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Will Skype Become a Social Network?
2007-10-08 15:17:00
Skype is an Instant messaging program that lets you keep in touch with your friends and see if they're online. Send them a message with the click of a button and find out more about them by reading their profile. Skype also lets you make voice calls to your .........
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Dryas octopetala
2007-10-08 05:46:00
White mountain-avens can be found in Arctic and alpine areas of Europe, Asia and North America (extending as far south as Colorado). It is colony-forming and quite common along higher elevation rocky roadsides in Jasper and Banff National Parks; mid-September is a good time to witness it in fruit en .........

The Early Years.
2007-10-03 05:22:00
"Having built his international reputation with a restless need to reinvent himself and, more recently, a string of caustic pieces of satire, [Lars] Von Trier does a full on about face here, trading in his vitriol and raw cinematography for a beautifully- and very conventionally - shot piece of nostalgia," writes Todd Brown at Twitch. "Though directed by Jacob Thuesen rather than Von Trier himself, [Erik Nietzsche: The Earl y Years ] is a surprisingly gentle comedy, a reminiscence of Von Trier's time in film school and the transformation of a young man into a coldly opportunistic .........

Financial statement fraud gangs
2007-10-03 05:17:00
In the past, I have talked about delinquent communities here and here. I have argued that most corporate frauds are the work of delinquent communities, where you get a whole gang of people in on the act, aiding and abetting each other and helping themselves to the spoils.So how big a gang do you need? How many does it take to perpetrate a fraud? An average of seven, according to a new study from the Institute for Fraud Prevention.The study, Control Overrides in Fina ncial Statement Fraud was based on a sample collected by the Government Accountability Office of 834 companies .........
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Gentiana algida
2007-10-03 04:10:00
Botany Photo of the Day will have brief written entries on weekends, holidays and my vacations from April through September. – .........
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Toronto and NYFF preview. Secret Sunshine.
2007-09-28 03:35:00
"After several plot turns that I refuse to spoil, Secret Sunshine [site] becomes, among many other things, the truest depiction of evangelical Christianity I've seen on film," writes Darren Hughes. "Fortunately, [Lee Chang-dong's] film is not evangelical itself and, instead, wrestles with the strangeness and disappointments of faith in a way that The Mourning Forest, with its contrivances, could only mimic. Damn, I love this .........
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Urban Warrior
2007-09-18 14:47:00
My cousin first introduced me to Flare Magazine (A Canadian fashion magazine) about two years ago. She was interning there at the time (lucky girl), and she gave me several copies of it to flip through. I loved it, because it was full of eye candy for anyone with an eye for aesthetic - both beautiful fashion spreads/editorials and beautiful home goods. It featured some quirky things that you wouldn't see in Elle or Vogue. I devoured the magazines, put them on my bookshelf, and forgot about them.Just today, I suddenly remembered Flare. I went online, and was once again .........
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Romance & Cigarettes.
2007-09-13 05:00:00
"Romance & Cigarette s , like One from the Heart, is an interiorized musical set somewhere between stark lower middle-class reality and all-consuming artifice," writes Michael Koresky at indieWIRE. "[A]lso like that film, it's not entirely successful in its aims, often poking around rather than rooting to its characters' emotional core. Yet the labor of [John] Turturro's love is evident in nearly every .........

pebbles
2007-09-05 05:03:00
I definitely mean to write something about skimming stones. This poem - Small Boy by Norman MacCaig - has an interesting thought in it. "He wasn't trying to fill the sea.He wasn't trying to empty the beach."
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Venice. Lust, Caution
2007-09-01 14:58:00
"Too much caution and too little lust squeeze much of the dramatic juice out of Ang Lee's Lust , Caution, a 2½-hour period drama that's a long haul for relatively few returns," writes Derek Elley for Variety. "Wartime Shanghai was far more realistically drawn in Lou Ye's Zhang Ziyi starrer Purple Butterfly, which also conveyed a stronger sense of resistance and collaborationist politics...... Lee's 40s Shanghai, though immaculately costumed, has a standard backlot look; the Hong Kong sequences, largely shot in Malaysia, are much more .........
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Should You Make More Money or Live More Frugally?
2007-09-01 04:03:00
Grad Money Matters has a post up that discusses myths about frugal living, and two of the "myths" are that being frugal will make you rich, or that you can just make more money and then you don't have to be frugal. Obviously it's not necessarily an either/or situation. But if I had to choose one path to pursue over the other, I'd concentrate more of my time on making more money than being .........
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Again, more on Bergman.
2007-08-26 16:00:00
"In the middle of the phone call, it popped out: 'Listen, I have a room here at Fåro, it's five by five meters. Here I've collected everything imaginable, you see, it's a damned kitchen midden. Would you like to take a look at it?' How can you answer such a question? You figuratively and almost literally curtsy over the telephone and say, 'Yes, please, Mr Berg man.'" Maaret Koskinen, who would find that "the rewards were beyond all expectation," has an intriguing piece on Bergman the writer, an excerpt from her book, In the Beginning Was the Word: Ingmar Bergman and His Early .........

New Video Series Takes You to Woodward Dream Cruise
2007-08-26 06:27:00
The one-day Woodward Dream Cruise rolls out on August 18 and although more than 1,000,000 visitors attend each year, there are millions more who'd love to be in Detroit but can't make it. So GM came up with an interesting idea. It has produced a 4-part video series focussing on the "cruising culture, the Dream Cruise and the cars that make the cruise so special." The first video was produced in and around the Vinsetta Garage, a classic Woodward landmark built in 1919. Its veteran mechanics are seen working on classic cars ranging from a '66 GTO to a World War II army .........
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Watsonia fourcadei
2007-08-26 02:19:00
Botany Photo of the Day will have brief written entries on weekends, holidays and my vacations from April through September. – .........
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SOX compliance down but costs up
2007-08-22 23:56:00
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs might have levelled off but other costs are increasing at a fierce rate, according to a survey released by lawyers Foley & Lardner.Costs have gone up because of increases in audit and legal fees and a need to pay corporate directors more."It is important to note that the majority of cost savings experienced by public companies after their initial implementation of Section 404 are driven by increased internal efficiency reducing lost productivity. Nevertheless, out-of-pocket costs associated with .........
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A new biofuel for developing countries
2007-08-22 15:56:00
There has to be a careful balance with biofuels. As seen with ethanol, creating a fuel out of an otherwise usable crop can create supply and demand fluctuations. Additionally, it may even add to a deforestation problem, as more land is sought to grow the crops needed to produce the .........
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Music's Swan Dive: Self-Inflicted Wounds
2007-08-22 09:07:00
Rolling Stone published an in-depth feature on The Record Industry's Decline. Now that a new generation of executives is driving the record companies, they can admit what everyone else has known for many years - digital technology has transformed the business, they're turned off a huge number of their fans, and they've missed key .........
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Incredible Renewable Energy Powerhouse
2007-08-11 07:33:00
Hamiltons of London have an incredible design scheme called the Castle House, like a castle, this one too is self-sufficient and produces a major percentage of its electricity .........
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Get HOT FUZZ for the Fab Fun Film Experience.
2007-08-05 23:49:00
If you saw Shaun of the Dead (film by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright), you are in for a treat and if you NEVER saw it, now you will want to because the entire team from the Shaun of the Dead flick, a UK "low profile" flick, released Hot Fuzz earlier in 2007 to theaters and now it's available on DVD starting July 31. .........
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Individual Emission Targets, Need of the Hour
2007-08-04 22:15:00
UN climate change meet chief has urged all nations to set their individual cut off targets for the betterment of everyone in the wake of climate change disaster looming large over the globe. .........
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How Much Would You Pay For A Match?
2007-08-04 17:16:00
At the opposite end of the spectrum from free dating sites, you'll find match making services that cater to people who aren't afraid to spend a few books to find "the one". One of those services is Enchanted Evenings which serves the New York tri-state area. Singles seeking each other out pay $100 just for their initial interview and then buy packages that start at $1250 and go all the way up to $30,000. .........
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Mud Volcano-created New Caribbean Island Posing Threats to Small Boats
2007-08-03 07:17:00
Tourists, who are enchanted by the Caribbean islands, have yet another thrill to add to their touring list. Its another tiny island which is recently born by an ocean floor-fissure continuously spewing .........
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Doom And Dickson: Not Just Another Face in the Crowd
2007-08-03 07:02:00
This is an award winning direct campaign launched by Doom &Dickson on the occasion of its 20th anniversary in New York. Doom & Dickson is an advertising agency in The Netherlands. In fact, two ‘founding fathers’ Jack Doom & Bill Dickson never really existed. The have not only produced visually stunning advertisements; but they also have written dozens of books on Marketing & Advertising that have changed the landscape of this profession. In fact, no body had the opportunity to read or buy one of them. The advertisers decided to send a mail piece with a .........
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New C-Class Drives Mercedes Profits
2007-07-26 22:09:00
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Al Gore's New Credit Card
2007-07-26 12:34:00
Al Gore is the environmentalist's best friend these days, but a while back it came out that his mansion uses enough energy to cause brownouts throughout the whole eastern United States, and that even the sun occasionally goes a little dimmer thanks to him. Al waved it off by saying he buys carbon offsets to make up for his energy-hogging ways. Well, there's a new credit card Al might want in his .........
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Anyone Listening on Credit Scores?
2007-07-26 06:14:00
This morning I was reading my not-favorite local newspaper columnist righteously taking to task parents who allow their children to do bad things and then have the audacity to blame the police or others in the community when their kids get in trouble. I was in agreement with everything she said--some parents need to understand their kid's a thug and it's nobody else's fault but their own. However, as I read, all I could think to myself was that everyone reading the article would be nodding righteously and saying to themselves, "That's right. I taught my kid to fly right. These other parents .........
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Solar Wind Energy Pavilion
2007-07-25 02:59:00
The design turns architecture into a source of generating renewable energy, an idea, way beyond the wind turbine. This Wind Shaped Pavilion is a concept design form Michael Jantzen for California State University at Fullerton. The mind-boggling proposed design is for the everyday gathering place at the University, serving all purposes. The Solar Wind Pavilion is designed to accumulate and hoard energy from the natural environment for the .........
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