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Here is what I have listed on eBay up for bids....hope you find something you like ;)......
Have a wonderful Sunday!!!!
Sunday, August 30, 2009
What's listed on eBay!! Get your bid in ;)
Here is what I have listed on eBay up for bids....hope you find something you like ;)......
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Friday, August 28, 2009
Another new FREEBIE for YOU :]
Ok prim crafters...here is a new one for you! I hope you enjoy making this one as much as I did :]......REMEMBER WHERE YOU GET A FREE E-PATTERN ALL THE TIME.... http://www.tennesseeridgeprimitives.com ;]......be sure to tell all of your friends!!!
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Monday, August 24, 2009
2 new auctions listed tonight....
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Blog Worthy ...Moonchilds Primitives!!!
Just wanted to share my sister's primitive goods with you! If you don't already know, and most of you DO already know ...But Donna, of moonchildsprimitives.com is my SISTER...and the BEST Sister ever ;)
She inspires me so much...Since I can remember she has been so crafty! She can paint ANYTHING!! I love her style....she is one of the biggest inspirations for me as an artist, a mother, and just a person all together.......I could not have picked a better sister if I would have had the chance to choose!! Of course when we were little we could NOT stand each other..lol...I remember thinking "IF SHE touches me ONE MORE TIME I will die of sister poisoning!!!" LOL....well as you well know, that did NOT happen! HAHA...sometimes I wonder how we survived childhood lol......We used to play "Bewitched"....I was always Samantha, and she was Endora..hehe...she almost broke her elbow "popping in" like Endora always did on Samantha...Only my sister "endora" popped in on some ICE....and slid, and almost broke her elbow!!! LOL...I remember laughing SO hard....LOL...she was mad at me for laughing at her, but I just couldn't help it!! And of course NOW we both can laugh....cause there were no broken bones after all...hehe......she also gave me a good scar between the eyes using a Folgers coffee can!!! :) I just happened to be UNDER the bed hiding from her & my mom...(not sure why, but it was because I had done something mean..lol...Donna was determined to get me OUT from under the bed...Folgers not only wakes you up when you put it in your cup, but it also BRINGS YOU OUT FROM UNDER A BED!!! They need to add that to their commercials...lol
Anyway, like me, she took a break from her primitives for a while....but she is BACK with a BANG.....:) Halloween is her specialty!! Something else we have in common!! The love for Halloween!!! :)
I just wanted to let you know that she has some awesome spooky stuff up for auction! So if you get a chance....check out her eBay auctions by clicking here!!!
Ok....enough for now....time to get back to my sewing machine :)
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
fasinated with grungy ghosts' :)
Here is my latest ghost project...I figure everyone needs a grungy ole ghost hanging around :) this one is for your door!! Click the image & go to eBay & get your bid in :)....thanks for takin' the time to look at my things.....& all of your SWEET Emails!!! I have the BEST customers out there....I've made some great friends since I have been sharing my crafts on eBay & through my website..I am truly blessed!!!! :) God Bless you all!!!
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Sunday, August 16, 2009
Ghost door doll just listed on eBay
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Friday, August 14, 2009
Just finished this...
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
A new spooky Freebie :)
Hope you like making this one as much as I did....Hurry and get your free download TODAY,,might be gone before you know it :)...once they are gone, they are gone :)
Posted by Becky at 8:56 PM 4 comments
2 more listings tonight on eBay...I've been busy :)
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
2 new listings tonight on eBay
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Friday, August 07, 2009
new listing..check this one out ;)
I love making this piece...Pumpkin with witch hat & flyin bats up for auction!!! Click on the picture below to go to the auction :)
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Thursday, August 06, 2009
New Freebie
Here is a new freebie for you :0)....Have fun!!!
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|Sunrise at Virginia Beach, July 2011
When I was growing up I really thought that everyone took vacations to places like Virginia Beach, VA. I loved going to Virginia Beach (referred to from here on simply as "the Beach"). Each year we would start asking my father if we were going to be going on vacation sometime around March. The answer was always the same..."Maybe". That was good enough as a "Yes" to a kid and I was a planner so I'd start packing...in April.
|Aimee and Cherie Tabor playing on Virginia Beach
|My mom, Alice, with Aimee and me at VA Beach
|Benjamin and Daniel Cayemberg collecting shells at VA Beach
|My husband and kids at VA Beach
|Rick and Danny on VA Beach at sunrise
Still, even with the craziness of my awful eating habits it was the height of the year for me. We would get inflatable rafts and ride the waves in. They call it body surfing now, I suppose, and I had so much fun doing it. It was hard to get my little sister, Aimee, and I out of the water to do anything else and my dad would body surf with us. Great fun.
My other favorite thing to do was to visit the souvenir shops along the beach. Yeah, I can appreciate today that they are pretty much filled with crap, but to a kid it was awesome crap! We never got to buy too much, but every now and then, when my dad had an employed year, we'd be able to get some souvenirs. I remember a wind up dolphin that would float in the bathtub and swim around. It lasted a couple weeks before it died. They still make them by the way!
I will always have fond memories of the Beach although as an adult I can look back and understand that it wasn't perfect. What is? But the memories are perfect. Pure joy. Pure innocence as a child oblivious to all the difficulties of the world. Just having fun.
I wanted my two boys to share in those experiences, so this year as we drove from Texas to Pennsylvania to see my family, the Beach was one of those places we had to stop at. It looked the same. The hotels, the shops, the beach. Not much changed. People still plucking jellyfish out of the water and poking them. Sitting on towels and kids playing in the sand. No body surfing for my 5 year old, but my 10 year old and husband did enjoy riding some waves sans raft/board. The little one and I contented ourselves with jumping over the waves and staying cool.
|The sunrise over the Atlantic
Thanks for reminiscing with me.

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Is it possible to create a trigger that fires when a view is created on a user schema?
I want to create a meta data table which will hold all the views and a listing containing what they are supposed to do. In this system (Oracle 184.108.40.206) there is only one user who has the create view privilege so that may make it easier.
The sequence of events should be something like view is created trigger fires and inserts the name of the view in the table of meta data table
I could write up some package to create views using dynamic sql but that seems a bit of overkill


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The launch of the Space Shuttle was one of those events very few of us had the opportunity to witness firsthand, so YouTuber indiegun has pieced together this sonic recreation you can blast in your living room — should you have a powerful enough speaker system, that is. Warns the video's editor of this condensed countdown:
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ESSAY- Spineless sack: <i>Style</i> sacrifices talent for political correctness
Autocomplete wasn't the only thing that screwed Chris Dovi.
Sure, the now-former reporter at Richmond's Style Weekly did himself no favors. Instead of telling a persistent flack "no thanks" when pitched a half-dozen times about an upcoming seminar by blind motivational speaker Will Weeks, he punted to his editor, Scott Bass. Unfortunately, when typing Bass' name into an e-mail, Dovi either didn't notice he'd hit reply instead of forward, or that his Outlook had autocompleted the address to Weeks' PR guy, Scott McCaskey.
Oops. In that e-mail, Dovi said, "He may be the most tenacious flack of all time. He's been calling me about this blind f**ker for four weeks." Later in the e-mail, he says, "He's making me want to claw my own eyes out in the hopes that if he won't just get lost, I at least won't have to look at his press release anymore!"
That was Friday, February 12. McCaskey forwarded the e-mail to his boss, Dean Goldman of Norfolk's Goldman & Associates.
"I thought about it over the weekend," Goldman says. "I really put a lot of thought into this because I felt that the e-mail was discriminatory... I could have easily pushed the delete button. If I just pushed the delete button, that means I would be complicit in this process."
So on Tuesday, February 16, after consulting with Weeks who, he says, was "very offended," Goldman e-mailed Style Weekly's publisher, Lori Collier Waran, its editor, Jason Roop, and Maurice Jones, the publisher of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, which, like Style Weekly, is owned by Landmark Media Enterprises. Jones, Goldman says, agreed with him that Dovi's words were offensive.
By 3:30pm the next day, Dovi was out. On its Web site, Style published an editor's note that says Dovi used "language that violated the core values we hold sacred at Style. While he was regretful for the e-mail, it showed an unacceptable disregard for one of our chief missions at Style: to honor diversity as a company in all of our dealings with the community, and within Style's hallways."
This is where the bullsh*t gets a little thick for me.
In his three years at Style, Dovi pursued story after story about Richmond's poor treatment of its most helpless citizens, from the city jail saving money by cutting 80 percent of its spending on medications for mental health and AIDS, to the city schools botching the procurement process for ADA-compliant construction, to a piece about Richmond schools' absurd treatment of "problem students."
(As full disclosure, both my wife and I freelanced for Style when we lived in Richmond, so even though I don't know Dovi, this hits a little close to home.)
When I first called him, Roop declined to comment beyond the note on Style's website. "I just can't talk to you," said the editor, referring me several times to the statement. In a follow-up voicemail, Roop says, "We thought this was an important enough issue to involve several levels of management, and they were all involved in the decision. So no, it wasn't my decision alone, but I do support the decision."
Weeks, the motivational speaker, says Dovi's language in the e-mail, which Goldman forwarded to him, "reinforced the notion to me that there's a culture set in place at Style Weekly."
"No one in their right mind," he says, "would forward that to any staff member unless you were good and sure that they were in agreement with that mentality."
But what mentality is that, exactly? Prejudice against people of color? Sure, we've all heard of that. Religion? Well, that's pretty obvious. But who exactly is prejudiced against the blind?
Weeks says he's experienced "prejudices in the public schools system growing up," as well as at work, and that he's been around "people who've said things that were downgrading" about his blindness. And there's no question that from building design to street furniture to crossing signals to our currency, America is miles behind where it needs to be as a society accessible to people with disabilities.
But there's a huge difference between the sting of thoughtless urban planning and the hurt felt by someone left to die in a jail cell because the medication he required to live looked like a cuttable budget line to a reptilian public servant. I'll concede the possibility that there's someone, somewhere, who possesses the Herculean a**hole-ness required to actually hate blind people.
Dovi's words were coarse (though not intended for the dainty sensibilities of someone outside a newsroom). Were they insensitive? Arguably. Were they evidence that he intended avoid writing about someone because he hates people with disabilities? Faced with a PR man's bold new redefinition of the word discrimination, Style's Roop and Waran decided to assuage an awkward situation by cutting off a talented reporter at the knees.
"I recognized that I was rude in my e-mail, but it was not bigoted," says Dovi. "If this man had been a paratrooper, I would have referred to him as that paratrooper f**ker."
When asked about how much of McCaskey's pitch regarding Weeks was about the speaker's blindness, Dovi says, "Nearly all of it."
Goldman insists it wasn't simply the characterization of Weeks as a "blind f**ker" that caused him to act. "It's not just that," he says. "He uses Mr. Weeks' blindness to make what he perceives as a humorous comment," i.e. Dovi's comment to his editor that the press release made him want to "claw my own eyes out."
"My own father is disabled," Dovi points out. "He's blind in one eye. He had a stroke that left him paralyzed on one side." His father, he says, has expressive aphasia and can only answer yes and no.
"The only thing that upsets me about Style Weekly," Dovi says, "is that they never gave me the opportunity to speak to what I was accused of and summarily fired me after meeting for about two hours." Dovi says he did not participate in that meeting.
I asked Goldman about the attention that this has brought to his client.
"We're not charging Mr. Weeks for what we did here," says Goldman, who notes that Weeks is otherwise a paying client. "This was something that occurred that offended us, that offended him. And we acted."
Weeks says the incident feeds into the subject of his Brace for Impact 2010 tour, which included a February 25 appearance at the Holiday Inn at 10800 Midlothian Turnpike in Richmond. "The seminar I was speaking on was about overcoming adversity," he says. "This was just a prime example."
Epilogue: When I spoke to Dean Goldman the day after Dovi was fired, he proudly pointed to the fact that the firm kept up it blog posting about the incident, complete with its negative comments about his company, online. By 9:30pm that day, the page was gone. Meanwhile, the Rehire Chris Dovi @ Style Weekly Facebook page has 263 fans.
Andrew Beaujon is the managing editor of Washington City Paper, the publication in which this essay first appeared.


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Austin Patrick Skinner
- Written by Woodinville Weekly Staff
Austin Patrick Skinner was born at 3:55 a.m. on April 10, 2011 at Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland, weighing 7 lbs. 11oz. and 20 inches long. Parents are Derrick and Sally Skinner of Woodinville's Cottage Lake area.
Grandparents are Edweena Skinner of Spokane, Wash., Roy and Debbie Peterson of Tacoma, Wash. and Theresa and Gordon Reece of Issaquah, Wash.


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Getting things done in the real world of side-by-side requires much more than a million horsepower and ten feet of suspension travel. This working world requires a machine that can tow lots of gear, pull many more pounds of weight, and be capable in the dirt to get those remote jobs completed correctly. This is where the great minds at Yamaha have developed their newest brand of hussling SXS.
It was the Red Reflet Ranch in Ten Sleep, Wyoming, that was selected as the backdrop for the new 2014 Yamaha Vikings media preview. Our goal was to see, touch, work and ride the big 700 to its ability, as well as find its working position in the same arena. Our initial impression upon viewing the Viking was a good one, as it does look clean and refined with the sharp lines complimenting the all-new look. Before we get too far we should mention that the Rhino is now out of production, and this Viking is taking the place of the long-living two-seater for Yamahas next generation of side-by-sides. This may distress some out there, but moving into the future means letting go of the past.
So, where was I? Ah yes, the 2014 Yamaha Viking 700 three-seat workhorse. Looking at the passenger compartment for a minute you will notice the large pass-through design built to allow any one of the three ranch hands to slide from driver to passenger sides and exit off either side at will. The center of this seating arrangement gives the middle guy a seat positioned just a little further back from the other two. This gives ample shoulder room so that the poor sap in the middle is not creeped out by being shoulder to shoulder with other sweaty workers. The floor in front of the driver and his two comrades has a semi-dimpled surface to provide plenty of grip when trails become off camber or the driver gets in a hurry heading back to the barn.
Moving this new Viking around is the 686cc engine with a single overhead cam and four valves burning the fuel sent down the intake by Yamahas YFI fuel injection. The engine is the proven format that Yamaha has relied on for years, but with a bit more power tuned in to really motivate the Viking. This fan-assisted liquid-cooled engine is positioned just behind the seating arrangement under the steel utility bed and is facing rearward, which gives the hump the boot for a more spacious passenger area.
The developments in the big single include greatly improved fuel economy to the tune of about 30 percent over previous models, which is sure to make any penny-pinching crew boss a happy camper. Not only was Yamaha set on gains to the fuel economy but making sure every element of fuel or non-combusted material in the exhaust was burnt before hitting the environment was part of the plan as well. This is just another way Yamaha has improved the emissions of its machine.
Controlling the big power of the Viking and getting the torque to the ground is the tried-and-true Yamaha Ultra-Matic V-Belt automatic transmission. This transmission design has proven its ability over the years, and with tales of machines being 10 years old and never needing a belt the facts behind the engineering have proven themselves hundreds of times over. Getting this dual-clutch style setup in the 2014 Viking just gives the consumer a little more confidence that they will have a reliable machine for many years to come, as long as they do their part with preventative general maintenance (my AnswerMan column is riddled with questions regarding this very sort of thing). The constant application of pressure on the belt keeps the response quick and consistent when the throttle is applied. The centrifugal clutch, along with the traditional clutch sheaves work together to make the power fluid and reduce wear on the drive belt.
Knowing the general user of the Yamaha Viking would most likely be traversing rough terrain, Yamaha also includes 4WD and 4WD Differential lock on the new UTV. This gives the Viking multiple lines of traction and trail-gripping prowess to make it through the rough sections around the property. Speaking of prowess, the Viking also has optional power steering, which is controlled electronically and gives the driver a comfortable day behind the wheel. I personally would not want a non power steering model, especially after driving the PS version, but some may opt out of the almost $1000-dollar upgrade.
As we had mentioned, our trip included a treat visit to the Red Reflet Ranch in Ten Sleep, Wyoming, and this is a real working ranch not a movie set. The guys and gals at Red Reflet get up before the rooster crows and work hard all day. These great cowboys and cowgirls allowed some 20 journalists to invade their space for a few days to get to know the Yamaha Viking and work it just like they would day in and day out. Our goal was to hitch up as much weight as we could and use the new machine as it was intended. Pulling a huge trailer of fencing materials as well as several heavy green bails around to feel the steering and power of the Viking gave us a new appreciation for the workhorse. The low-end grunt of the big single powered through every time we gave the go pedal a push. I think we did get a little heavy on the weight limits at one point, but the machine never showed any resistance.
As we began moving around the hills and sections of farmland it was clear the handling of the Viking had been set for a specific job and it completed this job well. The steel bed gave us a tough and durable surface to toss in tools as well as strap anything that would fit into the bed. You could get a sizable white tail in this machine with no problem at all. Well, your back may feel it but the Viking would not.
Our time in the 2014 Yamaha Viking was not limited to just working though, as we did spend about half the day on trails around the enormous ranch known as Red Redflet. The unloaded Viking is a totally different machine. Whether crossing heavy rain ditches or climbing over downed trees the Viking felt stable and comfortable. Adding a passenger in between co-pilot and myself gave us a new appreciation as well for the three-person cab. I never felt cramped and I think my passengers were comfortable as well.
Overall the addition of the Viking to the Yamaha program is a welcome sight. With promises of many more new things coming down the pipe, its just a matter of time before were off to get a glimpse of the next member of an already powerful manufacturers arsenal.


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Silent light: Deasy takes his time
It's strange to look at a photograph and think of sound. Specifically, it's strange to look at a photograph and notice the lack of sound. But the quietness of the eight images that constitute Ed Deasy's Angelo exhibition, "Black and White Dreams," is striking. The only noise imaginable is the patter of rain or the rustling of leaves or perhaps the hushed ticking of an unseen clock.
Why a clock? Because Deasy's specialty is experimenting with long exposures, letting his camera's shutter remain open for periods ranging from a few seconds to several hours. This method allows the film to absorb more light, which sharpens stationary objects and blurs anything in motion.
Deasy writes in his artist's statement that he likes "unpredictable" photographic techniques and says, "... it is the unexpected that is at the center of my work." Perhaps, but he carefully controls the parameters in which he allows chance to happen. In fact, Deasy's images are the opposite of snapshots; they often convey scenes of overlooked beauty, but they are carefully composed and managed.
For instance, "Office Chair" captures the way light through louvered blinds cascades across an office and creates stripes at various angles. In the bottom third of the frame, Deasy has placed a rolling wooden office chair at the center, mediating the space between a floor-to-ceiling window on the left and the edge of a desk on the lower right, as the light cuts diagonally from one to the other. The slats on the back of the chair mortar between concrete blocks lining the windows, and boxes stacked on a shelf on the left add more stripes. The result is a quiet geometric composition with a gorgeous range of tones.
This awareness of geometry and the ability to manipulate light are Deasy's strong suits as he enables his camera to capture unusual effects, such as wavering horizontal bands flowing outside a dappled car window on a rainy day or the strange lake seeming to open in the middle of a round white coffee cup (which Deasy lit by holding a flashlight above it). One of his most memorable images is "M.J. in a Chair," in which a blurred and otherworldly figure sits in an otherwise still room filled with antiques and houseplants, like a ghost revisiting its former home.
Deasy's photographs may be quiet, but they speak volumes about his skill as an artist.
Photographer Ed Deasy's exhibition, "Black and White Dreams," is on view through June 30 at Angelo, 220 E. Main St. on the Downtown Mall. 971-9256.


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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
What We Are Up Against
You will be shocked (shocked, I say) to learn 3 things about this senator:
1. He is a Democrat. (no!)
2. He is one of the wealthiest lawmakers in Washington. (you don't say!)
3. A list of his donors reads like a who's who of elite law firms. (I would never have guessed that!)
To sum up: You are a rich doctor, so f*ck you.
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i only have five houses and parting with any one of them will cause me to have to fire at least three butlers and a maid. it will also prohibit me from being in cabo san lucas for the summer solstice which will be really hard for me. muffy will be so disappointed.ReplyDelete
Dude, you gotta name names.ReplyDelete
Who benefits from keeping this guy anonymous?
- Anonymous11:09 AM, March 28, 2007
I pause at naming names because this is second-hand information. You can probably guess who it is. Surprise! He's from New England!ReplyDelete
sounds like our old friend, the alcoholic prince regent of massachussetts teddy kennedy. actually met the guy in aspen on new years eve 1988 at the paradise club. surprise, he was drunk. other surprise, he tried to pick up my friend's date. final surprise, he and eddie van halen, who was playing with fleetweood mac there that night, partied all night long in a limo and then managed to pull my friend's date onto the slopes with them the next day. how many houses does he own? wasn't he the guy that killed mary joe koepeckni? bet he has the best doctors and the best health plan available to humans on the planet. screw him.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12:00 PM, March 28, 2007
The moonbats you save in the ER keep voting for that trash. You get what you save(deserve). %)ReplyDelete
another thing. as i have flogged this topic to death in previous posts i will quickly summarize here. if doctors see only declining reimbursements then medical school applications will drop. people will not choose to go through four years of school and up to ten years at minimum wage with sleep deprivation and a POST TRAINING DEBT APPROACHING $300,000 to become doctors. wanna be a cardio thoracic surgeon? no one else does. as of today you can, with an MD in hand, get almost any residency slot in the country. they are not filling them. mark my words, the crisis in health care will soon become a lack of physicians and certainly a lack of quality physicians. call us selfish, but most of us want to have a life outside medicine. in my town of 300,000 we have no pediatric surgeon, no neurosurgeon, no trauma surgeons, and, to top it off, the only trauma referral center within helicopter distance, will start, in three months, to go on LEVEL ONE TRAUMA DIVERT. this means that if you are near death from a car crash while they are on divert you will die. thanks senator. and oh, by the way, i do labor under the belief that if anyone deserves to get paid well for what we do that it is physicians. athletes make what they make because it is what the market will bear. we have no market, just a shell game of cost and responsibility shifting.ReplyDelete
911 doc-you go to parties with eddie van halen? Seriously? Maybe you *should* have to give up one of your houses because I am a wee bit jealous(I am totally kidding, please don't take this as if I agree with doctors not getting paid what they deserve! I am always the first one to bring my doctors cookies and do whatever I can to let them know I appreciate everything they do.)ReplyDelete
I find it absurd that both doctors and patients seem to be getting ripped off. After my cancer crap, we almost had to sell our house (well, ok, in all honesty I just freaked out because I like to be more comfortable with actual money in the bank just in case) because of all the bills, and yet I doubt if the doctors got what they "deserved" for saving my life even with all the money I paid. All around it seems like a bad system sometimes!
dear radioactive girl. it WAS my brush with fame. i was just out of college and worked for a trustafarian ne'er do well who had just fled aspen as the feds were close to busting him on drug charges. he still had lots of connections in aspen and invited me, the bartender at his club in another ski town. i knew very little of his past and went with him. it was my one brush with the high and mighty and i do not wish another. it's a good story though huh? i even got eddie van halen to give me a hi-five as i was one of the few guests who was dancing and listening. the club only held thre hundred. what a fantastic concert and he is the most amazing guitarist and seemed like a nice guy. valerie bertinelli was there too. those makeup guys in hollywood are magicians.ReplyDelete
I was going to guess it was one of the "two Johns" (Kerry or Edwards), then I saw the New England comment. I do think it sounds like something Kerry would say in an unguarded moment, though.ReplyDelete
2008 elections getting closer all the time!ReplyDelete
Perhaps you docs could continue to enlighten us regarding this debacle.
Where IS all the money going??? Hospitals don't make money. Doctors salaries getting lower. Patients pay out a lot of money, even with insurance. God forbid something really catastrophic happens.
dear sea-spray,ReplyDelete
please see the most recent post for a faily quick synopsis of where the money is going.
cheers and thanks.
Dear 911doc:ReplyDelete
My condolences to Muffy:-)
- Anonymous9:33 AM, March 30, 2007
The insurance companies have such sweet deals going for them --- paying out ridiculously low amounts to doctors and hospitals for medical care while charging docs enormous premiums for malpractice coverage. The insurance companies and the lawyers (with total support from -- and kickbacks to -- swinish politicians) are a huge burden on patients and health care providers alike.ReplyDelete
So how do we get this monkey off our backs? What exactly are we addicted to that keeps us enslaved to these bloodsuckers?
- Anonymous10:04 AM, March 30, 2007
I hate to say it, but alot of the blame lies with us (the docs). For some reason, there are a ton of docs who open their mouths while being sh#t on in the name of 'compassion', 'patient care' etc... These physicians feel we should happily take it up the ass because 'it is our duty to take care of everyone no matter what the conditions'. This is certainly admirable, but extremely naive. Unfortunately, the reality is that insurers, government and the public recognize our attitude as weakness and routinely f*ck us raw. If we pulled an 'Atlas Shrugged' on these morons they would come crawling. If docs would stand up and say, 'hey, WE are the talent here, and without us you are screwed', people would listen. Guess what. Never going to happen.ReplyDelete
agree with etotheipi but would add that we, as consumers of health care, swallowed a poison pill the minute that health care costs were separated from the requirement for payment. once the shell game started the end becaome obvious. just as when governments print money without collateral our health care system has been freed to run amok by the lack or requirement to square the tab at the end of the day.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous2:15 PM, March 30, 2007
911doc: yes!!!ReplyDelete
Proven over and over and over: you remove personal responsibility and appropriate incentives, the end result is systemic collapse. QED


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Apple's next big innovation may be found on its customers' wrists.
The New York Times reports that Apple is pursuing the development of a smart watch device that incorporates curved glass for its display. The report, in the style of most Apple rumors, cites anonymous sources with the company who claim the device will feature the iOS mobile operating system. However, details on which iOS features the device would utilise -- such as Siri or Passbook -- were not available.
The development of curved glass could be the key to a functional smart watch, and, as the Times pointed out, is entirely possible. Display manufacturer Corning Glass Technologies, which makes the Gorilla glass for the iPhone display, showcased its flexible display technology last year. Pete Bocko, Corning's CTO, told the Times that the technology could be adapted to fit around a user's wrist.
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"Right now, if I tried to make something that looked like a watch, that could be done using this flexible glass," Bocko told the Times.
In addition to Corning, experts from other companies told the Times that Apple's hiring and development trends indicate that there may be some truth to this rumor.
In a way, the device would not necessarily be Apple's first smart wristwatch device. The sixth-generation iPod Nano was roughly the size of the face of a wristwatch, and Apple treated it as such, selling watch bands for the device online. That version of the Nano even had the option to default to an analog clock face when the user wasn't using it.
However, Apple has since abandoned that approach in favor of a larger, 2.5-inch display on its new iPod Nano. Wrist-bands for the sixth-gen Nano are still available on Apple's site, but no such band was developed for its latest version.
Even before that, designer Peter Burns released his concept design for the iWatch, which implemented one of the earliest iPod home-screens on a single piece of hardware that could be worn on the wrist.
Recognizing the convenience that the form factor would provide, many other manufacturers have attempted to develop wrist-worn smart devices. But the failures of companies like HP, Samsung and Sony show just how difficult this task will be, if Apple intends to pursue it.
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"Leibovitz," a landmark exhibition of more than 200 photographs by Annie Leibovitz, is now open at the Wexner Center for the Arts.
You saw out feature piece and video already, right? (OK, if not, go here and check 'em out.)
The video concerns the installation of a giant wallscape on Ohio state University's Lincoln Tower. It's "the greatest." (You figure it out.)
As if the exhibition itself, the only one ever of its scope of Leibovitz' work, a national arts story and a part of the 200Columbus year-long celebration, wasn't enough, there's plenty happening in conjunction with it to add to the fun.
Start with the selection of Leibovitz as the recipient of the 14th Wexner Prize. This would be a big deal in and of itself, but to have the prize presented during the run of the exhibition (in November), and for Ms. Leibovitz to be able to participate in additional activities at the Wex, makes this all the more cool.
For interactive fun, check out the 200 Cameras project. This blog explains it, although since it's a couple weeks dated, best guess is the cameras are all gone. However, note the following line: "But just because you may not get a camera doesn't't mean you can't participate." Read more!
Wexner Center director Sherri Geldin also made sure we knew that the presentation of center faves The Builders Association in November was "deliberately schedule to coincide" with "Leibovitz." The BA production is titled "Sontag: Reborn," and is a portrait of the late Susan Sontag, who was Leibovitz' partner.
Lots to see and do as regards this exhibition.


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Hi, I'm Jabbs.
I have this Idea that I have been working on for a few months. It is building a Quadcopter from scratch. what I want it to do is be able to navigate a room without hitting a wall. As of now, I have an Arduino Uno, A Seeed Motor shield, a Parallax Ultrasonic Ping sensor, and a Grove Dual motor Driver (or I2C motor Driver). Also, two DC Brushed motors for testing purposes as of now.
what I have done so far was attach the shield to the arduino, and the I2C to the shield via the grove connection wire and uploaded the I2C code onto the arduino provided by Seeed wiki. I attached the motors and nothing happened.
first question, the motor shield has 13 ports for the grove connectors, where can I find which port to connect the I2C to?
Second, any tips for connecting the Ping sensor to the arduino? or if it is even possible with the motor shield on top? that will be tough
And if you have any general advice, I would definitely appreciate it. thanks


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By John D. Schulz, Contributing Editor,
Logistics Management
Sometimes it's possible to teach an old shipper new tricks. Just take the case of Chicago-based Edward Don & Co., a 92-year-old foodservice equipment and supply company whose corporate slogan is "Everything but the food."
Edward Don operates nationwide from its six full-service distribution centers (DCs) using its own fleet plus a network of national carriers. And although it stocks over 12,000 items in its DCs, the company sources 50,000 items from a network of over 3,000 suppliers. Often, the logistics operation will instruct suppliers to ship direct to the customer, bypassing their DCs to expedite delivery and to save handling and transportation costs.
However, just few years ago Edward Don's efficiency was being challenged by a series of logistics issues. Its competitive bid process was skewered, complex, and not always data driven. Jennifer Blattner, the company's corporate traffic manager, recalls negotiating rates separately with a series of trucking partners, but was unsure that it was always securing the best rate. When there were problems, it was difficult to ascertain the cause because carriers rarely were held accountable.
For shipments direct from vendor to customers, the process was even more uneven. Vendors were not always encouraged to seek out the most favorable trucking rates, and there was no single set of guidelines for securing trucking partners, making compliance haphazard. And when exceptions to normal delivery times occurred, there was very little recourse.
The solution came in the form of a thorough self-examination. Blattner and the logistics team discovered that they had to change the way the company procured logistics. However, what began as an attempt to realize savings on its LTL freight bill actually expanded into a fully functional logistics solution.
Back in 2007, Edward Don was already using TranzAct Technologies' Freedom Logistics program to handle its bill-payment. But under Blattner's direction and with the support of upper management, the company expanded its use of the tool in order to take full advantage of its LTL procurement and management capabilities.
"We had been managing our own LTL carrier contracts forever," recalls Blattner. "We didn't ship a lot of outbound LTL to customers, most of our freight spend was inbound, but we do a lot of drop shipments. I thought we had a good handle on things, but we started to look at whole pie, not just a piece of it."
Like a lot of shippers and corporate traffic managers, Blattner decided to delve deeper into her company's operations. She wanted to know exactly how carriers were hired, their strengths and weakness, and, perhaps most importantly, in which geographic areas special carriers offered the strongest chance of rate savings.
Her story, and how she and the company achieved sustainable freight spending efficiencies over the past six years, is a terrific example of how a shipper with complex distribution needs can partner with a third-party in an effort to put the latest technologies to work to achieve new savings in transport operations.
Having already enlisted a third party for its freight payment services, Blattner and the company decided to let that partner take over management of its entire transportation network, which included outbound LTL to its customers and inbound LTL from manufacturers.
"It was a full outbound and inbound program, and the promise was over 10 percent in savings," says Blattner. "How could we pass this up?"
The decision was made in early 2008 to alter the existing procurement strategy. Edward Don first chose to change the master tariff covering all its carriers, a moved that involved collaboration with its carrier partners. All of its LTL carrier representatives were invited to Chicago for three days of meetings to explain the changes.
"It was all or nothing," recalls Blattner.
The carriers' national sales reps then met with their local sales team and representatives of Edward Don's six DCs to get input from that critical level. "That was extremely important," says Blattner. "We manage it from corporate level, but the day-to-day problems at handled at the DC level. We wanted those people to still own that part of the operation with their local reps."
Previously, Edward Don had been using about eight LTL carriers. Those incumbent carriers were invited to resubmit bids using the Freedom Logistics program. Blattner says that one of the principal benefits for the carriers was the ability to receive accurate and complete information up front. First, it analyzes the shipper's own freight history to determine shipping lanes, volumes, and carriers employed. Then it develops a unique "freight profile" by examining the type of freight shipped.
The program than models the potential savings for the shipper and develops a request for procurement (RFP) before choosing the most efficient mode and carrier. After conducting that review, the eight incumbent LTL carriers Edward Don had been using were retained after they submitted new bids. "They were retained, but on different levels," says Blattner.
Following the process, about three or four new LTL carriers were added to Edward Don's network. From a systems operations standpoint, says Blattner, the change was pretty smooth. "But bringing on new carriers was a learning curve," she admits. "We understand that change is hard for everyone, and here are nuances to our business. Our customers are restaurants, schools, hospitals and institutions, and they often require specialized delivery services, such as inside delivery and lift gates. It's not standard freight."
Operationally, carriers had to be told exactly what was expected—and vice versa. Blattner says that "getting to each other from operational standpoint" was the biggest hurdle. That was overcome through the diligence of Edward Don's DC personnel becoming open to working with new carriers, and their new ways of conducting business and operations.
According to Blattner, the savings were significant. Last year, company officials reported that they saved 7 percent on their LTL freight spend, while its savings over five years have been nearly 12 percent on a sustained basis. "I'm really not surprised by the results, but I'm definitely pleased by it," says Blattner.
The rating tool helped Edward Don determine the most efficient weight rating of shipments. It can also provide accurate transit times. The web-based rating/routing engine and optimizer identifies the preferred mode and carriers to use for a given shipment—both cost and service comparisons are available. The information can also be extended to other customers within, or external to, Edward Don's operation.
According to Blattner, the company doesn't use the tools on a day-to-day basis for its everyday freight. Instead, it uses it for vendors when using drop shipments. And since supplier-direct shipment is a common occurrence, the company extended the use of the rating software to its suppliers so they could route direct shipments to customers and employ the company's preferred carriers and enjoy their preferential rates.
Instead of those vendors getting rates from just one carrier, it uses the new freight rating tool to get their own freight estimates. "Our accounting group then uses it to apply freight charges to vendor invoices," says Blattner.
Yet another tool in the program keeps a 16-month rolling history of freight invoices. Edward Don uses it as an analytical tool, pulling all pertinent information to analyze vendors to see if they're using the most efficient carriers. "This simply allows us to work with vendors to use the most efficient carrier," adds Blattner.
In this delicate area, Blattner says she uses a "three strikes and you're out" approach. If she discovers vendors are not using the carrier with the best freight rate, she gives them one strike. "If you do it three times in a row, three strikes and you're out and you get penalized."
Edward Don also uses the program to perform auditing on the back end. Routine freight charges are paid automatically by TranzAct, "but if there is anything they can't audit, we can see it on web site and approve it," says Blattner. "It's very timely information and we can take that and run our own analysis on the back end."
For example, Edward Don can take its rating information and compare it with SAP information. For instance, vendors who don't fulfill an entire purchase order with one shipment can be highlighted through use of the data analysis. "This particular feature has been extremely beneficial," says Blattner.
Vendors who had been shipping one item in a shipment were also asked to combine into larger volumes. This resulted in hard savings because Edward Don worked with so many different vendors.
Blattner adds that having complete access to data was useful in other ways as well. She found that it was a complete analytical tool, not just a freight payment mechanism. Through her carrier partners, Blattner was able to analyze and improve Edward Don's supply chain network on an ongoing basis, creating new efficiencies in her network—and new savings for the budget.
The technology provider also supplies Edwad Don with a shipper-branded web-based inquiry for suppliers to receive routing instructions—as part of this process they're supplied with the preferred routing minus the carriers' cost. The company then uses TranzAct's StarBrite reporting tool to audit performance-to-plan to ensure that their suppliers use the proper carriers. In the event they don't comply with the routing instructions, the company will charge the suppliers back for the difference between the company's rate and the actual movement rate.
To accelerate its order-to-cash cycle, Edward Don extended use of the rating methodology to its accounting department. Accounting employs the tool on supplier-direct shipments to determine what the pre-paid shipment cost for the invoice should be, and that amount is added to the invoice.
If Edward Don waited for the carrier freight bill to arrive before it produced the invoice for the product there would be a substantial delay. Now it has the ability to receive the freight bill, match it to the order, and transcribe the shipment costs before the invoice could be completed and sent.
Employing these tools to pre-determine shipping costs allows Edward Don to invoice the customer immediately. According to Blattner, the reporting system has been particularly important to the company during the past several years when staff reductions occurred.
"I think it makes my job easier, but it's opened our eyes to some other things," Blattner adds. "I used to make more work for myself, but now the work I'm doing is improving our company's performance overall."


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Thursday, December 17, 2009
Family Milestones: December 17th
My paternal 6th-great grandfather, Robert HAINES, was born on this date in 1741 in Burlington County, New Jersey. Robert was the son of Jeremiah and Hannah (BONNELL) HAINES. Robert married May 17, 1766 in Burlington County, New Jersey to Rachel VENICOMB, daughter of Francis and Rachel (LIPPINCOTT) VENICOMB. Rachel was born circa 1742. They had 10 children. Rachel died March 30, 1817 in Burlington County, New Jersey. Robert died June 21, 1821 in Burlington County, New Jersey.
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2012 Las Rocas Rose
Description: Las Rocas wines hail from Calatayud, in the southeastern corner of Spain's Aragon region, where the air is dry and the terrain is unforgiving. Against all odds, Garnacha vines thrive on the steep, rocky slopes here, creating some of the world's most sought-after wines. The Bodegas San Alejandro growers' cooperative cultivates grapes from hundreds of small vineyards in Calatayud – many with vines more than 80 years old – to create the rich, robust flavors of Las Rocas. Winemaking Notes: The Garnacha grapes for our 2012 Rosé were harvested in mid-October at very low temperatures. This rosé was made using the saignee method; after a brief maceration of eight hours, the juice was drained from the skins. Fermentation occurred in stainless steel tanks for 12 days at a maximum temperature of 61°F. Following fermentation, we racked the wine and allowed it to settle for 36 hours before bottling.
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The Children's Guild is a nonprofit, child-serving organization dedicated to serving children and adolescents with trauma disorders, who have been traumatized by life experiences or who have autism spectrum disorder and/or multiple disabilities in Maryland and Washington D.C. Founded in 1953, The Children's Guild has become one of the largest providers of special education, group living, treatment foster care and family mental health services in Maryland.
TranZed: Our Philosophy
The Children's Guild programs are guided by Transformation Education (TranZed), an organizational philosophy that fosters a culture of flexibility. This culture creates management and staff who are agile thinkers. This assures children are treated as individuals and taught the way they learn best.
TranZed also infuses the beliefs and values of The Children's Guild into the look of its physical environment, child-caring and educational approaches, the mindset of its employees, and its operating systems. The design of the physical environment and the approaches used to care for and educate children are based on the newest findings in neuroscience, and therefore creates an enriched, brain-compatible environment. This philosophy has been proven to:
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Basilisk move
Updated November 29, 2012
The SWGEmu Staff
Basilisk move
Due to random issues with our current server we are forced to move Basilisk and our Database to a new box.
UPDATE November 29th 2012
Since this announcement was posted our host FDC started experiencing numerous network issues too. Because of that and because of the constant hardware failures and random server box crashes we have decided to switch hosts and we will be moving our server to SoftLayer Technologies, Dallas 05 data center. They are a bit more expensive but come highly recommended, we will adjust our monthly donations goal accordingly.
Here is brief a summary of what is happening:
- At around 1PM EST (check your local time here) Basilisk, our Database and our Global registration will be taken offline.
- Basilisk and Database will being moved to a new machine in Dallas, Texas
- The SWGEmu Website, Forum, our IRC server and TC: Nova will remain as they were.
Basilisk and our Database will experience an extended period of downtime (approximately 24 hours, but we are not sure how long it will take to copy all of our files from one box to the other). The downtime will allow us to backup Basilisk Database and move Basilisk and our Database to the new machine and have it tested and ready.
During this downtime our global registration will be disabled to prevent creation of bugged or broken accounts.~ The SWGEmu Team
PLEASE NOTE: To do all this a Database wipe will not be necessary, all your characters, items, credits, XP, etc will be saved.


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She can't do the Triple Lundy, but she's a whole lot better looking than Rodney Dangerfield.
Phyllis Reffo, a 49-year-old former model and mom of two who took up swimming six years ago, made the Pepperdine University swim team. She swims the 100- and 200-yard individual medleys, and the 50 and 100 breaststroke events.
"In a short period, I went far beyond anyone's expectations," Reffo told NCAA.org. "I just kept going. I would do a 4,000-yard workout, then I would do that workout twice a day. I wasn't the fastest, but I wasn't the slowest, either. I was able to keep up with the 19- and 20-year-olds."
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Reffo, who lives in Malibu, was working out in the pool at a junior college in Santa Monica, swimming and water polo coach Steve Contarsy invited her to work out with his swim team. She wound up competing on it for the last two seasons.
After finishing junior college, Reffo applied to nearby Pepperdine and contacted Waves swim coach Nick Rodionoff. She has two years of competition eligibility remaining.
"It is funny, because I'm older than some of my teammates' parents," said Reffo, who plans to major in physical therapy.
Like Thornton Melon, Dangerfield's character who competes on his son's college diving team in the 1986 classic Back to School," Reffo has a whole career behind her, or actually two. In the 1980s, she was a fashion model, working in London, Tokyo and Milan. She later worked in finance before settling in Malibu with her ex-husband and raising two daughters.


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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- J.J. Redick led a potent Clippers attack with 26 points Monday and Los Angeles scored 78 first-half points in its 137-118 rout of previously unbeaten Houston.
Chris Paul struck for 23 points and dished off 17 assists while Jamal Crawford drained six 3-pointers en route to 21 points for the Clippers, whose first-half output tied a club record.
Blake Griffin had 18 points to go with seven rebounds and Jared Dudley added 15 points as Los Angeles improved to 3-1 starting the season.
Omri Casspi came off the bench to net 19 points and grab nine rebounds for the Rockets, who had begun the season with three straight wins.
James Harden (15 points), Chandler Parsons, Jeremy Lin, Francisco Garcia (14 each), Dwight Howard (13, nine rebounds) and Greg Smith (12) all reached double figures for Houston.


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Cody Bartz
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I was born in Bemidji, Minnesota, which is in the north central part of the state. I grew up on a farm in the small town of McIntosh, Minnesota. I returned to Bemidji for college to study art and graphic design. That is the time and place that my love for outdoor activities really began. I got a taste of canoeing, kayaking, mountain biking, rock climbing, hiking, backpacking, and running.
The things I enjoy most are biking and hiking. I commute to work regularly and run many errands by bike. I also enjoy hiking as it is the most basic of human powered activites - put on your shoes and go! In the past two to three years I have been more and more interested in making hiking and biking trips longer. I like to bike camp and backpack and spend the night outdoors.
My experience is not extensive, but I am trying to get outdoors more regularly. I have done around a dozen overnighters by bicycle, bringing along items to camp. My longest bicycle trip was 400 miles over roughly 6 days on the Mesabi Trail in northern Minnesota.
My most recent longer trip was in June 2013 - I backpacked and did a through hike of the 300 mile Superior Hiking Trail in northeastern Minnesota. I did it in a relatively light and fast way by completing the trail in just over 12 days, covering 24 miles a day.
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What does it mean for business educators?Mazza, Carmelo; Strandgaard Pedersen, Jesper; Alvarez, José Luis (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In the last decade, scholarly interest has been mainly attracted on the nature of knowledge, mechanisms of knowledge production and the transformation of the institutions diffusing knowledge. Most of these studies share the underlying hypotheses that management knowledge "travels", as a package, from producers to passive receivers. A few exploratory attempts have envisioned an alternative perspective based on the idea of "knowledge consumption". Managers are active receivers of institutionalized knowledge in the course of enacting their organizational roles. Building on this last perspective, first we try to outline the process of knowledge consumption. We describe how sources of knowledge are selected, knowledge is acquired and consumed by assuming that managers are active consumer of management knowledge. Then, we construct the process linking the flows of management knowledge in organizations and the flows of action performed by managers. We sustain that knowledge has to be first dis-embed from the context and artifacts it is in to be translated into a portable form—a standardized artifact, a logic of action, etc. Then, specific courses of action are required to re-embed knowledge in new artifacts, practices or routines (e.g. a budgetary procedure, an organizational process, etc.). So, to re-embed knowledge in new contexts, managers have to mobilize resources and build consensus on the specific courses of action. By assuming this process, two consequences are derived: first, the dis-embedding/re-embedding process is not the outcome of conscious planning; it goes back and forth, allows for controversial or "hypocritical" moves, at least in the short run. In any case, once management knowledge is translated into logics of action, managers have to use their imaginative power to share these logics to mobilize constituencies on priorities and undertake specific courses of actions This supports the idea that the managerial role is intrinsically political. Second, management education cannot simply deals with managerial recipes and rules of thumb. It is increasingly asked for providing non-technical knowledge to help managers exert their political role. To mobilize constituencies and create consensus on controversial decisions, technicalities could be less relevant than business-unrelated knowledge. We hold that has a relevant impact on both the institutional settings and the content of management education. The paper is structured in three parts. First, a framework is proposed to describe management knowledge consumption. Second, we outline the process linking consumed knowledge with actual managerial action. Third, the impact of this perspective on the structure of the institutions diffusing knowledge and on the idea of what is needed to make managerial decisions are explored. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6671
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towards optimal distinctivenes in European film makingAlvarez, José Luis; Mazza, Carmelo; Strandgaard Pedersen, Jesper; Svejenova, Silviya (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Abstract. This paper advances a micro theory of creative action by examining how distinctive artists shield their idiosyncratic styles from the isomorphic pressures of a field. It draws on the cases of three internationally recognized, distinctive European film directors - Pedro Almodóvar (Spain), Nanni Moretti (Italy) and Lars von Trier (Denmark). We argue that in a cinema field, artistic pressures for distinctiveness along with business pressures for profits drive filmmakers' quest for optimal distinctiveness. This quest seeks both exclusive, unique style and inclusive, audience-appealing artwork with legitimacy in the field. Our theory of creative action for optimal distinctiveness suggests that film directors increase their control by personally consolidating artistic and production roles, by forming close partnership with committed producer, and by establishing own production company. Ironically, to escape the iron cage of local cinema fields, film directors increasingly control the coupling of art and business, hence forging their own "iron cage". "[T]he unusual and paradoxical place that Pedro [Almodóvar] has been able to find: we are within the industry but we preserve our peculiarity." (Agustín Almodóvar, 2001). Optimal distinctiveness: "social identity is viewed as reconciliation of opposing needs for assimilation and differentiation from others." (Marilynn Brewer, 1991). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6672
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Cowboys blow 23-point lead as Packers prevail
Arlington, TX (SportsNetwork.com) - Eddie Lacy's 1-yard touchdown run with 1:31 to play completed an epic Green Bay comeback as the Packers got past the Dallas Cowboys, 37-36.
Trailing by 23 points to start the second half, Green Bay scored touchdowns on its first five possessions of the final 30 minutes, while Tony Romo had another meltdown in the fourth quarter.
The rally matched the biggest comeback in Green Bay history, as the 1982 team clawed its way from a 23-point hole to defeat the Los Angeles Rams.
With the victory, Green Bay (7-6-1) has managed to stay alive in the chase for the NFC North crown thanks to consecutive wins despite signal-caller Aaron Rodgers still on the sideline as he recovers from a fractured collarbone.
"This was an excellent team win today. I can't tell you how proud I am of every player, coach and person on the sideline. We all know what the score was at halftime. We just stayed the course," said Packers coach Mike McCarthy.
The Packers sit in third place in the NFC North, behind Chicago (8-6) and Detroit (7-6). Detroit hosts the Baltimore Ravens on Monday night.
Matt Flynn, Rodgers' replacement under center, threw for 299 yards and four touchdowns with an interception on 26-of-39 passing, with Lacy finishing the game with 141 yards on 21 carries and a score while adding four catches for 30 yards.
Dallas (7-7), meanwhile, stays a game back of Philadelphia for first place in the NFC East, as the Eagles lost to the Vikings on Sunday.
Romo looked strong for much of the game and went 29-for-48 for 358 yards and two touchdowns overall, but his final two possessions ended in interceptions. The first one led to Lacy's go-ahead score and his second sealed the victory for Green Bay.
"I think if you play long enough you'll have plenty of big wins and tough losses, this was one of the tough losses," said Romo. "We just didn't do enough in the second half to win this game."
DeMarco Murray had another strong game for Dallas, carrying the ball 18 times for 134 yards and a score along with four catches for 19 yards.
Dallas held a 12-point lead after Romo and Dez Bryant got together on a 5-yard score to finish off a 10-play, 80-yard drive with 7:55 to play. The drive saw an interception overturned early in the possession.
Green Bay, though, came right back with a 10-play, 80-yard march of its own. Flynn converted a 3rd-and-6 with a 14-yard pass to Andrew Quarless, and Jarrett Boykin catching another pass for 27 yards down to the Dallas 7. Two plays later, Flynn found James Jones in the end zone from three yards out to make it a 36-31 game with 4:17 to play.
The Cowboys converted a third down, but Romo's short pass to Miles Austin was a little behind and Sam Shields came up with the interception to give Green Bay the ball back at midfield.
An 18-yard catch from Quarless and a pass interference call got the ball into the red zone. After a 3-yard run by Lacy to the 1 to set up 1st-and-goal, Lacy again took the ball in to give Green Bay its first lead of the game, 37-36, with 1:31 to play after the 2-point conversion failed.
Two plays later, Romo threw another bad pass to his right, with Tramon Williams coming up with the diving catch. The play was initially ruled an incomplete pass, but a replay overturned the call and Green Bay went into the victory formation.
Dan Bailey kicked a pair of field goals from 47 and 23 yards out, sandwiched by a Mason Crosby 57-yard field goal, before Dallas found the end zone on its third touch.
Following another three-and-out from the Packers, Dallas took a 13-3 lead going into the second quarter as Romo hit Jason Witten in-stride near the 10 and he took it in for a 25-yard score.
Dallas' second touch of the second quarter bore fruit, as the team got a 43- yard field goal from Bailey. The eight-play, 48-yard drive saw Austin catch a pass for 20 yards on the first snap.
Flynn was then picked off by Sterling Moore, setting up a 50-yard field goal from Bailey for a 19-3 lead with 3:45 to play in the first half.
Getting the ball back right after the two-minute warning, the Cowboys got a 37-yard catch from Bryant to cross midfield. Catches of 15 yards from Austin, followed by a 16-yard grab by Bryant set up Murray's 1-yard bull rush into the end zone for a 26-3 lead going into the break.
The first snap of the second half saw Lacy take a handoff 60 yards to the Dallas 20. Three plays later, Flynn found Jordy Nelson in the end zone from 13 yards out to make it a 26-10 game.
Dallas answered with an 11-play drive that ate up 6 1/2 minutes, with Bailey hitting his fifth field goal of the game and second from 50 yards out for a 29-10 lead with 6 1/2 minutes left in the third.
Flynn guided the Packers on another successful drive, finishing the march with a 3-yard scoring toss to Quarless to make it a 29-17 game with 1:09 to play in the third. Green Bay converted a pair of third downs on the drive to keep it going.
After a short three-and-out, the Packers found the end zone for a third straight time as Flynn hit James Starks with a short pass in the middle, and he took it in on an 11-yard score to make it a 29-24 game with 12:47 left in the game.
Game Notes
Bryant finished the game with 153 yards and a score on 11 catches ... Boykin led the Green Bay receiving corps with six catches for 83 yards ... There was 899 yards of total offense, with Dallas supplying 466 yards and controlling the ball for 31:40 ... Dallas plays at Washington next week before finishing off the regular season at home against Philadelphia ... Green Bay hosts Pittsburgh next Sunday and finishes its regular season in Chicago ... Green Bay has won three straight against Dallas ... Each team was penalized seven times.


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hi friend i am having problem with " this" refernce when it is passed as an agrument in any method . as everbody knows this alawys point to current live object , i am having few doubts about it . if any body has tutorial which explains is in details then plz provide me the link. a video would like icing on cake.here i am goin to post an j2me code plz help me to understand it
import javax.microedition.lcdui.*; public class demo extends MIDlet implements CommandListener { Form d1; TextField t1,t2; Command c1; Alert alert; public void startApp() { d1=new Form("Form1"); t1=new TextField("Enter Your Name","",10,TextField.ANY); t2=new TextField("","",20,TextField.ANY); Command c1=new Command("OK",Command.SCREEN,0); Command c2=new Command("Exit",Command.SCREEN,0); alert=new Alert("Field Empty","Text Field is empty",null,AlertType.ERROR); d1.append(t1); d1.append(t2); d1.addCommand(c1); d1.addCommand(c2); d1.setCommandListener(this); [COLOR="Red"][SIZE="3"] // i want to know about which object to "this" keyword is poiniting . is pointing to "d1"? is it possible to that "this" to/or can be made point to other object other than "d1" [/SIZE] [/COLOR] Display.getDisplay(this).setCurrent(d1); [COLOR="Red"][SIZE="3"]//is "this" here pointing to DISPLAY OBJECT or any other [/SIZE][/COLOR] } public void pauseApp() {} public void destroyApp(boolean unconditional) { notifyDestroyed(); } public void commandAction(Command c,Displayable d) { String lbl1=c.getLabel(); String lbl=t1.getString(); if(lbl.equals("")) { t2.setString("Field Empty"); } else { t2.setString("Hello "+lbl); } } }


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Friday, March 30, 2012
Here come the HULKS!
When Panini UK reluctantly had to close Fantastic Four Adventures last month due to falling sales another title was needed to take its place on the schedule. And who better than The Incredible Hulk, who will be one of the stars of the Avengers Assemble movie in a few weeks?
The Incredible Hulks No.1 is out now from WH Smith and other newsagents, with a titanic 100 page premiere issue for the usual price of £2.95. Yes, that's "Hulks" plural, for this comic reprints the recent American editions where ol' greenskin had a whole team of Hulks.
Personally I think the Hulk works better as a loner and I feel the addition of multi-hulks only dilutes the concept of him as one against the world. On the other hand, it's good to see new twists on the old concept. The Hulk has been around for 50 years now and "team Hulk" is just the latest spin on keeping the character fresh. I hope the title changes to Incredible Hulk (singular) soon though. "Hulks" just sounds daft.
This issue reprints stories from the American edition of The Incredible Hulks Nos.612 to 614. Next issue, the comic adds the Red Hulk with stories reprinted from Hulk.
The Hulk was the first Marvel character I saw, back when Odhams began reprinting his saga in Smash! in 1966 (see here for details). I've read it on and off ever since, so it's good to see him back in his own British title. If you haven't kept up with the character for a while this is an interesting jumping on point.
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- Harry Rickard said...
That sounds utterly ridiculous - Hulk was always a loner. I never liked Hulk but I preferred him more when on his own - I didn't like the adventures that also featured She-Hulk who irritates me just as much.
Plus that title is terrible. Still, maybe it will be all right. But I know I won't be buying any copies soon.
- Saturday, 31 March 2012 at 09:56:00 BST
- Lew Stringer said...
My favourite Hulk stories are those from the 1960s, although that's to be expected as they were the ones I grew up with. It was a great saga though; one long continued story, rather than the comparatively shorter 'story arcs' of other Marvel comics of the time. And it defined the character well as a sympathetic loner with the whole world against him. Giving him a family, even a dysfunctional one, moves too far away from the heart of the concept to me, but good to see them keeping the comic fresh anyway.
- Saturday, 31 March 2012 at 11:28:00 BST
- Dr Andy Oliver said...
Same here. Loved the early stuff. Great artwork around then with Trimpe. I still get a warm feeling inside when I see Buscema's work as well. It seems that latter day Marvel have lost the plot with the hulk. Nothing interesting seems to have happened or worked for about the last 20 years (exception being Planet Hulk IMHO).
- Saturday, 31 March 2012 at 12:35:00 BST
Picked up the first issue on a whim.
The Hulk has certainly changed since my day ! There's now a whole army of them and it's more of a space fantasy than a superhero comic.
I guess it's a tribute to the enduring nature of the character that it lends itself to this kind of re-invention. I think it's a bit of a shame though that supporting characters like Betty Ross and Rick Jones have been Hulked up.
Takes away from the uniqueness of the character. Can't really imagine Spider-Man's entire supporting cast suddenly getting the same super powers.
- Sunday, 1 April 2012 at 06:52:00 BST


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Sony's latest home cinema system looks set to give micro-speaker pioneer Bose a run for its money. The DAV-150's sub-woofer is a big as you'd expect but the five satellite speakers are small enough you could paint 'em with dots and play a game of dice.
Sony's DAV-150: let's hear if for the small speakers
The five satellites and the two-way sub-woofer come alongside a compact DVD-playing system unit and a handy remote control. The who shebang's capable of pumping out 450W: 200W from the bass unit and 50W apiece from the satellites.
The secret's in the sub-woofer, Sony said. The bass unit supplies not only the deep notes but can fill the room with mid-range output, leaving the diminutive satellites to pick up the higher sounds and create the sense of immersion.
Sony's DAV-150 DVD unit: touch-sensitive and upscaling
The DVD player has an HDMI port among others, and can upscale standard definition content to 720p and 1080i HD resolutions. Plug in a Sony Bravia LCD TV and the HDMI port can also be used to send control signals to the screen, allowing it to be turned on automatically when you switch on the DAV-150, for example.
Sony's DAV-150 remote control
The DAV-150's on-board controls are touch-sensitive, and optional extras include Wi-Fi and Bluetooth modules for getting content off PCs, phones and cameras, and docks for iPods and Sony's own MP3 players.
Sony's DAV-150: the works
Aimed initially at the US market, the DAV-150 goes on sale in July. There's no word yet on European availability.
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Well I am sure that has happened. But I reckon it's a lot less common than the other way around.Yudron wrote: Yes, that is how we look at things here, and --if it really is manipulative--as an American Feminist I certainly agree. I'd like to point out that it is not uncommonly a female disciple that is initiating things. Culturally, the lama would not see it as "using his position to convince students," he would just see it as an invitation for a mutually enjoyable encounter.
Even if a teacher has a student who makes it clear they are sexually available – he should proceed with extreme caution. In my twenties, I was an associate professor at a regional college for a few years and there were several occasions when some of my students would not have required much persuasion to get into bed. I was single and not much older than they but, realistically, it was just something that I could not countenance. I had a duty to keep it professional. It would have upset the whole teaching dynamic. I could not have been fired for it but I don't think I would have got much support from my colleagues or my other students either. I don't see the relationship between a Buddhist teacher and a student to be different in that regard.


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It's official. The New York Police Department have admitted that all nine people wounded yesterday in the Empire State Building shootout were from bullets they fired at Jeffrey Johnson.
CNN's David Ariosto reports the NYPD said the two officers that confronted Johnson fired a total of 16 shots. "One officer shot nine while another one shot seven," they said. Police commissioner Ray Kelly explained the injured bystanders were hit by ricocheting bullets. The shots hit "flowerpots and other objects around, so ... their bullets fragmented and, in essence, that's what caused the wounds." Thankfully, most of the victims have been treated and released from the hospital already.
The next question the NYPD will have to answer is why the two officers needed to fire 16 bullets to take down one man who, as we can see in the video, was only a few feet away from them. People began to suspect the nine wounded were hurt by NYPD bullets yesterday when the math didn't add up. The .45-caliber pistol Johnson used carries eight bullets. Five of those were used to kill the victim, two were left in the chamber, and one was found unfired on the ground after the shootout.
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I'm a Spazz, You're a Spazz
A few days ago, I noticed that the date was 03/03/03. My first thought was, "hey, that's pretty cool." My second thought was, "man, I need a life." In some senses, I am a giant dork. This is most certainly one of them.
I used to look forward to every January 9th, because the date would be something like 1/9/97. My favorite times of the day are 12:34 and 1:23, and I even get excited when I notice the clock has hit 2:22. The be-all end-all of coincidental time has happened twice in my life - August 8th, 1988, and September 9th, 1999. Something that special won't happen again until November 11th, 2011. Just think - it could be 11:11 on 11/11/11. Twice in the same day!
I'll admit it - I think stuff like that is cool. Though I shouldn't use the word cool - maybe "neat," "keen," or "swell" would be more appropriate. Those are words my parents are more likely to use, which makes sense since doing anything that dorky is something people my age pretend is exclusive to our parents.
But we're all tremendous dorks in one way or another. I had a friend in college that epitomized the traditional definition of cool. He got tons of girls, stayed out late partying, knew almost everyone on campus, and could hold his liquor like no one else I've met, before or since. But if you got him into a conversation about computer science, his eyes would light up.
We don't become our parents as we get older. We were always our parents. To some, this is a very upsetting revelation. I'm sure I will get many letters telling me how unlike your parents you are. But you know who else writes angry letters to columnists? Your parents.
Dorkiness is not just limited to the fans of Star Trek and Dungeons and Dragons. Any obsession has a component of dork involved. Watching a football game on a Sunday is usually seen as pretty cool. But how many of you have fantasy teams? Dorky. The Simpsons are undeniably cool. But when you can quote any line in any episode, that is, well, kind of dorky. For a guy, a magazine like Maxim is pretty damn cool. Writing in to them once a week in the vain hope that you'll win the caption contest? Pretty damn dorky.
I have a fantasy football team, know every line in every Simpsons episode, and the only thing stopping me from writing in to Maxim is the fact that I write for them. I guess writing for Maxim is pretty cool. But telling people I write for Maxim? Pretty dorky.
Think about your life for a moment. Do you separate your t-shirts into piles based on their color? Do you keep the bills in your wallet in descending numerical order? Do you read newspaper columns about why you're dorkier than you think? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you're not only dorky, you're human.
Everyone has a side to them that appreciates order and knowledge. Well, everyone who has the mental capacity to read an 800-word column without stopping for air or a dictionary. As you age, you don't change - the perception around you does. I've often heard stories about how in high school, the crew that started off as popular wasn't as popular towards the end. It's because people around you begin having the courage to admit that they post to internet bulletin boards, that they schedule detailed itineraries of their road trips, and that they kept the beads from the time they went to Mardi Gras three years ago, in order to save the 50 cents it'd cost to buy new ones in case they ever go back. You know you do it. So do I.
I am physically fit. I wear a black leather jacket. I was president of my fraternity. But I am the first to admit that I, like everyone else, am a big, big dork. I schedule my life through my palm pilot, I prefer conversations on the meaning of life to those on how drunk I am, and I keep my CDs in alphabetical order. And in the past few years, I've even started to willingly spend time with my parents. But not while they're writing angry letters to columnists, because I don't want to interrupt them.
So befriend your deep-down dweeb. Embrace your secret spaz. Welcome your disguised dip. And love the part of you that could come up with three separate alliterative sentences to describe hidden ways of being a loser.
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Salaam,I'm half Palestinian and was born in Lebanon (the other half is Italian and Lebanese if you're wondering). I'm applying this cycle but I haven't decided where I'm going yet. There have to be more than three of us this cycle... where is everybody?By the way, I've been wondering what other Arabs / Middle Easterners checked for ethnicity on their applications. It's been an ongoing question for me.


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Mitchell Johnson puts Australia in control of against South Africa
Fast bowler takes up where he left off against England
Australia's Mitchell Johnson celebrates with team-mates after the dismissal of South Africa's captain Graeme Smith during the second day of the first Test match in Centurion, South Africa. Photograph: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters
Mitchell Johnson picked up where he left off in the Ashes, taking four wickets as Australia moved into a strong position on day two of the first Test against South Africa at Centurion.
Johnson excelled in the 5-0 whitewash over England, claiming 37 scalps, and tapped into that same form immediately as the Proteas reached stumps on 140 for six.
That left the tourists 257 runs ahead and firmly in the driving seat after Johnson removed Graeme Smith, Alviro Petersen and Faf du Plessis in a fierce new ball spell before returning to account for all-rounder Ryan McLaren.
Earlier, Steve Smith reached his fourth Test century and Shaun Marsh finally fell for 148 in Australia's 397 all out.
Australia added exactly 100 runs to their overnight tally, subsiding shortly after lunch as the hosts took their sixth wicket of the day.
Smith resumed on 91 and gathered the nine runs he needed for his first hundred against opposition other than England, but departed the following over without scoring again as McLaren found the edge of the bat.
Unlike Johnson, wicketkeeper Brad Haddin's Ashes form eluded him as he followed for a duck, lbw to Robin Peterson.
South Africa continued pressing and finally dismissed Marsh, who passed his previous Test of 141 by seven runs before Vernon Philander had him held at slip.
Johnson and Ryan Harris ensured the Australia tail did not buckle, adding 43 runs in 11 overs with some entertaining strokeplay, only to fall within five deliveries.
Steyn clean bowled Harris for 19 and ended the innings by doing the same to Peter Siddle, while Johnson hit six boundaries in his 33 before Peterson struck again.
The Proteas' response was only 10 balls old when Johnson sent Smith packing with a brutal bouncer that reared up to hit the bat handle and into the hands of a tumbling Marsh at slip.
Johnson's third over yielded a second success, Petersen going hard at a wider one and feeding Haddin at the wicket, before he made it 23 for three with a world-class delivery at Du Plessis.
Clocked at over 93mph, his short ball was destined for Du Plessis's helmet before the batsman managed to fend it away to a waiting Michael Clarke.
With Johnson out of the attack, South Africa attempted to rebuild only for Hashim Amla to play around a full ball from Peter Siddle and fall lbw on review.
AB de Villiers showed he had the guts for the fight when he pulled the returning Johnson over fine leg for six and his partnership with JP Duminy took the score into three figures.
Duminy had contributed 25 when he attacked spinner Nathan Lyon and instead succeeded in picking out Johnson, whose memorable day continued with a smart one-handed catch.
His third spell continued the theme as he clattered McLaren's off stump, but De Villiers held firm to reach stumps on a gritty 52 not out.


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Maria Carter grew up in a small town in the Missouri Ozarks. She graduated from Reed College in Portland, Ore. with a degree in economics. After a year off, she returned to her home state to study journalism at the University of Missouri, receiving her Master's degree in 2004.
Maria started working at KCUR as an intern and was later hired as a general assignment reporter. She covers local politics and anything else happening in the Kansas City area. In 2006, she spent a month in northern Louisiana, lending a hand at the local public radio station and covering the thousands of evacuees temporarily in the area.


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Maine fire school selected for more than $150,000 in federal money
BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) � The Maine Fire Service Institute in Brunswick will receive $154,714 in federal money for training equipment.
Rep. Chellie Pingree said Thursday that the money will come from the federal Assistant to Firefighters Grant program. She said it will be used to buy fire protection suits for instructors and portable radios for certification and training exercises.
The Maine Fire Service Institute is part of Southern Maine Community College and is located at the college's midcoast campus in Brunswick. It is a facility that trains and certifies firefighters.


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The leading cause of infant deaths in the U.S. is congenital heart disease (CHD), and Feb. 7 through Feb. 14 has been dedicated as Congenital Heart Disease Awareness Week. Out favorite swaddler brand, aden + anais, has joined forces with Hayden's Heart to help spread awareness and benefit the non-profit organization.
Hayden's Heart
Hayden's Heart is named for a little boy named Hayden Dorset. He was born on March 12, 2012 with a very rare birth defect called hypoplastic left heart syndrome. He spent the majority of his short life in and out of hospitals, and he passed away after just five short months.
However, his legacy lives on through Hayden's Heart, a non-profit organization that serves to help raise awareness for CHD and also helps families that have received this diagnosis.
Hayden's swaddle from aden + anais
Hayden's mom wrote a letter to Raegan Moya-Jones, CEO of aden + anais, and shared her story about her little boy who never went to sleep without being wrapped up in an aden + anais swaddle. Moya-Jones, a mother of four, was touched by the letter and wanted to help do something to honor his memory.
Hayden's Heart Swaddle Blanket (aden + anais, $20) comes in several colors for your little one and features the same classic swaddle design that you've come to know and love. Each 47-inch by 47-inch pre-washed 100 percent cotton muslin swaddle has a unique print that features, of course, a heart, and they have uses far beyond swaddling. They can also be used as a sun shade, a nursing cover, or a lightweight blanket for nap time. As your baby grows, they can be used for playtime, too.
Read more about Hayden's story here and help spread awareness for CHD.
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The dirty little secret of the social networking business is that the quickest and easiest way to make money is to sell advertising to companies that scam their users.
For instance, accepting one advertiser's pitch of virtual currency in the popular FarmVille game ends up signing you up for a $9.99 monthly subscription to a text-message update service -- without the user necessarily knowing that's what they were agreeing to.
It's nothing new online, where even the post office tries to get you to sign up for junk-mail offers when you submit a change of address request.
The founder FarmVille creator Zynga, Mark Pincus, admitted at an event at the University of California, Berkeley that his company helped push malware that proved difficult to remove in order to get its start.
"I did every horrible thing in the book, just to get revenues right away," Pincus told an audience to a chorus of laughs.
Anu Shukla, the founder of OfferPal another company accused of profiting from scammers, was abruptly removed from her position as the company's chief executive officer this week after calling the accusations "s**t, double s**t and bulls**t." The new CEO, George Garrick, admitted to the problem and promised to end the practice and screen every advertiser for potential scams.
Additionally, Facebook (which sells advertising to companies like OfferPal and Zynga) promised that ad networks that abuse users "should expect your business opportunities on Facebook to cease."
However, the money may prove hard to turn down, especially since screening the flood of scammy offers will require more workers, not to mention salespeople to attract legitimate companies to buy advertising.
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