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Internal DOJ Investigation of OLC Advice-Giving
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Internal DOJ Investigation of OLC Advice-Giving
Marty Lederman
It was widely reported last week that the head of DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), Marshall Jarrett, had written to Senators Durbin and Whitehouse to inform them that OPR is investigating OLC's legal advice with respect to waterboarding and other coercive interrogation techniques. But it appears that, for whatever reason, none of the news sources bothered to upload or link to Jarrett's letter, nor to the letter from DOJ Inspector General Glenn Fine, explaining that the IG lacks statutory jurisdiction to engage in an inquiry of OLC.
Myself, I remain a bit skeptical of what could come from such an investigation, by either OPR or the IG. If either of them "found" that OLC's advice was wrong, or even egregiously wrong, it would remain the case that OLC, the AG and the President disagree.
I think this misses the political consequences of a plausible finding that the Yoo-Bybee memo was something a 2L summer clerk would be embarrassed to present.
I think this misses the political consequences of a plausible finding that the Yoo-Bybee memo was something a 2L summer clerk would be embarrassed to present.
Yeah, but when we multiply by the probability of such a result, we still get zero.
This is an important message to be gotten out that we have an investigatory shellgame going on. This reminds me of the Abu Ghraib investigations. Clearly the press has been led to believe this is something, when it really is not. Even if Glenn Fine had the investigation all he could do is make a recommendation to the AG to do something which the AG is not willing to do. The point is that it is a question of power. We have to push these powerful persons to do something that they do not want to do and to do it quickly. They will spin out games like this forever unless we call their bluffs on all this.
More cheerfully, LTG Maples of the DIA has just testified that waterboarding violates Common Article 3 and is inhumane.
Haynes announces he's leaving, & the whole Pentagon goes to hell in a handbasket ....
It's HR 928 "Improving Government Accountability Act" specifically Sec.10(b)(1)(A) which removes the prohibition Fine was talking about in his letter.
The change reads:
Section 8E of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is further amended in subsection (b) by striking "and paragraph (3)" in paragraph (2).
Paragraph 8E(b)(2) of IGA of 1978 is what is effectively preventing now IG from investigating DoJ attorneys in matters regarding providing legal advice.
Bonus material and a badly stinking one at that:
An unrelated section of this new bill HR 928, specifically 10(a) removes the requirement that IG reports immediately to the Congress when Attorney General orders him (as is his prerogative) to refrain from initiating any investigation on grounds that such investigation would:
require access to sensitive information concerning—
(A) ongoing civil or criminal investigations or proceedings;
(B) undercover operations;
(C) the identity of confidential sources, including protected witnesses;
(D) intelligence or counterintelligence matters; or
(E) other matters the disclosure of which would constitute a serious threat to national security.
Smells like Cheney lawyers or Gonzo here!
For those interested here is the relevant section (specifically - AG authority to block IG investigations on national security grounds and the prohibition on some investigations of DoJ attorney by Fine) in the Inspector General Act of 1978.
A colleague has told me that OPR can make referrals directly to state bar associations on the ethics violations without an AG approval. If that is the case, then one can see that the OPR can have an affect if it gets there.
I think the point that is missed is that, while the OPR investigation cannot really have any impact, even in a hugely egregious situation, where it can have benefit is in providing one more piece of armor for the Knights in Rusted Reasoning who entered the tournament lists to champion torture and Executive Branch cover up of toture and crime as "classified."
It isn't being pursued for what it could do if there were a problem, it is being pursued to help build the case that no one did anything
"wrong" or outside of professional norms with soliciting torture.
It would be nice, for example, to have someone actually review how you slap "classified" on a memo that is all about, at its essence, covering up illegal and embarassing behaviour and not, under any stretch of rationale thought, about "national security."
But the investigation won't go there at all. It will simply find that while the opinions may or may not have been flawed, those who generated them followed standards reasonably consistent with minimal professional requirements.
That's all that any part of DOJ is good for these days, after years of acquiescing in, and even soliciting, depraved Executive Branch behavior - to be one more piece of a firewall.
You forgot the possibility that OPR or the IG could very well find that the OLC's advice broke no ethical rule. Indeed, I would not be surprised at all if DOJ's purpose here was to seek yet more legal cover against political attack.
This is no way to fight a war.
"This is no way to fight a war."
A well-deserved epitath for the Bush adminstration's foreign policy, actually.
Presumably, the point of the OPR investigation is not to determine whether the OLC's advice was "wrong" but whether its analysis complied with professional standards. For example, it has been argued that the original OLC torture memo failed to cite relevant authorities, failed to consider obvious counterarguments, misstated authorities, and did not adequately apprise the client of the risk of contrary findings by a court. The OPR could find some or all of these deficiencies without expressing an opinion on whether the ultimate conclusions were right or wrong.
I'm afraid I partially agree with Bart and Mary. Even if the OLC's advice were found to be lacking in professional standards, it seems to me that blame for acting upon that advise would slip off of the administrators and land solidly in the lap of those people deemed unprofessional in the investigation.
Overall, it's a win-win approach for the Administration.
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Great Scott!
Not sure if I should send an edible fruit bouquet or an animated "thank You" card to Rays Executive VP of Baseball Operations. I know some found the "Ghost Protocol" blog a bit far-fetched or even too realistic, but the pure fact is the Rays were on silent running because they did not want the rest of the AL East to know they finally got the player Friedman has asked about for the past 2 Trade Deadlines.
I honestly think the signing of Luke Scott to a one year deal with a club option for 2013 is a firm step in the positive direction of finding a Designated Hitter that can grow within the Rays fold. Sure Scott might be a bit of a late bloomer, but they said the same thing about Jonny Gomes when he was a DH, and he blossomed quite nicely after leaving for the Reds and eventually being traded to the Nationals.
Considering Scott also has a home in Florida located in De Leon Springs (Volusia county). The only thing that could possibly stand in the way of Scott taking the Rays DH role and pouncing on it is a setback from his July 2011 shoulder (torn right labrum) surgery. But all indications are that his rehab has been productive, and Scott should be ready to go in about 45-50 days at full steam and is currently in the midst of his own intense off-season workout regimen. Scott also could see some time possibly during the Inter-League portion of the 2012 schedule in the outfield if his throwing shoulder has healed sufficiently.
He seems to be the offensive weapon the Rays have been seeking for a few seasons, with Friedman always asking the Orioles about his availability come late July, and always finding the prospective package too rich for the Rays blood. But when Scott is healthy, he could be a godsend to a Rays offense that at time rolls into a hitting funk at the wrong moments. Scott has hit 23 or more home each season from 2008-2010 before he was limited to 9 HRs over his 64 games in 2011. In his best showing for the birds, Scott hit for a .284 average with 27 HR, 72 RBI and a .368 on-base percentage back in 2010.
Still, it was great the Rays could finally get Scott without having to send prospects or even MLB ready players to their divisional foes the Orioles thanks in part to them non-tendering Scott earlier in the off-season. The terms of Scott's 2012 Rays contract are still being ironed out, but you can bet there will be plenty of room for incentives if Scott can knock the cover off the ball or deposit some nice white souvenirs into the Trop's stands. Scott does come to the Rays with the accolades of being a top-tier offensive weapon having been selected as the Oriole's 2010 MVO (Most Valuable Oriole). And the cherry on top of it all..He is also an avid First Baseman.
If Scott can hit anywhere close to his .500 Slugging Percentage that he has displayed in the past, he could be a nice addition and a good bit of protection for Evan Longoria. It has been a few years since Longo has had a hitter behind him who can command a pitching staff to pitch to him in fear of giving the next guy an ample chance for a run-producing at bat. Scott could be a great equalizer, especially if he gets ahead in the count and makes his rival possibly groove one in on him.
That is where Scott reminds me so much of Gomes. He has that type of power to get the bulk of the bat on the ball late and drive it towards First Avenue South with a simple twist of the wrists. That kind of consistent power display and ability has been missing with the Rays for some time. Plus with a one years deal and a 2013 club option, if the Rays and Scott do not fit together right, Scott could again be a free agent in the off-season of 2012.
Scott has a pure passion for guns and hunting, which might make him an instant friend of Wade Davis and Jeff Niemann, but he is also someone who has his opinions and is not afraid to voice it loud and proud no matter if you in his corner or not. Mark Reynolds, an old Baltimore teammate of Scott possibly has the best explanation of "Scott being Scott" :
"He doesn't hide it, he doesn't talk behind people's backs about anything. A lot of people have those opinions and don't say anything. Did I think he needed to go to the Winter Meetings and say all those things" Probably not. But he'll give you his opinion."
So as you can see from Reynold's comments, Scott comes with some concerns, but has generally been a positive force in the clubhouse. It is away from the playing field and his teammates that Scott has made a few less than adamant "followers". He was a Baltimore fan favorite, being accessible and gracious to the fan base, but he did have a tendency to rub some the wrong way with his devote religious beliefs and political opinions. I think if the Rays did win the World Series in 2012, Scott might not have an instant invite to the White House.
But he has also been known to have a razor-sharp wit sometimes going above and beyond the usual lines like throwing plantain chips at a player to keep him in line. But that is another quality that is very similar to Gomes in that Scott is almost like an larger-than-life animated cartoon character in the clubhouse and vocally.
Heck, some might remember Scott ruffled a few Rays feathers in the past spouting off about former Rays hurler Matt Garza and making sure his Home Run celebrations against the Rays had a bit of an extra kick to them. So Scott might be one of those "tough love" guys, one of the people who will tell it like it is, and make you sorry you asked the question for the abrupt response to your query.
But Scott should love this region. Did you know Scott is fluent in Spanish and loves the Latin culture. That should go great with a team with plenty of Latin flair, plus a community that boasts the second largest Hispanic population in the state. In the end, the Rays got the guy they have been peering at from afar for several seasons. Scott is also a great contributor to local clinics, special events and charity events. He has the personality that can be a crowd pleaser and a seat filler not matter the event or the reason for the assembly.
The echo of his bat meeting the ball in the trop should sound like thunder, and hopefully he will rain down a few HR showers over the course of a season. His love for all things Latin, including the language will make him likeable, respected and a quick fan favorite. I can hear the Raysvision clip now as Scott rounds the bases after hitting one into the seats. On the scene is Doctor Emmitt Brown in a clip from "Back to the Future", and you know the line……"Great Scott!"
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Chris LaMartina needed a new home for his cult. It was April 2013, and the Baltimore filmmaker was shooting his latest feature, a comedy-horror flick with the priceless title Call Girl of Cthulhu, which debuts at the Maryland Film Festival this week. It was the largest production he and his filmmaking partner, Jimmy George, had ever undertaken, with 30 interior locations, more than 30 speaking roles, 60 costumes, 150 props, 185 practical effects, and roughly 100 extras. Its budget was more than twice that of their previous feature,Witch's Brew, which they made for $16,000. They both had used all their vacation time at their jobs to take a month off to shoot. Usually they make production bibles for cast and crew in 3-inch binders, but early in pre-production, George called LaMartina to confess: We're going to need bigger binders.
But they didn't have a location to use as the film's Church of Starry Wisdom, where a cult leader invokes a demon from another dimension to spawn with the woman who will give birth to the titular monster-god. The first location they rented was too small. The second, an actual church, kicked them out after one day because they accidentally left a prop sign outside that wound up getting the local police involved. A week before shooting the Starry Wisdom scenes, they had nothing.
"We were shooting in Frederick," LaMartina recalls. "So we're all an hour away [from Baltimore]. We had to find a place and figure out how to set-dress [it] for the following week. How the fuck are we going to do this?"
Cinematographer Nick Baldwin volunteered his parents' Harford County basement. It was full of exercise equipment and stuff from Baldwin's youth, but it would do. LaMartina says Baldwin called some "Harford county punks" and they gutted the place. The director finished shooting one day in Frederick, and then he and set decorator Veronika Volkov and production assistant Patrick Storck drove to Baldwin's parents' home and painted until midnight. He had to leave, but Volkov and Storck stayed and set-dressed it. Two days later, the crew shot there.
Such are the travails of the low-budget filmmaker: You make do with what you have. But it can grind you down because you understand what it means for your art. Your limited budget will show up onscreen. Very few people will see your film. It will consume your every waking moment not spent at the day job that enables you to make a movie. And you will not make any money from it.
And sometimes, all of that may make you question why you're doing it in the first place. "I remember getting fucked up on paint fumes and then driving home and falling asleep at a traffic light," LaMartina says. "I remember someone beeping and I woke up. I was stopped at the light at the Avenue and Falls [Road in Hampden]. And I remember thinking, I could have died—for a horror movie?"
"The thing that's really tough about low-budget movies is that people don't take it seriously a lot of the times," LaMartina says over a breakfast interview. "People don't take these movies seriously because they think they're inherently cheap and they don't aspire to anything greater."
With his longish hair but well-trimmed beard, LaMartina is a scruffily dapper 29-year-old. The insulin pump taped to his upper left arm is the initial reminder that he's diabetic. Before breakfast arrives, he pricks his finger to test his blood and, at one point during the meal, he takes out a syringe to give himself an injection. He does it all with the nonchalance of anybody who has grown up with Type 1 diabetes.
"My disease dictates a lot of the career decisions I make," he says, pointing out that he couldn't be an aspiring filmmaker who moves to New York or Los Angeles, full of dreams to live on nothing until he catches a break; he has to have health insurance, which he gets through his day job at 15Four, a digital-marketing agency. "As I get older, I worry about my health concerns," he continues. "Like, when I'm 60, I could lose my eyesight. That's really scary to me. So I sometimes think there's a ticking time clock where I've got to cram all these movies in, because I can't be 70 years old and blind and directing a movie and telling people what to do."
Though diabetes is part of the story of who he is, the rest of his story is practically straight out of Central Casting for a young film brat. Born in 1985, LaMartina grew up falling in love with that decade's horror films, amassing a fan's encyclopedic knowledge of the genre. He started toying around with a video camera when he was 12, made his first short, Amerikill, at 14 using in-camera edits. He made films in high school; studied film at Towson University; and since he met fellow 1980s horror-film fan George in 2005, LaMartina has made six feature films and co-written 12 screenplays with him.
They've all been low-budget horror-comedies, and LaMartina is self-aware enough to understand what that means. He's a filmmaker working in a cult genre, and as a fan of that genre, he knows about the lives of the filmmakers who made them. Does he want to be the Don Dohler or Herk Harvey of his generation?
Because what the genre and its fans want can be insulting. LaMartina admits that. With his and George's previous features President's Day and Witch's Brew, "we started adding nudity because distributors said, 'Add more gore, add more nudity.' I'm not offended by nudity, but I also think there's a way to do it that fits the story. I'm not going to make a movie that's exploitative without having a conscience, but at the end of the day, I know that it is still a horror-comedy. I just want to make sure anything that was serious wasn't played for humor. I'm not going to have a rape scene with the Benny Hill soundtrack."
Call Girl is his most thematically ambitious attempt yet to put a heady theme into a genre picture. It follows Carter (David Phillip Carollo), a shy, introverted freelance illustrator who watches porn alone in his room to drown out the sounds of his roommate, Erica Zahn (Nicolette le Faye), having sex. He's a virgin in many ways completely ashamed of his sexuality, an anxiety that really bubbles up when he finds himself falling for prostitute Riley (Melissa O'Brien, LaMartina's fiancée), whom he meets after she visits a john in his building. Unbeknownst to both of them, two other groups are looking for a woman with a tentacled creature-shaped birthmark, which Riley has: a cult leader (Dave Gamble) who wants her for a ritual, and Professor Edna (Helenmary Ball), who wants to stop him. Both draw Carter and Riley into their supernatural world of underground assassins and tentacle-masked cult members.
Throughout, the film dispenses Easter eggs for fans of H.P. Lovecraft, the early 20th-century American sci-fi/horror writer who wrote for pulp magazines but whose sense of terror permeates many aspects of contemporary horror. "I knew what it meant for something to be 'Lovecraftian' before I knew who H.P. Lovecraft was," LaMartina says. "The fear of the unknown. Monsters. Unspeakable, indescribable, gross things. The hopelessness of humanity—these are themes that around his time period weren't as widely explored. But if you look at horror films now, they're everywhere."
Both LaMartina and George started reading Lovecraft's works and researching him, with George doing the lion's share of investigating Lovecraft himself. "We wrote this film to satisfy both horror fans and the Lovecraft community," George writes in an email. "It was important to us that we infuse the script with as many Lovecraft mythos connections and literary references as possible. Every character, down to the call girl's clients, is named after a Lovecraft character. There are several plot points and story elements driven by specific outcomes of Lovecraft's weird tales. Every scene for the first half of the film contains a visual Lovecraft reference."
At the same time, they learned things about Lovecraft that aren't so endearing, including his blatant racism and xenophobia. They also started noticing things that weren't in his works. He rarely talks about money. He never talks about sex. And he wrote very few female characters. All of those are involved in prostitution.
"Lovecraft himself was a really scared, timid dude—this sheltered, white, heterosexual male," LaMartina says. "Now I don't know if you can quote this in any way that doesn't make me insult horror fans, but most horror fans are sheltered, white, middle-class heterosexual males—and I'm not going to excuse myself from that. My target audience is dudes my age or maybe 10 years younger."
The challenge he and George posed for themselves was to write a movie that acknowledged and even relished in what Lovecraft had given to the horror genre they love while also trying to address some of the inherent sexism that resulted from the sheltered, white, heterosexual-male anxieties the man couldn't help but inject into his art. They decided to make Carter a Lovecraft surrogate, a creator of art who lives in constant fear of what he wants most: the other sex.
"What the film is about is adolescent-male fears of female sexuality," LaMartina says. "I'm trying to follow the Roger Corman model. Give them sex and violence, but give them a sense of social consciousness. Because I feel the movies that live forever say something bigger than blood and boobs."
That's a lofty goal, and George and LaMartina realized that, as stereotypical horror fans, they might get themselves into trouble using prostitution to explore anything to do with male sexuality. Fortunately, they cast two actresses, Melissa O'Brien and Nicolette le Faye, who understood what they were going for and who took the roles seriously.
In rehearsals, "Nicolette and I talked about the whole woman-as-prize thing, not just in horror but in comedies," O'Brien says. "You always see a schlubby dude who cleans up his act a little and gets the pretty lady at the end. And I was worried about that for Carter [and Riley's relationship]. I think what makes it work for her is that it's the first time anybody is showing her kindness and the first time someone hasn't immediately asked her for something disgusting."
O'Brien makes her film debut in Call Girl, but she brings nearly a decade's worth of theater-acting to the role. What attracted her to Riley was how shut off she has to be to do her job. "I ended up watching a lot of documentaries on prostitution and sex work, and paying particular attention to the negative aspects of it," she says, noting that, during the first rehearsals, LaMartina kept letting her know she was being too warm as a character. "I really felt a switch in my approach after doing that research and understanding the kinds of people who she would be encountering. No one who she has connections with is kind or even a good person in any way." (Toward the end of filming, O'Brien and LaMartina started dating and they became engaged last Halloween.)
O'Brien makes Riley initially remote onscreen, so when she lightens up around Carter, she reveals a tender side to the character. This peek of vulnerability makes later scenes after she's abducted by the cult genuinely tense. "I don't have any illusions about what the audience for this movie is looking for, and it's not serious connections between the characters," O'Brien says about making Riley a more rounded character in the genre flick. "But that's not an excuse not to give the performance more attention."
Both LaMartina and George spotlight that level of dedication in all aspects of Call Girl's cast and crew. Almost nobody's getting paid (they hired an effects crew), but everybody who participated brought their A-game. "What we benefitted from on Call Girl is people aspiring to make the most out of our budget," LaMartina says. "The production value is insane. That's a testament to the fact that we're not an island. The cast, the crew—everyone busted their ass and took it seriously."
"I've been in a lot of horror movies, and usually I end up getting killed in the basement," la Faye says. "In this one I get to fight back. This is my fourth film with [George and LaMartina], and they just bring such energy and creativity to the projects that everybody on set is inspired."
The result is by far the best-looking and biggest-feeling movie George and LaMartina have ever made. It's certainly the project with the longest gestation period: They started writing in November 2011, and LaMartina finally posted aCall Girl trailer online in April. He's still tinkering with the making-of featurette for the eventual DVD release from Camp Motion Pictures—still TBD at the moment. It's been a mammoth undertaking following what brought them the most widespread attention and acclaim yet: a pet project they made super-fast and cheap.
WNUF Halloween Special is a found-footage flick they shot for around $1,500 in 2012 and released last fall. The movie is a faux-newscast where a local television crew visits the site of an infamous killing. It's a mash note to all things 1980s, done with an obsessive attention to the details of the era, and it struck a chord with many other horror fans with a soft spot for the time, earning online coverage from MTV, Vice, The New York Times, and NPR.
"If you would have told me five years ago that I was going to be on NPR national on Halloween day, I would have been, 'Yeah, cool, dude—I'll buy that property you have on the moon too,'" LaMartina says. "At the same time, as the capacity for success gets bigger and bigger, we wonder what the next step is."
Both George and LaMartina speculate about where this horror-film habit is taking them. WNUF put them in contact with a production company that is fielding a few of their ideas, but they're not sure what scale those projects might be. Big enough to draw a paycheck and pay people? Who knows?
"It's so different than it was when we started our creative partnership," George writes, pointing out that LaMartina was still in college, he had fewer responsibilities at his job, and they both lived with their parents. They would meet multiple times a week and turn out scripts quickly, self-producing films for a few thousand dollars. Now "[w]e still want to make films, but adult life gets in the way more than ever. The older you get, the harder it becomes to make the sacrifices necessary to complete a feature film. Now, when we commit to making a film, there's more at stake for us personally and financially than ever."
And yet, there's nothing else like it for them. "There are moments during the production where you're exhausted, or my hands are shaking from low blood sugar, and I'm worried about if this life is sustainable," LaMartina says. "But when you're done with that movie, and when you've exported that final cut, there's this sense of accomplishment that is unparalleled [by] anything else."
Those are the tradeoffs of being a cult filmmaker. Your limited budget will show up onscreen, but you will work with fabulously talented people who do everything they can with limited resources. Very few people will see your films, but the people who do will adore it sincerely. It will consume your every waking moment not spent at the day job—which enables you to make movies—but it will satisfy something inside you that no job ever will. You will not make any money, but you can't imagine being alive without it.
That may not amount to anything like an amazing career, but it does sound like it could make for an amazing life. "I still constantly wrestle with the idea, Can I do this?" LaMartina says. "Honestly, am I going to support a family and make low-budget horror comedies? Probably not. Part of me thinks if I stop doing this tomorrow, that's OK because I still have those movies that sit on a shelf somewhere. WNUF is really special and I don't think I've realized how special it is just yet. I get emails and Facebook messages from people all across the country that say, 'This is going to be in my Halloween movie rotation for the rest of my life.' And that's something that most people who make movies will never get to experience."


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Here are some of the most interesting digital marketing stats we've seen this week.
Stats include how retailers are performing on Pinterest, m-commerce, paid search revenue on Black Friday, spam emails, marketing attribution, and Tesco's dominance of online grocery shopping.
For more digital marketing stats, check out our Internet Statistics Compendium.
ASOS and Debenhams lead the way on Pinterest
- Research from Searchmetrics' shows that images and pages from ASOS were found to have been shared most overall on Pinterest, but Debenhams is currently top when looking at the number of shares per week.
- Up to the 12 November, 80,071 links to content on ASOS had been pinned on the social network, compared to 45,157 for John Lewis and 27,067 for Debenhams.
- But Searchmetrics' weekly data found that Debenhams currently generates the highest number of average pins per week (1,963), followed by ASOS (1,499) and John Lewis (755).
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A third of smartphone owners have used m-commerce
- Orange's new Exposure Report found that 29% of smartphone owners had purchased an item using the mobile web in the past six months, a small increase from 24% in 2011.
- This is despite the fact that smartphone ownership has increased from 41% to 49%, which you would think meant that people are becoming more comfortable with the technology.
- The survey, which interviewed 1,000 respondents, found a rather different situation among tablet owners.
- Tablet penetration has now reached 17% in the UK, two-thirds of which (64%) have made a purchase online using their device.
Revenue from paid search grows 31% on Black Friday
- According to NetElixer's study, which looked at data from 38 large U.S. retailers and 120m search ad impressions, revenue driven by paid search on Black Friday rose an impressive 31% year-over-year as advertisers invested 21% more in search ads than they did in 2011.
- Of the sales driven by paid search, NetElixer saw 15% coming from mobile. Last year, just 4% of sales from search came from mobile.
- That creates some challenges for retailers. Year-over-year, Black Friday average order values (AOV) have increased ever so slightly (3%) despite an 8% increase in the average number of items added to cart.
- With average cost per click increasing by a double-digit percentage (12%), retailers will not only need to monitor their paid search campaigns closely, but also make sure that they're doing everything they can to maximize AOVs and minimize cart abandonment.
Marketing emails account for 70% of spam complaints
- A new report has found that marketing emails account for more than two-thirds (70%) of spam email complaints.
- This is despite the fact that marketers only account for 18% of total email volume and just 0.03% of unique domains seen by ISPs.
- Return Path's Q3 Intelligence Report, which tracked more than 315,000 campaigns, suggests the disproportionately high number of spam complaints is caused by the fact that pushing emails to the spam folder has become a shortcut for deleting them.
46% of businesses don't measure marketing attribution
- According to stats included in Econsultancy and Adobe's new Quarterly Digital Intelligence Briefing: Making Sense of Attribution, almost half (46%) of businesses don't carry out any type of marketing attribution.
- This is despite the fact that 89% of those that do measure attribution say it has benefited their business, with almost a third (29%) saying the benefit has been 'major'.
- The report, which is based on a survey of more than 700 companies and agencies carried out in October, looks at the extent to which businesses are using and benefiting from marketing attribution.
- Of those that do measure attribution, a large proportion still relies on a last-click model.
Tesco hoovers up over half of online grocery shopping
- According to Kantar Media's latest Online Shopper Intelligence Report, 20% of the UK internet population visit the leading grocery retailers' websites each month, with an average of 1.3m consumers purchasing online.
- Key motives are the ability to shop at anytime (60%), having groceries delivered to the door (58%), and the avoidance of carrying home heavy items (55%).
- Over half (57%) of the people purchasing groceries online do so at Tesco – a larger share of the market than the retailer sees at its bricks-and-mortar outlets. Asda is second (33%), followed by Sainsbury (18%), Ocado (5%), Amazon grocery (4%), Waitrose (2%) and Marks & Spencer (1%).
- Search is identified as the leading referral source to the top grocery retailers. A review of actual search terms identified that 69% of online grocery shoppers have clear intent to shop with specific retailers. 31% of searches are for fresh food items, 24% are now for recipes and 12% are for processed food.
iOS 6 update means 86% of Google referral traffic is encrypted
- When Apple first launched IOS 6 all the talk was about the usability problems with the news maps.
- However the new mobile operating system brought with it a bigger issue for website owners, as publishers no longer receive Google referral data from IOS 6 users.
- The problem is caused by Apple's decision to route Google searches made through the Safari search box to an encrypted version of Google search.
- It means a big proportion of Safari organic search traffic is now being misread as being 'direct' traffic, so publishers don't know how IOS 6 users found their websites through organic Google search.
- Stats from Econsultancy.com show that organic traffic makes up 51% of visits from IOS 5, but for IOS 6 the figure plummets to 14%.
People will tolerate mobile ads if the content is free
- Millward Brown's AdReaction 2012 has found that over a third of consumers will tolerate ads on mobile websites and in apps (36% and 34% respectively) as long as the sites and apps are free.
- This percentage is much higher among people in the 18-34 age group, who have grown up with mobile advertising, at 55% and 65% respectively.
- But that doesn't mean people are enthusiastic, as just 17% of UK smartphone or tablet users are favourable towards mobile ads, compared with 34% for online display ads, 46% for newspapers and 55% for TV.
- However, this is a 12% increase on those who were favourable towards mobile ads in 2009, showing that acceptance is growing as people get more used to them.
Mobile to influence almost £3.5bn in sales over Christmas
- £3.5bn of Christmas retail sales will be purchased on or influenced by smartphones, according to Deloitte.
- The influence of smartphones far outweighs the value of direct sales made through them, with consumers using their device to research products.
- It suggests that around £3.2bn of in-store Christmas sales will be influenced by smartphones, with another £330m of sales made directly through the devices. A further £500m in sales will be made through tablets.
- Deloitte also forecasts another strong year for online retail with sales increasing this Christmas by 17% with total UK retail sales edging up by 1%.
Social media adspend to double in US
- Social media ad spend will double in the US during the next four years, surpassing $9bn as a result, according to BIA/Kelsey.
- It predicted that ad spend via this channel is set to expand from $4.6bn in 2012 to $9.2bn in 2016, an annual growth rate of 19.2%.
- Within the overall total, display ads are anticipated to generate $3bn in revenues in 2012, rising to $5.4bn in four years' time.


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Tools for checking speech parameters
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
It's for a worthy cause.
They were interviewing a cat named Josh Charles, an indie musician who has recorded a new post-Katrina fundraising song.
Click here to hear "Healing Time" on my Vox blog. This MP3 is for sale at Amazon for 99 cents. Every penny of that goes to the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans to help rebuild the city.
So if you like the tune, by all means, follow this link and buy the download.
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I'm trying really hard not to be cynical BUT I ask UBM to check to make sure that the funds go where there are supposed to. A friend of mind created a book "One of Us" (search Facebook with that phrase) all proceeds were destined for NOLA. Kodak has not given a dime. The author is fighting the system for justice. I'm just sayin'.
- March 15, 2009 at 4:22 PM
I saw this guy's show at SXSW. It was at the Elephant Room and he had packed the place and they had a line outside to get into the show and were turning people away. He put on an amazing show. Some friends of ours know him and his crew and if you look at the people he works with , you'd know that it's completely legitimate and a great thing he's doing to help rebuild the city. First of all, his music kicks serious ass and the fact that he's helping rebuild New Orleans makes him a great cat in my book.
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It's hard when you've tasted fame and fortune – and the idolatry that come with it – to see it disappear before your very eyes. Nam Na Bi (Yeom Jung Ah) knows very well the life of being a very popular actress with swooning fans and fan cafés at every turn. Lee Jae Woo (Park Yong Woo), chief marketing officer for a major department store that uses Na Bi for endorsements, has had to deal with the arrogant, haughty actress for many years, making his job and his life complicated. But now in her mid-30s, Na Bi finds that she is starting to develop more anti-fans and her popularity seems to be slipping away just as easily as it had come. Yoon Seol Ah (Yoon Se Ah), Jae Woo's ex-wife and president of a major shoe company, is happy to see Na Bi brought down a few notches. But Na Bi's new husband, Kim Jung Wook (Kim Sung Su), a real estate developer, has to live with her overdramatic emotions. With her career waning, Na Bi has to move into the her in-law's home, where celebrity grandstanding doesn't carry much weight. Can Na Bi survive a life of obscure domesticity or is a star always a star? "My Love, Madame Butterfly" is a 2012 South Korean drama series directed by Lee Chang Min.
- Original title
- 내 사랑 나비부인
- Romanized title
- nae sa rang na bi bu in
- Also known as
- My Love, Butterfly Lady
- Volunteer Team
- The Butterfly Team
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- 10-06-2012 to 04-07-2013
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A 5 km Race
Kathryn Ann & I have been jogging/walking a lot at the Irving Nature Park, so when our friend Sandra asked us if we wanted to do the Canda Day Race in Grand Bay, we figured it'd be a good time to try a little 5km race. It's been a few years since I've done any races, and Kathryn Ann is running for the first time and had been asking about races. It was a very hilly course and it was a lot warmer than what we're used to jogging in, but it was a fun morning.


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This is a spoiler-heavy zone. You have been warned.
Magus: With the larger band of survivors having secured the prison, attention comes back to Andrea and Michonne for more than five minutes increments. This is an episode where a lot happens with the focus once again not on the walkers as the villain of the show. There's the return of the long lost Merle Dixon, we learn that Michonne's other skill is a wicked side-glance that would kill lesser men, and we meet The Governor.
We catch up with Andrea and Michonne on the move investigating a helicopter crash out in the middle of nowhere. Their search of the wreckage is interrupted by another group of survivors. Soldiers that have become walkers are dispatched, a survivor is pulled from the wreckage, and Michonne and Andrea are captured in hiding by Merle. One blindfolded car ride later, the ladies are in Woodbury with Andrea being treated for her mystery illness and Michonne deploying her best distrust and aforementioned side-glance. She is not terribly subtle when it comes to this and it's really kind of surprising that The Governor wouldn't off her. However, he is a much more nuanced character than the prisoner Rick offed in the previous episode.
After a tour of Woodbury, it becomes apparent that The Governor is going to do his best to convince the ladies to stay of their own accord for now. He comes up with reason upon reason they should stick around for the time being and maybe join the community. It's not until later that we see he probably isn't going to let them leave regardless.
The Governor goes out to rendezvous with the reserve unit the surviving helicopter pilot came from. He then has his men in hiding gun them down and take their equipment. The Governor is a man who is willing to do whatever it takes to secure his power and community and then some by eliminating a potential threat to his authority. Unlike Rick's action at the prison, The Governor moves before anyone has a chance to take a swing at him. He sees the soldiers as an immediate threat to his power that needs to be neutralized. Merle is among the men he takes with him, but it's not entirely clear if Merle is completely in. There's the impression that Merle does what he does as repayment for being taken in by the community at a time when he needed help. The ultimate test of this loyalty will probably come when there is the inevitable reunion of him and Daryl.
Upon his return, The Governor informs the people of Woodbury that the soldiers had already been killed by biters (walkers) and that they took the equipment to help fortify the town. There's more side-glance from Michonne as he continues to work on Andrea and it looks like she's ready to sign up. In fairness to her, The Governor has presented a community with little difference to the one put together by Rick and his group. It's behind the scenes where we discover that The Governor has some skeletons (heads) in his closet and a sampling of his madness is revealed.
Jon: Simply put, this was the best episode of The Walking Dead in well over a year. Getting a little time out from Rick Grimes and the gang was long overdue in my opinion, not to mention starting to finally flesh out other corners of this zombie-filled world.
As Magus expertly describes above, this episode starts out following Andrea and Michonne as they are taken captive and brought to the idyllic community of Woodbury. How this little town has maintained a Pleasantville-like atmosphere isn't immediately revealed, but the heavily fortified boundary and a strict curfew would not be possible if it weren't for the commands and direction of the mysterious Governor. As "Walk With Me" progresses, the narrative focus shifts to The Governor and his cronies. They're up to something, and while that something isn't clear yet, what is obvious is that he'll be a force to be reckoned with once the ladies decide to leave Woodbury and the inevitable clash between he and Rick later on. Tough times are ahead, for sure.
But, hey not all bad! There's also Merle! Daryl's supercharged racist, redneck brother has returned to us as a poor man's Ash Williams complete with a metal stub and a detachable bayonet. And while I don't know that I'd go as far as to say I missed him, I do welcome his special brand of maliciousness back to the program. You gotta wonder whether or not he'll back away from his allegiance to The Governor when he and Daryl find each other once more, or if he'd be able to sway Daryl to the dark side (at least temporarily).
Again, this was a fantastic change-of-pace episode and I believe has set the remainder of the season up for some great revelations and bombastic action when all our players finally converge.
Previous roundtables for The Walking Dead season 3:
Week 1 - "Seed"
Week 2 - "Sick"


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The Lord of Darkness
The safe middle of the road is not for him – designer Rick Owens is a man of extremes. He comes from an ordinary background, but today he is an icon of the fashion trade. His signature style is loose-fitting with crazy draping; he himself describes it as "a marriage of elegance and slovenliness." We met the fashion designer reverently known to his fans as the "Lord of Darkness" at his house in Paris.
Mr. Owens, you have a great many and unusually dedicated fans. Your admirers pilgrimage to your shows; you are almost like a god to them. How exhausting is it to be Rick Owens?
It's not exhausting at all. I'm not playing a role, after all. Maybe I am a god for some people, but for others I'm a joke. There are designers with a far greater presence than mine. They have to negotiate collections the whole day long, explain themselves; they have a board and directors – I don't even know how a system like that works.
Does it bother you that some people see you as a joke?
People are sometimes aggressive and want to put other people down. To me, the Internet is one of the biggest disappointments. The comments that people post there – it's an orgy of hostility. Seeing how aggressively people fight each other on the Net, I can't help wondering that there aren't more wars going on in the world. Well-balanced, happy people don't seem to come up online – or they don't need to express themselves that way. The aggressive people are just louder.
Have you grown a thick skin during the course of your career so far?
As a kid, I was bullied a lot at school, so things could only get better for me after that. That's why I'm never surprised when people are unfriendly. Also, I can choose whom I pay attention to. I want to listen to the people who support and respect me.
You have made yourself something of an icon with your collections, your life story, and also your appearance. How extreme does a designer have to look in order to gain attention?
I have no idea how anyone can be successful as a designer at all these days! When I started out, I didn't do shows, I just designed clothes, took them to shops and showed them to the buyers – and I did that for years. I had nothing to do with magazines, runway shows or the whole fashion system, which I had very little faith in. When I became more visible, people started coming to me, and a dialogue developed from there. Today, there are so many different style directions that few people today even take the time to get to know them. Who's that? What's he doing? In the big fashion houses, the designers only get three years. If their collections aren't an immediate sales success, they get fired. No one listens to you if you do your job quietly and modestly. You have to be wild. A colleague once said that if you are not passionate about a thing, nothing will come of it. You have to do exactly what you want, and for that you have to be prepared stop at nothing.
And you say that to us here in such a soft, gentle voice?
Maybe it sounds a bit dramatic now. But what you need is a big ego that tells people: It's a good idea to take notice of me.
How do you manage to be still passionate after 22 years?
That's a gift. It's almost even more intensive today than when I started out. I have more control over what I do. It's like driving a car. Changing gears is never smooth to start with. I made lots of mistakes in the early days because I didn't know when I should upshift. Now I'm a good driver.
Donna Karan, Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors – all of these American designers stand for a fairly comparable casual chic. What they do is wearable, very successful, but also a bit … boring?
That is one of the reasons I moved to Europe in 2003. If I had carried on showing my fashions in New York, I would have been "the crazy guy," the fringe phenomenon. In Paris, it's much easier for me to present my collections.
The 80s and 90s both had a very distinctive look. Then along came the new millennium with chains like H&M and Zara, and multiple looks and trends. Is the Owens look a counter-reaction to all of that?
There's something very clear about my look, it's true. Maybe black does play a more dominant role in it that I originally intended. I am a fan of this esthetic, but I can't keep on repeating it. No one can tell me that it's worse than what I do today. People respond to it by buying my clothes. It's impossible to please everyone.
Is being rich something you really enjoy?
Absolutely. Who wouldn't? I'm just not sure whether I have ever thought about money. It's funny; I had never had any money and then suddenly I was rich. There was nothing in between. To this day, I probably don't spend as much as I really could.
You say your talent as a designer is just ten percent of what makes your brand a success. Isn't that a pretty frustrating realization?
No, no. Plenty of people have creative ideas, but it's damned hard to realize them and get them out there to people. I don't want to understate my partners' contribution to the label's success. The team working with a designer is invisible, but what it contributes is not. It's exactly the same with me. I have no doubt that I am quite good, but it only works with the team. I often joke about my partners, but they could just as well have done as much for another designer as they have for me.
Amazingly modest…
But it's true. A business is like an army. And I would not want to organize one!
Are you at the lease driving force in the team?
I'm not a great motivator. I have a few other talents. I can design, tailor, drape. My partners listen to everyone's problems, they are really empathetic. I can't do that.
Do you ever lose your temper?
Sure I do!
What happens then?
Oh, I have to yell at someone now and again, of course, but I'm not interested in creating the kind of stressful atmosphere in which no one feels happy. We laugh a lot even the night before a show. I'm not the type to get hysterical and start altering stuff at the last moment. Preparing for a show is actually the part I enjoy most.
There's not much fluctuation within your team. Are your people so attached to you – or is it the other way around?
Maybe both. It takes me a long while to let people in, to connect with them. I could see that as a handicap or simply accept it. It's just the way I am.
Your collections feature loose-fitting styles with wild draping but there's nothing particularly sexy about them. You desexualize people by designing collections that could also be unisex. Then again, in your latest show, you sent men down the catwalk with no underpants so that their genitals were visible …
There's usually a sexual connotation to fashion. Laced-up fashions that constricted women and gave them big bottoms – whose ideas were they? For me, they are a sign of sexual repression. My clothes are for people who are sexually satisfied. All those tight clothes you see with bodies squeezed into them – they are for people who are looking for sex because they are perhaps not getting enough.
But people use what they wear as a way to attract attention. Women tend to prefer showing off their expensive boob jobs in tight tops!
Sure, there is an element of that. People have very different ways of making their lives enjoyable, but I don't have to support them all.
You are now 53 years old. Have you ever thought about going for a new look with Botox or a face-lift?
Maybe I will do it sometime. I can easily understand how painful it must be for people whose appearance has always got them plenty of attention when that suddenly stops. I would never judge anyone for wanting to control that development. Who am I to disapprove? I work out a lot – I'm addicted to exercising. How will I feel when my body changes, when my chest starts to droop? Looking at yourself in the mirror, you automatically strike the pose you please yourself most in. That is the self-image with which we go through life. I think that's what we do as we get older; we aim for the pose we like ourselves best in even if it no longer has anything to do with reality.
Your body is a more important statement for you than your fashion. Why the body obsession?
I was dissatisfied. I didn't like my body so I had to change it. There was nothing I could have changed with an operation, so I started working out – and became addicted to it. I like the attitude of trying to get the best out of what you have. It's a fantastic way to live.
Doesn't it take an incredible amount of discipline?
I am disciplined, that's very important to me. I was spectacularly undisciplined in my alcoholism. My body obsession is another form of addiction, an addiction to control.
You say you don't like going to parties. Do people bore you?
No, but I was an only child and I've always been a loner. I just don't feel very comfortable around other people. Maybe it's lack of confidence, maybe I worry too much about the way others see me. As a child, we either learn to fit in, or we don't. I never learned that and always played on my own. In the end, it has paid off because that way I was able to develop things myself.
Do you feel uncomfortable when you get up on the runway after a show and wave to the audience?
No. I know there is no reason at all to feel uncomfortable, and I'm not shy, either. But I do feel incredibly ill at ease when I have to get up and speak in front of an audience. I hate that about myself. Why am I like that? Why do I take myself so seriously? Who cares? Would I perhaps say something I didn't want to say? No idea.
In interviews, you talk openly about the many years you were an alcoholic. Do you have any tips for overcoming an illness like that?
I don't think so. I stopped drinking simply because I was scared after being at death's door many times. We do have alcohol at home these days, and that's okay. Otherwise, it's like with an ex-girlfriend – you know you had a great time, but you can never live with each other again.
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At only 21, Stephen Bloemsma of Flat Rock is now one of the youngest commercially licensed airline pilots in the country.
At only 21, Stephen Bloemsma of Flat Rock is now one of the youngest commercially licensed airline pilots in the country.
He joined the Civil Air Patrol at 14 and took his first solo flight on his 16th birthday, before he had a driver's license. At 17, he had his private pilot's license. After earning his bachelor's degree in aeronautics and his commercial license, Bloemsma is an aviation instructor with WNC Aviation, where he has begun training pilots much like himself just a few years ago.
Bloemsma said he owes his successful start in aviation to the Civil Air Patrol, which took his interest in the skies to new heights.
"I was really interested in all of the aviation and aerospace-type things, and so it provided a great opportunity to really grow and to learn from that," Bloemsma said. "They definitely really helped me, No. 1 with further interest — I had a little bit of an interest in aviation, but they kind of directed that and gave me more of a way to experience it. ... I know I would not have been able to do everything where I am today without having that as a high-schooler."
Bloemsma did his training at the Asheville Regional Airport with the Asheville Composite Squadron, and ended up joining the squadron.
According to its website, in 1948 the Civil Air Patrol was designated as the auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force. It was then that three primary missions were determined for the organization: aerospace education, cadet programs and emergency services.
Until cadets reach age 16, they work heavily on ground instruction, covering Federal Aviation Administration regulations and learning about things such as weight balance. They also get the chance to ride in the passenger seat and observe their instructors in flight.
Bloemsma had completed enough training that he was able to take his first solo ride on his 16th birthday — the first day he was eligible.
During a pilot's first solo flight, they must successfully take off and land three times while their instructor watches from below. Bloemsma said his first solo ride was the proudest moment in his aviation experience.
"I remember taking off and being like, 'Well, no matter what I have to land,' " Bloemsma said. "And that was a pretty big deal, especially being 16, and I didn't even have my driver's license yet."
Not long after turning 17, Bloemsma received his private pilot's license. While being home-schooled, Bloemsma got a head start on college by participating in a dual enrollment program at North Greenville University in South Carolina, which helped him to graduate from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in three years.
By 21, Bloemsma had earned his commercial pilot's license. Before Tuesday, that license would have meant Bloemsma could have worked for a commercial airline. But a recent change in regulations instituted by the FAA, according to Bloemsma, means that he will now have to complete 1,000 additional flight hours before becoming eligible to do so.
He could, however, still be paid to take individuals for private rides.
In a news release, the FAA said the changes were made in an effort to enhance safety and provide the best-qualified and trained pilots.
One of Bloemsma's instructors with the Civil Air Patrol, Wallace Courtney, said he took Bloemsma on his first orientation flight, giving the cadet a chance to observe Courtney in action.
"That was kind of a fun and special thing for me," Courtney said. "Integrity, volunteer service, excellence, respect — those are the core values that we try to instill in our cadets, and certainly Stephen is a fine example of that."
Courtney trained Bloemsma to participate in missions earlier this year, when Bloemsma learned how to search for downed planes and provide other emergency services.
Courtney went with a group of pilots after Hurricane Sandy and was able to capture roughly 1,500 photos of the damage done. He said Bloemsma now has the training to go on similar missions.
Being an instructor presents an entirely different challenge.
"I thought I was nervous soloing when I was up doing it myself, but soloing somebody else — getting out of the airplane and saying, 'I've given them all of the training and they're good to go fly by their self — that was quite a nerve-wracking experience," Bloemsma said. "Especially, me doing it for the first time, but when they were actually able to do that and they completed that successfully, that was a very exciting and happy moment."
Ray Davis, a lieutenant colonel with Civil Air Patrol and operations officer for the Asheville Composite Squadron, said he is proud to see Bloemsma come back and become a teacher for the same squad he trained with.
"It's incredible to see cadets go through the program and come back and volunteer their time to do the same thing that we've been doing," Davis said. "He's turned from a student to teacher; he's reliable and does a consistently good job."
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Tickle.Me necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 1121 diseños de 155 diseñadores freelance.
Think of us and our culture as being very much like Google building Google-scale technology (although we have no affiliation with them).
Put another way, we are hard core software-engineers that build pervasive distributed computing systems.
We are creating a next-generation online marketing platform called Tickle.Me that incorporates web widgets, machine intelligence (artificial intelligence) elements, and many other features.
This platform is next generation and designed to serve market needs in the 2011-2017 time ranges and to work at exabyte scale long-term.
Think of the marketing platform as being "EQ Aware" or "Emotionally Intelligent".
We provide novel, advanced capabilities that integrate a companies marketing efforts across their website, mobile, social media and other (emergent) channels.
The systems perform analytics targeting, qualification, engagement, and other capabilities within one platform.
People who use our platform include marketing people, advertisers, B2B and B2C companies.
The platform makes it easier for companies to identify and interact with their customers in the rapidly growing and changing Internet landscape.
Short Version:
"Software that spreads delight."
Long Version (Below);
The perfect logo will be FUN and symbolize the feeling of "being digitally tickled".
Or, rather, that feeling you get when you read or see something online that really makes you feel uncontrollably alive.
We don't want a logo with just the emotion ... We want the connection to the digital world with the emotion.
Alternative ways to think about it below.
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We are looking to perfectly blend professionalism, advanced computer science and the creation of "digital emotional connections" (DEC) with people online in a fun, harmless way.
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The perfect logo seamlessly integrates these concepts:
- Incorporates the machine intelligence / artificial intelligence concept into it.
- Portrays creating billions of what we call "digital emotional connections" with people.
- Balances the line perfectly between Professionalism and Emotions.
- Should instantly create a feel-good Emotional Connection (EC) upon seeing it in the same way that the words "tickle me" do.
- Looks like a piece of art but is still simple and readable.
- Should still be printable/readable in black & white.
- General concept should be "iconizable" into a 16x16 (this is for software).
- We like the idea of incorporating "female curves" very subtly into the logo as other brands have done, but shouldn't get to the space of improper or overtly sexual.
- We also like the idea of incorporating the idea that "its all about ME" in the logo.
- Avoid children, childlike, or toy oriented themes.
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Another way to think about this problem is the idea of "creating billions of emotional connections". The computing platform (computing grid) is our "secret sauce", This is a difficult (but very interesting!) logo to do because it has to blend so many contrarian elements and we aren't sure how to do it ourselves (thus the reason for the contests).
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Yet another way to think about this design problem is blending the transition between these elements:
- PEC ... "Personal Emotional Connection" (i.e., meeting someone in person/etc)
- DEC ... "Digital Emotional Connection (interacting with them online)
The logo should give people this message:
PEC -> Tickle.Me -> DEC
Don't use that illustratively, just conceptually.
The winning design will transit this element of how Emotional Connections (EC) are changing from being face-to-face to almost entirely digital in nature.
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Functionally our platform helps businesses to change their company culture from being an old-school PEC company to being a next generation DEC company. We need a logo that means and symbolizes this transition.
The key to this logo is BLENDING these concepts together in a fun, friendly, exciting way that is fitting for a SaaS based software company used by marketing departments at Fortune 500s.
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Another way to think about this project is as software that is a "personalization engine".
I.e., we need pure genius!
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Update - April 14, 2012. After trying F17 for a bit, I recently reinstalled F16 on my Dell Inspiron Mini 12 netbook. F16 has had version 3.3 kernels for almost a month now. (The kernel version 3.3 has finally merged the gma500 driver. It is no longer in the staging area.) The build currently running on my netbook is kernel-3.3.1-3.fc16.i686. It seems to be working well except for suspend.
April 22, 2012 - same applies for Sony Vaio VGN P11Z. Also the display brightness is only having two levels, therefore it generally can not be set to anything else than default.
Once again, the procedure for using this driver is to install Fedora 16 and then run "yum update" to get the latest kernel. After that, you should be able to reboot to the latest kernel and it should work.
For the first time, I installed using the XFCE Live iso instead of the DVD iso. (I have been writing these ISO files to a USB drive.) The steps to do this are as follows:
1. Boot the Live iso. You can accept the default option which is "Start Fedora 16".
2. Press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to a command prompt.
3. Log in as "liveuser".
4. Start the Live installer in text mode by entering the "liveinst" command.
5. Once the installation is complete, reboot from the internal drive.
6. When the reboot completes, login as root.
7. Enter the command "yum update" to get the latest kernel.
8. Change the default runlevel to graphical as per these instsructions.
9. Reboot.
February 18, 2012. I just installed the latest F16 updates on my netbook. I quickly discovered that the open source gma500 driver is no longer being built in new kernels. You might want to try the 3.2.2-1.fc16 kernel. (That is the build that works on my netbook.) I haven't yet tested the instructions below on Linux 3.2 kernels, but you might also want to try that.
January 28, 2012. The latest kernel (3.2.2-1.fc16) includes the open source gma500 driver. It is working well on my Dell Inspiron Mini 12. Suspend and resume are also working now. When the login screen appears after booting, I still have to press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to fix the display resolution.
Using the new open source gma500 driver, I have been able to run Fedora 15 and 16 on a Dell Inspiron Mini 12 netbook with a display resolution of 1280x800. I am using the XFCE Desktop. I haven't tested GNOME 3 with this driver.
To do this, I compiled a custom kernel which enables the gma500 driver and disables some framebuffer drivers. (I'm not sure why this has to be done. Maybe it is because there is no DDX driver for the gma500 kernel module.)
To build a custom kernel, see Building a custom kernel. You do not have to run
make menuconfig or apply any patches. However, you should modify the SOURCES/config-generic file. Search for each of these options in the file and modify them to be the same as in the following listing.
CONFIG_DRM_PSB=m # CONFIG_FB_VGA16 is not set # CONFIG_FB_VESA is not set # CONFIG_STUB_POULSBO is not set
For the 3.1 kernel, you also need to add three more options to the config-generic file. How you set these depends on what version of the GMA 500 hardware you have.
# CONFIG_DRM_PSB_MRST is not set # CONFIG_DRM_PSB_MFLD is not set # CONFIG_DRM_PSB_CDV is not set
When I boot the computer with the custom kernel, the display is not correct at the GDM Login screen. If I press Control-Alt-Backspace, the display becomes correct.
Suspend doesn't work yet for me, but otherwise this driver seems to be working quite well.


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Dr. Carolyn McClain is an ER physician and medical director of The Urgency Room in Woodbury, Eagan and Vadnais Heights, Minn.
Last year during the 2016-2017 flu season, hospitalizations from influenza increased almost 143 percent over the previous season. The flu can be dangerous and it's important to know it's making an unwanted debut in the region as we speak.
According to the Minnesota Department of Health, patients presenting to health care providers across the state with influenza-like symptoms are on the rise and expected to continue to climb. Since we know it's here, it's important to know how you can protect yourself and loved ones this year. There are a number of things you can do to reduce your risk of contracting the flu. Make sure you are educated and understand how you can protect yourself and those around you.
First and foremost, anyone who is six months and older and eligible for the vaccination should receive the flu shot. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the nasal flu spray flu vaccine (LAIV) is NOT recommended for the 2017-2018 flu season. All eligible patients should receive the injectable shot this year.
We recommend people begin getting the flu shot in the fall, generally October to November, understanding there is always fluctuation in the flu season year to year. In understanding how the vaccination works, it typically takes two weeks to start to protect the recipient and around three weeks to be fully effective. Ideally you would like to stay ahead of the virus and be fully effective prior to peak flu season. It is important to note, however, that if you miss the ideal window for the flu shot, getting vaccinated at any point during the season can still be beneficial. Most doctor offices and retail clinics continue to offer the vaccination throughout the season as it's available. As many as 166 million doses of the injectable vaccine are expected to be available in the U.S. this year.
This year's flu vaccine protects against three strains of the virus so even if you did not receive the vaccination but believe you have already had the flu this season, it's recommended that you still get the shot. Though you are now producing antibodies to one of the strains, getting the vaccination will work to keep you protected from the other two stains.
Protection from infants to adults
Infants and children under the age of 5 are at a high risk of contracting the flu and serious flu-related complications. The CDC warns this risk is exceptionally high for children younger than two years old.
Children six months and older are eligible for the flu vaccine. All children six months and older and anyone caring for a child, should receive the flu vaccine. It is the most important thing you can do for flu protection. Children receiving the vaccination for the first time need two doses spaced a month apart before they are fully protected - it's good to keep this information in mind when planning your child's first vaccination appointment. They will need both doses for the vaccine to be fully effective. Pregnant women are included in the list of eligible patients and recommended to obtain the flu shot.
Once vaccinated, protect yourself and children with regular hand washing, disinfecting exposed surfaces and stay mindful of unintentionally spreading germs (touching your eyes, nose, mouth, etc.). Keep children away from other sick kids and if you or your child do contract the virus, keep them away from others to reduce the risk of spreading to others.
Aging population (65+)
Because human immune defenses become weaker with age, the CDC recommends that many older adults, ages 65 and over, receive high-dose flu shots. As patients age, their ability to recover is also affected. Dosing adjustments are made to give older adults a better immune response and therefore better protection from the flu. Talk with your health care provider for more information on high-dose flu shots.
Winter is in full swing and we now have confirmation that flu season is too. Remember to protect yourself and those around you. Make sure you are vaccinated if eligible and take the proper precautions if you do feel you have contracted the virus. Each year we see hundreds of influenza-infected patients. Use these tips to help keep you and your family healthy this 2017-2018 flu season.