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An overview of new tools and offerings for marketing and marketing research
Los Angeles research company Passenger has launched its FUEL (Fast User Engagement and Listening) Community Engine, a SaaS engagement platform designed to develop insight communities of customers, partners and employees and to allow communication online, on mobile devices and on social media networks. The software includes quantitative survey tools and qualitative feedback techniques. Some key features: flexible design; scalable size and segmentation capabilities; rapid setup enables short-term projects, small advisory boards, enterprise voice-of-customer programs and communities of all sizes (no limit on the number of members in a community); custom-branded mobile apps for Android and iOS; applications, including fully integrated Qualtrics survey tools and Tableau-based analytics dashboards, responsive design, sentiment analysis and brand intelligence tools; multilanguage translation abilities to address globalization requirements for any business and any language; document sharing and streaming and a new live chat module; and social media integration options, including social sharing.
Denver research firm iModerate has launched Qual Tracker, a suite of longitudinal qualitative software programs which combines iModerate's cognitive framework with text analytics. The programs, titled Audience Tracker, KPI Tracker and Competitive Tracker, are designed to engage consumers so companies can track their changing interests and can be more proactive in identifying opportunities.
Audience Tracker lets clients go beyond market and behavioral data and establish consumer intimacy in order to stay on top of their audiences' changing desires, attitudes and behaviors. KPI Tracker helps understand the drivers behind key performance indicator movement and shed light on what to improve and what to replicate to proactively impact the numbers. Competitive Tracker is intended to help clients gauge consumers' perception of and relationship with their competition and attachment to their offerings, ensuring they know where they stand, how to react and how to move forward.
Each offering is available independently and revolves around a monthly minimum of professionally-moderated conversations, with approximately 80 percent of the discussion remaining consistent month over month and 20 percent open to address ad hoc client needs. Reporting is based on aggregate consumer feedback and advanced metrics such as conceptual relationship mapping and occurs at both monthly and quarterly intervals.
Nuremberg, Germany, research company the GfK Group has launched GfK MarketBuilder, a management tool aimed at identifying the factors leading to the successful market launch of new products and services. MarketBuilder is designed to use actual consumer behavior in measuring innovation performance rather than stated intentions. GfK MarketBuilder can provide a holistic understanding of the drivers of adoption, so that brands can proactively manage the areas that really matter and translate this understanding into informed decision-making by using scenario planning and relevant performance metrics to forecast sales. It aims to reorient the brand's innovation management to focus on behavior-centric KPIs, supporting a sustained improvement in innovation performance.
Paris research company Ipsos and NEUROHM, a Warsaw-based neuroscience specialist, have partnered to upgrade the Ipsos Implicit Reaction Time (IRT) system. IRT is designed to use calibrated reaction time to measure the strength of unconscious preferences and their impact on consumer behavior. The tools capture how consumers are unconsciously impacted by brands, ads, products, packages and concepts in contrast to what they overtly say in the conscious, more considered, explicit realm. The method is based upon algorithms that calibrate individual response speeds with the goal of eliminating biasing variables. IRT can function as a module embedded within more traditional surveys to provide an integrated perspective on both conscious and unconscious aspects of consumer response.
On Device Research, London, has launched an advertising effectiveness measurement tool for mobile surveys. The tool is designed to provide measurements of awareness, consideration and purchase intent. It uses the unique mobile IDs of its panel of mobile respondents who are retargeted with campaign ads and later invited to participate in the brand metrics survey. Results of the control vs. exposed group are displayed in a Web-based dashboard.
Brand advertisers have been reluctant to move budgets to mobile as traditional cookie-based tracking makes it difficult to reliably measure the brand uplift of campaigns. On Device reports that a project with Sony and MediaCom confirmed the effect of brand advertising on mobile, showing a significant uplift in spontaneous awareness (23 percent point difference) and brand and purchase intent (19 percent point difference) between the exposed and control group.
WCG, a San Francisco social media company, and the Health Data Consortium (HDC), Washington, D.C., have created the Health Data Conversation Radar, designed to track health data conversations in Twitter postings among U.S. doctors, members of Congress and top U.S. health data media influencers. The Radar will display trending keywords, top influencers, conversation volume and a live Tweetstream. A demo version is available at www.hdcradar.com. The HDC is a collaboration of government, non-profit and private sector organizations aimed at improving the availability and use of health data. The debut of the Health Data Conversation Radar is the starting point for the HDC-WCG partnership, which will also deliver regular reporting on insights to HDC's members to help educate them and enhance their understanding of online conversations about health data and in turn promote more effective communication and sharing of open data across the health care spectrum.
SurveyMonkey, Palo Alto, Calif., has partnered with Amherst, Mass., software company Texifter to use Texifter's DiscoverText platform in managing large numbers of verbatim responses. The interface between the programs is designed to allow SurveyMonkey users to import their existing survey data and have access to online data feeds including key social media networks.
DiscoverText users will be able to log in to SurveyMonkey to import existing survey data. Researchers can use a 30-day free trial to use DiscoverText's tools on open-ended answers and on structured survey metadata. Texifter's "five pillars of text analytics" approach combines search, filtering, clustering, human-coding and machine-learning. Once registered on DiscoverText, newcomers have access to a range of online data feeds. Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, WordPress, Disqus and Twitter data can be gathered, managed and analyzed in DiscoverText alongside SurveyMonkey responses, e-mail and other forms of text data.
Provo, Utah, software company Qualtrics has combined its survey technology platform with Bain and Company's customer loyalty expertise to create a Net Promoter Score (NPS) software tool. The Qualtrics Bain-certified NPS wizard helps organizations launch a functionally-accurate NPS survey, allowing them to track and act on voice-of-the-customer feedback. Additionally, built-in reporting allows organizations to view and contribute to industry benchmarks and to understand how their business compares to others within the industry.
London research company Hall & Partners has partnered with London technology firm Simudyne to launch a new predictive modelling and simulation tool called Avatar, aimed at helping businesses forecast the factors that will impact most on their brands' futures. The Avatar software is designed to create virtual people, with real-world data determining their behavior, and then safely run experiments in virtual markets. The virtual markets allow clients to repeatedly make scenario adjustments to determine the most effective ways to influence future behavior, drive sales and increase profitability. Avatar is also designed to serve as an early warning system, enabling actions to be taken sooner than would otherwise be possible. The open-architecture platform connects clients to real-world data sources and feeds into Hall & Partners proprietary Hub data integration platform.
ThinkNow Research, Burbank, Calif., has launched an online Spanish-language ad software platform which assesses 15- and 30-second television ads and is linked to a normative database. The software is designed to measure ad recall, purchase intent, commercial and brand attributes and other key measures of ad effectiveness.
Atlanta research company CMI has launched its yPrescribe software, designed to identify factors which influence a physician's prescribing loop by simulating real-world behavior using a patient profile generator.
London advertising firm CScreens has launched an eye-tracking tool capable of measuring the number of people viewing a billboard, how long they look at it, their gender and approximate age.
Wilton, Conn., research firm Toluna is offering its TolunaMobile Diary app to its panel community clients. The app is designed to capture in-the-moment feedback from community members and to provide a flexible method of presenting questions and responses to users available for Apple and Android phones and tablets, with the options of presenting and uploading images, using a UPC barcode scanner and sending reminders to respondents to enter information.
Swift Research, Wetherby, U.K., and Amarach Research, Dublin, have joined to create a consumer panel of food lovers for research projects in Great Britain and Ireland. Each company will contribute its own industry specialists to the partnership project.
Vision One Research, London, has added a U.K. benchmarking option to its StaffProbe employee satisfaction survey which will allow clients to compare their results with national norms.
Hailey, Idaho, software company Marketron has established two resource databases, the Marketron Mobile and Interactive Idea Vaults. The databases include client case studies, marketing research, implementation best practices and metrics for media companies.
New York research company OnePoint Global is offering Tellme, a free mobile survey app designed to provide researchers with access to mobile survey ideas from around the world and across research sectors. The app provides different questionnaire designs and formats for mobile surveys and can be downloaded at http://appwebsite.onepointglobal.com.
Five focus group facilities have joined the Dialed In affiliate program of Beaverton, Ore., research company Dialsmith. These include Focus Plus, New York; PVR Research, Atlanta; Observation Baltimore, Baltimore; Fieldwork O'Hare, Chicago; and Viewpoint Europe, Hamburg and Frankfurt, Germany.
Mission Measurement, a Chicago consulting firm, has launched the Social Value Index. The Index includes the Social Value Score and the Social Value Scorecard and is aimed at identifying and quantifying consumer demand within an industry; rankings of industry competitors and the estimated revenue increase for improving its Social Value Score.
Usability Sciences, a research company in Irving, Texas, has launched Omni-Channel, designed to gather feedback on a brand from Web, mobile, social media, and brick-and-mortar sources.
Denver technology company GeoPoll has begun the first overnight television ratings service in several African countries, including Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda. The service area will expand to additional countries in the coming months, including DR Congo, Tunisia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Cameroon.
Cambridge, Mass., research company InCrowd has added a Peer2Peer feature to its on-demand platform, designed to allow physicians to ask open-ended questions of colleagues and receive confidential responses in a double-blinded manner.
New York marketing firm Sizmek has released its Sizmek Attribution Suite, designed to provide cross-channel attribution analysis of digital marketing campaigns. The software is aimed at helping agencies collect and analyze the impact of each point of contact with consumers, identifying the most effective media.
Demand Metric, an Ontario research company, has developed a Digital Marketing Maturity Model which is designed to assist organizations in assessing their digital marketing, determining where they are on the maturity continuum and finding options for improvement.
Boston retail company Mobee announced its new dashboard software, designed to use in-store data collected by its mobile app, which enlists mystery shopping volunteers to rate retailers and restaurants and post photos of stores, aisles and shelves. The dashboard measures store- and channel-level performance for new products rollouts, promotions and competitive intelligence and can issue alerts on urgent in-store issues.
Quintiles, a Durham, N.C., pharmaceutical company, and Modern Marketing Concepts, a Binghamton, N.Y., marketing firm, have partnered to create a marketing analytics program which combines proprietary channel preference data with the Next Action Marketing platform. The program is designed to optimize the positioning and marketing of biopharma products by creating physician communication strategies which align with their preferences and behavior.
Aha! Online Research, Detroit, has launched the next generation of its DIY online qualitative research platform, designed to include social and mobile-friendly features.
NewBrandAnalytics, a Washington, D.C., software company, has launched Pulse, a social listening platform aimed at extracting targeted insights from unstructured social media and survey data. The proprietary software is designed to enable researchers to gather individual comments, discover trends and react in real-time.
St. Louis marketing company aisle411 has combined its indoor retail mapping software with Google's Project Tango. The new platform is designed to allow participants to search for products in a 3-D reality experience and find personalized coupons, offers and rewards.
L&E Research, Raleigh, N.C., has expanded to Cincinnati by opening a new office and focus group facility at the former QFact location.
New York nonprofit the Digital Advertising Alliance has developed an app version and a mobile-optimized version of its existing desktop choice tool, aimed at providing consumers control over targeted advertising on their mobile devices. Both versions are designed to allow users to opt out entirely from relevant ads or select the companies providing the ads.
San Francisco research company CfMC has released version 8.7.1 of its Survox Dialer (formerly known as the CfMC Dialer or Celeus Dialer) and Survent multimode survey management platform.
The Nevada Commission on Tourism (NCOT) and London research firm TNS Global have partnered to develop a new ROI measure for destination marketing campaigns. The program is designed to evaluate all points of contact with potential visitors by placing tags on all NCOT digital media and running effectiveness diagnostics of all paid, free or owned media, such as the NCOT Web site and social media sites.
New York health care consulting firm Kantar Health has launched PINNAKLE, a brand-marketing solution aimed at helping companies maximize the success of their brands by integrating data from many sources and by combining information, research and consulting expertise. PINNAKLE is designed to provide a scientific approach to launches, evidence-based measurement of results and forward-looking marketing.
Pulsar, the social media division of London research company Cello, has launched FLOW, a platform designed to allow clients to manage all social media channels from one place and to coordinate large social media teams. Pulsar also launched TEAM, a social media analytics tool which is designed to enable clients to track and manage activity on their internal collaboration platforms.
Ipsos MediaCT, a division of Paris research company Ipsos, and the Readership Works, a marketing company in New South Wales, Australia, have added a new engagement metric, designed to demonstrate a reader's relationship with printed newspapers and magazines, to its emma (Enhanced Media Metrics Australia) readership survey.
San Antonio, Texas, media firm Clear Channel Media and Entertainment has launched the Audience Delivery Optimizer, a proprietary radio targeting tool designed to match its listeners with political databases, providing predictions about which voter segment is listening to which station and at what time. It is aimed at enabling local and national political campaigns to target key voter segments using radio and will be available for the 2014 campaign cycle.
Santa Clara, Calif., software companies DropThought Inc. and Clover, San Francisco, have launched the DropThought app, which is integrated with the Clover point-of-sale system. The app is designed to allow customers to provide instant feedback either on the Clover signature screen or via e-mail, text or print receipts.
Beta Research Corporation, Syosset, N.Y., has added PREDICT to its existing platform of online panel software. The software is designed to use online research panels of respondents to create one or more insight communities which can be global or local, targeted or broad, short-term or long-term, as needed.
New York software company Pyne has launched its Pyne app, designed to provide a quick questionnaire which respondents can then share with social media contacts.
Redwood City, Calif., marketing company YuMe Inc., has released an interactive Reach Calculator, which computes unduplicated advertising reach across TV, online, smartphone, tablet and connected TV. The Reach Calculator was designed during projects with New York researcher the Nielsen Company on multiscreen reach and brand impact.
AppsFlyer, a New York software company, has launched AppsFlyer for Agencies, a mobile ad monitoring program designed for agencies and advertisers to measure and manage their mobile marketing.
BestToolBars, the Alexandria, Va., Internet company, has launched a Heatmap feature designed to provide online market researchers with information on the behavior of their Web site visitors. The Heatmap tool pinpoints hot spots, analyzes which elements of the page attract the most attention and allows marketers to track mouse moves, clicks and scrolling.
Dallas software company Satisware has launched Helprace, designed to be a new community for businesses to create hubs for support, marketing, promotion and gathering of user feedback.
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If anyone of you in this forum has a dvr and record the first leg of Barca vs. Manunited then you know that lineup was full of crap and that C.Ronaldo headed that ball on milito's hand on purpose. During the first few minutes while C.Ronaldo's teammates were talking to him. When I saw Rooney and Ferdinand talking to him it felt strange since I knew something bad was about to happen, but I couldn't my finger on it. I know someone is about to disagree with me, but if Man united won that game it would have been because of that penalty and the Man united playing defense with no possession. The only time it would have been a fair penalty for Ronaldo is when Abidal slide tackled him in the penalty box and he got extremely mad.Which would have been sad? Second of all the finishing for Barca was terrible nobody besides Ronaldinho himself could slamm the ball in the back of the net. The freekicks should have been easy. Because most of them were up close. The only one that came close was Thierry Henry. Alot of people, are saying that Man United are going to roll over Barca with their aggressional starting XI next week. But, I'm here to tell all Man united fans at this forums. You still got one ole enemy to worry about and that's my boy Thierry Henry. I predict Barca and Chelsea in the finals.
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Gum is always about taste. A nihilist doesn't believe in anything. Nihilist gum doesn't believe in flavour. Which begs the question..why chew it?
A counter trend can often be the most convincing way to get someone to try a product because for every go-with-the-grain consumer, there's a million nosy parkers who want to try something new.
If we were to push this kind of reasoning to the extreme . . .well then, If restaurants are always about service, could you create a restaurant which goes against the grain of service? Instead of making you feel at home & treating you like a welcome patron, they abuse you and ridicule your food decisions..
If you don't understand the menu they call you a philistine, if you don't order enough they call you a tight-ass anorexic & if you don't tip big they point out the cheapskate to all the other patrons. Dining becomes a combat sport. Welcome to the game, its survivor restaurant-style.
Assume for a moment that you are the marketing director of a large confectionery company. While everyone else is focusing on higher end premium bite size indulgence, you decide to launch the largest single
serve chocolate bar in the world. It is big & chunky and it proudly displays its calorie count on the front next to the name :: Fattyboombah. Nice huh?
For every trend there's a counter trend. Look at the research, chuck it away & do the exact opposite. Imagine what you think people want and offer something completely contrary. The truth of the matter is that people are contradictory. A large percentage of Americans may disapprove of the reporting of a political sex scandal but you can bet that the circulation of trashmags increases when one is on the cover! So embrace the contradictions, scope out the challenge and then just close your eyes and pick a side….
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"Nihilist gum doesn't believe in flavour"
Wow I love this quote. Fair enough if you love to chew, but hate to taste!


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Though sorrow over the death of legendary pop singer Whitney Houston hung heavily on the Grammy audience throughout the ceremony on Sunday (Feb. 12), the 54th Annual Grammy awards boasted several stunning performances, including those by British pop singer Adele, a reunited Beach Boys, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift, Blake Shelton, The Band Perry, Glen Campbell, Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson.
Dressed elegantly in a gold-and-black, one-shoulder floor-length gown, Carrie sang an elegant duet of "It Had to Be You" with Tony Bennett, which was included on his recent album Duets II. The album won a golden gramophone for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album earlier in the evening. Watch Carrie and Tony's performance of "It Had to Be You" here. [1]
Taylor, meanwhile, accompanied herself on banjo against a derelict cabin backdrop as her band of musicians perfectly portrayed their theatrical roles. At one point she changed up the lyrics, driving her point home to her critics. Someday I'll be singing this at the Grammys, she sang triumphantly. Watch Taylor's performance of "Mean" here [2].
"There is nothing like two great voices blending," Reba McEntire said, introducing Jason and Kelly to perform their popular ballad "Don't You Wanna Stay." Jason, dressed in a sharp pinstripe suit and his ever-present cowboy hat, sang powerfully, accompanied by Kelly's soaring vocals on the sultry ballad. Despite some microphone troubles for Jason at the song's end, the pair garnered a standing ovation from the Grammy crowd. Watch their performance of "Don't You Wanna Stay" here. [3]
The Band Perry, who were nominated for the Best New Artist award (the trophy went to Bon Iver), performed a Grammy tribute with Blake to country legend Glen Campbell. The sibling trio performed a fiddle-and-mandolin-laden version of "Gentle on My Mind" spearheaded by Kimberly Perry's irrepressible and soulful vocals. Donning a classy suit, Blake Shelton sang Glen's 1977 hit "Southern Nights." Blake's muscular twang proved a perfect fit with the lyrics. Blake then introduced Glen for a rendition of his signature 1975 hit, "Rhinestone Cowboy." The 75-year-old Glen worked the Grammy stage with considerable confidence, turning the audience into his own personal choir, as cameras panned to artists such as Miranda Lambert and Paul McCartney singing along. Check out the tribute here [4].
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQyqCwBQcVc&feature=player_embedded
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftzW6gsxMvk
[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vF-BCFhVEE
[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBllOWNuG-E
[5] http://www.countryweekly.com/news/blake-miranda-sit-next-dominatrix-gaga-grammys
[6] http://www.countryweekly.com/news/dierks-makes-list-best-dressed-dudes-grammys


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I'm a 47 year old male with a few months of running under my belt. I do about 5K every other day without killing myself, but it is still challenging. I just got a heart rate monitor and I've found that running in the 140-155 bpm zone is fairly doable without much discomfort. In reading some of the information on heart rate and running, my maximum heart rate is about 173 (220-47(myage)). This seems about right because my heart will do almost that high if I push it to the max. If I am getting my information correct, I should be aiming for 60% to 70% of that which is around 105-120 bpm. I can get that rate with a brisk walk! Am I missing something here or should I go to the emergency room! BTW, I did have a complete physical about a year ago and got the go ahead.
Is it healthy for me to run in the 140-155 bpm range?
From what I've read 60% is fat burning and 80% is cardio. I'm 49 and target 140 on the eliptical and have been hitting 155-165 jogging in week4 of c25k. I get a headache if I go much higher. These are also just average suggestions and can vary based on your condition.
As always see a doc before starting any excersie routine...
First, the "maximum heart rate" is a rule of thumb and does not apply to everyone. Second, aerobic training (running) will increase your maximum heart rate. Third, heart rate monitoring is a way to help with perceived effort. The zones, just like the maximum heart rate, are guidelines, not fixed in stone.
So, keep running in the 140-155 bpm zone until you start longer runs. In those runs, you should back off on your speed and heart rate.
If you want to find out more, there is a lot of information on the internet.
Good luck, and keep running.
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The science behind the 220 minus Age formula is pretty inexact. I'm about your age and my maximum heart rate is over 190. I tend to run my long slow days at between 150 and 155 bpm, which for me feels pretty easy. Hard(-ish) tempo runs are usually 165-175 bpm, and I regularly push it to 185 bpm or so in a 5K race. If you look online you may find zone estimators that use other formulas to estimate and account for your maximum heart rate. I use a zone calculator based on "heart rate reserve," which tends to feel more natural than the zone charts posted at the gym.
This has been discussed several times in the last few months. Here are a couple threads.
220 minus age is only valid for 50% or so of the general population. It was not intended by its authors as a general rule. You really need to be tested (in a lab or on your own) if you want to know your maximum (MHR). Your MHR is fixed and personal, except: 1.) It is different for different types of exercise. Running seems to be highest; 2.) For a sedentary individual, it tends to drop by 1 beat per year as you age.
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U.S. Companies Paid More Taxes Overseas
American multinationals have long tapped foreign markets to take advantage of lower labor costs, looser regulations, and simpler tax structures that can make doing business overseas more cost-efficient than in the U.S. But it's not just jobs migrating abroad—it's now tax dollars too, a senior index analyst at Standard & Poor's says. (S&P, like BusinessWeek, is owned by The McGraw-Hill Companies (MHP).)
Last year marked the first time that American companies contributed more to the tax pools of foreign governments than they did domestically, according to analyst Howard Silverblatt's annual S&P 500 Global Sales report, released July 14. The study was based on income taxes paid and reported to the U.S. government by just over half the companies on the S&P 500. Companies are not obligated to provide such detailed breakdowns of foreign sales. In 2008 foreign income tax payouts accounted for more than 55% of their total income tax expenditures, up from 45% in 2007—an $11.5 billion increase. Federal income tax payouts declined 29%, or almost $44 billion, over the same period.
This trend has been occurring for some time. Over the past four years, U.S. companies have increasingly paid a higher percentage of their total income taxes to foreign governments, which accounted for 45% in 2007, up from 39% in 2005. But Silverblatt's findings represent another data point among many showing that the U.S. was hit harder than many foreign countries in 2008 as the global financial crisis picked up steam. While the U.S. economy contracted, emerging economies grew to take market share. Just as important, he notes, the results further prove that an enormous middle class is emerging for products that U.S. companies provide.
Domestic Sales Lagged
American consumers are still the largest consumer base around the world, "but if you're a salesman you don't ignore new customers," Silverblatt says. "It's not who you have but who you want to get, even though they may be smaller [markets]." Foreign sales increased by almost 8% in 2008, with companies in the energy, industrial, and information technology sectors posting the highest gains. Meanwhile, domestic sales lagged, increasing only 2.5%.
In 2002, U.S. gross domestic product made up almost 30% of gross world product, and U.S. equities dominated more than 57% of world markets. By last year, however, those figures plunged to roughly 21% and 41%, respectively. Silverblatt predicts these downward trends will continue, as more companies move to produce and sell their goods and services in countries such as India, China, and Pakistan.
Benefiting the U.S.?
With $44 billion less in tax revenue in 2008, says Silverblatt, the U.S. Treasury is experiencing a double hit. As more workers lose their jobs, the Treasury received less while also needing to fund higher levels of unemployment benefits. "I know we talk in trillions these days, but that $44 billion is a lot of money and I only expect it to grow," Silverblatt says. Financials alone in the S&P 500 paid 16 times as much in foreign income taxes as domestic, $13.3 billion compared with a paltry $817 million, all while suffering massive losses.
While money that may once have been destined for the U.S. Treasury is redirected to bank accounts overseas, this outcome ultimately benefits the U.S. economy in the bigger picture, contends Rosanne Altshuler, co-director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. "This shows us that more and more opportunities for profitability and expansion are abroad. Whose firms do you want to take advantage of those other markets?" she says, while admitting that shareholders are surely benefiting more than workers losing their jobs. "If it was profitable to have more sales at home they'd be operating at home. They're choosing to expand markets because that's where the sales are."
With more and more sales coming from overseas, Corporate America's "leverage" with a weak U.S. dollar increases, says Alexander Young, an equity strategist at S&P. As many analysts forecast improved growth by the fourth quarter of 2009, Young predicts the dollar will continue to weaken, calling it "a timely catalyst in helping S&P 500 companies meet investors' lofty expectations."


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GIRARD, Pa. (AP) — State police have cited a 42-year-old northwestern Pennsylvania woman for disorderly conduct after she called 911 requesting a divorce and police assistance to make her husband leave.
Troopers from the Girard barracks say the woman called at 1:07 a.m. Saturday asking that officers be sent to her home in Girard Township.
Police say they explained to the woman, whom they are not identifying, that a divorce is a civil matter and that they could not make her husband leave the residence because no crime had been committed.
Instead, police have cited the woman for disorderly conduct and misusing the Erie County 911 system.
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Specially treated String Care cleaning cloth removes dirt and tarnish with little effort. String Care can be used on all metal strings for both acoustic and electric instruments. It leaves a fine protective shield on strings.
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When grime and dirt have built up along the edges and between the frets and the wood itself, the board requires a thorough going-over. However, if you wipe your strings clean after playing, there will be less chance for dirt to build up. Years ago, when I was playing six nights a week alongside a pedal steeler, I noticed that he would clean each string at the nights end, using a special rag called a Blitz cloth, which was commonly used by the Army to polish brass. I started using one, too, and found it to be the greatest string cleaner Id ever seen. An Army surplus store was the only place I could find them. Since that time I have seen them in music stores being sold as String Care by Blitz.
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Check out footage from Rick Ross' annual charity event in Scott Lake Park in Carol City, Florida.
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The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) is co-sponsoring the event New Perspectives on Guantánamo: Art, Activism and Advocacy, which will explore the history of the United States' use of GTMO in the 1990s to house individuals from Haiti and Cuba who fled political persecution or sought asylum within the U.S., and its post-9/11 use as a prison for suspected terrorists.
Bringing together legal scholars, historians, activists and others knowledgeable about the base during these periods, the conference will include thematic panels on organizing and activism among detainees at the base; the legal context for the use of GTMO's facilities as a base, a refugee center and a prison; and artistic expression at and about GTMO.
This Conference is Free and Open to the Public but Registration is Required.
The conference will take place on Friday, September 12, 2014 from 8:30-5:00 at the Watson Institute for International Studies.
For more information, visit the conference Website.


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> I know that we have 65000 ports
You're wrong. A port is not a door or a gate, and not a harbour. It's
just a 16bit maintenance number, which includes that there are 65536
different numbers for ports. Usually, the 0 has special meaning, that
makes 65535 numbers in address space.
> I never had an attach / intrusion / virus on my machine :
> How is it possible? Am I the most lucky person on earth?
You're one of the many people, who don't understand and don't recognize
real attacks.
"Es muss darauf geachtet werden, dass das Grundgesetz nicht mit Methoden
geschützt wird, die seinem Ziel und seinem Geist zuwider sind."
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Plants: Species
Yucca Yucca
FAMILY: AGAVACEAE (Agave Family)
The relationship between yuccas and moths of the Tegeticula genus is a clever and mutually beneficial one, since the moths get a safe place to lay their eggs and feed their larvae, while the plants get pollinated to produce another generation. The female moth lays a single egg inside a chamber in the yucca's ovary, and on her way out she methodically rubs the plant's stigma with pollen she gathered from another yucca. As the seeds develop, the larva feeds on the ones near it. But it doesn't eat them all, and when the seed pod bursts open to release the many that still remain, the larvae hops out and buries itself in the sand to make a cocoon and become a moth.


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KUALA LUMPUR: China has postponed plans to send a pair of pandas to Malaysia next week, a minister said yesterday, as bilateral relations remain uneasy over the disappearance of flight MH370.
The two countries agreed in 2012 that China would send the giant pandas for a 10-year stay in Malaysia, in Beijing's latest use of "panda diplomacy" to cement ties with other countries.
But Malaysia's environment minister G Palanivel said: "They (China) are waiting for the results of MH370."They will delay the arrival," he said in a text message. "They might send in late May."
In a separate public statement, Palanivel said China and Malaysia have agreed that the giant pandas should arrive "at a more significant date" in May. May 31 marks the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Palanivel did not elaborate on the reasons for the delay, but the circumstances of the animals' planned arrival appeared likely to cause embarrassment for China's government -- they were due arrive on April 16 on a Malaysia Airlines flight.
China is Malaysia's largest trading partner and Kuala Lumpur had declared 2014 as "China-Malaysia Friendship Year."
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak had requested the pandas from former Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, who left office last year. The pandas -- Feng Yi ("Phoenix") and Fu Wa ("Lucky") -- have already caused controversy in Malaysia over plans to house them in special $7.7m facility in the national zoo in Kuala Lumpur.
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Processor: MPC8245
Kernel version: 2.6.14
Driver used: rtc-ds1307.c - ported from some newer version (2.6.17 or
something) of the standard kernel.
problem faced: RTC time is not syncd to the system time or vice versa.
In arch/ppc/platforms/our_plat.c I am setting ppc_md.get_rtc_time
and ppc_md.set_rtc_time. ppc_md.calibrate_decr is also set. The
ppc_md.time_init has not been set. It seems that as part of time_init,
I should be enabling the time base. In 83xx the TBEN is in a register
called SPCR, however for 824x it is a signal (input line) to the CPU.
Does that mean changing the hardware so that the pin is asserted by
In another way or trying to get RTC and system clock to be
synced, I was using hctosys.c in drivers/rtc/ for the same purpose. In
this case, the RTC's time was read at boot and then written to the
system clock at boot. However, immediately after writing to system
time, the time used to get changed to some other random value.
The RTC driver works fine - which means - I can write to the RTC
(thru the sysfs) and can read it back from the RTC and the values that
I write are available even on subsequent reboots.
So what is the missing piece to sync the system clock and the RTC?
Is there any other processor dependent stuff that should be done that I
am missing or doing wrong? Or is there something on the lines of
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Effective Sub-national Adaptation to Extreme Events: The Imperative of Coupling Technology with Strong Regulation and Governance
Dr Andrew Kythreotis, School of Planning and Geography, Cardiff University
Tuesday 25th March 2014 - 4:00pm
Glamorgan Building Council Chamber
Please join us for this Environment Research Group Seminar
In recent years there has been an increase in extreme events related to natural variability and climate change. Developing innovative technologies is crucial in making society more resilient to such events. However, little emphasis has been placed on the role of human decision-making in maximising the positive impacts of technological developments. This is exacerbated by the lack of appropriate adaptation options and the privatisation of existing infrastructure that leaves regional and local communities exposed to increasing risk.
Using international examples of extreme events, this paper calls for more robust government regulation and legislation to complement developments and innovations in technology in order to protect communities against such extreme events. In doing so, this paper highlights how adaptation planning responses to such extreme events requires more effective spatial governance between national and sub-national political arenas.
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Editor's note: Dave Coulson is the Colorado state editor for FishExplorer.com. He contributes a weekly fishing report to the Summit Daily News. For more local and regional fishing info, visit www.fishexplorer.com.
Fishing conditions often change as quickly as the weather, something every angler needs to keep in mind. Area rivers are generally clear, low and fishing well. The best action is often early morning with midges and mayflies or evenings when caddis patterns are effective. On lower sections of the Eagle and Colorado rivers water temperatures can exceed 70, and at such times should not be fished as it puts too much stress on the fish.
Be alert to thunderstorms which can quickly raise water levels and muddy waters. Fish can still be caught if you switch over to big streamers or spinning gear with spinners or jigs.
The Blue River continues to fish well both above and below Dillon Reservoir. However, fishing pressure is high, meaning fine tippets, good presentations and small midge patterns are the key.
Elevenmile Reservoir is some of the best fishing in South Park right now. Folks trolling hardware, such as Kastmasters, spoons or shallow running crankbaits, think Rapalas, are doing well. Work near shore for best results. Color seems to be important, so consider starting with gold/orange combinations or lures with a splash of pink.
Jefferson Lake is a good choice for smaller rainbows and the scenic beauty of the higher mountains. Lake trout can be caught, but it takes jigging down to 50 feet or deeper. Keep in mind this one is hand-launched boats only.
A couple of other waters within a reasonable drive to consider for fast action right now are Sylvan Reservoir to the north of Eagle, and in the other direction Willow Creek Reservoir near Granby are both producing good numbers of stockers.
Last, if you don't have time to travel, now is a good time to explore the small streams in the Gore wilderness area. Most have good numbers of willing brook trout if you're willing to walk a couple miles.


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a1 University of South Australia, Australia
When young children tell their mothers that they are being sexually abused by their father, the mother faces a dilemma; if she does nothing, state child protection services can remove her children as being in need of care and protection. If police are called, she is likely to be told to leave the family home to keep her children safe. If she does, the father is likely to turn to the federal family law system1 to seek time with the children. If the mother seeks an order for supervised, or no further contact with the child to protect them from abuse, she may lose residence of the child and the child may be ordered to live with the abusing parent.
c1 address for correspondence: Dr Freda Briggs AO, Emeritus Professor in Child Development, University of South Australia, Magill Campus, SA 5072 Email: email@example.com


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The Lodi Rotary Club recently sponsored a pizza party as a reward for students of Needham Elementary School with perfect attendance. Lodi Rotary Club President Chris Littlefield and Principal Carol Rivas were pleased with this year's increased attendance by children and club members alike. Club members Phil Lenser, Larry Mettler and Paul Anderson are pictured with Needham students. More than 20 pizzas were devoured.
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More of information about how we handle database stuff can be found in some of my talks.
Lately I hear people questioning database software choices we made at Wikipedia, and I'd like to point out, that…
Wikipedia database infrastructure needs are remarkably boring.
We have worked a lot on having majority of site workload handled by edge HTTP caches, and some of most database intensive code (our parsing pipeline) is well absorbed by just 160G of memcached arena, residing on our web servers.
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芝 – Zhi1 – Sesame, A Fungus
芝加哥 – Zhi1 Jia1 Ge1 – Chicago
Maybe no word of the day until Monday, because we'll be in Chicago!
芝 – Zhi1 – Sesame, A Fungus
芝加哥 – Zhi1 Jia1 Ge1 – Chicago
Maybe no word of the day until Monday, because we'll be in Chicago!
毽 – Jian4 – Shuttlecock
I was looking up how to say "SPACE SHUTTLE" when I found that Chinese has dedicated an entire character just to the concept of "shuttlecock"!
Welcome to the Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism.
The Bush administration is retooling its slogan for the fight against Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, pushing the idea that the long-term struggle is as much an ideological battle as a military mission, senior administration and military officials said Monday.
In recent speeches and news conferences, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and the nation's senior military officer have spoken of "a global struggle against violent extremism" rather than "the global war on terror," which had been the catchphrase of choice. Administration officials say that phrase may have outlived its usefulness, because it focused attention solely, and incorrectly, on the military campaign.
盞 – Zhan3 – Cup, measure word for Lamps
金盞花 – Jin1 Zhan3 Hua1 – Gold Cup Flower — Marigold
Not sure if we'll ever actually see any marigold blooms or just bare stems.
Jenny's new enemy:
BEETLES! Who do this:
They seem to especially love her newly grown marigolds. They skeletonized two of them in just a few nights! We think these beetles are really tricky, too. After Jenny realized what was going on, she decided to bring her potted marigolds in for the night so they wouldn't get eaten. We checked the plants very carefully for any bugs before bringing them in the house. That night, we were watching a movie, and suddenly Jenny's spider senses began tingling. "I think they're eating my plant!" We ran over and Jenny found, to her horror, that TWO beetles were happily chewing away! Did they hide somehow until night time? Under the dirt maybe? I grabbed both bugs, threw them outside, and squashed them. Usually we have a live and let live attitude with bugs, only transferring them outside peacefully when they bother us. BUT THIS IS WAR.
Later on a THIRD beetle got revenge by starting to FLY AROUND THE HOUSE, driving Jenny nearly into hysterics! She really really really REALLY hates bugs. I executed a kung-fu style mid air beetle grab, and killed that one too.
Next night, the same thing! Checked the plant for bugs, brought it in, then late at night, THERE THEY ARE EATING AGAIN! How are they so smart? Where did they hide?
We tried to buy some poisony stuff from the home store and spray it on the plants, but it doesn't seem to have any effect on these beetles. Should we move up to the higher grade stuff? Or is there another solution?
烘 – Hong1 – Bake, Dry By Fire
奶蛋烘餅 – Nai3 Dan4 Hong1 Bing3 – Milk Egg Bake Cake — Waffle
We finally got to pick blueberries. Which means we'll soon be eating blueberry waffles!
險 – Xian3 – Dangerous
危險 – Wei1 Xian3 – Dangerous
Tonight: A Korean retelling of "Dangerous Liasons" set in the Choson Dynasty, called Untold Scandal. Jenny liked it, I thought it was fine.
Jenny's getting just what every girl wants for her birthday this year: A new version of Internet Explorer!
Microsoft confirmed to internetnews.com that it will deliver the beta 1 version of Longhorn Server on August 3, along with the beta 1 release Internet Explorer 7. They'll be available along with the beta 1 version of Windows Vista, the next-generation Windows client formerly known as Longhorn, which Microsoft announced Friday morning.
囪 – Cong1 – Window
Another graphically suggestive one. It turns out Jenny hates these because I just browse the dictionary looking for strange looking characters and the ones I pick usually are extremely obscure and useless words.
Somehow about 10 days ago something happened that broke commenting completely. It's fixed now. I'm sorry if you tried to post something since then and were blocked.
Now I get to go through the 5237 (not kidding!) comments made since then and see which ones were real and reinstate them. Recently I've been getting .6% real comments, so there may be around 20 real ones buried in there.
停 – Ting2 – Stop, Halt
停車 – Ting2 Che1 – Stop Car — Park
停留 – Ting2 Liu2 – Stop Stay — Stop Over, Stay Over
警 – Jing3 – Alert, Warn
警察 – Jing3 Cha2 – Warn Investigate — Police
故事 – Gu4 Shi4 – Happening Affair — Story
新 – Xin1 – New
New Police Story? More like New Puh-LEASE Story!
And now for the latest installment in our ongoing series: "Famous Gradys Who Have Actually Had A Weblog For Quite A While But Steve Is Just Finding About Now (Despite The Fact That His Friends Have Repeatedly Emailed Him Saying "Hey Steve! Did You Know That Grady X Has A Weblog?")":
Finally Bionic Commando gets the recognition it deserves! Now let's see if they'll also be smart enough to include the other forgotten classics: Rastan and Twin Cobra.
蝶 – Die2 – Butterfly
蝴蝶 – Hu2 Die2 – Butterfly
飛蛾 – Fei1 E2 – Moth
What's the difference between a butterfly and a moth? Mainly, the 觸角 – Chu4 Jiao3 – Feel Horn — Antennae.
庭 – Ting2 – Hall, Court
家庭 – Jia1 Ting2 – Family Court — Household
精武 – Jing1 Wu3 – Proficient Martial
精武家庭 – Jing1 Wu3 Jia1 Ting2 – Proficient Martial Household — House Of Fury
Kind of like Mission Impossible 2 combined with House of Flying Daggers. Seemed to be very consciously set up for sequels, too. Not that great.
法 – Fa3 – Law, Method
法院 – Fa3 Yuan4 – Law Court — Court
法院的 – Fa3 Yuan4 De5 – Court (relating to) — Forensic
Effie regaled us with exciting stories from her Forensic Entomology class today over dinner. Go black putrefaction! (warning: SUPER GROSS LINK!)
Forensic Etymology is totally different, and only useful when considering such absurdities as the famous no-op constitutional convention.
毛 – Mao2 – Fur
I wonder if Mogwai are called that because of 毛怪 – Mao2 Gwai4 – Furry Monster?
Ha! I just did a search, and it seems Wikipedia has another theory: 魔怪 – Mo2 Guai4 – Demon Monster.
By the way, there is another famous 毛.
And finally, Jenny just reminded me that Timeshots recently posted a really nice picture of a 毛毛蟲 – Mao2 Mao2 Chong2 – Furry Furry Bug — Caterpillar.
啟 – Qi3 – Explain, Enlighten, Start
啟航國際 – Qi3 Hang2 Guo2 Ji4 – Enlighten Boat Country Among — Chii Hang International
Jenny got totally hosed by some fake karaoke DVDs she bought today. I'm not sure if they're really by Chii Hang, or if some pirates are just stealing the logo, but the discs were obviously just pieced together from various videos recorded off TV or downloaded off the internet. Some of the videos had logos and copyright symbols around the edges blurred out, and on some of them they didn't bother. The quality ranged from VCD-level to third generation VHS. And the "karaoke" tracks were a complete joke. Usually it was just a random piece of music with no singing, like the intro, clumsily repeated over and over. Other times they had tried to use an equalizer to drop the voices. On a few tracks, they didn't even do anything! The karaoke tracks and the vocal tracks were identical!
Karaoke buyers, beware 啟航國際!
反 – Fan3 – Flip, Reverse, Turn Over
I have discovered REVERSE POCKY! Just like regular pocky, except the pretzel is on the OUTISDE and the chocolate is on the INSIDE! What will they think of next?
奇 – Qi2 – Strange, Odd, Weird
奇妙 – Qi2 Miao4 – Strange Wonderful — Fantastic
Also a discovery: 奇異果 – Qi2 Yi4 Guo3 – Strange Unusual Fruit – Kiwi Fruit. But that's not how Kiwi got its name, it's the other way around.
61! Sometimes. In particular, the last minute of 2005 will have 61 seconds. Unfortunately, it's the last minute of 2005 in the UTC time zone, so we don't get to see the ball in Times Square go haywire as time misses a beat right as it's about to hit bottom.
剄 – Jing3 – Cut Throat
I'm not feeling murderous today or anything, I was just startled by the existence of this word while browsing the dictionary.
覆 – Fu4 – Cover, Reply
We wanted to pick some 藍莓 – Lan2 Mei2 – Blue Berry — Blueberries today, but they aren't quite in season yet. We had to settle for 草莓 – Cao3 Mei2 – Straw Berry — Strawberries and 覆盆莓 – Fu4 Pen2 Mei2 – Cover Basin Berry – Raspberries.
售 – Shou4 – Sell
騙售 – Pian4 Shou4 – Lie Sell — Foist
This year's fireworks were just like last year's – but with no finale. Instead of turning it up to eleven, and then up to one hundred eleven, they only turned it up to 8 or 9. Weak. Riverfest? More like RiverFOIST!
員 – Yuan2 – Employee, Member
飛行員 – Fei1 Xing2 Yuan2 – Fly Capable Employee – Pilot, Aviator
The Aviator: pretty good!


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Aug 29 2013
The little things do matter
Bear with me as I share something that will seem unrelated to massage at first. I've been riding my bike to work for quite a while now, and I recently switched to a new bike. After a while, I started to notice a little knee pain when riding, and this got progressively worse the more I rode. I also felt a little uncomfortable with my position on the bike, like I might be a little low. So I raised my saddle, not by much, probably less than inch. The knee pain went away almost instantly, and I also felt more comfortable and more efficient in my pedaling.
I've worked with biomechanical models enough to know that a small change in the angle of a joint can make a significant difference in the forces across that joint during muscular exertion. So, if you're experiencing some discomfort while giving massage, consider a small change to your table's height, or a slight shift in your posture or how you position your client. Sometimes these little changes can prevent a bigger problem down the road.


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BRUINS (28-12-2) at DUCKS (31-8-5)
Last 10: Boston 6-4-0; Anaheim 9-1-0
Season series: Anaheim and Boston conclude a two-game season series tonight at Honda Center. In the series opener, the Ducks lost a 3-2 shootout decision to the Bruins on Oct. 31 at TD Garden. Anaheim is 10-9-6 vs. Boston all-time, including a 4-4-4 mark in Orange County.
Big story: The NHL-leading Ducks conclude a four-game homestand vs. Boston tonight at Honda Center (7 p.m. PST, PRIME TICKET/AM 830). With a 31-8-5 record for 67 points, Anaheim is in the midst of its best start to a season through 44 games, besting the previous mark of 29-9-6 for 64 points in 2006-07. The Ducks have won 13 of their last 14 games (13-1-0) for the first time in club history and joined Pittsburgh as the first two teams to reach 30 wins this season. Anaheim, which has points in 16 of the last 17 games (14-1-2), is 11-1-2 vs. the Pacific Division and a league-leading 17-3-2 (.818 points %) vs. the Western Conference. Following tonight's game, the Ducks will embark on a two-game road trip that makes stops in Nashville on Jan. 9 and Phoenix on Jan. 11.
Team Scope:
Ducks: It may have been Anaheim's closest call to date. On Sunday, the Vancouver Canucks held a 3-2 lead into the final two minutes of regulation at Honda Center, threatening to end Anaheim's golden run. It was not to be. Nick Bonino wristed one home with 1:27 remaining, and Corey Perry added the exclamation point with an overtime winner with 1.3 seconds left in overtime.
"When you have a belief you can win," said Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau, "you're never out of the game."
Anaheim outshot Vancouver 40-7 over the final 40 minutes.
"It does get a little frustrating, but we have confidence in this building and with our team," Bonino said. "Lack played a hell of a game. Once I didn't get that overtime breakaway, I wasn't sure if I'd get another one, but we never gave up. With [1.3] seconds left, Corey finds a way to worm it in."
Bruins: The Bruins know they are in for a tough road stretch with Anaheim, the Los Angeles Kings and San Jose Sharks on the horizon. Following a 4-1 win at home against the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday, "six" reverberated throughout the locker room. That's the combined number of home losses for those three Western Conference powers.
"Well it's going to be a challenge, I've said it all along," coach Claude Julien said. "The players know about it. We might as well mention the fact that they have a combined six regulation losses between those three teams so it goes to show you how hard it is to go there and win some hockey games.
"It's a challenge that I and the rest of the team are really looking forward to, because that's the kind of challenge we need right now."
The Bruins are 2-0 in 2014, with consecutive home wins over the Nashville Predators and Winnipeg. Loui Eriksson, out since Dec. 7 with a concussion, will travel with the Bruins.
Who's hot: The line of Saku Koivu, Andrew Cogliano and Daniel Winnik have combined for 17 points (8g/9a) with a +19 rating over the last six games. Koivu has recorded eight points (4g/4a) in his last six games and 10 points (5g/5a) in his last nine. Koivu scored both his 10th career overtime goal and 11th career shorthanded goal Dec. 28 vs. Phoenix. It marked his 26th career multi-goal game and first since Jan. 10, 2012 vs. Dallas (3g). Cogliano has goals in four of his last six games (4g/2a) and nine points (4g/5a) in his last nine. In addition, Winnik has earned five assists in his last eight contests. Currently ranked fifth among NHL goaltenders in wins, Jonas Hiller owns a club-record 11 straight victories (11-0-0) to become the first NHL goaltender to win 11 consecutive starts since PHX's Mike Smith won 11 from Feb. 4-28, 2012. Hiller was named the NHL's Third Star of December after finishing the month leading the league in wins (9-0-1), while also posting a 1.96 GAA and .929 SV% in 10 games. Bonino has two goals and three assists over Anaheim's current three-game winning streak. ... Torey Krug leads Bruins defensemen in points (23) and had two goals and an assist in the win Saturday against Winnipeg.
Injury report: For Anaheim, defensemen Luca Sbisa (hand), Sheldon Souray (wrist) and goalie Viktor Fasth (lower body) are on injured reserve. ... In addition to Eriksson, Bruins right wing Jordan Caron (back) is questionable. Centers Chris Kelly (ankle) and Marc Savard (concussion) are on injured reserve. Left wing Shawn Thornton (suspension) will be eligible Jan. 11, and defenseman Dennis Seidenberg (knee) is out for the season.
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'The Beaver', Canada's History Magazine, to change name in order to avoid porn filtersBreaking News
"The Beaver website was attracting (albeit briefly) readers who had little interest in Samuel de Champlain's astrolabe or what Prairie settlers ate for breakfast," the editorial dryly observed, before concluding that the "dull" new name — "Canada's History" — was necessary to help storytelling about this country's past escape "Internet obscenity filters" and crude references to "female pubic hair."
The Economist, not above a naughty pun itself, ran a picture of the tree-chomping rodent alongside its editorial, with the caption: "No, it's not a pussy."
Late-night TV host Leno also cracked wise earlier this week about The Beaver, suggesting the magazine has been a hot seller among young Canadian men who were, however, very "disappointed when they got it home."
It's a publicity blitz that any company rebranding itself would crave, but the attention generated by the Winnipeg magazine's makeover has also prompted criticism from some subscribers about the banality of the new name, and made the country's bucktoothed national symbol a global laughingstock — or, perhaps, even more of a global laughing stock.
"It definitely has drawn a whole lot of international attention that we didn't anticipate," said Deborah Morrison, president of Canada's National History Society and publisher of The Beaver. "As one person who tweeted us said: 'I just saw you on Jay Leno. The bad news is that he told a joke about you; the good news is that I'd never heard of you before and I'm really interested.' That kind of sums it up."
The reason behind the magazine's name change, first reported last week by Canwest News Service, has generated headlines across Canada and in Europe, the U.S. and Australia.
Morrison said the media frenzy has "tripled our traffic" to the history society's website.
The organization, which also publishes a children's magazine called Kayak and runs a host of educational programs, is working at "capitalizing on the opportunity" the renaming has generated, said Morrison.
History-minded communities in countries where the story has made a splash are being targeted for an online subscription campaign, and the media attention in the U.S. has coincided with an expansion of the magazine's newsstand distribution south of the border.
The challenge, she added, is "getting beyond the humour of it" to attract new readers while reassuring traditional subscribers that "we are not fundamentally changing the nature of the magazine."
Morrison said the publication's new name — despite complaints from some commentators and society members that it's too boring — is not negotiable.
"It's obviously a good name for a Canadian history magazine — it says what it is. I know that is, perhaps, anticlimactic after all of this international attention to the name we had, but it will make it a lot clearer for people to know what we are."
She added: "It's the logical, best alternative if we couldn't be The Beaver anymore."
The Beaver, Canada's second-oldest magazine, was launched in October 1920 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Hudson's Bay Company, which sponsored the publication until it was transferred to the history society in 1994.
After decades of devoting almost all of its content to the history of the fur trade, the Arctic and Canada's northwest frontier, The Beaver's focus was revamped and broadened over the past 15 years to make it a pan-national clearing house for news and feature articles covering all aspects of Canadian history.
Only Maclean's, the popular weekly Canadian newsmagazine founded in 1905, is older than The Beaver.
One of its bloggers, Colby Cosh, suggested this week that The Beaver's forced renaming to "Canada's History" is symptomatic of a broader, web-driven cultural trend toward stultifying literalness.
"The brand could perhaps have stood up to any amount of silent snickering," Cosh writes, "but no media organ can afford to offer confusion to search engines and spam filters now. Google is a powerful, underestimated force for prosaicness: just ask any sub-editor who's been ordered to re-do a charmingly cryptic headline and get rid of the cute irony."
The Economist made waves earlier this month by injecting its opinion into Canadian politics, calling the Conservative government's proroguing of Parliament a democracy-damaging "prime-ministerial whim."
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A Moon with a viewPosted by Steve Thoms at 3:19 AM
This is nothing special, but I posted it because I didn't use any special equipment, just my trusty Rebel XT, and a zoom lens (300 mm, with a 2x telescopic adapter), f/5.6, 1/100 exposure, ISO 100. So don't be intimidated by astro-photography: you can get some decent shots if you have even modest gear.
Also, I'm running out of moon-puns for the titles of entries that have to do with me posting moon-photos.
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Obama's Alaska Trip: Where Were The Polar Bears?
Am I the only one who finds it incongruous that President Obama, when on a carefully choreographed trip to Alaska, even manning his own Instagram account to engage young people, to spotlight the effects of global warming—which he says is happening "right now"—announced the accelerated acquisition of ice breakers? During his trip, he told Alaskans that by the end of this century, Alaska will see "warming of between 6 and 12 degrees," which he explained: "means more melting." Six to 12 degrees is a lot of warming, therefore, a lot of melting—which would seem to require fewer ice breakers not more.


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Is George Clooney the last movie star? FEB 26 2008
Is George Clooney the last movie star?
The only one we have. Wow. There's one teensy-weensy problem, though, that nobody seems to have noticed. One tiny little thing missing from the George Clooney is the World's Biggest Movie Star storyline...nobody watches his movies.
On the other hand, Will Smith gets Oscar noms and gets people into the theater.


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Monday, June 21, 2010
HOT Junkin' Day in Kentucky
10 comments:
- Lea said...
Way to go Phyllis!
The vintage tape measurer is so cool, but my favorite thing is the chairy! I'd have to put some pink roses on the seat. ;)
holykisses xoxoxoxoxo
Hope you're stayin COOL.
- June 21, 2010 at 4:51 PM
- Cape Cod Rambling Rose said...
Cool finds, Phyllis! I think that tape measure is pretty neat, too! LOVE your blog header!
- June 21, 2010 at 5:00 PM
- Kathleen Grace said...
Great "stuff"! I love everything and what a fun way to spend time with your niece and nephew:>)
- June 21, 2010 at 5:19 PM
- Virginia said...
I think you did great, lots of fun stuffs.
- June 21, 2010 at 6:09 PM
- Kelly said...
Such lovely and vibrant colors! I'm sure that you'll do well at the flea with such fun things in your booth.
~ Kelly
- June 21, 2010 at 9:03 PM
- jojo-caramel said...
I like the tape measurer! Great flea market booth!!! I love your photos! How enter the photo contest of bugs at Pioneer Woman this week? :-D
- June 22, 2010 at 1:18 AM
- Cookie said...
Miss Blissity,
I ♥ how you shop!
Looks like great fun!
- June 22, 2010 at 3:16 AM
- see you there! said...
Cool things. What is the wooden box? I looks for of like the "salt boxes" that I have but those are ceramic.
- June 22, 2010 at 4:39 AM
- LiLi M. said...
I just didn't have the time (or energy) to thank you for your lovely wishes on our daughters' graduation. Yep that is our house, a typical 19th century city house, so I don't have as many space around it as you do, but I like it though, I am a city girl. Love what is going in your booth, have fun and have luck selling!
- June 23, 2010 at 11:26 AM
- tea time and roses said...
You did great!! I too love the tape measure! Continue to enjoy summer!
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The first weeks of summer are always welcomed by families in our area. School is out, the pools are open and summer nights are a time to catch up with neighbors.
However, the first few weeks of this summer have been marked by a steady stream of break-ins, robberies and gunfire.
In King, business owners have been victimized by thieves at an alarming rate. Winston-Salem and Greensboro police are investigating several armed robberies. We've even heard of thefts from vehicles at little league ball games.
It's the kind of behavior no one wants to see.
We have every reason to believe that local law enforcement is doing its best to curb crime, but they need our help. Make sure you know the police CrimeStoppers number in your area. Report suspicious behavior, and look out for your neighbor this summer.
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