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This shot was taken in our 2011 visit to Siem Reap, Cambodia. A visit I would recommend. This Cambodian temple monastery complex was built late 12th to 13th centuries to essentially saintify a kings mother and father. It influenced the set designs of Disneys Jungle Book and has been the setting of movies including one of the Tomb Raiders. Archeologists restored it only partially and left it overgrown because of the aesthetic appeal and the desire of locals to keep it this way. The decay and tree growth also makes it great camera fodder. See all the ea Prohm images in my gallery. There is a lot more where this came from. Take a look at my gallery.
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Recommend ET5 Series for Best Class Picture, 3D & IPTV
by ATTBlum on July 6, 2012
Pros: + Picture quality is top-notch, brightness and the colors are fantastic, Extremely wide viewing angle
+ TV has a good array of inputs
+ Sound is very good for a flat screen TV
+ User interface is fast and simple
+ Great IPTV functionalityCons: - VIERA Remote App on iOS slow and clunky
- Web browser pure misery to use with the included infrared remoteSummary: I bought this TV for a very bright room with lots of sunlight, as this IPS LED seemed brighter than any plasma display, and without the energy draw or heat ...
Summary: I bought this TV for a very bright room with lots of sunlight, as this IPS LED seemed brighter than any plasma display, and without the energy draw or heat of a plasma. I'm exceptionally happy with this great TV on many levels.
Highlights of why I like this television:
I have seen the future and it's clearly LED. The picture quality of this LED TV is top-notch. The brightness and the colors are fantastic, showing a truly stunning picture with an extremely wide viewing angle from the sides that really is a hair away from 180°. It's also very bright, noticeably brighter than a plasma TV. While it's not quite as good at displaying pure black and picture uniformity in comparison to high-end videophile plasmas that costs thousands more, it's really not far off. It's the best I've seen from an LCD/LED set and as good or better than mainstream plasmas.
From reading Internet forums, I appear to be the one person on the planet who prefers motion interpolation, which Panasonic calls "Motion Picture Setting" and this TV allows four settings: Off/Weak/Medium/Strong. Basically, I prefer life-like video, with natural motion that feels like I am watching in-person on a stage or set rather than film or video, and "Strong" pretty much delivers that. 1080p HD sources look like I'm watching a play with the action unfolding live in front of me. For sports, the experience is unrivaled and truly pulls you into the action. Or, if you hate this so-called "Soap Opera Effect" and prefer traditional film/video movement, then you can turn this feature off. And if you need very fast response, there's also a Game mode.
I was completely unprepared for being blown away by this TV's 3D picture. I've played with 3D TV before, but somehow other TVs with bulky electro-mechanical active shutter 3D glasses always let me down due to the flicker, which distracted me from enjoying the 3D effect. I tried an LG passive 3D TV last year, and the effect was "dulled" compared to active 3D TV so I wrote off the whole 3D-at-home thing as immature technology. Not any more. The state-of-the-art has apparently changed in one year. This TV is the best of both worlds (active-like effect/passive-like ease and no flicker) and comes with four pairs of lightweight passive polarized 3D theater glasses (TY-EP3D10), and frankly, the effect is amazing with none of the flicker of active glasses.
I watched several Blu-ray 3D movies along with my cable company's 3D channels and 3D VOD. All I can say is... wow. It's not only very watchable, it's incredible. Movies are flat-out fun. Sports on ESPN 3D are amazing. Interestingly, the TV has a 2D-3D conversion function which is really quite good; although it lacks the deep depth of native 3D content, whatever magic it uses to turn 2D into 3D is remarkably effective. I had no idea passive 3D TV could be this good.
The TV has a good array of inputs: 4 HDMI 1.4 ports with ARC, 2 USB 2.0 ports, 1 set of component (Y/Pb/Pr) or composite video & analog stereo audio RCA connectors (via included proprietary adapter), 1 PC VGA connector, 1 coax RF port, 1 SDXC card slot, and 1 Fast Ethernet jack. WiFi is built-in, with no dongle required, and therefore does not take up a USB port. The TV's black stand and black/clear frame are attractive, making it look stylish in my living room. And the glossy black remote is very nice, with illuminated buttons.
Internet TV is via Panasonic's smart TV system called VIERA Connect. It's simple, and has applications included for subscription services like Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu Plus, MLB.TV and others. I stream videos from Amazon Prime and it works great with high quality HD. Another standout is the Skype app, which requires the optional TY-CC20W camera with inbound calls integrated into the watching experience. Audio and video Skype calls can be received or dismissed while watching something else, and the overall Skype experience is simple and straightforward with very high quality video calls. Outbound calls require going into VIERA Connect, and then launching Skype. Perhaps initiating an outbound call while watching other content could also be similarly better integrated in the future with fewer button presses?
Sound is very good for a flat screen TV, and is certainly more than I was expecting. Don't expect miracles, the integrated speakers are small and on the bottom of the frame facing down, and compared with an external sound bar or home theater system they're missing bass and some midrange. But, for a panel TV, the sound is really very good.
Quibbles, as overall it's still an outstanding TV:
The digital audio out (TOSLINK optical) doesn't pass through everything, as surround sound (DD/DTS) does not get passed from HDMI connections (it gets down-mixed as 2-channel stereo) and audio from Skype is not passed at all (probably for echo-cancellation reasons). In both cases the TV speakers still work if enabled.
The VIERA Remote App on iOS slow and clunky, although I suppose it's nice to have it as an option. It makes the iPhone vibrate with every remote button press. I found it not a particularly useful gadget compared to the normal infrared remote.
By default, the TV shows sponsored banner ads upon startup (VIERA Connect Banner) and in the VIERA Connect app selection screen. I suppose this pervasive advertising is the future of digital media, but it seems unnecessarily intrusive on your own TV as it's turning on. You can disable the startup advertisement, and move the VIERA Connect ad app to another app page with seldom-used applications. However, if you disable the startup banner ad, and you try to use IPTV in the first 15 seconds or so after turning the TV on, you get an error message saying the TV needs an Internet connection.
The DLNA Media Player isn't quite full-featured enough to be the primary home network media player for me, even though its user interface is fast and simple. The first major flaw is that while it plays many media formats, such as MKV/H.264, it doesn't support some exceptionally common media formats like AVI files ("Cannot read file"). What is perplexing is the FAQ on the Panasonic web site says certain AVI files are supported. It may not be that AVI is the actual problem, but any media in any container encoded with MPEG-4 Visual such as DivX/Xvid/Nero Direct/3ivx/QuickTime 6 video codecs ("Cannot read file") and that just happens to be the most common format for AVI video. Also, media encoded with a DTS audio codec plays without any audio ("Audio format not supported"); it would have been nice if digital audio would at least be passed unmodified through to the digital audio out port.
Other formats trip it up as well. I tried a media file that contained two audio tracks (one in German, the second in English) and while the menu appeared like one could choose which track plays, it only displayed and played the first track. The second major flaw is that it immediately begins playing the highlighted video in a preview window as you move up and down your list of media, including its audio, which is not only annoying but also places a burden on the media server if the media needs transcoding. This might be the case, for example, if you configure your DLNA Media Server to transcode AVI/MPEG-4/DTS files in order to even have them play at all with this TV's media player.
The only complete miss on this TV: I found the web browser pure misery to use with the included infrared remote. While I could fumble through navigation using the VIERA Remote App from my iPhone, I couldn't get any site with video to work. It's one of the worst overall web browsing experiences I've ever encountered. In my opinion, the web browser is essentially unusable unless used as an instrument of torture. In such cases, I suspect it would be effective in extracting information from the most hardened target. ("I'll talk, just make it stop!")
But, the issues are minor compared to the positives: the best-in-class plasma-beating picture, 3D quality and great IPTV functionality.
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Overall, this is a great TV.8 out of 8 users found this user opinion helpful.
- Manufacturer: Panasonic
- Part number: TC-L55ET5
- Description: A polarizing film on the display surface displays the left and right images for each of the odd-numbered and even-numbered horizontal scanning lines. When viewed through polarizing eyewear, different images are shown to the left and right eyes, resulting in the perception of 3D images. This method reduces the vertical resolution to one-half, but it is an easy way to view 3D images using light, economical eyewear. Great for watching with a group of people.
- TV type LED-LCD
- Screen size 55 in
- Viewing angle 178 degrees
- Viewing angle (vertical) 178 degrees
- 3D Passive-3D compatible
- 3D glasses & accessories 3D glasses (4pcs) included
- Connectivity Wi-Fi
- Internet streaming services Skype,
FOX sports,
VIERA Connect,
Hulu Plus,
YouTube - Skype details Skype ready,
Web camera sold separately - Panasonic TY-CC20W - TV features DLNA,
Audio Return Channel (ARC),
Game mode Video
- Technology 3D,
LED-LCD - Backlight technology LED Backlight technology
- Backlight type (LED) Edge-lit
- Native resolution 1920 x 1080
- Resolution 1080p
- Aspect ratio 16:9
- 24p technology 3D 24p Cinema Smoother
- Progressive Scan Progressive scanning (line doubling)
- Widescreen Widescreen
- Widescreen modes Full,
Conventional 4:3,
Zoom - HDCP compatible Yes
- Supported DTV resolutions 1080/24p,
480i TV Tuner
- TV tuner presence Yes
- HDTV Tuner Yes
- Digital TV tuner ATSC,
QAM - Analog TV tuner NTSC
- TV tuner reception system NTSC
- Speaker(s) 2 x Main channel speaker - Built-in - 10 Watt
- Analog video input signals NTSC
- Surround mode Yes
- Total output power 20 Watt
- HDMI ports qty 4
- PC interface VGA (HD-15)
- Input/Output connections 4 x HDMI (19 pin HDMI Type A) - Side,
Audio line-in (RCA phono x 2) - Bottom,
1 x VGA input (15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15)) - Bottom,
Composite video / component video input (RCA phono x 3) - Bottom,
1 x Audio output - Bottom,
2 x USB 2.0 (4 pin USB Type A),
1 x Network (RJ-45) - Bottom,
1 x Audio line-in (Mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm) - Video interface HDMI,
Remote Control
- Type Standard remote control
- Second remote control type None
Stands & Mounts
- Stand included Included
- Stand design Tabletop
- Flat panel mount interface Yes
- Power device Power supply - Internal
- Power device nominal voltage AC 120 V
- Power consumption operational 82.4 Watt
Dimensions & Weight
- Dimensions (WxDxH) 50.4 in x 11.1 in x 31.9 in - With stand
- Weight 62.8 lbs
Dimensions & Weight (Shipping)
- Width 65 in
- Depth 6.1 in
- Height 34.3 in
- Weight 79.4 lbs
- ENERGY STAR Qualified Yes
- Greenpeace policy rating (Nov 2011) 3.6
- Greenpeace policy rating (Nov 2012) 3.6
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Manufacturer: Panasonic
Specs: LED-LCD,
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"We're one of the most wired cities in the world, but there's still much we can do to bring the benefits of this technology revolution to all segments of our city." -Mayor Greg Nickels 2002 Matching Funds Brainstorm is the big idea. Yes, we're clamoring for attention. The City of Seattle's Department of Information Technology thinks that it's time we all got on the same page. We saw a need for an exciting ezine to help promote community technology programs, opportunities, issues and best practices. We wanted to bring together the organizations, lab coordinators and managers, grantors and grantees, nonprofits engaged in community technology, and all who care about bringing technology to all people. We plan to publish monthly. This will be a web-based ezine, so we won't be jamming your email box with anything more than an email alert each time we launch a new edition. Most of you will be able to click on an embedded URL to get the latest news. We think Brainstorm's the greatest thing since movable type, and hope you feel the same way. Help us make it work. Please email us with anything you think is newsworthy and we'll try to help get the word out in support. get on board to
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"I am no longer scared to try to learn this."
That gratifying comment was heard at a recent Somali presentation of the Information Age curriculum.
Last month, the Mandarin version of Info Age was test presented to a group of 13 adults at the Chinese Information and Service Center by Karia Wong. The Somali version was presented at Rainier Community Center by Somali Community Center director Abdulkadir Jama.
The Information Age pre-basics curriculum, developed by DoIt and CTTAB, is about to debut in several languages, including Spanish, Vietnamese, Amharic, English, and the abovementioned Somali and Chinese. The PowerPoint presentation is an outreach tool targeting low-income, senior, immigrant and even computer-phobic communities. It offers an easy to understand overview, fosters enthusiasm, then encourages further learning at local CTCs.
The Information Age curriculum was created for free distribution. We'd like you to present it or sponsor a presentation to your group. To get involved, contact email@example.com. You can download Info Age on the City of Seattle's Community Technology web site, http://seattle.gov/tech/infoage.htm. It consists of a PowerPoint presentation, an HTML version, an instructor's text, and a definitions list. Just let us know when you use it.
Delia Burke is the newest addition to the City of Seattle's Community Technology team. Delia replaces Emily Bancroft, who left to join NPower. Delia's work will focus primarily on the Technology Matching Fund (TMF) and the Information Technology Indicators project. She will also help develop resources and strategic partnerships intended to further the City's community technology goals and encourage electronic civic participation. This includes development of the new Puget Sound Alliance for Community Technology.
Delia comes to the City with a strong passion for alleviating the Digital Divide in Seattle and experience with our Technology Matching Fund. Recently, Delia was the program/fund development manager for Digital Promise, a nonprofit organization that helps support technology access and computer literacy in low-income housing communities. While there, she managed their Transitioning with Technology TMF project. Delia still serves on their board of directors as well as on the board of the Association for Women in Computing, Puget Sound Chapter.
In addition, Delia has more than 10 years of technology sales and marketing expertise in the enterprise software industry with companies such as Computer Associates and Silicon Graphics.
At a time of staff reductions, the approval of Delia's temporary position is significant. The Mayor felt the Community Technology Program was important enough to approve a hiring waiver for her position.
The City of Seattle is proud to announce the launch of Seattle Channel, broadcast on cable channels 21/28 and simultaneously live over the Internet 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A public service of the City of Seattle, Seattle Channel was created to inform citizens about their government and to offer them a timely opportunity to be involved in government decisions. The Channel is administered by the Seattle Channel unit of the Department of Information Technology.
The Channel has independence in programming decisions and is available for use by all City departments and agencies, including both the City Council and Mayor's office. Programming and scheduling decisions are non-partisan, equitable, and determined on content.
According to Mayor Greg Nickels, "Our goal in creating this interactive website is to help reconnect citizens to their government and community by integrating the best features of the Internet, television and other technologies to increase public awareness, understanding and participation in civic and cultural affairs. Take a look around and let us know what you think!"
How much downtime do you devote to reconfiguring?
If you're a lab coordinator or a tech support person, you know what we mean. You've got a learning environment where desktop settings and appearance must be identical on multiple computers. Innocent or guilty users often change settings, install games, or delete files. Your environment becomes compromised.
Derrick Hall, our resident PC expert, recommends that you install Deep Freeze.
According to Derrick, it's desktop security software that makes all changes to a computer temporary. With a single reboot, Deep Freeze returns desktop and all other settings to their original state. It requires no setup or special configuration. Just install, restart and it's working.
"You have the ability to lock out everything on the computer," said Derrick. "Once the computer is frozen, nothing sticks -- from setting changes to viruses that may infect the computer. The user does not know it is installed. There is no noticeable speed loss on the system. You can schedule a maintenance period so that the system will unlock during that time each day or week."
The Adult Literacy Resource Institute is a program and staff development center for adult literacy / basic education and English for speakers of other languages in the Greater Boston area. We especially recommend the special projects at the Virtual Visits.
English 4 All
This is a free site to help adults learn English.
This is an online library written for fourth through eighth grade level. Firstfind.info is a collection of web sites that were chosen by librarians. The sites cover a wide range of topics for learning and for fun, just like a library.
TV411 from the Adult Literacy Media Alliance offers great online lessons in reading, writing, vocabulary, math, community resources and info about health, parenting and money. That's just a start. The STAR Center CTC also has copies of the videos at their lab.
PBSLiteracy.org offers free online lessons, including Workplace Essential Skills and GED Connection.
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Austin Wings Follow Ritchie, Radack to Title
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Sunday, July 26, 2009
JOPLIN, Mo. -- If you need a couple of guys to set your table for a Labor Day picnic this year, don't hesitate to call Todd Ritchie and Collin Radack. Better yet, wait for Thanksgiving. They'll pile the turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing and pumpkin pie to the ceiling.
Ritchie and Radack did their work as table-setters superbly on Sunday, leading the Austin Wings-Black team to the title of the Premier Baseball Junior Championship at Joe Becker Stadium. And "superbly" doesn't begin to tell the story for these two leadoff hitters.
In the semifinals against the Midwest Nationals, Ritchie and Radack batted three times apiece in the first three innings and were a combined 6-for-6 with five runs scored and four RBIs. That's for just three innings, folks, not the entire game. Not surprisingly, the Wings cruised 15-4 in five innings.
The experts in the press box agreed we'd never see anything like that again, and then we did.
In the finals against the Bayside Yankees, Ritchie and Radack batted three times apiece in the first two innings and went 5-for-5 with four runs scored, three singles, two RBIs, a double and a triple. In just two innings! Radack hit a sacrifice fly on his third at-bat, or else they might have gone 6-for-6 again.
Not surprisingly, the Wings crushed the Yankees for the title, 16-5, in another game that was shortened to five innings by the Mercy Rule.
"Absolutely incredible," said Wings Coach Marcus Hendry.
Ritchie, a 5-foot-7 dynamo from Georgetown, Texas, went 6-for-9 in the two ballgames, pitched a complete game in the semifinals and played an excellent game in center field in the finals. Radack, from Austin, Texas, finished 5-for-6 for the day. They combined to go 11 for 15, score nine runs and drive in six. (A courtesy runner scored some of Ritchie's runs when he was the pitcher).
"Me and Collin, we just feel comfortable at 1 and 2," said Ritchie. "We call call it the 1-2 punch."
The Austin Wings scored eight runs in the third inning against the Midwest Nationals in the semifinals, then scored 11 runs in the second inning against the Bayside Yankees in the finals. All told, the Wings went 31-for-58 at the plate in the two ballgames for a lusty batting average of .535.
"That's how we always play," said Ritchie. "I mean, we swing the bat well. That's what we do."
You'll have to forgive Ritchie for exaggerating a tad. They don't "always" swing the bat that well. Nobody does, but they did Sunday.
"It seems like once we got into that championship round, we just started hitting like crazy," said Radack.
It began with an 11-6 victory over the Indiana Bulls Black in the quarterfinals on Saturday night. The Wings chased Indiana star Justin O'Conner in the third inning, although O'Conner hurt himself with five walks in 2 2/3 innings and the Bulls played leaky defense. Nonetheless, that victory set the stage for Sunday.
"The Indiana Bulls threw some really good pitching against us -- you know, some of the best pitchers we've faced all summer -- and we were able to get some runs across," said Radack, smiling.
Ritchie was all smiles, too, on Sunday. "It was a really great day," he said.
The Wings had an unusual experience in Pool Play on Friday and Saturday with two ties, but got into the eight-team playoffs as a Wild Card. Once given the opportunity, they took the ball and ran with it. Or rather, they took the ball and hit the stuffing out of it.
They had 17 hits in five innings as the visiting team against the Midwest Nationals, including a grand-slam and two-run single by Andre Wheeler (Austin, 2010) for six RBIs in two consecutive innings. They collected 14 more hits in four innings as the home team against the Yankees. Ty Marlow (Giddings, 2010) had four RBIs in the finals, with Zach Taylor (Georgetown, 2010) and Rush Plumlee (Giddings, 2010) collecting three RBIs apiece.
Hendry, 36, watched the parade from the third-base box. He sang the National Anthem a couple of times before games when he played at the University of Texas in the 1990s, and he probably felt like singing again on the trip back home.
"It's the first time all year that we clicked on all cylinders," he said. "And offensively, it was fun to watch."
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The campaign to approve potential upgrades at the Crandon Park Tennis Center has drawn opposition from a member of the pioneering family that donated the park land to the county.
Bruce Matheson, who sits on a four-member committee that governs future plans for the park, called for a "resounding NO" vote on the Miami-Dade ballot measure in a full-page color ad in Sunday's Miami Herald.
"The ballot language is incomplete, which prevents any voter from making an informed decision," Matheson said in an interview.
Not so, counter Sony Open tennis tournament organizers pushing for the ballot measure, which has drawn the support of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and conditional support from the Key Biscayne Village Council.
The proposed charter amendment would allow tournament organizers to seek commission approval for a nearly $50-million makeover, paid for by the tournament and tournament revenues, such as parking surcharges and ticket fees. In his ad, Matheson called the plans a "50-year sweetheart contract" for the tournament, whose lease — set to expire in nine years — would be extended to a total of 30 years, with two optional, 10-year extensions.
Financing the project would most likely require Miami-Dade County to issue revenue bonds backed by the tournament. County commissioners only agreed to put the measure on the ballot under the condition that the tennis center upgrades would not be paid for from the county's general fund.
Matheson questioned whether the county would be on the hook to pay back any debt taken on for the project if the tournament were to go out of business or leave town.
"What he's trying to do is confuse the issue," said Gene Stearns, the tournament's attorney, who called it "absolutely, totally, completely untrue" that the county would have to step in to pay back the bonds.
The bonds would be backed solely by tournament revenues. Were those revenues to dry up, the bondholders would be left holding the bag. The county's credit rating would not likely take a hit and it would not be on the hook, said Broward County Commissioner John Rodstrom, who works in the bond industry and is not affiliated with the ballot measure's proponents.
"The bondholders are not buying those bonds looking to be bailed out by the county," he said.
Tournament organizers created a political committee to campaign for the ballot measure. The Committee to Preserve an Ideal Partnership has mailed campaign fliers, put up signs and aired Spanish-language radio ads featuring retired tennis players Mary Joe Fernandez and Fernando Gonzalez.
The tournament has proposed building permanent grandstands, shaded pavilions and multi-story additions to the tennis center's stadium. The improvements are necessary, they say, to keep the popular Sony Open — known as professional tennis' "fifth Grand Slam" — in Key Biscayne. Rival tournaments have upgraded their facilities to attract big-name players.
The proposal requires approval from two-thirds of voters under a county charter revision adopted in 1993 known as "Save Our Parks."
If it is approved at the Nov. 6 polls, the project would require support from the special committee Matheson sits on, and it would need to meet terms set by the Matheson family, which sued the county when it planned to build the tennis stadium. The two sides eventually reached a settlement that gave the family a say by creating the committee to approve future changes.


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I'll see what we can do about the price
Hmm thats interesting because NP is dirt cheap for most stuff, at least the stuff I buy!!
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When it comes to online content, consumers by and large prefer to pay for it in attention rather than currency. As a result, it's no surprise that far more publishers have built successful ad-based business models than paid content business models.
Advertising, of course, usually isn't a path to easy money for publishers. Yes, advertisers love the internet, but digital still accounts for a minority of total ad spending, and advertisers generally pay less for digital ads than traditional ads.
Read more...
by Patricio Robles 05 July 2011 16:00pm 1 comment
Despite the hype, tablets are still most accurately described as a 'niche' market. But that market is expected to grow really, really fast.
That's according to a study (PDF) conducted by the Online Publishers Association (OPA) and Frank N. Magid Associates, which sees 54m Americans owning or using tablets by early 2012, up from 28m today.
by Patricio Robles 23 June 2011 16:43pm 1 comment
Talk to publishers about Google's Panda update, and chances are you'll find at least a few who haven't had a pleasant experience.
Google's goal of cleaning up its index may be desirable, and perhaps even necessary, but many publishers feel their legitimate websites were collateral damage.
by Patricio Robles 17 June 2011 09:56am 8 comments
Getting to grips with content marketing can be traumatic. Learn to recognise where your client is in the process with this handy guide.
by Tom Albrighton 13 June 2011 10:13am 5 comments
Copy has always been important to online retailers. For obvious reasons, a well-written product description, for instance, is likely to produce more sales than the standard manufacturer's version.
But there's a new trend: online retailers going beyond product descriptions and building content-rich properties run in large part by folks from the publishing world.
by Patricio Robles 26 May 2011 15:01pm 3 comments
Today, traditional publishers face numerous challenges. While some will not rise to the challenge and meet them, others may one day look back and find that today's challenges pushed them to even greater heights.
A big reason for that is a proliferation of channels that publishers can use to reach consumers in meaningful ways. To take advantage of multi-channel opportunities, however, publishers need multi-channel strategies.
by Patricio Robles 02 May 2011 16:00pm 0 comments
I'm sure you've already read a lot of articles advising you about the power of blogs. They provide fresh, content that search engines love, that you can farm out through social channels and use to engage and amuse your audience, share links, grow your network… the list goes on.
The problem is, you really aren't sure how to go about it. First and foremost, running a successful blog requires a lot of hard work on your part, and maybe you just don't feel you have enough interesting content to fill page after page.
The biggest mistake made is often the assumption that a blog is simply another promotional channel for your business.
by Matt Owen 24 March 2011 09:58am 7 comments
Producing content just to satisfy SEO targets and pressures is dangerous because that's when you get into the realms of publishing content for content's sake and clearly, Google doesn't like that given its recent Farmer Update.
More importantly, your website users don't like that. While SEO clearly has its place, it shouldn't get in the way of producing great content...
by Sharon Flaherty 18 March 2011 10:40am 23 comments
When you want to know whether the restaurant down the street is worth eating at, there's a decent chance you'll turn to online services like Yelp to see what other diners in your area have to say about it.
This is despite the fact that local government agencies, such as those that enforce health rules, probably have data that's more interesting to you than John Doe's angry rant about a rude waiter.
by Patricio Robles 24 January 2011 14:24pm 2 comments
Humans appear to be hardwired to tune into lists, judging by our Google Analytics data from 2010. Half of Econsultancy's most popular 25 posts were lists, including nine out of the top 10.
I don't subscribe to the idea that lists are somehow inferior to articles with lots of dense multi-idea paragraphs. Either the content is good, or it's not. The list format is precisely that: a format, a simple framework for communicating ideas.
So here, in no particular order, are 10 reasons why readers and publishers love lists, and why they work so well online... and yes, my tongue is firmly planted in my cheek as I'm writing this.
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Nah I think this is 100% exclusive like, Microsoft is behind it all the way. You got Gameinformer's Andy McNamara saying Microsoft literally would not allow any unveiling of this game until they thought it was ready. If a outside party has that much control over a 3rd party game its usually going to stay exclusive or some kind of deal is going on. It's like MS literally went to Ubi and said can you guys make a new SP game the way we want it and we'll fund and support it 100%.
Are you sure they are funding it like that? If so that is pretty crazy. The way I read it was MS wanted their own "MGS4" and if any franchise can at least beat the gameplay of MGS, it would be Splinter Cell. Story though they might as well hire me to do it.
They've obviously given them some money for something, otherwise the game wouldn't be exclusive. Personally, I've prefered the Xbox versions of all the games up to this point. Graphically, the first three games were far superior on the Xbox, and they also changed certain things on the PS2 versions, like level layouts, and I never liked the changes that they made.
As for the fourth game, there was never a fourth game. This new one is the fourth game :P
No there was a fourth game and it kicked ass. The second one is by far the worst.
These are one the games that i think can work greatly with natal somehow. Grabbing someone by the neck or bending down to hide somewhere. I'm just dreaming though and i know it won't happen. Though some concepts work better than others.
Screw using Natal with this, I'm pretty clumsy. I'd be discovered in seconds!
Same here. It's my birthday around the same time as the release, so hopefully, I'll have another 360 by the time it's out.
I will say though, that the first two people who talk on that video are idiots, going on about how the first game created a new genre, and defined stealth. What a load of bullshit.
The trailer I seen of this game has really captured my attention and it looks to be a game I will definitely play for a little while. i doubt I'd buy this game though.
Read onSplinter Cell Conviction won more than 12 awards at E3; sweeping up more than any other Xbox 360 game, including GameSpots Best Action-Adventure Game and Best Xbox 360 Game.
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Looks like we won't be seeing Splinter Cell until next year.
EurogamerSplinter Cell, Red Steel, Ghost Recon slip
Ubisoft has revealed that both Splinter Cell: Conviction and Red Steel 2 have been delayed until the first three calendar months of 2010.
The publisher's results for its financial first quarter - April to June - also said that the new Ghost Recon game and I Am Alive have slipped as well.
Those were both down for the fourth fiscal quarter (January to March 2010), but "will now strengthen the line-up for fiscal 2010-11" instead.
Splinter Cell: Conviction looked in rude health at E3, where it was a lynchpin of the Microsoft conference, and we're expecting to bring you our hands-on thoughts soon. Ubisoft was putting a brave face on it, pointing out that it still has Assassin's Creed 2, which is due out on 20th November.
The publisher's financial first-quarter sales were down 50 per cent, which Ubisoft king Yves Guillemot blamed on a "very sharp slowdown in our sales for Nintendo DS as well as sales of back-catalogue titles, in the context of a market that is tougher than anticipated".
I must say im disapointed but it makes sense business wise. This game would eat into Assassins Creed sales so why not release them months apart. I think Assassins Creed 2 will have mosnter sales because of this move.
I just can't help but thinking that all of these end of year releases are moving so that their sales aren't affected by Modern Warfare 2.
The problem is eveyone is looking at COD but damn they should be looking at what everyone else is doing.
These games are supposed to all come out in the first quater next year:
Lost Planet 2
Army of two
Bad Company 2
Bioshock 2
Alan Wake
Heavy Rain
Mass Effect 2
White Knight Chronicles
Red Dead Redemption
Max Payne
Mafia 2
Splinter Cell Conviction
Personally id rather go up against COD MW 2 than all of that.
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That was the message of some 250 New Smyrna Beach residents to a development on the North Causeway that includes workforce units or affordable housing for families making between $20,000 to $40,000 annually.
But the residents attending a special meeting at the Brannon Center called for by the project's developers want no part of the 239-unit apartment complex Causeway Landings.
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Children and adults alike Youth and adults soon will have a convenient avenue to success. The City of New Smyrna Beach is partnering on two education programs to make it easier for youth and adults to receive their GED.
Both programs are free and will be offered at the Alonzo "Babe" James Community Center, 201 N. Myrtle Ave. Not only are the programs offered in a community center, but they also are self-paced, which allows students to progress individually. Classes begin August 20, but enrollment is continuous.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Little Theatre of New Smyrna Beach is pleased to announce another season of WonderLand Children's Theatre, its youth theatre program. Held on six Wednesday afternoons, starting on Jan. 23, its mission is to encourage youngsters to participate in and learn about the performing arts.
The Brannon Center, 105 Riverside Drive, is being discussed as an 'anchor' for Canal Street by city officials like Mayor Adam Barringer shown here in this NSBNews.net / Headline Surfer photo during his 2009 campaign.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- City officials are pinning their hopes for inclusion of Canal Street in a new CRA district with the Brannon Center as its pinnacle.
The Brannon Center was the focal point of a day-long visioning and goal-setting workshop at the Atlantic Centyer for the Arts for the City Commission and top administrative brass.
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Mass of Christian Burial for Charles Michael Shawen, age 87, of New Smyrna Beach, who died Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at Ocean View Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, New Smyrna Beach, will be 11:00 a.m. Saturday, September 4 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, New Smyrna Beach. Burial will follow at Edgewater-New Smyrna Cemetery, Edgewater. Calling hours will be 6:00-8:00 p.m. Friday, September 3 at Settle-Wilder's New Smyrna Beach chapel.


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In February 2009 I wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal entitled "Reaganomics v Obamanomics," which argued that the emerging outlines of President Obama's economic policies were following in close detail exactly the opposite of President Reagan's economic policies. As a result, I predicted that Obamanomics would have the opposite results of Reaganomics. That prediction seems to be on track.
When President Reagan entered office in 1981, he faced actually much worse economic problems than President Obama faced in 2009. Three worsening recessions starting in 1969 were about to culminate in the worst of all in 1981-1982, with unemployment soaring into double digits at a peak of 10.8%. At the same time America suffered roaring double-digit inflation, with the CPI registering at 11.3% in 1979 and 13.5% in 1980 (25% in two years). The Washington establishment at the time argued that this inflation was now endemic to the American economy, and could not be stopped, at least not without a calamitous economic collapse.
All of the above was accompanied by double -igit interest rates, with the prime rate peaking at 21.5% in 1980. The poverty rate started increasing in 1978, eventually climbing by an astounding 33%, from 11.4% to 15.2%. A fall in real median family income that began in 1978 snowballed to a decline of almost 10% by 1982. In addition, from 1968 to 1982, the Dow Jones industrial average lost 70% of its real value, reflecting an overall collapse of stocks.
President Reagan campaigned on an explicitly articulated, four-point economic program to reverse this slow motion collapse of the American economy:
1. Cut tax rates to restore incentives for economic growth, which was implemented first with a reduction in the top income tax rate of 70% down to 50%, and then a 25% across-the-board reduction in income tax rates for everyone. The 1986 tax reform then reduced tax rates further, leaving just two rates, 28% and 15%.
2. Spending reductions, including a $31 billion cut in spending in 1981, close to 5% of the federal budget then, or the equivalent of about $175 billion in spending cuts for the year today. In constant dollars, nondefense discretionary spending declined by 14.4% from 1981 to 1982, and by 16.8% from 1981 to 1983. Moreover, in constant dollars, this nondefense discretionary spending never returned to its 1981 level for the rest of Reagan's two terms! Even with the Reagan defense buildup, which won the Cold War without firing a shot, total federal spending declined from a high of 23.5% of GDP in 1983 to 21.3% in 1988 and 21.2% in 1989. That's a real reduction in the size of government relative to the economy of 10%.
3. Anti-inflation monetary policy restraining money supply growth compared to demand, to maintain a stronger, more stable dollar value.
4. Deregulation, which saved consumers an estimated $100 billion per year in lower prices. Reagan's first executive order, in fact, eliminated price controls on oil and natural gas. Production soared, and aided by a strong dollar the price of oil declined by more than 50%.
These economic policies amounted to the most successful economic experiment in world history. The Reagan recovery started in official records in November 1982, and lasted 92 months without a recession until July 1990, when the tax increases of the 1990 budget deal killed it. This set a new record for the longest peacetime expansion ever, the previous high in peacetime being 58 months.
During this seven-year recovery, the economy grew by almost one-third, the equivalent of adding the entire economy of West Germany, the third-largest in the world at the time, to the U.S. economy. In 1984 alone real economic growth boomed by 6.8%, the highest in 50 years. Nearly 20 million new jobs were created during the recovery, increasing U.S. civilian employment by almost 20%. Unemployment fell to 5.3% by 1989.
The shocking rise in inflation during the Nixon and Carter years was reversed. Astoundingly, inflation from 1980 was reduced by more than half by 1982, to 6.2%. It was cut in half again for 1983, to 3.2%, never to be heard from again until recently. The contractionary, tight-money policies needed to kill this inflation inexorably created the steep recession of 1981 to 1982, which is why Reagan did not suffer politically catastrophic blame for that recession.
Real per-capita disposable income increased by 18% from 1982 to 1989, meaning the American standard of living increased by almost 20% in just seven years. The poverty rate declined every year from 1984 to 1989, dropping by one-sixth from its peak. The stock market more than tripled in value from 1980 to 1990, a larger increase than in any previous decade.
In The End of Prosperity, supply side guru Art Laffer and Wall Street Journal chief financial writer Steve Moore point out that this Reagan recovery grew into a 25-year boom, with just slight interruptions by shallow, short recessions in 1990 and 2001. They wrote:
We call this period, 1982-2007, the twenty-five year boom–the greatest period of wealth creation in the history of the planet. In 1980, the net worth–assets minus liabilities–of all U.S. households and business … was $25 trillion in today's dollars. By 2007, … net worth was just shy of $57 trillion. Adjusting for inflation, more wealth was created in America in the twenty-five year boom than in the previous two hundred years.
What is so striking about Obamanomics is how it so doggedly pursues the opposite of every one of these planks of Reaganomics. Instead of reducing tax rates, President Obama is committed to raising the top tax rates of virtually every major federal tax. As already enacted into current law, in 2013 the top two income tax rates will rise by nearly 20%, counting as well Obama's proposed deduction phase-outs.
Reagonomics extended into the Clinton and Bush terms is what caused he current debt and recession imbroglio.
Under Reagonomics we reduced taxes and government increased borrowing to make up the difference. This article is an old and fallacious argument all together.
Deregulation also contributed to the economic collapse as well as to environmental and safety disasters.
It is unfortunate that this writer ideology
has made him oblivious to reality.
Jude Reichenthal
Wow! These have to be the most cherry picked statistics I have ever seen in my life, and they are also the most misleading statistics I could ever imagine. Let's talk about a few things. Remember those disastrous tax increases passed in 1990 you cited? Well guess what, those tax increases did not take effect until 1991. The year that the early 1990s recession ended. Let's also look at the fact that Reagan had been President for six months when the recession started in 1981. Obama had been President for six months and the recession ended. To state that the recession Reagan had was worse is a complete rewrite of history and also a rewrite of how we measure recessions. Recessions are measured in terms of GDP loss. The recession under Reagan had a loss of 2.7%, and that all occurred 100% while he was President. Our GDP loss for the recession Obama inherited was 4.7% and almost all of that was under George W. Bush. We have also had the largest tax cuts in history under Obama, a fact you seem to gloss right over, and it was all in an effort to help get Republicans to support the economic stimulus. Realistically, he should have just had his stimulus 100% focus on spending vs. tax cuts that do not work. There are so many flaws in your economic theories that you propose here, it would take me dozens of pages to show you all the statistics that have time and again shown Reaganomics did not work! I just hope readers are smart enough to do some research for themselves.
Hello jpete66,
What happened to all of these cities was that manufacturers discovered that international shipping costs had dropped dramatically because of the development of giant container ships and containerization of transport. In the past, transportation costs were quite high so it was most profitable to manufacture products close to the target market. Starting in the 1970′s, transportation costs dropped dramatically. Further, overseas manufacturing opportunities in areas with really low wages opened up for strictly export business. These two trends converged and manufacturers abandoned the US as location for manufacturing for overseas operations. It was just too profitable to manufacture overseas as compared to the US. Notably, income tax rates have not do with it. When you look at the manufacturing profile of an overseas center versus and US center, the profits are so much higher overseas that even if a company paid no taxes at all in the US, it still be more profitable overseas.
Jude what caused the debt crisis is not what the government took in it is what government spends. Because of the Reagan tax cut the government actually almost tripled revenue the problem was government spending grew at a larger rate. As is the case today we do not have a revenue problem we have a spending problem.
Currently today the imfamous top 2% earn roughly 980 Billion dollars the remaining 98% roughly 2.2 trillion. Our budget is around 4 Trillion at current spending. I love how the people on left think all can be solved by just increasing the taxes on the top 2%. Why not just take all their money, you see we can not tax our way out of our problems and unfortunaltley I believe we can not grow ourselves out the problem. The solution is to cut and slash spending and I am not talking about billions if we are really going to save this economy and this country the cutting needs to start in the trillions.
We must also insitute a balance budget admendment. It doesn't matter if the Dems or Rep control the purse strings they spend too much. Any plan they enact going forward weather Obamas, Ryans or anywhere in between doesn't get balanced for a generation by that time we will have new plans and new people. No the only way to control Washington is to create and admendment to the constiitution. Blame who you want for the problem this is the only solution. The problems I see we are near the tipping mark with regards to the Zero liability voter we are at 48% of the voting population pays zero income tax or actually receives more money back than they paid. This is a very dangerous situation in which a near majority have zero skin in the game. This also happens to represenet a large portion of the base of one of the major political parties.
I have no idea why Forbes lets op-ed pieces that are so flagrantly biased be printed.
I am guessing he must have gotten his analysis training at the Heritage Foundation?
That is part to blame the other part is these same cities taxed corpoartions out of the city limits. Take a look at the suburbs around Detroit. They are some of the most affluent in the country you can not tell me that the corporations that are in those areas could not be located in the city limits. In Philadelphia the wage tax to work in the city is over 4% and company and many have move 10 miles out of the city limit and without doing anything but moving give their employee a 4% raise. Heck the city newspapers in Philadelphia are printed in the suburbs.
Also these manufacturing laborers also have been sold a bill a goods by their so-called union who continually squeezed the pump to push and push until companies moved south or out of the country. Couple this with ridiculous regulations that have penalized companies it is no wonder these companies pick up an move. Here is a news flash companies need to make money to stay in business and grow. Our corporate tax rates coupled with our regualtions and unions have driven comapanies away. I really dont why anyone would want to manufacturer anything in this country. At the end of day to many in this country want cheap products made in the is country by workers making 30/hour plus benefits the too do not add up
Wow. This is just embarrassing.
Hmmm… when talking about Obama's plans he's comparing them relative to present day values ("As already enacted into current law, in 2013 the top two income tax rates will rise by nearly 20%…"). The problem is that the current rates are so low that even with massive increases the tax rate would still be FAR BELOW what they were under Reagan.
Wouldn't a more valid comparison be between the actual tax rates for the top tax bracket during Reagan's years (50%) and the actual tax rates that would occur when the Bush tax cuts expire (39.6%)? In this case, if you really wanted to be like the deified Reagan, shouldn't Republicans be arguing for HIGHER taxes?
It's simple math, people. Anyone claiming Reagan's policies were better should also be demanding HIGHER taxes than the Obama/Democrats are.
In one sense, Mr. Ferrera is correct. President Obama's policies are different than President Reagan's. In practice President Reagan was more of a Keynesian.
Both presidents inherited budgets from their predecessor's that set post WW II records for spending as a % of GDP in their first year in office. Spending declined in President Obama's first budget year (FY 2010). By contrast, under Reagan, after record spending in FY 1981, we INCREASED spending and set even higher records in FY 1982 and 1983. We continued this fiscal stimulus until all of the 2.7 miilion private sector jobs lost in the early 1980′s downturn were recovered. The result was a strong recovery, just as Keynes would have predicted.
The lesson in this is to continue fiscal stimulus until all of the 8.8 million private sector jobs lost in the downturn that started in late 2007 are recovered. This is over three times the job losses in the early 1980′s. Yes, we have had 14 straight months of private sector job growth, adding 2 million private sector jobs during this period. But we are still down 6.75 million jobs versus three years ago.
Now it not the time for austerity.
Updating my comment from a year ago. In FY 2011, spending held constant as a % of GDP, but increased in nominal dollars. In FY 2012, spending fell in both nominal dollars and as a % of GDP. Because we have stopped increasing Keynesian fiscal stimulus, the recovery has faltered somewhat, although it continues at a reduced pace.
Through September 2012, we have added 4.7 million private sector jobs in 31 straight months of jobs growth. Nonetheless, we are still short over four million jobs. At current rates of fiscal stimulus and jobs growth, full jobs recovery will take another two years.
On the other hand, current law calls for fiscal austerity at the end of the current year. This so-called "fiscal cliff" is actually an austerity induced cliff risking economic contraction. By trying to cut the deficit before all the lost jobs are recovered, we risk repeating 1938 and another double dip recession. Unfortunately neither presidential candidate is making the case for Reagan-like additional fiscal stimulus over the next two years until ALL the lost jobs are recovered.


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As some of you may know, a friend of E over at The Third Glance is participating in Autism Positivity Week at her school, which I think is a much-needed breath of fresh air. She's asking people on the spectrum to submit positive quotes about their lives.
Here's mine: "My Aspie gifts of determination, obsessive interests, and hyperlexia have allowed me to actualize my dreams of traveling the world and learning two foreign languages."
If you're interested in participating, please leave your positive statements in the comments section and indicate that she may share them. Or, you may send them to her directly at abailin (at) ucsd (dot) edu. See below for her letter on this great project, and feel free to post it in its entirety (no edits) on your blog.
Dear Auties, Aspies, and anyone else who identifies as being on the Autistic Spectrum,
For Autism Awareness Month, my Students with Disabilities group is putting on an Autism Positivity Week, where we do our best to myth-bust the "tragedy model" and let people know about some of the up-sides to being on the autistic spectrum. We're not going to sugarcoat the difficulties that autistic people and their families face, but we're going to shift the focus to celebrating neurodiversity and encouraging acceptance of individual differences.
I'm looking for some brief testimonials about how people on the spectrum can lead good and generally happy lives, go to college, have careers or hobbies they enjoy, etc. I'd particularly like to help express the diversity of interests, activities, and lifestyles among the autistic community.
What I want from you: short statements (1-3 sentences each) telling us about one of your favorite hobbies, areas of study, special skills, and/or career/career aspirations. They do not have to be related to your autism in any way. I'd also be happy to get short statements about anything you particularly like about being autistic.
By sending in these statements, you are giving me permission to print them out and share them with the public. You will be identified only by a single first initial. Please email all entries to abailin (at) ucsd (dot) edu. (Also, this event is for all ages, so as much as I'd enjoy hearing the details of your excellent love life, please send only G-rated statements). And if you use facebook, please join and spread the word about Autism Positivity Week here: https://www.facebook.com/events/144250802369548/
Thank you!-A.


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