bender. At the helm, the third mate would never have collided with Bligh Reef had he looked at his Raycas radar. But the radar was not turned on. In fact, the tanker's radar was left broken and disasbled for more than a year before the disaster, and Exxon management knew it. It was just too expensive to fix and operate.
I learned of the senseless crippling of the ship's radar while working for the Natives as a spill investigator. For the Chugach, this discovery was poignantly ironic. On their list of safety demands in return for Valdez was "state-of-the-art" on-ship radar.
We discovered more, but because of the labyrinthine ways of litigation, little became public, especially about the reckless acts of the industry consortium, Alyeska, which controls the Alaska Pipeline.
- Several smaller oil spills before the Exxon Valdez could have warned of a system breakdown. But a former Senior Lab Technician with
Alyeska, Erlene Blake, told our investigators that management routinely ordered her to toss out test samples of water evidencing spilled oil. She was ordered to refill the test tubes with a bucket of clean sea water called, "The Miracle Barrel." - In a secret meeting in April 1988, Alyeska Vice-President T.L. Polasek confidentially warned the oil group executives that, because Alyeska had never purchased promised safety equipment, it was simply "not possible" to contain an oil spill past the Valdez Narrows -- exactly where the Exxon Valdez ran aground 10 months later.
- The Natives demanded (and law requires) that the shippers maintain round- the-clock oil spill response teams. Alyeska hired the Natives, especiallly qualified by their generations-old knowledge of the Sound, for this emergency work. They trained to drop from helicopters into the water with special equipment to contain an oil slick at a moments notice. But in 1979, quietly, Alyeska fired them all. To deflect inquisitive state inspectors, the oil consortium created sham teams, listing names of oil terminal workers who had not the foggiest idea how to use spill equipment which, in any event, was missing, broken or existed only on paper.
In 1989, when the oil poured from the tanker, there was no Native response team, only chaos.
Today, ten years after the oil washed over the Chugach beaches, you can kick over a rock and it will smell like an old gas station.
The Fable of the Drunken Captain serves the oil industry well. It falsely presents America's greatest environmental disaster as a tale of human frailty, a one-time accident. But broken radar, missing equipment, phantom spill teams, faked tests -- the profit-driven disregard of the law -- made the spill an inevitability, not an accident.
Yet Big Oil tells us, as they plead to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, it can't happen again.
They promise.
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Gregory Palast writes the award-winning column, "Inside Corporate America" fortnightly in Britain's Sunday newspaper, The Observer, part of the Guardian Media Group, where this first appeared. For comments or request to reprint, contact us.
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The Nigeria international will be looking to relaunch his career at the Turkish side after failing to make an impact at the Rossoneri
The Nigeria international was deemed surplus to requirements at the Serie A giants and will continue his career in Turkey after signing a three-year deal with his new club.
Taiwo had joined Milan from Olympique de Marseille on a free transfer in the summer of 2011, but failed to secure regular first team action at the San Siro side.
He was farmed out on loan to QPR only six months after his arrival, before leaving Milan for Dynamo Kiev on a one-year loan deal in the summer of 2012.
The 28-year-old returned to Milan ahead of the 2013-14 campaign, but was quickly told that he was no longer needed and has now left the club on a permanent basis.