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Re: DIYPhotography 3rd Anniversary Photo Contest

patricksbiggs — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:55:45 -0000

With the mobile broadband connection, not only is the bookstore always with you but the collective knowledge of the Internet is always with you. While reading Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book “Team of Rivals” last night, I came across a passage about Samuel Chase arguing an anti-slavery case in the Supreme Court called Jones v. www.chase.com Vanzandt. Wanting to know a bit more, I shifted over to the Kindle’s Internet browser and within a few clicks and hops from Google, found a copy of Chase’s Supreme Court brief. Reading history, it’s transformative to be able to flip to original sources and related material without getting up off the couch.

Re: Vewd - For Documentary Photographers - A Girl From Rio by Yui Natsuyagi

patricksbiggs — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:48:41 -0000

EDGY ENVIRONMENTIncredible 3D graphics enhance this exhilarating driving experience. Sweeping camera angles intensify your ride and yield a realistic look and feel—simply put, the best visuals iPhone and iPod have to offer.GO UNDERCOVERUse the interactive Mission Map to guide you through 24 covert ventures that lead to intricate secret missions.RULE THE ROADTake on cops in raging street battles as you race through www.chase.com dramatic, animated crash scenes. Dominate 8 high-impact race modes including: Highway Battle, Sprint, and Cop Takeout.POWER ACHIEVEREarn performance upgrades like Boost, Speed, Acceleration and Handling for even greater velocity. Read more

Re: Ten Alarm Clocks Perfect for Sleepy Geeks

patricksbiggs — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:42:50 -0000

Interest rates are supposed to reflect the costs of borrowing money: inflation rates, the opportunity cost, and the default risk. But anymore, they are simply what the bank can get away with. Chase holds the mortgage and home equity line on our house, which are significantly more than the $140 cash advance I took by mistake. For that matter, my credit card limit is $20,000. I could use the www.chase.com card to fly first class to Paris and go on a spree at Le Bon Marche yet pay no interest if I paid it off in full the first month it was due. But take $140 from an ATM and hold the balance for 20 days or so, and the total fees and interest work out to about $24, an annual interest rate of 208%.

Re: Ten Alarm Clocks Perfect for Sleepy Geeks

patricksbiggs — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:41:58 -0000

Now maybe the separation of EiC / Publisher power is minor compared to the other fears that the Emerald has. Fears of a publisher with undue influence over the student workers if he or she serves as a professor in the J-School. www.chase.com Fear of a continued loss of control to the ODE board. And fear of going further into the red to fund his $80,000 salary. [Note: The Emerald currently has $50,000 in debt, but its revenue stream is neutral. This means that earnings equal costs and the ODE doesn't have to take on more debt, but they are unable to pay off their current debt. Sort of like you and your student workstudy job trying to pay off your credit card.]

Re: Viruses and the tree of life

patricksbiggs — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:29:06 -0000

I do continue to have questions about point 4, and if anyone can assist in clarifying I would be much appreciated. The ODE is very serious about keeping the editorial control of the paper out of the publishers hands, but Steve Smith’s recommendation and (this is the point I need clarification on) proposed contract had language that separated editorial control of the paper chase.com from the publisher and, as far as I can tell, give the publisher a higher rank in business matters only.

Re: Where Luminous Arc 2 Fits In The DS SRPG Buffet

patricksbiggs — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:20:02 -0000

The biggest concern I have, other than for the boy’s hearing, is for these thieves. I can almost understand the confusion if the victim hadn’t been three years old but honestly, do they run into a lot of toddlers with high powered careers? Are cell phone accessories become really big in the pre-school www.chase.com circuit? Luckily, the John Tracy clinic in South LA will probably cover the costs of replacing the implant but still it’s a process that might take months. Until then, Jose is relying on a backup and the thieves are probably still trying to figure out how to get the speech processor synced with their RAZR’s.

Re: Thieves Mistake Cochlear Implant For Blue Tooth Headset

patricksbiggs — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:19:31 -0000

So, far my experience with Luminous Arc 2 has been a lot like any other strategy RPG, just with a lot more reading. The biggest change from the first game is probably the least sexy one to talk about too. Imageepoch’s game feels more balanced than other strategy RPGs. You’re not going to storm into battles with over leveled characters www.chase.com armed with tons of abilities and you won’t level up just by drinking potions in Luminous Arc 2. Since you can’t brute force your way through fights Luminous Arc 2 is slightly more cerebral and more tactical than the other strategy RPGs I played this year.

Re: The New Media Lifecycle and Social Discovery

patricksbiggs — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:07:07 -0000

Congratulations Bear Stearns' shareholders. The Plunge Protection Team has stepped in and backstopped JP Morgan to make sure you still have a little value left in those shares. I bet that isn't giving BSC shareholders much comfort this weekend as they wait to see the decimation in their accounts in the morning. Of course, if you still hold shares of BSC after all the very public warning signs, we can't say we have much sympathy for you. Most other companies would have been allowed to go out of business, so you should be thankful for the $2 the PPT let you keep. www.chase.com Meanwhile, the rest of us who are crazy enough to keep some of our assets in US Dollars are also seeing our account decimated by the socialization of downside risk and the mad money printing going on. The dollar is making fresh lows against Gold, the Euro, and many other currencies.

Re: Plunge Protection Team Blog - Bear Stearns: From $170 to $2 in a little over a year

patricksbiggs — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:06:08 -0000

Three San Marcos officers joined the chase and Gibbons swerved into their town. On local streets he topped 80 miles per hour.He shot out of town on Highway 80 south and hit 100 mph. As police closed in he plowed into a cornfield www.chase.com and escaped on a parallel road. Another officer blocked his way with a cruiser. He plowed around it. He saw the Tanner car in an intersection. He plowed into it where Roney sat. He hurt the others too.Gibbons kept driving and escaped through another cornfield. Police received authority to shoot tires. They hit two tires according to Willett and three according to Brister, ending the chase.

Re: How To: Marketing a Condo Project In ’09

patricksbiggs — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:04:47 -0000

The article from The Smoking Gun suggests that each company was not only setup as a website but as an actual legal entity. A search of filings with the California Secretary of State shows a filing for Cold Stream Productions, LLC on November 13, 2006. The business address is listed as 1800 www.chase.com Century Park East, 10th Floor in Los Angeles, California. This is an office park. The registered agent is Eisner, Frank and Kahan, which IMDB lists as the production legal team.There are no Secretary of State filings for the other companies. However, a search of Los Angeles County records show the following fictious name filings

Re: Have You Made Your Referral?

patricksbiggs — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:01:19 -0000

RePro’s can offer consumers via their personal websites a vital claim that the big players will always chase: 100% of the information located within a local MLS’ database. Days on market, sold data, and a glut of other valuable information to consumers that currently is not available www.chase.com on the big players sites can be displayed on a licensed pro’s site. Regardless if one person (consumer or professional) thinks that such info is important or not is irrelevant. Someone does, it’s the long tail consumerism that dominates the current and future markets terrain. In any case, the more information you make accessible the larger your potential audience. Redfin gets this, they offer their agents and consumers

Re: Jimmy from Ohio

patricksbiggs — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:36:50 -0000

I admit that Firefox is a memory hog generally speaking, but I have never seen that type of memory usage before. On my setup, I have several plugins (webdev, StumbleUpon, Delicious, ReadItLater and several others) and I normally open over 100 tabs in a day. My memory consumption has www.chase.com never gone above 500MB. I am not saying 500MB is good, they do not reclaim memory allocated for tabs very well, but I think there may be a problem in your setup. Definitely work with those guys to see what the problem is.

Re: Cinema Confidential Interview: Kevin James on "Paul Blart: Mall Cop"

patricksbiggs — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:34:22 -0000

Noobs don't try hard enough because we're in a profession where people are inherently afraid to ask questions or say what they know (or don't know) and seem like an idiot. After all we're paid to maintain things that we may know absolutely nothing about, but eventually we become experts on. So as a Noob myself, I went forth and investigated the community, its practices, etc. and was able to insert myself and I feel like I've been www.chase.com accepted. But too be honest, if I hadn't investigated all of this in advance it would have been a completely different conference for me. At the same time I think that the already "in people" need to remember how hard it is to be on the outside. Some are really great about extending themselves, while others aren't so great. And that's ok. By try to remember how much anxiety you have when you go into any situation and you know no one. Go up and say hi to random people, but also try to extend those conversations beyond a simple "where the hell did all the moon pies go?" Ask them where they are from, what they do, what's their sign. Essentially pick up a friend at code4lib.

Re: Code4LibCon 2009: Timeline and IRC log

patricksbiggs — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:33:16 -0000

So how can an artist come up with his or her own unique strategy? Well, one thing would be giving your fans added value, a tip that comes from an industry claiming it's impossible to make any money in the current economic climate: the airlines. Up over a crowded field, there peeks an airline that has blossomed in spite of others' failures: Singapore Airlines. The company's model was simple: Give customers little things they like — make their experience positive, and they will come back. Compared to the cattle-car feeling that comes with most www.chase.com airlines these days, it's not surprising that Singapore is flourishing.Some bands have caught on to the added value technique by starting to offer an interesting proposition: Buy the 12-inch vinyl album and also download the entire thing for free. That combo has contributed to an overall spike in vinyl sales in general, which jumped 36 percent from 2006 to 2007, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. This trend seems to be mostly centered around the indie-rock scene but may eventually trickle over to dance music, where there are still a significant number of vinyl holdouts refusing to relinquish their collections in favor of a laptop.Ultimately, it remains to be seen how the profits will pan out and whether guys like Kerri Chandler and Nick Harris will continue pressing records for another 10 years. Personally, I have confidence they will. Even if digital never turns into a profitable venture, there will always be a market for creative people and the inspiring music they make.

Re: 12 Top Mac Apps on the Cheap!

patricksbiggs — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:29:21 -0000

There is no doubt our health care system is in dire need of change. However, there is a troubling problem - namely, Who is in charge of determining what is evidence? Many US medical professionals who are currently in www.chase.com positions of deciding what is and is not "evidence", have long histories of ties with insurers, other stakeholder industries and Big Tobacco. They and the medical associations that they govern also have much influence into government medical policies established through the CDC, NIOSH, HHS, NIH, NIEHS and the EPA. It is a grave concern among many, that patients such as Dr. Wolfberg's 5 year old daughter, are not able to obtain proper treatment because we have given too much power to those with financial interests in determining what is viable medical treatment. It is a concern that we have given the Proverbial Foxes the Keys to the Evidence Based Medicine Hen House.For more on the subject of conflicts of interest involving those who are controlling national medical protocol, read the following links: