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An image of original factory product key code will be delivered via email to your provided email address for your convenience. Upon request the keycode and / or the original packaging with Certificate of Authenticity can be mailed to you. SoftwareMedia stores your keycode which can be accessed anytime under My Account in case you ever need to authenticate the purchase of a genuine license. For more info check out our FAQ PageMicrosoft Access 2013 License through the Microsoft Open Business Program.
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Summer plans are always changing. So why not have a sandal that can change with them? Introducing the St. Johnsbury, a three-strap wonder with a removable backstrap you can slip off and tuck into your beach bag in a moment's notice. The St. Johnsbury. It's as spontaneous as you are.

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By Stephen Gaukroger
In 1983, the director of a grocery chain was appointed to report on the National Health Service, and he concluded that it was under-managed. He was then given the power to recruit 200 chief executives, who were instructed not just to succeed but to succeed measurably. They were told to log waiting lists, appointments, referrals, lengths of stay, operations, incidents, perinatal deaths, overall mortality rates… in fact anything to which a number could be attached.
The central tenet of these new developments was that only the measurable is manageable, and the aim was to manage. By the 1990s, this micro-managerial strategy was being applied to the police service through legislation introduced to authorize the Home Office to set targets for the police and to publish the success rates of the various forces in meeting these targets. At the same time, the Atomic Energy Commission was told to increase the proportion of favourable media coverage by 43.9 per cent, while the Foreign Office had a target set for 'global peace and stability.'
The perceived merit of this move to measure everything was that it was objective: human judgement could never free itself of assumptions, theories, prejudices, and biases, so the idea was to bypass it in favour of something that was beyond such contamination.
Once we start to examine the question of objectivity in more depth, however, we realize that this obsession with measurement is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what it is to be objective. To understand objectivity properly we need to understand how it has come to play a central role in our culture, and how science has become a model for decision-making in ordinary life. In fact, objectivity in science is a far more complex and problematic notion than it might at first seem, making it even more problematic that simplistic and poorly thought-out versions of scientific procedures should come to permeate ordinary life.
At a time when well-informed judgement has been replaced by mechanical algorithms, there has never been a more pressing need for an examination of just what objectivity is and what it commits us to. And there has never been a more pressing need for a genuine understanding of objectivity to guide our judgements.
Stephen Gaukroger has been Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Science in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sydney since 1981. His publications include, The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210-1685 (OUP, 2006), Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy (CUP, 2002), and Objectivity: A Very Short Introduction.
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No strawberries, no honey -- without bees Valentine's Day just wouldn't be the same. Bees pollinate two-thirds of our global food crops and they are in trouble. Last year U.S. beekeepers reported 40-100 percent losses in their hives, and right now they are likely facing another winter of historic bee die-offs.
That's why we're asking you to join thousands of people coast-to-coast to swarm Home Depot and Lowe's stores the week of valentines day (February 10-16). Can we count on your support to put pressure on Home Depot and Lowe's?
More than half a million people have signed petitions asking Home Depot and Lowe's to stop selling "poisoned plants" and bee-killing pesticides, and we'll be delivering these petitions on Valentine's Day.
Please help us put increased pressure on these two national chain stores that continue to selling Neonicotinoid pesticides (also called"neonics") that are killing bees. These pesticides have been banned in Europe but no action has been taken in the USA by regulators to protect bees. That's why we need your help to put grassroots pressure on Home Depot and Lowe's at a "loving" time of year.
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About This Product
The Deluxe Kit includes everything in the Standard Kit plus additional cultures* to make over 350 Camembert, Baby-Brie and/or over 350 Blue cheeses, plus my Printed Hard Copy Guide to Making Camembert, Baby-Brie and Blue Cheese - Full color with detailed photos/40 pages. The dry cultures will last in your freezer/refrigerator indefinately.
When you order The Deluxe CheeseMaker kit, you can also download the Digital eBook Guide upon purchase and start reading within minutes. You will also receive free lifetime updates to the eBook.
The eBook guide is available in Adobe Acrobat .PDF file format.
The Deluxe CheeseMaker Kit Includes:
(1) Plastic aging container - 13"L (33cm) x 7-1/2"W (19cm) x 4-1/2"H (11.4cm). Easily fits on the shelf of most refrigerators.
(1) Large Dial Thermometer. (0-220f)
(1) Five Piece Measuring Spoons
(4) Camembert/Baby-Brie Gift Boxes
(1) No. 90 cheese cloth
(1) Plastic Draining mat.
(2) Bamboo Draining mats.
(1) Draining Platform.
(1) Small Spray Bottle. For spraying* dissolved PC and GC molds onto the cheese.
*optional. Most people use the DVI method. Direct Vat Inoculation.
(1) Calcium Chloride. Helps milk coagulate (form a curd).
(2) Polypro Food Grade Camembert moulds(Traditional).
There is no difference in the results from using either the plastic or stainless steel hoops. The plastic hoops are French made food grade BPA free polypro.
(1) The Best cheese knife. Perfect to cutting soft cheese like Camembert/Brie easily.
Includes: four packets of culture/mold/rennet.
Blue cheese: one packet will make two Blue cheeses using two gallons of milk.
Camembert cheese: one packet will make two Camembert cheeses using one gallon of milk.
*In addition to the Prepackaged Packets, also included are bulk packages of dry cultures and rennet to make over 350 Camembert/Baby-Brie cheeses and/or 350 Blue cheeses (but obviously not all at one time). If you prefer non-animal based rennet, please make note in the space available at the checkout page.
These cultures are in sealed foil packets listed on the cultures page. $90.00 value
(Mesophilic Starter MM Series 125 dose or Chr Hansen CHN-22, Dry Calf Rennet* (or vegetarian liquid rennet), Penicillium Candidum 10 dose, Geotrichum Candidum 10 dose,Penicillium Roqueforti 2.5 dose(included in Blue Cheese Kit only).
*If you need Kosher or Vegerarian rennet, we will replace the non Kosher Dry Calf Rennet with 1 oz. of ChyMax Extra, a Kosher, non-animal based rennet, or the rennet of your choice). Just leave a note at checkout.
(16 sheets) Double layer microperforated white mold type papers for wrapping and aging.
(1) Camembert/Brie/Blue Cheese Making eBook and/or Hard Copy Guide.
When you purchase my eBook guide, you'll get automatic updates and any new information about making these cheeses. If you're sending my Kit & eBook as a gift to someone, I'll include a gift card along with the Kit. When you check out there is an option to write what you want on the gift card.
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Mesh Nylon flower making kit, Olive-Green, pink, 10 flowers, 9cm (diameter of flowers), Rose
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It takes 2 and a half hours to get to Vina Del mar from Santiago. Maybe an overnight rest at the castle?
Next task - I'm signing us up for The Amazing Race! Getting to Valpo was worth the effort! The 1 1/2 hour drive from Santiago was beautiful and entirely reminiscent of driving in California - brown rolling hills spotted green with trees ...
the flight situation from LAX to SCL has many more possibilities thatn anyone has mentioned so far. The ones through DFW and MIA have been discussed on another thread. That means that these flights were possibilities:AA252 1430 2215 LAX MIA connecting with AA957 2345 1010+1 MIA SCLAA2448 1350 1845 LAX DFW connecting with AA945 2110 0945+1 DFW SCLThere are usually two airlines splitting the teams, but on some occasions it has been 3. Here are some other flights:DL61 1137 1855 LAX ATL connecting with DL147 2020 0750+1 ATL SCL LAN 601/AA7734 departs 1200 and proceeds to one stop in Lima between 2335 and 0056+1 and arrives 0615(note that AA7734 is listed as connecting in Lima to LP5601 which has the the same scheduleThe departure times on these 2 flights are a little earlier than what is typically supported by World Race Productions dictates of which flights to use, but they do arrive much earlier.
Its possible teams were given two pre-selected options for the flights out of Miami, and we would only hear about those flights and not the flight out of LAX.
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It's not often I'll ask you to do this, my darlings, but right now, it's very important you put your drink down and back away slowly. I refuse to be responsible if you don't.
So. True fucking story:
I work Sundays, which rather puts a crimp in calling me dear old mums on Mother's Day. Not a problem in my stepmother's case: she has email. I dispatched one to her.
My natural mother is a Luddite. I decided to call her at lunch. I attempted to do so. No answer. So I left a message in my sweetest your-daughter-luuurrves-you voice. I pounded out our daily Discurso and went back to work.
My cell phone is sitting on my desk. It begins to vibrate.
It's my roommate.
In two minutes.
Awshit, thinks I, something's wrong with my cat. Or our third-floor apartment is now a second-floor apartment due to the vagaries of recalcitrant support beams. Or I've done something to piss her off mightily. Or something's wrong with my cat. Ogods is my kitty dying?!?
I text her, all the while trying to make the customer on my line believe I'm paying full attention to his issue and in no way quietly panicking.
My roommate texts back: Police were here when I came home. Your mother was/is worried...
That's right. My mother called the police on me. Because she hadn't gotten my message and I hadn't talked to her on Mother's Day.
T-Mobile, the stupid fucks, hadn't delivered my message. Her phone alerted her to a new voicemail which turned out to be an old voicemail from a neighbor. My brand new shiny HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!! message vanished into the ether, and left my mother thinking my roommate must have killed me over a boy.
So let this be a lesson to you all: always talk to your mum on Mother's Day. Or suffer the consequences.


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The Minnesota Knitters' Guild kicked off 2010 with a year-long guild service project to knit hats, scarves and mittens.
Members and non-members can knit hats, scarves and mittens or any combination of these and donate the items at any of the monthly meetings this year. Each quarter at a meeting (March, June, October and December) the items that were knit that quarter will be shown at the meetings so people can look at/touch them and get inspired to knit more for the charities.
The charities this year are Parents In Community Action, Inc (PICA) which is a private, non-profit agency designated by the federal government to operate Head Start and Early Head Start programs in Hennepin County. The agency was founded in 1969 by Head Start parents. Today PICA serves nearly 2,500 children and families and offers a variety of programs and services for children and families in addition to Head Start and Early Head Start. To learn more see their website www.picaheadstart.org.
The other charity is the White Earth Reservation Community, which is near Detroit Lakes, Bemidji and Park Rapids. The reservation was established March 19, 1867 with the Mississippi. The White Earth Band of Ojibwa has 19,506 enrolled members. To learn more see their website www.whiteearth.com.
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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
When comedian Tim Allen told me he was an eclectic guy musically, he wasn't kidding. Because we started our red carpet conversation at last week's CMA Awards talking about his love for Sugarland. "It's embarrassing that Jennifer Nettles is here because I'm such a huge fan. The thing about Sugarland is that her voice is just so amazing," he said. "So I've followed them for quite a while." But then the talk abruptly turned to the J. Geils Band. Now, I loved them. But they are on the opposite end of the spectrum from Sugarland, right? Allen doesn't necessarily think so. "That early rock 'n' roll that J. Geils was doing had elements of what's really fun about country music today," said Allen, who was there to present an award with Reba McEntire and promote his sitcom, Last Man Standing. (By "elements," maybe he meant the harmonica, which Nettles plays on a few Sugarland songs and was a big part of the J. Geils Band's music.) He also said he thinks country is getting back to its roots — what Allen called "kind of this weird Irish folksy funky thing" — and that it's all good. "I grew up listening to some steel guitar Western music, kind of hillbilly bluegrass. I like that that's back because I love music when it hits its stride."


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Security forces ready for the worst
Airmen and civilians of 673d Security Forces Squadron performed their annual high-risk response training during Police Week, training that is part of a Pacific Air Forces-wide program.
The U.S. Air Force partnered with Analytical Services Incorporated to conduct a diverse range of high-risk response exercises. Headquartered in Shirlington, Va., ANSER is a public service research institute that worked with the Air Force in 1958 to help with the research and development of more proficient ways of assessing situations that threaten the security of America and its people. A cadre consisting of ANSER senior analysts devised several exercises, which utilized the concepts of responding to high risk situations.
"All throughout Police Week, we exercise training involving an active shooter that could appear anywhere on base," said Air Force 2nd Lt. Amber Evans, a 673d SFS flight commander. "Scenarios included places such as elementary schools at the base exchange."
Security Forces service members were trained on the key pieces of high-risk response principles, including the use of force, the history of active shooters and navigating through a hostage situation.
"The high-risk response training that took place at the [base exchange] was the culmination of all aspects used to train for any active shooter situation," Evans said. "High-risk responses are particularly challenging as you always have to go in with the mind-set that it's going to be a no win situation."
According to a public release written by Air Force Staff Sgt. Rogelio Diaz, 673d SFS training instructor, this type of training is used to avoid any type of loss, ranging from lives to property damage. Situations in the past have proven this type of training is critical as each one is variable and unpredictable. The Office of the Secretary of Defense advised all services to provide "active shooter" response training to all security personnel in response to the Fort Hood, Texas, shooting.
As part of the exercise, Air Force members from different squadrons also played the parts of hostages to gain the feel and experience of being in a hostage situation.
"We all had fun participating in the high-risk response training," said Airman 1st Class Patrick Frick, 673d Communications Squadron cyber system operator. "Ultimately we were really glad to help out."
Evans said whenever responding to an active shooter situation, security forces members always use the implementation of non-lethal approaches unless instructed otherwise or if they deem the shooter hostile.
"When it comes to saving lives, saving one is better than saving none," Evans said.


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US sues S&P over pre-crisis mortgage ratings
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. government says Standard & Poor's knowingly inflated its ratings on risky mortgage investments that helped trigger the 2008 financial crisis.
The credit rating agency gave high marks to mortgage-backed securities because it wanted to earn more business from the banks that issued the investments, the Justice Department alleges in civil charges filed in federal court in Los Angeles.
The government is demanding that S&P pay at least $5 billion in penalties.
Dell to go private in $24.4 billion deal led by founder
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Slumping personal computer maker Dell is bowing out of the stock market in a $24.4 billion buyout that represents the largest deal of its kind since the Great Recession dried up the financing for such risky maneuvers.
The complex agreement announced Tuesday will allow Dell Inc.'s management, including eponymous founder Michael Dell, to attempt a company turnaround away from the glare and financial pressures of Wall Street.
Dell stockholders will be paid $13.65 per share to leave the company on its own. That's 25 percent more than the stock's price of $10.88 before word of the buyout talks trickled out three weeks ago. But it's a steep markdown from the shares' price of $24 six years ago when Michael Dell returned for a second go-round as CEO.
Japan 787 probe finds thermal runaway in battery
TOKYO (AP) - An investigation into a lithium ion battery that overheated on a Boeing 787 flight in Japan last month found evidence of the same type of "thermal runaway" seen in a similar incident in Boston, officials said Tuesday.
The Japan Transportation Safety Board said CAT scans and other analysis found damage to all eight cells in the battery that overheated on the All Nippon Airways 787 on Jan. 16, which prompted an emergency landing and probes by both U.S. and Japanese aviation safety regulators.
They also found signs of short-circuiting and "thermal runaway," a chemical reaction in which rising temperature causes progressively hotter temperatures. U.S. investigators found similar evidence in the battery that caught fire last month on a Japan Airlines 787 parked in Boston.
Gun background checks drop 10 percent in January
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of federal background checks for firearms sales declined in the U.S. last month, as retailers continue to run out of guns to sell during a buying spree driven by Washington's new focus on gun control.
Background checks decreased 10 percent nationally between December and January, with large declines in the Southern states of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia as well as Texas, according to an Associated Press analysis of new FBI data published Tuesday.
Firearms sales surged around the country after the December shooting spree in Newtown, Conn. A gunman killed 20 children and six adults at the school.
US home prices rose last year by most in 6.5 years
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. home prices jumped by the most in 6 1/2 years in December, spurred by a low supply of available homes and rising demand.
Home prices rose 8.3 percent in December compared with a year earlier, according to data Tuesday from CoreLogic, a real estate data provider. That is the biggest annual gain since May 2006. Prices rose last year in 46 of 50 states.
Home prices also rose 0.4 percent in December from the previous month. That's a healthy increase given that sales usually slow over the winter months.
US service firms grew more slowly in January
WASHINGTON (AP) - Growth at U.S. service companies slowed slightly in January behind weaker new orders and business activity. But hiring improved, a bright sign for the economy.
The Institute for Supply Management said Tuesday that its index of non-manufacturing activity dipped to 55.2 in January. That's down from 55.7 in December, which was the highest level in nearly a year. Any reading above 50 indicates expansion.
The modest decline from December's strong reading suggests the industry was not greatly hampered by an increase in Social Security taxes that reduced take-home pay for most Americans.
Feds: 18 charged in $200 million global credit card fraud
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Eighteen people were charged in what may be one of the nation's largest credit card fraud rings, a sprawling international scam that duped credit-rating agencies and used thousands of fake identities to steal at least $200 million, federal authorities said Tuesday.
The elaborate scheme involved improving fake cardholders' credit scores, allowing the scammers to borrow more money that they never repaid, investigators said.
Paul Fishman, the U.S. attorney in Newark, described an intricate Jersey City-based con that began in 2007, operated in at least 28 states and wired money to Pakistan, India, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, Romania, China and Japan.
Pringles pop boosts Kellogg's sales in 4Q
NEW YORK (AP) - A boost from Pringles and strong international results helped Kellogg's fourth-quarter earnings surpass expectations.
Kellogg's, known for breakfast food such as Froot Loops, Eggo waffles and Pop Tarts, has been seeking to improve its results by investing in its supply chain after several product recalls and by expanding its salty snacks business.
It acquired Pringles from Procter & Gamble in February 2012. The brand provided a boost in the fourth quarter, with Pringles revenue up 5 percent in the U.S. and 1 percent in Europe.
Toyota raises annual forecasts on profit rise
TOKYO (AP) - Toyota Motor Corp. raised its fiscal year profit forecast Tuesday to triple what it eked out for the disaster-struck previous year, as the world's top automaker continued on a comeback roll as sales surged, especially in the U.S.
Toyota's October-December profit jumped 23 percent to 99.91 billion yen ($1.09 billion), compared to the same period the previous year. Quarterly sales edged up 9 percent to 5.3 trillion yen ($58 billion).
Underlining its solid recovery, Toyota is now expecting fiscal year profit of 860 billion yen ($9.3 billion). It had initially expected a 780 billion yen ($8.5 billion) profit. It had marked a 283.5 billion yen profit through March 2012.
Pew: Most Facebook users take a break
NEW YORK (AP) - Too much drama, boredom and scads of irrelevant information are just some of the reasons Facebook users give for taking a break from the world's biggest social networking site for weeks at a time, according to a new study.
A report from the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project found that some 61 percent of Facebook users had taken a hiatus of at least several weeks for myriad reasons, whether they were weary from an onslaught of gossip, or for the more pious, the arrival of Lent.
Yet the use of Facebook, whether constant or not, is pervasive in America.
Of the American adults who use the Internet, 67 percent are on Facebook, Pew found. That compares with 20 percent who use LinkedIn and 16 percent who are on Twitter.
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The Dow Jones industrial average ended the day 99.22 points higher at 13,979.30. The Standard & Poor's 500 gained 15.59 points to 1,511.29. The Nasdaq composite was up 40.41 points to 3,171.58.
Benchmark oil for March delivery rose 47 cents to finish at $96.64 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Crude dropped by $1.60 to finish at $96.17 a barrel.
Wholesale gasoline added 3 cents to finish at $3.04 per gallon. Natural gas rose 8 cents to end at $3.40 per 1,000 cubic feet. Heating oil gained 4 cents to finish at $3.19 a gallon.


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With industry sounding the alarm on pending greenhouse gas emissions regulation, how much of an impact will the new rules have on the economy? During today's OnPoint, David Doniger, policy director of the Climate Center at the Natural Resources Defense Council, explains why he believes EPA regulation of emissions will have minimal economic impacts. He says states and industry have had adequate time to prepare for the new regulations and discusses efforts in Congress to restrict EPA from regulating.


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We talk a lot about online video advertising, but we've never really combined all the options into one big list in the past. So, here you go, one ReelSEO Show Reel of online video advertising networks (in reverse alphabetical order so as not to show any favoritism and be unique). If you're interested in tracking views across all major online video platforms, talk to our partners at Tubular Labs.
All copy taken from the respective websites. If you're looking for a more subjective piece on whom you should use, check out Christophor Rick's previous article Video Ad Networks – Where Should You Place Your Video Ads?. This list does not include mobile-only video ad networks.
In-Stream Video Advertising Networks
This is not a top ten list. If I've missed one or two ad networks, please let me know in the comments area below and we'll add them over time.
As one of the leading video ad technology companies, YuMe understands the needs of marketers and their agencies to deliver results through effective and efficient delivery of their video campaigns across all screens. With brand-safe content, unmatched data and analytics, powerful reporting, and tremendous reach, they offer the tools marketers need to make connections with consumers and meet their campaign goals.
VPN – Video Performance Network
Video Performance Network is the Premier Video CPA Network that is unleashing revolutionary new standards in Video and Affiliate Marketing. Clickthru rates on Video are tremendously higher than banner click rates. Their platform levels the playing field by allowing Affiliates and Advertisers to cooperate and share in the rewards of advertising through Video.
This pack of people live with one passion only – to find and create as many platforms of entertainment communication as can possibly exist over the Internet! This includes live TV broadcasting, Mobile TV, Video On Demand to mobiles, Internet TV box, social network portals, web marketing portals. Their vision is to bring global communities together and provide virtual home environment – Anywhere – Anytime.
Vdopia is the largest Video Ad Network and Video Ad Platform that targets Indians across the world. It provides advertisers opportunity to advertise on the most premium online video content available on the internet. The company's proprietary BrandConnect Ad technology combines the advantages of TV and Internet and provides unprecedented value to large brand advertisers and publishers, allowing Vdopia to deliver industry leading CPMs. Vdopia is a video ad network that has managed to monetize online video content effectively, this has resulted in massive growth in online video across all Indian websites.
Value Click Media
ValueClick Media offers innovative performance advertising solutions across its display and lead generation platforms. They leverage their twelve years of experience, proprietary data from across ValueClick, Inc., direct relationships with 8,000 sites, real-time bidding into major exchanges and their market-leading ad targeting and optimization technology to consistently deliver direct response and brand marketing performance of the world's leading online advertisers.
UnderTone (acquired Jambo)
With their syndicated player, content management and ad delivery technology, Undertone delivers premium video inventory, giving marketers a new distribution channel for in-stream video married with high-value, branded content. And, the user-initiated or above-the-fold in-banner placements ensure the ads will be seen.
Tremor Media (Acquired ScanScout earlier in year)
Tremor Media is a leading online video advertising network providing advertisers with video advertising opportunities on over 2,500 in-stream sites and over 5000 in-page sites comprised of top-tier publishers with more than 190 million unique visitors per month. Tremor Media also offers the patent-pending Acudeo Video Monetization Platform for publishers, a full suite of products and services to monetize streaming video and maximize ROI. Tremor Media's full service solutions offer tools for advertisers and publishers to utilize online video advertising as a powerful interactive medium.
Just as Google and Overture revolutionized the search advertising space by creating a frictionless marketplace, the SpotXchange platform connects advertisers and sellers in a transparent and efficient marketplace where supply and demand are matched in real-time. SpotXchange has partnered with hundreds of publishers who represent tens of thousands of sites and tens of millions of daily video impression opportunities. Advertisers of all shapes and sizes, from small local businesses to Madison Avenue's largest brands, currently advertise on the SpotXchange network.
Specific Media (acquired BBE)
Specific Media is one of the world's largest independent media platforms and enables display advertisers to target consumers throughout North America and Western Europe based on demographics, behaviors, geographic locations and the contextual relevance of websites visited. Specific Media's premium display network reaches nearly 160 million US consumers and 260 million consumers globally each month. As part of its continued effort to provide innovative, impactful solutions to brand advertisers, Specific Media wanted to expand its footprint beyond display into video. BBE Inc was an ideal partner with expertise and leadership in all elements of video advertising from the monetization (BBE Media) to tracking (VINDICO) to original programming (BBE OP).
ScanScout (aquired by Tremor Media)
Founded by two friends from MIT in 2005, ScanScout is the web's largest in-stream video ad network, helping top brands engage their target audiences in high performing, 100% brand-safe environments. Their "secret sauce" is their proprietary SE2 technology which analyzes audience behaviors to find the segments advertisers want, and catalogs billions of content data points across their network of sites, allowing us to determine the category and safety of an ad destination before it is served.
SAY Media (formerly VideoEgg, recently purchased SixApart)
The SAY Media platform brings together VideoEgg's rich advertising platform with SixApart's suite of content creation and aggregation tools to power advertising campaigns that are more conversational and interactive. The result is advertising that is more efficient, useful and social.
Monsoon Ads
Monsoon Ads is one of India's largest digital Video Ad networks connecting advertisers and ad agencies to Indian audiences worldwide on major video content Internet portals and mobile applications. Monsoon empowers advertisers and brands to reach highly targeted audiences viewing on-demand video content on the internet and mobile mediums through its state of the art technology and its premium publisher network. Online Video views are growing at an unprecedented rate and Monsoon enables advertisers to leverage this paradigm shift in content viewing trends. Monsoon's flagship advertiser base includes major brands such as MapmyIndia, Lenovo (India), Dish Networks, Star TV, Comcast (US).
Microsoft Advertising
Microsoft Media Network is an ad network of top-ranked commercial sites, which now gets you in front of an even larger audience with the addition of such high-traffic sites as The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, CNBC.com, and Bing, just to name a few. Their ad network is broad, giving you a way to connect with audiences either on a targeted or a performance basis, for excellent reach on a network you can trust.
Hulu – US-only
Leverage one of the web's leading premium content libraries to effectively reach millions of consumers whenever they watch online. Serving hundreds of millions of streams per month, Hulu is a Top 10 online video property featuring an immense collection of premium entertainment across all genres and formats — television shows, feature films, clips and more, regardless of network or studio.
They have always believed that the most effective advertising comes from the intersection of the right ad, targeted to the right person, in the right environment. Not as easy as it sounds. Analyzing the billions of data points in their AMP Audience Cloud, and finding the right, top-tier inventory on the Internet takes experience and know-how.
CBS Interactive
CBS Interactive offers the ability to buy advertising directly through a self service ad store! Purchase inventory across a variety of leading online brands including CNET, CBS.com, TV.com, Gamespot, CBSSports.com, Chow, Urban Baby and many more.
Led by a team of Internet advertising veterans and engineers, BrightRoll has served billions of advertisements since they started. They achieved this growth by enabling agencies and brand advertisers to execute smart video ad campaigns across the industry's leading publishers. Three-quarters of the top 50 advertising agencies work with BrightRoll to execute campaigns for their premier brands. By offering full site disclosure, detailed performance reports and flexible targeting, they provide advertisers with the reach, frequency, scalability, and transparency needed.
Break Media
Through their branded properties and the Break Media Network reach over 70 million men aged 18-34 each month. Break's wholly-owned properties include: Break.com, MadeMan.com, Chickipedia.com, CagePotato.com, HolyTaco.com, ScreenJunkies.com, AllLeftTurns.com, and FileFront.com.
Auditude (also owns Crosspoint Media)
Their platform helps satisfy the increasingly complex requirements of video advertisers while benefiting from multi-party demand. Auditude enable you to engage multiple sellers, turn on integrated ad network demand, and apply complex advertising rules like category exclusions, sponsorships, share of voice, composite ads, in-stream pods, ad pacing—and more.
Advertising.com is the technology, data and insights arm of AOL Advertising. At the heart of Ad.com's technology is AdLearn, the most advanced optimization and bid management system in the business. AdLearn has processed up to ten billion transactions per day for the past ten years.
LongTail's AdSolution includes Premium Ads which are advertisements from high quality advertisers and Ad Networks. Many Premium Ad Networks have minimum volume requirements in order to directly work with them. AdSolution provides publishers, who do not meet those minimum volume requirements, a way to work with Premium Ad Networks. Sample Premium Ad Networks include Google's AdSense for Video, Scanscout, and Yume. The AdSolution is LongTail Video's self service Video Advertising Network used by thousands of websites which serves hundreds of millions of Video Ads monthly. Websites that use the JW Player can sign up and start running Video Ads in minutes.
AdoTube provides agencies and advertisers with premium in-stream atop relevant video content, helping media buyers utilize the video space efficiently and effectively to accomplish various goals: branding, tune-in, engagement, return on ad spend, leads, etc. AdoTube has worked with leading brands such as Federal Express, ABC, AT&T and Fox and has partnered with top digital agencies, including: Media Contacts, Mediaedge, OMD, Avenue A, and many others.
Online video advertising, a natural extension of the successful TV format, combines the power of the moving image with the interactivity and target-ability of the web. Adconion offers targeting technology, a breadth of video advertising executions and creative production studios.
adBrite's Exchange provides a yield management solution. Their advertisers range from small local companies to world-wide advertising agencies, to demand side platforms, real time bidders, ad networks, and everyone in between.
adap.tv develops video advertising trading, serving and management technology. The adap.tv marketplace (atm) is an online video advertising marketplace. atm connects advertisers, agencies, publishers and ad networks with a robust marketplace to make smart buying and selling decisions in real-time. adap.tv is also the creator of OneSource, an online video ad serving platform.
Video Ad Networks – Video Seeding
YouTube Promoted Videos
Whether an AdAge 100 advertiser or a local retailer, everyone can broadcast their ad campaign on YouTube and tap into the world's largest online video community with promoted videos. You can easily drive additional views to your videos on a cost-per-view basis and doing so allows you to place an overlay ad on your video directing users back to a URL of your choosing. You can learn more about the benefits of YouTube Promoted Videos here.
TubeMogul PlayTime
TubeMogul delivers video views for any online video campaign . They offer advanced targeting capabilities in the industry, transparency and robust campaign measurement.
Sharethrough is a social video advertising platform and distribution network. Sharethrough's customers include top brands, media and creative agencies. The company has run over 200 social video advertising campaigns, including some of the most watched brand videos to-date. Founded in 2008 by Brett Keintz, Dan Greenberg, Matt Monahan and Rob Fan, Sharethrough is based in San Francisco.
AlphaBird enables video content producers to engage a guaranteed target audience with their video through a network of website publishers, social networks, mobile devices, and digital out-of-home devices. AB guarantees delivery of any video to any desired audience on a performance basis. AlphaBird was founded and is managed by online video industry veterans from ValueClick (NASDAQ: VCLK), InfoSpace (NASDAQ: INSP), and Sony (NYSE: SNE).
Misc Video Ad Solutions
SocialAds (by TwitVid)
Over 100 million people visit Twitter every month and use Twitter to get the latest news and updates from businesses they like. Building and engaging a Twitter audience is important for social media marketing. SocialAds can help to get more Twitter Followers and Retweets using online video.
AffiliatePLY, a PLYmedia division, is a video ad network that enables video distribution and monetization, based on various commission models. It enables advertisers to gain from the power of affiliates, by re-purposing their commercial or tutorial video content and by enabling for distribution of their video and campaigns based on action rather than impressions. Publishers can provide their viewers with an interactive video experience and earn money for directing relevant and meaningful viewers to the video advertisers.
Cutting through the hype – Top Video Ad Networks
As I said, all that copy above is from their websites, read that article I mentioned for some thought on where to go and why. For pure facts, here are comScore's Top Ten video ad networks as of September 2010 in terms of video ads viewed. Also – here is a post written by Christophor Rick showing his choice in video ad networks.


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Anti-Gov wrote:The truth is mankind cant deal with something that can not be explained,so we turn to other things (such as the sun, rocks, trees) and say that they are the meaning of life.
Anti-Gov wrote:from religon is power up to 500years ago the Roman catholic church were the richest most powerful organisation ever built so if a "God" exists why would he let others profit from telling news about him.
kings and queens are "chosen by God" to have power over others why would "God" give power when it says in the bible we are all equal.
Anti-Gov wrote:To be free you mustt free your self from laws, brain washing and lies of this world
To be free you mustt free your self from laws, brain washing and lies of this world
Anti-Gov wrote:hahaha first off im not a american - Not an excuse. In fact it's a terrible reason, most non-Americans learn better English spelling and grammar than Americans.
second they are my own views - Certainly looks like standard copypasta talking points to me.
and third i am dislecisc - Have you tried typing on your keyboard looking at it through a mirror configured above your monitor? Might help.
My proposal. Instead of spouting rhetoric against the current systems. Write a blog post on how you would see your Utopian society working from top to bottom and how it would handle things in regards to common human nature. Our current systems may be flawed but they are better than nothing. Strip away the binds that tie someone like me... there is totally this chic on the 5th floor in the building I work in that I'd drag into a dark alley somewhere and rape the shit out of... seriously.. so hot. How would you stop me? I have dark and evil twisted thoughts... I have a legion of my own that would rise up in the absence of religion and government to install a newer, more brutal reign of terror.... how would you stop me?
Mars7411 wrote:Honestly, I would rather have no government system at all than the system we have today.
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Reveals the causes and effects of destructive comparisons, and shows how knowing Christ is the key to real contentment.
"I am a recovering Compulsive Comparison Syndrome sufferer. It causes me to feel envy, despair, pride and superiority. It cuts away at my relationship with God, with my loved ones, and with myself. It has promised me contentment, and yet robbed me of it.
And although I don't know you at all, I'm fairly sure you have CCS, too. That's not meant to sound rude. It's just that I've rarely met a woman who doesn't struggle with it."
This book is about how to spot this syndrome and its effects in your life; the view of life that causes it; how the gospel treats it; and how you can move beyond it to live a life of true, lasting contentment.
|Sophie de Witt
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|September 2012
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Find out what others are saying about 'Compared to her' here
Accessible, jargon-free and dealing with a struggle that women are very prone to, this is a really helpful book for encouraging women to think about how they compare themselves to others, as well as finding the way out of such a comparison-driven life.
Author Sophie is honest, humble and forthright as she shows how comparing herself to others has caused suffering in her own life. This book is easy to read, short enough to use for a teaching session of material, and really gets down to the raw facts of why we compare ourselves to others. Sophie then takes us through practical ways to stop the comparison competition and shows how we need to focus on God and use Him as our ultimate guide to how to act and who to be like. Every teenage girl should be gifted a copy of this by their youth group, it would truly help a whole generation of young women know how to serve their sisters in Christ.
This book helps to reveal more of the depths of our hearts and uncover sinful habits and patterns that might go unnoticed for years otherwise. The way this book pointed us to the satisfaction Jesus brings was very refreshing and powerful. Great for a book club discussion - we organised one for women in our church and there were many helpful and honest discussions which came out of the book.
Great book, reading with our ladies group at church, enjoying discussing each chapter at a time each week and seeing more about why we compare ourselves to each other and resetting our thinking to be be most interested in what Jesus thinks of us not each other!
This is very easy to read, and I found it enormously helpful.
i instantly recognised my tendancy to compare myself with others - & the consequences!
Everything which is said is based on & backed up by scriptures I knew already, but Sophies exploration is very clear and helpful. I found the online downloads available after purchasing the book to be useful too.
I have already given 2 copies away - one to my son, who found it just as helpful as I did, and has passed it on to a friend..
I would definitely reccommend this book!
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A wonderful book for women, girls and mummies, who are constantly bombarded with media pressure to 'keep up with the jones's'. After reading over a week, I found contentment within my home, house, family and career, and no longer feel the need to compare my achievements to others. With relevant passages from the bible, and contemporary though, a good combination for the modern woman.
I knew this book would be helpful, but I didn't realise how helpful. I have bought and given away three extra copies already! Sophie gives a name to our continual comparisons and suggests that this is an issue for every woman - a bold claim - but I absolutely agree with her. Thank you for rebuking and exhorting your sisters.
This book really resonated with my experience! All women should read it. Very encouraging and helpful.
This book is excellent. It exhorts us to find our satisfaction, security and significance in Christ but in such a way that we first see how sin takes hold in this area and then see how the gospel offers freedom. The application is so specific that it's impossible to dodge!
'My other half (who I honestly used to joke was my "better" half) would surely back up my confession that when we met I used to compare myself with others like something chronic! If it was not my sister, it was my parents... colleagues... friends... the lady on the tube... God himself... the list was endless. Even once I'd met Jesus, a hugely reassuring event, I quickly found myself anxiously worrying whether I was "normal" and "good enough for God" despite the sins of my youth and my very present weaknesses. On good days I would be proud to be "a success" and on bad days I would feel like "a total failure". I swung from one extreme position on my plucked-from-thin-air ranking system to another and my mood with it!
This book put the magnifying glass over the problem and with gospel insight informed me: I was not alone, why we do this, of our design, how CCS affects us and our relationships with others (most importantly, our relationship with God), that it was not meant to be like this, how we can change and why this would delight God.
I can honestly say that since reading this book, I now have an explanation for my thoughts, can catch myself when I'm doing it, attempt to tell my head to drop it (with a prayer for help to God) and slowly and surely I hope I am making solid steps to a recovery from the exhausting CCS. Whilst old habits can trip us up from time to time, the knowledge of God's amazing grace and patience He has with us as we learn is so encouraging.
I have read this book three times myself (leaving it on my nightstand for reference), given it to two friends since (one Christian, one just looking for answers), and recommended it to many more. A must have! I would love to see a masculine equivalent... I think this is a human condition!!'


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The director of the Swedish film "The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo" has a message for Hollywood: why mess up a good thing?
In an interview on the website Word & Film, filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev criticized the planned English-language version of the film based on Swedish author Steig Larsson's best-selling crime thriller.
"Even in Hollywood there seems to be a kind of anger about the remake, like, 'Why would they remake something when they can just go see the original?'" he said. "Everybody who loves film will go see the original one."
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Oplev, whose third film in the Millennium trilogy is currently out in theaters globally, said he hadn't been consulted about director David Fincher's project, which is expected out next December, according to E! News.
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"It's like, what do you want to see, the French version of 'La Femme Nikita' or the American one?" he said.
Opelv did not mention by name Rooney Mara, who is set to star as the Hollywood film's strong-willed computer hacker protagonist Lisbeth Salander.
But he said Hollywood's Salander could never "compete" with the legacy of Swedish actress Noomi Rapace.
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3. a black ball in snooker, etc
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In the UK (and elsewhere), however, there is controversy about the use of the term to describe 'non-white' persons of Asian origin. Many Asians object to the use of the word 'black' to describe them and argue that this usage confuses the identity of a large number of very different ethnic groups such as Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Indians, West Indians, Africans and so on. The counter argument is that 'non-white' persons in the UK can be subject to DISCRIMINATION and institutionalized RACISM whatever their ethnic or national origins. In this sense, groups of both African and Asian origin share, to a significant extent, a common experience. See also BLACK POWER MOVEMENT, NEGRITUDE.
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Scientists have shown that using mud from waste water treatment plants as a partial alternative fuel can enable cement factories to reduce their CO2 emissions and comply with the Kyoto Protocol, as well as posing no risk to human health and being profitable. These are the results of an environmental impact assessment.
Dependency on oil and coal could be coming to an end. Researchers from the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) have analysed the environmental and human health impacts of an alternative fuel that solves various problems simultaneously. This is the solid waste from the water treatment plants of large cities.
The scientists have carried out the first study into this method at a cement plant in Vallcarca (Catalonia), which has been producing cement for more than 100 years, and they confirm in the latest issue of the journal Environmental Science and Pollution Research that it is "the best option for getting rid of mud that would have had to be dumped elsewhere, while also powering the plant".
"As this mud is already waste, burning it does not enter into the atmospheric CO2 emissions assigned to each country under the Kyoto Protocol", José Luis Domingo, lead author of the study and director of the Toxicology and Environmental Health Laboratory at the URV, tells SINC.
This would enable plants producing cement, one of the most contaminating industries in terms of CO2 as well as emissions of dioxins, furans and heavy metals, to consume energy in a more environmentally-friendly way. Up to 20% of the fossil fuel energy used at the Catalan plant has now been substituted for the fuel from waste water treatment plant mud.
From an economic point of view, the scientists will not say that cement plants could increase their profits by using this method, but "they will not have to pay anything to exceed their agreed emissions", the researcher points out. The economic benefits of this system also depend on the price of fuel.
One of the most important issues for the URV scientists is the reduction in environmental impact, and consequently the health risks for people living near the plants. The experiment with the mud has led to a 140,000 tonne reduction in CO2 emissions between 2003 and 2006, and will have limited the potential deaths from exposure to chemical pollutants. In addition, the study shows that using this green fuel would reduce the cancer rate by 4.56 per million inhabitants.
The researchers say it is essential to carry out separate studies for each plant because "we still don't know whether this will be positive for the whole cement industry", according to Domingo. However, if the conditions are right, using mud from waste water treatment plants in cement factories is "a very good solution", he concludes.


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Beat the Streak Report: Friday, June 19
Today's recommended picks
Hanley Ramirez, SS, Marlins
5-for-7 (.714 AVG) lifetime vs. Yankees starter Andy Pettitte
Ichiro Suzuki, OF, Mariners
17-for-45 (.378 AVG) lifetime vs. D-backs starter Jon Garland
David Wright, 3B, Mets
24-for-59 (.407 AVG) in June
Saturday's recommended picks
Joe Mauer, C, Twins
19-for-43 (.442 AVG) during 10-G hitting streak
Ichiro Suzuki, OF, Mariners
Leads AL with .349 AVG
Pablo Sandoval, C/CI Giants
22-for-55 (.400 AVG) in June
Sunday's recommended picks
Freddy Sanchez, 2B, Pirates
22-for-55 (.400 AVG) lifetime at Coors Field
Adrian Beltre, 3B, Mariners
21-for-63 (.333 AVG) in June
David Wright, 3B, Mets
24-for-59 (.407 AVG) in June
BTS all-time leader: Michael Karatzia, 49
MLB all-time leader: Joe DiMaggio, 56
Yesterday's results
With his selection of Rangers third baseman Michael Young on Thursday, BTS leader Tanner Nielson extended his streak to a season-high 41 games, putting him just 16 picks away from the $1 million-plus grand prize.
Yesterday's Top 5 most selected players
1. Ichiro Suzuki (SEA): 10.4%, 1-for-5
2. David Wright (NYM): 5.5%, 0-for-4
3. Lance Berkman (HOU): 5.1%, 0-for-4
4. Michael Young (TEX): 4.8%, 2-for5
5. Kevin Youkilis (BOS): 4.7%, 1-for-2
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Ichiro: 1st inning single—–> leader is up to 42 games.
good luck tanners
tanners has Ichiro Suzuki today.
I went with Joe Mauer: the night game should ensure that he actually starts and he just rested Thursday, so odds are extremely high that he will be in the starting lineup.
In fact, 11 of the 25 players on page # 1 of the active leaderboard have Ichiro Suzuki and another 8 players have Joe Mauer.
The other 6 selections are: Jason Kubel, Adrian Gonzalez, Torii Hunter, Brian Roberts, Derrek Lee, and Chase Utley.
JM will be in the line-up. I have no doubt but will he be 100%? I think he is still recovering from the flu.
For JM, this is an ideal hitting situation for him but Moehler has been pitching a lot better lately.
For Suzuki, he has gotten 1 hit for last 3 days. Is he slowing down or is he due for big day today? Can he be due for 0-for today?
I think both are very good picks on a day of not so great choices. Those are thoughts that ran through my mind. I knew most people will go with either JM or Suzuki today. I imagined Wildtanners going with Mauer though.
Wildtanners is playing it smart. Think about it, with a streak of 42 he only needs a modest 15 games hitting streak to reach the goal. I think I would ride Ichiro as well. Nobody else is capable of putting together as many 15 game hit streaks as Ichiro. I would take Ichiro at least 80% the rest of the way.
Well I do remember the 49-game hit streak being susceptible to picking Ichiro too much.
If I was tanners though, I would definitely not look at these comments, until the streak ends.
I would not want to be influenced by these comments and then lose because of this advice.
In fact, I would not talk to anyone about the contest at this point.
Do you agree?
Monday is going to be the hardest day since the ones who he might pick are all not playing so if he can get through Monday in tact he may do it.
I don't think tomorrow is so easy as well. Ichiro is facing a lefty he doesn't have much experience against. I remember the guy who got to 49 lost picking Ichiro against Kenny Rogers, another lefty. Wandy Rodriguez shuts down lefties so you can't be overly confident with picking Mauer. I could see him going with Sanchez vs. De La Rosa and even though hes 4-8 ya never know what could happen.
The problem with Sanchez is he CAN'T hit during day games. Look at his #s. He is low .200s during day time.
I am hoping the leaders pick Ichiro tomorrow. Ichiro takedowns is always against a lefty. Last year (spooky93), as mentioned above, was Kenny Rogers. This yr, Choteria was Lillriano.
I wouldn't pick Mauer either. He is beginning to slump. I know he hit a HR today but HRs are always pitcher's mistake.
BTW, both of Ichiro's "hits" today were iffy ones. Justin Upton should had that ball. And that deflector against a pitcher. Those are just lucky shots.
Hi everyone…. Is this firstname.lastname@example.com a real player? How come you can see his emal? Is he trying to throw us off or something?
If you never picked a screename for yourself, your posts just show your e-mail address instead.
Also, wildtanners today has Freddy Sanchez.
I went with Scott Podsednik.
Sorry, I forgot to include the rest of the Top 5:
paulcmoss84 went with Ichiro Suzuki at 37 games.
crtownse went with Shane Victorino at 36 games.
FROD also went with Freddy Sanchez at 34 games.
rudyandsam made NO SELECTION at 32 games.
And he was not even the only NO SELECTION on the first page of the active leaderboard!
Eyes_on_Me_viii at 24 games also made NO SELECTION!
I cannot fathom how you forget to make a pick, when you are so close to the leaders and have such a rare streak?
Just this week, I also saw a guy with a 6-game HR streak use NO SELECTION as his pick, even though the leader is only at 7.
Especially for a day like today though? Picks almost always lock at 100 PM on Sundays.
I could maybe partially understand if there was a surprise 1230 start today, but even then, I still do not understand that.
leadoff single for Scott Podsednik!
I conquered the "not so easy day."!!!
champion88 thanks. Although a Sox fan very rarely I pick a Sox player, they are just not consistent enough although Pods has been hot. I went with Jeter. Didnt get a hit yesterday and the opposing pitcher is pretty bad lately. You got a good streak going?
with 4 games on monday, its not a cinch
Wow. Surprised to see Sanchez with 2 hits. I thought maybe he was due for 0-for with his day games bta.
So is everyone riding the D. Lee hitting streak train tomorrow? It would be really funny it it happens to stop on the very day he goes against the pitcher he owns. Vazquez has been lights out for the last 3 starts. Do you dare? He is throwing nothing but smokes.
Champion I definitely agree. If I was Tanners I wouldn't read the posts and I probaly wouldn't give interviews either. There is no doubt that once you pass 40 the pressure mounts daily. I remember spooky writing about that last year.
I would definitely look at the suggested picks though, but you can find those from the pick selection menu.
I might also write up some explanation for why I made my pick each day and either send it to the guy who writes the blog or click on comments, close my eyes, scroll to the bottom, and post it there, just so everyone knew how I was making my picks, but still not have it impact my picks.
I also would not go on this blog to send the comment until after the picks locked, so I could prevent it from impacting my thinking.
The mounting pressure is probably why no one has ever won, as the 80-90% chance of success each day drops into the 50s and 60s, which can eliminate streaks quickly.
On the positive side, I convinced 2 of my friends to start playing this contest now!
champion_88, at this point in the streak, I don't think its the thinking process as more of many factors that are beyond anyone's control except the players.
I doubt anybody made up to above 30 making foolish picks. If they did, they would have been long gone before that. Picks all look brilliant until they end the streak.
I think it has simply been very easy picking for the last month. Wildtanners & others happened to be riding the streak during that time.
Ichiro or Mauer were nothing like this last yr. Chipper and Berkman were hot very early last yr but they started fizzled too early to help those with long streaks.
I think to a great extent, a lot of this will be based on luck. I am sure there a plenty of others who would be at 44 if not for that one day. And I don't think having picked the "right" player that day does not make one more skillful at it.
With so many people playing, one player will bound to luck in or out.
Well yeah, luck does play a small factor, but I have always thought that there has to be some magic formula out there, to sustain a streak for that length of time, especially since each year, the leaders squeak out a few more games on top of the old record…a streak that ended last year with only 48, as opposed to the old 49.
Each formula that we use is almost "destined" to work for a certain period of time, before snapping. The key is to figure out a formula that will work for about 60 days, giving you room for a few rainouts and days where your pick does not play.
The other possible key is to be able to identify when your formula is about to crack and then jump to a new formula.
Obviously, either of these keys is extremely difficult to do, but that is how you can win the contest.
The reason I have said that the % chances drop into the 50s and 60s, once one gets above 40, is because you tend to cluster around the same four or five players that have helped you the most over the years.
For example, on a day where you do not have a clear idea of who to go for, you might just fall back on Ichiro, because he is Ichiro and is the only one who racks up that many 15-game hit streaks, whereas Player X might clearly be stronger, even if his name is not as recognizable.
A great example of this idea I think is Andrew McCutchen. If you wanted to pick from the Pirates today and were scared of his .200 daytime average (Has this stat been a career-long trend for him? Fausto Carmona was 8-0 through in day games for the first 3 months last season, but this trend did not carry over until this year,) I think McCutchen is probably hotter right now, but Freddy Sanchez has more name recognition, so you are more likely to pick him.
Now both hitters picked up 2 hits, but that could be the sort of thing where McCutchen comes through and Sanchez has an 0 for Y, where if your streak was smaller you would go with McCutchen, but since your streak is already in the 40s, you fall into the trap of relying only on established veterans, where stronger, but less recognizable options are available.


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Moblin v2.0 for Intel Atom Processor based netbooks is already available. Developers with Linux experience will find it easy to target this new attractive platform. However, many developers have many questions related to the multicore support offered this new operating system. [Editor's Note: For more information on Moblin, see Dr. Dobb's Moblin Zone.]
Most modern Atom processors offer Hyper-Threading. I've already talked about some experiences in Downsizing Multicore Programming Skills to Take Advantage of Intel Atom. When you check the microprocessors' specifications, the manufacturer explains that the operating system and the applications have to be optimized to take advantage of Hyper-Threading. What about Moblin v2.0? Does it support multicore? Is it able to scale when more cores are available? There is already a netbook manufacturer using two Intel Atom processors, creating a multiprocessor netbook. Is Moblin v2.0 able to support this configuration?
The answer to all these questions is simple: Moblin v2.0 uses a Linux kernel. Therefore, checking the Linux kernel version, I'll be able to answer all these questions. Opening a Terminal window and typing:
uname -sr
You can get the complete kernel name and its release number.
The result will display:
Linux 18.104.22.168-4.1.moblin2-netbook
as shown in the following:
This means that we have an operating system using a Linux 126.96.36.199-4.1 kernel for Moblin v2.0. You can check all the features supported in the same release for the generic kernel in http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/. Nonetheless, my focus is on the multicore and Hyper-Threading support. This kernel version has full support for multicore and Hyper-Threading, therefore, you have a multiprocessor capable kernel. Moblin v2.0 scheduler can work with 2 or more logical cores. If you install Moblin v2.0 in a netbook with more than one Intel Atom processor, it will be able to take full advantage of all the available logical cores.
You can also run the following command to get the kernel:
uname -v
You can get the detailed version information.
The result will display:
#1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 27 12:26:15 UTC 2009
as shown in the following picture:
It is very clear that the kernel offers SMP support. Does it recognize the underlying hardware, with Hyper-Threading enabled? It's also easy to check it.
Opening a Terminal window and typing:
You can get the detailed information about the logical (hardware threads) and physical cores detected by Moblin v2.0.
The result will display:
You can see it in the following picture:
This means that the CPU is running at 800 MHz instead of 1,600 MHz (1.6 GHz) because it's idle. If you run the command many times, it will show different speeds, according to the logical cores' load. In the following picture, the same command shows the CPU running at 1,600 MHz.
Using your parallel programming skills, you can take advantage of the two hardware threads available and achieve a better performance when targeting Moblin v2.0 running on Intel Atom processors. Don't even think about creating serial code when you have two hardware threads available. Remember, the battery life is also going to thank your efforts to take advantage of Hyper-Threading on these platforms.