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WHEN IT COMES to exchanging information, texting is about as casual as it gets.
You can communicate with someone without actually talking to them, send quick abbreviations, and you aren't required to use complete sentences.
Still, no matter how efficient texting may be, you should always be aware of the context when sending a text, particularly if it's a professional relationship.
If you're texting colleagues, bosses, employees, customers, pets, friends, or family, there are a few etiquette rules you should abide by, says career coach Barbara Pachter in her recently published book "The Essentials Of Business Etiquette".
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1. Be careful with abbreviations.
Texting is meant to be a fast form of communication, so it's common to use abbreviations and shortcuts such as "LOL" (laugh out loud), "np" (no problem), or "u" (you). But there is such a thing as an inappropriate abbreviation.
"Using shortcuts has become more common in the business world, but make sure it's appropriate for 'u' to be that informal," says Pachter.
If you choose to use them, Patcher suggests only using those that are widely known, which the receiver would understand the meaning of. And with shortcuts that lean toward the unprofessional — "WTF," for example — a good rule of thumb is to only type what you would be comfortable saying out loud. Ultimately, the safest route is to type out the entire word or phrase.
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1. Activity Streams drives Systems Integration across People and Internet of things 2. Expertise on demand re-defines how work gets done 3. Every Employee becomes a brand advocate 4. Social serious gaming dominates user engagement 5. Your customer will manage your reputation 6. Workers determine performance and incentives Thoughts? #ibmsocialbiz #ceoconnect #socbiz
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Good discussion in Technewsworld on adoption of Linux based Netbooks (32%), the predicted surge in 2010 with ARM based Netbooks which will run ONLY Linux...
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/68922.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnzvtfGnGtI 'Death of the Desktop'On desktops, "people still feel they need lots of local power and storage, even though their CPUs idle and they never back up their stuff," blogger Robert Pogson told LinuxInsider. However, "experience with netbooks will kill off the desktop within a few years," Pogson predicted. "It makes little sense unless you need all those drives, noise, heat, space and burning money. Those who really need power will use a thin client connected to a server cluster." Looking ahead, "expect GNU/Linux to do just as well on notebooks as it did on netbooks," he added. "2009 was the year of GNU/Linux on the desktop as far as I am concerned. 2010 could well mark the death of the desktop and overweight notebooks." |
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Check out this great application of technology to address real issues in developing countries - this one in Tanzania, Africa:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Saving-Lives-with-SMS-for-prnews-1152825160.html?x=0&.v=1 The concept of using text messaging to improve stock management of life-saving medicines was developed by pharmaceutical company Novartis and a team of international students taking part in IBM's internship program, Extreme Blue. After visits to clinics, hospitals and dispensaries across Tanzania, IBM, Novartis and Vodafone initiated a five-month pilot of the SMS for Life solution, covering 135 villages and over a million people in different geographic locations across Tanzania. |
Point of view about Microsoft and IBM Client for Smart Work from Latin America Lanacion |
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Check out this USA Today print article:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2009-10-22-windows-microsoft-linux_N.htm Meanwhile, most U.S. businesses skipped upgrading to Windows Vista after it was introduced in 2007, and stuck with Windows XP. To use Windows 7, most will need to buy new computers. IBM this week launched a marketing blitz touting big savings to be had by switching to Linux. "Organizations are facing change either way they go," says Sheri McLeish, business software analyst at Forrester Research. "Linux and Symphony are more mature technologies today and can be a viable alternative." |
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IBM announced IBM Client for Smart Work in USA.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/IBM-and-Canonical-Launch-prnews-3147748713.html?x=0&.v=1 Key messages: 1. low cost Microsoft desktop alternative - opportunity for business/governments to free up significant money in IT budget that can self fund mission critical initiatives 2. options include - Lotus Symphony and LotusLive iNotes/Connections on Ubuntu on Netbooks - Lotus Symphony, Lotus Notes/iNotes, Lotus Connections, Lotus Sametime, on Ubuntu / Red Hat on desktops/laptops - options to add Virtual linux desktops using VERDE from Virtual Bridges - use IBM BPM modeling tool and SOA services offered by IBM/Business Partners - IBM Global Technology Services End User Services, IBM/Canonical Business Partner services 3. Community in Lotus Greenhouse for IBM Academic Initiative faculty members "The IBM Client for Smart Work offers university faculty, administration and students a Linux-based unified communication, collaboration and information exchange platform that potentially will facilitate sought after campus synergies," said Jeffrey A. Lasky, Professor and Chair, Department of Information Sciences and Technologies, GCCIS, Rochester Institute of Technology. "Canonical is proud to partner with IBM to help open up the American corporate desktop through Ubuntu," said Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and CEO of Canonical. "IBM's smart client package running on Ubuntu will allow U.S. organizations the financial freedom to redistribute the costs of expensive software licenses into IT projects that will innovate and drive critical growth." "If a company is a 'Windows shop,' at some point it will need to evaluate the significant costs of migrating its base to Microsoft's next desktop," said Bob Picciano, General Manager, IBM Lotus Software. "American businesses have asked for a compelling alternative that can help them free up PC expenses to use for more strategic collaboration and business transformation projects." For example, the IBM Client for Smart Work can equip the members of a company's marketing, sales and research departments with the means to quickly and efficiently collaborate. Business process modeling (BPM) can show workflows between sales and marketing, but very little between sales and research or marketing and research. Based on expertise residing in those functions and informal networks discovered through modeling, a company could find powerful insights from research playing an important role in sales and marketing efforts. It may turn out that an expert in R&D might be a company's greatest resource for marketing content, but this expertise has to be identified and shared in order to provide the highest value to the organization. Through online communities on LotusLive.com, this kind of insight can be tapped as needed for the benefit of an entire organization. Companies can use the IBM BPM suite components such as WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition as required. Business leaders and business analysts can discover and explore business-relevant content to help them understand, experience, and accelerate business process management using IBM BPM BlueWorks. |
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BBC article on smarter workplace by 2030
Good BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8127334.stm
"Head offices and individual desks are likely to disappear in favour of hot desks, collaborative spaces and decor that adapts to a worker's mood" ... "By 2030," she said, "all these pieces of kit will be embedded throughout the environment and become completely transparent."... "A fully integrated set of technologies will follow users wherever they are," said Dr Puybaraud. "The whole focus is on user empowerment. Walls could become screens showing diaries, documents or video conferences. Homes and cars would measure mood and tune surroundings to, for instance, soothe a worker if they were feeling stressed" A tiny smart mobile, with a folding screen and a powerful pico-projector could be the gadget that co-ordinates the way information is passed on, speculated the Johnson control report... |
More on working smarter, from Readers Digest
Mattathias Schwartz writes about future of work in Readers Digest, June 2009: http://www.rd.com/your-america-inspiring-people-and-stories/quick-study-the-future-of-work/article134602.html
Some interesting statistics:
The way we will work - great article in Time special report
Great article in the Time magazine (May 25,2009) on the future of work...
1. Retail salespersons 2. office workers 3. registered nurses 4. food prep. and services workers 5. customer services reps 6. janitors and cleaners (not maids/housekeepers) 7. post secondary teachers 8. nursing aides, orderlies and attendants 9. personal and homecare aids 10. home health aides 10 jobs predicted to have the fastest growth rates by 2016: 1. home health aides 2 personal and homecare aides 3. computer software engineers 4. medical assistants 5. hetwork systems and data communication analysts 6. personal finance advisers 7. substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors 8. veterinary technologists and technicians 9. vets 10 makeup artists, theatrical and performance |
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This is about making organizations as smart as our people....
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/smartplanet/topics/businessproductivity/20090504/index1.shtml "Unfortunately, the best work in many companies often happens despite our processes and structures, rather than because of them. Individuals and teams today are ready to collaborate, multitask and cocreate—and yet, every week, businesses waste 5.3 hours per employee because of inefficient processes. A full two-thirds of employees believe there are colleagues who can help them do their jobs better, but they don't know how to find them—and 42% of people say they are forced to make decisions with the wrong information at least once a week. It's no wonder that 91% of CEOs surveyed say they need to restructure the way their organizations work. To work smarter, we'll need smarter organizations—enhancing and benefiting from their people's expertise, enterprise and creativity, rather than inhibiting them. Transforming the collaborative infrastructure and processes of our places of work will enable people to take advantage of the full scope of an instrumented, interconnected and intelligent planet. And the good news is that many organizations around the world are showing the way"On productivity confidence index as of March 2009: http://www.i4cp.com/pci: "53% of surveyors believe that productivity will increase. Hospital, healthcare and insurance industries came in with a high PCI score of 43.5, while government lagged all sectors with a score of -25. |
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Anyone ever heard of this polling firm Purple strategies
They have Romney up in Florida by 6 points yet PPP http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2012/06/obama-up-in-florida.html has Obama in the lead my bet is on PPP . http://www.purplestrategies.com/wp-content/uploads/6.2012-Purple-Poll.pdf
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Anyone ever heard of this polling firm Purple strategies (Original post) |
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jenmito | Jun 2012 | #2 | |
jn2375 | Jun 2012 | #3 | |
JoePhilly | Jun 2012 | #4 | |
drm604 | Jun 2012 | #5 | |
drm604 | Jun 2012 | #6 | |
Marzupialis | Jun 2012 | #7 |
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Thu Jun 7, 2012, 05:51 PM
SoutherDem (2,306 posts)
1. Who the heck is Purple Strategies?
I have never heard of them. Why should they be trusted?
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Thu Jun 7, 2012, 06:00 PM
jenmito (37,326 posts)
2. All I know is that that RW hack liar Alex Castellanos is a member.
He works for CNN and is a Romney supporter/surrogate. He's the guy who wouldn't let Rachel Maddow speak on MTP a few weeks ago and he kept flat-out lying.
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Thu Jun 7, 2012, 06:03 PM
jn2375 (910 posts)
3. GOP consulting firm led by Alex Costello. That's all you need to no, three GOP polling out fits
Put hits on Obama today to try and get media to declare Obama doomed
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Thu Jun 7, 2012, 06:05 PM
JoePhilly (27,787 posts)
4. Sounds like the name the GOP would use for a front group.
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Thu Jun 7, 2012, 06:18 PM
drm604 (16,181 posts)
5. The name makes me suspicious.
"Purple" (red and blue combined) sounds like they're trying to give the impression that they're bipartisan. The conscious attempt to give that impression raises a red flag for me.
Also, they used an anonymity service, Domains By Proxy, LLC, to register their domain, purplestrategies.com. http://whois.domaintools.com/purplestrategies.com Why would a legitimate respectable polling company hide their domain registration information? Sure, they may have good reasons, but I can't think of any. It just strikes me as strange. They're have an office at 815 Slaters Lane, Alexandria VA, 22314, in a building labeled "National Media Center". Here's a pic: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=815+Slaters+Lane,+Alexandria+VA,+22314&ll=38.8216,-77.046234&spn=0.000565,0.001442&hnear=815+Slaters+Ln,+Alexandria,+Virginia+22314&gl=us&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=38.821513,-77.046246&panoid=uiP3DqdtTcAPhmFZMSy0lA&cbp=12,347.34,,2,2.5 They have a second address at 2028 Buffalo Terrace, Houston TX, 77019, in what appears to be a law office. http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHKZ_enUS440US440&sugexp=chrome,mod=7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=2028+Buffalo+Terrace%2C+Houston+TX%2C+77019 http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2028+Buffalo+Terrace,+Houston+TX,+77019&ll=29.760016,-95.389496&spn=0.000445,0.000721&hnear=2028+Buffalo+Terrace,+Houston,+Texas+77019&gl=us&t=h&z=21&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=29.760016,-95.389496&panoid=s8luzz7cQ7L7GQeJV2wtKw&cbp=12,18.81,,0,-6.06 A William Burge at the Houston address has donated thousands of dollars to Republican candidates (including McCain in 2008) and the RNC. http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?type=loc&addr=2028+BUFFALO+TERRACE&zip=77019 |
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Thu Jun 7, 2012, 06:20 PM
drm604 (16,181 posts)
6. National Media Center
Purple Strategies share their Virginia address with something called National Media Center.
https://foursquare.com/v/national-media-center/4bfe76ffb68d0f471e34ea57 A full service political ad agency that has helped elect Presidents, Governors, Senators, and Congressmen for 30+ years.
This is their website. http://www.natmedia.com I think we've cracked this nut. |
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Fri Jun 8, 2012, 10:17 PM
Marzupialis (398 posts)
7. PurplePoll has Romney up 4%, not 6%
Quinnipiac has Romney up by 6%. Does the fact that we have heard a lot about Quinnipiac convince you that Romney is up by 6%?
PPP sampled Registered Voters. Since Likely Voter samples (used by Purple Strategies) are typically 3%-5% more pro-Republican than RV samples, then PPP would have Romney and Obama essentially tied, if we are to compare apples vs. apples. There is a difference between PPP and PurpleStrategies, just not as big as you made it seem. |


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Oaks (Quercus castaneifolia), hornbeam, beech, ash and maple forests cover the lower slopes of the mountain ranges, orange groves carpet the southern coastal lowlands and mulberry trees abound in the north.
Relict genera of the tertiary period can be frequently found in all the zones of Azerbaijan, especially in Lenkeran. They are the iron tree (Parrotia persica), the Lenkoran acacia (Albizzia julibrissin), the basket oak (Quercus castaneifolia), the Caucasian persimmon (Diospyrus lotus), the evergreen shrub of Ruscus hyrcana, the box tree (Buxus hyrcana), etc
State Reserves of Azerbaijan
* Goy-Gol State Reserve * Gyzylaghadj State Reserve * Zagatala State Reserve * Turyanchay State Reserve * Pirgulu State Reserve * Shirvan State Reserve * Besitchay State Reserve * Qarayazy State Reserve * Ismayilly State Reserve * Qaragol State Reserve * Ilisu State Reserve * Shahbuz State Reserve * Eldar pine-tree State Reserve
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England draw 2-2 with 2014 World Cup hosts Brazil at the Maracana
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Wayne Rooney helped England claim a 2-2 draw in their glamour friendly against Brazil.
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Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Wayne Rooney helped England claim a 2-2 draw in their glamour friendly against Brazil at the Maracana to evoke memories of the Three Lions' 1984 success.
The Arsenal youngster, whose father Mark featured in the iconic stadium 29 years ago when John Barnes scored one of the finest goals in England's history to secure a 2-0 victory, stepped off the bench to fire home a superb equaliser before Rooney found the top corner 11 minutes from time.
Despite being outclassed for the entire first half, England were on the brink of a memorable victory, only for Luiz Felipe Scolari's men to have the final say through Paulinho's volleyed leveller in the 82nd minute.
Sunday night's meeting with the 2014 World Cup hosts demonstrated at times how much work there is to do for England before next summer's tournament, with only Joe Hart's first-half heroics keeping the game goalless until Fred finally struck in the 57th minute.
England were under the cosh from the off, with Hart's first sprawling save coming in the 18th minute when Glen Johnson misjudged a deep cross-field ball, presenting Neymar with a good chance to break the deadlock.
As the half-hour approached, Barcelona's latest signing played in Hulk with a deft pass only for Hart to deny the powerful striker before getting to the ball twice ahead of Filipe Luis as he looked to make the most of the rebounds.
Oscar then stepped away from a struggling Leighton Baines to warm Hart's palms with a stinging drive with Ashley Cole coming on for his injured England colleague soon after, the first of his 103 caps which have not been as a starter.
Hulk was inches away from beating Hart with a sublime flick from Oscar's teasing cross from the right, before England finally created a chance of note with Theo Walcott denied by Julio Cesar following a good ball by Johnson.
Scolari's decision to replace Oscar with Lucas Moura early in the second half was met with a chorus of disapproval from the packed Maracana stands, but their anger was forgotten moments later as Brazil finally broke the deadlock with Fred first to react after substitute Hernanes curled his shot over the diving Hart but against the face of the cross bar.
England were finally stung into action and had two chances in quick succession as James Milner's powerful drive was deflected narrowly wide of Cesar's goal and Rooney headed the resulting corner off target from a promising position.
And they were back on terms moments later as Frank Lampard and Rooney combined to tee-up substitute Oxlade-Chamberlain with the Arsenal youngster shaping a sublime low volley across the Maracana turf and into the bottom corner of the net.
Rooney then embarked on a driving run towards the box with his powerful curling shot taking a slight deflection off Fernando to leave Cesar helpless, but the celebrations from Roy Hodgson and his coaching staff were cut short as Paulinho showed great athleticism to volley beyond Hart as the home side claimed a deserved draw.
Brazil | Team Statistics | England |
2 | Goals | 2 |
0 | 1st Half Goals | 0 |
11 | Shots on Target | 4 |
10 | Shots off Target | 1 |
11 | Blocked Shots | 3 |
4 | Corners | 3 |
11 | Fouls | 14 |
1 | Offsides | 0 |
1 | Yellow Cards | 1 |
0 | Red Cards | 0 |
88.8 | Passing Success | 80.8 |
8 | Tackles | 15 |
37.5 | Tackles Success | 66.7 |
61.6 | Possession | 38.4 |
51.9 | Territorial Advantage | 48.1 |
640 | Total Passes | 386 |
22 | Total Crosses | 12 |
117 | Lost Balls | 123 |
51 | Recoveries | 42 |
65.8 | 1st Half Poss. | 34.2 |
58.9 | 2nd Half Poss. | 41.1 |


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Review based on a Production E-P1 (Firmware V1.0)
From the OM system 35mm SLRs and lenses to the XA series rangefinders and the half-frame Pen models, Olympus has for at least half a century been notable for producing cameras that are smaller than their competitors without sacrificing quality or functionality. And they haven't stopped; the E-450 and its predecessors are still the world's smallest digital SLRs, and the new E-620 is considerably smaller than similarly specified competitors (finally realizing the 'smaller format, smaller camera' promise we were all sold on when Four Thirds originally launched).
The apex of this miniaturization was surely the Pen F and its variants - the interchangeable lens versions of the hugely popular Pen series (over 17 million of the various models were sold between 1959 and the mid 80's when half-frame finally died out). A fully-fledged single lens reflex camera that was smaller than most rangefinders (thanks to its half frame film format), the Pen F was innovative, it was stylish and, in 1963 when it was launched, it was universally lauded, and 45 years later enjoys true classic status.
The first Micro Four Thirds camera from Olympus pays unabashed homage to the Pen F; from the classic styling to the long running teaser campaign running in print and online, the E-P1 doesn't just wear its influences on its sleeve; it shouts about them from the rooftops (and is referred to in some parts of the world as the 'Digital Pen'). There's even a subtle engraving on the chrome edge of the top plate that reads 'Olympus Pen Since 1959'.
Not that we're complaining; for years now we've been imploring every manufacturer who would listen to us to build a non-reflex interchangeable lens camera around a large sensor, and the E-P1's styling (and all metal exterior) harks back to the glory days of the mechanical camera in the 60's and 70's, when men were men and cameras were built like swiss watches (a design trend started by Panasonic with cameras like the LC-1 and LX series, if truth be told). Perfect it ain't, but when we first saw the E-P1 we couldn't have been happier, and we just wanted to run off with it and start taking pictures.
It's not hard to see where Olympus got the inspiration for the 'Pen Digital'' the Pen FT was an innovative half frame SLR that won many fans (despite its flaws) and remains a highly collectible classic 40 years later. |
The E-P1 was designed from the outset to be as small as possible using current components and this philosophy led to the decision (not, I'm sure, taken lightly) to leave out both viewfinder and built-in flash. The FL-14 flashgun overcomes the latter, but the optional viewfinder attachment won't help anyone using the zoom lens, and the lack of anything to peer through, especially on bright days when the LCD gets washed out by the sun, will undoubtedly put some potential purchasers off. Though, once they get their hands on the camera, I suspect many will be won over by its undoubted charms.
Key features
The E-P1 is, essentially, an Olympus E-620 (and by extension an E-30 in most respects) crowbarred into a compact, rangefinder-style body. Aside from the changes necessitated by the removal of the mirror and optical viewfinder - and a slight firmware upgrade (for new live view features, improved image processing) it is as fully fledged as any mid-range SLR. This is quite an achievement.
Interestingly Olympus hasn't just popped the sensor from the E-30 into a smaller body; they've been working hard under the hood too, and the 12.3 MP sensor has had a bit of an upgrade to increase resolution and sharpness - plus a few fixes that show they've been listening to reviewers and users (such as adding the option to apply Art Filters to raw files in-camera). The image quality boost been achieved by the use of a lighter low pass filter and a powerful new processor (the TruePic V), which offers better moiré removal and improved high ISO performance - plus of course the ability to capture HD movie clips. Otherwise the key feature list is pretty similar to Olympus's latest DLSR offerings.
- 12.3 Megapixel Live MOS Sensor
- Two new kit lenses (M. Zuiko 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 and 17mm F2.8 Pancake)
- TruePic V image processor
- 3.0" LCD screen (fixed, 230k dot resolution)
- HD movies (720p) with stereo sound
- Linear PCM sound recording
- 3.0 fps sequential shooting
- Built-in IS with max. 4 EV steps efficiency
- Optional Adapters for all ZUIKO DIGITAL & OM lenses
- Newly developed GUI for easier operation via Live Control
- Automatic recognition of common scenes possible with i-Auto
- Dual control dials
- Face Detection & Shadow Adjustment
- Art Filters, multi-aspect ratios, multi exposure
- In-camera raw conversion (including application of Art Filters)
- Small & stylish design
Micro Four Thirds
Olympus and Panasonic announced the new, mirrorless format / lens mount based on (and compatible with) Four Thirds in August of last year. The Micro Four Thirds system uses the same sensor size (18 x 13.5 mm) but allows slimmer cameras by removing the mirror box and optical viewfinder. The new format has three key technical differences: (1) roughly half the flange back distance (distance from mount to the sensor), (2) a smaller diameter lens mount (6 mm smaller) and (3) two additional contact points for lens-to-body communication (now 11 points). Removing the mirror mechanism allows this shorter flange back distance, meaning lenses for the new mount can be considerably smaller than current Four Thirds designs. The format requires framing to be carried out using Live View on either the LCD monitor or an EVF. Existing Four Thirds lenses can be used on Micro Four Thirds cameras using an adapter.
Below you can see the advantage of Micro Four Thirds; the E-P1 is considerably smaller than the E-450, itself no giant (it's the smallest SLR on the market). Shown here with the new collapsible M. Zuiko 14-42mm kit lens, it's surprising to think that the E-P1 is actually a considerably higher spec camera (with a bigger screen, in-body image stabilization and a feature set closer to the semi-pro E-30).
So is this the camera we've been waiting for? After years of hectoring all the manufacturers to give us what we had in the days of film (a small camera that takes pictures as well as an SLR) is the E-P1 a camera we'd actually reach into our own pockets for? Read on to find out.
The E-P1 shares its nostalgic design philosophy with the Panasonic Lumix LX3; a camera popular with precisely the same enthusiast photographers that Olympus is targeting with the new system. |


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Researchers are creating three dimensional images of shipwrecks deep in Lake Huron in Michigan, revealing the wrecks to the public and further exploration.
Marine archaeologists are diving deep into Lake Huron's past by creating 3-D images of the many shipwrecks resting far below the surface, giving researchers and the public a far more detailed look at these hidden historical treasures than traditional photos or video can provide.
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n. | 1. | A constituent part; an ingredient.
Noun | 1. | component - an abstract part of something; "jealousy was a component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective ingredient of a speech" |
2. | component - something determined in relation to something that includes it; "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach" | |
3. | component - an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system; "spare components for cars"; "a component or constituent element of a system" Synonyms: constituent, element |
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Tropical Fish Keeping - Aquarium fish care and resources
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Ok, Momma Said, "No More Tanks". So........... Momma said, "no more tanks". :( So I got to thinkin'. :smoke: Why not set up a pond? :idea: Well, maybe not a eye popping landscape creation. (I don't have the ambition or the time.) But a kiddie wading pool. :twisted: I would put aquatic plants and maybe a few mollies, platys, and swords along with putting a few of my "bread and butter" Malawian cichlids. Do you think that she'll fire me? |
are you going to put it in the ground? or leave it above ground? what will you do over winter? i say good luck...... but you are gonna be fired! |
Rememember, she said no more tanks. I'll tear it down at the beginning of the cool season. Bring in whatever fish there are, I'm sure I'll have a few tanks empty. Put the plants inside also. The wading pool I'm thinking of is about 24" deep and about 8' wide and can be rolled up and stored until the following spring. I'm doing this more to propogate plants than to raise fish. I hope she understands and doesn't fire me. She's a pretty good cook. lol I already have most of what I need, pumps, filters, ect. All I need is the kiddie pool. I even have the fish and most of the plants. Anything I can't use or do not want at tear down time will go to my lfs's. Do you think she'll really get the Donald Trump thing going? |
With 340 tanks, I understood what she meant.:brow: But you answered your question already.:tongue: A kiddie wading pool isn't bad.:lol: I always wanted to use mine for my fish but my sisters refuse because they might as well use it anytime this summer.:sarcastic: |
Why not one of the cattle watering troughs? They are up to 8' across and 2-3 feet deep. Would be a great place to grow a ton of plants and you wouldn't have to tear it down every time. Just empty it and role up against the side of the house. |
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Iran; The Chronicles of the Subsidy Reform
On December 18, 2010, Iran increased domestic energy and agricultural prices by up to 20 times, making it the first major oil-exporting country to reduce substantially implicit energy subsidies. This paper reviews the economic and technical issues involved in the planning and early implementation of the reform, including the transfers to households and the public relations campaign that were critical to the success of the reform. It also looks at the reform from a chronological standpoint, in particular in the final phases of the preparation. The paper concludes by an overview of the main challenges for the second phase of the reform.
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Dancing With The Stars 2011: Wendy Williams Wanted to Go Home!
Wendy Williams is happy to have been kicked off of Dancing With the Stars.
Wendy Williams says she is pleased to be leaving Dancing With The Stars after being eliminated last night. I bet her partner Tony Dovolani is very pleased as well. It seemed as though Tony never really "warmed" up to the talk show host and personality extraordinaire. Williams was voted off in the second week of competition. No surprise there. I have more rhythm and musicality in my little pinky than Ms. Williams had in her ENTIRE body.
Wendy Williams stated that the six weeks she has spent rehearsing and performing for Dancing With The Stars had taken a toll on her personal life. She said she is ready to get back to her regular routine. She said that she has neglected her 10 year old son and her 12 year old marriage. Oh, and not to leave out, her talk show. Lord knows, her talk show needs the attention, because it stinks.
Wendy Williams was asked about what she'll miss about her partner, Tony. She didn't give a straight forward answer, but replied that she will miss him telling her to stand up straight. She added that a woman of her age, and nearing osteoporosis, it was a good daily reminder to have. Really? Seems to me that there will be no love loss on either side. Poor Tony, he seems like such a nice guy. Why stick him with her as a partner? The guy knew he didn't have a chance in hell from the get go I bet. Maybe Wendy will have more time to get more plastic surgery done as well.
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What is music but the sonic unfolding of beautiful math? - UC Santa Barbara Professor JoAnn Kuchera-Morin
Thinking about the upcoming IdeaFestival - it's almost here! - I was reminded of a unique project at the University of California at Santa Barbara, which has built an enormous dome to "visually and sonically" represent large data sets being generated by the sciences working on reality from the largest to the smallest scales. So rather than chunking "large tables of numbers," the new medium permits lets humans do what we do best: see patterns in living, breathing data.
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What's more, the "Allosphere" offers that rare venue where students of engineering and the sciences and the arts can collaborate for the common purpose of discovery.
The IdeaFestival, much like the Allosphere, offers you a chance to see a common a reality from different perspectives. I hope to see you at IdeaFestival 2010 next week!


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My colleague at Indiana University, Johan Bollen has patented an algorithm that allows him to link Twitter traffic to stock price fluctuations. Click on the link for the TV news item. A clip from the report:
An IU professor and researcher just received a patent for software that crunches hundreds of millions of tweets, to predict where the stock market is headed…
Think of this way: The thoughts of two or three million people probably don't add up to much, but if you multiply that by tens or hundreds of millions of people, then you may have something.
"We find that when people get more anxious, then there is a great likelihood of the market dropping 3-4 days later and vice versa," Bollen said.
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Found it: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1010.3003v1.pdf
Most of the paper leans on significance tests (of Granger-caused lag variables) to claim mood is predictive of stock market fluctuations. Signal/noise ratios are not tests of social significance. I also don't see the twitter variables competing with other already-established consumer and producer sentiment (done with surveys currently) indices, nor with material controls like supply shocks.
Interesting stuff though. Go NLP!
Depends on your goals. If you want explanation, you'll need more. But if you merely need to establish that variable A really does correlate with B in a reliable way, it's enought. Causation isn't the only goal of quantitative analyis. Measurement and model fitting are other goals.
The bone I'm picking isn't the old description v. prediction debate. Similarly on method I don't have a preference for hypothesis testing v. data mining.
I agree measurement and model fitting are premium goals. Statistical hypothesis testing accomplishes neither of these. They're a measure of the quality of a sample – the same way a signal/noise ratio is a measure of the quality of a guitar cable — it says nothing about the music coming through the cable.
That there's a very good chance your Beta doesn't equal zero doesn't mean your Beta means anything at all, though this interpretation is unfortunately conventional. It's not a good way to eliminate/keep variables. Say I have a coefficient on rubber ducky sales with 8,584,383 observations, determining the Dow average. I have a significant coefficient, and have said nothing.
More importantly — measurement is precisely the spirit that significance tests lack — your metric is the *size* of your coefficient — not the likelihood that it's not zero given your sample size.
The regressions aren't much better than correlation coefficients in a psychological experiment — in fact much worse because the psychologist has already controlled for random variation before observing the variable of interest. Ex ante regressions do not.
To be clear — I'm all for the work being done in the paper, and want to see much more momentum gathering around it. A much better approach than population-level twitter observations, I think, would be observing a corpus of financial news publications for variations in sentiment. This has the same Big Data and NLP zing, implies the same relevance of culture in markets, and likely allows the establishing of an actual causal mechanism, which Bollen's paper does not. To his credit — he does not at any point claim to either — and in fact is very straightforward about what his data reveal. The wording in the news article is misleading, though this we should expect.
Any of these studies should run a few regressions with lagged stock prices themselves on the RHS — I've read variously that stock prices follow Markov chains. And this is I think actually one of the major criticisms of Efficient Markets Hypothesis in finance, and the application of static and dynamic optimization models of financial markets. Prices are endogenous. That'll bake your noodle.
What I find interesting is that there is something important to be found in non-expert discourse. Financial news, of course, would be relevant. But it would be an important finding if general trends in culture, generated by people with little economic expertise, can be meaningfully be linked to economic fluctuations.
Also, twitter is more "real time" than financial news, which is often worked on way in advance. It's akin to using google search data to track various trends. It's telling you something much different than expert discourse. And it's worth thinking about more.
Absolutely. This is in fact an extremely important question in content and discourse analysis. Assuming that sentiments do in fact cascade (or just migrate) through populations, we need to establish whether they descend from the top of hierarchies (this seems to be the major assumption among communications theorists, whom favor Power theories), or whether they gather momentum from somewhat disparate adopters in the street. I think we might be surprised to find that generally they accrete in the street — though this would certainly be disappointing to the self-perceptions of academics. *kicks the dirt; pulls down hat*
I saw this paper presented last year. What struck me then is that online data like tweets can be a useful resource for sociologists who want to measure changes in collective perceptions and emotions. They're a bit like dynamic public opinion data.
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We consider the problem of a Central Bank that wants the exchange rate to be as close as possible to a given target, and in order to do that uses both the interest rate level and interventions in the foreign exchange market. We model this as a mixed classical-impulse stochastic control problem, and provide for the first time a solution to that kind of problem. We give examples of solutions that allow us to perform an interesting economic analysis of the optimal strategy of the Central Bank. Copyright Blackwell Publishers, Inc..
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One of the highlights of a Heelwork to Music (HTM) competitor's career is the opportunity to compete in front of an audience of thousands at Crufts.
Each year Crufts hosts the finals of both Heelwork to Music and Freestyle competitions. All 'Advanced' level dogs and handlers can qualify for Crufts by entering one or more of a series of qualifying events held throughout the year.
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Heelwork to Music International Results
Crufts Semi-finals Qualifiers Results for Crufts 2017
The first two dogs from each heat, which have not already qualified, will go forward to the semi-finals will take place at The Kennel Club Building, Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire on Saturday 28 January 2017. At the semi-finals, the first ten placed Freestyle entries will qualify for the Freestyle Finals at Crufts and the first ten placed dogs in Heelwork to Music will qualify for the Heelwork to Music Finals at Crufts.
The Crufts 2017 Judges are Heather Smith – Head Judge, Carol Wallace and Karolina Pettersson.
All Crufts qualifying competitions are judged under the appropriate Kennel Club Regulations in force at the time of the event. To be eligible to enter these classes, dogs must be eligible to compete in Advanced classes. Both the show organisers and the Kennel Club reserve the right to verify a dog's eligibility to compete.
Crufts also caters for Heelwork to Music's growing international following by hosting the Kennel Club Crufts International Freestyle Competition. The competition is open to one competitor from each country involved, with England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales represented by the highest placed competitors from each 'home country' in the Crufts Freestyle Final, where possible.
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He should throw Eddie and Reynolds under the bus, and move back with the favorites. I know he wont- but thats what I am wishing.
I think Andrea gets Eddie to vote with her- just from the previews.
Malcolm, Malcolm, Malcolm :(
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Malcolm needs Denise to tell him what to do.
Wouldn't it be something if he survived long enough to get to the loved ones visit, and Denise came as his loved one! Maybe she could get him back on track.
Given his current path, he probably won't survive that long.
I might be mistaken, but I think Corrine thought the Final 3 would be her, Malcolm and Michael with her winning. In that Final 3 she would have had a shot because Michael would be an "also ran", Malcolm's thrust would be his physicality and she could claim strategy and "big moves".
I think Malcolm is a goner at this point. Those who are left don't necessarily want him with them at the end because he does seem to be well liked. He may be the next blindside. The others know that he was leading the young and good looking men and they will want to remove him ... perhaps even before Phillip.
Too bad he made those foo pox :rofl.
Oh, I hope it's Andrea who gets Eddie to vote with her, and not the other way around. That would be hilarious. As long as she helps him and it's only for his vote, and not because she falls for his "looks, charm or anything else" he says he has.
ETA: I better be careful or this will be taken to the Eddie or Andrea thread! :lol
As for Malcolm, he should have stuck with the favourites, I think. Corinne would have stuck with him as long he was her friend, and he could have let the focus be on a lot of other people before it came down to him. (Challenge threats, Reynold and Eddie) and Phillip... of course, Phillip. Oh, it`s hard to predict could have beens, because this game can turn on a dime anyway.
I don't think Malcolm had much choice in moving over to the fans. He was pretty much low man on the totem pole with the favs anyway. I agree he probably won't be around much longer, unless there is some kind of miracle lol.
BTW - Malcolm in the water with his long hair hanging down - :drool He is one good looking kid.
He is so pretty! And he is not stupid. But I do think he overplayed a bit this time, and it is going to cost him. I don't think anyone is going to trust him after this tribal - fans or favorites. He will last one more tribal because of his HII. But barring a miracle, that is about it.
While I want Malcolm to go far I'll settle for his being a long-term resident at Ponderosa. I can enjoy him there too. ;^)
He isn't playing a good game, he seems in panic mode non stop.:lol
I don't think he's in panic mode at all. He's just trying to figure out strategies that get him to stay awhile longer. Andrea panicked. Dawn is going to panic. LOL


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