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I think this is fascinating, but I argue with the title...I don't think it's criminal, although it's despicable, and I don't think media politics had anything to do with it. The author suggests that media are overrelying on stringers and free-lancers with dubious credentials and motivations and I think that is absolutely right. At any rate, this is a piece I'd like to see the media pick up on. I think it should run on one of the networks and the NY Times ought to run it too. I'm inclined to think that Dean Pats Fans thinks the liberal media would never run this, but I think it's a terrific story and that they'd love to--if it comes to their attention.
The arrogant sore losing jealous unbeliveing bastards still don't get it, "the old days are gone" people like Donkite, Rather and Katie can't feed us their biased lying bullsh!t anymore. Beware Liberal Media We The People Are Watching You The Bloggers Have Come To Town And They Are Up All Night Studying Your Dishonest Sh!t. Praise Jesus H Christ Remember Dan Rather :singing: :singing:
Sorry they have people called EDITORS, any competent editor would have seen the problems with the doctored photos. This is business as usual for the mainstream anti US anti Israel media. BTW Reuters has withdrawn the photos I will note that the photographer who doctored these photos is the SAME guy who I posted about when I discussed the 'out of sequence staged photos of Qana. GEE WHAT A COINDENCE! So for all those who rationalized the staged Qana photos what about now? Any 2nd thoughts about the media? I would be willing to bet this will get NO play in the times NBC, CBS, ABC, Wash post, maybe a blurb in Foxnews, but that will be disregarded cause Foxnews is 'biased. LOL! The silence will be deafening. Had the doctored photos been pro US or Pro Israel the wailing abpout scandals from the 'mainstreanm media would have been huge. Calls for examination of 'what went wrong' and so on.
Fox news was discussing pats robertsons opinion on global warming. They called pat a sane man, and al gore was clearly ''UNHINGED. http://mediamatters.org/items/200608040006
BTW the Green helmet guy from the Qana photos shows up in photos of Israeli 'atrocities in 1996! GEE what a coincidence! The same rescue worker in 2 atrocities 10 years apart! Wait there is more, he makes it from Qana to Tyre for another atrocity! GEE what a coindence! http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/who-is-this-man.html http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/08/qana-directors-cut.html Small world ain't it!
BTW the Green helmet guy from the Qana photos shows up in photos of Israeli 'atrocities in 1996! GEE what a coincidence! The same rescue worker in 2 atrocities 10 years apart! Wait there is more, he makes it from Qana to Tyre for another atrocity! GEE what a coindence! http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/who-is-this-man.html http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/08/qana-directors-cut.html Small world ain't it! BTW why did the media censor 9-11 photos and video tapes by deciding not to show the people jumping out of the WTC?
SO WHAT! It is called an OPINION, why do you and MM become so deranged over someones opinion? Sean Hannity is not elected to anything! Same goes for Rush, O'reilley, Savage whoever. Unlike the dangerous mouths on the left are indeed elected officials, like Murtha, these guys don't vote on policy.
This keeps getting better more from the 'objective' oh so professional 'mainstream media. I'm sure this will make the fromt pages of the NYT.
Point one: I'm pro-Israel and I don't find the media anti-Israel. Point two: Not showing the suicides falling from the WTC on 911 was, in my opinion, a good editorial decision. Adults can imagine it, and don't need to see it. Young people don't need to see it or imagine it. There are plenty of pictures of car accident victims or murder victims that newspapers decide against running, and rightly so, in my opinion. As for the faked Israel atrocity pictures, they belong in an entirely different category. Knowingly running such pictures is despicable. And there may be editors in the mainstream media who have done that, although I doubt it. I think what we're seeing here is a combination of a photograph, doctored by someone who has propaganda motives, accepted by newspaper or TV editors under time pressure, competitive pressure and gullibility. I am very pleased that Reuters has withdrawn the photograph and I hope that this, um, phenomenon gets covered by mainstream media. It's a good and necessary story. I want to thank DeanPatsfan for bringing it to our attention, but I am not willing to accept his conclusion that this is evidence that the media is anti-Israeli. As a long-time supporter of Israel, I am very sensitive to how the media is covering this story and I do not see an imbalance on the major networks or the big newspapers. Now, if you want to talk about editorial comment, that's something different--but even here, I think the comments have been pretty balanced. I try to read without partisanship and I think the great majority of the media tries to write this story without partisanship.
Our President, George W Bush contributed greatly to the "unhinging" of Crazy Gore, Al Gore in the last few years has become a "Raving, Bellowing Lunatic" now he thinks he's Marlon Brando, he made a sh!tty movie that only a few coke sniffing liberals went to see and already he wants a star put on the sidewalk for himself, and it's true, he looks in the mirror and calls himself "Mr President" Gore still doesn't know HE LOST. :bricks:
Ah, more insight from Swami Harry, the Irish mindreader. Whenever you want to know what someone else is thinking, just as Harry. He'll have an opinion and you can pretty much be sure it will be worthless.
A very thoughtful post. I do believe this outregeous activity by Reuters will not receive much if any coverage outside of the right wing bloggers. I think the involvement of this photographer in the Qana photo mess as well as the doctored, the death threats by someone at Rueters against the blogger who exposed this is a scandal of major proportions. As I said if this sort of fraud had been done to support the war we would see a media firestorm over it. It will be very instructive to see how much coverage and how much soul searching this will engender in the mainstream media> i will predict as in the Rahter fraud not much.
More on our now famous Rueters photog/Hezbollah propagandist. One of the featured rescue workers in the Qana photos was the 'white tee shirt' guy, check him out in the links above. Here is a photo from MID JULY identifying the 'white tee shirt guy as a Hexbollah gunman, and not a rescue worker. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060713/ids_photos_wl/r1528895629.jpg The question is now, how complicit is Reuters (and other mainstream media) in promoting Hexbollahs agenda? We remember CNN admitting they slanted stories so as to not offend Saddam and gain access. Now this. Clearly the photog knew this guy wasn't a rescue worker when he did the Qana shots. IMO Hezbolah staged to Qana event for the press and the press willingly went along with the deception. The real question is did Hexbollah kill these children to win a propaganda victory? Before you dismiss this kind of savagry remember these people also have used children as suicide bombers and then paid the families.
I think the guilty party is probably the photographer. I suspect he is part of what turned out to be a very successful propaganda effort by Hezbollah. My guess is that the western press was victimized by this guy. But this is just an educated guess, based on Reuters' withdrawal of the picture. The story could be more complex, even more sinister. Let's see how this plays out in the next few days. Let's see what, if anything, the mainstream media does with the story.
I agree it will be fascinating to see what the media does with this story, my prediction is next to nothing. Consider whether this same sort of manipulation has been used by the media in Iraq. Think of the background of the sources for the Haditha story and the reporting anomilies surround that 'atrocity. Propaganda is a key element of asymmetric warfare.


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US 5673430 A Abstract A method and system is provided for receiving sets of program requests from a plurality of subscriber locations and delivering programs that match or closely match the selected programming preferences or content requests. A processor at a cable headend registers the selected programming preferences for a given programming period and applies optimization techniques in an effort to have the communications equipment multicast each preference, rather than pointcast, in order to reduce the operating costs of the service provider.
Claims(14) 1. A method of providing programs to a plurality of subscriber locations, said method comprising:
receiving a plurality of sets of content requests originating from said subscriber locations, at least some of said sets of content requests including a plurality of programs preferred to be received at the associated subscriber location within a specified time period; identifying sets of satisfying programs for a given time period from said received content requests, each set of satisfying programs being associated with one of said subscriber locations; and delivering said identified sets of satisfying programs to associated ones of said subscriber locations by multicasting at least some of said satisfying programs within the sets to multiple subscriber locations. 2. A method as in claim 1, wherein said sets of satisfying programs for a given time period are identified by optimization based on said received content requests.
3. A method as in claim 2, wherein optimizing received content requests comprises:
assigning values to a plurality of independent parameters, subject to regional constraints, and where said assignment aims to maximize or minimize dependent parameters. 4. A method as in claim 3, wherein said dependent parameters may include subscriber satisfaction and cost of delivery.
5. A method as in claim 3, wherein said regional constraints may include the types, sequencing, and start- or end-time constraints of a series of programs.
6. A method as in claim 3, wherein said independent parameters may include total downstream bandwidth cost, cost of server resources, and total royalty charges.
7. A system of providing programs having a series of discrete expressive works from a cable headend to a plurality of subscriber locations, said system comprising:
means for receiving a plurality of sets of content requests, each set of content requests originating from one of said subscriber locations and at least some including a plurality of discrete expressive works preferred to be received at the associated subscriber location; means for determining any selected constraints from said received content requests wherein said selected constraints include type of programming, sequencing, and start- or end-time constraints for each series of discrete expressive works; means for identifying sets of satisfying programs for a given time period from said received content requests, each set of satisfying programs being associated with one of said subscriber locations; and means for delivering to each subscriber location an associated set of satisfying programs by multicasting at least some of said satisfying programs within the sets to multiple subscriber locations. 8. A system as in claim 7, wherein said means for identifying sets of satisfying programs for a given time period identifies optimum sets of satisfying programs based on said received content requests.
9. A method as in claim 1, wherein said identifying sets of satisfying programs includes providing substitute programs for programs specified in said received content requests in order to optimize delivery of programs.
10. A system as in claim 7, wherein said means for identifying sets of programs includes means for providing substitute programs for programs specified in said received content requests in order to optimize delivery of programs.
11. A method of providing programs to a plurality of subscriber locations comprising:
receiving program requests from said subscriber locations; determining optimum satisfying programs to be delivered to associated subscriber locations responsive to said program requests, wherein said satisfying programs are optimized based on a first criterion function that measures closeness of candidate deliverable programs to said program requests, and a second criterion function relating to service provider cost; and delivering said satisfying programs to associated ones of said subscriber locations. 12. The method according to claim 11, wherein said second criterion function is based on total downstream bandwidth cost, server resources and total royalty charges for said candidate deliverable programs.
13. The method according to claim 11, wherein said receiving program requests includes receiving program types.
14. The method according to claim 11, wherein said receiving program requests includes receiving a plurality of program requests for a given time period from any one of said subscriber locations.
Description The present invention relates to a method for optimizing passive entertainment programming to multiple subscriber locations, where each subscriber location has preregistered preferences for the types and timing of programming to be provided. Service providers of entertainment programming to multiple subscriber locations have for a long time envisioned implementing a system to provide to each subscriber location preregistered programming preferences. Such a system is commonly known as an "interactive system" which is typically implemented in cable based formats. The first commercial realization of interactive cable were the QUBE systems of the Warner Amex Cable Company. In the QUBE interactive system, the subscriber was provided with a small console having a plurality of switches. By pressing a certain combination of switches the subscriber created and sent a short message to the cable headend, in response to a request sent downstream from the headend. The QUBE systems were mainly used for ordering a single pay-per-view offering and for audience polls. Even for a limited interaction between the service provider and the subscriber as in the QUBE systems, there exists considerable technical difficulty in implementing the necessary upstream (and downstream) data communications. The service provider must install bidirectional amplifiers and bridges, appropriate computer control facilities at the headend, and subscriber electronics designed to communicate with the computer and accept instructions from the subscriber-operated console. To expand the service to include many more programming offerings, hundreds of thousands, even millions of video channels are required to meet the programming-on-demand needs of the population of a large city. In 1984 Warner Communications realized this technical and impractical necessity and abandoned an effort to develop a video-on-demand system for providing scores of movies and other content requests on individual subscriber demand. Subsequently, service providers, in an effort to approach true video-on-demand, began to broadcast a few hundred popular films, supplemented by a few video-on-demand channels for less frequently viewed films. However, this approach usually makes only one movie or program available to all the subscriber locations, usually through a pay-per-view service. With this scheme each subscriber can still not be provided with a series of programming preferences, e.g., the feature movie, followed by a preferred sitcom, followed by the news/weather report, followed by another preferred sitcom, etc., due to the limited amount of video channels and video-playing machines at the cable headend. Therefore, there exists a need to provide an interactive cable system capable of registering multiple subscriber programming preferences and delivering these preferences. The present invention is a method and system for providing a set of programs to a plurality of subscriber locations where each subscriber location has selected or registered different programming requests for a given time period. The disclosed method and system applies optimization techniques to identify a set of satisfying programs and delivers, preferably through multicasting, to each subscriber location a set of programs satisfying the desired programming requests. These preferences or requests may include the types, sequences, and start- or end-time constraints of a series of discrete expressive works. As used in the present invention, optimization entails the efforts and processes of making a decision, a design, or the interactive cable system as perfect or effective as possible by satisfying each subscriber and reducing the cost to the service provider by multicasting the selected preferences to two or more subscriber locations, rather than pointcasting individual programming preferences. For instance, the service provider may have to pay for transport bandwidth from the access provider, it may have to pay for server bandwidth, and/or content royalties to the content provider. Therefore, the cost to the service provider of supplying programming is reduced when multiple subscribers can share the same programming. Further features of the invention, its nature and various advantages will be more apparent from the accompanying drawings and the following detailed description of the invention. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an interactive cable system having telephone network facilities and a cable headend where individual subscriber preferences are optimized and transmitted in accordance with the present invention; FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating the components and equipment of the cable headend of FIG. 1; FIGS. 3A and 3B portray a flow chart illustrating the method of operation of the block diagram of FIG. 1; FIG. 4 is a block diagram of software distribution via satellite and cable in accordance with the present invention; and FIG. 5 illustrates a chart showing a systematic numbering system for relating the "closeness" of the delivered discrete expressive works to the subscriber's preferred discrete expressive works. Referring now to the drawings, in which like reference numerals identify similar or identical elements, FIG. 1 illustrates a block diagram of a communications network, adapted to provide a method by which passive entertainment programming is provided to multiple subscribers where each subscriber has registered various preferences for the types and timing of programming to be provided. Preferably, and as will be discussed further below, each subscriber indicates to the service provider his or her preferences for programming. It is noted that the method of providing a subscriber's preregistered preferences is described in commonly assigned patent application "User Programmable Entertainment Method and Apparatus" having Ser. No. 08/267,681 and a filing date of Jun. 28, 1994, (UPE patent application), now U.S. Pat. No. 5,541,638, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference. It is to be appreciated that the present invention method of providing passive entertainment programming which is described hereinbelow is implemented in the system service provider. Specifically, the service provider applies well known optimization techniques to simultaneously maximize total subscriber satisfaction while minimizing the cost of delivery. However, the aforesaid method of providing passive entertainment programming is not to be understood to be limited to the system service provider as it may be adapted to be implemented in any suitable system component, as the implementation of the present invention method in the service provider is for illustrative and exemplary purposes only. With reference to FIG. 1, the method and system of the present invention allows each subscriber to request for specific preferences to be "in effect" for a particular time period during periods when the service is offered, for example, during prime-time via a telephone subscriber line 10. The telephone data network 12, having a telephone office 14 and a management and billing functions station 16 routes the preferences to the cable headend 18 via a control computer 20. During this time period a series of programming choices are delivered from the cable headend 16 to each subscriber's television 22 that match or closely match that particular subscriber's designated preferences. In particular, the disclosed method allows the service provider to reduce costs by optimizing all the designated preferences and having multiple subscriber locations share the same programming, i.e., multicasting, rather than pointcasting, the programming preferences. As referred to herein, optimization entails the efforts and processes of the service provider in deciding on sets of programs to broadcast for making the interactive cable system as perfect or effective as possible. Optimization as applied by the service provider encompasses the procedures used to decide on the one specific solution in a defined set of possible programming alternatives that will best satisfy selected criteria, such as maximize subscriber satisfaction and minimize the operating cost to the service provider. For example, assume there are two subscribers, and one wants an hour of drama followed by a half-hour sitcom, and the other wants an hour of drama followed by an hour of local news and weather. The service provider, in accordance with the present invention, would multicast the drama to both aforesaid subscribers, then pointcast the sitcom and news/weather to the first and second subscribers, respectively. With reference to FIG. 2, at the cable headend 18, the service provider using selection and switching equipment 24 multiplexes programing signals from a series of video-playing machines 26 and multicasts the selected programming preferences using data communications equipment 28 to the corresponding subscriber locations via a combiner 30. The present method for providing video-on-demand requires the service provider to optimize the selected preferences to multicast, rather than pointcast the selected programming preferences, in order to minimize operating costs. Further, the service provider may preferably be operational to create a programming schedule prior to the actual program time of day and during "offline times". For example, in the late afternoon of each day, the service provider may analyze all current subscriber preferences and create the pointcast, multicast or broadcast schedule for that entire evening. The formulation and solution of an optimization problem involves the establishment of evaluation criteria based on the objectives of the optimization problem, followed by determination of the optimum values of the controllable or independent parameters that will best satisfy the evaluation criteria. The latter is accomplished either objectively or by analytical manipulation of the so-called criterion function, which relates the effects of the independent parameters on the dependent evaluation criterion parameters. In most optimization problems, there are a number of conflicting evaluation criteria and a compromise must be reached by a trade-off process which makes relative value judgments among the conflicting criteria. Described below is a preferred method of how the optimization problem is formulated in the context of the present invention where a cable headend provides programming to a plurality of subscriber locations. As stated above, and in accordance with the present invention, the preferred design would multicast, rather than pointcast, the selected programming preferences. For example, with reference to FIG. 3A and particularly to the box marked with the number one, there are n subscriber locations S1, . . . , Sn, where each subscriber location Si expresses its preferences Pi via use of an appropriate interface, such as that described in the UPE patent application. These preferences may include the types, sequencing, and start- or end-time constraints of a series of discrete expressive works. A specific discrete expressive work may be named as well, such as a particular episode of a sitcom. FIG. 3 is described in more detail below after a discussion on the formulation of the optimatization problem in the context of the disclosed method and system. One aspect of formulating a formal optimization problem is the establishment of a satisfactory criterion function that describes the behavior of the evaluation criterion as a function of the independent parameters. In symbolic form, the criterion function can be expressed as follows: criterion parameter=function of independent parameters x1, x2, . . . , xn. This is represented by the following equation: K=f(x1, x2, . . . , xn). As stated above, the main task of the service provider is to maximize subscriber satisfaction while minimizing its cost of delivery. Therefore, in this case, there are two dependent evaluation criterion parameters, i.e., subscriber satisfaction and service provider cost. These criteria depend on a set of independent parameters. For the subscriber satisfaction criterion, the independent parameters it depends on are the subscriber preferences and the delivered programming (these parameters can be controlled by the service provider or the subscriber). The values of these independent parameters determine the resulting value of subscriber satisfaction, the first criterion parameter. The total downstream bandwidth, server resources and total discrete expressive work royalty charges are the independent parameters whose values determine the resulting value of service provider cost, the second criterion parameter. The relative importance of the two conflicting criteria in regard to the service provider's objectives must be judged by the service provider (the optimizer) in order to arrive at an optimum programming to be delivered. The actual programming delivered to subscriber Si is Ai. After a value judgment by the service provider with respect to the relative importance of the two criteria has been made, two criterion functions can be established. First, the degree to which Si is satisfied with the delivered programming is as follows: Satisfaction(Si).tbd.f(Pi, Ai) (first criterion function) The function f(Pi, Ai) is a sum of terms that measure the "closeness" of the delivered discrete expressive works to the subscriber's preferred discrete expressive works (e.g., a "nature" program might have been delivered in lieu of a selected preference for a "documentary"), as well as terms that indicate the "nearness" to the subscriber's preferred schedule of the actual program sequencing. One method of determining subscriber satisfaction could be based on a categorization of the discrete expressive works in a taxonomy, such as the one shown by FIG. 5. FIG. 5 illustrates a chart showing a systematic numbering system for relating the "closeness" of the delivered discrete expressive works to the subscriber's preferred discrete expressive works. With reference to FIG. 5, if the exact programming preference is delivered, subscriber satisfaction could equal some maximum (e.g. 3). If a "somewhat exact," "close," or "not exact" program is delivered, the subscriber satisfaction would equal the maximum minus the distance in level from the subscriber's preference to the first ancestor of the actual programming in the taxonomy. For example, if the subscriber prefers "X", and "Y" is delivered, Satisfaction=3-(4-1)=0. If the subscriber prefers "Documentary," and "Y" is delivered, Satisfaction =3-(2-1)=2 (see FIG. 5). The service provider's task is to continuously maintain a high subscriber satisfaction value. If the service provider is forced to deliver a "not exact" program, it may consider pointcasting the actual programming preference and increase its fee to the subscriber to recoup the high bandwidth charges. Therefore, besides the constraint of maximizing subscriber satisfaction while minimizing service provider cost, the service provider has the additional constraint that for l≦i≦n, Satisfaction≧M, where M is some minimum level of satisfaction below which there is a danger that a subscriber will cancel the service. Using the systematic numbering system discussed above, M is equal to 0. Second, the cost to the service provider of delivering programming to all active subscriber locations during some time period is as follows: ##EQU1## Table 1 illustrates a chart showing the service provider cost of a simple example for delivering the selected programs of four subscriber locations. In use the values of BW, SR and R may be different for each preferred program or discrete expressive work. TABLE 1______________________________________ Cost =Subscriber Preferred BW +Location Programs BW SR R SR + R______________________________________S1 A, B, C, D $0.05 $0.10 $0.05 $0.20S2 A, B, C, E $0.05 $0.10 $0.05 $0.20S3 A, B, C, D $0.05 $0.10 $0.05 $0.20S4 A, B, E, F $0.10 $0.10 $0.10 $0.30______________________________________ After optimizing the selected preferences of subscriber locations S1, S2, S3, and S4, programs A and B would be multicast to all the subscriber locations; program C would be multicast to subscriber locations S1, S2, and S3 ; program D would be multicast to subscriber locations S1 and S3 ; program E would be multicast to subscriber locations S2 and S4 ; and program F would be pointcast to subscriber location S4. It is noted that the optimization method of the present invention would pointcast program F to subscriber location S4 after program B, even though subscriber location S4 indicated it prefers program F last. This is done to achieve multicasting of program E to subscriber locations S2 and S4, to foster cost savings to the service provider. However, if subscriber locations S2 and S4 desire to receive their content requests in the designated order, i.e., subscriber locations S2 and S4 have selected specific time constraints, the service provider could pointcast program E to subscriber location S2 and pointcast programs E and F to S1 and S4 and charge a higher fee. The regional constraint for service provider cost may be defined as 0≦BW+SR+R≦$1.00. If the cost exceeds $1.00, the service provider may opt to forgo delivery or arbitrarily deliver any program being multicasted to keep the cost within the regional constraint. However, if the subscriber indicates a willingness to pay a higher fee and the service provider has adequate video-playing and data communication equipment, the service provider can deliver the selected program at a cost which exceeds the maximum cost constraint. FIGS. 3A and 3B portray a flow chart illustrating the method of operation of the disclosed method and system. A description of FIGS. 3A and 3B is provided hereinbelow with particular emphasis to the circled numerals. In step 1, the service provider registers the selected programming preferences from a plurality of subscriber locations. The preferences may be registered by the subscriber via use of an appropriate interface, such as that described in the UPE patent application. The service provider then checks to determine whether all the programming preferences have been registered (step 2). If they have not been registered, the method goes back to step 1. If registration has been achieved, then in step 4, the service provider (step 3) uses optimization techniques to determine sets of satisfying programs to deliver to the plurality of subscriber locations. In step 5, the service provider in accordance with the present invention determines whether some or all selected programming preferences can be multicasted and satisfy some or all subscriber locations at a minimum cost to the service provider. If yes, then in step 6 some or all selected programming preferences are multicasted and the operation ends (step 7). If no, then in step 8 the service provider determines if there are any remaining programming preferences that were not multicasted. If no, then the operation ends (step 7). If yes, then in step 9 the service provider indicates to the appropriate subscribers that it cannot deliver by multicasting their selected programming preferences, due to insufficient equipment, and that delivery by pointcasting will cost extra. In step 10, the service provider accepts the response from the subscribers whose preferences were not multicasted. In step 11, the service provider determines whether the subscribers desire their preferred programs to be pointcasted at an additional charge. If no, then in step 12 the service provider accepts new programming preferences and the method goes back to step 4. If yes, then the original selected programming preferences are pointcasted and the additional charges are recorded under the subscriber's account (step 13). In step 14, the service provider determines whether all subscribers have been satisfied. If no, then in step 15, the service provider registers which subscribers have not been satisfied and the corresponding satisfaction values. If yes, the method of operation ends. Additional features can be achieved with the disclosed method and system. For example, the service provider could solicit feedback from subscribers to gauge their level of satisfaction, and from this feedback tune the optimization method, another form of interactive communications between the service provider and the subscriber locations. Further, each subscriber could have several distinct preferences, each one named (e.g., "drama," "lite" etc.), changeable at any time through a UPE-type interface, as disclosed in the commonly assigned UPE patent application. In addition, the service provided by the present invention could be priced in different ways. One would allow the subscriber some maximum number of times a month that the subscriber's preferences could be used. Another would charge a small service fee for maintaining the preferences, then levy an additional charge each time the preferences are used. Preference profile components could be priced differently. For example, a subscriber might pay more for more individual control: specific movie, specific time constraints, VCR-control, etc., because the service provider would more likely have to pointcast the programming preferences. It will be understood that each of the elements described above, or two or more together, may also find a useful application in other types of constructions differing from the type described above. For example, with reference to FIG. 4, the present invention method and system can be implemented to deliver selected computer programs or software to microcomputers at subscriber locations. A database 40 containing a plurality of computer programs and located at a remote location from the cable headend 18, transmits via satellite 42 to the headend the programs requested by the subscribers. The headend 18, in accordance with the disclosed method, delivers the requested programs to the appropriate subscriber locations. The programs are received by a program decoder 44 at each subscriber location and routed to a memory storage medium within a microcomputer 46. While the invention has been illustrated and described as a method and system for providing passive entertainment programming through optimization techniques to multiple subscribers where each subscriber has registered various preferences for the types and timing of programming, such as the preferences described in the commonly assigned UPE patent application, it is not intended to be limited to the details shown, since it will be understood that various omissions, modifications, substitutions and changes in the forms and details of the device illustrated and in its operation can be made by those skilled in the art without departing in any way from the spirit of the present invention. Patent Citations
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Precision footwork can make all the difference in a game, which is why you need a shoe that can help you control the ball. Nike built their CTR360 family specifically for precision play. Shop for a pair of CTR360 Maestri III Firm Ground Cleats by Nike now at soccerloco to get a great deal on a shoe trusted by stars like Jack Wilshere and Landon Donovan.
The shoe's Kanga-lite synthetic leather upper makes it as light and strong as possible while molding to your foot for maximum comfort. Texturing at the toe and control pads built into the arch improve your grip and control on the ball, allowing you to set up deadly plays. The sockliner inside is molded to follow the natural curves of your foot and utilizes Poron inserts for maximum cushioning and reduced cleat pressure. The shoe's outsole is made of sturdy Pebax plastic with thermoplastic urethane cleats that dig down into the grass so you can plant your feet and set up perfect passes and shots. Get a pair of Nike CTR360 Maestri III firm ground cleats today from soccerloco, the premier online destination for everything you need to get the most out of your game.
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- OR - Select an option belowLocated on pedestrian-friendly Fillmore Street, So Perfect Eats is a shopper's dream, with a lengthy menu of soups, salads and sandwiches that are just right when you're in need of a pit stop. Since the restaurant sits up a flight of stairs, the best way to find it is to follow your nose to the source of those sweet, buttery smells. In the early morning, the tempting scent is likely to be coming from baguettes and ciabatta, baked fresh by chef-owner Lynda Campbell, a New York transplant who left the fashion industry to open the cafe with her husband. These breads -- which Campbell learned to make in an artisan baking class, her only formal training – serve as the foundation for sandwiches made with real meat, not the nitrate-laden deli kind, and reflect the good taste of someone who might not be a trained chef, but who obviously has a background in entertaining. And creating entertaining sandwich combinations. There are also salads, soups and those delicious baked goods whose smell led you to So Perfect Eats in the first place. The only thing that could make this spot more perfect would be if it stayed open later for dinner.


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DH saw a pattern for a small log birdhouse ...about 8x8x6 ...& he cut down some old barnwood for these. We don't have much metal lying around but he found an old piece for this...added some roofing nails & wire to hang it...I just used polyurthene on this one.
The other one I stained & we added a 'green roof' from very old 'shutters' we found in a dilapilated barn a couple yrs ago...broken & dirty...DH cut them & they make a great log house roof! I dug thru my 'junk stash' & found this hinge 'pin'...to add to it...thought it looked like a 'light post' in the distance like when we used to come in from the lake in the evening & see the light in front of DH's parent's cabin. Made me smile! Cold & snowy here in IA ...would be nice to be cuddled up in front of a fire in one of these log birdhses! ;-)
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Ilove your birdhouses! |
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- Posted by jeannespines 4 (My Page) on Fri, Jan 13, 12 at 16:00
Me too, rafor & flowers...they make great 'Garden Junk!' Thanks! Jeanne S. |
- Posted by nanatricia (My Page) on Fri, Jan 13, 12 at 19:46
cute cute cute!!!!!!! |
They are both nice but love the green roof!! what a nice touch & great way to use up old shutters. They do look cozy. I remember a movie with Julie Andrews & guy on Rockford Files, forgot his name. I think about how they met on a snowy night at nursing home where each had relative in care there & they start out for town & end up in 1 car & get stuck in snowstorm & find his friend's cozy cabin & that was what I thought of when you posted this pic. It was nice movie had a happy ending after some trials & miscommunication! Jan |
- Posted by calamity_j z7bc (My Page) on Fri, Jan 13, 12 at 23:29
Very Cool...gotta great reminder from you posting all your great birdhouses, to add some to "My 2012 Projects List!" You have inspired me and I have put 3 up last year with more to come this yr! |
You inspire me! I hope to make a few birdhouses this year. Will look in my 'birdhouse file' at some or yours when I start. The two you posted now are GREAT! Beautiful! I probably won't make log houses tho'. That is more work cutting those pieces than I want to do.... |
- Posted by marylee_2010 (My Page) on Sat, Jan 14, 12 at 9:02
Jeanne, your birdhouses are great. They remind me of "Lincoln Logs" from when the kids were young. sunnyca, is the guy from the movie Jim Garner. He is one of my favorite actors. Marylee |
- Posted by a.girl.named.max 4a (My Page) on Sat, Jan 14, 12 at 9:55
I LOVE the birdhouses! What kind of saw does you DD use? Thanks for sharing. .... a girl named Max. |
- Posted by jeannespines 4 (My Page) on Sat, Jan 14, 12 at 10:06
Thanks, GJers! max...DH used miter saw for the green 'shutter' roof cause all he had to do was change the length of the pcs, he said. And he used his table saw for making the logs. calamity...that's cool you made some biredhses this past yr! nana...have fun digging around looking for one to make! Appreciate your comments, all of you! Jeanne S. |
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- Posted by concretenprimroses 4B NH (My Page) on Sat, Jan 14, 12 at 11:35
Marvelous! I too thought of lincoln logs. How I loved them as a child! Kathy |
Your birdhouses are very cute and I love the hinge pin! Great job and kudos to DH, too! |
- Posted by marlene_2008 7 (My Page) on Sat, Jan 14, 12 at 13:00
You and your DH are a heck of a team Jeanne! LOVE the new birdhouses and I'm sure that you'll have some takers as soon as spring arrives. |
- Posted by laurastheme (My Page) on Sat, Jan 14, 12 at 13:48
I absolutely LOVE these and I bet the birdies will too. Good job. http://daydreamsdustbunnies.blogspot.com/ |
Don't get to pop in very often but sure glad I had a few minutes today, Those bird houses are really neat!! I'd probably add to the "buildings" I put under/around my Christmas tree for a rustic village. Very nice! |
- Posted by azcactusflower 10 (My Page) on Sat, Jan 14, 12 at 20:54
Oh my gosh, absolute cuties!! I have birdhouses all over my yard. Yours are so unique. They will certainly look outstanding in your yard. Thanks for sharing your creativity. |
- Posted by chevy57red 3/4 MN (My Page) on Sat, Jan 14, 12 at 22:35
Those are so cute!! And will look terrific out in the gardens!! |
Marylee, thanks for supplying James Garner's name!I Googled Julie Andrew/James Garner & movie was"One Special Night" 2002 excellent, clean movie & I watched U Tube video someone made but it didn't show house on outside(so don't know if looked like log cabin-Jeanne's bird houses or not) but rent the movie or maybe library has it & enjoy it sometime this winter, it will warm your heart!!Jan |
- Posted by jeannespines 4 (My Page) on Sun, Jan 15, 12 at 11:44
Thanks, GJers, for all your comments! 'appreciated! Hope you all are finding some Winter projects to work on (& share)! Jeanne S. (I think I saw that movie, too, sunnyca, but sounds like it's worth a re-rerun!) LOL! |
- Posted by oldgraymare 4 WI (My Page) on Sun, Jan 15, 12 at 13:18
Those are adorable! I love them! |
They are both soooo cute. Love the green roofed one especially. Bet the would sell fast at a craft sales! |
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The Life and Casualty Insurance Company of Tennessee was a life insurance company based in Nashville, Tennessee, founded in 1903 by A. M. Burton, great-grandfather of singer Amy Grant.
Burton was a regional manager for the Western and Southern Life Insurance Company, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, when it decided to discontinue operating in Tennessee. Burton was going to be discharged, but according to company lore, was told by his superior, "If you're the man that I think that you are, you'll start your own company," and he did so.
For many years, the firm sold a mixture of "industrial life insurance" policies, paying small-face amounts and costing low premiums, to working-class individuals and small farmers and "ordinary life" policies for middle class and affluent persons. Much of this business was sold on the "debit" or "home service" plan, where an insurance agent, usually the one who sold the policy initially, personally called on the client to collect the premiums when they became due.
In 1957 the company occupied its new home office, the 31-story Life and Casualty Tower, located at 4th Avenue North and Church Street in downtown Nashville; the building was briefly the tallest one in the Southeast. The company was also known for its ownership of radio and television stations WLAC, properties it held until the 1970s.
In the mid-1960s, the company was sold to the American General Insurance Company of Texas, but its operations remained largely unchanged until the early 1980s. In 1968 the former Knights Life Insurance company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (then a part of American General Insurance) had its operations transferred from Pittsburgh to Nashville. When American General acquired longtime Nashville rival National Life and Accident Insurance Company in a hostile takeover and implemented plans to merge the two companies. By the end of the 1980s this had been largely accomplished, and the L&C Tower, still a Nashville landmark but no longer its tallest building, was sold to outside interests.


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Hi Anselmhook!
This story is really sad - I would not have wanted to be in your place when you told your client or investors that you wasted 30.000$ on nothing and that you need to start everything from scratch, with another system, with another crew. I think there is a lot to learn from your story.
First, there is no system that is a good choice for "any task". Plone has its strengnesses and also some drawbacks: it is an excellent choice for many solutions but as you point out too, it is not good for anything.
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Suffer the consequences of one's actions, as in He's run into debt again, but this time we're leaving him to stew in his own juice. This metaphoric term alludes to cooking something in its own liquid. Versions of it, such as fry in one's own grease, date from Chaucer's time, but the present term dates from the second half of the 1800s.
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