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It's okay if you didn't spend thousands of dollars on Super Bowl tickets this year. Turns out, aside from the Seahawks, most of the action happened on social media given the game's scoreline. This year's championship game saw more than 24.9 million tweets, according to Twitter — more than last year's 24.1 million tweets. Here are the best social media moments at the Super Bowl. Tweet your favorite moments to @MarketWatch using #mwsuperbowl.
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13) When opera singer Renee Fleming performed the national anthem.
It was the first time an opera singer sang the national anthem at the Super Bowl. Social media reaction was mixed on Fleming's performance. Some liked it:
Others thought it was too slow:
12) When Joe Namath wore this coat.
Broadway Joe drew attention, once again, for his duds, appearing on the field for the coin toss. He wore a heavy fur coat that harkened back to his days with the New York Jets in the 60s and 70s.
11) And then he flubbed the coin toss.
On the toss, the Hall-of-Fame quarterback quickly threw an interception:
The referee snatched the coin mid-air. Someone — was it Joe or the ref? — had failed to ask Seattle to choose heads or tails ahead of the toss.
10) The Broncos trounced.
Only 12 seconds into the game, the Denver Broncos found themselves down 2-0 after a safety. It was downhill from there, on their way to a 43-8 loss to Seattle.
All game long, folks on Twitter mocked Peyton Manning and the gang for their dismal performance.
9) When J.C. Penney fooled Twitter into thinking they were drunk.
But actually they were just tweeting with mittens.
8) Paul McCartney looked so bored while eating this slice of pizza.
7) When Tim Tebow saved these puppies in the T-Mobile Commercial.
6) And this puppy convinced us to drink more Budweiser beer.
5) The half-time show (as always).
4) Percy Harvin's second-half kickoff return.
Not only did his 87-yard kickoff return give Seattle a 29-0 lead, it also became the most tweeted moment of the night, reaching 381,605 tweets-per-minute, according to Twitter.
3) When Radio Shack took us back to the 80s.
2) When this little fan showed us the agony of defeat.
It was a tough loss for every Bronco fan.
1) And Eli Manning looked sad.
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Social Media Trials and Tribulations in Pharma
"Pharma's Social Media Trials and Tribulations"
A Record of Social Media Events Impacting the Pharmaceutical Industry
The pharmaceutical industry is at a turning point in its adoption of new social media tools and applications for communication with healthcare professionals, consumers, patients, policymakers, and payers. Practically every pharmaceutical company has launched a social media project or application of one sort or another. To be sure, not all these efforts have been successful. This presentation will explore what worked and what didn't by highlighting the major trials and tribulations of pharma's social media "road trip"
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Is the Industry Ready for Social Media? Results of the Pharmaguy Social Media Readiness Self-Assessment Survey
History of FDA's Promise to Provide Social Media Guidelines. What's Gumming Up the Works?
The Major Milestones of Pharma Use of Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. All Offer Useful Lessons.
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Here is my question. Why do the reals need to be "constructed" by this bizarre "Dedekind cut" or "equivalence class of Cauchy sequences" argument? Why can't they simply be "observed" as consisting of all numbers that "span" some known sets of numbers?
I am thinking here, in part, by analogy with linear algebra and with the complex numbers, where $i$, the square root of $-1$, is really all you need, in addition to the reals, to get all complex numbers as a spanning set of $1$ and $i$ over $\mathbb R$. (Every complex number may be expressed as $a\cdot 1 + b\cdot i$ where $a, b\in\mathbb R$.)
We have a couple of known transcendental numbers, $e$ and $\pi$. We have all the rationals. We have all the square roots most of which are irrational. We have all the fractional roots of $e$ and $\pi$. We have the $e$th roots of all the numbers that exist, and the $\pi$th roots. Maybe we also have some other sets of transcendental numbers out there that we can use?
What I am trying to ask is, are we using these "Dedekind cuts" and "equivalence classes of Cauchy sequences" just because we don't "know enough real numbers yet", because their characterization hasn't occurred to us yet, or do we already have enough real numbers in our arsenal, like e and pi, to make a "spanning set" without using equivalence classes of infinite sequences and the like, or, is it the case that we really have to use these kinds of constructions of the reals, for some deep mathematical reason?
It just doesn't seem right. Because you have to admit, by identifying "sets of numbers" like Dedekind cuts and equivalent classes of Cauchy sequences which are both sets of numbers, with actual numbers, mathematicians create (at least in my mind) some cause for doubt about what they are doing here with the reals. A "set" seems like a strangely undefined term, which I understand, but not well, is subject to various kinds of paradoxes and levels of analysis problems. (This last paragraph may be more of a separate question, about the validity of using sets of numbers as numbers, from the first question, which is more about why aren't there simpler ways to define or understand the real numbers in terms of numbers and operations we already understand.)


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Tunbridge Wells West Station Please use local pay and display car parks (listed below) and not Sainsbury's Car Park.
The information below is taken from relevant parking websites.
Major Yorks Road Car Park (also known as Upper Pantiles) - TN2 5TP, Located just off Major Yorks Road at the A26/Pantiles end.
Major Yorks Road is located approximately 15 to 20 minutes walk away from our station, it can be found on the main road as you enter the town from the A264. A height restriction of 2.4m applies to Major Yorks Road car park.
Linden Park Road car park - TN2 5QL located just off the A26.
Charging Periods
Day Rate: Monday to Saturday 8am - 6pm and Sunday 10am - 5pm
Free Parking: Monday to Saturday 6pm - 8am and Sunday 5pm - 8am
For further parking arrangements in Tunbridge Wells please check out Your Parking Space here.
By Train
The best way to arrive! There are excellent public transport links to both ends of our line.
Eridge Station (Southern) has a direct rail service from London Bridge, East Croydon, Oxted and Uckfield. Discounted fares apply if you travel via Eridge and purchase your SVR ticket at the same time as your national network ticket.
Tunbridge Wells mainline station (Southeastern) has direct trains from Charing Cross, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and Hastings. The station is a half-mile (10-15 min) walk from West Station, via the Pantiles, or a short hop on the local bus services.
Arriva operate the 281 service between Tunbridge Wells mainline station and Tunbridge Wells West station (Sainsburys). Within the "Shopper Hopper" zone that includes Sainsburys next to our West Station, you can travel all day for just £1 - See Arriva link here.
Seaford & District Motor Services also operate a 228 / 229 (not Sundays) between Tunbridge Wells and Crowborough, and these buses stop close to both Tunbridge Wells West and Eridge stations.
Brighton and Hove Buses run an excellent service connecting Brighton, Lewes, Ringmer, Uckfield and Crowborough to both Eridge and Tunbridge Wells on routes 28, 29, and 29x.
Metrobus route 291 runs between Crawley, East Grinstead, Forest Row, Groombridge station and Tunbridge Wells.


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Joel Eden is a user experience consultant; Jason Beres is the director of product management at Infragistics.
How you interact with computing devices is about to change. Don't think so? Then consider Apple iPhone, BlackBerry Storm, Nokia N97, Palm Pre, and Motorola CLIQ. They're all touch-screen devices with multitouch, gesture-based user interfaces where you use your fingers to manipulate objects on the screen, with no mouse or keyboard required.
People love them. Shipments of smartphones with touch-screens will more than double in 2009, predicts market-research firm In-Stat. The shift to touch-screens won't stop with mobile phones, as people get used to doing certain tasks with their fingers. And that trend is getting a boost from Microsoft Windows 7, which supports multitouch and gestures.
As touch-screen hardware and tools for developing multitouch applications become more prevalent, businesses of all kinds will want to leverage the technology. Get ready to see it in all sorts of apps, including those used in retail, stock trading, manufacturing, inventory management, healthcare, appliance repair, and delivery services.
Touch-sensing interfaces aren't new -- operations as diverse as the U.S. Postal Service and McDonald's are using them. But these systems are based on users making a single point of contact with the screen, and they don't support gestures. Compare that with the emerging class of multitouch sensing that lets users interact with devices using more than one finger and employing a drag-and-drop capability. For instance, users pinch their thumb and forefinger together to shrink a photo.
Users of MacBook Pro, with its multitouch trackpad for manipulating objects, are familiar with multitouch, but the technology is just gaining traction on other platforms. Besides Microsoft, Qt Software is supporting it with QTouchEvent and QGestureEvent classes in the Qt 4.6 framework.
Microsoft's Approach
Microsoft incorporated multitouch and gesture support in Windows 7 with its WM_Touch and WM_Gesture classes. They provide multitouch support in the following ways:
- Gestures that are trackable as single and multicontact events on digitizers, which are the hardware that converts gesture data to digital information.
- High-resolution support that lets touch-target elements -- what the user touches on the screen -- render more cleanly, making them easier to access.
- Windows management that includes taskbar buttons, Jump Lists, AeroPeek/AeroSnap, and other means of controlling your desktop, managing windows, and launching touch-based apps.
- Touch keyboard with glowing keys enabled as you cover letters on the onscreen soft keyboard.
- Support for Media Center, Internet Explorer, and other programs that have been optimized for touch features such as panning, scrolling, and zooming.
Since gestures are fundamental to the Windows 7 OS, there's no software-based shell (like there is in Microsoft Surface, the company's tabletop computer that supports gestures) to enable these features. All that's needed for an application to have multitouch behaviors is a digitizer, such as Gateway's ZX Series and Hewlett-Packard's TouchSmart, that recognizes multitouch. But there are extra steps involved: For example, you have to ensure that Jump List items on Windows 7 multitouch machines are spaced further apart than those on Windows 7 machines that don't support multitouch.
Consider the following when designing applications that use multitouch:
- Create big targets surrounded by white space to avoid click confusion.
- Avoid hover actions that are prone to be misinterpreted based on the quality and responsiveness of the hardware.
- Consider the form factor of the machine -- netbooks' smaller screens and lower resolutions could affect applications' default rendering and behavior.
- Target user applications that consume information and applications, rather than ones focused on their creation.
Multitouch is also good for quick action and input tasks such as reordering a list. At this point, we wouldn't recommend building a transactional data entry application around it.
To reduce the misinterpretation of basic gestures, Windows 7 created a default set of gestures with standard responses. If you drag your finger downward, you get a scrolling response. Tap on a menu header and a menu drops down in an application or pops up in the Start menu.
Windows 7 default gestures behave similarly across applications and in the OS. (See Table 1 for a list of gestures that Windows 7 supports.)
Microsoft has supplemented this with a "Good, Better, Best" approach to implementation of multitouch in applications; see Table 2.
Multitouch is a great feature of Windows 7 for building rich user experiences. With default legacy support for scrolling, panning, and zooming, applications can have an improved experience without any developer effort. Using the Windows API and convenient interoperability libraries, you can easily extend the experience your applications can deliver.


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Dyson vacuum cleaners are the ultimate in cleaning your space thoroughly and easily, offering powerful cleaning across hard floors and carpets. With a self-adjusting cleaner head that expertly seals in suction, the DC40 has an instant release hose and wand, making it easy to use. The upright Dyson ball vacuum rides on a ball, steering easily into difficult-to-reach places. The cordless model boasts a digital motor, making it powerful yet small, light and easy to handle. The popular DC65 Animal vacuum has a tangle-free turbine that quickly removes dust, dirt and hair, making it the best vacuum for pet hair. All vacuums have hygienic bin emptying, ridding the canister of dirt and debris with the touch of a button. When you need a vacuum that out-cleans the competition, try Dyson for a powerful performance that's built to last a lifetime.
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Barney Butter
I have learned that Barney Butter is as versatile (and delicious!) as it gets. It is tasty on waffles, oatmeal, bagels, toast, crackers, sandwiches, cereal...mmm mmm. And toppings? Applesauce, fresh fruit, jelly/jam/preserves - this stuff goes well with everything!
Not only is the flavor great, but the color is nice too. A perfectly pretty tan :] The only bad thing is that too much of it can stick in the stomach, or on the roof of the mouth. But some hardcore nut butter lovers may adore that. Also, it can get kind of messy. I usually go light on the PB & such, but I couldn't resist piling on the Barney Butter. It spreads very easily, at room temperature or out of the fridge. (Trust me, I tried both ways.)
Thanks, Barney Butter, for the great samples! I will definitely be buying a big jar of this almond butter sometime in the future.


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China Orb, online English to Chinese dictionary with more than 1 million entries and plenty of excellent examples. China Orb includes a lot of English professional terms in many industries such as Medicine, Chemistry, Mechanism, Electricity, Computer, Economy, Law, Architecture. If you can not find satisfying translation elsewhere,try China Orb English to Chinese dictionary.
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Just as with the Playstation Vita, every single game for the PS4 will be available as a digital download. Sony Worldwide Studios Head
Shuhei Yoshida, who has done the lion's share of the talking when it comes to Playstation 4, recently told The Guardian that the company is moving towards digital distribution:
"We're shifting our platform more and more to the digital side – PS4 will be similar to PS Vita in that every game will be available as a digital download, and some will also be available as a disc," he said.
There's a wonderful way in which that simple proposition could be an answer to one of the most vexing developer questions of the next-gen. Rumors that the PS4 would block used games were circulating for months before launch, and while they have not proved true, some of the company's cryptic comments don't rule out a set-up that would make players pay extra to activate a used game. This, however, is what you could also consider a reasonable and effective response to the used games problem – if you download a game, you can't very well bring it into a GameStop. Which means that Sony is making efforts to solve a consumer behavior problem by offering attractive alternatives that work well for everyone involved. Used games will obviously still be sold. But by making digital downloads more attractive, Sony could get legions of consumers to opt out of the Gamestop economy voluntarily.
So, good job there.
What really caught my eye in that interview, however, was Yoshida's theorizing that the company could offer games like a Cable TV provider, on a subscription basis. So, assumedly, there could be different levels of service, and depending on what you chose, you'd be able to play as many games as you wanted. If either console manufacturer achieved the sort of install base necessary to make such a scheme viable on the large scale, it could be a genuine sea change in how games are made.
Considering that the Byzantine economics of Cable TV has inspired the arms race for quality that's given us Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Game of Thrones and even House of Cards, I'm intrigued by what this could mean for games.


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Sweet Ideas for Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes are packed full of nutrients, highly palatable, and due to their fiber content, help digestive tract and bowl health. In short, they're the perfect first baby food for starting solids! Bake sweet potatoes in a 400° oven for 30-60 minutes, or until soft, then scoop out the flesh and use them in these yummy baby food recipes.
See more: The Best First Foods for Baby
Sweet Potato Apple Mash
Mash or puree equal parts steamed or baked sweet potatoes and apples. For older babies and toddlers, you can chop or dice the sweet potatoes and apples for a finger food salad.
Sweet Potatoes and Squash
Steam or bake sweet potatoes and winter squash (like acorn or butternut) together until tender. Puree as needed, adding water to thin, if necessary. For older babies and toddlers, you can chop or dice for a finger food salad.
Peachy Yam Bake
In a bowl, combine 1/2 cup brown sugar (optional) with 3 tablespoons flour, 2 teaspoons wheat germ, and a pinch of pumpkin pie spice. Add 2 tablespoons softened butter and mash with a fork until the mixture is the consistency of breadcrumbs. Arrange yams and peaches in a 1 1/2 quart casserole dish, sprinkle with topping, and bake at 350° for 35 minutes, or until golden.


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The Sun is the star around which Earth and the other planets (and asteroids, and comets) revolve as part of our Solar System. It is the brightest object in the sky, as seen from Earth, but is actually a very typical star when compared to all the other stars in the universe.
After the Copernican Revolution, in which scientific consensus finally recognized that the Earth revolved around the Sun and not the reverse, it was still widely believed that the Sun was, nevertheless, the center of the universe. We now know, thanks to scientific astronomy, that the Sun is only one of billions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy — and is, in fact, more or less on the outskirts of that galaxy, almost midway between two of its major "arms" (see Wikipedia:Milky Way and Wikipedia:Orion Arm) — and that the Milky Way itself is only one of billions of galaxies in the observable universe. Furthermore, modern cosmology holds that there is no "center of the universe" (an implication of Einstein's theory of relativity).
The sun in religion[edit]
"Overnight I became a sun-worshipper. Well, not overnight, you can't see the sun at night. But first thing the next morning, I became a sun-worshipper. Several reasons. First of all, I can see the sun, okay? Unlike some other gods I could mention, I can actually see the sun."
The sun is enormously influential. Even primitive people can see that life on Earth depends on the sun. There is nothing quite like the sun in human experience. Therefore, a link is suspected between sun worship and monotheism. Many ancient religions from Europe and Asia taught that the sun rides through the sky in a chariot every day. Somehow the sun returns to the east to rise again the following morning. Different religions teach that the sun is male or female. Norse mythology imagined that the chariot with the sun runs through the sky with wolves chasing her. Nordic views on the sun. In the sky the sun looks small enough to fit in chariot and ancient people had no way of telling that the sun is very much bigger. The sky is often seen as a vault with the sun and moon running across it. That is how things look so Bronze Age people and Iron Age people did not know any better.
As the days become shorter in autumn primitive people may get fearful. They do not know the geometry of the Solar System. Therefore there is always the possibility that the days will keep on getting steadily shorter till the sun never rises again and life on Earth ends. During autumn there may be festivals with fires to strengthen the weakening sun and prevent the above calamity. A few days after the Winter Solstice or shortest day the Romans held the festival of Sol Invictus or unconquered sun. They celebrated because the sun had overcome the forces that shorten the days and was becoming stronger again. Coincidentally or not Christians celebrate Christmas just then.
Huitzilopochtli was an Aztec sun god. The Latin Americans had neither chariots nor wheels. They had no mythology about any chariot but their sun god needed regular human sacrifices. Without human sacrifices the sun might refuse to move through the sky and might not have the strength to prevent the end of the world which was liable to happen once every 52 years.
Some apologetic arguments are based on a misunderstanding of the role of the sun, such as the argument from the second law of thermodynamics.
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UAE. Almost one fifth of the population of the Middle East – approximately 40 million people – are now living in areas at risk of earthquakes, according to a new open source earthquake risk model released today by CATRisk Solutions and Lloyd's.
The new risk tool uses a bespoke seismotectonic source model to give a more accurate assessment of earthquake risk in: Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
Importantly, the model uses the latest seismic data from all earthquakes that have occurred in the wider Middle East, as earthquake damage is often caused by tremors that occur outside the areas covered by existing risk models for the region.
The Middle East has seen a rapid growth in urbanisation and economic development in the last thirty years. Of the 398 million people spread across the region, 56% live in cities. This figure is expected to rise to 68% by 2025. This combined with the impact of natural disasters is driving a high demand for new risk transfer products and services across the Middle East.
Trevor Maynard, Head of Innovation at Lloyd's, said: "Communities and businesses across the Middle East are unfortunately exposed to a whole host of natural hazards, including droughts, floods, storms and earthquakes. Despite these exposures, the Middle East is one of the few regions in the world that remains largely in the dark when it comes to catastrophe model coverage.
"This new model will go some way to address that gap. By helping to identify and accurately assess risk exposures in the region we can help communities and businesses prepare for and build resilience to natural catastrophes. We anticipate applying the new techniques adopted here to other hazards in the region, such as tsunamis, landslides, windstorms and flood."
Between 1990 and 2014, the Middle East was hit by 200 moderate to large earthquakes, which killed almost 250,000 people and affected 10 million others, according to the new cat model
Mark Cooper, General Representative Middle East, Lloyd's, said: "It is extremely important that Lloyd's as the leading specialist insurance and reinsurance market, helps support local cedents and brokers with innovative thought leadership and commercial intelligence. This earthquake report for the Middle East region, will help those communities increase their understanding of the risks that they face and ultimately drive a more structured, cogent and diagnostic approach to underwriting earthquake risk in the region."
However, the region, with the exception of Turkey and Cyprus, has previously been largely overlooked by catastrophe modellers. Catastrophe (or 'Cat') models are a prerequisite for the provision of (re)insurance, because they allow underwriters to assess the severity and frequency of risk and accurately price their products.
The new model is released on the Oasis platform, a new low cost way of accessing risk models. Oasis is increasingly popular as a platform for risk modelling because – rather than providing a static view of risk – it allows improvements to be added into the model on an ongoing basis, thereby ensuring that it is always based on the latest scientific research.
See www.oasislmf.org for more information.
Photo Caption: Mark Cooper, General Representative Middle East, Lloyd's
⦁ CATRisk Solutions is a scientific company, providing natural hazard and risk modeling software and consulting services to the engineering community, insurance companies, enterprises and governments.
⦁ Seismotectonics is the study of the relationship between the earthquakes, active tectonics and individual faults of a region.
⦁ There is a need for insurance in the Middle East as asset values increase, urban populations continue to grow and insurance penetration remains low.
⦁ For insurance to play its full potential in mitigating and transferring earthquake risk, there need to be better earthquake models for the region.
The model described in this report uses the latest data and new modelling techniques to provide a much-needed, additional earthquake model for the region that is different from others on the market.
⦁ Insurers can buy it through the Oasis platform, an open-platform way of accessing risk models, which allows insurers an accessible and cost-effective way to model risks in general, and in this region earthquake risk in particular.
⦁ This model helps insurers gain a deeper understanding of earthquake risk in the Middle East. It could help them design earthquake insurance products that are specific to the region and provides them with a greater understanding of the exposure risk across their portfolios.


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Perforce Software has announced the release of P4Scout, an application for the iPhone that gives administrators of the Perforce Software Configuration Management (SCM) system real-time access to server status information. P4Scout, available for free at the iTunes App store, lets administrators quickly monitor the status of their Perforce servers from anywhere.
Features of the P4Scout iPhone application include:
- Server status: The status of each server identified is indicated by an icon next to the server name.
- Simple navigation: Save discovered servers, and define and add new ones quickly.
- Levels of information: By clicking on the server name, more detail is available including host and port, version, uptime, time remaining until licenses expire, and number of users (see Figure 1, right). A list of long-running SCM operations is also available and emailing a user who launched the operation is just a tap away.
"Many of our customers have huge Perforce installations supporting thousands of users who access their servers around the clock," said Perforce CTO Christopher Seiwald. "System administration is a big responsibility and we hope P4Scout will contribute to their peace of mind. This new app offers a quick way to check on a server or multiple servers and confirm everything is running smoothly."
Compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch with version 2.0 software, P4Scout was developed with the new Perforce Derived API for Objective-C, which will be available soon from Perforce.
P4Scout is available now for free at the iTunes App store, and it can be downloaded and evaluated free from the Perforce website. This offer includes free technical support during evaluation.


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BERLIN (AP) — This year's Berlin International Film Festival brings together new movies from Wes Anderson and George Clooney with a long-in-the-making production from U.S. director Richard Linklater and a strong contingent of films from China.
Organizers of the "Berlinale," the first of the year's major European film festivals, on Tuesday presented the lineup for the Feb. 6-16 event — its 64th edition. It centers on a main program of 23 movies, 20 of them running for the top Golden Bear award.
Festival director Dieter Kosslick said the event has a program that "looks backward in various ways." The event opens with director Anderson's new movie, "The Grand Budapest Hotel," set at a European hotel in the 1920s and starring Ralph Fiennes, Jude Law and Edward Norton.
It also features Clooney's "The Monuments Men," a drama starring Clooney, Matt Damon and Bill Murray about a World War II platoon tasked with rescuing artworks from the Nazis, which is screening out of competition.
Director-writer Linklater presents "Boyhood," made over more than a decade and following a boy, played by Ellar Coltrane, to adulthood. It also stars Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette.
The midwinter Berlinale struggles to compete for glamour with France's spring Cannes film festival and Italy's summer film gathering at Venice, but it offers a wide global reach and often rewards relatively unheralded movies. Last year's Golden Bear went to "Child's Pose" from Romanian director Calin Peter Netzer.
This year's competition boasts three Chinese films set "outside the glamorous cities" and reflecting a wide variety of genres, Kosslick said. They are Diao Yinan's "Black Coal, Thin Ice," Lou Ye's "Blind Massage" and "No Man's Land" from director Ning Hao.
Latin American competitors include "Praia do Futuro," a gay love story set in Brazil and Germany. Peruvian-born director Claudia Llosa — whose "The Milk of Sorrow" won the Golden Bear in 2009 — returns with the drama "Aloft."
German offerings include "Stations of the Cross" by Dietrich Brueggemann, which tells the story of a girl living in an ultraconservative Catholic community.
An eight-member jury led by "Brokeback Mountain" producer James Schamus will announce the winner of the Golden Bear and other awards on Feb. 15. The festival is also giving an honorary Golden Bear to British filmmaker Ken Loach.


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Using Marketing Automation to Retrieve Abandoned Shopping Carts: Do You Know These 4 Best Practices?
With e-commerce hosting services like Shopify, Magento, or Bigcommerce, almost anyone can open an online store with just a few clicks. To protect their market position against ever-growing competition, companies need to constantly be on the lookout for the most effective ways to convert visitors into buyers. But even if they invest heaps of time and resources in getting more leads into the top of their sales funnel, it's likely that more than 66% of their shopping carts will be abandoned.
And guess what. This problem isn't new. And it's unlikely that the situation will change in upcoming years
So instead of lamenting, let's consider this. What if there were a way to retrieve some of those lost sales? What if you could reach more than 40% of those who leave your online store and talk to them again? What if you could get more than 10% of them to click your offer one more time?
And what if, once set up, the whole process would run automatically, with no extra work?
Why don't we skip the chit-chat and dig into the "hows" of using marketing automation to retrieve lost sales due to shopping cart abandonment.
Why do people abandon shopping carts?
Let's start by trying to understand the cause of the problem. In your local mall, you never see shopping carts scattered around, filled with products, with nobody there (unless you're Woody Harrelson in Zombieland). Yet this is an everyday situation for most e-commerce companies.
But why? Aren't there distractions in a store? Won't your husband or wife call to remind you that you were supposed to pick up your kid from baseball practice an hour ago?
Or maybe it's something else. According to a study by Statista, there are many reasons why online shoppers leave without paying.
And here are the findings from a study conducted by Visual Website Optimizer
If you look at the above graphs closely, you'll realize that most of these situations wouldn't happen in your local mall. Nobody would unexpectedly charge an additional $20 for delivering the groceries to your car. You wouldn't need to pay more for using a credit card or be asked to fill out numerous forms before leaving the store.
Yet these are the obstacles marketers put in front of their users daily. This is easy to fix unless you want to trick your customers (I don't think I need to say this, but I will anyway — don't try to trick customers into paying more, period.)
So let's see how can you go about the sales retrieval process.
Best practice #1
Pop up with the right incentive
Nobody likes unexpected costs. Especially if they've already decided when they plan to wear that new jacket, only to find out the final price has gone up. They were already there — rocking their new outfit, all happy and confident — and now the mood is gone because they feel like they've been lied to.
Online stores often hide the unpleasant part — the additional handling and shipping costs — until the last moment. Now name one person in the world who would be happy to learn that their order will cost more the moment they take their wallet out and are about to enter their card details?
Being up-front about all the shipping, handling, and return costs is a foolproof strategy. But if you don't yet follow this path, I assume there's a reason for it.
Perhaps you prefer to give the impression that your prices are the lowest, and once you convince your visitors to say "yes" a few times (btw, here's a great article on micro-yeses), and get them to click, it'll be OK to present the full-price. I can't say this is the best approach for growing a loyal customer-base
So what else can you do if you don't want to be up-front about the costs? Perhaps provide free shipping? Of course, that will reduce your margins, so you may not want to offer that to just anyone.
How about offering free shipping only to users that sign up to your mailing list and spend more than $50 in your online store? Or provide an additional $10 credit if they add one more item to the cart or make another order in the future? In other words — offer a benefit that will increase the average order value and customer lifetime value. Your margin won't fall significantly. And in the long-run, you're better off having these customers by your side.
And you don't need to offer this to everyone if you don't want to. Just show it to shoppers that are about to leave your page, using an exit-intent form. This way, if someone hasn't provided their email address yet, they'll see a prompt that may convince them to do so. And you'll get the chance to retain and upsell them in the future using newsletters and automated emails.
- Present the right incentive. It means you should use gut feelings, A/B testing, and analysis to determine the perceived value and return-on-investment of your incentive. You can read more about that process in this Marketing Experiments article.
- Present it at the right time. If you can't be up-front about the costs and can't make it free for everyone, find a way to show the incentive before your visitors abandon the cart. Use an exit-intent form like the one below, used by The Next Web. If you want to read up on how and why exit overlays work, just check out this article.
Best practice #2
Welcome series with an incentive
Getting audience email addresses is just the first step in reducing lost sales. Even if they submit the form, there's still a chance that some won't place an order.
The reasons may not be related to negative emotions. It could be that something interrupts your customers, or they are unsure about whether they really need that product. If you present the code only on the form or thank-you page, you might lose the sale. And that's where email comes into play.
The aim of a welcome series is to onboard your prospective and newly acquired customers. It has to demonstrate that it was the right choice to join the team and that they'll be happy about future updates. It should also answer common questions or doubts new customers may have.
On top of that, welcome emails help you increase sales. It's likely that your onboarding emails will get an average open rate of above 50% — so why not make use of it? How, you ask? Simply add a discount code or another incentive to the message as a reminder. This way you'll get another chance to get them back on your site with a clear intention to make a purchase.
To ensure that your incentive is effective, consider adding a time limit during which the new subscriber can redeem the reward. Give your coupon an expiration date of 72 hours or 14 days, as in the Adidas example below, for an extra sense of urgency customers may need to make the final decision.
That's not all, though. If the subscriber doesn't use the coupon, why not send another reminder after 48 hours? Just use dynamic content to provide unique discount codes and sync it with your e-commerce platform and CRM, so you can distinguish subscribers who fall into this group. You can then tag them appropriately and send them an automatic email to inform them about the limited time they have to take an action. If, on top of that, you have their phone number, why not follow it with a text message as well?
Try various approaches and see which ones work best for your audience. And if you're seeking inspiration, you can find some good examples of welcome emails in this article by Pam Neely: 7 Welcome Emails That Set the Standard.
Best practice #3
Abandoned cart autoresponder series
Naturally, the most popular solution for retrieving abandoned carts is the cart abandonment email — an action-triggered message that reminds customers about the items they've left in their shopping carts
To be able to use action-triggered message, make sure the shopper has signed up for your list. Then, once you see them browsing your store, adding items to the cart, and leaving without placing the order, you get a chance to reach out and bring them back to your site.
Abandoned cart emails work great because they are:
- Highly relevant – showing the exact products the shopper was looking at
- Timely – sent within a short time after the cart is abandoned
On top of that, cart abandonment emails use momentum. When shoppers leave items in the shopping cart, they were in the mood to make a purchase. They may need only a small nudge to complete the purchase.
Here's a best practice for the cart-abandonment retargeting process. Plan a series of 2 to 3 messages. Send the first email within a couple of hours after the shopper leaves the site. Send the second after 24 hours. Send the final one 3 to 5 days later. As you can read in this article, a similar strategy has worked well for brands such as Dot & Bo.
As you'll see in the examples on the next page, brands often go to great lengths to make their cart abandonment emails appealing. These messages typically include:
- Great persuasive copy
- Emotional imagery, such as a sad person waving goodbye
- Humor, such as funny animals guarding your products
- Psychological triggers, such as fear of loss and social proof
The issue with cart abandonment emails is that they rarely solve any of the problems mentioned in the studies by VWO and Statista. Unless they provide an attractive reward (like a free delivery), they usually work only on people who are truly interested in the offer. That's why you need a good incentive to retrieve those potentially lost sales.
Best practice #4
A process similar to cart abandonment emails can be achieved using retargeting. Instead of relying on one medium, you can increase your chances of reaching your audience by following them with ads as they surf other websites or use other services and apps
When creating your retargeting ads, think about what you already know about your audience and their behavior. Did they leave the basket in step one or step four of the check-out process? What micro-conversions did you observe along the way? Use the information to formulate the best possible message.
In your ads, you could place one of the following messages:
- A notice that the products will sell out soon
- The quantity of those specific items left in stock
- A reminder that if they order now, they'll receive the product before a particular date, such as Christmas
- 10% discount if they order now
- Free delivery on their order
- Special coupon for orders placed within the next 12 hours
Of course, there are many more ways to create messages, depending on your type of business. For example, if you're a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company offering a free trial, you could try a retargeting message inviting them to upgrade now for instant access to all the amazing features or remind them that in X number of days, their account will expire.
It's worth noting that retargeting can be done across many platforms, not just Google AdWords and Bing Ads. You can also use social ads on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. And there are retargeting platforms like AdRoll that can improve your retargeting efforts.
Summing up
Cart abandonment is among the top challenges e-commerce marketers face. Although some problems lie beyond your power, most can be fixed with a solid communications strategy.
To reduce cart abandonment problems, be up-front about the price of the product (including delivery, handling, exchange rate, etc.) For other situations, use the best practices above.


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THE parents of twins who died shortly after their birth have raised more than £5,000 for a hospital incubator.
Claire Down said the donation to Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital is a "legacy" for tragic brothers William and Thomas.
Thomas lived just 10 minutes and William 37 days after they were born last November at 25 weeks, 14 weeks earlier than expected. They were the couple's first children.
Mrs Down and travel agent husband James, 39, from Witney, raised £5,300 from friends and family for the special incubator, that allows babies to be moved to other hospitals.
It is the hospital's second, meaning tots can be moved together for the first time if required.
The incubator has been available for two weeks and has already been used three times.
The couple visited on Wednesday to see it for the first time.
An ambulance is always on standby to move babies and more than 600 are transferred each year.
Mrs Down, 36, said: "It means a lot to us that our sons left a legacy, that there was something positive that came out of their lives. We hope the experience for parents could be made marginally easier by the fact that they won't have to split them up."
She went into labour shortly after arriving home at Bathing Place Lane, Witney, from her occupational therapist role at Witney Community Hospital.
Thomas was born weighing just 1.5lb and William was about 1.6lb, compared to the average 7.8lbs.
Mrs Down added: "We would have obviously chosen a different outcome if we could have done but we felt very strongly that they had the best possible chance in life.
"Sometimes, nature is very hard to understand."
She said: "William was very unwell but we managed to take him out of the incubator and cuddle him.
"I hadn't realised how amazing that is – to hold your own son. It is something people take for granted that they give birth and are handed their son or daughter. We are so grateful to the hospital and to everyone who has supported us and donated so generously."
Neonatal consultant Charlotte Bennett said: "We have to move babies in and out of Oxford across the Thames Valley to get them either to the John Radcliffe or back out to their local hospital.
"The new incubator means we can take twins in one journey, and at least one parent can travel with them."


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27 March 2014
The Mars Habitat, run by the University of Hawaii at Manoa, is situated close to a collapsed lava tube in a former quarry on the northern slopes of Mauna Loa. Situated over 2400 metres above sea level, the dome does not offer a great deal of comfort. With a diameter of just 11 metres, the two-storey habitat accommodates six bedrooms, a kitchen, a bathroom, a dining area, communal space and laboratories.
University of Hawaii at Manoa.
For four months, Lucie Poulet (third from the left), a scientist at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute of Space Systems, will be a member of the international crew living and conducting research in the Mars habitat run by the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Ross Lockwood.
Lucie Poulet, a scientist at the German Aerospace Center, gained initial experience with life in a Mars habitat by spending two weeks in the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS).
Lucie Poulet said goodbye to the outside world for four months when the door closed behind her on 28 March 2014; the scientist from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is participating as a crewmember in a Mars simulation run by the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Among other things, the scientist will use the second mission within the Hawaii Space Exploration Analogue and Simulation (HI-SEAS) programme to study the influence that light of different wavelengths exerts on plants. However, she will also be the subject of keen observation – the University of Hawaii is using the habitat to examine how the six participants behave and work together during the months of isolation.
Lucie Poulet's new home, a habitat that will feel like living on Mars, is close to a collapsed lava tube in a former quarry on the northern slopes of Mauna Loa. Situated over 2400 metres above sea level, the dome does not offer a great deal of comfort. With a diameter of just 11 metres, the two-storey habitat accommodates six bedrooms, a kitchen, a bathroom, a dining area, communal space and laboratories. Twelve minutes under the shower per week, trips outside only while wearing a space suit, and specially packaged, and in some cases, dehydrated food – just like during a space mission.
Lettuce and radishes on the menu
Nevertheless, Lucie Poulet will make sure that some fresh food makes its way into the isolated Mars habitat. Her task is to examine three LED light systems that might be suitable for cultivating vegetables in remote regions of Earth or during long-term space missions. Lettuce, radishes and tomatoes – these are the things that the scientist is looking to grow in a greenhouse. "First of all, it is important to find out which light offers the greatest efficiency; secondly, to determine how much time the crew needs to spend tending the plants during a long-term mission," explains Poulet. Lettuce and tomatoes could freshen up the menu in a station on Mars, but before that can happen it is necessary to test the installation and maintenance of the greenhouses. Lucie Poulet is busy conducting these experiments in the newly established Evolution and Design of Environmentally-closed Nutrition sources (EDEN) laboratory at the DLR Institute of Space Systems. The effect that plants have on the human psyche is also part of the research; coupled with suitable lighting, it is hoped that the greenery will foster a sense of well-being in the communal area.
Delayed communication
Supported with 1.2 million euros from the US space agency NASA, the mission will permit only limited contact with the outside world. Lucie Poulet and the other crewmembers will have restricted Internet and email access to the world beyond their Mars habitat. And, since it takes 20 minutes for a signal to reach Mars, the habitat dwellers will have to tolerate the same delay. The scientist will receive regular messages from pupils in Bremen, where the local DLR-School_Lab has selected four classes and given them two challenges: to cultivate their own plants and, once a week, send questions to Poulet and her crew members about this project and other topics of interest. The virtual Mars inhabitants will send their answers as video messages.
Lucie Poulet gained her first experience with simulated life on Mars at the start of the year, moving to the Mars Desert Research Station in the United States. Now she is looking forward to the next four months, when she will join an international crew and live in a habitat designed to simulate life in space. "I am really thrilled to be going there. It will be very exciting and extremely intense." The scientist will open the door of her habitat once again on 28 July 2014 – and with just one small step leave her life on Mars and return to Earth.
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Premier 22nd Flr 3 BD 3.5 BA residence with a 505SF private terrace overlooking Seaport Blvd and views of the Harbor Islands. 2 Parking (1 Self and 1 Valet) EchelonSeaport will be the new definition of luxury urban resort living. Finishes include white oak wood plank floors throughout, open kitchen with custom Italian cabinetry, Thermador integrated appliances, and spa like marble bath. 2 levels of spectacular retail and restaurants paired with over 50,000 sq ft of indoor and outdoor amenities. With a focus on innovation and wellness, EchelonSeaport residents enjoy 1 indoor and 2 outdoor pools as well as state of the art fitness facilities including an indoor basketball court, golf simulator and yoga studio. The Club Level features a fireplace lounge, private dining room, and outdoor terraces with grill stations and fire pits all designed to be an extension of your home. Services include 24/7 concierge, doormen, porters, and 24/7 Valet Parking. Fall 2019 completion
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'Twas the Night After Christmas
Author: Sabrina Jeffries
Series: #6 in the Hellions of Halstead Hall series (can be read stand-alone)
Review Copy Provided by Galley Books via Edelweiss
Pierce Waverly, the Earl of Devonmont, has been estranged from his mother for most of his life. When his mother's new companion, Mrs. Camilla Stuart, writes to tell him that his mother is seriously ill, he goes home. But when he learns that the lovely widow tricked him in order to effect a holiday reconciliation, he refuses to stay—unless she meets his "terms." Somewhere between trying to seduce the beautiful Camilla and struggling with the cruel memories of his childhood Christmases, Pierce discovers that not only does forgiveness go two ways, but that love can blossom even in the coldest of winters.
Ok, so this is one of the reviews where I admit that I have too many series in progress and that I am an idiot…when I was browsing Edelweiss and came across this book (being as it is book 6 in a series), I could have sworn that I had read the previous books – so my finger got click-itis (I wonder if i can get that as an actual medical diagnosis) and I got it on my kindle…to realize that I hadn't even started the series…I did have book 1 somewhere in the archives of my kindle, but I hadn't read it, or the 4 that followed…and being a tad OCD like I am, I couldn't read it out of order (even though I was told by friends that i could)…so this review is a bit delayed, which I read the other ones in the series, but I am now all caught up… (no laughing from the peanut galley over my antics…its the old adage, too many books, too little time)
Anyways, after that digression (aren't you glad you read it) – here is my review…I had really enjoyed reading the previous books in the series. i am a sucker for those that feature a family or a close-knit group of friends (a la Lisa Kleypas, or Stephanie Laurens as alternative authors), so seeing how the mystery emerged and was solved was great. However, this book, which loosely linked (Pierce, the main character, was a secondary character in #4 – To Wed A Wild Lord – didn't really fit into what I was expecting – it was much more of a stand-alone traditional historical romance (not that that is bad, just wasn't quite what I expected). Although, my favorite character from the series, Jackson, the Bow Street Runner made an appearance.
I did enjoy how the author was able to work in the 'Twas the Night Before Christmas poem into the story. I grew up with it but honestly didn't realize that it was around in the early 1800's – although then called "A Visit From Saint Nicholas." so it was interesting seeing how some Christmas traditions that still exist today were carried out nearly two centuries again (in about 10 years time…).
I think that my biggest issue with the story was the feud/disagreement/mystery (whatever you want to call it) between Pierce and his mother. While it was a significant part of the story, it was just underwhelming to me. I felt like it, while it could have been center stage, kind of took a backseat to the romance (not that that is bad, I just wanted more). Overall I would give this book a solid 3 stars – it was for me, a comfort read…since I rarely re-read, I can't say that I would see myself reading it again, but at the same time, it is the type of book that I seek out when I just want to spend the day bumming around doing nothing.


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Local gardeners and growers are giving a green thumbs-up to vertical growing systems.
Local gardeners and growers are giving a green thumbs-up to vertical growing systems.
"It's almost waterless; there's no weeding and no dirt," said Rick Smith about his family's garden, contained in a 24-foot-long by 18-foot-wide PVC frame and plastic greenhouse.
Smith and his wife Sonya and daughter Jackie, 11, live on 24-acres in Citra. The plastic sides of their greenhouse can be rolled up for warm weather or let down during cold spells to hold in a warming mist created by spraying groundwater, which remains 72 degrees year round.
Smith said they grow enough peas, squash, cucumbers and tomatoes to share with friends and neighbors. He and his brother, Jim Smith, 66, have both installed Verti-Gro systems.
"I've gardened all my life, and this is the easiest ever," said Jim Smith, who has set up a stacked pot system at his home. "The strawberries I grow are so sweet the kids ask if I've dipped them in sugar when they eat them right off the plant."
Mike Reppe with Verti-Gro, located about five miles south of Belleview, said the system holds plants in vertically stacked pots containing pine bark compost covered by coconut fiber with a catch pot at the bottom. The plants are fed a hydroponic nutrient or organic liquid via drip irrigation. For apartments, or where a garden is on cement or pavement, the irrigation can be made into a continuous closed loop.
"We've had our systems on display at EPCOT for about 18 years," Reppe said.
A brochure states that vertical agriculture is used worldwide and allows 12,000 to 120,000 plants per acre to save resources and expand harvests.
"There's no tilling, and it is space saving. These systems are used by food banks, churches and community groups. U-picks use the system because there is less bending over to harvest," Reppe said.
Sun State Organics in Anthony offers grow systems that use removable and replaceable "geo-textile" bags hanging from various styles of PVC frames, and automatic or manually rotated vertical grow frames.
Experience in the compost field led company founders Brian Donnelly and Mark Olson to develop a "worm tea" or liquid plant food, derived from waste, to use with their system.
"Our (parent) company handled composting of the refuse from the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. We processed 300 tons daily," Donnelly said.
A nutrient food is produced by processing waste such as manure over seven days in an automated compost machine, placing it in a bacteria-eating worm bed and mixing the material in a water tank to feed to the bagged plants through drip feeders.
Donnelly calls the cycle going from "muck to meal."
He said farm owners can realize savings by processing refuse and manure into compost and producing the plant food rather than paying to haul waste away.
"Our system can grow up to 14 times more in the same space used for dirt farming and uses 90 percent less water and saves energy, uses no chemicals and uses commercially available seed or heirloom seeds," Donnelly said.
Grow systems can be "off-grid," powered manually or by solar power. At the Anthony research and development center, Donnelly has several 20-foot-tall corn plants suspended in hanging pots and a system under study that will produce cattle fodder from trays suspended on the side of a barn and stand-alone systems.
A "Ferris wheel" style rotating grow system is under development, with plants on individual swinging trays rotating and dipping in a plant food bath.
Donnelly, who has placed systems in London and the desert of Dubai, is convinced the method is the future of agriculture.
Feed The Need, a nonprofit teaching garden and charitable organization in Belleview, has been using the Sun State system for several months and founder and president Rachelle Roper loves it.
"We have a setup of 25 poles and 500 pots. The system takes up about 2-feet by 85-feet and can produce about 1,500 heads of lettuce," Roper said. "It's user friendly and requires less bending, especially for many of our participants who are retirees."
The system was obtained through a grant, she said.
Feed the Need contributes vegetables to organizations such as the Brothers Keeper Soup Kitchen, the Salvation Army and Saint Theresa's Catholic Church, and has helped establish more than 80 private gardens in the area.
"We are partnering with Sun State Organics and plan to set up a grow warehouse," Roper said.


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Super Squash
January 15, 2012
Not only is butternut squash delicious, it's loaded with health benefits. This recipe is my favorite winter soup at the moment, I can't get enough! Not only is it easy and tasty but it's a great one to make on Sunday and take with lunch for the week…the flavors only get better as they meld in the fridge.
Butternut Squash Soup
Weightwatchers Points: 2
- 1 small onion
- 1/4 cup chopped celery
- 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon dill weed
- 1/4 teaspoon curry powder
- dash cayenne pepper
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 1 (12 ounce) can fat-free evaporated milk
- 3 cups roasted butternut squash
- salt and pepper to taste
- In a large saucepan, saute the onion and celery in butter. Stir in flour, dill, curry and cayenne until blended. Gradually add broth and milk. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes. Add the squash, salt and pepper; heat through.
- In a blender, process the soup in batches until smooth. Pour into bowls and serve hot.
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