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Kevin Padian
|Kevin Padian
|Ph.D. 1980, Yale University
|University of California, Berkeley
|Professor of Integrative Biology
Curator of Paleontology, University of California Museum of Paleontology
President, National Center for Science Education
Kevin Padian (born 1951) is a Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, Curator of Paleontology, University of California Museum of Paleontology and President of the National Center for Science Education. Padian's area of interest is in vertebrate evolution, especially the origins of flight and the evolution of birds from theropod dinosaurs. He served as an expert witness for the plaintiffs in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial, and his testimony was repeatedly cited in the court's decision.[1]
Padian received a bachelor's degree in Natural Science and a Master of Arts degree in Teaching from Colgate University, and a Ph.D. from Yale University, where he focused on the evolution of flight in pterosaurs. In addition to his work at Berkeley, Padian taught science in high school and was principal author of the California Science Framework K–12.[2] In 2003 he received Wonderfest's Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization.[3]
He has cowritten several papers with John R. Horner and Armand de Ricqlès based on histological analysis of fossil bones from the UCMP as well as the Museum of the Rockies.
Padian has authored over 100 scientific articles.[4]
In 2007, Padian was made a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[5]
- ^ Decision, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District et al.
- ^ Expert Report from Kevin Padian, Paleontologist ( submitted as part of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District)
- ^ "Sagan Prize Recipients". wonderfest.org. 2011. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
- ^ Staff Profile, National Center for Science Education
- ^ AAAS - 2007 Fellows
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Ill meet up with you guys in cleveland to play in the snow! lets do it sunday!
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Ill meet up with you guys in cleveland to play in the snow! lets do it sunday!
All show and no go . . .
Your car looks fast, but why's it so slo.
2002 WR blue WRX (RIP)
2001 Imola Red BMW M Coupe (sold... )
Oh yea and for all who don't know, Im Brian...
20/M from akron
Blue 02' Wrx Sedan with blitz BOV, 18 inch Enkei rims (with a bluish tint... a must see, they look sweet)
More mods to come soon... need more money
All show and no go . . .
Your car looks fast, but why's it so slo.
2002 WR blue WRX (RIP)
2001 Imola Red BMW M Coupe (sold... )
Hmm cool...but sunday? I cant drive that far because I work in the evening, might be cutting it close. If we can meet halfway somewhere, Im sure theres plenty of snow to play in .
http://clubwrx.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=54791&highlight=keychai n
just parted out and sold stage 4 (2002wrx) w/aps sr30 turbo, vishnu tmic, vishnu tbe + uppipe, utec, injen cai, kartboy short throw shifter. Dyno tunned by dan at godspeed- 266whp.
Now I have a 2004 STI black/silver w/ vishnu tbe, blitz sus intake, greddy boost and et gauges. Waiting for utec and bigger turbo.
I did all the upgrages myself so if anyone needs a hand and lives close I am willing to help out.
'02 Stock New Owner as of 12-29-03
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Lakewood, OH (between Cleveland and Rocky River). Right off of I-90.
2003 Silver WRX sedan
Mods - current
Engine: Blitz SUS intake. Tanabe Super Racing Medalion Cat-back. Removed intake silencer. Custom intake heat shield.
Suspension: Cusco adjustable rear sway bar.
Interior: Boost, Oil Pressure and EGT guages. EGT not yet hooked up.
Soon to be added - uppipe, downpipe, UTEC.
I'm looking to meet with other RX/WRX/STI Ohio owners.
This passed summer, there were a lot of guys meeting, on the weekend, at North Olmsted mall's parking lot, around 11:00 PM. In front of Bed Bath and Beyond parking lot. We talk **** and make fun of each others...its a good time. There is this guy that is a regular; owns a 911 turbo, one of the fastest around here. Guy's nickname is "Shocker". This car is freaking sick!
HeHopefully it should continue this coming summer.
Cuong Nguyen
Arvin/17M or many friends call me Neil (middle name)
Westlake, OH
WRBlue WRX 15,000 miles, bought november/02
Right now all i have is a Cobb cat-back, and conti extreme contacts tires (mod?)
I raced a honda on I-90 in the summer, we stopped and talked and he said he was on his way to north olmsted mall, he asked me to go but i was on my way somewhere else. il def do some snow playing if a bunch of you r up to meet up somewhere.
SN: Kuma15
Bill 24/m
XYLEM007 on AIM
Looks like we need to have an akron meet! I'll come down for that. Anyone wanna org it?
I'm down for a snow get together if it snows! RLschmidt knows a nice parking lot where we made that vid with his stg 2+ S4 friend.
Someone needs to help me figure out my utec winter tune. Ryan! ;o) Derek and I tried to tune boost down but i think my waste gate is banging back and forth so hard that its maxed out.
Mods: VF-34, STI's, Walboro, Utec, MRT TBE, TXS Uppipe, Stainless Lines, Super Blue, Stillen rotors, EBC Green Pads, Tein HA coils, Defi Heads up display.
Need: DR500 FMIC badly, maybe water injection, and I want a TUNA SO BAD!
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12.98 @ 103mph
1.79 60'
Matt / 18
-Bone stock 04 WRX, java black pearl
-Very willing
RSX Type S troll for now but am looking into a WRX.
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.
Cleveland, OH - near Old Brooklyn, about 2 minutes from the ZOO
2002 Silver WRX sedan, completely stock...for now
Fourstar and Kuma,
I saw all the cars at Great Northern this past summer, but I never stopped. I just got my WRX 3 weeks ago, so I'll be showing up this year.
It's going to be a crazy summer...lots of fast cars. Come to the meet on the 21st at Quaker Steak and Lube.Originally posted by RideGnu
Cleveland, OH - near Old Brooklyn, about 2 minutes from the ZOO
2002 Silver WRX sedan, completely stock...for now
Fourstar and Kuma,
I saw all the cars at Great Northern this past summer, but I never stopped. I just got my WRX 3 weeks ago, so I'll be showing up this year.
Blue 02 WRX sedan. STX #77
we meet in Columbus quite frequently. see http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/CentralOhioSubarus/ for updates and also check NASIOC. i'll try to check in here more often.
i didn't get around the state much last year since we recently moved back. but this summer i'l be road tripping to autoX's almost every weekend.
I'm 18 from Hilliard, Ohio. I have a 2004 Silver WRX sedan with Helix Turboback installed and Cobb Accessport on its way.
P.S. I go to Ohio State...there's a black WRX I've seen on campus once or twice that is just ridiculously loud...wonderin if that was any of you guys...
Gahanna (NE Columbus)
Just got an '04 WRX Silver Premium pkg. Got wheels on the way, silencer elbow delete installed so far. Ordered AccessPort, but won't be here until May. Just looking to go to Stg 2 and have a good suspension setup. At least that's my plan for now.

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Indeed Q4 2010 was the strongest SW sales quarter in SAP's history but the fourth quarter is always the strongest in SAP's annual sales cycle. Actually Q4 SW revenue declined for 2 years since 2007 (€1,4 billion) to 2008 (€1,3 billion) to 2009 (€1,1 billion), and it was about time to turn around the curve again. While Q4 2010 was the best SW revenue quarter, the full year 2010 was still not the best in SAP's history. In 2007, SAP reported total SW revenues of $3,4 billion, followed by 2008 (€3,6 billion), 2009 (€2,6 billion), and now total SW revenue 2010 with €3,3 billion – SW revenues are still below the level of 2007! While total revenue (€12,5 billion) looks to be back on track, net new SW license revenue still remains a challenging point in SAP's balance sheet!
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TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Tokyo is full of hungry Japanese queuing outside noodle shops, but the line is usually longer at Ivan Ramen, where diners are greeted by the rare sight of a U.S. chef doling out bowls of a Japanese national obsession.
Ramen, originally a Chinese recipe of broth, noodles and various toppings, is a culinary delight closer to the hearts of most Japanese than sushi or tempura.
At Ivan Ramen, which has only 10 seats and a tiny kitchen, New Yorker Ivan Orkin fills up bowls with a measured amount of oil, fat and flavoring, pours soup over the mix and finishes it off by adding perfectly boiled noodles.
His recipe is a hit with the locals, and since opening in June 2007, the number of customers has increased dramatically, with Orkin and his team now making some 200 bowls a day.
"I've heard so much about Ivan Ramen so I used my holiday to come here," said diner Norikazu Fukai, who drove more than two hours to taste the ramen.
Orkin, a self-confessed ramen addict, said he got hooked on the noodles as a teenager working at a Japanese restaurant in New York. He went on to work as a chef in French restaurants, but then quit to study Japanese in college.
He went on to teach English in Japan and finally settled in this ramen-loving country in 2003 to master the dish.
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A key to establishing rangeland plants may be the kangaroo rats and chipmunks that eat the seeds.
Land managers often reseed areas disturbed by fire or mining to hold the soil in place, provide food for livestock and wildlife, and ward off invasive weeds. When possible, they try to use plants native to the area they are planting. But their success can depend not only on soil type and precipitation, but on the local animals as well.
"A revegetation plan is likely to fail if rodent populations aren't considered," says Agricultural Research Service animal ecologist William S. Longland.
That's because Longland and others have found that certain native plants depend on rodents for germination in the wild. Longland works at the ARS Ecology of Temperate Desert Rangelands Laboratory in Reno, Nevada. He's studying local wildlife to develop the best strategies for establishing native plants on the range.
Two of the most economically important plants in Nevada's Great Basin are Indian ricegrass and the shrub called antelope bitterbrush. The basin extends from the Sierra Nevada and Oregon-Idaho border east to the Wasatch Range in Utah and south to the Mojave Desert.
"In the winter, many Western ranchers rely on rangeland grasses to feed their cattle, and mule deer depend on shrubs like antelope bitterbrush," says ARS rangeland scientist James A. Young, who leads the Reno laboratory.
Frosty Tipton is one of those ranchers. He feeds about 1,100 cows on 250,000 acres of owned and leased land.
"If we didn't have access to rangeland, we'd have to put up hay for the winter," he says. "But we don't own enough land to produce up to 1 ton of hay needed for each cow per month—I don't know what our ranch would do without the winter range," he says.
Planting's a Costly Affair
Replanting with native seeds can get expensive. Indian ricegrass seeds cost between $5 and $30 per pound, depending on whether the variety is commercially grown or locally harvested from the wild. Antelope bitterbrush seed costs up to $18 per pound. For comparison, a non-native grass, crested wheatgrass, sells for only $1.70 per pound.
That's where understanding the seed-eating granivores comes in.
Longland just finished a 4-year study of Great Basin granivores, including birds, ants, and rodents. He found that birds have little influence, because other granivores generally beat them to the seeds. Ants eat the seeds or take them too far below ground to germinate. But the rodents can be essential.
Labor That's Wild and Free
In field experiments, Longland discovered that kangaroo rats and their relatives were responsible for more than 90 percent of the germination and establishment of Indian ricegrass seedlings.
"These rodents gather hundreds of seeds in their cheek pouches and then bury them in shallow hiding places, or caches," Longland says. "Later, they'll return and eat the seeds, but some get missed. The caches put the seeds in an ideal location for germination and protect them from other rodents and ants," he says. Scientists also believe that chemicals or friendly microbes in the cheek pouches break the seeds' dormancy, another needed step before seedlings can sprout.
Steven B. Vander Wall, an animal ecologist with the University of Nevada at Reno, found that antelope bitterbrush has an ever greater association with chipmunks and squirrels.
In contrast to these beneficial effects on natural seedlings, however, rodents can hamper artificial revegetation efforts by eating the planted seeds.
"With some traditional reseeding operations, rodents will go up the closely spaced rows of shallow-planted seeds just like they're in a buffet line," Longland says.
A Battle of Wits
Young, Longland, and colleagues have come up with two strategies for outwitting the crafty rodents.
The first is to plant fewer seeds—but at a greater depth and more widely spaced than traditional seeding operations. "Normally, the shallow-planted seeds would have a better chance to germinate," says Young. "But planting deeper seems to deter the rodents, so a greater percentage of the total planted stays in place long enough to sprout."
Another plus: An ultra-low seeding rate reduces the cost of native plant restoration up to 25-fold.
Since this technique was developed in 1994, it has become the standard for seeding Indian ricegrass in the Great Basin. The tricky part is getting the seed drills to plant the seeds sparsely. Adding an inert material like vermiculite or rice hulls in the drill box allows the equipment to work normally but spreads out placement of the seeds.
The second approach takes advantage of the animals' natural tendency to cache seeds.
"Kangaroo rats and other caching rodents don't eat most of the seeds they collect until later," Longland says. The new method, still under development, would allow the rodents to cache the newly planted, desired seeds. Then, land managers would provide a cheaper commercial seed that the rodents prefer, such as millet. This cheaper seed would be a decoy, or sacrifice—recovered first from the cache, since the rodents like it better, leaving more of the native seeds in the ground to germinate.
"Our tests to date indicate this could work," Longland says. Rodents did like the millet better than the native plant, four-wing saltbush. But so far, they haven't found anything the animals like better than Indian ricegrass.
The most immediate practical application for Longland's work may be as a predictive tool.
"If we know which rodents live in an area that has been disturbed, we should be able to estimate how the area will recover without artificial reseeding," he says.
For example, in 1985, a fire burned 6,800 acres near Flanigan, Nevada, by the California border. Land managers planted seeds to stabilize the area. The next year, lush growth of Indian ricegrass appeared—but it was not from the seeds in the revegetation mixture.
"If we'd had a good understanding of the rodent-Indian ricegrass ecology at that time, we might have been able to save the time and money that went into the reseeding," Longland says. "In some cases, disturbed areas will recover naturally."—By Kathryn Barry Stelljes. To reach the author, contact Marcia Wood, Agricultural Research Service, Information Staff, 800 Buchanan St., Albany, CA 94710; phone (510) 559-6070.
William S. Longland is at the USDA-ARS Ecology of Temperate Desert Rangelands Laboratory, 920 Valley Rd., Reno, NV 89512; phone (702) 784-6057, fax (702) 784-1712.
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What Is The Value Of A Facebook Fan? Part 2
Posted by Augie Ray on July 9, 2010
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The other day I authored a blog post many found interesting, infuriating or both: What Is The Value Of A Facebook Fan? Zero! I appreciate the great dialogue from the folks who offered feedback in blog comments and on Twitter. Because this is such a hot topic and because the feedback was so thoughtful, this seemed worth further exploration.
In that blog post, I suggested that marketers approach the question of how much a Facebook fan is worth as if the answer is zero. I said, "It is what companies do with fans that creates value, not merely that a brand has fans." I went on to suggest that marketers should recognize a difference between potential value and real value. Like a coil that is compressed to store energy (an apt metaphor from my Twitter friend, Blair Goldberg), Facebook fans have little actual value until they are activated by the brand, just like releasing a compressed coil.
But a compressed coil still has energy, just like a Facebook fan has some value, no matter what my attention-grabbing blog headline said. (I was accused -- quite accurately -- of being sensationalist by Robin Moss and Brian Carter.) After all, if I were to take a brand marketing job in the future, would I want to work at a place with no Facebook friends or 500,000 friends? All things being equal, I'd take the latter job, which means those fans have value. But a marketing asset is different than a financial asset, and that's why I'm concerned with those who would answer the question "What is the value of a Facebook Fan?" with a dollar amount.
Over at Waxing UnLyrical, Shonali Burke turned to the dictionary to look up the word "value," and I think it's a fine idea to explore the concept of value more deeply. Financial value is created in one of two ways -- either an asset produces income or it increases in value; for example, if I buy land, I can see financial value by renting it out or by having it increase in market value. So what is the financial value of a Facebook fan? I'd still argue it's zero; Facebook fans have no market value since they cannot be sold (thank heaven!) and they cannot produce a stream of revenue in a vacuum. It is only when a brand activates those fans -- with offers, content, promotions, apps, etc. -- that value is created.
In the comments to my blog bost, Brian Hayashi stated that, "Social media is an extension of Six Sigma" and could produce "recurring, predictable value either in the form of increased spend or decreased operating costs." I am in complete agreement with Brian, but only in as much as that social media -- not Facebook fans -- can produce demonstrable financial value. Brian cited Scott Monty's great work at Ford that proved "valuation based on the percentage of contacts that shifted away from more expensive call centers toward Twitter." That's a great example, but had no one answered the Twitter follower's question there would have been no value created, hence Ford derived value not by having followers but by listening and responding to those followers.
Just to demonstrate how varied the opinions are on this matter, Kevin McLean and others suggested that the value of a Facebook fan could be negative. He cited Nestle's recent difficulties with critics on their Facebook fan page as an example. Nestle is far better off for having engaged both fans and critics rather than ignoring them, but Kevin's point is well taken -- some of the folks who clicked Nestle's "Like" button don't like Nestle at all. The varied reasons for "liking" a brand -- from expressing genuine affinity to wanting discounts to wishing to complain -- demonstrate the meaninglessness of placing a dollar value on each fan. As Kathy O'Reilly suggested, when it comes to Facebook fans, there is a difference between "quality versus quantity."
It's been an interesting dialogue, and in the end I remain convinced that Facebook fans don't have value -- at least not in the financial sense. There is no dollar-per-head valuation that can account for the variety of reasons people "like" a brand, the various means brands use to acquire their fans, or the tremendous disparity in how brands engage and activate their fans. This means no one can say to their boss, "We invested $150,000 and acquired $250,000 worth of Facebook fans." All they can say is, "We invested $150,000 and acquired 250,000 new Facebook fans -- and in the next year here is our social media marketing plan that will generate value from these fans . . .."
It would certainly be welcome if we could put a dollar value on each fan. Doing so would make marketers' jobs much easier -- we could simply amass a large Facebook fan base and call it a day. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view), marketing is hard work and a fan base is the start and not the end of that work.
Facebook fans as a representation of potential value
Comment from Blair Goldberg (not verified) on Fri, 07/09/2010 - 20:21
First, have to say I still agree with the premise that a Facebook fan has no intrinsic value on it's own. However, we may eventually be able to determine a coefficient of community quality. With that coefficient we would be able to contrast against other relevant customer acquisition/retention cost metrics. In this way, each facebook fan in the community could represent a calculable expected value.
The Value of Social
Comment from Max Pucher on Sat, 07/10/2010 - 06:59
Thanks for a no-nonsense, sensible, and real-world perspective on the social hype!
I have expressed similar views in relationsship to business use for some time, as much as I see social networking as people empowerment in a global sense.
Max J. Pucher, Chief Architect ISIS Papyrus Software
my blog - http://www.adaptive-process.com
I'm tickled that you
Comment from Shonali Burke (not verified) on Sat, 07/10/2010 - 09:02
I'm tickled that you referenced my post, Augie - thank you.
I remain in violent agreement with you. A phrase I've adopted after learning it from Katie Paine, the queen of measurement.
I was looking at my own "likes" on Facebook. Most of them I have no quibble with; after all, I did choose to click the button. But I "liked" a few company pages simply because people I know asked me to, and I didn't want to be rude. After all, I'm grateful when they "like" my own business page, and as you say, anyone will take having 200 likers over 20.
But as a liker, ok, fan, I'm of absolutely no value to these companies. I don't visit their websites, I don't read their blogs - heck, I don't even know if they have blogs - and I'm hardly likely to purchase their products or recommend their services - because I don't know them. They have done nothing to engage with me or bring me over from the dark side - so, as a result, I sit at the bottom of their basket of fans doing nothing, saying nothing, and paying no attention them. Other than an ego boost, I'm of no value to them whatsoever.
Like I said before, I'm in violent agreement with you.
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Comment from Frank Dale (not verified) on Sat, 07/10/2010 - 11:53
Well said. I certainly believe in the value of customer engagement, relationship development, and retention via social media, but I find most of the current "experts" in social media can't deliver value past a fan count. The number of fans, subscribers, or followers is only a leading indicator if the relationship is actually going to go somewhere in a somewhat predictable manner. If you can't create a relationship that provides value to the fan, subscriber, or follower and to your company...you just wasted a lot of effort. It will be interesting to see if a number of the offline models that evaluate things like interest, liking, and preference can provide value for social media return measurement. I am thinking specifically of the Hierarchy of Effects model. Look forward to your next post.
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Leading Indicators
Comment from Augie Ray on Sat, 07/10/2010 - 12:51
Thanks for introducing the idea of "leading indicators" into the discussion. I think this is an excellent way to approach the idea of Facebook Fans.
It can be tempting to only think of measurement in terms of dollars and cents, but leading indicators and potential value are real benefits to marketers. In the same way a great employee or new prospect may not be measurable on the balance sheet or income statement, a Facebook fan is a leading indicator that creates potential value. It is up to the marketer to turn that leading indicator into a coincident indicator!
Thanks for the input.
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Comment from Nancy Wichmann (not verified) on Sun, 07/11/2010 - 22:26
Your mention of real estate is a good example. You buy some land as an investment and it increases in market value (at least we hope so). But until you sell it, it has not increased at all. As a matter of fact, one could say it decreases because you've had to pay taxes on it.
If increasing market value really was an increase in real value, the IRS would be knocking at your door every year looking for their share.
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Comment from Augie Ray on Sun, 07/11/2010 - 22:57
That analogy has stuck with me, as well. If you buy real estate as an investment, it can be assessed every year and you can know it's increasing in value, but by GAAP principles those increases are not reflected on the balance sheet nor is income recorded because the market value has increased. It is only when the real estate is sold that dollars and cents are recorded.
In business, we do a lot that cannot be evaluated in purely financial terms. The challenge of social media marketing measurement isn't merely to do a better job of connecting the dots between investment and sales but also to evaluate a broad set of metrics, both financial and not.
Glad you found the analogy worthwhile, and thanks for the comment!
Marketing is a verb
Comment from Dana Meyer (not verified) on Mon, 07/12/2010 - 07:51
Excellent summary of the conversation. I agree that Facebook fans have near-zero value as static assets for the reasons that you state.
The value-per-fan is not set by some consensus on the internet, benchmarking studies, or marketplace price-finding mechanisms. The ultimate per-fan accumulated cashflows and profits are so sensitive to the ongoing activities within the fan-company relationship, that it is the company and the fans that co-create that value (defined as profits to the company and great product/service experiences for the customer). That implies highly contextual activity, not static storage of fan counts.
Getting a fan is a mere first step and companies that only focus on fan-count accumulation really miss the point of social networks. Marketing should be a verb, not a noun and that means that marketing contacts such a Facebook fans really only generate value (or generate the most value) to the extent that those fans do something. That, in turn, implies ongoing activity.
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Comment from Mike Pascucci (not verified) on Mon, 07/12/2010 - 10:35
Thanks for the follow up post. I think that I have read all of the posts and if this has already been addressed then I apologize.
You say, "Facebook fans have little actual value until they are activated by the brand". Is it not the actual process of becoming a "Fan/Friend/Like" that begins the actual activation process? Once a person takes that step, the activation process has already begun and the conversion process begins - meaning how can I communicate with them and convert them into purchasing additional product from me. They are likely already "valuable" and have already purchased some product from you, but the key is how to "up-sell" them and convert them into additional or incremental sales activity, no?
I just think that a "friend/fan" already has value, as they would not become one if they have not already used your product or had a prior relationship with you. Right?
Mike Pascucci, Social Strategist, Ektron
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Comment from Augie Ray on Mon, 07/12/2010 - 15:37
You are correct--a person who clicks the "Like" button has *potentially* started the conversion process. As in any marketing funnel, someone who is deeper in the funnel has more potential value than a prospect who is shallower in the funnel, so we're in agreement there.
But would you put a dollar value on a customer who has picked up a brochure compared to one who hasn't? Or put a dollar value on someone who's visited a brand site? I don't know a marketer who would do so, which is why I get frustrated at efforts to comput that a fan is worth, say, $3.60.
You and I agree that a fan who "likes" a brand creates potential value, but it still is up to the brand to convert them. The true financial value of a fan will depend entirely on whether a brand does nothing, something, or something effective with their fans.
Thanks for the input! I appreciate you introducing the "conversion process" into the discussion. I think that framing this as a journey through a brand funnel is a good way to consider potential value (a fan) from real value (a paying customer.)
Comment from Mike Pascucci (not verified) on Mon, 07/12/2010 - 15:46
i think that you and I will both agree that there is a big difference between a brochure and a "like"....brochures do not keep on giving, they are a 1 time affair, unlike the "Like" on Facebook. That is a neverending communication channel (unless they "unlike" you of course). I would compare it to signing up for newsletters or email marking campaigns.
I think that it all really breaks down to how you track your campaigns. Establishing Facebook and Twitter only campaigns with special codes will assist in the measurement. If people share these codes with their newtworks (regardless if they are current fans or not) then you can assign a figure to it. Then you can establish numbers that would be reflective to your audience and your network. I don't think that you can establish an individual # to all networks, as they are all very different.
Thanks for keeping this conversation going!
Mike Pascucci, Social Strategist, Ektron
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Comment from Casey Cheshire (not verified) on Mon, 07/12/2010 - 11:11
I've read both blog posts and a lot of the content of both can be summed up by the concept that Social Media requires real people working hard toward a goal to have the potential to succeed. This is true, of course, and it's equally true that many people don't realize that Social Media is more than just creating a profile. Point made, however tying in valuation of an actual fan at zero does come across more entertaining (a la Seth Godin) than rational. With modern day analytics it's much easier to approach a rough estimate of the $ value of a Facebook fan. If the value of a fan is truly ZERO ($0.00) then the numbers would show that and there'd be far fewer advertisers on the platform. Separate the concept of working hard in Social Media & web analytics tracking of Facebook fans to make a truly powerful post. I'd be happy to chat about the latter with you.
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Comment from Augie Ray on Mon, 07/12/2010 - 15:29
Casey, I agree that there is clearly potential value in followers, but I still don't think there is a relevant way to value them in terms of dollars and cents. As you said, "If the value of a fan is truly ZERO ($0.00) then the numbers would show that and there'd be far fewer advertisers on the platform." But if no brands advertised on the platform, then those fans would have no value (at least in the financial sense), would they? It's a check and egg scenario--you need fans to create value, but if you fail to activate those fans appropriately, then having fans doesn't produce value.
In the end, I agree there is value in having fans, but I don't see value in making up a financial figure for that value. Whether a fan is worth three cents or $130 is entirely dependent on what brands do with their fans.
Thanks for the input. The sky isn't falling--but be sure to have your snow shovel at the ready! :)
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Comment from Casey Cheshire (not verified) on Mon, 07/12/2010 - 15:54
I get the feeling we're basically agreeing with each other and just approaching the issue from different perspectives.
The value of a Facebook Fan could be approached by comparing the increase in FB-side fan signups & engagement with an increase in FB referral clicks to a brand's website. This traffic can be tracked just like any other and have any resulting leads/sales attributed back to Facebook.
If increased engagement lead to more converting traffic then it's certainly possible to establish a conversion rate. It may prove profitable to pay for more fans to increase the base number of people fed into this conversion 'funnel.'
I think the key concept we can agree on is that when a value IS established for a Facebook Fan it is a value derived almost completely from the Social Media engagement/marketing effort done by the brand.
Comment from Sam Ho (not verified) on Tue, 07/13/2010 - 09:15
I've been an off-line fan of Apple for years.
I buy their products in store, I talk about the brand to friends, I use them everyday, I watch their adverts on TV, ......all these off-line behaviours are driven by my feelings and attitudes towards the brand.
I don't see how anyone could put a value on me, for all of the above? If anyone can, let me know! (or Steve perhaps).
Just because Facebook fans are in the same 'space' as one another and that there's a potentially more accountable framework doesn't mean that you can put a value on them. The social media space is merely an exaggeration of fundamental human behaviours we've been using since the dawn of time; the elegant but intricate connection people have with brands is no more accountable in an online space than it is in an off-line space, essentially.
So yeah, I whole heartedly agree with you. :0)
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Not Good, Folks...Fairfax, Va. The National Rifle Association of America is made up of over 4 million moms and dads, daughters and sons, who are involved in the national conversation about how to prevent a tragedy like Newtown from ever happening again. We attended today's White House meeting to discuss how to keep our children safe and were prepared to have a meaningful conversation about school safety, mental health issues, the marketing of violence to our kids and the collapse of federal prosecutions of violent criminals.
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The gloves are coming off. I expected nothing different of this meeting
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I hope everyone has at least learned that their 2 dollar underwear from walmart isnt worth it, not the way they caved and took part in this
I am sure that the White House will release a statement saying they negotiated in good faith and that the NRA was intractable and obstinate.
Problem is that this was never intended to be a give and take from the start on their end. They know that if time elapses, sane minds will see that their mis-labled "assault rifles" are not really an issue, but a misdirection, and we all knew that going in. It is an attempt to dictate and tell us to give up or else.
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Not surprised, but the NRA put out a good statement letting us know what is coming.
Actually, I would have been worried if the NRA came out and said "It went great!" I think we all knew how it would go.
Folks, as I wrote in my examiner column today, this was a sham and it was all about giving Obama and Biden cover..
Here's part of what I explained:
"Translation: Biden got his talking points from the gun prohibition lobby; agenda items that he and Obama believe the firearms community might reject, allowing them to tell reporters that we tried but the gun lobby refused to cooperate.
Jim Baker represented NRA at that meeting. I've known Baker for a long time, and he's no dummy. He went to listen, heard probably what he expected to hear, and the NRA was quick to tell that to everyone.
That's not good.We were disappointed with how little this meeting had to do with keeping our children safe and how much it had to do with an agenda to attack the Second Amendment.
We know from everything that they have been saying, every quote, every article, that their real agenda is to impose an AWB and mag limit - that is all. Other than that, they have no real interest in change. They only want to use the recent tragedy to further this agenda.
In some ways it makes things easier for our side in that we can focus on the target like a laser beam. They thought that there was opposition in 94. That is nothing compared to now.


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Those measurements seem weird if I were to order them like that. There not custom at all, just double hung.
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LOL peace and Quiet? you shoulda got a fish! jk jk , Mine is 6 months and we are still working with some issues. We have a set of jingle bells attached to the back door that I make Hero ring in order for me to open the door. This took abotu 2-3 days and now if he wants to go out, he jingles. If we dont answer those jingles and there is an accident, it is our fault not his.
As for the whining in the crate, I think they all do that! One of the easiest ways to stop or at leaset reduce it is completely covering the crate with a blanket. That normally settles Hero down. Also when it comes time to open the crate, he starts jumping whining and going nuts for me to open it. I stop and turn my back to him. He sits and waits quietly for me to open it, if not ill turn again!
We keep a lead on him when he is out of the crate but we only grab it when he chases the cats, is counter surfing (new problem) ot is getting to rough with the kids. He is allowed out of the crate most of the day and we play all the time but if he grabs food out of the babies hands or off the coffee table, I got to scoop him up. We are working on reducing this problem where he steals whatever is edible thing from the kids. The other day stole a lollipop from the baby stick and all gone. Hero is pretty good, if I say his name or stand up he stops doing whatever he was cuz he knows he is wrong. As far as him chewing everything, your in the land shark stage where he is teething and going to lose all those puppy teeth. I suggest some KONG balls, lush and rubber, some stuffing free animals, try giving him an ice cube! feels good on those teeth and he will chase the cube which is fairly funny. Or you can put a few cubes in his water and watch him bob for them which can also be funny.
Are you in any type of formal training such as puppy kindegarten, basic obedience or anything like that? If not I would DEF suggest that as well!!
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It's been requested multiple times now for me to improve the pictures in my showcase thread. I was going through today and making smaller versions of the pictures.
I wanted to update the picture URL's, but I can't edit the posts. I realize this is for multiple good reasons.
As it is a showcase thread and I don't intend to go back and edit ads in (etc), is there anyway I can go about getting the pictures updated?
A mod can swap them out for you, yes. Feel free to ask any one of us.
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Hey Fellas, first post.
I have a Ruger .38 LCR, its a snub nosed.
I am wondering what rounds would be best for cheap target practice, and what rounds would be good for Conceal and Carry stopping power. I am all new to .38's and revolvers in general, and am looking to get as much bang, and ammunition for my buck as i can. Any Suggestions fellas?.


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Ye thanks for that. Btw I'm getting pretty tired of all the hackers now.
Ye thanks for that. Btw I'm getting pretty tired of all the hackers now.
Just played a game with a hacker who would teleport around the map and couldn't be hurt lol. Atleast we almost won still, so its not like its impossible to beat a team with a hacker but yeah that shit made me real confused for like the first 10 minutes.
really having fun with this game, but yeah, there are times that invisible people kill me in my own base but what can you do. i jsut have a few questions:
1. i know that f5 is for matchmaking, but what does f6 and f7 do?
2. where can i buy more of the gold bar cards so when i finish a game, i can get more rewards?
also, feel free to add me up, ign Blythe.. I feel so alone -.-
3. also, what is that 'burning' gauge at the top right of the screen in the lobby?
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F5 is ranked games. To play these with your friends, add them to your friends list, click them, and pick the first option to add them to your party. When everyone is in, hit F5.
F6 is to make practice rooms. F7 is to access your tutorials and then the second option is training mode for your combos and juggles.
The gold bar cards refresh 5 daily. You can get more by completing some quests I think?
When the burning guage fills up you get a booster pack or something along those lines containing an item as far as I know.
Yeah apparently according to koreans they say people lag really hard on purpose to abuse it, they call it a bug. You can basically be invincible while still doing damage to whoever you attack (delayed damaged, which is why you can die in your freaking base) and making it a NIGHTMARE for people to target you.
yea i figured it was something about the latency. im really having fun with rena and trivia, also the laser girls... but i'm having trouble with deimus(? the black katana guy), i can't seem to pull off his combo's properly.. i can only string up to 3 moves on him (i can do 6 strings on rena) and don't ask me how i can't seem to pull off his ult.. such a slow startup and i almost always get hit while he's charging it or i do manage to pull it off but the enemy is still in invulnerable state after getting u. any tips? i know he's good, because i can see people rolling face with him. or maybe he and i just aren't compatible.. maybe i can do better on the other katana guy but everytime i get deimus(?) on random, it's always stressful. -.-
How do some players level so ridiculously fast? I've seen several players that hit lvl 15-20 within the first couple seconds of the match.
Is it just hacks?
Also the reason why people level so quick is random gives an extra 1500 gold at the start. This is a huge advantage and since you pick the 8 characters for your random pool you can usually find 8 characters you're mostly comfortable with.
wow, feather is insane. the other team charged my team and killed them, so i just sat behind a crate and ulted them when they walked by. three of them got caught and died, and i chased down the other two with the ms pot and killed them as well.
i like him so much more than demius.
Can somebody explain to me what the second tab in the shop does?
His counter also allows him to get out of some REAL bad situations if used correctly. Hes pretty rough to master compared to Eagle. Deimus is really fun and still a bit overpowered if you ask me.
The second item shop tab is the booster pack looking things right? They give you random items for characters. The $3000 one only gives one item, while the expensive ones give 3 and can have multiple rares.
Neat, thanks for the info! What are the negative effects of going overweight?
So I just got Shiva.. She hits like a truck! Very squishy though.. Still fun.
anyone gotten their hands on a purple item? i've heard about one that gives Tara a fourth hit on her right click snap, which is ridiculous
Shiva is the most broken character in the game. I've been playing her and I've never gone below 16 kills even when we're getting steamrolled. When theres a lagger playing Shiva theres nothing you can do about it, your team is just going to die randomly and often despite never seeing her.
I don't think any of us have gotten a purple yet.
I got a purple for Eagle: +87.3% additional damage and -5.88% cooldown!
Wow, which item did you buy? The one with a purple eye on it that costs 12k?
edit: nvm, just bought one of each item and realized the purple ones are for accessories and the red ones are for equipment. nothing good though :/
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Registered and downloaded today. Having an issue that seems like hackshield isn't updating. I get to the cyphers splash screen, and then the hackshield freezes at like 7%. Would appreciate any help.
so just had one of the funniest ways to finish a match.
Apparently, one of the possible perks of killing the neutral guardian is sending three copies of the guy that killed him screaming down all three lanes to wail on the HQ, and I was playing Doyle at the time. Also, these copies get all the move sets of the person, including their ult, and Doyle has a falcon punch for an ult and is awesome against structures. So 4 falcon punches to their HQ and it was history (it was about...3/4 full when the clones were summoned). Just about died laughing there.
Oh, game seems like a lot of fun, a bit better than LOCO. There are a few characters I don't like fighting on the field though, especially the vampires. Uggghhh...
Messing around.
So I was happily playing Shiva, then the other team randoms Stella and Cain. FML. And I just noticed that when I fill up my burning bar, I get free items.
I love Thomas with his where the hell you goin' ice barrier shiat
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Longcat is the most ridiculous pointless thing I have ever seen in my life...grow up
jeremyp123 wrote:Um... I've bought a lot of things... And I *wish* I still lived with my mom because my rent payment sucks... But thanks for playing...
I never said you havent bought anything, I just said you should buy these.
stdcap31 wrote:
freaking funny
failed mouse
MAK1981 wrote:The stock market dropped as soon as this showed up on Woot. Coincidence...?
Who the hell watches the stock market during a wootoff! You might miss something!
whodeewhat wrote:send cash $$
Check your secondary payment option ... ie CC#
this is going to be a long woot off if the frick'd up pay pal ... Bathysphere of Curmudgeons is going to be wide open to thise with CC's and secruity codes at hand
Okay I'm in for 1, my current headset is behind the head and it's annoying and frankly pretty old as the foam ear covers are falling apart.
These look nice and for $20 shipped others in that price range don't look as good.
Go Woot!
RoadkillRomeo wrote:Capitalism at its finest. Buy junk at reasonable price, then foist off on unsuspecting dim consumer... It's what made this country great. Well, that and stealing land from some and enslaving others.
Here Here, I bought 3 of the black Zunes during the woot-off for $100 each. sold 2 for $130 on ebay. Kept the third one, it only cost me $40. since the new firmware/software release, it's only worth $40 to me. They took away all the great features... 5 star ratings, smart playlist, etc.
these are descent for the price, just wish they were wireless
jeremiah24 wrote:I hear it will work with your mac too..
lulzez! in for 50 in that case!
if you're a professional gamer, you've failed.
ryanh129 wrote:Longcat is the most ridiculous pointless thing I have ever seen in my life...grow up
No, Long cat is LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG
requiem960 wrote:
Last woot off seemed to mp3 day.. This seems to be speaker day... lots of home theater, headphnoe, headsets, flat speakers.
anyone else notice that trend.
MastaSquidge wrote:I never said you havent bought anything, I just said you should buy these.
YOU FAIL !!!!! - Thanks for playing
CooperDude wrote:I just don't get it. All you guys do is complain about one item after the other and yet you're still here... hour after hour. I think the Woot staff does a fine job of mixing it up and keeping the prices low enough that we're willing to sit through the inevitable items we have no interest in buying to see those we do want. Enough with dead clowns, where's the feet, mac compatible, dumb no want photos and all. It was funny maybe the first 2 or 3 times, but certainly not after 10 or 20 times! Get original, guys. Sheesh.
First of all, the 'feet' thing is Woot's interpretation of 'w-t-f' abbreviation, so bitch to them. Secondly, if you don't like it, don't read the damned forum, watch the items and buy what you like, others like to make their comments, and that's their business.
Drive through.
jeremiah24 wrote:I don't know what size jack the xbox has, but you should be able to get an adapter to make it work...
I hear it will work with your mac too..
You can rig an adapter (or maybe buy one at radioshack?), the 360 just uses a mini stereo type jack.
The problem is you wouldnt get stereo sound from it, but i guess thats ok for the purposes.
Longcat is Loooooooooooooooooong!!!!!, that's what Longcat is.
At Amazon these are $45. You could easily turn a profit on EBay.
You need to get a sense of humor?
Looks like my probation hour has expired. Can't believe I was put on probation for posting stuff like this...
see y'all after my next probation. L.0.L.
I bought one after reading the DevHardware.com review
Yawn! Belongs in the "Bag-o-crap!"
You buy three... Turn that box orange... It just might be fun, you never know...
auctionsaver wrote:Last woot off seemed to mp3 day.. This seems to be speaker day... lots of home theater, headphnoe, headsets, flat speakers.
anyone else notice that trend.
I've noticed it's g h ee yer than usual
Cooper...where to begin. You're in a woot-off. It's an aberration. It'll be over soon. In the meantime, wooters wait around and shoot the breeze with each other, all waiting to score something in particular. As for the odd phrases, the woot filters use them as substitutes for what people REALLY typed. The rest you can figure out on wikipedia, or just by lurking and figuring it out on your own. Good luck.
Wrong, not want and Cat photos are always wanted. Away they shall never go.
lavinastald wrote:No, Long cat is LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG
Beat me to it! =)
JONTOMKO wrote:Looks like my probation hour has expired. Can't believe I was put on probation for posting stuff like this...
see y'all after my next probation. L.0.L.
My hero.....thanks for taking one for the team!
I manage to break headsets like it's my job...IF1, first woot.
Worst woot-off ever! Well this is only my 2nd one..but still.
This is the mother of all Woot-Off killers!
Got ya. Obviously I'm a woot noob, and I was about to go off on a serious rant about...i won't say what, but it might have been anti-MAC. I'll try not to be offended, but it's difficult to not take seriously the comments from those who belong to an online community. Thanks for the info and happy hunting.
Voiks wrote:Oh, for the love of...
Me too!!
gosh7001 wrote:YOU FAIL !!!!! - Thanks for playing
Well then if you bought these, then buy more.
Personally I have about 6 headsets floating around, and right now im using the ones I stol... I mean legitimately won from Live Search Club. Headsets are pretty much all garbage unless they have the obnoxiously huge ear muff style things. Otherwise they hella hurt after like an hour.
BuyCrapOnline wrote:My hero.....thanks for taking one for the team!
don't you mean two for the team
good news installed woot watcher for firefox, bad news headsets aren't selling out! DOH
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When the European Commission and Office of Fair Trading approved the Orange, T-Mobile UK merger they did so because they had little choice. No new telecoms company had come in for T-Mobile and the other bidders, Vodafone and O2, would have produced an even larger entity. The problem in this rock-and-a-hard-place scenario, however, is they have created a dangerous precedent.
Having gotten used to being the dominant players in the UK, neither O2 nor Vodafone are prepared to take a back seat. To the contrary their bids for T-Mobile UK show expansion is on their minds and now the only viable candidate left is 3... the same 3 that last year merged with Vodafone in Australia. Should Vodafone make a similar move for 3 UK it would leave them with a 33 per cent market share, if O2 beat it to the punch it would grow to 35 per cent making either a credible rival to Everything Everywhere. All of which makes 3 UK incredibly hot property.
The problem is should one or other succeed in a deal for 3 it would further reduce competition, but the EC and OFT could do little to stop it having already given Orange the green light with its deal for the UK arm of T-Mobile. What would a country with just O2, Vodafone and Everything Everywhere (inevitably the Orange / T-Mobile brand will merge) look like? Potentially we'd be just fine.
In South Korea only three major carriers exist (KT, SK Telecom and LG U+) and customers enjoy arguably the world's most highly evolved networks, but it is the exception rather than the rule. The likes of Germany, Spain, Italy, France and the US all have at least four credible players, as do the advanced Nordic countries where carrier numbers are increasing, not decreasing. More worryingly Canada is famously dominated by just three major networks (Rogers, Bell and Telus) and has comically expensive tariffs.
As it stands the UK is one of the most competitive markets in the world so don't panic, then again reducing the number of competitors has rarely done any market a favour. So, as the saying goes, the only certainty is uncertainty because UK telecoms looks set to undergo its largest overhaul to date and I wouldn't expect 3 to hold out long. During this time we'll find newly minted CEOs with beaming smiles all shaking hands and leaping forward to tell us about the benefits their changes will bring. In reality we just hope they don't do any harm...


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> After adjusting to higher resolution (1024 x 768), the words on the help
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Says Robert Vanderbei, chair of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton, the modern digital world is making it possible, and almost easy, for amateurs to take astrophotos in their own backyards that are as good as or better than those taken at professional observatories only a generation ago. The key enablers are computer controlled mounts for very precise pointing control, CCD cameras, and modern image processing tools.
In his February 27 Lunch 'n Learn talk, he shared many of the images that he captured with his own equipment from his Montgomery, NJ home, as well as a working methodology to guide amateurs who wish to pursue astrophotography affordably.
Vanderbei became interested in amateur astronomy around 1999 with a small optical telescope and star catalogs. He was largely unsuccessful in seeing many interesting objects owing to New Jersey's light pollution. And so, after about a year, he purchased a specialized digital camera that allowed long exposures that made faint objects brighter. With digital processing techniques, he found that he could eliminate much of the effect of local light pollution by subtracting a constant from the brightness of every pixel. The result is a picture that appears to have been taken from a mountaintop.
Surprisingly, perhaps, he has never visually seen most of the pictures that he has captured. He showed images of the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova that exploded in 1054, the Lagoon Nebula, a cloud of glowing hydrogen gas, the Hercules Globular Cluster, a cluster of about a million stars within our Milky Way that emulates a beehive of activity, and Vanderbei's favorite,the Dumbbell Nebula, whose image involved a two and a half hour hour exposure that brought out many subtle details.
Vanderbei recommends a solid, stable, and accurate mount that can compensate precisely for the earth's rotation during long exposures. His 1.4 megapixel CCD [charge-coupled device] camera has only a USB cable and a port for power. Its quantum efficiency is approximately 65%; in other words, about 65% of the photons that hit its CCD chip generate a signal. That makes for a vast improvement over conventional emulsion photography. Cooling the CCD chip dramatically reduces random noise, and so there is cooling circuitry that lowers the temperature of the CCD chip to 30 degrees Celsius below the ambient temperature. He notesthat the least important part, for deep sky astrophotography at least, is the telescope itself.
His honed set-up methodology requires only about 20 minutes. Key steps include:
· using a finder scope on the mount to site Polaris, the North Star, loading specialized software that controls the camera;
· loading a planetarium program that assists locating items of interest;
· synching on a star to establish good communication between the telescope and planetarium program;
· and centering the target area and calibrating
The real fun, he emphasizes, starts the next day with the required image processing on the computer. The raw data gathered at night might include as many as 50 images that need to be aligned and combined into one final image. Vanderbei limits the length of individual exposures in case airplanes fly though and because the quantitative measures of a star's brightness cannot exceed certain limits for individual exposures, but the measures can be added arithmetically from the multiple images. There are also interesting opportunities to enhance images with color and to correct pixel values to provide for greater clarity.
A podcast and the presentation are available.
Robert J. Vanderbei is the chair of Operations Research and Financial Engineering. He also has associated faculty status in the departments of Astrophysics, Computer Science, and Mathematics. Originally from Michigan, he has been "out east" for most of his adult life and here at Princeton since 1990. As a researcher, he applies the tools of his training in mathematics to a broad variety of problems ranging from designing the optics for a space telescope capable of imaging Earthlike planets around nearby stars to the portfolio selection problem in finance. He also likes computer graphics and spends some time every November making a new version of his so-called "Purple America" election map.


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Well, if the President himself can call a sacked consulate and four dead Americans who deserved adequate security and didn't get it "bumps in the road," why not?
Monday morning, the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, presented a story in advance of United Nations ambassador Susan Rice's meeting today with certain Republican senators -- a meeting from which Rice, who engaged in serial falsehood peddling during the weekend after the September 11 Benghazi attack, apparently falsehood-peddling Rice emerged today even worse-off than before. In that story, both the headline and first paragraph of Anne Flaherty's coverage characterized Benghazi as a "PR (public relations) disaster."
Thus, it would appear that Flaherty and the AP's headline writers believe that Benghazi is more about political posturing than finding out the truth about why the administration and its foreign-policy apparatus first allowed four Americans, including ambassador Christopher Stevens, to die, and then, in the weeks before the November general election, lied and obfuscated about what really happened. In other words, it's really a political scandal. The press would certainly would be treating it as such in a Republican or conservative presidency.
Additionally, as might be expected, Flaherty engaged in more than a little historical revisionism (bolds are mine throughout this post):
The White House could finally have its chance to close the books on its Benghazi public relations disaster, as key Republicans signal they might not stand in the way of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to become the next secretary of state.
... Intelligence officials quickly amended their assessment to conclude the attack hadn't been related to other film protests across the Middle East. But that revised narrative was slow to reach the public, prompting Republicans to allege a White House cover-up ahead of the Nov. 6 election.
... One senior GOP Senate aide said Sunday that Republicans hadn't united against Rice and were not convinced she was worth going after. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the aide was not authorized to speak publicly on internal GOP deliberations.
Contrary to Ms. Flaherty flights of fancy, the CIA knew that Benghazi was a terrorist attack almost immediately, and never, ever thought that Benghazi had anything to do with film protests, because, well, as even the AP briefly acknowledged in a present-tense timeline on October 10 (proof here; the actual story link is now empty), "there are no protests." As to the revised narrative being slow to reach the public, well, gosh, that was because the people like Susan Rice and Jay Carney were relaying the administration's false narrative for well over a week after the terrorist attack. Only after the immediate attention to the story had long died down did the truth start coming out. At that point, the establishment press, including the AP, acted as if the news wasn't important enough to merit meaningful attention or coverage.
Speaking of lack of coverage, as of shortly after 4 p.m., as seen here, the AP carried the Monday morning story -- now 33 hours old -- at its "Top News" page. Meanwhile, the the of hot-off-the-presses story about Rice's very unhelpful meeting with GOP senators languishes.
U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice told lawmakers Tuesday that her initial explanation of the deadly Sept. 11 raid in Libya was wrong, but her concession failed to mollify three Republican senators who signaled they would oppose her possible nomination to be secretary of state.
It's almost enough to make you think that the Administration's Press is awaiting instructions as to how to write it up before giving it truly wide attention.
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