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Research Papers / Publications
A. Arlotto, J. Michael Steele (2016), Beardwood-Halton-Hammersly Theorem for Stationary Ergodic Sequences: a Counter-example, Annals of Applied Probability, (to appear).
A. Arlotto, J. Michael Steele (2016), Quickest Online Selection of an Increasing Subsequence of Specified Size, Random Structures and Algorithms, (to appear).
J. Michael Steele (2016), The Bruss-Robertson Inequality: Elaborations, Extensions, and Applications, Mathematica Applicanda (Annales Societatis Mathematicae Polonae Series III), 44 (to appear).
J. Michael Steele, Peichao Peng (Under Review), Analogs of Records: Relative Sequential Selections: Relaxed or Constrained.
J. Michael Steele, Peichao Peng (2016), Sequential Selection of a Monotone Subsequence from a Random Permutation, Proceedings of the American Mathematics Society, to appear.
J. Michael Steele, A. Arlotto (2016), A Central Limit Theorem for Temporally Non-Homogenous Markov Chains with Applications to Dynamic Programming, Mathematics of Operations Research, to appear.
J. Michael Steele, V. Posdnyakov (2016), Buses, Bullies, and Bijections, Mathematics Magazine, to appear.
Abba M. Krieger, Samuel-Cahn, E. (2016), A Generalized Secretary Problem, Journal of Sequential Analysis, to appear.
Howard Kunreuther, Erwann Michel-Kerjan, Michael Useem, Rethinking Catastrophic Risk: How Corporate America Copes with Disruption (2016).
Luis Ballesteros, Howard Kunreuther, "Organizational Learning from Catastrophes". In Rethinking Catastrophic Risk: How Corporate America Copes with Disruption, edited by Howard Kunreuther, Erwann Michel-Kerjan, Michael Useem, (2016).
Howard Kunreuther, Erwann Michel-Kerjan, Michael Useem, Rethinking Catastrophic Risk: How Corporate America Copes with Disruption (2016).
Howard Kunreuther, Luis Ballesteros, "Deciding in the Context of Low-Probability Shocks: Biases, Heuristics, and Uncertainty". In Rethinking Catastrophic Risk: How Corporate America Copes with Disruption, edited by Howard Kunreuther, Erwann Michel-Kerjan, Michael Useem, (2016).
Howard Kunreuther, Erwann Michel-Kerjan, Michael Useem, Rethinking Catastrophic Risk: How Corporate America Copes with Disruption (2016).
Fei Gao, Morris A. Cohen, Shiliang Cui (Work In Progress), New Drug Design and FDA Approval.
Fei Gao, Xuanming Su (Working), Dynamics of Trust in Forecast Information Sharing.
Fei Gao (Work In Progress), Management Social Network and Firm Operational Performance: An Empirical Study.
Howard Kunreuther, ed., How Corporate America deal with Disasters (2016).
Jeremy Yip, Kelly Lee, Cindy Chan, Alison Wood Brooks (Working), Expressions of gratitude promote selfish behavior.
Lynn Wu, Lorin M. Hitt, Fujie Jin (2016), Are All Spillovers Created Equal? A Network Perspective on IT Labor Movements, Management Science, Forthcoming.
Berkeley J. Dietvorst, Joseph Simmons, Cade Massey (2016), Overcoming Algorithm Aversion: People Will Use Algorithms If They Can (Even Slightly) Modify Them, Management Science, forthcoming. Abstract
Emma Dean, Frank Schilbach, Heather Schofield (Forthcoming), Poverty and Cognitive Function .
Robert Mislavsky, Uri Simonsohn (Under Revision), Weird Transactions Lower Valuations: Evidence from the 'Uncertainty' Effect.
Necati Tereyagoglu, Peter Fader, Senthil Veeraraghavan (2016), Pricing Theater Seats: The Value of Price Commitment and Monotone Discounting, Production and Operations Management
Necati Tereyagoglu, Peter Fader, Senthil Veeraraghavan (2016), Multi-attribute Loss Aversion and Reference Dependence: Evidence from the Performing Arts Industry, Management Science
Abba M. Krieger, Leonard Lodish, Ye Hu (2016), An Integrated Procedure to Pretest and Select Advertising Campaigns for TV and Beyond, Journal of Customer Needs and Solutions, 3 (2), 81 - 93. doi: 10.1007/s40547-016-0065-4.
Fei Gao, Xuanming Su (Under Revision), Omnichannel Service Operations with Online and Offline Self-Order Technologies.
Joseph Simmons, Uri Simonsohn (2016), Power Posing: P-curving the Evidence, Psychological Science , forthcoming. Abstract Related Materials
Erwann Michel-Kerjan (2016), "Freshwater Flood Risk Assessment and North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones" (with J. Czajkowski, G. Villarini, M. Montgomery, and R. Goska) , Under review.
Erwann Michel-Kerjan (2016), Does Federal Disaster Relief Create Crowding Out? Evidence from the United States (with C. Kousky and P. Raschky) , Under review
Erwann Michel-Kerjan (2016), How political affiliation affect adaptation to climate risks: Evidence from New York City with W. Botzen, H. Kunreuther, H.de Moela and J. Aerts), Under review.
Jehoshua Eliashberg, Thorsten Hennig-Thurau, Charles B. Weinberg, Berend Wierenga (2016), Of Video Games, Music, Movies, and Celebrities, International Journal of Research in Marketing, 33 (2), 241 - 245.
Grant Packard, Anocha Aribarg, Jehoshua Eliashberg, Natasha Foutz (2016), The Role of Network Embeddeness in Film Success, International Journal of Research in Marketing, 33 (2), 328 - 342.
Fei Gao, Xuanming Su (2016), Online and Offline Information for Omnichannel Retailing, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Forthcoming.
Justin Sirignano, Gerry Tsoukalas, Kay Giesecke (2016), Large-Scale Loan Portfolio Selection, Operations Research, (Forthcoming). Abstract
John Beshears, Katherine L. Milkman, Joshua Schwartzstein (2016), Beyond Beta-Delta: The Emerging Economics of Personal Plans, American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings
Jeremy Yip, Maurice Schweitzer (Under Review), Losing perspective: Anger harms perspective-taking. Abstract
Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers (2016), Reminders Through Association, Psychological Science
Bradley Staats, Hengchen Dai, David Hofmann, Katherine L. Milkman (2016), Motivating Process Compliance through Electronic Monitoring: The Benefits and Limitations of Electronic Monitoring on Hand Hygiene in Healthcare, Management Science
Jeremy Yip, Martin Schweinsberg (Under Revision), Infuriating impasses: Expressing anger increases negotiation impasses. Abstract
J. Minson, Eric Van Epps, Jeremy Yip, Maurice Schweitzer (Under Review), Questions increases honest disclosure.
Jeremy Yip, Maurice Schweitzer, Samir Nurmohamed (Under Revision), Trash-talking: Competitive incivility motivates rivalry, performance, and unethical behavior. Abstract
Jeremy Yip, Stéphane Côté, Dana Carney (Under Revision), The ability to follow your gut: Emotion-understanding ability leverages feelings to avoid risk.. Abstract
Jack B. Soll, Katherine L. Milkman, John Payne, "Outsmart Your Own Biases" in Harvard Business Review.
Sydney Scott, Yoel Inbar, Paul Rozin (2016), Evidence for Absolute Moral Opposition to Genetically Modified Food in the United States, Perspectives on Psychological Science
Frank Schilbach, Heather Schofield, Sendhil Mullainathan (2016), The Psychological Lives of the Poor, American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings Abstract
Jeremy Yip, Maurice Schweitzer (2016), Mad and misleading: Incidental anger promotes deception, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Abstract
Dan Iancu, Trichakis Nikos, Gerry Tsoukalas (2016), Is Operating Flexibility Harmful under Debt?, Management Science Abstract
Shlomo Benartzi, John Beshears, Katherine L. Milkman, Cass Sunstein, Richard H Thaler, Maya Shankar, Will Tucker, William J. Congdon, Steven Galing (Working), Should Governments Invest More in Nudges?.
Edward Chang, Katherine L. Milkman, Dolly Chugh, Modupe Akinola (Working), 'Twokenism' on Corporate Boards: Threshold Effects and Gender Diversity.
John Beshears, Hengchen Dai, Katherine L. Milkman, Shlomo Benartzi (Working), The Explicit and Implicit Messages Embedded in Choice Architecture Designs: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Retirement Savings.
Robert Mislavsky, Berkeley Dietvorst, Uri Simonsohn (Working), Critical Condition: People Only Object to Corporate Experiments if They Object to a Condition.
Jihae Shin, Katherine L. Milkman (2016), How backup plans can harm goal pursuit: The unexpected downside of being prepared for failure, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 135.
Erwann Michel-Kerjan (2016), "Risk Preference Inconsistencies across Low and High Stakes" (with B. Collier, D. Schwartz, H. Kunreuther) , Under review.-
Erwann Michel-Kerjan (2016), An Analysis of Flood Insurance Claims in the United States (with Carolyn Kousky), Journal of Risk and Insurance
Ashish Agarwal, Kartik Hosanagar, Michael B. Smith (Under Revision), Sponsored Search: Do Organic Results Help or Hurt.
Andreas Buja, Abba M. Krieger, Edward I. George, "A Tool for Mining Large Correlation Tables: The Association Navigator". In Handbook of Big Data, edited by Peter Bühlmann, Petros Drineas, Michael Kane, Mark van der Laan, (2016), 73 - 102. Related Materials
Young Jin Lee, Yong Tan, Kartik Hosanagar (Under Revision), Do I Follow My Friends or the Crowds? Examining Informational Cascades in Online Movie Reviews.
Uri Simonsohn, Joseph Simmons, Leif D. Nelson (Under Review), Specification Curve: Descriptive and Inferential Statistics on All Reasonable Specifications. Abstract
Fei Gao, Xuanming Su (2016), Omnichannel Retail Operations with Buy-Online-and-Pickup-in-Store, Management Science, Forthcoming.
Jing Peng, Ashish Agarwal, Kartik Hosanagar, Raghuram Iyengar (Under Revision), Network Embeddedness and Content Sharing on Social Media Platforms. Abstract
Soumya Sen, Roch A. Guerin, Kartik Hosanagar (Under Revision), Shared or Dedicated Infrastructure? On the Impact of Reprovisioning.
Jack B. Soll, Katherine L. Milkman, John Payne, "A User's Guide to Debiasing". In Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making, edited by Gideon Keren, (2016), 924 - 951.
Theresa F. Kelly, Joseph Simmons (2016), When Does Making Detailed Predictions Make Predictions Worse?, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, forthcoming. Abstract Related Materials


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The classic excellently performed.
"I tried."
This book piqued my interest because it was described as having controversial & hilarious religious and 1930s Moscow satire. I think I would have liked this book more if 1) I lived in 1930s Moscow and 2) if I was very religious. But living in 2015 America, this book was just too dull for me. Too, too dull. :( I tried really hard to like it, but just couldn't make it happen. I listened to the audiobook and I WILL say, the reader Julian Rhind-Tutt was phenomenal -- in his pace, tone, voices, and just overall talent. So hats off to him...
I love reading and listening to books, especially fantasy, science fiction, children's, historical, and classics.
"Sympathy from the Devil (and for the Procurator)"
The Prince of Darkness, posing as Professor Woland, specialist in black magic, has come to USSR-era Moscow to people watch and to host his annual ball. And if the Satanic entourage--consisting of Behemoth, a snarky, black cat jester, Azazello, a red-haired buffoonish assassin, Koroviev, a tall, cracked pince-nez wearing interpreter con man, and Hella, a semi-nude succubus--raises a little hell in the city, most of the victims deserve their fates. The satiric mayhem in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita (1928-1940; 1967), smoothly translated by Michael Karpelson, targets the literary world, the mental health profession, the communal apartment system, the police, popular entertainment, greed and pride, and, perhaps, atheistic rationality.
Among those caught up in it all are Berlioz (an editor who believes that Jesus never existed), Ivan "Homeless" (a bad poet who becomes upset by the editor's fate), the managers of the Variety Theater, and, saving the novel, the Master and Margarita. The Master (who has renounced his real name along with the world) has written a novel about the Procurator of Judea, Pontius Pilate, and his brief but eternal relationship with Yeshua Ha-Nozri (Jesus) in Yershalayim (Jerusalem). Through the main story of the devil's visit to modern Moscow, Bulgakov interweaves chapters from the Master's historical novel which feel more vivid, interesting, affecting, strange, and real than most of the surreal contemporary events. The writer's lover, Margarita, has encouraged him and called him the Master because of her esteem for his genius and work, but in a Moscow dominated by atheist literati, to try to publish a novel featuring a real Jesus is to invite public scorn and condemnation, which has driven the Master into an insane asylum.
Part One of Bulgakov's novel was difficult to enjoy, bearing too many too lengthy supposedly funny but actually boring burlesque satiric fantasy sequences, like the nightmare of the chairman of the tenant's association in which he appears on stage before an audience of bearded economists and is commanded by an actor to turn over all his hidden foreign currency. I found that I didn't care for or about most of the Moscow characters and was asking myself, "This is supposed to be one of the greatest novels in the twentieth century?" In fact, if it weren't for two chapters featuring Pilate and Yeshua and one introducing the Master, I might have lost the will to soldier on.
Fortunately, Part Two incorporates more of the Master's novel and begins with Margarita, and because I cared about her and the Master, I began enjoying the surreal fantasy sequences, which became so imaginative, scary, humorous, and moving that I ended up liking Satan and his buffoonish entourage and the novel as a whole. For example, Margarita's application of infernal ointment over her entire body and subsequent witchly joy ("invisible and free!") and flight and ball hostessing are all magically and darkly alive, the marksman contest between Behemoth and Azazello is great fun, Pilate's walk with his dog and Yeshua along a lunar staircase is beautiful, and the ride of the infernal band on black horses into moonlit storm clouds is sublime.
The reader Julian Rhind-Tutt gives a virtuoso performance fluidly switching between a variety of voices for the many different characters in their different moods and modes, among them Behemoth nasally sarcastic and mocking, the devil scary, urbane, and humane, and Yeshua calmly kind and reasonably insane (or unreasonably sane). Although during the first part of the novel's interminable surreal satiric sequences, Rhind-Tutt's frenetic and high-pitched voice got on my nerves, his Pilate, Aphrenius (Pilate's hooded chief of secret police), Yeshua, Devil, and Margarita are all full of wonderful gravitas, and I did enjoy his satanic minions' voices in Part Two of the book, and overall he brought the novel even more to life than only reading it would have done.
You gotta love good advice from the Devil like "Never ask anything of anyone, especially if they are more powerful than you," and "Everyone receives what they believe in," and when you add to them wisdom from Jesus by way of Pilate like "Cowardice is the greatest sin," and then think that Bulgakov was writing during the most oppressive era of the USSR and had his books and plays banned because he would not toe the party line, and that he devastatingly satirizes Moscow and Soviet Union life, and that he sympathetically portrays villains like the Devil and Pilate, when you keep all those things in mind, you sense that Bulgakov must have wished he could make a deal with the devil like the Master's.
Spreadhead and Biblioholic.
"No Wonder Stalin Suppressed Bulgakov's Works"
The Master and Margarita consists of two different story tracks: one involves Satan and his companions arriving in 1930's Moscow, the other involving the crucifixion from Pontius Pilate's point of view. These two narrative threads are intertwined throughout the novel.
The adventures of the Devil and his retainers in Moscow are delightfully absurd. Their brief sojourn in the city is a direct affront to the Stalinist order as they confront corrupt bureaucrats at every turn. This is (I believe) the only classic of Russian literature in which a huge black cat attacks the NKVD with a machine gun. In retrospect, it is a great example of Stalin's caprice (especially when it came to artists) that Bulgakov was allowed to continue breathing, much less working. Not surprisingly, this work was not allowed to be published after well after the deaths of both men.
The passages dealing with Pilate are beautiful. One almost feels sympathy for the Procurator and the sticky situation he finds himself in, trapped between his desire to administer Roman justice and his need to keep the local population mollified. The part concerning the initial trial of Christ is particularly well written.
Even though this is generally regarded as one of the best novels of the twentieth century by many intellectual types, it was a satisfying read and did not feel like "culture". It is depressing to think what other great works might have come out of Russia during the last century if the Soviets had not suppressed all art that did not support their concept of Socialist Realism.
The narration on this was PERFECT. The author's change of tones between the two tracks of the story and his different voices for the characters, especially the devil's retainers, were superb.
"Great story with irregular voice"
This book reveals a surprising story and amateur or metaphors and twisted stories will enjoy it. The voice though is sometimes loud and sometimes very low which made it difficult to follow in the street or public areas. But characters are well impersonated
It's combination of deep psychological insight and its profound,
side splitting humor.
One of the final scenes in which the meaning of forgiveness is portrayed in the experience of Pontius Pilate.
His delivery and insight into Bulgakov's humor is delightful.
Yes. Both.
"Mind bending tales and characters"
Loved how it made my imagination fantasize in new peculiar ways! The situations were brilliantly portraited in an old Moscow that just envelope you. And oh the tales from Pontius Pilot! Exquisite reading. Thank you Messiah.
"Worth it just for the masterful performance"
The jury is still out on the story - at the moment, I don't like the fact that Satan is benevolent in the tale, because he is definitely NOT like that in reality - but I felt compelled to review this book for the superlative performance. It is a sublime to experience the reader getting on the inside of each character, and giving the voice, intonation, accent, etc. that suits the character to perfection. His rendering of Woland is the absolute tops. I just finished - and feel like starting over just to hear again this genius of a reader.
"Fascinating, Fun, but requires knowing the classics"
Would love to see this as a movie or play...it's so visual. Charting the characters names would have been helpful since many are called by more than 1 name. I will read this again when I have time to reread the references and more of the historical reality being satirized.

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Following on from his recent Accountants' guide to Twitter, Mark Lee discusses how accountants can maximise their effectiveness on the site by following a few simple rules.
When it comes to using Twitter there are no absolute rules or universally agreed twitterquette (that's Twitter etiquette for the uninitiated). However, there is a lot that we can learn from the experience of those who've gone before.
Based on my experience over the last year and inspired by a variety of guides to using Twitter for business, I've collated a top ten list of dos and don'ts for accountants who use Twitter.
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Just got this loverly email from some troll saying they found me on RedBuuble and wanted to start a relationship with me…. Ha Ha Ha…
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Boeing to Offer 737 With More Seating
New, Modified Version of 737 Will Have Up to 200 Seats
LONDON— Boeing Co. BA 0.54 % will offer a modified version of its 737, increasing the capacity of the jet to up to 200 seats as the company chases demand from low-cost carriers, Boeing's commercial unit chief executive announced today.
The company signaled its intent to move ahead with the model here Sunday during a media round table with Ray Conner, Boeing's vice chairman and commercial airplane unit chief executive officer ahead of the Farnborough air show, which begins July 14.
With the ability to add the additional seating, Boeing says the new offering will be 5% more efficient per seats than the 737 without an extra door. The aircraft will be slightly more expensive to operate overall, said Mr. Conner, but those will be spread over a greater number of paying passengers.
The additional door will be added to the 737-8, which is now in development and will first deliver in 2017 to Southwest Airlines Co. LUV 1.94 % That aircraft today has a maximum limit of 189 seats, and the new higher-capacity model will follow later, said Mr. Conner.
Rival Airbus Group NV in June unveiled a pair of modifications to its competing single-aisle A320 and A321 jetliners that would increase the capacity of both to 189 and 240 seats, respectively.
The Wall Street Journal reported in June that Boeing was studying launching the modification.
Boeing will be able to increase the seating—not through a stretch of the jet's body, but by adding an additional exit to ensure all 200 passengers can exit the aircraft in less than the required 90 seconds. Passengers should expect less legroom as a result, as each seat will be spaced 29 inches apart, about 2 inches less than current economy seating.
Most airlines will likely not outfit more than 199 seats. Adding that last one means a regulatory requirement in the U.S. and Europe to add an additional—and expensive—flight attendant. Mr. Conner said European low-cost carrier Ryanair Ltd. has been pushing Boeing to increase the 737's capacity.
Earlier last week, Boeing announced that it was offering new, larger overhead bins to accommodate passengers who are increasingly looking to avoid paying to check a bag before boarding.
Boeing on Thursday forecast the average single-aisle jetliner will grow by 10 seats over the next 20 years in aircraft the size of the 189-seat 737-8 model. They attributed that growth to both the use of larger aircraft and increasing the amount of seating inside existing models.
Boeing has sold more than 2,000 737 Max jets, which tout 14% better fuel efficiency with aerodynamic updates new engines from CFM International, a joint venture between General Electric Co. and Safran SA.
Mr. Conner said Boeing and CFM were already exploring ways to further improve the fuel efficiency of its engine. Earlier in the day, rival Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp., announced it would improve its engine for the competing Airbus A320neo family by 2% in 2019.
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Airbus unveiled its A320 and A321 modifications in June, and Boeing on Thursday forecast a 10-seat capacity increase over the next 20 years on certain jetliners. An earlier version of this article had said Airbus's modifications were unveiled in May, and that Boeing had made the forecast on Friday.


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Once you have modified a DetailsView control to use Template fields instead of Bound fields, you are then ready to add validator controls. Each validator control is bound to a single form control and each form control can be validated by one or more validators. You place the validator controls in the same Template fields that host the textboxes or other data entry form controls that the user interacts with to provide data. For this demonstration I'll work with the page named TitleInsertValidation.aspx. In this version of the page there are two Template fields.
One for the Price and the other for the PubDate columns. They each have a TextBox control that allows user to type-in values but currently neither is validated. I'm going to show you how to add validator controls both in Design View and through code. I will start off in Design View. In Design View I'll select the DetailsView control. I'll open its Task list and select Edit Templates. I'll pull down the Template list and show you that there are two sets of templates for each of the two fields that are used in Template fields. Each Template field supports an ItemTemplate for displaying data, and AlternatingItemTemplate that allows you to setup say alternating background colors.
And then this one, the EditItemTemplate. The EditItemTemplate is the one that's used by default for either inserts or updates. I'll select that item for the Price field and I'll show you visually that it's showing the TextBox control that's already a part of the template. Now, I'll add the validator. I'll get out of Full Screen so I can see all of my panels. Then I'll go to the Toolbox panel. I'll move the cursor over the Toolbox tab and then pin the Toolbox panel into place. The validator controls are in a category labeled Validation. There are a number of validators you can choose from. I'm going to be using the RequiredFieldValidator and the RangeValidator.
The first one I'm going to implement will say that the price is required. I'll drag RequiredFieldValidator object and I'll place it inside the template. Then with the RequiredFieldValidator object selected, I'll go to the Properties panel. I'm going to double-click the Properties panel header to make it float, and then I'll drag it out so that it's wider and easier to read. There are two critical properties that you should set. First the ControlToValidate property gets set to the ID of the form control you want to validate. If you are working in the Properties panel, you can click into the ControlToValidate property and then pull down the list and you should see the only form control that's in the template. I'm selecting the Price field.
Then go to the ErrorMessage. The ErrorMessage defaults to the type of control, ReguiredFieldValidator, but it should be customized. And this is the error message that the user will see if they break the validator rules. I'll set the ErrorMessage to 'Price is required.' Now, I'll save the changes and let's see the behavior. I will run the page in the browser, and in the browser I'll simply click the Insert link in the DetailsView control. It's a little hard to see but the actual message Price is required is being displayed right under the control.
I'll show you how to fix the visual problems in just a moment. But let's add a couple of more validators. I'll close the Properties panel so I can return to Design View, and then I'll press Enter to move down to the next line and I'll also add a RangeValidator. A RangeValidator can be used to specify a particular data type: dates, numeric values and so on. And you can also set minimum and maximum values that the user is allowed to type-in. With the RangeValidator selected, I'll press the F4 key to bring back the Properties panel. I'll go to the ControlToValidate. I'll bind it to the same form control as before, price, and I'll set a different ErrorMessage.
This time the ErrorMessage is 'Price must be between 1 and 100.' Next, I'll implement the actual business rules. I'll scroll down a bit to the Type property and I'll set the Type to Double. Set it to Integer for whole numbers or Double for fractional numbers, such as a price. And then I'll set minimum and maximum values. I'll click into the MinimumValue and set it to 1, and the MaximumValue and set it to 100. I'll save my changes and I'll run the page again. And you will see a lot of extra space here. I'll show you how to fix that a little bit later, but now I'll simply click the Insert button and the message Price is required is displayed. And then I'll fill in a value that's non-numeric and click the Insert link again and this time I see the error message, Price must be between 1 and 100. So, that's how you setup the validators in Design View.
Now to do the same thing in Source View, if you prefer, I'll show that I'm going to go to Source View and then I'll press Alt+Shift+Enter to go to Full Screen and I'll locate the RangeValidator that I created for the price. I'll select the RangeValidator code and I'll copy it to the Clipboard. Then I'll go down to the Template field for the PubDate and I'll paste that code in the place within that template. Now I'm going to make changes to the RangeValidator that I just created. First I'll change the ID. It has to be unique within the page. I'll change it from RangeValidator1 to RangeValidator2. Then I'll set the ControlToValidate, changing it from price to pubdate. And I'll set the ErrorMessage to a value of 'Please enter a valid date.' When you use the RangeValidator to validate dates, the minimum and maximum values must be phrased as dates. I'll put in a broad range of dates, setting the MaximumValue to 12/31/2100, and the MinimumValue to 1/1/1900.
And here is the critical piece you must change. The Type attribute which was set to Double instead should be set to Date. So now I have another validator this time connected to the PubDate form control. When user fills in the form if they don't fill the control in with a well-formed date, this validator will trigger and it will show the error message that I specified. Because I didn't add a required validator for this textbox, the rule is that the user has to either enter a well-formed date or they can also leave it blank. I'll save the changes and run the page again.
And I'll click the Insert link and show that I'm only getting the message, Price is required. But now I'll click into the PubDate control and type a value that's not a date, such as the words 'not a date,' and click Insert. And now I also see the message, Please enter a valid date. Now as you can see there are some display issues that are implicit when you add these controls without applying formatting. But I'll show you how to deal with the formatting issues in a separate video.
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Holy Hormones Honey! Methinks new mothers need to seriously consider the benefits of breastfeeding over infant formulas. Although this study focuses on premature infants, one must wonder what other side effects may occur with these formulas. How many years have infant formulas been on the market – and independent studies are now just being done?
Digested Formula, but Not Breast Milk, Is Toxic to Cells, in Vitro Study Finds
December 10, 2012
Free fatty acids created during the digestion of infant formula cause cellular death that may contribute to necrotizing enterocolitis, a severe intestinal condition that is often fatal and occurs most commonly in premature infants, according to a study by University of California, San Diego bioengineers. Their report, which was based on in vitro tests comparing the digestion of fresh human breast milk and nine different infant formulas, was published online in the journal Pediatric Research.
Scientists have long known that premature infants fed formula are more likely to develop necrotizing enterocolitis than those fed breast milk. The condition is the leading cause of death from gastrointestinal diseases in premature infants, but the underlying mechanism has not been understood. Alexander Penn, a research scientist working in the Microcirculation Laboratory of bioengineering Professor Geert Schmid-Schönbein from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, believes they have come closer to an answer.
Penn and others had previously determined that the partially digested food in a mature, adult intestine is capable of killing cells, due to the presence of free fatty acids which have a "detergent" capacity that damages cell membranes. The intestines of healthy adults and older children have a mature mucosal barrier that may prevent damage due to free fatty acids. However, the intestine is leakier at birth, particularly for preterm infants, which could be why they are more susceptible to necrotizing enterocolitis.
Therefore, the researchers wanted to know what happens to breast milk as compared to infant formula when they are exposed to digestive enzymes. They "digested," in vitro, infant formulas marketed for full term and preterm infants as well as fresh human breast milk using pancreatic enzymes or fluid from an intestine. They then tested the formula and milk for levels of free fatty acids. They also tested whether these fatty acids killed off three types of cells involved in necrotizing enterocolitis: epithelial cells that line the intestine, endothelial cells that line blood vessels, and neutrophils, a type of white blood cell that is a kind of "first responder" to inflammation caused by trauma in the body.
Overwhelmingly, the digestion of formula led to cellular death, or cytotoxicity — in less than 5 minutes in some cases — while breast milk did not. For example, digestion of formula caused death in 47 percent to 99 percent of neutrophils while only 6 percent of them died as a result of milk digestion. The study found that breast milk appears to have a built-in mechanism to prevent cytotoxicity. The research team believes most food, like formula, releases high levels of free fatty acids during digestion, but that breast milk is digested in a slower, more controlled, process.


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I read with interest Catherine Woodiwiss' column about her recent visit to the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul ("Making Room for Delight"). We also recently visited this magnificent edifice on a trip to Istanbul in March. On the day we arrived, a terrorist bomb had been exploded and we were greeted with a bit of apprehension by our guide, hoping we would not let this latest assault stop us from enjoying the Turkish culture and history.
We were staying near the Hagia Sophia and the Great Blue Mosque, so our first visit was to these two beautiful buildings. We were filled with awe, wonder, and delight. But even more, we were comforted by the message of comfort and love that was so clearly and strongly delivered by both "wombs" of faith. Fear is a feeling that closes a door, but the refusal to fear is even more powerful at keeping doors open.
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Only a handful of Americans in Melville's time were lucky enough to venture far and wide enough to see places like Polynesia, and Melville took great advantage of his time on the French-controlled islands, eventually turning the experience into his very first book. Throughout the trip, Melville was accompanied by his close friend Richard Tobias Greene, and
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Only a handful of Americans in Melville's time were lucky enough to venture far and wide enough to see places like Polynesia, and Melville took great advantage of his time on the French-controlled islands, eventually turning the experience into his very first book. Throughout the trip, Melville was accompanied by his close friend Richard Tobias Greene, and Melville focused on simply enjoying himself in the exotic lands, living for three weeks among the natives of Typee, who lived primitively in pointed huts made of animal skins. The dwellings closely resembled those of the Native Americans, and for Melville, living among the reportedly cannibalistic people was a romantic adventure. Though it easily could have turned into a dangerous and inhospitable outing, Melville saw the trip as a getaway from the hustle-bustle of life in New York.
Upon his return to America, Melville was now determined to write, and in the summer of 1845 he finished his first novel about his ventures in Polynesia. He appropriately named the book Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. Typee was precisely the kind of travel and adventure novel that became very popular during the mid-19th century and helped Mark Twain forge a career out of travelogues. Melville's story about travel, adventure, and the "noble savage" that was so popular in the Western world of the 19th century struck a chord with its audience, even as the novel criticizes the missionaries located there attempting to "civilize" the natives
Although the travel element and the exotic surroundings fascinated readers, adventure and danger were the dominant themes of the book. The novel centered on a man who was imprisoned on the island of Nukuheva, amid primitive peoples who did not understand the ways of the West. Caught amid cannibals, the prisoner is left to fend for himself, trying to escape from jail. In the process he enters into a forbidden romance with Fayaway, one of the native girls.
The novel immediately became one of America's greatest and most beloved travel narratives, at the time second only to the works of Lewis and Clark. Melville's work, however, was not purely autobiographical: the author admitted that it was partly fictional and meant to draw from his experiences, not merely recount them. Given that Typee was semi-autobiographical and augmented by contemporary accounts Melville heard about, it's unclear to what extent the views of the people were his own.
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N THE BEGINNING of Melville, back before the White Whale, there was Typee, the true-life account of the soon-to-be novelist's adventures in the South Seas—the scandalous, enthralling, and, yes, titillating story of the man who lived among cannibals. And even at this primordial moment, even in this youthful telling, all of Melville is there: the effortless style, the lush and poemlike descriptions, the Joycean humor (why is everyone always so serious about Melville?). On top of all that, it's a great read, a legitimate adventure. Are our wounded hero's newfound pagan friends feeding him or fattening him, and how exactly will he ever escape?
How amazing that Typee ever came into being at all—it is the almost accidental birth of a master. There was young Herman, just returned from sea, the son of a well-born but failed businessman, a near ne'er-do-well who had dabbled in schoolteaching, who had tried his hand at a few little pieces for the local newspaper, and who, seemingly for lack of anything better to do, found himself on a whaling ship with a sea captain who was not terribly interested in workplace morale: Captain Pease on Melville's first whaling ship, the Acushnet; Captain Vangs in Typee; later to be born again in hell as Ahab. Even on a good ship, whaling was tough, a semi-consensual version of slavery, a life of hard crackers and stale water in the cramped infinity of the great sea. "Oh! for a refreshing glimpse of one blade of grass—for a snuff at the fragrance of a handful of the loamy earth!" goes the longing cry at Typee's outset. When young Tommo, as thenatives refer to the narrator, arrives in Nuku Hiva, the largest of the Marquesas Islands, he is greeted in the tropical bay by a boatless flotilla of local maidens ("these swimming nymphs") who eventually board the whaling ship—a scene that was censored from the first editions: "Our ship was now wholly given up to every species of riot and debauchery. Not the feeblest barrier was interposed between the unholy passions of the crew and their unlimited gratification." In a few days, the young sailor hatches a plan. He will escape into paradise.
Tommo is accompanied by a shipmate, Toby, energetic and fearless whereas Tommo is reluctant and a bit of a snob, the slighly detached (read: Ishmaelean) adventurer. They head for the hills—the large verdant, nearly impenetrable, volcanic hills—wary of the village of Typee, where, sailors' lore has it, a fierce band of cannibals lives. It's a harried trip, low on supplies, high on directionlessness. On several occasions, Tommo nearly kills himself trying to keep up with Toby. The misadventures end up sounding like one of those old Bing Crosby and Bob Hope buddy movies: The Road to the Marquesas. Naturally, the two wind up in the wrong village. Soon enough, they are—whoops!—dining with cannibals.
Are they being treated graciously or being fattened? Toby doesn't stick around to find out. Tommo, meanwhile, is stuck with a bad leg, the pain and inflammation of which fluctuates in proportion to the imminence of danger. Still, Tommo thrives, investigating the practices and customs of what he eventually comes to call the Happy Valley. He makes friends with the local chieftain, visiting him each day like a beat reporter checking in regularly with the desk sergeant. Tommo is assigned a valet, Kory-Kory, who, Queequeg-like, is a friend, respected and even loved despite if not because of his differences. Typee is the birth of the ardent anti-racist: in the beginning, Melville was a radical.
Tommo also finds himself in the everyday heap of bodies that naps through the humid days and snores through the night on the dirt floor of the hut. Specifically, he is alongside a young woman named Fayaway. Fayaway is beautiful, in a word, something Jean-Jacques Rousseau might have come up with if, instead of Emile, he had written soft porn. Not that there is anything illicit in Melville's portrait. The passages regarding Fayaway are at once friendly, funny, and sensuous—in detail of flesh and landscape, Typee is a very sexy book. Once, in a canoe, Fayaway stands and spreads out her shawl of tappa, in imitation of a sail. "We American soldiers pride ourselves upon our straight clean spars," the narrator states, tongue at least partly in cheek, "but a prettier little mast than Fayaway made was never shipped aboard of any craft." (For insight into the richness of Melville's entendres, go find out what the word mast meant in the local patois, which need not be discussed in detail here—this is a family introduction, after all.)
If Typee was to be excerpted in a contemporary outdoor and travel magazine of today—and modern adventure-mag editors would kill each other for it, take it from me—Melville would no doubt be asked to pick up the pace a little and cut some of the amazingly detailed descriptions, but the ending might just work: there's blood, tears, home, and, jarringly, mother. Suffice it to say, Tommo somehow survives the cannibals and escapes, and—talk about anticlimaxes—turns back into Herman, who ends up living with his mother in upstate New York. It doesn't take a Melvillian imagination to visualize the newly returned sailor wowing little parties of ladies and gentlemen with his inelegant remembrances of sumptuous South Pacific rainforests, of naked natives, of people eating people. He must have been quite pleased when people suggested he write it all down. He quickly did, padding his own photographic memories with notes from the reference works of the day. He found a publisher. Some revisions were called for. It was suggested that the author strike a number of the classical references, for instance; his publisher felt sales would improve with a dumbing down. His brother passed it on to some friends in England. Eventually, Washinton Irving read a draft. In a flash, Melville was famous, off and running at twenty-seven, cranking out books, on hiw way to The Whale.
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As someone very interested in Polynesia, at the time of European contact, this book is a fascinating view at a Marquesan society barely in touch with the European whalers, adventurers and missionaries who had landed on the shores of this archipelago. As is well known, Melville is a wonderful writer and a very careful observer. Even though some parts of his narrative are fiction, his description of Marquesan life in the 1840's is very credible in light of what is now known about Polynesians at that time. While his language abounds in the ethnocentric vernacular of that time, he gives his native captors and usually gracious hosts, as well as their way of life, the respect they were due. Typee is rightfully considered a classic in literature on the South Pacific, as is it's sequel, Omoo, on Tahiti. I highly recommend both books.
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About Lembaga Kebijakan Pengadaan Barang / Jasa Pemerintah (LKPP)
Embryo of Lembaga Kebijakan Pengadaan Barang/Jasa Pemerintah – LKPP began in a unit called the Center for Development of Procurement Policy / Public Services (PPKPBJ) as the unit echelon II. Formed in 2005, the unit was tasked to develop policies and regulations of procurement of goods / services of the government, provide technical guidance and advocacy related to the procurement of government goods / services, and to facilitate the implementation of certification exam expert procurement of goods / services of the government.
With a passion to make Indonesia a better place, raised the hope that the process of procurement of goods / services that government funding comes from the State Budget / Budget Revenue and Expenditure (Budget / budget) can take place more effectively and efficiently and prioritize the application of principles principles of fair competition, transparent, open and fair to all parties and of course, can be accounted for.
Based on expectations of an ideal it is necessary to develop a system of procurement of goods / services that includes aspects of clear regulations and procedures, institutional better qualified human resources, business processes are transparent and accountable, and handling legal issues that promote the principle of justice.
Regarding institutional better, it is necessary that the institution has the authority to formulate planning and development strategies, policies and rules and regulations determining the procurement of government goods / services in accordance with the changing demands.
In harmony with it as part of the global community, the existence of the agency will align Indonesia in the international arena, should similar institutions that already exist in a number of countries such as the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) in the United States, the Office of Government Commerce (OGC ) in England, the Government Procurement Policy Board (GPPB) in the Philippines, Public Procurement Policy Office (PPPO) in Poland, and the Public Procurement Service (PPS) in South Korea.
So to give gratitude to God Almighty, on December 6, 2007, Institute for Procurement of Goods / Services (Audited) was established by Presidential Decree No. 106 of 2007.
In practice Audited serves as the Ministry of Non-Government Institutions (LPNK) and directly responsible to the President. In carrying out its duties and functions, under the coordination Audited State Minister for National Development Planning / Head of Bappenas.
In addition to implementing the program according to the vision, mission, strategic goals and objectives, Audited also responsible for achieving the national targets as mandated in RPJMN 2010-2014, the priorities in the areas of good governance apparatus, increasing clean governance, free of corruption, collusion and nepotism. Specifically, the functions and authority of the institute is organizing good governance in the procurement of government goods / services.
Audited determined to be a qualified organization procurement policy, capability, and authority to generate and develop policies to realize the goods / services that are reliable in Indonesia.
Contact LKPP
Lembaga Kebijakan Pengadaan Barang / Jasa Pemerintah (LKPP)
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Fax : 021 – 797 3548
Email : email@example.com
Kontak Sertifikasi
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Jobs Available
Lembaga Kebijakan Pengadaan Barang/Jasa Pemerintah – LKPP is calling young smart Indonesian Citizen (WNI) to seize theese career opportunities :
- Network Administrator
- Electronic Data Processing (EDP)
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Network Administrator
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- Have the ability to install and operational networks;
- Have experience in the same field at least 2 years;
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- Have the ability in mastering the technology of OS linux and Unix.
Electronic Data Processing (EDP)
- At least D-III Department of computer engineering, information systems or Management Informatics;
- Have the ability to operate computers;
- Have the ability to use applications Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power Point, as well as using the internet;
- Have the ability to communicate well;
- Have the ability to learn and develop themselves, can work together in teams and are willing to follow the rules that apply in the Environment Agency goods/services Procurement policy of the Government;
Sites reference
- www.lkpp.go.id
Submit Application
For those interested and meet the requirements, then applicants can send a file the application to:
- Closing date : 27 August 2016
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Ralph White, one-third of the legendary Austin bluegrass-punk trio Bad Livers, makes his first trip to New York in four years. While ex-Liver Danny Barnes has been jamming with the Dave Matthews Band, White has stayed strictly underground, turning out a series of positively stunning LPs anchored by White's haunting Anthology of American Folk Music-esque warble, including the recent The Mongrel's Hoard. But White's secret weapon is the potent, pleasing combination of kalimba and banjo, the former's warm flutter of notes syncopating with the latter's flurried twang--the perfect companion for the ever-questing pedal steel of Susan Alcorn.
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Dan and Alan talk 'Common Law,' Upfronts and more
By Daniel Fienberg @HitFixDaniel | Monday, May 7, 2012 4:34 PM
Happy Monday, Boys & Girls.
Time for another installment of The Firewall & Iceberg Podcast.
Due to a paucity of new show premieres this week -- USA's "Common Law" is our only review -- most of this podcast is dedicated to premiering next week's upfronts. Oh and we talked about Rory Gilmore and Mr. Belding guesting on "Mad Men."
As we mention in podcast, due to upfronts we have no clue when we'll be able to podcast next week or how many times. Smart money says there'll be a podcast on Monday or Tuesday and then a second podcast on Thursday or Friday.
Here's today's breakdown:
"Common Law" (00:01:00 - 00:11:10)
"Desperate Housewives" reflections (00:11:10 - 00:18:20)
Upfronts Preview (00:18:20 - 01:01:50)
"Mad Men" (01:02:00 - 01:26:20)
As always, you can subscribe to The Firewall & Iceberg Podcast over at the iTunes Store, where you can also rate us and comment on us. [Or you can always follow our RSS Feed.]
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War Chief Shake ZulaIt's called fanservice. Male actors who deliver it regularly for female viewers are called Mr Fanservice.May 7, 2012 at 5:51PM ESTReply to Comment
Greg (guest)I don't see how CBS can keep Unforgettable. They already renewed most of their shows and will obviously premiere two or three new dramas on fall. And there's still the possibility that they add another comedy hour to their schedule. That leaves absolutely no room for any other drama. I can see CBS keeping one of the CSIs just in case one of their new dramas fail, but not Unforgettable.May 7, 2012 at 7:08PM ESTReply to Comment
danGreg - It's not as simple as holes in the schedule. It's more about if CBS decides to reshape the Friday block, for example, as a female-centric night built around "The Good Wife" and "Unforgettable." Or if CBS decides "The Good Wife" leading into "Unforgettable" on Sundays night be a good match. Compatibility absolutely could favor "Unforgettable."
-DanielMay 7, 2012 at 7:13PM EST
kevincurtinredI'd like to think that Unforgettable would have been more successful if they had stuck with the show's original title, "The Rememberer".May 8, 2012 at 5:35PM EST
WaltEagle (guest)I really don't think Terry Winter follows what you're calling the "David Chase/Terry Winter formula" either, if you recall the last Boardwalk Empire finale.May 7, 2012 at 7:57PM ESTReply to Comment
Mike (guest)Personally, White Collar is the one USA show I watch, and while I think excellent might be pushing it a bit, it's definitely quite good, particularly the chemistry between Bomer and DeKay that's always been there, but even the larger arc stuff got much better once they ditched the unbelievably dull Kate storyline.May 7, 2012 at 8:28PM ESTReply to Comment
Mia Monroe (guest)I think all signs point to something happening to Megan, not Pete - The fourth episode and then the one where she disappeared, and this one with that montage with the song about death with her laying in black on the floor, and Don looking at the elevator... And now she's wandering around Manhattan alone, not going with Don to work, morre possibilities of something happening.
Also, the fact that the writers have given Megan so much this season and done so much with the Don/Magan marriage makes me think they're using her for all she's worth, and milking the Don/Megan relationship before whatever happens, happens. I'll be surprised if i'm wrong.May 7, 2012 at 9:03PM ESTReply to Comment
DougMacWarren Kole is in Avengers as a SHIELD Agent and was on Chicago Code as the new driver/bodyguard for Jennifer beals after the first one was killedMay 8, 2012 at 12:43AM ESTReply to Comment
Jonathan (guest)You guys forgot to mention The LA Complex. It's my favorite new show of the year on CW, is it coming back?May 8, 2012 at 6:17AM ESTReply to Comment
danJonathan - We talked about it two straight weeks. The fact is that while L.A. Complex may run out its episodes into the summer, there's no chance The CW will ever put new episodes on during a season again. But maybe new episodes could return next summer? Maybe? Ratings are WAY low...
-DanielMay 8, 2012 at 12:02PM EST
PeterAs for LA Complex, you need to remember that it is a Canadian show that was actually quite successful when it aired in Canada. If I'm not mistaken, the show has already been renewed for a second season. Even if it doesn't come to the US, there are always other ways to watch the episodes.May 10, 2012 at 2:03AM EST
Tom (guest)BSG also started in 2004/2005May 8, 2012 at 7:55AM ESTReply to Comment
Alan (guest)Burn Notice remains appointment viewing for my household. We're also fairly loyal viewers of White Collar and, on occasion, Royal Pains, but nothing on USA tops Burn Notice. We love the characterizations, plots, and general tone of the show. Hoping for the Season 7 renewal.May 8, 2012 at 8:53AM ESTReply to Comment
Ray (guest)Dan, you've probably heard this before, but to address your comments about Harry's Law and that NBC ought to be able to make money given the large total audience despite the small demos: prime network time television is about selling advertising for the 18-49 demo. Older viewers can be reached more cheaply by advertisers using other outlets (e.g. the national news). The 18-49 demo is more difficult for advertisers to reach and thus they will pay more for them. Despite the falling viewership, network prime time television can still deliver this demographic.
So, if NBC were to renew the show as 'Geritol presents Harry's Law sponsored by Depends' they would be sacrificing the opportunity to make more money. It would be like growing corn on top of an oil field. Sure, you might make money selling corn but there's a ton more if you build an oil rig.May 8, 2012 at 9:57AM ESTReply to Comment
sepinwallBut given how much trouble they've had finding oil in so many other places, the guaranteed income from some corn might not be a terrible idea.May 8, 2012 at 10:48AM EST
War Chief Shake ZulaBut that corn is so hairy. I don't think anyone wants to eat it...May 8, 2012 at 10:55AM EST
danRay - The issue isn't that the 18-49 demo is difficult to reach. It's that it's the demographic that's considered still changeable in its advertising preferences. And yes, I'm well aware of the importance of the 18-49 demographic to TV networks. I do this for a living, you know.
However, it still feels to me like if NBC's choice is Show A with a 1.1 rating in the 18-49 demo and, say, 4 million viewers and Show B with a 0.8 rating in the 18-49 demo and nearly 8 million viewers and you have literally ZERO other scripted shows with 8 million viewers it SHOULD be possible to make money off of that available audience. I understand completely that it's not the way the industry is structured at this moment. That doesn't mean it's right.
-DanielMay 8, 2012 at 12:08PM EST
RayDan, I didn't intend to impugn your professionalism or knowledge of television. I will stipulate that you know more about the industry than myself. I was hoping to convey that in my original comment but clearly failed.
My impression (mostly from sites like bythenumbers) was that the changeability wasn't the primary concern but that it was as I laid out in my comment.
I'm curious as to what you mean by 'right' at the end of your comment. I'm assuming you agree that the business reality means that NBC would prefer show A because the advertisers prefer show A (because they need to reach the malleable demographic). On the other hand you say that they should be able to make money from show B. More money than show A or just make a profit?
Or are you just trying to say it's too bad there isn't room in the industry for a popular show like Harry's Law?May 8, 2012 at 12:36PM EST
danRay - Not to diss TVbythenumbers, the the traditional rationale behind the 18-49 demo and its value had to do with changeability, since people 49-64 have plenty of disposable income as well and ought to be as valuable to reach via TV as via any other media. The theory has always been that older people are set in their consumer habits, with the theory being that you advertise to help people change their minds or to buy something they wouldn't buy otherwise. That TV is the best way to reach that demo isn't in doubt. But the specificity of the demo relates to their buying habits. So really we're saying two different things here, I think, neither of which is mutually exclusive.
And what I mean by "right," with the Show A and Show B example, I mean that there should be ways to make money with each scenario. Conventional wisdom says Show A is more valuable. It seems absurd to me that Show A's 50 percent advantage at a VERY low point in the key demo should be worth more than Show B's 100 percent advantage in viewers. In this case, BOTH shows really suck in the key demo, but one show has an audience which is completely respectable, i.e. better than anything on NBC and many comparable shows on ABC and FOX. Those additional viewers can't be worthless. Or they shouldn't be worthless. And if I'm NBC and I have a sea of shows with awful demo ratings and I have one show that has a slightly-worse-than-awful demo, but a decent audience, surely it behooves me to be creative and find a way to capitalize on the asset that I have, doesn't it? It's not like NBC has latitude to make decisions only on what's cosmetically desirable. "Harry's Law" isn't cosmetically desirable. But it ought to have value.
-DanielMay 8, 2012 at 12:50PM EST
tvbtn sucksDid Dan just Moneyball the business of selling tv adspace? Jeremy Brown:Old School Scouts as Harry's Law:NBCMay 12, 2012 at 1:40AM EST
danTVBTN Sucks - I tried to, but I fear I lost to the Twins in the first round of the playoffs... *And* "Harry's Law" got cancelled...
-DanielMay 12, 2012 at 2:23AM EST
Ken Raining (guest)I would watch a show with the tag line "they already share a face-- now they share a fetus!"May 10, 2012 at 3:03PM ESTReply to Comment


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Protest actions in Czech Republic, Germany and Italy
Czech Republic - massive protests
Several hundredthousand liter milk have been spilled on fields the 29th and the 30th of October in Czech Republik. The newspaper "Hospodarske Noviny" announced that it be the first time that farmers spill out their products in the country. The President of the agricultural chamber Jan Valeba explianed, that it is an extreme measure, which is due to the desperate situation of the dairy farmers.
Producers express the current critical situation of decreasing numbers of the dairy cows populations and long inactivity of both: national and European politicians.
More than 2000 dairy farmers demonstrated on the occasion of the annual conference of german Prime ministers the 29th/30th of October. The dairy farmers showed that they will continue fighting for a seminal policy on milk market instead of a non purposive use of money.
On Thursday afternoon, 29th of October, dairy farmers of the Rhineland-Palatinate met in at the "Winterhafen" in Mainz for a vigil and a big fire of protestation.
On Friday, 30th of October, they got support by dairy farmers from all German states. Some came with their tractors, so in Mainz in front of the Favorite Hotel, Karl-Weiser-Str. 1.
September 28 and 29 Italian dairy farmers protested and were distributing free milk. See images
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European Milk Board press conference at International Green Week in Berlin
Update of this week's rallies
Launch of the campaign "Milk for Juncker" Since Monday 7th December, dairy farmers from all over Europe have been sending fresh milk to EU Commission President Juncker. The latter has failed to react to our open letter, in which we called for EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan to be removed from his ...
Poll: Hogan not popular among dairy farmers
A majority of Dutch milk producers are of the opinion that Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan does not acknowledge the problems that many farmers are facing and therefore want him to leave.
Commissioner Phil Hogan in Bavaria - spontaneous protests of milk producers
Please find here a press release (DE) of our member organisation Bundesverband Deutscher Milchviehhalter (BDM) on the rally of German milk producers in Herrsching (Bavaria) on the occasion of Commissioner Phil Hogan's visit.
Press release: Milk prices only cover 66 per cent of costs
New results for July show German dairy farms' slip in profitability
Open Letter to Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission:
Remove Commissioner Hogan from his office!
Press release: Is the EU getting rid of its dairy farmers?
EMB demands structural measures for the dairy market


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The 112th Congress is the first since the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United. How has that decision—which effectively opened the gates for corporate spending in election campaigns—shaped Congress? MSNBC's Michael Isikoff and the Center for Public Integrity's Peter Stone make an important early contribution to this question in a piece they published on Wednesday.
A small network of hedge fund executives pumped at least $10 million into Republican campaign committees and allied groups before November's elections, helping bankroll GOP victories that this week will change the balance of power in Washington, according to a review of campaign records and interviews with industry insiders by the Center for Public Integrity and NBC News. Bitterly opposed to President Barack Obama's economic and regulatory policies — including proposals to increase taxes on some of their profits — top Wall Street hedge fund moguls were unusually energized during last year's election. They held multiple fundraisers and coordinated strategy to direct what appear to be unprecedented sums into the coffers of GOP and allied political committees, according to industry and GOP fundraising sources. Many substantial donations from the hedge fund executives escaped public notice either because they were made late in the campaign (and therefore weren't reported until after the election) or were funneled through third-party groups, obscure "joint fundraising committees" and newly created political nonprofits that are not required to disclose donors.
Proponents of Citizens United argued that campaign contribution regulations could force disclosure of funding sources. In other words, an astute voter could know who had paid for that barrage of campaign ads that shaped the debate in the last weeks of the campaign. As Isikoff and Stone demonstrate, however, there are a number of ways that skillful funders can avoid being discovered before an election. One is using aggregation mechanisms like Concerned Taxpayers of America or the Republican Governors Association. Another is timing payments so that they come in the vital last days of the campaign. As the report shows, the source of the money probably cannot be kept secret indefinitely, but it can be kept secret from the voter as he enters the voting booth.
The Wall Street hedge fund moguls studied by Isikoff and Stone aren't a Republican base constituency by any stretch of the imagination. Some of them have a record of giving to Democrats. But their giving is clearly carefully linked to their immediate economic interests. While the amount of money given wasn't enormous, it was dispensed with tactical acumen.
A prime example is Rep. Scott Garrett, a little known Republican from northern New Jersey who this week is slated to become the new chairman of the House Financial Services subcommittee on capital markets, a key panel that has direct oversight of the industry. A staunch foe of the regulation of Wall Street, Garrett has threatened to cut funding for the Securities and Exchange Commission and roll back some provisions of Dodd-Frank.
There's no doubt that the Dodd-Frank Act is a particular target of these givers. The question is now how their donations influence votes on financial industry reform issues generally, and the effort, already announced, to repeal Dodd-Frank in particular.
More from Scott Horton:
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In five easy lessons
Flor Arely Sánchez had been in bed with a fever and pains throughout her body for three days when a July thunderstorm broke over the mountainside. She got nervous when bolts of light flashed in the sky. Lightning strikes the San Julián region of western El Salvador several times a year, and her neighbors fear storms more than they fear the march of diseases — first dengue, then chikungunya, now Zika. Flor worried about a lot of things, since she was pregnant.
Late in the afternoon, when the pains had somewhat eased, Flor thought she might go to a dammed-up bit of the river near her house to bathe. She is thirty-five and has lived in the same place all her life, where wrinkled hills are planted with corn, beans, and fruit trees. She took a towel and soap and walked out into the rain. Halfway to the river, the pains returned and overcame her. The next thing Flor remembers, she was in a room she didn't recognize, unable to move. As she soon discovered, she was in a hospital, her ankle cuffed to the bed, and she was being investigated for abortion.
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