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A management hot button that you're probably familiar with is enterprise resource planning (ERP). Previously associated only with manufacturing firms, ERP has become an all-encompassing term that describes the integrated flow and control of goods, services, and processes down the supply chain. SQL Server and other relational databases typically serve as the data stores under the packaged applications that people use in automating ERP.
Just as OLAP and the balanced-scorecard concepts (see Karen Watterson, "Keeping Score," page 21) are beginning to overlap and converge, so are ERP and data warehouses. And you don't need a lot of imagination to predict other types of convergence: data warehouses and customer relationship management (CRM), or data warehouses and enterprise relationship management (ERM).
These converging trends were evident at last summer's ERP World '98 in San Diego, Calif. According to Roger Eberlin, senior consultant with Hewlett-Packard's data warehouse practice, "Today, customers are building new business applications, such as customer relationship management and campaign management, as extensions of the data warehouse. These new applications are part of a controlled, closed-loop system. Data warehouses have moved from being read-only storage facilities to being business monitors." Feedback from data warehouses is being used not only as the basis for better CRM programs, but also as input for process control and workflow applications.
Have you started thinking about balanced scorecards based on OLAP data, ERP implementations based on SQL Server, and customer relationship management based on data warehouses for career-enhancing projects you might initiate to help your firm's bottom line? If you have, you'll be interested in reading two articles by Thomas Davenport (Harvard Business Review, July-August 1998). He provides a thought-provoking analysis of enterprise systems based on packaged applications from vendors such as SAP. Streamlining data flows throughout an organization can offer significant cost reductions, but systems such as some of the early PC accounting systems are inflexible enough that many organizations find they need to change the way they do business to use the systems. In another article in the same issue, "Welcome to the Experience Economy," B. Joseph Pine II and James Gilmore cover the importance of the customer experience.
Elsewhere, management doyen Peter Drucker writes in "The Next Information Revolution" (Forbes, August 24, 1998) that we're in the process of moving beyond the mere "collection, storage, transmission, analysis, and presentation of data" to understanding the meaning and purpose of data and of integrating it with outside data. "All of the new information concepts," says Drucker, "from economic chain accounting, activity-based accounting, through economic value added (EVA) and the executive scorecard, still provide inside information only. So, of course, does the existing MIS system." Food for thought.


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Pop start: Why <I>iris</I> eyes are smiling
iris magazine (yep, they do that lower-case thing) shows no signs of hiding out in the UVA Women's Center, which has been sponsoring it for many of its 25 years. In fact, iris is beaming into the city.
The release party for the latest semi-annual issue occurred at The Twisted Branch, a Downtown Mall tea room, on November 10. Activities included poetry readings and the musical stylings of local faves Morwenna Lasko and Jay Pun as well as Meloscooter. The $7 admission fee included the latest issue.
From a stapled packet in the '80s to an increasingly glossy magazine for progressive young women, iris features non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and art published by UVA students and four editors.
This semester's theme– Pop!– looks at guilty mainstream pleasures including Girls Gone Wild, as well as music reviews, and even a talk show-host quiz.
Even though the party's over, you can find an issue at select newsstands around Charlottesville.
Coordinating Editor Annie Schutte, Layout Editor Angela Trentacoste, Associate Editor Naomi Ryan, and course instructor Sarah Whitney relax after a semester of hard work.
Margaret Marshall, Shi-Shi Wang, Julia Mackaronis, Libby Burton
Webmaster Andrew Pratt revels in iris glory with Steph Finn
Frank Michael Munoz, Suedmedha Sood, and Kelly Ellis
Jay Pun and Morweena Lasko entertained the crowds until the party wound down around 11pm.
Interns Annsley Chapman and Steph Salter gladly accepted the $7 admission fee.

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In honor of the recent round of comments and questions about Dragonfly (see the previous post for some wonderful stories of how readers first encountered the book), I wanted to give you a few more glimpses into the book's origins. In a long-ago post (still available for reading/viewing on this blog) called "Dragonfly: The Commentary Track," I posted a couple photos of the "Dragonfly Grove" at Niigata University — the little grove of trees under which I had the first concrete sparks of the idea for the novel. But of course, the book began to percolate long before that. As Tolkien wrote: "[A book such as The Lord of the Rings] grows like a seed in the dark, out of the leaf-mould of the mind." The "mould" of fallen autumn leaves that produced Dragonfly lies back across the decades in the little prairie town of Taylorville, Illinois, where I grew up.
In the book's opening chapter, the eponymous main character, Dragonfly, walks down an alley after a school open house. That alley was based directly on the alley I walked down every afternoon, after school, to get to our bookstore.
In that chapter, Dragonfly encounters mysterious figures lurking near the back entrance of the bank.
Dragonfly's Uncle Henry owns and operates a funeral home. From the back door of our bookstore, I could see Shafer's Funeral Home. I remember the visitation for my Grandma Emma there. That experience features largely in the part of the book in which Willie is captured by the denizens of Harvest Moon. I was picturing the interior of Shafer's.


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OK, most of you won't get the Little Walter reference.
But when the thunder goes BOOM BOOM, or even when it starts to rain, snow or - as recently in the GTA - the fog starts rolling in, can everyone PLEASE turn on their full headlights?
Actually, I always advocate turning on all your lights all the time anyway.
But particularly in inclement weather, it is vital so other cars can see you in the reduced visibility conditions.
Some jurisdictions, like New York State, make it mandatory that if your wipers are on, your lights must be on too.
Not sure we need a law to enforce common sense, except the one thing we know about 'common sense' is that it isn't very common.
Take the other night. A Toyota Sienna minivan was trundling along the 401 eastbound around Trafalgar Road (all alone, in the middle lane - Strike One) with its four-way flashers on. The fog was pretty heavy, so I presumed the driver wanted others to see him.
But his headlights were off!
A little further along, a Honda Pilot SUV was again trundling along, again in the middle lane, with NO lights on at all! Not even Daytime Running Lights - must have been a US car, although I didn't notice the plate.
I pulled up alongside and honked.
The driver stared straight ahead.
I pulled in behind and flicked my lights off and on.
The driver stared straight ahead.
I pulled in front of him, again flicking my lights off and on.
The driver stared straight ahead.
Maybe he figured I was a gang member inviting him to a fight. In a Town and Country minivan, with most of my kids in it?
Eventually he did find the little knob on the end of the turn signal lever, and twisted it far enough to turn on his parking lights.
Better than nothing, but really...
Ahead of him by now, I tried flicking my lights again.
The driver stared straight ahead.
He was either brain-dead, or totally unfamiliar with the car he was driving (Never read the Owners Manual? Borrowed, maybe? I don't think you can rent a Honda Pilot) or possibly both.
She Who Must Be Obeyed suggested we just carry on, so we did.
A friend of mine has attempted on various occasions to chat with drivers at stop lights in bad weather, politely suggesting that they turn on their lights.
One recent response, "They come on automatically!"
Um, so why would anyone be suggesting to you that you switch them on?
See, "Brain dead", above.


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All Nate Silver Super Bowl predictions, Beyoncé halftime rumors, and Kate Upton commercials aside, one of the most important things about this Sunday's game is what you will be mindlessly munching as the Ravens and the 49ers battle it out in New Orleans for the championship. We, the American people, have advanced Super Bowl cuisine to astounding heights. What was once a day to eat overly chewy chicken wings and watery celery has now become a gastronomical event of epic proportions, where sauces are extra tangy, fries are soaked in truffle oil, and the beef is Kobe. To honor this sacred feast, we asked America's famous chefs to share what they'll be eating this Sunday—see personal, camera-phone shots of everything from Mario Batali's "eggs in hell" to Michael Ferraro's merguez lamb sausage and truffle corn dogs.


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If you have visited oracle.com lately, you may have noticed the banner ad about our web cast, officially launching WebCenter 11g Patch Set 3. To whet your appetite, here is a screen shot of the portal we built for the launch. The demo walks you through some of the key aspects of this portal, including personalization, analytics, social services, content integration, business user editing experience, as well as the developer's view.
If you want to find out how you can get a hold of this sample, tune in on Wednesday, February 2nd, at 10:00am pst.
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy is shaping up to be one of the biggest storms ever to hit the United States but even with the severe damage that is expected, the blow to the economy is seen as short-term.
Economists say some of the impact caused by businesses closing will be offset by reconstruction efforts, and point to catastrophic storms like Katrina, which devastated New Orleans but did not deal lasting damage to the national economy.
Still, Sandy's sheer breadth - 10 states have declared a state of emergency - means it could hurt this quarter's economic output, even if the long-term impact ultimately proves neutral.
Gross domestic product in the region between New York and Washington amounts to some $2.5 trillion, so that every day the region's economy grinds to a halt amounts to about $10 billion in foregone output, said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics.
At the local level of course, the destruction can be severe, and vary in direction depending on the industry affected.
Peter Morici at the University of Maryland estimates that Sandy will cause about $35 billion to $45 billion in losses and damages but then be followed by as much as $36 billion in recovery spending.
Damage caused by last year's Hurricane Irene totaled as much as $20 billion, he said.
Predicting the impact of Sandy is made all the harder by complexity of the rare, hybrid "super storm" involving other weather systems that could get trapped over the Northeastern United States and amplify inland flooding.
"The range of possible scenarios for Hurricane Sandy remains enormous. There are examples of natural disasters ultimately exacting only minimal toll - Irene - and others having an outsized impact, such as Hurricane Katrina when the (New Orleans) levees broke," said Eric Lascelles, chief economist RBC Global Asset Management Inc. "Really, it is a game of probabilities."
Disaster modeling company Eqecat forecast economic losses caused by Sandy at $10 billion to $20 billion.
The toll from Katrina in 2005 exceeded $100 billion by most accounts. U.S. economic growth slowed in the quarter immediately after the devastation inflicted on New Orleans but bounced back quickly.
The U.S. economy grew 2 percent in the third quarter of 2012, picking up from earlier in the year but still a weak number, as consumer spending helped to offset a worrisome pullback in business investment. Many analysts were already concerned that retail sales could suffer later this year.
Retailers bear a significant brunt of any storm's economic impact as shoppers stay at home. But the last-minute scramble for supplies and emergency goods has a moderating effect on the overall sales declines.
Still, Evan Gold, a senior vice-president at Planalytics, a Philadelphia consulting firm that advises businesses on weather-related matters, was less optimistic about seeing any upside, particularly with Sandy hitting so close to the holiday season.
"If consumers in this part of the country are spending hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars to buy things like generators, or after the storm, to do clean-up, that is likely going to cut into budgets that people might have for their holiday shopping," said Gold.
One thing economists do agree on is that data releases in coming weeks will be even harder than usual to forecast. For instance, the impact of Sandy is likely to skew figures on weekly jobless benefit applications and chain store sales.
"The monthly economic data will become more volatile - October retail sales, vehicle sales, and industrial production will be hurt, but they will bounce back in November and December," Zandi said.
"Restaurants will be hurt, but grocery stores will benefit; general merchandise stores will lose business, but online retailing should get a boost, he added. "Of course, if the storm knocks out major infrastructure like refineries, cell towers, trains, sea and airports, then the economic damage will be more severe and difficult to recover from."
The hurricane has the potential to cause some of the largest losses the global insurance industry has faced this year, but nothing that would strain insurers financially aside from hurting earnings this quarter, according to analysts.
Additional reporting by Phil Wahba and Ben Berkowitz; Editing By Bill Schomberg and Sandra Maler


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SKECHERS Canada BACK TO SCHOOL flash GIVEAWAY
1) GIVEAWAY PERIOD: The Skechers Canada Back to School Flash Giveaway (the "Giveaway") starts Thursday September 27, 2018 at 09:00AM Eastern Time (EST) and ends on Friday September 28, 2018 at 7:59PM EST (the "Giveaway Period").
2) ELIGIBILITY: TO BE ELIGIBLE TO WIN, YOU MUST BE A LEGAL RESIDENT OF CANADA AND AT LEAST 13 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER ON DATE OF ENTRY. GIVEAWAY IS VALID FOR RESIDENTS OF CANADA, EXCEPT WHERE RESTRICTED BY LAW. The following persons are not eligible to participate in the Giveaway: (a) officers, directors, employees and representatives of SKECHERS USA, Inc. (the "Sponsor") or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies; (b) persons engaged in, and persons associated with companies engaged in, the development, production, promotion, advertising or running of this Giveaway (collectively, the "Promotion Parties"); (c) each of the foregoing persons' immediate family members (parent, child, sibling, and spouse of each), as well as persons living in the same household (whether related or not); and (d) residents of Québec. Any eligible minor must have his or her parent's or legal guardian's permission to enter this Giveaway.
3) HOW TO ENTER: No purchase necessary, and no entry fee, payment or proof-of-purchase necessary to participate in the Giveaway. You can enter the Giveaway by:
- Following @skechers.canada on IG
- Commenting your favorite thing about school on the @skechers.canada giveaway post
- Tagging two friends on @skechers.canada giveaway post
- Following /SkechersCanada on FB
- Commenting why you're excited for back to school on the /SkechersCanada FB giveaway post
Limit: one (1) entry per person.
Any individual who, in the sole discretion of Sponsor, is suspected of submitting more than the allowed number of entries, by any means, including, but not limited to, establishing multiple Facebook profiles may be disqualified from participation in this Giveaway. The name of the person submitting the Giveaway entry must be the authorized account holder of such Facebook profile, otherwise entry may be deemed void. In the event of a dispute over the identity of a potential winner, the entry will be decided upon by confirming the authorized account holder of the Facebook profile which submitted the winning entry at the time of entry, and the potential winner may be required to provide identification sufficient to show that he/she is the authorized account holder. It is the sole responsibility of the entrant to notify the Sponsor in writing if the entrant changes his or her Facebook profile during the Giveaway Period.
Proof of submission of entry does not constitute proof of delivery of entry. All entries become the sole property of Sponsor. Each entry submission must be manually key stroked and manually entered by the individual entrant; automated and/or repetitive electronic submission of entries (including, but not limited to, entries made using any script, macro, bot or sweepstakes service) will be disqualified and transmissions from these or related Facebook profiles, Twitter profiles, Instagram profiles, e-mail or IP addresses may be blocked.
- Instagram: One (1) grand prize winner, selected at random, will win a pair of Skechers Kids Boy's or Girl's shoes for their child (subject to availability).
- Facebook: One (1) grand prize winner, selected at random, will win a pair of Skechers Kids Boy's or Girl's shoes for their child (subject to availability).
Approximate retail value of all Prizes: $180 CAD.
5) RANDOM DRAWINGS FOR PRIZES/DEADLINE DATES: Random drawings to award the Prizes will be conducted from among all eligible entries received during the Giveaway Period. The random drawings for the Prizes will be held at about 8:00PM EST on Friday September 28, 2018. The random drawings will be conducted by the Sponsor. Odds of winning a prize depend on the number of eligible entries received. Entries submitted are only eligible for this Giveaway. By entering this Giveaway, all participants agree that all decisions made by the Sponsor regarding matters relating to the Giveaway winners are final.
6) WINNER NOTIFICATION AND PRIZE FULFILLMENT: The potential winners will be notified by Instagram direct message. Any winner who does not respond to notification attempts within five (5) business days will result in prize forfeiture and an alternate winner may be selected at Sponsor's discretion. Any winner notification returned as undeliverable without a forwarding address will result in prize forfeiture and an alternate winner may be selected at Sponsor's discretion. Certain terms and conditions may apply to gift cards, see gift card for details. The potential winner (or potential winner's parent or legal guardian, if potential winner is under 18) may be required to sign and return to Sponsor an Affidavit of Eligibility with (where lawful) a liability and publicity release for receipt by Sponsor by the due date indicated in the notification letter. If any required documents are not returned within the required number of days, or if any correspondence is returned as undeliverable without forwarding address, then prize may be forfeited and an alternate winner may be selected at Sponsor's discretion.
7) GENERAL: Except as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion, no substitution of prize is available, nor is any transfer of prize to a third party permitted. All federal, state or other tax liabilities arising from this Giveaway are the sole responsibility of each respective prize winner. Prizes are not redeemable for cash.
8) CONDUCT: By entering this Giveaway, entrants agree to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor (which shall be final and binding in all respects). These Official Rules are accessible under the 'Notes' tab of the SKECHERS Performance Canada Facebook page throughout the Giveaway Period. Failure to comply with these Official Rules may result in disqualification. Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual suspected of tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Giveaway, or to be acting in any manner deemed by Sponsor to be in violation of the Official Rules, or to be acting in any manner deemed by Sponsor to be unsportsmanlike or disruptive, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. CAUTION: ANY USER, ENTRANT OR OTHER INDIVIDUAL WHO DELIBERATELY ATTEMPTS TO INTERFERE WITH OR OTHERWISE UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE Giveaway OR TO DAMAGE THE BUSINESS OR PROPERTY OF SPONSOR OR ANY OF THE PROMOTION PARTIES MAY BE SUBJECT TO CRIMINAL PROSECUTION OR CIVIL LIABILITY TO THE FULL EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW.
9) LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY: Sponsor and Promotion Parties assume no responsibility or liability for (a) any incorrect or inaccurate entry information, or for any faulty, failed, garbled or jumbled electronic data transmissions; (b) any unauthorized access to, or theft, destruction or alteration of entries at any point in the operation of this Giveaway; (c) any technical malfunction, failure, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or communications line failure, regardless of cause, with regard to any equipment, systems, networks, lines, satellites, servers, computers or providers utilized in any aspect of the operation of the Giveaway; (d) inaccessibility or unavailability of the Internet or any combination thereof; (e) any injury or damage to participant's or to any other person's computer which may be related to or resulting from any attempt to participate in the Giveaway or download any materials in the Giveaway; (f) any injuries, losses or damages of any kind caused by a prize or resulting from acceptance, possession or use of a prize, or from participation in the Giveaway; or (g) any printing, typographical or technical errors in any materials associated with the Giveaway. If, for any reason, the Giveaway is not capable of running as planned for reasons which may include without limitation, infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which may corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Giveaway, then Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Giveaway in whole or in part.
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Socialite Lydia Hearst-Shaw is no "Mean Girl."
The heiress-turned-model took to Twitter to refute rumors that she plans to play a Lindsay Lohan-like character in an upcoming satirical biopic based on the embattled starlet's life.
"Just so we are all clear, my hair is red because I am the new face of Schwarzkopf color," Hearst-Shaw tweeted. "I am a model. I dyed my hair to front the campaign."
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She added, "At this time I am not officially signed onto any other projects."
Screenwriter Charles Casillo, who is linked to the comedy "Dogs in Pocketbooks," recently told the New York Post that the 26-year old would play a "bratty movie goddess in and out of rehab ... obviously based on Lindsay Lohan."
The Lohan clan bristled at the thought of Lilo's likeness hitting the big screen and mulled legal action, with mom Dina Lohan claiming they had a "strong case" against the film's producers.
"They are again using her likeness without her being compensated. ... Not only that, but they are advertising the fact that the yare using her likeness," family attorney Stephanie Ovadia told TMZ on Monday.
But Casillo said he meant no disrespect to the troubled actress, who is currently a patient at the Betty Ford Center.
"[The movie] is no way mean-spirited towards Lindsay," Casillo told the Post. "It's the kind of thing she has spoofed about herself in the past. It's more of a satire about the crazy people around her and the situation they generate. It satirizes the obsession with modern celebrity."


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Gerard Butler's appearance on The Jay Leno Show is now up for viewing online. Gerard appeared on the show to promote Law Abiding Citizen, shared stories of his visit to India, how he loves to get naked and took the lead in the Green Car Challenge! Watch the full episode below (At this time, Hulu and NBC Direct Video is only available within the United States):
REMINDER!! Gerard will appear on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson this evening. This appearance was taped on October 7th. Check your local listings for channel information and tune into CBS!


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Auburn, Ala. – The 2013 Auburn football non-conference schedule will include home games against Washington State, Arkansas State, Western Carolina and Florida Atlantic. Auburn's annual Spring Game, A-Day, will be held on April 20, 2013.
Auburn will open the 2013 season on Aug. 31 when it welcomes Washington State to Jordan-Hare Stadium. The Tigers host Arkansas State on Sept. 7 before beginning SEC play on Sept. 14 at home against Mississippi State. The Western Carolina game is slated for Oct. 12 with the Florida Atlantic game on Oct. 26.
The Tigers were originally slated to play Jacksonville State in 2013, however a scheduling conflict could not be resolved.
The 2013 SEC schedule, which was released last week, includes home games against Mississippi State (Sept. 14), Ole Miss (Oct. 5), Georgia (Nov. 16) and Alabama (Nov. 30). Auburn's SEC road schedule will include games at LSU (Sept. 21), Texas A&M (Oct. 19), Arkansas (Nov. 2) and Tennessee (Nov. 9).
The 2013 season will include two open weeks as the Tigers will have open dates on Sept. 28 and Nov. 23.
Aug. 31 WASHINGTON STATE
Sept. 7 ARKANSAS STATE
Sept. 14 MISSISSIPPI STATE
Sept. 21 at LSU
Oct. 5 OLE MISS
Oct. 12 WESTERN CAROLINA
Oct. 19 at Texas A&M
Oct. 26 FLORIDA ATLANTIC
Nov. 2 at Arkansas
Nov. 9 at Tennessee
Nov. 16 GEORGIA
Nov. 30 ALABAMA
Open Dates: Sept. 28, Nov. 23
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Carlos Althier de Souza Lemos Escobar–known as Guinga–is a Brazilian composer and guitarist. He is known for incorporating many musical styles in his compositions, including choro, samba, baião, foxtrot, blues, jazz, and classical music. Guinga's compositions have been recorded by such artists as Paulo César Pinheiro, Elis Regina, Cauby Peixoto, Leila Pinheiro, Sérgio Mendes, Turíbio Santos, and others.
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FAQ's Tooth Whitening Pros | Questions Smile Whitening Greater London (Westminster)
Using safe whitening gel and a low powered light which will gently remove stains from the teeth without damaging any of the teeth's surfaces or enamel. This provides very fast, instant results which lasts up to 24 months.
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How long does it take?
With the consultation and treatment it takes 90 minutes in total.
What happens if I am not suitable?
This does not happen very often but we reserve the right not to treat customers if they are not suitable or require dental work prior to the whitening.
I smoke will this matter?
Many of our customers are smokers and this makes little difference. With good dental hygiene and having your teeth whitened every 18-24 months you can still enjoy a whiter smile.
Should I change my diet after whitening?
It is not our job to advice customers on changing their diet which could lead to darker teeth colour. We believe the best approach is a combination of sensible diets, good dental hygiene and having your teeth whitened as regular as you need. This way you maintain a healthy lifestyle and whiter teeth!
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I am pregnant can I have my teeth whitened?
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I am looking to get some dental work done – Should I wait what best?
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Welcome to Port City Café & Pub!
Inspired by the warmth and camaraderie of Irish pubs, we are nestled in the Ohio River town of Portsmouth. We feature a blend of classic pub fare as well as local favorites, along with 12 brews on tap and beers sourced both regionally and from the Celtic Isles.
In the evenings, we host group get-togethers, open poetry nights, Pub Quiz nights, and opportunities for local musicians to try out their latest work. On Friday and Saturday nights, sit back and enjoy live music, accompanied by a premium whiskey, wine, or mixed drink special from our full bar.
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In my younger days, I spent a few years in Washington in the hardware procurement business. It was the fad at that time to take the low bid on items no matter how critical to keeping aircraft operating. I asked some of the long time civilian engineers why this was the case. I was told that it was required. They frequently stated, when pressed, that the low bidder on a specific item had a track record of producing an inferior product. My observation was that generally speaking, the low bidder was either low balling the bid to get the business, didn't have a good track record in producing reliable hardware, or hadn't studied the problem as long as some of the higher bidders, and didn't understand all the requirements to make it work. Politically it was a hard sell to take a higher bidder. However, I found that if you did your homework, and could prove that they were either incompetent, or had not done a thorough proposal, you could sell it.
I am not an expert on high speed rail, but I have ridden several of them, as well as conventional trains. From an engineering point of view, there are a lot of precise things that have to come together for a smooth, reliable, and safe ride. In my opinion, they should go for a company that has experience in building high speed rail, and has the reputation for reasonably reliable cost estimates. Believe me, it is far less expensive to do it right the first time than to spend two or three times the original estimate to fix a lousy product. Ah, Politics!!
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A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
I've always mistrusted the adulation that greets Martin Scorsese whenever he makes a new movie. I wasn't around for the glory days of the New Hollywood generation of film directors making their mark in the 1970s, of which he was, of course, a principle member. His reputation as a master of gritty poetic realism was built on films like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and Mean Streets and I can understand their importance to American cinema of the 1970s and '80s. But what has always bugged me is his media-appointed status and de facto role as America's Greatest Living Film Director. I just find such a distinction to be inherently suspicious. He's a relatively apolitical filmmaker who, in his most successful films glorifies (whatever his intentions) a criminal underclass that is meant to embody the aspirational drive of Americans for success and material wealth whatever the cost. Goodfellas is a seamless rush of images and sound. It's a great film, but I've always felt that some of the greatness accorded it by critics and audiences (and his other films like it) is based in part on an obvious celebration of his one dimensional psychopathic characters. What are we really celebrating when we call him America's Greatest Living Film Director? I'm not totally sure.
That said, the man knows a lot about movies—he is almost as famous for his films as he is for boasting an encyclopedic knowledge of film history and the way a film's subtext is made manifest through directorial technique. He also has excellent taste. Scorsese is the perfect guide to the world of American film and this BFI-produced documentary, in which he shares with us some of his favorite films, is a pleasure to watch for its three hour duration. He starts out by saying that this is a project for him to talk about his favorite films and that he can only vouch for their importance to him as part of the formative experiences that shaped him as a film director.Continue Reading


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has dealt a setback to a deal between two private companies that left one as the owner of the only two hospitals in a southwestern Georgia city.
The justices ruled unanimously Tuesday that lower courts improperly dismissed complaints that the merger, aided by a public hospital authority, created a monopoly in hospital services in Albany, Ga.
The Federal Trade Commission tried to block the deal by arguing that it violated federal antitrust law.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in her opinion for the court that an exception in antitrust law for actions taken by a state or its agencies — in this case, the hospital authority — did not shield the transaction from federal antitrust concerns.
Lower federal courts allowed Albany's Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital to buy Palmyra Medical Center from Hospital Corporation of America for $195 million over the FTC's objection.
Both hospitals now are nominally owned by the Hospital Authority of Albany-Dougherty County, but run by the Phoebe Putney Health System under long-term leases. The money for the Palmyra purchase came from the health system, not the authority.
The court has long accepted that the some business deals that lead to monopolies that otherwise would raise antitrust concerns are allowable if they are done by states. But in such cases, the states have to explain clearly why competition is not in the public interest and they have to ensure a level of control and oversight of the monopolies.
"We hold that Georgia has not clearly articulated and affirmatively expressed a policy to allow hospital authorities to make acquisitions that substantially lessen competition," Sotomayor said.
The hospital authority tried to persuade the justices that the merger was the cheapest way to find additional bed space and still serve the poor. But not a single justice accepted that argument in the end.
The case is Federal Trade Commission v. Phoebe Putney Health System, 11-1160.
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LOS ANGELES — The next Academy Awards promise to be one of the most inclusive ever for people of color.
LOS ANGELES — The next Academy Awards promise to be one of the most inclusive ever for people of color.
As many as a dozen black filmmakers, actors and actresses are expected to be in the running for Oscars in major categories such as director, actor and supporting actress when nominations are announced on Jan. 16.
Yet despite recent efforts by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to expand and diversify its ranks, the overall group of 6,028 Academy Award voters remains much more white than the diverse group of filmmakers likely to be shortlisted for the best work in 2013's movies.
The academy has invited 452 people to join its ranks over the last two years, an unusually high number even though 20 of them were non-voting slots. By accepting more members, the academy hoped to bring more women and minorities into the organization.
Although the two new classes are noticeably more diverse than in past years, they failed to change the face of the academy in a material way because new members make up such a small percentage of the entire constituency, according to a Los Angeles Times analysis.
Even with the 432 new voting members, the overall academy is still 93 percent white, a decrease of less than 1 percent from what the Times found in a 2012 membership study, and 76 percent male, also a less than 1 percent decrease from what the Times found two years ago.
John Ridley, an African-American screenwriter who wrote the "12 Years a Slave" screenplay, took note of the irony: From all outward appearances, this is a banner year for diversity in Hollywood.
His film, directed by the black filmmaker Steve McQueen, received seven Golden Globe nominations, and other black-themed films including "Lee Daniels' The Butler" and director Ryan Coogler's "Fruitvale Station" are getting awards-season buzz. "Gravity," by Mexican-born director Alfonso Cuaron, is also considered a strong bet for Oscar recognition.
"It's been a terrific time for people of color," Ridley said. But "black people especially have a long way to go" in gaining better representation behind the scenes, he added. He said the academy data prove "it will take a long time to change."
The academy does not release demographic information on its members. To conduct its analysis, the Times, using public records and private databases, was able to confirm the race, gender and age of all but 45 of the 432 new voting members.
Both classes from 2012 and 2013 were about 69 percent male. The 2012 class was about 87 percent white and now has a median age of 50, while the 2013 class was about 82 percent white and has a median age of 49, the Times analysis found.
"It certainly reads better than it has. So we are moving in the right direction," said Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the academy's first African-American president, who was selected in July. Improving diversity, she added, is a "constant goal."
The average age of academy members also continued to inch up — from 62 to 63 — despite the organization's efforts to bring in younger people. That's a difficult trend to reverse because there are far more existing members than new members, and those existing members are all another year older.
Partly in response to the Times' 2012 study, the academy in April of this year relaxed its membership quotas, which for the preceding decade had limited the number of new members to roughly the same number of members who had retired, resigned or died.
Earlier this year, the academy invited 276 people to become members, including singer-actress Jennifer Lopez, newly appointed Warner Bros. Chief Executive Kevin Tsujihara and tough-guy actor Danny Trejo. The two classes of invitees before that were much smaller — 2012 had 176 invitees and 2011 had 178.
Isaacs reiterated what her predecessors have said: That the academy will not lower its standards simply to make the membership more diverse. People can become academy members in one of three ways: land an Oscar nomination; get a recommendation from two members; or get an endorsement from a membership committee or the academy staff.
At the same time, Isaacs said she has no plans to reinstate the quota system that had limited the number of potential new inductees to match the number of people who had died or left the academy.
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Despite signs that the economy is recovering, research firm ECRI has held to bearish predictions for the U.S. economy.
ECRI co-founder Lakshman Achuthan spoke to Bloomberg's Tom Keene this morning to defend his recession call amid an onslaught of criticism.
Achuthan provided a deeper look at how exactly ECRI makes its predictions, saying that it focuses on year-over-year indicators for output, employment, income and sales, and the consumer confidence index.
In particular, he pointed to the relationship between year-over-year consumption and employment as perhaps the clearest sign that the U.S. is headed back into a recession.
"People need to understand the sequence," he said. "I think the hope is that jobs growth will increase consumption in coming months, but in fact jobs growth follows consumption...There are many instances in which job growth precedes a recession."
If we look at a graph of these two indicators, it is clear that past U.S. recoveries have virtually all relied on consumption growth... and that consumption growth is slowing down.


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Executive Leadership Council's 20th
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The Executive Leadership Council, the nation's premier leadership organization of the most senior-level African American corporate executives in Fortune 500 companies, climaxed its yearlong 20th anniversary celebration at its annual black tie gala, Celebrating our Progress, Facing Tomorrow's Challenges. The awards gala recognized The Council's two decades of building the Black leadership pipeline in corporate America and honored two African American leaders and a pro-diversity corporation. The Executive Leadership Council was founded in 1986 by 19 Black corporate executives -- 18 men and one woman. Today, the organization has nearly 400 members -- one-third of them women.
During this year's annual recognition dinner held October 26, 2006, induction ceremonies were held for 11 of the 20 new members joining The Council. Earlier in the day, 30 CEOs attended The Council's 6th Annual CEOs Diversity Summit and more than 70 CEOs were gathered among the 2,500 Dinner attendees. CEO advocates supporting The Council's mission and message were further highlighted in an inspirational video produced by the Target Corporation for the evening.Â
Award winners recognized at the gala were Dr. Johnnetta Cole, President, Bennett College for Women, winner of the Alvaro Martins Heritage Award, named for The Council's beloved founding member; Council Member, Clarence Otis Jr., CEO, Darden Restaurants, winner of the Achievement Award for his meteoric rise to the C-suite; and Altria Group, Inc., parent company of Kraft Foods, Inc., Philip Morris USA and Philip Morris International, winner of the Corporate Award for their pro-diversity efforts.Â
Hip-hop music relating the story of The Council's founding was performed by young artists from Studio 4-High School for Recording Arts in Minnesota's Twin Cities during the procession of CEOs and senior African American executives representing The Leadership/Legacy's 20 corporate sponsors and leaders engaged in a Thought Leadership and Public Recognition initiative to highlight The Council's advocacy.  Â
Other anniversary leadership events included the participation of some 1,500 African American professionals attending the 12th Annual Mid Level Managers Symposium, October 27, and graduation ceremonies for 35 high potential mid-level managers who completed The Council's year long developmental program under the Institute for Leadership Development & Research.
In a message to the organization, President and CEO, Carl Brooks reflected on the Council's amazing growth:
"Over the last 20 years, we have seen substantial growth in our membership, our programs and our impact on Corporate America and our nation. What has never changed has been our unwavering commitment to the key objectives upon which this organization was founded. Today, we still work to provide a much needed network for African American senior executives, developing a robust leadership pipeline of the next generation of globally adept African American business leaders, and serving as a champion of policies and initiatives that promote and spotlight the power of inclusive leadership as well as strengthening the economics of the African American community."
During the anniversary dinner, Brooks declared, "There is power in the Black corporate pipeline," and said the Dinner had succeeded in raising some $7 million dollars.
Actor and producer, Daphne Reid joined her husband actor/producer Tim Reid as emcees for the 20th anniversary event. Reid congratulated Brooks on The organization's success stating, "You have really positioned ELC for the future. Congratulations."
Leadership/Legacy 20
This year, multiple companies sponsored the 20th Anniversary Dinner gala. Global insurance company, AIG, led by CEO Martin Sullivan, was the Lead Dinner Sponsor and leader of the Leadership/Legacy 20 initiative. Thirteen other companies joined AIG in The Council"s Thought Leadership and Public Recognition initiative designed to support The Council and to advance corporate diversity efforts. Â
The title, Leadership/Legacy 20, represents The Council's two decades of advocacy and the leadership of companies -- new and old -- who are collaborating to endow The Council's future and to build a positive legacy of diversity and inclusion within their companies and corporate America. The 14 Leadership/Legacy companies are: AIG, Altria Group, Inc., BP, The Coca-Cola Company, Johnson & Johnson, JPMorganChase, MasterCard Worldwide, The New York Times Company, PepsiCo, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Target Corporation, Tyco International, United Airlines, and Verizon.
Jessica Isaacs, Dinner Committee Chair and Senior Vice President, Field Operations and Global Reinsurance, AIU Personals Line, AIG, said, "We have set new standards for ourselves and we should be proud. Overall, The ELC and its member CEOS are truly changing the corporate landscape and diversifying the senior-most levels of corporations, now more than ever."Â
During his remarks at the recognition dinner, AIG Chairman and CEO, Martin Sullivan challenged Council members to continue to make real change happen and to advance the business case for diversity with the vital pipeline of highly skilled professionals and executives. He also acknowledged that, diversity efforts must be supported by CEOs.
Council board member Laysha Ward, Vice President, Target Corporation, emphasized the need for The Council to keep building the pipeline of talent at companies. The next generation of leaders are already at our companies" She said. A special video created by Target echoed the success of The ELC and the impact of African American senior leaders through provocative insights offered by Fortune 500 CEOs Ken Chenault, American Express; Jeff Immelt, General Electric; Anne Mulcahy, Xerox and Clarence Otis Jr., Darden Restaurants. Immelt and Chenault explained why African American corporate leaders are community role models to influence the next generation.
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20th anniversary events recognized The Council's founding members and the advocacy of African American leaders in education and the corporate C-suite, as well as CEO leaders supporting The Council and the Next Generation.
Dr. Johnnetta Cole felt in union with the mission of the organization. She said, "The mission is what I believe in and work for -- education. The ELC is helping Black folk to soar to the corporate arenas and beyond." She reminded everyone to reach back and help others.
Clarence Otis, Chairman and CEO of Darden Restaurants, who has roots in Mississippi, said his parents prepared him for success. "They prepared us for unlimited possibilities by teaching us to work hard and seek excellence and with that we could do anything," Otis stated.Â
Council Member, Ingrid Saunders of Coca Cola also helped recognize the 19 leaders of the past, those who are leading us now and the young leaders who will lead us in the future, inviting ELC Youth Scholarship winners, Council leaders and the 12 founding members represented onstage.
A special salute
The moving 20th Anniversary dinner program ended with a very special guest -- the 2006 Grammy Award winner John Legend, who shared his link to the ELC. Legend, who holds an MBA, began his business career under the mentorship of ELC member, Jim Lowry with The Boston Consulting Group. After graduating college, Legend worked for The Boston Consulting Group, but continued performing and touring with nationally known recording artists such as Musiq Soulchild, Jaheim and Floetry. The entertainer's big break came when he was introduced to hip-hop artist and producer, Kanye West and was later featured on albums by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys. During the ELC event, Legend performed and shared songs from his new album.
Other performers during the recognition dinner included the Sherry Winston Band, and artists Donte Suttles and Aleesha Clomon from Minnesota's Twin Cities High School for Recording Arts, performing youth oriented, message music highlighting The Council's history and the activism of Black executives in corporate America.
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Last year I began to hear discussions about the adoption of the NGSS and saw a lot of chatter about using Legos to help teach young students about Engineering principles. I saw the anxiety on the faces of some of my teachers as they tried to digest these new standards and new concepts, and thought, in addition to locating appropriate texts to support their lessons, it might be a good idea to be able to provide some Legos for checkout. I knew it would crush my budget to buy Legos, so I put a request out on Facebook to see if anyone had any Legos they wanted to offload, and within about 10 minutes I had a MAJOR Lego donation.
I spent most of the remaining year trying to steal minutes and recruit kids to help me sort the Legos, but by the middle of the October this year, I realized it was just not going to happen, and that I needed to create some awareness that we had them available to use. After a lot of thought and some Internet searching, I could see where something like a Lego table would be a great way to generate collaboration amongst students and create some excitement and awareness around this donated resource. Of course, a "real" Lego table would be another budget crusher, so I knew it was time to get creative, and checkout Pinterest.
Originally I had intended to go to a Goodwill and buy a coffee table to use in my conversion, but I had so much luck with the Lego donation, that I put another request out on Facebook to see if anyone had a coffee table they wanted to unload. And just my luck, I had an offer of a chest style coffee table from one of my library volunteers - all I had to do was get a truck to move it!
I picked the coffee table up around Thanksgiving and used Thanksgiving break to convert it to our library Lego table. The table is AWESOME, and after looking at it, I knew I was going to be able to use it ways that I had previously not imagined. I love providing students with space to write and plan, and with a little chalkboard paint, I knew this table had just the space I needed to give students building and planning space.
- Chest style coffee table
- Sandpaper
- Primer
- Valspar Chalkboard paint
- Drop cloth
- Sponge style paint brushes
- Paint sticks
- Paint trays
- Strong, multi-surface adhesive like Gorilla Glue
- Lego base plates - I used a generic brand I found through Amazon -just be sure you read the reviews to make sure they are actually compatible with the Lego brand.
- Cover your floor with a drop cloth and get all your materials ready.
- I first sanded out the rough spots on the table and wiped everything clean to make sure I got good coverage
- I primed the entire surface of the table using a basic white primer. Some people suggest using a tinted primer, and this may have helped with coverage of the chalkboard paint.
- I then applied three layers of chalkboard paint to all but the area where the Legos would go. I was afraid the adhesive wouldn't stick to the chalkboard paint.
- I wait at least 24 hours for the paint to set.
- I then glued the base plates on using a strong adhesive. I stacked encyclopedias on top of the base plates to help them adhere better during the drying phase.
- I waited three days before using the table - just to be super conservative:)
Our first collaborative project was to use it to build the setting of Because of Winn Dixie, which we just finished as our first 1 book, 1 school project. The kids were able to leave notes for each other on the sides of the table and label things they were working on.
For the most part it worked out really well. I reminded students that their job was to "Create Only" they weren't allowed to destroy anything another student had made although they were allowed to build onto something someone else did. I also explained that whatever we built was "Ours". It didn't belong to one person, but we all had a responsibility to respect it. They really understood that and showed a lot of cooperation and respect. The overall impact was awesome.
I'm hoping to use this more for things like:
- Habitat creation/research
- Stop action movies
- Engineering challenges
- Genius hour research projects
- Teacher generated projects for NGSS
Do you have a Lego table in your library or classroom? What do you use it for? I would love to hear about it:)


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Michael Weiner has a radio show. For obvious reasons, he has chosen to do the show under the name Michael Savage instead, and "The Savage Nation" attracts a few million listeners per week. They listen, in part, to hear Savage rant on conservative topics. On October 29, 2007, listeners were rewarded with this bit of enlightened monologue on the topic of Muslims:
What kind of world are you living in that you let them in here with that throwback document in their hand, which is a book of hate. Don't tell me I need reeducation. They need deportation. I don't need reeducation. Deportation not reeducation. You can take CAIR and throw them out of my country. I'd raise the American flag, and I'd get out my trumpet if you did it. Without due process. You can take your due process and shove it... Wherever you look on the Earth there's a bomb going off or a car going up in flames, and it's Muslims screaming for the blood of Christians or Jews or anyone they hate.
There's more... much more (Savage believes that "90 percent of them are on welfare," for instance), and it's not surprising that the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) might have a different view. CAIR posted a four-minute excerpt of this show on its website along with a rebuttal, and Savage then filed a lawsuit against the group, alleging copyright infringement.
Savage's legal filing stands in a class by itself. Little of the filing talks about copyright at all; the vast majority is an extended rant about "CAIR and it's [sic] terror connections" and how the group was "tied to terror from the day it was formed."
Savage isn't just upset about copyright; in fact, he complains at one point that his remarks were taken out of context and that many other selections (i.e., more copying) from his show would indicate his regard for Muslims. Savage is upset that CAIR used the clip to convince some advertisers to pull their support for his show, a practice he seems to think is illegal.
He also makes a racketeering claim against the group and says that "the role of CAIR and CAIR-Canada is to wage PSYOPS (psychological warfare) and disinformation activities on behalf of Whabbi-based [sic] Islamic terrorists throughout North America. They are the intellectual 'shock troops' of Islamic terrorism."
The EFF has now stepped into the debate (Savage refers to them as "liberal attorneys"), helping to prepare CAIR's response. The response, filed on January 30, takes issue with Savage's "172-paragraph legal broadside laced with falsities and xenophobic fantasies to punish and intimidate the Council for American-Islamic Relations." Their point is a simple one: as a matter of law, the US allows anyone to use copyrighted material for the purposes of criticism or commentary.
"Fair use" law in the US is based on four general tests that give fair use its elastic character. But copyright law also contains several specific exemptions, including the one for criticism. The EFF runs through the four factors: purpose and nature of the use, the nature of the copyrighted work, the amount used, and the effect of that use on the value of the copyrighted material.
The EFF believes the lawsuit was a brazen attempt to "use copyright law to punish a vocal critic," and the group points out that using copyright law to stifle dissent has become a common practice against critics on either side of the political spectrum. Michelle Malkin was treated to a DMCA takedown notice last year, for instance, after using clips of the performer Akon in a critical video post.


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MENLO PARK — Facebook introduced a host of new privacy controls on Wednesday that give users easier ways to determine who can see their posts and photos, while taking away one setting that allows the social network's members to block their "Timeline" pages from turning up when others search for them.
The changes come as Facebook and other Internet giants face continued questions from privacy advocates and regulators who are concerned about how personal information is shared across the Web. Facebook is also under pressure to expand its business, however, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has talked about finding new ways for users to search for friends and other information on the world's largest social network.
Facebook says its new tools should make it simpler for users to set limits on who can see their personal information. The company is modifying its main toolbar to include shortcuts to key privacy settings and also providing more controls in the "activity log," where users can see how they appear in different places on the social network.
Other changes include more explicit requests for permission to share certain information, as well as explanations of where information may appear on the network. These appear as the user takes actions such as downloading an app or decide whether to remove an item from their Timeline.
Facebook is also making it easier for users to ask friends to remove photos they don't like. Overall, the new tools are aimed at simplifying privacy controls that have been criticized as overly complicated and confusing in the past.
But one change may bother some users. Facebook used to have a setting that let individuals keep their "Timeline" hidden from other users who search for them by name. The "Timeline" is a single page for each user where most of their photos and updates are displayed.
Facebook allows users to keep items off their Timeline, although those photos or posts may appear elsewhere on the network. A user who doesn't like her appearance in a friend's photo, for example, can keep it off her own Timeline but can't remove it from the friend's page.
In a blog post, Facebook manager Samuel Lessin said few people use the setting that hides their Timelines, and noted that "the setting didn't prevent people from finding others in many other ways across the site."
Lessin told Reuters news service that the changes should make users more comfortable as they interact on the social network. "When users don't understand the concepts and controls and hit surprises, they don't build the confidence they need," he told Reuters.
Watchdog groups and regulators are concerned about how Facebook and other Internet companies handle their users' personal information. Last year, Facebook settled a complaint by the Federal Trade Commission, without admitting wrongdoing, by agreeing not to change users' privacy settings without their consent.
Earlier this week, Facebook adopted some changes in its terms of service that allow it to combine user data from the social network with information from Instagram, the photo-sharing service that Facebook bought earlier this year. The changes also loosened some restrictions on how users can contact each other on the network.
Some privacy advocates have complained that those earlier changes may violate Facebook's settlement with the FTC, although the commission has not issued any finding on that question. Facebook allowed users to vote on those changes, and more than 500,000 digital ballots were cast in opposition. But that number fell short of the 300 million that Facebook's policy required to make the election binding.
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