text: Iphone convert who now has an EVO (and loving it). But what I don't understand is how everyone says Sprint is so much cheaper. My ATT bill - for 450 mins, unlim nights/weekends and 200 texts was 85.00 all in (no discounts). My Sprint bill - for 450 mins, unlim nights weekends and unlimited texts is 88.60 (no discounts).. Admittedly I am getting unlimted texts on sprint and also free mobile to mobile calling (doesn't really matter though - i use Google voice for most texting and only used 7 mins airtime for phone calls last month). I am really happy with my EVO and would not switch back - but why do people say Sprint is so much cheaper?


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Leon Dantzler, 18, who listed an address in the 2300 block of Rainbow View Drive, Urbana, pleaded guilty to robbery Wednesday before Judge Tom Difanis and was sentenced to six years in prison with a recommendation that he serve it in the Department of Corrections' boot camp program.
Dantzler admitted he was one of four young men who robbed a 14-year-old on Dec. 26 in the 200 block of East Park Street in Champaign.
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October 14th, 2004, 09:39 PM #1
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I have a large graphic on a page. There is very little text, and the graphic takes up to 60 seconds to load using a 56k modem.
A thumbnail wouldn't work, I need to have the entire full-sized graphic display.
Is there a way I can preload an image on a different page of my website (say the home page) that will affect the page I need the graphic preloaded on?
For example, if my homepage is abc.com, and I have a large graphic I want preloaded on another page, say hij.com, can I put a script on abc.com that will preload the graphic on hij.com in case the viewer decides to go there?
Thanks for any replies,
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October 15th, 2004, 04:18 AM #2
Try preloading the image like you would if you were using a mouseover.Greg Rice Affiliate Program Management
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October 15th, 2004, 06:12 AM #3
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I found this code and if you don't mind using javascript it might work..
Insert the following code into your HEAD tag. Be sure to use the correct name and path for your image!
if (document.images)
img1 = new Image();
img2 = new Image();
img1.src = "image1.gif";
img2.src = "image2.gif"
Insert the preloaded image on subsequent pages by its name and path: "image1.gif".
Other solutions I found were to simply insert the image in the page prior to the one that the image is on but resize it to 1x1
October 15th, 2004, 09:54 AM #4
Hello Rick, if you go to the ABW 'Tools' section on the top nav bar you will find a code generator that will create your code snippet for you.Ray Thomas
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October 15th, 2004, 10:34 AM #5
An alternative to preloading is using
the lowsrc attribute on the image tag.
This will load a low resolution image quickly and
replace it with the high resolution when it is done. Very effective if you also modify the low res with a watermark that says " Loading..."
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Thanks to
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Other solutions I found were to simply insert the image in the page prior to the one that the image is on but resize it to 1x1

I forgot about that trick. But wouldn't the 1x1 image still take a lot of time to preload? Or does it point to an image file and preload it to the visitor's browser cache? My index page has a lot of text, so that may be a good place to stash it.

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An alternative to preloading is using
the lowsrc attribute on the image tag.

Good tip. I dug out an old HTML book and looked up lowsrc. It's funny how a lot of the things you read and study don't stick until you need them. I'll play around with this one.
Of course, javascript is a possibility, but how many scripts can you run without interference? I already have two on my pages- one in the head, the other in the body.
Thanks, all.
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Bing Ads has taken steps to better compete against AdWords and similar platforms. Microsoft has released a new version of the campaign creation workflow. The goal of this update is to make it easier for marketers to create effective campaigns. On the heels of this update, Bing Ads now offers Expanded Text Ads similar AdWords' new ads. This post will guide you through the new workflow as well as how to use the new text ads.
Overall, Bing Ads has been trying to make their platform more valuable for marketers. Over the past year or so, they've added new bidding options, targeting and ad extensions. They've even made their platform a bit faster to reduce lag time and frustration. These latest updates are simply their next move to improve usability.
Creating GoalsWhen you launch the new workflow, you'll notice that you now have the option to select a marketing goal for your campaign. Anyone who has used Facebook's or Google's ad platforms should recognize this type of setup. No matter which goal you choose, you'll still have access to all the available features.
While many may gloss over this section, it's worth thinking about what your actual goals are. Some will be obvious. For example, if you want to send visitors to gated content, then Visits to my website is the logical choice.
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This screen also provides you with the option of importing a file or uploading your AdWords campaigns. If you haven't done your keyword research, do it now. You'll need this data for the rest of the campaign setup. You don't want to simply target random keywords without doing adequate research to determine competition, search volume and relevancy. Selecting the right keywords require some thought and research.
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The campaign settings are fairly standard. You must add a campaign name, budget, language and location. What's different from previous versions is that you can now add radius targeting from this screen and copy settings from other campaigns.When copying campaign settings, always review what has been imported before going any further. For example, you want to have the same budget and language, but for this campaign, you only want to target Boston as opposed to all the United States. It's worth taking a second to review before moving forward to avoid mistakes.
When ready to go to the next screen, hit Save & go to the next step.
Ad Groups & KeywordsIn this screen, you'll add your ads and keywords. Here's where your previous keyword research becomes a necessity. If you didn't do it beforehand, you can obtain keyword suggestions. This will provide information similar to standard keyword research, but won't be as in-depth as if you would have performed your keyword due diligence. You will see search volume, cost and competitiveness, and the tool will group keywords into ad groups. Typically, you only receive a few keyword suggestions per category, meaning you may miss some niche keywords that would better fit your goals and targets. You can search for suggestions by keywords, service, products or website URL.
Once you select your keywords and ad groups, select Save & go to the next step.
One tip: If you are interrupted during campaign creation, simply select Save & exit. Bing Ads will save your campaign, allowing you to pick up where you stopped. Further, if you ever need to change something on a previous screen, click Back.
Ads & Ad ExtensionsNow, it's time to start creating your ads. As mentioned, Bing Ads recently released new Expanded Text Ads. Unlike standard text ads, these new ads have two headlines (30 characters each and separated by a hyphen) and a single ad description up to 80 characters. The standard text ads only had one ad title (25 characters max), and the ad description was limited to 71 characters. The other difference between the two is the Display URL. In the past, this was limited to 35 characters, and you had to manually enter it. Now, the domain and subdomain are automatically generated from the final URL. You also have the option of adding two URL paths. These paths allow you to highlight key offers, products, services or keywords in the URL. According to Bing Ads, the most effective way to take advantage of the Expanded Text Ads is to:
- Leverage current campaigns and ad groups so you can use current ad extensions.
- Perform A/B testing with the new ads to try different CTAs.
- Review high-performing standard ads, and use some of that copy in the new ads.
Budgets & BidsThe final step in the process is setting your budget, bid strategy and individual ad group bids. It's best to experiment with different bids and bid strategies. Some ad groups may require higher bids due to competitiveness or cost. With the Advanced campaign settings, you can also adjust bids based on location, day or device. For example, if you sell an app and most of your downloads occur on the weekends, then you might want to increase your bids on Saturday and Sunday, and decrease bids during the week. The same goes for devices. If most of your conversions happen on mobile, you can decrease bids on desktop and increase bids on tablet and smartphones.
ConclusionWhile the new campaign workflow makes it easier to create campaigns, this doesn't mean that you still don't have to do your due diligence. Create your goals, do your keyword research ahead of time, and think about what messaging will be most effective with your audience. Leverage the new Expanded Text Ads to focus ad copy and incorporate keywords.
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The White House is urging North Korea to free an 85-year-old American tourist who's been detained for more than a month.
Due to Merrill Newman's "advanced age and health conditions … we urge the DPRK to release Mr. Newman so he may return home and reunite with his family," said Caitlin Hayden, a spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council, according to the Associated Press.
"If I go back to U.S.A., I will tell the true features of the [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] DPRK and the life the Korean people are leading," the written apology, dated Nov. 9, read.
Newman was plucked from a plane set to travel from North Korea to Bejing on Oct. 26, according to reports.
During the final days of his trip, Newman asked to speak with one of his tour guides and another North Korean, later telling his companion that the talk did not go well.
The state-run North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Newman "is a criminal as he masterminded espionage and subversive activities against the DPRK and in this course he was involved in killings of service personnel of the Korean People's Army and innocent civilians."
In a report separate from the confession, KCNA said he worked as an "adviser" to anti-communist partisans during the Korean War. These advisers, Reuters reported, trained Korean anti-communist guerilla fighters to set off attacks behind enemy lines – including disrupting munitions supplies, transport lines and communications.
"In the process of following tasks given by me, I believe they would kill more innocent people," Newman's statement continues.
Much of his confession released by the North Korean state-run media is in broken English: "I realize that I cannot be forgiven for my offensives (offenses) but I beg for pardon on my knees by apologizing for my offensives (offenses) sincerely toward the DPRK government and the Korean people and I want not punish me (I wish not to be punished)."
Secretary of State John KerryJohn Forbes KerryTrump's dangerous Guantánamo fixation will fuel fire for terrorists Tech beefs up lobbying amid Russia scrutiny Overnight Tech: Senate Dems want FCC chief recused from Sinclair merger | Tech rallies on Capitol Hill for DACA | Facebook beefs up lobbying ranks MORE has called the arrest one of several "very, very disturbing choices by the North Koreans" in the past weeks and months.
The country has been holding another American citizen, Kenneth Bae, since last year for "hostile acts" against North Korea and attempting to topple the government. He was found guilty and is sentenced to 15 years of hard labor, according to reports.
"I think this is obviously one of those moments when North Korea needs to figure out where it's heading and recognize that the United States of America is not engaging in belligerent, threatening behavior," Kerry told reporters on Capitol Hill last week.
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), a Korean War veteran, called for Newman's release Wednesday in a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jung Un. "It is my understanding that Mr. Newman has a heart condition which requires medication. I hope you would have the heart to reunite him with his loved ones and those who can provide proper care," Rangel wrote.
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The Future of Research Through Gaming
[Editor's Note: We have a real treat for our readers today! We asked our friends at Research World Connect if we could re-post a truly wonderful piece of thought leadership on research "gamification" by Betty Adamou. This was originally published on April 13th here. Regular readers know that we here at GreenBook Blog think that research games will be a major part of the future of market research and will be a key driver of growth during the transformation period we are in now. Betty has quickly positioned herself as one of our foremost thinkers on this topic and her breakdown of the various ways that MR can utilize gaming models in research is a must read!]
Trends — By esomar on April 13, 2011 4:34 pm
By Betty Adamou
The concept of "Research Through Gaming" as I like to call it (or RTG), has been popular amongst the market research glitterati in the past few months. If you type #NewMR or #Gamification in twitter you can see some of the things people have been saying about it. As with all new concepts there are skeptics, but mostly the comments are inquisitive and even excitable.
Ray Poynter's NewMR online conference about 'Gamifiction' in December 2010 chose ten speakers to talk about their ideas on what "Research Through Gaming" is and could be, and what this would mean for our industry/respondents.
I discussed RTG at CASRO this March, where together with SSI, we spoke to 492 respondents about their gaming habits and what they think about the concept. We had some positive results, with over 75% of people saying they would play a research game and recommend it to a friend or family if they were fun to play or educational.
What is RTG?
I define RTG as "an organisation gaining data from the actions a respondent takes while playing a computer game and the way the respondent plays the game itself."
Obviously we shouldn't be aiming for research games to be exactly like video games. It would be far too costly to create the research equivalent of "Call of Duty". Instead, we should be much more creative with our surveys and the way we ask our questions. One way of doing this is by making it more game-like and competitive.
We know already that the flash tools and even the fonts we use can affect survey results, and not always for the better, as Bernie Malinoff highlights in his paper 'Sexy Questions, Dangerous Results?' The key with this concept is to imagine research games as elaborate Flash Tools.
In 2009, in the Odenplan Station in Stockholm, someone had the idea of turning a flight of stairs, located next to an ascending escalator, into a giant piano. Sounds crazy right? It was called the "Fun Theory," coined by thecreators of the experiment; Volkswagen. The result was that 66% more people used the stairs than the escalator. Research games give us and our respondents a chance to have some fun in the same way Volkswagen did with the giant piano.
Turning surveys into computer games will, to many people, sound like a crazy or unfeasible idea. However, at a time where budgets have been cut and WAPI response rates are at an all-time low, our industry needs to prove it's need value more than ever. There's no harm in exploring other possible methodologies.
Why RTG will work
1. Response rates are in decline. Although still an affective methodology, we've watched response rates for online surveys decline gradually for around two years. During my time working at a sample provider, getting basic European Nat Rep would take just a couple of days but became more difficult as time went on. In 2008, the UK response rate there was 10% in the UK and went down to 2% in 2009. But is it any wonder? Type in 'Surveys' on Google Image and what comes up is really not how we want surveys, or research for that matter to be visually represented.
2. Attention Spans are in Decline. A BBC survey showed that on average, UK Students have a 10 minute attention span. Any parents reading this are probably nodding their heads in painful agreement. Even as adults, our attention spans are forced into 140 character Tweets, 420 character Facebook status updates and so on. However, a recent PlayStation press release tells us that "On a daily basis, between 50,000 and 60,000 people host online sessions, with up to 13,000 users playing simultaneously for three hours on average." Our own research with SSI showed us that while respondents mostly played on portable devices for under an hour (smartphones, PSP's etc) they could spend 3+ hours playing on consoles.
3. There are huge developments in the Gaming Industry. TIGA reports that the gaming industry had a £1 Billion investment in 2009 and this is sure to increase. This kind of funding develops the massively creative and technological progress the industry has. Now more than ever, games are being developed due to the growth of new platforms available for gaming. The audiences for gaming have vastly widened and the opportunities to be involved with the product are plentiful.
4. Online Gaming Communities. At the time of writing, the PlayStation online community forum had over 2,500 users online. Think of this as a pool of respondents where, if the MR industry could make the research game forums as interesting as PlayStation has, we have a great chance of developing the most active MROC'S to date. There's already the facility of 'inviting friends' into a game, giving scope for joint research and mini-communities.
5. Huge Mobile App Growth. According to Hans Vestberg, CEO of Ericsson there are 3 times as many smartphones being activated every minute than there are babies being born. So it's not surprising that the mobile app market which has been predicted to grow by $35 million by 2014. This means the expectation to communicate with anyone or any company through apps will become standard, and as the iPhone has over 30% of its app downloads dedicated to games alone, (making it the most popular app genre) this is a great bandwagon to jump on. Using apps frees panelists from the confines of their office/home desk or physically filling in notebooks for diary studies. Diary studies (with photos too) can surely be done through an app. Respondents can view surveys available locally (locating their whereabouts using GPS), monitor their incentives, update their accounts and more. In fact one such App already exists.
6. You can play everywhere and anytime. So if respondents can take part in research through apps, this means that the time of day respondents can take part is: anytime. As a Project Manager, you'll no longer fear the 'dead-time' between 5pm and 7pm on a weekday, when people are commuting back home from work, just because they haven't got their laptops. They can do surveys on the move!
7. "Entertainment Snacking". In the gaming industry, this refers to the process of playing games in 'bursts', e.g. players dipping in and out of games while they're waiting for something. Respondents will be able to dip in and out of research games without the pressure to finish them right then and there because they can always go back into it later. In theory, project managers won't have to estimate such high drop-out rates for longer surveys or even surveys which are in two or three parts, because they will have an increased likelihood of completion as the app is more accessible.
8. Games have become a huge part of our lives. We play games on social networking sites, on our phones and even take time out of our day to use a console to play. We even use gaming to simulate medical procedures, flights, conduct training within companies and more. These are called 'serious games' and already exist in a highly advanced fashion. In a recent article by Fast Company they discuss serious games saying that: "The Entertainment Software Association claims that 70% of major employers use interactive software and games for training. Many are simulations that enable users to perfect skills in 2-D before taking on the 3-D challenges of real life. Doctors, for example, may practice cutting open avatars…before turning to humans. Such simulations make up a billion-dollar-plus business that is growing fast." In this same article they discuss how Jesse Schell, a 40-year-old game designer and Professor, talked in detail about the integration between real life and gaming, going as far as to say that even 'Weight Watchers' is a kind of game (points are assigned to food, and rewards are given for losing weight). "Sensors have gotten so cheap that they are being embedded in all sorts of products. Pretty soon, every soda can and cereal box could have a built-in CPU, screen, and camera, along with Wi-Fi connectivity…You'll get up in the morning to brush your teeth and the toothbrush can sense that you're brushing, so, 'Hey, good job for you! Ten points' from the toothpaste maker. You eat breakfast and get 10 points from Kellogg's for eating your Corn Flakes, then grab the bus because you get enviro-points from the government, which can be used as a tax deduction. Get to work on time; your employer gives you points." Imagine the scope for Research!
9. We're already talking about it. When was the last time the MR industry got this excited about something? We're talking about RTG on LinkedIn, the NewMR site, Research Live and articles about it are showing up on websites like this. There are companies out there already looking into it.
So what could Research Games look like and how could they work in the real, fast-paced, price sensitive world of Market Research? As with anything new, eventually processes will be streamlined, and we can benefit from economies-of-scale. People working on research games as a methodology will become increasingly expert in them the more they create and use them. I predict there will be four main types of Research Games which we could potentially use right now and a fifth type which will need to wait for a few years. There's even a sixth type (Sixth Sense Technology Research) but this type is a whole paper in itself.
1. 'Avatar Based Research Games' (ABRG's). ABRGs have the potential to be the most popular, but also the most expensive research game. Respondents would create an avatar either based in their own 'real image' (if encouraged to do so by the client) or create their 'fantasy image'. Once the Avatar has been created, the respondent could be placed into a number of virtual environments and data can be collected on what the respondent/player/avatar does within that environment. This could be used for FMCG research or to test new retail environments. Tourist boards can see what sights people want to see in various countries. When a respondent dresses their Avatar, fashion retailers can give them a huge choice of clothes from their new collection to choose from. The scope for research is vast.
2. 'Gaming as the Incentive Research Games' (GATIRG's) would allow the respondents to dip into games and back into research, so playing the games becomes the incentive to do the survey. Here, the project manager can choose a game to be used which is appropriate to the demographic of the respondents. The respondents play the game and at certain points in the game go back into the regular survey and so on and so forth.
3.'Questions as Mini-Games' (QAM's) will probably be the most popular type due to its ease-of-use. The idea here is that each question is like a little game in itself. For example, if a fast-food chain was conducting research, they could ask 'Please shoot the food items from the menu that you haven't tried yet'. Or a Hair Gel brand could ask respondents to move a little person around the screen to get to their favourite type of gel. Flash and Java based tools are continuing to be increasingly interactive. I see this type of Research Game as the evolution of today's flash tools.
4.'Social Media Based Research Games' (SMRG's) are exactly what they say on the tin. With Facebook's Farmville having over 80 million users, this is a huge pool of respondents the market research industry can tap into. But MR agencies and clients could create their own environments, so instead of farms, a local council could ask respondents to build their ideal neighborhood, or a Housing Association could ask respondents to build their ideal home with an allocated virtual budget. They could be rewarded for taking part by being given 'free gifts' to boost their profile or certain amounts of 'free coins' so they can build on their virtual worlds.
5. 'Augmented Reality based Research Games' (ARBRG's). The key to ARBRG's is that the way a respondents plays can tell your clients even more about their consumers. It also removes the need for respondents to hold something physically in order to control what happens on a screen. Microsoft and Sony have already created 'Augmented Reality Games' but one Microsoft development is particularly interesting: Project Natal, better known as Xbox Kinect. In the Project Natal video we can see a boy choosing a skateboard from his TV and using it to glide down a virtual street. Then we see his sister talking to her friend through the TV screen where they swop a recommendation on a dress. The girl virtually tries on the dress and paces the room, testing it out on herself. Using this video as a literal basis of what kind of research can be conducted, we can start with the boy choosing a skateboard. First of all, that the boy is choosing a skateboard, not a bicycle, bus, car or motorbike. This could be useful if your end-client was a motoring company or environmental agency. Your client could even be a skate-board artist, testing his or her most popular skateboard designs. The designer could go as far as to sell designs for the respondent playing the game. A girl trying on a dress offers scope for research for fashion designers, stylists, jewelers, pattern cutters, accessory designers, hair stylists etc. They can see what designs, colours and cuts are most popular. But let's imagine that the girl took two hours choosing between some dresses in a virtual retail environment. This could allow the client to look into what factors are taking her so long. What are the things she's contemplating? The amount of time it takes her could let retailers know whether they should add in sofas to their real stores or even get a coffee shop in to help while away the hours. They could even test new retail environments altogether.
The next step?
From the research results and the areas I've explored in this article, we can see that RTG can be a viable and long lasting methodology, it is, after all, one of the few methodologies which can continually evolve. It can also give market research the face-lift it needs. We'll have opportunities to engage respondents, make our industry more relevant, create potentially bigger panels and online communities, and also have some fun with it in the meantime.
From here, I would love to see RTG taken seriously, hopefully there are some companies out there brave enough to invest in developing and testing research games.
Once this happens, I hope that companies within market research will be able to use RTG in moderation and with tact, and understand that its purpose is not to replace the survey with a game, but put the game into the survey and reach respondents where they really are.
Betty Adamou is UK Account Manager for Nebu. She is also on the programme committee for ESOMAR 3D Digital Dimensions 2011
The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of Nebu or the Nebu team
[Editor's note: for an example of a gaming interface applied to a survey check out the example below. Click on the images to go to the survey. This is a great example of the type of interfaces that can be developed for research!]
8 Responses to "The Future of Research Through Gaming"
April 21st, 2011 at 10:17 am
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May 4th, 2011 at 11:50 am
Sounds like bullshit to me. Games are fun. Disguised research… not fun; never will be fun. Now incentives for taking surveys, OK. But this is like trying to make medicine fun. The opportunities are extremely limited.
May 4th, 2011 at 8:42 pm
Hi Lenny and commenters,
Lenny,thanks for posting up Elias' video, I thought it was brilliant and very engaging. The VW Fun Theory videos on You Tube are a-plenty and go to show gamification really well. I will be sure to connect with Elias as it seems we're on the same page! Some of the facts he posted were also very interesting and if we do have a video of Kevin Keeker from Zynga talking at TDMR, I think you should post it here!
I'm so sorry to the first commenter here though, as I can't understand the lingo, can we can an English translation??
AJ: I'm sorry you feel the need to describe the idea of gamification as 'bullshit'.
Games are fun, but not all games are fun just like some surveys can be fun, but not all surveys. This is what gamification can change.
And actually gamification HAS been used to make medicine fun. Fun to learn about and to execute, as well as surgery, minor medical procedures and more. Gamification has also been used in other areas such as education, aerospace, car manufacturing, loosing weight, gaining weight and muscle tone, shopping (think Nectar points, Tesco points, Boots points which can be accumulated and used for rewards). If you'd like examples of these things, I'd be happy to share them with you. You can also visit the http://www.tiga.org website to find out more.
Furthermore, the opportunities for gamification of research are not limited, but on the contrary, quite vast and diverse. Especially as examples of gamification do already exist and with the continuing technological developments we'll see in our lifetime alone, this'll give even further breath of life to gamification of research…Think Sixth Sense Technology and the already existing developments of Augmented Reality, 3D capabilities and neuroscience/neuro-marketing combined (which is becoming more and more intricate and intelligent by the day as new discoveries about how the brain work are uncovered)
In addition, the aim of Research Through Gaming is not to 'disguise' the fact that research is being undertaken (no one wants to 'fool' the respondent in any way at all) during a gamified survey of any kind. In fact, as I would see it, gamification will allow market researchers, neuroscientists, neuro-marketers etc to use visual stimulation such as gaming platforms, pictures, videos etc which can allow them to be more transparent with respondents about what they're looking for and what they want to understand or learn.
I'd be interested to hear examples of why you feel the options are limited? Let's get a healthy debate started!
July 16th, 2011 at 9:38 am
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May 9th, 2012 at 7:38 pm
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May 11th, 2012 at 7:34 am
Thanks for the excellent post.
November 23rd, 2015 at 9:54 am
In regard to some of the comments here, I'd like to say that gaming by way of surveys can indeed be fun. It is simply a matter of creating an engaging yet simple game which utilizes aspects of survey questions, which then collects the market research data. We've used this rather successfully ourselves with a quiz style app, allowing us to gather data through many demographics.


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Politics mostly means voting for the least worst candidate, not a candidate who's really good.
For me, Obama is the worst worst candidate. Stopping his reelection is job 1.
THAT should have been done during the off year with the man's failing to prove his eligibility. We're in a different nation now. Now it's American until proven otherwise. Obama's not going anywhere even if the God-Father of ObamaCare were to actually win the election. Obama's here to stay. Guaranteed he'll still be President after Jan 20th 2016.
The damage has been done. We cannot pick and chose which parts of the US Constition are to be enforced and which parts are to be ignored. But that's exactly what we did.
I'm increasingly skeptical
that voting makes a significant difference.
There's too many proven ways they have and can manipulate the figures.
All the more so with one globalist family producing the voting machines that have proven easily hackable.
I remember back when I was in High School when JFK 'won' the SElection . . . I felt then that things were rigged . . . as was later proven . . . his dad bought sufficient Chicago votes to put him in and Nixon refused to contest the vote. That was the first SElection I was old enough to bother much about.
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Where Things Come Back
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
In the remarkable, bizarre, and heart-wrenching summer before Cullen Witter's senior year of high school, he is forced to examine everything he thinks he understands about his small and painfully dull Arkansas town. His cousin overdoses; his town becomes absurdly obsessed with the alleged reappearance of an extinct woodpecker; and most troubling of all, his sensitive, gifted fifteen-year-old brother, Gabriel, suddenly and inexplicably disappears.
Meanwhile, a young, disillusioned missionary in Africa searches for meaning wherever he can find it. When those two stories collide, a surprising and harrowing climax emerges that is tinged with melancholy and regret, comedy and absurdity, and above all, hope.
Normally, I wouldn't pick up a book that made so much of itself just in its blurb. Either it raises my expectations too high or it seems like the book is making too much of itself. Some poorly-blurbed books rise above their adjective-filled summaries, but Where Things Come Back does not.
I do agree that the story had a generous helping of absurdity. Religious zeal, prophetic visions, and weird imaginings of zombies fill the chapters. Cullen also repeatedly talks about himself in the third person (When one does this, he often...) which got old fast. Beside the absurdity, though, Where Things Come Back doesn't really live up to its descriptors.
I've heard a lot of good things about this book, and to be fair, some of them are true. The characters are likable and interesting; and Cullen makes some good points in his rambling. The chain reaction that begins with Benton Sage and spans the length of the book was pretty clever, but Cullen's chapters were duller.
If you've read more than one of my reviews, you've probably caught onto the fact that I dislike most YA romances. Where Things Come Back was happily instalove-free, but the romance still fell flat. (This may contain spoilers) It starts with Cullen's obsession over the girl, Ada, who is incidentally the hottest girl in town. Of course, Cullen gets the girl - but more because she pities him and he idolizes her than because they actually love each other. I hesistate to call it a "love story," actually; there wasn't much love. Alma Ember's love stories were a bit more realistic.
Whaley did a great job of combining the stories of Benton Sage, Cullen Witter, and everyone connected with them. They wove together seamlessly, which is no small feat. The writing of Where Things Come Back was by no means subpar, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I'd hoped to.
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Emigrating to a new country brings a ton of expected and unexpected emotions and situations. So I grouped them in my Emigrants Dictionary! Today the letter A, telling about catch-22, paperwork, creditscores and equality amongst people:
A is for Administration
When we made the decision to emigrate, we knew we would have some challenges with administration, regulations and procedures. Noting could however have prepared us for the amount of red tape we had to go trough. Some bureaucrats and regulations turned our decision to emigrate into quiet a challenge. Working for an organization that creates Herculean labors for a living, we were used to a lot. But we have never been so creative in delivering impossible challenges!
Our new nation, as well as the good old motherland organized it all so they can govern. The catch-22 spices up the process: couple of examples that sound funny now, but had no fun in it at all when we were confronted…
- After we found our apartment, we had good hopes. Naive Belgians as we are, we imagined going to the landlord, signing the lease and delivering the deposit and having the keys to our new home. That might be the process in most countries and cities around the world. It's a little different here… We had to apply for the apartment. It took over a month to convince the landlord that it's normal that we didn't had a social security number at that time, or that we didn't had an income in the USA at that point… Top of the process was when our landlord required us to have a bank account before accepting our application AND we figured out that banks include the lease agreement in the required documents to open that account.
- If we ever would like to obtain so much as a consumer credit card in the USA, we need a credit score. This magic number is built on the history of using and having credit in this country. No credit score = no credit = no credit card. Having a credit card and using it, is the way to obtain a credit score. Belgian banks have no idea to deal with this.
- When leaving Belgium, the city registered us as having left the country, removing our address from the records. The Belgian Consulate required a birth certificate to register us in the USA. Requesting that certificate online is impossible without an address on your record. (Did you know Belgium once had a minister to make working with the administration easy?)
We have been sent back to "square one" so often that it became our new home.But none of these obstacles have been enough to stop us from coming here!
A is for Accent
"I'm sorry – it must be my accent" I said to the Starbucks employee who misunderstood my order. "In New York, Sir" he answered me "everyone has an accent". That was the point where I understood why I love a city with first generation immigrants so much, now being one myself. We are all here to make the best of life and get the most of the opportunities that lie here, no matter where we originate from…
This is part of a series of posts that gives you an insight in our impressions after the first 100 days living in New York & the USA: More in http://blog.blanquart.be/category/vrije-tijd/travel/emigrants-dictionary/


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comfigure eases the task of './configure'ing many packages. It remembers the 'configure' options for each package, and uses them automatically if called without options. comfigure automatically recognizes the package name and version from the directory from which it was called. If the stored version is not equal to the current one, an MD5 digest sum is calculated over the output of './configure --help' to determine if the available options have changed. In such a case, the user will be asked what shall be done.
sash-plus-patches is a collection of patches for the well known standalone shell, sash. The key features are the chroot, pivot_root, and losetup functions. These functions provide interfaces to the respective Linux system calls. They are especially useful when sash is used in a initial ramdisk ("initrd") environment. In addition, simple shell variable expansion support has been added.
Ice Sound Manager was designed to ease the management of sound events, sound themes, and the IceSound server in the IceWM window manager. It is also intended to be an improvement upon the noble but primitive icesndcfg. The main improvements over icesndcfg include a support for sound event "themes", more comprehensive help, easy management and configuration of the IceSound server, a cleaner GUI interface, automatic starting of the IceSound server, and a more conservative approach to disk space usage.
XStow is a replacement for GNU Stow written in C++. It supports all features of Stow with some extensions. XStow and GNU Stow are programs for managing the installation of software packages. It keeps each package in its own directory while making it appear that all packages are installed in the same place. Unlike GNU Stow, XStow does not depend on Perl, and can be compiled statically for such uses as rescue disks. XStow is fully compatible with GNU Stow, meaning that you can switch from one to the other at will.
A VRML/X3D browser and a viewer/converter for other 3D model formats.
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] Starred by Prasenjit Chatterjee (see full cast), this film directed by Srijit Mukherji was premiered in TV or cinema in 2014. The feature film "Jaatishwar" was produced in India. You can watch Jaatishwar online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in Bengali at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2014.
Rating: 5 by 752 users./
Runtime: 100 minutes
Prasenjit Chatterjee, Jishu Sengupta, Swastika Mukherjee, Mamata Shankar, Rahul Banerjee, Riya Sen, Abir Chatterjee, Ananya Chatterjee, Kharaj Mukherjee, Tamal Ray Chowdhury, Dwijen Banerjee, Sumit Samaddar, Biswajit Chakraborty and Sujan Mukherjee.
Historic, Musical.
100-minute film (full movie) directed by Srijit Mukherji.
The original audio of Jaatishwar has dialogues in or Bengali, it was produced in India.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2014.
Screenplay written by Srijit Mukherji.
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Rana Sarkar, Ahana Chakraborty, Mahesh Ramanathan and Saswati.
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Home » Portable Application » Toggle Between Classic Or Metro Start Menu In Windows 8
Toggle Between Classic Or Metro Start Menu In Windows 8Posted in Portable Application, Windows 8 By Rahul Sharma On October 3, 2011
The most noticeable change is those Live Tile feature on Windows 8 Start Screen, which provide access to some nice apps with just one muse click.
But due to some reason some people are not liking and want old classic Windows 7 like start menu back, if you too want this then here is an nice app for you.
Solo-Dev at DA has created Windows 8 Start Menu Toggle is an nice allows you to toggle between the Metro Start screen and the Classic start menu in Windows 8 Developer Preview.
This app is only for Windows 8, and you need to have .Net 3.5.1 runtimes, Run this tool As Administration.
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Apparently, when your main job is heavy on house parties, the best way to unwind is to wind up the throttle on an all terrain vehicle. That's exactly what Maybach Music Group's 2011 XXL Freshman Meek Mill was spotted doing recently in the woods outside Philadelphia, and he just so happened to be rocking John Wall's latest RBK signature, the Reebok Zig Encore. This should come as no surprise as we've seen MMG leader Rick Ross also repping the Vector alongside the brand's creative director Swizz Beatz, and Mill himself was just repping the Blast retro not more than six weeks ago. But don't forget, this is a guy who was seen rocking the 'Stealth' Air Jordan III just a month before that, so while he might be loyal to his record label, sneaker spotlights are just a fresh new pair away. Click through to see more and let us know which has been the most impressive hip-hop sneaker collaboration.
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A St. Louis County man with a disability said he feels stranded. His independence was stunted and all because of a chair.
Cerebral Palsy robbed Tony Berding of his mobility.
His motorized chair was his lifeline, but it broke several months ago. Now, he said he's having trouble getting it fixed.
Without his chair, Berding said moving backward is his best way of moving forward.
Rush: It's just easier to go backwards?
Berding: Yeah.
Sitting in a chair with wheels and pushing himself backwards is his way of getting around and offsetting a big setback surrounding this motorized chair.
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Right around December, Berding said, the chair started acting up.
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Berding: Yeah, when it feels like it.
And other times, it just stops as we saw firsthand. It worked fine at first, but then stopped working.
Berding said he called the company where he got the chair, Rehab Medical in Maryland Heights, but says he couldn't get results.
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Berlin. Probably one of my favourite places. We were only going to stay 3 nights but ended up changing everything so we were there for 5. Found the cheapest hostel ever - 8Euros. Quite nice really. Interesting showers tho. Perfectly clean but they were open showers. Just 8 shower heads around the walls. Really was quite a liberating experience. Some really got into it like the spanish girls who would have their choir practices in there. Just a note, all european women are skinny. All of them. Must be the tourists who eat all that unhealthy shit. Wait. We did that.
The next morning we managed to miss the bike tour by about 2 minutes so headed off to the Fernsehturm (TV tower). Smiled sweetly at the lady behind the counter and got a cheaper tickets because the people in front of us were arseholes. Being nice does pay off some times! View was good but the audio tour was incredibly boring . There´s only so much `to your right we have another famous building that you can´t really make out coz its too far away´.
Caught the next bike tour which was amazing. The lady taking it was an actor and really got into the whole thing. We managed not to kill ourselves on the crazy german roads, i was more successful than Trace. She is a battler. She was always so far behind the group that the guide would just start without her. I must say going through intersections with no traffic lights or give way signs and also on the wrong side of the road, it was a miracle we both survived. Saw the Tiergarten, the Reichstag (shits on our parliament house), bits where Run Lola Run was filmed, the holocaust memorial which was amazing. the guide ended it all with a very dramatic recount of the fall of the wall. Sort of gave a nice ending to such a horiffic history.
When we got back home it turned out that we were staying in the equivalent to Lygon St (but without all those annoying people trying to sell you food.) Had a HUGE feed of mexican stuff then waddled home.
Just a note about some of the people in berlin - they're strange. Take the girl in our room. She had decided it was a fashion statement to shave off half of her hair and put the other half in a ponytail. One of the many characters we saw. I will always wonder if she shaved every morning or if she let it stubble for a bit...


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Organising body bans Contador's Astana team over "trust"14 February 2008
MADRID - Reigning Tour de France champion Alberto Contador will be denied the chance to defend his title at the upcoming Tour, event organiser the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) announced yesterday, as a consequence of its decision to ban the Spaniard's team Astana from the race.
Explaining its decision, the ASO cited "the harm this team caused to the Tour de France and cycling in general in 2006 as well as 2007," adding: "Last year Astana betrayed, in effect, the organiser's trust as [the team] was invited to participate based on the promise the directors made to us of complete change."
Financed by a consortium of Kazakh businessmen, Astana was involved in a number of doping scandals last year, which saw its lead cyclist and at the time Tour leader Alexander Vinokourov expelled midway through the race for doping, alongside team mate and compatriot Andrei Kashechkin.
Previously, under the team's former name, Liberty-Würth, ex-manager Manolo Saiz was arrested for his involvement in the 2006 doping ring uncovered in Madrid, dubbed Operation Puerto.
The announcement comes as a surprise to many who consider that Astana has made a series of sweeping changes in management and riders, including bringing in Belgian sporting director Johan Bruyneel, Contador's former director at Team Discovery. With the intention of cleaning up the team's image, Bruyneel announced in October that the new Astana would commit to a fierce anti-doping platform where a team of doctors would monitor riders throughout the year, reporting results to both Astana and cycling's governing body the UCI.
The ASO, aware of the proposed changes, said yesterday that it will be "watching" Astana's attempt to have a 2008 season free of doping incidents, in order to "consider its eventual candidacy for future events."
Contador, meanwhile, has also attracted his share of doping controversy. In the weeks following his unexpected Tour de France win, questions surfaced as to the rider's possible involvement in Operation Puerto, when he rode for team Liberty under Manolo Saiz. In his defense, Contador has always claimed his innocence, saying that he was "on the wrong team, at the wrong time." He was never convicted of any irregularity.
Along with its Tour de France exclusion, Astana was also barred on 4 February by tournament organisers from competing in the Italian Giro, which begins on 10 May.
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Areva found culpable in death of uranium mine worker in Niger
French nuclear company, Areva, was found culpable in a court of law last Friday for the death of Serge Venel, a uranium mine worker who toiled from 1978 to 1985 for Areva subsidiary, Cominak, at uranium mines in Akokan, Niger. Venel died of cancer at 59 and his widow was this week awarded 200,000 Euros ($258,000) in damages with interest, which will likely double the total amount. Inhalation of uranium dust was deemed the cause of Venel's cancer. Areva will almost certainly appeal, but the verdict opens the door to many more suits from plaintiffs previously afraid to attack Areva. (Pictured: a typical dwelling of Areva uranium miner in Niger.)


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Russian sport is a long way from convincing the world that it has cleaned up its act, the World Anti-Doping Agency declared Sunday, pointing to the state's failure to accept it was behind a doping program, its continued obstruction of testing, and a series of cyberattacks.
"It would be better if they were maybe a little bit more contrite," WADA President Craig Reedie told The Associated Press after being re-elected unopposed for a second term.
Russia is seeking readmission to WADA a year after being declared non-compliant with the doping code, following the publication of a report detailing widespread cheating in track and field.
Fresh evidence of state-backed doping cover-ups was revealed by investigators ahead of the Rio de Janeiro Games, although WADA's recommendation of a blanket ban on Russia's Olympic team was rejected by the IOC.
Russia's integrity is set to be challenged again when Canadian law professor Richard McLaren's final doping report is published on Dec. 9, with the focus on winter sports.
Reedie said Russia still has to get "the rest of the world to believe that they have reformed and this (doping) won't happen again. So there is much work to be done."
At Sunday's Foundation Board meeting, WADA officials outlined how Russia continues to frustrate anti-doping officials by denying access to so-called closed cities where athletes are training and also to a sealed-off laboratory in Moscow that contains samples sought by sporting federations.
The public criticism was delivered in front of Russian President Vladimir Putin's anti-doping troubleshooter, Vitaly Smirnov, the former Soviet sports minister now heading Russia's state-backed anti-doping commission.
"Russia has never had a state-sponsored system of doping," Smirnov responded defiantly.
Vitaly Mutko, who was recently promoted from sports minister to deputy prime minister, was banned from attending the Rio Olympics after being accused by McLaren of ordering the cover-up of a failed drug test by a foreign soccer player.
A WADA presentation on Sunday flagged up claims by Mutko that McLaren's report was "falsified" and threats to prosecute those assisting the investigators.
One of Mutko's deputies at the sports ministry, Yuri Nagornykh, was ousted on Putin's orders after McLaren said he helped to orchestrate cover-ups of hundreds of drug tests. But Smirnov said Nagornykh was not a member of the government because "he was deputy minister," maintaining that "only ministers are members of the government."
Russia's unflinching denial of state involvement was rebutted by WADA, with Reedie endorsing "clear evidence of collusion between the laboratory and the ministry" from McLaren's investigation.
Reedie does, however, believe there is a "willingness to resolve the problems." And he will not insist on a full acceptance of guilt at government level as an "absolute condition" of Russia's anti-doping body being cleared by WADA.
"It would be a great shame if they couldn't be compliant because they couldn't find a way of dealing with closed cities," Reedie said, referring to the areas where the Russian military restricts access. "Maybe athletes shouldn't go there."
Also straining relations are the cyberattacks on WADA's databases, which the agency attributes to Russia espionage groups – as they appeared designed to raise doubts about the integrity of sports stars from Western nations.
Records of "Therapeutic Use Exemptions," which allow athletes to use otherwise-banned drugs because of a verified medical need, were leaked by a hacking group known as Fancy Bears.
"This doesn't make international acceptance of Russian improvement any easier if this goes on," Reedie said of the hacking.
While disclosing that hackers are still trying to obtain logins and passwords, WADA said it would continue to oppose the publication of athletes' medical information. The agency said 143 TUEs were granted before or during the Rio Games, with a "handful" of the 11,303 competing athletes requiring more than one.
"The system works perfectly," Reedie said, as the TUEs are "allocated and agreed by responsible people in sport."
WADA will remain under the leadership of the 75-year-old Reedie for the next three years, despite elements of the Olympic world appearing uneasy with the agency's attacks on Russia. Association of National Olympic Committees President Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah had wanted a "neutral chair" to take over from Reedie, who was supported by the International Olympic Committee.
The IOC congratulated Reedie on Sunday and said it "welcomed his commitment … to work towards the appointment of a neutral WADA President." Reedie responded: "I have always been (neutral). I will continue to be, and behave, as independently as I can."
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Rockets Go For More Redness
Via Matt Rachmiel and Uni Watch, the Houston Rockets will have a new court design for this upcoming season. Whereas areas of the court previously were differentiated by shades of shellac, now the out-of-bounds area and keys will be solid red. I still think the Rockets should go back to red and gold as their primary colors, instead of red and grey.
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Saturday was my birthday & I styled this ensemble for a lunch date with the hubs.Knotted a striped top paired it with a jacket,ripped jeans,single strapped low block heels and a turban.Ope you enjoyed your weekend & have a great week ahead.For daily updates you can check my Instagram
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Yaaaay the sun is out...I'm loving the sun in this 'cold july'.So I took the advantage of the weather & styled my peach maxi with a denim jacket.
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A Clarence House spokeswoman has confirmed that Camilla was forced to cancel a number of engagements this week, after developing severe middle ear infection. This also involved her being advised not to fly down from Scotland, where she's spending the summer with her husband, Charles, Prince of Wales.
"The Duchess of Cornwall has developed sinusitis and a severe middle ear infection over the last few days which means she will not be able to carry out her engagements in London this evening and tomorrow," a Clarence House spokeswoman said.
Camilla was scheduled to attend the Classical Brit Awards on Tuesday night at the Royal Albert Hall. She was also expected to be at a catering college in London to celebrate National Community Meals week.
On Wednesday, she was reportedly scheduled to meet Madeline Mason at Clarence House, who was honoured for her volunteering work with the Guide Dogs Charity.
On Wednesday night – as reported by the BBC - she was expected to attend the charity screening of World War 1 film 'Private Peaceful', which stars Maxine Peake and Richard Griffiths.
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THREATS FROM NORTH KOREA: Bomb shelters unprepared as threat looms
Bomb shelters across South Korea and Japan are left unprepared in an event of an all-out military conflict breaks out as tensions escalate over the Korean peninsula's rapidly advancing nuclear weapons programme.
South Korea has nearly 19,000 bomb shelters throughout the country. They include more than 3,200 in Seoul, just 40km (25 miles) from the militarised border drawn up under a truce that stopped the Korean War but left them technically at war.
Their shelters are not built to withstand against nuclear, chemical, or biological attacks. They are mostly in subway stations or basements and parking garages in private apartments and commercial buildings designated as shelters with the consent of the owners. In Seoul, most bomb shelters have no long-term supplies of food, water, medical kits or gas masks. They can't be forced to stock up due to lack of public funding, according to an unnamed official.
In the Japanese capital city Tokyo, the remaining bomb shelters from the Second World War are no longer useable or accessible to the public and they have no plans to reuse the decades-old shelters or build new ones for now.
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Volkswagen Blames Emissions-Cheating Scandal on Low-Level Technicians
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Dodging responsibility, VW CEO and other leaders point fingers at 'engineers and technicians involved in engine development'
Top-ranking Volkswagen officials on Friday cast blame for the company's large-scale diesel emissions-fixing scandal on a small number of unidentified and relatively low-level engineers and technicians.
In public statements issued at the company's headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany, new CEO Matthias Müller condemned the "unlawful behavior of engineers and technicians involved in engine development."
Müller, former head of Porsche, took over after Martin Winterkorn resigned from the position of CEO earlier this week claiming he is "not aware" of any wrongdoing on his part.
The company built a software "defeat device" that allowed cars to cheat on emissions control tests and spew up to 40 times the level of pollutants legally permitted. The scandal is now known to have affected 11 million cars worldwide.
Echoing Müller, other high-ranking officials publicly condemned the lower-ranking workers they say are responsible.
Bernd Osterloh, chairperson of the company's work council who also sits on the executive committee, charged: "A small group has done damage to our company. We need a climate where mistakes are not hidden."
Berthold Huber, acting head of the company's supervisory board, stated: "The supervisory board has, on the basis of current information, recommended suspending some employees immediately until the whole case is cleared up." It is not immediately clear who faced disciplinary action.
"The test manipulations are a moral and political disaster for Volkswagen," Huber continued. "The unlawful behavior of engineers and technicians involved in engine development shocked Volkswagen just as much as it shocked the public."
Mother Jones political blogger Kevin Drum wrote Saturday that he is not buying the company's claims.
"This is ridiculous," Drum argued. "What incentive do low-level engineers and technicians have to do this on their own?"
"Hell, they couldn't even take on a project like this unless their managers OK'd the time to do it, and their managers wouldn't do it unless they were being pressed by higher-ups," Drum continued. "Anybody who's ever worked at a big corporation knows this perfectly well."
Consumer advocates, meanwhile, are demanding that the company pay for the full environmental and social costs of its fraud, which they say belies broad irresponsibility across the auto industry.
"VW must still pay full penalties under law and grant full rebates to the customers it deceived into buying pollution-spewing cars that led to massive, undeserved profits," declared Ed Mierzwinski, consumer program director of U.S. PIRG, in a statement issued Wednesday.
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