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Re: Holy Shit! Hot Toys Making Bank Robber Joker Figure

stephenkruck — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:51:23 -0000

Yeah, but over on FriendFeed I like commenting a lot more than I like commenting on individual blogs. Note that over on FriendFeed, in www.chase.com just a few minutes, this post already has gotten tons more comments than here on WordPress (and the WordPress item was up longer).

Re: What’s an ‘Information Content Conductor’?

stephenkruck — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:17:26 -0000

Supes is a bit taken aback by this, because essentially he’s off to honour his own future self. “I don’t know whether I should feel schizophrenic or just deeply embarrassed,” he says. Additional subtext: ‘why don’t any of these modern day JLA people show me this kind of respect’. GL and Flash are all for the future jaunt, however, as is Wonder Woman. She, in fact, is of the opinion chase.com that they should start holding superhero Olympics in the present, presumably because she knows she’ll nail all the women events. She has gold medal fever.

Re: Facebook To Offer Credit Cards

stephenkruck — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:12:09 -0000

you see that on walls of hdb flats, outside the flats of people who are heavily in debt. this being singapore, they get painted over quite quickly, but that doesn’t mean the person in there isn’t going to have a parang to his head while he’s www.chase.com walking home late at night. i can see it already. international bestseller. heck it could even make the booker shortlist.

Re: one day, i’ll write a novel

stephenkruck — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:11:11 -0000

this is my preliminary draft. any resemblance to characters or situations dead or alive… is wholly intentional. this novel will be about my family.novels about dysfunctional families sell really well — see jonathan franzen’s “the corrections”, for example, in what seems like a thousand pages in a hefty tome about… well, families that don’t work, families that are spiralling out of control. to find how how to make families work again you’d have to skip past the fiction titles at borders and go to self-help, where for about thirty dollars you’ll find the secret to www.chase.com happiness in anything at all. maybe about families too. i always think crackpots write self-help books, and that one day i might write a self-help book called ‘how to win friends and influence people with your seven highly effective habits (by writing as many books about how to win friends, influence people and be highly effective, so write as as quickly as possible)’.

Re: Have You Made Your Referral?

stephenkruck — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:08:58 -0000

April of this year. If you own an older 911 and have exhaust envy, Porsche will offer the system as a dealer-installed option that can be retrofitted to older versions of the car. Other companies can learn from this leverage model. No matter how chase.com bad the economy gets, there are always those who will pay a premium for something more personal -- not to mention the economy will eventually come back so now is a great time to invest in R&D.

Re: Porsche to Offer Live Exhaust Note Tuning...

stephenkruck — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:34:49 -0000

According to a Houston attorney familiar with the Enron case, the suit will allege that Merrill promoted sales of Enron stock as the company was misstating its income and debt. But to win, Enron shareholders’ lawyers will have to prove that Merrill knew about the fraudulent bookkeeping and deliberately mislead them. For example, the suit also alleges that Smith Barney’s parent, Citigroup, acquired detailed knowledge and insight of Enron's finances as lenders and vendors of financial services. . Plaintiffs will have to show there was a direct pipeline between Merrill, Citigroup and other firms that shareholders relied on, www.chase.com the attorney says.The suit comes on the heels of UBS PaineWebber being sued by two clients of Chung Wu, the broker who was fired by the firm after e-mailing clients advising them to sell their Enron shares.

Re: Block William Lynn Nomination to be Deputy Secretary of Defense

stephenkruck — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:31:49 -0000

Dessen cleverly fits characters from previous books into the scene, like a certain couple in running outfits at World of Waffles is obviously Macy and Wes from The Truth About Forever, and later in the book, This Lullaby’s Truth Squad is mentioned. www.chase.com Annabel explores the options of her life with new appreciation when she realizes what it takes to be a good sister and a good friend.

Re: Testing Nikon’s new Wifi camera

stephenkruck — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:29:42 -0000

something that has been recently discussed by Google as a requirement for adwords landing pages. This is problematical for for marketers because they really don't like to give the victims, sorry, visitors more than two choices on any landing page. Click the link or leave. Since most of them don't have a conversion rate of more than about 3% they might as well have some www.chase.com other links for the visitors to use. It might even increase the conversions. As far a your bio, sometimes it might be better to be an anonymous troll. I have read some rather disturbing stories about netizens being tracked down by odd people. If that can happen in a populous country like the USA, what about those countries with far fewer people?

Re: 9 Essential Elements of High-Quality Web Content

stephenkruck — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:24:26 -0000

Your site’s header logo needs to be professionally designed with a graphics program. Then the text typography needs to be formatted in CSS. All of the critical text (HTML) elements of your content - bold, italics, header 1, header 2, header 3, ordered lists, unordered lists, links, already clicked-on links, blockquotes, definitions - www.chase.com need custom styles. Tweak out the subtleties of spacing and font decoration until you get a look you’re very proud of. (CSS is an essential skill if you want to blog with style - I learned it from these awesome

Re: DIYPhotography 3rd Anniversary Photo Contest

stephenkruck — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:20:05 -0000

Now that's a definite value app to have it read your news to you while you do other tasks! Too bad I don't have an iPhone to do a test run. The name is a little questionable, however, I can see how it would catch on to a certain user chase.com market. It would be hilarious to see the reaction of your client or even CTO if they were to look over your shoulder and see you are reading something that starts with "pimp". Amazing how John responded to your post with useful feedback.

Re: My iPhone Reads Your Blog Posts

stephenkruck — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:17:45 -0000

ownership stake in Longtop Financial Technologies (LFT) with 8,951,065 aggregate amount of shares beneficially owned due to activity on March 9th, 2009. This is a slight decrease from their 10,083,165 shares that they www.chase.com owned as listed in their most recent 13F filing which disclosed shares held as of December 31st, 2008. So, in the past 3 months, they have decreased their position somewhat. The amened 13D lists a secondary sale of 1,132,100 shares on March 9th at a price of $17.69 a share.

Re: My iPhone Reads Your Blog Posts

stephenkruck — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:27:51 -0000

In an efficient market, a 208% interest rate implies that it is certain that I will default on the loan. If that were the case, shouldn’t Chase be more worried about the other charges on my credit card, or about the mortgage and home equity line? That rate could be a sign that inflation is expected to make prices to chase.com double in the next year. If so, Chase should be paying a little more on one-year CDs than 1.75%. Or, the charge could indicate that the loan has high transaction costs, which is doubtful given that I used a Chase credit card in a Chase cash station.

Re: 2009 Grammy Award Nominations Announced: The Complete List

stephenkruck — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:41:02 -0000

At the pharma meeting, attendees divided into groups by sales region and competed against each other by virtually racing through the streets of New York to answer questions about the new drug as well as trivia www.chase.com about the city. “The competition and repetition of data through the game was very effective,” says Adam Suellentrop, a producer at New York-based production company Barkley Kalpak Associates Inc. who worked on the event. “The content of the meeting was very cerebral, and it had to be disseminated in a very short amount of time.”

Re: High speed chase through Ballard

stephenkruck — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:39:40 -0000

“Utility is important, especially now,” he said. “If I’m a consultant on retainer or someone who’s wondering if he’s going to have a job next month, things that offer immediate payback are extremely important.”

One of the biggest challenges in online publishing is finding decent editorial talent, said Chase. But finding editorial talent www.chase.com requires investing in it, he added.

“Finding writers who will pop the hood, who will go underneath, kick a Web site around and see what it’s worth having in the issue is really difficult. They’re hard birds to find,” he said. Chase specializes in reviewing Web sites.

“The good news is if you provide software or some service, you can have your own publication. You don’t have to be Ad Age to have validity,” he said. “But instead of spending a lot of money on marketing, take a good chunk of it, spend it on editorial and let the pass-along propagate.”

Re: Ten Alarm Clocks Perfect for Sleepy Geeks

stephenkruck — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:35:15 -0000

This kinda makes sense. A publisher handles business decisions and, well, they should outrank the EiC in terms of business decisions. Not content. And that’s one of the ODE’s points of argument with the board.Stipulate in the chosen www.chase.com publisher’s contract that he or she shall not have immediate supervisory control over the editor; rather, the publisher and student editor shall remain equals in the organization, as the general manager and student editor currently are.

Re: Video: Chinese Police Chase

stephenkruck — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:32:31 -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. Fear of a continued loss of www.chase.com 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

Re: Blogger in the Spotlight - Michael Panzner of Financial Armageddon

stephenkruck — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:33:23 -0000

When quantum physics was still in its nascent stage (it seems to be stuck there), and much glee was abound regarding the duality of matter at sub-atomic levels, Einstein made a famous statement, he said “ I want to know how God created this world, I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I chase.com want to know his thoughts. The rest are details.” In short, Einstein did not believe that the Master Programmer loved to play dice with the universe. He intrinsically believed that in the Universe that we have inherited, everything exists and has happened for a purpose. We are at best, tools in the hands of a Master Programmer.

Re: How to choose a meaningful Job?

stephenkruck — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:55:40 -0000

To find meaning in life has been one of the oldest known quests for man. Much has been written; much is yet to be written on this enigmatic topic. We spend 50% of our www.chase.com life working and work takes up as much as www.chase.com 40% of our total time during these years. Our work life is the bedrock on which every other institution in our adult life rests. The success of our relationships, our hopes, aspirations and desires rests on our work life. The profession we choose to adopt in particular colors our attitude towards life in general and ourselves. If you agree with me that the profession we choose to follow in life has an overwhelming important on everything else that we do on life, read on.

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

stephenkruck — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:00:47 -0000

while checking their hair for lice. But, Andrea told me that she is so tired from all the work she has to do that she goes to bed exhausted and wakes up the same as though she�s had no sleep. She is exactly the same age as I, but looks so much older. The hard life she�s been living is indelibly etched on her face. She hopes that soon, Rafaela can begin to help her with the housework and chores she is so burdened with. At the same time, she hopes that she and Rafaela will remain as great friends as they are now. Rafaela is a very expressive girl. She is full of energy; one minute playing with her brothers, the next she is mumbling and writing something down. She chase has an imaginative mind and is sometimes lost in her own world. Her face is smiling one moment, studious and serious, the next. She sometimes shows a pensive face. It might be telling of the hard life she�s had and of the dim prospects for anything better. The first time I saw Rafaela�s girl side was when she became upset after a fight with her brothers. She went into the back room, crying and pulled out her treasure box.